Chapter 0168 – Western Han Imperial

“Broken porcelain piece? Brother Wei, isn’t the one your dad bought for over a million RMB also a broken porcelain tile? Let me tell you, these porcelain tiles are even more expensive than the one Uncle Yang bought.”

Zhuang Rui did not and Wei general understanding, said proudly, this stall pick up the satisfaction brought by the general public can not be experienced, the beauty of which is not enough to speak with outsiders.

Wei brother some do not quite believe, hand into the bag, took out a piece of Ru porcelain fragments look half a day, did not see a son of a Wu Mao You to, casually put the porcelain back to Zhuang Rui handbag, will be skeptical and asked: “the youngest, are broken into such a way, which can still be put together? Are you looking away? Who did you listen to say that this broken thing is worth money?”

“Go go go …… and you do not have a common language, do not believe in pull back, back to the Middle Sea, on your mouth these rags, I can let your old man out of five million to buy. Do you believe it?”

And Wei said these, is a chicken and duck talk, Zhuang Rui did not find a trace of satisfaction, simply pull the handbag on the armpit, not and his nonsense.

The reason why Zhuang Rui Ru kiln porcelain so concerned, in fact, or by the father of Yang bought that piece of Chenghua Doucai cocktail cup, in the Uncle De repair that piece of cocktail cup, once to Zhuang Rui said a true story about the Ru kiln porcelain.

Uncle De into the antique line, although it is a wild origin, but he restored porcelain skills, in the country are very famous, is a nationally renowned ancient porcelain restoration experts, some domestic professional archaeological team if unearthed to the broken ceramic pieces of the time, will find Uncle De to help, and the reason why Uncle De and the Peking University some of the professors of the Department of Archaeology to know and have a good relationship with the same reason.

In 2000, there was a collector in Henan Province, traveled to Zhonghai to find Uncle Te, that person’s surname is Xu, let’s call it old Xu! Old Xu is specialized in collecting ancient porcelain.

Collectors know that in the early part of this century, many collectors have nothing to do like to run to the countryside, such as Beijing and Tianjin collectors, the most favorite run in Hebei and Shanxi, and the old Xu because it is Henan Ruzhou City, the legendary Ru Kiln porcelain is more than a few points on the heart. One weekend when you have free time, often in the rural areas around Ruzhou around.

There is a weekend old Xu drove a motorcycle to the neighboring Baofeng County area, just opened to a village, who knows the original good weather, suddenly started a downpour, then he went to a farmhouse to avoid the rain, which is only a middle-aged woman with a child at home, said the man went to work on the ground, the old Xu did not have the good sense to go into the house, on the outside under the eaves to avoid the rain.

That will happen to be summer, the rain came fast and stopped fast, not more than ten minutes on the stop, Lao Xu is ready to go when the man of the house back, but was helped back by others.

Summer rural people work in the field, sometimes do not wear shoes, this is also, barefoot is working, see the heavy rain, rushed to the home, just to the roadside, a foot do not know what stepped on something. The bottom of his foot cut a big wound, then it was bleeding like a river, but fortunately there were people next to him working in the field, so he helped him back.

This man’s temper is quite stubborn, when he was leaving, he had to dig out the piece of stuff that cut his foot, this is not, into the yard is still dead in the hand!

Wait until the foot bandaged, this look at the hands of the thing, suddenly angry, it is a broken porcelain, should be a bowl base, a child palm size, do not know which is the lack of moral ghosts thrown into the ground to the head of the man who cursed the broken porcelain thrown to the yard, just thrown to the feet of the old Xu, fell into two halves.

Lao Xu is playing porcelain, habitually picked up and looked at it, although the porcelain is still stained with dirt, but that Ru Kiln porcelain unique celadon green glaze immediately attracted his eyeballs, Lao Xu quickly judged that this is definitely a piece of Ru Kiln porcelain fragments.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, old Xu will have become two halves of the Ru kiln porcelain received in the bag, pulled out a cigarette, and the host set up a close relationship, these days, who are not stupid, and then from time to time there will be like the old Xu this kind of people, to the village to collect some bottles and cans, if this is a piece of the whole porcelain. This man will certainly be sold at a price, but the broken pieces of porcelain he did not put in mind, the place where the foot was just stabbed, very detailed to tell the old Xu.

Lao Xu was called a excitement, the motorcycle will be pressed in the farmhouse, borrowed a shovel, but also do not care about just after the rain, the road is muddy, spent ten dollars to send this injured man back to the people, take him to the place where the owner was stabbed feet, carefully looking for up.

Old Xu whole there rummage for more than five hours, get a muddy water, a hand wound, actually let him will be the whole piece of porcelain fragments all together, the whole twelve fragments, he roughly pieced together, not a single point, is a Ru Kiln porcelain bowl.

Ancient porcelain restoration is a very demanding craft work, Lao Xu know that the craft is not good, they looked for a relationship to inquire about the body of Uncle De, from Henan to Zhonghai, please Uncle De helped him to repair this Ru porcelain kiln bowls, and in 2001, an auction in Zhonghai. This by twelve pieces of porcelain restoration of the Ru kiln porcelain bowl, shot four million eight hundred and eighty-eight million high price, far higher than the Song Xingjun that piece of Chenghua doucai chicken bowl cup.

Zhuang Rui also learned of this story, only to know that the original these valuable porcelain, even if it is broken porcelain restoration out, that is also worth a lot of money, they just plucked the sixteen broken porcelain pieces, its surface glaze glistening, and Zhuang Rui through the aura to see, section within the glaze bubbles sparse and sporadic, if not guessed correctly. This should also be a piece of Northern Song Baofeng Qingliang Temple Ru official kiln.

Now has confirmed the address of the Ru kiln has two, one is Zhang Gongxiang Ru kiln, the other is the Baofeng Qingliang Temple Ru official kiln, although both are Ru kiln, but in the market, the Northern Song Dynasty Qingliang Temple Ru official kiln price is more than ten times the Zhang Gongxiang Ru kiln.

According to Zhuang Rui’s idea, their own Ru kiln porcelain repair, how can also be sold to a two or three million, only spent more than two hundred dollars, this is simply faster than robbing the bank to money ah! And initially he is also by virtue of the eyesight to see out, this sense of satisfaction is unable to use words to describe.

However, Zhuang Rui’s good mood will be ruined by the boss’s illiterate guy.

Wei brother saw Zhuang Rui did not speak for a moment, thought he was hit by his own, proudly raised his hand, said to Zhuang Rui: “the youngest, you see me to collect this porcelain, tell you, this is the authentic Han dynasty white porcelain, my old man has a piece of exactly the same, but I look at his piece is not as good as this one of mine.”

“Han dynasty white porcelain?”

Zhuang Rui was Wei’s words to say froze, the Han Dynasty are basically celadon, and firing are very rough, white porcelain is also heard Uncle De said, but that is in the green glaze firing to reduce the amount of iron, and oxidizing flame baking, very occasional cases can only be fired out of white porcelain, the number of pitifully small, and compared with the later generations of fine china, the value of the collection is not very large, such an object to today is simply very few! See.

“Boss, that porcelain jar in your house is fake, you won’t be unaware of it! You this, tsk ……”

The meaning of Zhuang Rui’s words is self-evident, what Wei brother is holding is a piece of daily use kettle, looking at its shape is very ancient. There was some clay on it, but to say it was from the Han Dynasty, killing Zhuang Rui would not believe it.

“Hey, I said the youngest, you don’t not believe ah! Just now that stall owner said, this object is they from the tomb pick out, now by the police to the attention of the police, this is 800 dollars cheap sold to me, you see, this pot underneath there is also paragraph it, should not be fake it?”

Boss just started to say, also full of confidence, but the voice is getting smaller and smaller, he will come back to the flavor, this story how to think more and more fake ah!

“There is also a sense of style? Bring it to me to see, let’s also see the Han porcelain with a paragraph.”

Zhuang Rui stifled laughter, from the hand of Wei brother took over that porcelain pot, flipped over to the bottom of the pot to see.

“Haha …… hahaha ……”

See the bottom of the pot after the paragraph, Zhuang Rui really can not help it, but also regardless of this is a ghost city, the vulgar convention into a place where no noise is allowed, let out a loud laugh.

“The youngest, what’s wrong? What is it that makes you happy like this?”

The oldest heard Zhuang Rui’s laughter, rushed over, this buddy holding something in his hand, but the size is very small, like a jade.

“No, it’s fine, let’s talk somewhere else, Brother Wei is just too talented.”

Zhuang Rui managed to hold back his laughter, first returned that porcelain pot stuffed into Wei’s hand, saving himself from accidentally breaking this treasure of Wei’s, looking around, Zhuang Rui led the two men to an alleyway entrance on the street.

Stopping, Zhuang Rui said to the oldest four with a puzzled face, “Fourth brother, you first look at the boss that porcelain pot’s mark.”

“Western Han Xiaojing imperial, what’s wrong? Oldest, what’s wrong with this?” Oldest took that porcelain pot and read the mark at the bottom.

“Yeah! Emperor Xiaojing is the old man of Emperor Wu of Han, and he’s also famous in history.” Boss went on to say, these brothers were all good at history.

“I didn’t say that Emperor Xiaojing wasn’t Emperor Wu of Han’s old man! But Brother Wei, if you lived in the Western Han Dynasty and made such a porcelain, would you write that on your paragraph?” Zhuang Rui held back his laughter and asked Yang Wei a rhetorical question.

“Don’t all official kilns have to write the year? Of course it’s written like this.” Brother Wei actually knows about official kilns and civil kilns, it looks like he has received a lot of inculcation from his own old man.

Looking at Yang Wei’s confused face, Lao Si suddenly reacted, laughed out loud, even more exaggerated than Zhuang Rui, actually laughed and squatted to the ground, angry boss a hand to pick him up, said: “In the end, where is not right ah! You kid first don’t laugh, give brother me to say clearly.”

“The old …… boss, you real …… are really too strong, this Western Han’s people can be forewarned ah! How did they know that there would be an Eastern Han later, so they first wrote the paragraph as Western Han.”

When Wei brother heard this, he was dumbfounded, a face of old face red like pig liver, this person is really a big loss.