Zhou Zhi couldn't help but be happy, but Lao Chai was pragmatic and good at self-criticism, and quickly interrupted: "Actually, this is also a direction of picking up mistakes. I guess it is because of this that blue and white porcelain will become the most charming and story-telling among all ancient porcelain collections.

Categories will be hyped to unimaginable prices, and the collection direction you have chosen, Uncle Chai, is now an absolute depression in value."

"I want this plate." Lao Chai joked: "As eloquent as I am, I'm quite suitable for selling things."

"I'm really recommending good things to everyone. I don't have any objection if you don't want them. Anyway, Mr. Zhang will accept them." Zhou Zhi couldn't laugh or cry: "I just said that Mr. Zhang will decide the price. I will give Zhang Zhang's opinion by the way."

Mr. Zhang looked through the plate again: "Rinbojia made a blue and white plate with lotus pattern in the size of the Apocalypse. The green material is stone green, and the double-stroke mixed water painting technique is used. It is pure and gorgeous, and the shades are naturally connected. Regardless of the shape of the vessel,

The earthenware, green materials, glazes, techniques, and inscriptions are all in line with the characteristics of Tianqi blue and white official and civilian-fired imperial porcelain."

"There is no accurate reference for the price. If we compare it to the Apocalypse blue and white disks of this year, a pair of underglaze red disks auctioned by Jiade in 1977, the auction price at that time is almost 60,000 yuan today.

RMB.”

"But that is a pair, and this is one; but more than ten years have passed, and inflation factors have to be taken into account. Therefore, after the two-phase profit and loss, I think it is appropriate to use the price of 40,000 as a reference."

"If you don't want it, Lao Chai, I'll let the tip go to Gongmei at thirty-four thousand."

"Yes!" Lao Chai said with a smile: "Forty thousand is forty thousand. I would rather buy this for 40,000 than buy this celestial ball bottle for 400!"

Everyone was overjoyed, and Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh: "Unless you pick up a leak, you can't buy the Qianlong Heavenly Ball Vase for 400 yuan anyway. The seller is probably guilty of quoting this price, and he doesn't dare to cheat Uncle Chai. It's just for food."

A small loss."

Everyone laughed again.

In fact, Lao Chai and his colleagues don't have a good eye for dating, but they were still able to select this plate from a pile of antiques. The main reason is that their aesthetic vision is still in place.

The rest were simple. They were either from private kilns or from the period after Qianlong. The prices were not too expensive. The three of them selected a few items based on their own preferences, and the rest were handed over to Gongmei for auction.

"That's it." Lao Chai was very happy to find a few good things today: "I'm willing to give in today and get a good thing. I'll do it tonight. Teacher Xiao Zhou is an expert. How about we arrange Rong Paradise?"

"How am I an expert?" Zhou Zhi quickly waved his hand: "I just know the stories and specific tastes of some dishes, but I have never tasted many of them."

"Master of theory!" Lao Chai said with a smile: "You must know that Mr. Zhou from Rongyuan Garden, right?"

"I know this very well. You are the master of Nanguan cuisine!" Zhou Zhi salivated: "Uncle Chai will make the dishes today, and I will tell the story!"

"The wine is mine, that's about it, let's go!" Lao Fei said.

Several people also put their newly purchased things here, and when they came out empty-handed, they saw the girl named Xiao Lin explaining a brocade weaving process to Jiang Shuyi and his party.

Only then did Zhou Zhi introduce everyone to each other. Except for Mr. Qiao, they were all great beauties. Especially Guan Ma’s mature charm had been taught by many great gentlemen before. Of course, now they wanted to invite them to go with them.

Jiang Shuyi and Guan Tingting each held a small porcelain vase in their hands. The porcelain vase is a small vase used for flower arrangements. The outside of the vase is wrapped with extremely fine bamboo silk. The porcelain and bamboo are almost integrated into one. The light brown bamboo skin

And the pure white inner liner, one soft and one hard, is very distinctive.

"Eh? Your bottle..."

"This is what Sister Xiaolin gave us." Guan Tingting brought it as a gift.

Nowadays, people no longer understand how this thing works, so Zhou Zhi can only patiently remind: "This thing is used to arrange flowers, but you can't insert flowers, you can only insert dried flowers, dead branches, setaria and the like..."

Guan Tingting frowned: "Why?"

"Because bamboo silk will absorb water and easily lead to mold, so this kind of vase is also called 'dry vase', but it also has the advantage of being easy to take care of. If it is designed and placed there, it will not deteriorate over the years.

."

"This kind of creativity was later developed to the extreme by the Qing Palace. They used gold, silver, enamel, jade, lacquer wood, coral, and ivory as raw materials and used various techniques to make them into bonsais. It can be called a luxury."

"On the island countries, there are also courtyards that use rocks to encircle the area, pave the inside with fine stones and white sand, and use special tools to outline various beautiful lines. Instead of water features, the rocks and mountains together form the courtyard scenery, which is called 'dry landscape'."

Guan Tingting put the bottle into Zhou Zhi's hand: "Then leave it to brother Zhou Zhi. Give it to me after you finish it!"

Lao Chai looked on happily and said: "I can really tell you all about anything. I will discuss this idea of ​​'dry landscape' with me later. Why do I think it will be used for the exhibition?"

Just in time to try out the new paging number, Zhou Zhi called Jiang Wu and told himself and Jiang Shuyi that they were going to have dinner at Rongyuan Garden today and asked him to call him when he came to pick up Jiang Shuyi.

Paging.

Jiang Wu didn't say anything after hearing Zhou Zhi's report about who was there. He just asked him when the car would be returned to his godmother, and then hung up.

This was a wake-up call for Zhou Zhi, so he paged his godmother again.

The call came back after a while, and the godmother said that she had a day off today, but Shizuzu had called her. Zhou Zhi had to go to the large conference room of the History Department of Shu University to attend an important meeting tomorrow morning, and Zhou Zhi was asked to pick her up early tomorrow morning.

.

Zhou Zhi asked if there had been any progress on the eight-treasure thangka suitcase and the leather pictures of male and female babies with tattoos, but the godmother didn't know.

Zhou Zhi had no choice but to say that he would pick her up in the morning and then hung up the phone.

The current Rongyuan Garden is located in Luoma City, just opposite Chen Mapo Tofu Main Store. It is obviously a new store, with an upper and lower floor layout. The decoration is relatively trendy, and the private rooms are a bit small. It is also decorated according to the very popular Hong Kong-style restaurants.

, so that Zhou Zhi, who came with the heart of pilgrimage, was not very sad.

He already had no hope for the food here.

After everyone was seated, Lao Chai said: "I heard that this store has now opened in the United States, which is amazing."

"Really?" Zhou Zhi said while pouring tea for Guan Ma, Jiang Shuyi and Guan Tingting: "Was this place called Hongqi Restaurant before?"

"Huh?" Lao Chai and Lao Fei were both stunned: "Young man, have you been here before?"

"That's not true, but the Hongqi Restaurant also has a history, and I happen to know it."

Lao Chai handed the recipe to Zhou Zhi: "Let me order some dishes for Brother Zhou today, and tell us some old sayings from the capital of Shu!"

Zhou Zhi opened the recipe, and the hope that he had given up before came back.

The menu clearly lists "braised bear paws", "roasted deer tendons with green onions", "steamed pigeon eggs and agarwood", "dry roasted shark's fin", "hot and sour sea cucumber", "cordyceps duck", "eel bamboo shoots noodles", etc.

Important Sichuan dishes.

"Brother, just order it." Seeing Zhou Zhi's hesitation, Lao Chai thought he was reluctant to spend money, so he said, "Don't think about saving money for me."

"It's not that I want to save money, but the names of these dishes are very particular..."
Chapter completed!