337、You can't have both fish and bear's paw
The Christian church does not burn incense, but there are incense burners piled up on the stall. It is this thing that attracted Jia Huanhuan to come over.
There were many messy small ornaments and gadgets coming in. They were piled up in the glass cabinet and the metal racks, and the antique seemed to be like oriental cultural relics were wandering overseas.
All kinds of porcelain are the most attractive.
The little girl wearing a fruit-green sunscreen jacket, with her hands behind her back, took a quick walk around like she was patrolling the shop in Guanyin Temple. Even Du Wen followed her over and picked up the incense burner to take a look.
She was not particular about cultural relics, mainly because she was curious: "We won't buy any good treasures when we are in the fortune, but I heard that tourists who came to Europe decades ago have bought a lot of good things."
Jia Huanhuan whispered with the corner of her mouth: "The old fake antique, this foreigner is either bad or cheated when purchasing goods."
Du Wen showed a ha ha, and quietly put the incense burner back without making a sound.
When the shop owner saw that he was an Asian face, he immediately tried his best to promote it. He was very skilled in business and could even speak a few Chinese words!
Jia Huanhuan, who was originally planning to lift her feet out, then she stopped her eyes on the shelf in the deep corner of the store, where there were a pile of stones.
To be precise, they are all seals of all sizes!
It is really hard for an ordinary girl to see what these inconspicuous things are at a glance.
Jia Huanhuan is so familiar with him.
Wan Changsheng was in the study room of the Beilin, wasn’t it full of such things?
If she is in any scenic spot shop in China, she will definitely not care about the origin of these seals.
But this is a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers between six or seven time zones.
Jia Huanhuan must have reached out to take a look.
Du Wen also saw that she reacted faster and lowered her voice hard: "It is impossible for foreigners to come in to sell this thing, right?"
There is basically no place to sell this in China.
Jia Huanhuan first pulled out a long cube from the stone, and held it in his hand like a high-end lipstick box: "This is wood, it is very hard, it must be a good material..."
Du Wen touched the stones one by one and twisted her fingers: "I feel like no one has touched them for a long time, and there are so many bacteria."
He said that, he quickly touched the tissue to wipe his hands.
Jia Huanhuan opened it again and looked at the seal carving surface below. She couldn't recognize words, but she also knew some tricks: "It's so dirty and old, I don't know..."
He still leaned over his nose and sniffed it seriously: "I don't know that I have never covered the ink mud for many years and it has been dry. This is not fake. Brother Changsheng has some seals of his ancestors. Every time I have to use mimeograms to mark them a few times. I want to buy this for Brother Changsheng to see. There is no oil on the oil but it has the fragrance of wood. It is a good thing. You can carve seals for him to play with."
Du Wen looked at the dozen seals: "Only children make choices, we want them all, pretending to be fun and bargaining..."
She also grabbed two or three big fingers and threw them on the stall.
Who knows that the Italian guy is smart and quickly said with a slight lingering voice that it was a precious jade brought back from the Far East by his ancestors!
Anyway, Du Wen is described as diamonds when she hears words.
Hurry up and slapped the wood in the face: "What kind of diamond is this, wood!"
As he said that, he wanted to pretend not to buy Dafa, Jia Huanhuan couldn't wait to ask him about his good fortune.
Don’t care if you have money at home!
The foreigner mustered up the courage to claim twenty euros!
The two girls were secretly relieved. Jia Huanhuan's expression was very exaggerated, and she asked for the wood with disdain, and then "inadvertently" asked for the pile of stones, one euro each!
Because Du Wen beat the side drum hard and said that the stones were left there for a long time but no one bought them.
She is an art student and wants to use it to make some oriental artworks.
The two girls sang and cooperated quite well. They didn't care much about this little bit of stone, mainly surprised the degree of fit between the other party.
The owner of the shop asked for two euros in the end and admitted that it was indeed collected by his ancestors from the Far East. At that time, he really thought it was jade.
As a result, it was not recognized in Europe at all. Even Chinese tourists were not interested in this after watching it. They sold it in pieces for many years, not only did they not sell it, but also gathered other people's.
This kind of harbor city once made a fortune by working as a sailor in the Far East.
The two girls pretended to be calm and relaxed, and they just found a paper pocket and paid fifty euros to put it out.
When I walked on the street, I was frolicking, as if I was afraid that others would find out that they had sold the baby wrongly and chased me to ask for it.
Du Wen was very artificial and bought two egg rolls on the roadside. She was surprised to find that the taste was very delicious, and she wanted to buy seven or eight of them to pack and go back to China!
Then, not far away, I saw a white-haired old man wearing a white chef's uniform. He was buying pork bread with his own hands. He was hanging a wide variety of Italian sausage restaurants, which made Jia Huanhuan taste the taste curiously.
It was so delicious that it almost swallowed her fingers. Du Wen encouraged her to learn this craft!
The two of them took advantage of buying bread and carefully observed how the pork was made.
So they almost forgot about the sixteen or seventeen seals they had just bought and stuffed them into Du Wen's backpack.
It's mainly fun and I don't care much, because Jia Huanhuan said that there are many such seals at home.
But when I returned to Florence, I joined the Wan Changsheng Association who came out of the art gallery and found the spoils in my bag for him to show him.
Wan Changsheng was a little overjoyed.
After taking the hardwood seal, he sat at the dining table and looked over and over.
What Jia Huanhuan wants is Wan Changsheng likes it. He thinks that it is enough. He doesn't ask why, he is busy making dinner and wants to use the barbecue skills he just learned.
Du Wen observed: "What? It's very expensive? It's just a little more expensive, twenty euros."
Wan Changsheng slowly shook his head: "It's a big coincidence... This is the seal of boxwood. Although it should be an old object for two or three hundred years, I guess this wood is not very valuable. The key is the shape of this seal. Am I not conceiving the seal that participated in the Qingzhan? So many fancy shows off knife skills are not as touching as this concise line. Fang Zheng is probably the impression Professor Gou left on me, but he is a bit of a bad temper that is easy to fold, and he is desperate for his goal. This is something I don't agree with. I want to reflect it on this seal. If I think so much, it's better to be so concise and direct."
It may not be clear in the store.
Now I am lying quietly in Wan Changsheng's palm. The dark brown long wooden square is indeed like a high-end lipstick packaging box, with clear edges and corners. Time seems to have not erased the horizontal and vertical lines, very hard lines.
Wan Changsheng was attracted by this simple feature.
Du Wen appreciated the man who was immersed in artistic creation like this and was not fascinated by the fact that he poured out the other seals in the paper bag: "What about these? How about it? Two Europeans and one, are there any good things to pick up?"
Wan Changsheng carefully read it: "The materials are actually good. Look at the style on this side: the wind and snow of the first month of Bingxu, the dog of Bingxu, the most recent one was 2006. This seal is obviously not old. It has been 60 years and it is at least 1946 or even earlier. The standard Southern style seal carving style has a strong taste of literati and elegant people. The content is Qingmei Study, which is obviously a collection of book seals. Look at this old man who burns charcoal, it must be a self-proclaimed name, very old..."
Du Wen didn't dare to ask how much it was, for fear that she would look tacky and be compared by the smiling chef who cooked the meal.
Fortunately, Wan Changsheng was not noble, so he finally came to a conclusion: "This is Tianhuang in Changhua. This is quite common. However, this is a very expensive seal stone in Qingtian Fengmen Qing. Although it is so small that it is only as big as the tail finger, it is really pure. It is said that it can be called Qing without any impurities. If you get a nest of Qing, you will never be poor forever... I don't know how much it can be sold now, but in the past, the piece of gold ingots in our family was basically an equal amount of gold ingots to be exchanged for. Now it is probably more valuable. Haha, you two can. Also, this piece should be fish brain jelly, which is commonly known as mutton fat jade. It is very valuable to make a seal."
Du Wenqian: "It was Huanhuan who saw it."
The busy Jia Huanhuan disdained: "I only like that piece of wood, and the rest were bought by Sister Wen."
Wan Changsheng analyzed: "You see, these stones are basically Qingtian stone, Shoushan stone, Changhua fossil. These are all stones from the south. It is very likely that they either did business or did things before liberation, or flowed out from the ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the wars earlier. In Chinese history, seal stones were also considered jade, and there were indeed various wood, copper, gold, silver and jade for seals. However, the seal stones played with by real literati and scholars should basically be clay-like wax stones, which are different from serious jade. As long as you don't play with seals, you will look down on this stone at all. I guess the ancestors of foreigners suffered this loss."
Du Wen asked for it: "Then... use this Fengmenqing with a bigger finger, and carve a seal for me, just the word Du Wen."
This was really simple for Wan Changsheng. He didn't have the habit of keeping the old cultural relics silently. After cleaning up the original seal and stamping it as a souvenir, he filed the seal with his carpet sandpaper and sat at the table: "Actually, your name is very particular. Wood and earth are Du. These two characters happen to be in the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Then the rain and literature are formed, and the text is only moistened by the moistening, and the structures on the left and right upper and lower sides are all..."
Such a gentle and gentle boy can indeed be loved by girls. Du Wen couldn't help but push her hair off and stretched her neck carefully to watch Wan Changsheng operate on the fine little stone.
As a result, Jia Huanhuan, who occasionally passed by the plate, despised him: "Don't listen to him making up any random name. He has any particularity when he says it. This is the line passed down from their family. It can sell the ten-dollar seal for 100 yuan!"
Du Wen was stunned for a moment, and laughed so hard that she almost slipped off the dining chair.
Childhood sweethearts may be like an old couple who have been married for decades. They understand everything and it is difficult to have passion and romance.
Especially, Jia Huanhuan is so kind.
Fortunately, Wan Changsheng is more considerate: "When I finish carving this chapter, I will also carve one for you. In the future, I will become a doctor. If you write a signature for prescriptions or something, just post it. How beautiful!"
Jia Huanhuan is not interested in it yet. Just like the paintings Wan Changsheng painted for her, take a look and put the table to eat. Is the braised pork today different from the taste at home?
Chapter completed!