On the sixth day of the lunar month, the weather in Kyoto began to become gloomy again, cold air was blowing, and the weather forecast said there would be light to moderate snow. It was near noon that Li Mo walked slowly towards Beijing University. On the campus, he saw some classmates had returned to school, but judging from the situation, they should be lovers. They were walking hand in hand in the cold wind.
The hands are cold but the heart is warm.
"Is that the eight-time champion?"
"It looks similar, it should be him."
When Li Mo heard someone talking about him, he quickly put on his down jacket and hat and left quickly.
Zhu Changping's hot pot is already cooking at home. There are more than a dozen meat and vegetable combinations. The bottom of the pot is big stick bone mushroom soup. If you like spicy food, you can make your own.
"Teacher, this pot has enough ingredients and it will take at least six hours to cook."
Li Mo made some soup and drank it first. After one gulp, a warm feeling rose from his stomach.
"It has been stewing since last night. All the marrow from the big stick bones has been stewed into the soup. There are still more than ten days before school starts. Why did you come back so early?"
"It's something important. I just didn't expect the weather in Kyoto to be so cold." Li Mo began to boil the mutton rolls, brushed them into the boiling soup a few times, dipped them in sesame sauce and swallowed them in one gulp. The taste was really refreshing.
"The weather in Kyoto is like this. It's still very cold now. Maybe the temperature will rise suddenly in a dozen days. Brother Daxia, I heard that you found several antiques a year ago. What do you think of my qualifications? If you can If so, can I worship you as my teacher?"
Cai Cai said casually while chewing on the big stick bone.
"With your level, you can't even learn well in your own studies, and you still want to be a teacher of Mr. Li? Go and review as soon as possible after eating, don't think about all the irrelevant things." Zhu Mingcheng stared, this kid is doing something It's becoming more and more inappropriate.
"Your dad is right. You should learn knowledge first. In the future, it will be great to be able to imitate grandpa's skills to a third or fourth degree."
Cai Caiyi pouted and said, "That's what I said. Do you really think that anyone can learn Da Xia's skills?"
"Actually, the treasure appraisal skills in our lineage are easy to say. It's harder than climbing to the sky. It's easy because you can rely on this unique skill to support your family. It's easy. It's harder than climbing to the sky. Because so far, I have barely learned two of the three treasure-appraisal tricks passed down by my ancestor, and I have never mastered one of them."
"To use the exact words of my master, this kind of stunt no longer relies on understanding."
Zhu Changping agreed with his words, touched his son Zhu Mingcheng lightly and said, "I have known your master for many years. He still has the ability to identify treasures, but he is not as superb as you. Your master also sighed and said I am afraid that my ancestor’s unique skills will be lost in his hands, and I never thought that he would teach such a powerful apprentice like you.”
Li Mo didn't drink. He drank juice with Cai Cai. Halfway through the hot pot meal, his already hot face began to sweat.
Tick bell, tick bell. . .
Li Mo put down his chopsticks and answered the phone. Sanpang's voice came from the phone, saying anxiously: "Master Li, where are you?"
"I'm at the teacher's house for hotpot, what's the matter?"
"Come to the Guomao Financial Building. The most expensive porcelain ever auctioned has appeared here. People in the circle have spread the word, and everyone wants to see it like crazy."
The most expensive piece of porcelain ever sold at auction?
Li Mo kept reminiscing in his mind, and finally asked a little doubtfully: "Are you talking about the Qianlong pastel hollowed-out heart-turning vase from the Qing Dynasty?"
"I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard rumors circulating in the circle. We won't know what's going on until we go to the Guomao Financial Building. Will you go?"
"Go, send me the address."
More than ten seconds later, Li Mo received an address navigation text message, which was about forty minutes away.
"Xiao Mo, you just mentioned the Qianlong pastel hollowed-out revolving vase in the Qing Dynasty. What happened?"
"I don't know the specifics. I'll go take a look after dinner, and I'll tell you in detail later.
When Li Mo rushed to the Guomao Financial Building, he saw San Pang standing alone next to the car smoking a cigarette. He had obviously lost a lot of weight. He didn't know whether he lost weight through exercise or because he was too worried and haggard day and night. of.
"Why are you alone?"
Niu Sanpang knew who he was asking, so he threw away the cigarette butt and stamped his feet and said, "Jiaxin has gone back to Magic City for the Spring Festival and hasn't come back yet. Let me tell you, that porcelain is really the Qianlong hollowed-out Zhuanxin you mentioned on the phone. Bottle. Good guy, I don’t know which master actually put it on public display?”
"You'll know if you go in and take a look."
When the two walked into the building, they saw a sign directing everyone to a business hall on the eighth floor.
"Master Li, look at those people, they are all upstarts on the Internet. If they are also here for the Qianlong hollow revolving bottle, that would be interesting, and maybe it will trigger an unprecedented fight between dragons and tigers."
Li Mo also felt that those people looked familiar, but he didn't ask carefully who they were.
When we got to the eighth floor, we saw a lot of people standing in the corridor as soon as we got out of the elevator. Judging from their clothes, they were all bodyguards and the like.
"Gentlemen, do you have an electronic invitation?"
A tall man stopped them. His accent sounded strange, not like a Chinese.
Niu Sanpang took out his cell phone, looked at him and said, "Two people."
"You two, please come in."
"Are they from the island country over the East China Sea?" Niu Sanpang asked uncertainly.
"It's a bit like that. Maybe the owner of the heart-turning bottle is an island native."
Pushing the door and walking into the business hall, there were more than thirty people inside. They formed a huge circle and looked carefully at the beautiful pastel porcelain in the middle.
Li Mo took a quick look and saw that what was displayed was indeed the shape of a Qianlong pastel hollow revolving vase. It is protected by a huge special glass cover, and there are four sturdy security guards standing in four directions to prevent anyone from approaching.
"It's so beautiful." The third fat man exclaimed, and he asked in a low voice, "Master Li, tell me about this revolving bottle."
"I have also read in books that the Qing Qianlong hollow pastel revolving vase is the most expensive porcelain ever auctioned, ranking first in the list of Chinese art. Calculating the time, it was still eleven years ago in Bainbridge, England. According to the records sold at auctions, no porcelain has ever been sold at an auction price that has exceeded this record so far." Gu Zhi
Li Mo remembered that the auction price at that time reached 550 million yuan.
Now, eleven years later, if this porcelain is put up for auction again, I don’t know how much the price will go up.
"Three Fatties, I think the owner of this porcelain wants to sell it, otherwise it would not be exhibited here. You must know that only Chinese people understand the true artistic value of Chinese porcelain, and the price of it is very high. It’s easy.”
Li Mo looked up and looked around. Sure enough, there were several high-definition cameras pointed at this place above his head. There were four bodyguards in the open, and there might be more bodyguards hidden in the dark. The owner of the porcelain must have come up with a perfect plan for the public exhibition here, and he is not afraid of anyone who dares to make trouble.
"Master Li, can this thing be worth 550 million?"
"That was the price ten years ago." Li Mo reminded him, and then continued, "The revolving bottle is a rare treasure of Chinese ceramic art. It is a hollow bottle with a rotatable inner bottle and painted on it. Various patterns. The bottle body is composed of an inner bottle, an outer bottle, and a base that are fired separately."
"The upper part of the inner bottle has an exposed mouth. The bottle body is like a cylinder, with decorative paintings on it, including scenes of the four seasons, landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects, fish, etc. When the inner bottle is moved, different pictures can be seen through the holes in the outer bottle , like a revolving lantern.”
"There is also a hollow pastel revolving vase from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in the National Museum, but that one has red glaze plus green glaze, which is overglaze color. The revolving vase in front of me is yellow glaze plus cyan glaze, two revolving vases The patterns and hollows on the surface are all different.”
The pastel hollow revolving vase in front of me is also called the hollow 'Ji Qing Youyu' revolving vase. This vase was made in the imperial kiln during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is about 40 cm high, about 12 cm in diameter, and about 13 cm in bottom diameter. Overall, it is The body is well-proportioned, the color is full and elegant, the carp pattern on the bottle is lifelike, and the hollow water ripple carving design makes it look majestic and rich, which perfectly reflects the auspicious meaning contained in the red word "吉" on the bottle neck.
Let’s take a closer look at the blue and white paintings on the inside, and the foreign colors, enamel colors, and pastels on the outside. They use various techniques such as gold tracing, hollowing, turning, relief, and shallow engraving. They are extremely luxurious and breathtaking. They are the pinnacle of the porcelains of the three generations of the Qing Dynasty. .
No wonder it was sold for a sky-high price of 550 million yuan more than ten years ago, and no one has surpassed it so far.
Seeing this, a ray of golden light flashed deep in Li Mo's eyes, and his strange eyes covered the heart-turning bottle inside the special glass cover.
A milky-white halo of light emitted from the body of the rotating bottle, spreading out thirty or forty circles of light.
Li Mo thought there was something wrong with his eyes, so he looked at it again, and finally confirmed that the revolving bottle in front of him was not the original Qianlong product of the Qing Dynasty at all, but a modern high imitation.
It's the kind of high-quality imitation that can be easily mistaken for the real thing.
Li Mo frowned, thought for a moment and looked through the eyes again, scanning from the outer bottle to the inner bottle, looking carefully inch by inch, and finally found four tiny characters 'eight' on a hard-to-see inner wall at the bottom of the inner bottle. Autumn of the eighth year'.
This time I can say with certainty that the pastel hollow revolving bottle in front of me was fired in the autumn of 1988. This superb level of imitation made him suddenly think of the Nine Fingers Gang, who had already surrendered to the law. The high-quality imitations they produced were enough to look real.
"Three Fatties, you know a lot of people. Go find out the origin of this Qianlong pastel hollow heart-turning vase and see if it is from the island country?"
"Okay, I'll go ask." The third fat man squeezed out of the crowd. Li Mo continued to watch here. The surroundings were bustling with people constantly exchanging comments.
Li Mo sighed secretly. When he was about to walk out, he happened to see Li Jiayu and several young masters walking towards this side laughing.
The two looked at each other, and Li Jiayu showed no change. He was still talking and laughing with the young master beside him, but Li Mo began to wonder if this was another trap set by Li Jiayu.
He stood in the corridor at the door and waited for less than ten minutes when he saw Niu Sanpang coming out and said: "Master Li, I really found out some news. The Qianlong pastel hollow revolving vase from the Qing Dynasty is indeed from an island country." He brought it here, and he is going to put it on public display here for a week, and then prepare it to be auctioned on site.”
"Since it is going to be auctioned on site, what evidence does this revolving bottle have to prove that it is authentic?"
"There are auction records and archival information provided by the British auction house, as well as carbon 14 test results issued by domestic authoritative institutions. I heard that several experts from Kyoto were invited to jointly identify them, and they all took videos as a guarantee. Mr. Li, Are you interested in the revolving bottle?"
How is this going? He had looked very carefully just now and did not see any seams on the entire bottle, which meant it could not be old porcelain but new porcelain. However, the carbon 14 test results from domestic authoritative institutions proved that it was genuine.
There are also many experts who jointly appraised the porcelain. Since the video was taken, it means that those people are really experts in porcelain appraisal. Respectable people, presumably they will not ruin their reputation and issue false appraisal results.
This thing is weird.
"Let's go."
Li Mo walked outside with his hands behind his back.
"That's really a treasure, Mr. Li, aren't you tempted?"
"I can't afford it if I'm tempted, unless I sell one of the top collectibles in my hand." When they got outside, Li Mocai whispered, "Three Fatties, send someone to keep an eye on what's going on here. I just made a preliminary assessment, and there's nothing going on here. Understand."
This is a code word in the antique shop. If he doesn't understand it, it means that he is not sure that the porcelain is authentic. There are doubts about it, which he cannot see through or explain.
After all, Niu Sanpang knew something about this industry, and he was stunned when he heard what he said. Who is Li Mo? He has a golden eye. He can find top-notch treasures in the gravel. There is no porcelain that cannot be identified in his eyes.
Today was the first time I heard him say that. He said that he didn't understand. In fact, he was telling him in disguise that the Qianlong pastel hollow revolving vase from the Qing Dynasty was most likely a fake.
"Master Li, did you really look good just now?"
"What do you think? Anyway, I really didn't understand. As for the others, I don't know. Maybe my level is not up to par yet. By the way, where are you going now?"
Niu Sanpang stood there and thought for a while, then trotted to Li Mo and said, "Master Li, that thing was brought over by the people from the island country. If he really treats it as a genuine item and auctions it off, then the loss to our countrymen will be real." It’s very tragic.”
Li Mo turned to look at him and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"At least expose it."
"Then how do you prove it's a fake?"
"I don't have the ability, but you do." Niu Sanpang said it matter-of-factly, as if Li Mo could decide the outcome if he just came forward and said it was false.
Li Mo shook his head. He felt that there was a layer of fog behind this matter.
"Three Fatties, I didn't say anything, and you shouldn't talk nonsense in front of outsiders. Don't get involved in this matter, just stay away."
Seeing his serious tone, Niu Sanpang became serious.
"I'll just send someone to keep an eye on it secretly."
Li Mo twisted his waist in the square, expanded his chest and said, "Why don't we both go to the hot springs now? In such a cold day, sweating is the most comfortable thing."
"That's what I meant. Come on, I'm treating you today."
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