"Brother Third, you have collected four inkstones. I will buy one for twenty yuan. Can you see if you can even match me?"

Tan Aijun was making his own small plan. He thought that the one Yue Zhengyang bought would naturally not be fake, and even if he added a few more dollars, he would not suffer any loss.

"You? Let's get it over! Only those few dogs crawling with words can you deserve this baby? When you can practice big characters that day, I will give you an inkstone, but that's not all!"

What is Tan Aijun’s idea? How could Yue Zhengyang not see through it?

"Don't go back at noon, just have a meal here and have a drink with me."

Seeing that Yue Zhengyang did not agree, Tan Aijun was a little discouraged. When Yue Zhengyang kept him for dinner, he was energetic.

Tan Aijun's child was taken by his mother, so it doesn't matter whether he will or not, so he stayed for dinner.

After dinner, the two chatted in the room for a few words, and Yue Zhengyang was about to go to Liulichang.

The main reason is that Yue Zhengyang and Tan Aijun have nothing to talk about. He doesn’t understand the antiques and says that cooking Yue Zhengyang is not good, so Yue Zhengyang simply goes to Liulichang for a walk.

Of course, he did not bring Tan Aijun this time.

Now most of the Liulichangs are used for antiques, which looks a bit stinky. However, in the Qing Dynasty, the residences of most Han officials in the capital and guild halls across the country were located near this street, so many bookstores also moved to the street.

In this way, Liulichang gradually became a gathering place for officials of all sizes and candidates who were taking the exam. What is really like is "there are great scholars in chatting and laughing, but no white men in exchanges". The brush, ink, paper, inkstone, antiques, calligraphy and paintings related to culture gradually became many of the people.

Since the antique shop in Liulichang appeared, it has been very clear that it serves the high-ranking officials and nobles among scholars.

Therefore, these stores have two characteristics: First, they mostly operate antique categories with strong cultural atmosphere, such as calligraphy and painting, inscriptions, study tools, gold and stone, porcelain, etc.; second, the grades of the things are generally higher, and of course the prices are also high.

As a person who practices calligraphy, Liulichang Street is naturally a place that often comes, because there are several shops that sell modern pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

This study supplies is also a consumable. The more people who have higher requirements for writing and painting, the more they like the luxurious and elegant study antique shops here.

When Yue Zhengyang walked to the antique shop that sold fake Yuan blue and white porcelain, he found that the name of the shop had been changed to Mobaofang.

So Yue Zhengyang was curious and walked in to take a look.

"Oh, isn't this Boss Yue? It's such a rare guest."

The owner of the antique shop knows Yue Zhengyang, and Yue Zhengyang also knows him.

He was one of the ones who were planning to buy fake Yuan blue and white porcelain that day, the boss who asked the bald boss Xia for the account. This person was named Liang Fuping.

"What, Boss Liang, you are in this shop..."

"The Xia Lao Er didn't have cash to pay it back, so he converted it. I posted some more money and paid it to me."

"Oh, so that's it. It's good that this is the case. This saves this rat shit to ruin the atmosphere of our Liulichang. If the reputation of Liulichang is bad, no one will have business."

Yue Zhengyang did not regret Xia Laoer's fate at all. Instead, he felt that he should be solemn.

"Boss Yue said very well, please sit in there and I will ask someone to make a cup of tea for you."

There is a small coffee table in one corner of the store, which is similar to the decorations on Yue Zhengyang. The two of them came to the coffee table and sat down with confidence. After a while, an employee gave the tea to them.

Yue Zhengyang picked up the teacup and glanced at the antique counter here. It was obvious that the things sold here were the same as the store, which sold the stationery supplies.

After chatting for a while, Liang Fuping said to Yue Zhengyang embarrassedly.

"Boss Yue, I have a square inkstone here because I accidentally obtained it. I know very little about its background. I have no results when I checked the information from multiple sources. So I don't know the origin of this ancient inkstone. I wonder if Boss Yue can solve the problem for my brothers?"

Boss Liang is naturally much older than Yue Zhengyang. He can put down his figure and be called brothers, which shows that Liang Fuping has a good mentality.

Yue Zhengyang was a little surprised. He encountered a tiled inkstone in the morning, so why did the inkstone appear again now? Why did he get along with the inkstone today!

"Then please ask Boss Liang to invite the items out. If my appraisal is wrong, please don't be angry."

Yue Zhengyang’s meaning is very obvious. Everyone is building antique shops on the street. They cannot be peers or enemies. They should get along well with each other.

If you ask me to help you get your eyes, you won’t want your eyes. However, he has something to say about the appraisal results.

You can’t be happy just because I say it’s a good thing, but you can’t be scolded just because I say it’s a fake.

"Where is it? Boss Yue gives me face like this. That's my blessing from Liang. How could I be angry!"

Liang Fuping took a small package from behind the counter in a short while, and then opened it and said.

"To be honest, Boss Yue said that I counted up to the next generation, and four generations made a living by operating stationery tools, among which the two are the most important.

The home also records the detailed characteristics and evaluations of many famous inkstones, but this incomplete inkstone does not know its source."

Yue Zhengyang looked towards Liang Fuping's finger and saw that the color of the inkstone body was an eel yellow made of five colors interwoven.

A small piece was missing on the edge of the inkstone, and the section exposed at the notch was green and blue, and several extremely thin dark black patterns could be vaguely seen.

"Oh?! This is actually... five-colored clear mud!"

When Yue Zhengyang saw the section on the inkstone, he took a breath of cold air, and an expression of heartache appeared on his face. He almost grabbed the ancient inkstone from Liang Fuping's hand and looked at it carefully.

"Ah! Boss Yue, are you sure this is a five-color Chengni Inkstone? Could it be that what I guess is right?!"

The five-color Chengni inkstone does not mean that it is five-color, but the five colors of Chengni inkstone are the most important.

They are: cinnabar red, eel yellow, crab shell green, bean green sand, sandalwood purple. These five colors are the best colors, especially cinnabar red and eel yellow are the most precious.

According to the ancient books, the raw materials of Chengni inkstone are taken from the Yellow River.

The production of the Yellow River Chengni Inkstone requires dozens of processes.

First, the excavated river mud is placed in a silk basket for filtering. Ancient inkstones is to hang a special double-layer silk bag in the Fen River branch of the Yellow River, and the mud and sand wrapped in the river flow into the silk bag.

After filtering through the first layer of silk bag, the fine mud that sinks into the second layer of silk bag is clear mud.

Then leave the filtered slurry for more than a year and then remove its dryness after winter and summer. Then it is pressed, shaped, and fired.

In terms of plastic art, Chengni inkstone is also unique. It pays great attention to patterns and shapes, has a variety of carving forms, elegant and beautiful colors, and looks extremely simple and elegant.

Chengni inkstone belongs to the citrus category, and its predecessor was ancient pottery inkstone. Perhaps the ancients were inspired by the production of Qin bricks and Han tiles, combined with the fine work of pottery inkstones, and then sublimated into Chengni inkstones.

The formation of Chengni inkstone was approximately between the Jin and Tang Dynasties and slightly earlier than Duan and She inkstones.

The Chengni inkstone does not apply colored glaze. It uses scientific and meticulous raw material formulas, meticulous fumigation of medicines, and special furnace fire to make it natural to change the kiln. The Chengni inkstone in the same kiln changes magical and has different colors. No one knows what color it will be when it comes out of the kiln.

However, the excellent Chengni inkstone has a natural texture, beautiful and colorful, and is breathtaking.

It has the characteristics of being as beautiful as jade, as bells and chimes, easy to emit ink, does not damage the pen, does not freeze in winter, does not dry in summer, and does not eat insects when writing and painting.

Because of this, it was highly praised by emperors and literati and scholars of all dynasties, and was tributed by the Tang and Song dynasties.

Wu Zetian, Su Dongpo, Mi Fu, and Zhu Yuanzhang all liked him and wrote a text to record it.
Chapter completed!