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Chapter 61 Red Sandalwood Tables and Chairs

At this time, most rural areas were mud and tiled houses, with the doors open and the walls were filled with adobe. Growing some side dishes in front of the yard was self-sufficient. Sun Baoguo was no exception. Yue Zhengyang and others sat on the bench and smoked and waited for Sun Baoguo to come back.

After smoking a cigarette, several people recharged another one. Halfway through, they heard nearly fifty-year-old man outside the yard enter the yard, holding a tobacco gun in one hand and a shovel in the other, and singing operas that Yue Zhengyang had never heard of before.

"Uncle Sun, you're back." After entering the door and judging the man's identity, a passionate smile suddenly appeared on Yue Zhengyang's face.

When Sun Baoguo was working, his wife came over and asked him to go home, saying that Yue Zhengyang and others had come over, Sun Baoguo knew that he must have come for his furniture. This was the great God of Wealth in the village. After Sun Baoguo had decided to sell the furniture at a good price, at least he would have more money to replace it with a new set of furniture.

"It's Comrade Yue, is there anything to do at home?" Sun Baoguo also knew that if he wanted to sell the price well, he had to let Yue Zhengyang speak first. If he spoke first, the price would not be raised. Although the farmers are simple, they are not fools, and they also know the principle of starting a price.

As the saying goes, he still understands the principle of being both a traitor or a thief when he has nothing to do. Yue Zhengyang is so enthusiastic as soon as he comes up, and there is absolutely no good thing! In just over a dozen seconds, Sun Bao became alert to Yue Zhengyang in his heart. But he still remembers that he told him that Yue Zhengyang is a young man with a good brain, so he should not be fooled by him.

"It's nothing, I just heard that your house has furniture to sell, so I'll come and take a look." Yue Zhengyang wouldn't say that he wanted his old furniture, and after saying that, he looked like he was indifferent. He learned the simplest point in the process of collecting broken Taobao. Taobao items must not let the other party know his intentions.

Sun Baoguo frowned slightly, didn't say anything, and looked at Yue Zhengyang's look of a humble face half-believingly and thought to himself: Why do I want to sell furniture?

"Uncle Sun, you smoke!" When Sun Baoguo was stunned, Yue Zhengyang took out a cigarette and handed it over.

"I heard from Dongzi that you have old furniture to sell, and I just happened to be thinking of coming over for a walk. The old man's room in my house happened to be flawed. If the price is right, I will take it back."

Sun Baoguo would always smoke a few sips of dry tobacco after doing farm work, and there was no place to smoke a roll of paper cigarettes. Yue Zhengyang handed over cigarettes and quickly got closer to him. In addition, his wife worked in a farm invested and built by Yue Zhengyang, and he received a salary every month. For rural people, this is extra money.

I don't know if it was Yue Zhengyang's flattery or handing out a paper roll of cigarettes to show his goodwill. Sun Baoguo's face was full of vigilance and showed a little excitement, but he still suppressed his impulse. "Hey, Comrade Xiaoyue said this, why did I want to sell furniture? It's obviously you who want to buy my old furniture. If the price you offer is right, I will sell it to you." After that, Sun Baoguo put the tobacco gun behind him, stood up behind his hands, raised his chin to the inner room, and said, "Let's go, enter the house, what price you offer, you can see the goods yourself before talking. It's not me, within ten kilometers, you can't find furniture like me. This was bought by my father from a landlord and old treasurer when I got married."

"Okay!" Hearing this, Yue Zhengyang instantly smiled, stood up and followed in happily. Yue Zhengyang couldn't control whether this furniture was bought or how it came from now. He probably stole it from the old branch secretary to attack the rich man, because at that time the old branch secretary had the money to buy these old furniture, but now no one has investigated these things.

After entering the house, Yue Zhengyang saw the Eight Immortals Table at first. Don’t look down on this Eight Immortals Table. You should know that it is not something that no family can have. It is not easy to find twenty Eight Immortals Tables in a village. They are basically made of miscellaneous wood, all of which are crooked and cracked. You can put a washbasin and have a meal.

"Look, this table is too heavy, and no one with less strength can move it."

"Okay! I have to take a good look at this." Yue Zhengyang was very terrifying. He could see at a glance that this was the table of Rosewood. Although the table was covered with dirt and its original color, Yue Zhengyang could confirm its true identity at a glance.

However, even though Yue Zhengyang saw the trick, he still didn't sound, and looked around the table in circles. The more he looked, the more he liked it. The workmanship and stripes were at least from the home of an official in the mid-Qing Dynasty. I don't know if it was the family's failure or the death, so I tossed and turned to the home of the landlord Lao Cai. And the appearance was intact. Although there were several places that were knocked down, it generally did not affect its beauty and value.

Then, Yue Zhengyang glanced at the two chairs next to him, and he could confirm that this was a thing from the Qing Dynasty! The furniture we generally talk about in the Qing Dynasty refers to furniture from the mid-Qing Dynasty, that is, furniture from the prosperous Qing Dynasty from Kangxi to Yongzheng, Qianlong, and even in the early Jiaqing period.

The formation of this prosperous furniture style is indeed related to the worldly style created by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. It expresses the majestic spirit from nomadic peoples to unifying the world, and represents the secular style of pursuing gorgeousness and wealth. Due to the excessive pursuit of luxury, some disadvantages also exist. However, Qing-style furniture uses a variety of materials and mobilizes all craftsmanship to serve furniture, which is unprecedented.

The most popular decorative theme used in furniture in the Qing Dynasty. Especially in the late period, it reached its peak. It can be said that any picture or any combination of patterns must contain the meaning of auspiciousness and wealth. Using symbols, meanings, homophonics, comparisons and other methods, many auspicious patterns with a rich atmosphere of life were created. For example, "The Magpie Goes to the Plum Blossoms" (Happy Goes to the Eyebrow), "Qilin Sends Children", "Pine Crane Ten Thousand Years", "Five Bats Holding Longevity" (Five Blessings Holding Longevity), "Pixar Fishes Comes Auspicious", "Five Blessings Comes Together", "Gourds Come Forever", "Rich and More Blessings", "Loves Have More Blessings", etc. It is very popular among the masses, and has been used to this day.

In addition to the traditional Qilin, Kuilong, Kuifeng, Chihu, dragon, animal and lion, new animal patterns such as squirrels were added in the Qing Dynasty. In terms of plants, there were plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, grapes, branches, curled grass, Ganoderma lucidum, peony, passion fruit, etc.

In the Qing Dynasty furniture, there were many places where patterns were used, such as the screen of the bed, the door leaf of the cabinet, the teeth strips of the table, the legs of the chair and stool, and other parts. The two-sided continuous and four-sided continuous patterns were mostly used to decorate. Commonly used are cloud patterns, back patterns, character patterns, rope patterns, intestinal patterns and grass dragon patterns. Especially cloud patterns and back patterns are used the most. In Qing Dynasty furniture, the back patterns are the most representative decorative patterns. The back patterns are the most popular in the back plates, armrests, legs and feet, as well as the teeth strips and heads of the table, etc., so people have learned an experience from this: furniture with back patterns is basically the Qing Dynasty furniture.

The chair that Yue Zhengyang saw was covered with a thin layer of dust on the surface, but it was still clearly seen that the wood was purple and black with a sense of age, and only the place where his butt was sitting was rubbed and shiny.
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