Chapter 36 - Song Dynasty Kiln Engraved Brush Wash

Chapter 36 Song Dynasty Kiln Engraved Brush Wash

[ Repair points: 7 points]

[ Broken pieces of Song dynasty porcelain. cannot be repaired!]

[ Modern porcelain fragments, cannot be repaired! ]

[ Song dynasty’s broken porcelain can’t be repaired! ]

[ Song dynasty porcelain. cannot be repaired! ]

[ Song dynasty porcelain shard, cannot be repaired! ]

[ Modern porcelain fragments, cannot be repaired!]

[ Qing-Yong dynasty porcelain fragment, cannot be repaired!]

As Su Xiaofan touched the porcelain pieces one by one, information poured into his mind like a waterfall. The information contained in the broken pieces of porcelain dazzled Su Xiaofan.

These broken pieces of porcelain were from almost all dynasties. Not to mention, modern broken porcelain was the least in number, while the Song Dynasty had the most pieces. Occasionally, one could see one or two pieces of porcelain from the Qing, Kang, and Yong dynasties.

Su Xiaofan had also known the stall owner who sold broken porcelain when he had set up a stall in Luochuan antique market.

In the early years, when the kiln was dug out, there were thousands of broken porcelain pieces. Most of the broken porcelain pieces were really cheap. They were basically weighe by sacks and sold on the ground. Even if it was a few Yuan per piece, it was still a profit.

On the contrary, there were very few modern porcelain pieces, because modern porcelain pieces were used at home. If they were broken, they would be thrown into the trash can, and no one would rush to collect them.

Therefore, the items with the least amount of counterfeits in the antique market were the ancient porcelain pieces and copper coins. These two items were not worth much in the first place, and the cost of imitation was probably higher than the market price. It was not worth it at all.

“This won’t do either. There are so many pieces of porcelain. If you want all of them, it’s impossible to put them together.”

Looking at the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan scratched his head. After thinking for a while, he decided to pick out the broken porcelain from Song Dynasty.

Among all the broken pieces, the Ding dynasty porcelain had the most broken pieces. The Ding dynasty kiln was originally in the northern province, very close to Yanjing. Perhaps the stall owner’s ancestors had really gone there to collect them.

In the 1980s and 1990s, a lot of kiln holes were dug out during urban construction, and countless porcelain fragments were unearthed. A large part of them were destroyed, and a small part was lost to the people, which were now sold on the ground.

After making up his mind, Su Xiaofan specifically picked porcelain pieces with the same color and luster to look at, because only those with the same color and luster could be put together into a whole object. Pure colors were much easier to put together than blue and white.

[ Broken pieces of Song dynasty porcelain. cannot be repaired! ]

[ broken pieces of Song dynasty porcelain. cannot be repaired! ]

[ Song dynasty’s ceramic shards. Cannot be repaired!]

[ Broken pieces of Song dynasty porcelain. cannot be repaired!]

One by one, the broken porcelain pieces were thrown into the basket. After a while, Su Xiaofan found that this stall had the most white porcelain, so he picked out the broken porcelain of other colors and only left white porcelain.

The information flashed quickly in Su Xiaofan’s mind. In just twenty minutes, he had picked up more than half a basket of broken porcelain pieces, all of which were from the Ding dynasty kiln of the Song dynasty.

After thinking for a while, Su Xiaofan stopped.

He didn’t pick up a single piece of broken porcelain, but focused on the entire basket. [ Repair points: 7 points]

[Song Dynasty kiln carving brush wash: incomplete, repairable, repair points to be deducted: [1 point. Repair?]

To Su Xiaofan’s surprise, his guess was right. There was a complete set of broken pieces among the broken pieces of ding dynasty porcelain from the song Dynasty, and the repair value in his mind could repair it.

“I won’t repair it!”

Su Xiaofan replied in his mind. He couldn’t repair it now before he got it.

“F*ck, you chose so many?”

Su Xiaofan was shocked when he looked into the basket. He hadn’t noticed that there were about two or three hundred pieces of broken porcelain in the basket. If they were bought at 31 Yuan, they would cost about six or seven thousand Yuan.

He looked up and saw that the stall owner was still reading his novel with great interest. Su Xiaofan began to work on it again. Every time he took out a handful of porcelain pieces, he would put them out and then look at the information of the basket of porcelain pieces. If the information showed that it could not be repaired, it meant that he had selected the pieces that could be repaired. Su Xiaofan checked them one by one.

A few hundred pieces of broken porcelain seemed like a lot, but it was very fast. In less than half an hour, there were only about 30 pieces left in Su Xiaofan’s basket, and he had put more than 20 pieces in there to make up for the number.

“My luck is really good. I was able to get a piece of porcelain just like that.” Looking at the broken pieces of porcelain, Su Xiaofan was in disbelief. There were thousands of broken pieces here, but the porcelain from the song Dynasty was actually only broken into seven pieces.

What Su Xiaofan didn’t know was that even though he seemed to be lucky, with the selection process of the restoration system in his mind, it was inevitable that he would find a complete piece of porcelain.

This was because most of the porcelain fragments that had collectible value would be completely preserved when they were broken. It was like broken porcelain from a kiln. Although they were put together with a broom and then put in a sack to sell, they were all complete pieces of porcelain. There were not many missing pieces, but later generations could not repair them and put them back together.

“Boss, I’m done choosing. Give me a price.’ Su Xiaofan called out to the stall owner and handed him the small basket.

Aiyo, you’ve taken quite. long time to choose. I’ve already finished several chapters. Damn it, the stone gambling plot in the Golden eyes has been written for more than ten chapters… The stall owner put down his phone and took the basket from Su Xiaofan. He looked inside and said, “”Brother, you really have good taste.

There’s even a piece of wood kiln porcelain in here.”

“Come on, big brother, don’t even think about raising the price. If you had a piece of the wood kiln porcelain, would you still be here?” Su Xiaofan laughed when he heard that. The wood kiln was burned in the first year of Zhou Xiande, five generations later. Because the surname of the emperor at that time was Chai, it was also called the Imperial kiln at that time. From the song Dynasty, it was changed to wood kiln.

The wood kiln’s porcelain was as blue as the sky, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, as loud as a chime, moist and beautiful with fine lines, and had always been the top of all the kilns.

The wood kiln could be said to be the most mysterious kiln in the history of China. It was extremely rare. Even now, there was still a great dispute about whether there was wood kiln porcelain. For example, the saying that a piece of broken porcelain was worth a thousand gold was actually referring to wood kiln porcelain.

When the stall owner said that there was wood-kiln porcelain in the basket, it was obvious that he wanted to raise the price. This was also a unique bargaining routine in the antique market.

“The price we agreed on is 30 Yuan. If you want to sell it, I’ll pay. If you don’t, I’ll turn around and leave. I won’t interfere with your business. What do you think?”

Su Xiaofan didn’t talk nonsense with the stall owner. People in Yanjing were good at talking, and his eloquence was probably not as good as his.

“Alright, I see that I’m a straightforward person, so I’ll do as you say.” The stall owner knew that he wouldn’t be able to get much from Su Xiaofan, so he immediately checked the broken porcelain pieces in the basket.

“There’s. total of 32 pieces. I’ll charge you 1000 Yuan…” The stall owner took out a computer and placed it in front of Su Xiaofan. “Bro, did your PE teacher or music teacher teach you math?”

Su Xiaofan looked speechlessly at the boss’s honest smile and said, “My English teacher taught me math. There are 32 pieces, and each piece costs 30 Yuan. That should be 960 Yuan, right?”

“Ahem, 950! 950 Yuan. I’ll give you a handicap of 10 yuan, deal?”

Business people were not shy, so the other party was not embarrassed when Su Xiaofan exposed him. He took out a payment code and motioned for Su Xiaofan to scan the code to pay.

Su Xiaofan had seen this kind of thing many times, so he wasn’t angry. After scanning the code and making the payment, he asked the owner to find a bag and put the thirty pieces of porcelain in it.

“Hey, bro, give me this pen washer.” Before he left, Su Xiaofan pointed at an unremarkable white porcelain brush wash.

Su Xiaofan had used repair points to check it. It was a modern piece of art, but the material was very similar to the porcelain piece he had chosen.

“Sure, brother, you’re so forthright. We’re not stingy either. You can take it.” The stall owner nodded and put the brush wash into Su Xiaofan’s bag.

“Brother, come back later.”

After making this deal, the stall owner was all smiles. The cost of dozens of broken porcelain pieces was estimated to be less than 50 yuan, so everyone was very satisfied. “Alright, see you later.” The smile on Su Xiaofan’s face was even brighter than the stall owner’s, and he even spoke a Beijing dialect that he had just learned.

Su Xiaofan was in a good mood among the bustling crowd. He had unlocked another function of the repair system today, which was to repair broken items as long as they were intact.

“Should I repair this one first, or buy another one?”

Su Xiaofan’s eyes were on the stall, but his mind was on the bag in his hand. He still remembered his competition with Zhao Zhengshan. He was thinking about whether to use the repaired ceramic ware or find another object.

With only one repair point, he could repair a complete set of ceramic ware. Su Xiaofan’s heart was itching like it was being scratched by a cat, and he didn’t have the mood to continue picking up scraps.

“Repair it first. We’ll decide after the repair!”

Su Xiaofan made his decision.

Looking around, Su Xiaofan walked into a small alley.

The alleys on both sides of the antique Street were filled with residents and piles of things. Su Xiaofan stood next to a trash can and lit a cigarette, but he didn’t see anyone coming out of the alley.

Su Xiaofan put his hand into the bag and put the seven fragments together.

[ Repair points: 7 points]

[Song Dynasty kiln carving brush wash: incomplete, repairable. Repair points needed: 1 point. Repair?]

“Repair!” Su Xiaofan thought. [ Repair points: 6 points]

[ Song Dynasty kiln carving brush wash, cannot be repaired! ]

When he saw the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan immediately felt a smooth and intact piece of porcelain in his hand.

Not daring to take it out directly, Su Xiaofan lifted the bag a little higher. At a glance, he saw a small brush wash that was a little bigger than an oil dish with a hint of green in the white color.

A brush washer was a type of stationery other than the four treasures of the study, such as brush, ink, paper, and ink stone. The brush wash was used to wash the brush with water. It was called the minor ninth rank of the study, along with the water wash, ink stone, brush holder, paperweight, ink bed, seal box, and paste box.

There were many styles of brush wash. The one that Su Xiaofan repaired was a shallow carved brush wash, which was the most famous white porcelain from the Song dynasty and looked very exquisite.

What made Su Xiaofan most happy was that after the brush was restored, the glazed paste of the ancient porcelain was still maintained.

Even the dirt that was originally attached to the porcelain pieces was still hanging on the porcelain, making it look like an unremarkable little plate.

If the repair system in his mind didn’t give him the answer, Su Xiaofan wouldn’t believe that this object, which looks like a small oil dish, was actually a Song Dynasty kiln engraved brush wash.

“It’s not too far off. I should be able to fool them.”

Su Xiaofan took out the handcrafted porcelain from the bag and threw it into the trash can beside him.