Riding the wind of rebirth

The problem with the alternator is simple, the gasket is old and the oil has burned out.

This is not even a fault, it can only be called that the daily maintenance is not in place.

But putting such equipment in the temple on the mountain road twenty miles away from the brigade headquarters is really embarrassing for the old monk.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel that building merits doesn't seem like a big project, it's just a little effort.

But the old monk Cixiang was very happy. What is the biggest problem on the mountain?Water, dry season without a generator is a hassle.

Zhou Zhi felt very strange, how many people were there in the temple?Do you need that much water?

It turned out that the monks of Fawang Temple had to grow their own vegetables and food. This is a rule passed down from Guoshan as the abbot, which is called "the integration of Zen and agriculture".

Moreover, Fawang Temple also has a bean curd machine. Hundreds of people will come during the big temple fair and the Maitreya fair.

"It should be about the same." Zhou Zhi pulled the rope to start the engine, and the generator hummed loudly. This time, the black smoke and noise were much quieter.

"Now it's time, let's go and fetch water..." At this moment, the compassionate old monk didn't look like a well-educated eminent monk at all, but more like an old captain of a production team.

They called two monks who also looked like a rural agricultural university and a mage, and they carried the generator to the machine well.

Zhou Zhi started the machine again, Cixiang took a bucket of water and poured it into the pump, and after the machine stopped idling, the water was pumped out after a while.

The clear well water flowed into a large reservoir along the ditch, and the monks who were farming on the slope below the reservoir also threw down their hoes and surrounded them.

"The water in Fawang Temple is very good," Cixiang pulled two pumpkin leaves, cleaned the wooden barrel, and took a bucket of water: "Let's go, I'll make tea for you..."

The tea in Fawang Temple is really good. Apart from the aroma of tea, it also has a peculiar aroma of glutinous rice. Zhou Zhi was ignorant about this in his previous life, and he had never tasted a similar taste anywhere. "

"It's delicious!" Zhou Zhi stared at the porcelain cup in his hand: "This cup is good..."

"Elbow still understands this?" Ci Xiang smiled and said, "I still have a pot..."

"This pot is made after the Republic of China. It's an imitation of the Republic of China. It's not worth much." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "But these few cups are amazing..."

"Don't look at the bottom line, you cut off the elbow, when did this thing come from?" Ci Xiang was thinking about it.

"Well, let me try... First of all, let's talk about the shape of the vessel. From the shape of the vessel, it is called a horseshoe cup."

"Look, don't these cups look like inverted horseshoes?"

Everyone looked at the cup in their hands again, and sure enough, it looked like an overturned horseshoe.

"The horseshoe cup first became popular in Chenghua and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, so it has another name called Jiajing cup."

"However, the glazes of the cups in the Ming Dynasty are mainly Huiqing, sprinkled blue, etc., and the format is not as regular as these few."

"The glaze on these cups, the blue and white are under the glaze, and the colors are on the glaze. This is called 'fighting color'."

"Although there were fighting colors in the Ming Dynasty, they were rarely used on horseshoe cups."

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"There is also the picture eucalyptus. The drawing of bucket colors in the Ming Dynasty was simple. The so-called 'leaf without side' and 'four seasons single clothes', the level of craftsmanship is not up to the level of these cups."

"Also, although the horseshoe cups are all open and cut to the belly, but in the Qing Dynasty, the shape of the utensils was much more standardized, and the patterns also formed regulations."

"And after Qianlong, the decoration of horseshoe cups is mostly pastels."

"Of course, famille rose was not invented in the Qianlong Dynasty, just like the fighting color was not invented in the Yongzheng Dynasty. However, I have never seen the use of fighting color on horseshoe cups after the Qianlong Dynasty."

"There is another point. These Sanduo horseshoe cups, the color particles used are not as delicate as the Qianlong Dynasty, but the painters are at the level of official kilns."

"Although only a little carcass feature can be seen through the thin glaze on the mouth of the cup, it can be basically concluded that this is a set of Qing Yongzheng Doucai Sanduo horseshoe cups."

"What is the Sanduo Horseshoe Cup?" Cixiang asked.

"The horseshoe is the shape, and the sanduo is the pattern." Zhou Zhi said: "One branch with three fruits, or three places in a cup are the patterns, and they are called sanduo."

Everyone took a closer look, and sure enough, there were birthday peaches, bergamots, pomegranates, and persimmons on the cups of several people, and there were three on each branch.

"These fruits represent..."

"I know!" Master Qiao hurriedly replied: "Shoutao means longevity, bergamot means happiness... er, what does this pomegranate represent?" Master Qiao asked.

"Pomegranate has many seeds." Uncle Yao said, "This is also an old picture, but what are these persimmons?"

"Toasts, Jiji toasts, King Wen Yining. That's why only emperors dared to use them before." Zhou Zhi said, "I just don't know if it's the current dynasty's 'Great Qing Yongzheng Year System' or a copy of it." The entrusted funds of the Chenghua Year System of the Ming Dynasty."

"It's amazing!" Cixiang turned the cup in his hand, among them, the birthday peaches, bergamots, and pomegranates were all made in "Daming Chenghua Year", and the bottom of the persimmon cup happened to be "Daqing Yongzheng Year". system".

"Eh? There are two missing?" Zhou Zhi smiled when he saw it: "Three more cups are often used as a set of three, master, you must have hidden two, right?"

Ci Xiang smiled and opened her cabinet, and took out two small cups, one with lychees painted on it, and the other with loquats on it.

"Litchi is 'Doli', but what is loquat?"

"The loquat has a hard core, which means 'multi-health'." Zhou Zhi laughed.

The two cups were turned over, and sure enough, they were both made in the Yongzheng Year of the Qing Dynasty.

"They also know that it is not in compliance with the regulations. In the Ming Dynasty, there were no more than three cups of litchi, loquat and persimmon." Zhou Zhi couldn't help being amused by the careful thinking of the craftsmen back then.

"It's great to be a thief, unlike us, who don't know how to steal two cups." Uncle Yao's words made everyone even more amused.

"I received these cups at the foot of the mountain when I placed the order in Mount Wutai." Ci Xiang said, "Firstly, the designs are exquisite, the colors are light and elegant, and they are cute to look at. Secondly, there is a lychee cup, which happens to be It was a special product from my hometown, and I bought it for no reason at the time."

"Then the master of these two sets of cups has already put them away. They should be worth a lot in a while."

"Don't talk about the future..." The old man's face became eager: "Just say now, how much is it worth now?"

"It's not a good deal now. The price of a small piece of Yongzheng Doucai is not too high, maybe 2000 yuan."

"Six cups so small can be sold for 2000 yuan?" Ci Xiang was overjoyed: "Then I can build the main hall is enough!"

"Master, you got it wrong. It's not 2000 yuan for six cups, but 6000 sets of [-] cups. A set of [-] yuan is more appropriate... Hey master, what's the matter with you?" Seeing that Xiang Ci was about to fall, Zhou Zhi was so frightened that he quickly stretched out his hand He supported him: "Don't drop the cup..."

"That's right, that's right... This baby can't be dropped, it will be gone if it falls halfway through the hall..." Ci Xiang helped Zhou Zhi to sit back on the chair, and carefully put the lychee cup in his hand back on the tea table: "Uh cough ...Elbow seems to be a real expert, there is something... ah, this..."