It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 709 The Secret Hidden in Porcelain
"Sir, you can't talk nonsense about this!" Ye Xueke was pressed to the ground, still struggling and shouting, "I didn't do anything."

"Really?" Mao Hongbin narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

"Of course, there are many people with the same handwriting. We all copied the handwriting of our ancestors."

"What about the paint on these porcelain figures?" As soon as this question was asked, Ye Xueke didn't know what to say. Because he just answered Yang Xiankang that only he had the color of red lips, and no one else had it.

So, how to explain it?

Ye Xueke was already sweating coldly, and Yang Xiankang on the side started laughing and glanced at Cui Xi.

Cui Xi controlled Yu and the others and handed them over to Mao Hongbin's servants. She didn't even look at Yang Xiankang, but walked back to where she had just stood and said to the maid, "Girl, everything is fine."

At this moment, Mao Hongbin had already bowed and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Queen, this is quite a sight to behold."

The man beside the maid had straightened up and responded with a stern face: "Let's examine it carefully. What is going on?"

Although Ye Xueke had never seen the emperor or empress, he understood immediately after seeing these people's expressions. But he still wanted to struggle again, shouting, "It's unfair! It's unfair to me! Your Majesty!"

"You are innocent?" Mao Hongbin sneered, "It seems that you really refuse to admit your guilt even when you are on the verge of death, right? Come on, bring the person up!"

At this time, a group of people appeared from the backyard of the Ye family. They all looked ashen. The thin man in the lead was covered in blood and staggered. He looked like he had been beaten badly. The one who was escorting him was Cao Zheng from the Shaoying Group. The others were also escorted by the Shaoying Group's young generals. They were not tall, but they looked very heroic.

In fact, even though the young members of the Young Heroes Corps are young, they practice hard every day and have excellent physical fitness. They are more than capable of dealing with these craftsmen and men.

Cao Zheng was very strong and pushed the thin man hard. The man lost his balance and fell out, right at Mao Hongbin's feet.

"Sir, I have been following Ye Xueke all the way to his porcelain workshop, which is in a valley thirty miles outside the city. According to the villagers nearby, they have moved here for quite some time, but have no contact with the outside world. They just do their own work and burn kilns all day long."

"Well, have they all been caught?" Mao Hongbin took a look and saw about twenty people, all men.

"Yes, without any omission." Cao Zheng nodded. "This thin man is the chief craftsman of porcelain, Chen Heshun."

"Tell me, what did you do?" Mao Hongbin asked Chen Heshun, "Tell me everything, tell the truth!"

"Sir, I'm just a porcelain maker. I do whatever Boss Ye asks me to do. I really don't know anything and have never done anything bad!" Chen Heshun cried, looking quite miserable.

"Then tell me, what did Ye Xueke ask you to do?" Mao Hongbin was not in a hurry and stood there with his hands behind his back.

Ye Xueke was obviously nervous. He wanted to say something, but Mao Hongbin's followers had already blocked his mouth. Liu Yao came over with Yang Xianrong, and Cui Xi and Yang Xiankang followed closely.

Yang Xianrong's face was still a little pale, but her eyes were very bright. She whispered something to Liu Yao, and Liu Yao said loudly: "Close the door of the Ye family, surround them inside and outside, and don't let anyone escape!"

"Understood sir!" Yuan Jianshuo, who was hiding among the servants of the Yang family, stood up. His voice was so loud that Liu Gu, who was standing beside him, trembled with fear and stood in the corner.

Craftsman Chen Heshun raised his head tremblingly and told about what he did. He was an expert in making porcelain. He met Ye Xueke by chance and gave Ye Xueke a lot of porcelain he made. Ye Xueke liked it very much and asked him if he could make more. He wanted to expand his business and even wanted to do business with the royal family. In the future, he could sell more porcelain under the name of "special supply".

Chen Heshun was tempted. After all, he was just a craftsman who focused on production and would not engage in business. The two of them hit it off immediately and first looked for a place suitable for firing a kiln in the suburbs of Pingyang. Ye Xueke was very generous and paid all the production costs for him. He then fired porcelain honestly and made many rare pieces.

One day, Ye Xueke came to ask him if he could make some thin-walled porcelain vases with pictures of men and women having sex on them. He wanted to sell them to dignitaries. "These people are all hypocritical and not good people."

Chen Heshun was particularly impressed. It was quite strange when Ye Xueke said this. He asked him to write his birth date on the inner tube when making a porcelain vase.

Chen Heshun also knew that this was an extremely vicious way of cursing, but Ye Xueke gave him a large amount of silver and money, and even funded him to expand the scale of the kiln factory and hired more guys to help, as if he wanted to expand his business.

For the sake of money, Chen Heshun agreed without thinking.

He is indeed capable and good at making blanks.

The process of making a blank is to carefully polish the final blank. The smoother and thinner the wall of the porcelain is, the more precious and rare it is. This is the most laborious process in the firing of porcelain. It must be done with precision, otherwise the thinnest ones will become defective products before they leave the kiln.

After the pattern was drawn, Ye Xueke gave him a person's birth date and asked him to write it in it.

Chen Heshun wanted to ask a question, but seeing how serious and cautious Ye Xueke was, he swallowed the words back. He just made some porcelain bottles according to his requirements. Of course, not every one of them was successful during the production process, and he did spend a lot of effort.

However, Ye Xueke was very satisfied with his work. He even crushed a porcelain vase while inspecting it. When he saw the birth date on the porcelain pieces, he didn't care about the blood flowing from his fingers. He smiled and said to him, "Brother Chen, we are going to make a fortune!"

However, they did not get rich afterwards because Emperor Liu Cong died and the whole Pingyang was in chaos for a while.

He even lost contact with Ye Xueke, and did not get back the money he had paid for making the porcelain.

Fortunately, he had some money before, and thought that even if he couldn't make porcelain to sell for money for the time being, it would be good to quietly make something he liked. Therefore, the kiln was not closed, and he still made some porcelain of different grades every day, which could also sell for some money, so his life was not difficult.

More than half a year later, Ye Xueke suddenly came.