Jianbao life

Chapter 796 The Plate That Changes Color
After bidding farewell to the grateful Zuo Shan, Chu Chen drove to his shop.

"Hi Boss Chu!"

"Boss, you are back..."

As soon as Chu Chen walked to the door, someone greeted him with a smile.It has been a month since I went to Myanmar this time and came back yesterday. When I returned to my shop again, Chu Chen felt extremely kind when he heard these greetings.

Chu Chen smiled and greeted the shop assistants and customers, and also handed Zhou Wenping a package of gifts brought back from Europe for the employees, and asked him to distribute them to everyone when he got off work.

Although these gifts were just small gadgets and not very valuable in themselves, the employees in the store seemed very happy when they heard about such good things.This is exactly the effect Chu Chen wants to achieve. It doesn't cost much, and it makes the employees feel that the boss is thinking about them all the time, so why not do it?

Next, Zhou Wenping took a notebook and reported to Chu Chen about the business and income and expenditure in the store for the past month in Chu Chen's office.In the end, the things written by Xie Gong were also handed over to Chu Chen for decision.

Chu Chen put down the list in his hand and said, "Just buy according to what Mr. Xie wrote!"
"Okay, I'll get ready now!" Zhou Wenping nodded, "Then when are you going to ask Mr. Xie to come?"

"Just listen to his opinion on this matter!" Chu Chen replied.

"If he thinks about it, he probably wants to come to work tomorrow." Zhou Wenping said with a smile.

"Yes, he can come if he wants, I have no objection!" Chu Chen laughed.

"Then I'll let him know when I've bought something."

"Yeah!" Chu Chen nodded: "Brother Zhou, you have worked hard this month!"

"What's so hard about it? Compared with us picking stalls, the current job shouldn't be too easy!"

When it came to the end, Zhou Wenping seemed a little emotional. Thinking back then, for the sake of making a living, it was very normal for him to get up early and stay late, and to go in the wind and rain. And if it wasn't for Chu Chen, he should still be living this kind of life now , This also made him more determined, and he will repay Chu Chen's determination with better work in the future.

Hearing Zhou Wenping talk about picking stalls, Chu Chen was also very emotional. If it was a year ago, he would never have thought that he would have such a big change. Even now, he sometimes wonders if he has done something wrong. It is a daydream, for fear that this dream will suddenly wake up.

"The world is so wonderful!" Chu Chen secretly sighed.

After dealing with all the affairs in the store, Chu Chen and Zhou Wenping walked out of the office together. When he went upstairs just now, he saw Yuan Hongjian coming in with a box, which made him immediately think of Uncle Wu. What I told him, now he wants to see what Yuan Hongjian's stuff is.

When Chu Chen walked into the reception room, he heard Yuan Hongjian dancing and talking to Uncle Wu.

"Old man, what did you hear today, are you so happy?"

After a period of contact, Chu Chen found out that Yuan Hongjian also had a very gossipy heart, as long as there were any anecdotes, or some knowledge in the market, he would like to inquire clearly.

And every time he came, Yuan Hongjian would explain these things to the people in the store with more details, and he had a good eloquence, so these things gave him the effect of storytelling.Sometimes Uncle Wu would make fun of him, and it would be a great loss to the audience if he didn't talk about storytelling at this level.

"Mr. Chu, I didn't hear about today's incident. This is my own experience!"

Having said that, Yuan Hongjian slapped his thigh, with an expression of regret that was too late.

"Ah! What's going on?" Chu Chen asked hastily.

"Hey……"

Motohong Kenchang sighed, and then told what happened.

After hearing the cause and effect of the incident, Chu Chen was also very speechless, why do you think?It turned out that what Yuan Hongjian said was so heartbroken was that he missed a Kangxi Tongbao. Although the plate style of this Kangxi Tongbao was rather special, it only cost a few hundred yuan.

Let alone a few hundred yuan, after all, it is not a small amount of money for ordinary Tibetan friends, but the price given by the hawker of Kangxi Tongbao is less than 100 yuan away from the real value.For this little money, Yuan Hongjian acted so exaggeratedly, how could Chu Chen be speechless?

"Hi! Do you think it's unnecessary to do this for this little money? If it's normal, even if I lose 100 yuan, I won't feel bad. But think about it, I'm just a second late. The things were taken by others first, and you said I was depressed or not..."

"Okay, okay! I know you're depressed about the head office! But Xiaochen has a lot of things to do, so you should show Xiaochen what you brought!"

Knowing that going on like this, Yuan Hongjian would probably chatter endlessly, so Uncle Wu quickly interrupted him.

"Yes, yes, yes! I almost forgot the business!" Yuan Hongjian was stunned, and then quickly took out the contents of the box. It turned out to be a plate that looked like alum red glaze

Alum red glaze is one of the red glazes, which is a low-temperature glaze. It is made of alum red by calcining and rinsing as raw material, so it is called alum red glaze.The main colorant is iron oxide, also known as iron red, and its color is often orange-like red.The firing method is to apply glaze on the fired white body, and then enter the kiln for the second time and fire at about 900 degrees.

Alumina red glaze began to develop greatly in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the exhaustion of Ma Cang soil and the decline of the technology of firing copper red glaze during the Jiajing period.The color of alum red glaze is not as pure and bright as that of copper red glaze, but its color is stable and easy to fire.In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was widely used as a red coloring material. Porcelain capital kilns mostly used alum red to match various colors to depict various patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, flowers, etc., with fine painting skills.

This plate made by Yuan Hongjian looks like it is very finely carved, and the pattern on it is also very interesting. It is one of the Eight Scenic Spots of Yanjing "Xishan Qingxue".

"Eight Views of Yanjing" is also called "Eight Views of Yanshan Mountain" or "Eight Views of Yantai".In the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang added "Autumn Wind in the South" and "Time Rain in the Eastern Suburbs" to the eight sceneries, and wrote poems "Ten Views", so there is also the saying of "Ten Views of Yanjing".

Xishan refers to the general term for the continuous mountains in the western suburbs of the capital, and the so-called snow scene also refers to this area in general.Xiangshan is a typical mountain in this area, so Qianlong erected the stele "Xishan Qingxue" on the mountainside of Xiangshan.

Xishan has a beautiful scenery and has become a place where temples gather since Tang and Song. The famous Xishan Eight Courtyards in the Jin Dynasty were gardens opened in the Jin Dynasty. "Xishan Snow" is the famous landscape after the snow in Xishan.

According to historical records, as early as more than 800 years ago, Jin Shizong built the Great Yong'an Temple and the palace in the Xiangshan area.Later, his grandson, Zhangzong Wanyanjing, who directly inherited his throne, successively built buildings such as the Star Sacrifice Platform and the Huijing Tower here.

It can be imagined that whenever it clears up after snow, from here, you can see the mountains and jade columns, the peaks and ridges, the sun shining, and the red dress, which is extremely magnificent. It should be said that "clear snow" is more magnificent than "accumulated snow". "Snow" is more poetic and picturesque.

In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, literati wrote countless poems here, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was once changed from Xishan Qingxue to Xishan Jixue.

In the Qing Dynasty, in the 12th year of Qianlong's reign, large-scale construction projects began in Xiangshan, and in the [-]th year of Qianlong's reign, it was renamed Jingyi Garden.The park not only has many famous ancient temples and cultural landscapes in history, but also has deep and quiet mountains and forests, maintaining a strong natural ecological environment.

Qianlong came to Jingyi Garden to read and wrote the poem "Xishan Qingxue", changing "Xishan Jixue" to "Xishanqingxue".And engrave the poem on the "Xishan Qingxue" stele, standing in the north of the half-mountain pavilion on the hillside of Xiangshan Mountain, on the right side of the climbing road in Chaoyang Cave.

It’s just a pity for Chu Chen that although the snow scene in Xiangshan Mountain is beautiful, but now, the snowfall in the capital is not very common, and the beautiful snow scene is even rarer, not to mention that foreign guests are not easy to enjoy it, even citizens are rare one sight.

So, up to now, the reputation of "Xishan Qingxue", which was once praised by many literati and scholars, is getting weaker.The beautiful scenery of Xiangshan on a good day is replaced by the red leaves of Xiangshan.In autumn, the colorful red vermilion and vermilion red, and the red leaves of Cotinus cotinus are fully dyed, making it a good place for sightseeing.

This made Chu Chen sigh, and also remembered an idiom "time has passed and circumstances have changed".

Chu Chen looked at the plate carefully, and immediately knew that this plate must be a fake, but the material of the plate seemed a little strange, it looked like porcelain, but it didn't feel like porcelain, which felt very strange.

"Old man, don't you know what is the mystery of this plate?"

Wu Hongjian said with a nonchalant expression, "This plate will change color!"

"Changing color?" Hearing such an answer, Chu Chen couldn't help being taken aback.

"Yes, it will change color!" Yuan Hongjian said confidently.

It turned out that a few days ago, Yuanhong Jiantao exchanged this plate, because he felt that the carving was very fine and the pattern was very interesting. He liked it more and more. Although it was a bit dirty when he bought it, it will be fine after washing. up.

But it doesn't matter after washing, a strange thing happened, the plate that was originally red turned green immediately after being soaked in water!This surprised Yuan Hongjian, but he couldn't help guessing, could it be that the color of the plate has faded?But this is impossible, if the plate really fades, it is impossible to change from red to green!

What made Yuan Hongjian even more surprised was that after the plate was air-dried, it returned to its original red color!What is going on here?

Yuan Hongjian thought hard and couldn't think of a reason for it, but when he saw a few stones in the flower pot, his mind flashed, and he suddenly thought of something he had heard before. Some plates were made of color-changing stones. Carved, it changes color and is very precious.

In order to confirm his guess, Yuan Hongjian even tested it on the plate with a red-hot iron needle. As expected, the plate was not damaged at all after being scalded, and even smoke did not come out.This made Yuan Hongjian extremely happy. Could it be that this plate was really carved out of color-changing stone?

(End of this chapter)