Xiao Peng took Guo Sihua into the warehouse. In the corner of the warehouse was covered with a canvas, all of which had already accumulated dust. Xiao Peng lifted the canvas: "When I first learned to carve, I was a little young and frivolous, so I carved such a thing." But I don't dare to take it out, I'm afraid that someone will make a big fuss, and if you dare to take it!"

Guo Sihua saw the things in the canvas and took a breath: "Brother Xiao, all the funds I can use are only 500 million, I will give you all of them, give me this thing, is it okay?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "What are you talking about money? I said, I want to thank you for letting me dig the first pot of gold in my life, you respect me, I respect you." Brother Guo, just tell me if you like this thing?"

"I love him so much!" Guo Sihua said without thinking about it.

"If you like it, take it! No need to add money, and if you add money, we won't have to deal with it again." Xiao Peng smiled: "Don't you see that I threw it in the warehouse and hid it? It's too showy to have this thing, and I'm not a person who is willing to be in the limelight, so you can take it away if you want to be in the limelight." I'll be ugly and say that earlier, if people know that you have this thing in your house, maybe the attention of the whole country will be in your house, and it will annoy you to death at that time!"

Guo Sihua smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiao, who doesn't want to increase his popularity in business! Is it okay for you to be so low-key? I still wish this thing would attract attention! If the attention of the whole country is on my business, how much can our stock rise!"

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "That's okay, since you like it, then move away! It's yours! Congratulations to your father on my father's blessing as Donghai Shoubi Nanshan." ”

Guo Sihua began to refuse: "No, Brother Xiao, I take too much advantage of this." No, no, no!"

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "We are all friends, we are called 'brother and brother', what is there to take advantage of? In the future, there may be a time when I will ask for you. We've been here for a long time, aren't we?"

Guo Sihua was silent for a moment: "Brother Xiao, as long as you have any needs in the future, it will be a matter of your words here." ”

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "Okay, let's settle it." Brother Guo, I will inevitably trouble you in the future!"

Guo Sihua said: "By the way, Brother Xiao, what did you just say? To build a fitness center for the elderly in the county?

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "Well, in fact, I originally asked you to build an elderly activity center with an investment of 2.4 million." ”

After hearing this, Guo Sihua smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Xiao, you are really generous。。。。。。 In that case, let's just leave it at that. In your words, if we want to do the best, we will simply build the best senior activity center in the country, and how about installing a swimming pool, a cinema, and a sauna?"

Xiao Peng hurriedly said: "Brother Guo, don't get excited, this elderly activity center is all free." Your operating expenses are not low. ”

Guo Sihua said with a smile: "I also learn from you, charity is not just lip service, but action is not it? In the future, our group will be responsible for the operating expenses! This matter is decided!"

Xiao Peng didn't say much: "Then I'll thank Brother Guo for the old people in the town!" Okay, let's take this chair package away." ”

Guo Sihua smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiao, don't bury me." Obviously I'm taking advantage of you, okay? You still take the chair package with you? How can it be so simple! I'll contact the security company to wait for me at the dock, otherwise I really won't dare to take it with me. ”

Xiao Peng was speechless: "Why are you so nervous? Isn't this just a chair, I said it wrong?"

Guo Sihua sighed: "Are dragon chairs and chairs the same concept?"

Xiao Peng smiled after hearing this: "This is not a dragon chair, because there is no suitable material, so it is smaller than the dragon chair, and there is no gold." I don't like it being too troublesome, so that's it. ”

The chair in Xiao Peng's warehouse is a carved dragon chair, which is the so-called 'dragon chair', and the shape is in the same vein as the dragon chair: the back of the round chair, four cylinders and three dragons are arc-shaped, the front is high and the two armrests are gradually lowered, and there is a dragon on each of the two armrests; The seat is connected to the base, which is a Sumeru seat about four feet wide and one and a half feet deep instead of the chair legs. This was carved on a whim by Xiao Peng on a whim according to the dragon chair in the Taihe Hall of the Ming Dynasty when he first received the inheritance. But after carving, I suddenly found that it was too inflated to sit at home, so I put it in the warehouse and didn't take it out.

The difference between this chair and the dragon chair is that the real dragon chair is a gold carved dragon chair, and Xiao Peng's chair is only a carved dragon chair, and the wood is not the same, the frame of the dragon chair is made of red sandalwood, embedded with birch wood and gold silk nanmu. And Xiao Peng's chair is gloomy golden silk nanmu, and it is smaller than the real dragon chair.

After listening to Xiao Peng's words, Guo Sihua's eyes widened: "Wait a minute, Brother Xiao, you said you would make money?

Although Guo Sihua said that he didn't understand antiques, this was obviously a kind word, and the business of the group included the auction industry, how could he not understand it? Even if there are really some things that can't tell the truth from the fake, there is still a vision.

Xiao Peng nodded: "Yes, but I suggest you don't give this chair gold, otherwise it will be really easy to get into trouble." I'm just a handicraft, if it's genuine, isn't it a fake?"

The full name of the so-called lacquer is 'lacquer gold', and it is a handicraft that is about to be lost. It is different from gilding: gilt refers to the use of gold and mercury as raw materials, making gold amalgamation, applying it to the surface of the object, and leaving gold when the mercury evaporates.

The gold is to take the lacquer on the lacquer tree, after complicated processing, to make 'lacquer', which itself is a complex process, since ancient times there is a process of 'a hundred miles and a thousand knives and a pound of lacquer', and after extracting the lacquer, use the lacquer as a raw material to smear the gold powder. Gold is more precious and more expensive than the raw materials used in gold plating. The lacquer itself is difficult to do, and gilding uses much more gold dust than gilding. The average person really can't afford this kind of process.

Just like Buddhism prevailed in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the difference between good incense and bad incense in a temple is to look at their Buddha statues: the incense is not good gilding, the incense is good gilding, and the incense is prosperous and directly pasted with gold! The emperors of the two Buddha extermination campaigns in the Tang Dynasty did not say anything, but first collected the gold on the Buddha statues!

Of course, because the process is more complex and expensive than gilding, the technique of gilding is now about to be lost. Guo Sihua didn't expect Xiao Peng to have this technology.

After hearing this, Guo Sihua smiled bitterly and said: "Your craftsmanship has been mastered, even if you don't make gold, people will say that you are a fake, right?"

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers when he heard this: "I've thought of this a long time ago, so what." I learned Lu Zigang, a total of thirteen dragons were carved on this chair, and my name was carved on each dragon.

When Lu Zigang was alive, because the level of jade carving was too high, he was brought to the palace to carve jade for the emperor. In that era, craftsmen had to serve the emperor, and after carving out things, the payment was generally the emperor's year name and the emperor's name, but Lu Ziang adhered to the principle of literati craftsmen, and each of his works would be paid on it, and it was written in various inconspicuous places.

He once carved a jade pot for Mingshenzong, the name was hidden in the spout, Mingshenzong saw it at that time, and was quite happy, not angry and praised him; later he carved a dragon button jade seal for the emperor, but once Mingshenzong's hand slipped and was broken, and accidentally found that the dragon button had the words 'Zigang system' in the dragon's mouth! (There is no official history record about this history, it is all wild history, so there are also different theories, some people say that it is because the teapot was smashed and found to be paid; some people say that it is the concubine hosta that was broken and found to be settled, anyway, it is certain that Lu Zigang made Mingshenzong Zhu Yijun cut off his head because of his own work.) ）

After hearing this, Guo Sihua searched for a dragon for a long time: "I can't find it!"

Xiao Peng smiled: "In the future, your family can have one more entertainment project, called 'The whole family looking for signatures', anyway, I can tell you clearly that these thirteen dragons do have signatures on them, and each position is different." Take your time!hahahahaha. ”

Guo Sihua also laughed: "It's just right, let my father have something to do, and it won't be so boring! Brother Xiao, can you point out an autograph for me first? Let me go back and show off?"

Xiao Peng thought for a moment: "Okay! Look at this ball!" He pointed to the carved dragon on the left handle of the chair, and the dragon's mouth was a small ball, which means 'dragon playing with pearls'. This ball cannot be taken out of the dragon's mouth, which means that the ball is carved in the dragon's mouth instead of being carved and put into the dragon's mouth, which requires extremely meticulous handwork.

Guo Sihua took a closer look but was dumbfounded: "Ghost Ball? Brother Xiao, are you a god? You carved the ball in the dragon's mouth into a Ghost Ball?"

To be precise, 'Ghost Gongqiu' is a kind of ivory carving technique, which has developed from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the present. It is to carve an ivory ball into the shape of a layer of 'balls within a ball', and there were thirteen layers of ghost balls in the Qing Dynasty.

But those ghost balls are all made of ivory, but Xiao Peng is carved from wood, or carved from the dragon's mouth, Guo Sihua can't figure out how Xiao Peng did it.

Xiao Peng laughed when he heard Guo Sihua's words: "It's nothing big, it's just a five-story ghost ball." On the third floor of this ghost ball is my name carved into it. ”

Guo Sihua smiled bitterly after hearing this: "It's really 'the whole family is looking for a signature', Brother Xiao, even if you tell us where the signature is, we can't find it! This chair is simply a rare treasure, and in terms of craftsmanship alone, the dragon chair of Taihe Hall can't catch up with him." ”

Xiao Peng didn't deny it: "That's why I said that this chair is too eye-catching." But it's not a rare treasure, isn't it just a matter of fun?"

Guo Sihua looked at Xiao Peng speechlessly, he really wanted to ask, are you pretending to be so realistic?