Chapter 118 Last Week’s Antiques
In a small and narrow rental house.
Lin Chuan cursed and greeted the system developers in his heart.
The sound of the system sounded again——
[Congratulations to the host, the profession you randomly obtained is an antique maker, and you have obtained the exclusive ability of the antique maker: the antique manufacturing method. 】
[We are using ‘virtual reality’ technology to generate a new world for you. 】
[Host please be prepared! 】
"Antique manufacturing method... done!"
Lin Chuan cursed secretly, thinking, experiencing professional life is like life, and life is like that, it is better to enjoy it than to resist!
In this case, let’s go wild!
Now that we are in the virtual world, who is still timid?
Anyway, as long as you don't make fake products or buy fake products in reality, you won't be investigated and brought into trouble.
Counterfeiting antiques is not illegal, but there is nothing wrong with writing a novel about antique counterfeiting techniques, right?
At this time.
Virtual and reality begin to intertwine.
The moonlight outside the window gradually dimmed in Lin Chuan's eyes, and the scene of renting a house faded in front of Lin Chuan's eyes, replaced by an old courtyard.
Lin Chuan's consciousness descended into the virtual world.
He stood in front of the door of the old courtyard. The copper ring on the mottled wooden door had been worn smooth by time.
Pushing the door open, there was a "squeak" sound. At the same time, a strong aroma of earth and charcoal hit my face. When I looked up, I saw that the bluestone floor inside was washed brightly by the rain.
The blue bricks on the walls have turned yellow, and there are several strings of wind chimes hanging under the eaves. The breeze blows by, making a crisp and sweet sound. There are also ceramic bodies hanging in various shapes, some as round as jade, or as simple and elegant as possible.
"Brother Lin, you are back!"
At this time, a young girl about eighteen years old came running.
She was wearing a simple sky-blue cloth, which looked elegant and generous in its simplicity. Her body had the fragrance of earth, and her nose was fragrant. Her face was dirty and stained with earth.
However, there was a trace of pain on her face.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Chuan asked curiously before he knew the whole story.
"The ceramic merchants in our county united and refused to accept our ceramics, forcing us to a dead end. We can only sell them in bulk, but the money we make is no longer enough to support the continued operation of our Lin's workshop." The NPC girl said .
“Why did they reject our ceramics?”
Lin Chuan frowned.
The girl lowered her head and said softly: "The son of the president of the Ceramics Association is a foreigner, which is completely opposite to your ceramic philosophy, but every time you make ceramic works, you outdo him. Last time, you made a mistake after drinking and complained about the whole county. No one knows how to appreciate your work, so he added fuel to the fire and publicized it, which resulted in the current situation. "
hiss!
Lin Chuan couldn't help but take a breath.
This opening has the flavor of an online novel.
"So we can't make Lin's Ceramics anymore, right?" Lin Chuan looked at the NPC girl and asked.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to survive until next month." There was a hint of crying in the girl's voice.
Lin Chuan just thought for a moment and said: "Then we won't support it anymore. Now we will declare bankruptcy and give workers a subsidy. Remember, it is N+1. We are also a conscientious enterprise after all."
"ah?"
The girl was suddenly startled, "What else can we do if we don't make ceramics?"
"Let's switch to the antique ceramics business first." Lin Chuan smiled and said, "My Lin family belongs to a well-known ceramics family. It is reasonable to pass down a few pieces of porcelain of some age, right?"
The girl was even more confused and couldn't understand what nonsense Lin Chuan was talking about.
Lin Chuan quickly assumed the role of the owner of Lin's Ceramics in the virtual world and learned about the basic situation.
but.
The first thing he did was to rename "Lin's Ceramics" to "Lin's Antiques".
Since I am an antique maker by profession, I must play with antiques!
As for the son of the so-called president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, Lin Chuan didn't care about him at all. He switched from the ceramics circle to the antiques and antiques circle to achieve dimensionality reduction.
As everyone knows.
Gold in troubled times, collected in prosperous times.
All circles have chains of contempt.
The highest level of contempt in the ceramic circle is none other than the cultural and entertainment circle.
Just do it as you say,
In the virtual world, Lin Chuan has always been a man of action. He has already planned to fake it...ah, he has already planned which antique ceramics to make.
Qing Kangxi colorful fish and algae pattern bamboo hat bowl.
This piece of porcelain was not particularly old, but its market price ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, so Lin Chuan planned to use it to practice his skills.
then.
Lin Chuan then visited the county's antique market.
The first step in imitating antiques is to imitate them.
The commonly used methods of imitation include repainting the old body, repainting the old body, repainting the old body with new glaze, new tools for old parts, and refire.
Lin Chuan visited the antique market and found a batch of white bamboo hat bowls from the Qing Dynasty with a diameter of about 21cm and a height of 7.5cm. This is basically the same size as the "Qing Kangxi colorful fish and algae pattern bamboo hat bowls".
Of course, this is a virtual world.
It is a gift from the system.
Therefore, Lin Chuan planned to use the method of "old tires and new paintings" to imitate.
The so-called repainting of old tires is more common to use white tires from the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and paint them with pastels and other overglaze colors. In this way, people cannot tell the authenticity from the quality of the tires.
Just having a white fetus in the Qing Dynasty is not enough.
As the saying goes, 'One spoonful of Qing, two spoons of Song, and three spoons back to the top cave'.
If you want to turn modern products into ancient cultural toys, technology and hard work are indispensable.
Lin Chuan ran a few more places.
I bought hydrofluoric acid, permanganic acid and other chemicals, and also ran to grab a few pairs of traditional Chinese medicine.
This made the NPC girl Xiao Qing startled: "Brother Lin, are you sick?"
"Not getting sick is the key to making money."
Lin Chuan smiled.
Imitation is the first step, and the second step is to make it old.
This step is done so delicately that an expert can look at the bowl with a magnifying glass for a long time with a thoughtful look on his face.
Everything is ready, start work immediately!
Returning to ‘Linchuan Antiques’, Lin Chuan took out the newly purchased white hat and bowl and began to imitate it.
The first step is painting.
The ‘Kangxi Five Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Bamboo Hat Bowl of the Qing Dynasty’ belongs to the overglaze color category.
Therefore, Lin Chuan took out the prepared white hat bowl and colorful paints, and began to draw patterns on the inner and outer walls of the bowl.
The 'antique manufacturing method' allowed Lin Chuan to master relevant skills, and drawing patterns was not difficult for Lin Chuan.
Soon, the drawing was completed.
The next step is the second firing.
Lin Chuan skillfully placed the glazed bamboo hat bowl into the kiln for the second firing.
This process is called glaze firing.
The temperature and time of glaze firing need to be strictly controlled to ensure that the glaze can be completely melted and tightly combined with the white body of the bowl.
At the same time, glaze firing can also make the color of the painting more vivid and lasting.
Take it out of the oven and let it cool down.
Lin Chuan and the NPC girl Xiao Qing saw a colorful fish and algae pattern bamboo hat bowl with skillful and elegant painting and bright colors.
The outer wall of the bamboo hat bowl shows four swimming fish: blue, green, black and red.
The inner wall of the bowl is patterned with colorful flowers, birds and butterflies, with lush branches and leaves, clusters of flowers, colorful butterflies flying and kingfishers jumping on the branches, forming a vivid picture of flowers and birds.
After polishing, it’s the third step.
Distressed.
There are many ways to be old-fashioned.
Such as: calendering method, polishing method, varnishing method, hand grinding method, water grinding method, oil grinding method, acid leaching method, mixed leaching method, oxidation method, oil staining method, soil burial method.
There are also methods such as boiling in tea, smoking with incense, and applying fine charcoal ash.
Of course.
Nowadays, for many low-grade imitation products, in order to reduce the contract cost, potassium permanganate is usually applied on the glaze to create the effect.
Relatively high-end imitations will use traditional Chinese medicine soaking to create the effect of old porcelain.
However, there are not many people who can skillfully master this old-fashioned method.
Lin Chuan used this method to imitate the ‘Qing Kangxi colorful fish and algae pattern bamboo hat bowl’.
Before that.
He gently touched the mouth of the bowl, and a "chicken claw pattern" appeared.
Later, Lin Chuan put the colorful fish and algae patterned bamboo hat bowl into the well-prepared Chinese medicine, added a small amount of alcohol, and added a small drop of potassium permanganate.
Wait for completion.
"Brother Lin, this porcelain is already of great artistic value, why do you still need to soak it?" Xiao Qing on the side still didn't know what Lin Chuan was going to do, so she asked curiously.
Lin Chuan smiled: "It's not enough to have artistic value alone, it also has to have historical value."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
"After it is soaked, it will become porcelain from the Qing Dynasty. A piece of porcelain is worth hundreds of thousands." Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows.
Xiao Qing's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide: "So much, more money than making ceramics!"
"Of course." Lin Chuan smiled.
Wait until soaking is complete.
Lin Chuan did a series of processing work, and then he and Xiaoqing took this 'Kangxi Qing Dynasty Colorful Fish and Algae Pattern Bamboo Hat Bowl' to the most famous treasure appraiser in the county for appraisal.
Not surprisingly.
The master treasure appraiser carefully looked at the newly made 'Kangxi Colorful Fish and Algae Pattern Bamboo Hat Bowl of the Qing Dynasty' and was greatly surprised. He immediately expressed his intention to buy this bowl at a high price of 400,000 yuan.
But Lin Chuan didn't sell it to the treasure appraiser.
I have to find a way to sell this bowl to the son of the president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, otherwise I won’t be able to bear the pain he put in stumbling over me.
…
Later, Lin Chuan imitated various antiques.
Calligraphy and painting, bronzes, jade, wooden antiques... I cheated all the way without ever trying my hand. I have created a great reputation in the antique circle and is known as a top master in the antique circle.
Ahem, master of forgery.
But the philosophical question of ‘truth and falsehood’ is difficult to delve into.
The ultimate in antique counterfeiting: as long as no one says it is fake, then it is real!
The experience of the virtual world is over.
Lin Chuan's consciousness returned to reality.
Many virtual world simulations made him slightly accustomed to such mental load.
The system's voice sounded——
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"Every order is worth 20,000 yuan... Damn it!"
Lin Chuan spat and went straight to sleep.
Even though they ordered 20,000 yuan each, they couldn’t find many copies of the entire novel “Search”. Is it so easy for them to do it?
I slept and slept, and there was everything in my dreams!
The night gradually fades.
The rising sun in the morning sheds golden light, shrouding the ancient streets and alleys in a hazy golden color. The blue-gray bricks and stones are covered with mottled moss, and the dew on them shines in the sunlight.
Outside the window of the rental house, the breeze blew gently, bringing a bit of coolness, and also brought the fragrance of distant flowers and plants, and occasionally a few birdsong, which was crisp and sweet.
‘Bang bang bang——’
The iron door of the rental house was knocked heavily, breaking the early morning silence.
Lin Chuan woke up from his sleep and heard the tenant's voice outside the door: "Chairman, get up, I have something urgent to discuss with you!"
"What's up?"
Lin Chuan wore big pants and opened the iron door to let the little tenant into the room.
She didn't have to go to work today. The little housekeeper was wearing a loose white T-shirt that covered her denim shorts. Her lower body was missing, revealing her long white legs, dangling in front of Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan was shaken from his sleep.
The little housekeeper showed a bright smile, pulled Lin Chuan to sit down, put two breakfasts on the table, blinked, and looked at Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan was slightly startled: "Aren't you in a hurry?"
"Yes, it's urgent that I wake you up for breakfast." The little housekeeper smiled.
"Thanks."
Lin Chuan looked at the breakfast on the table, then at the tenant, and asked with a smile, "Is there really nothing else?"
The little housekeeper smiled, with a hint of playfulness on her face, and then took out a bracelet: "Yes, this morning, a customer sent me a message asking me if I can sell this century-old red agate bracelet. I I don’t know what’s going on, so I came to you for advice.”
Lin Chuan glanced at the century-old red agate bracelet and frowned: "Isn't this the one Aunt Liu gave you?"
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