The smile on Mo Qiufeng's face froze instantly, and he was rarely confused. He asked in disbelief, "Second sister, I have confirmed it over and over again, it shouldn't be wrong, right?"
Although his eye for quality is indeed not as good as his second sister's, he has been influenced by her since childhood and still has some vision. He is about 80% sure about this porcelain plate!
Xie Taozhi smiled, stretched out her hand to hold up the porcelain plate, raised it to the light, and asked, "Do you see this gap?"
Mo Qiufeng nodded. The plate was quite damaged, otherwise it would definitely not be his turn.
Ruan Qiqi also came over curiously. As expected, she guessed right. Xie Taozhi was an expert in appraising treasures. She went back to ask the old lady if she knew anyone who could make antiques look old.
Lu Desheng didn't understand what he meant by "who cares". He just wanted to eat some longan, but unfortunately he couldn't buy fresh ones in Tanzhou.
"Do you know what a palmistry is?"
Lu Desheng poked his son next to him and asked in a low voice.
"Of course I know."
Lu Ye snorted at him disdainfully.
Lu Desheng was too lazy to argue with him and quickly asked what he meant.
"Why should I tell you?"
Lu Ye turned his head away and slapped the old man on the back of his head. In fact, he only had a vague understanding of it and couldn't explain it clearly, so he chose to make the old man angry to death.
"I am your father, you disrespectful thing. If Qiqi wasn't pregnant, I would have beaten you to death!"
Lu Desheng cursed with gnashing teeth, but Lu Ye didn't care at all, and even said in a rebellious tone: "You can't beat me, you should behave yourself when you are old. You beat this and that all day long, do you think you are the Thunder God?"
"I'm your father!"
Lu Desheng raised his voice unconsciously. Mo Qiufeng thought he was noisy and said impatiently, "Go out and make some noise!"
"He was the one who picked a quarrel with me and even hit me!"
Lu Ye immediately complained, and stood next to Ruan Qiqi with an innocent look on his face, looking at the old man provocatively.
Lu Desheng gritted his teeth and cursed silently: "I'll beat you to death when I get back, you bastard!"
Although he wanted to leave with ambition, curiosity made him stay shamelessly. He mainly wanted to know what the palm eye was!
"You shut up too!"
Ruan Qiqi scolded him lightly, and Lu Ye shut up obediently, and the room immediately became quiet.
Xie Taozhi held the porcelain plate for a while until his hands became sore. Bai Fengshou took over the plate and held it up. From the way he raised it, she knew she was also an expert.
"You decide on the harvest!"
Xie Taozhi smiled slightly, her tone showing her great confidence in her grandson.
Bai Fengshou was a little shy. It was the first time he met such a high-ranking official, and he was so nervous that he didn't dare to speak.
"It doesn't matter if you say something wrong among your family members. Your uncle won't laugh at you!" Xie Taozhi smiled very kindly.
Bai Fengshou nodded. He held the porcelain plate with one hand and pointed at the notch on the bottom of the plate with the other hand. He said, "The shape and angle of this notch are what grandma usually does."
There is no need to say anything else, just looking at this gap, you can tell that it must be a fake made by his grandmother.
Mo Qiufeng was dumbfounded. Did he buy back the fake one made by his second sister?
Ruan Qiqi asked excitedly: "Could this porcelain plate be made by your grandmother?"
Xie Taozhi nodded with a smile: "It was a work from forty years ago. At that time, I made three Ru kilns to deal with warlords. I didn't expect that Xiaofeng would buy it."
When the Mo family opened their business, they had to deal with all kinds of big and small ghosts every day. The most difficult ones to deal with were the military lords. At that time, warlords were fighting each other, and defeated warlords would often come to ask for military rations. The merchants in the city were the targets of the warlords' demands.
Businessmen cannot defeat those who hold guns, and no one dares to go against the military commander, not even the Mo family. So they mixed some fake treasures with the real ones to deal with the problem. Thanks to the superb antique craftsmanship of Xie Taozhi and her daughter, there were no mistakes in those years.
But what I didn’t expect was that forty years later, one of them returned to Xiaofeng.
"I just got this porcelain plate a few days ago, and today I met my second sister. It must be destined that we will be reunited!"
Mo Qiufeng was not disappointed because it was a fake. Instead, he was happier. This fake made by his second sister was more precious than the real one.
Xie Taozhi smiled with tears in her eyes. Today was the happiest day of her life in the past forty years. She had cursed God for forty years, but she would not curse him anymore.
Ruan Qiqi opened her mouth to ask about the antique, but Lu Desheng got there first and asked in a loud voice, "Tell me first, is it this broken porcelain plate that you are looking at? Or is it something else?"
Although Mr. Lu is not well educated, he is studious. Now that he knows a new word, he will definitely try to understand it.
"Appraising is a skill. Antique shops and pawnshops have appraisers to supervise them. My second sister and second aunt are both experts in appraisal!" Mo Qiufeng explained patiently.
Lu Desheng nodded his head, "I see, he's the big shopkeeper in the pawnshop. I've been there before, and he's very generous with his money, but he's a little shady. He only paid half a dollar for a brand new fur coat."
Ruan Qiqi's mouth twitched. She said that someone was cruel in front of others. Her father-in-law was really kind-hearted.
The Lu Jiefang brothers really inherited everything from their father.
"What do you do in my house?" Mo Qiufeng asked.
"No, in my hometown county. Damn it, if it wasn't for the bad timing, I would definitely beat up the pawnshop owner."
Although more than forty years have passed, Lu Desheng still gets angry when he thinks about it now. The owner of that pawnshop was just like the landlord Zhu, a profiteer who sucked the blood of the common people.
The harvest was poor that year, and the landlord Zhu refused to reduce the rent. All the grain was stored in Zhu's granary, but the villagers were hungry. He organized a group of equally young and energetic villagers and rushed into Landlord Zhu's house to steal food.
Unfortunately, Landlord Zhu had a guard team and guns, and several villagers were killed. Lu Desheng took advantage of the chaos to escape and took away two new fur coats. He wore the men's one himself and pawned the women's one at a pawnshop for half a dollar.
Because he was wanted by the government, the landlord Zhu offered a reward of one hundred dollars for his head, and he could no longer stay in his hometown. Lu Desheng had heard about the revolutionary army a long time ago, but had never made up his mind. Now that he was wanted, he decided to join the revolutionary army.
Lu Desheng recalled the past, thought of his hardworking first wife, and then thought of his eldest daughter's family who were almost dead. Now only his granddaughter and eldest grandson were left in prison. He couldn't help but sigh, and his expression became gloomy.
"Old Lu, you've made the mistake of generalizing again. Just because one pawnshop is unscrupulous, you can't assume that all pawnshops are unscrupulous. Similarly, you can't deny a person as a whole because he did one thing wrong. You should look at people and things comprehensively and not jump to conclusions arbitrarily. You are the leader of an army, you have to change this habit..."
Mo Qiufeng turned on the Tang Monk mode, muttering to himself for more than ten minutes. Ruan Qiqi even felt sleepy and yawned several times.
It was the first time that she experienced Mo Qiufeng's nagging ability. He was worthy of being a political commissar. His ability to speak fluently and endlessly was definitely better than that of Tang Seng. Not to mention Sun Wukong, even Tathagata Buddha could not handle it.
"I understand. We must not generalize or be arbitrary. We must look at people and things comprehensively. I'll remember this!"
Lu Desheng's head was so big after hearing what he heard. What he feared most was Mo Qiufeng's nagging, but what he said made sense and he couldn't help but accept it.
Mo Qiufeng decided to stop while he was ahead and continued discussing the porcelain plate with his second sister.