Chapter 118 Last Week's Antiques

In the small and narrow rented house.

Lin Chuan cursed and cursed, greeting the system developers in his heart.

The system's voice sounded again——

[Congratulations host, the profession you randomly obtained is antique maker, and you have obtained the exclusive ability of antique maker: antique manufacturing method. ]

[Using 'virtual reality' technology to generate a new world for you. ]

[Host, please be ready! ]

"Antique manufacturing method...done!"

Lin Chuan cursed secretly, thinking that 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!

We are all in the virtual world, who is still afraid?

Anyway, as long as you don't fake or buy fakes in reality, you won't be investigated and taken to the police station.

Antique counterfeiting is not illegal, and writing a novel about antique counterfeiting technology is okay, right?

At this time.

Virtual and reality began to intertwine.

The moonlight outside the window gradually became hazy in Lin Chuan's eyes, and the scene of the rented 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. On the mottled wooden door, the copper ring had been worn smooth by the years.

Pushing the door in, it creaked. At the same time, a strong aroma of soil and charcoal came to my face. Looking up, the bluestone floor inside was washed bright by rain.

The blue bricks on the wall had turned yellow. There were several strings of wind chimes hanging under the eaves. The breeze blew and made a crisp and pleasant sound. There were also various shapes of ceramic embryos hanging, some round like jade, some simple and elegant.

"Brother Lin, you are back!"

At this time, a young girl about eighteen years old ran over.

She was wearing a simple sky blue cloth, which was elegant and generous in simplicity. She had a fragrance of soil on her body, and her face was dirty and stained with soil.

However, her face was a little bit painful.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Chuan asked curiously before he knew the whole picture.

"The ceramic merchants in our county have united and refused to accept our ceramics, which has forced us into a dead end. We can only sell them in bulk, but the money we earn is not enough to support the continued operation of our Lin's workshop." said the NPC girl.

"Why did they refuse to accept our ceramics?"

Lin Chuan frowned.

The girl lowered her head and said softly: "The son of the president of the Ceramics Association is a foreign-educated person, which is completely opposite to your ceramics concept, but every time your ceramic works are better than his, you said something wrong after drinking last time, saying that no one in the entire county knows how to appreciate your work, so he exaggerated this and made a big fuss about it, which led to 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 do Lin's ceramics now, right?" Lin Chuan looked at the NPC girl and asked.

"I'm afraid we can't hold on until the 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. We will declare bankruptcy now and give workers a subsidy. Remember it's N+1. We are a conscientious enterprise after all."

"Ah?"

The girl was stunned, "What else can we do if we don't do ceramics?"

"Let's switch to antique ceramics first." Lin Chuan smiled and said, "My Lin family is a ceramic family. It's reasonable to pass down a few pieces of ceramics of some age, right?"

The girl was even more confused and didn't understand what nonsense Lin Chuan was talking about.

Lin Chuan quickly put himself in the role of the virtual world: the owner of Lin's ceramics, and learned some basic information.

However.

The first thing he did was to change the name of 'Lin's Ceramics' to 'Lin's Antiques'.

Since his profession is an antique maker, he must play with antiques!

As for the so-called son of the president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, Lin Chuan didn't care about him at all. He switched from the ceramic circle to the antique circle to achieve a dimensionality reduction attack.

As we all know.

Gold in troubled times, collection in prosperous times.

All circles have a contempt chain.

The top of the contempt chain of the ceramic circle is the cultural and antique circle.

Do what you say,

In the virtual world, Lin Chuan has always been a man of action. He has already planned to forge...ah, he has already planned which antique ceramic to make.

Qing Kangxi Five-color Fish and Algae Patterned Hat Bowl.

This porcelain is not particularly old, but the market price ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, so Lin Chuan plans to practice with it.

So.

Lin Chuan went to the county's antique market.

The first step in the imitation of antiques is to imitate.

The commonly used methods of imitation are old tires and new paintings, old glazes and new tires, old pieces and new utensils, and re-firing.

After a round of the antique market, Lin Chuan found a batch of Qing Dynasty white-body hat bowls with a diameter of about 21cm and a height of 7.5cm, which is basically the same size as the 'Qing Kangxi Five-color Fish and Algae Patterned Hat Bowl'.

Of course, this is a virtual world.

It is a gift from the system.

Therefore, Lin Chuan intends to use the method of "new painting on old body" to imitate.

The so-called new painting on old body is more commonly to use the white body of the middle and late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and paint it with enamel and other overglaze colors. In this way, people can't tell the authenticity from the body quality.

It is not enough to have only the white body of the Qing Dynasty.

As the saying goes, "One spoon of Qing Dynasty, two spoons of Song Dynasty, and three spoons back to the top cave."

If you want to turn modern products into ancient cultural relics, you can't do without technology and hard work.

Lin Chuan went to several places again.

He bought back chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid and permanganate, and also went to get some Chinese medicine.

This made the NPC girl Xiaoqing stunned: "Brother Lin, are you sick?"

"No, this is the key to making money."

Lin Chuan smiled.

Imitation is the first step, and the second step is to make it look old.

This step is done exquisitely, and the bowls pecked by chickens at home can make experts look at them with a magnifying glass for a long time, with a thoughtful look on their faces.

Everything is ready, start working immediately!

Back to "Lin Chuan Antiques", Lin Chuan took out the newly purchased white body of the bamboo hat bowl and began to imitate.

The first step is painting.

The "Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Bamboo Hat Bowl" belongs to overglaze color.

Therefore, Lin Chuan took out the prepared bamboo hat bowl white body and colorful pigments, and began to paint patterns on the inner and outer walls of the bowl.

‘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 was the second firing.

Lin Chuan skillfully put the glazed bamboo 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 closely combined with the white body of the bamboo bowl.

At the same time, glaze firing can also make the color of the painting more vivid and lasting.

After it was taken out of the kiln and allowed to cool down.

Lin Chuan and the NPC girl Xiaoqing saw a bamboo bowl with colorful fish and algae patterns, which was skillfully and elegantly painted and brightly colored.

The outer wall of the bamboo bowl showed four swimming fish in blue, green, black and red.

The inner wall of the bowl was colorful flowers, birds and butterflies, with lush branches and leaves, clusters of flowers, colorful butterflies flying, and kingfishers leaping on the branches, forming a vivid flower and bird painting.

After polishing, it is the third step.

Make it old. There are many ways to make old porcelain.

Such as: calendering, polishing, glazing, hand grinding, water grinding, oil grinding, acid immersion, mixed immersion, oxidation, oil staining, and soil burial.

There are also methods such as boiling with tea, smoking with incense, and applying fine charcoal ash.

Of course.

Now many low-end imitations, in order to reduce the cost, generally use potassium permanganate to create the effect on the glaze.

Relatively high-end imitations will use Chinese medicine soaking to create the effect of old porcelain.

However, there are not many people who can master this kind of old-fashioning method.

Lin Chuan imitated the "Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Hat Bowl" using this method.

Before that.

He gently touched the rim of the bowl, and a "chicken claw pattern" appeared.

Then, Lin Chuan put the five-color fish and algae pattern hat bowl into the well-proportioned Chinese medicine, added a small amount of alcohol, and dripped a small drop of potassium permanganate.

Wait for completion.

"Brother Lin, this porcelain is already of great artistic value, why do you need to soak it?" Xiaoqing, who was standing by, 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, it must also have historical value."

"Ah, what do you mean?"

"After it's soaked, it will become a Qing Dynasty porcelain, and a piece of porcelain is worth hundreds of thousands." Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows.

Xiaoqing's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide: "So much, it makes more money than making ceramics!"

"Of course." Lin Chuan smiled.

After the soaking was completed.

Lin Chuan did a series of processing work, and then he and Xiaoqing took this 'Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Hat Bowl' to the most famous treasure appraiser in the county for appraisal.

As expected.

The treasure appraiser carefully looked at the newly fired 'Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Hat Bowl', was very surprised, and immediately expressed his intention to buy this bowl at a high price of 400,000.

But Lin Chuan didn't sell it to the treasure appraiser.

This bowl must be sold to the son of the president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, otherwise I will not be able to repay his "hard work" in making trouble for me.

...

Then, Lin Chuan imitated various antiques.

Calligraphy and painting, bronzes, jade, wooden antiques... He was so good at it all the way, without ever trying his hand, and created a great reputation in the antique circle, and was hailed as a master of the antique circle.

Ahem, a master of counterfeiting.

But the philosophical question of "true and false" is difficult to delve into.

The ultimate realm of antique counterfeiting: as long as no one says it is fake, then it is real!

The experience of life in the virtual world ends.

Lin Chuan's consciousness returns to reality.

After many virtual world simulations, he is slightly accustomed to such mental load.

The voice of the system sounded——

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"20,000 average subscriptions... Damn it!" Lin Chuan spat and fell asleep directly.

20,000 average subscriptions, there are not many books in the entire Qihang novel, is it so easy to do?

Sleep, sleep, everything in the dream!

The night gradually faded.

The rising sun in the early morning casts golden light, covering the ancient streets in a hazy golden color. The blue-gray bricks are covered with mottled moss, and the dew on them shines in the sun.

Outside the window of the rented house, the breeze blows gently, bringing a hint of coolness, and also brings the fragrance of flowers and plants in the distance, and occasionally there are a few birds singing, crisp and pleasant.

‘Bang bang bang——’

The iron door of the rented house was knocked heavily, breaking the silence of the early morning.

Lin Chuan woke up from his sleep and heard the little landlady shouting outside the door: "Chairman, get up, I have something urgent to discuss with you!"

"What's the matter?"

Lin Chuan, wearing big shorts, opened the iron door and let the little landlady in.

There is no need to go to work today. The little landlady is wearing a loose white T-shirt, covering her denim shorts, and her "bottom clothes are missing", revealing her white long legs, swaying in front of Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan's sleepiness was shaken away a little.

The landlady smiled and pulled Lin Chuan to sit down. She put two breakfasts on the table, blinked, and looked at Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan was slightly startled: "Don't you have something urgent?"

"Yes, the urgent thing is to wake you up for breakfast." The landlady smiled.

"Thank you."

Lin Chuan looked at the breakfast on the table, then looked at the landlady, and asked with a smile, "Is there really nothing else?"

The landlady smiled, with a playful look on her face, and then took out a bracelet: "Yes, this morning, a customer sent me a message asking me if I would sell this century-old red agate bracelet. 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 that Aunt Liu gave you?"

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