"Skilful Baden"

During the period when Empress Dowager Cixi was bowing to the government, the country was weak and the people were poor, and foreign powers took advantage of the void to plunder the precious wealth of the Chinese nation.

This year, there was one more person in Beijing and a foreign missionary Baden. Cloaked in a religious guise, he paid for a few dog legs in the name of missionary work. On the one hand, these dog legs helped him collect technical information on the mainland's porcelain kilns, and on the other hand, they collected and plundered the valuable ancient porcelain treasures of the mainland for him.

One day, Baden heard that there was a porcelain Guanyin statue in Baoguo Temple, and suddenly evil thoughts came. He took the dog-legged Son Wang Er and shook it step by step to the Baoguo Temple. Ba Deng went to Pilu Pavilion, looked up, only to see a shrine in front of him, and sure enough, there was a porcelain Guanyin placed in a dignified manner, colorful and crystalline, which was really a rare treasure. He tiptoed up the roots of his feet, put his hand into the shrine, lifted the bottom of Guanyin to see, ah, or the brilliant masterpiece of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen! Baden had long heard of this treasure, and today he had come across it here, eager to pick it up and leave. However, he was a preacher and could not take it in this way, because there were still people watching from the sidelines.

Baden: "May I ask, where is your master?"

Little monk: "My master is out." ”

Baden; "Little Master, how about I buy you this porcelain Guanyin with this bag of silver dollars?"

Little monk: "No, not for sale."

Baden: "I'm hungry, would you please get me something to eat?"

The little monk did not know that Baden was playing a conspiracy and trickery, and really went to get him food. Baden's thief looked around, and there was no one else around, and he reached out and took the porcelain Guanyin and hid it in his black robe. Then, like a rabbit, he sneaked out of the Baoguo Temple with a bungee, followed by the dog-legged Wang Er.

At that time, Zhou Xiaoquan was a famous porcelain carving artist in Jingdezhen, mainland China. In the past few days, he has also come to Kyoto for an incident. After Zhou Xiaoquan heard about this. Arrived at Hokokuji Temple. He found the monk in charge, asked about the situation before and after the porcelain Guanyin was stolen, and comforted the monk, saying: "Master, that porcelain Guanyin, I have visited it many times, you can rest assured, after 7 days, I will make sure to call it back to your side." A few days later, Zhou Xiaoquan came to Baden's church and met Baden. Baden: "What are you looking for me for?"

Zhou Xiaoquan: "I came to offer treasure."

Baden: "What treasure do you offer?"

Zhou Xiaoquan took out a porcelain Guanyin statue from his arms for Baden to see. When Baden saw the porcelain Guanyin, he couldn't help but be shocked, and said in his heart:

"Oh, isn't this the porcelain Guanyin I brought from baoguo Temple?" Thinking of this, he involuntarily took out the stolen porcelain Guanyin and compared it with Zhou Xiaoquan's porcelain Guanyin.

Baden: "Ah, these two porcelain Statues of Guanyin are exactly the same."

Zhou Xiaoquan: "This kind of porcelain Guanyin is our Chinese Treasure of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two statues in all of China, I will send you another one today, just matched with a pair!"

Baden was overjoyed and overjoyed.

Baden: "How much is it going to sell sir?"

Zhou Xiaoquan retrieved the fake Guanyin, put it together with the real Guanyin, pretended to appreciate it, and said half a day later:

"Sell it to you cheaper, 1,000 taels of gold."

Baden: "Too expensive, too expensive!'

When Baden shook his head repeatedly, he changed the position of the true and false Guanyin. He picked up the true Kannon and said:

"Well, you're too expensive to know the goods, so forget it."

Wither Koizumi finished speaking, turned around, and walked out of the church without turning his head.

Baden; "It's really strange how you can leave without even discussing the price."

He sat in a chair, thinking left and right, the more he thought about it, the more strange it felt, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly took out a magnifying glass and carefully examined the porcelain Guanyin placed on the table. When he saw the ears of the porcelain Guanyin, he was suddenly stunned, only to see that the eyes of Guanyin were printed with the words "Imitation of the Great Qing Zhou Xiaoquan". These 7 small words are very difficult to see clearly with the naked eye. He felt cold. He knew that the real porcelain Guanyin had been replaced by Zhou Xiaoquan, and he was very angry, and when he lost his hand, the fake Guanyin fell to the ground and shattered.

But Baden was not reconciled. He wrote a complaint and filed a complaint with yamen. He said that his porcelain Guanyin was bought for 100 taels of gold and stolen by Zhou Xiaoquan. At the same time, he also spent money to buy the officials in Jianmen to hear the case. On the day of the trial, Baden spent money to buy fake witnesses, and Zhou Xiaoquan certainly had more real witnesses. They each speak their own way. The judge said that there were witnesses on both sides, that they were all reasonable, and that the case could not be cleared for a while. Therefore, the dog official announced that Baden and Zhou Xiaoquan competed to drink, and whoever drank too much, Guanyin would be awarded to whom.

Is this dog officer stupid? People who don't know the inside story know that Baden is a famous drunkard, and Zhou Xiaoquan is a person who does not drink. The monk in charge of the Baoguo Temple said indignantly, "This dog official is clearly harming you!"

Zhou Xiaoquan said happily:

"I have my own way, and I will meet him in three days!"

Three days have arrived. The entrance to the famous Deyuelou Hotel in Beijing is crowded with people and the water is not clear. In front of the hotel, a high platform was set up, and there was a table on the table, and a stool was placed on each side of the table. When the test time came, Zhou Xiaoquan and Baden walked up to the stage one after the other and sat on the stools on either side of the table. Zhou Xiaoquan held an extra-large wine jug in his hand, and he put it on the table and began to drink it with Wei Deng. The two of them had a bowl for you, and I had a bowl and drank a dozen bowls each. In this way, after a few rounds, a pot full of wine was drunk. Zhou Xiaoquan's apprentice stepped up to the stage, took the wine jug, and entered the store. After a while, Zhou Xiaoquan's apprentice brought up a full of wine. Then the two of you drank bowl by bowl.

People who watched it all felt very strange, didn't Zhou Xiaoquan not drink? How did it feel like a different person today? Is Zhou Xiaoquan any magic? Look, the bowl after bowl of wine has clearly entered the stomach!

The three jugs of wine were drunk, and Zhou Xiaoquan's noodles did not change color, and he smiled lightly and did not get drunk at all. He touched his belly and grimaced at the people in the audience, making the people in the audience laugh.

What about Baden? Some can't support it. His face changed from red to white, from white to blue. His eyes were covered with blood, and he looked at Zhou Xiaoquan in a daze. Zhou Xiaoquan poured another bowl, leaned back on his neck, and drank it again. Not to be outdone, Baden also picked up the bowl, but before the bowl reached his mouth, he "pounced" and fell on the stage, his head touching the leg of the table and he did not know that he was drunk and unconscious.

The people watching the audience applauded Zhou Xiaoquan, and Zhou Xiaoquan also drummed his stomach and waved to everyone to thank him! The judge had no other choice but to judge the porcelain Kannon to the Hokokuji Temple.

The monk in charge of Baoguo Temple invited Zhou Xiaoquan to the temple and expressed his deep gratitude to Zhou Xiaoquan for his warm hospitality. During the banquet, when the monk asked Zhou Xiaoquan why he was not drunk after drinking so much wine, Zhou Xiaoquan smiled and said to him:

"My jug is sandwiched, with wine on the inside and water on the outside. There are two small holes in the handle of the pot, which are connected to the inner and outer layers, and the spout is also connected to the inner and outer layers. If the hand presses the small hole on the top, the water in the outer layer is sucked firmly, and the wine can only be poured; Pressing the small hole below, you can only pour out the water. In this way, all I drink is water. ”

The monk laughed loudly, and lian lianquan was skilled and wonderful. Indeed, this kind of pot is Zhou Xiaoquan's craftsmanship. Zhou Xiaoquan is worthy of being a skilled craftsman with extraordinary wisdom. #Story##Headlines ##头条日签 #