After hanging up the phone, Zhang Xiao said helplessly to Stanley Ho: "Uncle, please take out the chicken bowl cup. I've just gained some experience."

"You kid, you just had to say no earlier, and you still want me to call your master." He Hong said angrily.

"Uncle, after all, I haven't started training yet. If the appraisal is wrong, it will delay your business." Zhang Xiao said with a smile.

"Okay, you're right." He Hong shook his head helplessly, but he immediately got up and went upstairs.

After a while, He Hong walked down, holding a rosewood box in his hand. After placing it on the table, he pushed it in front of Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao carefully opened the box and revealed the small chicken bowl cup inside.

Chicken vat cups are world-famous for Chenghua Doucai chicken vat cups. Although many chicken vat cups were produced in other dynasties, their values ​​are very different.

The Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup is regarded as genuine, and the rest of the Chicken Crock Cups are considered imitations. In addition, the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup has always been valuable from the beginning, so there are many imitations.

The Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is an artistic treasure among traditional ceramics. It was the royal wine cup of the Chenghua Emperor in the Ming Dynasty. Very few of it have been handed down from generation to generation. Currently, less than ten exist. The rarity of the product has pushed up its price.

The reason why there are so few handed down is not only because it is difficult to make, but more importantly because it is a product for the royal family. The finished product is sent to the palace, while all the defective products are destroyed, and only a very small amount flows into the private sector.

The Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is made on the outer wall of a bowl with a lip and a foot of about eight centimeters in diameter. First, the outline of the pattern is lightly traced with thin blue and white lines, and then it is glazed and put into the kiln to be fired at a high temperature of about 1300 degrees.

Then fill the reserved blue and white pattern with red, green, yellow and other colors, then put it into the kiln for a second time and bake it at low temperature.

In this process, if there is a slight error in each step, it will only be damaged and recast, and such a small artifact also limits its yield.

Zhang Xiao put on his gloves, carefully held it in his hands, and examined its morphological characteristics.

However, the moment he took possession of it, Zhang Xiao knew that this chicken cup should be an authentic Chenghua Doucai chicken cup, because the energy contained in it reached as much as nine thousand, which is enough to prove the preciousness of this artifact.

However, Zhang Xiao did not absorb the energy contained in it, but looked at the chicken pot cup carefully.

Viewed from the outside, the outer wall of this chicken bowl cup is divided into two groups with peony lake stones and orchid grass lake stones. One group depicts a rooster standing proudly, a hen and a chick pecking at a centipede, and two other groups.

Chickens are playing. Another group depicts a rooster crowing, a female chicken and three chicks pecking at a centipede. The picture is vivid and full of interest.

Judging from the shape of the cup, the open mouth of the cup is slightly tilted, the bottom of the mouth gradually converges, the bottom is flat, and the feet are lying down. The cup body is small, the outline is flexible, the straight part is curved, and the curved part is straight, showing a dignified, graceful, elegant and graceful charm.

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There is no glaze around the sole of the foot, and the double-line six-character inscription "Da Ming Chenghua Year System" in regular script on both sides of the blue and white column at the bottom.

Judging from the quality of the fetus, the fetus is white and delicate, thin and translucent, the white glaze is soft and moist, and the exterior and interior are the same.

From the perspective of color and pattern, the decorative pattern on the cup wall matches the shape of the cup, which is clear and coherent. The colors of the picture include underglaze blue and white and overglaze bright red, leaf green, aqua green, goose yellow, turmeric, black and other colors. Filling is used.

Color, overlay, dyeing, pointillism and other techniques are used to draw lines and flat dye lake stones with blue and white, cover flowers with bright red, cover leaves with aqua green, fill chickens with goose yellow and turmeric, and dot the combs and wings with red colors.

Green color dyes the slopes.

Zhang Xiao looked at it with fascination. As the saying goes, a layman can see the excitement, and an expert can see the door. This chicken vat cup made Zhang Xiao feel like he couldn't stop, and just wanted to watch it for a while longer.

However, Zhang Xiao knew that this was for appreciation. After a long time, he put it into the box, pushed it back to He Hong, and said with a smile: "This chicken bowl cup is undoubtedly a product from the Chenghua period. Uncle, please be careful.

Keep it."

"Is it genuine?" Ho Hong asked with some surprise.

"Yes, it is undoubtedly authentic." Zhang Xiao nodded and said with certainty.

"Thank you very much, then I can buy it with confidence." He Hong said excitedly.

"Uncle, I wonder how much this seller is offering?" Zhang Xiao asked carefully. Although he couldn't buy it, it would be good to inquire about the price.

"Five million!" Ho Hong stretched out his hand and said with a smile.

"U.S. dollars?" Zhang Xiao was a little surprised and couldn't help asking.

"Hong Kong dollars, not US dollars." Stanley Ho shook his head and said.

"So cheap?" Zhang Xiao couldn't help but said.

"It seems that you are very optimistic about the value of this chicken pot cup. Five million Hong Kong dollars is already very high in my opinion, and you still say it is cheap." Stanley Ho said with a smile.

"Things are rare and valuable. The number of Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cups currently in existence is less than the number of hands, and their value will only get higher and higher in the future." Zhang Xiao shook his head and sighed.

He Hong nodded and said with a smile: "It's almost noon. I'll have a light meal at home at noon."

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey." Zhang Xiao did not refuse Ho Hong's invitation and said with a smile.

Although Ho Hong calls it a casual meal, the lunch menu is extremely rich, mainly Cantonese cuisine, but there are also two northern dishes, obviously to cater to Zhang Xiao's taste.

After lunch, Zhang Xiao said goodbye, but Stanley Ho smiled and said: "When you come to Hong Kong Island, it would be a pity not to go to the entertainment center. How about this, I will let Xiaoxian accompany you to go shopping.

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Zhang Xiao thought about it. It would be a good experience to visit the casino in Ao Island, so he smiled slightly and said: "Okay, let's go and visit."

Afterwards, He Xiaoxian took Zhang Xiao and Lin Hemin in a car towards the entertainment venue.

When we arrived at the gate of the Lisboa Casino, we were immediately greeted by someone, and of course there were people to help park the cars.

"Boss, this is a casino after all, be careful." Guo Feng whispered to Zhang Xiao.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Zhang Xiao nodded.

In fact, Zhang Xiao knows very well that gambling is very addictive. It has nothing to do with how much money you have or your identity. The reason why gambling continues to flourish is because everyone has a gambling habit.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Lisboa Casino is located in the center of Macau Island. Its shape is a birdcage design, which means that every gambler who enters the casino is a caged bird.

Zhang Xiao shook his head and smiled, and walked in with He Xiaoxian and others. Guo Feng followed Zhang Xiao closely.

Entering the hall, He Xiaoxian came to the chip exchange area and took 100,000 chips. Then she came to Zhang Xiao, handed the chips to Zhang Xiao and said, "Just have fun."

Zhang Xiao was not polite, and took the chips from He Xiaoxian's hand, ten ten thousand chips, and watched people coming and going in the hall, some were calm, some were angry, all kinds of life are clearly revealed here.

Zhang Xiao shook his head and did not mean to play. Instead, he smiled and said to He Xiaoxian: "Miss He, the purpose of opening a casino is to make money. Are there so many people there every day?"

"Today is not the weekend, so there are relatively few people. There are many more people on the weekend than at this time." He Xiaoxian replied with a smile.

Zhang Xiao nodded, understanding that He Xiaoxian was telling the truth. There are not many local gamblers here, and more of them are gamblers from the mainland. This is because Ao Island has not returned and access is still difficult. Once Ao Island returns,

, as more and more people come to Australia to travel, more and more people will come to the casino to play.

Moreover, it is afternoon, even tourists are still outside enjoying the scenery, and there will be more people in the evening.

Zhang Xiao walked around the hall and lost interest. After all, although there are many ways to play here, they are all gambling. Zhang Xiao has no interest in gambling. He returned the chips to He Xiaoxian and said with a smile: "Ms. He, I will

plane, so I want you to take me back to Hong Kong Island."

He Xiaoxian blinked her beautiful eyes, and then said with a smile: "Of course, it's just that Mr. Zhang, the person with the strongest self-control I have ever seen, came to the casino and didn't even play with the chips in his hand. It's really surprising."

"I'm not interested in gambling. Although small gambling can make you happy and big gambling can harm your health, it all seems the same to me. When a person wants to make a fortune by luck, he has already fallen into a trap." Zhang Xiao shook his head and said.

"Mr. Zhang has unique insights, but in your eyes, isn't gambling on stones considered gambling?" He Xiaoxian asked.

"Of course it counts, but stone betting is more about eyesight, while gambling is purely based on luck. Of course, I heard that all gambling methods have a mathematical model, but I don't know if it is true or not." Zhang Xiao nodded.

said.

After leaving the Lisboa Casino, Zhang Xiao did not stop, and got into a car with Lin Hemin and headed towards the pier.

"Brother Zhang, I admire you for your extraordinary self-control." Lin Hemin said to Zhang Xiao with a smile.

"Well, I just don't think about those windfalls. All windfalls are just the beginning of traps." Zhang Xiao shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"That's what I say, but how many people can bear it?" Lin Hemin said with some emotion.

Zhang Xiao couldn't help but nodded, but he knew very well that he didn't have great self-control, he was just not interested in gambling, and in his opinion, Ho Hong letting him come to the casino was not a test. As for others,

Although Zhang Xiao didn't know the purpose clearly, he remained vigilant.

People say that Stanley Ho is the king of gambling. In Zhang Xiao's view, there are no real winners in the casino, only the person who opens the bank is the only winner.

And Stanley Ho is just the largest bookmaker in Macao Island. As for gambling, Stanley Ho is not necessarily very proficient in gambling.

But having said that, no one with a net worth of hundreds of millions is simple. How many rich people in the previous life were revealed to have lost how much money they lost in Australia is still unknown. Maybe they just lost their left hand and their right hand.

It's just a deception.
Chapter completed!