After lunch, the group followed Zhao Xueyi to his room. Just as Uncle Wu had said earlier, Zhao Xueyi's room was an ordinary business suite. Although its furnishings were extremely luxurious, it was undoubtedly much inferior to Chu Chen and the others' room.
Once they entered, Zhao Xueyi was about to pour everyone some tea when Zhu Dafu waved him off with a grin. "Hurry up and bring it out. We can pour our own tea..."
"Do you have to be so impatient?" Zhao Xueyi laughed. He did not continue teasing Zhu Dafu, because when he got anxious, he was no better than Zhu Dafu.
Zhao Xueyi had just taken a brocade box from the room's safe and placed it on the table when Zhu Dafu eagerly opened the lid. A polychrome flower gu vase, roughly ten centimeters tall, appeared before everyone's eyes.
A flower gu was a type of display porcelain modeled after bronze vessels. It originated in the Yuan Dynasty and was mainly popular from the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty through the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In the early days, apart from being used as decorations, flower gu were commonly used among the people to hold flowers and decorate halls. As a result, ordinary flower gu were generally quite large.
Yet the flower gu before them was so small and delicate. Its shape was simple and archaic, while its body had a solid, sturdy quality. It could be said to have perfectly captured the essence of making a small vessel with the bearing of a large one.
The vessel's outer rim was painted with a ring of lingzhi mushrooms. Inside a double square frame on one side was the horizontal regular-script inscription "Made during the Wanli period of the Great Ming," with