Nixing lotus pot is a specialty of Nixing County. It looks like a blooming lotus. Make tea in a lotus pot, and the fragrance of the tea will penetrate your heart and spleen, making you have endless aftertaste. In the early years, it was used as a tribute to the imperial palace. The lotus teapot is also called Chen's teapot. During the Republic of China, Chen Sanguan, the tenth generation great-great-grandson of the Chen family, became the kiln owner again. Chen's teapot is still a treasure and is famous far and wide.
This year, Duan Qirui came to Nixing City. Duan Qirui was a popular figure under Yuan Shikai, rising to the rank of Prime Minister. He heard that Yuan Shikai had a set of lotus pots and regarded them as treasures. Once he got angry with his wife and accidentally broke it. Yuan Shikai regretted it very much. In order to please his master, Duan Qirui deliberately bought a set of lotus pots from Chenzhou Nixing and presented them to him.
That day, Duan Qirui dressed up as a wealthy businessman and went straight to the Chen Mansion in Nixing County with his entourage. The Chen Mansion is located on Shangwu Street. On the high gate there are imperial plaques gifted by the imperial courts of past dynasties, which makes it look like an official residence. Chen Sanguan, the tenth generation descendant of the Chen family, is nearly seventy years old. His silver-white beard hides a pair of wise eyes, giving people an enigmatic feeling. When he saw that the visitor was dressed as a wealthy businessman and had a distinguished bearing, he knew he was an extraordinary person and hurriedly got up to greet the guests. Duan Qirui returned the gift with his hand, saying that he came because of his reputation and made a special trip to Nixing to buy a set of Chen's Nixing tea set. Chen Sanguan said with a smile: "Forgive me for asking, are you willing to pay a high price?" Duan Qirui smiled and replied: "If I can get a treasure pot, I won't hesitate to spend any money!" "Chen Sanguan was delighted to see the visitor. He suddenly became interested and shouted "Hello".
Chen Sanguan ordered people to bring out several boxes of tea sets, opened them one by one, and said to Duan Qirui: "This is a hundred sets of high-quality tea sets. I will pick out one pot from them. But it is not a shame to say something ugly first. The guest wants to take it out." This hundred sets of money comes. Duan Qirui smiled magnanimously, and immediately ordered his entourage to take out a plate of silver and put it on the table.
Chen Sanguan glanced at Duan Qirui, then pulled the box and began to throw the pots out one after another. He threw a hundred pots in a row. The pots fell from high altitude to the ground, but they were intact. Duan Qirui was so amazed that he couldn't help but wonder whether the lotus pot that Yuan Shikai broke was really the product of Ni Xing Chen.
When Duan Qirui was distracted, he saw that Chen Sanguan had placed a hundred pots on the case at the same time, took out a thin iron rod, and struck them one by one. Anyone who made a hoarse voice was immediately thrown away. In the end, Tian Baozhong died in Xingcheng . Chen Sanguan carefully selected twenty-one pots and struck them one by one. The sound quality of each one was as good as a piano, and he could also distinguish high and low notes in detail. Chen Sanguan arranged the pots again according to the sequence. Three rows. Duan Qirui saw something strange, but it was inconvenient to ask questions, so he had to watch quietly. I saw Chen Sanguan using his luck and holding a thin iron rod in each hand, flying quickly. The iron rods are like dragonflies touching water, bouncing on twenty-one pots arranged in three rows: upper, middle and lower. At this time, beautiful music sounds as the iron rods float by, like weeping and complaining, sometimes like mountains and rivers, sometimes like mountains and rivers, sometimes like mountains and rivers. Like pearls falling on the plate, Duan Qirui opened his mouth in shock and couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He listened carefully for a while, and it turned out that the song playing on the pot was "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night".
When Duan Qirui was intoxicated by the Flower Moon Spring River, Chen Sanguan changed the tune again and played "Ambush from Flying Daggers". He could only hear the music becoming more and more urgent, like a storm, like thousands of horses and thousands of troops; and he heard hissing again. The sound of killing, the sound of horse hooves, and the sound of swords were heard. Duan Qirui seemed to have woken up in a drunken tent. He was about to shout a few times and draw his sword to kill as if facing a powerful enemy. Suddenly there was a muffled sound and the music ended, leaving everything silent. Duan Qirui could not help but let out a long breath when he saw that the people present looked like he had just emerged from a bloody battle, with sweat on their heads and pale faces.
At this time, Xingcheng Tian Baozhong died . Duan Qirui saw Chen Sanguan turn around tiredly, take a step away, and stand up from the case. Everyone took a closer look, and everyone was stunned. They saw that the case was completely covered with rubble, and only a slim pot stood among the rubble. Chen Sanguan rolled up his sleeves, held up the pot, and struck it with an iron rod. The sound quality was as clear and loud as before. He held the pot in front of Duan Qirui and said, "Sir, the treasure pot has been picked out!" &rdquo
Duan Qirui wiped his hands, took the pot very respectfully, and stroked it carefully. He had no idea that this treasure pot was originally forged in such beautiful and exciting music, which greatly opened his eyes.
Chen Sanguan wiped his sweat and said, "Sir, this is the ancestral procedure of picking pots passed down from my Chen family. In ancient times, this routine was mostly used to pick tributes for the emperor." You just caught up with me today, so you can enjoy the treatment of an emperor for once! &rdquo
Duan Qirui was overjoyed when he heard this. He ordered people to take out the reward money and gave it to Chen Sanguan.