The Story of Purple Sand
by Wang Qisen
About This Novel
In March 1937 AD, it was the season when "thousands of miles of orioles are singing and the green is red" in the south of the Yangtze River. Gu Jingyu, the owner of Shanghai's "Ziouxuan" pot store, came to Dingshu Town, Yixing, and bought a ball-shaped pot from Shao Daheng, a master of pot art in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, from a wealthy family in the Qing Dynasty. The price was 12,000 yuan. What is the concept of this money? At that time, 1 yuan could buy about 25 kilograms of pork, and 3 yuan could buy 1 gram of gold. The normal monthly expenses of a family of four were about 8 to 10 yuan. Before Gu Jingyu, a wealthy businessman from Southeast Asia was willing to pay 8,000 yuan to receive this pot. Later, Sotheby's sent someone to pursue it in Yixing and was willing to pay 10,000 yuan...
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