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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...

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the faint fragrance of osmanthus floats in the air, and a bright moon hangs high in the sky. At this time, most families in Shanghai were gathering together to admire the moon, but the Lu family mansion in Fukangli, Bangnan seemed very deserted and silent, as if it was shrouded in an ominous atmosphere. It turns out that a few days ago, Lu Xiaokai went to "Shuaiju" without telling Master Lu to fight crickets. Shanghainese called it Douchong, also called Shangzha, which is a rectangular cage where crickets duel. What Lu Xiaokai took was a famous Shanghai Qibao insect, Crab Green, which is spread on iron sand, while the other land king, Mr. Xiaokai Jin, had his insect from Ningjin, Shandong Province, where the cricket in "Promoting Weaving" comes from.