Riding the wind of rebirth

Because it is a complete formality, completely legal possession, not subject to many laws and regulations, and can be bought and sold freely.

Moreover, many foreign institutions also have preservation business on behalf of them. They have a good reputation, have the best environmental protection and security measures, and can provide collectors with the highest level of preservation services for their cultural relics and artworks.

In other words, you only need to take photos of the collection, and you don’t need to transport it back for safekeeping. You only need to pay a fee to the institution, and they can help you preserve it. After ten or eight years, you are no longer interested in the collection, and they will It can also help you re-auction.

Many rich people who know nothing about art also like to use it as a means of asset preservation and financial allocation. Therefore, as long as a certain area has been stable for decades and a generation of rich people rises, there will be another wave of local cultural relics and art. Crazy moves, without exception.

The decoration of Lao Ma Ti Flower Shop is not exquisite, it is still a two-story old store on the street, the floor is made of wood, so Zhou Zhi, who is in the private room on the second floor, is worried that if his footsteps are too big, the customers downstairs will be ashamed.

Of course, such worries are purely superfluous. Except for himself, there are many restaurants like this now, and no one would have such thoughts as him.

The taste of the food is home-cooked, but it is very authentic. In addition to the must-order kidney bean hoof flower, there is also a dish of rock sugar elbow that is also very authentic.

In fact, Jiang Shuyi, Xu Hui, and Zhang Weiran can only be regarded as half-old children. Although life has begun to improve, they have not yet become anxious about sweet mouths. They are worried that they will make themselves fat. Everyone will only call this The dishes are delicious.

Fei Guan still insisted on going through the basic procedure, and raised his tea cup: "Come on, let's once again celebrate the success of the first half of our Gongmei Citizen Auction, because there is still the second half, so I can't drink, so I will replace wine with tea, thank you for today My foreign aid student Zhou Zhi also wishes us a good market for the auction in the afternoon! Let’s go together!”

"Let's go together!" Everyone raised their cups, and Xu Hui's voice was the loudest.

"Today is really eye-opening!" Putting down the cup, the girl was still excited: "If you want to know how to play, it must be when our Chinese civilization was brilliant, why are there so many weird things!"

"Like what?"

"For example, the small porcelain called water drop!" Xu Hui laughed: "The shape of such a small bamboo shoot can hold a small spoonful of water at most. Press the small hole on the top with your hand to let the water drip drop by drop from the tip of the lotus root. come down..."

"The key is that the big hole is made into a worm's eye, and the small hole is hidden in the tip of the bamboo shoot. What is it for?!"

"That small piece is actually a water injection tool. It can precisely adjust the concentration of paint and ink. The wormhole is the place where water is added. After adding, press there, and the water can't come out. Relax a little, you can let the water come out. Water drips from the tips of the bamboo shoots into the inkstone, so it is called water drop, also called inkstone drop.”

"I don't want to be particular about..." Xu Hui expressed her disdain.

"Hahahaha..." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "It is indeed something that can be convenient for literati to create. Since it exists, it is quite popular, and it's not all about ignorance. Of course, there are places where it is needed, but you don't play it. Calligraphy and painting, I don’t know how to use it.”

"As a gadget in the study, water droplets are made of various materials and shapes. In fact, for collectors, water droplets are a very good variety if they decide on a category for their exclusive collection."

"Its content and knowledge are far richer than calligraphy, painting, fans, etc., and it is also unique and unique."

"Really?" Xu Hui seemed a little interested: "Is that gadget expensive? If not, I'll take a picture of it this afternoon!"

"Of course!" Zhou Zhi and Fei Guan looked at each other, Xu Hui was lively and cute, an innocent and romantic girl with a deceptive appearance, she was simply the best candidate to be a trustee.

"Come, come, I'll serve Hui Hui a bowl of soup!" Fei Guan picked up the spoon with a smile, "This is to help us open Gongmei, and to be our customer!"

"After a while, I'll tell you, Huihui, how to bid and hold placards in auctions. There's a bit of psychological warfare in it, so it's interesting."

"Okay!" Xu Hui is also a mischievous person who is crazy, but at the same time has a righteous personality: "Elbow, do you want to buy something? If it's not easy to come forward, I will buy it for you too!"

Hey!Fei Guan silently added a hoof tip to Xu Hui's soup bowl, waiting for this sentence!
"However, the inkstone drop was made by Yang Fenghua, a famous pottery maker in the Qing Dynasty. He used purple clay and Benshan green clay to burn the purple color of the bamboo shoot root nails and the yellow color of the bamboo shoot shells. The color, texture and wormholes of the bamboo shoot shells are exquisitely done. Pretty, beautiful, well-crafted, and ingenious, it belongs to the high-quality goods in Zisha small pieces, and it is estimated that there will be a very fierce auction."

"Huh? Then I can't afford it?"

"Huihui, actually, I don't think an auction is suitable for you." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "After all, they are things that have been appraised, and there is little chance of speculation on the price."

"Hey, how about this, the auction bidding this afternoon, you will hold the brand, and you can be regarded as my participating agent, so it can be enjoyable, okay?"

"Not good! You just want to trick me into working for you, how do you calculate the salary?!"

"The salary is easy!" Fei Guan came up with an idea: "Tomorrow morning, we are going to visit the 'ghost market', and then let Elbow find two things you like for you!"

"Uncle Fei, what is a ghost market?"

"Ghost market, that is, the market that opens in the middle of the night. They are all places that sell second-hand goods, such as those things that I came to appraise today."

"Huh? Then why do you have to sell it at midnight?"

"Because there is an ancient rule that the family can't get rid of the pot, so they sell one or two ancestral things, but people always have a good face, for fear of being recognized by others, right? So I just took advantage of the darkness to make a deal."

"There are also a lot of things in the ghost market that are fake. They make up stories to deceive people, and the shady ones also increase the difficulty of buyer identification."

"In short, there are many benefits to the seller. The things are very cheap. Of course, there are more fakes than real ones, but it's not impossible. It's a test of the buyer's eyesight."

"If you find a few authentic pieces, you can make a lot of money."

"There is still such a fun place in Sichuan?!" Xu Hui was so excited: "Now there is no shortage of themes for writing essays!"

"By the way, uncle, what time does this ghost market open?"

"It started at three o'clock in the morning on Wednesday and Sunday, and basically ended at nine o'clock."

"Oh, that's comfortable, where are we staying in Zhouzhi tonight?"

Jiang Shuyi was already a lot more generous than when she was freshman in high school, especially when facing a girlfriend like Xu Hui, if you were to be seen as shy by her, she might make trouble for you even more. Although she couldn't help but blush, but Still dare to retort: ​​"If you want to live, go live, why drag me?"

"Eh? I can't do it, I have to..." Zhang Weiran originally wanted to say "I have to go home", but received Xu Hui's sharp eyes: "Uh...I have to...ask for leave."

"Hahahaha..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help laughing out loud at Zhang Weiran's forced turn.