Jianbao life

Chapter 1043 Shutdown
At the Ruins of St. Paul's, the two parties with different purposes bid farewell to each other.

Seeing Wu Ke and the others walking towards the scenic spot, Chu Chen and Zuo Shan (A Chao was on the other side) followed Zhao Qirui, who was already a regular customer of Haojing, to Dai Ziming's friend's antique shop.

Speaking of which, there are actually not many real antique shops in Haojing, at most less than forty, and among these antique shops, antique furniture shops are the most. Boxes, toilets and other furniture.

However, for these old furniture, unless it is particularly valuable, generally Chu Chen will not buy it, because these are all purchased at a low price from the countryside in the interior, and then processed and refurbished here. Chu Chen is generally not interested in furniture.

In addition to antique shops specializing in old furniture, there are also antique shops dealing in jade, bronze, tin, porcelain, coins, stamps, calligraphy and painting.Among them, the business of porcelain is the most prosperous. In addition, the business of calligraphy and painting, an antique art that represents the characteristics of Chinese culture, is also good.

After walking around like this, the three of them came to the antique shop that Dai Ziming mentioned yesterday.

Entering the store, Chu Chen looked around and found that although the antique store looked small, the decoration and layout were quite tasteful. As for the theme of the business, it was antiques and miscellaneous items.

Chu Chen just took a look at the situation in the store, and saw an old man in his 50s who looked like a shopkeeper, walking towards them.

The old man asked in relatively standard Mandarin, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Zhao and Mr. Chu?"

The two of them were not surprised that the old man knew them, Zhao Qirui nodded with a smile: "Has Mr. Dai come?"

The old man said with a smile: "He, Mr. Jiang and my friend are already upstairs, I will take you there..."

After finishing speaking, the old man took the three of them upstairs. During the period, he also introduced himself, saying that his name was Mao Jiancheng, and his ancestral home was also in the capital.

The three of them followed Mao Jiancheng to the upstairs reception room. Besides Dai Ziming and Jiang Jiachang, there was also a bald man in his 40s who were drinking tea and chatting.

"Sorry, I'm late." Zhao Qirui and Chu Chen hugged everyone.

"Where, where! We came early..."

Everyone exchanged pleasantries, Mao Jiancheng introduced the two parties, and then asked the waiter to serve tea for the three of them.

Mao Jiancheng's friend was named Ying Mingxin. When the waiter served tea, he took out the porcelain that Dai Ziming had mentioned yesterday.

This is a Qing Kangxi blue-and-white Huxi send-off picture cover jar. This jar has a straight mouth, a deep belly, and round feet. The body is painted with blue and white landscape-style landscape figures. Waterfalls and pavilions on the water, this elegant and beautiful scenery sets off people's leisurely life.

The whole picture has reasonable layout, ingenious composition and magnificent momentum.The painting adopts the method of chopping with an axe, painting and dyeing layer by layer, and the yin and yang are opposite to each other.The texture of the rocks is obvious, and the characters have a calm demeanor.The strokes are fine and vivid, and the lines are strong and tough.The artistic style is elegant, just like a literati painting full of charm.

What is described above is the "Huixi send-off picture" by the eminent monk Huiyuan in "The Legend of Lianshe Gaoxian". Huiyuan is the host of Donglin Temple. There is a spring under the temple, which is called Huxi. He never sees off guests at Huxi. Tiger roar.Later, when Tao Qian and Lu Xiujing came to visit, Huiyuan saw off the guests. Because of the speculative conversation, they crossed the Huxi without realizing it, and laughed at each other. Later generations praised the friendship between the masters.

This pot of blue and white appears to be made of the finest emerald blue and green material in the Kangxi period. The pure blue is bright and beautiful. In addition, the "cracking" method in traditional painting is used to depict landscapes, and its porcelain painting skills reached the peak of the Kangxi period.

In addition, this pot has no inscription, but many official kiln works in the Kangxi period do not have inscriptions. Because of this, there have been many imitations in recent years.

Moreover, modern imitations based on this jar are also flooding the large and small art markets.Just looking at the blue and white color is somewhat similar, but careful observation finds that there are two main situations, one is that the blue and white material is dry, there is a phenomenon of scorching and blistering, the carcass is thicker, and the glaze inside the vessel is thick and white and opaque; the other is blue and white. The color is light and oily, the bottom glaze is white and yellowish, and the tire repair is extremely particular.

This blue and white jar does not have such two situations, it looks completely genuine, among the people present, except for Chu Chen and Zhao Qirui who is already familiar with forgery techniques, everyone else thinks that this blue and white jar looks like nothing Something is wrong, but Dai Ziming, like Mao Jiancheng, feels that there is always something wrong with this thing.

"Teacher Chu, what do you think?" Ying Mingxin asked impatiently when Chu Chen raised his head again.

Chu Chen said with some regret: "I don't think this thing is up to date."

Dai Ziming quickly asked: "Why, is it really the high imitation made by Cai Jianxuan?"

Chu Chen replied: "It should be said that the possibility is very high."

At this time, Ying Mingxin asked: "Mr. Chu, can you explain in detail?"

"this is necessary."

Chu Chen nodded: "First of all, the reason why you think there is something wrong with this utensil is because the counterfeiters used encapsulation liquid to make it old. Although this kind of material can be imitated more realistically, it is only 90.00% similar at most. degree, for example..."

Chu Chen introduced to everyone the characteristics that distinguish the grout from being old.

"Hey! So that's what happened!" After Dai Ziming and others observed, they all shook their heads helplessly.

After a while, Ying Mingxin asked again: "Mr. Chu, is there something else wrong?"

"Yes, this blue and white pot still has some problems with the green material."

Chu Chen said: "The emerald blue and white material is actually the pearl material from southern Yunnan. It is refined by fire calcination, which greatly increases the cobalt content in the raw material. The color of the cobalt material is directly related to the purity and particle size. The refined cobalt material is not only fine in particle size, but also contains trace elements such as copper, iron, manganese, etc., which makes the blue of emerald blue slightly greenish and purple, and the color tone is rich and colorful."

"But this blue and white pot, although it looks very similar to the real emerald blue and white material, there is no slight greenish purple phenomenon in the blue. In addition, there are some subtle differences between the performance and the real product..."

According to Chu Chen's explanation, Ying Mingxin smiled wryly after reading it: "These differences are relatively small, and ordinary collectors can't see them at all!"

Dai Ziming sighed: "Let's not talk about ordinary collectors, even shopkeeper Mao and I can't see it. It's really embarrassing to say it!"

Mao Jiancheng also said, "Yes, this Cai Jianxuan is too powerful, but since his level of antique porcelain is so high, he can do legitimate business, why must he go astray!"

Zhao Qirui sneered: "What else is there, people are not enough, some people only have money in their eyes, and he doesn't care about other people's lives."

Ying Mingxin sighed: "Hey, money is really harmful! Just like this blue and white pot, I didn't intend to buy it at first, but because the price is not expensive, I was greedy for cheap, and I didn't buy it. Thinking of losing 10,000+ in the end, although the money is not much, it is enough to worry..."

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, Mr. Chu, let me ask you a question, what is the origin of this Cai Jianxuan, why have I been in the antique collection for so many years, and I have never heard of this name?"

In fact, let alone him, if Mr. Liu hadn't discovered a clue pointing to Haojing some time ago, so he called Dai Ziming and mentioned this matter, otherwise Dai Ziming would not have known about Cai Jianxuan either.

Next, Chu Chen carefully explained to everyone Cai Jianxuan's origin and the harmfulness he caused.

"To put it bluntly, I am afraid that everyone will be panicked and cause huge economic losses to the antique market, so people in the know keep covering up the matter."

Zhao Qirui said: "If everyone knows about this matter, the value of porcelain will definitely cause a panic drop, let alone the businessmen who make a living from it, and those collectors are also not much better. The whole family will be ruined because of this.”

Everyone can understand this point, and there is no need to say much about the consequences. Not to mention others, Ying Mingxin has porcelain worth nearly hundreds of millions of RMB in his hands. The loss is not something he can bear.

Because of this, Ying Ming was already thinking about whether to dispose of some of the collections at home first, lest something like that really happen when he got it, and he lost all his money, and he really wanted to cry without tears.

"Mr. Ying, do you know anything about the seller who sold you this item? Can you tell us in detail?" Chu Chen asked.

"I really don't know much about that."

Ying Mingxin smiled wryly and said, "I only know that this person is named Xu Yueshui, a foreign Chinese, about 37 or 40 years old, and looks very good-looking, but I don't know much about it."

Mao Jiancheng said speechlessly: "No, then why would you buy his things?"

"It's normal." Ying Mingxin looked a little innocent: "Isn't that how we usually buy things? As long as we think something is good, who would ask the seller for details?"

Mao Jiancheng chuckled, and immediately realized that he had asked a stupid question, and stopped talking in embarrassment.

Chu Chen asked with a smile: "Mr. Ying, where did you meet him? Was this porcelain delivered to your door?"

"It doesn't count."

Ying Mingxin even recalled, "Last Sunday, I was invited by a friend to participate in a small charity auction at his place. At that time, the seller happened to be sitting next to me, and we chatted for a while. He said he was in the porcelain business, and I happened to be a collector of porcelain, so I asked him casually if there were any better official kilns from the Qing Dynasty."

"At that time, he told me that he had this blue and white jar, and he introduced it to me. At that time, what he said was more honest, unlike other sellers who boasted about their own things to the sky. In addition, he said that he bought this piece of porcelain at an overseas auction the year before last, and he can provide relevant documents."

"When I heard this, I was quite moved. After the auction was over, I followed him to his temporary residence, and this blue and white jar came into my hands."

After hearing what happened, Mao Jiancheng said with a smile: "I said Mr. Ying, you are so courageous now, you don't even know who the other party is, and you dare to go to his place. What if the other party is robbery?" Bandit, aren't you throwing yourself into a trap?"

Ying Mingxin was startled when he heard the words, and said with some lingering fear: "I don't know what's going on. I really didn't think about it at the time. Fortunately, this person is only greedy for a little money, otherwise you might not see me."

"It's not that exaggerated."

Mao Jiancheng laughed and said, "The charity auction you mentioned should be held by Mr. Huang, right? With his cautious character, how could he give invitations to dangerous people? However, you should be more careful next time you encounter such a thing. We must not have the heart to harm others, and we must not have the heart to guard against others."

"Yes, yes!" Everyone agreed.

At this moment, Chu Chen asked, "Mr. Ying, can I trouble you with something?"

"Mr. Chu, just say it."

"That's it. I wonder if you can call him and ask him out."

Ying Mingxin understood Chu Chen's plan when he heard the words: "You want to use him as a breakthrough to find that Cai Jianxuan?"

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, you should know that Cai Jianxuan is dangerous, so the sooner you find him, the better."

Ying Mingxin said: "It's okay to make a phone call, but even if he comes, you can't do anything about him!"

Zhao Qirui said confidently: "It doesn't matter, I will coordinate this aspect when the time comes."

After hearing this, Ying Mingxin realized that Chu Chen and the others had unusual backgrounds. To them, what he said was not a big problem at all.

"Okay, then I'll call him..."

After speaking, Ying Mingxin took out his mobile phone, found Xu Yueshui's number, and pulled it out, but the voice from the other end made him a little dumbfounded.

"What's going on?" Mao Jiancheng asked quickly.

"His phone is turned off, is it out of battery?" Ying Mingxin asked hesitantly.

Mao Jiancheng felt that this matter was strange: "He won't escape?"

Ying Mingxin shook his head and said, "Probably not. I talked to him on the phone the night before yesterday, but I didn't hear him say he was going to leave."

Mao Jiancheng asked: "Then have you told him that I think there is something wrong with this blue and white jar?"

Ying Mingxin waved his hand: "I haven't told you about this, and you can't figure out what's wrong, how can I tell him?"

Chu Chen said, "Standing here, we can't discuss why. Why don't we go over now, what do you think?"

"Okay!" Ying Mingxin agreed.

Next, Chu Chen asked Zhao Qirui to stay here, and he and Zuo Shan followed Ying Mingxin to Xu Yueshui's residence.

Led by Ying Mingxin, they arrived at Xu Yueshui's temporary residence after more than ten minutes.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

At the gate of the community, a group of people were stopped by security...

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