Jianbao life

Chapter 214
Seeing that Fatty Dong was still a little worried, Chu Chen smiled and said, "Fatty Dong, since you are still not at ease, then I will teach you a simple way to identify real and fake corals."

"You should know that the composition of red coral is calcium carbonate, which is the same as that of human teeth, so lightly tap the red coral on the teeth, if the sound is the same as that of the upper and lower teeth, it is true. If you don’t believe me, try it!”

Hearing this, Fatty Dong immediately asked for the tower beads from Su Jinning, "Click! Click!" He knocked the 71 coral beads one by one, and everyone was quite speechless.

"Hey! It's really the same as the sound of knocking teeth!"

After Fatty Dong tried them one by one, his face was full of joy. At first, Chu Chen thought he would give up, but he said with a shy face: "Brother Chu, I heard that bones can be used to make fake coral, so what should I do?" ?”

Su Jinning couldn't help being a little annoyed when he heard the words: "Fatty, you're not done yet!"

"I don't want to figure it out!" Fatty Dong laughed.

Chu Chen said with a smile: "Actually, Fatty's spirit is good. Sometimes, we should be as serious as Fatty. If that's the case, then I'll tell you some of the ways corals cheat."

"Generally speaking, there are only a few methods of counterfeiting coral in the past, such as burning coral glaze outside the material vessel; wrapping the surface with lead, coating a layer of coral lacquer leather and drawing texture; and carving beads with ox bone or talc. , into red to pretend to be coral. Now, with advanced technology, there are also white corals or sea bamboos similar to corals that are laser-colored (dyed), Gilson’s “synthetic corals” and so on.”

"In the previous method, the identification was very simple. The "coral" made of materials contained bubbles inside, and the broken balls were shiny, without real coral fingerprint patterns; the "coral" made of glass had a shell-like fracture, while the real The coral gap is smooth; the "coral" made of flour is shiny and black, with cracks after a long time, and the sound of hitting each other is muffled; the "coral" dyed with bone cutin only needs to be wiped with acetone, and it can be seen immediately come out."

When Chu Chen said this, the shopkeeper took out a glass bottle and said, "It happens that I have acetone here, you can try it."

Seeing this, Chu Chen smiled and said, "Boss, you are well prepared!"

The boss spread his hands and said: "There is no way, we are also operating in good faith. Although we will not make those ignorant money, we must convince customers that it is not!"

Chu Chen laughed and said, "It makes sense, boss, if you do this, you won't have to worry about losing business!"

"Hey, we're here to make a living!"

The boss smiled and said, "Little brother, from your appearance, you seem to be a member of the industry, too?"

Chu Chen replied with a smile, "I'm in the antique business at Panjiayuan."

The boss heard from Chu Chen that he was in the antique business, so he quickly took out a business card, handed it to Chu Chen with both hands, and said:

"Then we can be regarded as half colleagues. I have a relationship with Treasure Island. If there is any demand for coral jewelry in the future, the price will definitely not let you suffer. It's not me. Just this string of tower beads. In the store, there is no six or seven million yuan, so I can't get it at all."

What the boss said, Chu Chen also believed that the 52 yuan for this kind of MOMO-grade coral tower beads is indeed very cheap in the market.

So Chu Chen took a look at the business card handed over by the boss, then handed him a business card of his own, and said with a smile: "Okay, Boss Qian, I will definitely call you in the future, of course, if you have this For antiques, you can also call me."

"sure!……"

At this time, Fatty Dong had already wiped all the tower beads. Seeing his smiling face, there is no need to say more about the result.

"Brother Chu, what else is there for laser hair coloring?"

Chu Chen smiled and said: "This is very simple. Since it is dyed, it is generally impossible to make it look the same. If you use a [-]x magnifying glass, you can see that the dye is concentrated in the small cracks and between the grains of the coral. The red color is deep on the outside and light on the inside. Inhomogeneity, this is the obvious flaw of fakes. In fact, like corals faked by traditional methods, if you look at them with a magnifying glass, there are generally no natural lines inside, and they are easy to identify.”

With that said, Chu Chen handed over a tenfold magnifying glass to Fatty Dong. After Fatty Dong took it, he focused on it.

"Okay, fat man, you should just watch here by yourself, we don't have time to waste time with you." Liu Sizhe was anxious to gamble on stones, but couldn't stand Fatty Dong's dawdling appearance, so he greeted Chu Chen and the others. Just go to the gambling stone shop.

"Hey! Wait for me..."

The shop that Liu Sizhe mentioned has a simple and easy-to-remember name "Wang's Stone Shop". Needless to say, the owner is probably surnamed Wang, but when a group of people came to the door of the shop, they unexpectedly saw someone inside the shop. Noisy, this can't help but make everyone a little strange.

"Old Yu, what's the matter?" Liu Sizhe happened to see an acquaintance who often gambled at the door, and asked.

Old Yu laughed and said: "What else can I do, Zhang Cheng's slapstick is so fucked up, he's playing tricks!"

Liu Sizhe said indignantly when he heard the words: "Why is this guy again, always like this, if I were Uncle Wang, I would not have sold it to him long ago!"

Old Yu said: "After all, Old Wang is open for business. If he really doesn't sell it to Zhang Cheng, he will make a lot of trouble here! And Zhang Cheng only dares to ask for a cheap deal, and he doesn't dare to do more. Excessive things."

"If he dares to go too far, I can't beat him to death!"

Liu Sizhe snorted coldly, seeing that Chu Chen and the others were a little puzzled, he explained the reason.

The Zhang Cheng I mentioned just now is a bastard himself. He has been out of shape since he was a child. Stone comes.

However, he gambled on stones only by feeling, and never studied the knowledge of betting on stones. As a result, one can imagine that when others bet on stones, he lost nine out of ten bets, but he basically lost ten out of ten bets on stones.But even so, he never tires of it, and believes that good luck will patronize him one day, so he often comes here to gamble on stones whenever he has money.

But he is a bastard in the first place, and it is his nature to steal and play tricks. Every time he comes to gamble with stones, he not only has to cut the price of the wool to an extremely low price, but also asks the boss for another piece of wool if the bet is too high. If you give it to him, he will grind and make trouble. Anyway, he has plenty of time, so even if he calls the police, the police can take care of this kind of thing today, but they can't take care of it tomorrow.

Hearing what Liu Sizhe said, Chu Chen couldn't help but shook his head, why did he meet all the weird people today, but when meeting such a bastard, there is really no good way except to use violence.

Liu Sizhe walked in with Chu Chen and the others, and saw the Zhang Cheng mentioned earlier and a pair of people who looked like father and daughter, confronting each other with swords drawn.According to Liu Sizhe's introduction, the father and daughter are the owner Wang Yongcai and her daughter Wang Xiaoyue.

With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Zhang Cheng said to the shopkeeper and his daughter carelessly, "Anyway, I don't care, the quality of your wool must be faulty. Why don't you give me a piece of wool today, or refund the money!"

Wang Xiaoyue said angrily: "Don't think about it, Zhang Cheng, let me tell you, even if we don't do business today, you don't want to take advantage of me anymore!"

Zhang Cheng sat down on the ground when he heard this, and said with a playful smile: "Then do whatever you want!"

"you……"

Seeing his rascal appearance, Wang Xiaoyue was really furious, but then she felt a sense of powerlessness, she really didn't think of any way to get rid of this rascal except following his wishes.

"Okay, Xiaoyue, give it to him if he wants it, and leave early!" Wang Yongcai persuaded his daughter helplessly.

Wang Xiaoyue said indignantly: "I don't! The woolen material he bought was less than 1000 yuan, and he wanted our woolen material worth a few hundred yuan. How could such a good thing come from in the world!"

"This..." Wang Yongcai felt a little bit reluctant when he thought about it. The success of this piece is really true. You said that you bought a piece of wool, not only did you bargain desperately, but even if you want a cheaper piece of wool, you are so shy to ask for a few pieces. One hundred yuan wool, I really plan to buy one get one free!
"Zhang Cheng, is your skin itchy again?" Liu Sizhe was immediately annoyed when he saw Zhang Cheng's rascal appearance.

"Who! I...hehe, so it's Young Master Liu!" Zhang Chengcheng wanted to curse, but when he looked up, it was actually Liu Sizhe.

It's not without reason that Zhang Cheng is so afraid of Liu Sizhe. He was beaten up by Liu Sizhe before, and he called the police afterwards. The police came and took them to the police station. Liu Sizhe was fine, but he was locked up for a week. , this matter immediately let him know that Liu Sizhe was not something he could provoke at all.

Seeing that Liu Sizhe was still stern, Zhang Cheng's heart trembled, and he quickly said, "Young Master Liu, I can't help it. Money is tight recently, this..."

Before Zhang Cheng could finish speaking, Liu Sizhe interrupted him, scolding: "You fucking, you come here to gamble with stones when money is tight, and if you talk nonsense, believe it or not, I'll beat you all over the floor?"

Zhang Cheng heard the words and said in fear: "Believe it! Believe it! I'll go! I'll go right away!" After speaking, he pulled up his legs and prepared to go out.
"Wait!" Before he could take a few steps, Chu Chen yelled at him.

Zhang Cheng thought that Liu Sizhe and the others would not let him go, his shins trembling from the shock of the shout, he turned his head and said with a smile on his face, "This... this big brother, what do you want to tell me?"

Chu Chen pointed to the two pieces of wool on the ground, and asked, "Are these two pieces of wool yours?"

Seeing that it was not what he thought, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and replied, "Yes, what's the matter with this big brother?"

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Well, I spent 300 yuan to buy these two pieces of wool, what do you think?"

"what!"

Chu Chen's words not only stunned Zhang Cheng, but also made other people present dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)