The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 115 Antique City

Shenzhen Antique City has a large battlefield area, but it was established not long ago. Compared with time-honored brands such as BJ Panjiayuan or Liulichang, it is naturally not well-known, but the decoration and layout inside are very grand.After entering, in addition to the small vendors on both sides, the surrounding shops such as cultural antiques, jade and porcelain, calligraphy and painting inscriptions, etc., all have their own characteristics. , there are more people.

Zhou Xuanye and I stopped and went, all kinds of strange things, I was dazzled, in some street stalls, you can see vendors and tourists bargaining, but if you enter the street shops, it is basically very quiet, the atmosphere It changed all of a sudden, those who read things looked silently, those who sold things didn’t talk too much, occasionally spoke a few words, and there were a lot of special vocabulary for antiques, which I didn’t understand much.

After looking at it for a long time, I thought that it would not be a problem to look at it like this, so I found an antique shop with a good decoration and walked in.

The owner of the shop has a bald head. The moment he raised his head, I was shocked because he had only one eye, and the other eye was turned white and gray. It was obviously a one-eyed dragon.He raised his head and smiled, and greeted: "You two, just watch what you like." His voice was very warm, but his face looked really vicious, like a gangster.

Zhou Xuanye and I wandered around the store. This shop sells a lot of things. There are calligraphy and paintings, rubbings, porcelain, jade, gold, silver, rocks, ornaments, and accessories. It's dazzling.I walked around, and the one-eyed dragon was watching with a smile all the time. I thought this man looked fierce, but he looked pretty good, so I said, "I want to sell something, can you help me look?"

"Selling things?" Cyclops raised his volume slightly, and said with a smile, "Okay, please." Then, he led us to the side of the coffee table, made tea first, and then said: "Take out the things and I'll take them out." Let's take a look." I took out the jade pendant from my bag and planned to hand it to him.

The one-eyed man didn't answer the item, he knocked on the middle of the coffee table, and motioned for me to put the item on the table. He looked at Zhou Xuanye and me, and said with a smile: "You two don't often play this game when you see it, let's do it. The most basic rule of antiques is 'not in your hands', you say, in case when you hand it to me, one of them is not connected securely, and the thing falls, whose fault is it?" I finally understood what he meant. The value is very high, and it is possible that if you drop it, you will lose your fortune, but if both parties fail to see the goods, but put the goods on the table, even if they fall, you can tell who is responsible.

All walks of life have their rules, and it seems that the antique industry is really a fearful industry.

So I put the jade card on the tea table, and one-eyed took out a pure white cotton glove from the drawer and put it on. During the meeting, he didn't speak. After watching about half a cup of tea, he put down the jade plaque and said, "It's something from a minority, and it's not worth a lot. How about it? It's your first time here. If you find me here, I will not be fooled by you, 5 yuan."

fifty thousand?

This is too different from what I thought in my heart. I couldn't help saying: "What do you mean that things from ethnic minorities are worthless? Aren't you engaging in ethnic discrimination?"

One-eyed said: "It's not that I engage in ethnic discrimination, it's just that the market is like this. In the antique market, the things of ethnic minorities are really worthless. Of course, if you buy cultural relics from the Xixia Kingdom or other backgrounds, that's another matter. But this thing of yours is just a piece of jade, and the pattern on the jade is the most common picture of herding horses, and it doesn’t even have a provenance. I’m doing business with a conscience, and this thing is really worthless.” He said, putting the jade plaque on the Back to the coffee table.

From my look, he doesn't seem to be fooling me, but 5 yuan is really too little.Half a year ago, I might have thought that 5 yuan was a lot, but people's appetites have gradually grown in this way. Probably because I have gained some knowledge in the past six months, I now think that [-] yuan is really not a lot of money.

After thinking about it, I decided to shop around and said, "Your price is too low, I'll go to another place to look." Then, I planned to put the jade token away.Seeing that we were about to leave, the one-eyed man hurriedly stopped him: "Hey, hey, wait a minute."

I said: "Why?"

One-eyed said: "I haven't opened yet today, so I'll treat it as an open store. How about another five thousand?"

I shook my head, and at the same time felt strange, if he really didn't like this thing, why did he raise the price for no reason?It must be because Zhou Xuanye and I don’t know much about antiques, what we said just now may be to coax me.Thinking about it this way, I am even more determined to shop around, and even if I want to step out of the store.

At this moment, Cyclops hurriedly stopped the two of us, with a bitter look on his face, and said: "You two are too honest, you have to take your time when doing business. Let me tell you the truth, I am also a part-time worker, and the boss is out Forget about it, I can’t give you too high a price. If you want to increase the price of this thing, you have to have a source and a source. If you find it this way, you can tell me where it came from, and you might be able to sell it for a good price.”

I figured it out, this one-eyed dragon is unreliable, he is totally cheating, so I dragged Zhou Xuanye out immediately.

As soon as he went out, he heard the one-eyed howl: "If you go to another house, the price will not go up."

I thought it was his words to keep customers, but then, Zhou Xuanye and I went to two stores, and the price was actually lower than that of Cyclops, and the reason given was similar, saying that the source of this item was unknown, and one of the stores sold it. The boss told the truth, and said: "Your stuff is too common, but this material is the most valuable, Hetian Laoyu, so I will give you [-]."

Zhou Xuanye and I looked at each other and immediately backed out.Standing on the street, I said, "Brother Zhou, what are you doing?"

Zhou Xuanye shrugged his shoulders, and said: "Someone stumbles, some horses stumble, maybe you are unlucky this time, and just got a defective product, but it's better than nothing, right?"

These words comforted me, and now we went back to find Cyclops, it would be good to have an extra [-].

When I returned to the store again, there was one more person in the store.I saw a man in his early thirties sitting next to the coffee table, who was listening to what the one-eyed man was saying. His face looked unsmiling, giving off a very serious feeling.

At this time, the man found us, and he winked at the one-eyed one, who turned around and saw us, and said with a smile: "Oh, you two are back, and our boss is also there, your goods should not be sold yet, right? "

I was very depressed when he said it right, and said: "I still have two things, please help me to have a look."

One-eyed said: "Our boss is here, let our boss show you. Hey, what's the matter, I didn't lie to you, did I? This antique street, our shop, can be said to be the conscience of the industry, and I won't fool you." While talking, the boss nodded to us and made a gesture of please sit down.

This boss is not very talkative, and the antique business is probably relatively high-end, so he doesn't treat customers very warmly.After Zhou Xuanye and I sat down, we put the other two things, a finger puller and a flask, on the coffee table together.

At this moment, Zhou Xuanye, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "What's the boss's name?"

The boss was slowly looking at the jade plaque, and said in a deep voice, "Miangui's surname is Chen."

Zhou Xuanye smiled and said, "Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, and Chen are common surnames."

Boss Chen said: "Big surname, there are a lot of surnames on the street."

These words made Zhou Xuanye choke.I actually find it quite strange. Although Zhou Xuanye is kind, he rarely takes the initiative to show off others. But now, why does he seem to be interested in this boss?I couldn't help but look at this person more. His skin is a healthy bronze color. He looks like he likes sports very much. When he stares at the goods, his eyes are very focused.

Immediately afterwards, he went to look at the wrench. He didn't look at the wrench for a long time, and almost passed it by. Finally, his eyes rested on the flat pot, and he picked up the flat pot for a closer look. It took a long time to watch this time, it took more than an hour, and I was anxious while waiting. I wanted to interrupt him several times, but Zhou Xuanye stopped him.

Time passed, and it was afternoon. The boss surnamed Chen put down his things, pointed at the jade plaque and said, "Fifty thousand."

Pointing to the wrench again, he said, "Twenty thousand."

Finally, pointing to the flat pot, he said, "I don't accept this one."

"Ah..." I was stunned for a moment. I thought that this flat pot must be very valuable after he looked at it for a whole hour. Who knew that such a sentence came out?
As if he understood my thoughts, the boss surnamed Chen said: "This is a filigree waist pot filled with colored glaze, and there is an inscription on the bottom." nothing.

Boss Chen shook his head, took a spotlight, shone it on the inside of the flat pot, and handed it to me, "Look, it's inside." I turned my head and found that there was indeed a red money inside, but it was not a Chinese character. , also do not understand.Although I don't know much about antiques, I also know that this kind of craftsmanship was common in ancient times.

Sure enough, he said: "I can't afford this thing here, but I know an auction house, and I'll give you an estimate of 800 million. You can go to that club to sell it. Of course... If you trust me, you can also buy it." Put it on consignment here, and I will take a commission if it is sold, but my store here is small, and it may take a long time."

Eight... 800 million!

I couldn't help being excited, but then, I noticed a little weirdness.For those who are in business, isn't it a good time to pick up the loopholes when encountering a stunned young man like us who doesn't understand anything?Why should he tell me the real price of this flask?
Why don't we take things at a low price while we don't understand anything?
Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help asking, and after asking, I regretted it and wanted to slap myself in the face.

When Boss Chen heard the words, he rarely smiled, and said: "You have to be honest in business, and you can do business with integrity for a long time." Then, he motioned for the one-eyed tea, picked up the jade plaque again, and said: "These three They are all old things with no patina on the surface, so they should have just been unearthed. But it is strange that these three things have no color at all, so they should have just been taken from a very dry place It came out. If I'm not wrong, the two of you got these three things in the desert of XJ, and it should have happened not long ago, am I right?"

I was shocked. I didn't expect that this person would make a good guess based on only three things. This vision is too poisonous.

(End of this chapter)