Let's go, I'll take you to see the collection in my house!"

Chen Xiu followed the gambling king's father and son through the courtyard and walked straight into the inner hall, and the first thing that caught his eye was a set of rosewood Eight Immortal Tables, which were more than two meters in diameter, and were equipped with an official hat chair and two small square stools.

"Good thing, this carving ornament should be something from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Now this set of things can't be taken without five million. ”

As soon as Chen Xiu's words came out, He Rongsheng's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself: "Sure enough, he is a knowledgeable person!"

Although He Shouheng himself is also engaged in an auction house, he himself does not have an in-depth study of the antiques themselves, but only manages the auction house as a business.

I couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother Chen, I've been listening to those experts in my hands say what age this is, what age is that, those porcelains are okay to say, these furniture are all wood, how can you tell at a glance what age it is?"

"Every era has its own imprint. ”

Chen Xiu pointed to the carvings on the four-legged pillars of the Eight Immortals Table and asked, "Xiao He Sheng, what do you think of this dragon carving!"

He Shouheng looked at it, then reached out and stroked it again and said, "The atmosphere is like life." ”

"Don't talk about it, you just talk about the feeling at first sight. ”

"Yes...... It's a bit pompous, but there are nine dragons carved on one thin foot, which makes people feel like they want to be able to carve dragon patterns on every part of their feet. ”

Chen Xiu clapped his hands and said, "That's right!"

"Qianlong is a young man of literature and art, and he is very happy, but his artistic vision is indescribable, you can see what porcelain mother he likes, and he can't wait to burn all the top ceramic craftsmanship throughout the ages into a bottle to show his martial arts. ”

"As the saying goes, there is a preference, and the bottom is an effective imitation. ”

Qianlong liked these pompous things, and his subordinates naturally liked this style as well. ”

"Therefore, only the feet of the Eight Immortals Table in the Qianlong period were carved with nine dragons. If it is something above his Lao Tzu Yongzheng, it is at most a coiled dragon. ”

"I see. ”

He Shouheng stroked the dragon pattern and was puzzled, and said strangely: "There are still a few emperors after Qianlong, can't this table be an old object from the emperors after Qianlong?"

"That's a good question!"

Chen Xiu said with a smile: "However, throughout the entire Qing Dynasty, only Qianlong liked this kind of exaggerated style, and even his son didn't like his style, so after arriving at Emperor Jiaqing, the craftsman changed to a simple style." ”

"There's one more thing that's wrong. ”

He Shouheng asked like a 100,000 elementary school student: "In addition to the Qing Dynasty, there are so many emperors in history, and there are always one or two dynasties that also have this carving style." These Eight Immortal Tables are not necessarily Qing Dynasty objects. ”

"That's why I say that things from every era have an imprint. ”

"You see this dragon in the middle of the dragon, the S-shaped head, the dragon's eye is unusually abrupt, commonly known as the "bulb eye", which is the characteristics of the dragon's eye in the Qing Dynasty, the shape is not only large and round, but also feels protruding outward, the eyes are wider than long, the diameter of the eye black is relatively small, the eye socket is basically absent, and the flame-shaped eyebrows are directly on the eyeball. ”

"The Chinese totem dragon is always changing, and it is not what we see now. So if it is the image of a dragon carved by another dynasty, it will definitely not appear like a clear dragon!"

Chen Xiu even smiled and said: "If this Eight Immortals Table is a dragon with different images from various dynasties, it can only show that this is a modern imitation or an extremely low-end imitation!"

At this moment, He Shouheng suddenly realized that he admired Chen Xiu's knowledge.

He Rongsheng also nodded, and took Chen Xiu through the inner hall to the main house, on the square table of Huanghuali was a golden dragon boat of Qing Kangxi, which was not considered the value of cultural relics, and it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars just to melt it and sell it as gold;

There is a jade carved cabbage next to it, although it is a little worse than the cabbage jade of the Empress Dowager Cixi, it is also a rare boutique, worth more than one million;

And in the box of the dresser of red sandalwood, there is a jade bead chain worth 30 million.

Chen Xiu knew that the gambling king was careful about himself, but he was not humble, and he said the value of these things one by one, and the gambling king also nodded frequently, knowing that Chen Xiu was really talented and learned in the antique industry.

"I originally asked him to bid for the dragon's head, but I just wanted to shorten the distance, and it seems that I don't need to ask other experts to appraise it tomorrow. He's better than a team alone!"

Chen Xiu followed the gambling king's father and son to look at the whole house, there were no less than 100 kinds of products inside, all of which were high-quality products, and Chen Xiu was also dazzled when he saw it.

Then came to the last room, which was hung with paintings by some famous artists of the past dynasties, and the paintings in this room alone were worth no less than one billion.

Chen Xiu was attracted by a portrait of the Qing Dynasty hanging on the wall, but this painting was not from the hands of a famous artist, and the painting was also a little rough, but the people on the painting were a little familiar, as if they had seen it there, but they couldn't remember.

He Rongsheng saw that he didn't look at those famous paintings, but stared at this worthless portrait, and asked curiously: "What, are you interested in this painting?"

"No...... No, I'm just curious that each of the other paintings is not less than three million, how can you put such a pair here...... A painting that doesn't change its name?"

He Rongsheng said with a smile: "This painting was originally brought with me when I bought this courtyard, and I brought it with me in order to retain the original flavor." ”

"So that's the case, so the person in the portrait should be the ancestor of this courtyard!"

"But no. ”

He Rongsheng said: "When I bought the yard, I asked the owner at the time, and said that the person on the portrait was not their ancestor, but only that it was a benefactor of their ancestor, and he had received the favor of this person, so he painted this portrait as a commemoration. ”

"I see!"

Chen Xiu just looked at the people on the portrait more and more familiarly, but he couldn't remember it, and his psychology was not only thinking: "This courtyard was built in the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods, and now it has been almost three hundred years, how can I know the ancients, I must be mistaken!"

Visited the collection of the gambling king, the He family father and son also set up a banquet to entertain, invited the chef of the famous Michelin restaurant on Hong Kong Island, the Cantonese cuisine is very flavorful, especially the fried crab in the typhoon shelter, Chen Xiu lingered, and the guests and hosts enjoyed a meal.

Until he left the gambling king's villa with He Shouheng, Chen Xiu went out with his stomach in his arms.