She said that her friend, who is her best friend's husband, is a gamer. Five years ago, the Dongjiang Provincial Cultural Relics Store opened a warehouse and sold a batch of gadgets from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China; this paperweight was bought at that time and cost more than 10,000 yuan. This year, I was a little short of money, so I asked her to take it to the auction. ”

Yu Yao listened, "In other words, the owner of the goods doesn't know anything?"

"I said what are you doing with such a detailed inquiry? I know that it was opened by the cultural relics store, and the source is detailed enough!"

"It's just curiosity. ”

"You're quite curious!"

"Thank you anyway. ”

"Don't thank you. I happened to ask you for help, do you think you asked for nothing?"

"I said you're so positive!"

"I only put this on the table after I asked for you!" Shen Ge continued, "However, it can be regarded as a matter of mine. ”

Yu Yao nodded, "Understood, your female colleague, after helping you ask about this, asked you another thing, and then you think I can help." ”

"That's what happened. Don't you know a little bit about everything?

"She took it?"

"It's one of her clients. Isn't she in the miscellaneous department of the study? The client saw that the autumn auction was very popular, and wanted to take a set of ink ingots to the auction next spring. ”

"A group, that sounds like a good thing!"

"Then I said yes?"

"Where is the thing now?"

"At the auction house, the client has just left. Go through the retention appraisal procedure first, and then decide whether you can collect the auction when you go back. You want to come to the best now, not yet in the warehouse. ”

Yu Yao frowned, "Since you have an expert group, why do you always want to find outsiders to look at it?"

Shen Ge sighed, "On our side, the one who knows ink is an old expert, who had a heart attack yesterday and was hospitalized." ”

"He's going to shoot next spring, it's still early, just wait. ”

The customer attached great importance to this group of ink, so he gave it three days, and said that he wanted to send it to a big international auction house. ”

"Good guy, I'm a charcoal in the snow! With such a big auction house, I can't find anyone to read Gu Mo?"

Shen Ge paused, "Didn't I think of you first! The customer's auction price is going to be quite high, except for you, I have to find someone else to look at it." ”

"Okay. Repay the favor, since it is the owner who helps ask the source of the paperweight, I will take a trip, wait for me. ”

Yu Yao hung up the phone, thought about it, and then called Yang Sihai.

"Xiaoyu?" Yang Sihai seemed stunned, "What, what's the news from Zhonggu Shenhua?"

"Yes or no. I had a meal with her under Xie Zhihao's Zhang Luo, and she didn't miss anything, but wanted to inquire about the news from me. It is estimated that she will go to the provincial expo to see the video materials, and there is nothing else. ”

"I haven't been in contact with you recently because the Chiga Museum of Art has notified you that the meeting will be postponed until the end of the year, saying that their old director has been in poor health recently and needs to recuperate for a while. ”

In this matter, Yu Yao heard the letter from Pu Jie, "They are the ones who sent the letter in a hurry, and they are also the ones who postpone it, what kind of trouble are you going to make?"

"We have already sent someone to the Wa Kingdom to investigate, and the most important thing is to see if there is a chance to meet their 'Taidian Fangding'. However, the postponement is not a bad thing for this side, and it can be more well prepared. ”

After Yang Sihai finished speaking, he thought that since he didn't have any special news, he called himself again, so he asked again, "Do you have anything else?"

"It's a little bit of a favor I want you to do me a favor. ”

"You're welcome, as long as you don't violate discipline. ”

"That's right, five years ago, the cultural relics store in Dongjiang Province opened a warehouse and put a batch of gadgets from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Among them is a red sandalwood guqin paperweight, and the strings and music emblem are inlaid with copper. I'd like you to help me ask where this paperweight came from. ”

"What, it's in your hands now? The things that have been opened in the cultural relics store are completely legal, and even if there are any problems in the future, the price will be set and recovered, so there is no need to worry. ”

"I'm not worried, and gadgets don't usually go wrong. It's just that there's no money for the paperweight, I want to know the source, I want to see who has handled it, the things in the study, let's play and talk about it. ”

Yang Sihai smiled, "Okay, I wrote it down, it's a trivial matter." ”

After ending the call with Yang Sihai, Yu Yao went out to take a taxi and went to Tianhe Auction House.

This female colleague of Shen Ge is an appraiser in the miscellaneous department of the study, and she is best at stringing ivory beeswax beads or something, and she can only be said to be rough about ink.

This is a middle-aged woman of forty years old, slightly chubby, but very capable, slightly manly, wearing a string of old beeswax and old material Buddha head beads on her wrist, also large.

Xu is Shen Ge didn't go into detail, this female colleague didn't expect Yu Yao to be so young, she was a little stunned at the time, but she quickly recovered, "Hard work, Teacher Xiaoyu." My name is Li Tong. ”

"You're welcome. Teacher Li, when I throw bricks and lead the way, if it's right, just use it a little. Yu Yao saw that she was a little disappointed, so he responded.

"Sister Tong, don't look at him young, what I said to you is true, in the Jiangzhou antique shop, now the name is not small!"

"Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm just surprised, because I didn't expect it to be a young and handsome little brother, but I didn't question it!" Li Tong hurriedly explained.

The three of them came to the appraisal room, and Li Tong put a small cloth bag on the table, opened it, and took out a suitcase.

It's a big lacquered wooden box.

The handle is made into a wishful shape, the box body is black and shiny, and on both sides of the handle on the box surface, it is a gold cloud dragon, and the four sides are inlaid with ivory back lines. The lower part of the vertical box body, surrounded by a circle of sea water, is also painted with gold.

Yu Yao didn't get started, took a few careful looks, and then said lightly, "This is the Qianlong Imperial Court Ink Cartridge." ”

Li Tong opened his mouth and didn't say anything, but the look in his eyes at this time was the real surprise. Shen Ge already knew Yu Yao's eyesight, and smiled, "Then open it and take a look!"

This lacquered thing, generally there will not be too good wood in it, because too good wood does not need to be painted. However, the imperial ink box of the Qing Dynasty court is generally painted with gold, which is to pay attention to a match, because the surface of the ink ingot is also like black lacquer, and it is often painted with gold.

Yu Yao nodded, but stretched out his hand to signal Li Tong to open the box.

After the top lid of the box was removed, the lattices inside were revealed, all of which were general size upper and lower rectangles, two rows, a total of ten lattices, lined with bright yellow and yellow old silk. On the edges of the slightly wider lattice on both sides, a few small characters are also carved vertically.

Engraved on the right: Ten Views of West Lake.

Engraved on the left: South Study Courtesy.

Yu Yao had already understood this imperial ink box, and these two lines of lettering were just auxiliary evidence. He still didn't get started, but looked down at the ten ink ingots first.