Chapter 37: A Letter from Home (Ask for Collection)
Yu Yao didn't want to throw any face at an old man, "Okay, I'll take a look." โ
Lao Zhou opened the brocade box and took out the "jade seal".
It's really a coiled dragon button, and it's also very big, with four inches of square edges, and the jade is also very white.
This cold look is really a little interesting.
However, it is from Jingbai jade.
The biggest advantage of this material is that it is white, pure white and uniform, and it is also very delicate. But its composition is quartzite, and in the end, the jade properties are too poor. Bright, brittle, glossy more like glass.
Moreover, the production of Jingbai jade is very large, and the price has always been quite cheap. In the market, some people use Jingbai jade to pretend to be Hetian Yumeng, although they can only be novices.
Lao Zhou is very proficient in jade materials, and his heart is cold when he grabs the coiled dragon button. It's time to listen to Yu Yao.
But since I picked it up, I looked at the inscription by the way.
Although the inscription is a small seal engraved backwards, Lao Zhou can still recognize it after looking at it for a while.
The treasure of Huizong of the Great Song Dynasty.
Lao Zhou bared his teeth and felt that his teeth were suffocating. Yu Yao glanced at him at this time, and he said angrily, "Amazing, the treasure of the Great Song Huizong!"
Don't say whether Zhao Ji of Song Huizong has this jade seal, just say "Huizong", it is a temple number, it was sealed after the emperor died, how can he know that he is "Huizong" when he is alive?
Hu Liang didn't seem to understand, and after Lao Zhou finished speaking, he smiled along.
Lao Zhou Xin said, no wonder you lost money when you opened a store, how can there be so many big fools?
Hu Liang's father can see that this thing can't be clouded. He began to say "like someone in the antique circle", but that was the opening remark. What good things do he have? It's all in line with the mentality that one thing is counted as one thing, and the loss can be reduced a little.
Lao Zhou put things back, then got up, and prepared to leave. Hu Liang's father looked at it and thought to himself, he could only send off the guests, these two people, like connoisseurs, are out of play.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Yu Yao picked out a few from the stack of old books piled up, "Hu Liang is busy, take a few old books and go." โ
After that, he put these old books on the small long table, "Old man, take a look." โ
Lao Zhou was overjoyed, and said in his heart, Could it be that Yu Yao had really found something good? Without waiting for Hu Liang's father to get started, he picked it up and looked at it.
But after reading it, there was a look of disappointment on his face, these books are all engraved novels of the Qing Dynasty, and they are all rough versions of the Minfang, and they are incomplete.
But when I flipped it, there were a few pieces of letterhead mixed in it, but it looked very ordinary, and it was a long time since I saw it in the book, and one of them was still very tight, and Lao Zhou didn't care.
Hu Liang smiled and said, "Cultural people, I like this thing." โ
Yu Yao said, "Since they are all here, Brother Hu Liang is busy with the front and back, so he has to take care of the business." How about giving a friend a price?"
Hu Liang's father pulled it casually and saw a total of four copies, "I remember, this is a clear edition book, originally one was missing 800 and couldn't be sold, so, four copies for a total of 3,000!"
When Yu Yao saw that he hadn't even opened it, he was overjoyed and pretended to be surprised, "No, isn't it? โ
Lao Zhou couldn't guess why Yu Yao wanted to buy these broken books, but he still cooperated and said with a displeased face, "It's all the way here, not to mention the travel expenses, this is not a good thing!"
Yu Yao looked at Hu Liang, "Look, I want to take care of your father's business, but the price is too high!"
Hu Liang knows that his father's goods are not good at all, "Dad, they are all friends, the green mountains do not change the green water, you see ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"What a mess!" Father Hu Liang glared at him, "You haven't done the antique business, what do you know?"
"Gotta have it, you two talk slowly, let's go, I'm sorry, I can't take care of the business if I want to." Yu Yao bowed his hand.
Lao Zhou shook his head, "You guys are busy, goodbye." โ
Father Hu Liang pulled his face and looked at Yu Yao and Lao Zhou, "You think it's high, let's talk back!"
Yu Yao said, "I just said, it's about eight hundred. โ
"You're too low!" replied Daddy Hu Liang.
At this time, Hu Liang's eyes rolled, "In this way, add two hundred, make up the whole one, one thousand, okay?"
Father Hu Liang shouted, "Stinky boy, when did you learn to turn your elbows out?"
Yu Yao said while pulling his feet, "A thousand is acceptable, if the old man wants to say no, I will leave directly." โ
Lao Zhou's cooperation played well and walked out of the door directly.
"Take it, take it!" Hu Liang put a stack of several books in Yu Yao's hand. Father Hu Liang didn't speak at this time, but just snorted.
Yu Yao didn't answer, looked at Hu Liang's father and said, "Old man, this is your deal, give me a happy word." If you don't say it, I can't pick it up, so I'll leave. โ
"That's it, it's a friend of Ryoko!" Father Hu Liang raised his hand. Yu Yao and Lao Zhou looked like they were really leaving.
As a matter of fact, all the old books were collected by the pound, and this kind of goods kept at home can be sold for 1,000 copies in four books, which is not bad! This kind of rough and incomplete Qing version of the folk square carved book is still a small talking book, and it is not a historical classic, or it is placed in an antique shop, and the price of one copy is two or three hundred.
Yu Yao nodded, pointed out a thousand yuan, and handed it to Hu Liang, "Deal." โ
Hu Liang took the money, sent Yu Yao and Lao Zhou out of the door, and sent them to the taxi.
After a taxi drove out, Lao Zhou turned his head and asked Yu Yao, who was sitting on the side, "I said, what is the mystery of these tattered books?"
Yu Yao carefully took out the letterheads in the book one by one, and it took a lot of effort to remove the ones that were posted tightly.
There are seven in total.
"You see, this is a letter from home, good luck, complete. โ
Lao Zhou suddenly realized, "It turns out that the good thing is this!"
"You don't need to look at the content, just look at this letterhead, it is the fine letterhead of Songzhu Zhai in the Qing Dynasty! โ
Letterhead, of course, is the paper used for letters. Don't think it's small, there's a lot of attention to it. Making letterheads, as far as the Qing Dynasty is concerned, the Qing Secret Pavilion and Songzhuzhai of Liulichang are the most famous, not to mention dignitaries, literati and celebrities, that is, some imperial letterheads, which are also customized here.
Rong Bao Zhai is still there, there is a store in the glaze factory, more than 300 years of history, the Kangxi period built the south paper shop Songzhu Zhai is its predecessor.
"What a word, why didn't I pay attention at the time!" Lao Zhou exclaimed as he flipped through it.
"You were depressed at the time, the wind and waves were not calm and unstable, how could you appreciate this good hand!" Yu Yao smiled, "Let's take a look at the payment!"