Chapter 9: Archimedes

It was still the living room from the last time, and under the expectant eyes of Boss Mu's father and daughter, Professor Chang and others, Wei Xiu took out the Guanyin statue that he bought for three hundred yuan last time from his bag.

The eyes of Boss Mu and the others became strange, this thing seems to be the Guanyin statue that Wei Xiu bought from that young man when he changed hands on wood carving last time, right?

If Boss Mu remembers correctly, this Guanyin statue was personally identified by him, and it can be said that it is not even a fake. The fake is still a high imitation of the real thing, and this one is simply a modern handicraft, so Professor Chang was not alarmed.

Before Boss Mu could speak, Professor Chang took it in his hand and played with it, took out a high-powered magnifying glass to observe it carefully, frowned and thought for a while, and finally shook his head and put down the statue of Guanyin.

If it weren't for the fact that Wei Xiu "sent" a million-dollar antique last time, Professor Chang wouldn't even have picked up this porcelain at all.

With his eyesight that he has cultivated over the years, he may not be able to distinguish an antique at a glance, but he can definitely tell at a glance whether it is new or not.

The glazed surface of this porcelain is a new imitation of the color of the goods.

"Mr. Wei, are you joking? I couldn't see this porcelain last time, but this time I naturally ......" Boss Mu left half of his words, which was regarded as saving face for Wei Xiu.

Wei Xiu looked at Boss Mu in surprise, then looked at Professor Chang who was relaxing and leaning back on the sofa, and said, "I didn't say it's an antique?

As soon as these words came out, Boss Mu and Professor Chang immediately looked at Wei Xiu in amazement, and couldn't help but look at each other.

Do you know if it's not an antique that is coming to my antique shop for something?

Mu Qingqing smiled, took the Guanyin porcelain and played: "You said that there is a very interesting thing that needs my father's palm." So tell me what 'interesting' about this porcelain? Don't say it's not!"

Wei Xiu said: "That's what I'm talking about, didn't you find that the weight of this porcelain is a little weird?"

"Weight?!" Before Mu Qingqing could answer, Professor Chang slapped his thigh as if he suddenly realized: "Why is something wrong with me?

This time it was Mu Qingqing's turn to be surprised, and he looked at the Guanyin statue in his hand in surprise, and his little hand weighed it up and down a few times, feeling that this porcelain seemed to be a little heavy, but what does this mean?

Professor Chang was a little interested, he wanted to come to porcelain, took it in his hand and weighed it a few times, frowned and said nothing. Taking advantage of this effort, Boss Mu also took it and looked at it, and then returned it to Professor Chang.

After a while, Professor Chang seemed to remember something, turned the porcelain upside down and took out a high-powered magnifying glass to carefully observe the bottom. After a long time, Professor Chang let out a long breath, and looked at Wei Xiu with a somewhat strange expression: "I think I guessed a little, how about the young man tell me about your discovery?"

When everyone saw Professor Chang's expression, how could they not know that this seemingly ordinary porcelain had another mystery? Looking at Wei Xiu's eyes, they suddenly became even more curious.

Facing this Professor Chang, who was obviously not an ordinary person, Wei Xiu felt a little nervous in his heart, fortunately, he had already thought of an explanation before he came, otherwise he would really not be able to lie for a while at this time.

"I don't know much about porcelain, but I remember that most of the porcelain I've seen is hollow, and this one is surprisingly heavy, so I guessed it should be solid. Coincidentally, a friend of mine went out on a trip and bought a porcelain doll, the nesting doll porcelain is much larger than mine, but the strange thing is that the weight of the porcelain is much lighter than mine, although there is a gap between the layers of nesting dolls, but there is no reason for the weight difference is so big?"

"So because of this opportunity, I carefully studied this porcelain, I didn't expect that the quality of this porcelain was problematic, but I had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly remembered the famous story of Archimedes using the drainage method to determine whether the gold crown was mixed with silver, so I also painted a scoop according to the gourd, tested it, and then ......"

Wei Xiu deliberately pretended to be embarrassed, rubbed his hands, scratched the back of his head again, looked embarrassed and helpless, and said with a smirk: "Then I found that there should be something in the stomach of this porcelain, and that thing is estimated to be ...... Hehe. ”

"What is it?" Mu Qingqing asked curiously.

Wei Xiu rubbed his hands embarrassedly and said, "Maybe I'm delusional, I guess it should be...... Gold, of course, it could be metal brass of similar density quality, but the problem is that it takes so much effort to hide brass in porcelain......

Wei Xiu didn't say anything below, but in fact, he had faintly pointed out that hiding bronze in porcelain was a very thing.

Now everyone immediately understood the reason why Wei Xiu said that this porcelain was very interesting, if there was really gold in it, it was really not ordinarily interesting.

At this time, Boss Mu set his eyes on Professor Chang, and Professor Chang didn't take the shelf, and said directly: "It's too early to have gold, but if it's as the young man said, there is gold in it, in fact, the value of this porcelain is the price of gold, after all, it's just a modern handicraft, unless you can meet a special buyer." ”

"Special buyer?" Wei Xiu Daqi, he originally thought that it would be good to sell it according to the quality of the gold inside and according to the market price, but he didn't expect that there would be such a special buyer?

Professor Chang smiled and said: "The market is composed of supply and demand, and demand exceeds supply to pay a premium, and this is also the case with antiques." Although the gold in this thing is valuable, but once you meet a believer in Buddhism, or someone who needs a special item to cover the gold, isn't it a ready-made thing?"

Covering up gold, corrupt officials, and Wei Xiu's mind suddenly popped up with this word, and he laughed heartily.

Boss Mu smiled and said, "I don't know what Mr. Wei plans to do with this porcelain now, is he going to take out the gold and sell it, or is he looking for this special buyer?"

Chang Dong said: "It's hard to find another special buyer, I don't have the patience, so I plan to sell it directly, I don't know if your store will accept it?"

"Collect gold, why don't you accept it? Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, gold retains its value much more than antiques!" Boss Mu hesitated slightly, then pretended to smile happily.

Mu Qingqing blinked and looked at her father with big eyes, a little strange when did our family change careers and open a jewelry store and collect gold? Business is business, friendship is friendship, she can distinguish this, and her father must have a reason for doing this.

"That's good, that's good, then I'll sell it to you directly, okay?" Wei Xiu said.

"Of course, but ...... Let's make sure there's any gold in it first?" Boss Mu blinked and said slyly.

"Of course, of course, why don't we find a place to smash this?" Wei Xiu said stunned.

Boss Mu smiled bitterly when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "You can't smash it!"