Chapter 49: The Antique Is Stolen
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Zheng Zheng munched on bread and sat on the train from the Western Capital City to Huayin City.
He originally wanted to take a car to Huayin City, because compared to the green train, which has a poor environment and may have a fault on the way, the environment of the car is not only better, but also faster. However, looking at his bag of objects, Zheng Zheng still wisely dispelled this idea.
What are you kidding, if you take a car, your luggage and antiques will have to be put in the cargo compartment, although these antiques have been carefully wrapped by Zheng Zheng with a towel, but bumps and bumps are always inevitable on a high-speed car. There are a lot of porcelain bottles and jars in this bag of antiques, if you find that they are all broken after arriving at the station, then Zheng Zheng will not even be able to find fakes.
It was also Zheng Zheng's luck that he finally bought a ticket when he bought the ticket, so that he could put his luggage and the bag of antiques under the seat. If you don't even have a seat, thinking about the nearly fifteen-hour drive, Zheng Zheng has to take care of this bag of antiques at all times, it really makes Zheng Zheng even have the heart to jump into the river.
There weren't many people in the carriage, so it wasn't too crowded. Zheng Zheng saw that there was no one sitting in the seat next to him, so he put the bag of antiques on the seat next to him, so that he could take care of it at any time.
Sitting opposite Zheng Zheng was a young woman, who looked and figured average, but she was lively and generous, and she looked very energetic. After Zheng Zheng got in the car, this young woman who was bored in the car alone chatted with Zheng Zheng for a while, Zheng Zheng dealt with it casually, but he didn't feel bored about the journey.
"Wow, don't you see, you're in the antique business at such a young age?" The woman who claimed to be Zhou Hui asked in surprise with wide eyes.
"Yes," Zheng Zheng took a bite of bread, Zhou Hui asked him what he did just now, and he casually said that he was in the antique business, but he didn't expect Zhou Hui to have such a big reaction: "The antique business is also a business, and young people can still do it." ”
"That'...... Do you know how to authenticate antiques?"
Zheng Zheng nodded: "This is still a little bit, after all, I rely on this to eat." ”
"Wow...... It's amazing!"
Zhou Hui exclaimed, which immediately attracted the attention of many people in the carriage. She stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, then looked at Zheng Zheng expectantly, and said softly, "That...... Where did you get the antique?" she looked around like a thief, lowered her voice and asked, "Are you going to rob tombs or something?" ”
"Ahem...... Ahem. ”
Zheng Zheng, who was taking a sip of water to moisten his throat, was almost choked, and after he coughed a few times, he said to Zhou Hui, who was curious, with a smile: "Where is this...... Who said that making antiques must have something to do with tomb robbers? This is not a novel. ”
"Isn't it all like this, otherwise where would you go to get so many antiques?" Zhou Hui still didn't believe it, and looked at Zheng Zheng with a suspicious expression.
Zheng Zheng really doesn't want to get entangled with Zhou Hui, a girl who can get to the bottom of this matter, but if you don't explain it, it will be very bad to be regarded as a tomb robber. He patted the travel bag beside him and said to Zhou Hui, who looked curious: "Here are the antiques I collected this time, all of them were collected from antique collectors, there are no tomb robbers, ancient tombs or anything...... You're so young, you're just going to be foolish. ”
"Wow!"
Zheng Zheng originally just wanted to explain to her, but who would have thought that Zhou Hui screamed, leaned over, and unexpectedly opened the zipper of the travel bag with one hand, revealing the "antique" wrapped in a towel.
"It's really true!" Zhou Hui looked into the travel bag and exclaimed again.
Zheng Zheng couldn't cry or laugh now, he looked at this little girl who was obviously younger than himself and not particularly sensible, and he couldn't meet her in general. He shook his head, rewrapped the antique that had fallen off without the towel, and zipped up the travel bag. After doing this, he looked at Zhou Hui, who was excited and curious, and said helplessly: "You little girl, why are you like a little monkey?
Zhou Hui also knew that what she had done just now was a bit rude, she smiled at Zheng Zheng and stuck out her tongue, but she still didn't admit defeat: "I reserve my thoughts." ”
"You kid ......" Zheng Zheng shook his head helplessly, and continued to nibble on his bread, which was busy all morning, and he was really hungry.
When the two were talking, Zhou Hui's exclamations also attracted a lot of attention, but most people stopped paying attention to them after a few glances, and no longer continued to pay attention. But in addition to most of these people, there are also a small number of people who have paid attention to Zheng Zheng.
In front of Zheng Zheng's seat, the four young people sat together silently, and they didn't talk much to each other since they got into the car, and it seemed that they didn't know each other.
When Zhou Hui opened Zheng Zheng's travel bag, one of the four raised an eyebrow, and his eyes immediately fixed on the corners of the antiques exposed in the travel bag. When he saw Zheng Zheng re-wrapping the antique with the towel falling off, the young man withdrew his gaze, and almost imperceptibly handed over a look to the three people next to him, and his fingers gently tapped twice on the table as if unintentionally.
The other three exchanged a look and nodded slightly.
The young man raised his hand and looked at his watch, secretly calculated the time in his heart, and then glanced at Zheng Zheng, who was talking to Zhou Hui, and then withdrew his gaze.
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"Yes, of course, there have been a lot of fakes, which is very common in antique dealers. ”
Since Zhou Hui knew the identity of Zheng Zheng's antique dealer, she pestered Zheng Zheng to ask questions. Zheng Zheng was also bored, so he explained her problem to her. Zhou Hui asked about fakes just now, Zheng Zheng said casually, then looked at the bag of antiques in his hand, and thought to himself with some self-deprecation: "Yes, I have identified many fakes, such as this one, all of them are fakes......"
"Then how did you identify it?Do you still have to check the classics or something, and find out the place?" Zhou Hui looked curious about the baby, and chased after him.
Zheng Zheng touched his nose and said, "Check the classics...... Sometimes you have to, but it's rare. Appraisal is basically based on experience and certain characteristics of the object......"
Seeing that Zhou Hui wanted to speak again, Zheng Zheng knew that he was afraid of arousing the curiosity of this curious baby again, he couldn't help but have a big head for a while, and hurriedly said: "This appraisal is all based on vision and experience, and the tricks are not without it, but you can't understand it for a while, and you can't understand it." ”
"That's it......" Zhou Hui nodded slightly disappointed, just when Zheng Zheng thought that she had finally escaped, she took off the necklace she was wearing and handed it to Zheng Zheng: "This is my necklace, and the jade pendant on it is said to be an antique, can you help me take a look?"
"Good...... Good. Zheng Zheng smiled bitterly and took the necklace with body temperature, and scolded himself in his heart: "It's okay, what a mouth...... It looks like it's going to be a stop along the way. ”
Strong spirit, Zheng Zheng looked at the jade pendant on the necklace in his hand, the jade pendant is not very good, and it is not a first-class material, but the carving is simple, the jade light is restrained, and it looks like a thing that has been around for some years.
When identifying jade, especially when identifying jade pendants and jade rings that can be worn closely, a very reliable way is to look at the light of the jade. If you are a collector who can play with jade, after getting a piece of jade, you will wear it close to the flesh, and use body temperature and sweat to constantly warm the jade to make the jade more moisturized, which is called Panyu.
After careful maintenance, the jade will have a restrained brilliance that has penetrated into the depths of the jade, which looks very moist and lovely. And even if you don't deliberately go to the jade, as long as the jade is worn close to the body for a long time, the luster of the jade will also change, but it is not as perfect as the luster of the deliberate plate.
And some traitors who want to be shoddy will use some jade that is not very old, or simply freshly processed jade to make jade. However, compared to the method of wearing it closely, which can be called a composition plate, the method adopted by these profiteers can only be called a martial arts plate.
They would polish the jade with the husk or simply fine sand, then apply a layer of oil to the jade, and then continue to polish it, and so on.
This method is faster than the Wenpan, and the jade that is ground out by this method also has a layer of luster, but this luster is more "dry" than the jade from the Wenpan, to put it bluntly, it is just a layer of oil floating on the jade, and it is not really impregnated into the jade.
So although this Guanghua looks like that, in the eyes of those who know it, this kind of jade after the martial arts has been damaged and does not value it much.
This kind of martial arts method is quite exquisite, although the jade light is not very good-looking, but this is also jade, and it is better than the jade that has not been plated. As for the rest, even the jade is saved, and it is directly dyed with glass and then polished and sold as jade. Most of the jade objects on the market that cost twenty or thirty yuan are this kind.
Zhou Hui's piece of jade has not been disced by martial arts, but it can be seen that this piece of jade was deliberately disced before it fell into Zhou Hui's hands, so the color is also quite good.
Zheng Zheng explained to Zhou Hui the difference between the Wenpan and the Wupan, and told her some common sense of Panyu, and then returned the jade pendant to Zhou Hui, and said with a smile: "This should be something from the Qing Dynasty, wear it carefully, don't bump it." ”
"It's valuable?" Zhou Hui took back the necklace, put it on carefully, and then asked with wide eyes.
Zheng Zheng nodded: "The highest price can be almost 30,000 yuan, which is a good thing." ”
While the two were talking, the train gradually slowed down, Zhou Hui looked out the window and said, "It turned out that the train had entered the station, I thought something was wrong." ”
The train stopped slowly, and the carriage was suddenly in chaos, the people who got on the train and the people who got off the train were crowded, and even Zheng Zheng and Zhou Hui were affected, and they were squeezed by the people in the aisle towards the window.
The four people not far from Zheng Zheng glanced at each other, took advantage of this moment to stand up in a disorderly manner, and walked past Zheng Zheng's seat in the crowd.
This period of chaos finally passed, Zheng Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and moved back from the window.
"Uh......"
Zheng Zheng was about to take a breath of relief, and his left hand subconsciously slapped to the side, but he couldn't slow down this breath: he should have slapped the hand of the bulging bag, but he slapped it empty.