On the sofa on one side of the storefront, Zheng Zheng and Benjamin Lance sat across the coffee table facing each other. There was a snuff box on the coffee table, which Lance had brought with him, and it was also the business he was going to do with Zheng Zheng.

His business is very simple, that is, to ask Zheng Zheng to help him identify this snuff bottle. This snuff bottle is different from those snuff bottles in China, obviously not from the country, it belongs to the original foreign goods.

I have to say that this business is in Zheng Zheng's mind. With the current situation of this store, Zheng Zheng can't do the business of selling antiques. Although the antiques brought from Anna are kept in the store, the prices of the antiques used to support the scene are still on the high side, and it is not that anyone who comes over can decide to buy them immediately.

And helping others identify antiques, for Zheng Zheng, this is basically a business without capital, and it is not too easy to do.

To Zheng Zheng's surprise, the first business he was about to take over in this store turned out to be a snuff bottle that was not considered mainstream in the domestic market. In the domestic market, although snuff bottles can be seen even on the stalls of Yeluzi, this is not the mainstream in the market, and the mainstream is always bronze, jade, porcelain, calligraphy and painting. But if you think about it, you can figure it out, after all, snuff bottles are essentially imported from abroad, and it is relatively normal for them to be popular in China and abroad.

"I know your reputation, Mr. Zheng Zheng. So before I get started, I want to clarify some of the more important issues with you. ”

Facing Zheng Zheng's indifferent eyes, Lance rubbed his hands a little uneasily, and said, "I want to know, what is your charging standard." ”

Zheng Zheng nodded and said, "If you need something to be authenticated by me and confirmed to be genuine after my appraisal, then I will charge five to ten percent of the market price of this thing as a reward; If the difficulty of the identification is relatively low, I can do it for free. If it is difficult and requires a certain amount of time and effort, I will charge between 1,000 and 10,000 euros. If you want to restore a work of art, it depends on the specific situation. ”

Zheng Zheng has looked up a report on European per capita income on the Internet before, and it is difficult to say whether there is water or not, but it can still be used as a reference. According to the report, the per capita monthly income in Europe is about 2,000 euros, with a fluctuation of about 1,000 euros between the highest and the lowest.

Taking this as a reference, Zheng Zheng's charging standard is still quite down-to-earth. No matter where you are collecting antiques and the like, this is a money-burning job, and if you don't have any money to spare, you can't play this at all, at least the income level must be a lot higher than the per capita income to barely play this. Therefore, for the people who come to the door and ask Zheng Zheng to authenticate antiques, if Zheng Zheng identifies a fake for them, the price between 1,000 euros and 10,000 euros is completely acceptable.

Zheng Zheng didn't expect to make money by this, and it was really far away to earn 30 million from this. Helping others identify fakes is at most a piggybacking thing, and the big boss is still buying and selling antiques and restoring antiques for others. However, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are also meat, and they can earn a little, and Zheng Zheng is not too little.

Lance obviously didn't expect the price offered by Zheng Zheng to be like this, he was stunned, and then said busily: "No problem, I can accept it." ”

"Okay. Zheng Zheng picked up the snuffbox and said to Lance, who was a little dazed: "Mr. Lance, please wait for a few minutes." Rest assured, the appraisal of your collection will not take long. ”

As he spoke, Zheng Zheng took the snuffbox, walked into the counter, took out a set of identification instruments that seemed to be full of professional energy, and then touched the bronze balance on the counter as if inadvertently.

Zheng Zheng naturally understands domestic snuff bottles well enough that he can't use bronze scales at all. But this snuff bottle is a native of foreign goods, although Zheng Zheng can identify the material of this snuff bottle and other things, but there is no way to accurately judge the age of this snuff bottle. Since this is the case, then Zheng Zheng can only turn to the bronze balance.

Although using the power of the bronze balance would consume life force, as long as conditions permitted, Zheng Zheng's medicinal bath was not delayed. If you consume a little here and make up for it there, you will immediately make up for it, and there is no loss for Zheng Zheng.

In fact, most people would turn off a business like this. Identifying antiques is originally a job with no capital, and it is this eyesight money that is earned, if it is very worrying and laborious to earn this eyesight money, then this money is better than not earning. As far as Zheng Zheng is concerned, if this business is done, Zheng Zheng will be able to barely make a little money back from the medicinal materials of the medicinal bath, which can be regarded as a loss-making business.

However, anyone who opens the door to do business, whether out of taboo or out of good luck, basically will not push off the first business after opening the door. After all, the door-to-door business was returned as soon as the door was opened, which was not a good start. Although Zheng Zheng doesn't attach much importance to things like this taboo, he doesn't have to go against this kind of thing that everyone recognizes is similar to the rules. It's true that there is no profit in this matter, but Zheng Zheng is not too much of a loss, and if he takes it, he will take it, even if it is a good fortune.

What's more, Zheng Zheng is also idle, and it's better to do something than to be idle, right......

This snuffbox is not a problem at all in front of the bronze scale, Zheng Zheng swept it over the bronze balance at a glance, and his heart was clear. However, in order to reflect his "professionalism", Zheng Zheng still took a magnifying glass at the snuffbox and took a look at it.

After calculating his thoughts for about three minutes, Zheng Zheng put down the magnifying glass, took the bronze scale, and came to the sofa again.

When Zheng Zheng was "identifying" the snuffbox, Lance had been a little uneasy, and looked at Zheng Zheng from time to time. This is an inevitable thing, after all, everyone wants to get a good result when they come to the appraisal with antiques, but he doesn't know whether the result is good or bad until the result comes out, and it is normal for him to be nervous.

"Congratulations, Mr. Lance. Zheng Zheng smiled and handed over the snuffbox in his hand and said, "After my appraisal, I think this collection of yours is genuine." This should have been made at the time when snuff bottles were just in fashion, and judging by their main materials and these gold and silver accessories, it should have been owned by a person of relatively high status at that time. Given the age of this snuff box, I think the market price of this snuff box is around a thousand euros is acceptable. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Zheng Zheng......" Lance stretched out his hand and shook Zheng Zheng's hand, with a "finally relieved" expression: "You know, Mr. Zheng, I have just set foot in collecting, and I really don't want the first collection I bought to be an imitation...... All in all thank you very much. ”

"You're welcome, that's what I'm supposed to do. Zheng Zheng smiled.

"So......" Lance asked, touching his wallet, "how much am I going to pay you?"

Zheng Zheng's eyes swept Lance's wallet, his heart moved slightly, and then smiled: "Fifty euros is fine." ”

Lance took out fifty euros and handed it to Zheng Zheng, and thanked him while handing over the money: "Thank you, Mr. Zheng, thank you very much......"

Zheng Zheng took the money with a smile and said with a smile: "You're welcome, this is what I should do." ”

After paying the money, Lance didn't stay long, and thanked Zheng Zheng for the call and left. Zheng Zheng smiled and watched him leave, and after he went out and turned the corner and walked in the other direction, the smile on Zheng Zheng's face disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Damn, there's something going on here......

When Zheng Zheng was busy, Bai Xiaoxue had been playing on the computer on the side. Lance left, she was about to talk to Zheng Zheng, but when she looked up, she happened to see Zheng Zheng's rather strange expression.

Bai Xiaoxue didn't know why, and asked, "What's wrong?" I see that your expression is so weird......

Zheng Zheng smiled: "It's okay, I just don't want to see this kid, it's tiring to pretend to laugh just now...... Come on, this first business is done, let's go to a foreign restaurant to celebrate?"

Having said that, Zheng Zheng just didn't want Bai Xiaoxue to worry. The young man who called himself Benjamin Lance was very strange all over his body, and it really made people wonder what the purpose of this young man was here.

I have to say that this young man worked hard to play the image of a rookie who didn't have much money in his hand, had just been involved in the collecting circle, and had little confidence in the first collection he bought. But it was precisely because he worked too hard that he used too much force, and he played it badly.

If he really didn't have much money in his hands, how could he get into the collecting world? If he was just involved in the collecting world, then where did he hear about himself? The European collecting world is a completely small circle, and it doesn't matter if you don't have connections, you can't get into it at all. And if you have this network and relationship into this circle, it is impossible for you to not have much money in your hands, at least you will not worry about the appraisal fee of the appraisal collection. In other words, judging by the economic situation shown by this young man, he is not qualified to enter this circle.

So, if he can't even enter this circle, where did he hear about himself?

The most important thing is that this young man is not as short of money as he appears, at least in Zheng Zheng's opinion.

When Lance took out his wallet and gave Zheng Zheng money, Zheng Zheng noticed that Lance had a lot of cash in his wallet, and the denomination was quite large.

Unlike in foreign countries, basically all legitimate purchases can be solved with a card, and there are not many cases where cash is needed. Normally, no one would carry a lot of cash in denominations of more than 100 euros, unless he had to do something that could not be solved with a credit card in his own name.