Boss Xie's collection is mainly porcelain, lacquerware, copper kettles, seals and knives, and there is also a rhinoceros horn cup, which he placed in a conspicuous position in the collection room.

Ye Xiaochi now habitually and quickly glances at antiques every time he sees them, and he can see a lot of problems with the naked eye alone. In many cases, there is no need for her special sense of antiques. It's the same this time, after Boss Xie put those things in the same place, they were set up over there, and she had already seen them hastily, and more than 30 things had been eliminated in a blink of an eye.

Boss Xie pointed to those items and said to Zuo Yucheng: "A few people help me see, how are these things, some of them are bought by myself, and some are exchanged from others, just by feeling." In fact, I know it in my own heart, and I can't see some things accurately, so I just follow my instinct and buy them. ”

"When I first started playing collecting, I was like this, and I lost money and red eyes. Zuo Yucheng, like Ye Xiaochi, can see a lot of problems at a glance, so he said this sentence first, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing, so as not to be too disappointed by Boss Xie and affect his mood later.

Boss Xie is not slow in his brain, seeing that Zuo Yucheng has already looked around, although he didn't get started, he was afraid that he already had some ideas in his heart, and if he said this sentence again, he guessed that maybe he bought a lot of these things to teach a lesson.

Zuo Yucheng first picked up the rhinoceros horn cup that was placed at a position about the height of the human eye, and after looking at it for a while, Boss Xie asked: "How about this cup?" I heard that this thing is not only an antique, but also a medicinal herb. ”

Zuo Yucheng felt that Boss Xie was a person who could bear the matter, so he said to him: "In fact, the rhino horn carving products are generally from the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, and the carving is shallow, but it can show seven or eight levels, which is more difficult and more valuable than the deep relief and carving of the rhinoceros horn cup in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty." ”

He didn't immediately talk about the authenticity of Boss Xie's cup, so Boss Xie was sure what he meant, but he glanced at the corner cup in his collection, and the obvious carving style, there was no carved part, and the carving was quite deep, so just from the style point of view, was it from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty?

He knew that Zuo Yucheng still hadn't finished speaking, so he didn't interject, waiting for Zuo Yucheng to continue: "Now some counterfeiters will imitate new cups according to the carving style of the Qing Dynasty in order to make fakes look like old cups, chemically dyed and smeared with soil to make them old, and disguised as unearthed artifacts. In fact, rhino horn is mainly carbonated and can easily corrode when buried in the ground. Therefore, the so-called unearthed rhino horn items are basically fakes. ”

Boss Xie finally asked, "What about me?"

Zuo Yucheng knew that the words were not good, but he could only tell him the truth: "If it were someone else, I would definitely say that I don't like this thing well." But this time it's for Brother Xie to show you, then I'll be honest, I'm not very optimistic about this thing, it looks like a modern imitation. In fact, if this Boss Xie really wants to know the answer, he can do a carbon-14 measurement. Because the rhinoceros horn is an organism, and what you get from the rhinoceros can be measured with carbon-14. As for your porcelain, it's hard to measure. ”

Boss Xie didn't quite understand: "What is an organism?" He belonged to the people who were bold and daring in the early years, and his education was not high, so he didn't understand what an organism was.

"To put it simply, an organism is a living thing, such as plants and animals, that can grow. You don't count like dishes, tables and chairs. ”

This explanation is very simple, how can Boss Xie still not understand, but he is still very disappointed, but he is a person who has seen a lot of money, although he is uncomfortable, he will not lose his demeanor because of a so-called rhinoceros horn cup.

Zuo Yucheng knew that his current mood was definitely not beautiful, so he said: "In fact, there are many people like Boss Xie who play collecting, and the goose quality rate is relatively high, Boss Xie, there are actually a few of these things you receive are still good." “

Saying that, Zuo Yucheng picked out a few prizes to make three pieces of lacquerware, there is a black lacquer flower and bird square box inside the lacquerware, which is particularly exquisite, and the rich flower and bird patterns on it reminded Ye Xiaochi of the flower and bird mirror that her grandfather left for her, and I don't know what the old man was in when he gave the flower and bird mirror to Luo Xiangnan.

"Brother Xie, these lacquerware you received are all high-quality products, not bad. It is difficult for modern people to make such exquisite craftsmanship. “

"Speaking of which, it's also a coincidence that these things are all received from a family. "Finally, there are a few things that are good, Boss Xie's depressed mood just now has eased, and he briefly introduced to Zuo Yucheng the process of buying these lacquerware.

When he said these things, he had some doubts about Zuo Yucheng's identification of the rhinoceros horn cup just now, he subconsciously didn't want the cup to be fake, and the cup was bought from Dong Qingwu, is there really a problem? This young man won't look away, right?

Although he had doubts in his heart, he didn't reveal it after all, thinking that when he had time later, he would take the cup to find an institution or something else reliable to do what Zuo Yucheng said just now about the carbon-14 identification, if it is really like what Zuo Yucheng said, then he will have to hold Zuo Yucheng's thigh tightly in the future.

At the same time, he also wanted to know what Dong Qingwu sold to him, and the identification of Luochuan Tianmu Bowl made him have some doubts in his heart.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered that he might be able to inquire with Zuo Yucheng about the appraisal meeting. Isn't Professor Xu familiar with him?

Thinking of this, he asked: "Xiao Zuo, I just remembered, is the Tianmu bowl from Luo Chuan last time the result now?"

Zuo Yucheng shook his head: "This matter is not optimistic. He didn't say it, and he didn't need to say it, when it came to this step, Boss Xie already understood that Professor Xu was not optimistic about the bowl at the appraisal meeting, but he was afraid that he would still be not optimistic about it later, if so, Dong Qingwu's strength or character would not be so good, and it would be a bit broken.

Ye Xiaochi just looked at it and didn't say much, because Boss Xie didn't know her before, and under normal circumstances, it was impossible to believe that she had such strength.

After the final results came out, Boss Xie's mentality was still passable, more than fifty things, Zuo Yucheng picked out twelve genuine products, and the others were imitations, and they were somewhat valuable, so Boss Xie only made money from an investment point of view. This is probably also because he played collecting relatively early, and the fraud in the early years was not so crazy. With the rise of the antique craze, this kind of counterfeiting has become more and more popular.

Dinner was invited by Boss Xie, he insisted on inviting, Zuo Yucheng they did not refuse, that night the construction site also came to the letter, saying that part of the baffle was transported, and it could be transported the next morning, as long as the baffle arrived, the construction site was very fast, and the foreman promised him that it would be all around the next afternoon.

The foreman didn't know that Boss Xie was going to dig a pit in the construction site, and thought that the boss was afraid that the building materials in the construction site would be lost, so he was very active in this matter, and he was bent on surrounding the construction site as soon as possible.