Chapter 4 Picking up the Leak
The bowl feels cool as soon as you start, and the texture is even, and it feels excellent in the hand. Lin Yue turned over the bottom of the bowl, his brows furrowed slightly, he didn't even make a payment, and the price that was not usually paid was not very high, but then Lin Yue was happy in his heart, maybe he could really let himself pick up a leak.
Lin Yue carefully inspected the glaze on it, the glaze was smooth and pure, the glaze was light and blue, even and elegant, like a blue sky. Lin Yue didn't have much research on antiques, but he had heard of this glaze from a master before, which was a high-temperature color glaze created during the Kangxi period, called "sky blue glaze".
Although he believed that it was true, Lin Yue's brows were furrowed even tighter, on the one hand, he was worried about the money in his pocket, although he wanted this bowl, but the price of this bowl must not be cheap, and secondly, it was also for middle-aged men to see, so that it would be convenient to bargain for a while.
"Little brother, how do you feel?" The middle-aged man saw Lin Yue frowning, and his heart suddenly tightened, but he still asked with a smile on the surface.
"The quality is good, but there is no payment! No one knows what age it is. Lin Yue frowned and turned the bottom of the bowl towards the middle-aged man.
"Little brother, this is the sky blue glaze of the Kangxi year, and you can tell at a glance that it is from the Kangxi period. "It seems that middle-aged men know a lot, but the people who sell things on this street are human spirits, and it's not easy to fool them.
Lin Yue shook his head, and said the knowledge he had heard before: "It is the sky blue glaze is not necessarily in the Kangxi period, as well as Yongzheng and Qianlong, the Kangxi sky blue glaze is light in color, the Yongzheng period is slightly darker, and the glaze in Qianlong is slightly pale yellow-green, you see the glaze on this bowl, the color is very dark, and it is slightly veneeral, there is no smart color, I think it is possible in the late Qing Dynasty, the most is in the Republic of China period, I heard that Jingdezhen can also make such a bowl now, and the craftsmanship is quite high, this bowl is so new and eighty percent is imitation. ”
Lin Yueyue said that the middle-aged man's face became more and more ugly, and his smile gradually froze. But Lin Yue didn't finish speaking, he pointed to a place at the mouth of the bowl and said, "There is a small crack in this place, which has penetrated into it, which is very similar to the fire that was not well mastered and burned out when it was fired." ”
The middle-aged man took a closer look at the place where Lin Yue pointed, no, there was really a crack, he didn't see it when he bought it, and when he heard Lin Yue say this, the smile on the middle-aged man's face had receded, and he didn't have the original indifference.
In fact, Lin Yue didn't know anything about antiques at all, his set of rhetoric was completely what he said when he heard a master evaluate a fake that day, he just applied it, and then added his imagination to recite a paragraph, but he didn't expect to really scare the middle-aged man, that small crack was what he really saw, for some reason, he saw things very clearly now, and no matter how subtle things were, they couldn't escape his eyes.
Seeing the middle-aged man's expression, Lin Yue knew that he had successfully bluffed the other party, and then continued to add a fire, and said: "So, nine times out of ten, this bowl is a fake, one is that I may be clumsy, you better keep it for yourself." "I'm leaving.
"Brother really has good eyesight, I didn't think something was right when I bought this bowl, but I didn't expect to be deceived by the farmer who seemed to be honest, brother, if you want it, I won't fight for your penny, how about six hundred yuan?" Seeing that Lin Yue was leaving, the middle-aged man hurriedly said.
Lin Yue was happy in his heart, although he was not sure whether the bowl was genuine, but judging by the master's statement, nine times out of ten it was genuine, and he really let himself pick up a leak.
"Six hundred?" Lin Yue frowned slightly, and said: "Six hundred is too much, this bowl is worth two hundred yuan at most, my family just lacks a fragrant bowl, this bowl is in good condition, if two hundred yuan is okay, I will take it." ”
As soon as he said this, Lin Yue sighed in his heart, two hundred yuan to buy an incense bowl, I burned me!
"Two hundred dollars is too little. The middle-aged man said with a bitter face: "I spent five hundred yuan when I bought this bowl, brother, why can't you let me lose money, you take five hundred yuan." ”
Lin Yue shook his head and said: "Five hundred is too much, there are so many people who know the goods on this street, and no one may want this bowl for two hundred yuan." As he spoke, Lin Yue was about to leave, when suddenly his eyes glanced at the stone of the stall cloth pressed by one foot, his heart moved slightly, and his eyes showed a trace of disbelief.
Seeing that Lin Yue was really going to leave this time, the middle-aged man hurriedly said: "Brother, brother, don't go, three hundred, three hundred yuan, this is the highest and lowest price I have paid, if it doesn't work, please do it." ”
Three hundred yuan? Lin Yue thought about it slightly, then nodded and said, "Three hundred is three hundred, but boss, my family lacks a piece of table legs, so you can give me that necrotic head, it's just right." ”
Following the direction of Lin Yue's finger, the middle-aged man saw the stone he was looking for by pressing the stall, this stone weighing a few pounds was used to pad his left leg?
I don't know what Lin Yue thinks, the middle-aged man is also happy to be a favor, he gave the stone to Lin Yue, and asked him to come to him often to see the goods, he has good goods here.
Lin Yue nodded in agreement, and then left happily with the bowl and stones.
After Lin Yue left, the middle-aged man hummed a small tune and took a stone from the side and pressed it on the corner of the original stone, and said proudly and confidently: "A bowl received for fifty yuan will earn two hundred and five when it changes hands, if this kid doesn't know a little more, maybe he will slaughter him, and the one who slaughters this year is a novice." ”
As he spoke, he snorted proudly again.
Lin Yue walked not far, but found that there was a white-haired old man who kept looking at him, to be precise, at the bowl in his hand. Lin Yue saw that the old man's clothes were in front of him, and the old man was either rich or expensive, he had not seen the other party on this jade street, indicating that the other party was from other places.
"Young man, can you show me the bowl in your hand?" the old man said with a kind smile at Lin Yue.
Lin Yue saw that the old man didn't want to run away with the bowl, so he happily agreed, thinking that maybe the old man was still a master.
The old man took the bowl and looked at it carefully, and finally looked at the payment at the bottom of the bowl, and then handed the thing to Lin Yue, and said with a smile: "The young man has good eyesight, this magpie welcome peach blossom bowl is a treasure that opens the door, and it is worth collecting in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty!"
Hearing the old man say this, Lin Yue was overjoyed, he didn't expect to really let himself pick up a leak, he thought that even if he bought a high-quality imitation, he would spend his own money to gain knowledge, he was ready for this, but he didn't expect it to be a treasure, he really didn't expect to really let himself pick up a leak! Immediately he became a little curious about the identity of the old man.
"Dare to ask the old gentleman, who are you?" Lin Yue asked respectfully.
"Old He Changhe, this is my business card, if there is anything you can contact me. The old man smiled and took out a business card from his arms and handed it to Lin Yue.
Lin Yue felt a little familiar with the name He Changhe, but he didn't think about it for a while, and when he took the old man's business card, he saw that there was nothing on it except for a name and a number, what a weird old man!
He Changhe noticed the big stone in Lin Yue's hand when Lin Yue received the business card, and after seeing the shape of the stone, He Changhe was slightly stunned, and then asked with a smile: "Can I take a look at your piece of wool?"
"Wool?" Lin Yue was stunned for a moment, and then understood, he saw that the surface of the stone on the stall was a little green, and with his many years of experience in calcing stones, he recognized it at a glance as a piece of jade wool, so he asked for it by the way, he was only holding a fluke mentality, in case he solved the green, wouldn't he send it? This is a typical psychology of thinking about picking up leaks all day long.
Lin Yue took the bowl and gave the wool to He Changhe.
He Changhe took out a bright flashlight from his pocket and shone it on the green outside the wool. Lin Yue recognized that this was a necessary thing for people who gamble on stones, and was slightly stunned, could it be that the old man also gambled on stones?
Immediately, he was relieved, there were really few people who didn't gamble on stones on Jade and Jade Street.
Soon, He Changhe sighed, because although that touch of green was very natural, it was artificially smeared, and there was no green underneath at all.