Following.

It was drizzling outside.

The autumn rain seems to be a picture of the rain rhyme that renders the quiet autumn, baptizing the noise on the earth and completely becoming quiet.

Wang Chen got up early in the morning and went through the discharge procedures.

Despite the doctor's dissuasion, he insisted on being discharged.

In the end, the doctor was really helpless and prescribed him more than 1,000 yuan of medicine to replenish qi and blood.

Around nine o'clock, Shen Xia came to pick it up.

Wang Chen first took her car back to Haitong Hospital to see her father.

After the operation, Wang Baoguo was in good spirits and pulled his son to talk.

stayed until lunch, Wang Chen took advantage of his father's sleep before telling his mother to go to Zhejiang for a few days.

Knowing that his son is capable, Cheng Lin will definitely not object, and let him go.

Jinghai is about 180 kilometers away from Jiaxing.

They walked on the Sutong Bridge and reached their destination three hours later.

……

Wuzhen, Wucun Hotel.

This is a luxury hotel located in a scenic area.

Wang Chen saw Huang Ren who came to greet him for the first time, and the three of them walked through the hall and went straight to the elevator.

Seeing that the hall was sparsely populated, he was a little curious: "This hotel business is so bad?"

Huang Ren pressed the elevator and said casually: "The whole hotel has been contracted by Sister Mei." ”

Wrap up the whole hotel?

This is a five-star hotel!

Wang Chen was slightly surprised: "How much does it cost?"

The elevator door opened, and Huang Ren was the first to walk in, "420,000 a day, Sister Mei has been chartered for a total of five days, how much do you say?"

Shen Xia, who was carrying a suitcase, said suddenly: "More than two million just to open an auction?"

Huang Ren looked at the floor with a smile, and said, "Little girl, the scale is quite small this time, don't you know that the auction held by Sister Mei in Shanghai last year invited more than 300 people to come over, and it took more than 10 million yuan to hold it." ”

Ten million?

According to the commission of 5% of the turnover charged by Sister Mei, the auction amount must be as high as 200 million yuan to not lose money!

For the first time, Wang Chen knew a little about Sister Mei's strength.

This woman is very powerful, her economic strength is undoubted, not to mention spending 10 million to hold an underground auction casually, and she can invite more than 300 people with the strength to participate in the auction, you can imagine how far Lu Ziye has reached.

……

Upstairs.

In a luxurious suite, Wang Chen met Sister Mei who was talking to three or five old gentlemen.

"Xiao Wang is here?" Sister Mei looked sideways, smiled and pointed to the sofa, "You sit down first, and I'll tell you after I finish explaining the matter." ”

Wang Chen belched: "You are busy. ”

He took Shen Xia's hand and sat down on the sofa, and Huang Ren sat opposite.

Sister Mei was still talking about something over there, "Please be careful when a few masters are in the palm of your hand, this time there are two big people coming, we must not let fakes flow in, so as not to damage our reputation, you know?"

"Good. ”

"Yes. ”

"Mr. Mei, are you still worried about us?"

The five old gentlemen replied casually.

After explaining, Sister Mei stepped on red high heels and came to Wang Chen, she was not dressed as fashionable as before, but a green women's suit, inside was a pink shirt, she casually took out a lady's cigarette and put it on her left hand with emerald green nail polish.

Wang Chen could see clearly that Sister Mei's middle finger was not painted with nail polish.

Sister Mei lit a cigarette and took a puff on Hongtongtong's lips, and suddenly the smoke was filled, and she smiled and said, "This is your girlfriend?"

Wang Chen said: "Her name is Shen Xia, Shen Xia, this is Sister Mei." ”

Shen Xia greeted: "Hello, Sister Mei." ”

"Hello Xiao Shen. Sister Mei nodded, then looked at Wang Chen again, and got to the point: "Did you bring anything?"

Wang Chen looked to the side and said, "Shen Xia, help me take out the things." ”

He had put everything in his suitcase before he came.

His left arm was injured and he couldn't lift it at all, it was all carried by Shen Xia.

Shen Xia picked up the suitcase, laid it flat on the coffee table, opened it, and immediately revealed the contents inside.

A set of four treasures in the study, a brocade box for ginseng, a brocade bag for musk, and a southern red agate and Tianhuang seal.

There weren't many things, but Huang Ren, who was sitting there, stood up for the first time, and said, "Good thing! Good thing!"

Sister Mei ignored him and beckoned to the five palm-eyed masters, "Come over and help me identify things." ”

The five palm-eye masters all came.

One of the short and fat little old men smiled and said: "If you can make Boss Huang say good things, it must be less than ......" Before he finished speaking, his eyes had already glanced at a few things in the suitcase, and his voice stopped abruptly in an instant, and he hurriedly squatted down and carefully picked up Tian Huang's seal and took a closer look.

Sister Mei introduced: "This is Mr. Yu, a master of jade identification. ”

Wang Chen greeted and said, "Hello Mr. Yu." ”

I don't know if Mr. Yu was fascinated by it, so he didn't reply at all, but said excitedly: "This is a seal carved by Huangshi." ”

Shen Xia said curiously: "How can you tell that it is Tian Huang at a glance?"

Mr. Yu couldn't put it down and held the seal in his hand, pointed to the palm of his hand and said: "The stone skin is one of the main symbols of Tian Huang stone, the vast majority of Tian Huang stone has a skin wrap on the surface, so there is no stone skin is an important part of the identification of Tian Huang, and ah, Tian Huang's cortex is more delicate than other Shoushan stone or Bahrain stone, if you scrape it gently with a knife, there will be a smooth and slightly heavy feeling on the knife, and the powder particles that fall down are delicate and even, this is a carved seal, I dare not scratch with a knife." ”

Several other palm masters came over when they heard Tian Huang's seal.

Another bald little eye palm eye master added: "Tian Huang mainly relies on the naked eye to judge the truth and falsehood, it takes many years of research experience on Tian Huang stone, but also according to some scientific instruments for identification, both are indispensable, now there are many auction company teachers are clumsy, sometimes can not distinguish between Tian Huang and Shoushan stone, either there is a radish silk pattern is Tian Huang, Shoushan stone also has a radish silk pattern, Tian Huang is invisible, no large pieces, generally speaking, Tian Huang stone has six virtues, four stones and two categories. ”

Huang Ren also interjected a few words.

Wang Chen listened very carefully, and probably understood how they judged Tian Huang's authenticity.

Generally speaking, Tianhuang has six characteristics. First, the texture is fine, like baby skin; second, the endoplasm is dense and shiny, and the hand has a slippery feeling; third, there is a mild feeling; fourth, it can produce dewdrop-like moisture when placed in the palm of the hand, like a drop of dew; fifth, it is generally translucent jelly; finally, Tianhuang's skin is overflowing, and after playing with his hands for a while, there is oil coming back to the inside and out, and other stones do not have this greasy feeling, let alone oil outward.

In addition, Tianhuang has the same hardness as a human nail, and there will be radish silk lines in it, which can be seen with a light.

Then they brought infrared spectroscopy analysis and X-ray energy spectrum analysis and other instruments to tinker for a long time.

After the test, Mr. Yu raised his head and sighed: "This is a piece of fine Tianhuang, there is basically no crack on it, the radish silk is clear, the color and moistness can reach more than 80 points, and the price of the rough stone can reach 100,000 per gram, I just weighed the weight, 37 grams, not counting the conservative estimate of 3.7 million yuan." ”

Wang Chen's heart jumped, this was 700,000 yuan higher than Sister Mei's estimate, he swallowed his saliva and asked, "What about the process?"

Mr. Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's a pity that it's not the handwriting of a master carver, but the carving process is also good, and the words engraved below affect the price, and the maximum floating price is about 100,000." ”

Shen Xia was surprised: "This seal is worth three million and eight hundred thousand?"

"Three million is just a conservative estimate. Sister Mei took over the conversation, "In the autumn auction of 16, a 26-gram Qing Dynasty square seal was auctioned at a high price of 2.3 million yuan, which contains historical heritage, but the quality of that square seal is almost the same as Xiao Wang's, and the price of Tian Huang has fluctuated a lot in the past two years, and the general quality of Tian Huang Zhang is more than 35 grams, and each gram is roughly more than 30,000 yuan. ”

Huang Ren scratched his head and scratched his ears greedily, and said, "Xiao Wang, sell it to me, sell it to me." ”

Sister Mei looked at him, "Forgot the rules?"

Huang Ren smiled bitterly, "Yes, I'll bid at the auction." ”

Wang Chen asked again: "Then what is the starting price of my piece?"

"The starting price is definitely a little lower than the actual value, and I personally recommend that the starting price of three million is better. Mr. Yu said.

Wang Chen didn't have any opinions, nodded and agreed.

Then, Mr. Yu was reluctant to put down the Tianhuang seal and turned to look at the red agate.

To tell the truth, until now, Wang Chen is still not sure whether this agate weighing more than a pound is a southern red agate, after all, Zhu Xiancheng only said that it was the red jade of Dali.

Also identified by Mr. Yu, he took out a strong flashlight and aimed at the red agate, and said in his mouth: "Judge whether it is Nanhong, first of all, let's use a strong light to aim at the agate, if it is Nanhong, you can see that there are countless cinnabar dots in it to form a red, this feature is not available to other agate, if it is very red Nanhong, the light cannot penetrate, this identification method is not applicable...... Well, well, you don't have this method. ”

Wang Chen asked, "Then how do you need to distinguish it?"

Mr. Yu continued, "Then it takes a lot of experience, and the quality is an important indicator to evaluate Nanhong, as described in Chen Xing's "Jade Record": the body is like clotted fat, the essence is introverted, the quality is thick and warm, and the pulse is dense. A good piece of southern red looks very comfortable, soft, and gives people a moisturizing feeling, and you have this and this feeling. And then he said a whole bunch of more.

First of all, the southern red agate is divided into brocade red, rose red, cinnabar red, pickaxe red, red and white are the natural colors, and Wang Chen's piece looks like brocade red. Secondly, most of the shapes of Nanhong agate are like potatoes, and Wang Chen's piece also conforms, and there are no cracks.

Wang Chen's piece is about 560 grams, which is neither big nor small.

After the identification, Mr. Yu introduced the market price, "the next grade of Nanhong is less than 100 yuan per gram, the medium quality of one or two hundred, you are the color of Jinhong is favored by people, this is the superior gem and jade grade of Nanhong, there is no problem with each gram breaking 1,000 and a half, it is possible to meet people who know the goods 35,000 per gram, it is possible to see what price can be auctioned, and it depends on whether anyone knows the goods, if you can find a carving master to carve into a fine product, every gram is easy to break 10,000." ”

Mr. Yu's conservative estimate of the price is lower than Sister Mei's estimate.

However, Wang Chen understood that the market was like that, and asked: "Then how much is the starting price of my Nanhong?"

Mr. Yu suggested: "I suggest that the auction should be based on 1,500 per gram, if it is low, others may take it as a fake, and if it is high, it is beyond the psychological tolerance of many people, if it is 560 grams, the starting price is 840,000 yuan, but there is a possibility of unsuccessful auction." ”

Wang Chen thought for a moment, "It's 840,000." ”

If the auction fails, buddies spend some money to hire a carving master to carve into a finished product, anyway, good things are not afraid of not being able to sell.

Subsequently, the body of the lake pen was made by Hetian Topaz, which was also within the scope of Mr. Yu's identification.

Although the quality of Hetian topaz is high, but the pen body material is relatively small, the carving process is not bad, Mr. Yu gave the suggestion that the starting price is 100,000 yuan for a pen, and four pens is 400,000 yuan.

In the end, all that remained of the gemstone classification was the inkstone carved from bloodstone.

At first, Mr. Yu's eyes were all attracted by Tian Huang's seal, and only then did he notice that there was also a bloodstone inkstone, and he sighed, "This is ...... Is this bloodstone?"

Wang Chen snorted, "Changhua bloodstone, I invited many carving masters to carve the inkstone." ”

Everyone present was moved.

Several palm-eyed masters talked nonsense.

"It's rare to see Changhua bloodstone as good as blood. ”

"My blood volume is more than 70 percent, which can be called a big red robe. ”

"Even if I don't know much about gemstone classification, I can judge that this bloodstone is guaranteed to be 10,000 grams per gram. ”

Huang Ren's eyes lit up, and he said in amazement: "What a bloodstone inkstone, good!"

On the contrary, Sister Mei seemed very calm and ordered: "Mr. Yu, you can verify the authenticity." ”

This was rewarded by Zhao Kuangyin, and it definitely can't be faked.

Wang Chen seemed very relieved, he didn't even listen carefully how to distinguish the true and false bloodstones, and patronized and talked to Shen Xia.

About half an hour later.

Mr. Yu appraised it, he said with a happy face: "This is a piece of bloodstone with a blood content of more than 70%, it is a precious gem at the level of the big red robe, I weighed it, about 400 grams, not counting the craftsmanship valuation of four million, if you count the craftsmanship ......" Halfway through speaking, he sighed, "Ghost axe knife worker, ghost axe knife worker! Although I don't know which master's handiwork, I think the floating price of 1.5 million is no problem." ”

Nonsense, Zhao Kuangyin invited dozens of craftsmen to carve it, can it not be a ghost axe knife worker? Wang Chen didn't say this, but said: "That's at least worth 5.5 million?"

Mr. Yu snorted, "The bloodstone inkstone with this carving technique is hard to find, and the starting price is no problem to open directly at 5.5 million." ”

Shen Xia on the side was stupid, she never thought that the few stones in the suitcase that Wang Chen casually asked her to carry were worth tens of millions!

The remaining Chengxintang paper and Li Mo belong to miscellaneous items and are not within the scope of Mr. Yu's appraisal.

Another fat little old man called Master Cui by Sister Mei appraised it and suggested that the price of Chengxintang paper should start at 10,000 yuan per sheet, and Li Mo would also start at 10,000 yuan.

Wang Chen felt that this price was a bit low, and he was a little disappointed, but he knew in his heart that there was no trace of history, otherwise it would definitely be far more than that.

Ginseng and musk were identified by Master Fei.

Fifty-two grams of 100-year-old ginseng, the suggested starting price is 1020,000.

Twenty-one grams of 50-year-old ginseng, the price is much lower, and the recommended starting price is only 200,000.

In the end, only musk remained, Master Fei was not sure, and said with a wry smile: "Sister Mei, I can only say that it should be pure natural musk." ”

Sister Mei frowned and said, "Can't you identify it accurately?"

Master Fei explained: "I really can't, because there is not much difference between artificially cultivated musk and wild musk, but such a large piece of musk is very likely to be wild, because artificial cultivation generally takes musk in a year." ”

Sister Mei was a little hesitant, and finally looked at Wang Chen, "Xiao Wang, artificial musk on the market is very cheap, and artificially cultivated musk also ranges from hundreds to thousands, and there are almost no pure natural ones, you said that your musk is pure natural, I naturally believe it, but the price is really impossible to say, you can consider how much the starting price is to prepare." ”

Wang Chen was dizzy for a moment and asked, "How much is the pure natural musk on the market?"

Huang Ren said: "Three or five thousand, three or five thousand, two or three hundred thousand, it's really hard to say, you have to judge for yourself." ”

Wang Chen was directly speechless.

However, Master Fei gave a pertinent suggestion, "Two or three hundred thousand is definitely too high, three or five thousand is too low, in my opinion, you try to participate in the auction with 50,000 yuan per gram, if you meet someone who knows the goods, you will definitely bid desperately, and if you can't meet the goods, you can't open three or five thousand, this musk takes off the fur wrapping, I estimate that it is about 15 grams, and you open a starting price of 750,000 yuan." ”

Well, that's all there is to it.

Even professionals couldn't give a price, so Wang Chen had to follow Master Fei's advice, and after the appraisal was completed, he handed over everything to Sister Mei.

Sister Mei asked people to put things away and explained: "On the day of the auction, you need to go up and host it yourself, remember to dress decently." ”

Wang Chen sighed, "Go up and preside over it yourself?"

Huang Ren smiled and said: "You don't know, Sister Mei organized an auction, in fact, to give everyone the opportunity to increase contacts, do you think, you have good things, go up to host the auction, others know that you can get good things, and when the auction is over, will they take the initiative to deal with you?" So, Sister Mei's auction will attract many people to participate every time, of course, if you really don't want to, Sister Mei will also send someone to auction for you, but when your things are auctioned, you must temporarily leave the auction hall. ”

Wang Chen probably understands what it means, Sister Mei's routine is to earn money together, and have relationships together, naturally, there will be more and more connections around Sister Mei, and they will become more and more condensed.

It is no accident that this woman in her thirties can succeed.

In fact, there is still a sentence around the ring, the auction organized by Sister Mei is informal, in order to prevent the seller from bidding maliciously, she simply let the seller personally go up to preside over the auction of his own things.

I'm short of connections.

Wang Chen said happily: "Okay, I'll go up and preside over it myself." ”

Sister Mei snorted, "The things have been identified, I'll take you to meet the people in our circle, and when I organize an auction in the future, you just remember to bring more good things." ”

Ouch, Sister Mei, you are too on the road, Wang Chen quickly got up and said, "Thank you, Sister Mei." ”

……

A few palm eye masters didn't go.

Wang Chen took Shen Xia downstairs with Sister Mei and Huang Ren and came to the business hall.

There were a lot of people gathered inside, and it was estimated that there were twenty or thirty at a glance.

Huang Ren and Wang Chen have a good relationship, and introduced: "These are all people with a bit of status from all over the world, and there are many who haven't come, and this time, there will be two big people, one is from the capital, and the other is from Guangzhou, anyway, you try to seize the opportunity." ”

"Thank you, Brother Huang. Wang Chen said gratefully.

Sister Mei walked in front, clapping her hands and attracting everyone's attention.

The twenty or thirty people who were drinking tea and chatting all quieted down and looked over one after another.

Sister Mei smiled and said, "Everyone, today I would like to introduce you to a new child who has participated. As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the side, "His name is Wang Chen, you can call him Xiao Wang, please communicate more in the future." ”

"Welcome. ”

"Hello Xiao Wang. ”

"New here?"

Everyone was interested.

One of them said loudly, "Sister Mei, what is Xiao Wang doing?"

Where did Sister Mei know what Wang Chen was doing, looking at it, she wanted him to say it herself.

Wang Chen stepped forward, smiled, and said, "Big brothers and sisters, I opened a handicraft shop in Jinghai, and it hasn't officially opened yet. ”

"Oh. ”

"You own a craft shop. ”

After listening to this, everyone was a little less interested.

After Sister Mei finished her introduction, "Xiao Wang, you communicate with them more, I still have something to do." ”

"Okay, thank you, Sister Mei. Wang Chen said.

Sister Mei turned around and walked out of the business hall.

Wang Chen followed behind Huang Ren and tried to have a relationship with everyone.

Huang Ren took him to the previous Humpty Dumpty man and introduced, "Xiao Wang, this is Mr. Jin Lang, a famous entrepreneur in Gusu. ”

"Hello Mr. Jin Lang. Wang Chen took the initiative to stretch out his hand.

Humpty Dumpty smiled and reached out to shake it, "Hello." Then he turned his head back and talked to the others.

Wang Chen was a little embarrassed.

Huang Ren didn't care, and pulled him to the second tall lady in her fifties, "Ms. Ma is the director of the Zhejiang Hangzhou Antique Association, and she is very energetic in the local area, Xiao Wang, get to know me." ”

"Hello Ms. Ma. Wang Chen stretched out his hand again to say hello.

Ms. Ma bowed her head slightly, didn't even raise her hand, and said a polite word, "Hello Xiao Wang, I have the opportunity to come to Hangzhou to play." ”

All right.

Again left out in the cold.

Wang Chen looked at Shen Xia beside him helplessly, and saw Shen Xia smiling at him, he felt a little embarrassed in front of his own woman, uncomfortable.

Huang Ren didn't seem to stop wanting to introduce people, and then introduced seven or eight people to Wang Chen, a shareholder of a certain construction group and the son of a wealthy man in Shandong.

Everyone's identity is different, the same thing is that they are not very interested in Wang Chen, and basically they all talk about each other when they respond.

Seeing that Huang Ren was about to introduce someone to himself, Wang Chen hurriedly stopped and said, "Brother Huang, Brother Huang, forget it, they don't want to deal with me, so you don't need to introduce me." ”

Huang Ren laughed hesitantly, "Feeling uncomfortable?"

Wang Chen said honestly: "A little. ”

Huang Ren looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "When I first participated in Sister Mei's auction, some people didn't even bother to say hello, do you know how they took care of me later?"

"Huh?" Wang Chen looked over.

Huang Ren smiled, "It was three years ago, I happened to auction a jade carving carved by Lu Zigang, but after the auction ended, most of them took the initiative to ask for my contact information, I am just taking you to mix up a familiar face now, you don't care if they ignore you, and after the auction is over, it depends on whether you want to pay attention to them!"

Saying this, Wang Chen understood.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of one's own strength, and in the circle where Sister Mei organizes the auction, strength means whether you can get good things.

Okay.

Wait for the day after tomorrow auction.

When the time comes, buddy, you will ignore me.

Wang Chen didn't bother with anything anymore, and continued to follow Huang Ren to get acquainted with his face.