After tasting this delicacy, everyone praised it, and Qi Qinxi, as a chef, was praised by everyone, and it was also an honor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Meng Zitao asked: "Boss Qi, I found that your local dishes here are a little different from what I have eaten before, how can I say it...... I feel that the aroma is different, what is the reason? If this is your secret recipe, it doesn't matter if it's inconvenient to say. ”

Qi Qinxi said with a smile: "There's nothing bad to say, in fact, we have a firewood stove here." ”

It dawned on Meng Zitao that it was no wonder that he felt that this aroma was more familiar, just like the taste he had when he ate in the countryside when he was a child.

Ji Chenghe said: "It is also said that although the gas stove is convenient, in terms of taste, it is true that the wood stove is more fragrant." I just don't know why this is happening. ”

Qi Qinxi said with a smile: "I have also studied this matter, theoretically speaking, the bottom of the pot is heated differently, for example, the dishes made by small fire are completely different from those made by large fire, and the dishes made by induction cookers are also different, the flame of firewood is generally larger, the flame is dispersed and heated evenly, and the flame of the gas stove is more concentrated." To put it simply, no matter how big the firewood burns, it will look gentle. The gas fire is too sharp. ”

Everyone said that it made sense.

After gossiping for a while, Meng Zitao turned the topic to the painting on the wall: "Boss Qi, I don't know what the origin of this painting on the wall is?"

Qi Qinxi replied: "I also have a partner in this hotel, and this painting was actually given to me by him, as for the origin of this painting, it can be regarded as the result of his kindness." More than ten years ago, there was a walking Fang Langzhong walking in front of his house, there were some bricks piled up, walking Fang Langzhong saw a five-step snake inside, and wanted to catch it. ”

"Although the snake was caught, one was accidentally bitten by the snake. This man had antidote to snake venom, but after eating it, the swelling did not go down, and when he saw it, he hurriedly sent the person to the hospital on a motorcycle. After Fang Langzhong was cured, he gave him this painting. ”

"This can be regarded as a good person with a good reward. ”

Meng Zitao said: "Boss Qi, I don't know if you have asked others to appraise this painting?"

Qi Qinxi said: "I took it for appraisal when I sent it to me, the master said that this painting is an old painting, but who painted it can't be sure, at that time he told me that it should be worth thousands of yuan, and asked me if I would sell it, I thought at the time, how could I sell what my friend gave me, so I didn't agree." ”

Ji Chenghe quipped: "At that time, he wanted to say that the painting was worth 50,000 yuan and was willing to buy it, would you agree?"

"Then I won't agree, fifteen or sixteen years ago, what was the concept of 50,000 yuan, I would definitely send the painting back. ”

Qi Qinxi hurriedly waved his hand, and then he also reacted a little: "You don't mean to say that this painting can be worth 50,000 at that time, right?"

"You have to ask Mr. Meng about this, he is an expert. Ji Chenghe looked at Meng Zitao.

Meng Zitao said: "The value of this painting should be divided into two aspects, because this painting is an anonymous work, and it is not certain who the author is. But if my judgment is correct, and the author is indeed Lin Liang, then the value is similar to what Ji Lao said. ”

"Ten thousand dollars is already very valuable! No, I have to call Lao Chen over. After speaking, Qi Qinxi greeted everyone anxiously and went out.

The host was not there, everyone continued to taste the delicious food, and before they knew it, except for Meng Zitao, everyone else had eaten a little.

At this time, Qi Qinxi came in with an old man, and after introduction, it was Chen Chun.

Although Chen Chun is already seventy years old, he still looks very energetic and young, and he really doesn't look like a seventy-year-old man.

Chen Chun greeted everyone first, and was a little surprised at first to see Meng Zitao so young, but he was well-informed and didn't dwell on this aspect, and after a few words of greeting, he began to understand the situation.

Meng Zitao explained his analysis, and finally said: "If you want to talk about valuation, because there is no inscription and payment, it is really difficult to say. However, if you are willing to give me this painting, the price is still negotiable. ”

Chen Chun waved his hand: "I gave this painting to my old relatives at the beginning, and it is up to him to decide whether to sell it or not." ”

Qi Qinxi took over: "If I knew that this painting was so valuable, I would definitely not accept it." ”

Chen Chun said: "Old Qi, we have been friends for so many years, you still don't know my character, give away something, do you think there will be a time when I will come back?

"This ......" Qi Qinxi struggled for a while, but he didn't know how to decide.

Chen Chun said: "Okay, don't get entangled, to be honest, this restaurant has always been taken care of by you, I haven't put much effort into it, you have created so many profits for me every year, it is more than enough to buy this painting, and if you give it back to me, I will be unhappy." In addition, I suggest that you transfer this painting, if nothing else, do you know the requirements for preserving this ancient painting?"

Qi Qinxi thought about it, and finally agreed, and said, "Teacher Meng, I don't know how much money you can contribute?"

Meng Zitao said: "In this way, I will give you two plans, one is to sell it directly to me, I will pay 1.2 million, and the other is to put it up for auction directly, if the buyer approves it, the value may be higher than mine." ”

Chen Chun asked: "If you go to auction, you should charge some fees, how do you charge them?"

Meng Zitao said: "We are a regular company, and we generally charge fees after the fact, and if the auction fails, we will only charge a small fee, about a few hundred yuan." ”

Meng Zitao knew what Chen Chun meant by asking, it was nothing more than a fear of a scam, which is also common nowadays.

It is nothing more than inflating a sky-high price for the seller, encouraging the seller to send it to their "auction" for auction, and in the process charging you a series of non-refundable fees such as appraisal fees, security deposits, auction fees, intermediary fees, etc. As for whether your collection will be sold at auction, they don't mind at all, and since most of the "collections" sent by deceived people are not worth a few dollars, unsuccessful auctions are the norm.

If it is genuine, it is very likely that they will tell the truth to be false, and when the time comes, buying it at a low price is equivalent to picking up the leak.

In addition, there is also a situation where scammers will ask the deceived person to give a publicity fee for various reasons, and they will help the deceived person promote his things through newspapers, news, etc., and then the buyer will come to the door to negotiate until the thing is sold.

This kind of money will definitely not be refunded after receiving it. And can it really give you publicity? As a result, even a fool can think of it.

Getting back to the point, Chen Chun heard this, and said: "That's pretty good, old Qi, why don't you put it up for auction, anyway, you're not in a hurry to use the money, by the way, if it's auctioned, how long will it take to be auctioned?"

Meng Zitao said: "Our company now arranges four major auctions a year, and it is obviously impossible to participate in the autumn auction now, so we can only participate in the winter auction in December." If you want, you can go to the company tomorrow to find out the situation. ”

As he spoke, he took out the business card of his auction company and handed it to the two of them.

Meng Zitao continued: "Immodestly, although our company is only a recruit, it is also somewhat famous among its domestic counterparts, and the turnover of the summer auction we held exceeded 300 million, which you can find on the Internet or in the newspapers. ”

"Okay. Chen Chun smiled and said yes: "We will pass tomorrow, I don't know if you will be tomorrow?"

"I would definitely go. Meng Zitao said with a smile.

After a few words of gossip, the dinner was about the same, and he got up to say goodbye.

When checking out, Qi Qinxi said that he had a treat, and he didn't mention anything else, if it weren't for Meng Zitao, he didn't know that his painting could be worth so much money.

Therefore, everyone did not force it.

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The next morning, Meng Zitao came to the auction company as promised, and explained to the company's staff, ready to welcome the guests.

The first to arrive was the Dong family, they brought nearly 60 antiques this time, with a total value of tens of millions, and the employees hurriedly went downstairs to carefully move the antiques upstairs one by one for experts to identify.

This is not to say that I don't believe in Mencius's appraisal results, but that the auction company has a requirement that the appraisal of an antique requires the signatures of two experts.

Qi Qinxi and Chen Chun followed, and they brought other things besides a painting.

Seeing the company's office environment, the second elder was relieved a lot, at least on the surface, this is not a leather bag company.

Meng Zitao arranged the two elders alone in a reception room, after all, some things still need to be kept secret, and it is also to pay attention to the privacy of the guests.

The two sides exchanged a few polite words, and Chen Chun first opened a brocade box and took out an ornament from it, which looked like an agarwood product in terms of color and other aspects.

Chen Chun said: "This is when I went to Qiongdao last year, I bought an agarwood ornament, at first the taste was quite fragrant, but slowly there was no smell wafting out, I asked friends, they told me, most of the agarwood is fragrant." According to different grades and origins, the fragrance of some agarwood is very obvious at room temperature, while others need to be slightly warmed to have an obvious aroma. ”

"Later, I added heat again, and found that the aroma and taste were a little stronger, like what my friend told me, but I was a little uneasy, so I brought it today for you to identify. ”

Meng Zitao picked up this agarwood ornament and asked, "Mr. Chen, did you just say agarwood?"

Chen Chun nodded and said yes.

Meng Zitao said: "That's right, strictly speaking, 'agarwood' is not agarwood, but refers to the unfragrant part of the agarwood tree, which is also called white wood. If you say that, agarwood has no fragrance, unless the tree is more than ten years old, maybe it will have a lighter fragrance. Therefore, many people confuse 'agarwood' with 'agarwood', and it is obviously not correct to refer to the same thing. ”

Speaking of this, Meng Zitao asked another question: "When you first bought this agarwood, what kind of fragrance did you smell?"

Chen Chun recalled for a moment and said, "It's very fragrant, you can smell it from a distance of one or two meters." ”

Meng Zitao said: "If you can smell the aroma from a few meters away, 95% of it is fake agarwood." The aroma of natural agarwood is very special, mostly a light fragrance, lasting and not pungent, and the most important thing is that the aroma has the characteristics of changing strength and weakness. Sometimes it doesn't seem to smell a little bit of the fragrance, and sometimes it's very noticeable. ”

Chen Chun looked at his things: "So, my agarwood is fake?"

Meng Zitao said bluntly: "It's true, I didn't see the characteristics of real agarwood from it. ”

Next, Meng Zitao gave a detailed explanation of this agarwood.

After hearing this, Chen Chun laughed at himself and said: "Hehe, I thought I had picked up a bargain, but it seems that the one who picked up the bargain should be the seller." However, I don't know what exactly is used to make this?"

Meng Zitao said: "In professional terms, this belongs to the medicine sinking, it is made after a long time of agarwood oil and flavor soaking and dyeing, the material is just a general miscellaneous wood, but the hardness is higher, a little better will also use white wood, with it made of false agarwood and agarwood jewelry The surface looks very oily, and the pieces are submerged, the grease is also good, but the oil ester is only attached to the surface. ”

"Some merchants also like to play tricks, burning agarwood with fire or using an open flame in front of buyers, and sometimes they can even see that there seems to be oil spilling on the surface of the deodorant, so as to convince consumers. Since some novices have never smelled the smell of agarwood, once faced with a variety of miscellaneous wood soaked in potions and oil-soaked fake agarwood, as long as the dye and spice added to the fake agarwood are moderate, novices can not distinguish the real from the color and smell. ”

Chen Chun nodded again and again: "You're right, when I bought it, the seller did burn it with a lighter, I saw that there was a grease overflow, so I was convinced, it seems that agarwood is a thing that still needs to have a certain amount of professional knowledge to buy it!"

Meng Zitao nodded and said: "You are right, this line of work is indeed mixed now, if you don't have a little level, it is easy to get started." ”

Chen Chun put things away a little depressed.

Meng Zitao opened his mouth and asked, "I don't know if you have anything else to identify?"

"And this jade pendant. ”

Chen Chun took out a jade pendant from his pocket and put it in front of Meng Zitao, explaining: "This jade pendant is actually with that painting, I think it's not bad, so I gave it to my daughter, but she said that she would be allergic after wearing it, and she smelled a strange smell of the jade pendant, so she gave it back to me." I'm not very sensitive to smell, and I can smell something strange, so I keep throwing it in a drawer, and if I hadn't mentioned this painting yesterday, I'd have forgotten it. ”

There is no strange smell in ordinary jade, and having a strange smell means that it is either an unearthed cultural relic, or it is old.

So, Meng Zitao put on his gloves and picked up this jade pendant, and when he saw it, he was suddenly surprised.

This is a piece of divine beast wear, the upper part of the jade pendant is fan-shaped by the arc-shaped Huang face, as the crown of the beast, the lower part is the beast face pattern, and an irregular fan-shaped hole is naturally formed in the middle, and there are two horseshoe-shaped perforations in the upper part, which are connected with a single horseshoe-shaped perforation in the lower part, which can be worn by the rope.

The ornamentation is a combination of deformed cirrus and cirrus moire, with two intersecting long cirrus moire patterns as the eyebrows and nose bridge of the mythical beast, oval eyes, deformed cirrus moire pattern as the nose, and two deformed cirrus cirrus patterns to make the face outline.

The reason why Meng Zitao was surprised was because this piece of jade pendant is very unusual from the point of view of jade cutting techniques, in addition to retaining the traditional fine line Yin carving and Yin carving slope oblique cutting method, more use of the combination of subtraction bas-relief and Yin carving, double line Yin carving and the technique of removing the ground and concealing it.

This is a method of combining a variety of animal patterns together to form a pattern, with a double-series arch ridge decoration being the most typical, looking at the clouds from a distance, and seeing the personality of the beast up close.

Moreover, the skilled jade carver uses refined, harmonious and outstanding brushwork to skillfully combine various objects in heaven and earth, display and fantasy into a jade carving work. This vivid, beautiful, rich and magical artistic image transports the viewer to a mythical fantasy.

Judging by experience, Meng Zitao judged that this is a small shape, a novel and unique jade ornament in the Spring and Autumn Period. It fully shows that the jade carving process in the late Spring and Autumn Period has developed to a skillful and amazing stage.

Could such an artifact be a fake? Obviously unlikely, that is, it is an excavated artifact.

But what made Meng Zitao feel even more strange was that there were obvious signs of aging on this jade pendant, and he gently fanned it with one hand, as if he wanted to smell the smell of jade.

Immediately, Meng Zitao frowned.

Chen Chun was a little surprised and said, "It's been more than ten years, can you still smell it?"

After speaking, he saw Meng Zitao put the jade on the table and motioned for him to smell it.

Chen Chun picked up the jade, followed the example of Meng Zitao, and fanned it with his hand, he had never done this kind of action before, and the action inevitably looked stiff.

However, there was a dazed look on his face, as if he hadn't smelled a bad smell, and at this time, he moved the jade closer to the tip of his nose, and his nose was almost touching the jade, and his expression was still a little dazed.

"I didn't smell it!"

"Let me do it. ”

Qi Qinxi next to him asked for a jade pendant, at first, he didn't smell anything when he was far away, but when he approached the jade pendant, he suddenly took the jade farther away, as if he wanted to throw the jade away.

Qi Qinxi took two deep breaths, and then put the jade down: "What kind of smell is this, it's so weird, and it's disgusting." ”

"Does it really smell? Why didn't I smell it?" Chen Chun was very depressed, why did Meng Zitao and Qi Qinxi smell it, but he just couldn't smell it?

Qi Qinxi said: "You don't know how to get this nose, you can't smell such an obvious smell." ”

Chen Chun was not angry and said: "You think I want to, I still wish I was like you, a dog's nose." ”

Qi Qinxi replied: "You are the dog's nose, your whole family is a dog's nose!"

Chen Chunle was happy: "I said old Qi, why after so many years, you still can't hear others call you a dog's nose?"

Qi Qinxi snorted coldly: "Hmph! I can't listen to it for the rest of my life, but I have to remember, next time I say it, I'll turn my face." ”

"Okay, okay, the older you get, the more tempered you get. ”

Chen Chun smiled, and then asked Meng Zitao, "Teacher Meng, what kind of smell is this?"

Qi Qinxi also looked at Meng Zitao, and he was also very curious, what kind of smell it was and why it smelled so bad.

Meng Zitao said: "This is the residual taste after being old, and it is generally fired with a medicinal agent, and then buried in the soil for two or three years, and it can basically be unearthed." But if it is unearthed from the soil, the smell will not be so big, if nothing else, I think this jade pendant should have been placed in the thatched pit, and the production method is rough, resulting in so many years later, there is still some aftertaste. ”

After listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, Qi Qinxi and Chen Chun felt that they were about to vomit, especially Chen Chun, thinking that he actually gave it to his daughter, he had a pimple in his heart, and even wanted to throw it away.

At this time, Meng Zitao spoke: "Mr. Chen, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if you can give me this jade pendant?"

"Huh?" Chen Chun and Qi Qinxi were stunned for a moment, and they really couldn't understand why Meng Zitao wanted to buy it since this jade pendant was fake.

Meng Zitao said: "To be honest, there are contradictions in this jade pendant, its workmanship is very exquisite, in fact, there is no need to use such a clumsy old method. The reason why I bought it is also because its workmanship is worth studying, and I want to buy it for reference. Of course, you can also go to other places and ask if it is old. ”

In fact, this is indeed the reason why Mencius bought it.

Chen Chun was noncommittal: "Then how much money can you pay?"

Meng Zitao thought for a while and said: "A thousand yuan, originally it must be more than this price, but if it is aged to this extent, it is impossible to restore the original jade quality." ”

"Then I'll take another look. Chen Chun didn't care about a thousand yuan at all, and now he didn't believe in Meng Zitao too much in his heart, so he didn't want to agree immediately.

"No problem. Meng Zitao didn't persuade again, this thing was not very valuable, he was just curious for a while, and he felt that the carving technique could give him some inspiration, so he wanted to buy it, since the other party was unwilling, then forget it.

"I wonder if you have anything else to identify?"

"No more. ”

Meng Zitao nodded, appraised the painting again, and then said: "I don't know if you are willing to hand over this painting to our company for bidding? If you are willing, I will call my colleague over and we will discuss the details." ”

Qi Qinxi was about to agree, when the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, took out the mobile phone and looked at it, he apologized to everyone, and then walked outside to answer the phone.

After a while, Qi Qinxi came back again, but his expression changed greatly, and his face was full of anxious emotions.

Chen Chun saw it and hurriedly asked, "Old Qi, is something happening?"

"The doctor said that the sea must replace the liver immediately, otherwise it will be life-threatening. ”

Qi Qinxi said very quickly: "Teacher Meng, I want to ask you for one thing, I will sell this painting to you directly, but can we discuss the price, I want 1.5 million." ”