Yinyuan played with it in his hand for a while, Meng Zitao raised his head and asked, "Boss, how much is this boat?"

The stall owner smiled and stretched out his hand to gesture: "This kind of Austrian version of the ship, 30,000 should not be expensive, right?"

Meng Zitao directly refused: "It's too expensive, I have to think about 20,000 yuan." ”

The stall owner frowned slightly: "Young man, are you sincere?"

Meng Zitao said: "Of course, I sincerely want it, but your price is too expensive." ”

The stall owner said: "If you want to bargain, you can do it, but you can't be so exaggerated, this is the Austrian version of the ship, very rare, 20,000 yuan is not needed, I don't see any sincerity from you! ”

Meng Zitao smiled, of course he couldn't take the initiative to make a price, otherwise he would hand over the gun to the other party, and life and death would depend on the other party.

So, he said: "Boss, the thing is yours, how can there be any reason for me to bid!"

The stall owner said with a sad face: "It's boring for you to do this, and you say it's too expensive when I bid." ”

"The point is that the price you offer is not sincere. ”

Meng Zitao got up and said, "Forget it, I don't want anything." ”

"Alas!" The stall owner hurriedly called Meng Zitao: "Young man, otherwise, let's each take a step back, ship 20,000 yuan, and you can choose any three things in my stall." ”

Meng Zitao laughed: "What if I miss it?"

"Then blame me for my poor eyesight. The stall owner said magnificently.

Meng Zitao smiled and said: "It's okay to arrive, but we have something to say in front, if you don't even have something worth five hundred yuan here, then this deal will definitely not work." ”

"No problem, you can choose first. The stall owner looked at Meng Zitao.

Meng Zitao looked at the coins he had taken at the beginning, put them aside, and then chose them in the stall, his movements were very fast, and he chose them immediately.

Just as Meng Zitao was about to speak, two people suddenly walked over next to him, one of whom was angry and said to the stall owner: "Boss Zhou, the money owed to us should be repaid." ”

The stall owner was stunned when he saw them, rubbed his hands and said with a dry smile: "Brother Xiao Tie, you have been short of money for the past two days, can you give a few days?"

The other party sneered: "100,000 yuan has been delayed from half a year ago to the present, today says tomorrow, tomorrow the day after tomorrow, do you have to delay until you die!

The stall owner begged: "A few more days of grace, this time I will pay it back!"

"You're a gambler, if you believe your words, it's better to believe in ghosts!"

Without saying a word about the two of them, they began to clean up the things on the stall.

Many people around watched the excitement, and at first they were sympathetic to the stall owners, and some even wanted to meddle in their affairs, but when they heard that the stall owners were gamblers, they immediately turned into disgust.

Meng Zitao, who was next to him, frowned and said, "It's okay for you to ask for debts, but can you let us finish this business?"

The stall owner hurriedly took over and said, "Yes, yes, I just negotiated the price with this little brother, can you let us complete the transaction?" ”

Brother Xiao Tie smiled and said to Meng Zitao: "Then I'm sorry, I can only say that you came unlucky, we signed a guarantee with him, and if he doesn't pay back, then we can only take everything away." ”

Seeing that the other party said this, Meng Zitao said, "Can't you discuss it?"

"It's not something I can do to the Lord, and to be honest, we're afraid he'll sell it at a loss. The other shook his head.

Meng Zitao showed a look of regret on his face, shook his head, turned around and left with Shu Ze and them.

After walking for a while, Shu Ze whispered, "Zitao, what did you mean just now?"

Meng Zitao smiled: "As soon as we entered the market, we were targeted. ”

"Ahh

Jiang Xing nodded and said, "There are indeed people staring, but they don't show any threat." ”

"Then you don't tell me!" Shu Ze glared at him.

Jiang Xing touched his nose, and muttered a little in his heart, didn't you say that there is no danger in normal times, don't spoil the fun?

Of course, this is just a little whining from him, and Shu Ze is usually very good to him.

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "The people who followed me should have recognized me and wanted to rely on me to pick up the leak." ”

Shu Ze immediately understood: "In other words, those people just now were just acting?"

"Otherwise, you think I'll put it down gently?" Meng Zitao smiled: "Okay, now we should be able to have a good walk." ”

"What if someone follows me again?"

"Are we all soft-footed crabs?"

There was no one behind him, Meng Zitao felt much more happy, and after a while, he and Shu Ze started three things together, and they gained a lot with the value plan.

Meng Zitao was in a good mood, but suddenly he felt that someone was following him, and he felt a little unhappy. was about to teach the other party a lesson, but saw the person who was following him walk up quickly.

"Is it Mr. Meng?" The other party is a young man with an ordinary appearance, but his voice is quite distinctive, and he can be a radio anchor.

Meng Zitao nodded: "What are you doing with us?"

The young man introduced himself first: "My name is Ma Zhiliang, I also saw the previous things, those people are famous bastards in the market, and they actually acted out just now." Actually, I want to warn you, but my uncle has a shop in front, so ......"

"Understandable. Meng Zitao nodded, and then asked, "Do you have anything else to do besides this?"

Ma Zhiliang said a little embarrassed: "Teacher Meng, I don't know if it's inconvenient for you to go to my uncle's. For a while, he got a painting of Sun Kehong's "Flower Picture", but he was not sure whether it was true or not, could you please help me take a look?"

Meng Zitao said apologetically: "I do appraisals for people, and I have always only done it for familiar people, and I won't read things from unfamiliar people,"

Ma Zhiliang hurriedly said: "Teacher Meng, I know that this request is a bit presumptuous, but don't worry, no matter whether that painting is true or not, we will not say that you helped identify it." ”

When Meng Zitao heard this, he shook his head with a smile: "As the old saying goes, the wall has ears, besides, don't think that doing an appraisal is just to take a look, just say whether it's true or not." Although it is true to say this, it is not so simple in reality. ”

"You may not understand what I say, but let me tell you a little story. ”

Seeing that Ma Zhiliang looked a little puzzled, Meng Zitao continued: "You should know that the porcelain in our country has been loved by people since ancient times, and it is also a common thing to collect gifts. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a governor on his birthday, people from all walks of life came to congratulate him, and the most he sent was porcelain, and after the birthday was over, the porcelain was piled up in the house, so he found a few pawnshop masters to do the identification, if a master identified a fake, how should he tell the governor?"

"Let's be honest. Ma Zhiliang blurted out.

"However, you must know that the people who sent these porcelains are people with status, once they say that they are fakes, and the matter spreads, won't it offend people?

Ma Zhiliang sneered: "Maybe you can say good things,." ”

Meng Zitao said: "Yes, as long as people with a little brain, they will say that things are good, things are good, very beautiful, etc., these ambiguous words, never mention the truth or falsehood, in order not to offend people, even if they are investigated in the future, they can also shirk and say that they have not judged the truth or falsehood." By now you should know what I mean. ”

The reason why Meng Zitao decided to do so was also Zheng Anzhi's reminder to him, the reputation of antique appraisal experts is the capital of their lives, saying that there is a problem with the things they identify, it is equivalent to smashing their jobs, and it is strange that they don't hate you if they don't have a big heart.

Moreover, the appraisal of antiques is originally a matter of wisdom and wisdom, even if it is an expert, there are various different opinions, and it is normal for the appraisal of an antique to have arguments before there is conclusive evidence, even if it is an old-timer like Zheng Anzhi.

For example, if someone wants to appraise a collection and invites a friend and an expert to come over, both of them have similar eyesight, the friend says it is genuine, and the expert says it is a fake, then who will this person believe? Generally, as long as the reasons given are reasonable, they must believe their friends, and besides, no one wants to believe that there is something wrong with their own things, so they will think in their hearts that the experts invited have poor eyesight, and the small-minded people will be jealous.

So if there is no need, Meng Zitao will not help outsiders identify now, so as not to complain with others, although he is not afraid of things, but he can't find trouble for himself.

Ma Zhiliang listened to the story told by Meng Zitao, and understood what Meng Zitao meant, and said, "Teacher Meng, let my uncle tell you, okay?"

When Meng Zitao saw Ma Zhiliang's pleading look, his heart still softened, and he agreed to talk to his uncle on the phone, originally he wanted to refuse, but after talking on the phone, he agreed.

The reason is also simple, on the phone, Meng Zitao asked Ma Zhiliang's uncle if he had a pastel flower cup, if there was one, he would go, originally he wanted to make the other party retreat, but he didn't expect that there was a lotus cup, then he must have to go.

followed Ma Zhiliang to his uncle's antique shop, and when the group arrived, Ma Zhiliang's uncle was already at the door to greet him.

After greeting for a while, Ma Zhiliang's uncle Ma Daoxing took everyone to the small living room of the store and asked Ma Zhiliang to make tea for everyone.

Ma Daoxing greeted him with a smile: "Teacher Meng, please wait a while, I asked my lover to send the painting and the flower god cup." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and said: "Since I have arrived, there is no hurry, but before the appraisal, I want to know the origin of that painting, it should be no problem, right?"

"No problem. Ma Daoxing nodded: "Actually, I received this painting from a friend, he likes to collect it very much, but he has limited funds on hand, and there are elderly and children at home, so there are not many funds for collection." ”

Some time ago, he spent more than 50,000 yuan to collect a "Flower Picture" by Sun Kehong, originally he wanted to hide it from his family, and after a while the market rose and sold it to make a profit, but 50,000 yuan was a lot of money for him, and he couldn't hide it for long, so within a few days, he was discovered by his wife, and the two of them had a quarrel and almost fought. ”

Needless to say, Ma Daoxing bought the painting out of friendship, and thought the painting was good, but I didn't expect to come back, ask a friend to appreciate it, and the friend felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't be sure what the reason was.