Even if he was reluctant, Uncle Cao knew that depending on the situation at home, in the end, these antiques that he carefully collected would definitely fall into other people's pockets, so he gritted his teeth and said, "My things are here, you can take a look first." ”

With that, he sat down on a chair at the door.

Everyone nodded, and then walked towards their respective targets of interest.

Meng Zitao walked towards a wooden statue, there was no way, Uncle Cao may be due to interest and other reasons, there are few literary toys in the house, and the location is close to Cheng Qiheng, Meng Zitao can only let Cheng Qiheng see it first.

This is a wood-carved statue of a samurai, the samurai is standing with a sword on his eyebrows, the statue wears a helmet on his head, ear guards on both sides, a shoulder guard shawl on the upper body, and a beast face swallowing mouth at the junction between the shoulder and the arm, a body armor to protect the state of mind to strengthen defense, and a short knee skirt on the lower body. This form of samurai attire should be the style of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, on the surface of the samurai statue, traces of painting can be seen, but because of the passage of time, most of the painted paintings have fallen off, and only the hilt of the sword in the samurai's hand remains.

Meng Zitao carefully observed the statue in front of him, and compared it with some information in his mind to judge the authenticity and age of this statue.

When Meng Zitao sees things now, he usually observes with his own eyesight first, and then uses his abilities. After all, although this ability is convenient and accurate, it seems to be a pie falling from the sky, and the origin is unknown, and he is worried that it will be gone one day.

It is precisely because of this sense of crisis that Meng Zitao wants to do everything possible to exercise his eyesight and improve his appraisal level. When he has the level of Wang Zhixuan, even if he has no ability, he can still make a fortune in the antique industry.

After observing for three or five minutes, Meng Zitao used the ability, and he nodded secretly, this is indeed a warrior statue of the Song Dynasty, and the value is not much as he judged, around 30,000.

After thinking about it, Meng Zitao put this warrior statue in an alternate position, but he didn't have the idea of getting it, the main reason was that this statue was larger, with a height of about one meter, and it was really inconvenient to take it back.

Next to the statue of the warrior, there are furniture, and Meng Zitao swept his eyes and found that these were all cork furniture.

In the furniture market, everyone should have heard of softwood and hardwood, but what is softwood, what is hardwood, how to distinguish between softwood and hardwood? I believe many people are quite confused about this. Just like Mencius, before he came into contact with the antique industry, he didn't know how to distinguish between these two types of furniture

In fact, "cork" and "hardwood" are not the only criteria for the softness and hardness of the wood texture, and a considerable part of the furniture in the cork home is also very hard.

So why is it so divided?

In fact, "cork" is a scientific name, for example, "cork" includes nanmu, beech, cypress, walnut, etc., each of which can find a corresponding tree, such as nanmu is nanshu, beech is beech and so on.

And "hardwood" is actually a literary name, for example, hardwoods include red sandalwood, yellow pear, mahogany, wenge, ironwood, ebony, etc., no tree is called ironwood, and no tree is called blackwood. Again, this is a scientific name, like the scientific name of Huanghuali is called Huanghuali rosewood.

In fact, the reason is very simple, in our country, cork furniture is actually native to the tree, so everyone can know the name of wood. And hardwood, except for Huanghuali in Qiong Province, the others are basically imported.

Because of this, the ancients did not see the whole picture of imported timber before they saw it, but only saw the trunks of trees, so they did not have a fixed name, but gave them a literary name. Literary names are generally very nice, such as red sandalwood, which means that purple energy comes from the east.

Later, the folk formed the idea that the wood transported from outside was called "hardwood", and the locally produced wood was called "firewood". Later, "firewood" was also called "cork".

Thinking about the explanations of "cork" and "hardwood", Mencius thought to himself: "The reason why the price of this hardwood is much more expensive than softwood is that it is in response to the old saying that foreign monks are good at chanting?"

Putting this thought aside, Meng Zitao observed the cork furniture in front of him, cork furniture is cheap and good for him, at least he can afford it, right?

It's just that Meng Zitao is a little disappointed that Uncle Cao's furniture here is all ordinary furniture, not to mention, and the quality is not very good.

In fact, this is normal, because cork furniture, after too many years, the general condition is not very good, either deformed, or missing arms and legs, the appearance is really not good, it is easy to make people have a bad impression. From this point of view, it is normal that hardwood furniture is more popular than softwood furniture.

Meng Zitao didn't have any idea about these cork furniture that didn't look very good, but since he had seen them all, he was ready to read them all.

Soon, Meng Zitao saw the last piece of furniture, which was an official hat chair.

The official hat chair is named after its shape that resembles the official hat of ancient officials. It is divided into two types: the south official hat chair and the four-out official hat chair.

The characteristics of the Nanguan hat chair are that the soft rounded corners are made at the junction of the back column and the brain, and the cigarette pouch pot method is made by the column as the tenon and tenon, and the beam is used as the tenon and tenon. The back of the chair is made into an "S" shape using a whole page, and there is also a border paneling method, which is carved with patterns and is beautiful and generous.

The early four, in essence, is the two ends of the back chair, the front end of the left and right armrests, and the back panel is mostly "S" shaped, and it is mostly made of a full plate.

What makes Meng Zitao feel a little curious is that the shape of the official hat chair in front of him is somewhat unique, the backrest is different from the common chair, it is the middle of two straight fangs, connected by two small horizontal fangs with intervals, forming a box, there are still traces of rattan on this box, which should be placed on the rattan face.

Meng Zitao was not very proficient in furniture, and he did not know the meaning of this form, but he could deduce.

Meng Zitao knew that this kind of rattan face chair was generally early, and judging from the style of this chair, it was likely to be from the Ming Dynasty.

But the official hat chair of the Ming Dynasty that he has seen before does not have this form, so it can be pushed forward, possibly in the early Ming Dynasty or earlier.

However, this chair is made of elm, and it is really hard to imagine that it was earlier than the Ming Dynasty, and besides, the official hat chair was only available in the Ming Dynasty, and it is unlikely that it will be available earlier.

In this way, the very inconspicuous official hat chair in front of you may be an official hat chair in the early Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Meng Zitao couldn't help but rejoice, this is an official hat chair in the early Ming Dynasty, he has never seen it in the market, and it is very rare in museums. Doesn't this mean that this thing has a high cultural heritage value?

Besides, scarcity is expensive, since it is rare, it means that this thing is valuable, maybe there is a chance for him?

After a while, Meng Zitao's heart calmed down, and now all this was just his guess. Moreover, even if he guessed correctly, if Uncle Cao also knew its value, then he would not have the money to buy it.

In the middle of the ring, Meng Zitao stood up, walked up to Uncle Cao, pointed to the official hat chair and asked, "Uncle, I don't know how much that official hat chair is?"

Hearing that Meng Zitao was the first to speak, everyone raised their heads to look at it, and found that Meng Zitao was actually asking about such an unattractive chair, and they felt a little strange in their hearts. It's just that at this time, it's inconvenient for everyone to ask, so there is no past.

Uncle Cao looked at Meng Zitao's hand, probably because he couldn't see it clearly, frowned, stood up and walked to the chair, and saw that Meng Zitao actually asked about this chair, and he also felt a little strange in his heart.

However, he also knew the rules of the antique industry, so he didn't ask much, thought about it for a while, and said, "It's just two thousand, how about it?"

Meng Zitao was overjoyed, shook his head and said, "Uncle, you have also seen the quality of this chair, and it is elm, the price of two thousand is too expensive." ”

Although in terms of the value given by the ability, the price of 2,000 is completely a big leak, but in business, business is business, charity is charity, and there are not many people who are more pitiful than Uncle Cao.

Meng Zitao felt that he only needed to do business as long as Tong Su was not bullied, did not engage in any crooked ways, and had a clear conscience.

Uncle Cao also shook his head: "Young man, presumably you also like that this official hat chair is rattan-faced, then you should know how old this chair is." Besides, to tell you the truth, I bought this chair a few years ago, and it cost hundreds at the time, and I hid it for a few years, so it's normal to sell it for two thousand. ”

In the past few years, the market of antiques has indeed risen sharply, and the prices of many things have also doubled.

In order not to be abrupt, Meng Zitao repaid the price a few more times, but Uncle Cao seemed to have eaten him and refused to let go. Since this is the case, Meng Zitao agreed, and immediately paid the money to Uncle Cao.

Seeing a trace of doubt flashing in the eyes of Uncle Cao, who took the money, Meng Zitao knew that his performance was too anxious, which aroused Uncle Cao's suspicions. But in the face of a leak of three or four hundred thousand, how could he be calm when he was born in a family like him, he felt that he could have such a performance as he is now, which is already good.

Now that the things are in hand, Meng Zitao almost couldn't help laughing, fortunately, his control is good, and after all, he is in someone else's territory, and he doesn't dare to make extraneous branches.

Although Uncle Cao was a little puzzled, he really didn't think that this unattractive chair was anything precious, so he walked back to the door and sat down.

At this time, the servant of Uncle Cao's family walked in with three people, and when everyone saw who the other party was, they were stunned......