The next day, Meng Zitao had breakfast and was ready to take a break, and then went to the antique market in Tongdu. But I didn't expect to receive a call from the stunned people, saying that they had already brought the things at home and wanted to ask Meng Zitao to help identify them.

Walking to the door of the hotel, Meng Zitao saw the three stunned people who were dusty and carrying a travel bag in their hands, and their expressions looked a little tired, which made him murmur in his heart, it couldn't be that he came over, right?

Meng Zitao stepped forward to greet the three stunned people, and politely asked the three stunned people if they had breakfast, but the three stunned people replied with an embarrassed smile, and they knew what was going on at a glance.

"Let's go, let's go have breakfast first. ”

The three stunned people waved their hands again and again: "No...... No, let's look at things first. ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "As the old saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry." Besides, the appraisal will not be completed in a while, so let's go to breakfast first. As for the breakfast money, you don't have to care, the hotel gave me two breakfast coupons a day, I only use one for myself, and the other one is wasted. ”

Hearing Meng Zitao say this, the three stunned people agreed with some embarrassment.

After the three stunned people had eaten breakfast, Meng Zitao took him to his room.

As soon as the three stunned people entered the room, their eyes widened, and they kept looking at the decorations in the room, which was quite like Grandma Liu's first entry into the Grand View Garden.

After sitting down, Meng Zitao poured him a cup of tea, and asked with a smile: "This eldest brother, I don't know what your real name is." ”

"Zhang Qing, home...... is the third in line. The three stunned people took the teacup a little flattered. replied in his mouth, but his heart was a little surprised. He really couldn't figure out who could live in such a room. How could they go to their village and collect a few hundred dollars of things. Could it be that Meng Zitao deliberately said that good things were bad?

Thinking about it again, the three stunned people felt that this was actually normal, who told Meng Zitao to know more, if it were him, he would do the same. However, understanding is understanding, since he is on the same position as Mencius. If you are in the state of buying and selling, you must be more vigilant.

"I opened an antique shop in Ling City, and as for yesterday's events, it just happened to be a coincidence. ”

Meng Zitao saw the doubts of the three stunned people, so he explained with a smile, and he didn't care about the three stunned thoughts in his heart, because for him, as long as the things could meet his own standards, he could buy them. As for the substandard, it's better to go where it came from.

Meng Zitao then asked, "There is one thing I don't understand, why do you believe me?"

The three stunned words were concise: "That basin, others only ...... Give me fifty. And also...... I believe in you anyway. ”

Meng Zitao smiled and understood the thoughts of the three stunned people, perhaps. That's the good thing about being kind, even though he's just a little more kind than those shovels. But he doesn't think he's a profiteer.

Next, he said, "Brother Zhang." Can you take something out for me to admire?"

The three stunned nodded, and then took out two boxes from the travel bag.

Inside the first box is a snuff box with an inner painting.

The inner painting snuff bottle is a traditional craft in China, and the inventor is Gan Huanwen, a young painter in the south during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. He poured small steel balls, quartz sand and a small amount of water into the pot and shook it to grind the inner wall into fine lines to make it easy for the pigment to adhere, and then dipped the color with a bamboo pen with a curved hook to paint the inner wall in reverse.

Meng Zitao picked it up and took a look, and found that the snuff bottle was double-sided to make a landscape map, the pine and cypress, the waterfront satin, the small bridge people, and the waterfall such as the rainbow, the boat two or three, the double-sided pattern can be described as a seamless one, between the square inches, showing the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, there is also a "Erzhong" model on the inner wall of the snuff bottle.

"Erzhong" refers to Ding Erzhong, a famous master of cigarette pot painting in the late Qing Dynasty, whose creative activity period was between 1895 and 1905, formerly known as Ding Yugeng or He Geng, and the hall name was "Plum Blossom Mountain House". Good at landscape painting, is another outstanding literati school painting master after Zhou Leyuan, his works are mostly timeless mountains and rivers, in the square inch, mustard seed Sumeru, can appear thousands of miles of potential.

Due to the relatively small number of Ding Erzhong's inner painting cigarette bottles, coupled with his relatively high artistic level, the price of good works is of course expensive.

Like this snuff bottle in Meng Zitao's hand, if it is genuine, the market value must be about 200,000 yuan, and it must be taken a good look.

Since ancient times, the preciousness of snuff bottles has been completely determined by the quality of its materials and the delicacy of its painting and workmanship, and has nothing to do with the age of production, the maker and the owner.

The cost of counterfeiting high-quality snuff bottles is very high, the difficulty of counterfeiting materials is high, and the workmanship is difficult to disguise. Therefore, the general snuff bottle identification only looks at the advantages and disadvantages and does not look at the authenticity, the material is scarce, and the workmanship is ingenious.

Of course, this is just a general situation, due to the high price of snuff bottles inside, and now there are more fakes, so you must also be extra careful.

However, as far as the snuff bottle in his hand is concerned, Mencius Tao's first impression is that it is likely to be genuine, as for why he feels this way, it is also because he has experienced the artistic conception of landscape painting, and it is unlikely that there will be a fake.

Of course, feeling that this kind of thing can't be completely counted, Meng Zitao carefully observed it a few more times, and finally used his ability.

After looking at the snuff bottle, Meng Zitao took out the contents of the second box, but it was a statue of Guanyin.

This statue of Guanyin is gilded with a bronze fetus, it is well preserved, its eyes are slightly downward, smiling, and it looks quite kind. His hands are "sealed" and he sits cross-legged on a lotus seat. Wearing the Guanyin pocket, the headdress and the robe are connected as a whole, which is very smooth.

The whole statue of Guanyin, should be the shape of Buddhism in the Central Plains during the Ming Dynasty, the statue is integrated, very beautiful, and all aspects are also in line with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty, it should be a genuine product.

After a while, putting the statue of Guanyin back in the box, Meng Zitao suddenly thought of a question, the previous person said that the things of the three stunned people were obtained by the landlord at home, but this is a statue of Guanyin and a snuff bottle, and then think about the situation at that time, will they be distributed to the peasants?

It's no wonder that the three stunned people will only bring the porcelain basin over, if these two things are taken out, all the villagers will be suspicious, and the reason why he brought the things here for identification must also be because of this matter.

Meng Zitao thought about it and felt that it was wrong, in order to avoid possible trouble, he still asked: "Brother Zhang, can you tell me the origin of these two things?"

The three stunned people frowned, as if they were not very happy to talk about this matter, and Meng Zitao added: "Brother Zhang, I am a serious businessman, and there are some things that must be asked clearly, please forgive me." ”

When the three stunned people heard this, they said a little reluctantly: "These two ...... Something is ...... My father will definitely have no problem keeping me. ”

At the end, he added, "I...... It's an adopted son. ”

Meng Zitao was stunned, no wonder there are always some contradictions about the matter of the three stunned people, it turned out that this was the case, he hurriedly apologized and asked, "I don't know what you are going to do with these two things?"

The three stunned people thought about it and said their thoughts, which made Meng Zitao stunned.

It turned out that the three stunned people actually said that he wanted to sell this snuff bottle, as long as half of the money, and the other half, it was regarded as Meng Zitao's appraisal fee. Since he paid the appraisal fee, Meng Zitao also had to tell the value of the two things to the three stunned people.

Meng Zitao looked the three stunned people up and down, but he didn't expect that the stupid three stunned people were actually a smart person.

He smiled and said, "Antiques don't make this thing more valuable the bigger it is, so don't you worry that this snuffbox will be expensive?"

The three stunned shook his head: "That's my own bad luck,"

Meng Zitao asked again: "Even so, then you are not afraid that I will deliberately give a very low price?"

The three stunned people said, "I...... Having observed you, you are not like this kind of person. I was wrong...... He considered himself unlucky. Will you say yes?"

In doing so, Meng Zitao will definitely have a loss, but since he can earn at least 100,000 yuan, why not do it?

Of course, Meng Zitao can also not agree, but the three stunned people are an assertive person, if he doesn't agree, he can't say that in the end, the bamboo basket will be empty.

Some friends may say that Meng Zitao can be tougher, but in the end, it is likely that his reputation will be damaged. Fame is not easy to come by, but the money is inexhaustible, since this is the case, of course, Meng Zitao will accept it when he sees it.

"Okay, I promise, but we'll have to make a note first. ”

"Can ......"

The two set up a note, and Meng Zitao directly gave the price, 200,000 for snuff bottles, and 700,000 for Guanyin statues.

"However, what I'm talking about is the market reference price, and if you transfer them to someone else, unless you find the right person, you will definitely not be able to sell them at a high price. Of course, you can also take something to a big auction company and ask them to auction it, but in addition to the associated fees, the sale price can be more or less. ”

Meng Zitao said seriously, but the three stunned people looked stupid, and I don't know if he listened or not.

In fact, it's no wonder that the three stunned people look like this, his family can only earn a few hundred yuan a month, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are completely astronomical for him. And he never expected that his biological father would leave him such a big fortune.

After a long while, the three stunned people came back to their senses, when he saw the snuffbox that no longer belonged to him, in his heart, extremely painful and annoyed, if he hadn't just agreed and signed the agreement, he was likely to regret it.

Meng Zitao also expected the reaction of the three stunned people, and it was because of this that he thought of signing an agreement in advance. Moreover, judging from the current situation, I can't invite this statue of Guanyin.

But after thinking about it, he still asked: "Brother Zhang, do you intend to transfer this Guanyin statue?"

The three stunned people didn't think about it, so they shook their heads and disagreed. (To be continued.) )