Seeing that the two of them looked a little stunned, Meng Zitao smiled in his heart, in fact, this situation is very common in the antique industry, and many people suffer because they don't notice such details.

In addition to "talking on paper", there is also Li Bai's well-known "Silent Night Thoughts", which everyone must have memorized and familiar with when they were children, but in fact, the original text of this poem is not the version we are familiar with.

In the Song Dynasty Hongmai's "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains", the original poem is "Looking at the moonlight before the bed, it is suspected that it is frost on the ground." Raise your head to look at the mountains and moons, and bow your head to think of your hometown". In the Ming Dynasty, the "Ten Thousand Tang Dynasty Quatrains" was revised, and "raising your head to look at the mountain and the moon" was changed to "raising your head to look at the bright moon". In Shen Deqian's "Tang Poetry Tailoring" in the Qing Dynasty, the first sentence "watching the moonlight before the bed" was changed to "the bright moonlight in front of the bed".

In the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by Sun Zhu, these two sentences were revised and synthesized, and it became the now well-known version.

So, if someone wants to sell you a painting and calligraphy of a famous Ming Dynasty artist, with the whole poem "Silent Night Thoughts" written on it. If you look at it and find that the first sentence at the beginning of it is "bright moonlight in front of the bed", then you don't need to look at it, it must be a fake.

After listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, Shu Ze was also a little ashamed and speechless, thinking that he was interested in antiques, and he had been interested in antiques for nearly seven or eight years, during which he had read countless materials, but he didn't know anything about the knowledge point that Meng Zitao said, and it was really embarrassing to think about it.

However, after thinking about it again, Shu Ze was also a little relieved, after all, most of the time, he treats antiques only in the nature of playing tickets, and language is the subject he hates the most, and it is normal for some knowledge points to be unclear.

It's just that Ergou actually dared to use such a thing to fool him, which made Shu Ze a little annoyed, and said with a smile: "Ergou, now that you are so capable, you actually dare to take this kind of thing out?"

Ergou's heart trembled, and he hurriedly arched his head, and said with a smile on his face: "Shu Shao, this matter really has nothing to do with me, I didn't know that they would bring this kind of thing over." ”

"Do you think I'm a fool?" Shu Ze's face turned cold.

Seeing Shu Ze's expression, Ergou only felt that his back began to sweat, and quickly explained: "Shu Shao, I really didn't lie to you, to tell you the truth, these things are actually not specially prepared for you." They said it was a good thing, so I showed it to you, and God knows it's such a fake. ”

At this time, Meng Zitao sneered: "What are you fooling with this, if you don't know what this thing is, you just said it so slippery?"

Ergou laughed dryly: "Teacher Meng, you are here for the first time, it is normal not to know, in fact, the information of the things here is provided to me by others, I am familiar with it and will tell you, as for whether it is true or not, it is up to you to judge." ”

Meng Zitao saw Shu Ze nodded, and immediately understood, in the final analysis, this is actually an antique shop, and these two dogs are just the second little shop that sells things.

At this time, I heard Shu Ze say: "Ergou, I won't care about the cats in you, I'll just say what to do." ”

"Shu Shao, this matter is not something I can decide, you wait a moment. Ergou hurriedly said goodbye to Shu Ze, and went back to the back room to contact someone.

After Ergou left, Shu Ze said: "When I first came, I told him, as long as I like something, the price is negotiable, but don't fool me with fakes." ”

Meng Zitao suddenly realized, no wonder Shu Ze said it so reasonably, it turned out that there was such an agreement. Thinking of this, he was happy in his heart again, Shu Ze was able to explain like this, explaining that he recognized him as a person, otherwise, why would Shu Ze explain.

After a while, Ergou walked back with a smile on his face, pointed to another thing on the table, and said, "Shu Shao, our boss said just now, in order to apologize, this thing will be given to you." ”

Shu Ze sneered: "That's it?"

Ergou said with a smile: "You can ask for anything, as long as we can provide it, we will definitely satisfy you." ”

"I want the best of you. Shu Ze said lightly.

Ergou smiled: "That's for sure, you Shu Shao come, I will definitely take the best thing to entertain you!"

Shu Ze sneered: "Hehe, don't give me a sloppy look, otherwise I won't be so easy to talk to." ”

Ergou smiled: "Shu Shao, don't worry, you will definitely feel at home today." You take a look at this thing first, and I'll go get the rest out. ”

Shu Ze nodded, and looked at the other thing on the table, a pen holder.

"It's really rare to see a pen holder embedded with luodian. Meng Zitao said with a smile.

Inlaid luodian is a decorative means used in the lacquer process, mainly using the shell of the snail mussel, the pearlescent layer is thinned and polished into thin sheets, and the images of people, flowers, plants, birds and beasts are embedded in the pre-carved concave pattern, and then a layer of varnish is applied to it, and then it is polished and polished to expose the sheet, and it is completed.

Like the pen holder in front of me, the whole body is made of good Huanghuali, and the body of the cylinder floats up a poem with the inlaid luodian technique, and the end corner has the seal of Zhu Xiaosong.

This Zhu Xiaosong is a famous bamboo carver in the late Ming Dynasty, together with the father and son, known as "Bamboo Sansong", not only good at small seals and grass, but also more profound attainments in painting, their works, often have a very good performance in the auction market, therefore, if this artifact is genuine, the market value is about three or four hundred thousand.

Meng Zitao looked at it carefully, the wood grain was straight and clear, the pulp was simple and heavy, and it should be a large-door utensil. In fact, this is also obvious, even if Ergou intends to come up with a fake, he doesn't dare to have problems with both, otherwise, Meng Zitao believes that Shu Ze will definitely teach Ergou a profound lesson.

Next, Ergou took a few things one after another, and Meng Zitao took a closer look at them one by one, and found that they were also genuine products that opened the door to the generation, especially a picture of the story of the Qing Kangxi sprinkled blue and white characters, which was worth tens of millions of treasures, which made Meng Zitao really eye-opening.

Shu Ze nodded with satisfaction, and when he saw Ergou standing still, he said, "Ergou, you only have so many things?"

Ergou smiled: "There must be things, but it's just tens of thousands of yuan of ordinary goods, presumably Shu Shao shouldn't care." ”

Shu Ze said lightly: "Give you another chance." ”

"This ......" Ergou hesitated for a moment, finally gritted his teeth, and said: "Shu Shao, I won't tell you, I do have a treasure here, but it was booked by someone." You see, we always have to pay attention to honesty in doing business, and since we have promised the customer, it is not good to change again, don't you say?"

Shu Ze said: "That's okay, it's not difficult for me to tell me the person's phone number, and I'll discuss it with him." ”

Ergou smiled bitterly: "Shu Shao, you don't know, I can't tell the information of the customer, so don't 'take care' of me, a little person, right?"

"Can't you really tell me?" Shu Ze's face changed.

"It's really not good!" said Ergou with a sad face.

Shu Ze smiled coldly, that smile made the second dog creepy, and then, seeing Shu Ze's expression change, he said: "Since this is the case, it is not difficult for me to be for you, you take out the things and show me the head office, right?"

After speaking, he stared at Ergou deadly, seeing Ergou in a cold sweat, he opened his mouth and said, "Shu Shao, you wait for a while, I'll ask my boss first." ”

Shu Ze waved his hand: "Go quickly!"

After about five or six minutes, Ergou cautiously walked back with a brocade box, and he carefully placed it on the table.

However, when Shu Ze and Meng Zitao saw the size of the box, they had a lot of doubts in their hearts, because this was fundamentally different from the information Shu Ze obtained.

At this time, Ergou solemnly put on his gloves again, and then opened the box and took out the things.

"Bronze Venerable?" Shu Ze was stunned on his face, and then said with a smile: "Ergou, now that you are capable, even the Bronze Venerable dares to trade like this." ”

Ergou said with a wronged face: "Shu Shao, this bronze is also unearthed and handed down, and the unearthed bronzes, we don't dare to do such a deal, but if you look at this bag of pulp, it doesn't look like it has just been unearthed, right?"

After being reminded by Ergou, Shu Ze took a closer look and found that this bronze statue was heavily pulped, and it was indeed not the appearance that had just been unearthed.

Seeing the surprise in Shu Ze's eyes, Ergou said with a smile: "Shu Shao, how is it, the bronze venerable should be a 'heirloom', right?"

Shu Ze and Meng Zitao glanced at each other and snorted lightly: "Well, let's take a look first." ”

Speaking of this, he was a little depressed in his heart, originally, the information he got was that there was a Qianlong jade seal of the Qing Dynasty here, but he didn't expect it to become a bronze statue now, which completely disrupted his plan. Because he was very worried, Mencius Tao's eyesight.

You must know that the identification of bronzes is very complicated, and there are counterfeits made by antique dealers, and there are also private individuals who customize according to the genuine products because of their interests or to protect the safety of their collections.

But at this point, he could only watch it with Meng Zitao, hoping that nothing would go wrong.

Zun, now as a bottle, is a kind of large and medium-sized wine container in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The shape of the general statue is ring-footed, round or square-bellied, long neck, open, and large caliber.

But the shape of this bronze statue is a little special, the whole instrument is an elephant, about 30 centimeters high, the body is fat, the limbs are thick and powerful, the proboscis is high, the nostrils stretch forward, used as a mouth, and the wine can flow out of the nostrils. The elephant has a straight back, an oval mouth, and a lid.

The whole body of the elephant is covered with ornaments, the elephant forehead has a pair of swirl patterns, the front of the ears is the cloud and thunder pattern, the back is decorated with the phoenix pattern, and the surface of the instrument is decorated with dragon patterns and animal face patterns. Judging from the ornamentation, Meng Zitao believes that this should be a work of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

On the whole, the image of this elephant is vivid, and the ornamentation is complicated, which fully reflects the creative talent of craftsmen in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. If there are no problems, it is a treasure that cannot be found.

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