Meng Zitao looked at Xiao Yun, and the two discussed in a low voice, Xiao Yun said: "At most, two thousand eight, no matter how expensive it is, I don't want it." ”

"Sorry, it's too low. The stall owner shook his head directly and refused.

Xiao Yun thought about it, but finally gave up, and then picked up another rabbit-shaped jade pendant and asked, "How to sell this jade pendant?"

"Three thousand. The stall owner held out three fingers.

Xiaoyun asked Meng Zitao again and said, "One price, six hundred, agree that I will pay immediately." ”

The stall owner hesitated for a moment, and then agreed: "Okay, six hundred is six hundred." ”

Xiaoyun completed the transaction here, and Meng Hongchang pointed to a purple sand pot in front of him and asked about the price.

This time, the stall owner offered a high price again, and the original four or five thousand purple sand pots of the Republic of China were actually priced at 30,000 yuan. Meng Hongchang exhausted his tongue, but the stall owner just didn't agree with his price, and finally had to give up reluctantly.

After that, it was He Wanyi's turn, the three things she chose were all small boutiques, and the stall owner offered a high price as just now, and in the end, the three things were not sold.

Seeing this situation, Xiaoyun became a little angry, and said in an unkind tone: "I said boss, how can there be such a thing as you, this is not for sale, that is not for sale, are you sincere in business!"

The stall owner said helplessly: "Why am I not sincere in doing business, the key is that the price you give is too low, I can't sell it to you at a loss, right?"

Xiao Yun said angrily: "What! The price we gave is still expensive, you don't know ...... him."

"Xiaoyun!"

Meng Zitao interrupted Xiaoyun's words, and said to the stall owner, "Okay." I know your calculations, but we've done you a favor. Otherwise, believe it or not, a phone call from me will make your calculations completely fail!"

The stall owner rolled his eyes and said with a smile on his face: "Then you can pick a few more." ”

Meng Zitao picked out three things from the stall and said, "Just these three things, five hundred yuan, how about it?"

The three items selected by Meng Zitao are each a tubular jade. A pair of walnuts and a flower mold cricket jar, three things, all look relatively ordinary.

"Five hundred dollars is too little. ”

The stall owner shook his head. However, perhaps because of Mencius's threat, or because these three things are really inconspicuous, he didn't open his mouth this time, and said, "At least one thousand eight." ”

Meng Zitao shook his head: "Six hundred for one piece, six hundred for three pieces, about the same." ”

"Huh. You're really hard at the bargain. I'll take a step back, one thousand and five!"

"A thousand, plus this thing. Meng Zitao pointed to a blue and white bird food jar next to him and said.

The stall owner's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took the bird food jar and said, "How can it, this bird food jar needs at least 50,000 yuan." ”

A trace of anger flashed in Meng Zitao's eyes, and he stared at the stall owner and said, "That's up to eight hundred, how about it?"

The stall owner will accept it when he sees it. He smiled and said, "Okay, eight hundred is eight hundred." ”

Meng Zitao paid. He took his things and turned to leave, and the others followed.

"What the hell is going on?" Xiao Yun still looked a little confused.

He Wanyi said: "You are usually very smart, why can't you even figure this out?"

"I don't understand. Xiaoyun shook his head.

Meng Hongchang explained: "He wants to inquire about the price of things through us. ”

At first, because the stall owner sold a piece of jade pendant to Xiaoyun, he didn't think much about it, until the stall owner rejected him, he felt that there was something wrong, and when he rejected He Wanyi, he confirmed his guess.

Xiaoyun said suspiciously: "But I don't know about antiques." ”

He Wanyi said: "Why can't you turn the corner all of a sudden, didn't you ask before you bought it." ”

"Hey, look at my brain!" Xiao Yun patted his forehead lightly, and then said a little angrily: "Why is this guy like this, can't he afford the cost of appraisal!"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "He has so many things, if they all have to be identified, the cost is not low." ”

Although the stall owner's thoughts can be understood, this kind of behavior must be a bad rule, and Meng Zitao's threat just now is not just talking. The stall owner also knows this, otherwise he wouldn't have been so easy to talk just now.

"That can't be like this! it's so annoying!" Xiao Yun glanced back at the stall owner angrily.

"So he's only in that remote position. He Wanyi said.

"Is this the end of this matter?" Xiao Yun said unwillingly.

Meng Hongchang said with a smile: "I don't believe that our classmate Xiaotao will leave without taking advantage." ”

Meng Zitao said speechlessly: "I seem to be repaying what I said." ”

"Hehe, you have the ability to swear you didn't pick up the leak just now. Meng Hongchang smiled.

"Then you say, which one is missing?" Meng Zitao asked rhetorically.

Xiaoyun looked at the things in Meng Zitao's hand and said, "Yes, I don't think these three things are very good, can such things still be missing?"

"Let's go, let's go in and talk about ......"

Meng Zitao took everyone back to the store, put the three things on the table, looked at Meng Hongchang and asked, "Which one do you think was missing?"

Meng Hongchang pointed to the things on the table and said: "Let's not talk about this pair of chicken heart walnuts, fifty yuan stall, this flower mold cricket jar is not bad, but it is estimated that it will be one or two thousand at most, and the rest is this jade tube, which looks simple and natural, and there is also a Qin color, it should be an ancient jade, but how it is, I can't say." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Not bad, the level is gradually rising." ”

Meng Hongchang smiled proudly: "Of course, otherwise I have studied with them in the auction company for so many days, would my days be in vain?"

Seeing Meng Zitao looking at him, Xiaoyun said: "We don't understand this matter at all, you can just say it." ”

Meng Zitao was about to explain, Shu Ze walked in in a hurry, and as soon as he came in, he first drank a cup of tea.

Meng Zitao first introduced Shu Ze and Meng Hongchang, and then asked, "I said what did you do?"

Shu Ze waved his hand: "Don't mention it." I went to the branch, and I just cursed. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The general manager of the branch is a pro-person. If I can do a good job, forget it, but when I went to see it, it was really a mess, and I couldn't even figure out the amount of a small toilet paper, and now I think about it. ”

"And what did you do with it?"

Shu Ze replied: "I sent someone to check the accounts, I guess I have to let them in a few this time." ”

"So serious?" Meng Zitao said in surprise.

"Hehe, you don't know how dark their hearts are. ”

Shu Ze sneered. waved his hand and said, "I won't say this beforehand, what are you looking at?"

Listening to Meng Zitao tell him what happened just now, he said, "Then let me take a look first." ”

said. He took a closer look at all three things, and finally gave the same statement as Meng Hongchang.

Meng Zitao smiled: "Actually, this is a piece of jade. ”

"What is this?" He Wanyi asked curiously.

Meng Zitao explained: "It is actually a kind of ornament, which was first used for 'steady'. It is also called 'steady le'. ”

Xiaoyun shook his head: "I didn't understand." ”

Meng Zitao said: "The clothing worn by scholars and doctors in ancient times. You must have seen it on TV, right? This kind of thing was used to suppress the skirt when men were moving around, so as not to go too fast and the skirt would fluctuate too much and lose etiquette. ”

After listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, everyone's faces showed a look of understanding.

Shu Ze asked again, "Then what period is this thing?"

Meng Zitao picked up the jade and said: "You can see that its surface is not smooth, and you can see that there are faint knife marks, forming many ridge lines, which is an obvious production feature of the same object in the Shang Dynasty." ”

Xiaoyun exclaimed: "It's actually from the Shang Dynasty, that should be very valuable, right?"

Meng Zitao thought for a moment. said: "Three or four hundred thousand." ”

This price made He Wanyi and them startled, and it took half a ring to come back to their senses.

"Not really. You earned three or four hundred thousand yuan in a few words?" Xiao Yun said stunned.

"It's okay," Meng Zitao didn't seem to care too much, it was really too much of this kind of pick-up, and there was not much surprise for him.

"Is this okay?" Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment and said, "Tuhao, let's be friends!"

These words made Meng Zitao feel that the sky was thundering, and he didn't know how to answer.

He Wanyi kicked Xiaoyun lightly, and said angrily: "You girl, what are you talking about!"

Xiao Yun grinned and said, "Just kidding, will the little girl still fight with you!"

He Wanyi's face turned red, and she said coquettishly: "Dead girl, talk nonsense next time, see if I don't tear your mouth apart!"

Xiao Yun laughed teasingly: "You can count these words yourself, how many times have you said this, but how can my mouth be good?"

"Hmph!" He Wanyi snorted coldly, if in normal times, she would definitely have to settle accounts with Xiaoyun, but now that there are so many outsiders, she can only say this.

"Okay......"

Just as Xiaoyun and He Wanyi were laughing, Shu Ze smiled lightly at Meng Zitao and said, "I see that you are a drunkard and not in the bar." ”

Meng Zitao was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Shu Ze pointed to a walnut on the table and said, "Don't tell me, you don't know that there is a problem with this walnut!"

Meng Zitao was slightly stunned, and thought, could it be that Shu Ze also saw it? But how did he see it?

Of course, although he had some doubts in his heart, he still pretended to be very surprised and said: "I just counted this pair of walnuts just now, and I didn't find anything wrong with this walnut!"

Meng Zitao's performance was hidden from Shu Ze, but he still didn't believe it: "You really didn't see it?"

Meng Zitao said helplessly: "Why am I lying to you, at that time my attention was on this jade le, besides, this is a pair of ordinary chicken heart walnuts, why should I spend time studying them?"

"Didn't you really pay attention?"

"Not really!"

Meng Zitao looked very helpless: "Yes is yes, no is no, what is there to hide about this kind of thing? You should tell me what is wrong with this walnut." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the walnut that Shu Ze said and looked at it.

Shu Ze said, "Don't you think this walnut is lighter than the other?"

Meng Zitao gently rubbed it and said, "It is indeed lighter." But that alone doesn't tell the story, does it?"

Shu Ze said: "Don't you think the gap in the walnut is a little bigger? And if you look closely, the right half is higher than the left half." It looks unnatural. ”

Lifting the walnut and looking at it, Meng Zitao pretended to be surprised and said, "You mean that this pair of walnuts has been unraveled?"

"I think it's very likely. ”

Xiao Yun immediately thought of a possibility and said, "Could it be that there is something hidden in here?"

Shu Ze shrugged his shoulders: "It's hard to say this, maybe there is, maybe someone just did the sabotage, worry." Glue it on. ”

Meng Zitao said: "Dajun, you have a knife, right?"

"Yes. ”

The army took out a knife and placed it on the table.

Meng Zitao opened the knife. I tried the sharpness and it felt fine, and then carefully re-separated the walnuts.

Fearing that the contents would be damaged, Meng Zitao moved very slowly. It took more than ten minutes. When I opened the walnut, I saw that there was something wrapped in paper, about three centimeters long.

Xiaoyun exclaimed, "There really is something!"

Meng Hongchang took over and said, "Open it up and see, what is it?"

Meng Zitao carefully took the things out of the walnut, opened it and looked at it, only to see that inside was a small boat carved with fruit cores, with an old man in the bow of the boat, and square tables, books and other things on the left and right. It is a canopy with four windows on both sides. One person sits on the side of the stern, one on the canopy, and there is a tea stove.

Although this object is small, but exquisite, not only the utensils are vivid, and the carved characters are chic, very expressive. And the whole vessel is only about three centimeters, and the material is the core, this carving skill is really amazing.

Shu Ze was surprised: "It turned out to be a nuclear eagle!"

The so-called nuclear carving is carved into handicrafts with peach pits, apricot pits, olive pits and other fruit pits and walnuts. The earliest nuclear carving works seen in the works are from the Ming Dynasty. "Qing Secret Collection" records that there was an artist named Xia Baiyan during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, "who can carve sixteen dolls on the olive core, and his eyebrows are full of joy and anger." Or engrave nine cocktails, nine lotus flowers, and its pan bends and flies away in a state of contract, becoming a small nucleus in square inches".

Meng Hongchang exclaimed: "This seems to be carved from a peach pit, the level can be so high, the author should not be an ordinary person." ”

At this time, Meng Zitao turned the boat over, and saw that there were three words "Wang Shuyuan" on the bottom of the boat, and there was also a seal.

Meng Zitao took out a magnifying glass and looked at it, and found that it turned out to be the three words "Wang Yiyin".

"It's actually a peach pit boat carved by Wang Yi!" Shu Ze was a little uneasy when he saw the style and seal.

He Wanyi said: "This name seems to be a little familiar, I seem to have seen it in a book." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Do you have any impression of Wei Xueyun's "Nuclear Boat Story"?"

"Ah, it turned out to be him!" He Wanyi and they all suddenly realized.

The nuclear carving of the Ming Dynasty, the most famous boat carved with a peach pit "peach pit boat", the founder is the maker of this nuclear boat Wang Yi.

Wang Yi, the word Shuyuan, also known as Shuming, is a native of Pingshan at the beginning of the year, and is known as "ghost worker". He was a famous carver in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His name can be known to the world and will be famous for centuries, thanks to the article He Wanyi said, Wei Xueyun's "Nuclear Boat Story".

According to the available information, Wang Yi's creative activities in the Ming Dynasty Wanli to the beginning of the Shunzhi Dynasty, he is good at carving, can design exquisite miniature carving works according to the material, especially good at carving nuclear boats, carved things, fine and meticulous, superb carving skills, the crown is unparalleled.

However, there are few surviving works, and there are only 4 known engraving works, and 3 of them are only written records.

Among them, there are 2 fruit core carving works, namely the peach pit boat "Dasu Pan Chibi", the peach pit boat "Dongpo Boating Chibi", and 1 wood carving work, which is a miniature wood carving "Tianfeng Tower".

In addition, there is a hand-me-down object, the peach pit carving "Su Dongpo Night Tour of Chibi", which is now in the domestic museum.

Meng Zitao thought for a moment and said: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the peach peachboat of "Dasu Pan Chibi". ”

Shu Ze said: "I remember that this peach boat was given to Li Rihua by Wang Shuyuan, and later Li Rihua also wrote a "Nuclear Boat Story". ”

Meng Zitao nodded, then took out his mobile phone, checked the Internet, and after a while, he found the relevant article.

"Uncle Wang of Yushan is far from a coincidence, and he can carve all kinds of carvings on the peach pit, as thin as a hair, and everything is unknown. One day with Chen Liangqing and Tu Yongming. Gu Yu Chunbo is new, and Yiyu is only eight points long. In the canopy, two sides of the window four, each has a pivot can be opened and closed, open then the inner column. ”

"The bow of the ship is an old man, sitting on his belly, and a few books on the left and right. There is a furnace on the right, and there is still a volume in his hand. One person sits on his side at the stern. A canopy is placed. There is a tea stove on one side, and there is still a hole under it. A teapot on the stove still has a handle. The eyebrows and folds of the clothes are all made. Four windows on each of the two words. Said: 'The sky is high, the moon is small, the water falls, and the stone emerges'. There is a paragraph on the bottom of the boat with the words 'Wang Shuyuan'. It still has a small seal such as half a millet, Wenyun 'Wang Yi seal'. Amazing!"

Meng Hongchang read this short article again, compared it with the nuclear boat in front of him, and said with a smile: "Needless to say." This is the nuclear boat that the article is talking about. Xiao Tao. You're a big leak. ”

Meng Zitao smiled and waved his hand: "Whether it is a leak or not, we have to identify it." ”

"No, you still think it's fake?" Xiaoyun said.

"It stands to reason that it is unlikely to be a fake, but we don't have this in this business, and the authenticity of something must be justified. Meng Zitao said with a smile.

"It's a nuisance. Xiaoyun muttered, while He Wanyi nodded secretly, feeling that Meng Zitao's attitude was good.

Seeing that Meng Zitao was preparing for identification, Meng Hongchang hurriedly said: "Xiao Tao." Can you tell us a little bit about identifying this kind of thing?"

"No problem. ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Generally speaking. The first thing to look at when identifying this kind of thing is the toning and whether there are small scratches on the surface.

The reason why there are scratches is because when we usually appreciate and play with nuclear carving works, there are many times when we don't pay attention to the cleanliness of our hands, and when our hands are dirty, playing with nuclear carving is like taking a piece of fine sandpaper to scratch and polish nuclear carving, so that the longer the time, the more small scratches on the nuclear carving.

Of course, even if you pay attention to cleanliness, there are many small scratches on the utensils over the centuries. In addition, if you enjoy it a lot, the utensils will also change color......"

"If you can't see the problem in these two aspects, let's look at the carver. The carving process is divided in this way, the first-class master carves the figures, the second-rate master carves the animal, and the third-rate master carves the landscape. Of course, this is not to say that first-class masters only carve figures, but that it is relatively difficult to carve figures......"

Meng Zitao carefully described the key points of the identification of nuclear carving, and at this time, he carefully examined the walnut boat in his hand, and couldn't help but be amazed.

"How?" asked Shuze.

"No problem, you see. Meng Zitao smiled and stepped aside.

Shu Ze asked He Wanyi to look at them first, and said to Meng Zitao with a smile: "You say, how can you thank me for today's incident?"

"Without you, I also know that walnuts hide treasures. ”

Meng Zitao muttered to himself, of course, having said that, with Shu Ze's discovery, it also saved him a lot of trouble, otherwise, he would have to make up some reasons, not to mention trouble, it is easy to have problems.

So, he smiled and said, "Okay, what do you want, say it." ”

Shu Ze smiled and said, "My requirements are not high, as long as you transfer this jade lele to me." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Okay, no problem. ”

After a while, everyone admired this amazing nuclear boat one by one.

Xiao Yun gloated and said, "If that person knows that you picked up his two leaks, he will probably be so angry that he vomits blood." ”

Meng Zitao smiled slightly, and said in his heart, just with that person's stingy character, if you really want to know that he picked up two leaks, and there is a treasure, he is not just angry and vomits blood, but he has to come over and fight hard.

Meng Hongchang said: "That kind of villain, it's better not to let him know, otherwise it will cause trouble." ”

Xiaoyun said disapprerovingly: "This is his own problem, can he still blame others!"

Shu Ze smiled: "If it's just tens of thousands of things, it may not be nothing, but hundreds of thousands, millions, when you meet that kind of small-minded, it's really possible to make trouble." This kind of thing is not uncommon in the antique industry, to put it simply, you can't afford to lose. ”

Xiao Yun thought about the stall owner's personality and felt that this matter was really uncertain: "However, he also took advantage of us, what else is not satisfied." ”

Meng Hongchang took over and said: "That's it, not to mention anything else, the bird food jar that Xiao Tao chose in the end should be a good thing." ”

Meng Zitao smiled a little embarrassedly: "Actually, the bird food jar just now is a fake. ”

"Fake?" everyone was a little stunned.

Meng Zitao spread his hands: "It's none of my business, I chose that bird food jar just to make the bargain more realistic, but I didn't expect him to treat that thing as a treasure." ”

Shu Ze smiled and said, "In the end, that person is too greedy." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Actually, when doing business, it is normal for me to cheat, especially in our industry, I don't think I am nobler than others, as long as I have a clear conscience." ”

"Yes, just have a clear conscience......" (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you for the reward of "Liu Lijin, Dongshan Village, Ningxiang County"!