The reason why Meng Zitao chose to go to a mess of old goods to see if there were any eye-catching objects was just boring, and he didn't have the idea of being able to pick up the leaks in this pile of things.

In fact, it is precisely like this, Meng Zitao first took a brief look at it, but did not find what he liked, and he used the ability again, and the result was the same.

At this time, Wei Hongliang walked back with his things, and Meng Zitao also returned to his seat.

Wei Hongliang said with a smile: "Boss Meng, is there anything that can be seen?"

Meng Zitao smiled and shook his head.

Wei Hongliang didn't care, and directly took the things out of the box and put them on the table: "Boss Meng, you came by coincidence, I just received these two items a few days ago, you can see if they are agreeable." ”

Meng Zitao nodded and looked at the two pieces of porcelain on the table.

One of them is a small base, the upper part of the base is a furnace style, four ruyi-shaped feet are connected to the hollow circle bottom, and the lower part is four-legged. The whole body is covered with Longquan green glaze, and the glaze color of the protrusion of the wall decoration is lighter, and the visual effect is clearer. The shape is smart and cute.

This porcelain should be the style of Longquan kiln in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Meng Zitao looked at it carefully and determined that it should be a genuine product, but the value is not too high, and it is estimated that it is about 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

The rest is a deer head, and the bottom is the blue and white seal book of the "Qianlong Year of the Qing Dynasty".

The earliest appearance of the deer head with the year name is the Yongzheng period, usually the height is more than forty-five centimeters, magnificent and steady, the style is generous, and it is very suitable for the palace to furnish, so the Yongzheng Qianlong and Qianlong dynasties are quite popular with the royal family, widely popular, and it is one of the most noble shapes of the Qing Palace.

But this deer head is very small, only about seventeen or eighteen centimeters, small and beautiful, very rare. In terms of pattern decoration, the use of common painted Bailu and blue and white entwined branches and lotus patterns, its brushes are clear and swaying, the layout is like a pattern, blue and white color, rich shade changes, for the characteristics of the genuine product.

The lines of this product are beautiful and full, the blue and white are bright and beautiful, the tire glaze is white and warm, the layout is sparse and elegant, the painting is meticulous and smart, it can be called the Qianlong imperial porcelain, the rare small utensils are large, and the value is of course expensive, at least about one million.

However, in the process of observation, Meng Zitao found a little problem, in terms of pulp, something is not quite right, but it is not necessarily true to say that it is a fake, because from the perspective of tire glaze blue and white, it can be clearly seen that it is genuine.

This made Meng Zitao a little strange, he observed carefully, and with the help of the ability, he unexpectedly found that this was actually a repair porcelain, and it was not just repaired, the mouth edge of the Zun was missing a piece, which was made up.

This result surprised Meng Zitao very much, so he really hadn't seen anyone with such superb restoration skills, even if the restored porcelain he had seen in the master was still done by Zhang Lao, the restoration master of the porcelain capital, if you look carefully, you can see some problems.

However, this person's craftsmanship is completely superior to Zhang Lao, if he hadn't seen the traces of restoration with his own eyes, it is really unimaginable that there is such a high level of porcelain restoration technology, which is no different from the whole vessel.

This made Mencius admire and wanted to meet each other and discuss the knowledge of porcelain restoration. For example, although Meng Zitao can also repair porcelain, but because of the conditions, some means cannot be used, so porcelain repair is his weakness, so he wanted to discuss with the other party.

However, Meng Zitao immediately thought of the purpose of his coming, and he couldn't help but think about it, because in reality, it is often unlikely that it will be so coincidental, and he thinks that the porcelain maker he is looking for and this repairer are probably the same person.

Meng Zitao put this matter aside first, because even if it was indeed the same person, he would definitely not be able to find the other party, and professional matters would be handled by professional people.

Seeing Meng Zitao put down the deer head, Wei Hongliang asked with a smile, "Boss Meng, are you still satisfied?"

Meng Zitao nodded: "Please ask the shopkeeper Wei to give a price." ”

Wei Hongliang successively pointed to the base and the deer head: "This piece is fifteen thousand, this one is nine hundred and fifty thousand!"

First of all, the price of the base is still relatively normal, and if the deer head is genuine, this price is of course appropriate, but now it is a patch, so it can't be counted like this.

Meng Zitao thought for a while and bargained: "The base is 12,000, and the deer head is 50,000." ”

If it is a simple repairer, the price of 50,000 yuan must be low, but this deer head is not complete, as the saying goes, the porcelain "long hair" is not worth a penny, let alone the lack of such a piece, that is, the person who repairs it is highly skilled, otherwise, 50,000 is impossible.

Wei Hongliang listened to the price given by Meng Zitao, and his expression immediately turned cold: "Boss Meng, you didn't laugh, did you?"

Tian Yinan also gave this price to Meng Zitao, which was a little incredible, but he immediately thought of the words revealed by Zheng Zongxian before, so he didn't feel strange.

Meng Zitao didn't bother to talk to him, and said bluntly: "Shopkeeper Wei, this deer head should have been moved, right?"

Although Meng Zitao's words were direct, he was still polite, and he didn't say that this was a kind of pick-up.

Picking up the head is a term used in the restoration of antiques. Originally used to evaluate the repaired old calligraphy and painting, in the old furniture industry, it specifically refers to the repaired old furniture. It mostly refers to the renovation of damaged and incomplete handicrafts, or the repair of them to hide the eyes of the eye.

The word has the connotation of picking up loose things, and it has a pejorative connotation in the antiques industry, unlike "restoration", which is public, while "picking up loose heads" is often hidden, for the sake of blindness.

If Wei Hongliang told him directly, this is a repairer, then it is nothing, throughout the ages, the broken porcelain has gone to the sea, and it is normal for the porcelain to be repaired, but to conceal it is to be a Mongolian person, and it has changed from a repairer to a loose head.

Maybe some friends will think that Wei Hongliang may not know, but if he doesn't know, it is impossible to bid 950,000 yuan for something worth at least one million.

Wei Hongliang didn't expect Meng Zitao to directly point out the problem, and he didn't expect that the young Meng Zitao could see it, which made him mutter in his heart, and frowned on the surface.

"Boss Meng, aren't you joking?"

"Just pretend hard. Meng Zitao sneered secretly, and then pretended to be a little surprised: "Shopkeeper Wei, you don't know?"

Wei Hongliang frowned and said, "Boss Meng, can you please make it clear?"

"It seems that I misunderstood Shopkeeper Wei. As he spoke, Meng Zitao pointed out the problem above the deer head.

This made Tian Yinan a little amazed, while Wei Hongliang looked like a mournful concubine, unable to speak for a long time.

"Hey!

Wei Hongliang sighed bitterly, and then apologized to Meng Zitao, no matter what Meng Zitao thought in his heart, of course he had to do enough work on the surface.

Next, Wei Hongliang told Meng Zitao that he did not plan to sell this deer head because of the eye, and the other base was given to Meng Zitao at the price that Meng Zitao had just proposed.

Meng Zitao swiped the card to pay, Wei Hongliang saw that Meng Zitao used a bank gold card, his heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Boss Meng, I don't know if you are interested in ancient brocade?"

"What brocade?" Meng Zitao asked.

"It's a brocade collection I received, so I'll show it to you. ”

"Okay......

Wei Hongliang took his things and returned to the back room, at this time, Tian Yinan nodded to Meng Zitao, and Meng Zitao immediately understood his thoughts, nothing more than saying that Wei Hongliang was completely deliberately tricking people just now.

After a while, Wei Hongliang came over with a booklet with a hard cover, which looked like a philatelic album that he usually saw, the size of A3 paper.

Wei Hongliang carefully put the booklet on the table, opened it with his gloved right hand, and the first thing that caught Mencius's eye was a piece of brocade with a lotus flower with a twig.

I saw that the brown brocade was woven on the baby play pattern, and the two groups of baby play stepped on the lotus throne or the flower throne respectively, or climbed the lotus with both hands, or held the lotus with both hands, and the expression was vivid and lovely.

Meng Zitao thought for a while and asked with some hesitation, "Is this Song Jin?"

Wei Hongliang gave Meng Zitao a thumbs up: "Amazing." ”

"I guessed too. Meng Zitao smiled, said a few polite words, put on gloves, and appreciated this collection of highlights.

In the Song Dynasty, after the lotus baby picks the pattern brocade, it is a piece of Ming Yongle Tibetan blue ground weaving gold brocade dragon pattern royal round supplement, after that, it is some brocade of the Qing Dynasty, and the value is also a lot worse.

Meng Zitao turned to the last page, and it was basically certain that these brocades should be genuine, and he was also a little moved in his heart, but don't underestimate the brocades on such a booklet, but the value is not cheap, especially the first two pieces of Song and Ming brocades, which add up to seven or eight hundred thousand, plus the brocades in the back, add up to more than one million.

This made Meng Zitao hesitate, because he didn't like this kind of thing too much, and if he spent millions to buy it, he wouldn't be able to make a few dollars, and some of it was not very cost-effective.

But Meng Zitao immediately thought that if he didn't want it, he could give it to the auction company, which could be regarded as enriching the lots. So, he used his psionic energy as usual, but the result was a flash of surprise in his eyes, there was something else hidden in this booklet.

Meng Zitao's gaze stayed on the back cover for a while, and sure enough, he found some clues.

Next, Meng Zitao and Wei Hongliang bargained, and finally sold for 1.2 million, which was somewhat expensive, if it wasn't for Meng Zitao's unexpected discovery, he would definitely not agree.

Out of the store, Meng Zitao talked to Zheng Zongxian on the phone, and told Zheng Zongxian about the matter of Lu Touzun, Zheng Zongxian also agreed with Meng Zitao's judgment and said that he would investigate immediately, as for how to investigate, it was not something that Meng Zitao cared about.

Because of an unexpected discovery, Meng Zitao gave up the idea of going to the antique market, said hello to Tian Yinan, and returned to the hotel by car.

On the way, Meng Zitao received a call from Chai Porcelain, asking where Meng Zitao lives now and plans to come over tomorrow to visit.

Back at the hotel, Meng Zitao asked the army to bring a sharp knife and prepared to take things out.

Dajun put the knife in front of Meng Zitao, and was a little curious: "Meng Shao, what do you want a knife for?"

Meng Zitao opened the back cover of the booklet and said with a smile: "Guess what, the answer is in this booklet." ”

"On the booklet?" Dajun looked at it with some confusion, he was more careful, and after a while, he saw that there was something wrong with the back cover: "This back cover seems to be deliberately glued, and there is something in it?"

"Exactly. Meng Zitao smiled: "Let's take a look now to see what is inside." ”

After speaking, Meng Zitao began to work, and after a while, he opened the back cover, only to see that a piece that looked like an animal skin and was painted on it appeared in front of the two of them.

"What is this?" said the army, a little strange.

"This ......" Meng Zitao thought of the time given by the ability, and a thing recorded in the history books immediately flashed in his mind: "Not surprisingly, this is likely to be the white deer coin of the Han Dynasty." ”

Dajun was surprised: "You said that there is such a thing as a coin made of white deer skin, I have never heard of it before." ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It's normal that I haven't heard of it, this kind of white deer coin was originally a thing that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a sudden idea, and it didn't circulate for long." ”

Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, strange money abounds: for example, Yap Island in the Solomon Islands uses a huge chiseled thunderstone as money, and some of these "huge money" weigh up to 3 tons, and two cows may not be able to pull it; to this day, there are still people in the Solomon Islands who use pig's teeth as money, and this kind of "money in the pigsty" is also used as a "heavy weapon of a country" and is magnificently displayed on the national flag and national emblem.

This kind of strange money that sounds a little "strange" is actually available in ancient China, for example, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, took money made of white deer skin.

Now people's impression of ancient coins is generally copper coins, a little rare, such as a knife flat five thousand, cloth coins and other coins, a little longer, that is, shell coins, generally think that there are still people who will use white deer skin to make zuò coins.

Of course, there is a reason for this.

It is said that when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he raised white deer in the Shanglin Garden outside Chang'an City, and they multiplied more and more, not only completely lost the capital of pets that were scarce and expensive, but also wasted fodder, which became a huge burden on the palace finances.

At this time, it was the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 119 B.C., at this time, the large-scale war with the Xiongnu and the southeast and southwest tribes had begun, and various domestic "buildings and halls" and infrastructure projects had also spread out a large stall.

Zhang Tang, his favorite minister, really gave a good idea: slaughter the white deer, cut the deer skin into small pieces of one foot square after nitrate, and paint them, and then, these small pieces of deer skin, which are not enough to make a pair of children's boots, became the top money with a price of 400,000 Wen, white deer coins.

This idea seems really good: on the one hand, the white deer skin can be used as money, and the number of white deer in Shanglin Yuan will be effectively controlled, and the grain and grass will no longer be wasted; It can be said that if this trick is good, it is equivalent to peeling off two skins from a white deer to use. (To be continued.) )