Qian Yaosi is indeed the owner of this antique shop, and he is also one of the elders of the Confucius Temple Antique City, and his family history, his father before the liberation, was a professor of history at Peking University, and later looked at some of the authorities' style, published some remarks in the newspaper, was hated by the authorities, so he resigned from Peking University and returned to his hometown Nanjing to open an antique shop.

When the old man was in the capital, he often visited the antique market such as the glaze factory, and there were many things that flowed out of the palace in those years, even the one who was locked up in the Forbidden City at that time, poured objects out, which really made him receive a lot of good things, plus he was knowledgeable, and he could quote scriptures for each antique, and tell the origin of its inheritance, and he was also one of the more famous collectors and connoisseurs in China before liberation.

After returning to Nanjing, he helped people write on weekdays, or identified antique calligraphy and painting, and the days passed freely, and the Qinhuai River of Confucius Temple was the place where the old man often lingered, but later fled from Nanjing during the war, and did not return to Nanjing until the 40s, and now Qian Yaosi, after being born, was influenced by his father's ears and eyes, and had a strong interest in the antique industry.

The chaotic days of the ten years after the liberation made Qian Yaosi's father from an intellectual to a stinky old nine, and passed away after many hardships, and many antique calligraphy and paintings in the family were all copied from the house, and at the end of the seventies, the old man Qian was rehabilitated, and Qian Yaosi began to run to the relevant departments again and again, and chased back some of the things that were copied from the family, but some calligraphy and paintings were burned and could not be restored, which made Qian Yaosi feel distressed.

In the early 80s, when most people in China were still eating big pot rice, Qian Yaosi, who had just turned 40 years old, quit his job arranged to take care of him, took a few thousand yuan in state compensation, and became a self-employed person, and he was the most despised self-employed: collecting rags, Qian Yaosi pedaled a tattered tricycle all day long, wandering the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and only collected waste calligraphy, paintings, newspapers, and some broken ceramic crockpots and other things, and was called a money maniac by some neighbors at that time.

After the nineties, Qian Yaosi turned over to be the landlord, when the policy was relaxed, Qian Yaosi found a father in Hong Kong, and took a few antiques that did not belong to the export restrictions to Hong Kong to auction, and was immediately worth a hundred times, and then opened several antique shops in Chaotian Palace and Confucius Temple, and the business was getting bigger and bigger, and in the domestic collection circle, they were all famous collectors.

Since it is an antique business, of course, it is impossible to only enter and exit, but Qian Yao Siqi has extremely poisonous eyes, and has a wide range of activities, from calligraphy and painting to ceramics to bronzes, as long as it is a real object, there is rarely a time to look away, so there are more opportunities to pick up leaks.

But Qian Yaosi can buy things cheaply, if others want him to sell things cheaply, there is no door, don't think about it, the objects that flow out of his hands are all old things, but the price, often compared to the price he went to the auction house to auction, is not much better, after a long time, others gave him a nickname, called: death for money.

Doing business is supposed to maximize profits, and Qian someone gets this nickname, but he is not angry, and he is a little complacent.

To say that this nickname is somewhat similar to his name upside down, but Qian Yaosi is indeed very wronged, the reason why he gave this name is because his mother's surname is Yao, and the old man Qian and his wife are very affectionate, after Qian Yaosi's mother died, he changed Qian Yaosi's current name, which was originally the "Si" of missing, but thinking about the boy's name is a little indecent, and finally it became Sven's "Si".

In the past few years, Qian Yaosi has rarely run outside because of his age, and he has nothing to do with the two antique shops, but he is drinking tea and chatting with old friends, and he will not take care of these idle affairs in person.

If you want to mix in the antique industry, if you don't have a good eyesight, you can't play this line at all, this eyesight is not only to see things, but also to see people, Qian Yaosi has been mixed in this industry for a lifetime, naturally needless to say, this room full of guests, he looked at it, he knew that they were ordinary tourists, without a connoisseur, these people would not spend a lot of money to buy things that they couldn't see.

When Zhuang Rui and others came in just now, the money shopkeeper didn't care much, although several people were dressed well, but those who could travel out this year were all with a few spare money in their hands, and it was not uncommon to wear them well, but the two little Tibetan mastiffs attracted the attention of the money shopkeeper, but the interlaced lines were like mountains, and it was a young mastiff, he was not sure that this was a purebred Tibetan mastiff, so he walked into a few steps and wanted to take a good look.

The original intention of this money shopkeeper is just to see, he is not a pet, even if this Tibetan mastiff is valuable, it has nothing to do with him, but when he got closer, when Zhuang Rui raised his hand, he just exposed his wrist in front of Qian Yaosi behind him, and the money shopkeeper saw the dzi on Zhuang Rui's wrist at a glance, and Qian Yaosi couldn't pull it out at a glance.

The string of dzi in Zhuang Rui's hand is dark red and almost black-brown, and it is not very conspicuous on the wrist, but Qian Yaosi knows that the purest dzi with the texture of super-grade natural agate chalcedony is this color, and after special processing, the color is even deeper.

The money shopkeeper himself has a string of dzi bracelets, but there are only two dzi on it, and the rest are matched with other jade.

Dzi is the most valuable talisman of the Tibetan people, and sincere offerings and wearing dzi can eliminate karma, obtain good fortune, prevent strokes and avoid being harmed by evil spirits in foreign ways, and can enhance physical strength, increase wealth and so on.

The above are all folk sayings, the money shopkeeper knows, Dzi is taken from the nine-eyed stone shale, belongs to a kind of sedimentary rock, contains jade and agate components, the red magnetic wave is the strongest, is a rare gem, Dzi magnetic field is three times that of crystal, long-term wear can prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, and other blood-related diseases, but also can prevent nightmares, insomnia, headaches and other nervous system diseases.

The purest dzi is also the real dzi, the price is not calculated according to the jewelry, but on the money, a genuine dzi, that is, the value is more than 100,000, people will spare their lives when they are old, Qian Yaosi's heart is not very good, blood pressure is also high, Qian Yaosi's own two hands, it cost him nearly 400,000, at this moment I saw the bracelet in Zhuang Rui's hand, very similar to the real old dzi, I just heard Liu Chuan's joke that is not elegant, so there was a scene of the last part.

Zhuang Rui saw the gaze of the shopkeeper, and was quite in awe of this fat old man, presumably his identity was not fake, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment, Liu Chuan didn't have a door on his mouth, and the joke was tantamount to referring to Sang scolding Huai, and if he changed his temper, he might blow a few people out.

"Old man, I'm just a beginner, how dare I show ugliness in front of you. ”

Zhuang Rui looked around the antique shop and found that there were various shapes of ceramics and exquisite bronzes on the shelves, ancient calligraphy and paintings of celebrities on the walls, and some jade, ancient coins, four treasures of the study and miscellaneous objects in the counter, many of which he couldn't even name, where did he dare to make a comment.

Qian Yaosi's eyes had moved away from the dzi on Zhuang Rui's wrist at this time, and he looked at Zhuang Rui with a harmless smile, and said: "Young man, as the saying goes: less arrogant, always more stable (this sentence can also be said the other way around, each has its own reason), I think you are quite right, how about we make a bet?"

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, a little confused about the doorway of this fat old man, what kind of bet with himself for no reason, Zhuang Rui has always acted more steadily, and he rarely does things that he is not sure of, and said at the moment: "This old man, I just hang out, just bet on it, Liu Chuan, Xuan Bing, let's go." ”

This thing is full of evil nature today, Zhuang Rui doesn't want to stay in this shop, anyway, there are dozens of shops on the antique street, where to go around, there is no need to ink with this inexplicable fat old man here.

Qian Yaosi saw that Zhuang Rui was leaving, he was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Young man, don't be in a hurry to leave, listen to me first, how about it? I have an old open door in this store, although it is not very valuable, but seven or eight hundred thousand RMB is still worth it, if you can find it, I will give him to you for nothing, if you can't find it, I want to buy one of your things, I hope you can cut your love, how about it? Do you dare to gamble with my old man." ”

The old dzi is not something that can be bought with money, let Qian Yaosi meet it today, how can he let it go, Qian Yaosi knows the taboo of wearing dzi, and he didn't touch it, but he has already concluded in his heart that this is indeed the purest old dzi, I am afraid that Zhuang Rui will not sell it, so he simply used the agitation method.

As mentioned above, the phrase "fishing" in the antique shop is specially designed to attract some people who are half-aware of the new industry, and most of the so-called drowned people can swim, and these people often think that other things are genuine when they see old objects that are open in the store, but they buy them home, but they are some fakes.

The antique worth seven or eight hundred thousand yuan mentioned by Qian Yaosi is probably used for fishing in the store......