Chapter 11: Buying Antiques in a Pile of Estimates!
"Jade: white jade lotus seed bottle, white jade flower incense tube, green jade Baishou Ruyi, white jade phoenix water bowl, white jade auspicious Ruyi cover furnace,
Jewelry: agate snuff bottle, agate gold bowl, gold inlaid gemstone gourd bottle, gold red coral gemstone bonsai, tortoiseshell sheath waist knife, enamel jade lotus bonsai, crane top red ornament silver gilt Amitayus Buddha
Bamboo and wood: rosewood landscape play cabinet, mahogany carved piano table, agarwood pen holder, carved lacquer dragon pattern throne.
What are these strange names? It looks like an antique roster!" Jia Lei asked, looking at his notebook.
"This is the list of antiques, and this is the list of the property that was returned to me back then! Many of the antiques that my father collected back then were stolen, and the things that were recorded at that time were returned, and some of the things that were really not found were taken by them. Luo Yaozu said.
"Why are some of them √ with pens!" Jia Lei asked curiously.
"If you tick the box, I have already sold it!" Luo Yaozu said, in the past few years, he has relied on selling antiques to make a living.
"It's better not to sell antiques, maybe the price will increase in a few years! I plan to go to the glass factory to buy antiques and collect them back these days." Jia Lei flipped through the booklet and said.
The value of antiques is not particularly high now, and it is profitable to collect some money - the premise of making money is that the antiques you buy cannot be fake!
At this time, Professor Wang came in with his uncle, because he was afraid of being robbed of money, and the money bag that Wang Xinglang had been carrying sat in a taxi and waited outside the alley.
"I've negotiated the price with him, let's count the money and let him see it! 270,000. Jia Lei said to his uncle.
Wang Xinglang opened the travel bag and took out a stack of money from it and put it on the table, counting until the 27th stack before stopping!
Luo Yaozu's eyes turned green when he looked at the money on the table, and what made him even more red was that the money in the bag under the table was several times more than that on the table.
"You come to check the authenticity of the money, and if it's okay, I'll give you the money after I go to the housing authority to transfer the money. Jia Lei said, Luo Yaozu immediately pounced on it and began to look at it one by one.
"Which ...... Didn't you just say that you wanted to buy antiques, what do you think of my family's shareholders? Luo Yaozu looked at the money bag on the ground and said.
"Are you telling the truth? Then I'll pick two, but I don't know much about the price of antiques, I don't know how much antiques are worth?" Jia Lei said worriedly, it doesn't matter how much money is spent, the key is that Luo Yaozu Delhi's things can be guaranteed to be true.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's a shame to miss out on the wine!
Jia Lei and Luo Yaozu thought at the same time!
"I only know a little about antiques, and I am often cheated by dealers who come to my door to collect antiques! I am famous in Liuli Factory, and their shopkeepers and vendors are trying their best to lower the price when they see me selling antiques. I took that bottle out to buy it the day before yesterday and they only gave me 2,000 yuan, you must know that this bottle turned out to be a pair! The other one I sold for 20,000 yuan the year before last, and other people's antiques go up every day and my antiques fall every day! They really make me stupid!" Luo Yaozu pouted and said, so the day before yesterday he didn't sell the bottle and brought things back.
"Neither of us know how to price it?" Jia Lei asked.
"Estimate the pile! Except for some things I picked out, let's estimate and sell the rest! What do you think of this proposal?" Luo Yaozu said. He has some antique common sense and knows what is valuable, and he is ready to pick out all the valuable.
"How can this work? The same antique, because of its condition, age, style, author, etc., can vary in value by tens or even hundreds of times! I have heard today that steel scrap products are sold in estimating piles, and I have never heard that antiques can be sold in heaps! Ridiculous!" Professor Wang said with a trembling of anger.
Professor Wang is a true lover of antiques! He can't see the treasures that his predecessors have worked so hard to collect being sold as scrap by future generations.
"You/you understand the price of antiques is great!" Jia Lei and Luo Yaozu said in unison, Luo Yaozu's antique level is actually about the same as Professor Wang.
None of them are really good connoisseurs, but common sense such as the approximate age price is still known.
****
"It's not right for you to do this! This is an antique, not two green onions and a head of garlic on a vegetable stall! How can you be so casual?" Professor Wang stood in the room and thought to himself.
"Why did you take this away? This should be left!" Jia Lei said, dragging a Tang Sancai porcelain.
"Don't you know how to count, this is Tang Sancai, it costs tens of thousands!" Luo Yaozu said, grabbing the other end of the bottle.
"Tang Sancai, you took it, you took Yuan Qinghua too! Then what you left me is all broken porcelain and rotten bowls! This room of porcelain, you took 800,000 yuan from me!" Jia Lei dragged the bottle and didn't let go.
"I've only picked seven or eight! Okay, I can take ten of them. Luo Yaozu hugged the bottle and said.
"I regret it, I only gave 1.8 million for the sake of Tang Sancai and Yuan Qinghua! If you take them away, the things in this house are not even worth 200,000!" Jia Lei shouted.
"Why is it not worth it, this is all porcelain! Last year, a glazed red bowl was sold for 2 million Hong Kong dollars, you see! Didn't I leave that glazed red porcelain to you? Luo Yaozu said.
"That bottle is broken, there are several cracks on it, are you blind to me! The key is that the bottle is not beautiful at all!" Jia Lei stopped drying.
"This ...... This is ......! This way, this is the last one, and I don't want the remaining two!" Luo Yaozu gritted his teeth and said.
Porcelain is not easy to preserve, and most of the things that were returned to his family after the end of the 10-year catastrophe were defective, either this one was cracked or that one was broken, or some ordinary worthless dishes and other things! The better ones were sold by him in the past few years! Now among the 180 items in this house, only these dozen or so are intact and valuable. If you take it all away, I'm afraid this business will be yellow!
"Okay...... Call!...... That's what you said! You don't want the remaining two. Jia Lei always let go, and he also knew that he had made a lot of money by buying so many things for 1.8 million. Can't be unsatisfied!
"After buying the porcelain, let's go to the next room to see the calligraphy and paintings!" Luo Yaozu said breathlessly.
In the past, things were taken out and sold individually, but in the past few years, everyone knows that he is in a hurry to gamble and has tried his best to lower the price, so it is better to sell it to this little brat.
The most expensive porcelain he had ever sold this year was only sold for 50,000 yuan! Later, he heard that the porcelain had been sold for 500,000 yuan, and the shopkeeper of the glaze factory was too dark.
"This time, let's not set the price first, and we'll talk about it when you finish picking things!" Jia Lei learned smart this time, and he refused to give money first.
"Huh! If you don't want to buy it, I don't want to sell it, any good one is worth tens of millions! I'm afraid you can't afford it. Luo Yaozu said.
"Since it's so valuable, you can take it out and sell it, who will you sell it to?" Jia Lei said with raised eyebrows.
"You...... If I have a way to sell it, why will I sell it to you!" Luo Yaozu said angrily, there is no formal auction company in China these days.
"Let's talk about this calligraphy and painting first, let's take you and me in order, and you can make a price!" Jia Lei stood at the door of the calligraphy and painting and said.
The calligraphy and paintings are recorded in the roster, and the few items sold by that generation have scores on both sides.
"Damn, you're too bad, are you trying to get lucky?" Luo Yaozu said, you must know that he still has a pair of Tang Bohu and a pair of Wang Xizhi at home!
"This can't work! Tang Bohu and Wang Xizhidu alone are worth millions, and your money here is definitely not enough!" Luo Yaozu shook his head and said.
"Who told you that I don't have any money, I have a lot of money! In this way, how about you sell one of them to me and I'll help you take the rest to auction?" Jia Lei thought for a while and said, he really can't afford the things of the book saint and the painting saint.
"Can you really help me take things to Hong Kong Island for auction?" Luo Yaozu asked.
"I'm afraid Hong Kong Island can't do it, but I know a lot of rich people in Pengcheng! If you really want to sell, I can invite an auctioneer from Hong Kong Island to come over!" Jia Lei gritted his teeth and said, Mrs. Fan owed him a lot of favors.
"This ...... I'd better stay, and I'll have enough money to spend a few years anyway. Luo Yaozu hesitated and said, these two are real heirlooms.
"That's okay, if you don't want to sell it, you can take it! What is the price for the rest of the things?" Jia Lei asked sadly, this is a national treasure-level collection, and he left him before his eyes!
"There are less than 20 paintings left in this house, all of them are from the Tang Dynasty onwards, and there are no too famous people! A total of 400,000 yuan will be given. Luo Yaozu said that the calligraphy and paintings of all particularly famous people were picked out by him.
"You know that the rest are not too famous people, and you dare to ask for 400,000 unless you call me all the books in the house. Jia Lei pointed to the books on the bookshelf and said.
"Ancient books are also quite valuable, and a good copy can be sold for tens of thousands!
"Then I will have 300,000 more for the remaining calligraphy and paintings!" Jia Lei raised three fingers and said.
"If you add another 100,000, I will sell you the book for 500,000!" Luo Yaozu said.
"Okay! deal!" Jia Lei said.
In addition to the big heads of calligraphy, paintings and porcelain, the rest of the things are much easier to deal with, especially the furnishings of large pieces of furniture, Luo Yaozu is not rare at all. This time, he didn't have to sell all of them to Jia Lei at a price of one million!
"These precious furniture are also quite expensive, why don't you want them this time?" Jia Lei couldn't help but ask.
"That thing is heavy and takes up space, my house is gone, where can I move it?" Luo Yaozu rolled his eyes and asked, he also knew that these furniture were good things, but he didn't feel a loss if he sold them for 1 million.
You must know that he didn't sell any of the jewelry, jade and jewelry of small value, and hid them all in his house.
"That...... Do you still have any money?" asked Luo Yaozu during Ai Ai's period.
"I can afford Tang Bohu's paintings, what do you say?" Jia Lei asked with a roll of his eyes.
"The cash is gone, but I can write you a check! Do you want a check from the Bank of China, and do you need a check from a Swiss bank?" Jia Lei asked.
"What the hell are you doing? Even Swiss bank checks, are you Chinese? You shouldn't be a little devil in disguise, right? My father said, you can't sell the things of your ancestors to little devils. Luo Yaozu said.
"What a little devil, I'm a fellow from Nagada in the Northeast! Our poor people have a grudge against the little devil!" Jia Lei said in the Northeast, Luo Yaozu let go of half of his heart - the other half he had to ask clearly before he could let go.
"Is your family so rich that you are an overseas Chinese?" Luo Yaozu asked.
"No, my family is a rich generation! This money is earned by ourselves, and my whole family is a fallen master! Our village is only two miles away from the Soviet port, do you understand?" Jia Lei said. Luo Yaozu nodded, there are many people in the capital of Eastern Europe, all of them are rich!
"I'm relieved if I have money, in the end, there are still some musical instruments and miscellaneous things in this room, do you want them?" Luo Yaozu opened the door and said, Jia Lei waited for the ashes in the air to be clean before entering.
"You haven't been in this house for at least a year, have you?" Jia Lei looked at a few millimeters of ash on the ground and said, there was not even a single footprint on such a thick ash.
"There's nothing valuable here, I've moved the gold and jade! Look at what it's doing!" Luo Yaozu said.
"Why do you have so many musical instruments at home?" Jia Lei asked as he looked into the room.
"Some of these things are handed down from my ancestors, and some are the dowries of my grandmothers and grandmothers, my ancestors are big officials, and the wives in charge are all beautiful women, and they are all familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Luo Yaozu said.
"You also sell this thing? You are really a loser, don't you leave a little for your children?" Jia Lei finally couldn't help but say, no wonder the neighbors said that he was a loser.
"I have no children and no daughters, can I bring these things into the coffin if I don't sell them? Besides, after I die, no one will collect my body, so it is better to enjoy it in time." Luo Yaozu said that he is 45 years old this year and has not had a son and a half daughter.
"Tell me, how much do you want in this house?" Jia Lei asked.
"There are a lot of things in the house, although they are not very valuable, but there are more than 200 pieces, you can give me 2 million!" Luo Yaozu said, he thought the price was okay.
"This thing is all dust, I can't see it at all, and I don't know if it's worth 2 million?" Jia Lei shook his head and said, he didn't want to do a loss-making transaction.
"This ...... It seems that there were brochures, but I can't count them because of the mess. Luo Yaozu grabbed his head and said.
"1 million, if you charge 1 million, I'll buy it!" Jia Lei said, the things in the house are so miscellaneous that he doesn't know if it's suitable.
Anyway, Luo Yaozu's things are all appraised by the government, antiques, and there will never be fakes.
He can't buy 1 million, he can't buy it, he can't buy it, he can't buy it, he can't buy it!
"One million is too little, not really! At least 1.5 million, and I have to get something out of it. Luo Yaozu said.
"You're not going to pick the baby away again, are you?" asked Jia Lei.
"I don't want a baby this time, I just want that guzheng! That's what my mother brought with me as a dowry, and I heard that it was not too valuable during the Qing Dynasty. Luo Yaozu pointed to a zither covered with a red cloth and said.
"Now that the price has been negotiated, let's go and transfer the house first! Others, when it is convenient, we will go to the office card transfer procedures and go to the bank to withdraw money. Jia Lei said.
"Then let's do it!" Luo Yaozu nodded.
****
"Loser, what a loser!" Professor Wang said angrily.
"Yes. If Luo Yaozu were my son, I would have jumped out of the grave in anger to settle accounts with him! Jia Lei said.
Jia Lei was suddenly whipped hard by Professor Wang with a cane, and he subconsciously ran out.
"Grandpa, what are you hitting me for?" Jia Lei asked as he ran with his head in his hands.
"What's wrong with beating you? You have said it yourself, and when you see a loser, you will be so angry that you will jump out even if you die! I am not dead yet?" Professor Wang chased after him and beat him.
"What am I doing? I haven't done anything, why do you say I'm a loser?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.
"5.1 million! You spent 5.1 million today! What do you say you are not a loser?" Professor Wang said angrily.