Chapter 13: The King of Whistleblowers
Xu Mu gestured the size of the porcelain pillow with both hands, "It's about this big, it's a porcelain pillow from a folk kiln in the Song Dynasty, with a glaze the size of a coin, and there are big cracks and a few small lines across the pillow, which are not completely broken." ”
"Hmph, I should have trampled it to pieces that day. Speaking of the porcelain pillow that has sealed himself for more than a thousand years, the husband in the unicorn bead immediately rubbed his hands and was full of malice, eager to break the other party's corpse into thousands of pieces and scatter ashes.
Xu Mu pinched the beads and signaled it to be quiet. It is better to settle the dispute, it is worth dozens of dollars, and it is a great joy to be able to use waste!
"Folk kiln?"
"Well, that's what the stall owner who sold it to me said. ”
"Well, if it's genuine, ordinary folk kiln goods, it shouldn't be worth a few dollars, after all, porcelain pillows are not a hot category now......" The fat boss rubbed his hands hesitantly, and his white face was full of embarrassment, "Unless it belongs to the fine products of the folk kiln, it is a matter of 1,800 yuan." ”
"Eighteen hundred?" Xu Mu glared at the fat boss who was half a head shorter than himself, stunned by this unbelievable news and then crashed!
It's only 700 when you buy it!
Originally, he just saw the porcelain in the room and thought of the porcelain pillow he had broken, but he didn't expect that there was an unexpected joy. Has Lady Luck finally seen herself?
The fat boss thought that Xu Mu was not satisfied with the price, so he nervously wiped the sweat on his forehead, blinked his eyes and cried with a sad face, "This is just the worst situation, otherwise, otherwise you better take it first and take a look?"
"Then when are you free? Can you wait around half past three?" After restarting, Xu Mu couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone and estimated the time, this is the last item of goods today, if you take the subway back and forth after receiving your salary, you should be able to rush back at about half past three.
"Yes, of course, the shop is a Yangdao business, and it is open until five o'clock in the afternoon every day. Seeing that he didn't mean to be angry, the fat boss breathed a sigh of relief and nodded busily. The courier brother who was carried away by the sense of luck didn't notice the meaning of "Yang Dao" at all.
With RMB as the driving force, Xu Mu was stunned to drive the mini three-wheeler out of the coquettish position of a sports car and the sense of speed. At 3:20, he rushed back to the porcelain shop with the porcelain pillow.
The shop was very deserted, only an old gentleman with a white beard and a goatee was calmly holding a magnifying glass to look at the two plain burgundy porcelain plates, and the fat boss did not bother him, sitting quietly in the old position to wipe the kiln jar that had turned from blue to purple before.
Seeing Xu Mu, the fat boss hurriedly got up, carefully put the kiln jar back on the shelf against the wall, and greeted him with a few steps.
Xu Mu anxiously took out the porcelain pillow wrapped in a plastic bag from his backpack and handed it over, "This is it." ”
Because there was still the dagger and "golden" hair inside, Xu Mu carefully tied the plastic bag and took it back to his backpack, and it was exchanged for dozens of yuan, so he might be able to use it when he could.
It is a common supermarket shopping bag, except for the place where the logo is printed, the rest of the place is almost transparent, and it makes a "bang" sound when touched, and the movement is very large, breaking the silence of the room abruptly.
The old man who was looking at the plate was alarmed by the noise, put down his magnifying glass and looked at them curiously.
"Look at me, look at me, and ignore them. A voice shouted anxiously, "Lao Tzu is an authentic sacrificial red plate, the most noble official kiln porcelain!"
The courier brother heard the prestige in the past, in that direction, it can be called a plate, there are only two glazed burgundy plates, one is placed in the brocade box on the table, and the other is pinched in the hands of the old gentleman, the size of the plate is not as long as an adult's palm, the so-called red plate, is this it?
"The glaze on Lao Tzu's body is smelted and fired with a large amount of gold agate, and the color and luster are unparalleled in the world! Of the 127 brothers in the same kiln, only six were left by Tang Ying in the end, and six of them! Lao Tzu is the one with the best shape and glaze! Where can that rustic thing be compared?"
is probably very dissatisfied with the attention of the porcelain pillow, and the plate chatters and complains.
Xu Mu: ..................
What the hell, is it another demon suppressor?
The town is still narcissistic and chattering!
No, it keeps saying that it is a plate, and the utensils are successful in cultivating by virtue of popularity, according to Zhou Ye's explanation, it should be called "strange"?
"Lao Tzu was put in the ...... at the beginning" Probably sensing Xu Mu's gaze, the voice stopped abruptly, and after a few seconds it trembled and asked tentatively, "Little white face, can you hear me?"
Xu Mu:==!!
Who is Little Whiteface?
"Young man, are you also interested in this plate?" the old gentleman touched his inch-long beard and looked at Xu Mu with a smile.
"No, no, I haven't seen it...... Remember the red plate, so I looked at it twice. "It's strange to encounter such a plate that can perform your own talk show with emotion, and you don't have to look at it twice!
"At a glance, I knew that it was a sacrificial red plate, and the little brother was really an expert. The old gentleman's clear face bloomed with the brilliance of meeting a bosom friend.
Xu Mu: ..................
Remembering the red plate or something, in fact, it is all its own words, I don't even know what the two words of remembering red mean. The courier boy scratched his ears in shame.
"I received a pair of sacrificial blue last year, and I want to receive a pair of sacrificial red this year. I have come to see these two plates three times, the shape of the vessel is neat, the tire mud is fine, the glaze is full but not empty, moist but not floating, very similar to the style of Qianlong's early days, but it is too bright. Looking at the blue and white material of the bottom section, there is some bright blue in the middle of Qianlong, and it is a very rare double-circle model. People are old, hundreds of thousands of things, a little uncertain. ”
The fat boss didn't know whether he was conscientiously busy helping Xu Muzhen look at the porcelain pillow, or if he didn't want to participate in the discussion, so he didn't talk to him.
Several hundred thousand!!!
Xu Mu was taken aback by this price, uh, well, it makes sense for it to look down on the porcelain pillow of seven hundred yuan, after all, the economic base determines the superstructure. If there is a Forbes list in the porcelain industry, even if it can't be ranked among the top three like Yuan Qinghua Guiguzi Xiashan Jar, which is worth more than 100 million, there is still an excellent chance to be on the list.
"Really, it's true, look at our figure, this color, Lao Tzu is definitely the authentic Qianlong 12th Tang Kiln Sacrifice Red Plate! Bring me back!" If there were feet, it is estimated that the plate in the old gentleman's hand would have jumped to his feet and even burst out!
"Little white face, can you hear me, don't you? help me talk to him!" the plate turned to Xu Mu for help. "Xiaolan was taken away by this goatee last year, I have been practicing with Xiaolan for more than two hundred years, and I must not be separated!"
Xu Mu: ..................
The book only said that human beings are social animals, and it didn't say that porcelain also has the attribute of social cultivation!
Besides, haven't you already cultivated into a monster? Why don't you end it if you think of a way to do it yourself?
"Little white face, if you convince him to buy me back, Lao Tzu will tell you that the seven white porcelain figurines on the blue paved stall on the left hand side of the door of your store are all from Tang kilns, and they were burned out by those craftsmen to play in their spare time. ”
Xu Mu:
Dear, you've said it all now!
"Those seven porcelain talents are priced at 100 yuan, and you can sell it to the dead fat man in front of you for at least 3,000!"
"Really?" mentioned money, Xu Mu's death hole was poked, and he finally couldn't help but talk.
"Really, really, they are all made by Tang kiln craftsmen in front of Lao Tzu, and the tire mud used is exactly the same as mine. Dead fat man just look at it. ”
"Little brother, you said this plate is true?" The old gentleman thought Xu Mu was talking to him, and raised his eyes to look at him.
"Well, I think it's like real. I saw a Tang kiln sacrificial red plate at a friend's house, which is said to be in the 12th year of Qianlong, and it is also a round double circle bottom, which is very similar to the luster and brightness of this glaze, and it is said that it is because the glaze is mixed with a large amount of agate and gold. Xu Mu leaned over, pretended to look at it a few times, and explained according to the instructions given on the plate.
Hearing the words "the twelfth year of Qianlong", the fat boss holding the porcelain pillow couldn't help but raise his head and nodded meaningfully, as if admiring his eyesight.
The old man's goatee was curled, and he knocked on his head like an empowerment, "That's right, the kiln supervised by Tang Ying, the technology is the culmination of a thousand years, this brightness is likely to be caused by the peak of national strength in the Qianlong period, in order to improve the fineness of the red glaze, it is caused by increasing the ratio of agate and gold in the glaze at any cost, this is not a thief light, but a treasure!
"No, no, no, I'm just a layman, I look like it, I think of what that friend said, and I'll give you a reference. Hundreds of thousands is not a small number, you must think about it carefully. Xu Mu hurriedly shook his head, he just repeated the plate's own words, whether it was true or not, the old gentleman had to judge for himself.
The old gentleman didn't hesitate any longer, he directly called the fat boss to start bargaining, and then walked away with a chic card, before leaving, he also specially beckoned Xu Mu to him, asked him for a number, and handed him a plain white embossed business card, with only two lines of concise words on it:
[Song Qifeng
Phone: 189xxxxxxxx】
When he bought his favorite porcelain plate, the old gentleman was full of spring breeze, "Little brother, you shouldn't be less than twenty years old, right? If you don't think the old man is fifty or sixty years old, you can call me grandpa." The old man has a good eye for you, and you also have a lot of research on ancient porcelain. If you have time, you can make a phone call, have a tea with Grandpa Song, have a meal, and talk about the experience of ancient porcelain. ”
"Thank you. Xu Mu hurriedly respectfully put away his business card and accompanied the fat boss to send the old gentleman out.
When he stepped out of the threshold, the old man and the sacrificial red plate in the brocade box were in a state of joy and joy as they wished.
"Little white face, the boss's snacks are hidden in the second drawer behind the counter, and the private money is in the blue glazed gold Guanyin bottle on the east shelf. Take whatever you like! Before going out, the sacrificial red plate said gratefully to Xu Mu, and generously sold his former master clean.
Xu Mu: ..................
Thousands of precautions, it is difficult to prevent thieves!
The fat boss happily counted the hundreds of thousands of banknotes that had just been credited to the account on the computer screen, not knowing that his family background had been leaked by a little monster who had just been repaired.
Sending away the big customer, the fat boss finally held the porcelain pillow and opened his mouth, "This porcelain pillow is indeed a folk kiln in the Song Dynasty, and the firing method is OK, but unfortunately the fetal mud is loose, the glaze is not top-notch, and the whole body is full of scaly open pieces." According to the current situation, it can only be sold for about 1,000 yuan, of course, if you happen to like it, or spend money to repair it, maybe 35,000 yuan. ”
"A thousand?" Xu Mu's eyes popped up countless happy stars, "Do you take a thousand yuan?"
The fat boss's face trembled, and he rubbed his hands, revealing his true colors as a businessman, "Can the adults leave some money for the small shop, how about eight hundred and five?"
"Okay! Eight hundred and five is eight hundred and five. Xu Mu pretended to nod generously, but his heart was happy, he only spent 700 yuan to buy it, and he didn't lose but made money!
The fat boss was also very happy, and asked earnestly, "What currency do you want, my lord, demon currency or RMB? The small shop can only provide these two currencies for the time being." ”
“…… Renminbi. Xu Mu choked for a moment and quickly made a choice. Demon coins? Or waist coins? It's not the one you think, is it?
"By the way, I want to ask you, who is the mermaid painted on the pillow, do you know?" Xu Mu suddenly remembered the strange portrait on the pillow, that is the owner of Fu Zhu, maybe he can find some clues from the well-informed boss?
"The master of my family is not a mermaid, my master is a phoenix and a dragon, and he is wise and martial......" The husband interjected dissatisfiedly, and was about to continue to confess endlessly, but was violently covered by Xu Mu.
Husband: ..................
"Mermaid?" the fat boss looked at Xu Mu happily, "No, that's not a mermaid, it should be the god of water." ”
"The god of water?"