After a brief introduction, Qin Yu can be regarded as knowing each other with the other side.

Lao Xu's name is Xu Laixiang, and he specializes in jewelry business, both new and old. And he has his own studio, and as for the role of this studio, it can be said that it is very large.

Lao Xu and the Ma brothers' shops are all opened in Yunzhou Antique City, neighbors on the upper and lower floors. Because the brothers usually run very diligently, they often go to the countryside to collect some furniture, and sometimes they will come across some old jewelry that has been handed down, and they usually take photos and send them to Lao Xu to see, if they are suitable, they will buy them, sell them to Xu Laixiang, or put them in his store for sale. After coming and going, several people became very familiar with each other, and the brothers also visited Lao Xu's studio.

It's said to be a studio, but it's actually a place to make imitations.

As early as the 80s, Xu Laixiang was the processing master of the old Donghai gold store, and his craftsmanship was very good. In the 90s, there was a sea fever, and he did not resist the temptation and chose to go it alone, and he has been doing it for more than 20 years. After years of experience in making old jewelry, he has long been familiar with the shape and atmosphere of gold jewelry in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the past few years, the gold banking industry has been sluggish, so he pondered the importance of focusing on the old business and making his own gold jewelry, and not to make new ones, but to do "old" ones. Just do it, Lao Xu emptied the basement of his old house, bought a lot of equipment, made gold jewelry in the Ming and Qing dynasties at home, and then carried out secondary processing after doing it, which is commonly known as old-fashioned in the industry. After a few actions, two hundred and one grams of gold bars, in his hands, became five or six hundred and one grams worth of "Ming and Qing antiques".

Qin Yu was speechless when he heard this, this is simply a huge profit. However, as far as he knows, the price of gold in the Ming Dynasty on the market now seems to be between 1,200 and 15,000 per gram, and it will fluctuate a little according to the quality.

In fact, there is a trick that is not a trick to buy antiques.

Antiques, in fact, are not like many people have the impression that the price is arbitrary, and the buying and selling is all based on preference. After so many years of development, antiques have already formed a general industry circle. Except for some extremely rare top-quality collections, most of the antiques have an approximate market price.

For example, two pieces of Hetian jade seed material jade pendant in the Qing Dynasty, the quality, craftsmanship, and jade quality are similar, then the price difference between them will not be too much, and they all have market prices. Buyers who often buy old jade encounter jade worth about 10,000 yuan and are asked for 50,000 yuan, so naturally the boss wants to rip off customers.

Therefore, when you have a good idea of the approximate price of the antique you want to buy, if the price quoted by the seller is significantly lower than the market price, you have to weigh it in your heart.

Antiques, the probability of really picking up a leak is extremely low, if it is one in a thousand, then to successfully pick up a leak, you may need to defeat 999 people who fell into the pit. Think about it, someone else is specialized in this business, will you pick up the leak?

A Mercedes-Benz worth a million, someone sold it to you for 100,000, do you dare to buy it?

Seeing Qin Yu's puzzled expression, Ma Ju explained: "Lao Xu's goods are never sold to the living, only in the industry. If the price is too hard and others have no profit, who will buy it?"

So that's the case, Qin Yu suddenly realized. After all, he has never done business, and he really doesn't know that there is such an operation in the industry. Although he doesn't approve of this kind of thing, but this is someone else's business, and he can't say anything.

Lao Xu scattered a circle of cigarettes and said with a smile: "Xiao Qin, I heard that you have a batch of low-purity gold that you want to sell, let me take a look?"

Qin Yu opened the bag, took out a cloth bag, and handed it over. Xu Laixiang stretched out his hand to take it and exclaimed, "So heavy?"

When the foal heard this, he immediately closed the door of the shop and closed the curtain again. Those who know the know that there are people in it who are talking about business. Lao Xu poured all the gold on the table, there were more than 20 gold nuggets, and he was not calm now.

"This shape seems to be the gold of the Qin and Han dynasties, but there is no pulp, is it a new imitation?" Xu Laixiang showed a solemn expression, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked carefully for a moment and said, "Xiaoma, bring me a magnifying glass." ”

After a few minutes, Xu Laixiang breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone: "Xiao Qin, you're a friend, I'm afraid you're also an old gold, right?"

The word "old" bites very hard, and the meaning he wants to express is very clear, are you afraid that you are not here to wash me? Although the workmanship of these gold is very rough, and the size and specifications are not very uniform, it is precisely because of this "roughness" that it happens to imitate the charm of Qin and Han gold, for this, Xu Laixiang admires it in his heart, and he knows that he will never be able to make such goods. But he was very dissatisfied with Qin Yu's approach, since there was such a master behind him, why did he come to him to purify gold?

As soon as Qin Yu saw Xu Laixiang's face change, he reacted immediately, this was a detail that he didn't care about before, so he explained: "Brother Xu, you misunderstood, I definitely didn't come to you to make fun." A friend of mine bought it as Qin and Han old gold a few years ago, and later learned that it was eye-catching, so he left it in the cabinet and left it alone. Unfortunately, business has been difficult in the past few years, so he wants to use this batch of gold as a new one and exchange it for some cash. But the gold is not pure, it must be purified and redone first, otherwise the gold shop will not accept it. ”

"Lao Xu, I think the better your business, the less courageous you are. If Qin Yu really has such a gold-making master behind him, why bother looking for you to re-purify, it's impossible to think about it. And I can trust Qin Yu, I don't have any character. The foal jumped out to support Qin Yu.

Lao Xu nodded, feeling that what he said was also reasonable, knowing that he was a little impulsive in his words, and said embarrassedly: "Xiao Qin, I'm sorry, my brain didn't turn just now." In this way, I want this batch of goods, and it doesn't matter if it's pure or not, weigh it directly, how about I give it to you at the market gold price?"

Qin Yu was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand in his heart, Xu Laixiang wanted to sell it directly, and he didn't plan to purify it at all. In his heart, he was resistant to it.

Probably seeing Qin Yu's thoughts, Lao Xu smiled: "Xiao Qin, I know what you think." Don't get me wrong, I don't plan to sell it as old, but sell it as new. Last year, a batch of my goods was checked, and the next family directly supplied me, and it took a lot of money to settle the matter. I haven't done high-imitation gold jewelry this year, and now I plan to change careers and make some ancient style gold jewelry and sell it as a new handicraft. Of course, the price is a bit more expensive. ”

Qin Yuhu looked at Xu Laixiang suspiciously, not knowing whether what he said was true or not.

"I can testify to this, Lao Xu has indeed not made used goods for more than half a year. The colt said, and the horse cannon nodded.

"Okay, in that case, then I won't let you suffer. Brother Xu, I will sell you at a 10% discount on the market price, as long as you promise not to sell the old one. Qin Yu thought about it and said.

Xu Laixiang smiled and stretched out his hand: "Deal." ”

After the sale was negotiated, Qin Yu took out one percent of the total price and transferred it to the Ma brothers. The brothers were very happy, and they invited everyone to have a light meal and drink a few glasses of rice wine. During the feast, the three of them did not speak much, and all of them listened to the colt nagging alone, and suddenly looked like Gatling.

Qin Yu wanted to make friends with Xu Laixiang, if he really had a way, if he met some dignitaries in other time and space in the future, maybe there would be opportunities for cooperation.