Chapter 2 Treasure Appraisal

More than 30 years ago, there was a legend in the Xishan area of Beijing, several Red Guards from a home that was said to have overseas relations, capitalist scholars searched out a small jade Buddha and a diary, and then these Red Guards disappeared, the scholar has not heard from since then, no one knows where they went, this matter has been a sensation, some people say that the little jade Buddha was stolen by Sun Dianying from the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi, which country in the vicinity was given to the Empress Dowager Cixi as a birthday gift, priceless, they fled abroad, and some people said that the Red Guards wanted to swallow the national treasure, and the above knew about it, sent them and the scholar to a place to reform, in short, this matter was not resolved later, and no one knew the whereabouts of the little jade Buddha and the diary. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

I held a small jade Buddha in my hand and looked at it carefully, except for the shape of this Buddha is a little strange and the carving is quite exquisite, I can't see anything special about it.

"This is the little Jade Buddha, a genuine and rare object"

"Then where did you get it from", I carefully looked at the person in front of me who called himself "Lao Guo", about forty years old, with a Beijing accent, a typical old Beijing aborigine, generally Beijing aborigines have two characteristics, one is self-familiar, and anyone can talk, the other is to be able to talk, whether you know or not, you can talk to the poor for a long time, this has been with me for more than half an hour. When I was wandering around the hutongs, enjoying the feeling of the rising sun and the autumn breeze blowing on my face, while observing the surrounding environment, and thinking about what business to do to meet my interests and make money, I didn't know this "Lao Guo" Came out of nowhere and stopped me, maybe I was an idler, I looked good-looking, first talked about the political environment of national events for a long time, and chatted about historical allusions and customs, and finally took out a paper bag from a broken shopping bag, and then told me the story about the Jade Buddha and the diary above, opened the paper bag, and the bread in it was the little Jade Buddha I now held in my hand that he claimed to be the birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

"It's inconvenient to reveal this, but, gentlemen, I can't write two "Guo" characters in one stroke, can I get you from our own family? You can find a place to identify it casually, if this thing can't reach Kangqian, you just come to me, you want to be able to look at it, the price is negotiable."

I said in my heart, where can I find you, you have a white and a pass here, what was stolen from the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and it was used for foreign birthday worship, and I also made a story about the Red Guards and overseas relations scholars, blowing nothing to lose, in front of me as a layman, you just said that you and the Empress Dowager Cixi once had a leg, and it was the Empress Dowager Cixi who gave it to you personally. I just wanted to tell this old Guo that I was not interested in this thing, bye bye when I suddenly found that there were some things like words on the edge of the chest of this little jade Buddha, if it were not the reflection of the rising sun, it would not generally attract attention, and these text-like things were easy to mistake for some patterns, but I don't know why, as soon as I saw these ornaments, I thought they were words and not patterns, because I seemed to have seen them somewhere!

In the end, I still bought this little jade Buddha, maybe I just made more than a million dollars by flipping the house, and I thought about being a nouveau riche addicted, maybe I saw those text-like things and wanted to figure out what was written, maybe there were other reasons in the dark......

I said 2,500 yuan to Lao Guo, I only brought more than 200 yuan in my pocket, Lao Guo was very happy, said it didn't matter, give him 200 first, write an IOU, I will take the Jade Buddha away first, and return it here at this time tomorrow, and give him the rest of the money. This reminds me of the plot in Stephen Chow's film "Kung Fu", but it makes me doubt, isn't this really a liar in front of me, why does he believe me so much? Does he want to cheat me out of 200 yuan? Lao Guo looked at me and hesitated for a moment, and said: "Guys, they are all from Beijing, hurry up, I can believe you, can't you believe me? Didn't I say it, you can find someone to identify it, if this object is not an antiquity, you can return it to me, and I will admit the punishment, so let's write you an address, if I lie to you, you can come to my house to find me. "As soon as I saw him say this, his heart was horizontal, two hundred yuan, even if he was deceived, when he spent money to buy a lesson, in addition, this jade Buddha carving is very exquisite, and the material does look like jade, even if it is not an antique, you can play with it, and then grind it will seem a little stingy. In this way, I gave Lao Guo 200 yuan, Lao Guo wrapped the Jade Buddha with paper again, and even gave me his broken shopping bag, and then I wrote him an IOU, and he wrote me an address, and I didn't know if it was really his, so I stuffed it into my trouser pocket.

After breaking up with Lao Guo, I wandered around for a while, the sun gradually rose, and unconsciously turned to the vicinity of Houhai, this place often has many domestic and foreign tourists, therefore, in addition to bars and various restaurants, there are many small shops selling handicrafts and antiques, calligraphy and paintings, it seems that business is not bad, and people often come and go. I suddenly had an idea, I can also open a small shop of antiques, now many people like to collect, deceive foreigners, even if this thing can't be sold, at least keep it can appreciate in value, although I am not studying economics, but I used to be interested in investment, what gold, real estate, stocks, I have pondered, like gold, The house is like this, both with the property of maintaining value and having the attribute of a commodity, since ancient times, gold and real estate from a long-term point of view are only up and down, buying stocks is also like this, like liquor is more and more valuable, not afraid of not being able to sell, so the stock of liquor is particularly good, antiques seem to be the same, if you can really make money if you are upside down, there is a man named Ma Weidu is not relying on the inverted Teng from a worker to a collector to increase the money, but there is one, I don't know anything about this line, this is not just I don't know which nerve today spent more than 2,000 oceans to buy a small jade Buddha, by the way, to see how lucky I am, suitable for this line,I've always thought that it doesn't matter what you do.,No one will ever learn a little bit.,But it's very important to go along with it.,If it's always not going well, don't do it.,Maybe I'm a little superstitious.怂

I walked into a small shop called "Jigu Zhai", as soon as I saw the name of the store, I knew that it was an antique calligraphy and painting business, and when I entered the store, I saw that the shelves were full of bottles and cans, and there were some shelves next to the shelves, and there were some calligraphy and paintings, jade handles or something, and there were some snuff bottles, copperware and other things on the ground, there were not many people in the store, and there were a few foreigners who didn't know what to say, and one of them could be the shopkeeper selling on the side.

After the foreigners left, the shopkeeper came to greet me: "What do you see?"

"Do you accept antiques here?" I said.

"Collect, what calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, ornaments, only some years old", the shopkeeper saw that I was not here to buy things, and his enthusiasm instantly decreased.

"Do you accept jade?"

"Also collect, but the ancient jade not only looks at the age, but also looks at the material, the material is not good, the age is not high, do you have jade to turn? The shopkeeper saw that a few more customers had entered, and became a little impatient with me, and turned to greet them as he spoke.

Those people just came in and took a look around and went out, and I had already taken out the little jade Buddha, "That's it," I said.

When the shopkeeper saw the things in my hand, he was suddenly stunned, "This, this, where did you get it?", seeing that I was also stunned for a moment, he immediately changed his tone, "Oh, looking at the color of this jade Buddha, it seems that it has been some years, and it may be able to reach the Song and Yuan dynasties, but the jade quality doesn't seem to be very good, and the price should not be too high, how much money do you plan to sell?"

I saw him perform like this is also greatly surprised by me, guessing that nine times out of ten this thing may be more valuable, he deliberately said that it was a test of whether I understand or not, if I don't know how to do it, I will accept it at a low price, it seems that I may have gone shit today, luck really picked up a leak, I don't really want to sell this thing, I just want to see if it's genuine, so I simply quoted him a sky-high price to scare him into carrying something and leaving, so he pretended to say:" Don't fool me, since I have this thing, I know its value, so let's do it, 300,000, you want to accept it if it's suitable, forget it if it's not suitable", when I casually said the number "300,000", even I was startled, I originally wanted to say "30,000", maybe the house price has risen too fast recently, and I am used to rising hundreds of thousands when I vacate the house, I don't know how to blurt out a "300,000" , I thought that the shopkeeper must have kicked me out as a psychopath, but I didn't expect the shopkeeper to listen to my offer, and immediately smiled, Ben'er didn't even hit it, "Okay, it's decided." I was immediately dumbfounded, and my heart said: "Oh no, look at this, this thing is far more than 300,000, this shopkeeper may also be a little anxious, leaking the filling, really want to sell it to him, may lose a lot of money, anyway, there is no evidence, he can't do anything to me, hurry up and slip away", thinking of this, I immediately changed my words and said, "I'm really sorry, I'll go back and think about it", after saying that, I quickly stuffed the jade Buddha into the shopping bag and walked out of the antique shop without looking back, the shopkeeper was anxious, and called in the back "Why are you like this, you ......" Suddenly he stopped talking, and when I looked back at him as I walked, I noticed a strange expression on his face. I didn't think much about it, I stepped up and walked away.

The next day, I came to the agreed place with Lao Guo with 2,300 yuan, but the strange thing is that I waited until the afternoon, and this Lao Guo did not appear.

Since this thing is real and so valuable, why didn't Lao Guo take the money as agreed? I think it's very strange. Anyway, now that I have quit my job, there is nothing to do for the time being, on the third and fourth days, I still took the money to wait for him, but I didn't wait for several days, as if this incident had never happened, this old Guo also disappeared like the world evaporated, is it like the Red Guards and the scholar in the "story" he said mysteriously disappeared?