Chapter 29 Snuff Bottles

It was not easy to fool Jiang Ling over, and Ji Yang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jiang Ling was afraid of the recurrence of the disease, and planned to hide in the dormitory to study and never go out to bask in the sun again. Even, she asked Ji Yang to buy breakfast and send it to the girls' dormitory, but fortunately, there were not many people on weekends.

When delivering breakfast, Ji Yang saw that Jiang Ling had indeed recovered, and he had a more intuitive understanding of Yufeng Pulp. The detoxification effect is so strong, it is definitely a million-dollar elixir, and that antique vial.

There are still 360,000 left in Kari, and Ji Yang is worried that it will not be enough when the factory is opened, so he can't prepare temporarily. He thought about it for a while, and simply took a taxi to Li Garden in the east of the city, also known as Antique Street.

Li Yuan is a little far from the city center, and Ji Yang took a two-hour car to arrive, like an urban village. Walking on the streets where people come and go, there are old houses on both sides, and there are even ancient mansions and modern courtyard houses.

Li Yuan gives people the feeling of just one word - elegance in chaos.

If you walk into a regular bazaar, which is noisy and noisy, you will definitely want to leave this place as soon as possible. But Li Yuan is the opposite, it is lively and chaotic, but it can make many people stop and calm down to pick up goods.

Occasionally, an old shop with exquisite decoration and antique flavor appears to make people even more interested. In the old shop, there are many antiques on display, including vases and jade with exquisite shapes and patterns, as well as mottled bronzes.

"Boss, you can show me this, a family heirloom." Ji Yang took out a small jade snuff box, and the body of the pot was carved with a lifelike white deer drinking with his head bowed. When he took out the snuffbox from his pocket, he looked cautious, as if he was afraid that someone else would snatch it.

"Well..."

The boss is a middle-aged man in a Tang costume, who is relatively short and wears a pair of glasses. He didn't pay much attention to it at first, and when he saw the snuffbox, his eyes couldn't help but move slightly. Soon he retracted again, pretended to be calm and took the snuffbox, gently stroked the pattern on it with one hand, and took out a magnifying glass to look at it carefully. After about five or six minutes, the boss of Tang costume put down the magnifying glass, and there was a vague look of surprise in his eyes.

Ji Yang kept looking at the boss's expression, and although the other party was hiding deeply, he still saw it. This snuff bottle was brought over by Wei Xiaobao, and it is already an antique, indicating that it is earlier than the Kangxi era. The snuff bottle was introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so this snuff bottle is likely to be an antique from the late Ming Dynasty or the early Qing Dynasty.

"Well, it's good." Ji Yang said with a smile.

"It's okay, it's worth 180,000." The boss of Tang costume saw that Ji Yang was young, so he wanted to pit him.

However, Ji Yang knew that the snuff bottle was genuine, well-preserved, and exquisitely made, and it was an object in the Kangxi Palace. How could such an antique be worth only 180,000, so he immediately took back the snuffbox.

"I'm sorry, I'd better go and have a look at another house." Ji Yang turned around and left.

"Hey, wait a minute!" The boss of Tang costume was in a hurry.

But Ji Yang didn't stop there, striding out of his antique shop, looking for the next buyer. The boss of Tang costume was in a hurry, so he actually got up and ran out of the counter, trying to stop Ji Yang.

It's a pity that he hesitated for too long and moved slowly, and Ji Yang had disappeared into the vast crowd. The boss of Tang costume was dumbfounded, and regretted it in his heart, he didn't expect Ji Yang to be so straightforward, and he just left.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a good thing in the early Qing Dynasty, so let it go for me, hey!" The boss of Tang costume sighed, and at this time he also understood, and the emotional family knew the value of snuff bottles.

Let's ask an antique in the early Qing Dynasty, who is not angry if you open 180,000, and it is estimated that someone will be foul-mouthed. It's good for Ji Zhengzi, he just took his things and left, and he didn't reason with the boss of Tang Costume.

However, the boss of Tang costume hopes that Ji Yang will reason with him, even if he is scolded twice, it is better than missing the baby. Such well-preserved palace objects are like panning for gold in the waves, and high incense must be burned when encountering a piece.

Immediately afterwards, Ji Yang went to a few more antique shops, and the result was the same, he picked up the snuffbox and left. These people are similar to the boss of Tang Costume, and when they see that he is young, they all want to cheat him.

The highest bidder was only 150,000 yuan, and the lowest was only 2,000 yuan. The two thousand pieces said that the snuff bottle was fake, but the craftsmanship was exquisite and could be sold as a work of art.

At first, Ji Yang thought that the man also wanted to pit him, but he walked to the door with a snuff bottle, but heard the man say: Fraud should also be professional, where to find a snuff box in the early Qing Dynasty in this year, it is especially glass.

Saying the word "glass", the man also deliberately accentuated the pronunciation, which meant that the material of the snuff box was also fake. Ji Yang couldn't help but laugh secretly, the emotional family didn't want to deceive himself, but really looked away.

"A century-old shop!"

Ji Yang walked to the seventh antique shop, the store was small, but there were a lot of people, and it seemed to be a bit of a heritage. At the counter, there is an old man in a tunic with reading glasses, who is holding a historical miscellaneous book. Seven or eight customers in the store each selected antiques and discussed with each other, but they did not affect the old man in the slightest.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a young man who is not a guest, but a clerk who helps introduce the antiques to the guests. The young man was dressed casually, similar to that of a passerby, and his voice was quiet during the introduction.

Ji Yang didn't buy anything, walked directly to the counter, and put the snuffbox in front of the old man: "Old man, please show me this, how much is it worth." ”

The old man in the tunic took his eyes off the book, glanced at the snuffbox, and then couldn't move away. He raised his eyebrows slightly, put down the book, picked up the snuffbox, and looked at it carefully only two inches from his eyes.

"The material is glass, the craftsmanship is the Qing Dynasty court, this white deer drinking water map can be called a ghostly workmanship. Hiss... It's so perfectly preserved, it's flawless, as if it's been held in your hand to this day. Tsk tsk, good stuff. The old man didn't mind hearing it, and after observing it, he sighed again and again, and his face was as happy as if he had seen a treasure.

"Finally, there is someone who knows the goods, you can make a price." Ji Yang is also happy, he really doesn't want to run errands anymore.

"What's the hurry, let me take a closer look." The old man didn't look at him, but changed a pair of reading glasses to look at it again: "The material is good, but the texture is a little dry, and although the craftsmanship is good, it is not a master's handiwork." Especially this white deer drinking water map, it's a pity, the person who carved it must have never seen the real thing, either it was an imitation of the carving, or it was a blind ......"

I thought I could sell it for a good price, but the old man's comments suddenly changed, and he began to count the flaws of the snuff bottle. Ji Yang's smile suddenly retracted, and in the end, he still had to pit me.

The old man didn't stop, and Ji Yang hurriedly stopped: "Please stop, if you keep talking, my snuffbox will be worthless." ”

Only then did the old man look at him and say, "Little brother, do you have a big name?" ”

Ji Yang did not say his full name, but replied: "The surname is Yang." ”

The old man nodded, and looked at the snuffbox again: "This thing is generally okay, if it is put up for auction, the price will be higher." But if you get it to me to sell it, you have to give some discounts, what do you think of 500,000? ”

Ji Yang frowned, he had checked the auction price of the snuff bottle on the Internet before, and 500,000 felt too low. The glass jadeite itself is a top grade, plus it is still a palace antique, so it will cost one or two million.

However, the old man's words also make sense, the price of the auction house must not be compared with this antique street. Ji Yang wanted to take it to auction, but that place still had to register his ID card, and he would become famous as soon as he took it out.

But even if it is discounted, 500,000 is still too low, Ji Yang shook his head again and again: "It's too low, you give a real price." ”

The old man smiled, and then muttered, "Seven hundred thousand, it can't be higher." ”

He doesn't deceive people, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't want to earn a little more, 700,000 is a huge amount of money for an ordinary family. Looking at Ji Yang's dress, that is, a student from a well-off family, he should be excited when he hears this price.

But Ji Yang was still dissatisfied, he was not pretending, but really dissatisfied: "I'll make a price, one million!" ”

This time it was the old man's turn to frown, shake his head and say, "It's high." ”

While the two were negotiating the price, a tall man and a young woman with still charm walked over. The middle-aged man was dressed in a white shirt, holding a black western turn in his left hand, and the young woman was wearing a lace shirt on top and a black slim skirt underneath. The two listened to the side for a while, and pointed at the snuffbox in the old man's hand, whispering something.

Finally, the middle-aged man came up and said, "Sir, can you show me that snuffbox?" ”

The old man raised his head slightly, glanced at him and said, "If you want to buy something, please go over there, I don't sell the things in my hand." ”

The middle-aged man smiled slightly, and said to Ji Yang again: "Little brother, I just heard you say one million, how about selling it to me?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the old man's expression changed slightly, and he saw that the business was about to be completed, and he made a trip to bite the gold halfway. And Ji Yang is in a good mood, one million is too high, right, look at how generous people are.

"Sir, see if you give me back the snuffbox." Ji Yang said.

"Everything is on a first-come, first-served basis, and you don't have to do business like this." The old man did not return it, but still held the snuffbox in his hand.

"Aren't you unhappy, now that someone is willing to buy it, I can't help but sell it." Ji Yang said with a smile.

"Who said I wasn't happy, a million bought!" The old man gritted his teeth and agreed.

Ji Yang's heart blossomed, and asked you to lower the price for me, and the jade texture is too dry, and the white deer drinking water picture is an imitation painting... In the end, it's not a million, no, if I sell it to him for a million, he will sell it to someone else at a high price.

He looked at the middle-aged man next to him, and the other party really had an eager expression, and it was estimated that he would buy it from the old man again. That said, snuff bottles are certainly more than a million and can sell for a higher price.

Ji Yang's eyes rolled, and he suddenly said, "I'm sorry, I won't sell this snuff bottle." ”

The old man was anxious: "The price has been negotiated, why don't you sell it!" ”

Ji Yang sighed, pretending to be helpless: "I thought about it, this is my heirloom, if I sell it, how will I meet my ancestors and ancestors." Selling for a million, I have no worries about food and clothing, but what will I do with my future descendants. ”

Shameless! This kid is so shameless that he wants to raise the price and say such a reason.

It was the man in the suit and the young woman who both looked at Ji Yang with a disdainful look and looked down on him.

"Don't stare at me, bring your snuffbox." Ji Yang snatched the snuffbox, wiped it with his sleeve, and then said to the man in the suit: "This gentleman, you don't want to either, one and a half million!" ”

"Boy, you're going too far." The old man was so angry that he couldn't do it.

The man in the suit was a little hesitant, not because the price was too high, but because Ji Yang's behavior made him unhappy. But soon he was relieved, Ji Yang was just a small citizen, and naturally wanted to make a little more money.

Don't look down on me, I'm a little guy selling family heirlooms now, whoever gives money is the uncle. Ji Yang almost played this role, I'm afraid no one can see that he still has more than a hundred antiques.

The man in the suit hesitated for a moment, nodded under the old man's sad gaze and said, "Okay, I'll buy one and a half million." ”

Ji Yang smiled proudly: "I will send you the account number, the money will arrive, and this snuffbox is yours." ”

A snuffbox was sold at such a high price, and Ji Yang was completely satisfied.

He also thought about the next time he came to this shop to sell antiques and see what the old man's expression was.