At this time, Wang Guan walked to Baye's side in two steps, his eyes followed the direction of her white fingers, and he saw that on the second floor of the wooden frame, there was a strangely shaped but very delicate thing.

The reason why the shape is strange is because this thing is a hollow spherical shape, but it has been cut in half by the waist. A cup-shaped container also hangs in the center of half of it.

At first glance, Wang Guan didn't think what it was, and after he picked it up and put the two hemispherical pieces of metal together to form a complete sphere, it suddenly dawned on him that this was a smoked ball.

"Smoked balls?" Bayeux was surprised: "What is it, what does it do?" ”

"If I say, 'It's an incense burner,' would you believe it?" Wang Guan said with a smile, picked up the chain on the smoked ball, and shook it gently, and the hollowed-out sphere began to shake.

Now you can see clearly, the smoked ball is the size of a baby's fist, and it has a round spherical shape. A delicate long chain is designed above, and the entire sphere is hollowed out, and the flower branches and leaves are openworked, which is very delicate and exquisite.

It's just that it can only be due to the age that the metal sheet of the smoked ball is already covered with rust spots. Especially when Wang Guan shook the smoked ball, those rust chips fell loudly, which greatly affected the appearance.

At the same time, Bayeux was puzzled: "Didn't you say smoked balls?" How did it become an incense burner again. ”

"Smoked balls, incense balls, bedding incense burners, and incense burners in the quilt are actually all the same meaning." Wang Guan smiled and explained: "It is said that this kind of thing existed in the Han Dynasty, and it was called incense cage, which was used to burn spices and smoke clothes. ”

"This ball is very cleverly designed, do you see that little cup in the ball? That's the spice that is used to hold the ignition. Connected to the small cup are two live shafts, and the center of gravity is under the cup, so no matter how the ball swings, the small cup will always face upward, so there is no need to worry about the spices in the cup tipping over. ”

Wang Guan said with a smile: "It is by using this principle that after the ancients lit the spices in the ball, they were relieved to roll the fragrant quilts and clothes in the quilt. This is why it is called the incense burner. Of course. Because of the small and delicate size of the smoked ball, the rich and noble families in ancient times liked to hang one in the wide sleeves, just like modern people spray perfume when they go out, which is a fashion. ”

Baye suddenly realized, took the small smoked ball in Wang Guan's hand and shook it gently, observed the cup container in the ball with great interest, and found that the mouth of the cup was indeed facing upward.

"What a clever design."

Baye smiled like the moon, but shook his head and said, "It's a pity, there are a lot of rust chips." It's not pretty at all. ”

While speaking, Bayeux asked in a low voice, "Do you think this smoked ball is an ancient thing?" ”

"This ...... I'll take a look first. Wang Guan hesitated, picked up the smoke ball and looked at it carefully, he really didn't know much about this aspect, and it was not easy to answer for a while.

However, at this time, in order to save time, Wang Guan put aside the experience of studying and accumulating experience by heart, and directly opened his special ability when he looked down. Gaze at the smoked ball in your hand.

In a flash. A pale yellow light bloomed on the smoked ball, and Wang Guan immediately counted in his heart, this should be something in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Later, he looked at it more closely, and found that the metal pieces of the smoked balls were brass, and as for the rust spots......

After a moment, Wang Guan collected his special ability, looked up and smiled: "The thing is not bad." Do you want it? ”

"Is it really something ancient?" Bayeux whispered, his eyes flickering, his eyes shining.

"Copper smoked balls of the Ming Dynasty." Wang Guan chuckled: "It feels okay, if you don't want it, then it will be mine." ”

"Whatever." Glancing at Wang Guan, Baye waved his slender little white hand and said with a look of disgust: "Anyway, such an ugly thing." I don't want to give it to me. ”

At this moment, An Huanqing shouted crisply: "Xiao Ye, come over and help give some advice." ”

"Okay, here." Bayeux answered, turning and walking towards the glass counter.

Wang Guan smiled and took the smoked ball to follow.

"Look, how about this?" An Huanqing offered a treasure, and her little white hand held a delicate jade-inlaid ring.

Wang Guan took a look and saw that the ring was very round, the ring was an ordinary metal, but there was a piece of jade inlaid on the ring surface, but this jade was not very pure, and it glowed with a slight blue glass luster under the light.

"A jade-encrusted ring."

At this time, Baye smiled and said, "Xiaoqing, did you promise Xiao Wu?" ”

"What's the matter, how can he be so cheap!"

An Huanqing raised her head arrogantly, and said with a slightly red face: "The boss said that this is Lantian jade, which seems to symbolize love." I just don't know if this jade is real or fake. ”

"True jade, definitely real jade."

At the same time, the shopkeeper swore beside him: "Two beauties, have you heard of Lantian jade." The jade ring on this ring is the famous pearl of the sea and the moon, and there are tears, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking. The love token given to Yang Yuhuan by Emperor Tang Ming was this kind of Lantian jade, which was very commemorative. ”

"You see that this jade is like a hibiscus out of the water, refreshing and beautiful, and it symbolizes beautiful love. The most important thing is that it has a good maintenance effect on the skin, can kill bacteria and reduce inflammation, whiten the skin, and is the only kind of beauty jade ........."

All of a sudden, the shopkeeper was clever and touted the jade-inlaid ring as a rare treasure in the sky and unparalleled on the earth.

Of course, whether it is Wang Guan and Baye, or Liu Jing and An Huanqing, these words are all sneered, all of them are regarded as wind in their ears, just listen to it. After all, this jade-encrusted ring is really so rare, how could the shopkeeper casually put it in a pile of jewels and jade jewelry. In particular, they are poisoned by advertising, and they have become accustomed to the praise of the shopkeeper, and they do not pay attention to it at all.

"Brother Wang, what do you think?"

Liu Jing didn't pay attention to the shopkeeper's noise at all, and directly handed the jade-inlaid ring to Wang Guan and asked him to help identify it.

"Lantian Jade ......"

Wang Guan raised the jade-inlaid ring slightly, and observed it with sufficient light.

If you want to talk about Lantian jade, it is a famous jade in ancient times, and there are records of beautiful jade in Lantian in many ancient books. However, later some people believed that the Lantian jade recorded in the book was actually Hetian jade. For example, Song Yingxing, the author of Tiangong Kaiwu in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his book that the so-called Lantian is the alias of the jade from the Green Ridge (Kunlun Mountain), and then it was also mistaken for the Lantian of Xi'an.

So until now, many experts and scholars are arguing whether the ancient Lantian jade is today's Lantian jade. But in any case, it is a fact that Lantian produces jade, and the texture of Lantian jade is not bad. The texture is delicate and clean, multi-colored jade, good color, strange pattern, and most importantly, the output is huge.

In particular, after the use of mechanical quarrying processing, a wide variety of Lantian jade ornaments and handicrafts were produced.

Don't wonder why Wang Guan knows so much, he doesn't understand, Yu Feibai is proficient. When he was in Shudu, Yu Feibai told him a lot about jade.

Wang Guan's impression of Lantian jade is the most profound point of large output. In general, a large output means that the price is relatively low, which can be described as high quality and low price. As we all know, the so-called good quality and low price are also advertisements. The price is low, that's a sure thing, as for whether the thing is good or not, then the benevolent will see the benevolent, and the wise will see the wise.

"How?"

After a while, Bayeux said softly, "It looks good." ”

"Things that have been polished and waxed are generally shiny." Wang Guan smiled lightly: "But after storing it for a period of time, this bright luster is still there, so it's hard to say." ”

"Oh......"

The three people next to him nodded in unison, and turned their heads to look at other things in a tacit understanding.

Seeing that the business was about to be ruined, of course the shopkeeper tried his best to redeem it, and secretly hated Wang Guan in his heart, but on the surface, he had to explain urgently: "Brother, you can't say that, this is a high-quality Lantian jade, and the quality is guaranteed." ”

"Jade must be jade, but it's just leftovers, and the cost won't exceed ten yuan."

Wang Guan smiled faintly: "If it is hand-carved, it may be worth a little more, but the traces of the jade-inlaid ring surface of this ring are smooth, and at a glance, you can know that it is directly polished and polished by machinery, and then the wax oil is applied to produce the texture of this glass." ”

"The money for the jade material, plus the labor costs, and the various transportation costs ......"

Wang Guan pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "It is estimated that the cost of your purchase will definitely not exceed fifty yuan, but I don't know how much your jade-inlaid ring is priced in the store?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, looked at Wang Guan blankly, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Brother, you're a companion."

Not long after, the shopkeeper reacted, looked Wang Guan up and down, wondering if this person had come to smash the field.

"It's easy to say...... it's easy to say"

Wang Guan smiled and said: "I help people look at the shop in the porcelain capital, and now I accompany my friends to the provincial capital." When I visited the Tengwang Pavilion and passed here, I saw that the things in the store were good, so I came in to take a look. The jade ring is really good, my two friends also like it, boss, you give a real price, if it is suitable, we will not bargain, buy it directly. ”

This is not called a bargain, as soon as it comes up, it is a dismount......

The shopkeeper muttered in his heart, reached out and rubbed his chin, then stretched out two fingers, and said simply: "This number should be regarded as a friend for everyone, and I will help more when I have time in the future." ”

"Then thank you, boss."

Wang Guan nodded with a chuckle, knowing that this was the shopkeeper's final bottom line.

The price is two hundred, deducting the cost, that is, more than a hundred yuan is earned. It seems that there are two or three times the profit, but for the antique pearl, it is simply a small profit, and there is no profit.

After finalizing the price of the jade-inlaid ring, Wang Guan made persistent efforts, took out the rusty smoked ball, and asked directly: "Boss, how do you sell this thing?" ”

"This is a copper smoked ball in the Tang Dynasty, and the price is not cheap."

The shopkeeper glanced down, then stretched out a slap and said without changing his face: "If you really want it, then I'll give it to you cheaper, just this number." ”

Wang Guan is an understanding person, and knows that if it is something from the Tang Dynasty, it will definitely not be 55500, but 50,000. However, the smoked ball is a thing of the Ming Dynasty, but the shopkeeper said that it was the Tang Dynasty, and he was clearly talking nonsense with his eyes open, and wanted to slaughter him.