Chapter 20: The Fourth Elder of the Kong Family
After walking for a while, Wu Chen saw a stall on the side of the road, on which there were many swords, coins, jade pendants, and a few small clay figurines.
These things are no different from other stalls, the main thing is that the stall owner looks a little special, at first glance, he is a northerner, a sturdy young man, more than one meter and eight, two arms are like two thick stakes, a flat head, looking very energetic, slightly older than Wu Chen, not less than thirty years old.
Wu Chen looked at it and wondered, how could such a good man set up a stall? Looking at his face, it is estimated that the business is not much better! Even if you go to work as a security guard, it's a good piece of material!
The stall owner looked up and saw that Wu Chen was looking at him, so he grinned and said, "Why don't you take a look?" ”
Wu Chen saw that he had a wide forehead and square face, a dignified appearance, and bright eyes! I secretly praised it in my heart!
If you want to say that the things on this stall are nothing special, he doesn't care too much, but since people greeted him, he was embarrassed to leave immediately, so he simply squatted down and picked up a small terracotta warrior thirty centimeters tall and looked at it.
The terracotta warriors and horses are also exquisitely made, especially the faces are lifelike, not as blurred as the general facial features, so I want to buy it and put it on the desk at home, "How did you sell this?" ”
"Three thousand!" The stall owner is actually a habitual action, but he didn't expect Wu Chen to really want to buy it, and he was already about to pack up his things, so he stopped and squatted there to talk about the sale.
"Three thousand!" Wu Chen was taken aback by his thick voice, and glanced at the stall owner dissatisfied, this thing, normal people know that Lu Dao is a handicraft, and he is a little depressed in his heart, does he look so much like a mallet? How to be tortured everywhere about IQ!
Wu Chen sank his face and said, "Dude, don't fool around! A friend of mine just bought one from Xi'an, and it's the same size as yours, only 20 yuan! Don't say that you're different from those handicrafts, it's a real terracotta warrior, if it's true, then it's not a matter of tens of thousands, wait for the public grain! ”
The stall owner didn't care at all, and still said with a smile: "Although I am not real, it is also all handmade, you see this finger, this facial features, it is beautiful!" Can it be the same price as those printed with molds? Besides, you also know that it was in Xi'an, and I took a plane from Xi'an, and I also had to pay for it! ”
"Hehe, boss, you are so humorous, you are still handmade? You see, there are still horizontal lines of clamping at the sutures of this shoulder! Wu Chen laughed at the stall owner, sometimes the picture is this kind of little fun, but seriously, the workmanship of this little terracotta warrior is still good, and he also thought to himself, "Okay, give a real price." ”
"This is also about to be closed, since you sincerely want it, I will give you eight hundred! Take it! He said with a gritted face, as if he had made a great sacrifice.
"Twenty!" Wu Chen saw that the man's expression was really not disguised, and he didn't feel distressed at all, he was a little hideous, and he felt funny in his heart, so he wanted to tease him, and he didn't increase the price, and he insisted on twenty.
"Seven hundred and eight!" "Twenty!" "Seven hundred!" "Twenty!" ...... "Six hundred! ”
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The two of you come and go, taking turns shouting prices, just like two children fighting cocks, shouting and later becoming angry, they are all angry, they are all angry, they are fast and anxious to speak, but they are full of energy, and the comparison is momentum!
"Ha Lu Ha ......" After reaching the end, Wu Chen and the stall owner felt that the other party was very funny, and they couldn't hold back, so they laughed.
"Dude, I said don't fight, sell me a fixed price, fifty. I don't want it when I'm high, I say I'm tired! Wu Chen laughed, only feeling comfortable, he hadn't been so naïve for a long time.
"Okay, here you go!" The man was also full of smiles, and he didn't think of the difference from three thousand to fifty at all, "What do you call it?" When making a friend, if you need anything in the future, just look for me, I'm here all year round! After speaking, he searched in his pocket for a while, took out a crumpled card and handed it to Wu Chen.
Wu Chen took it and looked at it, the back was a phone number and email address, but the front was lonely, with only one name written: Kong Si, or Xingcao, look at the font smoothly, like flowing water, "You wrote it yourself?" I can't see it! That's a good word! ”
"Where, where!" Kong Si said modestly, "This is what I cut out in Mr. Qigong's "Qigong Cursive Thousand Character Text" and then synthesized it on the computer!" ”
"Uh... Well...... "That's okay too?" Wu Chen almost didn't choke, but he felt that the other party had the intention to do this, and he shouldn't be a reckless person.
He took out his mobile phone, memorized the phone number on it, called Kong Si, and reported his name by the way, then put the card in his wallet and took out fifty yuan and gave it to Kong Si.
While Kong Si was packing the terracotta warriors and horses for him with newspapers, Wu Chen glanced at the things on the stall and found that an enamel cloisonné copper plate was good, although it was not of any age, but the copper tires, gilt, filigree, enamel, graphic flowers, etc., were all extremely exquisite.
The more Wu Chen looked at it, the more he liked it, if he wanted to say that this enamel color, he still knew a little bit, when their unit hosted a national conference before, when they bought souvenirs for the delegates, they bought a small enamel plate for each person, more than 600 yuan, but it was very exquisite.
He also took the opportunity to consult a lot of information about enamel color, Zhilu Dao enamel was first introduced from Guangfu, and gradually formed the three major bases of Inner Court, Suzhou and Guangfu, and the north was dominated by cloisonne, that is, the copper tire filigree process; The south is dominated by painting enamel, that is, the copper tire painting process, and the north and south are reflected, but various crafts are gradually integrated in the later period.
The copper mouth of this copper plate in front of you is simple, the enamel color curly grass pattern and Yanglian pattern in the whole body of the plate, in the middle are two full blooming peonies, and there are two rhododendrons under the flowers, the overall material is full and pure, gilt and bright, and the polishing is also very fine.
It's a pity that he looked at it, the age is not very far away, that is, the object after liberation, if it is a cloisonné in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, it is not cheap.
Speaking in detail, Wu Chen really doesn't have much preference for the types of antiques, as long as they are exquisite, he likes them, after all, at his level, what he can start with is not so much antiques as handicrafts.
For example, jade, he likes both jadeite and nephrite, and among the porcelain, it is naturally the porcelain of the five famous kilns, which he likes the most. However, for some of the porcelain in good condition, he also found it pleasing to the eye.
Just because he is miscellaneous but not refined, broad but not specialized, Wu Chen has a little bit of knowledge accumulation of everything, and dealing with ordinary people is the way of the world, but he knows in his own heart that it is incomparable with a slightly more professional one, and he looks good at the cloisonne copper plate in front of him, but he can't say the way out.
Kong Si wrapped up the terracotta warriors, looked up and saw Wu Chen looking at the plate in a daze, knowing that there was a play, so he came over to introduce him and said that he had collected it from an old man.
The old man was a retired worker of the original state-owned enamel factory, and the factory had received the task of making a batch of cloisonné cloisonné as gifts for foreign guests. After the task is completed, the factory will continue to make a batch of leftover materials and put them in the warehouse. Later, because the efficiency of the factory was not good, they gave these old workers an internal refund, and if the money was not enough, they used things to make up for it, and the old man also divided a few plates and bottles.
When Kong Si went to dig out the old house in Xiguan, he collected it by the way, and the others had already been sold one after another, leaving this plate.
"What do you mean, that's what you're left to pick?" Wu Chen listened to the story, regardless of whether it was true or not, and directly grasped the key point.
"Hey, look at what you said!" Kong Si had already taken precautions, and when he saw the move, "I took a few, but I didn't release them all at once, am I so stupid?" Rare things are expensive, and after selling one, put another one. So you can rest assured! Each of these objects is highly self-contained! ”
"Well, it's not an antiquity, but I think the workmanship is pretty good. How about it, how much can be transferred to me? "Wu Chen doesn't look like an uneducated person when he listens to Kong Si, and his personality seems to be bold, why did he set up a stall? Although I felt strange, I didn't ask.
As for this thing, there is no need to belittle it, since it is after the founding of the country, it is not worth much money. Everyone knows that this period cannot be regarded as antiques, except for some specific objects, such as the special porcelain of the elderly, or Master Zhu's purple clay pot, etc., the price of general things is not high.
"Five thousand!" Kong Si didn't think about it, and as soon as he heard the inquiry, he opened his mouth directly and replied.
"Damn! Don't talk nonsense! Do you think I am like a man of five thousand? Wu Chen was taken aback again, and glared at Kong Si with some dissatisfaction, buddy, can you be sincere!
Cloisonné is a bit special, compared to other collections, the price is low, except for the enamel paintings of the Qing Palace, especially the enamel porcelain of the Qing Dynasty can be auctioned at a sky-high price, and the general price is not high.
If you put on the concept of export porcelain return, it will be even cheaper, in Guangfu there are a lot of foreign trade porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the cheap one can be bought for 5,000.
"Hey, I'm sorry, I'm used to it, the occupational disease is coming!" Kong Si smiled, this thing only cost him five hundred yuan, and he got it from the old man, but for business, of course, it is a sky-high price.
Besides, this Guangfu is not like some old cities in the north, you can get some real things by shopping for them casually, just this old Xiguan, except for those broken houses, there are basically no other things before liberation! However, he saw that Wu Chen was interesting, and the two of them were also in love, so he didn't have the intention of killing him, but as soon as he heard the price, he shouted a high price in a conditional manner.
"Five hundred is about the same!" Wu Chen said casually, I didn't expect it to be the cost price of Kong Si, of course, in terms of the materials and workmanship of this plate, even five thousand is still worth it!
"That's not going to work! I'm still at a loss! At least eight hundred" Kong Sizhi shook his head, five hundred yuan, so does his own walking fee, stall fee, and time cost count? I remember that when I dug out the old house that day, the weather was very stuffy, and I drank two large bottles of Nongfu Spring, is this cost counted?
These days, business is getting harder and harder!