"How are you?"

At the gate of Zhao's mansion, Qin Fan and Senior Sister Zhao Ying stared wide-eyed, as if neither of them expected to meet each other here. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Ying looked at Qin Fan with a look of surprise, these days Zhao Zhihong often invites some collectors and expert masters who are well-known in the antique circle to come to Zhao's mansion. Before Zhao Ying opened the door, she thought that another appraisal master was coming to visit, but she didn't know that when she opened the door, it was the junior she had met at school last time.

Qin Fan felt familiar when he first met this senior sister Zhao Ying at school, but he didn't expect that she and Zhao Zhihong were really related.

"How do you know I live here, are you following me?" Zhao Ying seemed to think of something, and suddenly her face changed, her snow-white slender arms were crossed on her chest, and she stared at Qin Fan with a vigilant face. It's like a little white rabbit who has met a big bad wolf.

“……”

"Uh, Senior Sister Zhao, you misunderstood, I'm here to find Brother Zhao Zhihong." Qin Fan hurriedly opened his mouth to explain that if Zhao Ying was swept out of the house as a stalker, it would be a shame to be thrown into his grandmother's house.

"Hehe, I'm kidding you. Come in, Uncle Zhao is in the study. ”

Zhao Ying's smile trembled, she was haunted by Qin Fan's rejection when she was in school before, and today she finally found a chance to take revenge.

It is said that it is better to offend villains than women, and there is some truth in this.

Qin Fan was embarrassed for a moment, this senior sister Zhao Ying has a lot of plays, and she can win the Oscar.

The decoration and furniture furnishings of Zhao's mansion are all antique styles, and along the way, Qin Fan found that there were a lot of antique furniture in the living room. Although these pieces of furniture look realistic, they lack the antique atmosphere that has been precipitated over the years, even if they don't use the golden treasure pupil to identify Qin Fan, they can see at a glance that they are new.

In the Zhao Mansion, Qin Fan chatted with Senior Sister Zhao Ying for a while and learned that Zhao Zhihong was her uncle, from a big family in Yanjing that had been inherited for a hundred years.

There was also an unknown past in Zhao Zhihong.

It turned out that Zhao Zhihong went to the Hotan area of Xinzhou Province for archaeology, fell in love with a Uyghur girl at first sight, and wanted to marry her when he entered the door, but was opposed by everyone in the Zhao family.

Although Zhao Zhihong is the most capable heir of the younger generation of the Zhao family, he has little freedom in the matter of marriage. At that time, the Zhao family had already found a marriage partner for him, and the other party was also the daughter of a big family, so it could be said that she was a good match with him.

In fact, this kind of marriage is very common among wealthy families, and many children of wealthy families even if they don't like the object introduced by the family, but in order to get the family's resources and training, they will still choose to marry the marriage partner.

It's just that after marriage, the two basically still play their own games, and they have another lover outside. For this situation, the family also turns a blind eye and is free to do so.

If Zhao Zhihong was willing to compromise at that time and marry the daughter of the big family, he would definitely get the family's key training, and maybe he would have the opportunity to enter the highest center of power. As for the Uyghur girl, although she can't be given any name, she can also ensure that she is rich and prosperous all her life, and she has no worries about food and clothing.

However, in the end, Zhao Zhihong still refused the family's request for marriage and married the Uyghur girl in the new province.

It was because of this decision that Zhao Zhihong was driven out of the Zhao family by the angry old lady Zhao, and he was never allowed to appear in Yanjing.

Since then, more than 20 years later, Zhao Zhihong has completely severed relations with the Zhao family and has not set foot in Yanjing. During that time, although Zhao Zhihong's life was hard, it was also the happiest period of his life.

Later, he started a jade business in Xinxin, and then relied on his own efforts to become a famous jade king step by step.

It wasn't until a few years ago that Mrs. Zhao was seriously ill and died, and before leaving, Zhao Zhihong was called back to Yanjing, and he completely reconciled with the Zhao family.

"Uncle Zhao asked you to help him palm? Do you know antiques? ”

Zhao Ying heard Qin Fan mention that Zhao Zhihong invited him to help with the palm, and her delicate little face showed disbelief.

In her concept, even the youngest of those masters and experts in antique appraisal can be her grandfather, how old is Qin Fan, it seems that he is not as old as himself, how could Uncle Zhao invite a young man to help him palm? It's a bit of a bizarre.

"I understand a little bit, and I'm here to see it for a long time." Qin Fan was modest, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Yanjing's antique circle, although he was famous, he was still far inferior to authoritative figures like Mr. Chen Zhimu and Teacher Ma.

"I think so."

Zhao Ying showed a sudden look and took Qin Fan to the study on the second floor.

In the study, Qin Fan saw a lot of ancient calligraphy and painting calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, but these calligraphy and paintings were all copied, and the person who copied these calligraphy and paintings was Zhao Zhihong himself.

These calligraphy and paintings are copied quite expressively, quite charming, and I can't see that Zhao Zhihong still has such high attainments in calligraphy and painting.

"Uncle Zhao, Qin Fan is here."

Zhao Ying's silver bell-like voice sounded, and Zhao Zhihong, who was splashing ink on a rosewood case, raised his head and put down the brush in his hand to greet Qin Fan.

"Xiao Fan sits casually, just like your own home, you're welcome."

Saying that, Zhao Zhihong glanced at Zhao Ying and asked curiously, "Xiaoying, you and Xiaofan know each other?" ”

"Well, I met at school the other day." Zhao Ying nodded, what made her a little depressed was that she had just heard from Qin Fan that Uncle Zhao and him could be regarded as a senior brother, that is to say, she was a generation younger in front of Qin Fan for no reason.

The more Zhao Ying thought about it, the more she felt aggrieved, and she glanced at Qin Fan angrily.

Feeling the murderous aura in Zhao Ying's eyes, Qin Fan looked confused, not knowing what he had done wrong.

"Brother Zhao, is this case from Rosewood? If I look at it right, it should be old furniture from the Qing Dynasty. Qin Fan's gaze fell on the flat-headed case of the red sandalwood carving entwined branch lotus in the study, and he exclaimed.

"Hehe, you have a good eye. This red sandalwood case was auctioned at Guardian Auction a few years ago, when the red sandalwood case was only estimated at 200,000 yuan, and finally I bought it for 1.2 million. ”

According to Qin Fan's understanding, the Qing Dynasty royal family loved red sandalwood furniture, and the Qing court spent more than 100 years replacing almost all the furniture in the court with red sandalwood. Today, when I visited the Forbidden City, I saw the ancient furniture through the glass, and the red sandalwood accounted for the vast majority.

Most of the old red sandalwood furniture that can be found in today's furniture market is from the Qing Dynasty.

Qin Fan can see at a glance that this red sandalwood case is from the Qing Dynasty, and there is another important reason. That is, in the Qing Dynasty, due to the appearance of glass, the indoor lighting was better than that of the Ming Dynasty, so the furniture of the Ming Dynasty generally only paid attention to the lines, while the furniture of the Qing Dynasty paid more attention to the performance of details.

An inch of red sandalwood is an inch of gold, and due to the rise of collecting fever in recent years, the price of red sandalwood has also soared. The old red sandalwood left over from the Qing Dynasty is even more expensive than gold.

If Zhao Zhihong's red sandalwood case is shelved for a few more years, the price will double.

However, judging from Zhao Zhihong's net worth, he doesn't care about such a little money, and the shooting of this red sandalwood case is purely out of love.

"Do you know how to identify the authenticity of rosewood furniture?"

Zhao Zhihong wanted to test Qin Fan and test his appraisal level, so he asked deliberately.

Qin Fan thought for a moment before he spoke, "In the past, it was difficult to identify red sandalwood, and most of the identification of red sandalwood was based on parts. However, I have heard that one of the simplest methods of identification is to scrape a little sawdust and sprinkle it in alcohol. If it is a real rosewood, the sawdust will immediately appear as a mist substance when it encounters alcohol, which is very beautiful. ”

"This statement is basically accurate, a good red sandalwood sawdust is sprinkled into the alcohol, and immediately the clouds and mountains are covered with fog, and some people say that it is purple gas coming from the east." Zhao Zhihong nodded and recognized Qin Fan's identification method.

However, even if you know this method of identifying red sandalwood, you can't take it lightly, otherwise you will be fooled.

Qin Fan had heard Mr. Ma say before that he had a friend who was in the furniture business in his early years, and he happened to have a red sandalwood bed in his hand and wanted to sell it to a big customer.

It's just that at that time, when Mr. Ma saw this bed, he felt that the bed didn't seem to be red sandalwood, but he wasn't particularly sure.

After a while, the big customer arrived, and his friend led the customer to see the red sandalwood bed.

In the past, when looking at furniture, you must see the bottom of the furniture, because the bottom is the easiest to expose flaws. But the tooth plate of the red sandalwood bed was very large, and the gap between the tooth plate and the ground was very small, and the boss was too fat to get under the bed.

Later, the boss thought about it and said, "Whether this is red sandalwood or not, just scrape the sawdust to know." ”

Since the floor of his house was very wet, the furniture dealer himself lay on the ground and took a knife to scrape the sawdust from the back of the tooth board.

Then the customer had someone bring alcohol over and sprinkle the sawdust scraped off the tooth board inside, and the purple air immediately came in.

The customer saw the situation and bought this red sandalwood bed without saying a word.

A few years later, Mr. Ma met the boss again, and he said to Mr. Ma, "It's strange that after the rosewood bed was bought, it became mahogany." No matter how I scrape sawdust and sprinkle it in alcohol, I can't see the cloud and mountain fog cover. ”

He was puzzled, and later Mr. Ma asked the furniture dealer to find out that he had pasted a red sandalwood board behind the tooth board in advance, and the sawdust scraped off that day was indeed red sandalwood.

But the boss couldn't have carried the bed away that night, and after the boss left that night, the furniture dealer took down the red sandalwood board again, and scraped it a few times with a knife in the same position, leaving traces of scraping. Therefore, the boss bought it back and looked at it, and the scratches were all there, but it was not red sandalwood.

The antique industry is full of pits, and it is very wrong to make a judgment based on a single point in the identification of cultural relics, and it is easy to take medicine. That's what the boss suffered.

"I didn't expect this Qin Fan to really have two brushes, it's not a lie."

Senior Sister Zhao Ying's eyes flashed with brilliance, and she looked at Qin Fan curiously, as if she wanted to see through the secrets on his body.