After a few sips of wine, Bai Qianye asked:

"Li Yi, do you know the Zhong family?"

"Know one thing, Tongruibao was created by the old man of the Zhong family, and now at the helm is his second son Zhong Haoqian, Zhong Haoqing is his eldest daughter. In addition, the Zhong family has been a family of calligraphy and painting for generations, and Zhong Hong, the father of the old man Zhong, was a generation of famous artists who could compete with Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi without falling behind, but he died too early and had few paintings, so his reputation was not well-known. In the generation of Mr. Zhong, he had no talent in painting, but he was fortunate to worship the legendary appraiser Ye Tianlong as his teacher, and created a well-known brand of Tongruibao. In Zhong Haoqing's generation, there is another talented female painter like her who has inherited her grandfather's talent......"

Bai Qianye nodded, so you kid is lucky! Zhong Haoqing is almost invincible in the field of Chinese painting and brushwork, Hu Jinquan is known as the first place in China in the Kaifa and splashed ink landscapes, Hu Zhiyuan is not only firmly in the top spot in the jade carving and stone carving world, but also a well-known master in the world, so many powerful masters, I don't know what kind of monster will be taught in the future!

Actually, what he didn't know was that because of the spirit card and He Shou Wu, although the current Li Yi was slightly different from the kind of monster he defined, he was already a monster!

After caring about the sales of the Dushan jade brought over, Li Yi broke up with Bai Qianye and returned to Yanyuan.

The next day was Thursday, and Li Yi still had a snuff bottle to buy, so he went out early in the morning and went straight to the market.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, snuff was introduced to China from the west, and the form of the initial snuff box was gradually orientalized. Turned into a snuffbox. Nowadays, the habit of snuff is extinct. However, snuff bottles have been passed down as a work of art and are known as "miniature works of art that concentrate the culmination of various crafts from various countries".

Chinese snuff bottle. It is often a collection of calligraphy and painting, carving, inlay, pondering and other skills in one, using porcelain, copper, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, the use of blue and white, colorful, carved porcelain, nesting, skillful, painting and other techniques, absorbing the advantages of a variety of crafts inside and outside the region, by the elegant people as a precious cultural play, at home and abroad enjoy a high reputation.

There are so many types of snuff bottles that they are enough to dazzle people, so Li Yi doesn't have any specific ideas, and he is ready to hit whichever one is which.

The first thing he looked at was a snuff box. Feeder is the former Chinese name for glass. Feeder snuff bottles tend not to win by texture, but by workmanship. Although it is glass, it can imitate all kinds of famous qualities, and it is vivid and vivid.

This is the Venus material in Li Yi's hand, also known as Venus glass or Wenduli stone, named because it has a little Venus twinkle in the dark brown or reddish-brown glass, which is characterized by golden light and magnificence. It has a strong palace color and royal atmosphere.

Venus glass was fired in the sixth year of Qianlong, but because it was produced very little, most of it was burned by the Office of the Yangxin Palace of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was only used by the royal family. This process was lost after Qianlong. Therefore, the circulation of folk Venus material products is very limited.

But the strange thing is that judging from the current auction market, the transaction price of "Venus Material" is very different. For the same age, the same material, and the same type of feeder, sometimes the price difference can reach hundreds of times. It's very puzzling.

The boss saw that Li Yi didn't seem to be satisfied with the snuffbox and smiled. I found another one from the safe.

This snuff box is very beautiful, at first glance it looks like a light brown crystal, but if you look closely, you will find that it is actually made of transparent tourmaline, and in the inside of the snuff bottle, there are several colorful goldfish drawn!

Li Yi liked it when he saw it, observed it repeatedly for a long time, and asked:

"Boss, how much does this cost?"

The boss laughed twice,

"Little brother is really good-looking, this is the most beautiful one in my store, and it is also the most expensive one, if you really want it, 270,000!"

270,000? Li Yi shook his head, the price is too high, although the material of this snuff bottle is rare, and the inner painting is also excellent, but there are some defects in the shape of the instrument, that is, it is too small, compared to the average size of the snuff bottle, it is almost a whole circle smaller.

"This kind of material, it's good to have such a big one, and this snuff bottle is still an old object of the third generation of the Qing Dynasty, and this price is estimated to be a starting price if it is auctioned."

Li Yi smiled, if this snuff bottle is okay, let alone such a big one, it is smaller than this, and the price is worth two or three times, but ......

"It's a good thing, and it's really an old thing, but this interior painting is a new addition, right?"

When the boss heard this, his face suddenly sank, and he said in a low voice:

"Whether it's new or not, you don't count what you say, and it doesn't count if you say it! But there's one thing I can count as I say, little brother, you have nothing to do with this treasure! ”

After that, the boss picked up the snuffbox and was about to take it away, but Li Yi hurriedly stopped him.

"Who said that if you don't have a chance, I'll give 50,000!"

"50,000? You can't even buy the ingredients to make this snuff bottle! Forget it, little brother, don't waste time here, let's go to another house. ”

"No, that's what I'm looking for! Well, I'll add another 10,000, 60,000 to you! It should be about the same now, right? ”

"I want to be cheap, I want good things, I want this kind of good thing, too! You look first, the old customers are coming, I'll go say hello. ”

Seeing the boss turn around in a hurry, Li Yi rolled his eyes and looked at the ...... first You took this one, and the rest are on the counter, look at the hair!

The boss took two steps, thought about it and felt that it was wrong, turned around and casually took out a black thing from the counter, and put it heavily in front of Li Yi with a "bang".

"This one is cheap, you look at it first, and we'll talk later."

Li Yi was startled by the boss's actions, and then looked at the thing in front of him with interest, such a big one, black, is this a snuffbox or a grenade?

The size of this snuffbox is two extremes compared to the tourmaline just now, the one just now is one circle smaller than normal, but this one is at least three times the normal size!

Li Yi picked up the snuff bottle and took a cursory look, and found that this thing was actually made of rosewood, and judging from the wear and tear of the relief on the surface of the utensil, it was probably still a real old object!

Old objects...... Li Yi's face darkened, now people collect snuff bottles as handicrafts, but back then, people really wanted to take out this thing and use it!

It's just that...... Such a guy with a personality, they dare to take it out?

Li Yi instantly remembered a few years ago when large-screen mobile phones were not popular, at that time, everyone's mobile phones were exquisite and small, but there was a strange manufacturer who did the opposite, producing a mobile phone that was exactly the same as the big bricks 20 years ago, with a price tag of tens of thousands, but I didn't expect it to be very popular for a while!

It turns out that pretending to be forced has been done since ancient times!

Li Yi carefully looked at the relief on the surface of the snuff bottle, probably because of the age and poor preservation, many places of the relief have been destroyed, after looking at it for a long time, he can only barely see that the main picture should be a longevity peach and a bat, but from the few intact parts, the craftsmanship of the wood carving is not bad.

He turned the snuff bottle upside down to see if there was any money left at the bottom of the bottle, but it turned out that the bottom of the pot had been carved into the shape of a circular arch, and not only the gap between the two wooden doors was clearly visible, but also the shape of the knocker could be faintly seen!

Interesting...... Although there is no payment, but there is a spirit card, as long as he wants to know, this ingenious and unique maker has nothing to hide.

As soon as he changed the snuffbox to his left hand, Li Yi's eyes narrowed suddenly, but he didn't expect that there was a hole in this snuffbox!

"Guangxu, red sandalwood peach bat relief snuff bottle, Zhou Leyuan, genuine."

"Guangxu, crystal goldfish lotus painting snuff bottle, Zhou Leyuan, genuine."

He let out a long sigh, no wonder this red sandalwood snuff bottle is so big, it turned out to be a mother-level snuff bottle that has been pregnant for more than 100 years! Needless to say, the crystal snuff box inside must have been stuffed from the bottom of the snuff box outside!

can even think of using the crack in the door to cover up the real gap, this week Le Yuan can break into such a big reputation, it really is not covered!

"Boss, how much does this cost?"

A greeting called two people, but the middle-aged man who had been standing and chatting with the boss immediately laughed when he saw the snuffbox in Li Yi's hand, but he didn't expect that this treasure hadn't been sold yet!

"This 20,000 yuan, if you want to take it, don't give it back to me and sell it slowly, don't bargain."

Li Yi frowned, the snuff bottle collection looks at the famous artist, the second looks at the material, and the third looks at the workmanship, this snuff bottle has nothing, why is it so expensive and not allowed to bargain?

"Little brother, don't be angry, Lao Han, he is not targeting you, this snuff bottle, he reported it this way when I asked for the price three years ago! Otherwise, you think you're the only one who has a vision? If you can get your hands on this thing for one or two thousand, I still want to pretend to be forced in the circle of friends! ”

Hearing his friend's help, the boss also smiled and said:

"This thing, I'm selling a strange word! Little brother, you must have been a lot of home, except for me, where else have you seen such old objects? ”

Li Yi raised his eyebrows, no matter what, it is inevitable that there will be many dreams at night, and the big one will be wronged! I really want to see the face of this old guy when he sees a famous pot of goldfish and lotus flowers inside! It's a pity that this kind of thing can only be stolen...... This is really a night trip in brocade!

Carrying the baby in his arms, Li Yi decided to buy another snuff bottle, because neither of these two pieces was suitable for handing in homework.

It just so happened that the next door to this shop was also a shop that mainly engaged in snuff bottles, Li Yi was in a hurry to go back to study the mystery of his mother's snuff bottle, and he was going to buy a reasonable one and withdraw, but he didn't expect that as soon as the boss heard that he wanted good goods, he really took out a set of colorful Xinjia skins for him! (To be continued.) )