Chapter 11: The Underground Black Market
After waiting on the side of the road for less than ten minutes, Lao Zhu's white BMW 5 appeared, and as soon as he stopped at the intersection, Lao Zhu stretched out his fat hand from the car window and waved to Zhang Can: "Get in the car!" ”
Zhang Can quickly opened the back door and got into the car, only to find out that Lao Su was also in the car, and greeted him with a smile on his face: "Xiao Zhang!" ”
However, Zhang Can can feel that Lao Su's smile is very hypocritical, and even has a kind of forced smile, of course, Zhang Can feels more that there is a knife hidden in his smile, and Lao Su's smile hides a sharp edge!
"Where are you going?"
Lao Zhu was driving in a direction that was not his old Shizhai, Zhang Can asked a little strangely.
"Xiao Zhang, don't say so much, come with me first, my Lao Zhu won't sell you, it's a good thing anyway!" Lao Zhu replied with a smile, forming a strong contrast with Lao Su's expression, one is true, one is false, one is showing goodwill, and the other is evil!
Zhang Can pretended to be the same as before, defenseless against Lao Su, and talked to him with a smile about the topic of antiques, and Lao Su also answered in detail, no one could see that there was a contradiction between the two of them.
Zhang Can is still relatively familiar with Jincheng, but Lao Zhu drove the car around a few times, and the place he went to was a strange area that he had never been to, and then went out of the big highway and the small road, and when he got on the small highway, it was already a suburb, and the place where the car walked behind became more and more remote, and then it was completely wasteland, and both sides of the highway were full of weeds.
At the end of the small road, there is a base road up the mountain, only more than four meters wide, the road is also rotten, potholes, fortunately Lao Su's car is OK, the chassis is high, otherwise it can't hold up.
Circling on the mountain road, going up to the top of the mountain, and turning over another hill, Lao Zhu turned the car to the right, got off the Kegan Road, and turned into a large ping.
Zhang Can saw from the car window that there were several big tents propped up in the big ping, and there were seven or eight cars parked in the four corners, all of which were off-road tough cars, Hummer H3, Wrangler, Grand Cherokee, and then look at Lao Zhu's BMW 5, running such a mountain road is a little dwarfed.
Lao Zhu stopped the car, got out of the car first, and then said: "Xiao Zhang, Lao Su, it's here!" ”
Lao Su's face was a little gloomy, every word Zhu Linlin said, he felt that it was a thorn, why did he say "Xiao Zhang" first, and then mention his name? Does it mean that in Zhu Linlin's heart, Zhang Can's position is higher than him?
It doesn't matter if it's usual, but yesterday Zhang Can let him have a foreign appearance, doing antiques, what he is most afraid of is being compared with the eyesight of technical appraisal by others, in this line, relying on eyesight to eat, Lao Su fell in front of Zhang Can, but in front of the boss Zhu Linlin, and Zhu Linlin seems to treat Zhang Can differently, so Lao Su will be very sensitive.
There were five or six men barbecuing in the field, and the smell of meat skewers was so strong that I wanted to eat it when I smelled it.
Lao Zhu beckoned and took Zhang Can and Lao Su into the big tent.
There were seven or eight people in the tent, and there was a large round platform, but it was of a folded type, and four sat on the side of the round platform, and one person stood behind each of the four people.
Zhu Linlin smiled and said to the four people sitting one by one: "Lao Ma, Lao Chen, Sun Lao San......" and finally said to the fat man with the greatest momentum: "Mr. Wang, you have arrived?" ”
Mr. Wang, the fat man, is actually not very fat, but he looks very rich, of course, women are talking about rich, and men are usually called blessed.
Mr. Wang nodded, glanced at Zhang Can with his eyes, and said in surprise: "Boss Zhu, you used to bring Master Su, right?" Why did you bring more people today? ”
When he said this, the eyes of several other people were also on Zhang Can, Zhang Can was very unfamiliar to them, so his eyes were full of doubts, but he was very familiar with Zhu Linlin, so I guess he wouldn't dare or bring plainclothes, right?
Zhu Linlin hurriedly smiled and said: "Mr. Wang, and everyone, hehehe, don't worry, this little brother's name is Zhang Can, he is my friend, everyone can rest assured, I have been doing this business in Jincheng for several years, don't look at my young age, my eyesight is this ......" said and stretched out his thumb.
Zhu Linlin sat down at the round table, Lao Su stood behind him, judging from this frame, Zhang Can knew that the other people standing behind were probably the same as Lao Su, they were the appraisers of the four people who were sitting, and the four people who were sitting, except for Mr. Wang, who might have the highest status, did not know, the other three people all knew each other.
Lao Ma is called Ma Dong, Lao Chen is called Chen Xingguo, and Sun Laosan is called Sun Tianzhi, all of whom are the owners of Jincheng antique shops, and their strength is stronger than Zhu Linlin.
Mr. Wang nodded, and tapped his fingers lightly on the table: "Okay, since it's Boss Zhu's person, then don't mention it, it's all here, let's start, the rules are the same, all cash transactions, everyone shines on!" ”
The person behind Mr. Wang immediately lifted a box to the table and opened it first, and inside the box was a bundle of banknotes that had not even been opened with bank seals, two-thirds of which were renminbi and one-third of which were U.S. dollars, and the face of the old man Franklin was seen on the banknote.
Mr. Wang spread his hands and said: "One million yuan, one million US dollars, according to the old rules, the minimum figure is five million yuan, and the excess part will be transferred instantly!" ”
Then Ma Dong, Chen Xingguo, and Sun Tianzhi lit up the cash, and they were all the same number, and when it was Zhu Linlin's turn, Lao Zhu smiled awkwardly, put the box on the table, opened it, and said: "I have a thin foundation, and I only brought 700,000 US dollars, 1 million yuan!" ”
Mr. Wang waved his hand, signaling that he understood, and turned his head sideways to Sun Tianzhi and said, "Boss Sun, let's start, you can show the goods." ”
Sun Tianzhi was not polite, hooked his fingers at the subordinates standing behind him, and the subordinates behind him bent down to open the box, took an item, and then carefully placed it on the table.
Everyone's eyes were staring at this object, this is a small piece, gray-white, like the shape of a puppy, the overall length is only six or seven centimeters, three or four centimeters high, and the thickness is only half a centimeter, there is no doubt that this is a piece of jade.
Sun Tianzhi pointed to this small jade artifact and smiled: "Everyone, this jade dog was obtained from the channel in Henan, it is said to be something from the Western Zhou Dynasty, let's take a look!" ”
Sun Tianzhi said that what he said is not "affirmation", but "it is said", this is learned, he takes things, buys and sells, that is by their eyesight, cash transactions, earned, suffered, that is all behind closed doors to bear their own responsibility, everyone who plays this line understands, the most taboo in the industry is to be fooled and suffer losses after the toss of the wind and rain everywhere, playing antiques, talking about an eyesight, playing is a heartbeat.
In the market, everyone knows that the real good things are very few, the objects in the antiques, on a specific level, that is prohibited by the state, only play jade and jade is more, antiques are very few, of course, this does not mean that the jade jade is all true, the fake jade is more, but the law does not explicitly stipulate the restrictions, in the gold shop jade shop sales, as long as the mark of A goods B goods can be formally put on the shelves, and the means of jade counterfeiting are becoming more and more sophisticated, Take any one of them on the stall, and the color can be compared to the color of the best jade pieces, but it is certain that out of a thousand, 999 pieces are fake.
Besides, the business they are doing now is not visible, if it is really as Sun Tianzhi said, then the way of these things must also be unseemly, this business is gambling on eyesight, of course, for Ma Dong, Chen Xingguo, Sun Tianzhi and these people, millions of dollars will not hurt their muscles and bones, but do business, who wants to lose?
Several masters walked to the front of the stage, each holding a magnifying glass and other tools to inspect the jade dog.
The color of this jade dog does look very old and old on the surface, but these people are veterans, and it is not difficult to make an illusion like this.
Lao Su and Ma Dong, Chen Xingguo and Mr. Wang's appraisal master also knew each other, and it was not the first time they had met, so when several people gathered around the table to identify the jade dog, they nodded to each other and said hello.
Zhu Linlin glanced at Zhang Can, as if to signal why he didn't come forward to identify it.
Zhang Can saw that at this time, everyone's attention was focused on the jade dog, and no one paid attention to him, so he leaned into Zhu Linlin's ear and whispered: "Old Zhu, the jade dog is real, but don't ask for it, the jade quality is not particularly good, and the estimated price is not worth so much, if you want to buy it now, it may cost a lot of money, it's not cost-effective, wait for the next one!" ”
Zhang Can has just seen through with black and white eyes, the jade dog does have some years, and it is undoubtedly an antiquity, but under the vicissitudes of life, the jade texture is not particularly good, and it is not superior.
This jade dog is made of Nanyang jade, which is produced in Dushan, Nanyang, Henan, commonly known as Nanyang jade, also known as "Duyu", and is one of the four famous jade in China.
The reason why Nanyang jade is called Duyu is because it is different from jadeite, nephrite, which is composed of only one mineral element, Nanyang jade's material composition contains a variety of minerals, and its hardness is 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale, second only to jadeite, and harder than other types of jade.
Jade jade, the reason why it is called stone, that is because jade is grown from stone, jadeite is jadeite, is the hardest, only Myanmar is produced, nephrite is produced in many places around the world, but China is the largest region in terms of production and variety, nephrite is called "soft", in fact, it does not mean that its texture is soft, it is classified in jade, softer than jadeite, regardless of jadeite nephrite, its hardness is very high, usually one of the easiest ways to identify jade, the jade piece on the glass with a hard stroke, the real jade will be intact, and the fake jade will be shattered.
However, 90% of those buyers don't understand, besides, whether it's true or fake, if the customer breaks it and breaks it, even if you don't buy it, it will be compensated, even if you don't lose, it will cause trouble, and people who know how to do it naturally have other verification methods.