At the Ruins of St. Paul's, the two parties with different purposes said goodbye to each other.

Watching Wu Ke and them walk towards the scenic spot, Chu Chen and Zuo Shan (Ah Chao on the other side) followed Zhao Qirui, who was already a familiar customer of Haojing, to the antique shop of Dai Ziming's friend.

Speaking of which, there are not many real antique shops in Haojing, at best there are less than forty, and among these antique shops, there are the most antique furniture stores, and the styles of those furniture have the characteristics of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as carved boxes, toilets and other furniture.

However, for these old furniture, unless it is a particularly valuable thing, Chu Chen will not buy it, because these are purchased from the rural areas of the mainland at a low price, and then processed and renovated here, Chu Chen is generally not interested in this kind of processed old furniture.

In addition to antique shops that specialize in old furniture, there are antique shops that sell jade, bronze, tin, porcelain, coins, stamps, calligraphy and paintings. Among them, the porcelain business is the most prosperous, and in addition, calligraphy and painting, which represent the characteristics of Chinese culture, are also doing well.

After watching all the way in this way, the three of them came to the antique shop that Dai Ziming said yesterday.

Walking into the store, Chu Chen looked around and found that although this antique shop didn't look big, the decoration and layout were also quite tasteful, and the theme of the business was antique miscellaneous.

Chu Chen had just taken a look at the situation in the store when he saw an old man in his fifties who looked like a shopkeeper walking towards them.

The old man spoke a relatively standard Mandarin and asked, "Excuse me, are the two of you Mr. Zhao and Mr. Chu?" ”

The two of them were not surprised that the old man knew them, Zhao Qirui smiled and nodded: "Is Old Dai here?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "He, Mr. Jiang and my friend are already upstairs. I'll take you there......"

After saying that, the old man took the three of them upstairs. During this period, he also introduced himself. said that his name was Mao Jiancheng, and his ancestral home was also in the capital, and he was Yunyun who fled to Haojing only after the Eight-Nation Alliance.

The three of them followed Mao Jiancheng to the reception room upstairs, only to see that in addition to Dai Ziming and Jiang Jiachang, there was also a man in his forties, somewhat bald, who was drinking tea and chatting at this time.

"Sorry, it's late." Zhao Qirui and Chu Chen hugged everyone.

"Where, where! It's because we're early......"

Everyone exchanged pleasantries. Mao Jiancheng introduced the two parties, and then asked the guy to serve tea to the three of them.

Mao Jiancheng's friend's name is Ying Mingxin, and when he waited for his buddy to serve tea, he took out the porcelain that Dai Ziming said yesterday.

This is a Qing Kangxi blue and white tiger river to send the picture lid jar, this jar straight mouth, deep belly, round feet, the body of the vessel with blue and white painted landscape figures, surrounded by mountains and mountains. The waterfalls and water pavilions that flow straight down, this elegant and beautiful scenery, sets off people's leisurely life.

The whole picture, the layout is reasonable. The composition is ingenious and magnificent. The painting adopts the axe splitting method, and the layers are painted. Yin and yang are opposites. The texture of the mountain stone is obvious, and the characters are calm. The strokes are fine and vivid. The lines are strong and tough. The artistic style is elegant, like a literati painting full of charm.

The above description is the "Tiger Creek Sending Picture" of the high monk Huiyuan in "The Legend of Gao Xian of the Lotus Society". Huiyuan is the host of Donglin Temple, there is a spring under the temple, called Tiger Creek, he never sends guests over Tiger Creek, and hears the roar of the tiger when he passes. Later, Tao Qian and Lu Xiujing visited, Huiyuan sent off the guests, because of the conversation speculation, unconsciously crossed the Tiger Creek, laughed at each other, and later generations praised the friendship between Gaoshi.

This jar of blue and white seems to be made of the best green and blue materials in the Kangxi period, pure blue and beautiful, coupled with the use of traditional painting in the "皴" method to depict landscapes, its porcelain painting skills reached the peak of the Kangxi period.

In addition, this jar has no style, but many of the official kiln works of the Kangxi period are not written, and because of this, there are many imitations in recent years.

Moreover, modern imitations based on this jar are currently flooding the art market, both large and small. The color of blue and white is somewhat similar, but careful observation shows that there are two main situations, one is that the blue and white material is dry in water, there is the phenomenon of burnt dry blistering, the carcass is thick, and the glaze in the vessel is thick and white and opaque; Second, the blue and white color is light and oily, the bottom glaze is white and yellow, and the tire repair is extremely exquisite.

Among the people present, except for Chu Chen and Zhao Qirui, who were already familiar with the forgery method, everyone else felt that there was nothing wrong with this blue and white jar, but Dai Ziming was also like Mao Jiancheng, and felt that there was always something wrong with this thing.

"Teacher Chu, what do you think?" When Chu Chen raised his head again, Ying Mingxin couldn't wait to ask.

Chu Chen said with some regret: "I don't think this thing has arrived. ”

Dai Ziming hurriedly asked: "What, is it really that Cai Jianxuan's high-level imitation?" ”

Chu Chen replied: "It should be said that the possibility is very high. ”

At this time, Ying Mingxin requested: "Teacher Chu, can you explain it in detail?" ”

"That's as it should be."

Chu Chen nodded: "First of all, the reason why you think there is something wrong with this artifact is because the counterfeiter used slurry to make it old, although this substance can be imitated more realistically, but at most it is only more than ninety percent similar, such as ......"

Chu Chen introduced the characteristics of distinguishing slurry from olding.

"Hey! So that's what happened! After Dai Ziming and the others observed, they all shook their heads helplessly.

After a while, Ying Mingxin asked again, "Teacher Chu, is there something else wrong?" ”

"Yes, this blue and white jar still has some problems with green materials."

Chu Chen said: "The practical material of green hair blue and blue is the pearl material of southern Yunnan, which is refined by fire calcination, so that the content of cobalt in the raw material is greatly increased. The color of cobalt material is directly related to the purity and particle size, and the refined cobalt material is not only delicate in particles, but also contains trace elements such as copper, iron, manganese, etc., which makes the blue of emerald hair blue slightly green and purple, and the color is rich and colorful. ”

"But this blue and white jar, although it looks very similar to the real emerald blue blue and white material, there is no slight green and purple in the blue, in addition. There are also some differences between some subtle watches and the real thing......"

According to Chu Chen's explanation, Ying Mingxin smiled bitterly after reading it: "These differences are relatively small. The average collector can't see it at all! ”

Dai Ziming sighed: "Don't talk about ordinary collectors, even me and Shopkeeper Mao can't see it." What a shame to say! ”

Mao Jiancheng also said, "Yes, this Cai Jianxuan is inevitably too powerful, but since his level of antique porcelain is so high, he can do legitimate business, why do you have to go the wrong way!" ”

Zhao Qirui sneered: "What else can there be, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, some people only have money in their eyes, and he can't care about the lives of others." ”

Ying Mingxin sighed: "Hey, money is really harmful!" It's like this blue and white jar. Originally, I didn't actually plan to buy it, but because the price was not expensive, I was greedy for cheap, but I didn't expect to lose more than 100,000 yuan in the end, although the money is not much, but it is enough to worry about it......"

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, Mr. Chu, I want to ask you a question. What is the origin of this Cai Jianxuan, why have I joined the antique collection for so many years and have never heard of this name? ”

Actually, don't talk about him. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Lao found a clue pointing to Haojing some time ago, he called Dai Ziming and brought up this matter. Otherwise, Dai Ziming would not know about Cai Jianxuan.

Next, Chu Chen carefully explained Cai Jianxuan's origin to everyone. and the danger he produces.

"To put it bluntly, I'm afraid that everyone will be panicked. It has caused huge economic losses to the antique market, so people in the know have been covering up the matter. ”

Zhao Qirui said: "If everyone knows about this matter, the value of porcelain will definitely cause a panic fall, not to mention the businessmen who make a living from it, and those collectors will not be much better, and I don't know how many families will be ruined because of this." ”

For this, everyone can understand, and the consequences don't need to be said, not to mention others, Ying Mingxin has porcelain worth nearly hundreds of millions of RMB in his hand, if Cai Jianxuan's matter is known to passers-by, the losses caused by this are not something he can bear.

Because of this, Ying Ming was already thinking about whether to dispose of some of the collections at home first, lest that kind of situation really happen when he got it, and he would lose all his money, and he really wanted to cry without tears.

"Mr. Ying, do you know anything about the seller who sold this item to you? Can you tell us more about that? Chu Chen asked.

"I don't really know much about that."

Ying Mingxin smiled bitterly: "I only know that this person's name is Xu Yueshui, he is a foreign Chinese, he is about thirty-seven or eighty-eight years old, he is almost forty years old, and he looks very spirited, as for this aspect, I don't know very well." ”

Mao Jiancheng said a little speechlessly: "No, then how can you buy his things?" ”

"That's normal, right?" Ying Mingxin looked a little innocent: "Don't we usually buy things like this, as long as we think the things are good, who will ask the seller for details?" ”

Mao Jiancheng smiled, and immediately understood that he had asked a stupid question, and was a little embarrassed and stopped talking.

Chu Chen smiled and asked, "Mr. Ying, where did you meet him?" Was this porcelain delivered to the door by the other party? ”

"It doesn't count."

Ying Mingxin recalled: "Last Sunday, I was invited by a friend to attend a small charity auction at his place, and the seller happened to be sitting next to me, so he chatted a few words, he said that he was in the porcelain business, and it happened that I was not a collector of porcelain, so I asked him at random if there was a better Qing Dynasty official kiln. ”

"At that time, he told me that he had this blue and white jar and introduced it to me. At that time, he was more realistic, unlike other sellers, who boasted about their things to the sky. In addition, he said that this porcelain was bought by him at a foreign auction the year before last, and that he could provide the relevant text. ”

"When I heard this, I was more excited, and when the auction was over, I followed him to his temporary residence, and this blue and white jar was in my hands."

After listening to what happened, Mao Jiancheng said with a smile: "I said Mr. Ying, you are so bold now, you don't even know who the other party is, you actually dare to go to the place where he lives." In case the other party is a robber, aren't you throwing yourself into the net? ”

Ying Mingxin was stunned when he heard this, and said with some palpitations: "I don't know what's going on, I really didn't think about this at the time, fortunately, this person is just greedy for a little money, otherwise you may not see me." ”

"It's not that exaggerated."

Mao Jiancheng laughed and said, "The charity auction you said should be held by Mr. Huang, right?" With his cautious character, how could he send an invitation to a dangerous person? However, we should be careful next time we encounter this kind of thing, we must not have the heart to harm others, and we must not have the heart to prevent people. ”

"Yes, yes!" Everyone agreed.

At this time, Chu Chen asked, "Mr. Ying, can I trouble you with something?" ”

"Teacher Chu, just say it."

"That's right, I wonder if you can give him a call and ask him out."

When Ying Mingxin heard this, he somewhat understood Chu Chen's plan: "Do you want to use him as a breakthrough to find out that Cai Jianxuan?" ”

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, you should know that Cai Jianxuan is dangerous, so the sooner you find him, the better." ”

Ying Mingxin said: "It's no problem to make a phone call, but even if he comes, you can't do anything about him!" ”

Zhao Qirui said confidently: "It's okay, I will coordinate this aspect at that time." ”

Hearing this, Ying Mingxin reacted, Chu Chen's background was not ordinary, and for them, what he said was not a big problem at all.

"Okay, then I'll give him a call......"

As he spoke, Ying Mingxin took out his mobile phone, flipped through Xu Yueshui's phone, and pulled it out, but the voice on the other end of the phone made him a little dumbfounded.

"What's going on?" Mao Jiancheng hurriedly asked.

"His phone is off, is it out of power?" Ying Mingxin asked with some hesitation.

Mao Jiancheng felt that there was something strange about this: "He won't escape, right?" ”

Ying Mingxin shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, I was on the phone with him the night before yesterday, and I didn't hear him say that he was leaving." ”

Mao Jiancheng asked, "Then did you tell him that I think there is something wrong with this blue and white jar?" ”

Ying Mingxin waved his hand: "I haven't said this, you can't find out what the problem is, how can I tell him?" ”

Chu Chen opened his mouth and said: "Let's stand here, we can't discuss the reason, otherwise, let's go over now, what do you think?" ”

"Okay!" Ying Mingxin agreed.

Next, Chu Chen asked Zhao Qirui to stay here, and he and Zuo Shan followed Ying Mingxin to Xu Yueshui's residence.

Under the leadership of Ying Mingxin, more than ten minutes later, they came to the community where Xu Yueshui lived temporarily.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

At the entrance of the community, the group was stopped by the security guard...... (To be continued......)

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