Chu Chen smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I bought this bottle for 250,000 yuan." ”

When the old lady heard this, the suspicion on her face deepened, and she frowned and said, "You didn't lie to me? ”

Chu Chen smiled: "How could I lie to you about this, if you don't believe it, we can go directly to the bank to transfer money." ”

When the old lady saw Chu Chen say this, she believed most of it, but she still felt strange, so she asked, "Then why didn't you say it in the store just now?" ”

Chu Chen replied: "There are rules in our antique shop, the boss said so just now, if I just say that I bought it, he won't lose face." And he's right, under normal circumstances, it's impossible for someone to charge your price in an antique shop. ”

In fact, there has always been this rule in the antique shop before, that is, peers can not dismantle each other, as the old saying goes, watch chess and don't say a true gentleman, you just take care of your own affairs, and you will always be hated for managing other people's affairs.

Generally speaking, two antique businessmen, you open your shop, he sells his goods, he only says good things to each other, and he is never allowed to dismantle the table of the same person.

For example, Wang bought an incense burner from the Treasure Pavilion and took it to Bogulou to ask Boss Li to take a look, and Boss Li would happily congratulate him, "Good thing!" Congratulations on your old life! "Because Wang has already bought it, why bother to block the other party's heart? Or if something is real, it's more expensive? Besides, antiques are priceless, and the value of them depends on the buyer's own preferences, how should you measure them?

At present, many antique shop owners have chicken belly intestines, and everything that is not out of their own store is ridiculed as fake, or the other party has fallen for others. Jealousy, speculation, attacks, everything can be made. The villain virtue of the impetuous society showed its original form in front of the ancients! No wonder some people say that it used to be a gentleman playing with the ancients. Now it's the villain playing the ancients, and the two are contrasting. There is a lot of truth in that!

The old lady nodded and asked, "Is the price I said really expensive?" ”

Chu Chen said: "Yes, with the current market, it is already a relatively high price, and an antique shop owner like Boss Zhong buys it back, although it will not be a loss, but it is basically no profit, and it is not cost-effective for him to press so much money without profit, do you say no." ”

The old lady asked again, "In that case." So why would you still buy it? ”

"Because I like it." Chu Chen smiled: "I'm afraid that if I miss it today, it will be gone, and although 250,000 yuan is a little expensive, it doesn't cost much." Grandma, do you still sell this bottle? ”

As mentioned earlier, there is only that number of good things in antiques, and if you miss it, you may not be able to meet it, plus Chu Chen bought it to serve as a collection of museums, and it will appreciate in value in the future, of course Chu Chen will buy it. Otherwise, if one of the conditions is missing, he has to think about it, although the 250,000 is not much for him, it can't be spent in vain.

Seeing that Chu Chen said so. The old lady didn't have any reason to disagree, so they immediately went to the bank to transfer the money and completed the transaction.

Get out of the bank. Chu Chen was about to say goodbye to the old lady when the old lady suddenly stopped him: "Hey." Young man, I still have a few pieces of furniture from the early years. I don't know if you're interested? ”

Chu Chen nodded again and again: "As long as the thing is good, I will accept it." ”

"Alright, let's go......"

The old lady took Chu Chen and them to a small courtyard, and what surprised Chu Chen and Zuo Shan was that this was actually the one that hid Wei Zhongxian's treasure, which can only be described as a "coincidence".

Doesn't it mean that the homeowner has been hospitalized, though? It's strange why this old lady doesn't look like she's just recovered from a serious illness.

The old lady didn't notice the surprise on Chu Chen and Zuo Shan's faces, she opened the door with the key and invited the three of them into the house.

But the scene in the courtyard made Chu Chen feel a little surprised, because the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and at a glance, he knew that it had been uninhabited for a long time, which coincided with the news that the owner was hospitalized.

Curious, Chu Chen asked, "Grandma, don't you live here?" ”

The old lady shook her head: "No, this is my cousin's house, she has been seriously ill during this time, and she has no savings in her hands, so she entrusted me to help deal with the things at home as medical expenses." ”

Chu Chen asked, "Is there no one else in her family?" ”

The old lady shook her head: "No, she is the only one left in her house, hey!" Poor man, too! ”

Speaking of this, the old lady let out a long sigh, but she didn't say much, and after a while, she said to Chu Chen again: "Don't worry about me taking it without telling me, I still know the truth of settling accounts with my sister, and I also have my cousin's power of attorney in my hand, and the things you buy are also protected by law." ”

Chu Chen smiled, he was indeed a little worried that the old lady was dealing with these things privately, otherwise it would indeed be a troublesome matter. Since the old lady said so, he was relieved.

The group followed the old lady to a side room, only to see a few pieces of furniture placed in the room, not much furniture, a total of five, more in line with the description in the "bedroom" in the eighth volume of Mingwen Zhenheng's "Chronicles of Long Things": "Generally, there is a couch, only a few in front of the couch, and there is no thing on the several; Set up two small square pestles and one small cabinet; The room is clean and elegant, and it is like a boudoir, which is not suitable for sleeping in the clouds. ”

However, although there are not many furniture here, Chu Chen stepped forward to see that they were all furniture from the Ming Dynasty, and except for the small cabinets, they were all made by Huanghuali, which were not at all used by ordinary people in ancient times.

Chu Chen said hello to the old lady, and then walked over to the bed in the room, which was not a couch as mentioned in "The Chronicle of Long Things", but a shelf bed.

A shelf bed is a type of bed, which refers to a bed with four columns and four rods on the bed. Some are provided with three-sided railings at both ends and back, and some are placed with door covers facing each other. There are many styles of shelf beds, with exquisite structures and gorgeous decorations. The decoration is mostly based on historical stories, folk legends, flowers and horses, landscapes, etc., with the meaning of harmony, peace, auspiciousness, blessings, and many children. The style is either simple and generous, or magnificent.

The shelf bed in front of me is made of Huanghuali. The style is traditional, in which the "mushroom head" at the lower end of the corner post and the door post imitates the "column base" shape in traditional architecture. The top of the bed is surrounded by eaves, and the ring board opens a cannon hole. The frieze around the bed is also carved with patterns of flowers and plants, cranes and other wild animals, with vivid portraits and orderly layers. The bed lattice corner tenon is gathered and the side is equipped with soft drawers. The tooth strip is combined with the leg enough to hug the shoulder tenon, and the inversion hooves are tightened......

The material of this device is strong, the carving is exquisite, the tenon riveting is tight, the shape is exquisite, the pattern design is simple and smooth, the style is simple and rich, it can be said to be the best product on the Huanghuali shelf bed, which reflects the perfect realm of the craftsmanship of the system at that time, and is very collectible.

Just the shelf bed, Chu Chen is already worth the trip, and the other four things are also extremely collectible.

Although the style of the small table and the small square pestle is simple and concise, it looks like it has a natural atmosphere, and at a glance you know that it comes from the hands of skilled craftsmen.

In the end, the remaining piece was a small double-door cabinet with black lacquer inlays, although it seemed to be only about 50 centimeters high and wide, but it was the most valuable item among the five pieces of furniture, outside of the shelf bed.

The so-called luodian refers to the general term of the decorative process of grinding snail shells and seashells into thin slices such as figures, flowers and birds, geometric figures or words, and inlaying them on the surface of the utensils according to the needs of the picture.

On the other hand, inlaid luodian refers to the best part of the color and luster of various shells, peeled off and cut in layers, and then inlaid on wood and lacquerware as decoration.

It is described in the "Ornament Record": "Luodian...... All kinds of texts and pictures, dots, wipes, hooks, strips, always be fine and dense and picturesque. It is also divided into shell color, and the color is embellished, and the brilliance can be appreciated. ”

The meaning of this passage refers to the use of spirals of different colors according to the needs of the picture pattern, cut into various shapes, and inlaid with various pictures to achieve the effect of approximate coloring.

When it comes to Ming Dynasty furniture, people usually think of Huanghuali furniture, in fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the best furniture is not log furniture, its mainstream should be gorgeous lacquer furniture. This can be evidenced by the fact that most of the national treasure furniture with an age model is lacquered furniture.

Like this small cabinet in front of me, the whole body is inlaid with black lacquer. Round-corner cabinet type, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the cabinet edge is sprayed, the round material column, two doors, and a shelving board inside.

The top surface of the cabinet is embedded with a light courtyard map, and the distant and near scenery of clouds and fog, pavilions, bananas, pine willows, rockeries and stacked stones are all depicted one by one; Nineteen people, threes and threes, or boating on the water, or talking, or walking and leisurely, full of interest. The façade of the cabinet door is decorated in two layers, and the upper layer is a ruyi cloud head shaped hollowout; The lower floor is also a picture of the open courtyard, counting seven people, or playing in the pavilion, or riding horses to visit the garden, and it is very happy.

The two sides of the cabinet are both ruyi cloud head shaped hollow, and the lower side is decorated with a bright flower and bird pattern. The cabinet door is equipped with small handles and loose pages, and the work is decorated with brocade and twig floral patterns, which are dense and cumbersome, and magnificent.

This cabinet is small in shape, integrating the cabinet and the cabinet function, which is an innovative form in Ming-style furniture, and is a rare Ming-style furniture treasure.

Moreover, lacquered furniture is not as easy to preserve as log furniture, and it is not easy to pass down to the present, which also shows the preciousness of lacquered furniture, especially lacquered furniture in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, this well-preserved black lacquer inlaid luodian double-door cabinet is quite valuable, and Chu Chen estimates that the market price should be around four or five hundred thousand.

In addition, the shelf bed is about seven or eight hundred thousand, and the small table and two square pestles add up to about two hundred and fifty thousand, and the value of the five things added up is about one and a half million.

After Chu Chen finished reading the furniture one by one, he said to the old lady with a smile: "I want these five pieces of furniture, you can always tell me a price." ”

The old lady heard Chu Chen say this, but she was in trouble, she frowned and thought for a while, and said: "Young man, to be honest, I didn't think of selling these furniture before, so I didn't ask my cousin how much these furniture were. ”

Chu Chen was also a little embarrassed when he heard this, and asked, "Then what do you say about this?" (To be continued......)