Chu Chen put the bowl on the table and said to Wen Xuelan: "This should be a blue and white cloud dragon bowl fired by the official kiln in the Yongzheng period, the workmanship is quite fine, if it is complete, it should be around fifty or sixty thousand, but because it has been hairy and has some slight damage, it must be discounted." ”

Wen Xuelan hurriedly asked, "How much money can you have?" ”

Chu Chen thought for a while and said, "According to the current degree of hairiness and damage in this bowl, it's almost 30,000, how about it?" ”

At this price, he is already calculated according to the highest purchase price in the current market, and if he buys it back at this price, he will sell it now, and it will not be much more than 30,000.

Of course, according to the antique market, it will definitely rise in the future, but it is impossible for him to buy this bowl at the price in the future.

"Well, I think it's good, and my grandma will probably agree."

This bowl can be worth 30,000 yuan, which is indeed a surprise for Wen Xuelan, but the thought of something that could have been worth 50,000 or 60,000 yuan has been damaged by nearly half because of improper preservation, which can't help but make her feel quite distressed.

After a while, Mrs. Wen walked in with a cloth bag, and as soon as she came in, she eagerly asked about the price of this bowl, and when she heard that it was 30,000, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, of course, Chu Chen didn't tell her the original price, otherwise she would definitely be more distressed than Wen Xuelan.

"Young man, see if you need any of these things." Mrs. Wen took out the things in her pocket one by one and put them on the table.

However, the first thing startled several girls present, and Cheng Wanhui almost screamed in fright. She was usually most afraid of snakes, frogs, spiders and the like, and it was a toad in front of her.

"Grandma. Where did you find this? Scared the hell out of me. Wen Xuelan patted her chest and said.

Old Mrs. Wen smiled: "What is there to be afraid of this thing, when your grandfather was alive." I often use it to hold water. ”

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Grandma Wen is right, this thing is the water in the stationery, a vessel used to hold water." ”

Zhao Heyan frowned and said, "Since it is filled with water, it is not good to make it look good, why make it such an ugly toad." Apparently she didn't like the toad very much.

Chu Chen explained with a smile: "This toad is not simple, I don't know if you have heard of the allusion of "Bang Hai Playing Golden Toad"? ”

The allusion of Liu Hai playing Jin Toad is also a household name, and of course Zhao Heyan and the others have heard of it.

Legend has it that Liu Hai, a disciple of Lu Dongbin, has profound skills and likes to travel all over the world. Subdue demons and subdue demons, and give for the benefit of the world.

One day, he subdued the golden toad goblin who had been endangering the people for many years, and in the process, the golden toad was injured and broke one of his feet, so there were only three feet left in the future. Since then, Jin Toad has surrendered to Liu Hai's door, and in order to atone for his sins, Jin Toad has made a unique effort to bite into the gold and silver treasures to help Liu Hai benefit the world and help the poor. Distribute money. So people called it the beckoning toad.

"Cousin, you say this thing is a golden toad? That's ugly, right? ”

"Originally, it wasn't ugly, this golden toad should have been made of copper gilding, but it wasn't well maintained. The gilding on the body is detached, so it has become what it is now, if it is re-gilded. It's definitely a lot better than it is now. Chu Chen said with a smile.

"Brother Chu, weishenme my golden toad is four-legged?" At this time. Cheng Wanhui asked with some curiosity.

Chu Chen was stunned and said, "How can a golden toad have four legs?" The three legs of the golden toad are common sense, right? ”

Cheng Wanhui said embarrassedly: "This." My dad brought back a golden toad the day before yesterday, and it was a four-legged one. ”

Zhao Heyan smiled when she heard this: "Needless to say, your father must have been deceived by others again." Xiaohui, your dad is stupid enough, he always doesn't have a long memory, what "Lucky Dragon Turtle" he bought for tens of thousands of dollars last time, let my dad see it when he came back, it's just a handicraft of a few hundred yuan, and this time he bought a four-legged golden toad, and my dad is estimated to die of laughter when he hears it. ”

"Xiaoyan, don't talk about my dad like that, and I won't ignore you anymore."

Seeing that the two of them were going to fight again, Chu Chen hurriedly said, "Okay, don't make trouble." Grandma Wen, this thing is in this condition, it's five thousand, what do you think? ”

Mrs. Wen said with a smile: "Okay, okay, at the price you said, you can take a look at these two things." ”

The remaining two things are also study utensils, an ink-colored landscape imprint box, and a brush.

The printing box, also known as the printing box, is a stationery that holds the ink clay. It is oblate and round, small in size, and has copper, porcelain, agate, ivory, jade, etc., and porcelain is the best.

The predecessors had "printing color pools, but porcelain is the most suitable." If the pottery, fuel consumption. Copper tin is rusty. Jade, crystal and burning materials have the disadvantages of dampness, which is very harmful to the color. There are stones that are used in the near future, and they are not applicable. ”

This ink color landscape seal box has a tightly closed female mouth cover, a stepped ring foot, an elegant shape, a more meticulous fetal bone, and a pure glaze. The cover is painted with ink and color landscapes, the painting is smooth, quite ornamental, has a certain collection value, and the market value should be about 6,000.

Chu Chen didn't hesitate much, and directly offered Mrs. Wen a price of six thousand, of course, Mrs. Wen would not object to this price.

Zuihou is the most common brush in the stationery, and this brush also makes Chu Chen's eyes bright.

This brush should have been made in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the whole pen was made of ivory, and the material was neat and fine. The body of the pen is shallowly engraved and combined with two immortals, lined with mountain stones, trees, Ganoderma lucidum, etc., and the pen is engraved with double deer, mountain stones, and trees. The shallow carving craftsmanship is exquisite, and the brushwork is smooth. Moreover, there are no traces of use of this brush, which is quite rare.

Chu Chen tried the brush a little and said with a smile: "Grandma Wen, it seems that your ancestors are scholarly disciples." ”

Mrs. Wen said a little proudly: "That is, my family used to be an official to the household department, but now it is a high-ranking official at the level of deputy minister. ”

Chu Chen smiled and nodded, "That's really remarkable, so do you have anything else besides these three stationery supplies?" For example, inkstones and the like. ”

Mrs. Wen shook her head and said apologetically: "There used to be, but some of the things I saw as valuable were sold, and there were only these three left." ”

Hearing Mrs. Wen say this, Chu Chen couldn't help but shake his head regretfully, looking at this old lady Wen's jiashi, there should be a lot of good things, but it's a pity that he knew a little late, and it is likely that some of his favorite things were missed, but this time it is also a surprise to have this rare teapot, and there is no need to be too sorry.

Next, the two sides of the brush set a price of 10,000, so that today's few things, a total of 231,000, Chu Chen drafted the contract, and the two sides signed it, as long as Zhao Qirui took the money, it was fine.

"Young man, I don't know if you can accept "Yuan Datou"? ”

"Yuan Datou?"

Chu Chen was a little stunned when he heard this, he really didn't accept this thing, the ordinary "Yuan Datou" on the market was only about fifty pieces, and the "Long Yang" was only about seventy-eight, the price of this thing was almost dead, and only if the amount was large, he could make more money, this kind of business, he was really not too willing to do it.

"Well, I have several Yuan Datou here, if you want, take them together."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Chu Chen thought to himself, being idle is also idle, just take a look, if it is that kind of special variety, the price is not very cheap, especially rare tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

Old Lady Wen took out a dozen silver coins and put them on the table, Chu Chen looked at them and found that most of them were ordinary Yuan Datou, and a small amount of Long Yang, and he didn't find any particularly rare silver coins in them, but he wasn't much disappointed, if the rare ones were so easy to find, would they still be called rare?

Chu Chen counted the number of silver coins, Yuan Datou had nine, and Long Yang had six, all of which were ordinary products, and two of them were not in particularly good condition.

"Grandma Wen, these are ordinary silver coins, Yuan Datou counts you as fifty, Long Yang counts as seventy-five, a total of fifteen silver coins, nine hundred, what do you think?"

"Huh?"

Chu Chen thought she didn't agree, and explained: "Grandma Wen, my price is very fair, I don't believe you to ask." "Actually, it really doesn't matter if Chu Chen accepts these silver coins or not, if Mrs. Wen doesn't agree, then forget it.

Hearing this, Mrs. Wen hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no, young man, you misunderstood, I am very satisfied with this price, but I just counted that there are obviously sixteen pieces, why is it only fifteen pieces now, it is really strange." ”

After saying that, Mrs. Wen began to rummage, and after looking for a while, she found that the bottom of the cloth bag was a little broken, and the silver coin was stuck in the broken place.

"Here, I said there are sixteen." Old Lady Wen smiled and handed the silver coin to Chu Chen.

Chu Chen didn't care too much about it, thinking that it was another Yuan Datou or Long Yang, but when he got it in front of him and was about to check the integrity, he was suddenly stunned.

"Jing Chu made the "Guangxu Yuan Treasure Treasury" Ping Seven Coins and Two Cents Silver Coins, how is this possible? ”

Jing Chu made "this province" Guangxu Yuan Treasury Ping seven coins and two cents of silver coins, by the Jing Chu Silver Dollar Bureau imitation Lingnan silver dollar casting circulation in the city, the first casting of the dragon map left and right embedded "this province" two words, in order to show that there is a difference with other provinces, after the suffocation is difficult to do, when recovering and recasting, the word "this province" is removed, and there are only a handful of people who have not been destroyed and recast.

And most of the remaining silver coins are worn or stamped, and completely unused products are rare. Modern numismatic connoisseur Zhang Huang assigned the coin number CH133 in his book Catalogue of Chinese Silver Dollars and Silver Coins, and specifically stated: "There is only one type of coin, and there are no other varieties." ”

Chu Chen really didn't believe his eyes, the silver coin in front of him was actually this rare coin, and it was in complete condition, it looked like it was new, this was really surprising to him! (To be continued......)