Kelly's mother is likely to be more than ten years younger than Warren, and with good maintenance, she is more fashionable and brightly dressed, and from a distance, she looks like a beautiful young woman.

Chu Chen felt that if Kelly's parents walked together, they would look like a father and daughter from a distance, and it was hard to imagine that this would be a couple who had been married for more than 20 years.

Of course, Chu Chen thinks so, and he also judges it from the concept of Orientals, in the eyes of Westerners, this age difference can only be said to be normal, and it cannot be regarded as an old husband and a young wife at all.

After a few polite greetings between the two sides, Warren brought the topic of antiques to the topic, and he asked with a smile: "Chu, listen to my daughter, you have a very powerful master." ”

Chu Chen replied with a smile: "Yes, my master is very good at antique appraisal, and his old man has a high prestige in my country's industry. ”

"I really envy you, being able to be accepted as a disciple by such a master, unlike me who can only grope by myself and take a lot of detours!"

Speaking of this, Warren let out a long sigh, and then he hugged and apologized, and said: "Chu, after my daughter came back, she told me that my study method was wrong, and I don't know if you can guide me in this regard?" ”

When Kelly heard this, she asked, "Daddy, are you going to buy antiques in the future?" ”

Warren also understood what his daughter meant, and he spread his hands and said, "Oh! Kylie, it's my only hobby after all, you don't want to take it away, do you? And I'm completely interested in this aspect, and I don't have to buy it, it's always okay to appreciate and learn, right? ”

Seeing her father say this, Kelly had no reason to object. Thereupon. Warren shifted his gaze to Chu Chen again.

Chu Chen said, "Mr. Warren, with all due respect. Your previous learning methods are only suitable for beginners, if you want to learn in depth. In addition to reading more professional books that are biased towards academic methods, it is best to find some enthusiasts in this area to discuss together, in our line of words, to find the right circle. ”

Warren frowned and said, "Chu, I can understand what you said, but among the people I know, except for that antique dealer, no one else is interested in studying Huaxia antiques. Even if I had to find a circle like you said, it would be difficult. Can you tell us a little bit more about other learning methods? ”

Chu Chen replied: "Then you can only rely on yourself, the main thing is to learn more, watch more, buy less, and summarize more, if you remember these words, plus your talent is good, it is not difficult to become an experienced old collector." ”

Warren nodded again and again when he heard this, and then he asked with a smile: "Chu, I wonder if you can introduce me to a few professional books?" ”

Chu Chen thought for a moment. Some embarrassed said: "I have been reading Chinese books, as for whether there is an English version, I don't know, or wait for me to go back and check it." How about sending it to you by e-mail? ”

"Thank you so much!"

Warren hurriedly thanked Chu Chen, and then followed. He seemed to suddenly think of something, and hurriedly said, "Chu." Speaking of Chinese books, I also have several ancient books from your country. I wonder if you can please help me see the authenticity of the book? ”

"Okay! It's waiting for me here! ”

Chu Chen muttered to himself, he had always thought that foreigners should be more straightforward when they spoke and did things, but from Warren, he felt that foreigners were actually no different from Chinese people, and before talking about business, they all went around in a big circle, and did not mention business until the end. Of course, this could also be the case with Warren's personality.

To get back to the point, since Chu Chen came here as a guest, he came for Warren's antiques, and now he had no reason to refuse, so he readily agreed to Warren's request.

asked his daughter to be responsible for entertaining Wu Ke and the others, and then Warren took Chu Chen to his study.

Warren's study, in addition to the European style, also has a lot of Chinese classical charm, which can also be seen that Warren should indeed like Chinese culture.

"Chu, you wait a minute, I'll take out the things."

After talking to Chu Chen, Warren walked to the inside of the study, and Chu Chen saw from a distance that there seemed to be a safe over there.

Seeing this situation, Chu Chen felt a little funny in his heart, he put it in the safe so solemnly, how could Warren not know the value of things.

Some friends may say, how can you know the authenticity of something with Warren's level? But don't forget, in the past few days, Warren should have identified the things that Chu Chen helped identify the day before yesterday, and asked someone else to identify them, Chu Chen didn't believe it, and he would not have appraised the rest of the things together.

Since Warren appraised it, but he didn't sell it at the time, first, he may have made an appointment with Chu Chen in advance, if he sells it, it is not easy to explain to Chu Chen, and another reason Chu Chen thinks is that the most important reason may be that Warren thinks that the price he gave is high, and of course he will definitely sell things to him.

However, if Warren thought that Chu Chen would buy all his things at the market price, he would be very wrong.

If it was something like the official kiln porcelain gourd bottle, Chu Chen was willing to buy it at the market price he gave, after all, such an antique was more precious and had a high collection and research value, even if he bought it at the market price, he would not suffer a loss.

But if it is something more ordinary and ordinary, Chu Chen will definitely lower the price, after all, he is not a philanthropist, although he has to talk about human feelings, but it is not necessarily necessary for him to keep doing things that harm himself and others, right?

While Warren was taking things, Chu Chen looked around, and saw that the furnishings in the study were relatively simple, with bookshelves on one side, and some books on management and antiques were placed on it, but Chu Chen also saw that among these books, there was a book whose title was actually called XX Tianjiao You Learn Antique Identification.

Seeing the title of this book, Chu Chen felt a little funny, if XX Tian taught you to learn to type, then it is still possible, but in the field of antique identification, except for those who have special abilities like him, which of the rest of the people does not spend a lifetime researching?

Therefore, judging from the title of the book, Chu Chen felt that the content of the book was a little unreliable, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to learn antique appraisal by relying on such a book not to go astray.

On the opposite side of the bookcase was a Bogu cabinet, on which were placed some antiques such as porcelain or jade ornaments, because Chu Chen was usually used to not using abilities, so he didn't know if these things were real or fake.

Just as Chu Chen was about to walk over to appreciate it, he saw Warren coming over with more than a dozen thread-bound books.

After putting all the books on the desk in the room, Warren said with a smile: "Chu, please let me take a look at it first, I still have two things over there." ”

Seeing Chu Chen smiling and saying that it didn't matter, he walked back to the safe.

Warren brought a total of 12 books, the first one is called "Cultivation and Weaving Map", this book was made by the painter Lou Yu during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the works have been praised and praised by the emperors of previous dynasties. The three pushes of the Son of Heaven, the queen kisses silkworms, and the men plough and weave, which is a very beautiful economic picture of small farmers in ancient China.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, when Lou Yu was in charge of the hidden order, he drew 45 poems of "cultivation and weaving", including 21 cultivation maps and 24 weaving maps. Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty toured south, after seeing the "Cultivation and Weaving Poems", he sighed at the cold of the Weaver Girl and the suffering of the farmers, and ordered the inner court to worship Jiao Bingzhen on the basis of the building painting, re-drawn, with 23 cultivation maps and weaving maps, and a chapter of poems for each piece.

Chu Chen's "Cultivation and Weaving Map" in his hand is the version of the Kangxi period, the ancient books are quite well preserved, and they are not damaged at all, just by virtue of the quality and preciousness of this book, he estimates that the price in the market should be about 200,000 RMB.

In addition to this "Cultivation and Weaving Map", the other eleven books are all part of the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" series.

The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books was compiled by the imperial decree of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally compiled by Chen Menglei, originally known as "Ancient and Modern Books Collection", and the first draft was completed from October of the 40th year of the Kangxi reign to April of the 45th year of the Kangxi reign. When Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne, he ordered Jiang Yanxi and others to re-edit it.

This series of books is divided into six compilations, such as calendars, squares, Minglun, naturalism, science, economics, etc., 32 classics, and divisions under the classics, a total of 6,109 parts, each of which is divided into examinations, general discussions, diagrams, tables, biographies, art and literature, sentence selections, chronicles, miscellaneous records, and external editors according to different situations. It is the largest surviving book of its kind in Chinese history.

This book was typeset with copper movable type in the fourth year of Yongzheng, and completed in the sixth year of Yongzheng, together with a trial printing sample, a total of 65 parts, each text 10,000 volumes, 40 volumes of catalogs, divided into 5,000 and 20 volumes. There are two kinds of paper for printing, one is printed on Kaihua paper, and the other is printed on Taishi Lian paper. Both kinds of paper are of high quality, fine printing, rich binding, and beautiful and generous.

These eleven classics of Warren belong to the two categories of science and economics in the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books of the King James Dynasty", of which eight are science and three are economics, all of which are printed on civilized paper.

The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books of the King James has appeared sporadically in the market and at auctions, but most of them are printed on Taishi Lian paper, and the printed version on Kaihua paper is rare. And at one time, there was such a large number of printed copies of culture paper and they were relatively intact, whether it was in the market or at auction, Chu Chen saw it for the first time.

With this, we can also see the preciousness of this set of books by Warren.

However, "The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" is much more common on the market than the previous "Ploughing and Weaving Map", and the base of this series of books is too large, although Warren's books are also more precious, but the price on the market is lower than that of "Ploughing and Weaving Map". In terms of quality, Chu Chen estimated that the combined value of these eleven books should be around 180,000. (To be continued......)