Wu Ruotang and Nuan Mingyu came to the northeast side of Panjiayuan, distributing old calligraphy and paintings, calligraphy and paintings, ancient coins, ceramics, jade, and old furniture stalls.

"Xiaotang, do you really want to come to Taobao?" The beautiful teacher frowned slightly, in her subconscious, this was a sign of not doing her job.

Wu Ruotang saw that Mingyu's face was not very good, so he immediately smiled and said: "Mingyu, don't get me wrong, tomorrow is my friend's grandfather's birthday, you said I can't go empty-handed!" So come and see what to buy as a gift! ”

"Well, that's pretty much it!" Nuan Mingyu nodded, with a satisfied smile on her face! This is the obedient little Tang Tang in her heart.

The two of them were wandering around hand in hand, and Wu Ruotang's eyesight scanned around as if he was hanging, but he found nothing! Although the Chinese nation in the course of five thousand years of development, the formation of a glorious civilization, with its uninterrupted inheritance, created a variety of periods, various forms of art forms, but as the people's days become more and more prosperous, the antique collection boom is coming again, but the antiques left in history are limited after all, some national treasures are displayed in the national museum, and the things that flow into the people are treasured by collectors after being purchased at a high price, which is also the reason why there are not many good things on the market today!

Otherwise, with Wu Ruotang's greedy character, he would definitely run to sweep every day! In fact, he just came to walk around casually today and pick out imitations that can be seen! After all, if you are a poor student, it is not appropriate for you to send millions of genuine products.

"How about it, Xiaotang, have you chosen the right one?" After ten minutes of turning, Nuan Mingyu spoke.

Wu Ruotang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Mingyu, you give me a suggestion!" ”

Nuan Mingyu smiled softly: "How do I understand this, but does the elder smoke?" My dad had a snuff box, which he said was from the Qing Dynasty, and it was precious. Don't let me touch my sister! ”

"I really don't know about this, it's okay anyway, let's take a look!" Wu Ruotang knew that there was a rhinitis box in a stall in front of him, so he took Nuan Mingyu's hand and walked over.

Snuff was around the time of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty. Imported products from European navigators to our country. It is made by grinding high-quality tobacco into powder, adding precious herbs such as musk, or refining it with flowers. There are five types of smoke flavors, namely: mush, paste, sour, bean, and bitter.

to the Qing Dynasty. As the Chinese people began to smoke snuff, especially the preference and love of the royal family and nobles and the ministers of civil and military affairs, snuff has developed rapidly in China, and snuff smoking has gradually become a symbol of identity and status.

Think about it, the Manchu Eight Banners with a cage of birds, leisurely swaying on the road, from time to time taking out a snuffbox from the inner pocket, sniffing in front of the nose, a sneeze out, what a pleasant thing.

Because snuff is easy to ferment when placed in a snuff bottle. Therefore, it is generally sealed with beeswax for a few years or even more than ten years before it begins to be sold, and on the contrary, snuff bottles are a gadget that has slowly developed with the rise of snuff.

Historical records show that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the court has set up a manufacturing office to produce snuff bottles on a large scale, and in the Yongzheng period, the snuff bottle technology made by the court was more exquisite, and in the Qianlong period, the production process of snuff bottles reached its heyday. The scale of its production is also far beyond that of the previous dynasties, not only the variety and quantity have increased, but also the selection of materials is excellent, and the production is fine. The selection of materials is novel.

"Boss, how do you sell this?" Wu Ruotang and Nuan Mingyu searched in front of the stall for a while, and Wu Ruotang chose a very delicate snuff box, the body of which is painted with carmine and landscape paintings, which belongs to a typical enamel carmine Western landscape painting snuff bottle. The neck and shoulders are decorated with green arabesques on a yellow ground and a blue ruyi cloud head pattern, with a white glaze on the bottom. The glaze color is delicate and bright, gaudy but not vulgar, the traditional Chinese landscape figures and Western architecture are fused, the picture is beautiful, and an agate lid is used as the top mouth on the spout, and the overall shape is unique and elegant. Even Nuan Mingyu couldn't put it down when she saw it.

The stall owner is a middle-aged man in his forties, not tall, slightly fat, sitting on the horse with a pipe in his hand and smoking, hearing Wu Ruotang's question, he glanced at the snuffbox and said with a smile: "The young man has good eyesight, my stall, this snuffbox is valuable, and you have picked it, if you sincerely ask for it, three thousand yuan, you can also bargain!" ”

"What? Three thousand, why don't you grab it! Nuan Mingyu, who couldn't put it down in the last second, immediately put the snuff bottle back angrily when she heard the stall owner's offer! In her opinion, this kind of modern imitation will only survive for thirty.

When the stall owner saw Mingyu's beauty, the whole person was cold for a moment, and then smiled evilly: "Beauty, you are a layman at first glance, this is a treasure of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"The Qing Dynasty of the fart is simply a craft imitation, and it will cost thirty yuan if it dies!!" Although Nuan Mingyu is a gentle and elegant beauty teacher in class, in private, she is also a master of bargaining.

"Hey, if you say that, then I can't help it!" The stall owner shook his head and sighed.

Taking advantage of the argument between the two, Wu Ruotang's fingers rubbed twice on the bottom of the foot, and the dry mud stuck to the bottom of the pot fell down, and a trace of blue was revealed.

Xiao Tangtang smiled in surprise, then nodded slightly, pushed the mud next to him to the middle, and covered up the four words that were exposed.

"Boss, do you know how many old Qing Dynasty snuff bottles like this can be sold in an auction house?" Wu Ruotang said with a casual look.

"How much?" The boss curious.

"At least 150,000!" Wu Ruotang stretched out his hand and gestured.

Nuan Mingyu on the side was surprised: "Then if he is genuine, wouldn't he die a loss?" ”

"You are stupid, if there are so many genuine products, will people still work hard to come out and set up stalls? Boss, don't you say? Wu Ruotang asked rhetorically.

The stall owner smiled embarrassedly, this thing was collected by him for fifty yuan from the countryside! The most important thing for those who do their job is to be able to blow and tell stories! An antique fake, just make up a story and the value will multiply several times!

"It's a good thing anyway!" The boss knows that this beauty is a layman, but this young man should not be underestimated, maybe he is a veteran of this industry, so he doesn't dare to run the train with his mouth full!

"I didn't say he wasn't a good thing, but three thousand yuan is not worth playing!" Wu Ruotang smiled and put the snuffbox back. (To be continued.) )