Chapter 16: Bronze
Heavenly City, the most exclusive restaurant in our Intranet City. Antique, the address is the palace of our royal city in the past, the main content of it, but also our local special dishes, of course, the price is called an expensive.
If you go in, you can't get out of it for a few thousand dollars.
Three people, asked for a small private room, Xiao Wu looked like a regular customer, began to order, he ordered, my eyelids jumped, all of them were so expensive to pick up.
I scolded, "Fuck your sister, you'll give you money later!" β
Xiao Wu stopped talking, but just like that, he also ordered seven or eight dishes, but that was enough.
Expensive and expensive, the taste is really good, anyway, I am the first time to come, much better than the buffet in the Beijing Hotel.
While eating, they chatted, Xiao Wu really didn't open which pot to mention, so he asked me: "Brother Qin, sister-in-law is good, why did you break up?" Is it that when you were at a class reunion, you did something disgraceful with other female classmates and was discovered by your sister-in-law, so you γγγγγγ β|
"Get out!" I don't have a good airway.
Xiao Wu knew that I was really angry, so he didn't talk nonsense anymore, so he turned to tell me about the store.
My daughter-in-law is gone, so I don't care if the store is or not, but at this time, Xiao Wu suddenly slapped his head and said, "That's right!" Brother Qin, I have encountered a strange thing these days! β
Where am I interested, no matter what strange things happen to him, I said directly: "Does it have anything to do with me?" If it has nothing to do with me, don't say it! β
Xiao Wu listened and slapped the table: "Of course there is, to be precise, this matter has something to do with you, because you are not there, so it has something to do with me!" β
When Xiao Wu said this, I scoffed, because I felt that this guy was running the train with his mouth full of words, and what he said was not necessarily the truth, so he didn't pay attention to him at all, but Wang Sheng asked with great interest: "What's the matter?" Tell me about it! β
Xiao Wu poured himself a glass of wine, and after taking a sip, he ate his lobster again, and then wiped his mouth and said, "Here's the thing, Brother Qin and sister-in-lawγγγγγγ β
"Let's die!" I glared at him.
Xiao Wu hurriedly deleted his mouth: "Okay, good!" I don't say, my bad! It's okay to slap your mouth! β
The specific thing is this, after Zhang Qiushuang and I left, Xiao Wu looked at the store alone. That is, on the evening of the day we left, when Xiao Wu was eating takeout, a person came.
That person's dress is very ordinary, and his appearance is even more ordinary, according to Xiao Wu, on the street, any person can look similar to him.
What is this man here for, to sell antiques?
At that time, Xiao Wu saw someone coming in, and played his usual irresponsible style: "Look at whatever you want!" β
As a result, after the man walked around the store, he didn't say anything, but he didn't leave.
Xiao Wu noticed him, but the thief Xiao Wu was not afraid, the most afraid
Yes, deliberately to sabotage. You must know that although there are no important national weapons in the store, and there are few antiques, they are all works of art, and it is not cheap to smash any one.
If this guy smashes a few things and runs, he won't be able to catch up with his legs and feet. So Xiao Wu put down his chopsticks, walked up to the man and asked, "Big brother, what are you doing?" Something to talk about! β
The man looked at Xiao Wu, then at the door, then at the inside, and asked, "Are you the boss?" β
When Xiao Wu heard this, he felt uncomfortable, thinking that this kid was not the boss, so he wouldn't speak, right, so he said directly: "I'm not, our boss is not here, you have nothing to do and leave quickly, don't delay my dinner!" β
Because he felt that the other party was contemptuous, Xiao Wu drove people out, this is not a business at all, I want to beat him when I hear it.
However, the man did not leave, and he had to wait for the boss to come back.
This caught Xiao Wu's attention, and Xiao Wu said: "The boss has gone on a business trip to Beijing, and it will take several days to come back, so you can come back another day!" β
In this way, the man was finally driven away, and the next day the man came again, waiting from morning to evening. In the end, he was driven away by Xiao Wu again, but he came again on the third day.
This made Xiao Wu even more strange, Xiao Wu began to pay attention to this person, only to find that the other party had been carrying a small bag, and intentionally or unintentionally, he put the bag in his arms and blocked it with his hands, as if he was afraid of being snatched away.
Xiao Wu noticed this, and began to fool this person, Xiao Wu chatted with him, chatted from morning to night, and invited people to eat two meals.
I drank wine at noon and continued to drink at night, Xiao Wu just wanted to get the other party drunk, so it was a clichΓ©. After hard work at noon, and extra effort at night, I finally took down the man.
The man claimed to be surnamed Hu Xifu and said that his hometown was from Gansu. I have been working in Wangcheng for many years, and the reason why I came here is because I want to sell antiques.
As soon as Xiao Wu heard that he was selling antiques, he came to his senses and knew what antiques were in the bag.
Xiao Wu wanted to take a look, but Hu Xifu didn't let him see it, saying that he had to find the boss to show it.
Xiao Wu was not happy, and said to Hu Xifu: "Take a look, and I won't look bad, besides, I have been with the boss for several years, and I know a lot, you let me catch my eye!" β
This is pure nonsense, I myself only have a little research on porcelain, and I don't know anything else. So in my shop, it's all porcelain.
Hu Xifu still didn't give it: "No! I don't know if it's bad to see, but people say that wealth can't be exposed, what if it is seen by others and robbed? β
Xiao Wu said it badly, but it was useless, and finally Xiao Wu was so angry that he scolded his mother, and finally Xiao Wu thought of a way and said: "Don't hide it from you, Brother Hu, the boss and I are like brothers, you let me see, look at it, when the time comes, I'll help you talk to the boss and sell it for more money!" β
As soon as Hu Xifu heard that he was selling for more money, he came to the spirit: "Really? β
"Really!" Xiao Wu
Categorically.
Hu Xifu took the bag over and took it out: "I can tell you, this is our family's ancestral, if it weren't for my son having leukemia, I wouldn't have taken it out and sold it, I'm waiting for the money to save people, if you can talk to the boss and add more money, then I really have to thank you!" β
Xiao Wu watched Hu Xifu take out something, his heart was itching, and he wanted to see what it was, so he was full of promises.
The thing was taken out, wrapped in newspaper on the outside, and it looked like a ball, one size smaller than a volleyball, but it looked boxy underneath, as if there was a base.
opened the newspaper, it was still wrapped in red silk, Xiao Wu couldn't wait, grabbed it, opened it directly, and was speechless.
Because it turned out to be a metal guy, it looks like a bronze one, with mottled green rust on it, a ball on a base, and there seems to be a bit of a pattern on the ball, and when the base is raised, there seems to be a rune below, which looks like a "king" character.
Xiao Wu's first feeling was that it was similar to the seal we used, so he directly characterized it as a bronze seal.
Over the years, due to the influence of domestic and foreign markets, bronzes have become less and less valuable.
Not only bronze, but also jade pottery, and now in recent years, the most sought after is porcelain. The main thing is that the furnishing porcelain of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties is the most valuable, of course, it must be a fine product.
For example, the blue and white porcelain, the official kiln blue and white porcelain in the Chenghua period, the cost alone was worth 100,000 taels of silver, and it was worth 100,000 taels at that time.
Of course, in recent years, due to speculation and economic recession, the price of porcelain has gone downhill. But it's still worth more than bronze.
So I do it myself, and I mainly do porcelain, bronze and jade, to be honest, let alone research, I don't even bother to understand.
Therefore, I made a rule that I could accept things when I came to sell, but only porcelain, because I could only understand porcelain, and if you asked me to see the rest, I really couldn't understand it.
Another thing is that bronze is not easy to sell.
Take just one and say that the country's important weapon, if you catch it, he will be sentenced to death and life or something, who dares to touch his hands? It's scary than a bomb.
Of course, there are other reasons for this, first of all, it is not worth much, unlike many years ago, gringos, all spent a lot of money to buy, some collectors, a pottery mask that I don't know what age, can spend millions of dollars to buy, the same is true for bronzes, but now, these things are no longer the darlings of collectors, and naturally fewer people will receive them.
Another reason is that the state has increased its control over this aspect, as long as it is caught, it is more serious than the sentence of corrupt officials, either the death penalty or life sentence, scary, really scary.
So after listening to Xiao Wu's words, I slapped the table on the spot: "Bronze, take a fart, you won't take it in a daze, right?" β