Chapter 8 Birthday Gifts

"Girl, you haven't come to see grandpa for a long time, grandpa wants to kill you."

"Hehe, I'm not here, I've been a little busy at work lately, and when I'm done with this time, I promise to come to see you every day!"

Zhong Lao hurriedly smiled and said, "This is what you said, you are not allowed to cheat." ”

The two talked happily and enjoyed each other, but Wang Chunlin was left out in the cold by the old man.

"It seems that Zhong Lao seems to be a little unkind to his son-in-law."

In the distance, Cheng Hao, who saw this scene, muttered in his heart.

The reason why Zhong Lao was cold to Wang Chunlin was mainly because of the death of his daughter.

Zhong Lao lost his wife at an early age and had only one daughter, named Zhong Yunmeng, who regarded his daughter as the pearl of his palm.

Later, Zhong Yunmeng married Wang Chunlin and gave birth to Wang Wenjing, but a few years later she died in an accident, and Zhong Lao was very sad.

Although this matter has nothing to do with Wang Chunlin, Zhong Lao still blames him a little in his heart, blaming Wang Chunlin for not protecting her.

It is precisely for this reason that Zhong Lao is particularly fond of Queen Sun Wenjing, because she is his daughter's blood relative, and she looks a little similar to her mother, and her temperament is also very similar.

After the birthday banquet began, the guests presented gifts to Zhong Lao one after another.

"The shopkeeper of Wanbao Pavilion sent it, and the dragon and phoenix of the Qing Dynasty presented a fan of auspicious screen phoenix!"

"Presented by the boss of Yunjin Street, a string of golden silk nanmu hand beads!"

……

Cheng Hao heard the names of the treasures and swallowed his saliva with envy.

Good guy, golden silk nanmu is more precious than gold, a string of golden silk nanmu hand beads, at least worth 200,000.

The dragon and phoenix of the Qing Dynasty are auspicious and pingfeng, which is an antique in the court, and the price is at least more than 500,000 yuan.

In just ten minutes, Zhong Lao received hundreds of birthday gifts, all of which were expensive treasures, and the cheapest gifts were not less than 100,000.

After the guests finished giving gifts, Wang Chunlin was the last to come on the stage and present the prepared congratulatory gifts.

When Wang Chunlin took out the gift, the audience was silent for a few seconds.

Zhong Lao's face was also full of surprise, and he stood up excitedly.

"Guangxu ingots?"

That's right, the gift Wang Chunlin prepared was the Qing Dynasty Guangxu ingots he purchased from Cheng Hao.

Many antique lovers have come forward to open their eyes.

"It's really Guangxu ingots, so well preserved, the market price should be at least more than 1.5 million!"

"What's more, I met an auction of a Guangxu ingot in Kyoto before, and the transaction price reached 1.8 million at that time!"

"Boss Wang is so filial that he actually gave such a valuable gift to the old man."

However, at this moment, a disobedient voice sounded, causing the audience to fall into an uproar.

"This Guangxu ingots can't be fake, right?"

Hearing this, a bald middle-aged man walked up from the crowd, he was short and stocky, holding an ink-painted folding fan in his hand.

This bald man is the Boss Lin who gave Zhong Lao Jin Si Nanmu hand beads just now, and his real name is Lin Hongde.

Lin Hongde and Wang Chunlin are rivals, the two had some festivals in their early years, and Lin Hongde also opened an antique shop on Yunjin Street, just opposite the Coin Pavilion, specializing in robbing Wang Chunlin's business.

"You surnamed Lin don't fart, how can the coins I personally buy be fake?" Wang Chunlin scolded angrily.

Lin Hongde sneered: "That's not necessarily, who spent 200,000 yuan to buy a fake copper coin?" ”

A few years ago, Wang Chunlin was blinded when he appraised it, and spent 200,000 yuan to buy a Qianlong Tongbao, which turned out to be a fake, which was used as a laughing stock by Lin Hongde and ridiculed him for several years.

"That's the old days, what's there to say, who hasn't made a mistake in our business? No matter how powerful a treasure connoisseur is, he can't 100% guarantee that he won't look away. ”

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Zhong Lao came forward to play a round.

"Okay, okay, this Guangxu ingots are real or fake, you will know if you check it."

Zhong Lao took the Guangxu ingots from Wang Chunlin, weighed it twice in his hand, and then touched it with his hand, and in less than ten seconds, Zhong Lao came up with the result:

"This Guangxu ingots are genuine."

The audience was amazed, some people praised Wang Chunlin's generosity, and more people were surprised by Zhong Lao's treasure appreciation speed, and he could identify a coin as genuine in more than ten seconds.

However, they didn't know that it only took one second for Cheng Hao to inspect the goods!

Lin Hongde couldn't make it difficult in the first wave, so he changed the topic:

"Boss Wang, I heard that two days ago, Zhong Lao received two Tianjuan Tongbao coins, he couldn't identify them and handed them over to you for help, presumably with your experience in the identification of coins, it must be a trivial matter, why don't you take it out to everyone now, tell me how you identified it, and teach your experience for everyone to learn."

As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd, and everyone exchanged their heads.

"Is there a treasure in this world that Zhong Lao can't identify?"

"This Lin Hongde is really insidious, he deliberately wants to make Boss Wang ugly on the spot, Zhong Lao can't identify the baby, how can Boss Wang identify it?"

……

There were also a lot of people in the crowd who watched the excitement, Wang Chunlin became the focus of the audience, if he couldn't say one or two today, I am afraid he would not be able to get off the stage.

In the chief position, Zhong Lao's face was gloomy, today is his 75th birthday, Lin Hongde provoked trouble at his birthday banquet, he really didn't understand the rules.

However, seeing that his son-in-law was in trouble, Zhong Lao was not in a hurry to help him, but waited quietly and put on a posture of watching the play.

In fact, Zhong Lao has always been not optimistic about Wang Chunlin, he has been mixed in the treasure industry for decades, and he has not made any big achievements, he only opened a small coin pavilion, and the business is not very good, and it is a shame to say it.

At the beginning, Zhong Lao resolutely opposed his daughter marrying him, thinking that he was not worthy, but unfortunately his daughter was too stubborn and couldn't pull the nine cows.

Thinking of this, Zhong Lao's heart felt sour, so he didn't help him.

But what happened next made Zhong Lao look at him with admiration.

Wang Chunlin took out the two Heavenly Treasures, walked into the crowd, and smiled confidently: "Okay, since Boss Lin humbly asks for advice, then I will pass on a little experience, listen!" ”

"These two coins are the treasures of the Jin Dynasty, with a history of more than 900 years, and they are real book folded two-type copper coins, each copper coin is 7 centimeters in diameter and weighs about 7 grams."

"The one in my left hand is real, and the one on my right hand is an imitation, the two are almost identical, and it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish between them, but there are two ways to distinguish the real from the fake."

"First, the green embroidery on the surface of the imitation is fake...... Second, listen to the sound, the sound of the genuine copper coins is uniform and consistent, but the knocking sound of the imitation is obviously different......"

Wang Chunlin repeated it completely according to what Cheng Hao said in the store.

After the speech, the audience applauded.

Lin Hongde didn't believe Wang Chunlin and felt that he was talking nonsense, so he asked to personally identify it according to his method, but the result was exactly the same as what he said, and Lin Hongde was speechless.