As soon as they came in, I felt that something was wrong, Professor Zheng was in the back, and the medicine was in the front. When the medicine was not provoked, Professor Zheng had not said anything, and now he suddenly stood up to persuade him, obviously singing a double reed in red and white. Besides, if they are bent on fighting, the stakes are a little smaller.

Professor Zheng was not embarrassed when he saw through me: "Xiao Xu, this matter is a long story. That little medicine...... The identity is not ordinary, and there is a reason why he asked you to challenge. But I refused to buy it: "Teacher Zheng, if you come to buy and sell or appraise treasures, I will do my best." But I'm not interested in having an inexplicable gamble with someone of unknown origin. Today he comes to fight, tomorrow you come to challenge, I don't want to do business in these four repentances, change it to Hongkou Dojo. ”

Yao Else sneered beside him: "What if the buddy says 'Bright-eyed Plum Blossom'?" When I heard the name for the second time, I was shocked, staring at the medicine, and I didn't know how to take it. Yao Otherwise: "Seeing that you are not stupid, let's open the skylight and say something." Liu Ju told us all about the Xu family, so my buddies came to see what was going on and saw what the long-lost Xu family was capable of. ”

It turns out that this guy is a child of the Five Pulses, uh...... Isn't it the same as my background?

"Does Bureau Liu know about this?" I asked cautiously.

He has been holding meetings with several directors of the Chinese Society for Ancient Studies for the past two days, and he has not yet reached a conclusion. This person who has become a state cadre just likes to talk nonsense in meetings! In fact, what is there to discuss, the five veins have always been in the craft to see the real chapter, a competition, don't you understand it all? Yao Else waved his hand disdainfully.

Professor Zheng said: "Xiao Xu, the Xu family has been silent for so many years, and the sudden reappearance is bound to attract the attention of many people. If nothing else, it is the medicine, otherwise there are many big people standing behind it. If you hold back, I'm afraid that this kind of thing will happen again and again. ”

What I regret the most now is that I was obsessed with cracking that tea array. I knew that I would cause today's trouble, so it was better to say that I couldn't solve it at the beginning, and come back to live in peace. Now it's good, poked a hornet's nest. I've always prided myself on being cautious, but I still haven't debunked this fame.

"Well, what the hell do you want from me?"

Professor Zheng raised his wrist and looked at the time: "I have an idea." Today is Sunday, and Panjiayuan is lively. Let's go there, you and the medicine are limited to 2,000 yuan per person, half a day, and each goes to Taobao, and the type is not limited. Whoever gets the most money wins. ”

"How can you tell which of the two things is more valuable?"

"If you can trust me, let me do the valuation." Professor Zheng lifted his glasses, "Assessing this kind of thing is my old job. ”

It's a lot of fun. It is not only the eyesight that is tested, but also the decisiveness and planning ability. There are hundreds of stalls and shops in Panjiayuan, each with different collections, and it is really stressful to judge which one has good things in half a day, and then to get the lowest possible price, find out the balance between price and value, and make the best decision.

Therefore, a person who can appreciate treasures in light cannot win; A person who can bargain alone can't win - he must have both knowledge and talent. This is by no means a mistake to pick up a leak, but a comprehensive judgment of a person's ability to Taobao.

Professor Zheng came up with such an idea, and it seems that he came prepared.

"What if I win, what if I lose?" I asked.

Yao Otherwise, he replied: "If you win, you can pick one of my family's collections; If you lose, hand over the copy of "Su Ding Lu" to your buddies to see. ”

He said it so bluntly that I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart. Sure enough, as Liu Ju said, once the Xu family is exposed, many people will be eyeing this book. These two people came to the door, not to seek revenge or provocation at all, but to come for the book.

It may be that for the Five Veins or the Cultural Relics Appreciation Society, "Su Ding Lu" is very important, symbolizing cultural inheritance or sect authority or something. But in fact, for me, this book is not so expensive, it is just a practical guide to treasure appreciation. I believe that many of the techniques recorded in it have long been passed down to the world, and some things are gradually becoming obsolete with the advancement of science and technology.

"How? Give me a good word! The medicine didn't urge.

I rubbed my fingers, for embarrassment: "I want to go, but I'm alone in this store, and I have to lock the door when I leave......" Before I finished speaking, Professor Zheng took out his wallet first: "Xiao Xu, you don't have to be embarrassed, we bet two hundred yuan here to make up for your loss." ”

I put the two hundred dollars away, and then I said, "If I win and I don't want anything, please don't bother me in the future, how about it?" ”

"Deal." Otherwise, he agreed without hesitation. I saw two sparks in his eyes.

I locked the door and followed Professor Zheng and Yao Er into a Santana car. There is a special driver, Professor Zheng takes the co-pilot, and I and Yao Else sit in the back seat. It seems that in addition to our vein, the other four veins are all mixed well, and they all have special cars.

The car started and slowly drove out of the glass factory. Yao Otherwise, he sat next to me, stretched out his hand and said, "Reacquaint yourself, buddy is the disciple of the Xuanzi Sect in the Five Pulses." ”

"Xuanzi Gate?" I'm a little dazed.

"Holy shit, you don't even know that?" Yao Otherwise, he raised his voice in surprise, and a few hints of pride flashed in his eyes. By the way, it's the kind of smug look that the top students have after reading the exam papers of the poor students, which is quite annoying.

I shook my head, my knowledge of the Five Veins and the Chinese Society for the Study of Antiquities was limited to the little bit of pitiful information that Liu Ju had told me. Otherwise, Yao triumphantly stretched out his five fingers and counted them for me one by one as if showing off: "As the saying goes, there is a specialization in the art industry. Now the Chinese Society for the Study of Antiquities is not so fine, in the past, our five veins were in charge of the five arts. Qingmen main woodware; Red Gate Master Calligraphy and Painting; The main bronze ware of the Yellow Gate, our Xuanmen, the main business is porcelain. ”

I thought of the name "Su Ding", and I couldn't help blurting out: "Could it be that the Xu family is in the lineage, which is the white door of the main gold, stone and jade?" ”

Our Xu family is really good at the art of gold, stone and jade. This also explains why in the book "Su Ding Lu", only these two categories of counterfeit identification techniques are mentioned, but there is no mention of porcelain or anything.

"Not bad. Just now with the jade fight, you are your own professional, better than my outer door, win not martial arts, let me tell you, buddy is not a loss. ”

I looked at the expression of the medicine and hummed, and suddenly I felt a little happy. This person is also interesting, he speaks and sounds rushed, in fact, he is quite straightforward, he doesn't seem to be a bad person, at most he is a gentleman, and he has a bit of a mixed temper.

"You come from a famous family, and I don't have any elders to rely on." I glanced at Professor Zheng, meaning that you just have someone behind you.

Yao Otherwise, he was furious: "Phew! Dude is not the kind of high-level cadre who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it! I was admitted to Peking University by myself! It's more than ten points higher than the admission line! ”

This person is really easy to talk about, I didn't finish a sentence, he reported all the college entrance examination results, and his rectum was ......

I looked out the window at the receding tall buildings, and suddenly I felt a little ridiculous. What age is this, and there are still such things like martial arts. In this modern city of Beijing, there are still five ancient families dormant, no matter how you think about it, it is a little untrue.

As he spoke, the car had already driven to the small street in front of Panjiayuan, and then it couldn't drive. The streets were bustling with people. This is the periphery of Panjiayuan, where most of them are hawkers who sell food and drink, as well as traders who can't enter the garden and hope to try their luck outside. The three of us got out of the car here, pushed away the vendors who had come up to sell Northeast mink, and walked in.

Panjiayuan is a feng shui treasure in Beijing, which has been thriving for several years. From the perspective of Kanyu, the southeast of the capital is suitable for flowing qi and not for gathering qi, but here it occupies another hexagram - the hexagram belongs to Ze, and the water gathers into Ze. Therefore, the place of Panjiayuan, gathering water does not gather gas, which is in line with the image of walking the soil. Isn't that just a cultural relic?

There is also a realistic reason: Panjiayuan is close to the Shaanxi and Henan offices in Beijing, both of which are large provinces of antiques and Ming utensils, where many people gather here, wind and water, wealth and people, and over time, it has evolved into a big business.

This day is a rest day, especially lively, on both sides of the shops and the market several rows of vertical and horizontal stalls are spread out, selling old books, selling calligraphy and paintings, selling Ming ware antiques, selling all kinds of miscellaneous utensils, a dazzling array of things, and so on. Many people are walking back and forth in this market, some old and some young, watching their movements, some old guns, some newbies who want to pick up a cheap one, and even a few blonde and blue-eyed foreigners with big noses, holding cameras and chattering to shoot. Looking at the past, a large area of Wuyang is very lively.

There are also many peasants from Shaanxi, Henan and other places, standing in the corners of the walls, wearing tattered military uniforms, stepping barefoot on liberation shoes, and holding up fresh gadgets that are still stained with grave soil to sell to passers-by - but these things are nine times out of ten fake.

Professor Zheng stood at the wall of the entrance, looked at the time, and said that it was now half past ten in the morning, and we would gather here in the afternoon within three hours. Each of them will bring what he has found, and he will fairly value it. Anyway, everyone is in the industry, and the valuation can be seen at a glance, and no one can fool anyone.

Yao Ran and I glanced at each other, snorted in unison, and walked to the left and right respectively. I didn't run, I seemed to be impatient, and I guess the medicine was the same thing. So we both took square steps, turning back in three steps, lest we walk faster than each other and lose our grace. After walking more than ten meters, I suddenly came back again.

"What's wrong with you?" Professor Cheng asked.

“…… I don't have that much cash on me, so can you lend me some first? ”

I rarely have more than fifty dollars in money. I really can't afford this 2,000 yuan bet...... Professor Zheng smiled and gave me the money to make up for it, otherwise I wouldn't know where the medicine would have gone.

Time-limited Taobao, this is an individual work, but also a technical work. The first thing you need to think about is the type of item you want to buy, so that you can be targeted within a limited time and not be picky.

My choice is very simple, the old business: gold and jade - set a little more fine, gold and stone. Compared with other things, the probability of gold and stone picking up leaks is relatively high, such as Qin bricks, Han Wadang or Northern Wei Dynasty remnants or something, often mixed in a pile of bricks to pad people's table legs, not connoisseurs are not easy to distinguish. Jade is not good, and no matter how clumsy a person sees a jade statue, even if it is fake, he feels that it is valuable.

Therefore, there is a saying in the ancient Tibetan world, called "real stone is not as good as fake jade", not to say that gold and stone are not as valuable as jade, but to say that in the eyes of the common people, jade is easier to see the value than gold and stone, and it is even more difficult to receive.

Once you've settled on your items, the next thing to think about is the search area. Panjiayuan is too big, hundreds of stalls are shopping one by one, and there is definitely not enough time. You have to decide whether to take the main street stall or the antique shop. The things on the stalls are mixed, and the probability of fakes is extremely high, but occasionally you see good things, and the difference in price makes a lot of money.

The quality of the things in the antique shop is guaranteed, but most of the shopkeepers are connoisseurs, and the price given is too little, and it is not easy to rely on low prices to get good things.

I weighed it up and decided to focus on the antique shop anyway.

Otherwise, since he claims to be from the Xuanzi Gate, then his focus must be on porcelain. Compared with gold and stone, the price of porcelain is not very even, the expensive one is extremely expensive, the cheap one is extremely cheap, and the middle price is relatively small, so the price of two thousand yuan is very embarrassing for him: the good one can't afford it, and the broken one can buy a big car.

In contrast, the price of gold and stone is evenly distributed, and it is clear what price of what dynasty and low, medium and high grades. Professor Zheng's budget of 2,000 yuan, as long as it is on the right level, will definitely not be much worse - as long as you make sure that the things are real, I am absolutely confident in this.

It was a slightly hot and dusty day. I bought a bottle of soda and held it in my hand as I squeezed through the crowd, sweating profusely. As we walked through the rows of stalls and sheds, the shouts came and went. I glanced at it casually, it was all fakes, and I didn't even have the slightest interest in stopping and squatting down to take a look. I even witnessed a middle-aged intellectual-looking man being fooled by the stall owner and taking out a thick pile of great unity in exchange for a "Xuande furnace" - the "Xuande furnace" had a black and green heart, obviously because there was too much lead during the fraud.

But I didn't say anything to stop it. One is that I don't have time, and the other is because Taobao has its own rules, if you don't ask for it, if it is not requested by others, even if you see the fake, you can't say it, and if you say it, it is to smash the seller's business.

Everyone has their own fate, and I hope that the brother who was beaten in the eye can buy a real Xuande furnace in the future.

I walked around the stalls a little bit, but found nothing, so I went straight to the antique shop as planned.

There is a blue-gray shop along the wall of the antique shop, all of which are a window and a door layout, which is divided into two rooms, the outside is a private seat, and only the guests of the big business will be invited to taste the tea and talk in detail. Every household is hanging a gold plaque on it, and some even hang a banner. Compared with the stalls, it is relatively high-end and formal, and there are fewer idlers, and most of the people who come and go are professional collectors or traders.

I straightened my collar and walked around. Those shop owners are also thieves, and when they look at me and talk a few words, they know that they are peers. My peers can't afford to coax, so they don't greet me as warmly as they do with the mallet, but let me watch it casually by myself.

I don't look at jade pieces, I don't look at porcelain, I just walk around gold and stone. From the Han figurines to see the Wei monument, from the Song Yan to see the Ming and Qing Dynasty bronze tools, there are real and false, all carefully read it. After reading it, he didn't say anything, nodded at the boss, and went out with his hands behind his back. This is called shopping around, leaving from here, not necessarily dissatisfied, after a look around, you may turn back. Therefore, in antique shops, there is no such thing as a waiter in a state-run store who immediately loses his face when he sees that a customer is not buying anything.

I walked slowly all the way down, and when I got to the fifth, I finally saw a good thing. This shop is called Rui Yifeng, and there is an apricot yellow pick at the door, which is a bit like a country tavern. When I entered the store, the owner was dozing off against the wall. We had a brief conversation, and the boss let me look around the room.

I looked around the shelves and there was nothing particularly worth buying. I habitually looked around, and suddenly I noticed that there were no doors in the inner and outer rooms, only a curtain hung on it, and the curtain only blocked the upper half. I was a little shorter, and I could see the back room from below.

There was a black thing resting on the side of the sofa in the back room, and when I looked at it, it was actually two Buddha heads, and I immediately became a little interested.

"Boss, can I take a look at the Buddha top?"

When the boss heard my question, he said "oh", turned around and went into the back room, and soon came out with two stone Buddha heads in his arms.

Most of the buyers and sellers believe in Buddhism, and the Buddha's head has the meaning of beheading, which is unlucky, so when doing the Buddha's head business, they all ask for a mouthful, which should be called the Buddha's top. In fact, no one paid attention to the Buddha head in the past, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China that foreigners became interested in Buddha statues, and the trade flourished. Until today, most of the Buddha's head trading is also concentrated in the transaction with foreigners, and few people in China specialize in this.

The Buddha's head is a large piece of gold and stone, and it is also a category that is talked about the most in "Su Ding Lu". However, because there are not many transactions for the Buddha's head, I am not very familiar with my hands, and I only know a rough one.

I compared them and picked one of them. This Buddha head is Shakyamuni Buddha, not big, about the same size as a child's head, and the style belongs to the typical Tang Dynasty. The Buddha's head has a spiral high bun, a high nose and big ears, plump lips and wide cheeks, two long eyes with high corners and downward pupils. I touched the face of the Buddha's head with my hand, the stone was blue, and there were many natural cracks, it seemed that it had experienced many years of wind and rain, and moss marks could even be seen in the cracks.

This Buddha head should be in the late Tang Dynasty, and the market price is about two or three thousand yuan, but the real price of this Buddha head is more than that. The boss of Rui Feng put the Buddha head next to the sofa, seemingly unaware of its value. Here's my chance.

"Boss, who got this thing and where?" I asked.

"Anhui. The Sun family received it. Late Tang Dynasty goods, absolutely true. ”

Antique trading, pay attention to the origin. A bronze mirror, dug out of the tomb of the Han Marquis, and picked up from the kang head of the local villagers, has a completely different meaning, and the price difference is huge, so you have to ask clearly. The antiques collected from the homes of local people are called those collected by the Sun family; bought from the guests who entered the store, called Zang's family to collect; He personally dug it from the grave in the ground and asked the Tong family to collect it. These are all old words, as for why these three surnames are chosen as hidden words, no one can say clearly. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Tong family did not dare to mention it publicly, and slowly merged into the Sun family.

As soon as he said that the Sun family had collected it, I knew that this quasi-child had been purchased from a local farmer—I had never heard of a Buddha's head as a Ming vessel.

I nodded, said nothing, pushed the door and went out. After wandering around in other places for a long time, I didn't find anything more suitable than this Buddha head. I went back to Rui Feng and saw that the Buddha head was still there, so I pointed at the boss: "I invited this Buddha top, give a crisp price." ”

The crisp price is the fixed price, take a crisp one. There are not so many tricks in the industry trading, they are all experts, and there is no need to play so many virtual tricks, straightforward. The boss looked up at me and said lazily, "I'll give you a price, two." ”

It's jargon, which means two thousand dollars. I shook my head: "It's too expensive to give it away." Let's go to half a tree. ”

The boss stretched out two fingers, meaning that he was only willing to give another two hundred.

I paid back another 100, and the last 1,700 yuan took off this Buddha head. I didn't move, and asked him to find me a box to put it in, and the boss rummaged around the counter for a long time, and finally found a cake box and put it up for me. The Buddha head was lying on his back on the cake seat, and the two wooden Buddha eyes looked at the sky through the translucent cellophane, which looked a little weird.

I said goodbye to the boss, walked out of Rui Yanfeng with the box, looked at the time, it was almost one o'clock, and walked towards the door of Panjiayuan.

There were more people in Panjiayuan at this time than in the morning, like a particularly crowded bus, densely packed with people. I could only hold the cake box above my head and arch my shoulders as hard as I could. The people around me all threw confused glances at me, wondering why this guy was wandering around the thrift market with a cake box.

There are too many people, I have to protect the Buddha's head above my head, and I have to look at the stall under my feet, don't step on other people's stalls and step on something, it will be troublesome to be falsely accused. The whole person is like walking a tightrope, crumbling. I rubbed it step by step, and I struggled to reach the aisle, and I could already see the wall at the entrance of Panjiayuan in front of me.

At this moment, suddenly an old man rushed over with a few scrolls of calligraphy and paintings, staggered a few steps, and fell two meters away from me. The person next to him hurriedly bent down to help, pouted his buttocks, and arched the person behind him, and the person behind him fell down and stomped on the leather shoes of the other person. This series of chain reactions made chickens fly and dogs jump, and suddenly a large area fell in an uproar, and exclamations and shouts rang out at the same time.

I was hit by people left and right, and the cake box in my hand flew out, and my body fell to the ground with a thud. I was frightened in my heart, secretly screaming that the Buddha's head was not good, so I hurriedly got up from the ground and looked up: the cake box fell into a pile of second-hand books, the seal was cracked, and the Buddha's head rolled out of it, gurgling down the pile of books, and smashed on the concrete floor with a bang.

I quickly got up, rushed to the pile of books, picked up the Buddha's head, and found that a thin crack had been broken in the back of my neck. I felt distressed for a while, this crack was smashed out, and the money of a tree would be underestimated. But at this time, the time was almost up, and I didn't have time to deal with it, so I had to pick up the Buddha's head and clamp it under the armpit and walk towards the wall.

Under the wall, Professor Zheng and Yao are either there. Otherwise, the medicine looked at me gloatingly: "Tsk, look at this soil, dare to dig up fresh ones yourself?" ”

I ignored him, put the Buddha's head in my arms on the ground, and took a few breaths. Professor Zheng slapped his face: "Okay, both of them came back before one o'clock." Xiaoyao, what did you find? Otherwise, he took out a porcelain bowl from his bosom and handed it to Professor Zheng. This bowl has a wide mouth, oblique belly, and small hoop feet, which is a typical hat bowl. The glaze color is blue and gray, but the fetal foot at the bottom of the bowl is not glazed, showing a gray-white color. Professor Zheng held his glasses and looked at them carefully for a long time, then raised his head and said to the medicine: "Tong'an kiln in the Song Dynasty?" ”

"You have good eyesight, this is the blue glaze pattern hat bowl of Song Tong'an kiln." The medicine said otherwise, and added, "If you change someone else, you think it's from Longquan Kiln." ”

He's really good at it. Tong'an kiln is a kiln in Fujian, not as famous as Chai, Ru, Jun, Ding, and Ge, but it has always been very popular among the Japanese, and it belongs to the type with high price and high quality. Professor Cheng pondered for a moment and gave him an estimate of $3,500. Yao Otherwise, he nodded, grinned, and pulled out another wad of money from his pocket.

It turned out that he had special luck today and came across a mallet. That guy is a layman, and he came to Pan Jiayuan with his father's inheritance to try his luck, and he was in a hurry to make a move, but he was caught by the medicine. Otherwise, he was bluffed in a few words, and finally won the hat bowl with a thousand yuan. The mallet felt that it had taken a big advantage and left happily.

If you calculate it this way, after deducting the cost, the medicine would have earned a total of 2,500 yuan.

"Dude, I'm not bragging, that kid looks like a loser, and I can be regarded as teaching his old man a lesson."

Professor Cheng looked back at me and asked me if I had any doubts about the price. I shook my head, indicating that it was fair, and then handed the Buddha head in my hand and asked him to identify me. The two of them had already seen the Buddha head in my hand, so they didn't look surprised. Professor Zheng picked up the Buddha's head and looked at it carefully, otherwise he put his hands on his chest and tilted his feet with disdain.

I don't blame him for having such a winning face, the quality of my Buddha head is really not good, normally speaking, it is absolutely no match for his Tong'an bucket.

Professor Zheng looked at it for a while, looked up and said to me, "Xiao Xu, your Buddha head is in the late Tang Dynasty style, and my estimate is 15,000 to 2,000." What's wrong with you? ”

I expected him to ask such a question, and said with a slight smile: "I can't see it, Mr. Zheng, can you take a look again?" ”

Professor Zheng knew that when I said this mantra, there must be something mysterious about this Buddha's head, so he turned around and looked at it carefully. Otherwise, the medicine spoke with a thorn on the side: "I am willing to gamble and lose, don't hold on, the person who loses to my buddies can line up from the entrance of the vegetable market to Yongdingmen, and you are not one behind." ”

I ignored him when he said cool things, and waited patiently for Professor Zheng to review it. Professor Zheng looked at it for another ten minutes, put down the Buddha's head, and let out a long sigh: "Forgive me for my clumsiness, I really can't see the mystery." The medicine said, "What a mystery." He was simply afraid that he would lose, so he fooled you, Mr. Zheng! ”

I smiled and said, "Teacher Zheng, look here." Then I turned the Buddha's head upside down and tapped the crack in my neck. Professor Zheng was reminded by me, sighed, and leaned his head closer to take a closer look. Unable to see clearly, he took out a magnifying glass from his bosom. Seeing Professor Zheng's serious demeanor, Yao Ran's demeanor was a little unnatural, and he didn't say anything, staring at the Buddha head, trying to see what clues.

This time, Professor Zheng watched for twenty minutes, then raised his head and sighed again and again: "Xiao Xu, you are right, I really lost my eyes just now." Then he said to Yao, "Xiaoyao, this time you lost." ”

"Why! Isn't it just a Buddha head? And not a nuclear warhead! Otherwise, he jumped up when he heard it, and his face was unconvinced.

Professor Zheng motioned for him to calm down and said to me, "Xiao Xu, why don't you explain it to him?" ”

"Actually, to put it bluntly, it's nothing special." I first said the usual opening sentence, and then said, "The identification of the Buddha's head, in addition to looking at the style of the Buddha statue and the texture of the stone, the most important thing is to look at the broken neck." From the shape of the fracture, it can be roughly inferred what the posture of the Buddha statue is, and then it is good to judge the value of the Buddha head itself. ”

Otherwise, I took the Buddha head I bought, and turned around to look at it, but I still couldn't see why. I pointed to the broken neck: "You see, this Buddha's head has a very flat fracture, only a narrow shallow groove on the right side, and the color of the stone skin and other parts is slightly different. It shows that the person who robs the Buddha has a very high means, and uses a special shovel to shovel from the right side of the neck of the Buddha statue, and wedges it into the stone neck at once, and then gently lifts it, and chisels off the entire Buddha head. ”

Otherwise, I didn't continue to owe this time, and listened very carefully.

This shovel groove is shallow in front and deep in the back, indicating that the Buddha thief is standing on the right side of the Buddha statue and chiseling from top to bottom. If it is a general standing Buddha, the Buddha thief will advance flat on the left or right side, and the shovel groove should be straight. If the shovel groove is shallow in front and deep in the back, and slightly inclined, it means that there are obstacles on both sides of the Buddha statue, and the Buddha thief has to choose to chisel down from the Buddha's head. Therefore, this Buddha is not a standing Buddha, but a sitting Buddha, and the right arm is half raised, blocking the activity space of the Buddha thief. In Buddhism, only in one case would the Buddha half-raise his right hand and refer to it as an orchid, when was it? ”

"Sitting on the altar and preaching the Dharma ......," Yao Ran muttered.

"Not bad! In this statue, the lips of the Buddha are half-open and half-closed, in order to show the Buddhadharma, and the ears of the people are transmitted. Look at the fat lips of my Buddha's head, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, it is indeed half-open, and it can correspond to the shovel groove, which proves that it is indeed true. ”

I don't have to say anything superfluous. There are very few seated Buddhas in the Tang Dynasty, and statues of Buddha preaching scriptures are even rarer. Since the Buddha head I found was chiseled from the sitting Buddha of the scriptures, the price is very different from the ordinary Buddha head, and I am afraid it will have to be doubled several times. Professor Zheng re-evaluated, and after the evaluation, the price he gave was 6,000 yuan, deducting the cost of 1,700 yuan, and the profit reached 4,300 yuan, which is much more than the 2,500 yuan of medicine.

This time, I won the gamble by a landslide.

After Professor Zheng announced the results, Yao Ran's face was very embarrassed. His eyes wandered, glaring at me first, then at Professor Cheng, and pretending to casually put his hands in his trouser pockets to look at the passers-by. He lost this game, and according to the agreement, he was not allowed to harass me again in the future, so that I could live my own peaceful life.

I didn't say a word, and looked at him with a smile. In the end, I looked at the medicine a little hairy, he had to cough, stared at a plaque behind me, and said seriously: "I am willing to gamble and lose, we have no one who breaks his word and gets fat." I'll give you this hat......" After saying that, he tilted his head and wanted to whistle to show that he didn't care at all, but his voice was like that of a dog with asthma panting.

This person is too good-looking and refuses to bow his head and admit his mistakes. But I didn't think much of myself, so I took the bowl and put it in my bosom. I have been busy with this old man and young man for more than half a day, and I should receive some remuneration. Since this kid is a native of the Five Pulses, and his background is the Chinese Society for Ancient Studies, his family background must be good, so I won't be polite to him.

"Xiao Xu, is this trick of yours also taught in "Su Ding Lu"?" Professor Cheng asked.

"Exactly. The authenticity of the Buddha's head can be judged by just looking at this shovel groove in many cases. This is called 'Buddha corpse examination' in "Su Ding Lu", and the name sounds a little panicked, probably because it is somewhat similar to the methods of forensic and forensic autopsy. ”

Forgers and appraisers of the Buddha's head often only pay attention to the carving process of the Buddha's head itself and the aging of the stone, but ignore this small detail. Rui Feng's boss, like Professor Zheng, didn't pay attention to the position of the shovel groove, and regarded it as an ordinary late Tang Buddha head, almost missing the treasure.

Professor Zheng handed the Buddha's head back to me and was greatly admired: "Xiao Xu, there are really not many young people with such vision as you. Why bother to learn all your talents, and bury yourself in the small shop of Liulichang? I smiled faintly: "Everyone has their own ambitions." My shop is called Four Repentance Fast, using my father's deathbed words, repentance, repentance, repentance, repentance, so I have no ambitions, I just want to live in peace, and I can live. ”

Actually, I lied.

Since Liu Ju gave me a thorough understanding, I have developed a strong interest in the five veins hidden behind the "Bright-eyed Plum Blossom" and the "Chinese Society for Ancient Studies". Especially about the origin of my Xu family, I am very curious. Why is my Xu family in the middle of the road? Why didn't my father mention it? Why does Liu Ju know so much about these things? What does it mean for the bright-eyed plum blossoms to gather? What is the origin of "Su Ding Lu"?

One question after another, like a flock of green-skinned big-bellied grasshoppers, jumped out of the straw cage with the lid opened one after another, and circled and jumped in front of my eyes, making me want to hold them one by one and see what was going on.

But I have to be careful not to act rashly. Today, these two people claim to be from the Five Pulses, but I don't know what the details are, so I can't get too involved with them, or wait for news from Bureau Liu. You know, there are everyone in this world, and the eight words of my father before his death are a warning to me - being a father will not harm my son, and he must have his intentions when he does not let me get involved in this field.

I took the Buddha's head from Professor Zheng and thought about what to do next, when my eyes inadvertently swept over the new crack behind the Buddha's head, and my heart suddenly burst.

Wrong! Problematic!

I put my eyes close to the crack in the Buddha's head and looked at it carefully, sniffed again, and borrowed Professor Zheng's magnifying glass. Professor Zheng and Yao saw that my face had changed drastically, and they all came over, not knowing what was going on.

I lifted the Buddha's head high above my head and slammed it to the ground. I only heard a "bang", and the whole Buddha head was smashed to the cement floor, and it was suddenly broken into dozens of pieces of gravel, which frightened the surrounding vendors and tourists, and they all looked over here. Zheng and Yao were stunned by my sudden move, Yao or Yao pulled Professor Zheng behind him as soon as possible, and then shouted at me: "Make a wish!" Dude has already thrown in the towel, what else do you want? ”

I smiled wryly and shook my head: "You won." ”

"You kid still want to ...... Belch? What do you say? "Otherwise, I was stunned for a moment.

"You won. I made people look at it, bought a fake and came back, it's not worth a thousand dollars......"

"Do you think your buddy is very pitiful and sad, so you want to let go?" Otherwise, the boss was unhappy, and felt insulted, "Tell you, buddy has suffered a lot of losses, and this loss can't last to death!" ”

Professor Zheng also frowned: "Xiao Xu, what's going on?" I pointed to the pile of rubble on the ground: "Mr. Zheng, you are an expert, look at these fragments, whether there is anything strange about them." Professor Zheng squatted down and pinched two pieces with his hands, rubbed his fingers, raised his head and said in surprise: "This is ...... Mao Yan? ”

"That's right." I was depressed.

In the counterfeiting of the Buddha's head, there is an extremely rare method called Mao Tuo method. There is a kind of stone called Mao stone, the texture is soft, the plasticity is strong, and it is easy to stain the color, especially suitable for reproducing the Buddha's head and doing it old, it can imitate the moss pattern and the weathering pattern vividly, it is extremely difficult to distinguish.

I picked up the fragment and said, "The only flaw in the Mao Tuo method is the stone quality. The sandstone Buddha head, which is relatively hard in stone, falls to the ground and is torn apart; And the fakes carved by the Mao Tuo method will shatter into dozens of pieces with obtuse edges when dropped to the ground. I wouldn't have noticed the problem if I hadn't stumbled upon the edge of that new rift. ”

After listening to my explanation, Professor Zheng stayed for a long time before he said, "It turns out that there is such a method of fraud, which is really impossible to prevent." I replied, "Before the Republic of China, there were few flaws in this method. However, now that science and technology have developed, you only need to measure the density and analyze the composition of the stone powder, and you can naturally find out. ”

Professor Zheng sighed: "Then you have to suspect that it is fake before you can do the experiment." This thing is so exquisitely made, where would anyone think it is fake. I smiled wryly, "Isn't it?" This kind of Buddha head is not an ordinary player, but a pseudo-expert like me who is swaying half a bottle of vinegar. Momentarily negligent, he actually caught the way. ”

This hypocrisy is very thoughtful. He not only used the grass stone as the substrate, but also erased all the details that might be suspected by experts, and even the shovel groove was precisely carved, so that the whole Buddha head looked natural and basically without flaws.

Professor Zheng stood up, patted his hands with stone powder, and suddenly asked, "The flaws in this Buddha's head are very secret. If you don't say it, no one will be able to see through it - at least Xiaoyao and I are ignorant of these details - why do you expose your shortcomings? ”

I said: "My father once told me that our Xu family's family motto is only one sentence: never be false and treat people with sincerity. So after I entered the antiques industry, I set a rule for myself: never counterfeit, never sell counterfeits. ”

"There are no good people in Hongdong County. Dude, I don't believe that there is not a single fake in your shop of four confessions, which antique dealer is clean in his hands now? "Medicine, or pouted, not believing.

"There isn't a single fake in my shop—at least not with my eyesight. I lost to you, so I will naturally admit this account. I am a principled person, treat people sincerely, and never violate them. I didn't hesitate to push back the words, but the medicine was frightened by my spirit, and he shrunk his shoulders and said, "Dude, just say it so casually, it's not the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to check on you......"

I continued: "Someone knocked out the eye and bought a fake, this is fate, I admit it. But you can't fool people with fakes. ”

After listening to my words, Professor Zheng excitedly shook my hand and nodded again and again: "Good boy, you have a good backbone!" Do you know that since its inception, the five veins have been carrying the palm of the eyes of the entire circle, and they have never been ambiguous. To this day, the brand of "Chinese Society for Ancient Studies" is still in place. By what? It is your iron rule that will never be faked. ”

I can probably guess this, these authoritative appraisal agencies have such a principle: never fake. Just imagine, an appraisal agency relies on the credibility of impartiality and neutrality, if it also falsifies, isn't it equivalent to being a referee for itself? Moreover, those who authenticate antiques must be familiar with counterfeiting techniques, and if they are fake, the harm will be endless.

Therefore, a good treasure connoisseur will never dare to touch a "fake" word - as long as there is such a crime, the brand can be completely smashed.

"I don't know if it's true or not, but Mr. Zheng, you say that the five veins are never fake, but it's a bit wishful thinking." Otherwise, he suddenly interjected with a deep meaning.

Professor Zheng frowned, not understanding why he suddenly said that. Yao Otherwise, he asked me, "Where did you buy this Buddha head?" I replied, "There is a fourth shop over there, and it's called Rui Fufeng." Otherwise, he wiped his nose with his fingers, and his face was disdainful: "Hehe, there are no tanuki in the rat nest, and it is really them." ”