Mengya and I sat on the couch in the living room, anxiously waiting. Time is simply "seconds like the sun, degrees like years".

After waiting for some time, I looked up at my watch, and it was half past ten in the morning. I sighed and said to Mengya, "I'm still not at ease, why don't you drive and let's pick up the goods together." ”

Meng Ya nodded, and was just about to go out when she heard a knock outside the door.

"Who?"

"I, Xu Ning of Baifutang."

Xu Ning, I believe readers are familiar with it, if there are some forgetting, please read the first chapter.

I opened the door and saw Xu Ning standing at the door with a cotton wrapper. Monya and I looked at each other and let him in.

Sitting on the sofa, he looked at Mengya intently. I coughed, and he was very embarrassed: "Oh, Qiu Tong, you have also learned to hide Jiaojiao in the golden house, congratulations." ”

"If you have anything to say, you won't come to me if you're fine, don't make such a joke with me, we don't have such a good friendship, right?"

He smiled awkwardly: "Qiu Tong, there is nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, I came this time to ask you for something." ”

"Tell me something. No need to go around and around. ”

Xu Ning nodded, and put the linen cloth package in his hand on the table: "Qiu Tong, my mother was diagnosed with cancer a while ago and needed chemotherapy, and the family has a lot of money." Look at these three things," he said, opening the package. "These three things are the three pieces of high-grade rosewood that I have collected for a long time, you see how much money I can make with you, you can do me a favor."

When I heard it, it turned out that the old lady of his family was diagnosed with cancer. When I went to Baifutang to sell incense burners a while ago, I saw that she was fine, but I didn't expect such a big change to occur so soon. Thinking of this, I sighed and looked at the three rosewood pieces on the table.

I saw a pair of red sandalwood carved cups and a red sandalwood carved wash on the table. The cups are purple-red in shape, similar in shape to the cups we usually drink, about the size of a fist. There is a lotus petal-shaped ornament carved above the circle foot, which is very neat and neat, without dragging mud and water, and even has some ingenuity.

I looked at the two cups and put them on the table, and picked up the washing seeds on the table, this red sandalwood washed body is black and purple, and it looks very oily and shiny in the light, and it looks very thick and heavy. It has a diameter of about 123 centimeters and a height of 34 centimeters, and its shape is an inverted triangle. A withered lotus leaf is carved, and the hollows, insect erosion, damage and curvature of the lotus leaf are very delicately carved.

I put down the washing child in my hand, looked at Xu Ning in front of me, and didn't speak.

Xu Ning saw that I didn't ask the price after reading the things, and smiled awkwardly: "Hall Master Qiu, look...... How much do you think these three things are worth? ”

I sneered: "Master Xu, I can't understand this thing, you can take it back." ”

What is said between an antique connoisseur and a connoisseur or a customer is incomprehensible and controversial, in fact, it means that the other party's things are fakes. In order to save face for the other party, I often say that I don't understand what I see. Something like that, in fact, it means that something is wrong, and it means to quickly take something and get out. Ordinary people who understand things have already disappeared from the other person with something. Like the "boxer" Wang Da expert said in front of the guests, "You are not right, don't open the door" is actually a very layman's behavior, of course, there is also the meaning of showing his level, here the author will not explain much.

When Xu Ning heard me say that these three things were wrong, his face became even more embarrassed.

"Hall Master Qiu, you said that I am not right. Do you have any advice for me to hear? ”

I looked at him and sneered: "Brother Xu Ning, I don't see much wood, and I don't know much about the identification method of this wood and the identification of this wood." This thing is not my way, do you think you will find someone else to see? ”

"Oh, don't embarrass me. There is such a big thing in my family, isn't it because we have a good relationship that I came to you for the first time. ”

I picked up one of the pairs of rosewood cups and pointed to the cross-section at the bottom of the cup: "You see, this cup has a clear layer on top of it. In my opinion, it is a Japanese antique technique in which wax or something is applied to the surface of the cup, and the wood on the surface of the cup and the carved new fork pattern are all obscured. In this way, two purposes are achieved, first, to mask the texture of the raw material. Second, let the wax reflect a heavy luster like a century-old slurry. If you don't believe me, just burn the surface with fire and understand whether I'm right or not. Moreover, the treasure flowers on the palace woodware, lotus petals and other ornaments will not be so ingenious, this cup should be a high-end fake imitated by the Japanese, and the material is not red sandalwood, it is a red acid branch. The withered lotus wash is the same as the old way of this cup, and it is also a high-end fake imitated by the Japanese, but the material is indeed red sandalwood. ”

After hearing what I said, Xu Ning looked at the three high-end fakes on the table in surprise, picked up a cup, took out a lighter from his pocket, and lit the circle foot position of the cup with fire. I saw the flame spewed out by the lighter, and as soon as it touched the cup, I heard a bang, and the circle foot bubbled. Within a few seconds, a few drops of black wax dripped from where the cup had been burned.

Xu Ning sighed: "Hall Master Qiu, I don't know if this thing of mine is a fake." See if you can lend me some money, this thing is mortgaged to you, and I will send it back to you as soon as I get through this difficult time. ”

"What's the use of me keeping this thing for you? Besides, do you think we have this friendship? ”

After hearing this, Xu Ning tears rolled around his eyes, as if he was about to cry.

Mengya, who was sitting on the side, looked at me and patted me on the shoulder. I sighed, "How much do you need?" ”

"One hundred and fifty thousand."

I took out a card from my bag and handed it to Xu Ning: "There are 100,000 yuan here, you can take it." The password is 123456. ”

Xu Ning took the bank card and thanked him for his kindness, and almost knelt down. I hurriedly waved my hand and asked him to take away these three fakes, but he didn't take them, saying that he would make a mortgage, and I said in my heart Can these three things be worth two thousand yuan, I sighed and accepted these three fakes.

Xu Ning took my bank card and left, I looked back at Meng Ya: "Okay, I estimate that this money is wasted." ”

"How so?"

"I have been dealing with this family of three since I was thirteen or fourteen years old, and my character is so bad that I don't recognize people when I turn my face."

Mengya smiled: "Forget it, it's easy to resolve grievances and not to settle them." ”

I nodded, and I was a little sad when I thought about the green brother incense burner last time. took out a hundred yuan from her bag and handed it to Mengya.

"Mengya, you go to Baifutang for me to greet Lao Xu Tou, buy some fruit or something. I must have known each other for so many years, and I know that it's not appropriate not to take a look. I'm waiting for Qi Liye at home. ”

Meng Ya nodded, took the money and drove to Baifutang.

Just such an hour passed, I was sitting on the sofa in a daze, when I heard the sound of someone knocking at the door, I opened the door and saw that it was Mengya, carrying a bag of fruit and coming back in a huff.

"Why are you back?"

Mengya put the fruit bag on the ground, sat on the sofa and hugged her shoulders: "Who do you guess you saw when I got there?" ”

"If you don't tell me, I don't know."

"Old Xu Tou and Xu Ning are basking in the sun outside."

I was a little blindsided by what she said, and said in my heart Isn't Xu Ning hospitalized, cancer, what I just said.

"I walked over with a bag of fruit and said hello to the two old fellows, who squinted at me and ignored me. I hurriedly put the fruit on the ground and asked the old lady how she was doing. When I said this, the old lady pointed at my nose and scolded me, saying that I had no tutor, and when I opened my mouth, I asked if they were well. I said that her son had just come out of our house, and that the old lady was sick, so I bought some fruit to greet her. The old lady pointed to her nose and hit her again, and I punched her to the ground, and came back with the fruit. ”

"You didn't break the old lady, don't look back and let you get sick."

Meng Ya snorted: "You call Xu Ning and ask for the money you borrowed from him just now." ”

I nodded, picked up my phone and dialed him.

"Who?"

"Xu Ning, I just went to Baifutang to greet Uncle Xu, who knew that when I got there, I saw that my aunt was fine. Now that you have been cured, you can get me the money back and take your things away. ”

"Whose mother is sick, your mother is sick. Didn't you give me 100,000 yuan to buy out my three pieces of rosewood? ”

I was immediately furious: "Xu Ning, we didn't make fun of our mother, this is not as good as a brute." Besides, the three things you took are fakes, I will make it clear to you. ”

"You say a fake, it's a fake, you buy a fake, you ask me to return it. You picked up the leak, you sold a million, you didn't give me a penny, the money was spent, what do you like. After saying that, he hung up the phone.

I hung up the phone and smiled, and looked at Mengya: "How is it, I said that it was floating." ”

Meng Ya took a sip: "I want to know this, I should have beaten the harder just now." ”

"Yes, if you hurt her something, they won't have to borrow money from me in the next life."