Chapter 5: Ink and Jade
I smiled and said to Liu Jiawu: "Brother Jiawu, the origin of your thing is really tortuous, I took a closer look just now, although your thing looks like it has such a meaning, the material is rare, and the color is also very good, but..."
Liu Jiawu was worried that I would say that his thing was a stone and was worthless, so he hurriedly asked, "Boss, how much is my stone worth?" ”
I made a helpless gesture, so I took two puffs of cigarette and said, "Brother, this thing of yours is a good thing, but everything that is good has to be explained for a reason..."
Stoneware, pottery, jade, these famous things that can be called are relatively valuable, for example, stoneware, if it is a whole piece of bloodstone carved utensils, it will be worth a lot of money regardless of the source, pottery is different, divided into which era, which kiln came out. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info To put it bluntly, there must be at least one identity age.,But although this black thing looks special.,It's hard to define what it is.,I don't know what era it's from.。
I asked Liu Jiawu if he could get the few remaining things, and it was difficult to say based on the price of this stone alone. The things in the antique business pay attention to the age and provenance, the same thing official and folk prices are different, the royal and official are different, often look at inconspicuous things, as long as it is in the hands of which emperor, it will be able to sell at a good price.
Liu Jiawu hesitated for a while, his face was embarrassed, originally he was here to make a front stop, but now the coils on his body have been exhausted, and there is only one return fare left, so go back, even if he brings something, if he can't sell it at a good price, then the money will not be spent in vain.
I thought for a while and said: "That's it, I'll give you a secret, it's not easy for us to meet fellow villagers when we go out, I haven't encountered such a fate in all these years, for the sake of our fate, I don't get you." Your thing is in good condition, if someone wants to collect it on the market, it can be sold for four or five hundred yuan, no matter how much it is unlikely, if you want to, I will accept five hundred yuan, let's make a friend, and in the future, you want to buy a few things from your friends, and take them directly to me, how about it? ”
Liu Jiawu was taken aback: "What? Five hundred? You're not wrong? ”
I said, "What? Too little? You can't find my price anywhere. ”
Liu Jiawu waved his hand again and again: "A lot, a lot, I thought this thing would be two hundred yuan at most." ”
I gave him 500 yuan at that time, and Liu Jiawu took the money and counted it back and forth more than ten times, and hid it tightly on his body.
As the old saying goes, there are four joys in life, and meeting old acquaintances in other places is one of them, although the two of us are not old acquaintances, we can be regarded as half of our fellow countrymen, Liu Jiawu took the money and began to talk to me about their hometown.
Chatting about the day, unconsciously the time has passed quietly, it is getting late, I see that Liu Jiawu's alcohol strength has passed, at this time I don't have to worry about the loss of money, so I got up and said goodbye, before leaving, I kept asking him if the things of his playmates can also be sold to me, I said no problem, as long as their things can be worth this price, it will definitely not be cheaper than others, he left with confidence.
Back at the stall, the fat man was bored with the cigarette roll, the poison-eyed dragon with dark black sunglasses sitting there with his eyes closed, I told him countless times, let him take off his glasses, he looked like a blind fortune teller, not to mention how earthy, but he said I don't understand, people's eyes will always unconsciously betray their innermost thoughts, do antiques, if others see through what they think, then how to trade.
The two of them saw me from afar, and hurriedly came over to ask me what kind of good things I had received, and I went here for most of the day.
I took it out and showed it to them, and the fat man said, "I thought that a good thing was just a stone, and it was in our hometown, and it was all over the ground." ”
The poison-eyed dragon plucked off his eyes and looked at the thing in my hand, his eyes shining: "Oops... This thing... Master Zou, how much do you charge for this thing? ”
I thought that the thing was wrong, and whispered the price to them, and the poison-eyed dragon took it in his hand and looked at it and said that it was good: "Fat man, you should learn more from Zou Ye, this thing can be sold for three or four thousand yuan if you take it out, and if you have a good source, it has to go up." ”
As soon as I heard this, I felt a little sad in my heart, Liu Jiawu came to Beijing across thousands of mountains and rivers, just to sell this thing, but the gap was at least six times higher, it seems that this eyesight will have to be practiced in the future, although he said that he did not lose, but he cheated others.
The poison-eyed dragon smiled: "Come on, don't think so, Master Zou, didn't that fellow say, there are still a few things to sell, and when they come again, you can give him a little more commission and it will be over." Today's sum is good, what's the matter, let's pack up and go for a meal. ”
The fat man said, "That's a good idea, you have been eating and drinking spicy food there all afternoon, and we are still hungry." ”
I took a taxi and went straight to the old side where I met my mother last time, but I didn't catch up with the meal at this time, the first floor was full of people, and there were a few empty tables on the second floor, so we found a seat by the window. I ordered something, and we just sat there and waited.
I handed a cigarette to the Poison-Eyed Dragon and the Fat Man, and was about to speak, when a man came up at the top of the stairs, looked around, and when he saw us, he walked straight over.
The person who came was Emma, and she was still so capable after many days. You're welcome to come up, so I moved a stool and sat next to me.
Although this sudden change Poison-eyed Dragon was wearing sunglasses, I didn't have to guess to know that this kid must be crooked, I coughed a little embarrassed, Emma smiled: "What is the cough, it's not that I don't know." ”
The words made me even more embarrassed, I didn't know what to say for a while, I looked up and forgot to glance at the poison-eyed dragon, only to see a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth, I was stunned for a moment, and then I understood, it turned out that these two people had known each other for a long time.
Seeing that I saw the clue, the poison-eyed dragon took off his glasses and said, "Master Zou, I didn't tell you in advance, I'm sorry, Miss Duan, we have known each other for a long time, and we haven't found a chance to explain it to you clearly." ”
Guessed the beginning, did not guess the result, although I was prepared, but still surprised me a lot, the father of the poison-eyed dragon and my grandfather are brothers, Emma is a study of history and archaeology, in the early years of my grandfather and her grandfather had a good relationship, she also showed a keen eye for archaeology since she was a child, and his grandfather introduced him to the father of the poison-eyed dragon, which is half a master, and then the father of the poison-eyed dragon passed away, and my family suffered, and the connection between us was broken, but the relationship between the Duan family and him is still there.
The fat man and I inadvertently met the poison-eyed dragon in Jiangmen, and he also knew it in his heart, but he didn't say it explicitly. Otherwise, according to Emma's character, she would definitely not let me, a half-ass, go to Xinjiang with me. It's really like we've come full circle around the world, and we're back to square one. I can't help but sigh that the world is really too small.
I asked Emma if it was okay for her mother to live in her house. Emma smiled, "If it's not good, are you going to eat me?" ”
When the fat man heard this, he and the poison-eyed dragon covered his mouth and laughed evilly, Emma knew that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly changed his words: "Your mother lives in the compound of the military region, and there are guards patrolling with guns 24 hours a day, what do you think can happen?" ”
"I'm also out of the army, and I still have a good understanding of the vigilance of the army compound, but I'm just worried that she won't be used to living there..." Shouldn't you have gone back to Hubei with my mother a long time ago? ”
Emma listened to my words, and then it was as if she had changed her face, and she got serious, and when I saw her posture, I estimated that something was going to happen, so I quickly sat up straight: "I came here to find you this time, your business is booming now, and your life is moist, it seems that your grandfather's things have almost forgotten." ”
I have never forgotten my grandfather's affairs, since we had a long talk before he fell into a coma, I also have some understanding of my grandfather's affairs, once upon a time I wanted to go to the country to seek revenge, but unfortunately my grandfather did not want to reveal the slightest bit of information about him to me until he died, and now I have figured it out, I will not go to him, but if this grandson dares to appear in front of my eyes, I will definitely not spare him.
At this moment, Emma mentioned this but I was speechless, shrugged her shoulders and said that she was okay, but she didn't know where she got angry, and she struck the table and startled me, and the diners around me turned their heads to look: "You disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial guy, I knew that you were such a person, I should have stopped grandpa, I shouldn't have let him save you." ”
The fat man looked at her in surprise and said, "Hey... You're right, I really have to thank you for saving him, if you hadn't saved him, I would have to beg my father, and then my father would have said, you and your brother can only keep one, then I will be in trouble. But what's the matter with your disloyalty, injustice, benevolence and unfilial piety? ”
Emma snorted angrily and said: "As a party member and officer, not to mention serving the country, thinking about selling bronze relics all day long, digging into the corners of the country, is it disloyal?" If you do this kind of thing, forget it, and you won't let go of your buddies who have played with you since childhood, is it unjust? Is it benevolent to sell cultural relics pit farmers? Is it unfilial piety if you don't avenge your family revenge? ”
Counting them one by one, counting the past, the three of us were stunned on the side, and we didn't know how to answer for a while, but the fat man echoed: "Oops... Lao Zou, this is your mistake, you see that Miss Duan has drunk foreign ink, how to count your crimes, I can almost list a menu for you. After speaking, he said to Emma, "Miss Duan, why don't you tell me one by one?" I know more about Zou Yi, but he hasn't heard of it. ”
I glanced at Emma and said, "Miss Duan, you won't come here to count me down, will you?" If that's the case, you'd better save it, you have walked through the south and the north, and the eldest lady who has drunk water in the Atlantic, you can't understand that I have money and power in my family, and I was cut off halfway, and everything has to start from scratch. Your mind is full of the things of capitalist society, and it is no longer practical to leave it here for us, and we are the proletariat and you really can't talk about it. In the past, you would have been dragged out to criticize and parade through the streets. ”
My tone was unusually calm when I said this, but Emma was so angry that her face was red and her neck was thick, and her face was red and white. Seeing that the situation was not good, the poison-eyed dragon hurriedly came up to play a round: "The two, aunt and uncle, don't shoot at each other, there are many people here, how bad it is to let others see the joke." Shall we have something to say? ”
The Poison-Eyed Dragon said good things in the round, but the fat man fanned the flames on the side, fearing that the world would not be chaotic, and finally Emma was persuaded by the Poison-Eyed Dragon. The fat man turned to the poison-eyed dragon and gave a thumbs up, this man can be persuaded by you with such an explosive temper, it's really amazing.
The poison-eyed dragon smiled and said, "Don't make any noise, let's take a look at this thing first." With that, he pushed the black stone on the table in front of the eyes of the two of us.
Emma said: "What's so nice about a broken stone. ”
The poison-eyed dragon smiled and said: "Miss Duan, I heard my father say that you have a rare talent in the antique shop, if you look at this thing now, you will have to say it next time I go to my father's grave." ”
Emma was amused by the Poison-Eyed Dragon's words, and snorted: "Brother Si, you have been messing with them for a long time, and you have learned to get up in the dark." ”
That being said, she was not idle in her hands, she picked up the black stone and looked left and right, and the dishes we ordered were all ready, and the fat man picked up the chopsticks and devoured them.
After a while, Emma spoke: "This should be ink jade, and it is ink jade, it should be from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it should be an ornament or something, if it has a good name, it can be said that it has a price." ”
The poison-eyed dragon put down the chopsticks in his hand, picked up the thumb brother and praised it repeatedly: "It is worthy of drinking foreign ink, and it is really unusual in his eyes." You're right, this thing is ink jade, and the value is in this ink bottom..."
There are many kinds of black jade, because of the different colors and textures, the price is often a world of difference, among which the rarest is the ink bottom of the ink jade, to put it bluntly, it is pure black jade, except for black there is no other color; The second is the black jade on a white background, black and white, and the one with clear stripes is the best; The oldest is Mount Tai ink jade, which has historical records that this kind of ink jade was discovered before the Qin and Han dynasties; Then there is the Gobi ink jade and the blue bottom ink jade.
The black jade in my hand is dark all over, even in the strong light, it is still black and shiny, the poison-eyed dragon said that the only regret is that this thing is not just used for anything, it is an ornament at a glance, but it is a little different when you look closely, so it is conservatively estimated that you can buy three or four thousand yuan.
Although Emma is in the archaeological circle, she does not know much about the antique industry, and only judges from the perspective of cultural relics. (To be continued.) )