The battlefield area of Shenzhen Antique City is very large, but it was established not long ago, compared with the time-honored brands like Panjiayuan or Liulichang in Beijing, it is naturally not well-known, but the decoration and layout inside it is very magnificent. After entering, in addition to the small vendors on both sides, the surrounding cultural toys, antiques, jade, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, inscriptions and other shops, all have their own characteristics, the alleys crisscross the measures, the antique bluestone slab street is full of people, today is Sunday, the flow of people is more.

I walked and stopped with Zhou Xuanye, all kinds of strange things, I was dazzled by it, in some stalls, you can see vendors and tourists bargaining, but if you enter the shops on the street, it is basically very quiet, the atmosphere changes all of a sudden, look at things silently, sell things and don't say much, occasionally take two sentences, there are a lot of special words for antiques, I don't know much about it.

After looking at it for a long time, I thought that it would not be a problem to continue looking like this, so I found an antique shop that looked well decorated and walked in.

The owner of the shop was a bald head, and the moment he looked up, I was taken aback, because he had only one eye, and the other eye was white and gray, obviously a one-eyed dragon. He raised his head and smiled, and beckoned, "Whatever you like, just watch." "The voice is very warm, but the face looks really vicious, like a mixed underworld.

Zhou Xuanye and I walked around the store, this shop sells things very badly, what calligraphy and paintings, tablets, porcelain, jade, gold, silver, mountain stone ornaments and accessories are available, and people are dazzled. I walked around, and the one-eyed dragon kept smiling and watching, and I thought that although this person had a fierce face, he looked pretty good, so he said, "I want to sell something, can you help me take a look?" ”

"Sell something?" One-eyed raised his voice slightly, and said with a smile: "Okay, two please." As he spoke, he led us to both sides of the coffee table, made tea first, and then said, "Take out the things and let me take a look." I took out the jade pendant from my bag and was going to hand it to him.

The thing was handed out, but the one eye did not answer, knocked on the middle of the coffee table, signaled me to put the thing on the table, he looked at me and Zhou Xuanye, and said with a smile: "The two of you don't often play this at first glance, the most basic rule for us to do antiques is 'no hand', you say, in case you hand me to take, one is not stable, the thing falls, who is it?" "I just understood what he meant, antiques are very valuable, maybe a fall can be bankrupt, but if you look at the goods, both parties don't get their hands on it, but put the goods on the table, even if it falls, you can tell whose responsibility it is.

All walks of life have their own rules, and it seems that this antique industry is really a fearful industry.

I then put the jade plate on the coffee table, one eye from the drawer, took out a pure white cotton gloves and put it on, then took the jade card, back and forth carefully looked at it, in this process, he has not spoken, looked at about half a cup of tea, he put down the jade card, said: "It's a minority thing, it's not worth a few dollars, so let's see the two of you come for the first time, just find me here, I don't wonder you, 50,000 yuan." ”

Fifty thousand?

This is too far from what I thought in my heart, and I couldn't help but say: "What is the thing of ethnic minorities is not valuable, aren't you engaging in ethnic discrimination." ”

One-eyed said: "It's not that I'm engaged in ethnic discrimination, it's that the market is like this, in the antique market, the things of ethnic minorities are really worthless, of course, if you get the Western Xia Kingdom or other cultural relics with origins, that's another matter." But this thing of yours is a piece of jade, and this pattern on the jade is the most common horse herding picture, and it doesn't even have a provenance, I do a conscientious business, and this thing is really worthless. With that, he put the jade plaque back on the coffee table.

I looked at him, it didn't look like he was fooling me, but 50,000 yuan was too little. Half a year ago, maybe I would think that 50,000 yuan is a lot, but people's appetite is so gradually increasing, probably because of the long experience in the past six months, I now think that 50,000 yuan is really not money.

After thinking about it, I decided to shop around, so I said, "Your price is too low, I'll go to another place." "As I spoke, I was going to put the jade plaque away. Seeing that we were leaving, the one-eyed hurriedly stopped, "Hey, wait. ”

I said, "What? ”

One-eyed said: "I haven't opened it today, I'll take it as an opening, how about another 5,000?" ”

I shook my head, and at the same time felt strange in my heart, if he really didn't like this thing, why would he increase the price inexplicably? I must have seen that Zhou Xuanye and I didn't understand antiques, and what I said just now may have been coaxed to me. Thinking about it made me even more determined to shop around, even when I had to step out of the store.

At this moment, One-Eye hurriedly stopped the two of us, with a bitter face, and said, "You two are too sincere, do business, you have to take your time." Let me tell you the truth, I also work part-time, the boss is not out, and I can't give too much in terms of price. If you want to raise the price of this thing, you have to have a way and a source, so find it, and tell me where it comes from, maybe you can sell it for a good price. ”

I can see that this one-eyed dragon is unreliable, and he is completely bullying, so I dragged Zhou Xuanye out of the house right now.

As soon as I went out, I heard the one-eyed howl: "If you go to another house, the price will not go up." ”

I thought it was his words to stay as a guest, but then, Zhou Xuanye and I ran to two houses, and the price was lower than in the one-eyed place, and the reason given was similar, saying that the origin of this thing was unknown, and the owner of one of the shops told the truth, saying: "You are too ordinary, but this material is the most valuable, Hetian Laoyu, so, I will give you 40,000." ”

Zhou Xuanye and I glanced at each other and immediately retreated. Standing on the street, I said, "Brother Zhou, what's the matter?" ”

Zhou Xuanye shrugged his shoulders and said: "People have misses, horses have stumbled, maybe you have bad luck this time, you just happened to get a sample of defective products, but it's better than nothing, right?" ”

This comforted me, and at that moment, the two of us went back to find the one-eyed dragon, and it would be good to have more than 15,000.

When I went back to the store, there was one more person in the store. I saw a man in his early thirties sitting next to the coffee table, listening to what the one-eyed dragon was saying, and his face looked unsmiling, giving people a very serious feeling.

At this time, the man found us, so he glanced at the one-eyed, and the one-eyed looked back at us, and said with a smile: "Yo, the two of you are back, and it just so happens that our boss is also here, so your goods should not have been sold yet, right?" ”

I was quite depressed when he said it, and said, "I still have two things, you can help me take a look." ”

One-eyed said: "Our boss is here, let our boss show you." Hey, how's it going, I didn't lie to you, did I? This antique street, our shop, can be said to be the conscience of the industry, and it will not be confused by you. As we spoke, the boss nodded at us and gestured to sit down.

This boss is a little bit unvery talkative, doing antiques, probably relatively high-end, so he treats guests very warmly. After Zhou Xuanye and I sat down, we put the other two things, a wrench and a flat pot, on the coffee table together.

At this moment, Zhou Xuanye, who had not spoken much, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "What is your surname for this boss?" ”

The boss was holding the jade plate and looking at it slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Don't give your surname Chen." ”

Zhou Xuanye said with a smile: "Wang Li, Zhang and Liu Chen are big surnames." ”

Boss Chen said: "Big surname, grab a lot of surnames on the street." ”

These words choked Zhou Xuanye for a moment. I actually think it's quite strange, although Zhou Xuanye is kind, he rarely takes the initiative to stick to people's faces, but now, why does he seem to be very interested in this boss? I couldn't help but look at this man twice, his skin was a healthy bronz, he looked like a very athletic person, and his eyes were very focused when he stared at the goods.

Immediately afterwards, he went to see the wrench, and it didn't take long to see the wrench, almost a sweep by, and finally, his eyes stayed on the flat pot, and then picked up the flat pot and looked at it carefully, this time it took a long time to see, it took more than an hour, and my heart was anxious to wait, and I wanted to interrupt him halfway several times, but Zhou Xuanye stopped him.

Time flickered, and it was afternoon, and the boss surnamed Chen put down his things, pointed to the jade plaque and said, "Fifty thousand." ”

He pointed to the wrench and said, "Twenty thousand." ”

Finally, he pointed to the flat pot and said, "I don't accept this." ”

"Ah......h

As if to understand my thoughts, the boss surnamed Chen said: "This is a 'glazed cloisonné waist pot', with a drop on the bottom." "I didn't notice it before, but when I turned the flat pot upside down, there was nothing on it.

Boss Chen shook his head, took a spotlight, turned the light into the flat pot, and handed it to me, "Look, it's inside." "I turned my head and saw that there was a red version on the inside, but it was not a kanji, and I couldn't read it. Although I don't know about antiques, I also know that this kind of craftsmanship was common in ancient times.

Sure enough, he said, "I can't afford this here, but I know of an auction house, and the estimate I gave you is eight million, and you can go to that club and sell it." Of course...... If you believe me, you can also put me here for consignment, and I will take a cut of the sale, but my store here is small, and it may take a long time. ”

Eight...... Million!

I couldn't help but get excited, but then I noticed something odd. Isn't it a good time to do business and meet stunned young people like us who don't know anything? Why did he tell me the real price of this flat jug?

Why don't we take advantage of the fact that we don't understand anything and take things at a low price?

Thinking about it like this, I couldn't help but ask, and I regretted it and wanted to slap myself in the mouth.

When Boss Chen heard this, he smiled and said, "You have to be honest in business, and honest management can last for a long time." As he spoke, he motioned for one-eyed tea, picked up the jade plaque again, and said, "These three things are all old things, and there is no pulp on the surface, so they should have just been unearthed." But strangely, these three things are not stained at all, so they must have just been taken out of a very dry place. If I'm not mistaken, the two of you got these three things in the desert of Xinjiang, and it should have been not so long ago, am I right? ”

I was shocked, I didn't expect this person to guess a ** without leaving ten with only three things, this vision is inevitably too poisonous.