In consideration of the condition of the wounded, we did not stay long in Karamir, and three days later our international column left the local herdsmen and set out for Peking.

As soon as I arrived in the city, I asked the fat man to quickly find the big gold tooth, and we met at Uncle Ming's house together, and collected all the valuable antiques. Of course, I didn't let Shirley Yang know about this, Shirley Yang wanted to take Ah Xiang to the hospital to review the wound, so I casually found a reason and slipped away first.

Uncle Ming ran a few times but didn't succeed, so he had to take me home with a sad face. Beijing City used to be known as "3,006 big alleys, small alleys race cattle hair", after the reform and opening up, with the transformation of the city, the courtyard gradually decreased. Uncle Ming's house is located near the Fucheng Gate, which is a quiet area in the middle of the city, although it is a little dilapidated, but every brick and tile has an ancient and decadent beauty, and it retains some of the atmosphere of "pomegranate trees in the ceiling fish tank, Mr. Fat Dog and Fat Girl". The more I look at it, the more I feel that this set of yards is exquisite enough, and I can't help but regret it a little, if Uncle Ming took this house as part of the reward, he would not have agreed, but unfortunately we only had the antique calligraphy and painting of the house.

It didn't take much time for the fat man and the big gold tooth to come and meet each other, each carrying two large suitcases. As soon as the big gold tooth saw me, he bared his golden front teeth and said, "Ouch, my Hu Ye, you miss your dead brother." Since you went to Tibet, my eyelids have not jumped for a day, and I hope that the Central Red Army will finally bring you back when they come to northern Shaanxi. Now the shape of Panjiayuan is not good, and business cannot be done, and these days when you are away, my brother has not even found someone to consult......"

I said to the big golden tooth: "We almost broke in Kunlun Mountain this time, I can't imagine that our base is also very difficult?" But these things are empty to talk about, now we will fight the local tyrants and divide the land, Uncle Ming has already given us the antiques and utensils in this house as a reward. The fat man and I are dissatisfied with the identification of the value of the antique age, and half of the bottle is dangling, so these things have to be palmed by you, so that we can discount them as much as possible. ”

The big golden tooth said: "Master Hu, fat man, you two will look at it, although rest assured, the craftsmanship of the inverted fighting brother is not successful, but when it comes to the eyesight in ancient words, ancient jade, and miscellaneous, it is really not our blowing, how many experts are in Sijiu City, I really haven't seen a master who can be compared with me." ”

The fat man was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth at this time, and one arm tightly wrapped around Uncle Ming's neck: "It's really busy to clean up a piece of gold and divide the fields." Uncle Ming, we won't be polite to you, who is with whom is our grandfather, when you shot at me, I was embarrassed to say anything, so I didn't talk nonsense, and quickly opened the door. ”

Uncle Ming had no choice but to open the door of the room where the antiques were placed for us, and there were many antiques on several quaint sandalwood cabinets, so that people didn't know what to look at. It's the same as when we first came, except for a porcelain cat with thirteen whiskers, which wasn't a valuable thing in the first place, and we didn't care much about it. What the big gold tooth never forgot and always remembered was the phoenix-shaped runyu that Uncle Ming had been carrying with him, which had already fallen into the hands of the fat man, and he had also taken it out at this time in order to make a book and estimate the total value. The funds for our business trip to the United States this time will all fall on it.

The big gold tooth didn't care about anything else, this time he finally took the jade phoenix in his hand, and he had a heartfelt admiration: "To say that the jade can be immortal after crushing and eating, it is very unscientific, but the beautiful jade has the effect of nourishing the beauty and rejuvenating the appearance, which is an indisputable fact." Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette insisted on using jade for beauty every day, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty Zhu Guier inserted the jade pull of Kunshan to moisten the hair, without orchid cream, and the sideburns were fresh and moist, and the women in the world were unmatched, but she still used Kunshan jade, which was much worse than the jade phoenix at the bottom of the East China Sea. The ancients said: A gentleman has no reason, and jade does not go to the body. In my opinion, Hu Ye still don't make a move on this jade phoenix, and it is also a good thing that can be passed on to future generations if he keeps it for personal collection. ”

I took the jade phoenix and looked at it, although there is a history to check, this is the real product used by Yang Guifei, but even I can see that the carving obviously has the style of "Han Eight Knife", indicating that the age is far older than the Tang Dynasty, and it is a rare jade that can not be found. But after all, it's for women, so what's the use of keeping it? It's better to sell it for cash, but after thinking about it, why not give it to Shirley Yang, it's not poured out of the bucket, she will definitely like it, so she nodded in agreement, and asked the fat man not to count Yufeng in it when he settles the account.

Then we checked the rest of the antiques one by one, and if we didn't look at it, we knew that Uncle Ming had bluffed us. Antiques, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been a lot of imitations, it is precisely because of its value of collecting and hiding, it is worth appreciating and playing to identify the authenticity, so that there is room for big players to display their eyesight, financial resources and courage. It is easy to get started with authenticity, and in a sense, the charm of antiques lies in the difficulty of distinguishing between authenticity and fake. Uncle Ming's house, there are a lot of things that look real, but after careful identification, touch your nose and smell it with your hands, you will know that the value is not high, and most of them are full of decorations.

When the fat man was angry, he wanted to use Uncle Ming's ribs as a washboard, and Uncle Ming hurriedly came to me to beg for mercy. In the past, it was to support the façade, so he made such a room of things to put on display, and he had worked hard to collect antiques for half his life in Nanyang, most of which were to pay off gambling debts for his two precious sons, and he was actually close to bankruptcy, otherwise it would be impossible to go to Kunlun Mountain with his life. However, not all of these things are fake, and a few of them are still very valuable.

I waved my hand at the fat man, forget it, he couldn't spit out the gold bars after beating him, first clear out all the fakes, and see what else was left. Immediately, he started with the big gold tooth and the fat man, and counted so many utensils from the boxes and cabinets.

The fat man thought he had a unique vision, picked up a dark red lotus-shaped porcelain bowl and said, "Old Hu and Lao Jin, look at it, this is definitely a kiln glaze." The glaze on the outside of the bowl is dark red like blood, and the inside is full of striped glaze flowers, I saw the bald man Li who specializes in pouring porcelain in Panjiayuan took a similar one, he said that this color is called chicken blood red or cinnabar red, and the stripes inside are called rain on the wall, which looks like rain is dripping down the wall. If it is a Jun kiln, it can also be worth a lot of money. ”

The big gold tooth took it and looked at it: "Fat man, your vision is really high, how can there be so many Jun kiln porcelain." As the saying goes, Jun kiln porcelain is worth 10,000 gold, I haven't seen a few complete pieces of Jun porcelain when I am full of years, Jun porcelain is not right, the kiln becomes unique, where can I see it when I am free. The glaze color is red such as rouge is the most, green and verdant, purple and black is second, its kiln change is called earthworm mud pattern, that is, in the glaze presents a line of extension, different lengths, from top to bottom glaze marks, like earthworms wandering and soil, very unique. First of all, this utensil is not a bowl, this is a pen wash, this color is rose red, purple imitation, imitation is a strong grape purple, no matter from the shape, glaze, circle foot, bubbles, fetal quality, are not genuine, but only a high imitation of the late Republic of China, maybe Suzhou came out, it can be worth a thousand yuan is good. ”

I said to the fat man and the big gold tooth: "There are also exquisite imitations in the fake, although they are not as valuable as the real ones, but they are better than a waste product, maybe we can still take them to drive foreign stakes and find foreigners to exchange some foreign exchange coupons." As he spoke, he packed the wash and put it away.

Among these chaotic antiques, one caught my eye. It is a porcelain cup, with a neat tire gauge, white glaze, and the shape is like the kind of cup used by the leaders when the Great Hall of the People is in session, but the workmanship seems to be more elegant, the texture is very good, and of course it is its strong characteristics of the times that are the most attractive: the cup handle is in the shape of a sickle and axe, the lid has a red five stars and a fist symbol, marked with the words "for the realization of national industrialization", and the front of the cup body also has a quotation of "carry out the general line and general task into a qiē work".

I asked Uncle Ming, "This cup shouldn't be fake, but I don't know which chief used the rest." Where did you get it from? ”

Uncle Ming said that of course this is not fake, it was given by a mainland friend two years ago, it is said to be out of print, the value of this cup is not low, it is a typical cultural relic of the republic, you just take it, and leave a few pieces of the rest for me.

After reading it, the fat man said: "I used to have such a set at home, and it was sent by my old man when he had a meeting. At that time, I was still young, and I was asked to go out of the house and use the slingshot as a target to break it. How much can this broken cup be worth? ”

"In those days, even now, the cups given to the chiefs in meetings were similar, but this one is certainly different," said the big gold tooth. Take a look at the money brought by this cup, which is Zhang Songtao's withdrawal, as well as the first porcelain painting craft cooperative in Jingdezhen City. As far as I know, this must have been specially ordered for the Lushan Conference of the Central Committee, which was a heavy task at the time, mobilizing Jingdezhen porcelain painters to specialize in painting porcelain. Its number is not much, the Songtao model is even more rare, has a high value, as an out-of-print, maybe the value is not prominent now, but as the years go by, this cup will be more and more valuable. ”

I held the teacup and admired it again and again, if I put it at home to drink water, wouldn't it be the same feeling as the chief? Although this is not a real sense of antiques, but not only exquisite craftsmanship, unique style, the number is very rare, what is more rare is that it has witnessed the changes in history, has a deep special meaning, in line with the value of antiques five words "old, young, fine, beautiful, good" in the fine and less words, if it can be matched with a complete set, the value may be more than ordinary Ming vessels. It seems that there are still a few good things in Uncle Ming's things, although the harvest is not as big as we expected, but it is also a bit of an unexpected gain.

Most of the utensils in Uncle Ming's room were purchased from antique dealers to fill the façade. The so-called "one-shot fight" is a large number of utensils traded at the same time, most of which are high imitations before and after the Republic of China, although they are not worth a lot of money, they will not be worthless like ordinary Xibei goods, and there are so many genuine good things in these things. So the three of them shook their spirits and sorted the things one by one, and the worthless ones identified by the big gold tooth were piled up in the corners of the room.

As the clean-up operation deepened, there were fewer and fewer things on the sandalwood shelves, and Uncle Ming's face became more and more ugly. At this time, the fat man saw a purple clay pot in an inconspicuous place, which was bald and looked rustic, so he casually threw it out of the corner where the defective products were piled up. The big gold tooth was sniffing a small bronze Buddha statue with his nose, and suddenly saw the purple clay pot that the fat man was still out, and suddenly opened his mouth wide, and his eyes stared directly at the parabola of the purple clay pot falling from the air, and he didn't even want the copper Buddha in his hand, and he didn't know why his skills could be so sharp at this time, and he caught the purple clay pot before it fell to the ground and shattered. The big gold tooth was sweating on his head: "Fat man, you are really an ancestor, if I didn't see it at a glance, this pot would have broken you." ”

The fat man said: "What are you fuss about, this broken pot has to get rid of the slag, even the gloss of purple sand is gone, and I don't know where it came out of the gutter, who wants to spend money to buy it?" ”

I also think that this pot is not good-looking, and the shape is okay, but the fetal quality is too bald, and it lacks the glossy sense of how many generations of people have rubbed and played, which is what we commonly call the "pulp" on the surface of the ancient pot, and it is not good at all. But the big gold tooth rarely looks away, could it be that this is a valuable thing?

The big gold tooth carefully touched the body of the pot, and sniffed twice with his nose: "Don't look at this purple sand pot is inconspicuous, this is an antiquity of the Ming Dynasty, this shape is called a tendon sac, our modern Ming Dynasty purple sand can be seen, there is no slippery and bright pulp on the surface, because 90% of them are poured out of the tomb." The carcass has been buried in the soil for many years, even if it was originally a little glossy, the soil was submerged, and the process of that period had not been improved, but the mud was slightly cleared, and there were more impurities, so the perception was originally not better than the pot of the Qing Dynasty, but this is a real Ming vessel. ”

The fat man and the big gold tooth and I wrapped the purple clay pot contentedly, and finally picked out a total of more than 20 things. Before I knew it, it was getting late, and when I looked at the time, it was more than nine o'clock in the evening, and everyone was busy ordering goods, so naturally they didn't care about eating. When the fat man said that he came, he saw that there was a restaurant at the mouth of the alley, so he went to have a meal before going home. So we took our things and left, originally I didn't plan to take Uncle Ming with us, but Uncle Ming seemed to be reluctant to give up his few things, and he was cheeky and insisted on following.