Chapter 42: Antique Exchange Meeting
However, Su Zhe's guess was wrong.
Li Quan took a few of them to the right side of the mall and walked about 100 meters, where there was a building with a marble decoration doorway, and the exterior wall of the house was decorated with orange and gray and white tiles.
It's about two hundred square meters, plus the small courtyard that you enter at the door, it's a little bigger.
"Today's Ancient Players Exchange is held here. Under the leadership of a subordinate, Li Quan introduced Su Zhe as he walked. "The president here is called Kim Taipan, and he is an antique collector through and through. This house was one of his houses in the Guan Gong Temple, and it contained a lot of dead people's gadgets on display. ”
"It's a shame that he was able to sleep at night with such a pile of dead people's things. If I were replaced, I would definitely feel a cold hand touching my head at night. ”
Everyone laughed.
Wei Degang smiled and said disdainfully: "Lao Li, you are so good, it doesn't match your body shape at all." ”
"Don't laugh at them, aren't those antiques the stuff left by the dead? And it really happened to me, and I still can't let go. ”
"Lao Li, you can blow it. ”
Li Quan said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, Lao Wei, do you remember my dead old man, he also liked to collect antiques when he was alive." After I passed away, one day I went home to sleep, and all night I felt someone walking back and forth in my room, sometimes sighing, and I was so scared that I didn't sleep that night. So I had that experience, and the next day I moved out. ”
Li Quan said it well, and Wei Degang was not making fun of it this time. Myths like this don't exist scientifically. But it is impossible for the Chinese people to completely eliminate superstition, and Li Quan is right, antiques are all things left by the dead. There are even fewer of them handed down from the family, most of them are dug up from the cemetery, and who knows if there is evil spirit.
Entering the house, there were already several people inside. Judging from their appearance and age, they are all around forty or fifty years old. There were five people in total, three of them were dressed in casual clothes, and the other two were dressed in Tang costumes, one red and one black. Because the figure is not strong, it feels a bit like a fairy.
One of them was playing with two jade balls in his hand, and when he saw Li Quan coming in, he hurriedly walked over and greeted: "Old Li, why are you so late? I thought you weren't here today." ”
Li Quan apologized: "There is something to delay at noon, plus I came all the way, it was the rush hour, I was a little late, I am sorry to make you wait for a long time." ”
Then Li Quan turned around and introduced to Su Zhe: "This is Jin Daban, the president of the Antiques Association, and this is Su Zhe, the brother I just met." ”
Jin Daban looked at Su Zhe, a little puzzled in his heart. He has met Wei Degang, Chen Xiang, and Guo Tao, and Su Zhe is the first time they have met. However, no matter how young you look at it, he is in his early twenties, and he doesn't understand why Li Quan brought him over today.
There is an unwritten rule in the antique appraisal industry, and generally speaking, the older the antique collector, the seniority is the highest. Young people, all of them are working hard for life, how can there be such leisure and leisure as an elderly person. Moreover, collecting antiques is not a trade in the market, and not everyone can afford to collect without a little wealth.
However, Su Zhe was brought over by Li Quan, and the person who came was a guest, Jin Daban had no other ideas, just thought that he was following Li Quan and came by the way.
After beckoning Li Quan and the others to sit down, Jin Daban continued to greet the others.
Su Zhe found that after a few of them came in, the other four people just raised their heads to look this way, and then went back to doing their own business. Su Zhe saw a mocking look in their eyes. It is no wonder that Li Quan and Wei Degang are both businessmen, and they usually have a lot of contact with gambling stones, and as for antiques, I am afraid they are laymen.
Not to mention Su Zhe, he can't tell what antiques, imitations, and modern crafts are.
Su Zhe turned his head sideways and asked in a low voice, "Brother Li, who are the other four people?"
Li Quan raised his head and glanced ahead and said, "The one in the white robe is called Gao Gang, and he is in the antique business. I don't know if you have heard of Mozizhai, there are many branches across the country, which are his stores. ”
Su Zhe shook his head.
Standing next to Gao Gang is Ma Yuze, who is in the real estate business. Real estate is a profiteering business, and after making money in the past few years, I learned from others to be collectors. However, no matter how elegant he pretends to be, he still can't hide the symbol of his nouveau riche. ”
Li Quan obviously had some opinions about the one named Ma Yuze. Su Zhe didn't think it was strange after thinking about it, Li Quan is the executive president of Ruiyue Group, and he has real estate under it. The so-called peers are jealous, and it is natural that they have a bad impression of Ma Yu.
"Leaning on the face of the Chinese character at the door, I don't know him, I haven't seen him in any exchange meetings before, I should have just let Lao Jin flicker over. Li Quan continued, "As for the last one, don't look at the young face, in fact, he is over seventy." Born with a gun, he just retired a few years ago. I don't know his real name, most of the people here call him Qian Lao. There are guards going out, and the origin is definitely not small. ”
Su Zhe looked at him, and it happened that Qian Lao's eyes also looked over, and the two nodded to each other, which was regarded as a greeting.
It didn't take long for three more people to come in, and Jin Daban, who came in behind, said, "Everyone is ready, let's start today's exchange meeting." ”
Su Zhe didn't understand what the main significance of the antique exchange meeting was, so he touched Li Quan and asked quietly, "Brother Li, what are the exchange meetings for?"
"It's that everyone takes out some antiques for others to appraise, and then Lao Jin will arrange an auction. The items to be auctioned are good or bad, it depends on everyone's eyes. ”
Su Zhe was more interested in Li Quan's last sentence, and muttered: "If there is a fake in the things that Chairman Jin arranged for the auction, wouldn't the person who bought it lose a lot?"
Li Quan shook his head: "This won't be." The people who came here today are all acquaintances, Lao Jin is the president of the Antiques Association, and the things auctioned are all brought by the people present. If someone photographs it, he collects a little formalities from it to keep the association running. Occasionally, he would bring out a few items that had been commissioned for auction by others, and such items had been authenticated and there were almost no fakes. ”
Su Zhe thought about it and felt that he had just spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.
At this time, several people present each took out the things they brought today, as for Su Zhe, who came over with Li Quan to see the excitement, there was definitely nothing to bring over. Instead, he saw Li Quan take out a green snuffbox from his bag, which looked like it was made of old pit glass.
"Brother Li, isn't it an antique exchange meeting, why did you come out with a jadeite. ”
Li Quan smiled and said, "Brother, you don't understand this." This snuff box is made from old pit glass, but it is a bit old. This thing used to be in my dead old man's collection, so I'm going to take it over today and make up for it. ”
"Brother Li, can you show me?"
Li Quan handed it over, and Su Zhe took it in his hand and turned it over and looked at it a few times. Suddenly, there was a dryness in his eyes, and Su Zhe thought that he was too tired from using his eyes after surgery, so he wiped them with his hands.
It's just that the more I wipe it, the drier it gets, and after thinking about it, I will move the snuff bottle a little bit, and the dryness will weaken slightly.
"Is there something strange about this snuffbox?"
After thinking for a moment, Su Zhe opened his clairlight eyes and penetrated through the snuffbox. The old pit glass used for this snuff bottle has a transparent jadeite color. The structure is delicate, there is almost no impurities, and the water is head and foot. No matter how you look at it, this snuffbox is a very expensive item.
Su Zhe heard Li Quan say it was an antique just now, and after looking at it for a longer time, he seemed to find something unusual.
Trees have the rings of trees, and jade has years of jade.
Jadeite may be a little different from ancient jade, but there is a real age, and there will be subtle changes in the jadeite itself. Su Zhe has touched a lot of Laokeng glass recently, but the luster and lubrication of this snuff bottle in his hand makes people feel even more handsy.
Judging from the perspective of the eye, Su Zhe could only judge the snuff bottle in his hand as something below the Ming Dynasty and before the Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty.
The perspective eye can judge the vintage of antiques, which is a huge gain for Su Zhe today. He didn't expect the ability to have this function, and if that was the case, he would have one more way to make a fortune in the future.
But I also sighed softly in my heart, I thought that I had a perspective ability, and I didn't need to learn at all, and the money would roll in. Now it seems that even if you really have this advantage, you still have to continue to learn. If you blindly gamble money and don't know how to distinguish it, it is no different from the nouveau riche.
Handing the snuffbox back to Li Quan, Su Zhe glanced at the things that the others had taken out of their hands.
Gao Gang took out a blue and white glazed red vase, the bottle was tattooed with several auspicious clouds, there were blue birds flying over it, and a fire phoenix was singing with its head held high, as if it was preparing to be reborn in Nirvana and rushed to the nine clouds.
Ma Yu took out an inkstone, looking at some years from the outside, as for which dynasty left Su Zhe did not look carefully. After all, inkstones have existed since a long time, even today.
The other people took out bronze utensils, jade vessels, calligraphy and paintings, but what attracted Su Zhe the most was a yellow box taken out by Qian Lao. On the box above are written several powerful brush characters. Su Zhe's eyesight is not bad, and he can recognize those words as "Mahaprajnaparamita Heart Sutra".
Su Zhe is a little strange, the Heart Sutra is very common, is it a manuscript of a famous master of which dynasty?
After thinking about it, Su Zhe used his perspective eye to infiltrate the box, and inside was a scroll. Su Zhe's clairvoyant eye could not see the innermost, but the words "Contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom, when he walks deep in Prajnaparamita, he sees the emptiness of the five aggregates and overcomes all suffering", which should be like the content of the Heart Sutra written on the top of the box.
Su Zhe wanted to confirm whose handwriting it was, but the scroll was rolled up, and I was afraid that he couldn't see through it with his eyes, so he had to wait for them to finish introducing them one by one, and then wait for Veteran Qian to open the box, and then look carefully.