Chapter 21: Finding a Target
Before coming to Liuli Factory, Cheng Guanli set a goal.
Since you have to pick up the leaks, you can't buy porcelain, because there are really not many fake porcelains at this time.
There are a lot of things in Qingguan kiln, since they are all true, it must be clearly priced, and if you really buy it with an open hand, your own money is not enough.
Moreover, the owner who sells some things is not a layman, so he doesn't have to think about it if he wants to pick it up from them.
Unless you go to the scrap yard and squat, but you don't have that time.
Therefore, you can only focus on those calligraphy and paintings that are difficult to identify.
Don't ask for much, just accept one or two pieces.
Lao Guan also thinks so, every time he comes, he also goes to the calligraphy and painting shop.
When the two came to Liulichang, they first went to a big store, and the scale of this store was really not covered.
Zheng Banqiao's orchid bamboo picture was hung in the room, and the calligraphy and paintings on the side were also from the hands of famous artists, and there were rolls of calligraphy and paintings stacked on the counter.
Cheng Guanli looked carefully, not at the calligraphy and paintings, but at the shopkeeper and staff, and listened to what they said.
Then he said to the old man: "Grandpa Guan, let's go, this shopkeeper and his buddies are all experts, and we can't pick up this little money." β
Lao Guan smiled and said: "You go and go shopping, I'm watching here, you don't know, they not only sell calligraphy and paintings, but also collect them, some people who don't know how to take the paintings at home to sell, hey, don't say it, there are really good things." β
Cheng Guanli said: "Then it can't fall into your hands?" There are so many connoisseurs here. β
"Eh~ When everyone has an eye, the landscape painting of Wen Huiming that I gave you, is a leak picked up from here a few years ago, every time I come to Liuli Factory, I get this store to stay for a while, the most important thing is to understand the market here, you go shopping first, I will look for you later."
"That's it, I'll go for a walk."
Cheng Guanli didn't want to waste time in the store, and the little money in his hand was not enough to spend in the store.
The antiques of this period were cheap, and a genuine official kiln in the middle of the Qing Dynasty was only a few hundred yuan.
But a few hundred yuan in this period is worth half a year's salary for ordinary workers.
When he cut in line, he secretly got some things, plus the hundred yuan that Cheng Dehai sent him half a year ago, there were only about 200 yuan in his hand.
It's only been a week since he came back, and he doesn't have time even if he wants to get things, so this time he wants to spend a small amount of money to pick up the big leaks.
If you don't go to the big shops, you can only go to the stalls by the walls.
There are small vendors, most of whom have been collected from the countryside or scrapyards to sell, and many of them are new to the business.
There are also things at home that are reluctant to let the store take them away at a low price, and sell them at a high price.
The things on these stalls are cheap, but they are very eye-catching.
However, Cheng Guanli has an encyclopedia covering the three religions and nine streams in his mind, and if he finds antiques, calligraphy and paintings, he can compare them.
After turning around six or seven stalls, Cheng Guanli was a little disappointed, not that there was nothing real.
But it is not too precious, and the asking price on the stall is not accurate, seeing that he is a young man, he is shouting according to the highest.
Cheng Guanli didn't dare to bargain, for fear that he wouldn't let him go as soon as he made a counteroffer.
If you continue to accept it like this, you don't see anything good, and the money will be gone first.
A stall owner with a slightly clever face saw Cheng Guanli turning around aimlessly, and said with a smile: "Little brother, come and come, come and sit with me." β
As he spoke, he handed out a Trojan Maza.
Cheng Guanli smiled slightly, walked over and took Mazha and sat down, "Boss, what good things do you have here?" β
"Ouch, don't call me boss, I'm just a rag collector, I don't want to cheapen those big stores, I like a promising young man like you who is progressive, talking to intellectuals like you, I have a common language, if you guess correctly, you just came back from the queue, right?"
Cheng Guanli said with a smile: "That's right, I'm the last batch, and if I can't come back, I have to stay in the field." β
"Thanks to you coming back, how can we have Sijiu City outside, not to mention Sijiu City, the suburbs around here are much stronger than other places, you see, I went to the countryside here, and I received a lot of good things, like Tang Bohu's paintings, Yan Zhenqing's words, and Qingming Shanghe Tu, Fuchun Mountain Residence ......"
"Stop, stop!"
Cheng Guanli couldn't help but interrupt him, this person looked shrewd, how could he run the train with his mouth full.
"If you cough like that again, I'll go."
"Hahaha, I'm kidding you, none of the things I said, but I have a good thing."
"Hey, you're gasping for breath, so what the hell do you have here?"
"Alas~ It's coming, that's it, you see, blue and white porcelain, Ming!"
The stall owner took out a lid jar with a blue and white entwined lotus pattern, and when he saw this thing, Cheng Guanli smiled.
This thing is not genuine, the real product has a special introduction in the encyclopedia in his mind, and it is a blue and white masterpiece in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty.
And this one is obviously an imitation, and it's really in a museum.
Of course, the stall owner also knew that it was not really a Ming Dynasty thing, he just wanted to pit Cheng Guanli, a young man, but in the final analysis, it was still unreliable.
Cheng Guanli didn't care if he wanted to pit himself, he would go to the store if he wanted to be reliable, otherwise he would be here to talk nonsense with the stall.
"I didn't expect you to really hide a treasure here, you put it on the ground, I'll pick it up and take a look."
"Yo, you are a connoisseur when you say this, and you know that you can't directly hand over antiques, you have to put them on the ground and leave them before you can take them."
"Whew! What kind of connoisseur is this, who doesn't know how to touch porcelain? When you do business, you have to follow the rules. β
"Yes, then you see."
The stall owner put the blue and white jar with the lid on the ground, Cheng Guanli picked it up and looked at it carefully, of course, he was firm against the encyclopedia in his mind, no different from scanning.
After more than ten seconds, Cheng Guanli shook his head with his mouth choked, "Boss, how many are you going to do this?" β
The stall owner immediately stretched out his arm, hiding his fingers in his sleeve, and Cheng Guanli also stretched out his arm when he saw this, and his hand was shrunk in his sleeve so that it would not leak.
The two people cuffed each other and shook hands at the bottom, even if it was a bargain, it would not let the people watching the excitement on the side know the bottom.
The stall owner grabbed five fingers lightly, and Cheng Guanli shook his head again and again.
The stall owner didn't hide it anymore, and hurriedly said: "The big store that sells porcelain over there will charge me for 500, and I don't want to let them take advantage of it, so you give this price and take it away immediately." β
Cheng Guanli smiled: "Do you think I think it is someone who can take out 500?" This jar was imitated before the liberation, and it couldn't even reach the late Qing Dynasty, boss, did you receive it according to Ming Xuande? It's no wonder you can't be the shopkeeper of the store! β
"Huh? Young man, what you say, you, you, you be quiet! β
"Alas...... I thought you had a baby here, yes, I won't talk with you anymore! β
"Wait! Good fellow, are you provoking me? I really have! Just kidding, who doesn't have a good thing to do this? β
The stall owner said and took out a small copper stove, Cheng Guanli took a closer look, it was really a cloisonnΓ© enamel copper incense burner in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the workmanship was very fine, even if it was not used in the palace, it had to be something in the prince's house.