Chapter 16: Windfall
After drinking all the red wine in the tall crystal, Xu Chen walked out of the bathtub with a snow-white bath towel wrapped around his waist.
In front of the mirror, Xu Chen touched his cheek, his face was hard, not the kind of milky handsome, but giving people a sense of heroic and extraordinary.
The skin is not too white, but the muscles are well-shaped.
I don't know if it's the influence of passing through the light gates of the two realms, he found that his figure is getting better and better.
Narcissistic for a while, he put on his clothes and then informed the hotel front desk to use the welfare privileges of his room, secretarial services.
Ask the secretary to contact the people at Guardian Auction House, saying that he has a piece of Yuan celadon and wants to put it up for auction, so let them come and have a look.
Xu Chen is nameless and hopeless to let him contact himself, Guardian may not pay attention to him, but Guardian wants to give Puxuan Hotel a thin face.
..
Not long after, there was a knock on the door of the room, and he opened it, and there were three people, two men and one woman, standing outside the door.
Cheng Xi is the secretary of Puxuan Hotel, don't look at her as the front desk, but she is also a serious college graduate.
In terms of academic qualifications, Xu Chen is not as good as her!
The three of them were invited into the lounge of the house, and after Cheng Xi's introduction, he learned that the two people who came were Manager Yu of the Guardian Porcelain Department and Wang Lao, a special expert.
Xu Chen didn't talk nonsense, took out the backpack from the safe, and put the celadon cup inside on the table.
"It's this cup of the Yuan Dynasty, I want to do some small business recently, and I don't have any money, so I want to see if I can exchange some money"
"This cup looks good, Mr. Xu's ancestor has been an official, right?" Manager Yu said with a smile.
"No, I bought it from someone else"
"I didn't expect Mr. Xu to be a collector, so he didn't spend less money to buy this cup, right?"
"On the street, fifteen bought them," Xu Chen said casually.
He is not an antique dealer, nor is he a collector, and he doesn't want to make a fuss about what he doesn't have, he just came to explore the way.
If it is feasible, get more back, if it is not feasible, then die as soon as possible and find another way.
Manager Yu listened to Xu Chen's words, and no longer asked, but set his eyes on Wang Lao.
At this time, Wang Laozheng was engrossed in observing the porcelain cup.
The porcelain cup is not big, the whole body is pale cyan, and it looks like it is about a finger high.
"Strange, this cup feels a little weird," Wang Lao said directly after looking at it.
"Where's the blame?" Manager Yu asked.
Wang Lao pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose, pondered for a moment, and said: "Porcelain has been inherited from ancient times to the present, and the craftsmanship of all dynasties has been examined.
Like this cup, at first glance it looks like a cyan glaze, which is very in line with the characteristics of porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty.
Looking at the waves outlined by a few lines on the cup, this is also in line with the social and cultural environment of the Yuan Dynasty at that time.
No matter where you look at it, there is no doubt that this cup should be genuine, but here's the blame.
This cup just looks unnatural, as if there is something wrong, but you can't see it."
"This...."Manager Yu also understood more or less, Wang Lao was not sure.
"Why don't we do a test, what do you think?" Manager Yu asked Xu Chen.
"What's the test?"
"It is to detect the amount of radioactive material accumulated in the porcelain, so as to judge how much time has elapsed after it has been released from the kiln."
"Let's test it"
"This test requires some samples"
"Take it"
..
Hearing that the kiln time is judged based on the accumulation of radioactive substances, Xu Chen has basically given up on this road.
really
When the test results came in, the porcelain was less than 200 years old.
In other words, according to the scientific test report, this porcelain is just an imitation of the Qing Dynasty.
but
"What do you say? Want to get this piece of porcelain up for auction? ”
Xu Chen looked at Manager Yu and didn't understand what he meant.
"That's the case" Manager Yu sorted out his thoughts and said: "If this is really a celadon cup of the Yuan Dynasty, then its value is only three or five hundred thousand, but a Qing imitation, imitation is so vivid, with the fake and the real, this shows that the Qing Dynasty has a master."
Such a piece of porcelain must not be made casually, and even in modern times, it may not be possible to reproduce such a perfect imitation.
So
It's hard to say what it's worth, so I'd like to take it and try it."
What else can Xu Chen say about this? Try it, he has nothing to lose.
At that moment, he signed an auction contract with Guardian.
The contract includes a series of terms such as commission, management fee, exhibition fee, publicity fee, payment date, commission date and so on.
After reading the results and signing the contract, it was already the afternoon of the next day, and after the incident, Xu Chen bought a plane ticket and flew back to the ice city.
Stepping into room 101, on the sofa in the living room, Zhang Yuming and Su Qingqing were watching TV, and when they saw Xu Chen coming back, Zhang Yuming said, "Where have you been in the past two days?" I don't see anyone, if you don't come back, I'll call the police."
"Can you find me?" Xu Chen entered the house and changed into slippers, and said, "I don't know how comfortable you two are without me, you wish I didn't come back, can you still find me?"
Think of me like this, why don't you have a single phone message? ”
Xu Chen looked at the disheveled appearance of the two of them, and guessed how it might be that it was not time for him to come back.
"Those don't matter," Zhang Yuming stood up and said: "Qingqing and I have now officially joined Qihang Paper, I'll order a few dishes in the evening, let's celebrate."
"This is worth celebrating, so, count me in, I'll arrange it, let's not go out, just order a few high-end ones, and then some beer, and be lively in the house."
The three of them have been college classmates for four years, and now that the two have found jobs, Xu Chen is really happy for them.
And with his current worth of tens of millions, he naturally doesn't care about the cost of this meal or two meals.
"I'm so sorry," Zhang Yuming said politely.
"You two do less sin and let me sleep well for two nights, which is the greatest reward for me"
Zhang Yuming smiled obscenely after hearing this, but Su Qingqing said: "Since it is going to be lively, it is better to ask Yuanyuan to come over, otherwise the two of you will drink and no one will accompany me."
"It's okay"