Behind the counter, hang a picture of Ni Yunlin's landscape?

It seems that this senior is also an interesting person.

A smile appeared at the corner of Chang Xian's mouth, and then glanced at it, it is difficult to say how the goods are, but the details are arranged very refreshingly, the windows are bright and clean, simple, and a furnace of plain incense is burned.

The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a long face and thin eyebrows, white skin without a trace of wrinkles, and a bit of a woman.

Seeing a customer come to the door, he came out from behind the counter and greeted him warmly, and glanced at the scroll in Chang Xian's hand, saying that you can take a look at it, and then paced back to the back of the counter.

The service principle of the antique business is not the same as that of the shopping mall.

The enthusiastic shopping guides in the mall will follow the customers and introduce the products on Twitter.

But those who play antiques are generally more high-end customers and people with some culture, so this customer group generally likes to look quietly by themselves to discover and explore the secrets and value of those antiques.

If there are people who are constantly croaking around at this time, it will be a bit of a boiled crane burning the qin.

Therefore, antique shops generally only greet customers when they enter the door, and the rest of the time, they will leave customers to watch quietly.

If a customer really has something to look at, they will naturally be called over instead of following the customer all the time.

……

"Return to the ignorance and learn from the ancients. Come into the store, the heat will disappear, what a good place! ”

Chang Xian looked at the tepid boss, stretched out his hand and smiled: "May I ask if it is Senior Mu?" I'm always free, and I'm here to learn from you! ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he turned around again after retracting into the counter, stretched out his hand to shake it, shook it a few times and let it go, and said with a light smile: "It turned out to be a junior brother, I am Mu Duanming, I have been in contact with me on the phone a few times, and I finally saw it today." ”

There is a small courtyard at the back of the store, which is arranged as a hospitality area, Mu Duanming will let Chang Xian in, while boiling water, while saying with a smile: "It's rare for a junior brother to come over, what kind of tea do you drink?" I only have three here, Longjing? Big Red Robe? Pu'er? ”

Chang Xian said: "It's all good." ”

looked at Mu Duanming's jar with Longjing in his hand, and said: "Just Longjing, after all, the environment here is elegant, and it is appropriate to drink Longjing." ”

Along with the words, he said: "I have long heard Nanshi say that among his students, Senior Mu has the most exquisite attainments in learning the ancients, I am begging him to greet you and take care of you, I didn't bother you today, right?" ”

Mu Duanming opened the teapot and smiled: "Nanshi studies history, how many antiques do we have there?" If it's less than five in ten years, I'm definitely at the top. ”

He was cooking tea in his hands, and his mouth was non-stop.

"You also know that we don't open for three years, and we will eat for three years. I'm so idle, and I'm looking for someone to talk to, and you're here. What do you have in hand? Come, come, let's take a look at the object first! ”

After a few words of greeting, the two gradually became acquainted.

Chang Xian put down the painting scroll in hand, Mu Duanming reached out to take it, and untied the ribbon on the scroll.

"Heh, Master Hanyun, it's this master, but I haven't seen him for a few days."

Mu Duanming brushed the painting scroll to the end, his hand condensed, the painting scroll did not move in the air, his eyes swept up and down, slightly bowed, signaled Chang Xian to let go, rolled up the scroll and put it away.

"It's something that opens the door wide, at a glance. The standard Yuan's regular script, with a clean pen, without a trace of procrastination and stagnation, can not see even a trace of rigidity, the ultimate black-clothed children are chic, famous, and have a great atmosphere. ”

"Senior brother's eyesight is amazing."

Seeing Mu Duanming's weightless and unhurried posture, he was free to sway his gestures, and he often said from the bottom of his heart.

"We have been eating this bowl of rice for five generations, and it depends on this pair of tricks to make do."

Mu Duanming snorted, looking quite confident in his profession and having the momentum to do the job.

"Xiao Chang, what kind of charter do you have for this letter? Is it palming or preparing to make a move? ”

"It's a bit of both, it's mainly about what this thing has to say, and if you can, let it go."

At this time, the sound of boiling water came, and Mu Duanming slowly walked to the coffee table and sat down, and greeted: "The transfer is not in a hurry, let's drink tea first and talk a few idle words." ”

"That's a good feeling."

He often asks for nothing, and that's what he's here for.

Mu Duanming smiled and said, "Nanshi may have told you that our Mu family has been eating this meal here in Shenyang Road for five generations, and we have eaten this meal since the time when the Old Summer Palace was burned. ”

"I'll tell you about this Shenyang Dao first."

……

The prosperity of Jinmen antique shop is due to the unique attributes of the city.

Jinmen is close to the capital, and there are nine concessions.

After the burning of the Old Summer Palace, most of the rare items, decorations, garden bricks and tiles that were snatched away were pulled to Tianjin Gate by foreign devils and auctioned on the street.

According to the French minister at the time, Gro said that these were from the Old Summer Palace and were worth at least 30 million francs.

In Yang Liuqing's Shi family compound, there is a lotus pot in the courtyard, which was moved from the Old Summer Palace by the old devil.

At that time, the scene of Jinmen was chaotic, and at every intersection there were silks, jewelry, jade, porcelain and countless valuables sold by foreign devils.

The ghost market in Shenyang Road is famous, and there are foreign devils everywhere at that time, which is really called a "ghost market"!

Later, after the abdication of the Manchu Dynasty, Pu Yi and a large number of old and young people, warlords from all walks of life, and countless celebrities flocked to the place.

The arrival of these people has brought countless good things.

The country is boiling, the nation is in danger, but the antique business is cooking oil with fire, and it is thriving, and there are more people who eat this bowl of rice.

This is how the ancestors of the Mu family got up, from an apprentice, to many years before they had Ji Guxuan in Shenyang Road.

Mu Duanming opened the chatterbox, and Chang Xian was also a little awe-inspired.

"Senior brother's family education has a long history, but everything is yin and yang, and the catastrophe of the country at that time was a gluttonous feast for playing antiques, otherwise those Wang Xie Tang Qianyan, how could they get into the eyes of the people?"

Mu Duanming smiled, noncommittal, and pushed the light green teacup over.

"Shengshi plays collection, the situation is good these years, the treasure show is also popular, and many people dare to go to the antique market with a few broken books. Xiao Chang, are you really going to play this?"

Chang Xian took a shallow sip of the teacup and said: "Brother Mu, you may know that my unit is Xingchen Company, which is good in our area. “

"Hehe, your determination is big enough, then brother, I have to grind with you more!"

Mu Duanming nodded and said: "Xingchen Company is not bad, not to mention those burdens on this Shenyang Road, only about 140 shops, dare to say that half of them may not be able to save 100,000 yuan a year, and it is estimated that it is not as good as your stable income." ”

Listening to Mu Duanming's eloquent talk, Chang Xian knew that doing business in Shenyang Road was very different from other industries.

How so?

You have to have a good temper when doing business here in Shenyang Road, don't get angry at how much you want, and don't get angry about how much money you pay.

It's not surprising that anything happens in this business, and there have been cases of buying a blue and white porcelain vase with the money from buying vinegar bottles, and there have also been cases of buying copper spittoons and buying a Shang Dynasty bronze.

On the other hand, there are cases where you spend the money you buy ginseng to buy a coriander.

But whether the received thing is sold or stolen, just take it off and don't ask where it comes from.

This place is ukiyo-e, and some people show off everywhere when they get cheap, revealing their own cleverness. Some people suffer losses and are mostly stuffed in their stomachs, for fear of being ridiculed.

……

What is the most difficult thing about antiques?

It must be a fake.

Since it is playing the ancient, there will inevitably be people who "come out of the new".

Those who fake and those who watch fake are always a pair of natural enemies.

The fake, with all his efforts and tricks, is to deceive the pair of sharp and tricky eyes that look at the fake.

Look at the fake, with these eyes to see through the tricks, pinch the tip of the tail that the fake guy didn't hide, and pull it out and hang it in broad daylight in a bunch of fakes.

After talking for a while, Chang Xian had an idea.

Mu Duanming took the teapot to refill the water for the two of them, and continued: "Then again, counterfeiting is also a craft, and as long as this industry exists, counterfeiting will exist for as long as it lasts. ”

"The old imitation of the past is also a good thing now, like the imitation of Song porcelain in the Qing Dynasty, the price is not low now."

"It's not hard to say it, but it's hard to confuse the real with the fake. For example, when Ma Lianliang opens his mouth and sings, of course it is Ma Lianliang who sings, is it difficult? But if I sing it, and people hear that Ma Lianliang is singing, it will be difficult to die. ”

So what we are most convinced of is to confuse the truth with the false, and when we call this kind of person, we do not mention "with falsehood", but only praise him for "messing with the truth". It's also a great power. ”

Mu Duanming paused and said: "To do this business, the first thing is to look at the truth and falsehood rationally, whether it is genuine or fake, when you enter the market, it is a commodity." ”

Chang Xian looked at the light blue tea in the teacup, the translucent color was so pure, and said: "The state has clear regulations that it is legal to manufacture and sell high-quality imitation ancient handicrafts, and it is illegal to manufacture and sell fakes."

This is true, but the definition between a high imitation and a fake is particularly subtle, and the difference between them often lies only in whether the nature of the sale is clearly informed.

"To put it bluntly, the same Tang Sancai, say that this is a high imitation of you take it, this is legal, you say that this is the Ming Tombs dug up, it is not legal, so many counterfeiters take advantage of this legal loophole, put on a legal skin of an antique handicraft, and openly produce a large number of high imitations."

"And then what will be the status of these high-quality imitations in the market, what do you think?"

Mu Duanming's laughter was a little mocking: "No matter what it is, whether it is alive or dead, whether it is art or handicrafts, as long as it enters the market, it is a commodity, and the rules of commercial economy must be observed."

"Therefore, as long as antiques become a market segmentation track, the reason for the existence of the antique industry must only be naked interests, not a feeling of family and country, not a love of things, and not a way of appreciation."