Chapter 96: You're a Talent!
Just listen to those who say:
"Tut-tut, isn't this Liu Minghui, the son of Shopkeeper Liu? How did you fall to your knees and lick your shoes? ”
"Didn't you listen to that guy? It was he who made a bet with others and lost the bet! ”
"Awesome! I think that young man is less than twenty years old, Xiao Liu will actually lose to him? ”
"Luck, let you guess at will, you can always meet a dead mouse with a blind cat."
"Hey, you can't say that, sometimes luck is also a sign of strength, just like this bet, how can people have this luck to win?"
"Shame, Xiao Liu really lost all the face of Shopkeeper Liu this time!"
"That said, what's there to bet with such an unknown person? If you win, you will be said to win, and if you lose, you will lose face! ”
“……”
All kinds of arguments and ugly words came one after another.
So much so that when Liu Minghui heard these contents, his expression was extremely ashamed, and his expression was as ugly as eating, and it was estimated that he couldn't wait to find a pit to bury himself.
"You...... Don't go!! ”
Just as I was about to leave with Wakayuki.
Liu Minghui's angry voice suddenly came from behind.
I looked back.
I saw him glaring at me sharply, and exclaimed:
"Do you have the guts to compete with me again? We pick three things from the market and see who has the highest total value! If you lose, you'll have to get down on your knees and lick your shoes and mine in front of everyone! If I lose, I'll ...... It's up to you! ”
Yoh?
Is this guy still energetic?
I opened my mouth and was about to speak.
Ruoxue on the side tugged at my sleeve without a trace, and said quietly: "Shen Lang, don't be impulsive, don't bet with this guy!" You can't have that luck every time! ”
The implication is that if I continue to gamble with him, I will definitely lose.
To be honest, I also want to accept it when I see it.
There's no need to bet with him about licking shoes.
Thinking of this, I stared at him playfully and sarcastically: "What qualifications do you think a waste who kneels on the ground and licks his shoes is compared to me?" With this idle thought, you might as well go home and learn from your Lao Tzu for a few more years! ”
"You...... You don't have to pretend to be forced here! You're just a shit lucky, and you really think you're capable? Liu Minghui yelled at me angrily: "If you want to talk about waste, I think you are!" Otherwise, why would you be so scared that you don't dare to continue gambling with me? Or do you not want to be embarrassed in front of Ruoxue, afraid that she will know that you are not as good as me at all? ”
"Huh...... If you are not as good as you, I think Ruoxue knows better than anyone now, who just appeared in front of her, and you yourself know it! I smiled coldly, "There's no need to play aggressive tricks with me, and I'm not interested in gambling with you to play boring games like licking shoes!" ”
Leaving this sentence, I pulled Ruoxue and prepared to open the crowd and leave.
Who knew that in the next second, Liu Minghui shouted loudly: "Okay, then bet on reality?" How about we gamble for money? If I lose, you can go to my Liu family's antique pawn and pick five things at will, if you lose, you have to bow and apologize to me, and pay me another million! What do you think? I see that the person you are wearing looks like a dog, you should be able to get a million, right? ”
Seeing him aggressive and shouting behind him like a fly, Ruoxue couldn't help it, turned around and glared at him and said, "Liu Minghui, are you finished?" You ......"
"Fuck, it's between me and him, what are you talking about a stinky bitch?" It's a pity that before she finished speaking, Liu Minghui interrupted with a throat, and then stared at me with a serious face, and said word by word: "Shen Lang, don't grind and chirp like a girl, you just say you dare?!" ”
"Shen Lang, don't listen to this guy, he just wants to get back face by your side, let's ......" Ruoxue looked at me worriedly.
I waved my hand and signaled that she didn't need to say more.
Then, I looked at Liu Minghui with a smile, "With your treasure appreciation skills, I can't believe that your Liu family's antique pawns can have any good things!" If it's all rubbish, won't I lose blood? ”
"You fart! The goods on our Liu family's antique pawns are all carefully selected by my father, and each of them is worth three or five hundred thousand yuan. ”
"Hehe, this may not be, your vision is so poor, your father's vision is probably not much better." I pursed my lips with disdain.
When Liu Minghui heard this, he could only say with a dark face: "That's it!" If you don't have anything in my favorite, I'll give you five million! That's all right, right? ”
Hiss!!
As soon as these words fell, the audience was dumbfounded.
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
Apparently I didn't expect this guy to play so big as soon as he exited.
There are even a lot of people who are secretly saying that I definitely don't dare to bet.
After all, in their opinion, the first time I was able to win him, it was originally due to luck.
However, under the skeptical eyes of everyone, I didn't even hesitate at all, and directly agreed.
However, in order to avoid subsequent disputes and further fraud, I proposed to list the notes and notary public.
Liu Minghui also had this intention, and immediately called out Master Liu, who had appraised the picture scroll for him earlier.
There are two other masters who came out together, and after some understanding, I learned that they are both treasure masters in the antique industry, and they still have a certain reputation and influence in the industry.
After listening to what we said, the three old men glanced at each other, and sighed helplessly: "Alas, you young people, you are too arrogant, why do you have to make such a big fuss about such a trivial matter?" But...... Since both of you have made up your minds, we won't say anything more, just do what you say! ”
Subsequently, in front of the three notaries and many people who eat melons, Liu Minghui and I made a gambling contract, written in black and white, clearly written, and at the same time pressed the handprint!
The deadline for this bet is 5 p.m., and we each pick three items in the market, and finally these three notaries will determine the authenticity and value, and whoever has the highest total value will win.
After finalizing all the details, Liu Minghui looked at me with a triumphant face and smiled: "Wait!" You're going to lose this time! ”
I didn't even want to look at him, so I turned around and walked towards the market with Ruoxue.
"Shen Lang, you are so impulsive! Liu Minghui no matter how he said it, he was also nurtured in the antique world since he was a child, whether it is vision, or experience, or the identification of the market, and the understanding of history, it is not comparable to ordinary people. ”
Ruoxue followed me with a depressed face, and couldn't help but sigh, "Now there are less than two hours left, and we can't even finish this A exhibition area, where do you say you can find three genuine goods, and they must be of great value?!" ”
I waved my hand disappreciatively, "Try it, how do you know if you don't try?" If you get lucky three more times, won't you be able to make an extra five million? Today is a worthwhile trip! ”
"You!!" Ruoxue's face was full of speechlessness, "You think about this matter too simply, right?" In previous years, the genuine stock rate of the entire market was no more than one percent, and this year I think it is about the same, maybe there is not a single genuine product on a stall! ”
"What?" I had been preparing for a long time, and when I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned, "If you want to say that, wouldn't there be only about twenty or thirty genuine items in an exhibition area at most?" Everything else is fake? ”
Although I thought for a long time that it would be difficult to find three valuable genuine products in this market, I didn't expect it to be so difficult...... In other words, I had to find exactly three of the three or four thousand objects.
Damn, it's sloppy, you know, the reason why antiques are so difficult is not only because the real thing is difficult to identify, but because those large quantities of fakes are enough to reach the point of being fake.
Just like the real and fake Monkey King in Journey to the West, watching this is also true, and looking at that is also like being real, but there is always one that is fake, as for which one is fake...... This is intriguing, not only with a lot of experience, but also with a lot of tools and a lot of historical knowledge.
Ruoxue saw my surprised expression, and immediately handed over a roll of the eyes, "What do you think?" I said don't be impulsive, don't go up, you just don't listen, now you're satisfied, right? ”
"Uh, no, haven't I lost yet?" I touched my nose in embarrassment.
Ruoxue sneered: "You didn't lose, but it's no different from losing!" ”
I smiled bitterly and said that you are confident in me, and now you are still undecided.
What didn't come out of the words was.
I don't have much experience with antiques though.
But I also have a lot of discernment assertions in my head that Tufuzi taught me.
Just like the picture scroll just now, don't I just rely on the smell to tell the truth of it?
The time to come.
I no longer talk nonsense with Ruoxue, but seriously stay in each stall for a few minutes, my eyes quickly skimming over every antique, and when I encounter something uncertain, I will take it in my hand and look at it carefully.
That's it...... I walked around the market as quickly as I could, and not only did I not choose a single thing, but the time was almost five o'clock.
Seeing this, Ruoxue really pinched a cold sweat for me, "Shen Lang, can you do it?" If you don't choose, the time will be up! ”
She guessed that I couldn't tell which thing was true, so I didn't know what to choose for a while, so she simply proposed: "Why don't you choose any three, just like you said, let's fight with luck, maybe it really makes your blind cat meet a dead mouse?" It's better than you don't choose anything, right? ”
I smiled and teased with a relaxed face: "A man can't say that he can't do it, I'm determined to do it!" ”
"You!" Ruoxue was almost angry with me, "When is it, are you still in the mood to joke?" Now there is only more than half an hour left, and if you don't choose again, it's really too late! ”
I just wanted to speak.
Unexpectedly, a yin and yang strange voice floated from not far away:
"Tut-tut, I thought someone was like me, and he had already selected something, so I waited in the appraisal room for more than an hour and didn't see anyone, so it turns out that you two didn't take anything after watching it for so long?!"
Following the prestige, I saw Liu Minghui with his hands in his pockets and strolling with a smug face, looking at me with disdain in his eyes, obviously never expecting that more than two hours had passed, and I hadn't picked a single object.
I smiled coldly, "Picking quickly may not be worth anything." ”
"Hahaha...... Then you're wrong, I didn't pick it quickly, it took two hours anyway, unlike you...... Now there is only half an hour left, and no matter how vicious your eyes are, it is impossible to pick out the best products from the garbage heap in so much time! Hahaha......" After Liu Minghui finished speaking, the heart hanging in his throat seemed to be completely put down, and he turned around and went back while laughing.
Seeing his arrogant appearance, Ruoxue was completely panicked, she grabbed my hand and walked to one of the stalls, and said: "I think the glass bracelet in this store is good, let's take it down first, yes, there is another store in which the Fengbai porcelain bottle is also in good condition......
Obviously, she saw that I was slow to make a decision, so she simply made the decision for me.
I shook my head, broke free of her hand, and said, "Sister Ruoxue, the two things in your picture are fakes, deliberately old, on the surface, they do look like they have just been dug out of the soil, but in fact, they ...... Those who know a little bit will know at a glance that jade porcelain buried in the soil for a long time cannot be like this! ”
"This ......" Ruoxue looked a little embarrassed, "then this doesn't work, that doesn't work, so how do we choose?" You can't just go back to the laboratory empty-handed and let them see the jokes, right? ”
"No!" I patted her on the shoulder with a smile, decided not to sell it anymore, and said straight to the point, "I just went through the whole market, which goods are real and which goods are fake, I have some decisions in my heart, why I don't take them first...... It's that I'm still thinking about which ones to take! ”
You can't really blame me for that.
It's really a lot of things in my image.
There are probably eight of them.
Choose 3 out of 8......
I'm really hesitant.
Although I am more than 95% sure that all eight of these are genuine.
But that's about it.
As for what exactly they are worth.
I don't know what to do.
I'm afraid I'll pick the three with the lowest price.
So most of the time, I was secretly thinking about it in my heart.
Thinking about how to choose......
"Really?" Ruoxue stared at me suspiciously, looking at her eyes, I knew that doubt was greater than believing, and I definitely thought I was bragging to her.
I nodded seriously, took a puff of cigarette, and suddenly said, "Okay, I've already thought about how to choose, go, accompany me to get the goods!" ”
Then, in the last ten minutes, I took Ruoxue to quickly buy the three items I was looking for and sent them to the appraisal center.
The three objects are:
1. A palm-sized dark green jade bottle
2. A colorful multicolored porcelain
3. Nearly one meter high, half a meter wide, the surface of the three-legged tripod is as black as ink
I am sure that the first two items will not be less than 50-70w value, as for the specific amount of assessment, it depends on the meaning of the three appraisers.
And the last one...... It's the most bottomless in my heart, but it's also the most hopeful.
Although this three-legged tripod looks ordinary, the surface is pitted, there is no appreciation value, and the workmanship is also slightly rough, but judging from the smell and corrosion degree, it has been buried in the ground for hundreds of years.
For this reason, I also consulted the boss, and the boss told me that he did not know much about the three-legged tripod, but the only thing that was certain was that when he was trading with Tufuzi, the other party specifically mentioned that it was dug up from the tomb of a wealthy merchant's family, and there were a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in it at that time.
It is precisely because of this information that I chose this mouth after repeated hesitation.
"Hahaha......"
Unexpectedly, as the three items I selected had just been sent to the appraisal center, Liu Minghui, who had been waiting impatiently, saw them and took a closer look, and couldn't help but laugh with others:
"Shen Lang, you're really a talent, you don't have anything left in the back half an hour, don't say anything, after all, you're just a layman, it's normal if you can't choose, but you have a little common sense, right? What's wrong with random selection, actually choosing such a big tripod? Do you think it's a bronze tripod? Laugh to death, this thing is not worth much even if it is sold for scrap metal! ”
As his words fell, not only Ruoxue, but the rest of the people, including the three appraisal masters, stared at the Ding I chose and shook their heads helplessly.