Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1791 This Circle is Really Too Small

"That's not right..." Old Luo asked the other Old Xu, "Old Xu, wasn't this repaired by you?"

"Let me take another look..." another voice said, "I really overlooked this just now..."

Zhou Zhi hurried into the room: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Luo, we meet again."

"Elbow? Why are you here?" The man named Luo Lao was even more surprised.

"Hey! No need to guess, Elbow, you edited these four paintings, right?" Old Xu on the side said, "It must be you!"

"Hello, Mr. Xu. I edited the painting, and the calligraphy was edited by my family elders." Zhou Zhi quickly replied, and then smiled bitterly at Mr. Luo, "Mr. Luo, don't joke like this..."

“Hahahaha… let’s talk about our own things.” Old Luo said with a smile: “This is called friendship regardless of age!”

"Old Luo, do you know Elbow?" Old Master Qi was surprised. "You are from the Xiaoyao Sect who retired and refused to be rehired. Logically, you shouldn't have had the chance to know Elbow, right?"

This Mr. Luo was the Luo Qianhe from the Shanghai Cultural Relics Store whom Zhou Zhi met on the cultural relics street near the Bund in Shanghai. The Mr. Xu just now was Xu Bangda, a restoration expert in the calligraphy and painting department of Rongbaozhai.

"The elbow is really great, my old accountant." Old Luo smiled and bowed to Zhou Zhi: "Greetings to you."

Zhou Zhi was so embarrassed that he waved his hands repeatedly: "You...you are being disrespectful to your elders! You are bullying me, a young man!"

"What's going on?" Old Master Wang became curious. "This kid is lucky. It's ok to pick up a bargain in the market, but how can he pick up a bargain on a person? Old Luo, you have a bad temper, and no one can beat you!"

"It's all fate." Luo Qianhe smiled and said, "After retirement, I often walked around the Bund Antique Street. Thanks to my colleagues who thought highly of me and helped me to identify antiques, I became a consultant for several antique stalls."

"At that time, the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum had a pair of imitation Song Dynasty Ru kiln flower pots. Because they were in such good condition, the identification of their age was questionable. To be safe, although the inscription was 'Made in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty', I still determined that they were made in the Jiaqing period."

"But I was a little uneasy in my heart, so I hid at the back of the counter. As a result, Elbow came to the store with a little girl, and he first fell in love with a couplet by He Shaoji. I saw him checking the couplet from the paper mounting, and thought he might be an expert, so I tried to test him and said I could give him a discount of 10 yuan."

"But Elbow told me that he had always been to Xiangshan Folding in various places, which shocked me."

"So I became interested and said to him, 'I have two pieces of porcelain in this shop that I am not sure about. If Elbow can tell me which two pieces they are, then I will give him the Xiangshan Fold.'"

"Old Luo, you are bullying a child..." Xu Bangda said, "Even if Elbow recognizes him, you can still deny it, right?"

"Old Xu, don't interrupt. Listen to what Old Luo has to say." Old Master Wang was anxious. He had never heard Zhou Zhi tell this story.

"As you know, my strengths are calligraphy and jade. But when this pair of flower lilies came from the National Museum, the label said it was from the Jiaqing era, and I couldn't stop them from selling it, so when I was making suggestions for display, I asked the salesperson to hide the flower lilies in the most inconspicuous place on the counter." "As a result, Elbow took a quick look and pointed out that the pair of flower lilies was broken and said it should be from the Qianlong era."

"I was really surprised and happy at the time, and quickly asked him why."

"He talked a lot, and finally said that Cao Mingzhong's "Ge Gu Yao Lun" said: Ru kiln comes from the north, and the ones fired in the Song Dynasty are light blue. Those with crab claw patterns are genuine, and those without patterns are even better. However, it is rare to find imitations without patterns after the Yuan Dynasty, but they appeared again during the Qianlong period."

"So this pair of flower gourds is not a later imitation, but on the contrary it is the best imitation of Ru kiln in all dynasties. The full name should be 'Qianlong imitation copper bone unpatterned Ru glaze protruding halberd flower goblet'."

"That pair of flower-shaped vases is indeed an imitation of the Ru kiln during the Qianlong period." Not all the people present were porcelain experts, so Mr. Wang introduced: "But because there is no cracking and the color is too smooth, when the inventory of porcelain was transferred in large quantities, it was sent to the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum as a consignment for the Jiaqing imitation of the Qianlong period."

"It is also thanks to Old Luo's prudence that he hid the pair of flower lilies in the corner of the display cabinet. Otherwise, the country might have lost a pair of exquisite works from the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty."

"Now the pair of flower lilies have returned to the National Museum."

"I dare not take credit for this, it's all thanks to Elbow." Luo Qianhe said, "But he didn't suffer any loss either. I gave him the painter's price paper that I have collected for many years as a reward."

"Then why do you say he's your customer?" Old Master Qi said with some envy: "You gave him the Nine Painters' Price List Paper? You're such a jerk! Why haven't I heard you mention this before?!"

Nine Painters' Price Lists is a collection of the handwritten price lists of nine painters collected by Luo Qianhe, namely Zheng Banqiao, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Hu Xiaoshi, Feng Zikai, Zhang Daqian, Sha Menghai, Lu Yanshao and Huang Yongyu. Although the items are small, it would be extremely difficult to collect them deliberately.

A booklet has become a collection item, which is also a considerable gift. No wonder Mr. Qi also knew about the booklet and was envious.

Luo Qianhe was as happy as a child who had played a successful prank: "Because of this, Elbow thought I was a salesperson at Gongmei, so he took care of my business and bought me an Eastern Han Dynasty yellow jade dragon head hairpin and two Qianlong jade wares."

"So the source is from you!" said Mr. Wang, "Those newly carved jade pieces at the Hong Kong Island Jade Carving Exhibition were bought by Elbow from you and sent to Suzhou Jade Carving Factory for reproduction!"

“Hahaha, it’s worth about 200,000 yuan.” Old Master Qi laughed and said, “No wonder Lao Luo wants to call Elbow his main customer.”

“Our friendship is more than just this.” Luo Qianhe said with a smile: “Thanks to Elbowzi’s trust, whenever I see something good in Shanghai, I will call him. Elbowzi is basically straightforward. For anything he likes, he will give him a cent as a middleman’s fee according to the rules of the industry. This is a real old account! Hahahaha…”

Lao Wang also laughed: "Elbow, Mr. Luo was a comrade-in-arms who traveled around the country with us to identify and collect cultural relics in various places. He is now a senior comrade on the cultural relics protection front. He made great contributions to the collection of collections for Shanghai museums. He did not identify the Qianlong Ru porcelain without patterns at that time. Firstly, this thing was suspicious in itself, and secondly, it was affected by the first appraisal opinion of the National Museum. We are also responsible. You are good at judging things, but you are not good at judging people. You made a mistake!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and Zhou Zhi could only smile foolishly.

I'm not laughing at the fact that the big guys are always teasing me, but I'm laughing at the fact that this circle is so small and I run into this group of people wherever I go.