Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 913
And today I am here to solve the problem, everyone is in this position, Zhou Zhi can only laugh and say: "Please trouble Manager Zhang, logically speaking, you should consider yourself unlucky, but my brother-in-law is a pure layman, and the cultural relics store is now a state-owned unit. Don't care about those old reasons, so we just came here with the audacity to equalize the price difference, and the matter is over."

Manager Zhang breathed a sigh of relief: "Our general manager said that Mr. Zhou is young, but he is a man of the scene, so he won't make things difficult for us. Thank you, thank you."

"You're welcome, let's see something."

On the second floor, Manager Zhang led Zhou Zhi and Tao Ming to a side hall with a closed door: "Please sit down, both of you, and I'll make tea."

Tao Ming just looked at the house and furnishings like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and said to Zhou Zhi in a low voice, "Elbow, this is the real VIP hall, right?"

"Brother-in-law, you also know the goods." Zhou Zhi smiled.

"Hey, what kind of goods do I know?" Tao Ming looked around: "The things here are very elegant! It's completely different from the one that received me."

"Let's not mention that." Zhou Zhi whispered.

"Yes Yes……"

After a while, Manager Zhang soaked three cups of tureen and brought them over, and then sent someone to bring three boxes, took out the contents one by one and put them on the table: "Mr. Zhou, these are our sincerity, what do you see?" Do you think it's appropriate?"

Zhou Zhi picked up the teacup and scraped the tea: "Manager Zhang, you are so polite, the Tongzhi plate my brother-in-law took, even if the internal price is [-], it can't be less, and the rest is [-]. It’s not good if the premium is too high, right?”

Manager Zhang smiled and said, "Manager Fei told us to just show sincerity. He said Mr. Zhou, you are an expert, and you have a lot of leeway in doing things. Everything is left to you."

"Then if I pack everything on this table and take it away, will I not give you a penny?"

Manager Zhang's smile froze for a moment, and then he smiled wryly: "That's okay, at most, my performance this year will be for nothing."

Zhou Zhi also smiled: "I was just joking with Manager Zhang. You placed three things when you came up. I thought you were trying to test my eyesight."

Manager Zhang smiled awkwardly: "Where is it, I dare not have that meaning..."

Only then did Zhou Zhi put down the tea bowl, carefully examined the three pieces of porcelain one by one, and then said with a smile, "What Manager Zhang means is that we can pick and take away whatever is on the table, am I not mistaken? "

"Yes."

There are three large plates on the table, all of which are decorated with twigs and lotus flowers. At first glance, they are almost identical, but when you look closely, you will find that there are many differences in details.

"Aren't you trying to judge me?" Zhou Zhi reached out to pick up the first plate and fiddled with it for a while, and then smiled when Manager Zhang's appetite was satisfied: "JDZ's foreign trade handicrafts in [-] are too fine. The glaze is too clear, the glass is too bright, and the blue is still painted with cobalt, which is newer than the one my brother-in-law took a few days ago, so let's not look at it?"

"Yes, yes, you don't need to look at this one." Manager Zhang quickly removed the plate, and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhou can identify the entrusted money from Tongzhi. This will definitely not trouble you. If you discard this, you will be guaranteed not to lose." gone."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "I'm courteous, so I'll continue to choose?"

"Please."

Zhou Zhi turned the remaining two plates over again: "It's easy to handle them both in six-character seal script. Both seal scripts have delicate strokes, neat calligraphy, excellent glaze, and green hair color, but the calligraphy skills and brushwork proficiency are not so good. same."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a plate: "This is an old hand." Then he pointed to another plate: "This is where the pen is turned and the pen is replaced, and there is more blue from the glaze. The jargon is commonly known as 'matchhead'. It is caused by the calligrapher becoming cautious and slowing down when writing to these places."

"Thus, although the two bases seem to be similar, one is written naturally and smoothly, and the other is sluggish, and some error-prone places are overly cautious. It is obvious that he is not skilled enough and is trying to imitate. "

"For those who know calligraphy, this bottom line can be understood at a glance."

"Taught." Manager Zhang said: "Then, can Mr. Zhou help us stop this loan? Which period does it belong to?"

"In the middle and late Qianlong period, blue-and-white porcelain began to show orange peel patterns, which is a characteristic of Qing Dynasty porcelain beginning to decline." Zhou Zhi pressed the belly of his finger on the bottom circle of the imitation model and slid it: "But if it is not far from the Qianlong Dynasty, , the level of painting is roughly the same, retaining the complex and delicate style, only slightly inferior in the base style."

"However, in some places that are not easy to see, traces of cutting corners can still be seen: for example, the carcass, the quality of the carcass begins to become rough, the proportion of fired porcelain begins to decrease, the bottom feet are no longer finely trimmed and smooth, and the ring feet are no longer fine. If the glazing water is not filled, even the tire glaze becomes slippery and thin.”

"This blue and white dish entrusted to Qianlong has all the above characteristics, but the overall level of painting and emerald color are not far from Qianlong's blue and white, so I personally think it should be entrusted by Jiaqing Dynasty."

Manager Zhang was greatly admired, and cupped his hands and said: "Mr. Zhou is really an expert. I admire him. After receiving Mr. Zhou's complaint, our cultural relics store has already started to rectify and found out the internal staff who colluded with outsiders to cheat Mr. Tao, and notified the police organ."

"These measures, together with the large plate with entwined passionflower patterns in the Qianlong Dynasty, will Mr. Zhou and Mr. Tao be satisfied?"

"Satisfied and satisfied." Tao Ming reached out and touched the remaining Qianlong plate, which is equivalent to [-] to get this plate, so it shouldn't be a loss.

Zhou Zhi chuckled, and put his hand on the plate first.

According to the knowledge that was popularized before, Tao Ming now also knows that when someone starts to touch, others must not reach out, so he stopped, but he was a little confused: "Elbow?"

Zhou Zhi looked at Manager Zhang: "Just now, I remembered that Manager Zhang said that as long as it is on this table, we can pick anything at random, right?"

"That's right." Seeing Manager Zhang nodding his head, Tao Ming hurriedly said, "So now this dynasty-style plate is ours."

"Brother-in-law, don't worry." Zhou Zhi shook his head with a smile, and said, "If you choose anything on this table..."

Zhou Zhi pointed to the gaiwan tea set in front of Manager Zhang: "Then we want this."

"Huh?!" Manager Zhang froze for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile, "I can't hide this little thought from Mr. Zhou, master, really master!"

Zhou Zhi laughed secretly in his heart, no wonder something happened to the Yuzhou Cultural Relics Store, but it was almost the root cause, and it was the leader.

To put it bluntly, the matter was very simple. Manager Fei asked Yuzhou to show an attitude, and Yuzhou was reluctant to bleed, so he promised well, but secretly made small moves.

If Zhou Zhi didn't point out this tureen and just took away the Qianlong blue and white platter of the dynasty, it would be a good deal.

But Fei Guan's intention was obviously to let Zhou Zhi pick up a small leak as an apology, but Manager Zhang was so kind and hard to give up, and while he was saying good things, he brought something of higher value to the table in a secretive way.

If Zhou Zhi didn't see it, then he not only kept the gaiwan, but also gave an explanation to Fei Guan. The explanation at that time would be - I took out all the things, Xiao Zhou just didn't notice it!
With such a little thought, I really can't even carry it.The trick of guessing the authenticity of the three dishes before was actually just a cover for the tureen.

(End of this chapter)