Jianbao life

Chapter 23 Seal
After Zhou Wenping had a drink with Chu Chen, he asked him, "Xiao Chen, are you free next week? I have a job to dig out the house."

"It's like we're in the antique business, how can we not be free? But who is the other party? Brother Zhou, how did you start pulling the strings?" Chu Chen asked a little strangely.

"Hey, the owner of that house is actually my wife's second uncle..."

"What second uncle!"

Mrs. Zhou interjected, "Actually, they are from our village. Back then, their family was a landlord, and my grandfather even worked as a long-term worker for them."

"Mom, what is a long-term worker?" Zhou Wenhui stopped the sweets on her lips and asked curiously.

Zhou Wenping rushed to say: "The long-term workers are those who have been working without wages. They are called long-term workers."

"Fuck you, how can you say that, and you're not afraid to teach your daughter badly." Zhou Sao said with a face of reproach.

"Ah, then dad doesn't need to pay for housework all day long, so dad, you are also a long-term worker!"

"Pfft!"

Zhou Wenhui's words made everyone laugh, and Zhou Wenping said to her in embarrassment:
"Children, eat your food and don't talk nonsense."

When Zhou Wenhui heard this, she immediately became a little unhappy, she pouted and said, "Hmph, stinky dad, I'm ignoring you."

"Hmm!" Zhou Wenping coughed in embarrassment, then changed the subject:

"Just like what my mother-in-law said, that family used to be a landlord, and there were still some things in the house, which were not destroyed before. This time something happened to his house, so I was going to find someone to take a look, and wanted to get these ancestral things. Exchange things for some money for emergency."

"The Murakami knew that I was in this business, so they called me in the afternoon and asked me to help pull down the fiber. However, I don't know what good things his house can have, so I want to ask your opinion. "

As soon as Chu Chen heard about this, he readily agreed, "Success, it's definitely not a problem. Of course, this kind of opportunity can't be missed. Even if you don't gain much by then, you can go to Xijing for a while. I've been in the antique business for so many years. , I haven’t been to Xijing, the thousand-year-old capital, so I should take this opportunity to visit the antique market there.”

Seeing that Chu Chen agreed, Zhou Wenping was also very happy. He turned around and asked the fifth brother, "What do you say, fifth brother?"

The fifth child scratched his forehead and said apologetically, "Brothers, I'm sorry, I'm going home with my wife next week, but unfortunately we won't be able to make it."

"Well, Guodong, are you going?" Zhou Wenping asked Li Guodong again.

Before Li Guodong answered, Chu Chen said with a smile: "Yes, Guodong, you are fine during the summer vacation. It just so happens that you can take your girlfriend along with you, and you can also increase our mutual relationship. It just so happens that we also get to know your girl." friend."

After the fifth child heard about it, he jokingly said, "Hey, Guodong, it's ok, I've been a monk for a few years and I'm out of the vulgar, why didn't I bring it here for dinner today, so that everyone can get to know each other."

Zhou Wenping picked up the wine bottle and said, "That's right, you can't do it. Do you still treat us as friends? No, you must be punished three times in a row."

Everyone booed and asked him to drink. Seeing this, Li Guodong had to drink three glasses of fine wine.

Maybe it was really drunk and cowardly. After three glasses of wine, Li Guodong blushed and said with a big tongue:
"Okay, let's go, I will definitely bring mine with me, or I will take your surname."

Everyone applauded, and Chu Chen said with a smile: "Okay, in the words of the people of Bashu, if Xiongqi rises, let's go here, and I want to toast you, Brother Li."

Afterwards, everyone was drinking and toasting, and the atmosphere was quite enthusiastic.

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The next day, Chu Chen also woke up early in the morning. Everyone ate the meal yesterday for more than three hours. Under the lively atmosphere, the fight for wine was extremely intense. The four of them drank eight bottles of 500ml in total. Moutai, in the end, except for Chu Chen who was a little sober because of his good physique, everyone else was drunk.

Maybe it was because of the good quality of the wine yesterday, or maybe it was because of his supernatural powers. Chu Chen didn't feel a headache after waking up, otherwise the hangover would be uncomfortable.

Today Chu Chen plans to buy some goods. After thinking about it for the past two days, he still thinks that the street stalls are better. There are quite a lot of news channels for hawkers. The antique business is the most important news, and it is mixed in the market. It is also more convenient to encounter opportunities for picking up leaks.

As for betting on stones, to be honest, Chu Chen didn't think about the specific plan. It's okay to gamble occasionally. If he gambles on stones all day long and wins many times, he might be suspected.

Besides, the quality of the wool here in the capital is not as good as that in the south, and good steel needs to be used on the blade. What Chu Chen wants most now is to take a ride to the gambling stone market in the south of Yunnan, and see if he can meet some people. an informant.

He has always heard that good jadeite wool is kept in the seller's home, and if there is no informant to guide the way, no one will sell it to you.If he knew the informant now, he would not go to get the goods today, he would have taken a plane to gamble on stones in southern Yunnan.

In fact, the most important thing is that you have no money. If you have money, you can go directly to the public market for large transactions. Chu Chen believes that with his abilities, he will definitely be able to make a lot of money by then. Disaster.

Thinking of this, Chu Chen hesitated. Should he go to gamble with stones or buy goods? After thinking about it, he gave up the temptation of gambled stones. I won the bet, and today I won the stone bet again, which will always attract the attention of some people with ulterior motives.

In the final analysis, Chu Chen’s reputation is still too small. If he is famous, he won’t be surprised if he often wins bets. This is why he thought of going to the south of Yunnan to gamble on stones. And if you win the bet several times, others will only praise you for your good eyesight, and then your reputation will come up.

The place where Chu Chen went to pick up the goods was at the Antique City in Beijing, which is just across the wall from Panjiayuan. This channel was also introduced by Uncle Wu.

The Beijing Antique City should be regarded as the largest antique and art trading center in Asia. It took shape around the same time as Panjiayuan. Both places are old-fashioned antique markets in the capital.

Although it was not the weekend, when Chu Chen came here, he still saw the crowds surging and it was very lively, but the shop that Chu Chen was going to was a bit remote, so he didn’t need to try the crowded feeling with others, otherwise it would be a hot day. The feeling of being crowded is really uncomfortable.

When he was about to walk to that shop, suddenly an old man slammed the door out of an antique shop, and said indignantly:
"What the hell, it's clearly an object handed down from my ancestors, yet it insists that it's a modern imitation. I don't have the vision to open an antique shop!"

This situation should be caused by the old man selling antiques, but the Master Zhangyan didn't like it, and even said some bad words.At first, Chu Chen didn't care too much. After all, there are many things like this in the antique shop. Although there are some antique shop masters who are mistaken, most of the objects brought by the customers are not real.

It's just that when Chu Chen saw the object in the old man's hand out of the corner of his eye, he felt something was wrong, and quickly shouted: "Mr., please stay."

"What are you doing, what's your business?"

The old man stopped, his tone was a little blunt, he tightened his grip, and looked at Chu Chen warily.

Chu Chen said to the old man with a smile on his face: "Old man, I don't mean any malice, I just want to ask if you want to sell the thing in your hand, and if possible, can you let me do it."

The old man looked at Chu Chen suspiciously and said, "Do you want to buy it? If you want to buy it, we can make an agreement. This item is not cheap."

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Okay, it's just that the things are good, we can discuss the price."

The old man came here to sell things. Seeing that Chu Chen was quite talkative, he walked to the side of the road and handed the things in his hand to Chu Chen.

This old man might not be in the antique business, and he didn't know that antiques can't be used directly. Seeing this, Chu Chen frowned, and had to carefully take the things over, and then observed carefully.

It was a sapphire seal about six centimeters high, and there was a black thing on it. At first glance, it seemed a bit ugly.

However, as soon as he grasped the object, Chu Chen laughed in his heart. Without the induction of supernatural powers, he knew that it was indeed an antique. Maybe it was because of this dark object that the people in the antique shop left. squinted.

This black thing has a special term in the antique industry, called "lifting oil", which was very popular from the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Specifically, through some thermal processing methods, some black substances such as "ebony chips" are applied to the jade, so that the jade produces an antique taste, also known as "blackening".

This method is also often used in modern counterfeiting, but the ancient method has certain limitations, because their processing level is not in place, so jade will have cracks.After the ancients played with it for a long time, sweat penetrated into the cracks, producing a yellow color, which is very contrasting with the black color.

From this point, it can be seen that this seal should be an old thing.Chu Chen also didn't understand why the owner of the store didn't notice such an obvious feature. Could it be that the person's level is not high, or is it just a casual look?
Then Chu Chen started to carefully observe the characteristics of this seal. The first thing he saw was that the black ooze from the oil spread from the top, which could be described as solemn and solemn.

The whole piece of chapter material is square, with fine and clean texture.The black part of the top is carved with dragon buttons, the dragon body is coiled, the dragon head is in the center, and the majesty is four appearances.The dragon scales can be counted, the facial features are fine, and the craftsmanship is excellent. It is a perfect combination of jade and craftsmanship.

Looking at the carving of this dragon button, it should be the characteristics of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty. If you look at the carving of this dragon with a magnifying glass, you can see that there are many patterns. Characteristics.

From the above points, it can be basically concluded that this thing should be a Ming Dynasty oiled sapphire ancient dragon button seal, and the use of supernatural powers also confirms this conclusion.

(End of this chapter)