Jianbao life

Chapter 73 Ghost City

Seeing everyone nodded, Chu Chen continued, "Most of the ancient jade there is old, if it is in the daytime, it can be seen at a glance, but in the current environment, if you are not careful, your eyes will be pierced.

Moreover, there are many high imitations on the ghost market, and it is even more difficult to find them in this environment, so you have to be very careful, and if you meet something you like, don't rush to buy it. "

After hearing what Chu Chen said, the three young people who had never been to the ghost market all looked dejected. The ancient jade just now looked like they were real, so why were they all fake?And according to him, there are more powerful imitations than this, so how can they make money?It seems that this ghost market is really not a place for beginners like them to come.

Seeing them like this, Chu Chen quickly smiled and said, "Hehe, don't be discouraged. I just want you to watch more and buy less. If you come across something you like, aren't there people like us?"

The three of them thought about it. Anyway, they didn't count on their own eyesight, so they must trouble Chu Chen and the others before buying, and they suddenly became excited again.

Next, the six people visited five or six small stalls one after another. Although they didn't buy anything, Li Guodong and the others learned a lot after listening to Chu Chen's explanation.

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When everyone came to a small stall, Chu Yulan was immediately attracted by something, and then squatted in front of the stall to observe carefully.Chu Chen followed her gaze, and it turned out that it was a piece of chicken blood stone, and it really looked like that.

The small stall in front of me is also quite characteristic. The items on it are all small items, such as the Four Treasures of the Study, seals, snuff bottles and so on.Seeing this, everyone also picked up their favorite things, and the stall owner didn't speak, just looked at them with a smile.

Chu Yulan frowned and looked at the chicken blood stone material in her hand for three to four minutes, and then felt a little satisfied, so she handed it to Chu Chen for her to look at.

Bloodstone is dickite with cinnabar strips, and its color is brighter red than cinnabar.Because its color is as bright red as chicken blood, it is commonly known as chicken blood stone.The output of chicken blood stone is quite limited, and the most famous chicken blood stones are named according to the place of origin, namely Changhua chicken blood stone and Bahrain chicken blood stone in my country.

There is also an ancient legend about the birth of chicken blood stone. According to ancient legends, there was a kind of divine bird called "Bird Lion" in ancient times, which was aggressive by nature.One day, looking for food and flying over Yuyan Mountain, seeing a phoenix hatching an egg, he suddenly had evil thoughts and attacked it.Unprepared, Huang's leg was bitten off.

Feng arrived after hearing the news, and together with the enemy, he defeated the "bird and lion".Although the Phoenix had won, the blood of the Phoenix flowed down, dyeing the entire Yuyan Mountain red, and turned into a chicken blood stone as bright as beautiful jade.

According to detailed research, the mining of chicken blood stone began in the Song Dynasty, and became famous in the Qing Dynasty. Emperors such as Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing appreciated Changhua chicken blood stone very much and used it as the main seal material.Therefore, it is juxtaposed with Shoushan Tianhuang and enjoys the reputation of "Queen of Yinshi".

Due to the high quality and high price of bloodstone, there are many counterfeiters.

Like this chicken blood stone, once Chu Chen got started, the ability still responded, but its weight felt a little different from the chicken blood stone he had encountered before. Looking at the texture and layers, he could basically judge that this piece of material was not real. Soapstone, so he slightly shook his head at Chu Yulan.

Chu Yulan still had confidence in Chu Chen's eyesight, and was a little disappointed to see him vetoing it, but she still put the bloodstone back to its original place.

"Xiao Chen, come and take a look at this snuff bottle." Li Guodong handed the snuff bottle in his hand to Chu Chen.

As soon as the snuff bottle was in his hand, Chu Chen's eyes lit up.

This is a crystal inside-painted snuff bottle, which is in the shape of a long flat bottle with a straight mouth and shoulders, an oval ring foot, and a dignified shape.The theme of the painting is the landscape of the four kings, with fine craftsmanship and profound artistic conception, which shows the author's superb painting skills.Finally, the title on the bottom of the pot is "Worked by Zhou Leyuan in Xinmao Chunri".

Zhou Leyuan, as well as Chu Chen knew, was active in the Guangxu period. This palace lantern painter and gauze lantern master was born as a master of the Beijing School of interior painting. He has a high literary quality and painting attainment.

His inner paintings are vigorous and rigorous, mostly imitating the handwriting of famous masters such as Huangshigu and Xinluoshanren, and also applying Gong Bangan's Fan Shi to the inner paintings by the staff method. , "Bamboo Art Picture" and other inner-painted pots are known as divine products.

His works have a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, grass insects and calligraphy, all of which are exquisite.The color of the work is mainly light blue, which is elegant and pleasant, but it is also embellished with red, orange, green, white and other colors, which is vivid and vivid.He is especially good at landscape paintings, blending the beauty of landscape paintings of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties.

This snuff bottle, no matter how you look at it, should be the authentic work of Zhou Yuanyuan, and the result of the ability appraisal is also the same, and it is still a masterpiece drawn by him.

At this time, none of the others had picked out the items they were satisfied with, and they had already stood up, so Chu Chen thought for a while, and pretended to say: "Brother Li, thank you so much, I am quite satisfied with this snuff bottle, boss, come on." Let's make a price."

The boss looked at the snuff bottle in Chu Chen's hand, and said, "Five thousand."

Hearing the price, Chu Chen was overjoyed, the boss is not knowing the goods, so he stretched out a finger and raised it upwards.

Seeing this, the boss smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, you are too ruthless. This price is definitely not worth it. You can add more."

Chu Chen smiled, made a gesture of one thousand and six, and then said, "That's the price, let me tell you, boss, if it will work."

"Come on, this thing belongs to you." The boss replied quickly.I thought to myself, this young man's money is easy to make, and the things he bought for one hundred and fifty can make fourteen hundred and five in another hand. This man is a stick.

He took out his wallet, counted sixteen red notes, handed them to the boss, put the snuff bottle in his pocket, greeted the boss with a smile, and left the stall with others happily .

After walking a certain distance, Chu Chen handed the snuff bottle to Li Guodong, and told him some information about Zhou Leyuan, and then said with a smile: "The price of the inside-painted snuff bottles made by Zhou Leyuan is still good. Just last year, a A similar snuff bottle made by Zhou Leyuan was auctioned for [-]."

When Li Guodong heard this, the corners of his mouth were almost grinning behind his ears. He quickly returned the money to Chu Chen, and then gently stroked the snuff bottle.

Seeing this, everyone laughed secretly in their hearts, Wen Yuting gave him an even more white look, and said angrily: "Death!"

After laughing, Chu Chen turned his head and explained to Chu Yulan: "Xiaolan, you should feel a little bit about the chicken blood stone just now, the chicken blood on it is a bit stiff? This should be faked by the mosaic method. .”

The mosaic method is to use a piece of Changhua stone seal with better texture, select several eye-catching places, dig out small pits of different depths, and then embed them with red mercury sulfide paint. Polished and waxed.

However, the embedded chicken blood (mercury sulfide) has no layers, and the color at the junction of blood and Chang fossils appears stiff without transition.

Chu Yulan thought about it, and it was really so, no wonder she always felt a little awkward looking at it.

Next, after visiting a few stalls, Chu Yulan found another piece of Tian Huangshi's chapter material. This piece of material is still good, but the boss asked for 15 yuan when he opened it. Chu Chen frowned when he heard it, and quickly stopped Chu Yulan didn't even pay back the price, so she walked away with the others.

"Brother Chu, what's the matter, I think that piece of material is pretty good." After walking a certain distance, Chu Yulan asked a little strangely.

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Xiao Lan, that piece of material is good, but it's worth 15 at most, and he asked for [-], which is a price that can't be negotiated at all. You know, it's like a ghost market. It’s like a small commodity, he set the price, if you counter the price, maybe he will pester you, and no one else will care about you.”

"In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, remember next time, if you come to the ghost market and encounter such a high price, don't say anything, just go straight. This is especially true in other places. .”

After hearing what Chu Chen said, Chu Yulan and the others were very surprised. They didn't expect that there would be such twists and turns in the ghost market. As students in the ivory tower, they couldn't have imagined it at all.

Before they woke up, they heard commotion not far away. Seeing this, everyone walked over curiously.

"What's the matter with you, I've made an offer, and you've agreed, why don't you buy it?" A man with a roe-headed mouse was holding a small bronze tripod in his left hand, and a piece of bronze in his right hand. A young man said angrily.

"I didn't, I just went with you to have a look, and I didn't say anything at all!" The young man was sweating profusely.

The man said fiercely: "Why, you still want to play tricks, let's see if my buddy agrees."

As soon as the voice fell, three strong and strong men surrounded him.

"Hey……"

Just as Chu Yulan wanted to speak out, she was dragged away by Chu Chen. After leaving the other side for a certain distance, he said:

"Xiao Lan, it's better for us not to interfere in this kind of matter."

"Why, that person is obviously buying and selling by force!" Chu Yulan didn't understand.

"That's right. I don't think that man is a good person, and the thing in his hand is tattered and ugly. You can tell it's not a good thing at a glance." Vice indignant expression.

Chu Chen smiled bitterly and said: "You two, calm down first, think about it, this kind of thing is justified by the public and justified by the mother-in-law, what reason should we take care of it? But don't worry, their group of people also If you don’t dare to make things big, at most scare the young man, and no matter how many market managers will intervene.”

(End of this chapter)