Jianbao life

Chapter 928 Old again?

The staff told the truth: "There is a car now, but it has been reserved by someone else. It is estimated that they will come to pick up the car in the next two days."

Wu Ke didn't want to trouble others, so he said, "Or, just wait for a while."

"No need to wait, let's go and have a look together now, if you don't like the color, tell me, I'll go to another place to adjust it, and make sure I can get the car today."

As soon as Wu Ke finished speaking, the three of them heard someone interrupt from behind. They turned around and saw Duan Xuefeng who was smiling.

"Brother Duan (President Duan)..."

After everyone said hello, Duan Xuefeng said with a smile: "I said Brother Chu, why don't you notify me when you come."

Chu Chen smiled and said, "We're just here to buy a car, why should we bother you?"

Duan Xuefeng said with a smile: "You, why are you so polite with me, let's go, let's go and see the car first..."

After speaking, he took Chu Chen and Wu Ke to the warehouse behind.

There are two Beetles in the warehouse. One is volcanic red and the other is sunflower yellow. Wu Ke likes both colors. After comparing them, she still chose sunflower yellow.

Let the staff go to help with the formalities, and Duan Xuefeng took Chu Chen and the others to his office to rest for a while.

Chu Chen took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Brother Duan, thank you so much for today, but the person who originally ordered it won't have any opinions?"

Duan Xuefeng waved his hand: "What's so polite about this, and the person I booked before is my friend, I just need to say hello to him, in addition, I will transfer one from someone else, and he will also Just wait two more days."

Chu Chen smiled and expressed his thanks, don't delay the original one for too long because of his own reasons, otherwise he will feel a little embarrassed.

The three of them were talking when they saw a fat man walking in from the door. This person looked about 40 to [-] years old, but fat people generally looked younger, and their actual age might be older.This person has a chubby belly, as if she was pregnant in October, which is quite spectacular.

As soon as the fat man walked in, he greeted Duan Xuefeng with a smile, and then asked, "Mr. Duan, have you booked my car?"

"This... huh! The thing is like this..." Duan Xuefeng was also a little unexpected about the fat man's arrival, and he seemed a little embarrassed when he spoke.

Seeing this situation, the fat man was a little displeased and said: "Mr. Duan, you haven't booked with me yet, have you? I said why are you so dawdling!"

Duan Xuefeng said with a smile: "Can I not care about your affairs? But I have booked..."

Hearing this, the fat man asked eagerly, "Ah! Have you ordered?"

Duan Xuefeng said angrily: "I said, can you let me finish my sentence!"

The fat man chuckled and said, "Say it, say it!"

"You, I don't know when I can get rid of my impatience."

Duan Xuefeng smiled and shook his head, then stood up and introduced: "Old Xiang, let me introduce you first, this is..."

However, before Duan Xuefeng finished speaking, the fat man said in surprise again: "Hey! Aren't you that expert who has been on Beijing TV? It's called Chu...Chu...Chu Chen, right? ?”

"Yes, I am Chu Chen..." Chu Chen shook hands with him with a smile. Judging from Duan Xuefeng's performance just now, this person is probably the one who ordered the Beetle that Wu Can choose.

When the fat man heard this, he acted quite excited and excited as if he saw his favorite celebrity: "You are really Teacher Chu! I have admired your name for a long time, but I didn't expect you to be younger than you look on TV..."

Seeing Fatty's appearance, Duan Xuefeng said speechlessly: "I'm talking about Lao Xiang, you don't have to be so exaggerated, do you?"

The fat man said contemptuously: "You don't like antiques, how would you know the status of Teacher Chu in our hearts."

Duan Xuefeng chuckled and said, "Who said I don't like antiques anymore, I just don't keep giving money to others like you."

The fat man categorically denied it: "What is sending money, I call it study, okay?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, and quickly put a bag in his hand on the table, then took out a rectangular brocade box from it, and said with some pride: "I tell you, yesterday I bought one from the time of Emperor Qianlong, the white jade carving of the rising dragon and five bats is a sign of happiness, the material...the carving work...tsk tsk!"

"Really?" Duan Xuefeng looked suspicious.

"Can this be fake? Let me tell you, this Ruyi has an authentication certificate from a national authority..."

As he said that, the fat man took out the test certificate with a bright red seal and a clear photo from the bag and showed it to Duan Xuefeng.The certificate is indeed genuine, there is no doubt about it.

Duan Xuefeng flipped through it, and then said: "Hey, it's still a real certificate. It seems that this jade Ruyi, you spent a lot of money, right?"

The fat man said proudly, "It's not expensive, only 150 million."

Duan Xuefeng knew a little bit about the price of jade wares. After hearing the price, he said, "The price is indeed not expensive, but there are quite a few people who want this kind of wishful thinking. Why should they sell it to you cheaply?"

The fat man chuckled and said, "The master's family is going to immigrate, and I can't take this thing out. I haggled over the price a little, and the other party agreed."

Duan Xuefeng had a look of disbelief: "Hey! Haggle the price a little..."

"Believe it or not, it's in my hands anyway."

The fat man giggled, then opened the box and asked Chu Chen to take a look.

Chu Chen took Ruyi into his hands, looked carefully, and found that this piece of Ruyi jade was of good quality, well polished, and carved in high relief. Although it was all handmade, it was not at all up to the level of the jade week in the imperial court during the Qianlong period. .Moreover, the quality of jade is not as dense as Hetian jade, and its charm is also different. He thinks this should not be Hetian jade, but Qinghai jade is more likely.

After waiting for a while, the fat man couldn't wait to ask: "Mr. Chu, is my jade wishful?"

Chu Chen said euphemistically: "This Ruyi jade is of good quality, and the carving is not bad."

The fat man was quite happy at first when he heard the words, but he immediately realized that if something was right, it would be impossible for Chu Chen to say words like "not bad" or "not bad".

Thinking of this, Fatty became a little anxious, and asked, "Mr. Chu, is there something wrong with my Ruyi?"

When he asked this, his voice trembled a little.

Now that the words have come to this point, Chu Chen said truthfully: "Your jade Ruyi is definitely not a generation, and the quality of the jade is not Hetian jade, it is probably Qinghai jade."

The fat man was stunned and said, "Isn't that right? Is my certificate a fake?"

Chu Chen shook his head and said, "The certificate is not fake, but this piece of jade is indeed not from Khotan."

The fat man was dumbfounded: "Could it be that the national testing agency can still make fakes?"

Chu Chen replied: "Of course this is impossible."

"If that's the case, why did the testing agency identify it as Hetian jade?" Hearing this, let alone Fatty, even Duan Xuefeng was a little puzzled.

Chu Chen said: "Let me ask a question first, apples grown in Beijing are apples, but would you say apples grown in Shanghai are not apples?"

Duan Xuefeng and Fatty shook their heads, saying they would not.

Chu Chen continued: "For the same reason, no matter Hetian jade or Qinghai jade, they all belong to the same vein, the Kunlun Mountain vein. Therefore, in the eyes of natural scientists, these two jades from different origins have nothing to do with them. Different, they all use tremolite as the main content, and the hardness is between 5.5 and 6.4. ”

"Molecular structure, specific gravity, transparency, refractive index, etc. are all the same, and they fully meet the detection indicators of Hetian jade veins. Under the standard test, there is only one conclusion that it is Hetian jade. The certificate they issued is absolutely correct and absolutely legal. In a lawsuit, you must lose, not them."

"This……"

After hearing Chu Chen's explanation, the fat man was stunned. After a while, he choked out a sentence: "Isn't this lying to people in the name of science?"

Chu Chen said: "It's not a lie, it's just that you don't understand the difference between social science and natural science! This collection is clearly within the scope of social science, but you want to drag it into the category of natural science If you try to use the laws of social science to adapt to the laws of natural science, and apply them mechanically, of course such mistakes will occur.”

"So, in the identification of antiques, scientific identification is indeed useful sometimes, but you should not blindly believe it. Otherwise, why do you still go to those experts for identification? It costs a hundred or ten dollars to do an identification with an instrument, right? !"

Hearing Chu Chen's words, the fat man was speechless for a while, and finally shook his head and sighed: "Okay! You punched your eyes again!"

Duan Xuefeng patted the fat man's shoulder and said, "Old Xiang, I think you really don't have much talent in collecting. Think about it, how much money have you spent on this during this time? I think Ah, you better not buy it in the future.”

The fat man was silent for a while, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone says that you need to pay tuition for collecting, so why not pay?"
Chu Chen said: "Actually, this is the same reason that you have to pay tuition fees to attend any school and take risks in any business. There is a price to pay for collecting, and this price is sometimes quite high. .So, you have to pay tuition fees to engage in collection..."

All collectors have paid tuition, bought fakes, or bought some fakes and other things that have no collection value.A collector is definitely not a person born with knowledge. The accumulation of his collection knowledge is a gradual process. In this gradual process, he may have successful experiences, and he will definitely have lessons from failures.

Constantly summing up experience and lessons is a process for a collector to mature.Constantly summing up experience and lessons, constantly maturing, and finally becoming a master, this is the growth trajectory, or growth law, of all great collectors.

If a self-proclaimed collector tells you that everything in his collection is genuine, he has never bought a fake.You can still believe the first sentence, because collectors can smash and throw away all the fakes they buy.But the second sentence, this person must be bragging.

Collectors who have never bought fakes dare not say that they will never be, but at least they have not yet been born.

If you want to make friends with a collector who claims to have never bought a fake, be careful, because it is likely that none of his collections are genuine, or that there are many fakes in his collection, but he still has them. Keeping in the dark, they still regard these fakes as treasures.

On the contrary, if a collector tells you that he has been collecting for many years, but has not made much progress, and is still paying tuition to buy fakes.Then, it is very likely that there are genuine and high-quality goods hidden in his home. Even if he is not a successful collector, at least he is quite mature in collecting.

A collector like this is definitely a friend and teacher you can trust. If you often communicate with this kind of person, you can definitely learn a lot of useful knowledge from him.

Therefore, in real life, ordinary experts are all older people, and there must be no such young experts as Chu Chen.And if it wasn't for his five-year career as a hawker, during which he bought countless counterfeit products and had his eyes pierced countless times, otherwise, with his miraculous performance now, some people would definitely feel suspicious.

Chu Chen went on to say: "No one can guarantee that they are [-]% correct when it comes to appraisal. For example, the two contemporary calligraphy and painting appraisal experts in our country, Mr. Xie and Mr. Xu, just for the appraisal of a painting. A pen-and-ink lawsuit, one claiming it was true and the other claiming it was imitation, caused a stir all over the country."

"Who is right and who is wrong, we don't need to discuss here, but between right and wrong, one of them must be wrong. Authorities like this are all wrong, and they have to pay tuition fees, let alone an ordinary collector?"

After hearing Chu Chen's words, both the fat man and Duan Xuefeng felt deeply. The fat man sighed and said, "Hey! Let's just pay the tuition and study honestly!"

Duan Xuefeng hit the fat man again and said: "Come on, you are not paying tuition, but giving them money!"

The fat man said angrily when he heard the words: "Why are you talking so badly? I am willing to pay more tuition fees. Are you in control?"

Duan Xuefeng chuckled and said, "You got it! Anyway, you are the big boss, and losing tens of millions is nothing to you."

The fat man said angrily: "Fart drizzle, you don't know how much my heart hurts right now, it hurts me so much! No, I have to settle accounts with that guy, MD, if he doesn't pay me back, I'll let him pay the money." No!"

Duan Xuefeng smiled and said: "I remember that there is no such thing as returning goods in the antique business."

"I'm going to retreat, how dare he not!" Fatty's eyebrows were raised, but matching his fat face, no matter how you look at it, you find it funny.

"Whatever you want." Duan Xuefeng spread his hands and asked again: "By the way, where did you buy this Ruyi?"

The fat man gritted his teeth and said, "Old Chang! This guy only sold me two real ones, and the third one actually gave me this trick. I must make him look good!"

Chu Chen was taken aback when he heard the words. He had a relationship with this old man or something, but he heard his name for two days in a row, and it was all related to fakes...

(End of this chapter)