Jianbao life

Chapter 985 Uncle Wu's Happy Event
Not long after the car drove out, Chu Chen received a call from Chen Dewang. During the phone call, Chen Dewang repeatedly apologized to Chu Chen, while Chu Chen generously said that it was okay. After all, this was not what Chen Dewang wanted to see, and he would not be evil. The rest Xu.

Although Chu Chen said it was okay, Chen Dewang still felt sorry for Chu Chen, because if it wasn't for him, it would be impossible for Chu Chen to buy the item at the market price of 15. After all, Jia Decai's item was for urgent sale. For others, it would be good not to get a [-]% discount, and it is impossible to buy it at the market price anyway.

Therefore, Chen Dewang thought in his heart that he must thank Chu Chen if he had the opportunity in the future.

After hanging up the phone, Chu Chen sent another message to the person in charge of inquiring about Jia Decai, asking them to pay attention to Jia Decai's whereabouts.Then, seeing that it was still early, he asked Zuo Shan to take him to his courtyard, looked at the progress of the construction, went around and was generally quite satisfied.

After lunch, Zuo Shan stayed in the courtyard, and Chu Chen drove back to the antique shop by himself.

When he got there, Chu Chen found that Uncle Wu was not there, so he asked Zhou Wenping next week, but to his surprise, Uncle Wu went home drunk to rest, which made him very curious.

Although Uncle Wu also likes to drink, he is very restrained when he is out of the house, especially when he is in the store, even if he drinks, he will only drink a small cup. In his memory, Chu Chen has never seen Uncle Wu in the store. Will be drunk, you think he can not feel curious?

Afterwards, Zhou Wenping explained the reason to Chu Chen, and Chu Chen finally understood what was going on.

In other words, Uncle Wu has been in the antique business for so many years, and it is impossible for him to be friendly with everyone in the same industry. But the circle of antiques is really not big, let’s just say that there are some well-known antique merchants in the antique industry in the capital. , Not to mention meeting each other, but basically hearing about them.

Based on the idea of ​​looking down and not seeing up, even if Uncle Wu had disputes with some antique dealers, or didn't see each other well, he usually wouldn't act too much.But Uncle Wu gritted his teeth with hatred for an antique dealer named Ren Shiguo.

Speaking of which, Uncle Wu's temper is good enough, and he won't get angry easily. He can be said to be a good old man in the antique circle in the capital. Many people like to deal with him. Ren Shiguo's anger at him shows how bad he is.

Ren Shiguo also started very early in the antique business. He started to set up street stalls for business in the late 80s. He is shrewd and good at seizing opportunities. In a few years, he opened an antique shop with the money he made by stealing a few times. shop.

In fact, Uncle Wu and Ren Shiguo were still good friends at that time, and many of Ren Shiguo's things were sold to Uncle Wu, and Uncle Wu was a relatively honest person, and the prices he gave Ren Shiguo were relatively fair.What's even more ironic is that Uncle Wu helped to negotiate the shop of Ren Shiguo's antique shop. After the two had a bad relationship, this matter has always been a thorn in Uncle Wu's heart.

Since Ren Shiguo opened the antique shop, he has become bullish, and he is no longer as cautious as before. For example, he used to call Uncle Wu Old Wu. Old Wu.

This is nothing to Uncle Wu, but Uncle Wu couldn't stand Ren Shiguo prying his business.Of course, Ren Shiguo also knows that prying is easy to be criticized by others, and he usually does it secretly, but once, in front of his face, he pried the Qing Kangxi multi-colored magu's birthday dish that Uncle Wu had already negotiated. Okay, this made Uncle Wu very angry.

Moreover, what made Uncle Wu even more furious was that a week before this, Ren Shiguo sold him a piece of huanghuali furniture from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which turned out to be a "scattered head".

Pasantou, also known as "climbing the mountain head", is a term for antique restoration.It was originally used to evaluate repaired old calligraphy and paintings, and specifically refers to repaired old furniture in the old furniture industry.It mostly refers to repairing damaged and incomplete handicrafts, or repairing to cover people's eyes.

"Pu Santou" has the meaning of picking up loose things. It can be seen that it has a derogatory meaning in the antique industry. It is different from "restoration". Restoration is public, while "Pu Santou" is often hidden. for the sake of fooling people.

Uncle Wu's friend asked him to buy this piece of huanghuali furniture. Originally, Uncle Wu didn't give an affirmative answer because he was not very proficient in the appraisal of classical furniture. Unexpectedly, when Ren Shiguo heard the news, he told him Uncle Wu had something suitable in his hand, so Uncle Wu went to see it without thinking too much.

In the process of looking at it, Uncle Wu didn't find anything wrong, but Ren Shiguo explained everything with reasons and assured that this piece of furniture must be genuine.

In the antique business, sincerity is the most important thing, and most people would not take what they said as fart, so when Uncle Wu saw that Ren Shiguo could guarantee the authenticity of the item, he bought it, but he did not expect such a result.

And what made Uncle Wu even more angry was that when he went to settle accounts with Ren Shiguo, the other party did not admit at all what he had said to be true, and he was so anxious that he even asked Uncle Wu to show evidence of what he said .

This matter was originally a gentleman's agreement, how could Uncle Wu produce evidence, he could only suffer a dumb loss, and ended up losing money.

Since then, Uncle Wu and Ren Shiguo have met each other. In this year, countless conflicts and secret wars broke out between the two sides.Of course, most of these were contributed by Ren Shiguo. Who said that Uncle Wu has a good character, and everyone is willing to help him?
However, in fact, it was precisely because of Uncle Wu's kindness that Ren Shiguo dared to treat him like this, otherwise Zhao Xueyi would have been tricked by him long ago.

As the old saying goes, if you want people not to know, you have to do nothing yourself. As Ren Shiguo's character has been known by more and more people, and he has often done things that harm others and benefit himself over the years, he has also become more and more popular. The more antique dealers rejected him, in the end, he could only hang on to his antique shop.

As we all know, there is an old saying in the antique shop, "If you don't open for three years, you can eat for three years after opening." Ren Shiguo's antique shops have been able to return to business from time to time, and they have been standing all these years.

But with the vigorous development of the antique market, Ren Shiguo was a little anxious seeing many antique dealers around him making a lot of money. A while ago, by chance, he met a master of antique porcelain, so he put his brain After moving to this, a batch of high imitation porcelain was brought in.

Ren Shiguo is not from the capital city. He originally planned to sell this batch of high-quality imitation porcelain and go back to his hometown to open an antique shop. Unexpectedly, things backfired. A buyer found out that he bought high-quality imitation porcelain. Yesterday afternoon, he went to Ren Shiguo. As a result, this incident spread immediately. This morning, some buyers came to his store to ask for a return, and some even called the police, saying that he would go to jail.

After hearing the cause and effect of the incident, Chu Chen gloated and asked, "Where is Ren Shiguo now?"

Zhou Wenping shook his head: "Many people are looking for him, but no one can find him. It is said that he has gone to other places. Now some buyers have come to his house to block the door. If it is not because he is still living Looking at the old man, maybe all the belongings have been evacuated."

Chu Chen chuckled. Anyway, even if this matter can be resolved in the end, Ren Shiguo will not be able to please him. He is very happy to hear such a thing.

While talking, the two saw an old customer named Wang Ruyang walking in.

After Wang Ruyang greeted the two of them, he said excitedly: "Do you know? Another accident happened in Ren Shiguo's shop."

Both of them thought he was talking about antique porcelain, so they both nodded.

Wang Ruyang said with a smile: "If you want me to say, Ren Shiguo deserves it. It's okay if he sells sporadically, but he actually bought more than 100 pieces at a time. Now that the people are hiding, the store has been evacuated."

Hearing this, Chu Chen asked a little strangely: "What stores have been evacuated?"

"Ah! Don't you know?" Wang Ruyang was a little confused when he heard the words.

Zhou Wenping said: "We thought you were talking about antique porcelain, why are you talking about antique shops?"

"Oh!" Wang Ruyang was stunned, and then said excitedly: "I'm talking about someone smashing down the door of Ren Shiguo's antique shop just now, and emptied out everything inside, even a small bench."

"Is no one caring?" Chu Chen and Zhou Wenping were quite surprised.

"Who will care about the character of Ren Shiguo?" Wang Ruyang spread his hands and said, "I heard that the person who smashed the door also has some background, and the things he bought were for gifts, but he gave a fake one. Can you say you can't be angry?"

Chu Chen shrugged his shoulders when he heard the words. Although he didn't like doing things so out of line, Ren Shiguo's actions also echoed an old saying, "Heaven's evil is forgivable, but one's own evil cannot live."

Everyone expressed their opinions on the matter of Ren Shiguo, and Wang Ruyang took out a small gourd, put it in front of Chu Chen, and said, "Mr. Chu, I just bought a hand-twisted gourd. Could you please comment on it? ?”

"No problem." Chu Chen nodded with a smile, and took the gourd into his hands.

In recent years, my country's traditional "wenwan gourd" has become more and more popular among players in markets such as large and small antique collections in the capital.Because the pronunciation of gourd is similar to "Fulu", it has the auspicious meaning of wealth and longevity. It has been the traditional mascot of our country since ancient times.In the traditional architecture of our country, the shape of the gourd is also a decorative element that often appears. Traditional Taoism even regards the gourd as a sacred instrument.

Due to the unique auspicious meaning of gourds, with the vigorous development of antique collections, the small and pleasant hand-twisted gourds are now more and more sought after by players. To have a role to play.

The gourds in the market are roughly divided into play gourds, ornamental gourds, pyrographed gourds, special-shaped gourds, insect-singing gourds and so on.

Wang Ruyang's gourd is a pyrographic gourd. As the name suggests, the pattern on the pyrographic gourd is burnt (hot) on by a modified electric soldering iron, so it is only black.

The above paintings are mainly divided into: landscapes, figures, animals, ancient myths, ancient spirit beasts (such as: dragon, phoenix, unicorn, three-legged crow, etc.) and some auspicious patterns.

The theme of this gourd is the Three Immortals of Fu, Lu and Shou, and it is quite exquisitely drawn. Chu Chen measured the height with a vernier caliper, and the whole body is about 4.2 cm. It should be said that although hand-twisted gourds of this height are not uncommon, but Among the pyrography gourds that need to be painted with a soldering iron, they are rare.

Think about it, if you want to paint on a 4.2 cm object, if the author does not have superb skills, it must be very difficult to complete the painting and reflect the artistic value.

Chu Chen admired the gourd in his hand, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, the pyrography gourd you chose is very good."

Wang Ruyang was very happy that his own things could be affirmed by Chu Chen. He bowed his hands to Chu Chen and said, "I also ask Teacher Chu for advice."

"Then let me tell you my opinion."

Chu Chen explained: "First of all, the wall of your gourd is thick and lubricated, and the gloss is good. This kind of gourd will automatically change color over time. A gourd like this has a long life, as long as it does not fall, it will not break. can be stored for a long time.”

"Moreover, the effect of this kind of gourd pyrography is also very good, and the burn marks will turn coppery and turn black over time. However, the walls of gourds with poor quality are thin and fragile, not to mention lacklustre, no matter how long the time passes. It won't change color either, the imprints on it are only underworld and there won't be any copper-colored imprints..."

(End of this chapter)