golden eye

Chapter 9

Chapter 009

At first glance, the big gourd-shaped bottle that appeared in front of Mo Liming's eyes was obviously a garbage bottle that was placed everywhere in the married family's house, because it looked plain to the naked eye, but its appearance was extremely ugly. The monotonous and uneven layers of paint have a kind of disgusting feeling, but it is the kind that is not recognized by ordinary people anyway.

But for some reason, the inconspicuous and pleasing gourd bottle seemed to attract Mo Liming's great attraction. At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the big yellow dog that had just rushed in suddenly. Looking at something that rolled down not far from his feet after being knocked over, his face changed slightly, and his eyes were also concentrated, as if he looked thoughtful.

"Big ears, be obedient, don't make trouble!" Lao Cheng yelled at the naughty yellow dog. The dog named "Big Ears" seemed to be quite human. Once the owner reprimanded him, he quickly pulled down his pair of cattail fans. With ears as big as the eyes, and tail tucked up, turned around and walked out in desperation.

"Xiao Mo, what are you looking at?"

Chen Hanwen suddenly asked, he probably noticed Mo Liming's unusual behavior, and when he followed Mo Liming's line of sight, he could not help laughing when he caught sight of a very ordinary paint bottle, thinking: "Why did Xiao Mo pay attention to such a useless bottle? But the shape of the bottle still has some craft value."

He just glanced at the gourd bottle, then looked away and looked at Mo Liming who was standing beside him.

"Oh, Mr. Chen," Mo Liming finally came to his senses. He turned around and asked Chen Hanwen for instructions, "Can you wait a moment? I want to talk to brother Cheng Jia."

"Okay, just tell them if you have anything to do." Chen Hanwen nodded without hesitation, although he felt a little puzzled in his heart, not sure what else Mo Liming and Lao Cheng had to talk about, all the treasures in his family I couldn't even identify it with my own eyes just now. To be honest, none of them are reliable, and it's not worth it.

"Well, thank you." Mo Liming squinted his eyes and smiled, thanked Chen Hanwen politely, then turned to face Lao Cheng and his brothers, and said solemnly, "Mr. Cheng, I have a Excuse me, can you give me that red-lacquered gourd bottle?"

He said without turning around and pointed to the bottle that was lying there quietly. His expression was upright, his tone was sincere, obviously he was very serious, and he was not joking casually.

However, when he said this, not only the Cheng family brothers, but also Chen Hanwen, who came to see the goods with him, couldn't help but be surprised.

"Why? This little master likes that bottle?" Lao Cheng stared at Mo Liming with a strange expression and asked.

After he finished speaking, he and his brother looked at each other in blank dismay, all four of them had expressions of extreme surprise on their faces.

That expression is all-encompassing, some are surprised, some are puzzled, and some are contemptuous.

Of course, their own family knows the bottle best. It has been kept in the house for dozens of years, and the old man is the oldest. He can clearly remember that the gourd bottle was originally used to hold food in the house. The cooking oil was only used by my wife as a chamber pot for the children. Now that the children have grown up and married, naturally they don't need it anymore, so they just throw it aside and use it to put some small parts and other fine objects.

"Yes, I like it quite a lot, can you give it to me?" Mo Liming replied with a smile without any hesitation.

"How to say?" Lao Cheng squinted his eyes and asked instead, "Little master, did you see something?"

While talking, he thought to himself: "As the saying goes, 'a famous teacher produces a talented student', although this young man looks ordinary and has nothing to do, but after all, he appeared with Chen Hanwen, so it is conceivable that he did not take it lightly. older."

He secretly regarded Mo Liming as Chen Hanwen's apprentice, but he didn't know that Mo Liming didn't have this honor yet, but worshiping Chen Hanwen as his teacher has always been his great wish since he was keen on joining the antique business, but he hasn't had the chance to say it just come.

After hearing Mo Liming's blunt words, Lao Cheng couldn't hold back anymore. He only said that since the other party was optimistic about the gourd bottle, it meant that it might have some origins. A treasure, but it was ignored by my family.

Unknowingly, his sophistication felt a little enlightened, as if Mo Liming's words awakened the dreamer.

"No, hehe." Mo Liming smiled lightly, "I'm just asking casually, if you take it seriously, forget it."

"Oh, no!" Lao Cheng quickly shook his head and said, "If you really like it, we will let you. You see, we bothered you two for nothing, and Mr. Chen even gave us selfless instructions We are really sorry for such a big help, even if that bottle is given to you as a souvenir, it doesn’t matter.”

What he said really came from the bottom of his heart. After the wonderful appraising scene just now, the four married brothers admired Chen Hanwen so much that they all wanted to keep in touch with him, so that they would not be fooled. Eye-catching.

"That can't be done. We can't ask for other people's things for nothing. This is the principle of our auction house." Mo Liming said with a solemn expression.

"Then I would like to ask my little master, how much do you want, just set a price." Lao Cheng said very straightforwardly.

Gradually, he came out of that unrealistic fantasy, and suddenly thought that he was really funny, a broken pot that still smelled of urine, and it was too intrusive to leave it in the house. It was mainly thrown away as garbage, and now someone finally wants to buy it, which is a great thing, so why not do it.

"One thousand and five hundred yuan, you can take it away!" Before Mo Liming could answer anything, the fifth son of the Chen family spoke up first, and he called out the price of one thousand and five yuan.

This thousand and five is not worth mentioning in an antique trading shop, but it is really not worth it if people spend more than 1000 to get it for such a red lacquer bottle that looks like a waste.

"Young man, I don't know if it's because you don't understand the rules and conditions in the industry or you deliberately raised the price. If you want to sell that thing for [-] yuan, it's too unreasonable, isn't it?"

At this time, it was Chen Hanwen who spoke for Mo Liming. He looked at the seemingly confident fifth brother of the Chen family with a half-smile. Why did he fall in love with such an unremarkable thing, Chen Hanwen thought in his heart.

"Old Wu, shut up, you don't have any share in that thing!" Lao Cheng is a senior, he is a person who likes to save face, he immediately angrily bumped into the old man who was standing behind him who was "speaking loudly" with his elbow. five.

"Brother, I..."

Cheng Lao Wu blushed and turned his face away, embarrassed to meet Chen Hanwen and the others face to face, it could be seen that he was very upset, presumably because he didn't sell a single thing today, and made people hate him After criticizing with hatred, I was disappointed and sad again.

"Mr. Chen, little master, I'm sorry, my little brother likes to talk nonsense." Lao Cheng hastily said to Chen Hanwen and Mo Liming politely and enthusiastically, "How can I charge you one thousand and five? Since you have principles first, you can only make fun of it."

"Okay then, I'm willing to pay 200 yuan to buy it, but I don't know if you are willing to give it up?" Mo Liming asked with a gentle smile.

"make a deal!"

Lao Chengda waved his hand boldly, and said firmly, then he asked the unwilling fifth brother to get the paper, and then cleaned and wrapped the dirty gourd bottle, while Mo Liming Without thinking, he took out the purse from his pocket and counted out 200 yuan.

This transaction was successfully completed, not to mention, this was the first time that Mo Liming made an antique transaction with someone alone, it was groundbreaking, and it was not easy.

(End of this chapter)