Six hundred and tenth - six hundred and eleventh chapters cut iron like mud (1)
Chapter 610-611: Cutting Iron Like Mud (1)
"Brother Huangfu, what's wrong? Didn't you buy something?"
Zhuang Rui turned around and saw the owner of the shop still standing at the door. He couldn't say much at the moment and asked casually.
"I'll see you next time. I want to get to know Brother Xiazhuang today. Let's go and talk as we go..."
After all, Huangfu Yun was a lawyer, and his ability to observe people's emotions was not much worse than Zhuang Rui's. He turned his back to the "Sword Studio", winked at Zhuang Rui, and the two of them squeezed into the crowd together.
"Damn it, if you don't come early, you won't come later. It's unlucky to come at this time..."
The shop owner who had just escorted Huangfu Yun out had the smile on his face long gone. He spat at the backs of the two of them and cursed angrily in his heart.
The batch of samurai swords in his store are indeed fake. They are all custom-made from Hebei and Tianjin. There are some handicraft factories there that specialize in custom-made antique swords for home decoration.
The shop owner originally ordered two of them, but he didn't expect that he met Huangfu Yun, who made up a story about purchasing from a run-down Japanese family, and actually sold them for a high price of 500,000. This gave him a taste of the sweetness, and he quickly ordered another one.
There were more than 10 knives. I made an appointment with Huangfu Yun to see the goods today, but I didn’t expect that Huangfu Yun left without even looking at the knives in order to get to know Zhuang Rui.
Of course, Zhuang Rui behaved quite well in the store, so the store owner didn't suspect anything. He made an appointment with Huangfu Yun to see the goods, but the business didn't go through, so the store owner felt a little bit guilty.
"Boss, what you did is not honest. You went to Panjiayuan and didn't come to your own store. It's so outrageous. No, you have to give me an explanation..."
As soon as Zhuang Rui stepped into the door of "Xuan Ruizhai", he was blocked by Zhao Hanxuan. Old Zhao loves to make friends, otherwise he would not be deceived by making friends. During this time, he spent time with Zhuang Rui.
After that, we became close friends, so we talked very casually.
"Xiaozhuang, you are here..."
Master Ge, who was sitting behind the seal stone, quickly stood up and said hello after seeing Zhuang Rui. He did not dare to speak like Zhao Hanxuan. In the old society, Zhuang Rui would be called his boss.
"Explanation? You can go find a place to eat in the evening. The cost of the meal will be charged to the restaurant. By the way, where is Nobita?"
Zhuang Rui entered the store and took a look, only to find that apart from Monkey and another clerk, Nobita was not there.
Zhao Hanxuan smiled and said: "Let the boy go buy the goods. Go through more channels and get started faster in the future..."
"Old Zhao, you are forcing me to give you a salary increase..."
Zhuang Rui patted Zhao Hanxuan on the shoulder with some depression. It seemed that this old boy still had no desire to go out and work alone. But this is not surprising. Who doesn't want to be the boss and become a waiter and listen to other people's orders?
"If you don't say this, if you don't say this, I will sell myself to you for two years..."
Zhao Hanxuan smiled and changed the topic. Seeing someone following Zhuang Rui, he asked: "Boss, this is..."
"Hey, look, I almost forgot about our distinguished guest..."
Zhuang Rui patted his head, let Huangfu Yun out, and said: "I met Huangfu Yun when I was looking at the objects just now. He is an American barrister. Well, he is also an expert in collecting antique swords..."
"Brother Zhuang, please stop treating me badly. It's embarrassing for me to be an expert. By the way, should I call you Boss Zhuang?"
Huangfu Yun has been standing quietly behind Zhuang Rui. To be honest, he is also very curious about Zhuang Rui's identity. Someone who is several years younger than himself actually opened such a large store in Panjiayuan.
Zhuang Rui smiled and waved his hand and said: "No, my boss is incompetent, you should call me brother..."
"Brother Zhuang, you are the real expert. You must have been hiding your clumsiness just now. There are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers in China..."
Thinking of what Zhuang Rui said at the "Sword Studio" at that time, Huangfu Yun became a little less confident in the two samurai swords he bought for 500,000 yuan.
In fact, Huangfu Yun was a little confused at the time, but when he was looking at the goods, there was an old man who spoke Japanese who was also interested in buying it and raised the price with Huangfu Yun several times. Huangfu Yun didn't think much and just bought it.
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But now that I think about it, I find that there are many doubts about it, and after I bought two samurai swords, more than 10 more samurai swords suddenly appeared, which also made Huangfu Yun suspicious. However, people are often obsessed with the authorities, and Huangfu Yun was also there.
After Zhuang Rui gave some advice, he slowly expanded the doubts in his heart.
Huangfu Yun was right. The identity of the Japanese old man was real, but he was hired by the shop owner with money. It can be seen that antique shops now spend a lot of time to make sets. Just hiring that extra actor,
The shop owner paid a large sum of money for the performance.
Of course, the shill has probably returned to Japan a long time ago. This means that there is no evidence to prove the matter. Even if Huangfu Yun comes to visit, there is nothing the shop owner can do.
Antiques are always bought and sold, and the invoices are also issued for handicrafts. Huangfu Yun can't find any traces. If you try to trick someone, especially those who open a shop, they will definitely not leave any traces.
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"What happened? Did someone catch me? Is the loss big?"
Zhao Hanxuan was very sensitive to this matter. As soon as he heard the conversation between the two, he knew that Huangfu Yun had probably been tricked.
"Almost 500,000, there are so many fake things in this country..."
Huangfu Yun sighed. He started to like collecting swords from abroad. He thought that there would be more real swords left in China, but he didn't know that he made a big mistake the first time he made a move.
Zhao Hanxuan finally looked away. After hearing Huangfu Yun's words, he laughed at himself and said: "Brother, just think of it as spending 500,000 yuan to teach me a lesson. Brother, I was defrauded of 8 million yuan by someone.
, even this shop has changed its last name..."
Huangfu Yun didn't know about this. When asked, he shook his head. He was really lucky to have met Zhuang Rui for the second time. Otherwise, he might have spent money on it.
However, Huangfu Yun was still confused as to how Zhuang Rui could distinguish the true from the false. He immediately looked at Zhuang Rui and asked: "Brother Zhuang, I saw that you just looked at the scabbard and didn't look closely at the inside. How did you see it?"
Is there anything wrong with this knife?"
"Let's talk in the back room, and let you see the stuff I just bought..."
Seeing that there were a lot of people in the store, Zhuang Rui said hello to Master Ge and led Huangfu Yun to the compartment. Zhao Hanxuan naturally followed him, wanting to see what other goodies Zhuang Rui had found.
"Brother Huangfu, please take a look at these two swords first..."
After Zhuang Rui entered the compartment, he unwrapped the newspapers on the two swords and carefully placed them on the table.
"It's rusted like this? It's not very valuable..."
Huangfu Yun frowned when he saw two fire stick-like things. He asked Zhuang Rui for a pair of gloves, put them on his hands and looked at the knife first.
"This should be an iron Huanshou sword from the Han Dynasty, but the handle has rotted and the blade is too oxidized, so it's not worth polishing it out..."
Huangfu Yun really worked hard on the sword. After looking at it for a while, he took out the key he was carrying and dug a few times at the hole in the ring to remove the rust there and cut the hole in the ring.
exposed.
"Huh? I'm going to polish this myself. It shouldn't be too much trouble..."
The knife Zhuang Rui bought was not of much value, so he planned to take it home and find a quick grinding wheel to polish it.
After Huangfu Yun heard Zhuang Rui's words, he quickly said: "Brother Zhuang, you can't sharpen a good knife carelessly, or it will hurt..."
"Oh? There is also this saying. Let Brother Huangfu tell it..."
Zhuang Rui knew a little bit about the repair of porcelain, but he really didn't know anything about the maintenance of swords. The collection of swords has emerged in recent years, and even Uncle De didn't know much about this kind of antiques.
"Brother Zhuang, if you don't grind this sword by a professional, it will be easy to grind off all the hard steel covering the surface, and then the shape of the entire sword will change. This is a taboo..."
It was rare for Huangfu Yun to share knowledge about collecting swords with others, so he started talking nonstop. There was no precedent for collecting swords. What Huangfu Yun said was all the experience he had accumulated in the past few years, but it made Zhuang Rui and
Zhao Hanxuan's knowledge greatly increased.
It turns out that although sword grinding can make antique swords reproduce beautiful patterns, they are not owned by the sword itself. Although it looks good, it loses the unique charm of antique swords. In the eyes of connoisseurs, it does not look good.
The value is greatly reduced.
In Japan, an excellent grinder charges a grinding fee of US$100 to polish a one-inch sword. It may take half a month to process a sword. The amount of energy consumed is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
, it does not mean that just by polishing and maintaining it, it can regain its original style.
There was once a story in the antique shop. An antique dealer went to the countryside to collect items and fell in love with a small square hexagonal sandalwood table from a fellow villager's house. He bought it for a high price of 20,000 yuan and planned to take it with him the next day.
Walk.
Who would have thought that when I went to the fellow villager's house the next day, the square table, which was originally thickly patinated, simple and elegant, actually looked like new, and there was still the smell of wet paint on it.
The antique dealer was immediately shocked and asked the reason. It turned out to be the fellow. He felt that he had bought an old table for 20,000 yuan, and he felt a little sorry. So he found sandpaper at night, polished the entire square table, and then painted it with paint.
After checking it out, I felt that it was worth the 20,000 yuan.
Just doing this made the antique dealer beat his chest, turn around and leave without giving him any money. This is the consequence of improper maintenance of antiques.
The maintenance of antique swords is also very particular, not even under the calligraphy and painting.
Generally speaking, many sword collectors like to use rust-removing oil. However, for weapons before the Song Dynasty, especially swords made of gold and silver, once the rust-removing oil enters the gaps, it will expand, which will destroy the original
structural.
According to Huangfu Yun's experience, after grinding the sword, it is best to wipe it frequently and not to apply any chemicals containing chemical substances. It is best to use a vacuum packaging machine to dress the sword without playing with it.
Layers of clothes.
After listening to Huangfu Yun's talk, Zhuang Rui also gained a lot of knowledge. However, of these two swords, the Huanshou Sword was of little value, but the other one did not need to be polished.
"Brother Zhuang, you haven't said where those fake samurai swords are?"
Although Huangfu Yun half-heartedly believed that the batch of samurai swords were fake, from the appearance, they were indeed the same as real ones. He couldn't figure it out, and he still had a knot in his heart.
Zhuang Rui smiled and said: "Brother Huangfu, let me ask you, if the swords from more than 500 years ago are in such good condition, do they need to be wiped frequently?"
Huangfu Yun replied: "Of course. Before there was no vacuum packaging, it had to be wiped at least once every three to five days. I just saw the wear marks on the scabbard, which seemed to be caused by too much wiping..."
"Well, wiping it every three to five days for 500 years means that the owner must value these swords very much. Brother Huangfu, think about it, the owner doesn't know the value of these swords? How could he be so easily destroyed?
That store owner bought it?"
Zhuang Rui laughed loudly when he heard this, and then said: "Brother Huangfu, we can make a bet. You can test the two knives you have bought for carbon 14. If it is true, it will not be too late to buy other ones."
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Japan has many connections with Europe and the United States. The collection of antique swords also originated from Europe and the United States. If a Japanese family wants to sell these samurai swords, their first choice is definitely the European and American auction houses. There is no doubt that, so from this point of view, it is almost possible
We can deduce the authenticity of this batch of samurai swords.
Huangfu Yun thought carefully about what Zhuang Rui said, and the more he thought about it, the more sense it made. Finally he stood up, bowed to Zhuang Rui, and said: "Brother Zhuang, listening to you is worth ten years of reading. Huangfu is ashamed."
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It is true that Huangfu Yun has a deep research on swords and antiques, but he studies them more from a technical level. It’s just that the antiques nowadays are fake and can be faked to look like real ones. Technically, they are almost impeccable.
This is also the reason why Huangfu Yun has not systematically studied antique appreciation. Appreciating antiques must not only look at it professionally, but also look for flaws in the words of collectors and sellers, because the current counterfeiting technology is too realistic, and many highly imitated objects
, it is really difficult to identify.
And Zhuang Rui's words were to guide Huangfu Yun to infer from the most basic common sense, and the story told by the shop owner would be self-defeating.
"Grandma, don't let foreigners deceive you, come here to deceive me, one of my own..."
After Huangfu Yun figured out the situation, he cursed bitterly, but rolled his eyes and said: "The two ones I bought are considered high imitations. I will take them abroad in a few days to see if I can go to London."
An auction..."
"Is this okay?"
Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded by Huangfu Yun, but Zhuang Rui was in favor of selling fakes abroad. He had had this idea before. If it weren't for his poor hands-on skills, Zhuang Rui would have wanted to do a few Mona Lisas.
Selling, of course, is just a thought in my mind.
"Hey, those foreign appraisers don't pay much attention to cultural background. They only believe in instruments and their own eyes. The bottom auction price of these two objects should be around 50,000 US dollars. I guess they won't do carbon 14 identification. Anyway, take them.
Just cover it up, maybe it will be enough..."
Huangfu Yun chuckled. In the past few years, he had been looking for antique swords at auctions in various countries. Sometimes he would sell some collections. He was familiar with some appraisers, so he was quite sure about this.
Zhuang Rui laughed and said: "That's great. If you have channels, there are so many fake stuff in the country, and they can all be sold to foreigners..."
"It's just something I do occasionally. It's hard to say whether it will work or not..." Huangfu Yun didn't dare to guarantee it.
"Well, let's not talk about this anymore. Brother Huangfu, please take a look at the other sword..."
Zhuang Rui also knows that this matter is not that simple, otherwise the domestic counterfeiters would have extended their tentacles long ago.
In fact, Zhuang Rui doesn't know that even abroad, there are a lot of fake Chinese antiques. The root cause is that in recent years, more and more people have gone abroad to hunt for treasures. Those who make and sell fakes have also exported many "modern handicrafts" to Europe and the United States.
nation.
Most people in China believe that foreign cultural relics must be authentic. Based on this mentality, many people buy antiques and bring them back to China. In fact, the things they end up buying are fake.
"Okay, let me take a look at this sword first..."
There are so few people in China who collect antique swords. Huangfu Yun felt like he had met a close friend today, so he picked up the bronze sword and looked at it again.
"This should be a bronze sword from before the Qin and Han Dynasties, but I don't understand why it has rust instead of copper rust..."
After observing it for a long time, Huangfu Yun handed over the bronze sword, which was about two feet long, to Zhuang Rui's surgery with a puzzled look on his face.
After hearing Huangfu Yun's words, Zhuang Rui also secretly admired him. He had not noticed this before, but he was slightly confused. He didn't know why the lines of the bronze sword were so clear under the rust. Hearing Huangfu Yun say so
As soon as he said this, Zhuang Rui's heart became brighter.
"Haha, Brother Huangfu, today I will let you see a peerless sword..."
Zhuang Rui felt confident and immediately asked Zhao Hanxuan to bring him a file and a roll of gauze.
"Brother Zhuang, you won't just..."
Seeing Zhuang Rui holding a file and scraping the hilt of the sword, Huangfu Yun was dumbfounded. He had repaired many antique swords, but this was the first time he had seen Zhuang Rui do something so unskilled.
As for the peerless sword that Zhuang Rui said, Huangfu Yun was even more disgusted. It was so rusty that even if it was ground, it would no longer be sharp.
"It's okay, just take a look..."
Zhuang Rui did not polish the sword body with a file as Huangfu Yun thought. Instead, after cleaning the rust on the hilt, he wrapped gauze around the bronze handle of the sword and made a
Simple, can be held on the hilt of the sword.
Zhuang Rui's actions later made Huangfu Yun and Zhao Hanxuan feel strange, because Zhuang Rui took the file and gently struck the blade of the sword. The force was not very strong. Every few inches, Zhuang Rui hit the sword.
I would tap it gently for a while, and since the rust was almost all over the sword, the sound it made was very dull.
Zhao Hanxuan was also a member of the circle after all. After seeing Zhuang Rui's actions, he couldn't help but said: "Boss, you don't think that the rust will fall off if you hit it like this? Then this sword is definitely like fish intestines.
A famous sword..."
"Yes, famous swords such as Zhanlu, Juque, Haocao, Chunjun, and Longquan are immortal, but this one..."
Huangfu Yun also shook his head, obviously not very optimistic about the sword in Zhuang Rui's hand.
"Immortal? Impossible, right?"
Zhuang Rui raised his head and asked in surprise. In his mind, no matter how good a sword is when it is unearthed, it is just a scrap of copper and iron. Iron and copper rust easily. This is common sense. Tens of millions of swords are used every year in the world.
Tons of iron are corroded and turned into waste.
"Of course it can be immortal. Don't you know this?"
When Huangfu Yun saw Zhuang Rui shaking his head, he realized that the person in front of him was an outsider, and immediately said: "In the Chu tomb No. 1 in Wangshan, Jiangling County, Hubei Province, "King Gou Jian of Yue used his own sword" that was unearthed. Do you know that?"
How could Zhuang Rui know this? He shook his head immediately, and Huangfu Yun continued: "This sword has been buried underground for at least 2,400 years, but when it was unearthed, there was no rust. The sword was engraved with "The King of Yue Gou Jian died.
The eight words "function sword" are clearly visible, and the colored glaze inlaid on the sword and the smooth pattern of the sword grid are not damaged at all.
The blade of the sword remains as sharp as ever, as if these more than 2,000 years were just a moment, and the oxygen that filled the earth had no effect on it..."
In fact, not only the Goujian sword in the tomb of King Chu, but also the bronze sword from the Spring and Autumn Period unearthed under the Jishengtan Pagoda in Longquan, and the bronze sword from the same era unearthed at the Jinshuitan construction site in Yunhe County are also intact.
A sword was unearthed from the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang in Xi'an, which is called the Sword of the King of Qin. This sword further proves the superb sword-making skills of ancient my country.
The tomb unearthed at that time was dark and humid, about 5-6 meters above the ground. Water penetrated into the tomb soil. It has been sleeping in this place for 2000 years, but when it was unearthed, it was completely black and shiny, with a cold light.
Cutting paper, cutting through dozens of sheets in one go, extremely sharp.
"Holy crap, is this really happening?"
Although Zhuang Rui's words were doubtful, he knew that this matter could not be false, because he could find out through a search, mainly because he paid too little attention to the news of unearthed antique swords in the past. This is not to blame Zhuang Rui, he studied antique appreciation, and it was just
How can the facts be clear in one year?
"I've made a lot of money, grandma, I really made a lot of money this time..."
When Zhuang Rui looked at the bronze sword in his hand, his eyes were full of scorching heat. If according to what Huangfu Yun said, those famous swords are immortal, then the bronze sword in his hand is very likely to be the same as Gan Jiang.
, Moye, Longyuan, Yuchang and other famous swords are of the same grade.
After continuing to beat the bronze sword for nearly 20 minutes, Zhuang Rui stopped, smiled mysteriously at Huangfu Yun and Zhao Hanxuan, and said, "Look, you two, I'll do a magic trick for you..."
