"You kid, don't talk nonsense, this is undoubtedly authentic!"
"How to prove it?" Gao Bin asked.
He has observed that there is no inscription on it. Who can prove that this Ruyi jade is related to He Shen? Even the workmanship and decoration look like something from the palace.
But if there is no evidence, there is no evidence. Gao Binfei has nothing wrong with saying it is false.
If it is true, it can still compete with the Qianlong jade bowl that made a wish. After all, it has historical significance.
But now, Mr. Zheng himself is confused. Is this still a point of comparison?
Next, he took out another piece of jade - the jade Buddha's hand.
There is nothing to say about this. There is no doubt that the treasure is from the tomb of a certain concubine in the Qing Dynasty. It is of high value, but it is far less evil than the jade Ruyi.
This one is about the same as the inkstone Huang Yanyan selected, barely even.
Finally, we come to the snuff bottle. The value of this thing has been mentioned before. I won’t go into details. As long as Gao Bin can produce an ancient object of similar value, he will be enough to win this bet.
Now the focus of everyone in the audience is on Gao Bin, and everyone is guessing what kind of treasure he will bring out.
Mr. Zheng is staring at Gao Bin. As a gambler, it is equivalent to waiting for the other party to reveal the last card. Whether he wins or loses, it all happens in an instant!
"This is?"
When Gao Bin opened the brocade box, everyone held their breath and watched him carefully place a snuff bottle on the table.
"Boss Zheng, look at my snuff bottle, how does it compare to yours?"
Different from Mr. Zheng's tobacco pot, this one is made of copper, with a small round mouth, a girdle neck, a flat belly, an oval ring foot, both sides decorated with painted enamel, and the whole body is gilt copper and engraved with patterns.
There is a spoon inside under the flower cover. The neck and shoulder sides of the snuff bottle are engraved with a branch pattern, with vines and leaves, delicate and delicate. The four-character regular script "Made in the Qianlong Year" is inscribed on the bottom of the snuff bottle.
The two oval sides of the abdomen are consecrated, and the inner view depicts Western characters. One side is painted with a bust of a girl, and the other is painted with a bust of a gentleman. The content painted on the two sides should be a coherent picture.
The girl has long hair, gorgeous clothes, standing sideways with flowers, her appearance is handsome, quiet and leisurely;
The man holds flowers in one hand and looks lovingly at the girl opposite. She is dressed in bright and fashionable clothes.
It is well known that foreign countries attach great importance to the culture of "painted inside snuff bottles".
When collecting snuff bottles, in addition to paying attention to the high quality of the material itself, you must also pay attention to whether its shape is pleasing to the eye, beautiful and well-proportioned.
Some people liken the top two sides of the snuff bottle to be the shoulders of a beauty, which emphasizes the beauty of the lines and makes it charming.
Generally speaking, there are few gold and silver snuff bottles in existence, while copper ones are relatively more numerous, and they mostly appear in the form of enamel painting, so their collection value is high;
The value of jade snuff bottles varies greatly depending on the texture. The rarer the material, the more precious it is;
Bamboo and horn snuff bottles are extremely rare;
The market value of carved ivory snuff bottles is in the middle;
Material pots and porcelain pots are the most common and have low collection value.
In addition, the level of craftsmanship also directly affects the collection value of snuff bottles.
For example, the material of lacquer snuff bottles is very common, but because there are so few of them in existence and the craftsmanship is exquisite, their value is relatively high.
Apart from the factors of famous brands, due to different craftsmanship, objects made of the same material are often very different. This is particularly prominent in enamel, nesting materials and painted pots.
It is very difficult to make a copper-painted enamel snuff bottle and the cost is also very high.
The production of nested pots requires the use of multi-layer sintering technology, so that the different shades of color materials are highly layered after being fused at high temperature, thereby producing a embossed effect.
To paint a snuff bottle inside, you use a special deformed fine pen to use skill to draw slender and clear figures, landscapes and other patterns on the inner wall of the bottle. If the bottle is made by a famous artist, its value will be even higher.
After the enamel painting technology was introduced to China, it developed in the Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties. The works of the three dynasties have their own characteristics in terms of shape, glaze color, decoration, and signature.
During the Qianlong period, the decoration of painted enamelware tended to be "dense" and "meticulous" in a stacked style, with more Chinese and Western decoration methods.
This snuff bottle is small and beautiful, and its decoration and workmanship have both Chinese and Western styles. It is a work that imitates Western painting style.
Even if everyone present is not an expert, they are all insiders. The so-called laymen watch the excitement, and the insiders watch the door. With Mr. Zheng’s cigarette pot, it is clear at a glance which one is higher and which one is lower.
"What a beautiful snuff bottle, damn, there is such a treasure hidden in the ghost market, and I didn't find it." Someone shouted regretfully.
"Yes, for such a beautiful snuff bottle, this outsider should be the winner, right?"
"That's hard to say. It's not the first time that Zheng has acted rogue."
"Then it depends on what's going on, right? This guy's gambling is pretty good."
"Haha, just kidding, does a gambler have character?"
"It's so beautiful, but it's a pity that it's not mine, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, what if? Even if it is placed in front of you, you may not be able to recognize it."
Indeed, although this snuff bottle is very exquisite, it is actually not easy to identify and can easily be confused with the snuff bottles from the Republic of China period.
Although there is a money mark made in the Qianlong year below, people who have been deceived too many are not so easy to believe it.
"How much do you think this snuff bottle is worth? Can it be sold for tens of thousands?"
"More than that, such a beautiful snuff bottle is still used by the royal family, so why doesn't it cost hundreds of thousands?"
Today's hundreds of thousands are extremely expensive, unlike in later generations when some people took hundreds of thousands as money.
"I think there are hundreds of thousands of them. It's so beautiful. I've never seen such a beautiful snuff bottle. Of course, the one with the surname Zheng is not bad either, but the style is different."
"I still think this combination of Chinese and Western is more beautiful."
"I think it's better to have the ancestors."
"They are all things from our ancestors, but the styles are different."
Everything was mentioned below, except for Mr. Zheng, who stared directly at Gao Bin's snuff bottle with a look of disbelief on his face.
How could it be? There are treasures in this market that he doesn’t know about?
In the eyes of Mr. Zheng, this is betrayal! Chi Guoguo’s betrayal, and he was slapped in the face in front of everyone.
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Lost!
Mr. Zheng’s face turned gloomy.
The value of the treasure is obvious to all and cannot be faked. If the man named Zheng still wants to continue to dominate the market, he cannot lie and deny his credit.
So he said with a sullen face:
"If you win, come with me."
After putting away their things, Gao Bin and the other two followed Mr. Zheng back to his office, let's call it an office.
"Formal introduction, my name is Zheng Zheng, I am the person in charge of Zhengjia Village in Anyang. What kind of business do you want to do?"
Gao Bin said:
"Mr. Zheng, you know better than I do what Zhengjiacun can provide. I only have one request: go to the site for an inspection. After confirming that there is no problem, I will place a big order, starting from 1 million!"
I was stunned for a moment:
"1 million?"
Then he said suspiciously:
"Where are you from? Why don't you introduce me?"
Gao Bin smiled mysteriously:
"The beautiful lady next to me is named Huang and her name is Yanyan. Do you know the five meridians?"
He nodded solemnly:
"The Wumai Huang family, I didn't expect that the eldest lady of the Huang family would arrive."
"So don't worry about us not being able to get the money, as long as your stuff is hard enough."
Zheng Zheng knew it well, but he said:
"The inspection to Zhengjiacun requires the consent of the clan elders. You may have to stay in Anyang for a few days. Don't worry, I will make arrangements."
After hearing their origins, he solemnly did not dare to neglect and asked to entertain them.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Zheng. If it is convenient, please bring a few samples for us to appreciate."
"No problem, it's all trivial."
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When we returned to the hotel, the sky was already bright. After experiencing such hard work as gambling, Gao Bin and others did not feel sleepy, but rather excited.
As a group, let’s go out to have some breakfast and enjoy the local food.
Breakfast in the Central Plains is the most abundant, including rice noodles, flat noodles, spicy soup, and of course, breakfasts such as tofu curd that are common across the country.
Gao Bin and Xu Yuan are not people who choose places to eat, and they like this kind of market culture very much, and they love street food very much.
Huang Yanyan has been pampered since she was a child, and rarely eats from roadside stalls like this, especially on the roadside, where people bring up a cloud of dust when they pass by. How do you eat this?
On the contrary, Kido Kana opened Gao Bin's eyes. This neon girl has a gentle personality and is not picky. She is full of yearning for roadside stalls.
They randomly found a breakfast shop that seemed to have a lot of family members. It didn't have a big storefront, and it felt like the kind of shop that the locals loved, and they queued up every morning.
The locals were standing in front of the store drinking spicy soup. You must know that it is late autumn now. They walked around the ghost market in the early morning and were very cold. None of them wore hats or earmuffs, and their ears hurt from the cold. These locals actually stood at the door with bowls in their hands and drank soup. Gao Bin admired them from the bottom of his heart.
There are several windows in front of the store, and there are 7 or 8 people shivering in line in front of each window.
I walked over and asked a simple-looking guy about my situation, and learned that I had to queue up to buy tickets.
There are Hu spicy soup tickets for Hu spicy soup, and you can get fried cake tickets for fried cakes. In short, you can buy whatever ticket you want, and then use the ticket to queue up at other windows to get your meal.
Seeing that they were outsiders, the elder brother couldn’t help but remind:
"The spicy spicy soup here is very spicy, can you like it?"
Just kidding, a man can’t say no, so he immediately said:
"Of course! I love spicy food."
Soon it was the elder brother's turn. He bent down and shouted inside:
"Let's have two bowls of spicy soup and a piece of pancake."
The woman behind the eldest brother, probably his wife, followed up with:
"His beef boxes are delicious. Can you bring me one? You line up here and I'll go in and grab a seat."
The eldest brother queued up to pay, exchanged a few tickets, and took the tickets to the Hu Spicy Soup window to queue up.
Then it was Gao Bin's turn:
"Four bowls of spicy soup, four pancakes, and four beef boxes."
After paying for the tickets and letting them go in and grab a seat, Gao Bin and Huang Yanyan started queuing up to get their meals.
Smelling the aroma of pancakes and beef boxes in the hands of the people in front, I was already feeling hungry.
The waitress at the window collects the tickets with her right hand, glances at the ticket, sings the amount in a loud voice while holding the bowl, and uses a maroon long-handled wooden spoon with her left hand to scoop soup out of the large pot with a mouth like a vat. p>
It's called soup, but it's actually as thick as soup.
The thick brown soup in the big pot was slowly pushed out by the heat from the bottom of the pot. Large and small bubbles burst and burst, releasing balls of hot water vapor mixed with a strong fragrance. When it was cold, it quickly turned white and floated away.
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Watching the wooden spoon, which was as thick as a duck's egg and half as long as an adult's arm, dancing up and down, Gao Bin couldn't help but look at Huang Yanyan's arm, wondering if he could lift it.
Perhaps sensing his thoughts, Huang Yanyan couldn't help but glare at him as if to say: Who are you looking down on?
The big wooden spoon danced, and four bowls of spicy soup filled to the rim were placed on the tray in front of Gao Bin.
Carefully pick up the tray and switch to the pancake team. To be honest, it still takes some effort. Anyone with unsteady hands will have to spread a plate.
The pancakes are freshly fried and cut, and the speed is not as fast as the spicy soup window. There are four or five people waiting in line.
After waiting in line for a while, Gao Bin suddenly realized that he was a little stupid. He should have sent the soup in first and then came out to distribute.
What's more, there are two of them, so there is no need to line up here.
So I said hello to Huang Yanyan and brought the spicy soup in first.
After a while, Huang Yanyan came in with a box of fried cakes and beef and started eating.
A serious spicy soup must have a mutton bone soup base, plus many kinds of seasonings and Chinese herbal medicines. Chili powder and pepper are indispensable, as well as mushrooms, fungus, and kelp.
Beef pieces larger than broad beans are also cooked together, and starch and butter are also added to make them red in color and fragrant.
When eating this kind of spicy soup, the first bite is very important, it must be eaten while it is hot.
Use a small spoon to scrape half a spoonful from the surface of the soup, carefully suck it into your mouth, swallow it slowly, and feel the hot soup flowing down your throat straight to your belly, and then the hot and thick taste spreads in your mouth.
Fragrant.
After the first sip of the soup, you can take a bite of the salty and crispy pancake to calm down the spicy heat, and stir in the spicy spicy soup to dissipate the heat.
A bowl of spicy soup with fried pancakes will make you sweat all over your forehead in winter.
"Yanyan, are you sure you don't want to take a bite? It's really delicious. It's hot and will take away the cold."
"No, it's so dark, what is this?" Huang Yanyan frowned, sincerely looking down on this favorite delicacy of the Central Plains people.
"I won't lie to you, it's really delicious."
Maybe she was really hungry, Huang Yanyan couldn't resist the persuasion, and after much hesitation, she picked up the spoon and took a spoonful of Gao Bin's bowl of spicy soup
She frowned at first, maybe it was a bit spicy, but as the heat flowed down her stomach, her originally chilled appetite gradually warmed up. Her brows finally relaxed, and she picked up her bowl of spicy soup and started eating it. p>
After eating and drinking, they returned to the hotel and slept comfortably all day. In the evening, they solemnly held a banquet at the hotel where they stayed, during which there was inevitably testing.
Near the end, he suddenly said:
"I will pick you up in the village in three days. In order to keep it confidential, I hope you will hand over your mobile phone and cover your eyes with a blindfold."
Gao Bin nodded:
"No problem, I understand."
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After waiting for three days, Gao Bin and Xu Yuan spent three days in the local antique market. It is worthy of being the capital of Yin Ruins. It has a profound heritage and can even see bronzes. This is really brave.
Of course, most of these antiques are fakes and cannot be called antiques at all.
Most of these fakes come from Zhengjiacun, and their quality varies. There are fakes that are enough to look real, and there are also fakes that look fake at first glance.
Huang Yanyan became more and more annoyed as she watched. She didn't want to believe that this Zhengjiacun was related to the Huang family, but if it didn't matter, how could she explain that solemn attitude towards her?
Finally, it was time to go to Zhengjia Village. Gao Bin left Kido Kana in the hotel to leave a way out for himself and others. In case he did not come back, Kido Kana could choose to return to Beijing to seek help from the Luo Bureau.
As for why Kido Kana was kept as the last trump card, it was purely because of her foreign status.
In this day and age, it is not a trivial matter once something happens to a foreign guest. No matter how rampant the people in Zhengjia Village are, they would not dare to kill a foreign guest. That would be the same as committing suicide!
After getting into the car solemnly sent, Gao Bin and Huang Yanyan were in the back seat, while Xu Yuan was in the front chatting with the serious-looking young man.
In fact, he was trying to find out information, but that person was like a mute. No matter how he talked to Xu Wish, the other party didn't respond and was disappointed.
Zhengjia Village is located in the deep mountains and old forests. Gao Bin and the others were blindfolded all the way and had no idea where they were. They drove for six or seven hours. It was like a roller coaster. If not for the good health of a few people, they would have vomited right now.
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Finally, the car stopped and the driver said:
"Wait in the car and don't take off your blindfold."
Are we there? Gao Bin guessed in the darkness.
He held Huang Yanyan's right hand in his left hand, and he had no intention of taking advantage at this time.
"Are we here?" Huang Yanyan asked in a low voice.
"I don't know, just be patient."
This time they came mainly to find the other half of the bronze mirror. Gao Bin's original plan was to lure the head of the Zheng family out through an order worth one million, and then wait for an opportunity to find clues about the bronze mirror.
Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed. They had been sitting in the car for a long time, and suddenly they felt the car door being opened. Then they were rudely pulled out of the car, and their blindfolds were pulled off.
It took a period of adaptation for the eyes to suddenly change from darkness to light. After a brief period of blindness, Gao Bin found himself and others surrounded by a group of villagers holding iron tools.
"Mr. Zheng, what does this mean?" Gao Bin acted very calmly and just silently pulled Huang Yanyan behind him.
"Haha, Mr. Gao, don't think that I don't know why you are here? Why are Wumai trying to attack us?" Zheng Zheng showed a cruel smile.
"What do you mean? We are here to do business, not to cause trouble!" Gao Bin locked eyes solemnly. He had already prepared for the worst. If he did something, he would control it as quickly as possible.
This bastard.
To capture the thief, capture the king first.
"Brothers, if you have something to say, there is no need to dance with guns and sticks." Xu Yuan pushed a stick away and then said:
"Mr. Zheng, do we have any misunderstanding?"
"Misunderstanding? There is no misunderstanding. I advise you to tell the truth. If you tell the truth, I can still save your life!"
He solemnly pointed to a smoking house behind him:
"Believe me, if I throw you into molten iron and melt it, I'm sure you won't even find your bones. Don't expect anyone to come and collect your bodies."
Gao Bin glanced at it and then quickly looked at Zheng Zheng:
"We are really here to do business. If I had known that you were a group of unruly bandits, I would never have come back."
"Haha, you are still being stubborn at this time..."
He was about to let someone take action, but his eyes kept looking at Huang Yanyan, obviously he had no good intentions...