Shen Yu was a little confused after hearing what Mr. Qian said about letting him palm his eyes.
However, he reacted quickly and thought that Mr. Qian was teasing him, so he simply smiled and said: "You have been playing with porcelain all your life, how can I be in your eyes with my humble behavior?
"But if you really think I can do it, I'm not humble, but no matter whether it's true or false, I will charge an appraisal fee in the end."
Qian Lao waved his hand: "I'm not talking about porcelain. The object I'm talking about was given to me by the person who bought my small blue and white bowl, so it can't be considered as given to me... This is a bit long to say, let's sit down and talk about it."
Mr. Qian's "Porcelain Ancient Room" is too small, and the store is so crowded that there isn't even a soft stool, let alone a sofa or a chair.
When Shen Yu heard Qian Lao say to sit down and talk, he knew what he should do. He walked to the book shelf on the right side of the door and took out two plastic writing stools from the corner next to the shelf.
After blowing the dust off the stool, Shen Yu moved the stool to the glass cabinet, first handed one to Qian Lao, and then sat on one himself.
At this time, Mr. Qian had already poured him a cup of hot tea, "It's a local wild tea from Chuzhou, so I'll drink it.
"I know you like to drink herbal tea, but it's best not to have more than three cups of herbal tea a day. Too much is bad for your stomach.
"You can't feel anything when you are young now, but you will know when you are old."
Shen Yu smiled and did not say any words of thanks, but waited quietly for Mr. Qian to speak.
"That was the day before yesterday. The business in my store was good that day and I sold several pieces of antique porcelain. I called Xiao Liu from the Porcelain Capital Kiln Factory and asked him to send me a few more pieces.
"Although I don't make much money with antique porcelain, it is also a happy thing for people of my age to be able to talk to buyers and talk about the history and allusions of ceramics.
"After sending off all the guests and mopping the floor, I want to go home and take a rest.
"As I get older, I can't bear to go without a nap at noon, so I bought half a roast goose for my wife as a toothpaste.
"I had just pulled down the rolling shutter door and was about to lock it, when suddenly a middle-aged fat man came outside. He was short and looked rather honest.
"The man handed me his business card when he came up. He called himself Pan and said he was from Dongjiang. He heard that I had a piece of official kiln porcelain from the Daoguang period here and wanted to see it to open his eyes.
"I took the business card and saw that it was the manager of an antique store in Dongjiang. That antique store was not well-known. When I asked, I found out that it had just opened last month.
"Since we are traveling together, it's okay to take a look. Normally I would show it to him, but there were so many guests that day and I just finished mopping the floor. My back and legs ached. I just wanted to go home and rest.
"I just told him directly that I felt a little unwell and wanted to go back and take a rest. If you have time, come over in the afternoon.
"The other party was very polite and said he would come back in the afternoon. He also said he would drive me home. I refused and walked back by myself. I ate some roast goose and bacon and then took a lunch break. I fell asleep at three o'clock in the afternoon.< /p>
"It was already 3:30 in the afternoon when I returned to the store, and the other person was already waiting at the door. He was also unlucky. The air conditioner in the lobby failed just in time. The manager Qian was fat and could heat him up quickly. Fainted.
"I felt really sorry for this, so I quickly let him into the house and turned on the air conditioner, and poured him herbal tea. After he took a breath, I took out the small bowl from the safe and let him Watch...
When Mr. Qian talked about this, he felt a little thirsty, so he picked up the teacup and drank tea.
"Mr. Qian is such a good person!"
This is what Shen Yu admires about Qian Lao and where his personality charm lies.
Shen Yu asked himself that he couldn't do it if he wanted to show a stranger the treasure worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the store.
After all, porcelain is no better than other porcelain. If the other party accidentally breaks it, there will be no place to cry.
But Mr. Qian is so grand, and he will show it to anyone who knows about antiques and is willing to see it.
In the past twenty years, not only 1,000 but also 800 people have seen Mr. Qian’s small blue and white bowl. At least when Mr. Qian set up a stall in the flea market, most of the merchants who set up stalls in the flea market came to see it. Passed.
At this time, Mr. Qian spoke again: "That Manager Pan looked over and over again for a long time, and finally said the real purpose of this trip, which was to buy my small blue and white bowl.
"I was a little confused as soon as this person said this. How did you know that I had such a small official kiln bowl in Dongjiang?
"Guess what? After a long time of commotion, it turned out that it was that little brat Qian Qingcheng who was bragging to people in the company, saying that his grandfather's store had good stuff.
"Xing kiln white porcelain, Ge kiln open pieces, and even Yuan blue and white large jars came out.
"The target of bragging is the junior in Manager Pan's family. When the child comes home and says this, Manager Pan will take it seriously.
"Of course he doesn't really believe it, but he co-operates with others to open an antique store. There is a shortage of real objects in the store, just like a drowning person who wants to grab a straw if there is a straw.
"He is a technical investor and only holds 30% of the shares in the store, but he has a wide network of contacts. He inquired with friends in Chuzhou overnight. When he knew that I did have a piece of official kiln porcelain here, he started to think about it.
"In his words, he dreamed of buying a piece of official kiln porcelain and going back to the store. He drove over from Dongchu Expressway without eating breakfast the next day."
Shen Yu frowned slightly and analyzed: "Mr. Qian, there are many stories in our antique shop. If I guess correctly, what this so-called manager Pan said should be true or false.
"Qingcheng may have really been bragging to his colleagues, and the other party is really the manager Qian's family, but it's hard to say whether the other party really opened a new store or bought the small bowl back to the store.
"It's also very possible that he bought it for resale. He even had a buyer already, but he didn't have the item in hand. When he heard that the supply was available, he immediately came to buy it."
Mr. Qian nodded: "You are right. If I had let him look at it normally, I would have put it away.
"But this time because that guy from Qingcheng got married, I really wanted to sell it. I am just a grandson like him. Even if I like that little bowl, can I still take the little bowl into the tomb?
"My psychological price for selling the small bowl was 500,000 yuan. The other party was very sincere and gave 550,000 yuan in the first bid.
"Seeing that I didn't agree immediately, I added another 20,000 yuan without saying a word, so I agreed. The other party went to raise money and agreed to trade the next day.
"The specific transaction steps are to go to the bank and transfer 500,000 yuan to Qingcheng's card, and give the remaining 70,000 yuan to me in cash. Everything went smoothly before, but when he withdrew cash from another card, he only withdrew 50,000 yuan.
Come out and check the balance, there is no money.
"Now that the money has come, it's hard to transfer it back.
"Besides, my psychological price is 500,000 yuan. Since I have given 550,000 yuan, I have nothing to be dissatisfied with. If you have the remaining 20,000 yuan, it will be gone. If you don't have it, it will be gone. I don't particularly care.
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"But the buyer was very serious and forced me to give me a seal. He said that after leaving my store at noon that day, he went to a flea market and bought it for more than 30,000 yuan. The seal was priced at 20,000 yuan and was given to me.
Let’s all be clear.
"You also know that except for porcelain, I don't know anything about other antiques. I took it and explained it to him. Then I went back to the store and didn't look at it at all. I just put it on the shelf.
"When I was wiping the porcelain today, I saw the seal box and then I thought that something like this happened, so I wanted to go to you during lunch and let you take care of me.
"There are no whole families in our antique shop, only experts. Everything needs to be appraised by someone who knows it.
"You must have handled a lot of jade seals when you were at Baoyuxuan. You have to come and see this thing. It doesn't matter whether it's worth 30,000 or 10,000. But it depends on Manager Na Tian's conduct and judgment of porcelain.
With my discernment, I think this seal is worth at least 10,000 yuan."
Shen Yu nodded when he heard the words. Indeed, as Mr. Qian said, there are not all proficient collectors in the antiques industry. Those who know how to appraise calligraphy and paintings may not know how to appraise porcelain, and those who know porcelain may not know how to appraise jade.
To be honest, being proficient in one subject of antique appraisal is enough to last a lifetime. Even in some major items, such as calligraphy, painting, and porcelain, it is good to be proficient in one of the dynasties.
Mr. Qian stood up and took out a small wooden box from Duobaoge and handed it to Shen Yu.
After Shen Yu took it with both hands, he first observed the material of the seal box. It was ordinary jujube wood and there was nothing surprising about it.
After looking at it several times, Shen Yu confirmed that the seal box was really just ordinary jujube wood, and then he gently opened the lid of the seal box.
In the printing box, a square seal lay quietly on a soft cushion to prevent it from being bumped. Because there was insufficient light in the room, Shen Yu could not see what material it was made of.
The moment Shen Yu took out the seal, he was suddenly stunned.
As Mr. Qian said, this is indeed a Qingtian stone seal. It is square in shape and the ratio of length, width and height is close to perfect.
It's just that this seal looked very familiar to Shen Yu. He must have seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where exactly he had seen it for a while.
Not to mention anything else, there are five or six Qingtian stone seals in his shop alone. Add in the ones sold in his shop and the ones he saw when he went out to clean the stalls. It can be said that he has seen too many.
After thinking carefully for a while, Shen Yu finally knew where he had seen it. Isn't this the Qingtian stone seal worth 40,000 yuan that Lao Liu gave him this morning?
Regardless of the size of the vessel or the color of the paste, they are exactly the same. Lao Liu said that the seal belonged to his friend. Could it be that his friend was in the wholesale business of seals?
