The short, fat middle-aged man shrank his feet back slightly amidst his rather embarrassed laughter.
Shen Yu keenly captured this action of the other party.
Psychologically speaking, this action is a manifestation of a person's heart being revealed and then retreating with the body to protect himself.
The experience of this middle-aged fat uncle was really described by Shen Yu.
Because his family is short of money recently, he took a train from Anzhou, more than 400 miles away, to Dongjiang yesterday.
As soon as he got off the train, he ran to the Qingniuguan Antique Market. He entered almost a dozen antique shops, large and small, but the prices were all very low without exception.
Some are simply paid to collect junk, one hundred a piece.
This made him, who was originally very happy and imagined that by selling the antiques, he could buy a building for each of his two children, his heart dropped.
What's even worse is that his wallet is gone for some reason. If the antiques can't be sold, then he can't even pay for his trip home.
That's why he came to this meat shop to drink away his sorrows.
"Young man, since you feel dissatisfied with the price I offered, why don't you make an offer?"
Shen Yu pretended to be thoughtful, "The ancients loved jade. They believed that jade is a gentleman's tool and is of great benefit to wear around you, but jade is also divided into three, six, and nine grades.
"Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to disparage your two antiques. If I didn't like them, I wouldn't buy them from you, right?
"Frankly speaking, if these two items of yours are really rare and rare, I don't think the owners of those antique shops would throw away the money they brought to their doorsteps. Do you think this is true?
"If you ask me to bid, I will definitely put the lower the better. If it can cost a few hundred yuan each, it would be best. But then you will definitely not sell it, and you will even be very angry, so you will have to pay the price in the end."< /p>
When the middle-aged man heard what Shen Yu said, he nodded seriously.
Shen Yu said again: "Well, let me be more happy. As long as your price is not too high, I will accept both items."
"This..." The middle-aged man began to hesitate.
At this point, if the other party is willing to sell, he can sell it, and if he doesn't, it's fine. Shen Yu has the bottom line to pick up the slack on his own.
The first point is not to cheat or lie.
The second point is that you won’t describe other people’s real antiques as junk.
The third point is that I can’t eat meat myself and won’t even give the seller a sip of soup.
He couldn't do it if he had to spend hundreds of dollars to buy tens of millions of antiques.
For example, when Chen Chixia sold some of his antiques, Shen Yu's price was the highest in the entire flea market. Even so, Shen Yu felt a little guilty in his heart, so he helped Chen Chixia's wild tea enter Donggu Department Store.< /p>
Maybe good intentions pay off. If he hadn't come to Dongjiang to thank Gu Qingqing in person for this incident, Shen Yu wouldn't have encountered this mistake today.
Some people may ask, since you are so good, why don't you just give the other party specific value and be done with it?
Shen Yu asked himself that he still couldn't do this.
If you open a business, you will make money. If you can keep the bottom line, you will be a good character.
"Don't rush into negotiating the price. You should at least get your hands on this thing and take a look at it." As the middle-aged man spoke, he generously placed the seal and longevity lock in front of Shen Yu.
Shen Yu did not touch the longevity lock.
As soon as Shen Yu got the "seal", he knew that he had made a mistake. This was not a seal, but a paperweight.
Paperweight is a tool used by literati to hold down paper when writing and painting. It is also called paperweight or literary weight. There are many other names among the people.
Although paperweights are not among the four treasures of the study, they are indispensable items in a scholar's study.
Because the ancients used brushes to write and draw, they had to prevent their sleeves from being stained with ink while writing, so they had to use their left hand to hold the sleeve of their right hand to write.
This is not because I am afraid that my sleeves will get stained by the ink in the ink pool, but because it takes time for the ink to dry completely.
So paperweights were very important to the ancients.
Paperweights are available in any material.
There are things poor scholars use, such as stone ones, and even heavy stones can be used as paperweights.
The high-ranking officials are more particular and usually use gold, silver, copper, jade, and porcelain to carve them carefully.
The jade paperweight in his hand was quite small, and was used to press letterheads when writing letters, so Shen Yu mistakenly thought it was a seal when he looked at it from a distance.
And this is not Huang Fei, let alone Huang Long Jade pretending to be Huang Fei.
But it is the king of jade, the rare and precious "Gan Topaz".
Topaz, one of Hetian jade.
The topaz here refers to the original topaz, which must be of the same color and not white.
The color cannot become lighter from the outside to the inside, otherwise it will be yellow material.
Therefore, Hotan topaz is extremely rare.
In ancient times, yellow was considered noble, and it was the color of the royal family. Moreover, yellow is a homophone for Huang, which means it is the word for king.
This paperweight is made of crystal clear jade and feels warm and delicate to the touch.
The whole body is very plain, without any lettering or decoration.
Shen Yu took out a strong flashlight from his shoulder bag. After polishing it, he found that there were no strands, no cracks, and no impurities.
"What a treasure." Shen Yu secretly said to himself.
Wang Yi, a writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty, explained the essence of jade color in "Jade Theory" as: "red like a cockscomb, yellow like a steamed chestnut, white like cut fat, and ink like pure lacquer."
Therefore, the best of the topaz, which has the same color as freshly picked chestnuts, is called sweet topaz, also called steamed chestnut yellow. It is an ultimate color.
This is what the jade paperweight in Shen Yu's hands looks like now.
Gao Lian, a famous opera writer and great bibliophile in the Ming Dynasty, wrote this in his "Eight Notes of Zunsheng: Yan Xianqing Appreciation Notes": "The best jade is sweet and yellow, followed by mutton fat.
"Yellow is used as the middle color, and it is not easy to get, and white is used as the partial color, which is why it sometimes happens.
"Nowadays, people despise yellow and value white because they see less of it. However, sweet yellow, like steamed sorrel, is better, and burnt yellow is worse."
China collects antiques, especially precious antiques, and most of them can be found in various ancient books.
The only one who can't find the connection is Yuan Qinghua.
So what does Gao Lian mean?
What he means is that among all the jades that exist in the world, topaz is the most precious, and even mutton-fat jade is ranked behind. If you are a jade collector and think mutton-fat jade is precious, then it is
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Although this is what Gao Lian's family said, it also shows how precious Gan Topaz is.
Gao Lian is also knowledgeable in medicine and is good at maintaining health. He is also a health expert. He suffered from eye diseases and other diseases when he was young. He finally recovered after searching for strange medicines and secret recipes. He read a lot of books and recorded them in this book.
"Eight Notes of Zunsheng" has a total of 19 volumes, which is a comprehensive work summarizing the daily life experience of China throughout the ages.
Among them, knowledge about mountains and rivers, flowers, birds, insects and fish, music, calligraphy and painting, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, antique appreciation and other knowledge are all included.
Shen Yu has already memorized several volumes involving antique appreciation.
Shen Yu was deep in thought when Chen Xiaoyu came over and said, "Brother Yu, this is definitely not Huang Fei or Huang Long Jade, but you have to pay attention to whether it is yellow material."
Shen Yu lowered his voice, "No, the fine yellow material is very close to topaz in its thick and oily appearance, but it is only close, just like cats and tigers are both felines.
"The so-called natural topaz from the inside and outside is called topaz. The matrix of yellow material is ultimately white jade. It is only due to the long-term infiltration of iron oxide in surface water that the yellow tone is formed in the gaps. It is not the same as natural topaz.
Not."
The two of them hid aside and whispered, and the short, fat middle-aged man didn't take it seriously. After all, the total price of 350,000 yuan he shouted out was already a huge amount of money, and it would be reasonable for the other party to discuss it.
He is not afraid that Shen Yu and Chen Xiaoyu will steal his antiques and run away. You must know that this is near Qingniuguan Antique Street, one of the most prosperous areas in Dongjiang. There are cameras all over the street, so there is no problem in terms of security.<
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He is currently very confused about what price he should bid.
If I want more, I'm afraid Shen Yu won't buy it. If I want less, I feel unwilling to do so.
Otherwise, the two antiques cost this young man 300,000 yuan, and then buy one and get one free. The longevity lock can be regarded as a tie-in with the seal?
The middle-aged man thought of a more reasonable way to sell it, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.