"I am the shopkeeper of Gudezhai, Gu Dezhou. I have met all of you. I would like to express my gratitude to you all for being here." The middle-aged man who walked to the middle said, and immediately faced the four neatly dressed and elegant people standing at the door.
The energetic waiter ordered some water for the guests.
Two waiters were holding big teapots to add water to the guests' teacups, and two other waiters were walking around with plates of dried fruit, asking the guests to grab some and eat them.
These guests were not polite, and each one grabbed a handful. By the time it was the outermost turn after walking three times, the plates were almost empty, with only a few crooked melons and jujubes left.
Hong Qing grabbed a handful and gave a few dried jujubes to Xue Chen.
Xue Chen looked at the jujubes in his hand speechlessly.
Hong Qing urged: "Eat, there is something special here. Which one holds a celebration? If the guests eat the host's dried fruits, it will increase their wealth. How about those people grab a handful?"
"Oh, there is another saying." Xue Chen put a date into his mouth. Not to mention, the date looked shriveled, but it tasted quite sweet.
Xue Chen was eating dates while looking at the crowd. Obviously, holding this twenty-year celebration is not just about inviting people from all over the world to eat and drink at the guest ceremony. There seem to be some other programs?
When the water was added and the dried fruits were distributed, before the shopkeeper Gu Dezhou could speak, one of the guests sitting among them said loudly: "Gudezhai has been established in Liulichang for 20 years, and it can be regarded as one of the old stores. I want to come here."
There must be many treasures, and since today is the 20th anniversary celebration, why not bring them out for us to open our eyes?"
"Thank you!"
As soon as Xue Chen heard this person speak, he thought that this person must be a trustee, and it should have been arranged long ago. If he thought about it carefully, he could understand that it was impossible for the store to say that he would bring out the treasure to open your eyes.
Sure enough, the shopkeeper Gu Dezhou was a good person, smiled, said okay, and then immediately gave the waiter who had been prepared a hint.
The guests present all tacitly understood that this was just an event for the 20th anniversary celebration, and they all wanted to take a look at the good things collected by Gude Zhai.
The fruit plates on the two Eight Immortals tables in the middle were all removed and emptied. Gu Dezhou clapped his hands, and a waiter came up from the first floor holding something in both hands and placed it on the Eight Immortals tables.
Everyone looked over and saw that it was a piece of porcelain, or to be more precise, a light brown glazed disc with cracks, standing on a special base.
Hong Qing squinted his eyes and said hesitantly: "This piece of porcelain should be..." as if he was trying to identify it.
"From Ge Kiln in the Song Dynasty..." Xue Chen said.
"Huh?" Hong Qing was stunned and turned to look at Xue Chen in surprise.
At this time, some discerning guests also recognized it and praised it one after another.
"Hey, the plates from Ge Kiln are really rare."
"It's so beautiful. Look at the cracks. They are the most interesting thing about Ge Kiln."
"Not bad, not bad. It is indeed a Gudzhai. It's not easy to just pick it up."
Hearing the discussion of other guests, Hong Qing glanced at Xue Chen in surprise and said, "Okay, I didn't expect you to be knowledgeable enough to recognize that he is from Ge Kiln."
Xue Chen was speechless. What does it mean to have some knowledge? Isn't it just a porcelain plate from Ge Kiln? Although he has not collected it from Ge Kiln, he has never eaten pork and has seen pigs running away.
After the first porcelain plate from Ge Kiln was presented, Gu Dezhou clapped his hands again, and a waiter came up to the second floor quickly, still carrying something in his hand, and placed it on the Eight Immortals table. It was still a piece of porcelain.
But it's not an ordinary vase, but a porcelain plate with plain three-color paintings on it. This is the porcelain plate painting whose price has been rising steadily in recent years.
When the porcelain plate painting stood there, all the guests squinted their heads to admire the porcelain plate painting, and even more so, they realized that the porcelain plate painting was the work of that master.
There are also seals and signatures on the porcelain plate flowers, but they are only the size of a fly. Even if you are sitting in the first row, let alone the second row of seats, you can't see clearly even if you are sitting in the first row.
Xue Chen took a look at it and nodded in admiration: "I have always wanted to collect one of Wang Qi's porcelain paintings, but unfortunately I have never had the chance."
Hong Qing glanced at Xue Chen again, confused: "How did you figure it out, and do you know Wang Qi?"
Compared with other types of antiques, porcelain plate paintings are a relatively niche category. Hong Qing was surprised when Xue Chen opened his mouth and named the creator of this porcelain plate painting. And the name Wang Qi seemed to him.
I heard the master say it once, but I don’t remember it very clearly.
At this time, Gu Dezhou did not bother the guests present to identify it, and said loudly: "This is the work of Wang Qi, a master of porcelain painting in the Republic of China."
"Oh, no wonder it is so dignified, beautiful, elegant and white. It turns out to be the work of Master Wang Qi. What a good thing."
"Yes, in the past ten years, the value of porcelain plate paintings has increased more than a hundred times, especially Wang Qi's works, which are hard to find."
"Holy shit?" Hong Qing was really surprised. He didn't know how Xue Chen could come up with a conclusion so accurately before others could understand it.
Gu Dezhou clapped his hands one after another, and one after another treasures and antiques worth tens of millions were presented and placed on the Eight Immortals table. Xue Chen always told the origin and creator of these antiques immediately.
"The autumn hunting pictures by Wang Jian, one of the six masters of the early Qing Dynasty, are really good."
"Ah, it turns out to be a Qianlong pastel dish with a shallow mouth and a lotus pattern on the base? Oh, the bottom foot is damaged, what a pity."
"The landscape fan made by Shen Zhou, the white stone man, belongs to the same Ming Dynasty as Tang Yin. If Gao Dechao saw it, he would probably like it very much."
"this is……"
Hong Qing, who was sitting aside, was dumbfounded. He only saw an antique presented to him. He hadn't even seen it clearly, let alone its contents. The man next to him was already commenting on it in a low voice.
His mouth grew longer and bigger, almost able to fit a fist in it.
When a total of twelve antiques, each unique and brilliant, were placed on the two Eight Immortals tables, Hong Qing asked with dumbfounded eyes: "Xue Chen, are you really here to see the fun? How come you know them all?"
He originally thought that Xue Chen was really a layman, just here to join in the fun, but he didn't expect that he was a real person without showing his face. How could he be a layman? In his opinion, he had better eyesight than 99% of the people present. It was amazing!
"I'm here to join in the fun, but there is no conflict between joining in the fun and being discerning." Xue Chen smiled and said casually.
"If nothing else, with your eyesight, I'm afraid even my master can't compare with you. You are definitely qualified to sit in the third row..." Hong Qing said with certainty.
"Hey, it doesn't matter which row you sit in." Xue Chen waved his hand nonchalantly, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.
"But... but..." Hong Qing scratched his head. He had participated in celebrations at other stores before, and every guest present who didn't care about face wanted to sit in a circle. This was the first time he met someone who didn't care where they sat.
At this time, the guests present were all dazzled. The antiques brought out by Gudezhai were really attractive. In the eyes of the guests, these antiques were like naked beauties to old women.
It's like a stick, but its attraction is not that small.
Twelve pieces of antiques, any one taken out is worth tens of millions, and the total is more than 100 million! This is just like Gude Zhai, an old store that has been open for 20 years, has such a heritage, any one of them
If you take this piece to any other ordinary antique store, it can be used as a treasure!
The guests pointed at the twelve antiques, discussed with the people around them, each said which one they liked more, and commented on a certain one.
Hong Qing also turned his attention from Xue Chen to these antiques, his eyes full of envy and desire, and said: "I don't know if I will have the opportunity to collect such an antique in my life. I won't say more.
Pieces are enough.”
Xue Chen glanced at Hong Qing, his eyes flashing with memories. When he saw Hong Qing, he couldn't help but think of himself more than a year ago.
He was just an apprentice in Daxing. When he first stepped into Daxing, he was envious when he saw the antiques worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands displayed in Daxing. At that time, he was thinking about when he would be able to have a good collection.
Now, he already has a collection of national treasure-level cultural relics. More than a year seems to have passed by in an instant, and he can't help but sigh.
"Don't worry, you will have it." Xue Chen said to Hong Qing.
Hong Qing scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "I'm just talking. Not to mention these twelve antiques are all worth tens of millions. I am very satisfied if I can collect one worth hundreds of thousands."
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"I was like you before, but now I am." Xue Chen comforted Hong Qing and said.
"You? Xue Chen, you said you also engage in collecting?" Hong Qing looked at Xue Chen up and down, and was very surprised, because generally those who engage in collecting are people over forty years old, and these people often have successful careers.
He has enough financial resources to engage in collecting, and Xue Chen, who seems to be only a year or two older than him, also engages in collecting?
"Yes, I also like collecting." Xue Chen nodded.
"Really? Then tell me, how many pieces do you have in your collection now?" Hong Qing asked with some interest.
Xue Chen calculated in his mind, and with the four harvests in the capital, there should be thirteen or four.
"That's right. It must have cost hundreds of thousands to get it." Hong Qing praised, even if each piece of ordinary gadgets only cost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, the total value should be 30,000 to 400,000 yuan.
"Ahem, hundreds of thousands? There are still some." Xue Chen laughed.
The two of them did not deliberately lower their voices when talking. A man in his thirties sitting in front of them with his legs crossed glanced back at the two of them and sneered at Xue Chen: "A dozen collections worth hundreds of thousands.
You dare to say that you are a collector, and you are not ashamed to say so, and you are not ashamed?"
"What did you say?" Hong Qing was the first to refuse. He felt that he could talk to Xue Chen quite well. Now that he saw others laughing at Xue Chen, he couldn't help but ask.
"Since you didn't hear clearly, let me say it again. There are only a dozen pieces in the collection, worth only a few hundred thousand. Don't say that you are a collector, that's just collecting garbage! Those who are real collectors cannot afford to lose face.
It’s a shame, you know?” The man repeated with a sneer. (To be continued)