"Is this...Hetian jade?" Wang Dong asked a little uncertainly. He had certainly seen Hetian jade before, but this round bead-like Hetian jade was different from what he had seen before. It was more tender and white. , the quality of the jade is also more delicate, like a piece of pure grease plucked from the body of a goat.
"Hey, Wang Dong, you are also a fan of antiques after all. Not to mention that you can't even recognize Hetian jade. Let me have a look." Ning Xuanxuan reached out and took the box from Wang Dong's hand, and used Two fingers as white as green onions picked up the jade beads in the box and said with a slight hesitation, "This is obviously Hetian jade. It looks good. The quality of the jade is better than my piece of mutton-fat jade Maitreya Buddha." The pendant is better."
Yan Ruxing was concentrating on admiring the bronze wine baron. Shen Wanjun on the side saw the jade bead, his expression moved slightly, and he said unexpectedly: "Xue Chen, the quality of this jade bead is not ordinary mutton-fat jade."
"Well, it is the best type of mutton-fat jade, super-grade mutton-fat jade." Xue Chen replied.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone else came up from the first floor. Before the person arrived, the voice arrived first.
"Brother Xue is back from the capital. If you ask me to guess, Brother Xue never runs away empty-handed. He must have brought back some good stuff, right? Hurry up and open my eyes."
While talking, the burly Qi Hu appeared at the door, laughing and walking in.
However, Qi Hu did not come alone, there were two people with him, a man and a woman.
The woman looks like she is in her early thirties, but Xue Chen can tell from some details that this woman must be thirty-seven or eighty years old. She just takes good care of herself and wears makeup, so she looks younger. She has a standard face. Her oval face and red lips are very charming.
The other man was much younger, probably less than thirty years old, and was looking at everyone present with his eyes.
"Oh, Mr. Yan, Mr. Shen and Miss Ning are all here too." Qi Hu greeted with a smile, then looked at Xue Chen and said, "Xue Chen, let me introduce you."
Xue Chen nodded and left the wooden box and took two steps forward.
"This is mine...haha, my name is Zhang Qiao. You can just call me Sister Qiao. Everyone else should have heard of it. You are out of town during this period." Qi Hu said slightly vaguely.
Xue Chen immediately understood that this was Qi Hu's girlfriend! Qi Hu was already in his forties and seemed to have had a brief marriage but had no children. This person should be his new girlfriend.
"Hello, Sister Qiao." Xue Chen extended his hand and said hello.
Zhang Qiao looked at Xue Chen and nodded with a smile, then looked at Xue Chen with her eyes.
Qi Hu introduced another man, Zhang Qiao's younger brother, Zhang Jun.
Both of them are not from Yunzhou Province, but from Jiangdong Province.
"Please take a seat." Xue Chen arranged for the three of them to sit down, and Wang Dong also poured tea for them.
Xue Chen accidentally saw an interesting scene. Zhang Qiao's younger brother Zhang Jun took a sip from the cup and frowned, as if he was dissatisfied with the tea.
Xue Chen didn't say anything, but Wang Dong lost his temper and asked: "Mr. Zhang, what's wrong, this tea doesn't suit your taste?"
Zhang Jun glanced at Wang Dong and said: "I guess the price of this tea should not exceed five hundred yuan or one tael. The taste is a bit off, and I am not used to it."
Wang Dong tilted his lips. He bought this tea from Tianfu Tea House opposite for three hundred yuan a tael. He usually tastes quite good when drinking it. However, he was disgusted by it, but he thought it was a guest brought by Qi Hu. , and didn’t say much.
Qi Hu frowned and said: "Xiaojun, I think this tea is very good, but you are too picky."
Xue Chen didn't pay much attention. Wang Dong came over and whispered beside him: "I met these two people at Jinbihuihuang a few days ago and chatted with Qi Hu. He is from Jiangdong. His family runs a trading company overseas. I have a business and my family has assets worth one billion or eighty billion."
Qi Hu noticed that Yan Ruxing was holding a bronze wine cup in his hand, and Shen Wanjun was holding a jade ball in his palm. He hurriedly asked: "This should be the fun thing Brother Xue brought back. Hurry up and open it for me." Opening my eyes, I knew Brother Xue would never return empty-handed."
That time, the two of them were trading with people on the prairie of Inner Mongolia. Under the eyes of so many people, they dug out an emerald worth five to six million from the mouth of a three-legged golden toad burned with mud. He was so shocked that he could not forget that scene for a long time.
"Yes, these are all brought back by Xue Chen." Yan Ruxing said, after handing the bronze wine bottle to Qi Hu, he stared at the three unopened boxes.
He was not polite at all, he reached out and took it open one by one, taking out all three antiques carefully stored inside, including one piece of porcelain and two pieces of calligraphy and painting.
Next to him, Qi Hu was also admiring the bronze wine lord of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Now his eyesight has improved greatly and he has a certain understanding of various antiques.
When I saw the simple texture of this wine jute, and the delicate cloud and thunder text in the relief, there was an air of atmosphere. I knew it was a rare good thing, and my eyes couldn't help but brighten.
"Brother Hu, what's so interesting about this piece of iron?" Zhang Jun said casually while fiddling with his cell phone.
"Iron lump?" Qi Hu glanced at the man who might become his brother-in-law in the future and asked, "Have you ever seen scrap metal worth 20 million?"
"What? You said this thing is worth 20 million?" Zhang Jun blurted out.
Zhang Qiao's eyes also fluctuated slightly. Half an hour ago, Qi Hu called her and said that he wanted to meet a young brother who was very close and very capable.
From the conversation, she heard that Qi Hu valued this little brother very much and even had a hint of respect. This surprised her. She and Qi Hu had known each other for more than a month. Qi Hu had a rough personality. , he rarely has this kind of attitude towards others, even when he saw his father, he was not respectful, just polite!
Therefore, she was very curious about what kind of person this little brother was, but when she first saw Xue Chen, she felt that there was nothing special about him, he was just an ordinary young man.
"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. This is not an iron lump, but a bronze ware from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Do you know that it is 2,780 years ago?" Qi Hu said.
Counting the jade beads, Xue Chen brought back a total of five antiques from the capital, including a Western Zhou bronze wine prince, a landscape painting by Wang Shimin, an old man from Xilu, an eight-character calligraphy treasure of Emperor Yongzheng, a bottle from Yaozhou kiln, and the special-grade stone. Hotan jade beads.
These five things are in everyone's hands for appreciation in turn.
Yan Ruxing grinned and sighed, pretending to be angry: "Xue Chen, you must have gone to the capital to be a thief. How come you came back with so many good things in more than 20 days? Forget about the bronze wine baron." , Lao Shen told me how it came about, so your eyes are bright and you are lucky, but what happened to the other four items? The calligraphy of Emperor Yongzheng and Wang Shimin's paintings are on the market. But they are all so popular that even if you want to buy them, it’s hard to buy them.”
Not just Yan Ruxing, everyone present was puzzled.
"Uncle Yan, you have wronged me. It was neither stolen nor robbed." Xue Chen simply explained the origins of the two paintings and calligraphy and the piece of porcelain.
When he heard that Xue Chen had such an opportunity, Yan Ruxing said with a smile: "So that's what happened. If you trade one for three, it seems that you still make some money."
"Well, this deal is quite a bargain. It seems that Boss Gao is also a rich man and doesn't care much about the price difference." Uncle Shen said.
Xue Chen secretly thought that he was not only rich, but very rich, and was in charge of a group with total assets of tens of billions.
"Old Xue, it seems that you need to travel around the country more. You see, you went to the capital city, but you only got so many things back in twenty days. If you add them all up, it should be almost 50 million." , it’s easier to get money than robbing a bank.” Wang Dong held the bottle from Yaozhou Kiln and touched it.
"More than 50 million, so much?" Zhang Jun, who had been watching with a cold eye, was shocked by this number. He was good at talking about luxury cars, watches, and luxury brands, but he didn't know much about antiques. He was shocked that a humble gadget was worth more than 50 million.
His family is a well-known big family in Jinhe City, Jiangdong Province. It owns a foreign trade company with more than 200 employees. The family's assets exceed one billion. It is also ranked among the top ten in Jinhe City, and it is still increasing year by year. There is a net profit of 70 to 80 million every year.
How could he not be surprised when he heard that such a few gadgets cost 50 million yuan, which was as much as their company's net profit for most of the year?
Zhang Qiao also knew little about antiques. She only knew that antiques were generally of high value. But when she heard this number, she realized that these five antiques were not ordinary goods. She also vaguely understood why her boyfriend would treat a young man like this. of importance.
Xue Chen was also very satisfied with his harvest and said to Wang Dong: "In these more than 20 days, I didn't stay in the capital all the time. I stayed in Urumqi for many days."
"Urumqi? Urumqi in the northwest? What are you doing there? Hey, you said Urumqi. I remember, Yin Shaowei from our class is from Urumqi, right?" Wang Dong recalled.
"I met Yin Shaowei. As for my going to Urumqi, it was for a vein of Hetian jade. Otherwise, I wouldn't have delayed my return for so many days. I cooperated with others to develop a Hetian jade mine there." Xue Morning sermon.
"Open... to mine Hetian jade?" This news shocked everyone again.
Shen Wanjun, who knew a little about this, asked: "How many reserves of jade are there? Is it a rich ore?"
"Rich ore, jade mines are very densely distributed, and the reserves of Hotan jade should be more than 300 tons." Xue Chen replied.
"The reserves are only 300 tons. A friend of mine has a coal mine that produces hundreds of thousands of tons of coal every year," Zhang Jun said.
Shen Wanjun glanced at Zhang Jun indifferently, ignored it, and said to Xue Chen in surprise: "Three hundred tons of reserves? How can such a large amount of rich ore be discovered now? It's so rare, the estimate should be up to ten Hundreds of millions." (To be continued)