The years when I was reborn as a giant in the antique world

The publicity of the glass-type imperial green jade set off a wave of enthusiasm on the Internet. The three top jade carvers who won domestic and large design awards used every inch of this jade to the extreme. unbelievable.

Any one of the three design drawings has reached the pinnacle, and it is difficult to be surpassed.

In particular, a group of jewelry designers who are still studying or have just become famous almost regard it as a model and example, and compete to study it. At the same time, these three design drawings are regarded as classic cases by the industry, which completely ignites people's enthusiasm.

Of course, there is also the result of the operation of the handed down jewelry marketing department, as the hidden push behind, the atmosphere is constantly pushed to a climax——

Some people in the industry began to try to design and posted their design drawings on the Internet, which received countless likes. The next day, they received many invitations for design drafts, so they happily shared the news, and others saw the effect So good, also began to follow suit.

In this way, it continues to ferment and expand its influence. Every day, new ideas and new designs for this set of jewelry are born, which is comparable to a design competition.

Some students majoring in jewelry design were also given corresponding design assignments. Although their designs were not refined enough, they had the creativity of the new era, and the jewelry they made was refreshing. Such students were quickly signed by well-known design companies , You don’t have to wait until you graduate from college to have a home.

In the end, it has become a jewelry industry carnival.

As a result, Handed down Jewelry has gained a great reputation. When other jewelry stores are facing crisis, the turnover of the store has risen against the trend, showing signs of recovery.

In order to get this set of glass-type emperor green jewelry on the market as soon as possible, the voting time for the three design drawings was only two weeks, and in the end Master Qiao won the most votes.

His design is more comprehensive than the other two jade carvers. A piece of egg-sized glass imperial green jadeite has been designed by him in nine different works, including pairs of jewelry.

It gives people the feeling that a netizen said: Picking jadeite between the nails has brought the design to the extreme.

These nine pieces of jewelry include:

Women's jewelry: ring face (oval), drop-shaped pendant, a pair of earrings, a pair of stud earrings (small).

Men's accessories: emperor green generous card, ring face (men's ring, flat style), a pair of emperor green cufflinks.

Other accessories: two emerald brooches, kingfisher style and peacock style.

The naming of jewelry is also in full swing. In view of the high prizes and the rising popularity of the topic, the number of reposts has exceeded [-] million, and the number of participants has reached nearly one million, and it continues to increase.

After the design drawings came out, Handed down Jewelry added the name of a single piece of jewelry, and each piece of jewelry has a reward of 10 yuan, so that more people can participate.

However, these things basically had nothing to do with Yunzhou. On the same day, he received a check signed by Mr. Xu and went back to school with a few others.

After returning to school, Xu Ze gradually became busy. Since he brought back these two pieces of jade and temporarily resolved the crisis of handed down jewels, his status as the heir of the Xu family has been unshakable.

Mr. Xu is getting old, and he will step down from his high position in a few years. Currently, he is teaching his grandson about management in preparation for the handover in the future.

Yun Zhou had a restless week.

He currently has more than 6000 million funds in his account. It can be said that he has directly entered the ranks of the rich, and it is really rare at such a young age, but he is not happy.

Back home on the weekend, Yun Zhou gave the pair of ice-filled green bracelets to his mother.

"Zhou Zhou, this bracelet—?" Yu Xinlan looked very surprised. She once had a pair of similar bracelets, so she understood its value better.

Five years have passed, and the price will only go up and not down, at least three to four million.

But this pair of bracelets is really beautiful, with a texture as clear as ice, a green color, and a smooth and delicate texture, which is better than her previous pair.

"Mom, this is a gift for you. I remember you had a pair of similar ice bracelets before. As long as you like it."

Yun Zhou tried his best to restrain his expression, and smiled at her, "Then I'll go back to my room first."

Yu Xinlan looked at her son's back with a worried look on her face.

Knowing the child is Mo Ruo's mother, she is Yun Zhou's mother, so she can naturally see the reluctance in the other party's smile.It's just that her son is grown up and has his own ideas, so what she can do is limited.

Yun Zhou returned to the room, feeling more and more depressed.

He transferred part of the funds to the stock market, and the remaining funds remained in the account, reminding him that this is not a dream, it is real.

He is going to invest in another property, but then what?

Yun Zhou suddenly felt at a loss, as if his life had lost its direction.

After being reborn, he was busy paying off the debts owed by his relatives. After achieving his goal, he finally let his mother move out of the old house, live in a high-end community, and start a new life.

But now, he suddenly has such a large sum of money.

With this money, he and his mother can live a very prosperous life even if they do nothing for the rest of their lives. At this moment, he suddenly felt: everything is meaningless.

For the first time, Yunzhou felt restless. He opened the cabinet of Duobao Pavilion, and there were more than a dozen pieces of porcelain that had been glued inside. Tang Xing kiln white porcelain rhombus shaped wash.

He casually picked up a few pieces of broken porcelain that hadn't been put together yet, and after mixing the adhesive, he forced himself to restrain his mind and start splicing.

In the evening, Master Feng appeared in the room.Looking at the tiles that the young man had put together, he couldn't help frowning.

"The glue here has not been wiped off." Master Feng pointed to the overflowing translucent adhesive, "The cracks are not aligned, and need to be washed off and re-adhesive."

"...Well, I see."

Yun Zhou replied in a low voice, and the atmosphere became a little more depressing for no reason.

"Tell me, what happened to you? This is not like the usual you." Master Feng asked with a smile.

In his opinion, a lot of pressure and troubles are self-imposed, and mentality determines everything, which is absolutely true.

Yun Zhou put down the broken porcelain in his hand, his clear eyes were stained with confusion, and he expressed his feelings to Master Feng, "...I gambled up two pieces of wool last week, with a total value of more than 6000 million, just...all of a sudden I feel like I've lost my purpose in life."

After hearing this, Master Feng smiled indifferently, "There's no need to think too much, there are many invisible rich people in the antique industry, which big collector doesn't have hundreds of millions of assets?

For example, a blue-and-white painting pot of Guiguzi descending from the mountain was auctioned in country Y a few years ago. The auction price was equivalent to RMB 2.3 million. Based on the prices at that time, it was worth two tons of gold!

Let me think about it, well, according to the current price of gold, it is equivalent to 6 million yuan, and you can only buy one-tenth of a yuan blue and white picture pot for 6000 million yuan. "

Seeing that the young man was deep in thought, Master Feng gave another example, "Let's not go so far, let's just say that the Qing Qianlong enamel-colored jade pot and spring vase you have seen cost at least 6000 to [-] million. All your assets plus It seems that it is only enough to buy such a small appreciation bottle, does it feel like nothing?

If you want to go on in the collection and reach the height of a great collector, you are still far away. "

"Well, you're right." Yun Zhou closed his eyes and thought about it seriously, and found that it was indeed the case.

His assets are nothing in the eyes of auction houses and many well-known collectors, and there is a long way to go.

"Thank you, Master Feng."

"It's nothing, you're still young, and it's normal to be confused. Even in my later years, I experienced times of confusion. My sons are not interested in porcelain restoration, and the two disciples I received are not my favorite candidates. Unfortunately, it's too late. Taught one."

Master Feng sighed, "At that time, I hesitated for a long time, and I was confused for a long time, but I still didn't pass on the housekeeping skills to any one, and then suddenly became seriously ill, which caused the only 'stainless restoration' to be lost.

So, you are my only hope. "

Master Feng patted Yunzhou's shoulder with his cold hands, "I think your next goal is to pass on the art of 'stainless restoration', what do you think?"

"Yes, this is my next goal."

Yun Zhou took a deep breath, his confused eyes gradually became firm, and the boulder that had been stuck in his heart also eased.

After calming down, the young man washed off all the adhesive that had just spilled out, and started splicing again. It was not until the evening that he finally spliced ​​all the remaining pieces of porcelain.

During the two months of studying with Master Feng, Yunzhou has become very proficient in the third step of porcelain restoration—adhesion, and can almost match and glue quickly.

It's just that his art skills are poor, and many color combinations are carried out under the guidance of Master Feng.

"Take your time, you need to adjust the proportion of the color to get a feeling, this is not something that can be done overnight, and you can learn it as you go.

Let’s move on to the next step—priming, also called puttying, that is, filling the remaining cracks with colored paint, and finely sanding it to make it as smooth as a glaze..."

This part still needs to use color, including the subsequent steps - coloring, which is mainly to repair the glaze color.After all, the restoration of antiques such as porcelain is to "restore the old as old", and the newly filled glaze color must be exactly the same as the original one.

The reconciled paint is applied layer by layer with a small horn scraper. After each layer is applied, wait for it to dry, and then sand it back and forth with fine water sandpaper until the fine seams are filled.

Yunzhou applied the paint layer after layer, each time the amount was very fine, trying to cover every crack but not redundant, and then sanded it down a little bit with sandpaper.

This is a very boring job. The sandpaper scratches the fingers sorely, and there are red marks on the white fingertips, with bloodshots faintly oozing from the inside.

It takes a thousand back and forth sandings to smooth the joints, and the process is repeated for each crack: mixing paint, carefully smearing the cracks, scraping off the excess with a spatula, and smoothing it out with sandpaper.

"Let's be here today."

Master Feng looked at Yun Zhou distressedly, he found that the other's forearm was starting to tremble, and once again admired the young man's perseverance.

"it is good."

Yun Zhou put down the sandpaper in his hand, and the particles on the sandpaper were smoothed away, and there were tiny red marks all over his fingertips. Although the skin was not broken, it was obviously swollen.

A few drops of sweat dripped from the broken hair on the young man's forehead, he gasped for breath, and his complexion became a little whiter under the infiltration of sweat.

This was the first time he was sweating profusely since he had the icy breath carried by the little jade dragon, and he felt very happy.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, leaned back against the back of the chair, his eyes were astonishingly bright.

After such a single-minded work, he suddenly felt that the purpose of life had returned.

The feeling of being immersed in it is really comfortable, you don’t have to think about anything, you don’t care about anything, you abandon all the sense of touch and hearing from the outside world, and indulge in your own world, and the pressure is also released a lot.

Doing what you love is inherently a joyful thing to do.

**

It is already late November, and there is less than a month until the Golden Harvest Autumn Auction.

Generally, large auction houses hold two large-scale auctions every year, one spring auction and one autumn auction, and the time of each year is different.

This year Golden Harvest’s autumn auction in Kyoto will be held from December 12 to 10 for a period of nine days. At that time, the auction will be divided into various special sessions, such as modern art, calligraphy and painting, porcelain, jade and jewelry, etc.

Handed down Jewelry plans to auction off the set of glass-filled green jewelry in the main store in time for this autumn auction.

The reputation of the glass species imperial green has already been established, and it only needs to add fire to the auction where rich people gather, and the brand of handed down jewelry can be pushed to a higher peak.

There is only one month, and normally it is too late to send the shoot.

As a world-renowned art auction house, it takes 4-6 weeks for the online valuation alone. After the valuation, there are various links such as on-site appraisal, signing of the entrustment agreement, delivery of auctions, and making of auction catalogs. At least 2-3 months.

However, it is obviously not the first time that handed down jewelry has been sent for auction. Mr. Xu directly contacted the person in charge of the Huaguo Region, and within a week, all the procedures were completed, and this set of jewelry worth more than 7000 million yuan was airlifted there.

The auction catalog of Golden Harvest Autumn Auction has been printed two months ago and is available for public sale on the official website.

It is impossible to print all of the more than 1000 items participating in the auction. Only a few of the most precious collections in each category will be selected. These antiques that can be placed in the auction catalog have always been the object of competition among collectors. Represents the top of each category.

On Sunday night, Xu Ze, who had not been seen for nearly a month, finally returned to the dormitory, his usual stern brows softened a lot, and his voice was tinged with suppressed excitement, "Yunzhou, I have some good news for you .”

The two came to the balcony.

There was a gentle night breeze, and the cool wind messed up the young man's light brown hair, but his eyebrows and eyes became clearer.

Xu Ze turned his head to look at the other party, his eyes filled with joy: "With the joint efforts of everyone, a total of fifteen pairs of floating flower bracelets, 32 pendants and [-] pendants have been made from that piece of high ice floating flower jadeite. The utilization rate is very high, and there is basically no waste.

The first batch of eight pairs of high-ice floating flower bracelets and more than [-] pendants have been fully rolled out in three branches, and the effect is unexpectedly good. It is the best-selling jadeite jewelry of Handed down Jewelry. "

Xu Ze put his arms on the railing, and the corners of his lips slightly curled up, "At that time, grandpa followed the advice of Master Qiao and the vice president of marketing, and set the price of each pair of bracelets at 800 million, which was higher than the highest price expected at the beginning. 30% higher.

When this decision was made, many people in the family objected. They all agreed that the price was too high and asked for the price to be lowered to less than 500 million. "

Xu Ze's voice was tinged with sarcasm: "But the final result was far beyond their expectations. The Gaobing Floating Flower Jadeite was ordered for three pairs of bracelets less than a week after it went on the market, and it slapped these people hard in the face."

The high-end jewelry sold by handed down jewelry depends on the unit price rather than the quantity.

Especially the paired jade bracelets, the price is the highest among all jewelry, rarely sold on weekdays, usually the most sold in the two months before important banquets and celebrations, I did not expect such a reaction when it was just launched this time.

This is also related to the momentum of Emperor Green some time ago, otherwise the new news would not spread so quickly.

Not only that, this time the high-ice floating flower jadeite has been well received by old customers, and is known as "the purest color, the most beautiful floating flower", and is deeply loved by high-end ladies.

If things go on like this, the first batch of high-ice jewelry is expected to be sold out within two months, and the second batch will limit the number of purchases after it goes on the market, and it will continue until the start of the public sale in Myanmar next year.

The profit margin of handed down jewelry in the second half of the year may reach a new high.

The high-ice floating flower jadeite worth 3300 million actually created a sales of over [-] million. This was beyond everyone's expectations. Even Mr. Xu did not expect that when the price was set, he was sweating hard. Amidst the opposition of the crowd, relying on years of courage to carry it out forcefully.

And all of this was brought about by the young man beside him.

Xu Ze's chest was hot, and there was an extremely overflowing and fiery emotion spreading. The other party really helped him too much.

Although Yun Zhou didn't expect the price to be so high, he was happy for him, his eyes slightly curved: "This is a good thing, congratulations."

"…thanks."

Seeing the other party's clean and refreshing smile, Xu Ze's heartbeat gradually became more intense. He suddenly averted his gaze, unzipped his clothes, and let the cold night wind blow away the heat.

After a while, Xu Ze went back to his room and brought a red sandalwood box, which was slightly smaller than the one that held the jade pot and spring vase last time. He stood there silent for a while before handing out the box: "This is the leftovers. About... less than two kilograms."

Xu Ze's ears were slightly red, and he coughed lightly: "I'm really sorry, I didn't expect it to be so small."

He originally planned to keep about a quarter of the scraps. After all, the main event was the bracelet, but the quality of the material was so good that the large scraps were also carved into small pendants by two master carvers. It is a fragment that cannot be carved.

Yun Zhou opened it and took a look. There were a lot of jade fragments inside, but they were all pitifully small, and the biggest one was no more than the size of a thumb, but it was just right for the little Yulong to bite, so he smiled, "It's okay, I think it's okay. "

"Yunzhou, you—"

Xu Ze felt that the other party was really easy to talk to, and his Adam's apple rolled slightly, with complicated emotions surging in his heart, "Jia Deqiu's filming will start on the 10th of next month, do you want to go with us? This time There are many collections, and the glass-filled green jadeite jewelry from the Handed down Jewelry Headquarters will also be auctioned.”

Yun Zhou took out his mobile phone and looked at the class schedule. It seems that there are not many classes next month, so it would be nice to go and see, "Okay."

"Well. The two-day preview is about to start. This weekend, let's go and see it together."

Xu Ze had already discussed it with his grandfather. The two pieces of jade that Yunzhou brought to the handed down jewels are really meaningful, and the price is very low. Xu's is equivalent to picking up a big bargain.

If the teenager has a lot he wants at the auction, as long as the price is not too expensive, Mr. Xu will help him to take the auction, and the relationship can last long if there is reciprocity.

The preview of the auction is open to the public. At that time, all the items in the auction will be displayed in the preview, and anyone can go in and watch it.

The night before the preview, several people arrived in Kyoto by plane, and Hong Hai and Xue Yifan also came with them.

The lots at the Golden Harvest Auction may not have the strength to buy them, but you can't miss the opportunity to feast your eyes on them. It can greatly enhance your horizons. For students like them who major in antique appreciation, it is an opportunity not to be missed.

Mr. Xu has seen this kind of exhibition too much, and he is happy to let the young people toss. He just needs to be there when the auction starts.

At 9:10 in the morning of the next day, a long queue had already formed outside the exhibition hall. The exhibition hall opened at [-]:[-], and several people waited at the door for a while before entering with the crowd.

The exhibition hall is very large, and loud noises are not allowed inside, but low exclamations can still be heard. Auctions worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars appear in front of your eyes, and the distance between you and it is only a thin layer. Thin glass, there is nothing more shocking than this.

Hong Hai took Xue Yifan to the painting and calligraphy exhibition hall, where the authentic work of "Water Lily Pond and Roses" by Claude Monet was displayed. There are only three works depicting Ji □□ Garden from this perspective, and this painting is the most recent of the three. wide one.

Many people are rushing to this exhibit. After that, I am afraid that there will be no authentic works of Monet on display for decades.

In addition, there are works of art by Pablo Picasso, Paul L. Cézanne, Qi Baishi, and Zhang Daqian. These collections that are only rumored are eye-opening. The quality of the exhibits this time is unprecedented.

Yunzhou and Xu Ze went to the porcelain exhibition hall, which is almost a special exhibition for Huaguo.

Yuan blue-and-white large pots with cloud and dragon patterns, Ming Yongle sweet white glaze dark flower eight auspicious pattern high-legged bowls, Ming Xuande blue-and-white flat bottles with seawater and white dragon patterns, Qing Kangxi blue-and-white multicolored large pots, all kinds of porcelain are presented in glass cabinets one by one, It's dizzying.

"Please take this out and have a look." Yun Zhou heard someone requesting this.

The staff quickly took out the exhibits displayed in the glass cabinet and put them on a special display table for customers to play with.

"Can all of this be done by yourself?"

Yun Zhou was slightly taken aback. It was his first time to participate in the preview. Aren't he afraid of causing damage to the precious lot?

"Okay, these are all insured, it's okay to be careful."

Xu Ze signaled the staff to take out the Mingyongle Sweet White Glazed Tall Bowl that the teenager had been paying attention to, and showed the invitation letter for the auction.

Staff: "Please go to the VIP room to take a seat, and the collection will be delivered to you later."

Yunzhou and Xu Ze came to the VIP room not far away. The space is not big, but the privacy and service are very good. You just need to tell the staff which piece of porcelain you need, and the other party will bring the collection right away.

Little Yulong couldn't wait to raise his head from his wrist, protruding two small dragon horns, and yelled at the young boy in a milky voice: "Aww~ (a lot of aura)"