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

The porcelain bowl in Yun Zhou's hand is painted with two colorful butterflies wandering in a sea of ​​flowers. The typical red, yellow and green colors are bright and bright. It belongs to the pattern of colorful flowers and butterflies. It looks very beautiful.The six-character inscription "Made in the Kangxi Period of the Qing Dynasty" is written at the bottom. From the outside, it looks like an official kiln in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

But he carefully felt the tire quality with his hands, and he could clearly feel the roughness of the tire quality, unlike the light and thin carcass of the official kiln.

The five colors on the bowl are a kind of on-glaze color, which needs to be outlined on the monochrome glaze first, then filled with color, and then fired in the kiln for the second time. The process is relatively complicated.The coloring of this piece of porcelain in front of me is not fine enough, and some of the coloring exceeds the frame of the external drawing. If it was an official kiln of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, such mistakes would not have occurred.

So according to his judgment, this should be porcelain imitating the Kangxi official kiln in the Republic of China.As for the curium nails on the bottom, it may be because the old man's family thinks that this is a high-quality official kiln, so they will cherish it more.

As for the other bowl, it is indeed old, but it is not as old as the period of the Republic of China. At best, it can only be regarded as an older object with little value.

Little Yulong opened his mouth and yawned a little, lazily absorbed a stream of spiritual energy from the colorful bowl, then curled up and lay on the boy's wrist, flicking his tail, looking bored.

Its performance undoubtedly affirmed Yunzhou's judgment.

"How is it? How much are these old objects worth?" The old man coughed twice and looked at them with hopeful eyes.

Yun Zhou sighed in his heart, I'm afraid he will be disappointed.

They discussed with Hong Hai in a low voice, and came to the conclusion: these three items add up to more than [-] yuan at most, and they are not easy to sell.

Two unknown paintings and a five-color porcelain bowl imitating Kangxi in the Republic of China with cured nails should be bought by few people, even Yunzhou himself would not collect them.

"Old man, the things are indeed old, but they are not good, they are all very common items." Hong Hai said truthfully, "If we want to take them, we will give you this amount at most."

He compared two fingers, "2000 yuan, you can think about it."

This is a very high price, and other people who come to receive the goods can't wait to lower the price to death.

To put it bluntly, coming here to receive goods is to pick up the leaks. When you see good things, you can’t say good things. If you see good things, you have to find some faults.

As the saying goes, "grain and cloth are very profitable, traditional Chinese medicine pawnshops are profitable, and antique calligraphy and paintings are profitable." This shows the huge profits of this industry.

Of course, with this comes the risk.

Most of the things you collect when you come to the countryside to shop for goods are relatively complicated. Whether it is true or false, and whether you can sell it after receiving it, you have to bear all the consequences yourself.Drilling is a common thing, and it cannot be compared with the supply of formal channels.

It's all about sight.

When the old man heard Hong Hai's words, he was suddenly disappointed.

He has been cherishing these few things like heirlooms, thinking that they can be sold for a good price, but he didn't expect it to be worth much at all.

Xue Yifan also shook his head at them. He just looked around. The furniture here is not made of precious wood such as huanghuali, golden nanmu, and rosewood. They are all the most common and have no purchase value.

"Grandpa, do you have any other old objects here? No matter what it is, you can bring it to us to see, such as coins, stamps, bronze statues and so on."

"No more, someone came to collect it once before, and sold it all at a low price." The old man looked very regretful. At that time, it was sold very cheaply, and someone took it away for dozens of dollars. "Otherwise, why don't you go to the yard and have a look?"

"...That's fine, let's take a second look, and if it's really not there, we'll collect those pieces first."

"Oh, sorry for the trouble, Boss Hong."

Yun Zhou and the others came to the yard. There were dozens of potted flowers on the open space. Although they were not expensive varieties, they could feel the old man's love for flowers and plants.

Apart from these potted plants, there was only a bench in the yard, and there was nothing else, making it look a bit empty.

Hong Hai glanced casually for a few times and then retracted his gaze. There is nothing to study here, so don't waste time here.

Just as he was about to go back, Yunzhou let out a light 'huh' and set his gaze on a flowerpot with Phalaenopsis planted.

This flower pot looks like a modern design, the surface is sky blue, and the overall shape is like a tank, very simple.Its body is distributed with wicker-like vertical stripes, and the top-to-bottom lines give people a sense of smoothness and nature. The entire flower pot has such stripes, at least dozens of them.

The young man didn't care about it at first, but under the sunlight, those willow leaf-shaped vertical lines constantly changed with the movement of his eyes, there was a hint of agility in the silence, and the whole body exuded a lustrous and light color, which was obviously a modern craft. It's hard to be refined.

Yun Zhou took a closer look, carefully counted the stripes on it, and found that there were exactly 100 stripes!

This reminded him of the sky-blue glazed pots from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that he had read in books. The appearance seemed simple, but the actual firing was very complicated.

The willow stripes on the porcelain imitate handicrafts such as baskets woven from rattan. The shape of the vessel is not easy to make, and there are hundreds of deep and shallow unevenness on the surface. The glaze needs to be very even and careful to achieve an even and smooth finish. effect, the number of finished products is very limited.

The sky blue glaze is an innovative glaze color during the Kangxi period. Because of its light and elegant glaze color, which looks like azure blue, it can be compared with the extremely difficult-to-fire cowpea red glaze.

No matter judging from the shape or glaze color, this kind of sky blue glazed pot (cylinder) can be called the top monochromatic glaze work in the Kangxi period. ①

The young man squatted down, slowly lifted the flowerpot, and looked at the bottom part of the pot, and found that this piece of porcelain had no base.

Generally, Kangxi official kilns will write the six-character regular script inscription "Kangxi Year of the Great Qing Dynasty". However, in the early days of Kangxi during the war, it was worried that the porcelain would be broken, so some did not write inscriptions.

Seeing that Yun Zhou had been looking at the flower pot, several other people also came over.

"Hiss, this flower pot—?"

Being from a family of antiques, they didn't pay attention to it just now, but now that they noticed it, they could see it. They couldn't help admiring Yun Zhou's eyesight, and Hong Hai even gave him a thumbs up, admiring him very much.

Even Xu Ze couldn't help but cast slightly surprised glances at the young man, the speed of the growth of the other party was astonishingly fast!

According to the old man, they were obviously not the first wave to receive the goods. None of the previous people, including them, had noticed the specialness of this flower pot, only Yun Zhou had discovered it.

Hong Hai thinks his eyesight is not bad, but besides his eyesight, Yun Zhou also has the caution and carefulness that surpasses others, which he needs to learn.

As a monochrome glaze product of Kangxi official kiln, the Qing Kangxi sky blue glaze striped cylinder of the same style but a circle larger than it was once sold at an auction house for a high price of 280 million.

This one is smaller, and the market price is definitely not comparable to that of the auction house, but overall, [-] yuan should be no problem.

Auction houses pay attention to detailed sources and orderly inheritance. The source of each item in the auction catalog is indicated. Generally, folk things are not accepted because it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.

What they include are either private collectors’ collections, artifacts that have been exhibited in museums, or items that have been auctioned before, or auctioned twice or even three times. With such an endorsement, the price of the auction will naturally rise.

Many wealthy people, entrepreneurs, etc. do not have time to go shopping for antiques in the market, and they are not professional collectors. For them, auction houses are the best choice for obtaining antiques.

Therefore, the transaction price of the auction house is generally [-]% to [-]% higher than that of the market.

"Grandpa, these flower pots of yours are pretty good, where did they come from?" Hong Hai asked nonchalantly, and at the same time was poking around.

"These flower pots were bought from the market more than ten years ago. At that time, I spent a total of... oh, I remember it cost two yuan." The old man looked confused and shocked at the same time, "Why, these few Could it be that the flowerpot is, baby?"

The few people looked at each other and couldn't help admiring. The old man who talked about picking up the leak is the real pick-up. Although it was inadvertent, sometimes luck can't stop it.

Hong Hai pointed to the sky blue-glazed Baitiao jar and a flower pot next to it, and said in a vague tone: "These two flower pots, I think they are old objects from the Qing Dynasty, and they are good. How about this? Those three objects, one kick, how about 10 yuan?"

With one kick, it doesn't matter whether it's true or false, good or bad, it's all covered by the one-buy price.

"One hundred thousand?!" The old man's eyes widened immediately, "Only these two flowerpots are worth so much money?"

Looking at Hong Hai's secretive expression, he reacted immediately and said pleasantly, "Of course, of course, you can move out now."

Hong Hai took out a stack of banknotes from his purse and patted them on his hands, "Grandpa, you can count them. The 10 yuan you just took out from the bank is not a lot."

The buddy also brought the banknote detector, put the coins in and counted them.

"well."

The old man wiped his face excitedly, picked up a banknote with his thin fingers, touched it, and looked at the watermark in the sunlight, smiling from ear to ear.

His little grandson also came out of the room, only three or four years old, looked at them curiously, and said to the old man, "Grandpa, I'm hungry."

"Hey, let's buy meat right away at noon. Grandpa will buy whatever you want!"

After paying, Hong Hai winked at the clerk. The clerk moved the two paintings and a few other things to the car, while Hong Hai himself carried the flower pot with a cautious look on his face.

People who peeked at the gate were so jealous that they heard that the flower pots could be sold for so much money, and rushed to declare.

"The two broken flowerpots of Lao Ma's house sold for a full 10 yuan! Let's go back and see if there are any flowerpots or earthen jars."

"What? One hundred thousand! My god, old Ma is really blessed."

"The person who received the goods this time is very honest. I should have known that the previous items should not be sold casually, alas."

"That's all right, all right, don't look at it. Take out all the treasures at the bottom of the box. After passing this village, there will be no such store——"

Liujia Village is a small village in the countryside of fourth- and fifth-tier cities. The living standards of the residents are generally not high. Even if they are demolished, there is not much money for the demolition. They have to pay tens of thousands of yuan to live in a new house. In their eyes, 10 yuan is a lot of money. .

Hong Hai carried the 'flower pot' back to the car and grinned, "Brothers, today is a good start. Judging from the performance of these people, I guess there are still many good things to come."

The bid just now is extremely high in Taohuo. Generally, when you come to the countryside to receive goods, you will be kicked for thousands of dollars, whether you like it or not.Of course, it is rare to see fine official kilns like this.

The most important thing is that Hong Hai intends to use this price to spread his reputation, so that the rest of the people can take out the treasure at the bottom of the box.

"Yunzhou discovered the hundred pieces of sky blue glaze pot, and it must belong to Yunzhou. I don't have any objections to this, right? If I don't have an objection, I will directly deduct it from his money." Hong Hai wrote down a sum in his small notebook, and asked Yun Zhou's signature.

A few of them collected cash before coming here. Some elderly people are not used to paying with mobile phones, and cash is better to use.

As the main leader, Hong Hai took 200 million from his father, Xu Ze 100 million, Yun Zhou and Xue Yifan each contributed 30, a total of 360 million. Others 'money'.

Yun Zhou didn't use it this time, he was the one who discovered it.

Several people continued to go to the third house.

The middle-aged couple in that family had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw them coming, they immediately dumped a box of things on the table.Yun Zhou took a look, there were bead strings, copper coins and jewelry, there were more than a dozen of them.

Hong Hai took off the emerald ring from his hand, and began to look at it.

The first thing he picked up was a bead string, wooden and reddish brown, with large patches of brown eyes on it.

"Boss, these are a string of small-leaf red sandalwood beads full of gold stars. My wife brought them from her natal home. After so many years, she has been reluctant to sell them. Seeing that you are a real person, we will pay you 2 yuan."

"Hey, yes, we didn't sell it when someone sold it for [-] yuan three years ago, but now the price of red sandalwood rose. We didn't plan to sell it if we didn't want to live in a new house." The woman echoed.

Hong Hai picked it up and smelled it, then carefully looked at the gold stars and brown eyes on it, put the beads aside, and picked up a jadeite handle.

This is a handle of Pixiu, the background color is white, the head of Pixiu is turquoise, the overall transparency is very low, the background color is dry, and the carving is not bad.

"The handle of ice waxy sun green is 2 yuan if you want it."

Xu Ze sneered directly, and Yun Zhou also felt that something was wrong.This handle is clearly a green species with a white background, and the green color is very light, and the background is not white enough. It belongs to low-grade jadeite, and it can cost up to 2000 yuan in the market.

Hong Hai took the emerald ring back to his hand, "Kick these, five thousand."

"What? Are you here to collect the goods or to rob them—these are old goods, and they will not be sold if they are less than 20!" The woman screamed, and the man also looked like you didn't know the goods.

"Then keep it to yourself."

Hong Hai greeted them and left without looking back. When he reached the door, he heard the man hurrying over. Take it away."

"Farewell. Red rosewood waxed small-leaf red sandalwood, low-grade ice waxy seeds with white background, you should continue to keep the bottom of the press box."

Hearing that the other party was a knowledgeable man, the man closed the door with a livid face and made a 'bang' sound.

"What happened just now?" Xue Yifan was a little confused about the situation.

"Treat us for being taken advantage of." Hong Hai rolled his eyes, "Sometimes those who receive the goods may not know the goods, after all, there are too many categories.

Think about it, those who know porcelain don’t necessarily know jadeite, those who know jadeite don’t necessarily understand coins, and those who understand coins don’t necessarily know bronze statues, so they use these ambiguous things to fool people. "

Nowadays, many people want to make a fortune by buying goods, but if you don’t have the vision, let alone come here to make a fortune. If you come here for safekeeping, you will lose all your underwear. Hong Hai has seen many such people.

Some time ago, there was a so-called heirloom who was cheated by the so-called family heirloom. After getting it appraised by their antique shop, it was found to be a fake.

It is said that the middle-aged man was introduced to a large old house to look at the goods. Judging from the layout, it must be a rich family.He also asked someone specifically, this mansion was indeed the mansion of a certain high official, and it fell into decline later, but the details are still there.

When I entered the old house, several groups of people were looking at this family heirloom, and they rushed to bid, and they got more than 200 million yuan.In the end, the young man didn't want to sell it anymore. He felt sorry for his ancestors and planned to keep it.

After several buyers left, the middle-aged man couldn't help but be moved. He chatted and drank with the young man, talked about the world, and made various connections.

Half a month later, the middle-aged man finally got his wish and persuaded the young man to sell the family heirloom to him. It took a full 150 million to get it, and he emptied all his savings.

A few days later, the middle-aged man happily took the baby to appraise it, but he didn't expect it to be a fake.

When the appraisal result came out, he still didn't believe it. Unfortunately, he couldn't contact the young man again, and the ownership of the house didn't belong to him. It was just rented for a month, and it was specially set up to lure these leakers.

There are too many tricks in the antique industry, and it is hard to guard against. If you have no eyesight, don't easily think about picking up leaks and shopping for goods.

Next, the few people went to a few more houses, and what they found were small items, such as some porcelain bowls and plates from the late Qing Dynasty, blue and white pen holders from the Republic of China, various Tongbao from the Qing Dynasty, and some of the less valuable bracelets and ornaments. Like, a total of only tens of thousands of dollars spent.

These people did take out all the old things in their homes, but unfortunately there was nothing good.

"Hey, so far I have only found one high-quality official kiln, and I still rely on Xiao Zhouzhou's eyesight." Hong Hai was so tired that he sat down on the wooden bench in the yard, "It's really boring."

Yun Zhou thought it was pretty good. He appraised a lot of porcelain and other objects in the morning, which was very rewarding for him.

"After finishing this family, let's go to eat first, and rest in the car for a while before continuing." Hong Hai pulled the fake fur on his body, feeling a little prickly on his neck.

Several people entered the room, and there was a bronze statue with a severed head and two fans on the table.

Hong Hai took the bronze statue in his hand and looked at it. It depicts Sakyamuni sitting on the lotus platform with his hands in the seal of the Dharma on his chest. It shows his image when he was preaching, which is vivid and vivid.

The material of the Buddha statue is gilt copper, with fine casting and carving. This kind of Buddha statue is generally used by the court and temples. Judging from the craftsmanship, it should be the genuine product of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.It is a pity that the head of the Buddha statue is missing, which greatly reduces the value of this gilt bronze statue of Shakyamuni preaching.

On the other side, Xu Ze unfolded the fan and observed the calligraphy on it. They were not the works of famous masters, so he put them back.

There is only one middle-aged man named Fan Qi in this family. He is dressed sloppily and his hair has not been taken care of for a long time. His greedy eyes have been staring at the big gold chain on Hong Hai's neck, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"Boss, I heard that you paid [-] yuan for two flower pots. Hehe, you are so generous! That's why I took out the things at the bottom of the box when I saw you coming. I don't bother to replace it with someone else.

These items are not bad, they are all my treasures at the bottom of the box, if the bid is high, I will show you other things—"

Hong Hai was a little annoyed by his nagging, turned the emerald ring on his hand, and leaned back in the chair: "How much do you want?"

Fan Qi stretched out two fingers and folded them together, "The minimum is [-], and if there is less, we won't sell it."

Hong Hai rolled his eyes in his heart. The intact bronze statue was worth [-] to [-] yuan. Now that the head is gone, he pays back [-] yuan. The market price of [-] yuan is too much. He asked him to charge up to [-] yuan.

"Then don't sell it."

"Hey, boss, don't worry, I often go to the scrap area and second-hand market to buy goods, and there are other treasures here, you can take a look."

Hong Hai didn't bother to move, Xu Ze couldn't get used to the smell here and went outside to get some air. He had been wearing a mask all morning, and it was indeed a little stuffy.

Xue Yifan and Yun Zhou followed him to the place where the altar was placed. There were indeed a lot of messy things, such as cigarette bags, snuff bottles, broken bowls, jars, vases, etc., with a thick layer of dust on the surface. Dirty paint sticking from where or something.

The two of them looked at several ordinary handicrafts in a row. Not only did they not see an old object, but they also made their bodies dirty. There was too much dust here.

"I'm going to wash my hands." Xue Yifan couldn't take it anymore, and asked Fan Qi, "Where is the sink?"

"I'll take you there." Fan Qi led the other party to the water pipe in the yard, still looking at Yun Zhou in the room, afraid of stealing his things.

At this time, the boy's eyes were indeed attracted by a black bowl on the table.

Just now he just felt that the shape of this bowl was a bit strange, unlike modern bowls, until the little jade dragon on his wrist suddenly raised his body and stared straight at the bowl, then he slowly approached it and used it without any trace. Thumb wiped a bit of dust off the rim.

There is a little black and gold color on the edge of the mouth. It turns out that the bowl was originally black.This shape and enamel reminded him of a type of utensil - Jianzhan of the Song Dynasty, which was also a utensil for drinking tea and fighting tea in the Song Dynasty.