treasure hunter

Pei Miao walked into Rongbaozhai, followed by Jiang Long, and Pan Jinting stood outside the door for a while before reluctantly walking in. Now, she especially hoped that Pei Miao could make a fool of himself in Rongbaozhai.

Entering Rongbao Zhai, you can see dozens of Bogu shelves scattered in the store. However, each Bogu shelf is sealed with glass. This trick is exactly the same as Pei Miao's Jubaozhai. It shows that the business in the store is very good, and the traffic of customers is relatively large.

The facts are indeed true. At this moment, there are at least seven or eight customers in the store. Adding Pei Miao and the others, there are nearly ten customers. For an antique store, there are ten customers in the store at the same time, which is quite exaggerated. Well, you know, an ordinary antique shop can definitely get ten customers in a day, after all, there is a saying in the antique world, "If you don't open for three years, you can eat for three years after opening."

The items on the dozens of Bogu racks are almost all old objects with the doors open, most of which are stationery items, and there are more than 200 items in total.

In the other three directions, there are three long and large counters, and the counters are connected to each other. In front of each counter, there is a Mr. Zhangyan and a cashier. Outside the counter, there are three shopping guides and a lobby manager.

In other words, there are ten staff members on the first floor of Rongbaozhai. Such a configuration is unimaginable in other antique shops.

Pei Miao first finished looking at the items on the shelf, and then walked around the counter. The items on the counter were of a lower grade, and they were all old objects, but most of them were from the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China. No wonder there are so many people who like to patronize Rongbaozhai. The quality is trustworthy. Even laymen don’t have to worry about buying fakes when they come in to buy antiques.

It’s just that the things here are quite expensive, much more expensive than the market price. For example, a bluestone orchid inkstone with a lid from the late Qing Dynasty can be bought for less than 1000 yuan outside, but the price here is 8800 yuan. , and declined to counter-offer.

After walking around the first floor, Pei Miao stepped up the stairs and went to the second floor without finding anything to pick up.

Rongbaozhai’s house is not only ancient on the outside, but also antique on the inside. The staircase is a Y-shaped staircase, a bit like the staircase of a large ancient restaurant.

After Pei Miao went up to the second floor, he saw the two big characters "calligraphy and painting" hanging on the red lacquered pillars.

I saw that in the space of about 30 square meters behind this pillar, the walls are covered with calligraphy and paintings. This should be the painting and calligraphy area. There are four employees in the painting and calligraphy area, namely three shopping guides and an expert. More than 60 years old, sitting behind a plan, drinking tea comfortably.

Pei Miao turned to look around again, to the left was the porcelain area, the four treasures of the study area, to the right was the gold wares area, wooden wares area, and miscellaneous items area.

Pei Miao started to look at the painting and calligraphy area. There are about [-] paintings displayed in the painting and calligraphy area. The time span is very large. There are paintings from the Republic of China to the Song Dynasty, and each of them is genuine, some of them are masterpieces. , worth tens of millions, and some were made by unknown people, but the painting skills are not low, and some paintings are not even signed.

The calligraphy and painting area not only conforms to Rongbaozhai's "authentic" characteristics, but also conforms to Rongbaozhai's "expensive" characteristics. A picture of "Lynx Playing Frog" by Shen Quan in the Qing Dynasty is not large in size and has a market price of 50 yuan. 128 million, Pei Miao tried to counter-offer, but the lowest price was 88, which was 38 higher than the market price.

88 is a price that only an expert in antiques like Pei Miao can enjoy. If it is some ignorant bosses who are not short of money, they will probably be taken advantage of.

The same is true for other districts. After seeing the calligraphy and painting district, porcelain district, and goldware district, Pei Miao couldn't help sighing softly, "This money is really easy to earn."

Pan Jinting said: "If you can open an antique shop and ensure that the antiques in the store are all genuine, you can also set such a high price. I guarantee that no one will criticize you, and there will be many people willing to buy."

Pei Miao said: "I really have an antique shop, but my antique shop can't make sure that all the items in the store are genuine, but at present, the proportion of genuine items in my store has reached 50%, reaching [-]%. To the extent...the road is long and long..."

"Really? Genuine products account for 50% of your antique shop?" Pan Jinting was a little disbelieving and asked, "Is there only [-] or [-] items in your shop?"

Pei Miao said: "There are probably more than 500 pieces. It is definitely incomparable with Rongbaozhai. After all, it is a time-honored brand with a history of more than 300 years. After countless generations of hard work and hard work, it has accumulated a solid capital. We The store was opened with a friend, it is considered an old store reopened, and it hasn’t been here for a year, so it’s incomparable.”

Pan Jinting originally wanted to run on Pei Miao, but when she saw Pei Miao's serious face and tone when talking about her antique shop, she couldn't bear to run on Pei Miao. After all, she also knew how difficult it is to open an antique shop. It is even more difficult to open an antique shop well. It is not easy for every entrepreneur. It is very impolite to laugh at other people's efforts.

Pan Jinting then changed the subject and said, "How about it? Since you entered Rongbaozhai, you have seen hundreds of things. Have you seen anything you can miss?"

Pei Miao shook her head and said, "No."

"I'll just say it." Pan Jinting said, "It's a waste of time to come to Rongbaozhai to pick up leaks."

Pei Miao raised his eyebrows and said, "Rongbaozhai is the country's number one gold-lettered antique shop. It's normal for me to come in and take a look. I also own an antique shop. I can learn a lot from them. Picking up leaks is just a matter of chance. It’s okay if you don’t miss out, as far as the amount of money I’ve picked up so far, I’m definitely the number one in picking up leaks before the game.”

Pan Jinting rolled her eyes and said, "Now I'm looking for excuses again. Fortunately, I'm generous and don't care about you."

Pei Miao smiled and said, "What are you fussing about with me, have I offended you?"

Pan Jinting was speechless, thought about it, and simply waved her hands: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with you, you've seen Rongbaozhai almost, why don't we go out, we still have time, we can continue to visit Liulichang a little while."

Pei Miao said: "Let's finish shopping in Rongbao Zhai first, maybe there is a big leak waiting for me?"

"You really are..." Pan Jinting sighed helplessly, "You will not die until you reach the Yellow River, and you will not turn back until you hit the south wall."

Pei Miao smiled and answered the dragon: "Don't give up until you reach your goal."

After the two said this, they came to the woodenware section of Rongbaozhai.

Because there are some large ancient mahogany furniture in the woodware area, it covers a much larger area, about sixty to seventy square meters.

As soon as Pei Miao and the others entered, the shopping guide stepped forward and said, "Misters and ladies, what do you want to see? We have more than 160 pieces of wooden furniture and supplies from the Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty..."

Pei Miao said, "Let's take a look first."

Jiang Long looked at the wooden utensils here, and asked suspiciously: "You seem to have at most thirty or forty items here, where did you get more than 160 items?"

The shopping guide smiled slightly and explained: "We are displaying 48 pieces here, but there are still many in our warehouse. Due to space constraints, we cannot display them all."

Jiang Long suddenly nodded and said nothing more.

In order to save time, Pei Miao unfolded the Quan Shen Domain and walked around the woodware area. Finally, his eyes fell on a book case. This book case is quite interesting.

So he went to the desk and observed it carefully. It turned out to be the desk of lobular red sandalwood. The color of the leg seems to have a color difference from the color of the other three legs.

Although the color difference is very slight, it cannot escape Pei Miao's full concentration.

Under the Quanshen Domain, it can be seen that this desk leg with color difference has been polished. The reason is very simple. This desk leg has been carved with a knife, and two characters are engraved on the inside of the desk leg.

In order to grind off the engraved words on the table legs, it is necessary to polish the whole table legs. The engraved part is sanded the deepest, and other areas are gradually lightened, so that it will not look abrupt. If only the table legs are polished, it will look like a table leg. There is a scar on it.

The words on the case legs seem to have been worn away, but there are still shallow traces, but after the later period, they were deliberately finished and covered with patina, covering the shallow traces, even if covered with patina, It can still be seen that there is a color difference between the color of this case leg and the other three case legs.

After all, there is pterostilbene inside the lobular red sandalwood, rapid friction will cause the temperature to rise, which will accelerate the precipitation of pterostilbene, and the distribution of pterostilbene in other places is even, and this table leg has more pterostilbene, so the color will naturally be different.

Under Pei Miao's full attention, one can see that the table leg is 50 centimeters above the ground, and there is a very shallow Manchu script - Fuda.

These two characters are carved extremely jerky, like the characters of elementary school students who are just learning to write, it is really ugly.

Who is Fuda? Coincidentally, Pei Miao happened to see this person in the book Ye Lao lent him. This person was unknown in history and died young. Few people knew about it.

Although Fuda is little-known, but Fuda's father is very famous, and very arrogant, his father is the famous Ao Bai.

Oboi can be regarded as a famous minister in history, and this character often appears in TV dramas and movies, so that even people who don't understand history know who Oboi is.

Oboi was beheaded by Kangxi, and all his property was confiscated. Therefore, there are not many things left by Oboi. Even if some things were left by Oboi, they have already been in the hands of other people. Who would know it was Oboi? of.

This book case is different. Fuda's signature on the case leg is like Aobai's autograph. In the world of antiques, there are many factors that affect the value of an antique itself, such as age, rarity, the popularity of its original owner and These factors have a great influence on the degree of status and dignity.

When Oboi was alive, he was an extremely powerful minister, with one man under ten thousand, his status was quite high, and Oboi's popularity, needless to say, the rarity of the items left by Oboi is even more rare.

When various factors are combined, the value of this book case is needless to say.

Pei Miao pretended to watch this book case carefully for a long time, and even took out a magnifying glass to look at it. After looking at it for 5 minutes, he put away the magnifying glass, turned around and asked, "How do you sell this book case?"

The shopping guide hurried forward and said: "This is a book case specially used by officials or nobles in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The whole body is made of small-leaf red sandalwood. The workmanship and carving are extremely exquisite. It is the best among mahogany books..."

Pei Miao raised her hand to interrupt him, and said, "I know what you said, let's just talk about the price."

The shopping guide was interrupted by him, but he was not annoyed. He smiled slightly and said, "This book is 180 million."

Pei Miao thought for a while and asked, "Can you sell 80 yuan?"

The shopping guide smiled and shook his head: "Sorry."

Pei Miao said: "This desk is really good, it was originally the best among mahogany desks, but this desk has flaws."

Hearing this sentence, the old expert who had been reading the newspaper suddenly turned his head and looked at Pei Miao. The person who could see the flaws in the case must be a master.

After all, it is not uncommon for mahogany patina to have color difference. Pei Miao can see the flaws from the patina color difference, which is not easy.

Pei Miao pointed to a desk leg of the desk, and said, "This desk leg has been polished, especially the inner side. Here, the place 50 centimeters above the ground has been polished hard. If you look carefully, you will find that this part is a little sunken. Although the concave surface has expanded to a range of fifteen centimeters, and it has only been polished to a depth of less than one millimeter, it cannot be hidden from my glasses."

Pan Jinting, who was on the side, was shocked when she heard the words, and hurried over to take a closer look, and changed the angle. After careful observation, she found that the inner side of the desk leg was not straight, and the middle part was slightly concave. Although the range was deliberately enlarged to reduce the abruptness Feeling, although the depth of the depression is less than one millimeter, but as long as you observe carefully, you can really see it.

The old expert finally couldn't sit still anymore, left the newspaper and walked over slowly, and asked Pei Miao, "Then tell me a price, if the price is right, I'll sell it to you."

Pei Miao turned her head to look at the old expert, and saw that there was a badge hanging on his chest, with his job number, position, and name on it. His position was Rongbaozhai Appraisal Consultant, and his surname was Zhao Liben.

Seeing Pei Miao sizing him up, Zhao Liben repeated his previous words: "Young man, you can make an offer. As long as you make a suitable offer, I will sell it to you."

"Thank you, Expert Zhao." Pei Miao smiled slightly, as if thinking about it, then raised a finger and said, "100 million."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Liben raised his hand and touched his chin, then laughed and said, "Your price is very poisonous."

Pei Miao laughed and said, "The boy's class has an axe."

"It's all right." Zhao Liben said, "When did such a young expert appear in the capital? He not only has good eyesight, but also has high bargaining skills. What do you call him?"

Pei Miao said: "Boy Pei Miao, he's from Qinyou."

"Qin You?" Zhao Liben was stunned when he heard the words, "Where is it?"

Pei Miao said, "It's a county in Yangzhou."

"It's from Suzhou Province." Zhao Liben suddenly laughed, "I used to read on the Internet that Suzhou Province's self-reported family never mentioned Suzhou Province and prefecture-level cities. I thought it was a joke, but I didn't expect it to be true. Today is considered It was a real experience.”

Pei Miao smiled and said, "Then... Mr. Zhao, this desk..."

"Just follow the price you said, 100 million, and sell it to you."

"Thank you."