"Little brother, are you a student? Why did you spend three hundred yuan to buy a fake chicken cup? How will you explain it when you get home?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded: "My grandfather likes to collect antiques, but he only doesn't have the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup. Even if it is a fake, it doesn't matter!"
"He has long told us, our grandchildren, that if we encounter a Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup outside, as long as it is relatively well-preserved, we will bring it back to him!"
"As for the money, I said it cost three thousand, hehe!"
Ye Zhiqiu pretended to smile mysteriously.
The boss regretted it very much: "Brother, how about we re-trade? You said you spent 30,000, but you can repay 100,000 when you go back! Isn't there more pocket money?"
Ye Zhiqiu cursed in his heart, this guy has such a dark heart!
He shook his head: "That won't work. The difference is too big. If grandpa doesn't compensate me, wouldn't I be in a loss?"
The boss also knew that his idea was not very good, so he said no more.
"If you college students want to buy some treasures, you'd better choose these jade, agate and other items!" The boss continued to sell hard.
Ye Zhiqiu shook his head: "No! I don't understand antiques at all, I don't know the authenticity at all! If it weren't for my grandfather's instructions, I wouldn't even want this chicken cup!"
Those piles on the ground are all fakes, what do you want him to do?
Ye Zhiqiu turned around and left.
He was still excited as he got into the car.
Is it so easy to get the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup worth 1.2 billion?
Ye Zhiqiu originally thought that it would be very difficult for him to discover hundreds of millions of antique cultural relics. It was even more difficult to get it, but I didn't expect it to be so easy.
Ye Zhiqiu looked at the chicken cup again and sighed: "What a pity. Without this gap, the price would have soared to at least 150 million!"
He pondered for a moment, put the chicken bowl cup into his bag, wrapped it with cotton, foam, sponge, cloth strips, etc., and placed it on the passenger seat. Start the car and rush back to the antique store.
When he arrived outside the store, Ye Zhiqiu got out of the car and walked straight in with his bag.
Bai Haotian was teaching Xu Jiaojiao how to identify Ming Dynasty porcelain. When they saw him coming in, they both stood up and said, "Boss, you're here!"
Bai Haotian had a good harvest today. He spent 500,000 yuan to buy a Yuan blue and white porcelain vase given by an old farmer in the countryside. It was a little damaged, but the market price was about 10 million yuan.
He also collected a piece of jade from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which cost him 200,000 yuan. Next year, as the tide rises, it should reach 500,000 yuan.
Xu Jiaojiao also gained something. She spent 50,000 yuan to buy a red mountain pig dragon jade pendant from a woman in her thirties.
Ye Zhiqiu praised the two people endlessly.
"Not bad! Not bad! Our business is also on the right track!"
As he spoke, he took out the colorful chicken cup from his leather bag.
Bai Haotian glanced at it and was immediately shocked: "Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup?"
His eyes were wide open and he couldn't react for a long time.
Xu Jiaojiao was also dumbfounded. Anyone who knows something about antiques knows the value of the words "Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup" in the antique circle.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the bronze among ceramics.
Bai Haotian's whole body was trembling violently, his eyes fixed on the chicken cup.
There are two groups of painted patterns on the outer wall. In the first group, there is only a rooster and a hen standing on the grass.
In another group, a big rooster leads the way and sings loudly. Not far away, a hen leads five chicks to eat in the soil.
Although the color is a bit dull, the posture is lifelike and every detail is visible.
"This is the real thing! The real thing!"
Bai Haotian finally took a breath and was very excited.
"When I was in the capital, I once saw a well-preserved doucai chicken cup. The craftsmanship is exactly the same as this one!"
He glanced at the gap and said, "What a pity, if it were intact, it could have sold at least 30 million more!"
Ye Zhiqiu said: "Old Bai, do you know a master who can repair cultural relics?"
Bai Haotian shook his head: "The ones I know are all in the capital! We don't have a repair master in Jianghai City, let alone Jianghai, there may not even be one in the entire Jiangbei Province!"
"There are only two thousand of the most famous top cultural relic restoration masters in the country, and they are all gathered in the capital!"
Ye Zhiqiu secretly sighed in his heart, he couldn't go to the capital just for such a chicken cup.
Besides, those masters are highly respected, and I don’t know how many dignitaries have visited me. When it’s my turn, I still don’t know the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?
Bai Haotian saw his thoughts and said: "For a cultural relic, we have to ask a master. This favor is really not worth it! Why don't we wait until we have more damaged cultural relics and send them over together!"
"I think so too!" Ye Zhiqiu nodded slightly, suddenly thinking that if he had the opportunity to learn the art of repairing cultural relics, he wouldn't have to ask others for help.
"Master Bai, how do you say this is a real chicken vat cup and not a fake?" Xu Jiaojiao said suddenly.
"Later generations imitated and could not grasp the specific dimensions. The imitations made in the Kangxi Dynasty were slightly taller than the real ones, and the bottom diameter was smaller!"
Master Bai said, pointing to the bottom with his finger.
“The unglazed part at its feet is slightly wider than the original!”
Bai Haotian pointed to the words in the center of the foot again.
"The handwriting of the Qing Dynasty is thicker and thicker than this! Because their colors are too thick, the patterns look dull and have no aura at all. They are not as vivid as these two paintings at all!"
Xu Jiaojiao seemed to understand: "I didn't expect that the things belonging to an emperor are much more expensive than a villa!"
Bai Haotian smiled and said: "There is nothing we can't think of, but there is nothing they can't do! There are many antiques with a higher value than this!"
He gently held the broken Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup in his hands and placed it in the middle grid of the shelf on the first floor, sealed with tempered glass. This was the best place in the store. Any customer who came in, You can see it at first glance.
"Old Bai, Jiaojiao, from now on, you must put all these valuable antiques into the safe before getting off work every day!"
The two of them nodded hastily in agreement.
Lao Bai suddenly said again: "Boss, you'd better hire some bodyguards as soon as possible. There will be someone to guard you no matter day or night!"
"In the future, as we collect more and more antiques, we will definitely attract many gangsters with ulterior motives. They will take desperate risks. If they take over the entire store at once, all your hard work and money will be wasted!"
"Old Bai, I'm already thinking about this." Ye Zhiqiu nodded.
"There was nothing valuable in the store before, so it didn't matter! From now on, it won't be the case!"
