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After a round of pleasantries, the man with the surname Wang had an idea. This young man was a rich man, and the one with the expressionless face and terrifying eyes should be a bodyguard.
He had seen merchants with this combination before, but they were generally older.
Plus, the police were fishing. Why did you find someone who looked scary? That police officer must have been shot in the head!
"Boss, my friend's things are with me. Shall we take a look at the goods?”
After both sides had finished probing, Li finally let go.
"Yes!"
He smiled and replied in Henan Province's dialect.
The owner first went to the shop to give some instructions, probably to not let anyone in. After returning, he closed the door and took out a small box from the room.
When he opened it, he saw a few cardboard boxes that looked like brocade. Besides bracelets, most of the jades in Nanyang Jade Shop were packaged in this kind of box. They had seen it in the afternoon.
He took out a square flat box with a diameter of 30 centimeters and placed it on the table. He opened the lid and revealed the true appearance of Lu Shan!
He took it out and placed it on the flannelette on the table.
Qin Shi's eyes narrowed. He pulled out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and put them on. He also took out his 50x magnifying glass.
This action was professional! It had been a while since he had done this.
None of the four people in the room said anything. The two men with the surname Lee were staring at Zhang Nan's actions. Guan Xingquan's mind was not on the item, but on the person.
He put the things down and put them away in the box.
"Boss Wang, what about the other one?"
The man didn't waste any time. He took out a rectangular box that was about 20 centimeters long and placed it horizontally on the table.
After Wang opened it and took out something, Zhang Nan carefully picked it up and examined it carefully.
After a while, he put the things down and put them aside.
"Boss Wang, is there more in the box?"
"A few dragon-shaped jade pendants from the same batch.”
"Take them all out."
There were three more boxes. One of them was a dragon-shaped jade pendant, a typical jade pendant from the Warring States Period.
It was about 12 centimeters long, less than 6 centimeters wide, and at most 3 millimeters thick!
The Qin Dynasty confirmed that it was made of Hetian topaz. Most of it was yellow-green in color, and the erosion of the soil was grayish-yellow.
Jade artifacts buried underground would be eroded by other substances and seep into the jade, causing a "seep" to appear.
It has a tiger head, pointed ears, and curly hair behind its ears. Oval-shaped eyes, wide nose, big mouth, lower lip inward hook, arched back.
The dragon's abdomen was round, its tail was folded forward, and it had one foot in front and one foot in the back. There was elbow hair on each foot, and there was a series of holes on its back and face.
The upper half of the body was decorated with tiger skin stripes, stripes, and knot patterns, and the head and abdomen were decorated with silkworm patterns like cloud patterns.
The overall shape was strange and the patterns were gorgeous.
This single dragon jade pendant, just based on its shape, was at least a Grade 2 cultural relic!
The other two were cloud-dragon shaped jade pendants. They were an identical pair, both made of white Hetian jade.
The jade pendant was flat, hollow and carved. It had a shape, and the dragon's body was spiraling and swimming.
The dragon looked back and raised its head. Its eyes were small but vivid, and its mouth was slightly open as if it were singing.
Its body was huge, and its body was arched in the shape of an S. It formed multiple combinations of small S shapes with the dragon's feet or spine fins. Its entire body was carved with grain patterns, like pearls dancing with the dragon, like two little yellow dragons frolicking in the clouds.
The two dragons faced each other, neighing and dancing. They were vivid and could be considered as the best jade pendant in the Warring States Period!
Everything was put away in the box, but he didn't put it back into the box.
He took off his gloves and stuffed them into his pocket along with the magnifying glass.
"Boss Wang, name your price."
It was time to get down to business.
"Let's go together?"
Wang was delighted. This was really a big client.
These things had been in his hands for some time. The local customers had seen them several times and understood that they were good things, but no one could eat them!
He nodded.
"Nine thousand!"
"Six thousand!" Bargaining.
Why didn't he land and bargain? This Zhao guy's offer was quite realistic.
"Boss Qin, I'll give you a base price. If we succeed, then we'll have to keep our friendship.”
When he heard that, he stretched out his hand, indicating for him to speak.
"Seven thousand."
He turned around and said to Brother Long,"
"Pay up."
A high-priced antique transaction was often a matter of bargaining for one or two rounds. It was more straightforward than buying clothes from a street stall.
However, for small items, because the profits on both sides were low, and the buyers were generally "small and short of money", they would fight for three hundred rounds like the aunties in the market.
A total of six strikes of " Great Unity " made Li's eyes blur. After the deal was made, Wang gave them a new canvas bag to hold the four boxes.
The two of them put away their things and left. The man surnamed Li wanted to send them off, but he was stopped by the shop owner surnamed Wang.
Seeing the two of them leave, the shop owner said,"You'll get 10% of the profits."”
As he spoke, he gave the other party some money. This was the general commission ratio of the introduction fee in the antique trade rules.
"He bought it and left. He didn't even say that we'll contact each other next time. There's no need to get close to him. He won't tell you.”
The shop owner surnamed Wang said as he collected the money," If they come to our shop again, they will naturally come to us to ask for goods.”
"Also, Xiao Li, the client you introduced this time is not bad, but you have to be more careful of this foreigner next time. Also, this matter was considered over.”
Wang reminded.
"I understand, Brother Wang. We're famous for being tight-lipped!”
……
The two of them took a detour as soon as they left the house. They took two turns before returning to the hotel.
"There's no one watching from behind." Brother Long was very sure.
"Yes."
Once they returned to the hotel room, Qin Shi took out the things in his bag.
The canvas bag was gone. They had lost it halfway.
The four paper boxes were opened. Brother Long, the spy, came out and opened the boxes to take a look.
"It's not like we're doing intelligence, so there's no need to be so detailed.”
He didn't think much of it. He had heard of antique dealers in Nanyang for more than 20 years after the transaction was completed. There was no such thing as a tracking device.
"Could it be that Brother Long has used such a high-end playstyle before?”
She thought about it and didn't say anything.
Brother Long checked everything and went to pour two glasses of water, handing one to Qin Shi.
"The two items on the street stall are good stuff. I think these are national treasures, right?”
After taking a sip of water and hearing Brother Long's words, she put the blanket aside and said,"You can tell?"
"It's been so many times, but you still can't control your expression. When you see this jade wall, your eyes and eyebrows shrink, and your muscles tense up. These few things were so expensive. If they weren't national treasures, what were they?”
"Looks like I still have to practice."
He shook his head and smiled bitterly.
He had more than ten years of experience, but in his previous life, there was really no ancient jade that could reach this level! Although the two bronze mirrors were of high quality, he had seen similar ones before, bought them, collected them, and sold them to his friends.
Those who played with antiques hated to see good things that they had never touched before. No matter how experienced they were, they could not control the tiny expressions on their faces!
"Actually, it really has nothing to do with money.”
As he spoke, he took the bronze mirror wrapped in the newspaper and took out the divine beast mirror. He said,
"This mirror is in Xiangjiang, at least 50,000 Hong Kong dollars!”
"So expensive?"
"Tang Jing is the best of the best, one in ten thousand!”
As he spoke, he held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. It was not enough to look at a good thing once.
As he read, he suddenly said,"
"Brother Long, help me get the reading magnifying glass from my bag.”
As she spoke, she sat in front of the desk in the room and took the pen and paper from it.
He held the magnifying glass in his left hand and lowered his head to look at it carefully. His right hand began to write on the paper.
The writing speed was not fast. Brother Long also stood to the side curiously to look at the words on the paper. However, Zhang Nan wrote strange traditional Chinese characters, so it was a little difficult for him to look at them.
After a while, he raised his head and pointed at the note filled with words. He smiled and said,
"It's not 50,000 anymore. It's at least 100,000!”
"Just because there are words?"
Brother Long took the note and read it for a while, but he only understood the general idea.
"Didn't you say that each inscription costs 50 to 200 dollars? These dozens of inscriptions added together aren't worth that much, right?”
"Because this inscription is interesting." Qin Shi smiled.
If the bronze ware was sold privately, if the ware had inscriptions on it, the price of the words would be included in the transaction.
Depending on the content, the number of words, and the value of the object itself, the price of the words varied.
The higher the value of the object itself, the more valuable the words would be. The more words there were, the higher the price of each word. The more research value the text had, the more expensive a single text would be.
Of course, tomb raiders and antique dealers usually only saw the first two because very few people could understand the inscriptions! Including Qin Shi.
However, the circle of words on the outside of the divine beast mirror was not the golden characters of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, but the regular script commonly seen in the Tang Dynasty.
He took the piece of paper." Read these words like this: Huainan from the rise of Zhao, Renshou spread the name. The jade is carved into a watch, and the gold is melted into a rope. At that time, Yongzhou was prosperous in Jin Dynasty, and the festival flourished in Zhu Ming. The model is clear and clear, and the use is as clear as the flow. The light is not full, and the leaves are not withered.
This bronze mirror should belong to the category of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty's "Auspicious Beast Inscription Belt Twelve Zodiac Mirrors". The inner area had the auspicious beast pattern, the middle area had the inscription belt, and the outer area had the twelve zodiac patterns.”(Author Jun, information from the museum)
As she spoke, she pointed it out to Brother Long.
"The Twelve Zodiac Mirror with the Auspicious Beast Inscription is the largest and most exquisite of the bronze mirrors of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty! Bronze mirrors similar to this one had been unearthed from tombs in Western Qin and Central Plains, but there were not many of them. The tombs were clearly from the early Tang Dynasty.
The size, weight, spatial layout, and decorative content of the bronze mirrors were basically the same. There were only some differences in the specific decorative patterns and the contents of the mirror inscriptions in the inner and outer areas.
It could be assumed that those bronze mirrors had similar backgrounds and design concepts.”
Brother Long roughly understood, but there was an important question that he had to ask."Then, what do those words mean?"
"I don't know!"
"What is it? You don't know?" Brother Long was very surprised. He listened to them and made sense of them, but after a long time, he still did not understand what they meant.
"I'm not a professor of ancient literature, a professor of history, or an authority on Tang culture. It's normal that I don't know!”
"But to be precise, it's not that I don't understand at all. Those inscriptions should be saying that this mirror is good!”
Mirrors are good? This was a wild guess!
"However, this 'Huainan' inscription has its origin. It is one of the four words and twelve sentences of inscriptions from the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty. Because the sentences are long, the bronze mirrors that use this inscription are generally larger.
However, many people believed that from the style and content of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, it should be a combination of Han and Jin allusions.
Combined with the location of Yangzhou and its position in the history of mirror casting in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
These words were not nonsense. He had a few Tang Dynasty bronze mirrors with four words and twelve inscriptions in the past ten years, but they were not as complete, large, and well-preserved as this one.
At this point, Qin Shi finally understood. However, he had another question for himself.
Putting down the Divine Beast Mirror and taking out the Octagonal Mirror, Qin Shi muttered to himself,""Strange, isn't there a lot of such mirrors in the Great Tang and Middle Tang? Why did he mess with the Divine Beast Mirror?”
He thought that it was something from the same tomb, but it was suspicious.
When he heard that, he said disapprovingly,
"Why do you care about this? Should he ask the grave robber? It was done in his own hands. Moreover, there were things that were used for hundreds of years now. It was not strange for people in the Tang Dynasty to use an old mirror that was used for hundreds of years and stuff it into their coffins.”
"That makes sense!"
It's in my hands, why do you care where it came from! This was not archaeology. If he had the conditions, he would figure out the ins and outs of the object. If he did not have the conditions, he would just grab it in his own hands.
Long Zhixi did not ask if he wanted to sell the mirror, although he had a friend who was a smuggler and had a way to bring it out.
He understood that this fellow was a Pi Xiu. As long as there was something really good, he would only eat and not poop! Furthermore, his appetite was exceptionally good.
"In another 30 years, these two mirrors will be worth millions.”
He knew it clearly in his heart, but he wasn't selling it. The rare bronze mirror was his collection.
She kept the mirror and even the stack of notes.
"Ah Nan, are we leaving tomorrow morning?”
"I'll leave tomorrow morning."
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