Bloodstone Seal
The first stall they saw was a stall selling ancient jade.
The stall owners in the ghost market would not take the initiative to sell their goods.
They all let the customers check first.
When someone asked for a price, they would start bargaining with the customer.
Therefore, when the stall owner saw Shen Xu and Huang Yuanhao stop in front of his stall, he said,
He only looked at the two of them and did not care about them anymore.
Huang Yuanhao was no longer sleepy after seeing the antiques.
He squatted down with interest and picked up an ancient jade from time to time.
She looked left and right, not knowing if he could understand.
Shen Xu shook his head.
Although the stall was rather dim,
However, Shen Xu could basically confirm that these ancient jades were all high-quality imitations.
He squatted down and used the system to check the origin of one or two pieces. It was as he had expected.
Shen Xu quietly pulled Huang Yuanhao.
Huang Yuanhao raised his head in confusion, not understanding what Shen Xu meant.
Shen Xu shook his head at him and said,
"Let's go take a look."
He couldn't tell Huang Yuanhao directly that these were all high-quality imitations. That would be equivalent to ruining the stall owner's business.
If someone else had a treasure that they wanted to buy and didn't buy it after hearing Shen Xu's rejection, the stall owner would most likely be anxious.
Huang Yuanhao seemed to want to see more. When he got up and left, his eyes were still a little reluctant.
When they were far away from the stall,
Shen Xucai explained to Huang Yuanhao,
"Most of the ancient jades on the stall just now are old. If it was daytime, you might have noticed it. It's just that under the current environment, you would think that they look very real.”
"Try not to look at ancient jade in the ghost market. In the dark environment, it's easy to pay the tuition fee.”
Huang Yuanhao finally understood why Shen Xu had pulled him back just now.
Huang Yuanhao did not visit the ghost market many times. Usually, he would go to the countryside to find his old house.
However, he was still in the antique industry, so he knew the rules of the ghost market.
This time, she also wanted to take advantage of Shen Xu's good luck, so she followed him.
He did not expect there to be so many twists and turns.
Huang Yuanhao nodded in understanding.
The two of them continued to stroll and wandered to other stalls.
Shen Xu looked at five or six stalls in a row, but he did not see anything worth getting his hands on.
Huang Yuanhao followed behind excitedly. From time to time, he would ask Shen Xu if there were any real antiques among the things he chose.
Shen Xu could immediately tell that some of them were fakes.
If he couldn't tell, he would use the system to check its origin.
In the end, the antiques that Huang Yuanhao chose were all fakes.
Shaking their heads, the two of them continued their journey of searching for treasures.
"Eh?"
As they walked,
The two of them came to a stall that mainly sold the Four Treasures of the Study.
The stall was complete with brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.
There were a few paintings in the corner.
Shen Xu was attracted by the bloodstone seal on the stall.
Chicken blood stone was mainly composed of dickite, kaolin, and cinnabar.
Because the cinnabar inside was gorgeous in color and red like chicken blood, it got its name.
Bloodstone was of high value due to its low production.
Among them, Changhua Chicken Blood Stone is the best.
Changhua Chicken Blood Stone was called the "Queen of Stones" because it was as delicate and luxurious as a peony.
Chicken-blood stone was mainly used as a material for seals and art carvings.
In the past, many famous painters used this as a material to find a master sculptor to carve their own exclusive seal.
Therefore, in the antique circle, collecting a bloodstone seal was a very prestigious thing.
It was said that the master of seal carving, Han Tianheng, had once carved two seals for Ma Yun using the Da Hong Pao Chicken Blood Stone.
These two Ma Yun's exclusive seals, together with the materials, were worth 1.6 million yuan!
This was still happening now.
If it was carved by an ancient master and used by a famous master,
Today, it was even more valuable than a thousand gold coins!
At the thought of this,
Shen Xu squatted down and picked up the bloodstone seal.
Then, he turned on the flashlight and looked at it carefully.
The bloodstone seal in his hand was as bright as blood and shiny.
The stone felt warm and delicate, and it looked exquisite under the light.
Shen Xu couldn't put it down.
There were two aspects to the appraisal of the Bloodstone.
First, it looked at the authenticity, and second, it looked at the quality.
The identification of authenticity was relatively simple.
The first thing to look at was its hardness. The bloodstone had a low hardness and was suitable for carving. If he could leave a scratch on it with his fingernail, it could be judged as real.
The second was to look at the internal structure. Under the light, the structure of the natural bloodstone was tightly arranged, and the texture was clear, but it was not transparent. When the fake bloodstone was illuminated by light, it felt overly transparent, making people feel that it had a "demonic aura".
In fact, if the stall owner allowed it, there was a simpler way to identify it.
That was to use a small knife to test it. The natural bloodstone was lightly scraped with a small knife, and the powder scraped off was white.
As for the fake bloodstone, firstly, it was difficult for a knife to scrape off the powder. Moreover, even if the powder could be scraped off, the powder would be red.
Just this move alone could identify most of the fake bloodstones.
As for the quality of the seal…
It was different from ordinary bloodstones.
To appraise a normal Bloodstone, one only needed to look at its HP.
As for the appraisal of the Bloodstone Seal…
The first was to look at the blood of the bloodstone. The blood was the percentage of the blood to the quality of the stone, which was how much red there was on the stone.
Those with more than 30% HP were considered good, those with more than 50% HP were rare, and those with more than 70% HP were peerless! If it was completely red, it would be called Da Hong Pao!
The second was to look at the bloody side of the seal. There were a total of six sides of the seal. If one side was bloody, it would be considered inferior. If two or three sides were bloody, it would be considered intermediate. If four or five sides were bloody, it would be considered superior. If six sides were bloody, it would be considered supreme!
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