Jianbao Lingyan

Chen Zhibei is a man of many talents. He knows medicine, martial arts, finance, investment, and business, but these are not the most important in Xu Wei's eyes.

In Xu Wei's opinion, the most important thing is that Chen Zhibei has superb cooking skills, from ordinary home-cooked dishes to lobster and abalone, there is nothing he can't do.

Therefore, living with Chen Zhibei, Xu You has been exercising hard, just because he is afraid that he will become a fat man.

But what Chen Zhibei is good at is three meals a day, such as snacks, sugar water, etc. He has almost no talent.

Although Xu Wei doesn't like sweets very much, she will be very happy to taste them when she encounters them. Occasionally, if she doesn't eat for a long time, she will get hungry.

Hearing that Qiao Ruyu once made snacks for herself, but she didn't eat them, it was a pity in her heart.

"I'll take you to eat delicious food tomorrow." Chen Zhibei was a little unreasonable, and planned to take Xu Er to eat some sweets tomorrow. As for the package on the table, Chen Zhibei threw it into the trash, "This Can't eat it."

Although the snacks are delicious, Xu Wei never ate anything that has gone stale, even when he was very hungry when he was a child.

Xu Wei resumed her previous habit of going to Dongtai Road every morning. Every day after lunch, she would drive there by herself, and when she was tired and thirsty, she would go to Uncle's supermarket for a ride.

It's just that I don't know whether it's because the good things on the market are becoming less and less, or whether it's just bad luck recently.

In short, Xu You hasn't encountered any satisfactory antiques with halo recently.

Occasionally, a few treasures with halos with a radius of about half a meter will be encountered, but those things have either been discovered by others, or they have been spotted first.

Having found nothing for half a month, it was the first time that Xu Wei intuitively understood that the water in the world of antiques is really deep, and that he was lucky enough to be able to pick up so many genuine items before.

In fact, most of the collectors are like Xu Wei's current state, full of knowledge, but useless.

Just when Xu Er was planning to move to Yaodu and try his luck elsewhere, the state of getting nothing that had lasted for a month finally changed.

On this day, Xu You drove to Dongtai Road as usual, greeted several owners of Baozhai he knew, and planned to visit Mr. Zhang, but in a small alley at the corner of the street, he saw a very beautiful The halo is like a burning cloud.

Xu You unhurriedly walked along where the halo came from, and saw a newly opened stall with about seven or eight pieces of porcelain and several old-fashioned wooden carved boxes on it.

The stall owner was a middle-aged woman in her 50s and [-]s. She looked very sad, her eyes were a little loose, and she was wearing clean clothes, but they looked like old clothes from seven or eight years ago.

Beside the woman was a boy, who was squatting on the side boredly, holding an ice cream stick in his hand, poking around on the ground.

Those who set up stalls in this kind of land are usually men, even old men, because such people seem to be more like people who have studied antiques.

Although it is biased, it is also the status quo. There are very few women in the antique industry, and in some places there are even no women.

Filling the sky with a red halo is an elephant ear vase, decorated with phoenix patterns.

The name of this bottle should be the underglaze red double phoenix pattern elephant ear square bottle. As for the age, Xu You can't tell because he hasn't used it yet.

The stall owner, that is, the middle-aged woman, saw Xu Wei coming to her stall, and hurriedly greeted, "Sir, do you want to see something? My family has passed down these things since before the founding of the People's Republic of China."

Xu Wei nodded, but didn't say anything else. This is normal in Antique Street. Buyers are afraid of missing the bottom line and making the seller feel that they have been taken advantage of. The seller never cares about whether to open the house or not.

But the mother and son didn't seem to be in the antique business at first glance, and they didn't even understand these obvious things.

Seeing that Xu You didn't talk to her, the woman was very disturbed. Seeing that Xu You didn't talk to her mother, the boy was very angry. She wanted to stand up and argue with Xu Wei, but no mother pulled her back, so she had to squat back angrily.

In this stall, except for the underglaze red double phoenix-shaped elephant-eared square bottle, the other ones also have some halos, but none of them are as dazzling as the elephant-eared square bottle.

Let’s just say that next to the elephant ear square bottle, there is a very nice sweet white bowl, the halo is about half a meter wide, although the color is a little lighter, but the plain color has a plain beauty, take it home and put it in Duobao Pavilion The above is also pleasing to the eye.

Xu You first picked up the small sweet white bowl, and carefully stroked the wall of the small bowl with his hands, feeling the warm touch on it.

"How do you sell this small bowl?" Xu Wei asked aloud without hearing the other party's price after standing for a long time.

According to the old rules of the antique business, the price is first bid by the seller, and then counter-bid by the buyer.

When a consignor owns an antique and wants to sell it, he must first ask for a price. If the seller does not ask for a price, the buyer will never give the price.This is to guard against the fact that the antiques sold by the owner are fake, and the price estimated by the market is true.

When you meet someone who doesn’t understand the rules and set up a stall, usually no one will come to see it, but Xu Wei knows that the things here are true, and he can’t patronize the rules, and miss the things he likes in vain, so he had to ask price.

"10 yuan." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a long time before asking such a price.

The price of a small sweet white bowl in the mid-Qing Dynasty is a bit too high, "[-]."

"This, sir, this thing is really an old thing." The woman looked at Xu Wei in embarrassment, and then realized that the other party was just a man not much older than her son. The price she had just offered was probably taken by the other party. not come out.

"Sir, the price is too low, we won't sell it."

After thinking about it, the middle-aged woman still refused.

"Then give me a price." Xu You scratched his head in embarrassment, "If you ask for a price, you have to give me a chance, don't you?"

"Then, eighty thousand." The woman agreed when she heard it, so she hesitated to offer a price.

"Thirty-five thousand, to be honest, your price is really too high. If you put this thing in the antique shop next to it, you can sell it to a foreigner for no more than fifty thousand." Xu Wei patiently explained to the other party, "Thirty thousand Five, I'll open it for you."

The woman hesitated for a long time, then she seemed to think of something, and nodded her head in agreement.

"Transfer or check?"

Seeing that the other party let go, Xu You hurriedly asked.

"I want cash."

"It's actually not peaceful here. There are a lot of thieves, are you sure?" Xu Wei didn't bring that much cash. He brought a lot of cash before, but today Ya Ge didn't expect to be rewarded, so he didn't bring a big wallet. .

"Then, the check." The middle-aged woman looked like the kind of person who lived a good life before, so she didn't understand these things very well, and when she heard what the other party said made sense, she agreed.

The underglaze red double phoenix pattern elephant ear square bottle was right next to it, so Xu You naturally wouldn't miss it, so when the other party received the check, he picked up the underglaze red double phoenix pattern elephant ear square bottle and looked at it carefully.

The neck of the bottle is decorated with symmetrical elephant earrings, implying the meaning of "Taiping has an elephant".This device is in the shape of a cuboid, with lips, a neck, a bulging abdomen and a ring foot.The whole body is decorated with underglaze red, and painted with blue and white underglaze red double phoenixes wearing peonies. Among the lush peonies, a pair of phoenixes are dancing, with luxurious shapes and elegant postures.

Xu Wei turned the bottle upside down, and saw that there was a six-character seal script inscribed in blue and white on the bottom of the bottom, "Made in Qianlong Years of the Qing Dynasty".

The base price is exactly the same as that of the other authentic red celestial ball bottle in glaze that Xu You saw at Mr. Zhang's place. Apart from the halo seen in Xu You's eyes, it can be preliminarily concluded that there is an [-]% possibility that this bottle is real, and The most commendable feature of this bottle is its underglaze red decoration. Such a bright and pure underglaze red was rare even in the heyday of Qianlong. And famous.

The overall shape of the bottle is complete, there is no damage, and it is well preserved. It is a rare authentic red underglaze.

"What's the price of this glazed red bottle?"

Xu You was very happy to see that the bottle was intact without any damage, but it didn't show on his face.

Although the other party was a layman, Xu Er felt that he should also behave professionally.

"This, 20."

The middle-aged woman weighed it for a long time and came up with a price.

It was at least four or five times lower than the market price, and Xu You was hesitant.

The price is very good for him, but the other party seems to have encountered some difficulties, so he wants to sell the things, 20, I don't know if it is enough for her to solve the problem.

This time Xu You simply didn't counter-offer, but asked the middle-aged woman to take a wooden box carved with landscape figures and make it an extra head.

Xu Er bought what she wanted, and was very happy in her heart, so she decided to go out for another round, maybe today is the day of transshipment, and she can find something in exchange.

So Xu Wei wanted to go to Mr. Zhang's place, put the things upstairs, and then went downstairs briskly, continuing his treasure hunting journey.

Near six o'clock in the evening, people on Dongtai Road began to close their stalls, and there were a few stall owners who planned to stick around until after seven o'clock in the evening. At that time, some people would come out to hang out after dinner, and they might be able to do another business.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xu You started walking towards Mr. Zhang's shop, and accidentally passed by a stall where he bought a square bottle with underglaze red double phoenix pattern elephant ears in the afternoon.

The middle-aged woman had already started collecting the stalls. The boy who had been squatting beside him was holding a hot steamed bun, took a bite by himself, then handed it to the middle-aged woman, and let the woman take a bite impatiently, and then Take another bite yourself.

A small steamed stuffed bun, but both of them ate small bites until the woman put away the stall, and there was still a little bit of steamed stuffed bun in the bag.

Xu Wei felt that he was very envious of that boy, because he could distribute the buns to his mother, or he was very jealous of that boy, because he had a mother who would leave the stuffing of buns to his son.

Xu You hesitated for a long time, then walked over and stopped the mother and son.

He took out a pen and paper, and wrote down the names and approximate market prices of the remaining items on the paper.

Back home, Xu You smelled a very pleasant smell of food as soon as he entered the door.

Looking at Chen Zhibei who was cooking in the kitchen, Xu You suddenly felt that all his sentimentality before was all hypocrisy.

"Brother Beizi, let's have a baby."

"What?" Chen Zhibei heard that Xu Wei came back, and knew that Xu Wei was watching him, so he worked harder to cook the meal, turned on the fire and started a stir-fry, but halfway through the cooking, he was stunned when he heard Xu Wei's words All of a sudden, I almost threw all the dishes out.