Chapter 5 Goodbye Bronze
I clearly remember that the inside of the bronze mat in our hands was engraved with mysterious turtle-patterned symbols, but I don’t know if this one is there.
Since bronzes are generally afraid of oxidation, the bronze ware was placed in a glass cover by the shop owner. I stood on tiptoe and looked at the mouth of the bronze ware.
Perhaps because I noticed that I was watching here carefully, the owner stood up, "How about it? Look at the good stuff! Look at this bronze gutter, so authentic!"
I knew he had admitted his mistake and recognized the bronze gust as the bronze gust, but I said quietly: "Well, it's pretty good. Can I take a look?"
The owner looked me up and down, "Oh, this is a treasure from us. Do you want to buy it?"
I smiled slightly, "What? You can't look at it if you don't buy it?"
"That's right," the owner patted the glass cover. "Try to move this thing as little as possible. When you look back and touch it, it will affect your appearance if it is oxidized. I'll take it for you for a long time. If you don't buy it, I'll play with it if I don't bother!"
I sneered in my heart. The shop owner was quite arrogant, so I planned to knock on him. I nodded, "You care a lot. I will tell you what I think. This thing is good, just the same..." Speaking of this, I deliberately stretched my voice to the owner's appetite.
The shop owner frowned, "How is it?"
I approached him a little and said, "This thing smells so bad! Did you come from the south?"
When the shop owner heard what I said, he was stunned. The disdain in his eyes just now disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by shock. In fact, what I said just now was not very sure, and it was almost guessing and confusing. But looking at his eyes, I guess I guessed it right. The shop owner stood up for a moment before speaking, "I didn't expect that the little brother is actually a craftsman!"
I waved my hand and opened my mouth and was about to speak when suddenly a person flashed in at the door, "Old Sui! I've transferred the account to you, let's settle the two of you! Old Sui? Where are the old Sui? People?"
As the man said, he walked in. When he saw the two of us standing there, he spoke, "Hey, you're here..." Halfway through his words, he suddenly raised his eyes and saw me, immediately bowed his hands and shouted, "Brother Zhuoran!"
I also looked at this person. It turned out to be an acquaintance, Lang Beile, the neighbor of the Lantern Festival Dongding Pavilion! I also bowed, "Lang Beile, long time no see!"
Lang Beile laughed, "Yes, yes, I've been out to ship the goods these days, and I'm just back!"
When the shop owner saw me talking to Lang Beile, he was a little confused, "You know each other!"
Lang Beile nodded, "Old Sui, you don't recognize me, you, don't you treat him as an ordinary customer?"
Looking at Old Sui's confused expression, Lang Beile said, "Old Sui, I will introduce you to you. This is Brother Zhuoran. Don't look at my younger brother," he said, while comparing his thumbs and lowering his voice, "He is the serious successor of Faqiu!"
Lao Sui suddenly realized, nodded repeatedly, and came up to hold my hand, "So that's it, Brother Zhuoran, I offended so much just now. I really can't recognize a master without any eyes!"
I felt a little embarrassed by his trick, "I dare not, I dare not, it was Lang Beile who praised me!"
Lang Beile looked at me and said, "Hey, brother Zhuoran, what are you doing here?"
"It's okay," I glanced at the bronze gust in the glass cover, "I'm just walking around casually."
Lao Sui then recovered, "Oh, by the way, brother Zhuoran, don't you want to see this? I'll take it for you now." As he said that, he took off the glass cover, took out the bronze slug, and handed it to me.
I weighed the things in my hand and said to Lao Sui: "I don't wear gloves. Are you afraid of being oxidized?"
Old Sui smiled and patted the white gloves he was holding, "That's all for those laymen to show. We don't need this one!" He said, "Come on, let's sit down and watch and chat!"
The three of us sat down at the table, Lao Sui poured us a cup of tea. I took the bronze mat and looked back and forth. I felt that it was very similar to the one that Annaduo's father found in the mountains. I took out my phone and turned on the flash, and looked at the inside of the bronze mat. Sure enough, I saw some small patterns on the inner wall. Although I couldn't see all of them, just the part I saw, I could already determine that the pattern here was the same as that of Annaduo's father. It seems that this bronze mat is probably from Guangxi.
Lang Beile and Lao Sui looked at my troubles and were full of doubts. Lang Beile asked, "Brother Zhuoran, what are you looking at?"
Lao Sui continued, "Is there any trick to this thing?"
Of course I couldn't tell him about the symbol, so I put the bronze mat on the table and said, "Ah, that's it. I've seen something that looks very similar to this one. But I still congratulate Boss Sui!"
After hearing what I said, Old Sui was stunned, "Brother Zhuoran, how do you say this? Why am I happy?"
I said to Lao Sui, "How much did you pay for this thing?"
Old Sui hesitated for a moment, then reached out and gestured to count. I nodded, "Then you made a profit!"
"Oh?" Old Sui immediately became happy when he heard what I said, "Why?"
I pointed to the bronze yu on the table and said, "You just called this thing Qingtongjue, but it was actually wrong. This thing should be called bronze yu."
"Bronze Yu?" Lang Beile and Lao Sui looked at each other. After all, Lao Sui specializes in bronze ware and has a relatively good study on this aspect. After thinking for a while, he spoke and said, "I know, it seems that it is not like this, right?"
I remember when I saw this thing at Anaduo's house, Yuanxiao also raised such a question, so I told Lao Sui about Wen Mo's explanation, and he nodded repeatedly, full of admiration. I said to Lao Sui: "This bronze gust should be from the Xia Dynasty or even earlier, so the price is definitely not comparable to that of the bronze gust, and I am afraid it will be more than doubled." Old Sui couldn't even match it.
Lang Beile said with a hint of pride: "How is it? My brother is amazing! The successor of Faqiu is not something that can be covered!"
Old Sui nodded repeatedly, "Brother Zhuoran, if you have any good things in the future, please think about the store, I will definitely pay a high price!"
I drank absent-mindedly, "It's easy to say!"
Lang Beile asked, "I said Lao Sui, where did you receive such a good thing?" In fact, this is also a question I have always wanted to know, but I just didn't have the nerve to ask. Unexpectedly, Lang Beile asked for it for me, and I turned to look at Lao Sui, hoping to know his answer.
Old Sui gently knocked on the table. "It's just these few days!" He said that, he didn't say anything. But seeing that Lang Beile and I didn't say anything, and were looking at him, he sighed, "Hi, it's actually nothing special, but since both of you are interested, it's okay to talk."
Lao Sui thought for a while and continued, "It was probably a week ago that two people came to my shop and asked me if I would take antiques when they came in. Master Beile also knew about this kind of thing. Someone came in at Panjiayuan every few days to ask you if you would take antiques. There were basically no good things, and there were many liars. So I didn't care much at that time. But when they took it out, I knew this thing was unusual!"
Lang Beile smiled and said, "It's true or false. If someone doesn't say it, you would think it's a gutter!"
Old Sui blushed, "No, no, I'm not saying that I can see something unusual, I'm saying that I noticed that this thing was handled in an unusual way."
"Oh, how do you say this?" I was a little curious, and Lang Beile looked at him with interest. Lao Sui continued: "Generally, if it is a fake antique, it will mostly be used, and even deliberately make some earthy smell to make it so that you can lie to say it was dug out from your own field. However, this one is just the opposite. Speaking of which, I have been in this industry for many years, especially bronze ware. "
Lang Beile nodded, "Yes, yes, you know you are awesome, don't brag about x, hurry up and talk down!"
"Okay, okay," Lao Sui took a sip of tea and pointed at the bronze mat on the table. "I have sorted out this thing, and it may not be obvious. In fact, when I first came, there were many traces of polishing on it. The two people said it was a family treasure and often wiped. But based on my experience over the years, he did not do it for cleaning, but for covering up."
Lang Beile asked, "What to cover up?"
Old Sui gently clicked on the table and said, "Tuqin! So, I knew that this thing was just released and was still hot. These two people took the risk of using this method to make money, so I also suppressed the price even if I took this opportunity!"
Lang Beile glanced at him and smiled and said, "Old fox!" Old Sui didn't mind either. The relationship between the two should be very familiar.
After hearing this, I nodded and my thoughts became stronger. Could this thing really be related to our experience in Guangxi this time? And it is also right in terms of time.
I said to Lao Sui, "Do you have any impression of these two people?"
Old Sui lowered his head and recalled, "I only remember these two people one tall and one thin, one short and one fat..."
I couldn't help but smile, "Boss Sui, have you met the tall and short heads of Shenlong Island? What you said is useless, let me say something specific."
Lao Sui thought for a moment and then said, "The specific thing is that these two people have Sichuan accents."
"Sichuan?" Now when I think of Sichuan and I stick to the backfight, the first two words popped up in my mind: Tan Family!
Chapter completed!