Chapter 561 Treat

Because it is a complete legal possession with complete procedures, it is not subject to many legal restrictions and can be bought and sold freely.

In addition, many foreign institutions also provide collection services. They have excellent reputations, have the best environmental protection and security measures, and can provide collectors with the highest level of preservation services for their cultural relics and artworks.

That is to say, you only need to take pictures of the collection, and you don’t need to transport it back to keep it yourself. You only need to pay the institution a fee, and they can help you preserve it. After ten or eight years, you are no longer interested in the collection, and they

We can also help you auction again.

Many rich people who know nothing about art also like to use it as a means of asset preservation and financial management. Therefore, as long as a certain area has been stable for decades and a generation of wealthy people rises, there will be another wave of local cultural relics and art.

Crazy trends, without exception.

The decoration of Lao Ma Ti Flower Shop is not exquisite. It still has the layout of an old two-story store on the street. The floors are all made of wood. Zhou Zhi, who is in the private room on the second floor, is worried that his heavy footsteps will cause trouble to the customers downstairs.

Of course, such worries are completely unnecessary. Except for himself, there are so many such restaurants nowadays, no one would have such thoughts.

The food tastes like home-cooked food, but it is very authentic. In addition to the must-try roasted pork hoof with kidney beans, there is also a dish of rock sugar pork elbow that is also cooked very authentically.

In fact, Jiang Shuyi, Xu Hui, and Zhang Weiran are still only half-grown children. Although life is starting to get better now, they have not yet become anxious about sweets and are worried that they will make themselves fat. In those days, everyone would only call this

The dishes are cooked deliciously.

Fei Guan still insisted on following the basic process and raised his tea cup: "Come, let's celebrate the success of the first half of our Gongmei Citizen Auction again. Since there is still the second half, I can't drink, so I'll have tea instead of wine. Thank you for today.

Foreign aid classmate Zhou Zhi also wishes us a good auction in the afternoon! Let’s all take one together!”

"Let's go together!" Everyone raised their cups, but Xu Hui's voice shouted the loudest.

"Today is really an eye-opener!" The girl put down the cup and was still excited: "To be able to play, it must be the time when our Chinese civilization was glorious. Why are there so many weird things!"

"Like what?"

"For example, that small porcelain called water drop!" Xu Hui said with a smile: "The shape of a small bamboo shoot can hold at most a small spoonful of water. Press the small hole on it with your hand to let the water drip from the tip of the lotus root drop by drop.

Come down..."

"The key hole is made into a bug eye, and the small hole is hidden in the tip of the bamboo shoot. What is it used for?!"

"That little thing is actually a water injection tool. It can accurately adjust the concentration of paint and ink. The bug hole is where water is added. After adding water, if you press there, the water will not come out. If you relax a little, you can let the water flow out.

Water drips from the tips of the bamboo shoots into the inkstone, so it is called water droplets and also called inkstone drops."

"I'm so particular..." Xu Hui expressed disdain.

"Hahahaha..." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "It is indeed something that can facilitate the creation of literati. Since it exists and is quite popular, it is not just a blind thing. Naturally, there are places where it is necessary to use it, but you don't play with it.

For calligraphy and painting, I just don’t know how to use it.”

"As a gadget in the study room, water droplets are made of various materials and have various shapes. In fact, for collectors, if they decide on a category for their exclusive collection, water droplets are a very good variety."

"Its content and knowledge are far richer than calligraphy, painting, fans, etc., and it is also unique and unique."

"Really?" Xu Hui seemed a little interested: "Is that gadget expensive? If not, I will take a photo of it this afternoon!"

"Of course!" Zhou Zhi and Fei Guan looked at each other. Xu Hui was a lively, cute, innocent and romantic girl with a deceptive appearance. She was simply the best candidate to be a support person.

"Come on, come on, let me give Hui Hui a bowl of soup!" Fei Guan picked up the spoon with a smile: "This is to help us open Gongmei, and you want to be our customer!"

"In a moment, I will tell you, Huihui, the techniques of raising placards for auction bidding. This thing sounds a bit like psychological warfare, which is very interesting."

"Okay!" Xu Hui is also naughty and mischievous, but at the same time she has a very loyal character: "Do you want to buy something for me? If you can't come forward, I will also buy it for you!"

Hey! Fei Guan silently added a hoof tip to Xu Hui's soup bowl, and that's not what he was waiting for!

"However, the inkstone was made by Yang Fenghua, a famous pottery maker in the Qing Dynasty. He used purple clay and local green clay to create the purple color of the bamboo shoot roots and the yellow color of the bamboo shoot shells. The color, texture and wormholes of the bamboo shoot shells were perfectly made.

It's pretty, beautiful, exquisite in workmanship, and ingenious. It's a top-notch piece among small purple sand items. It's expected that there will be a very fierce bidding round."

"Ah? Then I can't afford it?"

"Huihui, I actually think that an occasion like an auction is not suitable for you." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "After all, these are all things that have been appraised, so there is not much opportunity for speculation on the price."

"Hey, otherwise, in this afternoon's auction bidding, you will be the one to hold the sign, and you will be my participating agent. This way you can have fun, okay?"

"No! You just want to trick me into working for you. How do you calculate the wages?!"

"The wages are easy to handle!" Fei Guan came up with an idea: "Tomorrow morning, we are going to visit the 'Ghost Market', and then I will let you find two things you like!"

"Uncle Fei, what is a ghost market?"

"Ghost markets are markets that open in the middle of the night. They are places that sell second-hand goods and things like the ones we came to appraise today."

"Huh? Then why do you have to sell it in the middle of the night?"

"Because there was a rule in ancient times that the family couldn't uncover the pot, so they would sell one or two ancestral things. But people always want to save face, and are they afraid of being recognized? So we took advantage of the darkness to make a deal."

"There are also many things in the ghost market that are fake, made up of stories to deceive people, and done in vain, which also makes it more difficult for buyers to identify."

"In short, there are many benefits to sellers. Things are very cheap. Of course, there are more fake ones than real ones, but it is not impossible. It tests the buyer's discernment."

"If you pick up a few genuine items, you can make a lot of money."

"We still have such fun places in Shu?!" Xu Hui was so excited: "Now there is no shortage of topics for writing essays!"

"By the way, uncle, what time does this ghost market open?"

"We start at three o'clock in the morning on Wednesdays and Sundays and basically end at nine o'clock."

"Oh, Shuyi, let's stay at Zhouzhi's place tonight too?"

Jiang Shuyi has been a lot more generous since she was a freshman in high school, especially when facing a best friend like Xu Hui. If you are shy, she will probably make trouble for you even more. Although she can't help but blush a little after hearing this,

Still dared to talk back: "If you want to live there, go and live there. Why are you dragging me along?"

"Eh? I can't, I have to..." Zhang Weiran originally wanted to say, "I have to go home," but received a sharp look from Xu Hui: "Uh... I have to... ask for leave."

"Hahahaha..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh at Zhang Weiran's forced turn.
Chapter completed!