Antiques with golden eyes

Shen Yu went to school relatively early. After graduating from college, he found a job as an antique appraiser in "Baoyu Xuan" through his grandfather's introduction.

Bao Yuxuan can be said to be one of the top ten famous antique stores in Dongjiang. Even if it is not ranked in the top three, it is still one of the few major antique stores.

If it weren't for his grandfather's relationship with Chonglou, Shen Yu wouldn't have been able to get in even if he didn't want a salary.

In the antique industry, no matter how capable a young person is, it is useless if he has no qualifications.

Because others don’t believe your identification results.

Therefore, being able to work in a famous antique store like "Baoyu Xuan" is a reflection of ability, and it is equivalent to plating oneself with a layer of gold.

When he first entered "Baoyu Xuan", Shen Yu encountered many difficulties.

However, he has an easy-going temperament and can easily talk to his colleagues in the store, both older and younger. After getting to know each other, he has not been ostracized.

The owner of the store, Chu Yaozong, also took good care of Shen Yu because he had received a great favor from Zhonglou when he was young.

Shen Yu is always taken with him to every important occasion, and he introduces him to everyone he meets, which can be said to be treated as a nephew.

Chu Yaozong even took Shen Yu to first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai to participate in special auctions organized by top domestic and foreign auction companies such as Yong'an, Gaogu, or Junya.

Participating in several auctions really opened up Shen Yu's horizons. Whether it was his eyesight, confidence, or even his status in the store, Shen Yu felt that it had improved a lot.

Because of this opportunity, even Chu Yaozong’s two sons were unable to follow him.

It’s no wonder that colleagues in the store joked that Shen Yu was the store owner’s biological son, and that the two young owners were picked up from trash cans.

This job lasted for a year, and Shen Yu even felt that working in Baoyuxuan for a lifetime was not bad.

Shen Yu feels that he should be content with having enough food and clothing and working with his favorite antiques. Compared with many people who work hard all day and may not be able to do the job they like.

Unfortunately, the originally peaceful life suddenly changed beyond recognition due to several consecutive incidents. Shen Yu even felt that all the bad luck in his life had been gathered together.

First, his father, Shen Sanyun, failed to invest and owed a huge sum of money. He was severely scolded by Shen Zhonglou and then disappeared.

Now Shen Yu has no idea where he has gone. In addition to leaving a letter not to worry about him, he also left 1,356 yuan in living expenses for Chongzhonglou, which can be said to be a sum of money.

But the debt collectors didn't care about this. They once blew up Shen Yu's cell phone. Shen Yu lost count of how many calls he received.

Shen Yu wanted to turn off his phone or throw it into the trash countless times, but he still gritted his teeth and endured it.

His mother died of illness early, and his father Shen Sanyun was away from home all day long. To be honest, Shen Yu didn't have deep feelings for his father, but he couldn't be seen as desperate, right?

Moreover, a lot of the money Shen Sanyun borrowed was borrowed in the name of Zhongzhonglou, or even from people who had gone to Zhongzhonglou to show kindness, such as Chu Yaozong.

Shen Sanyun borrowed a total of 1.5 million from Chu Yaozong alone.

Shen Yu knew this, but he didn't know whether or how many there were. Because Chu Yaozong didn't say anything, Shen Yu had no way of knowing, but Shen Yu felt that there must be some.

In order to repay the debt from his father to his son, Shen Yu discussed with his grandfather and sold the family villa and a duplex building that he was planning to use for his wedding. The two of them could only rent a house temporarily.

A few days later, my girlfriend, who had reached the point of discussing marriage, suddenly broke up with her.

Even though Shen Yu was heartbroken, he could still bear it. How can he give people happiness if the house is gone?

Shen Yu would not lift up the sand that he couldn't hold, but chose to let go of his hand and let the sand find the happiness he needed, so that he could get together and part ways.

However, the sudden death of Shen Yu, who was originally in good health, dealt a fatal blow to Shen Yu. Shen Yu had lived with his grandfather since he was a child, and their relationship was extremely deep.

Zhongzhonglou's ninety-eight-year-old age is already regarded as an absolute longevity, and he died without any illness in his sleep. As a junior, he shouldn't be particularly sad.

However, the death of his grandfather still left Shen Yu in a trance. He worked without any problems for a year, but made mistakes one after another in more than half a month after his grandfather's death.

First, I spent a high price of 1.2 million to acquire a "Landscape Painting" by Wang Yuanqi, one of the "Four Kings" of the early Qing Dynasty.

When entering the store's vault, three calligraphy and painting experts from the main store identified it as an imitation from the Qianlong period. Although the painting was exquisite, it cost the store at least 800,000 yuan.

But this is nothing. The money Shen Yu earned for the store was more than ten times more than the small amount of money he lost.

The cursive manuscript he collected by Wen Peng and Wen Shoucheng, son of Wen Zhengming and the first "doctor of calligraphy and painting" in the Ming Dynasty, sold for more than 2 million yuan, while this manuscript Shen Yu only cost the store 15,000 yuan. Yuan.

There was also a picture of "A Lone Crow in the Cold Forest" by Zhu Da, a Bada Shanren in the Qing Dynasty, which was bought for a high price of 5 million yuan. Shen Yu paid 170,000 yuan for this paper painting.

Besides, even a master who has been a master for decades will have his eyes opened sometimes.

If you have an eye for good things in the store, you have to pay a price for it to grow. After all, hiring an old appraiser who has been famous for a long time is not enough just to give him a salary. Many times when people receive good things, they have to give others a certain percentage. divided into.

What caused Shen Yu to lose his job was that a few days later, when he was replacing the Jade Zigang brand red rope for the VIP customers in the store, he forgot the store's rule of asking customers to hold it steady before handling it.

Shen Yu took it directly from the customer. At the moment when the jade plaque was handed over, he didn't know whether it was the other party's intention or his own slippage, and the pendant fell to the ground with a snap.

This Zigang plate is made of glass and is made of Zhengyang green, and is worth nearly 4 million.

Of course, being expensive is only one aspect. The main reason is that the other party has a great background. She is the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, the king of jade in Dongjiang. Not to mention Shen Yu, even the owner of the store, Chu Yaozong, cannot afford to offend her.

Shen Yu took out the betrothal gift left to him by his grandfather before his death and the 500,000 used to renovate the house in his hometown, but he didn't accept it at all and asked for double the amount to 1 million.

How could Shen Yu give it?

The matter is at a standstill here. The other party said that they would wait to receive the subpoena without paying compensation.

When Chu Yaozong started his career, he received a great favor from Shen Yu, which can be said to be a life-saving favor. Naturally, he had to stand up for Shen Yu.

This relationship started in the early 1990s. Chu Yaozong was only in his early thirties at that time, and Baoyu Xuan had only been open for two years. During the Mid-Autumn Festival one year, when Baoyu Xuan was about to close, a seller suddenly came.< /p>

The seller claimed that his ancestors had been high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty, and because there was a cancer patient in his family who was anxious to spend money for surgery, he wanted to sell an ancestral landscape painting from the Song Dynasty.

Chu Yaozong was in the shop at the time. He took the painting and looked at it for more than ten seconds before his hands started shaking because it was a paper copy of "Ink Bamboo Birds" by Dong Yuan, the originator of southern landscape painting.

Although this painting does not have Dong Yuan's seal, it is very famous and has been included in the "Xuanhe Painting Book" of the Song Dynasty.

The seal on the painting also seems to confirm the record in the Xuanhe painting book. It contains the seven seals of Xuanhe by Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

There are also inscriptions by Mi Fu, a great calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, and seals collected by great collectors in the Ming Dynasty, Xiang Yuanbian and Yuan Shu.

In the Qing Dynasty, it may have been included in the imperial palace, and the painting was also stamped with the seals of Emperor Qianlong's "Yi Zisun", "Shiqu Baoji" and "An Ancient Rare Emperor's Treasure".

Chu Yaozong specializes in jades, and he is also proficient in the appraisal of calligraphy and painting. In his opinion, this painting meets the conditions of Dong Yuan's authenticity in terms of painting style, paper and ink, especially the paper used, which is the real Chengxintang paper.

Moreover, Chu Yaozong, who sells paintings, also knows that his ancestors produced a Jinshi in each of the Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Guangxu years. Among them, the one in the Qianlong Dynasty was ranked second in high school and eventually became an official in the high position of Minister of Civil Affairs.

The other party's family can be said to be a truly famous family in Dongjiang. Therefore, it makes sense that there is an authentic Dong Yuan in his home.

At that time, the seller asked for 900,000 yuan, but Chu Yaozong negotiated the price to 350,000 yuan, and the other party nodded to seal the deal.

In the early 1990s, online banking transfers were not as available as now, and it was very troublesome to collect money at that time.

Chu Yaozong collected all the cash in the store and gave it to the other party for a deposit of 20,000 yuan. Then the two of them kept the painting in the hands of a highly respected collector. They agreed to pay the money with one hand and collect it with the other at nine o'clock in the morning three days later. Painting.

Chu Yaozong was not a fool. Before leaving, he agreed that he would have to ask someone to appraise the painting again. If it was genuine, the remaining three hundred and thirty thousand would be a lot. On the other hand, if he was not sure, he would also give the deposit to the other party. , regarded as compensation.

The other party hesitated for a moment and felt that he was not at a disadvantage, so he immediately nodded in agreement.

Later, it was naturally the great collector Chu Yaozong who brought the paintings to Zhongzhonglou.

Zhongzhonglou opened half of the scroll and read it for half a minute before rolling it up again. Then he said to Chu Yaozong: "I have seen the original painting. This is a copy of the late Qing Dynasty. The original painting has never been collected into the inner palace. Instead, it has been treasured by a scholarly family from a neighboring province for generations."

With the words "Chongzhonglou", this business was naturally not done.

Later, the painting was sold and was bought by another owner of a calligraphy and painting business in Dongjiang Antique Street.

After only a few months, the shop closed down and the owner disappeared.

Chu Yaozong mentioned to Shen Yu countless times that if he had really accepted the Dong Yuan fake at that time, he would never be able to turn around in his life, and the interest on the turnover money alone would kill him.

Shen Yu knew what Chu Yaozong meant. It was not as good as it is now. In the early 1990s, 330,000 was definitely an astronomical figure. No one could take it out at once. It had to be turned around. How could you not pay interest if you borrowed it from others? /p>

Therefore, Chu Yaozong regarded Zhongcheng Lou as his reborn parent, and he would definitely visit him during the New Year and holidays. If he was sick, he would stay with him in the hospital day and night.

Because of the relationship with Zhonglou, Chu Yaozong not only paid all the compensation of 1 million, but also gave Shen Yu half a month's leave in order to downplay the matter.

After that, he visited the other party many times in the hope of gaining his understanding, but the woman surnamed Lin kept insisting. Shen Yu did not want to embarrass Chu Yaozong, so he chose to leave with his bag.

This is because more than 70% of the jadeite in Baoyuxuan store, whether it is raw material or rough stone, needs to be purchased from Baoheng Company run by the Lin family.

Once the supply is blocked by the other party, Bao Yuxuan can only change the store list to engage in antique business.

One million, although Chu Yaozong clearly said that he would not want a cent, but Shen Yu did not want to owe a favor, and the favor was too heavy.

Without Chu Yaozong, Shen Yu would not have the funds to open this antique shop. Moreover, Chu Yaozong took care of his grandfather’s funeral in Zhongzhonglou. This favor is very heavy, and it is more important to Shen Yu than the one million.

Zhongzhonglou has three sons. The eldest son Shen Ting'an suddenly disappeared when he went out to do business with a caravan in the mid-1940s. To this day, he has not been seen alive or dead.

The second son, Shen Tingyuan, went abroad in the late 1980s. At first, he called back several times, but then there was no news at all.

Shen Yu's father, Shen Sanyun, was the third son with an unconventional personality. In fact, he was spoiled by Zhong Zhonglou.

The emperor loved his eldest son, and the common people loved his younger son. Zhongzhonglou renewed his marriage at the age of forty-seven, and got his son Shen Sanyun at the age of knowing his destiny.

For Shen Sanyun, Chongzhonglou really loves him very much, even to the point of doting on him. Originally, his generation should be that of Ting, but Chongzhonglou gave him the name "Sanyun".

Meaning: First luck brings good fortune, second luck brings wealth, third luck brings longevity.

But the result of pampering is that he has no future. Shen Sanyun has great ambitions and lacks talent. He loses money in whatever line of work he does. It can be said that Zhongchenlou's family business has been completely ruined over the years.

There is nothing you can do about the heavy building energy returning to the air. You can’t kill him, right?

If there is one more thing that goes against Shen Sanyun, in Zhonglou's words, it is that he gave birth to his grandson Shen Yu.

Although Shen Yu was young and sensible, he didn't know anything about taking care of the old man's funeral, especially since Zhongzhonglou was so popular all over the world. If it weren't for Chu Yaozong and Li Hanlin, Shen Yu would really have a headache.

The rain is getting heavier again.

The knocking on the roof made the eaves jingle, which made Shen Yu wake up from his memories.

With a sigh, Shen Yu picked up the inkstone placed on the bedside table and looked at it carefully. It was as black as paint and as smooth as jade. Shen Yu really fell in love with it the more he looked at it.

"I heard that there is a shop called Ancient Inkstone in the south city of Chuzhou. The ancestral craftsmanship specializes in repairing ancient inkstones. When I have time these days, I must repair the cracks in the inkstone pool. I must remember to transfer the money to Lao Liu tomorrow."

"Huh? What is this?"

Looking at the inkstone in his hand, Shen Yu suddenly realized that something was wrong.

I saw an extra cyan light group three inches above the inkstone. The light group was not big, only about the size of a soybean grain. It had no fluctuations and was just floating quietly in the air without moving.

"It's broken. Isn't it because I fell on the back of my head just now and there is something wrong with my eyes?"

Rubbing his eyes vigorously, Shen Yu turned his head and looked outside the store door. He saw people coming and going in the corridor outside the door. There was no blue light appearing, and it was no different from what he usually saw.

Looking at the inkstone again, the cyan light group appeared again. Shen Yu stretched out his hand to grab it, and his palm passed through the cyan light group without touching the light group. It was like blowing the air.

After thinking about it, Shen Yu moved the inkstone casually, and the light ball also rotated with the inkstone. No matter which direction the inkstone went, the cyan light ball was always three inches above the inkstone.

"What's going on?" Shen Yu's hand shook uncontrollably, and he almost dropped the ancient inkstone in his hand to the ground.

His left eye has just improved, and Shen Yu really doesn't want any more problems...

***The author has something to say***

This is another big chapter with nearly 4,000 words. I hope everyone enjoys reading it.

In addition, this is a purely urban treasure hunting book. The golden finger can see the treasure light of antiques, and the golden finger will not be opened very much.

To put it bluntly, even if you throw yourself to death, you will not turn into a fairy tale or fantasy half way.

Don’t worry, write at least two million words.