Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 18 The Cursed Championship Ring

Looking around, Melinda was very satisfied.

"Very good! Lance, your house is better than the one I rented last time. I hope our deal can continue."

Xie Zihao also felt a sense of accomplishment and jokingly said:

"Of course, as long as you don't default on the rent!"

After saying this, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Then Xie Zihao changed the topic and said:

"Are these what you want to sell in your store?"

Melinda pointed to a few places and said:

"Except for those few personal furnishings of mine, the rest are all merchandise that can be sold. Why, Lance, are you also interested in antiques and artworks?"

Of course Xie Zihao was interested in asking this.

"Didn't I tell you that I majored in archeology and cultural relic restoration in college?"

Melinda was a little surprised when she heard this, looked at him again with a smile and said:

"I didn't realize that you are actually a professional. I thought you were just like those apartment owners who inherit family property!"

Xie Zihao also smiled when he heard this. The apartment Melinda mentioned actually meant landlord or lessor.

The real word "Yu Gong" in China is a very old term that appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It refers to a nickname for princes and nobles who have lost their titles or fiefs and lived in a foreign country.

In modern society, especially in the late Ming Dynasty and early Jin Dynasty, being an "office" has become a synonym for "living in seclusion" for some people who have high aspirations and serve the barbarians.

Later, after the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the feudal bureaucrats and the old and the young fled to the concessions and even overseas. At this time, the meaning of "Yugong" was more or less "people from the Peach Blossom Land" or "useless people" and "people without ambitions."

means.

Later, during the Republic of China, many frustrated bureaucrats took the initiative or were forced to live in lounging apartments after they stepped down. This term further took on a derogatory connotation.

Therefore, it is relatively appropriate to use apartment house to describe those who have inherited the family property from their ancestors but have no ambition to live and die.

It seems that the original person is really just waiting to die. In addition to his own personality, it is also related to the fact that he was hit by the unexpected death of his parents and was unable to recover.

Although Xie Zihao was affected by these memories and emotions, his personality was relatively indifferent and open-minded. In addition, he had been doing business with his grandfather since he was a child, and he was used to seeing life and death, so he did not become depressed because of it.

Xie Zihao, accompanied by Melinda, first looked at the newly decorated shops one by one with great interest.

At this time, there were many antiques and works of art placed on the counter and on the wall shelves. With Xie Zihao's inherited professional vision, he discovered that there were not many real antiques among them, and most of them were just old objects with a history of several decades.

He didn't think much about it, because the antique circle in the West is a little different from that in the East. They regard objects that are decades old as antiques, while in the East, the value of such old objects is not high.

Only those antiques with exact provenance that have been used by celebrities are collectible antiques.

In the West, the concepts of antiques and works of art are confused to some extent, especially in the White Eagle Federation, which has a short history. Generally, items that are fifty years old or less can be considered antiques.

Soon Xie Zihao walked to the counter where antique jewelry was placed. He saw dozens of antique jewelry displayed on the glass counter, shining brightly under the light and sunlight.

His eyes rested on a relatively large men's ring.

He pointed at the ring and asked:

"This ring is nice. What's the story behind it?"

Although he currently does not have the talent like his eldest son Itachi's Sharingan, his spiritual talent has been activated and his perception has been further strengthened, and he can clearly feel that something is wrong with the ring.

Melinda was stunned when she saw the ring pointed by her landlady, and then her face became a little strange, but she still walked behind the counter, took out the ring tray, and said:

"This is a championship ring from the Commonwealth Eastern XX College Football League in the 1980s. It came from Clark Reed, a young and talented quarterback star who fell too early."

Xie Zihao knew that the football the other party was talking about was not the football of the previous life, but the most popular rugby sport in the league.

Melinda continued to explain the ring.

"Because it is only a college league, and it is not a championship ring in a top-level event like the Super Bowl, Mr. Reed is just a flash in the pan in the history of federal football. His team has just won the league championship, and many strong teams are extending an olive branch to him.

Then Reed was shot and died on his way home. So if the original owner hadn't died in an accident, I personally don't think it has much collection value."

What the beautiful shop owner said was very to the point, not exaggerating but rather belittling her own products.

Xie Zihao took the tray and looked at the ring carefully. He saw that the light golden ring about one centimeter wide was inlaid with a light blue-green gemstone cut with square emerald. Against the afternoon sunlight outside the window, it looked very beautiful.

Magnificent.

Because there are many kinds of green gemstones, Xie Zihao cannot distinguish them at a glance without professional tools.

If it is a green sapphire among emeralds or corundum, the price is not low.

Emerald is one of the four precious gemstones, known as the king of emeralds, and belongs to beryl.

Corundum belongs to the most valuable category of gemstones, and all colors of corundum except rubies are classified as sapphires. In other words, green corundum is not actually emerald, but green sapphire.

The most valuable types of corundum are ruby, sapphire and green sapphire. The rest are classified according to color and clarity.

"A very beautiful gemstone, is it sapphire or beryl?"

Although Xie Zihao studied archeology and cultural relics, his four years of study also involved some knowledge about jewelry appraisal. After all, antique appreciation is inseparable from the category of antique jewelry, so he also has some understanding of this aspect.

normal.

From his perspective, if this light blue-green gem is really a green sapphire, judging from his memory, the diameter of a standard round 4-carat diamond is about 10.2mm, and the diameter of a square emerald-cut 4-carat diamond is about 9mm.

, since the quality of gemstones are all about the same, so based on the ring size of this green gemstone, which is about one centimeter in diameter, it is at least about seven carats.

Even if such a large gem is not emerald but light blue-green, whether it is corundum or beryl, its value should be hundreds or thousands of pounds. As for the maximum amount, it depends on the identification of the color, clarity, and internal structure of the stone.

and fire color and other aspects to judge.

But obviously this one is not a green sapphire, nor is it a beryl, because Melinda gave a direct answer and said:

"No, this is actually a peridot. You know, the symbolic meaning of college league championship rings is greater than the significance as jewelry, so usually the organizers will not use higher-end precious metals or gemstones to make them. This one is made of

It’s very generous to make it with 18K gold and gem-quality peridot!”

Xie Zihao nodded when he heard this. He remembered that the price of green peridot is generally quite cheap. In North America, it is about thirty-eight to sixty-four eagle pounds per carat. It is not a very valuable gemstone.

So the gemstone of this ring is about seven carats, and the ring setting itself should be made of 18k gold with gold, silver and a small amount of copper, which is what merchants in the East call rose gold. The Federation generally likes to use 18k gold to set gemstones.

Ring, this will be much stronger than pure gold.

Xie Zihao made some mental calculations, and if it didn't have a big background, based on the material alone, the price of this ring shouldn't exceed five hundred dollars.

Although he didn’t have that much cash anymore, he still had a credit card that he could use, so he asked:

"That's interesting, can I buy it?"

Melinda was a little embarrassed:

"Lance, I don't mean anything else. This ring is said to be cursed and not very auspicious!"

There will be more in the evening

(End of chapter)