Siheyuan: a hole in the sky with you

"Yes!" Zhou Jianguo's glasses lit up, and he quickly thought of a solution.

Qi Baishi's paintings are indeed good, but there are quite a few of his paintings in existence. It is said that there are more than 20,000 paintings. Moreover, the prices of Qi Baishi's paintings have not soared yet, so there is something to be written here.

"What do you have inside?" Zhou Jianguo came to the man and asked.

"Paintings, Qi Baishi's paintings, do you want to see them?" the middle-aged man asked with a hint of eagerness.

"Well, let's take a look!" Zhou Jianguo nodded.

The middle-aged man's face showed joy, then he carefully opened one of the boxes and handed it to Zhou Jianguo.

"Hey, you put it on the ground first!" Zhou Jianguo did not take it, but asked the man to put the box on the ground first.

"Sorry, sorry, I forgot in a hurry, sorry." The middle-aged man apologized and put the box in his hand on the ground.

This is an unspoken rule in the antiques industry. It is best to put the items traded on the ground and do not pass through other people's hands, so as not to cause problems and embarrass everyone.

There is nothing wrong with calligraphy and painting, but if you accidentally drop something like porcelain, jade, etc. to the ground and break it, who will be held responsible?

Therefore, when you go shopping for antiques, if someone hands you something, you must not accept it, because it may be a trap to trap you.

For the safety of your own wallet, it is best to do like Zhou Jianguo and ask the other party to put things on the ground first, and then carefully take them over and check them.

Of course, it's best to use a mobile phone to take pictures. In this case, if something really goes wrong, you will have the corresponding evidence, right?

"Qi Baishi's painting, um, not bad!" Zhou Jianguo picked up the painting on the ground, looked at it, and nodded, as if he was identifying the painting.

In fact, Zhou Jianguo has long confirmed that this is a real painting, and his current behavior is just to pave the way for future bargaining.

"Why is it not Qi Baishi's shrimp, but bamboo? This... is not very valuable!" Zhou Jianguo's face showed a trace of dissatisfaction. After the middle-aged man saw it, his heart skipped a beat.

I thought I couldn't sell it again.

Yes, these three paintings by Qi Baishi have actually been sold by the middle-aged man for some time. People who have seen them all think that they are bamboo paintings instead of shrimps, which Qi Baishi is best at. Now I heard Zhou Jianguo say this again, middle-aged

The man's heart was quite bitter.

"Friend, if you really want it, then..." The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and directly said a number that shocked Zhou Jianguo.

"A painting costs twenty yuan. If you give me fifty yuan, these three paintings will be yours."

Well, the middle-aged man directly offered a group purchase price and bought them all for only fifty yuan.

"Fifty yuan?" Zhou Jianguo almost jumped up with joy. If these three paintings were placed in future generations, they would be worth at least tens of millions, but now they only cost fifty yuan.

"No wonder everyone wants to come to this era, because in this era, there are treasures everywhere!" Zhou Jianguo sighed in his heart.

"Sir, if you think it's too expensive, can we still discuss it?" The middle-aged man saw that Zhou Jianguo hadn't spoken for a long time and thought that Zhou Jianguo was too expensive, so he was going to lower the price.

(Digression: Qi Baishi's paintings were not very valuable in that era. A painting was only about five or ten yuan. Even in the 1980s, it was only a few hundred yuan. Moreover, it was still the best among them.

The price is not that high yet.)

"Expensive? No, not expensive, not expensive!" Zhou Jianguo said with a smile.

The price of fifty yuan made him feel embarrassed to bargain any more.

He is not a black-hearted businessman. He has already made a lot of money by buying these three authentic paintings of Qi Baishi for fifty yuan. If he bargains again, Zhou Jianguo himself will be embarrassed.

"You mean, you want it?" the middle-aged man said with a surprised look on his face.

"Well, I want it!" Zhou Jianguo said without hesitation, and he directly took out fifty yuan and handed it to the middle-aged man.

"Huh!" The middle-aged man suppressed his inner excitement and took the fifty yuan from Zhou Jianguo.

To others, this may seem like only fifty yuan, but to the middle-aged man, it is life-saving money.

The real identity of the middle-aged man is actually a university teacher. He has a literary spirit, but the literary character cannot be used for food. No, there has been a problem at home recently. His wife is sick and needs to be hospitalized for surgery. At least

It costs five hundred dollars.

Including some nutrition in the later period, if it adds up, it will cost seven or eight hundred yuan, so there is no need to even think about a cure.

Seven to eight hundred yuan, in the 1960s, was a really big sum, and the middle-aged man was suddenly in trouble.

As a university teacher, the middle-aged man earns a lot of salary, but some of it is used to buy books, and the rest is sent back to his hometown, plus expenses at home and so on. Therefore, the middle-aged man really can't afford such a lot of money for a while.

Much money.

His wife didn't want to go to the hospital anymore, saying that even if she spent money, the treatment might not be good, so she might as well leave it like this and save some money for the family. But this time, the middle-aged man acted like a master and said directly

, he will take care of the money matters.

The middle-aged man sent his wife to the hospital the next day, and then he began to think of ways to raise money.

He first asked a friend to borrow it, but the amount was as much as 700 yuan. His friends did not have that many, and in the end he only borrowed more than 300 yuan.

(I have to say that people in that era were really very simple. There was no need to be in need of money to borrow money. Moreover, as long as they had money, they would borrow it. After borrowing, they would definitely find a way to pay it back. How is it like now?

, When you borrow money, you are the grandson, when you pay back, you are the uncle, hey...)

(Three years ago, I lent out 60,000 yuan, and I haven’t gotten a penny back yet. Alas...)

However, this money, plus the more than 200 yuan in savings at home, was enough to pay for the hospital's surgery, and his wife successfully performed the surgery.

But he had to raise the remaining money as soon as possible to avoid affecting his wife's postoperative treatment.

On that day, the middle-aged man finally put aside his literary spirit and bowed to life for the first time.

Without hesitation, he picked up the paintings and calligraphy in the study, as well as some "stones" he had bought with money before, and stepped into the black market for the first time, preparing to sell these previously beloved things in exchange for his family's livelihood.

The things Zhou Jianguo saw now were leftovers from the men's sales.

Others also disliked these paintings as being too ordinary, so these three paintings by Qi Baishi have been kept until now.

I don't know whether it was to remember his past or to explain to Zhou Jianguo that he was not one of those second-hand dealers, so after Zhou Jianguo paid the money, the middle-aged man told Zhou Jianguo these things.

To be honest, Zhou Jianguo would not believe these words if he had said them before paying the money. There are many stories like this in the antique market, many of which are even more pitiful than those told by middle-aged men.

However, in fact, these are all people’s tricks. They are specially made up stories to lure you in. If you really believe it, then you will be deceived. By then, you will not be able to afford the stories specially made up by others unless you have a big blood loss.

This story comes out.

So, if you go to an antique market or something like that, be sure not to believe the stories people tell you. They are all tricks, designed to deceive novices like you.

However, Zhou Jianguo believed what the middle-aged man said after he paid the money.

Zhou Jianguo's impression of this middle-aged man became very good because he was able to put down his burdens and come to the black market to make money to support his family during a family crisis.

As the head of the family, you have to shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family. When the family is well, you can immerse yourself in the world of your art and show your literary character. However, once there is a problem in the family, then you

You have to return to the family and shoulder your responsibilities as the man of the house to support the family for your wife and children!

On this point, this middle-aged man did a good job.

"Teacher Zheng (introduced himself), what are you putting in these boxes?" Zhou Jianguo said, pointing to the remaining boxes.

In fact, he already knew what was in the box, but it hadn't been opened yet, so he couldn't tell it directly.

"This is filled with bloodstone."

Zheng Liangping opened the box and revealed several stones that looked like they were stained with blood.

These stones are not big, the smallest is only the size of an egg, and the largest is the size of a head.

Although he knew before that it contained chicken blood stone, after actually seeing it, Zhou Jianguo couldn't help but feel excited again.

"I have carefully collected these stones over the years, and they are absolutely exquisite."

When Zheng Liangping said this, his eyes were full of reluctance. He had spent a lot of effort to collect these bloodstones, and now he had to sell them for the sake of his own family.

"Okay, let me take a look first!" Zhou Jianguo picked up a piece of bloodstone and examined it carefully.

Bloodstone has different qualities and prices. It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the difference.

However, there is a very simple identification method, which is to look at the ‘blood’ content.

The "blood" on the bloodstone is very obvious. The more "blood" content, the better the quality of the bloodstone. As for other aspects, most people will not understand even if you tell them.

Just like Zhou Jianguo, he is a layman. When looking at chicken blood stone, he only looks at whether the "blood" content is high, and does not care about anything else.

Soon, Zhou Jianguo was sure that these bloodstones were all real, and, as Zheng Liangping said, they were all high-quality bloodstones, so Zhou Jianguo won them all without hesitation.

Bloodstone, in later generations, was measured in grams. The lowest gram cost several thousand yuan, and the top ones could even cost tens of thousands of yuan. In front of it, things like gold were not even the younger brother of its younger brother.

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