Wear It with Space

There was a shop called Boyazhai next door to Zhenbaoxuan which had not been opened before. It was not until Shen Ling was busy with the evening dress shop and returned to stay in the antique shop that Boyazhai finally opened.

Boyazhai’s boss is a retired professor. He returned from recuperation from other provinces. When he saw that there were more shops nearby, he came over and took a look.

Shen Ling was painting at the time. Although the calligraphy and paintings in the store were not in short supply, some people came to buy them. It probably has something to do with the low price he set for his calligraphy and painting, which is only 700 or 800 yuan per piece. Because Shen Ling's paintings are better and the prices are cheap, the guests are willing to buy them and hang them in the living room or study room.

The old professor didn't say a word when he was painting, and waited for him to finish painting before saying: "The young man is a good painter!"

Shen Ling smiled modestly: "The old man praised him."

The old professor said, "Are you the owner of this store or a helper?"

"I'm the owner of this shop." Shen Ling said while pouring a cup of tea for the old professor. "What does the old man want to buy?"

The old professor smiled and said, "I'm here to stop by. Did you see the shop over there? I'm the owner of that shop."

Shen Ling had seen the inside of Boya Zhai through the glass before. Now when he saw the shop owner, he said: "It turns out that the shop was opened by your old man. It's just that I have been here for more than half a year. Why hasn't the door been opened?"

The old professor said, "I was a little ill before, so I went to live in the South for a while."

When he was speaking, Shen Ling glanced at his complexion and felt that his complexion was okay. It seemed that after living in the South for a while, he had almost recovered from the illness.

"Who did you learn this meticulous painting from?" After a few words, the old professor turned the topic to Shen Ling's paintings again.

Shen Ling smiled and said, "I taught myself. I didn't paint well, so you laughed."

The old professor shook his head and said seriously: "You don't have to be too modest. I have a friend who is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. After being with him for a long time, I can see some good and bad things." Then he said, "Since you like painting Painting, why didn’t you go to art school?"

Shen Ling's painting has reached the current level after so many world practice, so he never thought of becoming a professional painter.

"Drawing is just one of my hobbies, I personally prefer to do business."

The old professor heard this and said, "That would be a shame. But since you like painting, why not open a calligraphy and painting city? There is a calligraphy and painting city next to our antique city, where the flow of people is much greater than ours." The old professor taught For a lifetime of students, these talented young people are the favorites in their lives. They also feel that although Shen Ling is very talented, he is not proud, so he is willing to say a few more words.

Shen Ling was a little moved when he said this, and his expression was a little hesitant, "But I have no reputation in the painting world."

The old professor waved his hand: "What's this afraid of? You don't just open a calligraphy and painting shop to sell your works alone. If you really have this plan, I can introduce my friend from the Academy of Fine Arts to you. He is this Although a person is not well-known in the art world, he is the vice chairman of the Artists Association of City A. You go to him to ask for a few paintings, and then buy some other people's works, this calligraphy shop will be opened. You must know that this calligraphy shop is comparable to antiques The shop makes a lot of money. Nowadays, the celebrities in the society prefer to be arty. As long as your paintings are really good, they will definitely be willing to pay."

As soon as Shen Ling heard the word earn money, he immediately made up his mind. At noon, he invited the old professor to a nearby restaurant for dinner. After the old professor sat down in the restaurant, he called his friend from the Academy of Fine Arts.

To Shen Ling's surprise, the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, the well-known painter Mo Lao in city a, turned out to be an extraordinarily easygoing person.

When Shen Ling asked him to order, Old Mo waved his hand: "I don't have any restrictions, I can eat everything."

Knowing that the old professor had just returned from recuperation, Shen Ling didn't dare to ask for white wine. He only needed a bottle of drink, and then poured a glass for each of them.

Mr. Mo drank a drink to moisturize his throat, "Old Tang, I came across another imitation today. The imitation is really like it. Even the original author, I, read it and thought it was a good imitation. I Ask again, it turns out that the painter was a graduate student, no wonder!"

Professor Tang said: "If you can boast a few words, the graduate student must have a good level. However, I asked you to come here to show you a painting by a newcomer." He took a picture of flowers and birds painted by Shen Ling just now. The picture was taken out, an empty table was found, and a newspaper was spread before it was unfolded.

Mo Lao leaned forward to watch for a long time, nodded and said, "It is indeed a good painting, comparable to that of the graduate student."

Professor Tang pointed to Shen Ling and said, "This young man painted it."

Old Mo thought that Professor Tang called himself to help Shen Ling become famous in the art world, but he was asking for painting. He thought for a while, "I have a few freshly painted works in my hand. I think The pen is not strong enough, and I am about to throw it away. Since Tang, you speak, then I will give you the painting to Xiao Meng. Don’t tell me about money or money, since you are an antique shop. Then you send me. A few imitations are ready, I took them and placed them on the Bogu shelf in the study."

Shen Ling knows that certain painters have high demands on their paintings, and if a painting is not well painted, it will be destroyed or discarded. But for the layman, they only value the painter's reputation. As for the quality of the paintings, they have little theory. So these paintings on the market, even those made by famous painters, are mostly slightly flawed works. Those really good works are generally not sold by painters. They will collect those treasures or give them to those who really know how to appreciate them.

Therefore, Shen Ling listened to what Mo Lao said, and didn't care that the paintings were works to be processed. Instead, she raised a glass to thank Lao Mo and Professor Tang.

After the meal, Shen Ling invited Professor Tang and Mr. Mo to sit in his shop. He took out a box of good tea leaves from the cupboard and made a pot of tea himself.

The two of them were full of praise for his tea art. After tasting the tea, Mo Lao pointed out Shen Ling's painting art and left first. And Professor Tang kept talking with Shen Ling until dusk.

Before leaving, Professor Tang suddenly seemed to think of something and asked Shen Ling: "By the way, recently I heard that there will be a large antique fair in H city, Xiao Meng, are you interested in going around?"

Shen Ling heard this news from several shopkeepers in the Antique City recently. He heard that this large-scale antique fair will attract many antique lovers from all over the world, and many people will take the ancestral treasures in their hands. Ask experts to appreciate, and then take the opportunity to sell.

Shen Ling felt that it was too busy to take care of the two shops by himself, so he said: "There have been a lot of things recently, and I want to open a calligraphy and painting shop. I'm afraid I can't spare the time."

Professor Tang said: "Time is squeezed out. This antique fair is not to be missed. You haven’t opened a store for a long time, so you probably don’t know that there are two fairs and dark fairs. The one on the bright side is for For those laymen to watch the excitement. The other is the highlight, often led by a few senior seniors in the circle, organize such an underground trade fair, which can find a lot of good things. But such trade fairs are mixed , So there is no need to ask about everything, and everything is careful."

As soon as Shen Ling heard that there was such a trade fair, he thought about it, he could temporarily close the antique shop for a while, and there is Lin Fang at the evening dress shop, so it shouldn't be a problem to go for ten and a half months.

Professor Tang persuaded Shen Ling to go there for the purpose of finding someone to accompany him. Now that Shen Ling agreed to go see him, he told him some precautions.

However, just a few days before leaving, Professor Tang had a bad stomach after eating for some reason. He was admitted to the hospital for a few days of dripping. Although his body recovered a little, he couldn't go to City H to participate in the trade fair.

Shen Ling had to leave alone.

City h is a well-known tourist city in the country, and the price of goods is almost twice that of city a. In addition to these, people here are more addicted to spicy food, and almost every dish puts chili peppers.

Shen Ling stayed here for two or three days. After getting used to the diet here, the trade fair almost started.

Professor Tang said that although there are some real things at fairs like this, they are relatively rare. Unless you are lucky, it will be difficult to find out successfully.

Shen Ling wandered about it with a leisurely attitude, and when he encountered those relatively good fakes, he would buy them at a low price, and then he could decorate the shop or give them away.

After shopping like this for almost five days, Shen Ling did not encounter a genuine product, and he was not disappointed. It's almost time for the underground trade fair to begin, and that is the highlight of his trip.

The location of the underground trade fair was on the negative first floor of the Antique City in City H. After Shen Ling took the elevator to the negative first floor, she saw an inconspicuous small door at the end of the corridor. Shen Ling walked to the front, opened the door, and saw that there was a room covering an area of ​​more than 200 square meters.

The room was divided into two rooms with landscape screens.

In the middle of the east room is an antique mahogany square table with a pair of ordinary blue and white porcelain vases, and a circle of sofas around it. Shen Ling heard from Professor Tang earlier that if the vase was placed on it, it means that the trade in Dongjian was porcelain.

The same square table was also placed in the middle of Xijian, except that there was a bronze sword on it, indicating that the trade in Xijian should be bronze.

Shen Ling knew very little about bronzes, so he sat on the sofa in Dongjian.

Dongjian had already sat a few people earlier. They seemed to know each other. They were talking quietly there. When they saw Shen Ling sitting here, they didn't raise their heads to say hello to him.

After half an hour, the sofa was full of people. A good-looking young man walked in from outside, carefully holding a small blue and white pot in his hand.

After putting down the blue and white pot, he found paper and pen from the drawer he carried on the table, wrote a reserve price, and then asked everyone to check it by themselves.

Shen Ling stepped forward to check it last, and his heart sank slightly. If he had not read it wrong, the small pot in front of him should be a fake, and he quietly stepped back.

When the young people sent them pen and paper so that the interested parties could write down the bidding price, Shen Ling did not move. He found that half of them hadn't started writing. It seems that there are quite a few experts here.

The second item was a large colorful Shoushan Fuhai bowl. Shen Ling found after checking it was a genuine one, but the reserve price was too high. He still did not participate in the shooting.

The third item is a brown incense burner with a reserve price of only 5,000 yuan.

Like most people, Shen Ling hadn't seen the dynasty of this thing for a long time, presumably this was the reason for the low reserve price. I am afraid that the owner of the incense burner does not know the true origin of this thing.

Shen Ling looked at it for a while, then touched it again, and found that the incense burner was very smooth as a whole, with almost no small gaps and gaps. Even the bottom of the furnace has no signs of wear. Shen Ling observed for a long time, and finally determined that this thing should be a newly unearthed antiquities, not a so-called imitation.

When casting the auction, Shen Ling saw that most people were almost uninterested, so he wrote a price of twelve thousand. Not surprisingly, the brown censer was photographed by him.

Next, the young man brought a lot of porcelain, some of which were from Ming and Qing dynasties, and some of them were the same as the brown incense burner. There was nothing on it, and there was no source of porcelain.

Shen Ling took another fancy to a pomegranate statue with a blue and white ganoderma lucidum pattern. He felt that the year was at least the Republic of China, so he spent 20,000 yuan to shoot it.

On the second day, the two transactions in the underground fair were jade and calligraphy and painting.

Shen Ling chose jade. He has worn a lot of jade jewelry before, so it is easy to see whether it is true or false. The jadeware presented at the trade fair was real or fake. In general, there were more real jade than fake. Shen Ling later shot and photographed a pair of patterned yellow jade bii.

After the trade fair was over, Shen Ling still felt a little bit unfinished. Professor Tang was right. There are indeed a lot of good things in it, just to see if you can recognize it.

Shen Ling always felt that the brown incense burner did not look like something from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, so he showed it to Professor Tang. Professor Tang studied for a long time and couldn't see what it was from the dynasty. Later, I consulted an expert and learned that the incense burner was originally a Yue kiln of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was worth about 10,000 yuan.

As for the pomegranate statue with blue and white ganoderma lucidum pattern, it was from the Qing Dynasty, worth 30,000 or 40,000.

However, what surprised Shen Ling the most was the pair of patterned yellow jade bii. At the beginning, he looked at the jade quality as okay, but because of the damage on the surface, fewer people shot it, so he only spent 8,000 yuan to shoot it. But I didn't expect that the seemingly ordinary pair of yellow jade bibs turned out to be from the Han Dynasty. Although they are a bit damaged, they can be worth hundreds of thousands.

A few days after Shen Ling left these three things in the store, the fat man came again. But this time he didn't bring any professionals, he came by himself. He caught the pair of patterned topaz at a glance, and finally bought it for 150,000.

After the fat man paid, he asked Shen Ling for a brocade box and put the jade in it. According to him, one of his customers likes to collect jade, and this pair of jade is for that customer.

After the fat man left, Shen Ling carefully cleaned several imitations that he had bought from the trade fair, and then went to visit Mo Lao's house.

Mr. Mo really likes the few imitations he brought. Although he likes antiques, he is particularly afraid of being fooled. Therefore, he is very fond of the better fakes, and feels that the better fakes are nothing compared to the genuine ones. difference.

Shen Ling left after sending these imitations. He felt that he had received some of Mo Lao's paintings before. Although Mo Lao did not ask for his money and only accepted a few imitations from him, he always felt sad. One more thing is that he also wanted to deal with Mo Lao well. In this way, even if I can't get Mo Lao's works in the future, I can still ask for some Mo Lao students' works.

So Shen Ling went to Mo Lao's house several times later, just to get to know some Mo Lao students.

That day, let him meet a Mo Lao student. The student looked very shabby. When Shen Ling went there, he was borrowing money from Old Mo, and he was 50,000 yuan.