Chapter 0026 – The Grasshopper Gourd (III)

At this moment, that grasshopper gourd is being played by Qin Xuan Bing in her hand, after hearing Liu Chuan’s words, she raised her head and faintly said, “Two thousand dollars, I’ll take this thing.”

For Qin Xuan Bing, money is just a number, this thing she really quite like, especially the pleasant sound of grasshoppers, let her feel as if she is in the garden.

Liu Chuan surprised open mouth, he felt that this world has changed, how even this cold woman also followed Zhuang Rui crazy, but more let him surprised things are still behind it!

“Not for sale, I’ll keep this for myself to play with.” Zhuang Rui rejected Qin Xuan Bing in one breath.

“Five thousand!” Qin Xuan Bing’s face remained unchanged, and her mouth spat out another figure.

“I’m sorry, Miss Qin, I really don’t sell this thing, it’s not the price, it’s that I myself quite like this caddis gourd, I hope you can understand.” Zhuang Rui saw that Qin Xuan Bing really wanted to buy it, and although he raised the price, he didn’t mean to hit people with money, so he said with a sincere face, but the price of five thousand dollars was really not enough to impress him.

Qin Xuan Bing didn’t reply, faintly glanced at Zhuang Rui, and returned the caddis gourd back to Nui Nui’s little hand.

“Ahem, Xiao Zhuang, you want me to show you the object, I’m not even on it yet!” Surprisingly, Elder Lu seemed to have some interest in this gourd as well, but he was too embarrassed to snatch it from Nui Nui’s hands, so he opened his mouth and said to Zhuang Rui.

Zhuang Rui quickly took the gourd from the hands of the inamorata and handed it to Master Lu, and the eyes of several people in the room were all focused on Master Lu.

After receiving the gourd gourd, first of all, he used his fingernails to play the gourd belly, the grasshopper inside immediately chirped, the clear and bright sound resounded in the store, and then Lu took out a thumb-sized magnifying glass from his pocket, and observed the gourd’s skeletonized core, after five minutes, he put away the magnifying glass, and sighed a long sigh.

“Xiao Zhuang, this object you really do not sell?” Playing with the grasshopper gourd in his hand, Elder Lu opened his mouth and let the crowd be taken aback by his first words.

“Not for sale.” Zhuang Rui said firmly.

“What if I offer fifty thousand dollars, also not for sale?” Master Lu’s smile was a bit playful, and seemed …… to have a few hints of bitterness.

“Uncle Lu, you don’t tease me, I really want to keep it for my own play, is there any doorway here?”

Zhuang Rui heard after the heart is also a big surprise, began to be a little shaken, after all, their own this period of time is the light out not in, buy a house to buy manuscripts spent more than 60,000 yuan, and now their own hands are only left with 50,000 or 60,000, and this thing just spent their own one thousand dollars, which has not been an hour, has risen fifty times, if this old man to give the price is really, it may be worthwhile to sell to him.

“You this thing is from that called Daxiong’s hands to collect it, right?” Elder Lu didn’t answer Zhuang Rui’s words and asked out loud.

“Yeah! Uncle Lu how do you know, oh yes, Daxiong said that there is a person who wants to offer eight hundred to buy his, it can’t be that it’s you old man!” Zhuang Rui also remembered what Xiong said at that time, but it was not really a hoodwink.

Boss Lu revealed a bitter smile at his words and said, “Where is the eight hundred ah! I gave that kid a price of one hundred, the boys who roll around inside this market are all thieves, if I really gave a price of eight hundred, do you think he would sell it for a thousand dollars?”

The old man’s words let the people present are incomprehensible, to that Daxiong is only willing to pay a hundred, how to Zhuang Rui here into fifty thousand, which makes people a little puzzled, but next to the two bosses of the Song and Wang’s face is a trace of a sudden look, as if some understanding.

“Xiao Zhuang ah! You don’t have to pretend anymore, if you can’t see the origin of this object, how can you cut off my Hu ah! Why are you still hoodwinking an old man like me now!” The old man’s eyes stared at Zhuang Rui, the original smile on his face disappeared, with a hint of sullenness, looked at Zhuang Rui and said word by word.

“Uncle Lu, I really don’t know where this thing came from! I don’t have much research on these either, I really don’t know what else to say about this grasshopper gourd, don’t believe me, ask Da Chuan, we grew up together, he knows me best.” Zhuang Rui heard some anxious, quickly explained, thinking that this old man is a dog! How to say turn the other cheek, a little bit of emotion are not left, in front of strangers say this, is equal to is tearing the face.

Liu Chuan will hear understand, dare to say that the old man thinks that Zhuang Rui picked up the cheap but also in the good, and quickly said: “Uncle Lu, my brother on this line of work is really know nothing about ah! He said he doesn’t understand is not understand, I Da Chuan although young, but you all know my person, I also mix in this market for a few years, talk is never a mouthful of foam a nail, and Zhuang Rui’s words are my words!”

Hearing Liu Chuan’s assurance, the sulking color on the old man’s face receded and said, “This object is Sanhe Liu’s Tooth and Mouth Gourd, I don’t need to tell you its value! Yesterday I saw Daxiong that kid with this, but then it was a little late, did not look closely, do not guarantee the provenance of this gourd, so he gave him the price of one hundred dollars, is thinking of these days to go back to take a good look, did not think that you received, alas, this thing is also too coincidental point, but this thing is an old object, surely from the Three Rivers Liu, you receive it!”

The old man this word out, the room of the people in the demeanor are different, Liu Chuan and Song Wang three that is the mouth open fast can not close, while Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing Lei Lei three people is a face of incomprehension look, obviously on the three rivers Liu this name is relatively unfamiliar or is the first time I heard of it.

“I say Master Lu, is this thing really Three Rivers Liu’s?” Liu Chuan’s voice trembled a little.

The old master glared at Liu Chuan and said with a displeased face, “I’ve been playing with miscellaneous items for decades, and I’ve seen Three Rivers Liu’s objects before, so it shouldn’t be wrong.”

“Hey, I say brother, you got lucky again, the objects of Three Rivers Liu are good things! You know, Three Rivers Liu …… That’s something, Brother Song, it’s better for you to say it! I just know a name …… too.”

Liu Chuan ruthlessly patted his thighs, after seeing Zhuang Rui several people do not understand the look, originally wanted to show off the knowledge, but found that he was only in the previous caddisfly gourd business, listening to people mentioned Three Rivers Liu, know that it is a celebrity, as for the inheritance of the object’s origin, the value of the geometry, he is not more than Zhuang Rui know.

Boss Song took the caddis gourd from Master Lu’s hand, and also like Master Lu, first took out a magnifying glass and carefully examined it for half a day, before speaking: “Zhuang Rui, your luck is really good ah! This gourd from the masked core to the reed, and this workmanship mortar, it really seems to come from the hands of Three Rivers Liu.”

Before Zhuang Rui could reply, Liu Chuan hurriedly asked, “Brother Song, then how much can this thing be worth?”

“Cheesy!”

Master Lu tensed his face and squeezed out a word from between his teeth, causing everyone in the room to look at Liu Chuan, only this guy has always been very thick-skinned, oblivious to the crowd’s contemptuous gaze, still waiting with a look of anticipation for Boss Song’s explanation.