Chapter 0120 Chicken Chickens (I)

Qian Yao Si is indeed the owner of this antique store. And he is also the Fuzimiao antique city of one of the elders, and its family history, his father before the liberation, was once a professor of history at Peking University, and then dislike of some of the authorities of the style, published in the newspaper made some remarks, was the authorities of the hate, and then quit Peking University, returned to his hometown of Nanjing to open a curio store.

This old man in the capital when he often stroll Liulichang and other antique market, those years from the palace out of the things and more, even then shut in the Forbidden City, are out of the objects, really let him receive a lot of good things, coupled with their own knowledge, each antique can cite, say its heritage, before the liberation of the country is also one of the more famous collectors and connoisseurs.

After returning to Nanjing, weekdays to help people write words, or identification of antiques and paintings, the days have been free, Fuzhimiao Qinhuai River is that the old man often linger. Only later the war fled Nanjing, until the forties only to return to Nanjing, and now Qian Yao Si, born after his father’s ears and eyes, on the antiques of this line of business has generated a strong interest.

After the liberation of the ten years of chaos, so that the money Yao Si’s father by intellectuals into a stinking old nine, after all the suffering left the world, and the home of many antiques and paintings, all of them have been copied and copied away, to the end of the seventies, the money old man was vindicated, the money Yao Si began to run to the relevant departments three times, the home was copied away from the things, recovered a number of just some of the paintings and drawings were burned and then can not be restored! This makes Qian Yao Si heartbroken.

In the early eighties, most of the people in the country are still eating pot rice, just over forty years old Qian Yao Si, resigned because of the care of his work, take the state compensation of a few thousand dollars, when the individual households, but also the most people look down on the individual households: the collection of rags, Qian Yao Si all day stomping on a ragged tricycle, wandering in the streets of Nanjing, and only to collect old books, paintings, newspapers, and some broken ceramic tiles and things like that, and the money is not enough. Broken ceramic tiles and other things, was called money crazy by some neighborhoods.

After the nineties. Qian Yao Si is considered to turn over the landlord when the policy was relaxed, Qian Yao Si found a father in Hong Kong’s old, a few pieces do not belong to the export of cultural relics limitations of antiques, get to Hong Kong to auction off the price of a hundred times, and then in the Chaotian Palace and Fuzimiao opened a few antique stores, the business is also more and more big in the domestic collection of the world, are well-known big collectors.

Since it is to do antique trading, of course, can not be only into not, but the money Yao Si its people, eyes extremely poisonous, and a wide range of involvement, from paintings and calligraphy to ceramics to bronze, as long as it is a real object, very few times to look away from the eye, so the opportunity to pick up the leakage will be more.

But Qian Yao Si can acquire things cheaply, if others want him to sell things cheaply, that is not even the door, do not even think about it. From his hands flow out of the object, are old objects, but its price, often compared to their own auction house to shoot down the price, is no less, after a long time, others sent him a nickname, called: dead to money.

Doing business is to maximize the benefits, money someone got this nickname, but also not angry, there are a few complacent.

To say that this nickname, and his name inverted reading some similar, but money Yao Si is indeed very wronged, the reason why he started this name, because his mother surnamed Yao, and the money old man and his wife is very love, after the death of the mother of the money Yao Si, to the money Yao Si changed into the current name, was originally thinking of “thinking” but think of the male child to this name is somewhat indecent, and finally turned into the name. The name was originally “Si” for “Si Nian”, but thinking about this name for a male child, it became “Si” for “Si Wen”.

In the past few years, Qian Yao Si because of age, also rarely run outside, nothing in the two antique stores back and forth, but are drinking tea and chatting with old friends, will not personally take care of these miscellaneous matters, originally this clock he has long been out of the store, but today there are a few years have not seen an old friend called, said that there is an object can not see. Want to find him palm eyes, which is waiting in the store.

Want to hang around in this line of antiques, there is no pair of good eyesight, there is no way to play this line, this eyesight is not only to see things, but also to see people, Qian Yao Si in this line of work inside the mix of a lifetime, naturally, needless to say, this room full of guests, he looked at it, he knew that they are some ordinary tourists, there is no a connoisseur, these people will not shell out large sums of money to buy their own see not allowed to see the things.

Just now when Zhuang Rui and others came in, the money shopkeeper did not care much, although several people dressed in good, but these days can come out to travel, are a few hands of free money, wearing a good bit is not rare, but the two small Tibetan mastiffs caused the money shopkeeper’s attention, but the line is like a mountain, coupled with the young mastiffs, he did not dare to determine that this is a purebred Tibetan mastiffs, and then walked into the few steps. Want to take a good look.

The money shopkeeper’s intention is to look at it, he is not playing with pets, even if the Tibetan mastiff is worth more money, and he did not have a little relationship, just when he was close to the Zhuang Rui lifted his hand, just behind the wrist revealed in front of the Qian Yao Si, the money shopkeeper’s a glance to see the dzi beads on the wrist of the Zhuang Rui, which one glance to let the money Yao Si look into the pull out.

Zhuang Rui hands of this string of dzi beads, color deep red almost black brown, wearing wrist is not very eye-catching. But Qian Yao Si knows, extra natural agate chalcedony texture of the pure dzi, is this color, and after special processing, the color is also deeper.

The money shopkeeper himself has a string of dzi bead bracelet, just above only two dzi beads, the rest are other jade with, how to see such a string of all the dzi beads worn into the bracelet, Qian Yao Si naturally want to see the truth, is their eyes, or this young man wearing the real dzi beads.

Dzi beads this thing, is the most valuable Tibetan amulet, sincere offerings to wear dzi beads can eliminate karmic obstacles, get blessings, prevent strokes and exempted from being hurt by evil demons, but also can enhance physical strength, increase wealth and so on.

Above these are folklore, money shopper’s know, dzi bead is taken from nine eyes stone shale, belongs to a kind of sedimentary rock, containing jade and agate components, red magnetic wave is the strongest, is a rare gemstone, dzi bead magnetic field for the crystal three times, long-term wear can prevent and cure heart disease, hypertension, and other various and blood-related diseases, but also can prevent and cure nightmares, insomnia, headache, etc. of the nervous system diseases.

To pure dzi bead is also genuine dzi bead, that price is not according to the jewelry to count, but on a count of money, a genuine dzi bead, that is worth more than 100,000, people are old on the life, Qian Yao Si heart is not very good, blood pressure is also high, Qian Yao Si own hands of two, cost him nearly four hundred thousand, at the moment to see Zhuang Rui hands of the bracelet, very similar to the genuine dzi bead, just to hear the Liu Chuan that does not get into the Hall of harmless Jokes. So there was the scene in the previous article that accosted.

Zhuang Rui saw the shopkeeper cast a gaze, the fat old man is quite awe-inspiring, must be the identity is not false, and then some embarrassment, Liu Chuan this cargo mouth no door, that joke is in the finger scolding the locusts, change a bad temper, may be a couple of people will be blown out of the house.

“Master, I’m just a beginner, where do I dare to make a fool of myself in front of you!”

Zhuang Rui looked around the antique store, found that inside the shelves are placed on a variety of shapes of ceramics, fine bronzes, hanging on the wall of the celebrities ancient paintings and calligraphy, the counter inside there are some jades, ancient coins, cultural treasures and miscellaneous objects, many of which he can not even call up the name of, where to dare to speak out of turn to evaluate.

Qian Yao Si at this time eyes have been removed from Zhuang Rui wrist dzi, a harmless smile looking at Zhuang Rui, said: “young man, as the saying goes: less to be crazy, old to be stable (this sentence can also be reversed, is that each said each reasonable), I see you quite right eye, let’s make a bet how?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, some can not feel the doorway of this fat old man, for no reason and their own bet ah, Zhuang Rui has always acted more stable, not sure of what he is rarely do, and then said: “The old man, I just stroll, bet even if, Liu Chuan, Xuan Bing, let’s go!”

Today this thing through the evil, Zhuang Rui do not want to stay in this store, anyway, antique street store more than dozens of stores, where to go around not ah! There’s no need to gabble with this inexplicable fat old man here.

Qian Yao Si see Zhuang Rui want to go, some anxious, quickly said: “Young man, you do not hurry to go ah! How about listening to me first? I have an open door old object in this store, although it is not very valuable, but 700,000 to 800,000 RMB is still worth, if you can find out, I will give him to you for free, if you can’t find out, I want to buy a thing on your body, I hope that you can love it, how about it? Dare to bet with my old man.”

God beads this object, not money can buy, today let Qian Yao Si met, how he was willing to let go, Qian Yao Si know wearing dzi taboo, and did not have a hand to touch, but the heart has concluded that this is indeed the purest God beads undoubtedly, for fear that Zhuang Rui refused to sell, simply use the method of provocation.

Said above the antique line on the “fishing” this line, that is specifically designed to attract some half-understand the first line of people, the so-called drowning most of the people are swimming, these people see the store has opened the door to the old objects, often think that other things are also genuine, but they buy home, but are some fakes and counterfeits.

Qian Yao Si mouth said that piece of antique worth seven or eight hundred thousand dollars, I’m afraid that is placed in the store fishing used.