Chapter 0673 – Bronze Jade (II)

Master Ge is a truthful person, after hearing Zhao Hanxuan’s words, he still hesitantly said, “This …… is not good, right?”

“There’s nothing bad about it, Master Ge, after a few more decades, maybe a lot of people won’t even be able to carve a seal, if you’re free, bring more monkeys and Daxiong, it’s also considered to be a way to pass down this skill.”

Zhuang Rui waved his hand and interrupted Master Ge’s words, then said, “Let’s leave it at that! Don’t mention it in the future, Lao Zhao, where did you go just now?”

Zhuang Rui didn’t mean to question, he didn’t think of Zhao Hanxuan as a part-timer in the first place, he was just asking casually.

“Go in and talk!”

Zhao Hanxuan saw that there were quite a few guests in the store and pulled Zhuang Rui into the cubicle.

“I went to a few other stores and asked, this time there is so a group of people, in the bidding for bronzes, and looking at its origin, it’s kind of like a ‘raw pit’ object.”

Zhao Hanxuan and monkey contact level is not the same, the monkey is more and those who set up loose stalls of the bosses to deal with, and Zhao Hanxuan acquaintance, are in the Panjiayuan have store people, inquired about the news naturally is also different.

And he said “pit” refers to the copper long-term buried in the ground, the surface due to a variety of chemical reactions caused by the quality of change, natural, layer by layer to produce corrosion, the formation of the surface or green, or red, or blue, or purple, or both of the rust color. This rust color is solid and has a natural sense of variety.

General players use “raw pit” to describe the bronze, which means that the bronze has not been unearthed for a long time.

“Old Zhao, can you be sure?”

Zhuang Rui asked a follow-up, to be honest, he really do not really believe in Zhao Hanxuan’s vision, this buddy can be raw iron and copper rags, as the Yongzheng Palace Office of Bronze Bodhisattva to buy, really not very trustworthy.

“What kind of words are these?”

Zhao Hanxuan blankly glanced at Zhuang Rui and said, “I know I don’t know much about bronzes, but Old Xu has a good eye! He’s seen a few objects as well, and this is coming from him.”

Zhao Hanxuan said old Xu, is Panjiayuan a franchise imitation bronze antique store, that the boss Zhuang Rui met, is a connoisseur, general cattiness is not hit the eye.

Zhuang Rui pondered for a while, looked up and asked: “Lao Zhao, what do you think? If it’s a real thing, should we eat it?”

Zhao Hanxuan shook his head and said, “It is true, I suggest not to get involved, I looked at a few things, all of its modeling is before the Qin and Han Dynasty, the boss and you are not bad this a few money, cause this trouble why ah!”

Zhao Hanxuan’s concern is reasonable, although many domestic rich collectors, have a collection of prohibited trade in bronze, but they are mostly through foreign auctions, or domestic intermediaries to buy, like antiques black market and other places, the police is difficult to pursue to their bodies.

However, Zhao Hanxuan saw the bearer, although the mouth said it was an ancestral object, but Zhao Hanxuan distance a good distance, can smell the earthy smell of this person, Zhao Hanxuan can pack a ticket, this person is absolutely digging graves and digging a good hand.

“I’m not bad at money, but I’m bad at things!”

Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly, his museum will be able to open in two months at most, although now there are a number of porcelain, in a few days and the Paris Guimet Museum to exchange a number of collections, and in Zhuang Rui’s collection, said to be a lot of valuable objects of the orphan, but for a “national” word beginning of the museum, these things are still less A little bit.

“Short of things? I’m still short of these things, but I can’t buy and sell them openly, so what’s the point of having them?”

Zhao Hanxuan froze for a moment, he had thought that Zhuang Rui wanted to see this batch of objects and was dumping them to sell.

“It’s like this.”

Zhuang Rui want to do museum things, but only in these few days to open up, even Ouyang Wan are yesterday only know, Zhao Hanxuan and others certainly do not understand, is that Zhuang Rui put this original to say again.

Although these bronzes can not enter the market circulation trade, but want to whitewash but also easy, as long as the relevant state departments are not staring at the object, Zhuang Rui has a way to whitewash, at most the trouble under the Ezekiel Kenneth, signed a donation agreement only.

However, if this object is “pit” is too obvious, Zhuang Rui is not dare to want, so this is thought to look at things before saying.

“Shit, boss, what you say is true?”

Spare Zhao Hanxuan in the antique line hanging around for twenty or thirty years, but also by Zhuang Rui said things to be shocked, Beijing is not no private museum, but can be like him to do so smoothly, is absolutely only one.

Zhuang Rui nodded, said: “Of course it is true, now the museum site are being remodeled to install anti-theft systems, at most one or two months time, will be able to open.”

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zhao Hanxuan thought for a while and said, “Boss, this bronze sale, in Panjiayuan is actually not a big deal, but if you fancy, don’t say anything first, I’ll find an intermediary to buy it, so it’s a little more stable.”

Although the private sale of bronzes is illegal, but the law is not to blame, the private transaction of things more to go, who was caught can only say who is unlucky, Zhao Hanxuan was previously under the set of a few pieces of bronzes bought, there is a “raw pit” objects.

Zhuang Rui is talking to Zhao Hanxuan when the monkey knocked on the door and walked into the cubicle, said: “Brother Zhuang, brother Zhao, and that person contacted, said half an hour later in the teahouse see, do we want to go over now?”

Zhuang Rui nodded and said, “OK, Lao Zhao, it’s fine, let’s go together and take a look! Hey, monkey, where does that person live? Can we get there in half an hour?”

“Brother Zhuang, in this line of work, how could he tell us where he lives? But that person often hangs around in Panjiayuan during this period of time, it’s impossible to say that he’s there right now!”

Monkey’s words make Zhuang Rui dumbfounded, his own this is white enough to ask, if that group of people to see anyone to say where they live, I’m afraid that the thing is not sold, the person will be squatting in the jail.

“Daxiong, look after the store, I’ll take monkey and manager Zhao out.”

Before going out, Zhuang Rui gave Daxiong a greeting.

I don’t know if it’s because he talked about his girlfriend, after Daxiong came to Beijing, he did things more and more steadily, Zhao Hanxuan was also very satisfied with him, and sometimes things like stocking up were left to Daxiong to deal with alone.

“Boss, what is the name of your museum ah? At that time some calligraphy and painting artifacts, printed with our Xuan Rui Zhai’s seal, can also do some advertising.”

That teahouse was right at the exit of Panjiayuan, it wasn’t very far away, a few people were walking and chatting at the same time.

“Called China Dingguang Museum, taking the name of that ‘Dingguang Sword’ I got, as for those paintings and calligraphy stamped with Xuan Rui Zhai Inscription thing even if it is!”

This is already more than five o’clock in the afternoon, Panjiayuan traffic is much less, a few minutes of work, the three came to the door of the teahouse.

Into the teahouse Zhuang Rui and others did not find, just when they entered the door, a pair of eyes in the corner of the teahouse, in the trio measured some, and then looked left and right, to the four sides looked up.

“I say monkey, these people don’t do things reliably! What time is it, and they’re still not coming?”

Zhuang Rui several people called a private room, let the people on the snacks and tea, a wait is forty to fifty minutes, the monkey about the people still did not show up, Zhuang Rui can not help but a little anxious, originally said that today to go home to eat dinner, and now it seems that, again, can not catch up, just now, Qin Xuan Bing also called to ask.

“Brother Zhuang, I’ll call again to hurry.”

Monkey touched out the phone to play out, just now has even played two, the other side are said to immediately to, monkey also hate the teeth itchy, this is not let him in front of Zhuang Rui lose face well!

“Coming, Brother Zhuang, I’ll go out and bring them in.” Monkey put down the phone and said to Zhuang Rui.

“Brother Zhuang, this is Brother Ren, hands said to have a few ancestral things.”

After not more than two minutes, Monkey pushed the door of the private room open. Followed by him is a small man, only more than one meter five, fierce look, Zhuang Rui also thought to come in a small child!

But look closely at this person’s eye brows, should be more than thirty years old, people are very thin, as Zhao Hanxuan said, the body permeated with a mud fishy flavor, just look at the body, is definitely a pickpocket graves digging a good hand.

“Brother Ren, this is my boss, you show him this thing first!” Monkey introduced Zhuang Rui to the person again, of course, the name and everything was not said.

“An old object passed down from my family, I don’t know if it’s worth anything, this boss will take a look at it first!”

Although he knew that no one would believe this when he said it, the small man still said it, and then put a round cake box in his hand on the table.

After opening the box, Zhuang Rui saw that inside the box, there were two bronze knights.

The two bronze jennets were exactly the same size, both with round bellies, one side of the mouth had a flow groove for pouring wine at the front end, the back had a pointed shape, there was a column between the flow groove and the mouth, there was a handle on one side of the belly, and underneath, there were three conical long feet as a support point.

On the two bronze jennets, there are animal pattern decorations, in the middle of the animal pattern, engraved with floral decorations, the production is very exquisite and complicated, although the artifacts are not big, but Zhuang Rui can recognize at a glance, this should be the ritual vessels of the Shang and Zhou period.

Ancient Jennifer, its function is now the wine cup, but the ancient often sacrificed to heaven, this Jennifer is also divided into drinking and ceremonial ware two kinds of wine is the daily use of people, and ceremonial ware is sacrificed to heaven with the degree of exquisite and value, but to be much higher than the wine.

Zhuang Rui put on gloves, picked up a bronze jerks play up, eyes in the aura inadvertently, in the bronze jerks in the internal traveled a circle, is indeed the authenticity of no doubt.

After putting down the bronze jennet, Zhuang Rui smiled at the small man and said, “Oh, this thing, the time of unearthed should not be more than ten years, right?”