Chapter 73

Seeing that everyone nodded, Chu Chen continued: "most of the ancient jades there are old. If you can see them at a glance during the day, you will be surprised if you are not careful in such an environment.

And there are many high imitations in the ghost market, which is more difficult to find in this environment, so you should be very careful. When you encounter something you like, don't buy it in a hurry. "

After listening to Chu Chen's words, the three young people who had never been to the ghost market all looked dejected. Just now, those ancient jades all looked the same. How could they all be fake? And listen to him, there are more powerful high imitation. How can they dig out the treasure? It seems that this ghost city is really not a place for beginners like them to come.

When Chu Chen saw them like this, he said with a smile: "ha ha, don't be discouraged. I just want you to see more and buy less. If you encounter something you like, aren't we still here?"

Three people a think is also, anyway originally didn't expect own eyesight, buy before definitely want to trouble Chu Chen their, immediately interest again high.

Next, the six people went to five or six stalls in succession. Although they didn't buy anything, Li Guodong learned a lot from Chu Chen's explanation.

"Eh!"

When they came to a stall, Chu Yu was attracted by something, and then squatted in front of the stall to observe carefully. Chu Chen followed her eyes and saw that it was a piece of chicken blood stone, and it really looked like that.

In front of me, this stall has its own characteristics. The things on it are all small pieces, such as the four treasures of the study, seals, snuff bottles and so on. See this, we all pick up their favorite things, and stall owners do not speak, they look at them smilingly.

Chu Yulan frowned and looked at the chicken blood stone seal material in her hand. For three or four minutes, she felt a little satisfied and gave it to Chu Chen to help her.

Chicken blood stone is a kind of dickite with cinnabar strips, and its color is scarlet than cinnabar. Because its color is as red as chicken blood, it is commonly known as chicken blood stone. The output of chicken blood stone is quite limited, and the most famous chicken blood stone named by origin are Changhua chicken blood stone and Balin chicken blood stone.

There is also an old legend about the birth of chicken blood stone. According to ancient people, there was a kind of divine bird in ancient times, called "bird lion", which was very aggressive. One day, looking for food and flying over Yuyan mountain, I saw a phoenix hatching eggs. I had a bad idea and attacked her. The unprepared Huang was bitten off her leg.

Feng arrived at the news, shared a common hatred and defeated the "bird lion" together. Although the Phoenix was victorious, her blood flowed and dyed the whole Yuyan mountain red, so she became a shining chicken blood stone as beautiful as jade.

According to detailed textual research, the exploitation of chicken blood stone began in the Song Dynasty, and was famous in the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing and other emperors appreciated Changhua chicken blood stone very much, and used it as the main seal material of Baoxi. Therefore, it is juxtaposed with Shoushan Tianhuang and enjoys the reputation of "Empress of seal stone".

Because chicken blood stone is good in quality and high in price, there are many counterfeiters.

As soon as Chu Chen started to use this stone, the power still responded, but the weight of it was different from that of the stone he had met before. Looking at the texture and level, he could basically judge that this piece of material was not a real stone, so he shook his head slightly to Chu Yulan.

Chu Yulan is quite confident in Chu Chen's eyesight. Seeing his veto, he feels a little disappointed, but he still puts the chicken blood stone back to its original place.

"Xiao Chen, come and have a look at this snuff bottle." Li Guodong handed the snuff bottle to Chu Chen.

As soon as the snuff bottle came into his hand, Chu Chen was in front of him.

This is a snuff bottle with crystal inner painting. The bottle is in the shape of a long flat bottle, straight mouth and shoulders, oval ring feet, and the shape is dignified. With the four kings landscape as the theme, the painting is exquisite and the artistic conception is far-reaching, which shows the author's superb painting skills. Finally, the bottom of the pot is entitled "Xinmao spring day Zhou Yueyuan works".

As Chu chendao also knew, Zhou Leyuan was active in the Guangxu period. He was a master of internal painting of Beijing school who was born as a palace lantern painter and a master of gauze lantern. He had high literary accomplishment and painting attainments.

His inner painting style is vigorous and rigorous. Most of his works are imitated by famous artists such as Huangshi Valley and Xinluo mountain people. He also applies fan Shibei's staff technique of Gong Bangan to his inner painting. His inner painting pots, such as fishing for snow in the cold river, returning to the boat in the wind and snow, and bamboo art painting, are called masterpieces.

His works cover a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, characters, flowers and birds, grass and insects, and calligraphy. The color of the work is mainly light blue, elegant and pleasant, but also dotted with red, orange, green, white and other colors, vivid and distinct. He is especially good at landscape painting, blending the beauty of landscape painting in song, yuan and Ming Dynasties.

This snuff bottle, no matter from which aspect, should be the original work of Zhou paradise. The same is true of the result of power identification, and it is also a masterpiece he drew.

At this time, the others did not find the items they were satisfied with, and they all stood up. So Chu Chen thought about it and pretended to say, "brother Li, thank you very much. I'm still satisfied with this snuff bottle. Boss, let's make a price."

The boss looked at the snuff bottle in Chu Chen's hand and said, "five thousand."

Hearing the price, chuchen was pleased that the boss didn't know the goods, so he held out a finger and raised it up.That boss sees this, wry smile way: "this brother, you also too ruthless, this price affirmation does not become, you add a bit more."

Chuchen laughed, compared a gesture of one thousand six, and then said, "this is the price. If it's OK, boss, please give me a word." With that, he showed a posture of going.

"Come on, it's yours." The boss replied quickly. The young people thought that if they made a hundred and four hundred and five dollars, they would make a good change.

He took out his wallet, counted sixteen red bills, handed them to the boss, and then put the snuff bottle directly into his pocket. Then he said hello to the boss with a smile, and left the stall with other people happily.

After walking a long distance, Chu Chen handed the snuff bottle to Li Guodong and told him some information about Zhou Yueyuan. Then he said with a smile, "the price of the snuff bottle made by Zhou Yueyuan is still good. Just last year, a snuff bottle made by Zhou Yueyuan, which is similar to it, was auctioned for 66000 yuan."

When Li Guodong heard this, his mouth would be back to his ears. He quickly returned the money to Chu Chen, and then gently stroked the snuff bottle.

Seeing this, everyone was laughing in their hearts. Wen Yuting gave him a more white look and said, "dead face!"

After laughing, Chu Chen turned his head and explained to Chu Yulan, "Xiao Lan, you should feel the chicken blood stone just now. Is it hard? It's supposed to be a fake mosaic. "

The inlay method is to use a piece of Changhua stone with good texture, select several striking places, dig out small pits of different depths, then embed them with red mercuric sulfide paint, and then polish and wax them after they are naturally dried in the shade.

However, this kind of embedded chicken blood (mercuric sulfide) has no layers, and the color of the junction between the blood and the changfossil is stiff without transition.

Chu Yulan thought about it, but it's really so. No wonder she always feels uncomfortable looking at it.

Next, after visiting several stalls, Chu Yulan found a piece of seal material from Tian Huangshi. This seal material is still good, but the boss asked for 150000 yuan. Chu Chen frowned and stopped Chu Yulan. Before paying the price, he walked away with others.

"Brother Chu, what's the matter? I think that piece of material is very good." After walking a distance, Chu Yulan asked strangely.

Chuchen said with a smile: "Xiaolan, that piece of material is good, but it's worth 20000 at most. He asked for 150000, so it's not a good price at all. You have to know that the business in the ghost market is like a small commodity. He offers a price. If you make a counter-offer, maybe he will pester you and others won't take care of you. "

"In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, remember next time, if you come to the ghost market and encounter such a high price, don't open your mouth, it's right to go straight away. Especially in the field, that should be even more so. "

After listening to what Chu Chen said, Chu Yulan and his three friends were all surprised. They didn't expect that there were such twists and turns in the ghost city. As students in the ivory tower, they couldn't even think about it.

Before they woke up, they heard the noise not far away. Seeing this, they went over curiously.

"What's the matter with you? It's clear that I've offered a price, and you acquiesce. How can you say that if you don't buy it, you won't buy it?" I saw a man with a small bronze tripod in his left hand and a young man in his right hand. He said indignantly.

"I didn't. I went to see it with you and didn't say anything at all." The young man was sweating.

The man mercilessly said: "how, you still want to play to depend on, you see my elder brother answer not to agree."

As soon as the voice fell, three strong men surrounded him.

"Ah..."

As soon as Chu Yulan came up with a voice, he was pulled away by Chu Chen. After a certain distance away from there, he said:

"Xiaolan, we'd better not interfere in this kind of thing."

"Why, it's clear that the man is forced to buy and sell!" Chu Yulan didn't understand.

"That's right. I don't think that man is a good man for the purpose of swerting head mice. And you can see that the things in his hands are so shabby and ugly that you can see that they are not good things." Wen Yuting's face is also an angry expression.

Chu Chen said with a bitter smile: "you two, let's calm down first. Think about it. This kind of thing is reasonable for the public, and reasonable for the grandmother. What's the reason for us to manage it? But you can rest assured that they dare not make a big deal. At most, they can scare the young man. No matter how many market managers there are, they will step in. "