Chapter 966

Many antique dealers are good storytellers. No matter how thrilling the story is, they can make it up. In particular, Taobao in the countryside, many sellers use some touching stories to win the sympathy of buyers, so that buyers hit the eye.

Therefore, no matter how pitiful Lu Shuan Niu was, Chu Chen was not moved. As the old saying goes, there is no need to harm others, and there is no need to guard against others. The story can be heard, but to make him believe it, he can only verify the authenticity of things first.

Lu Shuan Niu took everyone to a room for storing things. He went to an ancient lamp in the middle of the room and said, "this is it. You can have a look at it. If you like it, let's talk about the price. In addition, I'd like to remind you that you have to be careful when you look at it. Don't damage it. "

With that, he stood next to the ancient lamp, staring at chuchen and them. He was afraid that chuchen would damage things when they looked at them.

Chu Chen nodded with a smile to show that he would pay attention. Then he looked at the ancient lantern. In fact, when he first came in, he saw the real object and knew that the ancient lantern was actually what people usually call a walking horse lantern.

Horse lantern is one of the traditional festival toys and belongs to a kind of lantern. Common in the new year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and other festivals.

Today's lantern is in a square or round paper lantern, insert a wire as a vertical shaft, install an impeller above the shaft, install two cross thin wire in the center of the shaft, stick people, horses and other paper-cut on each end of the wire.

When the lanterns are lit, the hot air rises to form an air flow, which drives the impeller to rotate, so the paper-cut rotates with the axle. Their shadows are cast on the lantern paper cover. Looking from the outside, it becomes the situation of "the car is galloping, the group is endless" described in the book "the chronicle of Yanjing years old" in the late Qing Dynasty.

In ancient times, many pictures of ancient generals on horseback were drawn on each side of the lantern. When the lantern turned, it looked as if several people were chasing each other, so it was called the lantern.

The lantern in front of us is a round lantern with a shape similar to that of the ancient palace lantern. As Erdan said, the height of the lamp is about 1.6 meters, and the main body is made of Huanghua pear wood. The workmanship is very exquisite. It looks antique, and it is quite intact.

The lampshade of the lantern is a paper shade that looks slightly yellow, but I don't know what the paper is made of. It feels very tough and should not be damaged easily.

There was no problem with the appearance. Chu Chen was ready to take a look at the interior of the lantern. However, because the lantern was relatively high, Chu Chen's height of more than 1.8 meters made it inconvenient, so he asked LV shuaniu to bring another stool.

Chu Chen carefully stood on the stool, took out a flashlight and went inside the lantern.

There is a vertical shaft in the middle of the interior, an impeller is installed above the shaft, and a candlestick is placed in the middle. The designer considers it very carefully and adds a device for the candlestick to facilitate people to take it out. These are similar to normal lanterns.

Unlike other lanterns, the interior of the lantern is not paper-cut. Instead, it is surrounded by five circles of paper at different positions outside the vertical axis. It seems that there are still some patterns carved on the paper, but the patterns are relatively light. Chu Chen can't really see what those patterns are. He just vaguely feels that they are like palace maids, but he's not sure.

In fact, for Chu Chen, he doesn't care about the patterns on the paper, but the paper is too strange. The innermost layer can almost reach the level of transparent paper produced now, and the layers are more and more transparent. The outermost layer and the outermost layer are as thin as cicada wings.

Seeing this, Chu Chen almost thought that the paper was made with modern technology. Let alone him, another person would find it hard to imagine how such superb papermaking technology could have existed in ancient times?

But on second thought, Chu Chen thought it was impossible, because the lantern was made in the early Ming Dynasty in terms of material and technology. Even if someone faked it now, it was impossible to add these things to it, right? Is he not afraid of accidental damage?

What's more, Chu Chen felt that the traces inside the lantern were very natural, and he didn't see any traces of artificial changes later. But even so, he still felt a little uneasy, and finally simply used the ability.

"Hiss!" Chu Chen was quite shocked by the result of the power. He didn't expect that the result of the power would be like this, which immediately stunned him. Fortunately, we didn't find it strange that he was thinking there.

"Is it..."

Chu Chen settled down and asked, "brother Lu, I don't know how much you're going to charge for this lamp."

"600000!" Lu Shuan Niu said directly.

"What! Six hundred thousand Chuchen and they heard that the price was not much, but Erdan first exclaimed. In his eyes, it was just an ordinary lantern. It was too exaggerated to sell 600000 yuan.

"Yes, it can't be less than 60 points!" Lu Shuan Niu said firmly.

"This..." For chuchen, who knows the truth, this price has already been found out, but this kind of thing can't be agreed immediately. After all, the other party is not in the antique business. It's not bad if he goes back on his word.Lu shuaniu said: "boss Chu, to tell you the truth, my father needs to change his kidney now. In addition to the money for changing his kidney, the rest is the cost of my father's treatment after he left hospital. Anyway, there are not many people who can live for ten years after changing his kidney. This money, together with the money I earn from going out to work, is almost enough."

"Therefore, this 600000 is equivalent to my father's life money. If it is lower than this, I will not agree."

Chu Chen pondered for a moment, then nodded and agreed in everyone's surprise: "well, I'll take 600000. Do you want a check or transfer?"

Seeing Chu Chen's agreement, Lu Shuan Niu immediately put on a smile. Although he was so firm just now, he was also very worried. After all, a lantern is only for one person. It's only bigger at most. To be honest, even he thinks that only those who have more money will buy it.

If his father hadn't forced him not to sell it for 600000 yuan, and there was nothing valuable at home except this lantern, he would not have been as determined as he was just now. And if Chu Chen does not agree, he will reduce the price. For him, the most important thing now is to save his father's life first.

Fortunately, Chu Chen agreed to the price, which relaxed pinshuan's nervous tension. Then, he quickly asked: "boss Chu, I have no culture, and I can't understand checks. Can we go to the bank to transfer money? You can just take this lantern with you. "

Chu Chen agreed: "yes, we'll transfer money to the bank in a moment. But it's too big for my car. I'd better call a car for help. "

"Let me look for the car..." Erdan takes this matter down with a smile, but the shock in his heart has not subsided, because he thinks that chuchen is definitely not a fool with a lot of money, and it is impossible to spend the money wrongly because of his kindness. Since Chu Chen agrees with the price, the real value of the lantern is definitely higher.

If he had known that, he would have taken the lantern to his own home, and probably made tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands more. However, it's too late for him to regret now, but Chu Chen's image of being rich still keeps him in mind.

Next, chuchen takes LV Shuan Niu to the bank to transfer money, while the others stay here. When chuchen returns from the transfer, the car Erdan is looking for also comes. Everyone carefully puts the lantern on the car and goes back to Hu Yong's house by car.

When he arrived at Hu Yong's house, he moved the lantern to Chu Chen's room, and Erdan resigned.

Just now, Chu Chen had already contacted the transportation department in the car. The other party would come early tomorrow morning to help him transport the things back to the capital. Otherwise, it would be too inconvenient. Chu Chen would not be at ease if such valuable things were put here.

After Erdan and the truck driver left, Wu Ke went forward and looked at the lantern again. He said, "such a big lantern is really rare But even if the lantern is a little bigger, can it really be worth 600000? "

Hu Yong and Zuo Shan also looked at Chu Chen curiously. They both thought it was not worthwhile to buy a big lantern for 600000 yuan.

Seeing everyone's expression, Chu Chen said with a smile: "first of all, the lamp should have been made in the early Ming Dynasty. The lamp holder is also made of huanghuali. In addition, it is so well preserved that in terms of these three points alone, the lamp is of great value. Besides, it's not a lantern. It's a lantern. 600000 is not expensive. "

"The lantern?" Wu Ke was surprised and said, "are you talking about the kind of light that can turn?"

Chu Chen nodded and said, "that's what you call this kind of lamp."

Wu Ke said excitedly: "really?! Let's try now, shall we? I haven't seen the ancient lantern. What does it look like when it turns? "

"Try it, Hu Yong. You can find a bigger candle."

In fact, Chu Chen also wanted to see what was the magic of his lantern, which made the power have such a high value. As for whether the lantern in the early Ming Dynasty could still be used, he didn't worry at all. The reason is very simple. If it couldn't be used, the ability would not have given the result just now.

After a while, Hu Yong went back to the room with the candle. Then, Chu Chen took out the candlestick in the lantern, put the candle and lit it. Then, he asked Zuo Shan to close the curtain and close the door, so he carefully put the candle back.

In an instant, the room became brighter, but after a while, everyone's faces were shocked, even Chu Chen, who had made some preparations before, was no exception.