Chapter 7 Going to the Antique Street
Although the Hongwu underglaze red was lost, with Chenghua Doucai, this autumn auction would not be too ugly. Zhou Xia did not want to listen to the inside story of their family and bid farewell to the two.
Liu Yuqing asked him to pay attention to rest and not work overtime. He is still a wounded person now.
Zhou Xia nodded and thanked her. Today was a long day for him.
Now the auction company is preparing for the grandest autumn auction of the year. After Zhou Xia left Liu Yuqing's office, she helped Wang Chao and others receive customers who sent the collection to the company.
Wang Chao came over and said to him with a smile, "Zhou Xia, you've done a pretty good job, I took back another treasure."
"It's Mr. Wang who is generous and doesn't care about me, a little shrimp. Of course, this is also the result of Manager Liu's honest treatment of others. Others treat each other with sincerity. It has nothing to do with me, and I still owe the company a lot of debts!"
"It's just a few hundred thousand, and I don't want you to pay it back. You just need to follow Manager Liu's pace and stay in the company to do things peacefully." Wang Chao also said with some envy in his words.
They had already had a fierce discussion about the Hongwu underglaze red before, and they all felt that even if it was a fake, it could not be escaped by hundreds of thousands. However, compared to the previous five million, it was just one on the ground and one on the sky. Hundreds of thousands were not a big deal for Liu Yuqing and the others. On the contrary, Zhou Xia could still get the opportunity to see Liu Yuqing differently and even get close to him.
Everyone nodded unanimously, who said that the old man is owed debt these days?
Zhou Xia shook his head repeatedly, "What's the point? It's natural to pay back the debt. I will find a way to repay the 450,000 yuan to the company."
Wang Chao immediately said with a grudge, "Zhou Xia, you are stupid!"
"This is my principle of being a human being." Zhou Xia said firmly.
"It sounds better than singing. What are you going to get? Go to the antique market to find a bargain?" Zhang Jie sneered, because Zhou Xia was too hypocritical and pretending! His salary would take at least ten years to pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was still so righteous. No wonder he was angry. Zhou Xia made a mistake and broke porcelain and owed hundreds of thousands. Not only would he not be fired, but he would be offered up like an old man. How could he be so kind to do things for the company?
Everyone is used to Zhang Jie's temperament and is too lazy to pay attention to him. Wang Chao thought about it and said, "It's a good way to get a bargain. This is the fastest way to make money."
Wang Yanli also said, "Indeed, it is not realistic to make a fortune by relying on this little bit of dead salary."
Wang Chao said to Zhou Xia, "Zhou Xia, why don't we go to the antique market together after get off work. Maybe we will be lucky and get a bargain!"
"Why are you so embarrassed? You all have your own affairs." Zhou Xia actually just wanted to make a fortune quietly.
Wang Chao said carelessly, "It's okay to go all the way, just treat everyone as a long experience. If you want to go, sign up now."
Wang Yanli nodded and agreed. Several colleagues who usually have a good relationship with Zhou Xia also said that they should go with them and relax. There are several places to sell antiques in Donghai. The closest thing to the company is the Old City God Temple, which has an antique street of about a hundred meters.
Zhou Xia was a little moved. The friends around him were really speechless. They were honest and righteous, and they didn't have much scheming. He couldn't bear to reject their kindness.
When Liu Yuqing came out and saw a group of people holding each other's arms, she asked them with a kind look where they were going.
Zhang Jie immediately came out and smiled and said, "They are planning to go to the antique market to find a bargain!"
Liu Yuqing looked at Zhou Xia in the crowd and said with a smile, "It's better to see more and buy less. Nowadays, merchants are more and more refined, and it's not that easy to pick up bargains."
Wang Chao smiled and said, "We don't have much money, and it's hard to cheat us. We just go shopping and have a lot of experience."
"That's fine, everyone have fun!" Liu Yuqing smiled and didn't say much. She couldn't control what the company employees had after get off work. They went to the antique market to learn more, which would be beneficial to the work, so she naturally would not object.
She walked away gently, leaving only her graceful figure for everyone to appreciate. Wang Chao sighed softly, "Whoever is lucky enough to marry her, at least twenty years less, come on, Zhou Xia!"
In their opinion, Zhou Xia is the most acclaimed person.
As this happened, Zhang Jie became more and more dissatisfied and muttered, "The toad still wants to eat swan meat, wants to marry Manager Liu, and it's almost the same dream during the day."
No one paid attention to him, Zhou Xia and the others quickly packed up their get off work, and then walked to the antique street of the Old City God Temple, which only took more than ten minutes to walk. It was the peak time for get off work, and it would take more time to take the bus.
Along the way, everyone was talking about the previous Hongwu underglaze red. They admired the masters of the production. Something that could make an eye-catching for an old expert like Xu Zhendong. Even if it is a imitation, it is of great value.
The careful Wang Yanli also comforted Zhou Xia and said, "Everyone said that the worst is coming. Zhou Xia, don't be depressed, maybe you will be blessed in disguise!"
Zhou Xia laughed and said, "Thank you, I hope so too!"
Wang Chao said optimistically, "Yes, maybe you can get a big hole later, you can pay off your debts in one go, and win the favor of the goddess."
Everyone was amused by him, and Zhou Xia also said, "Wang Chao, you think this is filming a TV series!"
Wang Chao was also happy, "That's not necessarily."
I talked and laughed all the way, and soon arrived at the Antique Street. With the rise of the national collection boom, Donghai, which has been at the forefront of fashion and has a profound cultural heritage, is naturally no exception. The antique collection market is extremely popular. This antique street near the Old City God Temple has gathered considerable popularity. Many tourists coming to the Antique Street to join in the antique Street and spend a few hundred yuan to buy it as souvenirs.
Of course, antique streets also pay attention to some of the specialties. Generally speaking, the collections of street stalls outside are much cheaper, and the price of opening regular stores is much more expensive. As for whether there are genuine products, they have to rely on their own eyes to identify them.
For example, 99% of the things on this street stall are not genuine, which is not an exaggeration. Of course, there are also genuine products occasionally, but even the seller himself does not know whether it is genuine, otherwise he would definitely find channels to sell them at a high price. Nowadays, merchants are very smart, and it is not easy to get a little advantage from them.
What Zhou Xia and the others wanted to visit was to place it in an antique collection market like a street stall outside.
The price is not expensive, and the possibility of finding a bargain is much more than opening a regular store, which is suitable for Zhou Xia and his team who are short of money.
He also remembered the principle that Liu Yuqing told him. No matter what, when buying things in such an antique collection market, he should not buy them as genuine. As for antique merchants, they must be selling them as genuine and counting them.
Although it was already afternoon, the popularity of this antique street was still very strong. Wang Chao and others were very excited, and they were ready to do something big.
Zhou Xia, who was infected by the atmosphere, also joined in to see if there was really a possibility of finding any leaks.
Among the group, Zhou Xia is now more keen. He has rich theoretical knowledge and often follows Liu Yuqing out and has learned a lot of things. Wang Yanli and the others have become monks halfway through, and have not been systematically studied. The theory and practice are a little worse, so they are all on his own. Once they find anything, they will give him a look. If he doesn't nod, no one will buy it.
But no matter what Zhou Xia saw himself or Wang Chao and others picked items, they found nothing that could make his eyes shine. Most of the things in this market are fakes, and many of them are bad fakes that cannot even be deceived by those who are just new to the industry. Now they are all out in a noble way.
Zhou Xia shook his head, and Wang Chao, who was walking in front, turned around and told them to watch the fun.
It turned out that there was a quarrel between a tourist couple in their forties. The husband took a fancy to buy a porcelain bowl made in the reign of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The wife refused to allow him to buy it, saying that he was a waste of money, and asked him, "Can Kangxi's porcelain be bought for a few hundred yuan?"
My husband thought he had found a vacancy and muttered in a low voice, "This is from a folk kiln. Although it is not worth much now, it will definitely appreciate in the future. Even if it is true or false, it is OK to buy it home for rice."
But his wife scoffed at this, "It sounds nice to buy it home to serve rice. Do you dare to eat this bowl? The supermarket doesn't sell bowls, it costs a few dollars per. With you for a few hundred dollars, I can buy a bunch of brand new porcelain."
The vendor couldn't help but interrupt, saying, "This is an antique collection, and it is not the same as the dishes in the supermarket."
His wife glared at her eyebrows, "I think your porcelain is worse than the quality of the supermarket. You dare to take it out to cheat people. It is so expensive. Be careful that I will report you to the Public Security Bureau."
"Sister, I won't sell this porcelain, right?" When I got into such a customer, the vendor was speechless. Although this is the fact, don't say it out loud, the whole antique collection business is like this.
"How can that work? We have agreed." The husband wanted to make the final struggle.
"You know your identity, otherwise you, a liar." The wife, who did not forget to warn the vendor, dragged her husband away, and even scolded him for making money while walking.
After watching the fun, Zhou Xia and the others also discussed that although she was very despicable, she was talking about this. Once she was connected with antique collections, the price of ordinary things was more than many times more expensive. No wonder so many people openly engaged in the largest legal counterfeiting and selling counterfeit industry in history.
Zhou Xia only glanced at the porcelain bowl that her husband wanted and could tell that it was definitely a new counterfeit, or the one with very poor quality. He had seen too much, so don't listen to these vendors fooling him about the folk kilns, or think he had found a flaw. In Jingdezhen, there was a large-scale production, which was probably only two or three yuan per piece, and the cost was almost negligible. But when he got to the vendor, he had a few tricks and became a Kangxi folk kiln, which cost hundreds or thousands of yuan. The profit was indeed scary, but everyone enjoyed it when he was shopping.
Chapter completed!