Chapter 92: Doing Business with Foreigners (Part I)

After Jiao San left, Xu Tianchuan also went back to the house to change his clothes, then put on a hat and a pair of round sunglasses more than usual, and went out to the cultural play market.

Today may be because of the cold weather, the cultural play market is less bustling and lively on weekdays, and even feels a little deserted, the stall owners on both sides endure the cold wind and shrink into a small lump, and the guys in the shops are leaning on the stove to keep warm.

Interestingly, the Mo family's Mo Yuanzhai did not open today.

Xu Tianchuan casually entered the shop.

"Look, ...... you?"

The young man who leaned on the fire to keep warm felt that someone was coming, and he didn't twist his head and said politely, which was a greeting.

"Do you have any old objects from before the Song Dynasty?"

Xu Tianchuan pretended to ask casually.

"Yo, what a coincidence, today you are the tenth to come to find the goods, the things in the store are here, or you can take a look first, if you like, let's talk."

The young man glanced up at Xu Tianchuan and smiled politely.

Xu Tianchuan nodded, as he imagined, I am afraid that now in the entire Luoyang City, the old objects before the Song Dynasty have become 'pretty goods'.

Xu Tianchuan didn't pick his eyes, and casually took a look at the container, everything that exceeded before the Song Dynasty was true.

However, one of the bronze tripod-style three-legged dragon beast ear incense burners attracted Xu Tianchuan's attention.

This incense burner is more than 20 centimeters long, the whole is an oval of bronze material, the two sides are decorated with animal ears, and the body is surrounded by a lifelike dragon, both the overall shape and the carving are very exquisite, and there is a paragraph below, which is an official model of the Yuan Dynasty.

It's a pity that this is a high imitation.

No! It's a fine imitation!

It is a grade higher than the high imitation, whether it is the shape and carving, it is basically right, but the age is wrong, because the rust on it is made, although it is also very realistic, but he can't hide Xu Tianchuan's fiery eyes.

And the counterfeiting of bronzes is difficult to rust here.

Because bronze is different from ceramics and calligraphy and painting, ceramics look glazed? Even if it's fake? You can't make such a good glaze at all. Calligraphy and painting look at painting skills and paper and ink, each school of calligraphy masters have their own unique characteristics? It's also hard to fake.

Only this bronze? Modeling and engraving can be perfectly replicated one-to-one, but rust is the biggest problem.

"Shopkeeper? I see you've got a pretty good stove! ”

Xu Tianchuan took the incense burner in his hand again and looked at it, and smiled slightly.

"Yo? Father? You really have good eyesight, this is the only treasure of our store, for the first two years, but it was all stored in the box? If it weren't for the sluggish business in the past two years? I really can't bear to put it on the table, this is the ...... back then"

"What's the price?"

The young man in the store seemed to open the floodgates, but was interrupted by Xu Tianchuan, because the young man might be about to tell a story next.

This kind of routine is all left over from Xu Tianchuan's play a few years ago.

"Master? If you are sincere, I will not mess with you? Fixed price! ”

The young man gestured at Xu Tianchuan with his hand and made an 'eight' gesture: "Eight thousand oceans, you take it!" ”

If it's true.zyxta.? This thing can at least add an extra zero to the end.

"Eighty!"

As soon as Xu Tianchuan spoke, two zeros were directly erased from the back.

"Master? There's really no such bargaining as you. ”

Haggling in the antique circle? How much do you cut without getting angry? Because of the large amount of moisture in it, the young man still smiled and said, "Master, if you really want it sincerely, I will give you a little more, seven thousand five!" I'm a pretty thing, and you'll never find a second one out of the street. ”

"The goods are indeed pretty goods, that is, the rust on it is almost meaningful, the rosin is too much, the rust is soft and loose, I just fell in love with the carver of this stove, and I see that you have no business in this store, I wanted to open a show for you, I will add some more to you, one hundred and five! If I can't get out, I'll go to another house to have a look. ”

Xu Tianchuan pushed the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, turned around and walked out.

I must know my own things in my heart, the smile on the young man's face stopped abruptly, but it really hasn't opened today: "Master, you make it up, five hundred!" ”

Xu Tianchuan didn't look back and continued to walk out.

"Three hundred and five!" The young man gritted his teeth, obviously not wanting to lose the deal.

Xu Tianchuan continued to walk out, since he could retreat to this point, there must be room for improvement.

"Come on, master, you're really amazing, just one hundred and fifteen, I'll wrap it for you!"

The young man gritted his teeth and ended up in the business.

Xu Tianchuan turned around and returned with a smile on his face.

I gave one hundred and fifteen of the oceans, took my things and went home directly.

It stands to reason that as long as this thing can be seen fake, it is worth fifty oceans at most, and it can't be more.

The reason why Xu Tianchuan spent a 'high price' was because he really needed it.

As long as there is a billet for this thing, once it is in your own hands, it will not be at this price......

After returning home, Xu Tianchuan got to work.

I hadn't done this before, but I had a lot of knowledge in my head.

Xu Tianchuan first used sandpaper to gently grind off all the fake rust made on it.

During this period, there was basically no high-tech counterfeiting, but there was still technical content.

Regarding the rust on bronze, the most basic thing is to mix rosin with pigment and then rust, but the amount of rosin and the production of pigment are very particular, and the proportion is slightly worse, basically it is 'fake at a glance', and it is easy to recognize.

But Xu Tianchuan's means of rusting are different.

The same rosin is used as a binder, but instead of pigment, real patina.

It is the thousand-year-old bronze rust scraped by Xu Tianchuan from the Fuwang Xuangong.

At the beginning of the Fuwang Xuan Palace, the rust that Xu Tianchuan scraped off the large bronze was originally left to make a fake, but he didn't expect to use part of it on Luo Shaoshuai's body, and then there was still a part.

Those foreign devils identify bronzes, mainly relying on detection instruments to measure the rust on bronzes, as long as these real rusts can be glued through rosin to the natural truth and firmness, it is completely true!

As for how to bond through rosin, it is necessary to have real skills, less sticky, more easy to expose.

In addition, we should pay attention to how to do it, not to say that it is covered with rust indiscriminately, it must look rusty naturally, the most important thing is the gap of the carving, and the depth of the patina is different in different positions......

Until the afternoon.

Xu Tianchuan locked himself in the house for most of the day, and he didn't even eat lunch.

Before sunset, it was finally completed.

Xu Tianchuan looked at the 'refreshed' Ding Beast Ear Pan Dragon Pattern incense burner in his hand, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

Xu Tianchuan is very satisfied with his craft, if it weren't for the fact that this thing was made by himself, it might take some time to distinguish the real from the fake.

It should be enough to use this to fool foreign devils.

At this time, Jiao San also came back from outside, and directly found Xu Tianchuan, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Xu, the person has made an appointment, and at night in the Zuixian Building, I booked a private room on the second floor." ”

"Hmm!"

Xu Tianchuan nodded and smiled with satisfaction.

"But do we really have good goods in our hands? I patted my chest and played with those foreigners. Jiao San was still a little uneasy, and looked at Xu Tianchuan and asked.

Xu Tianchuan smiled mysteriously and handed the stove to Jiao San.

Jiao San took a look, his brows wrinkled directly.jxpxxs., a little unbelievable: "Shopkeeper Xu, this is ...... Did you really make it? ”

Jiao San also deliberately accentuated the word 'do'.

Obviously, Jiao San still knows a little bit about the identification of bronzes, after all, he is a professional tomb robber, and he will understand a little more if he has seen and handled a lot.

Xu Tianchuan stretched out his hand and put it on Jiao San's shoulder and patted it gently: "Everyone is responsible for protecting cultural relics!" ”

"Let's go, don't pinch and let the gold lord wait for us."

"Okay!"

Jiao San hurriedly asked his subordinates to prepare the car and went directly to the Drunken Immortal Tower.

After arriving at the Drunken Immortal Building, he first ordered a table of dishes to eat, and waited while eating.

Just after the meal, three blonde, blue-eyed, white-skinned foreign devils came in from outside.

There is actually a foreign girl among them.

This girl looks about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, but she is relatively 'old-looking', maybe only in her early twenties.

Xu Tianchuan also looked at this foreign girl a few more times, she was blonde and blue-eyed, white-skinned, blonde hair like waves, wearing a smoke-colored leather coat, tall, convex and backward, convex and a little frustrated, a little unscrupulous, a little unconscionable, it was simply a snake spirit......

As for the other two men, one was in his twenties and thirties, wearing an khaki denim jacket and with a strong body. There is also a man in his forties, who is on the fat side and wears a pair of glasses with a high degree of myopia on the bridge of his nose.

"Hey, hello, Missy-Misy?"

Jiao San saw that the foreign devil was coming, so he hurriedly smiled and got up to greet him, and dragged a sentence in English, but isn't 'Missy' Japanese?

"Mr. Jiao, hello!"

One of the slightly older foreign devils shook Jiao San's hand with a smile, and spoke fluently.

It is not surprising that the foreign devils who come here can speak Mandarin, and generally people like them are basically 'international antique dealers', and they are also doing resale business, but after buying them, all of them are sold to some nobles in their country.

"Mr. Smith, this is the shopkeeper Xu, our No. 1 shopkeeper in Luoyang City."

Jiao San immediately introduced Xu Tianchuan.

"Mr. Xu, hello, I am also famous, my name is Lacey, these are my two assistants, Will and Anna Chen, we both like the culture of your country very much."

This foreign devil named Reis shook hands with Xu Tianchuan cordially and friendly.

This foreign devil has hair on his hands, and he really looks like a monkey that has not degenerated and clean.

But the foreign girl's hands are quite tender and smooth, but they are a little cold.

After a simple politeness, let's get straight to the point.

Xu Tianchuan took out a beautiful wooden box, carefully placed it on the table, and pushed it to Reis, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lei, you may know that we are not allowed to sell our treasures to you foreigners, so let's make friends, whether it is successful or not, don't tell it to the public." ”

"Mr. Xu, don't worry, I know that you are honest in doing business! Good faith! ”

Lacey nodded immediately, and then cautiously went to open the wooden box in front of him.