What the young man took out from his bag was an exquisite snuff bottle, large and small, rich in color.
If you look closely, you will see that the oval-shaped tobacco pot is painted with enamel to create a beautiful scene. There are trees and slope rocks nearby, and then there are houses nestled among the undulating mountains. Farther away, there are distant mountains and river scenery.
A painting is full, but there is no sense of filling. On the contrary, it gives people a feeling of clear sound in the empty valley and pine breeze in the dense forest. The scenery progresses layer by layer, and the method of leveling and distance should be used.
The trees on the left and right sides are mainly dotted leaves, supplemented by the hooked leaves method, with virtual and solid shapes. The outline of the trees is in various shapes, lush and green, all over the mountains, and has a strong three-dimensional effect.
In terms of the use of colors, juice green, three greens, and ink greens are mixed but the layers are distinct. This hand painting must have been made by a famous artist.
Lin Chaoyang turned the snuff bottle over again. The bottom of the snuff bottle was made of white glaze, and the inscription was in blue regular script with the words "Made in the Qianlong Year" written on it.
Snuff was originally a tobacco product. It was prepared by baking the tobacco, removing the stems, powdering it, fermenting it and adding spices. It was sniffed and taken through the nose.
It was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. Later, the palace craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty gradually refined the container. Because it can refresh the mind and the shape is small and exquisite, it was loved by emperors of all dynasties. It spread and has been popular ever since.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, snuff bottles appeared with internal paintings, that is, figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. were painted on the frosted inner wall of the container. The manufacturing technology reached its peak and was known as "a miniature handicraft that combines the achievements of various crafts from various countries."
The snuff bottle Lin Chaoyang was holding in his hand was an imperial snuff bottle, but it was exquisitely made, elegant in color, and vivid in scene. It should have been a fine product among the enamel snuff bottles made by the palace.
In future generations, a few million would definitely be worth it.
Lin Chaoyang looked at each other for a long time, and the young man couldn't help but ask: "What do you think?"
"The stuff is good, how much do you plan to sell it for?"
Lin Chaoyang said happily.
"This is a snuff bottle from the Qianlong period, or something that came out of the palace. Our family has always regarded it as a heirloom..."
The young man walked around for a long time. How could Lin Chaoyang not see what he was thinking? He interrupted and said, "Just tell me how much it is?"
"One hundred yuan..." After the young man said the price, he added: "I want a foreign exchange coupon."
Lin Chaoyang was a prophet ahead of his time and never deliberately belittled things when buying antiques.
Regardless of whether it was a slap in the face or a high price, he couldn't suffer any loss, so why should he exploit these poor people?
But his generosity is based on the background of the times, and he will not take advantage of others.
"It's a bit high. You snuff bottle, if you go to the cultural relics store, they will give you thirty or forty yuan at most, which is still RMB."
After listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, the young man wanted to negotiate the price again, but an old comrade in his fifties stood aside and pushed him aside.
"Comrade, look at me, this is our family's ancestral treasure..."
The two temperaments of simplicity and cunning are mixed in the genes of Chinese farmers, and they will show different temperaments according to the situation.
Bringing out the words "ancestral" is just for bargaining, but the premise is that the things must be good.
What the old comrade brought was a blue and white bowl. The bottom of the bowl was inscribed in the Tongzhi Year. It was of a good age, but it was a pity that it came from a private kiln, and not from a famous kiln. The workmanship was rough, and a chip even broke off the mouth of the bowl.
"Uncle, I don't like this bowl. I want you to go to the store and have a look."
Lin Chaoyang said it euphemistically, but everyone present understood what he meant, but the old comrade found it difficult to accept it, "This is something from Tongzhi's time, a hundred years old."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said nothing. The old comrade muttered a few words and was reluctantly squeezed away by the young man just now.
"Fifty yuan, give me fifty yuan of foreign exchange coupons and you take it," the young man said.
"Thirty dollars."
Lin Chaoyang said something. Seeing the hesitation on the young man's face, he said: "The price I give you is definitely higher than the price given by the cultural relics store, and what I give you is a foreign exchange coupon. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for a while.
Wait, when the buying point opens, go in and ask, and we'll talk again."
After listening to Lin Chaoyang's words, the eyes of the people around looked at Lin Chaoyang became much softer.
If nothing else, his attitude is indeed kind.
When the young man hesitated for a moment, Lin Chaoyang took a look at the things brought by the other two people. He fell in love with the pink green glaze Fuqing continuous scroll mouth dragon ear vase brought by one of them.
The bottle was from the Jiaqing period and was in quite good condition. He paid the other party 60 yuan for it.
After reading a few people's things, Lin Chaoyang said what he just said again.
Several people looked happy. They had to shop around when buying things and when selling things. Lin Chaoyang said that everyone felt more at ease.
Lin Chaoyang hid on the side of the road and waited for the buying point to open. Several people swarmed in and soon someone came out of the buying point.
The four people just brought a total of five things, two of which were antiques with collectible value that Lin Chaoyang favored, two of which were popular goods of a certain age, and one was a fake from the Republic of China period.
After coming out of the cultural relics acquisition point, the two people who had just been bid on happily ran to Lin Chaoyang to complete the transaction with him.
"Brother, you are a kind person. If I want to sell something in the future, I will come back to you." The young man said with a smile on his face after counting the money.
Lin Chaoyang was happy when he heard this. The young man's family is quite rich.
"Okay, if you need anything from now on, just come here. I'll come over in a few weeks."
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While the two were talking, Lin Chaoyang caught a glimpse of the purchaser at the purchase point walking out and looking in their direction.
Just now, these people went to the store to let people see the items but did not sell them. The buyers were well-informed and naturally understood what was going on.
Seeing this scene, Lin Chaoyang said no more, got on his bicycle and left.
Although he was not a speculator, he was still a little bit unkind in confronting people in front of the state-owned cultural relics store purchase point.
If someone is really angry and calls in the investment manager, he will inevitably be disgraced. It is only right to run away after collecting his things.
After returning home with the things, Lin Chaoyang carefully placed the things in the study. Tao Yushu complained: "There is almost no room for these things at home."
Lin Chaoyang said: "Don't worry. When my parents come, I will move these things to the courtyard. Isn't there no one there now?"
No one has lived in the Mianmian Hutong courtyard house since it was renovated. Du Feng used to go there every now and then. Recently, he went to start a business, and he hasn't seen anyone in it for almost a month.
There are some antique furniture placed in the courtyard now. The items are large in size and the preservation conditions are not that expensive, so they are not afraid of being remembered.
"Are your parents here to give you updates?" Tao Yushu said angrily, and then said: "Should I write another letter to urge them both? It's almost winter, and they haven't
A movement."
"Okay, I'll write a letter right now."
After Lin Chaoyang said this, he wrote a letter to his parents. Tao Yushu was preparing lunch. He had affixed the stamps and was about to go to the hospital gate to drop the letter into the mailbox when the internal phone at home suddenly rang.
Less than two minutes after answering the phone, Du Feng appeared at the door.
A floral shirt on the upper body, bell-bottom trousers on the lower body, pointed leather shoes on the feet, and a toad mirror on the bridge of the nose. If it weren't for the explosive hairstyle, the Du Feng in front of Lin Chaoyang could almost be called a textbook level trend setter in the 1980s.
"Ouch! Who is this?" Lin Chaoyang asked in an exaggerated tone.
Du Feng took off his sunglasses and replied sternly: "Brother-in-law, I am Du Feng!"
"De Xing!" Tao Yushu, who was walking over, rolled his eyes when he saw Du Feng like this, and scolded again: "Look at what I did to you, I thought it was Sister Hua who became a spirit and ran out."
Faced with his sister's disparagement, Du Feng was not angry, he walked in the door with a playful smile and took out two pairs of sunglasses.
"We've traveled thousands of miles and you just brought this thing to us?" Lin Chaoyang teased.
"Hey, how can that be possible!"
As Du Feng spoke, he first took out five hundred yuan and handed it to Tao Yushu.
"Sister, this is the money I borrowed from you. You said you don't want interest."
Tao Yushu snorted and put away the money. Du Feng then took out two Marlboros from his arms and said, "Brother-in-law!"
Then he took another dig and took out a plastic hairpin with pink plastic beads on the surface.
"Sister, this is for you."
Nowadays, lesbians don’t have any decent headgear. They basically use black wire hairpins and rubber bands to fix their hair. Young girls who love beauty will dress up with colorful silk ropes and hair flowers. Tao Yushu has already passed that age.
The hairpin that Du Feng took out seemed a little cheap and even a little rustic from the perspective of later generations, but from today's aesthetic perspective, the style is extremely exquisite and rare.
After getting the pink hairpin, Tao Yushu's attitude finally softened, and she deeply practiced their sisters' principle of eating people and being soft-spoken.
"It seems that you haven't made less money recently?" Lin Chaoyang asked Du Feng with a smile.
Listening to his words, Du Feng showed uncontrollable pride on his face, "It's okay, it's okay."
It has been almost a month since the last time Du Feng came to his house for a drink. On the third day after drinking, he went to Shenzhen.
It took a week to go back and forth from Yanjing to Shenzhen. Needless to say, during this time, Du Feng was busy selling the sunglasses he imported from Shenzhen.
When Du Feng mentioned his experience during this period, his face was full of excitement and excitement, and he talked endlessly.
"Brother-in-law, I don't know if I didn't go to Shenzhen. Only now do I understand what reform and opening up means. Here, to open a small restaurant, we have to go back and forth, begging grandpa and grandma, and selling something is always said to be speculation.
Over there, all you can see are newly built construction sites. The streets are full of people like me who go to buy goods and do business, and foreign investors invest millions.
Those parallel imports from Xiangjiang are extremely cheap. To get to our place, you have to pay five to eight times at least. It doesn't take much effort to buy ten or twenty times. It's just like picking up money...
I spent a long time with the boss on these sunglasses, but when it came down to three yuan, I couldn't find a price. I chatted with the locals, and they said the cost of these sunglasses was only a few cents.
Later, I told the boss that I would buy a thousand pairs next time, and he agreed to give me two yuan and a half a pair.
Hehe, guess how much I sell it for?"
When Du Feng said this, he asked Lin Chaoyang with a mysterious look.
"Eighteen yuan." Lin Chaoyang said.
Du Feng immediately gave a thumbs up, as if he heard some lofty words, "Awesome, brother-in-law!"
"Definitely! Stop flattering me." Tao Yushu said impatiently.
The price of a toad mirror is no secret on the street, so it's not surprising that Lin Chaoyang knew about it. Du Feng's attitude was that of a complete flatterer.
Immediately afterwards, Du Feng talked about some things about his sales.
He bought 240 pairs of toad mirrors from Shenzhen and sold nearly 200 pairs in more than half a month. Nearly half of them were sold to comrades in the army. There are only 40 pairs left in the past two days.
It can digest light.
The purchase price was 2.5 yuan and the selling price was 18 yuan. With this in and out, Du Feng made a net profit of 3,720 yuan.
However, according to what he said, he also asked two friends to help sell it, and he had to give more than 500 yuan to the two people.
"After covering my food, accommodation and travel expenses to Shenzhen, I made almost 3,000 yuan on this trip." Du Feng said with pride.
According to Du Feng's salary in the army, this amount of money is almost equivalent to his income without food or water in 1989.
Tao Yushu couldn't help but show surprise on his face, "You guys are making so much money, aren't you?"
Du Feng couldn't help but laugh, "I also think it's a little easier to make money. Apart from being a little tired during the few days of purchasing, I don't have to worry at all when selling things. Everyone is rushing to buy them."
"The supply of commodities is scarce and supply exceeds demand, which will naturally produce this effect." Lin Chaoyang said.
"Brother-in-law is right."
"What's next? Are you ready to continue?" Tao Yushu asked.
"Of course." Du Feng was high-spirited, exuding confidence, "In two days, when these sunglasses are almost sold out, I will go to Shenzhen, and this time I will buy 1,000 pairs. Sister, you will see me next time,
I am a householder worth ten thousand yuan!"
"You're so crazy!" Tao Yushu rolled his eyes at Du Feng.
Lin Chaoyang looked at his brother-in-law's proud look and smiled without saying a word.
Chapter completed!