Chapter Eighteen
After leaving the ghost market, Zhou Xia went straight to the company. At this time, he didn't want to go back to the rental house. There were too many people there, so it was not safe to put things on. He planned to put the small red glaze cup and jade paperweight in the company first, and after get off work, he would go back to the antique shop on the Antique Street to see if there was any chance to take them. It was still early at this time and the antique shop had not yet opened.
The Guishi City is not too far from the company, and it only takes about twenty minutes to walk by. Zhou Xia walked slowly and passed by a breakfast shop that got up early. He was hungry and went in to eat a bowl of steaming noodles. The consumption of this Guishi City was fully compensated.
It was just very early. Zhou Xia looked at his phone. Although it was already dawn, it was less than seven o'clock. The company had not opened at this time. He planned to go to a nearby park and sit down and rest.
The park is very lively, with many elderly people and children, and many people running and practicing Tai Chi. Zhou Xia himself carries fragile products like porcelain, so it is naturally inconvenient to do these exercises, so he only found a chair to sit down.
He didn't sleep well last night and got up early. He just closed his eyes and was about to calm down, but a tender voice was heard asking, "Mom, why did this uncle come here to sleep!"
"Maybe I'm tired, Nannan must not learn from him. When I come to the park in the morning, I should exercise. Come and run with my mother." This mother is very good at educating her children, but she just treats Zhou Xia as a negative teaching material.
Zhou Xia opened his eyes and saw that he was a very cute little girl, but he was shot while lying down. Fortunately, he was dressed normally, otherwise he would have been regarded as a homeless vagabond who slept overnight in the park.
Zhou Xia suddenly lost the desire to sleep. How could he think that he was a little idle when he went to the park to sleep at this time? Maybe he would have to be treated as a negative teaching material later. He was idle and had nothing to do, so he sat up and took out the treasures he had found in the ghost market to appreciate them carefully.
He also wanted to carefully identify what the performance of these collections is different from the strong flashlight at night and under natural light. This is a place worth studying. After arriving at the company, he had to be busy with work, but he didn't have the time to carefully identify these two treasures.
What he took out was the jade paperweight first. The performance of jade under the light is very different from that under natural light. For example, jewelry stores will always be bright and magnificent, and the light is also very strong. It looks like the jade inside looks like a fine product, but once you get it under natural light outside, it will obviously become much dimmer.
Zhou Xia was a little worried at first that the jade paperweight he bought would have such problems.
Fortunately, after he took out the paperweight, he found that his concern was a bit unnecessary. This jade paperweight made by the shepherd boy riding a cow and playing the flute was quite good.
It does not perform well under the light, but is very bad under the natural light. The dark brown jade around it has been cleverly used, turning into a big buffalo, the body of the shepherd's boy's hair, etc. The quality of the whole piece of jade is also pretty good, warm and charming.
What is particularly rare is that there is a layer of patina on the surface of the jade, which is a proof of the old thing and requires long-term play. When old experts identify jade, they will pay special attention to whether there is patina. This type of paperweight is different from traditional rulers. Literati who like it often use it to play with it and appreciate it. The use of paperweight as a paperweight is just a function of it.
Zhou Xia carefully observed the carving of the entire jade artifact and figured out the carving style of this kind. It should be from a famous literati or sculptor during the Jiaqing period. Although it was not engraved on it, it could guide others to think about it in this regard!
He was very impressed with the identification, but he didn't know that in this way, the people in the park would have to pass through his chair and could not help but be far away from him. Everyone was not afraid that he would come to the park early in the morning and was afraid that he would be a mess. I think so, if it was really a good thing, he would take it out in public to make an intoxicated identification test, and hide it and refuse to show it to others.
Zhou Xia did not notice this, immersed in his own thinking, used his brains to filter out all the famous people during the Jiaqing period.
He didn't notice it at all. Everyone else wanted to stay away from him. After an old man discovered this, he walked straight towards him.
"The young man is so terrifying!"
Before Zhou Xia could figure out who to lean on, he suddenly heard such a voice. His psychological quality was very firm. He said that he was too nervous or slow to react, but he was not scared, and he did not throw the things in his hand to the ground.
Zhou Xia looked up and saw a familiar face. Soon, he thought about where he had seen this person. Wasn't he just in the ghost market, and before him, he wanted to buy this jade paperweight?
"Is there anything wrong with the old man?" Zhou Xia pretended to be confused with understanding.
The old man admired his acting skills very much. Although he was old, his eyes were bright and bright. When he was in the ghost market, he also noticed that Zhou Xia was next to him when he was negotiating the price with the stall owner. Later, he found that the paperweight had been sold. He also guessed that the young man might have bought the paperweight. Unfortunately, he was not sure at that time, so it was impossible for him to chase him and ask.
But the old man asked him, "Do you know me?"
Zhou Xia shook his head and thought to himself, "I don't know you! What's wrong? Could it be that the old man is very famous?"
"That's strange!" the old man murmured in a low voice, and soon said, "When I was in the ghost market just now, I liked this paperweight first, but I didn't expect you to snatch it first, so I said that my youth is terrifying!"
"No, it's just a lucky person." Zhou Xia looked at him vigilantly. The sense of prevention was understood without saying anything. Although he respected the elderly and loved the young, he would not use his own interests to be a meaningless and abused person.
"Can I give this paperweight a look?" The old man simply sat down on the bench beside him.
"Okay! It seems that the old man is definitely an expert in antique collection. We, the younger generation, have to ask more questions like the old man!" Zhou Xia agreed immediately to this request, and he was not afraid that the old man would snatch his treasure away in broad daylight.
Although the old man took a fancy to this treasure first, since it has been bought by Zhou Xia, as long as he sticks to the bottom line, he will not be able to forcefully snatch the treasure from him.
If the old man really likes it, then pay for it. Of course, the price must be similar to the market. Zhou Xia is still short of money now!
He also has another way, which is to exchange his own treasures, and both methods can be considered.
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