God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1505 The Threshold of Picking up Leaks

"I do not--"

Cheng Lin dangling on Xu Jingxing's body like a kangaroo bear, the little girl was full of air.

Feeling the eyes of passers-by, Xu Jingxing felt helpless, "Come down quickly, everyone is looking at you."

"I don't care—" Cheng Lin continued acting coquettishly.

"The clothes are wrinkled."

"Buy a new one later—"

Xu Jingxing was at a loss, because he had never experienced such a scene before. The women he had been with before all had personalities. Even the most soft-tempered Dao Yuqing would not behave like a four or five-year-old girl. , let alone Jin Xiaoxiao or Cai Xiaozhi, even her sister didn't hang on him very much when she was a child, she just grabbed his arm and shook it twice.

But he is also thick-skinned, a big girl like Cheng Lin is not afraid of being surrounded by people, what is he afraid of as a big man?
So "hehe" smiled and hugged Cheng Lin, striding towards the antique market in a big way, like a primitive man who snatched his wife, a savage group.

However, wherever he went, he became the focus, and some people even took out their mobile phones and started taking pictures, and many people thought he was doing something bad and tried to intercept him.

Cheng Lin couldn't bear it any longer, and thumped his chest twice: "Put me down quickly."

"Hey hey, don't let it go, unless..."

"what?"

"Kiss me," Xu Jingxing said, raising his head and putting his mouth in front of Cheng Lin.

Cheng Lin blushed and turned her head to look around, seeing many people watching, she immediately plunged her head into Xu Jingxing's arms and beat her hard: "You, you were not like this before, you have learned to bully women, er... ..."

"Sister Lin, you're not bad, you even learned how to beep, hehehe, but it's okay, I like whatever it looks like, come, come to this Jiguzhai to have a look."

"Put me down quickly." Cheng Lin saw that Xu Jingxing was really carrying her to the antique shop, she was shocked, she reached out and grabbed Xu Jingxing's cheeks and pulled them on both sides: "Hurry up, be obedient, no one Then again, then that..."

"Really?"

"Sister never cheats?"

"Emmm, it takes two strokes."

"Okay, twice."

Satisfied, Xu Jingxing gently put Cheng Lin down, helped Cheng Lin straighten her messy hair, and then took her arm and entered the antique shop in front of him.

On the other hand, Cheng Lin blushed and gave him a charming roll of eyes, but her expression was quite happy, and she obediently followed him into the store.

In fact, Xu Jingxing has basically visited all the antique shops on Changle Road, but that was more than a year ago. After such a long time, there should be new ones.

Although most of the antique shops claim to be "not open for three years, open for three years", but now is not the past, the business philosophy of many antique shops has changed a long time ago, and many new shops are taking the path of small profits but high sales, because the competition is too fierce , if you continue to hold the mentality of "opening for three years", then it is very likely that you will starve to death in less than three years. Among other things, the rent of the store alone is not a small figure. If it does not open for three years, Stores with thinner families may really want to drink northwest wind.

In addition, now that the information is advanced and the buyers are well-educated, the good things of "opening for three years" are becoming less and less, forcing those antique shops to change their business philosophy.

Of course, even so, the replacement of the goods in these antique shops is relatively slow, ranging from one year to three to five months, so experienced players will not visit the store every day, nor will they stop shopping once Instead, it keeps the rhythm of visiting every three to five months.

On the contrary, the street stall market is updated very quickly. If you want to not miss out on good things, it is best to come every week, and you have to come as soon as the market opens, otherwise you may be preempted by other players.

Xu Jingxing hasn't been here for more than a year, and the store in Shangxinkuai may have changed two or three batches of goods.

It's just that Xu Jingxing didn't expect that someone would come out as soon as he entered the door: "Teacher Xu?" The boss of Jiguzhai was in his thirties, chubby, and looked friendly. When he saw Xu Jingxing, the smile on his face seemed to melt The honey pile is as sweet as you want: "It's really Mr. Xu, hurry up, sit inside," while giving up his seat, he greeted the female clerk: "Xiao Li, come here with my treasured Pu'er."

Xu Jingxing quickly waved his hand: "Boss Sun, don't be too busy, I'll just take a look." Since I've been here before, I remember that the boss's surname is Sun.

"It doesn't matter, it definitely won't affect your reading, take your time," Boss Sun came up to him after busy work and asked, "What is Teacher Xu looking at?"

"Just wandering around."

"Hey, then you are shopping right. I just received a batch of good things, but they are at the back. If you are interested, take a look inside?" Boss Sun warmly invited him, meaning in his words that these are actually displayed outside. Nothing fancy.

This is also normal, even if it is a big antique shop, what is displayed outside are only some fake goods and bait goods, even if they are all genuine, most of them are of low value, really good things will never be put on display, there is no need , and dare not.

Think about it with the simplest thinking, how dare you put a top-quality blue and white porcelain vase worth tens of millions in the store so openly?Not to mention the concerns of thieves and thieves from all walks of life, just the customers coming and going can make the shopkeeper nervous, okay? After a long time, who can bear it?

Antiques are really fragile. Any bump or even a few touches may greatly depreciate in value, let alone once it breaks.

Therefore, the experts in antique shops basically don’t look at those placed on the counter when they trade, but directly tell the shopkeeper what kind of objects they want to see, and the shopkeeper will take you to see if they have it, or ask you to buy it. Things are brought from other places for you to look at, and the performance is to enter the door - strike up a conversation - drink tea and chat - look at the goods, as for whether the transaction is successful or not, that is another matter.

So some people say that the main job of opening an antique shop is to drink tea every day, from opening in the morning to closing in the afternoon.

This is really not an exaggeration. I usually pass by those antique shops and take a look inside. The owner is always drinking tea, and the small teapot is basically never idle. After a few years, no matter how much money you make, you can definitely become an expert in tea tasting. And the master teapot.

But Xu Jingxing really just wanted to wander around, and didn't intend to drink tea with the other party.

It's not that I don't want to be optimistic about good goods, but I just want to pick up leaks, so I pick up leaks from the counters of these antique shops. Although there are generally no good goods on these counters, the probability of picking up leaks is also low, but the low is low, the probability should be There are, and what he is most afraid of is probability or not. As long as there is a leak to pick up, the probability is 100% for him.

But Boss Sun was so enthusiastic that he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod his head: "Then let me take a look outside first..."

To be honest, in the current situation in the antique circle, the probability of picking up the leak is really not good, especially the low-priced big leaks of tens of hundreds to 200 yuan are rare, because the modern society has advanced information, no matter ordinary people Erdao dealers and antique shop owners know how to search for relevant information on the Internet after they get new goods. Even if they don’t understand, they can post to the Internet to ask questions, and there is a high probability of getting a relatively accurate answer.

Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible to expect these people to make money like they did 30 or [-] years ago.

But, after all, antique appraisal is a very professional subject. No matter if it is an ordinary person, a second-hand dealer, or a more professional antique shop owner or shopkeeper, it is impossible to be omniscient, as long as their appraisal level is not up to the top level. , you will still miss it.

It's just that the threshold is relatively high if you miss it.

To give the simplest example, it is also an example of picking up leaks that Xu Jingxing witnessed with his own eyes in the summer.

This example happened in the capital, which is Panjiayuan. An old player from Hangzhou was traveling in the capital. He saw a painting in an antique shop in Panjiayuan. An old player counter-offered for 120 yuan, and finally sold it at a price of 50 yuan.Then, the old gentleman brought the painting to Han Zhengang for appraisal. After the appraisal, it was indeed Qian Weicheng's painting. Picky, the market price is conservatively estimated at 88 million.In the end, the painting was bought by a big domestic collector at Sotheby's autumn auction with a price of more than 1000 million.

Xu Jingxing witnessed this incident with his own eyes, because Han Zhengang was also a little uncertain at the time, so he found him and asked him to help in the details. It was he who affirmed the artistic content of the painting from the art level, so he knew what happened later .

There are many stories about the same collection being repeatedly picked up and leaked. It has been happening since the birth of the collection industry. There are countless similar stories in the Republic of China. In modern times, people pay more attention to the kind of things that are picked up for tens of hundreds of dollars. It is a big leak, so this kind of leak that is more common and has a higher threshold is ignored instead.

But in fact, this kind of leak-picking method with a high threshold is the mainstream in the industry. Everyone is an expert, but the level of the expert is also high or low. Experts pick up leaks in their hands, and this kind of leaks are not due to luck, but hard skills, strength in appraisal and financial resources.

Taking the above example as an example, if you want to find this leak, you must have the ability to identify the authenticity of Qian Weicheng's paintings, and you must also have the ability to withdraw more than 100 million cash at any time. Both of these two points are indispensable. .Another point is that it is best to have the soft power of an expert who knows Han Zhengang's level. Without Han Zhengang's help in the appraisal, the other party would not be able to sell the painting so quickly, because in this transaction, Han Zhengang's appraisal was more important. It plays a very important role of linking the past and the future, which is equivalent to indirectly helping the other party to increase their popularity. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult for Xia Tian's paintings to be included in Sotheby's autumn auction.

And this threshold is beyond the reach of most antique lovers. The money is easy to say, one hundred thousand in cash is nothing, but eyesight and contacts are not so easy to obtain.

(End of this chapter)