The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Chapter 1: Buyers picking things up

   One day at noon at the end of October 1986, the bright sun hung above the head. Although the temperature is not as hot as summer, the sun is still dazzling! There are a lot of pedestrians on the street, and it's just after get off work hours.

   Under the bright sunshine, a young man with a light-colored briefcase walked out from the gate of the Heng County Government Guest House in Gui Province.

As soon as he walked out of the gate, he attracted the attention of several pedestrians on the street. He was wearing navy blue trousers with a slight bell mouth, a pair of brown leather shoes on his feet, and a light blue with sleeves on his upper body. Long-sleeved shirt. She has short hair that is slightly forty or six minutes above her head, and the latest trendy color-changing sunglasses are tucked on her nose.

   This dress is really rare in Hengxian, a small southwestern county town, but I have seen a lot of it in movies, and the briefcase that this person is holding on his elbow seems to be a style that is not available in the county department store.

   Two words-fashionable!

   Zhang Nan felt the strange gaze of the people on the street as soon as he went out, and smiled helplessly in his heart: "Damn, I wore the wrong clothes again." It was helpless, no way, he usually wears this kind of clothes.

   He is not from Guangxi Province. His height of 1.82 meters is clearly classified as taller here. He is only 18 years old this year. However, he has been working for almost a year. His job is a buyer. This trip is for a business trip to Guangxi Province. After finishing the matter in the provincial capital yesterday, I took a bus for more than 2 hours in the morning to Hengxian to do some private affairs.

   This dress makes him look a little maverick in this small county, which is not conducive to his work-because he is going to "pick up" something today, and can't wait to go out to check the environment once the accommodation is arranged.

  Walking along Jiangbei Road in the county seat, after inquiring about halfway, I quickly found the goal: the courtyard of the Hengxian Agricultural Technology Extension Center. But instead of walking directly into the gate, he lit a cigarette across the street and observed for a while.

   "The surrounding walls are not high. Fortunately, there is no communication room at the gate. They are already off work, and there are not many people coming and going. Otherwise, I have to buy a set of clothes." I made up my mind, "There is no need to come here again, just do it!"

   threw the cigarette **** on the ground and trampled it out, crossed the road and walked into the promotion center compound.

   As soon as he entered the gate, there was no one in the yard, just as he thought: the agricultural department usually has no one to do business early in the morning, so that he can return to the town in a hurry. As for the staff in the compound, this will be off work, not many people.

   Seeing the words "Training Building" written on one of the buildings in the yard, he was overjoyed, and unconsciously speeded up his pace slightly. Zhang Nan didn't enter the training building. Taking advantage of no one on the left or right, he turned and walked into the wall alley behind the building.

   took off his sunglasses, quickly searched with his eyes, and quickly found his target in the east corner—a blue and white porcelain jar with a diameter of more than 30 cm was left there at random.

   Looking at no one before and after, he quickly opened his briefcase, took out a blue cotton bag that was inside, and stuffed the dirty porcelain jar into the bag. Carrying a cloth bag and holding his briefcase in his hand, like an unscrupulous guy in the wall, swaying and casually walked out of the gate of the Agricultural Technology Promotion Center.

   Zhang Nan felt that his back would be full of cold sweat, and his heartbeat was full of 180! I succeeded!

  Walking quickly back to the guest house along the street, the beautiful waitress on duty saw that Zhang Nan was back and smiled and said: "Comrade Zhang, you are back." After that, she handed Zhang Nan a room key.

   "Yeah." There is no way, young and rich and handsome, they are popular everywhere. However, Zhang Nan didn't say much. He took the key and turned and left with a polite smile. He didn't think about this waitress.

   In these years, people living in government guest houses often have this mandatory service: the room key must be handed over to the attendant on duty when you go out, and you will get it when you come back.

   quickly came to the second floor, opened the door of his room, closed and locked the door as soon as he walked in.

   Heng County Government Guest House should be a newly renovated house in the past two years. Zhang Nan’s room is a single standard room, which is the best "premium room" that ordinary people can live in in the county hotels and guest houses. There are two suites, but don't even think about it unless the county party committee and the county government come forward to make a reservation.

   A bed in a general guest house is only about 1 yuan, while a common quadruple room in a government guest house is 2 yuan for a bed, 8 yuan for a single room, and 15 for a standard room. The average monthly salary of old employees in Heng County is at most 60-70, which is too expensive!

   But if it weren’t because it’s really a bit expensive, this guest house wouldn’t be half open to the public, so Zhang Nan wouldn’t be able to live in such a high-class room. For revenue generation, the occupancy rate is simply too low because of the reservations made by various government departments and factories.

   Zhang Nan, who entered the room, dropped the briefcase on the table, carefully placed the cotton bag on the bed, and tried to control his slightly shaking hands. After taking a few deep breaths, he opened the cotton bag, revealing the blue and white porcelain crown inside.

   The porcelain jar in Zhang Nan's hand is about 30 cm high, with an abdominal diameter of about 35 cm, and there is a small gap about 10 cm long and 1.5 cm wide at the mouth of the jar. The overall enamel is exquisite, and the pattern from the mouth to the bottom of the jar is followed by twisted flowers, twisted peony, theme decorations and variant lotus petals.

  The theme decoration scene is magnificent, and there are 7 people with different identities: under the guidance of Xiangyun and Caifeng, a person wearing a pair of wings and a double jade belt on the back of the mountain swings on a horse with a whip and a double jade belt. Behind him is a military commander wearing a crown and long beard, stirring his bridle with his left hand and a steel whip in his right hand, galloping his horse. Then came the mountain rock and flag weaving, and there were three soldiers armed with spears and armor.

   On the other side of the tank screen, two people are playing against each other. One person wears a hair-beamed crown, holds a steel fork in his hand, and turns around to parry; the other person holds a spear in his hand and chases after him.

   has been in the antique business for more than 20 years, and Zhang Nan has never used this level of porcelain pots, and can't help but roar: "Yuan Qinghua Yuchi Gong rides the savior alone! You belong to Lao Tzu!"

   He is only 18 years old, so he can't do business for more than 20 years even from his mother's womb?

Why? The reason is simple. He is a traversalist: one day in the fall of 2016, 48-year-old antique dealer Zhang Nan was drunk and planned to sleep. When he woke up, he found that he had just started working 30 years ago and was still working. The purchaser of the Bureau of Materials.

   And this porcelain jar in front of him can be described as a cultural relic of China's national treasure! Before Zhang Nan traveled, one of the 9 "Porcelains with Blue and White Figures in Yuan Dynasty" recognized around the world!

   Rare treasure! If you insist on calculating according to the price, one of the "Yuan Qinghua Guiguzi Downhill Picture Jars" was sold for 14 million pounds at the "Chinese Ceramics, Crafts and Handicrafts for Export" auction held at Christie's in London on July 12, 2005. After the commission, it was 15.688 million pounds, equivalent to about 230 million yuan, setting the highest auction record of Chinese artworks in the world at that time!

Before crossing, Zhang Nan was an antique dealer. After the age of 40, he collected more from business. For many years, he wanted to collect a piece of Yuan blue and white from the official kiln, not to mention "character story porcelain", UU reading www.uukanshu. How can this rare treasure of com not be excited in my own hands! ?

The other 8 "Porcelains with Blue and White Characters in Yuan Dynasty" are either in major museums at home and abroad, or in the hands of private collectors abroad. This is the only one Zhang Nan has the opportunity to own at present, although it is very disgraceful. Picked up".

"Holding a steel fork, the fleeing warlord should be Duan Zhixuan, and the one who was chasing after him was Shan Xiongxin. The one sitting on the horse was Li Shimin, and then Yu Chigong." Zhang Nan carefully observed the inside and outside of the porcelain jar. Carefully take it into the bathroom to clean and dry.

  ...

In 1980, the Hengxian Agricultural Technology Extension Center built a training building. During the construction of the building, when workers used a bulldozer to level a small slope, they found this "map tank" in the 1.2-meter-deep soil, and the mouth of the tank was knocked out by the bulldozer. A small gap about 10 cm long and 1.5 cm wide was formed. According to local customs, the objects in the soil are not easy to take home, so the "picture cans" were thrown at the construction site casually.

After the    building was built, these workers piled up the “picture cans” at random in a corner behind the training building.

   One day in 1987, a walking agronomist picked it up home, planted flowers, and let off corn seeds...It was not discovered by museum staff until 1989 by chance and finally donated to the country.

   The above is the bizarre birth experience of "Yuan Qinghua Yuchi Gong alone riding the Savior Tucan" in Zhang Nan's memory. Because it is too bizarre, the memory is deep.

   sat on the back chair next to the coffee table in the room, lit a "Phoenix" cigarette, looked at the porcelain pot beside the suitcase on the ground, "It's time to go home."

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