treasure hunter

Looking at these incomparably precious antiques, Pei Miao's heart could not be calm for a long time. These treasures, which are comparable to national treasures, were just placed in the yard, exposed to the sun, and the gate was wide open without anyone guarding them. If you take one or two things, no one will know.

Pei Miao would not do this, even though he liked these treasures very much and wanted to keep them for himself, but a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way, and he has a bottom line in how he behaves.

Among these things, the most valuable are undoubtedly Qiu Ying's paintings. How much are Qiu Ying's paintings worth? At Sotheby's auction in New York, Qiu Ying's painting of a beautiful lady on silk "Han Palace Spring Dawn" was sold for 60 billion The price is sky-high, and now this painting is treasured in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

The size of this "Shanxi Huansha Picture" is similar to that of "Han Palace Spring Dawn Picture", and it is also a heavy-color picture on silk. Although there are no ladies in it, there are a group of young women washing yarn by the stream. Some of the women in the painting are Concentrating on washing yarn, some are talking and laughing, with different expressions and lifelike expressions.

After staring at these treasures for a long time, Pei Miao decided to meet and have a talk with the master's family, find out the details of the other party, and see if there is a chance to buy one or two.

Pei Miao solemnly cleared her throat, and then called out, "Is anyone home?"

"Who is it?" A man's voice came from the room, and then a middle-aged man with slightly dark skin and buck teeth came out. Seeing that it was a young man he didn't know, the man with buck teeth couldn't help asking, "Who are you? Why did you come to my house?"

Pei Miao said: "Hi, I'm passing by and want to use the toilet, can I borrow your toilet for a while?"

The buck-toothed man said: "In this rural area, you can just find a deserted place and solve it."

Pei Miao took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, stepped forward and handed one to the man, and said, "Uncle, please help me, please lend me your toilet."

This pack of cigarettes was given to Pei Miao by Chen Wei when they were on the market in Pingzhou. Pei Miao didn't actually smoke much, and after returning from the market, none of the cigarettes in the pack had been touched.

"Hey, these cigarettes are very expensive, and you can't even sell them in mainland China! They are only available in the port area, and only the big bosses can afford them." The buck-toothed man took the cigarettes that Pei Miao handed over, and his attitude changed, he smiled. Said, "It's not that I don't want to borrow you, the toilet has just been dismantled, so it can't be used anymore."

Pei Miao asked in surprise, "You even took away the toilet when you moved?"

"Why don't you take it away?" the buck-toothed man said, "Do you know how expensive bathrooms are now?"

Pei Miao laughed dryly, then pretended to look at the things in his yard nonchalantly, and said, "Forget it, I'll hold back for now, by the way, uncle, what line of work do you do, there are so many old things in the house ?”

"Fruit growers." The buck-toothed man pointed to a large orchard outside the door, and said, "The orchard in front is mine."

Pei Miao laughed and said, "Uncle, you are the big boss."

"What a big boss." The buck-toothed man smiled wryly, and said, "It's almost like a big-headed ghost."

"Uncle, what's your surname?"

"Miangui's surname is Tian, ​​Tian Gui, what about you?"

"My surname is Pei." Pei Miao smiled and said, "You can call me Xiao Pei."

"Xiao Pei, I'm sorry, the toilet at home is really useless, you should find another place to solve it."

"I'm not in a hurry." Pei Miao said, "It's very interesting to chat with you. Uncle Tian, ​​you're going to be demolished, so there's a lot of compensation, right?"

Tian Gui shook his head and sighed, "It's so pitiful."

"How much, can you tell me?"

"The house plus the orchard only paid 350 million."

"That's a lot!" Pei Miao exclaimed, "You must be too demanding."

"Oh, you don't understand." Tian Gui sighed again, and said, "The house is demolished, so I have to buy a house. The housing prices in Luzhou are so expensive now. Even if you buy two sets outside the Fifth Ring Road, you still can't pay the full price. Can do a loan."

Pei Miao said, "Buying one set is enough, do you have a lot of family members?"

"Children need a wedding room when they get married." Tian Guidao, "Girls nowadays are so demanding. They don't even want to mention the word marriage without a house or a car, and there are still requirements. If they don't live with their parents-in-law, my son will die this summer." He's about to graduate from university, and he hasn't prepared a wedding room for him at this time, when will it be prepared, do you think so?"

"Yes, yes." Pei Miao nodded repeatedly.

Tian Gui felt that he had found someone to talk to, and continued: "To buy a house, you need to prepare 100 million yuan just for the down payment. You also need to prepare a sum of money for your son's marriage. There are too many places to spend money on marriage. Buying a car and a house is just the basics. , Maybe people heard that our family is a demolition household, so they will open their mouths and ask for 50 million gifts. At that time, we can't separate the two children, right? We have to prepare 100 million for the wedding, the most important thing The problem is that my orchard is gone, and I have no source of income, so it will be very difficult to re-contract the orchard, and it will cost a lot of money, and I am very worried now."

Pei Miao thought for a while, and said, "It's not convenient to grow an orchard if you live in the city. A lot of houses have been developed in the suburbs, and the prices there should be better. You can buy a house in the suburbs."

"Well, that's what I thought too." Tian Gui finished his cigarette in one breath, threw away the cigarette butt, and said, "But in fact, it won't save much money."

Seeing that the chatter was almost over, Pei Miao pointed to the antiques in the yard and said, "Why don't you sell a few of the old things in the yard for some money."

"These things can't be sold." Tian Gui waved his hand and said, "These are antiques handed down from my ancestors. My grandfather and my father said that these are to be family heirlooms."

Sure enough, as Pei Miao expected, Tian Gui knew that these things were antiques. If there were so many antiques in the house, but the owner didn't know, that would be abnormal.

Pei Miao said: "The reason why family heirlooms are family heirlooms is because of their precious value, and why the ancestors pass down precious things from generation to generation, so that the heirlooms can come in handy at critical moments, and it can even be said to save the whole family. Live, so heirlooms are not unsellable."

Pei Miao's brainwashing work is still doing well, Tian Gui listened to it, but he still didn't want to sell it, and said, "That's right, but our family is not so difficult that we can't survive."

Pei Miao took out the cigarette case again, took out a cigarette and handed it to him, and lit it for him, then lit one herself, exhaled, and said, "Say something ugly, hurry up."

Tian Gui couldn't help frowning when he heard the words: "What do you mean?"

Pei Miao said, "Think about it, is there a big gap between the economic conditions 20 years ago and now?"

Tian Gui was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Of course it's big."

"That's right, our country is in the period of the fastest economic development in history. During this period, countless entrepreneurs and big bosses have emerged. Ten years ago, as long as you had money to invest in real estate, Even if it’s a pig, it’s all posted, what does this mean, it means that as long as you are rich, you will be richer, and the richer you are, the richer you are, do you think I’m right?”

Tian Gui hardly hesitated, and nodded vigorously excitedly: "That's right, when housing prices started to rise at that time, my wife asked me to sell a few family heirlooms and buy two houses in the city center of Gangzhou. I didn't agree at the beginning. I’m a fruit farmer, why buy a house in the urban area, grow fruit in the urban area? I didn’t buy it, and now I regret it!”

Pei Miao didn't expect Tian Gui to cooperate with him so well, um, I feel like I can fool him.

So he hit the iron while it was hot: "That's it. You have been behind others for more than ten years. Do you still want to lag behind others? Take a step back and say that it doesn't matter if you lag behind others. Do you want your children to lag behind others? For example, after your son graduates from university, he has to find a job. Isn’t finding a job a part-time job for others? If he has a lot of money, he can start his own factory or start a company to be the boss. Compared with part-time work, which one is more promising? "

When Tian Gui heard these words, he was stunned for a moment, and even forgot to flick the cigarette ash.

At this moment, a woman's voice came from the room: "Old Tian, ​​who are you talking to? Come and move things, the car will be here soon."

Then he saw a woman coming out with a lot of things in her arms, Pei Miao was dizzy looking at it, and what did he see again, Ru kiln sky blue glaze brush washer in the Northern Song Dynasty, oh my god, royal-level porcelain.

However, the woman didn't seem to know how valuable the brush washer was. She was holding a short case in her arms. On the short case were piled up ancient books more than a foot high. On the ancient books were Ru kiln brush washers. The board is upright, the stack is so high, and the Ru Kiln Brush Washer is also shaking on top of it, making Pei Miao feel like he is about to have a heart attack.

Pei Miao hurriedly shouted: "Don't move!"

The woman was taken aback, and hurriedly stopped. When she stopped suddenly, the Ru Kiln Brush Washer flew out of habit. Pei Miao felt that his hair was about to stand on end, and his body instinctively rushed out, very fast. , stretched out his right hand, grabbed the Ru Kiln brush washer, then turned around, landed on his back, and held the Ru Kiln brush washer high with his right hand, it must not be damaged by this thing.

Seeing Pei Miao fall, Tian Gui hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and asked anxiously, "Are you alright?"

Pei Miao didn't have time to worry about whether he broke it or not. He first checked to see if the Ru Kiln brush washer was damaged. Seeing that the Ru Kiln brush washer was fine, he patted his chest lightly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's not damaged."

After he finished speaking, he put the Ru kiln brush washer on the sofa beside him, turned his head to look at Tian Gui, and said solemnly: "Mr. Tian, ​​let me tell you straight to the point, I am actually in the antique business. I like antiques, I want to accept your antiques, the price must be favorable, please think carefully about it."

The woman looked at them both suspiciously and asked, "What are you doing?"

Tian Gui said: "Go and rest for a while, I will talk to this young man."

"Xiao Si's car is about to arrive! Still resting?"

"I tell you to go!" Tian Gui raised his voice.

The woman was helpless, put her things on the corridor, turned around and went back to the house.

After sending his wife away, Tian Gui turned to look at Pei Miao, and said, "So, it's a lie that you came to borrow the toilet?"

"No." Pei Miao said, "I came to borrow the toilet and happened to see your yard full of things."

Tian Gui didn't say much. After pondering for a long time, he said slowly: "The family heirloom passed down from the ancestors cannot be sold in my hands, sorry."

Pei Miaodu: "If you say these are family treasures, then these family treasures have not received the treatment that family treasures should have at all. Let's just say that this pen washer was almost broken. Do you know how precious this pen washer is? However, there are only 67 and a half pieces of Ru kiln porcelain in the world.”

Tian Gui didn't reply, he really had nothing to say about this matter.

Pei Miao slowly said: "Antiques need to be well maintained. This kind of thing can only be done by people who understand antiques. For example, those calligraphy and paintings in the painting tank have mold spots on them. If they are not dealt with in time, they will be damaged. In a few years, calligraphy and painting will be destroyed, do you know how much you have lost by then, millions of dollars."

"This..." Tian Gui panicked when he heard the words, "Then how should we deal with this?"

Pei Miao said, "Naturally leave it to a professional restorer to restore."

"Where can I find a professional restorer?"

"In the antique market." Pei Miao said, "But you need to find a professional restorer, don't find a half bottle of vinegar and ruin the painting, or find someone with extremely bad morals and directly reconcile your painting. You don’t understand antiques, even if you replace them with fake paintings, you won’t be able to tell. Oh, and the restoration costs are very high. The more precious the antiques, the higher the restoration costs. You can restore these calligraphy and paintings... um, you Get ready for 20."

"20?!" Tian Gui exclaimed when he heard the words.

Pei Miao nodded: "Antiques are for rich people, and maintenance is very troublesome and costly."

Tian Gui said: "But my father and my grandfather never asked any restorer to restore them!"

Pei Miao asked, "They should be knowledgeable, right?"

"My grandfather knows antiques and is an expert. My father also knows a little bit, but he is not very proficient. I don't know anything at all."

Pei Miao said: "Those who understand antiques know how to maintain them, at least they know where to put them, so of course they don't need to hire someone to maintain them, will you?"

Tian Gui threw away the cigarette butt in depression, shook his head and said, "No."

Pei Miao spread his hands and said, "That's it. Your ancestors should be masters of antiques, so they can pass these things down from generation to generation as family heirlooms, but in your generation, they won't be able to pass them on. It’s a pile of rags, you have to know, the things you have here, you can’t earn them for several lifetimes.”

Pei Miao said it very implicitly, not to mention a few lifetimes, even dozens of lifetimes.

Tian Gui was silent again after hearing the words.

Pei Miao knew that he had already wavered, so he hurriedly blew on the east wind to help him, and said, "Let's do it in time, you really can't afford or can't afford these things, the price is up to you, and after you get the money, let the whole family live on it." Good day, if you are really reluctant, you can just sell me a few pieces."

This sentence finally became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Tian Gui hesitated for a long time, slowly raised three fingers, and said, "Since you are so sincere, then I will sell you three pieces."