socalfunplaces Chapter 603
Chapter 603
Meng Haisheng followed Wu Jiang through the living room and came to the backyard, where there was a different world.
There were several workers working in the backyard. They took large bronze artifacts out of a large vat. If Meng Haisheng hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought that these bronze artifacts were just dug out of the ground.
"These are all my treasures. Even if experts come, they can't tell whether they are real or fake."
Wu Jiang proudly took Meng Haisheng into the small house in the backyard.
The room was full of various boxes, many of which were extremely valuable, costing hundreds of dollars each.
Obviously, such an expensive box was not for ordinary fakes.
Wu Jiang found a blue brocade box from a group of boxes.
"This is it."
As he spoke, the brocade box opened, revealing a white jade bowl inside.
"This is from the Han Dynasty."
The brocade box was placed on the table, and Meng Haisheng picked it up.
He still understands the rules of the industry. Antiques and jades cannot be passed from hand to hand. If they are smashed, it will be hard to explain.
Meng Haisheng was shocked when he got the exquisite white jade bowl. Not to mention whether it was from the Han Dynasty, white jade of this quality would be worth a lot of money on the market.
The warm white jade bowl has the marks left by history, and there is even a little wear on the bottom.
It is these small flaws that make this white jade bowl look more real.
Even if Meng Haisheng has handled many white jades, after seeing this white jade bowl, Meng Haisheng can't tell whether it is real or fake.
Wu Jiang saw that Meng Haisheng was confused, and took a magnifying glass to him very considerately.
"Even under a microscope, this bowl is a genuine white jade bowl."
"Boss Wu, if it was a white jade bowl from the Han Dynasty, the price would be sky-high."
"Of course, if it were on the market now, it would be at least this much."
Wu Jiang gestured to Meng Haisheng with an eight.
"It should be more expensive. Eight hundred thousand was the price two years ago."
The price of antique jades also changes every year. In the past, the Friendship Hotel sold modern jades for hundreds of thousands.
"A white jade bowl is such a small item. It won't cost more than one million, right?"
Wu Jiang always thought that he had a thorough understanding of the market situation. He didn't expect that there would be a day when he would lag behind.
"It is from the Han Dynasty, so the price is naturally much higher. But even if it is modern, such a white jade bowl is not cheap."
Wu Jiang nodded.
"This white jade bowl is made of genuine mutton-fat white jade. My ancestors spent 2,000 yuan to buy it when the world was in turmoil. It has been buried in the ground. The aging process is quite long."
It is not so easy to make a piece of jade antique. Wu Jiang buried it in the ground for decades and let time help him to make it antique. It is also amazing.
Then he took out a few more jades. Although these jades are not as good as the mutton-fat white jade bowl, they are also very valuable.
"Does Mr. Meng like ceramics?"
Wu Jiang directly moved out several large boxes, each of which contained 8 vases, bowls, and basins of different shapes and colors.
Popular and unpopular items in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are all in it.
"These bottles and jars are all made by my father. Let alone experts, even an old craftsman like me, if I don't know the marks my father made, I may not be able to tell the authenticity."
Meng Haisheng picked up a large blue and white jar from the Yuan Dynasty and was shocked again. There were large blue and white jars from the Yuan Dynasty in his collection. He could hardly find any difference in the one in front of him except for the different patterns painted on it.
It is obvious that this large blue and white jar from the Yuan Dynasty should be a genuine one, and this imitation is a one-to-one imitation of the genuine one, even with a little bump on it.
Meng Haisheng was amazed in his heart. Such old craftsmen will be rare in the future.
"I'll pick a few items, and you give me a price."
The first thing Meng Haisheng wanted was the mutton-fat white jade bowl. Even if it is not collected as a Han Dynasty one, it is also very good as an ordinary mutton-fat white jade bowl.
In the end, Meng Haisheng bought 14 fake antiques for 600,000 yuan.
Wujiang not only matched each antique with very interesting packaging, but also gave Meng Haisheng 14 different stories.
These antiques were inherited from ancestors, dug out by farmers working in the fields, and dismantled from old houses when building houses.
There were all kinds of stories, and none of them were repeated.
Meng Haisheng thought on his way home, and he didn't know which story Hou Yaxin and Hou Bingde liked.
He always did things very properly. If the two didn't believe these stories, he would have a trick up his sleeve. He could blame all these fake antiques on tomb robbers. He would definitely not run away.
As long as they felt that these things were realYes, under the huge benefits, they will definitely be tempted.
A few days later, Fang Zheng reported the investigation of Hou Yaxin to Meng Haisheng.
Hou Yaxin relied on Hou Bingde's trust in him, and he was arrogant in the taxi industry and didn't take anyone seriously.
Just a few months ago, he felt that he had too few taxis, so he used gambling to swallow up Zhang Xinghai's small taxi company.
Zhang Xinghai was one of the first wealthy businessmen in the 1980s. He had no background and relied on his own hands to build a family business of hundreds of thousands.
Then he used this little money to start a taxi company when taxis were just emerging.
In just one year, his family property exceeded one million, and he also had more than 20 taxis.
It was precisely because Zhang Xinghai had no background that he was targeted by Hou Yaxin.
Hou Yaxin took Zhang Xinghai to various high-end places like a brother, and naturally he couldn't find a place like an underground casino.
In the end, Zhang Xinghai, like Shi Bosen, lost his taxi company and owed more than 2 million yuan in loan sharks after gambling.
The loan shark company said that if Zhang Xinghai didn't pay back all the money, they would chop off one of his hands.
The so-called loan shark company was just a group of minions in Hou Bingde's hands. They all listened to Hou Yaxin's orders, so they dared to lend Zhang Xinghai so much money.
Who would have thought that Zhang Xinghai had been gambling so hard that he lost all the money in just two days.
Now Hou Yaxin was scolded by Hou Bingde for this matter. Nearly 1 million yuan of this money was lost to others, which means that Hou Yaxin wanted to harm Zhang Xinghai, but ended up losing 1 million yuan.
After Hou Bingde knew about this, he almost fainted from anger. How could he have such a stupid son?
So recently, Hou Yaxin went to Zhang Xinghai every few days to ask Zhang Xinghai to pay back the money quickly.
Zhang Xinghai, who had nothing left, could not come up with 1 million even if he sold all his property. The two of them were in a stalemate for the time being. Zhang Xinghai sent his wife and children to the countryside, and he hid in Beijing alone.
Meng Haisheng looked at the information in his hand and could not help but tap the table lightly with his fingers. Hou Yaxin really rushed to give him money.