69novels Chapter 455
Chapter 455
"Boss Hai, please take a look at this pair of double-handled vases."
Boss Qin of the antique shop enthusiastically invited Meng Haisheng into the shop.
"Boss Qin, you're welcome."
Meng Haisheng has been collecting a lot of antiques recently, and he is also well-known in this small antique street.
Everyone knows that this boss Hai, who has recently emerged, is a rich man.
Boss Qin took Meng Haisheng directly to a small private room on the second floor.
"Today's batch of antiques and jades was also asked by an old acquaintance to sell. He was in a hurry to use the money, so the price was not high."
"Okay, okay."
Meng Haisheng exchanged a few polite words with Boss Qin, and Boss Qin quickly brought in a wooden box.
The wooden box was opened to reveal two extremely exquisite jade double-handled vases.
Meng Haisheng was really impressed by the pair of exquisitely carved double-handled vases.
He remembered that at the auction, more than a dozen people competed for the double-handled jade vase.
It was sold for 79 million yuan in the end. This was the first time that the double-handled jade vase appeared at an auction.
It appeared twice later, and the price was directly pushed to 100 million yuan.
Meng Haisheng also liked it very much at the time, but unfortunately, when he paid attention to it, the pair of vases never appeared again.
It would be a lie for Meng Haisheng to say that he was unhappy when his beloved things reappeared in front of him.
He carefully placed the vase on the table and looked at it carefully.
In addition to the exquisite workmanship of the two handles of the vase, the entire vase body was carved with a landscape painting based on the natural lines on the jade.
There was even a bright sea of flowers on the edge of a shallow beach, and a child in a yellow coat was catching butterflies beside the sea of flowers.
Seeing this vase so closely, Meng Haisheng liked it even more.
A piece of jade appeared in three colors at the same time, and was carved into an exquisite vase by a skilled craftsman.
Meng Haisheng sighed in his heart that nature is really magical.
"Boss Qin, what's the price of this pair of vases?"
"The buyer wants 450,000 yuan a pair, but I think we should be able to negotiate."
"Okay, go ahead and negotiate. I like this vase. We are all in this circle. In the end, as long as the price is not too exaggerated, it will be fine."
Meng Haisheng knocked on Boss Qin and gave him another sweet date.
He liked this vase, but if Boss Qin thought he was a fool, then his calculations were wrong. He, Meng Haisheng, was not a fool.
"Qin is so familiar with Boss Hai, so he will naturally not deceive Boss Hai."
Boss Qin took a few other small jade pieces and some ancient paintings to show Meng Haisheng.
When it comes to jade, Meng Haisheng basically doesn't need others. He can tell the quality of jade by touching it himself.
But he doesn't dare to mess around with ancient paintings.
After all, he has seen many fakes at Boss Qin's place.
"I need to find someone to come and look at these ancient paintings. Can Mr. Qin keep them for me? These are paintings by several painters. I like them very much."
"No problem. When you are free, just tell me. I will keep them for you."
Mr. Qin knew very well that it was common for expensive paintings like these to remain unsold in his store for a year or two.
Fortunately, he met Mr. Hai. Without this God of Wealth, his paintings would have to wait for dust to gather in the safe.
Meng Haisheng sat with Mr. Qin for a while, then he got up and went to other places.
He collected a batch of calligraphy and paintings, which happened to be placed together with the batch of calligraphy and paintings he brought back from Quyang County.
In this way, even if it was spread out in the future, he could completely say that he bought them.
Meng Haisheng went home with a pile of scrolls and happened to see Lin Mucheng helping him organize his study.
"Haisheng, why did you buy so many paintings again? You've bought quite a few recently."
"I will never be dissatisfied with having too many ancient paintings and paintings by famous masters."
"In troubled times, we hoard gold, and in prosperous times, we play with antiques. I buy all these paintings now for appreciation."
"If we don't make good use of the money we earn now, and keep it all in our hands, it will only depreciate rapidly."
Lin Mucheng has heard Meng Haisheng mention it many times about the depreciation of money, and he understands it a little bit.
"Okay, what you said is very reasonable. What about those ancient books? How are you going to deal with them? I think you should just give them to my dad."
The ancient books Lin Mucheng mentioned were the ones in the basement of the small western-style building in Quyang County.
She roughly flipped through them. Most of them were copies of the Qingming Festival. The original ancient books had long disappeared in the long river of history.
A large part of these ancient books are medical books, which would be a good choice to give to Lin Jiangchun.
"Give it to dad, he won't be able to study it, I think it would be a good idea to give it to my second brother later."
"Why did you think of giving it to my second brother?"
"Have you noticed that most of the ancient books recordIt is related to the way of immortality. "
After being reminded by Meng Haisheng, Lin Mucheng also realized that there were several books directly called immortality.
"Okay, then leave it to my second brother. My father never believes in immortality."
Meng Haisheng had just returned home and had not yet reorganized the paintings in his hands when Boss Qin called and said that the pair of double-handled jade vases had finally dropped to 360,000 yuan, and the buyer would not accept it for a dollar less.
Boss Qin also said that the buyer was waiting to raise 2 million yuan before selling it at such a low price.
When Meng Haisheng heard the word 2 million, a question mark instantly appeared in his mind.
The double-handled jade vase could not have been taken out by the Hou family, right?
If that was the case, Hou Bingde was afraid that he really had no money in his hands.
"Boss Qin, talk to the buyer carefully. No matter how good this vase is, it cannot be priced as high as 360,000 yuan."
"I will give 320,000 yuan at most. If the buyer is willing, I will take the cash to get the vase tomorrow morning. ”
Business is all about bargaining, and Meng Haisheng seems to think this is nothing.
Only Meng Haisheng knows that he just doesn't want to make life easy for the Hou family.
If he lowers the price and delays them for another day or two, they will be as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
As Meng Haisheng expected, Hou Jingchen exploded when he lowered the price.
"Boss Qin, didn't you say you have a lot of skills? How come you can't handle such a small matter?"
Hou Jingchen almost cursed on the phone.
"Mr. Hou, I know you are anxious to sell the vase, but this is a deal of more than 300,000 after all. It's really good to be able to decide on it immediately."
"This boss is also a character. If I miss it, I really can't guarantee when I can meet someone who is destined to sell this vase next time."
"The last time my store sold the most expensive vase was 100,000 yuan, and that was 5 years ago. "
Boss Qin was not lying to Hou Jingchen, it was the truth.
In this era, people who can easily come up with 100,000 or 100,000 yuan are rare, and those who like antiques are even rarer.
Hou Jingchen on the other end of the phone was very upset.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Let me think about it again."
[The plot is stuck, I will update one chapter today, and I will sort out the plot tomorrow.]