Unlike Taiping Cars and copper hand mirrors, Zhong Haoqing's understanding of the price of items that often appear at auctions is even clearer than that of Li Yi.

Let me put it this way, if you can determine the authenticity of an antique, most of the time, Zhong Haoqing's judgment is more accurate than Li Yi's, because her information sources are wider, deeper, and richer in experience.

So, when Li Yi confirmed that the lid box of red-cut pearl clouds was true, but the boss's offer was only 3.2 million yuan, Zhong Haoqing knew that this time, Li Yi was going to get a big gap again.

Because, she remembers very clearly that as early as 2004, Sotheby's Hong Kong auctioned a red box with a cloud dragon pattern in Ming Yongle. The transaction price was close to 12 million soft girl coins at that time. Not long ago, another red box with a red lid box with a dragon pattern was also auctioned for 12.87 million!

These two pieces, one was earlier, and the other just happened. Obviously, the boss did not find their information online!

"Xiaoyi, what is the real value of this piece?"

"Master, I remember when I was in the company, I saw a document. There seemed to be no more than 10 pieces in this type of Yongle dragon pattern box. If nothing unexpected happens, its value should be tens of millions..."

Although Li Yi didn't know the red lid box of the dragon pattern auctioned, he had a good memory. Although the information Zhong Haoqing gave him at that time and the information sent to him by the company was piled up by more than half a person, he still remembered the approximate price of the one auctioned in 2004!

Zhong Haoqing nodded and didn't say anything. However, she was thinking that the latest information should be prepared for Li Yi in the future. Although even if she didn't know about this, she had never seen this kid suffer a loss, but if she could learn more about the latest updates, it would certainly be more conducive to his growth.

Soon, the counter on the first floor was finished and the two of them went straight to the second floor along the walking ladder.

When Li Yi saw the main business projects on the second floor, he smiled. This was the battlefield that his master was best at, because the shops on the second floor all operated calligraphy, paintings and study supplies!

"Master, look..."

"It's okay, you keep going, but if something is missing and I find it, your evening meal will be hanging..."

"Uh... just hang up, anyway, you can't starve if you eat less..."

"What are you saying? The voice is louder!"

"Oh, Master, I suddenly remembered that Brother Ma said that a friend of hiss wanted to buy a painting by Tang Bohu and asked me to go back to Yanjing to help him see..."

"Tang Bohu? Tang Yin has many works handed down from generation to generation, but most of them are in museums. There are no more than 3 pieces circulated among the people. You should be careful when you help others see them."

Although Zhong Haoqing knew that Li Yi was fine, she couldn't help but explain a few words.

Li Yi nodded and said nothing more. He raised his foot and walked into a shop closest to the stairs. Then when he looked up, he saw a large-sized colored paper-based mirror. At a rough look, it seemed to be Huang Zhou's "Journeyful Grassland"!

Huang Zhou is a famous contemporary Chinese painter. His figure paintings with strong ethnic minority colors are unique in the Chinese painting world, and no one can surpass him. His representative work "Journeyful Grassland" was once sold at a sky-high price of nearly 130 million soft girl coins in 2013. How could it appear here?

Like Li Yi, Zhong Haoqing's eyes were also attracted by this masterpiece with a size of more than 30 square feet. However, it was obvious that she was more familiar with the painting "Journey Grassland", so she found at least a dozen different places just after a glance, and then smiled and turned her eyes to other works.

Unlike Zhong Haoqing, although Li Yi quickly discovered that there was something wrong with the painting, he still looked at it carefully, then walked up and gently touched the frame with his hand, then raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Boss, how do you sell this painting?"

When he heard Li Yi inquiring about the price, Zhong Haoqing turned her head curiously and began to look at the work that she had judged as a copycat. As she looked at it, she suddenly let out a "huh" and frowned.

Huang Zhou's "Journeyful Grassland" is a border-style painting, which shows the scene of the Kirgiz people in Xinjiang carrying out the traditional sports event "Wrestle" in the picture. There are seven ethnic women, nine shepherds and more than seventy horses, and their size is as big as 46 square feet.

This painting, which is only one word different from that painting, is less than two-thirds of the size of that painting. Not only are there fewer characters, but the number of horses is also much worse, so Zhong Haoqing directly regards it as a imitation. But now after looking closely, she found that the treatment methods in many places in this painting are very similar to Huang Zhou's brushwork, and there are at least three details. The technique is almost exactly the same as Huang Zhou's usual techniques!

After seeing these clearly, Zhong Haoqing's face showed a wry smile, and she was careless. This painting was obviously Huang Zhou's work, but the painting should have been a relatively early age, and its style was not yet fully mature, or it was a little coping, so at first glance it looked like a high-quality imitation...

In fact, this is not her fault, because with her current status, she often checks in the company or is invited to identify the authenticity of a painting. As today, she hasn't been around the market for nearly ten years.

"Sir, this painting is the work of Mr. Huang Zhou. Do you know about Huang Zhou? His border style painting is the most valuable of his works, and this painting is a reproduction work brought back by our boss from Japan..."

An apprentice in her twenties saw Li Yi asking for a price, hurried over and did not offer a quote. She opened her mouth and looked at the expressions of Li Yi and others while introducing her. He wanted to judge that these people were just asking curiously, and they were really interested in this painting.

Li Yi is very familiar with this scene. Many merchants look at the dishes of artworks like this. There is no certain rule for quotations. The most outrageous thing he has ever heard of is that when two different people ask for the price of the same item, the boss's quotations are dozens of times different!

In fact, this phenomenon exists in all walks of life. Li Yi had a meal before, and two employees of the car decoration store were sitting next to him. He heard that one of them was educating the other.

"Damn it! I'm driving a Hyundai to apply film. You quote 3,000. If you change to Mercedes-Benz, you will still quote 3,000. No wonder you can't make money! I tell you, if it's like that, I will at least report more than 8,000..."

"Okay, I know this is Huang Zhou's work, and I also know that this is a work he created for the "Tangren Pavilion" in Nagasaki, Japan in 1976. Just talk about the price."

The guy was startled and then looked at the boss who had just stood up behind the counter. He had met an expert, so please come in person, boss.

"Sir, you are a master! But since you know the origin of this painting, you must also know Mr. Huang Zhou's "Joyful Grassland". It can be said that his painting was created based on this painting..."

"So what? So the price of your painting should be based on which one?"

"I dare not, I dare not! If this painting is interesting, sir, it will be 18 million!"

"18 million? This price is not a little high."

Huang Zhou is a high-yield painter. Data shows that since 2000 to 2013, Huang Zhou only photographed 4,937 works! Although its price has been increasing year by year, and the range has been relatively large in recent years, except for a few special works, the market price is only 300,000 yuan per square foot. The boss’s asking price for this painting is twice as high!

"Sir, that "The Purging Grassland" costs 128.8 million!"

"What does it have to do with your painting? That painting was given to the legendary wealthy businessman Hammer as a national gift. Can you compare this with it? 6 million, 6 million, I can consider it, and more..."

Li Yi shook his head. Although in the long run, Huang Zhou's works will definitely continue to increase in value, and collection will definitely be better than saving money, but just like his previous collection of Li Xiongcai's "Eternal Pine", investment collections must of course consider input-output ratio. Therefore, he is not planning to pay too high a price for this painting. Of course, it is best to buy it, and it doesn't matter if it can't be bought.

"Sir, this price..."

The boss shook his head. The price Li Yi paid was too ruthless, and it was not the price he wanted to buy it sincerely!

"Haha, by the way, boss, how do you sell this one?"

Li Yi laughed twice, and suddenly pointed to a picture of "Ink Bamboo Picture" next to the frame and asked.

"Oh, this one... This one is 120,000. Sir, the price you just now is too low. Otherwise, 15 million, 15 million, what do you think?"

The boss casually glanced at the painting Li Yi asked about, and then brought the topic back to the "Happy Grassland". If you can buy a painting of 6 million, you should be a person who is not short of money, so although he felt that Li Yi had no sincerity, he still decided to work hard to get it.

"I just said that you can consider 6 million. If you want 15 million, forget it, I'd better want this one, 120,000, how cheap!"

Hearing the words, the boss showed a laughing and crying expression. Is this what you see? If you want something cheaper, I have more, and there are hundreds of dollars per picture here!

Li Yi waved his hand and signaled Gu Feng to hand over the money from "Ink Bamboo Picture" first, and then said:

"Let me do this, I'll add another 500,000, 6.5 million. If you can sell it, I'll take it. If it doesn't work, I'll want this one."

The two of them were competing for the price of the painting. Gu Feng went to the counter to pay, while Zhong Haoqing walked up and took a look at the "Ink Bamboo Picture" that Li Yi was going to buy, and then a hint of shock appeared in his eyes. Didn't this kid keep talking to his boss about the "Happy Grassland"? When did he notice this again?

The size of this "Ink Bamboo Picture" is not large, no more than 6 square feet, but its value is definitely higher than Huang Zhou's "Happy Grassland", and it is more than a little taller. Zhong Haoqing estimated that if it was filmed, it might exceed 30 million!

Because, this is a very rare authentic work of Wang Fu!

Wang Fu was a great painter during the Yongle period in the early Ming Dynasty. He participated in the compilation of the "Yongle Encyclopedia". He was good at landscape paintings, especially dry wood, bamboo and stone. The ink bamboo he painted was known as "the number one in the Ming Dynasty"!

There are many works handed down by Wang Fu, but most of them are collections of essays. There are no more than 10 paintings that can be determined as authentic works, of which only one is the theme of ink bamboo, and this one is the second one!

Such a painting is only 120,000 yuan? And it was sold in just a few words, which made Zhong Haoqing wonder that the reason why Li Yi talked to his boss about the painting "Happy Grassland" was actually to cover the painting!

Thinking of this, her eyes flashed with bright colors. She had just seen the finest products that Li Yi took back before. Unexpectedly, shopping with him was even more shocking. This apprentice really got the right one!

Then she smiled bitterly again and shook her head. To be honest, in addition to being able to give him some advice at the beginning, now, she can probably provide him with some help in the information. This apprentice is so powerful that it is difficult for the master to do it!

Two minutes later, Li Yi walked into a store next door with the "Ink Bamboo Picture", while the boss stood at the door of the store hesitantly. Just now, Li Yi's offer had risen to 6.8 million, and he was guessing how much he could add.

As the owner of the work, he knew better than Li Yi about the origin of the painting.

Although this "Happy Grassland" is just as Li Yi said, it is also a painting created by Huang Zhou for the "Tangren Pavilion" of Nagasaki, but unlike the other two paintings "The Broad World of Great Things" and "Flying Snow Welcoming the Spring", this is a work that the Japanese leader asked Huang Zhou for privately, and Huang Zhou painted it because he couldn't hide his face.

So let alone compare with the two paintings "Flying Snow Welcoming the Spring", even compared with other works taken by Huang Zhou, the quality of this painting can only be in the middle and lower reaches.

Moreover, he once asked an expert to help him estimate the price. The average price given by the three experts was exactly 6.8 million!

While hesitating, he saw that Li Yi had already walked out of the second house, so he hurriedly went up to stop him.

"Sir, add some more. It is not easy to meet Master Huang Zhou's works, and this is also a fate..."

Li Yi smiled and shook his head. Adding 6.8 million is a bit of compensation. Is it possible to add? Impossible!

"Okay, 6.8 million is 6.8 million, the deal is completed!"

"Do you want to try it at the company's auction?"

As soon as she walked out of the store, Zhong Haoqing asked softly. The quality of this painting is indeed average, although it is quite valuable, but if compared with Li Yi's previous collections, she was very suspicious that this would be the worst one!

"No need for now. I don't have enough money now, so this thing will not depreciate if it is left."

Zhong Haoqing nodded. The 128.8 million yuan of "The Purple Planet" was a matter of two years. The market for Huang Zhou's works has been a bit revived in the past two years. Anyway, they have their own auction house and have a lot of insider information. If they really want to sell it, they can take out the next time someone wants to hype it up, and maybe they can take a ride.

"It's not a master. The reason why I want to buy this painting is because the original owner of this painting, Hideyuki Fujimori, I once met a Japanese..."

Li Yi remembered that at the Jiangshan family, the old man of the Jiang family once introduced to him the origin of Fujimori who wanted to exchange his "Imperial Imperial to the Posthumous Name of Master Zhizheng".

He vaguely remembered that Fujimori's father seemed to be called Fujimori Hideyuki. If Fujimori written in Huang Zhou's work was really Fujimori's father, he wouldn't mind getting in touch with him again.

Because he believed that the two treasures he had seen before, such as the Song Ge Kiln Kui Bangu and Qianlong Junhong Glaze Kiln-turned Pomegranate Zun, were mostly in the hands of this guy. If he bought it, he might not be able to sell it, and even if it was sold, it would be a sky-high price. However, with this painting, it would not be necessary. According to the guy's enthusiasm for exchanging the "Imperial Imperial of the Posthumous Name of Master Zhizheng", if this work was not deliberately released by his family, maybe he could be exchanged for one or two directly!

Upon hearing this, Zhong Haoqing rolled his eyes. What kind of luck is this? How can you make people play with you with this kind of luck? Although I am your master, you don’t have to show it so vividly, right? This is really a shocking person!

Next, Zhong Haoqing focused a lot, but things like antiques are not something you can do just by wanting to have. Therefore, in the next twenty stores, although she encountered several authentic works, either she didn't like them or the price was not agreed upon. Therefore, until the second floor was finished shopping, she was still empty-handed and completely defeated by her apprentice!

On the third floor, it is a miscellaneous business, and Zhong Haoqing is even worse at it, so she has to calm down and follow Li Yi, watching him perform one by one.

This is a very small store, but the things they operate are quite unique, and half of them are actually all kinds of bronzes!

Most bronzes are restricted by the state, so although there are many bronzes in this store, there are not two genuine ones in total, and they are not good things. However, Li Yi believes that there must be good things hidden in his store, but he is a stranger and doesn’t know if he will show them!

Because he wanted to see the boss's good things, he did not leave as anxiously as the previous few stores. Instead, he slowly started chatting with the boss when there were no customers. However, the boss was very alert and blocked his temptation several times, which made Li Yi feel a little regretful. It seems that he probably won't see good things today.

"Hey Xiaosi, why are you here again? Didn't you tell me about it? I won't accept your thing!"

As we were chatting, a young man walked into the store, and when the boss saw him, he looked dissatisfied. Didn’t he see that there were still customers here?

"Uncle Huang, the family is really hard to lose. Please give me some."

The young man named Xiao Si took off his backpack that he was holding in his arms and begged.

The boss was about to say something else, but suddenly his heart moved and turned around and said to Li Yi:

"Sir, have you always wanted to see large bronzes? Xiao Si's one is, this one was bought by his old man thirty years ago, and the origin is absolutely fine..."

"Oh? Then... look?"

Seeing that Li Yi was interested, Xiao Si quickly took out the things from his bag.

This bronze ware is not small, with a height of about 20 cm and a diameter of more than 30 cm. It looks very much like an ancient food utensil, with green copper rust on it, but the shape of the utensil is quite complete.

Li Yi did not study much about bronze ware, so he just looked at it for a while and then turned on the spirit card. Then, his body stiffened and he asked slowly:

"How much do you want this one?"

ps: I went home until 8 o'clock, and I owe another thousand, so I cried to death (to be continued.)
Chapter completed!