Seeing He Chong sprayed, Xiaoma was stunned. What is this situation? Just quoting a price, is it necessary to do this?

He scratched his scalp, but he still didn't understand what was going on, so he gritted his teeth. No matter what you mean, he still had to say what I should say!

Seeing Li Yi open his mouth and want to speak, he waved his hand quickly.

"I said, brother, don't bargain for me at this price. Just like Lao Wang just now, you have also seen the bamboo carving. Although it is a model and added later, it is correct for an old item? I want 80,000, he will only give 50,000. I know that he will be bothering me in a few days, so I will save the 30,000 yuan! But this time I don't let him go, so I will find someone when I turn around. If it doesn't work, I will sell it for 70,000 yuan. If it doesn't work, I will sell it for 60,000 yuan!"

Seeing that Xiaoma became angry, Li Yi shook his head quickly.

"Xiaoma, I don't mean that. I don't have any objection to yours, 60,000 yuan. Brother He, you don't have no objection to this price, right?"

He Chong was stunned, and then realized that Li Yi was going to join forces with him and repay the favor he had just now. He couldn't help but feel warm. No problem!

Li Yi nodded and said to Xiaoma:

"I thought your Magu Shangshou had already sold it. Since it wasn't sold, I'll take it all over. I'll give you 140,000 yuan for the two items. What do you think?"

"Oh, brother, you are such a good person. Please wait. I will boil water for you now, and you can wait."

When Li Yi heard this, the sweat almost came down. Some people even said that he was a good person? It’s so deceiving!

Seeing that Xiaoma was indeed heading straight to the kitchen and ignored the things, He Chong came over.

"Brother, I'm not mistaken just now. Is this one by Mr. Qi's "Radical Grasshopper Picture"?"

Li Yi nodded.

"I'll go! Then I'll have to say at least 3 million, right? I've sent it now!"

Li Yi turned the fan over without hesitation and slapped it slowly twice.

With a "puff", He Chong sprayed again, because he saw dozens of small running script characters flying in the back of the fan, and the seal on the signature was actually the grandfather of the Chinese diplomat Zhang Wenjin, a famous scholar, educator, and calligrapher Zhang Ju!

This is actually a folding fan made by two famous artists!

“400, or 500?”

He Chong's voice trembled a little.

Li Yi thought for a while and said:

"It's over 400, it probably won't be 500."

He Chong stood up, walked around the room twice, suddenly clenched his fists, and when he was about to say something, he saw Xiaoma coming out of the kitchen with a pack of tea, and couldn't help but ask:

"Xiaoma, who did you learn from when you play antiques?"

"Haha, I didn't learn from anyone, I'm at home and I'm self-taught!"

"Oh, where did you collect these things?"

"I usually go around the ghost market and run to the countryside, but this batch is different. It was introduced by my classmates. I specially collected it from the south. How about it? It's not bad, right?"

He Chong nodded laughingly and cryingly. It’s not just good, it’s simply great, but with your level of identification, being able to survive until now and not starve to death is considered a shame!

"At the beginning, I was an apprentice for others in the market, but they didn't teach anything. Later, I did it myself. Every time I got good things and sold them, the price was suppressed! I realized that these people were all vampires who eat people and don't spit bones!"

"puff!"

This time it was Li Yi's turn to criticize him. It seems that those bosses seem to be several levels behind him!

"Later, I became more careful and focused on the customers who came out of the store... Oh, by the way, you haven't seen it yet, there is a real good thing here!"

Xiaoma said as she walked up to Li Yi, looked down at him, and took out an arm rest from the cardboard box.

"Brother, look at this one!"

The writing format in ancient my country was from right to left. In order to prevent the arms from getting stuck in ink, literati invented a tool for pillow arms. This tool is what we now call the arm rest. It is used to place the arms when writing, so it can also be called an arm rest or wrist pillow.

Arm resting is a must-have utensil for ancient literati. It is generally made of jade, sandalwood and bamboo, and it is also made of ivory and porcelain.

The most common things that bamboo carving artists make, besides folding fans, pen holders, and incense sticks, should be arm rests.

Xiaoma took out the arm rest, which was about 22 cm long and 7 cm wide, just like a piece of dark brown glazed tiles that had been turned over. The cliffs were carved with shallow relief techniques. Then there was an old man with wide robe and big sleeves, raised his head and stretched his arms, and held the pen and tube in his hand, as if he was writing an inscription on the stone wall. On the stone platform behind it, there were scrolls of inscriptions.

The style of this arm-rest bamboo carving is very unique. The mountains and rocks are all square, the characters have hazy faces, the patterns are minimal, and the lines are very shallow, which looks unique.

On the back of the arm, there is a four-character running script engraved with the meaning of "Made by Wu Zhifu".

"Brother, this is Wu Zhifan's right?"

Li Yi nodded. This is indeed a real Wu Zhifan work, and it is also a rare fine product. Because this kind of knife skills is very rare in Wu Zhifan's works!

"Brother, you are an expert. How much do you think it is worth?"

Li Yi looked at him strangely, "Don't you pay for selling things?"

"I don't know much about this, I really don't know how much it should be sold!"

Seeing his pitiful look, Li Yi shook his head slightly, forget it, he has taken a lot of advantage, so just help him.

"Although Wu Zhifan has many works handed down from generation to generation, most of them are pen holders and arm rests are rare. In addition, the knife skills he uses are not common, so I guess if you take a photo, the transaction range should be between 200,000 and 300,000."

"I***!"

When Xiaoma heard this, she immediately looked angry.

"Do you know? I took this arm holder and asked no less than five stores, five, damn! I didn't offer more than 30,000 yuan for me! One tenth, these vampires!"

"Haha, normal. Let's do this. I'll give you 260,000 yuan for this arm rest. I won't say much about the others. You should understand what's going on in the auction..."

"Brother, brother, you are such a great person. You can know you, me, me..."

Li Yi waved his hand and picked out two ordinary Min San Yuan Datou and a signed version from the cloth bag next to him. Without bargaining, he took out his mobile phone and directly sent Xiaoma 600,000 yuan.

"Okay, if you see, we will say goodbye. Thank you, Xiaoma."

"Oh, I should thank you, brother, this is my business card. If you come to Chang'an again in the future, remember to call me. If there is any good thing, you will definitely pick it first!"

Li Yi took the business card and looked at it. He couldn't help but let out a "pop" sound and squirted again. What's wrong with this big man, what's the name of it? Ma Hongxing, are you sure this is your name?

"Haha, hehe, this is not to let the customer remember me at a glance... Besides, if you don't know, you might think I'm a beauty. If this curiosity starts, will the business come?"

"Gao! Your move is really high!"

Li Yi couldn't help but give out a thumbs up. If this guy could focus all his thoughts on studying, just this batch of goods would make a fortune. However, now all these are cheaper, he and He Chong!

He Chong could no longer control the excitement in his heart when he took the things out. He first whistled to the sky, and then took out the silver dollar from the 24th year of the Republic of China.

"Brother, what should you do with this thing? I'm tight on my hands recently. Why don't we take a photo?"

Li Yi shook his head,

"This one, and that folding fan, is estimated to be 10.5 million yuan. Do you have any objections to this?"

"This... can't sell so much, right? I think it's more reliable between 9 million and 9.5 million."

"Well, if you go to the photo, you may not get this amount after deducting the commission, but it will be hard to say for a few years. Let's do this. We calculate it at 10 million. If you give me the account, I will transfer 5 million to you directly. These two items belong to me!"

"Oh, this is not possible. How can you let me suffer a loss? 900, just count as 900..."

The two argued for a while, and finally got a middle number of 9.5 million. Li Yi directly assigned 4.75 million to He Chong!

After getting the money, He Chong didn't know where to put his hand, while Li Yi was slightly confused.

Before, Tan Moxuan accompanied him to the market several times, but he bought all the good things by himself. For such a long time, only his parents and Lu Ningshuang were close relatives like him. But today... is He Chong a good boy or is he because he is quick? Or is that the previous one not a rule at all?

After thinking for a while, Li Yi shook his head slightly, no matter what, at least from the moment, this guy is not bad, he is a friend!

"Brother, the time is almost over. We should go over and meet, right?"

Li Yi looked at the time, then looked at He Chong, who looked proud, and shook his head with a smile, "Let's go, you can get such a big gain in this time, and if you think too much, you will feel a little greedy."

The store that several people made an appointment in advance was called Meicixuan. It sounded like it was a business of ancient porcelain, with the house number 222. At that time, this store was chosen as the collection site because this house number was so easy to remember.

It took about 15 minutes to find this Meici Xuan. As soon as I entered the store, both of them were a little surprised. This store really lived up to the name of Meici, and it was indeed very beautiful!

The decorations in this store are different from those that Li Yi has seen before. There is no counter in the store about a hundred square meters. On the wall, murals, stickers and several colored mirrors outline a large abstract and beautiful picture. In the middle of the picture, there are glass boxes of various shapes that are prominent, sunken, upright, or placed on the side, and there is a piece of porcelain inside.

The remaining space in the store is based on a slightly strange layout, with pillars half a person tall and short. On the pillars, there are also glass boxes, and the insides are all ancient porcelain.

A negotiation area was circled with a sofa in a corner of the store. At this time, Wang Meng and Mu Yuyu were sitting on the sofa, staring at a porcelain bottle placed on the coffee table and carefully looking at it.

"Sorry, I'm late."

"No, it's because we came too early, how are we getting it?"

Mu Yuyu noticed the backpack that Li Yi was holding in his arms at a glance. She remembered it very clearly. The bag was shaggy before, but now it was bulging. They should have bought a lot of things!

But then she became confused again. Don’t these two people only know calligraphy and painting? But if they are just calligraphy and painting, they should not be able to hold the bag so much. What exactly are they buying?

"Ha, this is a bamboo root carving bought by Brother Li, and a work by Wu Zhifan imitated by famous Wumen bamboo carving artist Yang Yunkang."

Bamboo root carving? Yang Yunkang? What do you guys who don’t know anything except calligraphy and painting will be cheated?

"How much does this cost?"

“80,000.”

"This price is a bit high, right?"

Wang Meng frowned, turned around and took out a small cardboard box from his bag, opened it, and it contained a light green bird food jar.

"I spent less than 20,000 yuan on my Green Glaze Bird Food Can from Longquan Kiln from the Southern Song Dynasty!"
To be continued...