Repairer - #41 - Chapter 41: Antique Row's Doorway

  Chapter 41 The Way of the Antique Shop

   “Xiao Su, what are you going to buy?”

  Jing Shizhen said with a smile: “We have agreed, if you enter my warehouse, you must buy something, otherwise you will break my rules.”

   “Uncle Jing, don’t worry, I will definitely buy one.”

  Su Xiaofan grinned, “If you can’t afford the expensive ones, can you still afford the cheap ones? The prices of antiques and miscellaneous things have never been high, so just pick one and you’re done.”

   Not before going to the miscellaneous room, Su Xiaofan still accompanied Zhao Zhengshan to wander around the porcelain area for a while.

  There is nothing to see on the calligraphy and painting side, because all the calligraphy and painting are collected in scrolls, and they are not exhibited outside. They are only put here for better preservation.

   “Jingxin Hall really lives up to its reputation!”

   After looking at the porcelain area for a while, Su Xiaofan couldn’t help but admire. He saw more than 20 pieces of porcelain one after another, all of them were genuine products, and none of them were fakes.

   Moreover, the appraisal result given in Su Xiaofan’s mind is almost exactly the same as the small label pasted on the front of the porcelain. It can be seen that every piece of collection here is the best of the best.

   “Uncle Jing, you have a lot of porcelain from the five major kilns here, why do you still accept that one from me?”

  Su Xiaofan used the restoration system to look for a while, and saw seven or eight pieces of Song Ding kiln porcelain alone, and they were all much more exquisite than the brush washer he sold.

   This makes Su Xiaofan a bit puzzled, as a businessman, Jing Shizhen can’t sell enough of her own porcelain, so why spend so much money to buy her own.

   “In order to cultivate the market, if you sell it for three to five million yuan, wouldn’t it mean that the prices of my things will also be reduced.” Jing Shizhen explained to Su Xiaofan with a smile.

“It really is.”

  Su Xiaofan feels that he has gained a lot of knowledge today, and the knowledge in the antique market is not enough here.

   “Want to buy porcelain? Shall I introduce one to you?” Seeing Su Xiaofan walking around the porcelain area, Jing Shizhen said.

   “Uncle Jing, I can’t afford it, so let’s go to Miscellaneous.”

Su Xiaofan shook his head again and again, most of the porcelains stored here are official kiln porcelains from various dynasties, and the lowest bids start at a few million, and the 10 million yuan in Su Xiaofan’s pocket that has not been warmed is not enough to look at at all. .

   “Is your kid a Pixiu, you can only get in and out?”

   Today I sold the old man Daqian’s painting, Jing Shizhen was obviously in a good mood, and made a joke with Su Xiaofan.

  Pushing open the door of the room where antiques and miscellaneous items are stored, Su Xiaofan suddenly opened his eyes. The objects stored in this room are far more than the room for porcelain, calligraphy and painting.

The room for antiques and miscellaneous items is very large, with a full forty to fifty square meters. There are many wooden shelves in the room, and almost every wooden shelf is filled with things. Su Xiaofan roughly estimated that the antiques stored in this room are probably It is not less than tens of thousands.

   “Uncle Jing, have you bought all the good things in the market before?”

  Even Zhao Zhengshan, who had seen the world before, was taken aback when he saw the scene in front of him.

   “The cost of collecting these items in the early years was really not high.”

  Jing Shizhen told the truth that he had a strong family background, and he came to China at a good time. At that time, he had no competitors at all, and the antiques he would buy were probably more than the collections of some museums.

   And this is just a relatively large warehouse in Jingxintang. Jing Shizhen still has a place to store antiques in other places, including those bank safes.

   “There are Buddha statues here, and some bronze wares…”

  Jing Shizhen introduced the two of them. As the most well-known antique dealer in China, he must be in the bronze business, but only among acquaintances, and he will not sell bronzes abroad.

   “Uncle Jing, if you sell all these things, I am afraid that the position of the richest man in the country will be replaced.”

  Looking at the gilded Buddha statues of different shapes in front of him, Su Xiaofan clicked his tongue.

  Su Xiaofan knows more about miscellaneous items. He knows that these Buddha statues in front of him are all high-quality goods. If they are put up for auction, at least one statue will cost several million or even tens of millions.

   There are several million Buddha statues, and there are one or two hundred statues here. Su Xiaofan found that many of them are from the palace collections of Qingkang and Yonggan, and their value is even more immeasurable.

   “If I sell everything here, then the antique market will not be far from collapse…

  Xiao Su, although you are also doing business in the antique market, the antique business is different from the ones you set up a stall. “

  Jing Shizhen shook her head with a smile. The reason why antiques are precious is first of all because of their scarcity.

  For example, if there are only two identical pieces of porcelain left in the world, each worth 10 million.

Then smash one of them, and the remaining one is not worth 20 million. As the only one left in the world, its value is likely to be worth 80 million or even hundreds of millions. The added value brought by scarcity.

  The antique market also has its own rules of operation. Properly releasing a few treasures every year can not only stimulate the consumption competition in the market, but also maintain the scarcity of the treasures, so that people who love antiques can compete to buy them.

  If Jing Shizhen really sells all his collections in a short period of time, the impacted market will definitely cause the prices of antiques to plummet.

   Imagine that an antique that was originally thought to be a single piece or a small number, and more than a dozen pieces come out at once, can the original price be maintained? This is of no benefit to antique dealers, and the long flow of water is the kingly way.

   “Uncle Jing, you are building a pond to raise fish, throw some bait every once in a while.”

  Su Xiaofan is so smart, he understood as soon as Jing Shizhen said it, the current prosperity of the antique market cannot be separated from the secret promotion of Jing Shizhen and other big antique dealers.

   “Actually, there are many more old objects left behind than you think.”

  Jing Shizhen continued to take the two of them around the room, looking at the objects in front of him. It was easy for Su Xiaofan and Zhao Zhengshan to understand what he said.

  Like the snuff bottles that appeared in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Su Xiaofan saw five or six thousand of them, made of various materials such as jadeite, agate, porcelain, glass, metal, ivory, etc.

  Su Xiaofan took a rough look and found that these snuff bottles were basically high-quality products in the late Qing Dynasty. Su Xiaofan knew a little about snuff bottles. The year before last, a snuff bottle in Xiangjiang was sold for more than 8 million yuan.

   “Uncle Jing, the snuff bottle that was auctioned over there in Xiangjiang, couldn’t it be you who gave it to the auction?” Su Xiaofan asked.

   “Seventy percent of the items sold in the auction house over there were sent by me.”

  Jing Shizhen didn’t hide it, and said with a smile: “I warmed up the market on the Xiangjiang side, so naturally there will be more goods.”

  The two people in front of him are not Jing Shizhen’s competitors, a buyer and a junior, and he is not afraid to tell the inside story of the antique business.

   “The business of antiques is almost monopolized by you.”

  Su Xiaofan walked to another antique rack, all of which were purple clay teapots, estimated to be at least four to five hundred, and all of them were made by famous masters.

  Another area has two rows of very long glass cabinets. The glass cabinets are lit with lights, and pieces of ancient jade are placed inside. There is also a special humidifier to ensure the moisture of the ancient jade.

   “Huh? Why don’t you have a magic weapon?”

  Su Xiaofan looked over one by one, and to his disappointment, none of the objects he saw so far was a magic weapon.

  In fact, before entering the warehouse, Su Xiaofan had thought about buying a magic weapon rather than buying a useless antique. In the evaluation of his repair system, the value of the magic weapon is much higher than the antique.

   “Uncle Jing, don’t you have a magic weapon here?” Su Xiaofan simply asked, because there are really too many things in here, if you look at each piece, you may not be able to finish it in a day or two.

   “Originally there was one, but it was borrowed.” Jing Shizhen said: “There are still a few magic artifacts that are not here. This place is too messy to place magic artifacts.”

   “Borrow it? Can you borrow the magic weapon?” Su Xiaofan was taken aback when he heard this.

   “Why can’t I borrow it? A magic weapon is just a tool, so of course I can borrow it.” Jing Shizhen said disapprovingly.

   “Okay, then I’ll take a look.”

  Su Xiaofan smiled wryly, he knew that his foundation was too shallow, and he had no right to speak at all.

  Whether it’s antiques or magic tools, Su Xiaofan knows too little, and it’s only superficial, that is, today, Uncle Jing said a few more words, so he vaguely knows how deep the water in the antique shop is.

   “Uncle Jing, what is this? Gold ore?”

   There are two glass cabinets in the room, both of which are lit.

  The glass cabinet where Su Xiaofan was standing before was full of jade and emeralds. He originally thought that the other glass cabinets were also filled with jade, but when he came to the next glass cabinet, he was stunned for a moment.

  The glass cabinet was covered with suede-like cushions. On top of the cushions, there were pieces of metal blocks of different shapes and sizes, some of which had glassy reflections.

  Different from the hundreds of thousands of collections next to it, there are a total of more than ten metal blocks in this glass cabinet with a length of about seven or eight meters. It takes up a lot of space, but the number is not very large.

   “These are meteorites, you play miscellaneous, don’t you know about meteorites?”

  Jing Shizhen looked at Su Xiaofan a little strangely, then patted his forehead suddenly, and said: “The collection of meteorites has its own specific group of people, you really don’t see them in the antique market.”

   “Uncle Jing, what you play is really miscellaneous, even meteorites.”

  Su Xiaofan knows about meteorite collection, but as Jing Shizhen said, meteorite collection has not been around for a long time, it is a unique circle, and most of the transactions are people in the circle, which is not very the same as antique collection.

  In China, many people classify meteorite collections into miscellaneous items.

   Internationally, meteorite collections have become a large category, attracting many wealthy businessmen, and have become the top collection category.

  (end of this chapter)