Chapter 308 Unlucky Boss(1/2)
Inside the bookstore.
Wang Han displayed the antiques he collected to Li Fan one by one.
Wang Han asked someone to open the glass window, took out a pipe, and said, "This is a pipe given to me by a friend, and brought back to China from Europe."
Li Fan frowned and looked carefully, saying, "Lin Yutang used the 'Stanwei pipe'!"
Wang Han was shocked, "Awesome!"
Li Fan smiled and said, "You should find the manuscript of Lin Yutang's "Yingyan". If the two are combined into one, it will be very valuable."
"It's a pity that I didn't see it."
Li Fan suggested: "You should put an explanation in the glass cabinet."
"I haven't been in a hurry yet, Li Fan, you're looking at this inkstone."
Li Fan glanced at it and said, "It should be from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During this period, the inkstones were a bit 'incense' and were produced in large quantities. However, this inkstone is good and it is genuine."
"Well, this is what I bought at that store. You're looking at this old pocket watch."
"It should be from the end of the 18th century."
...
After reading Wang Han's collection, Li Fan discovered another copy, also a piece of porcelain, blue and white porcelain bowl.
“This is a copy.”
Wang Han asked, "Is there any more?"
"It's gone."
"I bought 6 pieces in that store, and these two porcelains are all fake."
Li Fan thought for a while and said, "You can introduce the process."
The process was very simple. Wang Han had no plans to buy porcelain when he went to the store because he didn't know much about this. He mainly went to buy pipes. After buying pipes, pocket watches, etc., he bought these two imitations after the clerk's recommendation.
Li Fan probably understood, and he asked, "What should I do?"
Wang Han said: "Come with me to get the money back."
Li Fan's eyes rolled and said, "Let's clean up the slags on the desk and take them over together."
"Yeah, right!"
Li Fan thought about it again and said, "Why don't we smash this blue and white porcelain vase?"
Wang Han was stunned and then smiled and said, "Yes!"
Afterwards, there was a crisp sound, and the blue and white porcelain vases were split into pieces.
...
The car drove around and drove to the antique market. Li Fan and Wang Han walked outside a large store.
"This is the one."
"Oh, Brother Han, don't talk after entering the store. In Tansha, who doesn't know you?"
"good!"
Li Fan is actually a little confused. Even people at the business card level in this city dare to cheat. Is this store unpredictable background or is it because it is worthless to make money?
I didn't understand the other party's background, so I had to come here tentatively.
The two of them carried their feet into the store, and a clerk had already come to greet them.
"Welcome, two gentlemen, what are you more interested in?"
Li Fan said with a sharp voice: "Look at it casually."
Just a casual look, Li Fan said intimately: The ones on the surface are all genuine, and there is no fake copy!
Li Fan stopped in front of a blue and white porcelain vase and watched: "This bottle is from the Ming Dynasty?"
"Hello eyesight, you're an expert at first glance."
Li Fan rolled up his sleeves and showed the expensive watch that Gu Yating's relatives gave him, "Well, it's getting late, Lao Han, we have to buy it quickly."
Wang Han nodded without saying a word.
When the clerk saw the watch, he immediately smiled happily. Unexpectedly, the masked hero in ordinary clothes was actually a rich master. The clerk said, "Do you want this bottle?"
"No, it's useless for me to like it. I want to give it to someone. The people on it like calligraphy and paintings. I'm thinking of giving one."
The clerk said tentatively: "You are so amazing and you also know about calligraphy and painting."
"Yes, haha, yes, I have a little understanding!"
The clerk led Li Fan to a landscape painting and said, "What do you think of this painting?"
Li Fan smashed his mouth and started to sing nonsense: "Oh, that's not bad. The trees are painted in detail, complex but not messy, ink and wash, moist and full of vitality, a bit like the painting style of Tang Bohu in the Ming Dynasty..."
The more I said it, the more I was wrong, the more I made mistakes. The clerk thought to himself: It's OK, you can cheat it... Uh, you can sell it!
The clerk turned around and gave the manager a wink, and the manager said, "Pick one of the newly arrived paintings on the floor in the past two days."
Li Fan said in confusion: "There are new paintings."
The clerk said, "Yes, all the newly arrived paintings are upstairs."
"Oh, why don't you go upstairs and take a look?"
The clerk hesitated and said, "But there is a warehouse upstairs--"
The manager interrupted, "It's okay, go."
"Okay, sir, please come with me."
Thumbs upstairs, there is a unique mystery on the upstairs, which is very different from the antique shops that Li Fan often visits. The warehouses are divided into partitions and have different names outside the door of each house.
Li Fan followed the clerk and happened to see the door of a warehouse storing porcelain open. There was a customer inside drooling at a jade pot and spring bottle.
Li Fan looked at it and saw that there were two large hibiscus flowers painted on the spring bottle of this jade pot. The painting was poor, the brushwork was flashy, and the typical modern handicrafts could be written: a, 2018.
He was about to walk in and see the fun, but the clerk grabbed him and said, "Please come with me."
"Okay." Li Fan followed him and continued to walk forward.
The clerk wanted to wipe his sweat and secretly blamed his colleague for not closing the door properly. The masked man in front of him still has a certain understanding of porcelain.
He was led to a warehouse storing calligraphy and paintings by the clerk. Li Fan couldn't help but be shocked when he looked at dozens of paintings from ancient times, China and abroad hanging inside!
"Bamboo and Stone Picture", a copy!
"Su Nu Jing", a copy!
"Shiyuan Landscape Picture", a copy!
...
All fakes!
Li Fan was secretly surprised. In terms of scam methods, many shops really made frequent moves and emerged one after another.
I roughly figured out how Wang Han got into the trap (of course, if you want the buyer to get into the trap, the store has countless methods and "skills", after all, they are professionally studying buyers), and Li Fan smiled slightly and could collect debts.
"Look, this is Taodamaru's "Picture of Eighteen Ladies". Look at this."
"I won't watch it anymore."
The clerk pointed another sentence, "This is "Outlook Picture", which our boss brought back to China from Singapore."
"I won't watch it anymore."
"this--"
Li Fan interrupted the clerk and said, "Beauty, I won't watch it anymore."
The clerk asked in confusion: "Then what are you looking at?"
Li Fan smiled and said, "I want to see your boss, we want to talk to him."
"Uh? You?" The clerk found that Li Fan's tone was wrong and immediately realized that she wanted to have a bad dish. Her face changed and her eyes stared at Li Fan and Wang Han with a burning look, wishing she could pull down their sunglasses and masks!
At this time, Li Fan had to show his identity, otherwise, if they were not properly handled in the next second, they would have to be "served" by others. Instead of being tense, it would be better to face it gracefully and calmly.
Li Fan took off his sunglasses and mask down, and restored his usual voice, "I am Li Fan!"
The clerk clapped his hands and said in surprise: "Wow, Li Fan, I have voted for you! Who are you?"
Wang Han took off his mask and sunglasses, frowned and said, "I am Wang Han!"
The clerk's head buzzed, it was over, they were too capable of observing words and expressions. Knowing that this was coming to the door, she hurriedly said, "You two go to the lounge to rest first, I'll go to see if the boss is here."
Wang Han said with a cold expression: "It doesn't matter, we will wait for him to leave."
After the clerk led the two to the lounge, she hurriedly found the manager, "It's a bad dish, manager, Wang Han has come, and Li Fan has come."
"Well?"
"The two people I brought with me!"
To be continued...