Chapter 88 Life is alive, all depends on acting skills!
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This young man named Chen is Du Johnny's cousin, but his knowledge of antique appraisal and Du Johnny is no longer on the same level, and is much higher than Du Johnny. ⊙
Their family was in the antique business in Xiangjiang, and later in 1997, they immigrated to the United States. However, at that time, he was sent to Baodao to high school by his family, which also allowed him to learn Mandarin with full of Baodao accent.
He is not a specialist in antiques now, but he has been influenced by all these years and is still a little accomplished in antique appraisal.
Especially for this snuff bottle, his grandfather specially collected this thing back then. Of course, he did not have the golden eyes like Jin Muchen. After looking at the snuff bottles collected by Phil that day, he could only roughly judge that the four snuff bottles below might be good things, but he could not tell how good it was.
Because he was not particularly sure, he did not resist to the end when bidding against Jin Muchen.
But after returning last night, he participated in the Japanese plan to guide Jin Muchen, so he was careful and planned to trick the Japanese devils into these snuff bottles.
It turned out that at that market yesterday, he was slapped several times by Komatsu. You know, he is not a Japanese. It would be a great humiliation to him to be slapped in front of so many people.
Although he had been influenced by the image of Takashima culture and liked Japanese culture very much, this does not mean that he liked Japanese slaps as much as he did.
After that, Komatsu even sprayed him with blood in front of so many foreigners. He left the greenhouse yesterday and wanted to tell Watanabe that he would not do it.
But he also knew that Watanabe and Komatsu would never want to be like what they were like on the surface, just as simple as some Japanese businessmen. Behind them are the shadow of the Japanese Yamaguchi group, because they caused Watanabe and others to lose 95,000 US dollars. If he had left at that time, Watanabe and the others would definitely not have let him go.
Originally, he thought that after he went back, he would be just a bit of flesh and blood. But unexpectedly, when they went back, they not only tortured themselves, but also cut off one of their fingers using the punishment method of the Japanese Yamaguchi Group?
So from then on, he hated these Japanese and even had the idea of revenge.
When he heard that Watanabe and the others were worried about how to get close to Jin Muchen, he had an idea, which was the snuff bottles he bid for with Jin Muchen that day.
He knew that what Watanabe and the others were really interested in was the black painted gold-painted box that Jin Muchen later bought, but they also knew that Jin Muchen was an expert.
Although I don’t know whether Jin Muchen knew the origin of the box, it would definitely not be that easy for them to easily get the cardboard box from Jin Muchen, based on Jin Muchen’s performance yesterday.
If you come to the door and ask someone to directly purchase the box, you will definitely be rejected by that guy. Doing so will not only alert the enemy, but may even arouse his interest in tracing the origin of the box.
Once you really find out the origin of the box, the hope of getting the box from that guy will basically be zero.
So Watanabe and the others were very worried about how to get close to Jin Muchen.
At this time, the young man picked it up and said that he could get close to the Chinese.
The method is very old-fashioned, just to make the sound of the east and west, find him, lower his posture, make him careless, and then see if he knows the origin of the box.
If you understand, then bid directly. Of course, the price will definitely be discounted. If you don’t understand, that’s just right. Anyway, they are not bad at cheating.
And the excuse to approach this guy, in order not to alert the enemy, of course, they put it on those snuff bottles.
After hearing this plan, the Japanese thought it was pretty good, but they didn't expect that this little white-faced translator was taking them into the pit. This time he planned to reverse the situation and tricked the Japanese into these snuff bottles.
"Well, Komatsu Sang, these snuff bottles, I have told you before, are all good things. These are, you see, modern handicrafts, but because of their excellent production and exquisite materials, if you collect them now, there will be a lot of room for appreciation in the future."
The little white-faced words were half true and half false. At this time, the one who took them out for Komatsu to show them was the snuff bottles that Phil had collected in recent years.
I have to say that Phil is a foreigner. In addition to not knowing the difference between antique snuff bottles and modern snuff bottles, his aesthetics and tastes of snuff bottles are quite high-end.
In recent years, he has collected these snuff bottles, both in terms of material and manufacturing technology, and are rare fine products.
These snuff bottles are small in shape, but they all use extraordinary craftsmanship, such as in-bottle painting and micro-carving techniques. Just looking at the craftsmanship, these works must be made by famous masters at the current level of national crafts masters.
Indeed, these snuff bottles have considerable appreciation potential.
Although Komatsu doesn't understand it very much, he agrees with this.
Then the little white face pointed at the Guangxu period and said to Komatsu from the Tongzhi period.
"Kotsusang, although the production technology of these snuff bottles is not as good as before, these are absolutely genuine antiques. These should be works from the late Qing Dynasty, and they are all imperial supplies of the palace. Such collections are not common even in the current Chinese market. Although they are incomparable to works from Kangxi and Qianlong, these are also very good and have great appreciation potential..."
The previous paragraph of this little white face did not deceive Xiaosong. Indeed, these snuff bottles were from the Guangxu period and the Tongzhi period, so they should be considered antiques.
But if you talk about appreciation potential, you can only laugh. You must know that although there are not many snuff bottles circulating on the market, how can ordinary people like this?
If someone is rich, he can afford to pay and want to collect, then he will definitely collect the best and play the best.
If you can't find the best one, there are so many miscellaneous antiques, and they won't be able to have a single love affair with you.
And such antiques are actually those who don’t have much money in their hands and like to collect but can’t afford to collect things too good.
So the real appreciation potential of these snuff bottles is almost no. Considering the inflation factor, the price may rise slightly every year, but if it is sought after, it is simply impossible.
At best, a few are added together, and the price is about hundreds of thousands of yuan in the country.
But how can Komatsu understand these things?
Moreover, after this young man was scolded by a lesson when he went back yesterday, he always acted very obedient and attentive. He didn't expect this guy to deceive him at this time?
So at this time, I could only nod and nodded: "Yoxi! Chen Sang, you are very conscience-loving!"
As he said that, he gave a thumbs up at the little white face, but he didn't even see the cold light flashing in his eyes when the little white face turned around.
Komatsu and two other Japanese appraisers who were not very good at it were muttering, and at this time Watanabe was watching them from the side without saying a word.
When the little white face saw that they didn't pay attention to him, he quietly raised three fingers for Jin Muchen and drew them back and forth.
Although Jin Muchen didn't quite understand what he meant, he probably had a guess in his heart.
Komatsu discussed with the two Japanese for a while, then turned around and said a few words to Xiaobai in Japanese. Xiaobai then said to Jin Muchen.
"Mr. Jin, Mr. Komatsu, I think your snuff bottle is of very good quality and has great collection value. He wants to ask you, are you planning to take action on this snuff bottle? If you are willing to take action, how much do you want?"
While talking to Jin Muchen, the guy squeezed his eyes at him, and at the same time put his fingers below, stretching out three fingers to keep gently tapping his pants.
Komatsu and Watanabe were all focused on Jin Muchen at this time, and they didn't pay attention to this guy's secret trouble. When Jin Muchen saw his hint, he understood the meaning of this little face. He was here to dig a hole and let the Japanese dance!
Since he is willing to cooperate, why should he refuse his kindness? What's more, he is cheating the Japanese, he has no psychological pressure.
"Mr. Watanabe, I'm going to tell you, I like this snuff bottle very much. I spent a lot of effort to get this snuff bottle that day. And I really like this snuff bottle very much, so..."
"Hi! As practitioners in the antique industry, we certainly understand Mr. Jin's mood."
Watanabe replied with a smile on the other side, but thought to herself, stop pretending, your acting skills are too poor.
What you say at this time is that you like it so that you can raise the price later? Just open a price. Anyway, as long as you ask for it is not outrageous, we can accept it. This is a strategy they had already agreed on before they came.
But he didn't expect that their bottom line of price in their hearts had long been betrayed by the little face behind him to Jin Muchen.
"Okay, I don't want much. Seeing that Mr. Watanabe, you are also a consignee, I will give up this snuff bottle, just 500,000, right?"
Jin Muchen said while pretending to be unable to let go of that snuff bottle.
Life is entirely based on acting skills!
Anyway, everyone is acting, do you think you can act? I will do it too!
Jin Muchen sneered in his heart. The sheep delivered to the door were still withered by Japanese sheep. It would be useless if it was not slaughtered!
Chapter completed!