A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 13 Do you want gold or not?

Are you lucky enough?

"Not necessarily. After all, the probability of getting good things is the highest when drawing from the Four Great Classics."

Zhou Qing "stared" at the "gold ingot" in the "extractable items", and couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

"I wonder how heavy this ingot of gold is, and how much gold it contains."

Finally, after winning something, I felt the urge to take it out immediately.

In the past one or two years, we often see news about rising gold prices. It seems that it has increased from more than 400 yuan per gram to more than 600 yuan.

"The text says that Chao Gai, in order to repay his gratitude, sent Liu Tang to give Song Jiang a hundred taels of gold. It doesn't specify how many ingots these hundred taels of gold were, but even if there were ten ingots, each ingot would have to be ten taels!"

Zhou Qing took a deep breath, concentrated his attention, and thought of "taking this ingot of gold to the table in front of me."

The next moment, a golden light appeared out of thin air in front of the naked eye. Upon closer inspection, there was a flat gold nugget on the table.

He quickly picked it up to check, and found it was heavy.

This gold nugget, or rather gold bar, is waist-shaped, and one side of it is engraved with an inscription that reads: Chen Erlang, very gold.

"No wonder the article uses the word 'strip' to describe the gold ingot. It does look a bit like a strip."

Zhou Qing took out his mobile phone and quickly searched the meaning of the inscription on the gold ingot, and soon found it.

"'Chen Erlang' is probably the name of a goldsmith, the Erlang of a family with the surname Chen. 'Shifenjin' refers to the fineness of the gold ingot, equivalent to what we now call 1000-carat gold or 10,000-carat gold."

I weighed it in my hand and it was definitely over half a pound, but unfortunately I didn't have a digital scale...

He suddenly raised his eyebrows, put down the gold ingot temporarily, picked up his phone again, installed a food delivery app, logged in with his phone number as his account, searched for an electronic scale, and sure enough, it was there.

I chose a kitchen electronic scale with a maximum range of 0.1 kilograms and an accuracy of grams and placed an order.

After payment, it showed that the delivery would take place within 40 minutes. In fact, it was even faster because the supermarket where the order was placed was close by and the delivery guy delivered it within 20 minutes.

After getting the item, I quickly unpacked it and put it on the desk.

Turn on the power, put the gold ingot on, and the number on the electronic display screen instantly increases and finally stops at: 376.2 grams!
He checked the price of gold today, which was 614 yuan per gram.

"If we ignore the fact that the gold is not 999 pure, and just calculate based on this price, the total is..."

I pulled out the calculator on my phone and quickly got the result: 230986 yuan.

More than 230,000!
Zhou Qing stared at the numbers on the screen and counted them again. That’s right, that’s it!
"Gold ingots from the Song Dynasty have additional collection value."

He let out a sigh and searched the official platforms of auction houses such as Dejia and Christie's. Sure enough, he found many historical transaction records of Song Dynasty gold ingots.

I counted them and there were more than twenty of them.

Among them, the gold ingot with the highest transaction price was 931 taels, weighing 152 grams, with three inscriptions on it: "Xiang Wulang", "Shifen Jin", and "Zhong Ershiwu Liang". It was finally sold for million yuan.

After searching around, I found a transaction record with the inscription "Zhang Erlang, ten cents of gold" and the weight was 368.9 grams.

"Dejia Yangcheng Autumn Auction, Song Dynasty ten-liang gold ingot...sold for 52 RMB."

"If we only calculate based on the gold price, 368.9 grams, the maximum would be . Since it's from the Song Dynasty, a full is added."

Zhou Qing looked at the items on the screen of his mobile phone, then looked at his own gold ingots on the desk, and fell into deep thought.

"Before, I was worried that our gold ingots were too new and had no oxidized patina, so it would be difficult to sell them as antiques, but this lot looks very new!" He searched the Internet for how to identify the authenticity of ancient gold artifacts. After looking up information for a long time, he still couldn't fully understand the details.

"Forget it, let's try selling it as an antique first. If it doesn't work, I'll sell it as gold!"

The first thing Zhou Qing thought of was, of course, the last time they collaborated very smoothly and happily on "Wild Geese Return to the West Tower".

He took photos of the gold ingot from different angles, including photos of it being weighed, and then found the other person's WeChat account, edited a message, and sent it: "Classmate, do you want the gold or not?"

The two have not been in contact since the last transaction.

However, when Zhou Qing sent a message, the other party quickly replied: "Gold artifact? Send me a photo first."

Zhou Qing immediately sent the prepared photos.

After a few minutes.

Yan Huixilou: "It's a gold ingot from the Song Dynasty. The inscription on it is nice. You can buy it for fun. However, the master who helped me identify the gold and silver artifacts has returned to his hometown to take care of his grandchildren. He won't be back for a few days. If you want to sell it, I may not be able to close the deal tomorrow like last time."

Zhou Qing was stunned.

So she has her own master who specializes in identifying gold and silver artifacts?
Could it be that the antique shop owner last time was specifically helping her identify porcelain?

Just as he was sighing, the other party sent another message: "I just asked, if you can wait, you can come to Jiangcheng the day after tomorrow afternoon. If the appraisal is OK, I am willing to buy it. As for the price, please wait, I will ask again."

Zhou Qing quickly called up the input method and typed: "The day after tomorrow afternoon is no problem."

Yan Huixilou: "Okay, let's discuss the price later."

Zhou Qing: "Okay."

After sending it, he read the above messages again and again, thinking that this "Yan Hui Xi Lou" is really a straightforward person. They only chatted for a few sentences from beginning to end. She didn't say any nonsense and went straight to the point. She pushed the matter to the end in no time.

The key is, it’s very luxurious.

I don’t know if I can meet her in person during this transaction.

After waiting for a while, the other party did not send a message, so Zhou Qing picked up his phone and started watching Douyin.

Because I had searched on this platform before on how to identify ancient gold artifacts, and it was recorded by big data. After watching the video for five minutes, the platform pushed all kinds of information about gold and antiques.

He originally had little interest in these things, but now that he has the panel, there is a chance that he will win gold and antiques in the future, so he watches every video carefully.

To be honest, I am actually more focused on waiting.

Two minutes later, WeChat finally rang.

Yan Huixilou: "If the appraisal is OK, considering the prices at previous auctions and the rising gold prices over the past two years, I can accept it for 50. What do you think?"

Half a million!
Zhou Qing's brain was working rapidly.

If I were to sell this gold ingot as gold, based on today's gold price, it would fetch a maximum of 230,000. The record price for a similar item at auction was 520,000. Private transactions would certainly be significantly lower than the auction price. It's reasonable to say that the price was less than 500,000. The other party had indeed increased the price based on the recent increase in gold prices.

This “Wild Geese Return to the West Tower” is so grand!
After repeated consideration, he replied: "Okay, I accept this price."

After replying, he suddenly remembered another important matter and typed: "Oh, I have another thing I want to ask you. (Bow)"

(End of this chapter)