ghost eye appraiser

Even if the relationship is not going well, Chu Chen must go to work on time.Of course, for an appraiser like him, the working hours are not so fixed. When Gui Qiutang is deserted, basically he only needs to go to get a name. Will proactively contact them.

Since he had just paid off his mortgage, Chu Chen didn't have any extra money to buy a car. Every time he went to work, he took the bus or simply walked.Walking is the majority, and whether you can catch the bus depends on luck.

As soon as he walked into the Guiqiu Hall, Chu Chen immediately noticed something strange. He found that almost all the flower girls who were cleaning or sorting the roster in the hall were looking at the president's office. No one had ever used it, so how could it cause them to be so exaggerated? attention?

Chu Chen frowned suspiciously, and found that the door of the office was open. As he walked there, he wondered if Han Wenqing finally remembered that he still had such an office, but was bumped into by a similarly absent-minded flower girl on the way.

"Mr. Chu, I'm sorry..." Hua Niang felt sorry for her rudeness.

"It's okay." Chu Chen interrupted her, walked to the door of the office, and saw a black figure busy inside.

"Han Rui?" Chu Chen was taken aback. He never imagined that Han Rui would appear here, and he was completely unprepared to face him at this time.

"Chu...Chu Chen..." Han Rui stood up holding a pile of documents, and turned to look at Chu Chen in embarrassment. He took two steps back, trying to put the documents on the desk, but was piled up under his feet. He tripped over his book and let out a low cry, and fell backwards uncontrollably.

Chu Chen closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead, and waited until Han Rui got up again in a panic before opening his eyes and continuing to ask, "What are you doing?"

"I..." Han Rui rubbed his head that hit the bookshelf, stood up grinning and said, "I'm here for work."

"Go to work?" Chu Chen pointed to the president's desk, and said in disbelief, "Long Qian plans to give up Gui Qiutang?"

Knowing that Chu Chen was running on him, Han Rui gritted his teeth and pointed at the office door. After Chu Chen closed the door and came over, he said, "Brother suddenly asked me to take over Gui Qiutang yesterday. I think he may have something to hide from me, otherwise It won’t be so abrupt, and no preparation time will be given.”

Nodding his head, Chu Chen thought for a while and said, "Do you think he may have other plans, and he doesn't want to tell you?"

"Yeah." Han Rui glanced at the messy office he had made, and sighed.

"Don't think too much." Chu Chen bent down to pick up the scattered documents and materials, and said, "Maybe it's just that the head wants to hone you."

Although Han Rui likes to do housework, he is not good at sorting out materials, and the long paragraphs of text give him a headache.

So Han Rui frowned, and decided to ignore his elder brother's instructions and give up checking these complicated documents.He snatched the paper from Chu Chen's hand, and began to quickly collect these documents and put them back in place.

Chu Chen stood aside with one hand in his pocket, silently watching him finish everything.

"Actually, if you really want to understand the situation of the antique industry, you don't need to read those complicated materials." Chu Chen said, "I can teach you step by step."

"You teach me?" Han Rui was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's fine, anyway, I can't do these delicate tasks at all, and my father and brother know that and push me here, there must be no good intentions. "

Chu Chen didn't say anything, just smiled, and walked out with Han Rui.

After all the troubles just now, Han Rui no longer wants to enter the office anymore. He feels that he will probably not be able to adapt to the life of sitting at a desk and checking documents for the rest of his life. In contrast, he is more willing to find out who stole King Yu Ding's thief, and then beat him up.

In addition to the regular auctions, Gui Qiutang usually acts as an intermediary to accept appointments from various customers, and the appointed appraisers will help customers identify various antiques and curiosities.The appraisal fee of Guiqiutang is the highest in this generation, and the reputation is also the most guaranteed, so generally those who come here for appraisal are some rich and powerful big bosses, and ordinary collectors are more inclined to go to Antique Street Ask someone to appraise the treasure.

Chu Chen had no plans for today, so he led Han Rui to stroll around the antique street openly and aboveboard. The antique street in City B is the most famous and busiest of the three antique markets in the country. Every day there are tourists or antique lovers who come here admiringly. Or, even gringos like to go here for a couple of laps.

A large part of the income of the Antique Street is earned from these foreigners. In the past few years, black-hearted antique dealers often resold unattractive Xibei goods to foreigners. Anyway, they don’t understand anything, as long as they say what they say The hype is falling, I am not afraid that they will not buy it.

However, with the changes of the times, gringos gradually understand more, and now it is not so easy to cheat some foreign money.

Chu Chen has a very good reputation in the industry. He knows many antique dealers who hide real treasures in Antique Street. Guiqiu Hall is only one street away from Antique Street, and it can be reached in two steps, so everyone likes to drop by when they have nothing to do. Discuss and discuss the newly included collections together, or work together to fool those who don't know how to do it.

A stick refers to a person who can't understand new and old things, good and bad.If a person is always deceived, people in the industry will say that he is a stick.The seller sold him a new product, and still called him a "stick" behind his back.

Therefore, in the antique business, the most taboo thing is not knowing anything. Antique dealers with capital will never show a real treasure to a layman. On the surface he is polite to you, but secretly he doesn't take you seriously.

As the saying goes, 36 lines of antiques are king. Antiques can achieve what they are today, so naturally there are rules to support them. If you want to enter the industry, you must first learn these rules.

Walking through the bustling crowd, Chu Chen whispered to Han Rui beside him: "...When you get to the place, don't speak casually. It takes time to train your eyesight, so I can only teach you the rules of the industry first. , understand these rules, no matter whether you have the vision or not, you will not be looked down upon or rejected by others."

"Oh." Han Rui was dizzy when he heard that, and was pushed back and forth by several foreign children next to him. His head was in a mess, and his eyes kept glancing at the small stalls on the ground. He was dazzled by all kinds of antiques.

Chu Chen sighed, took Han Rui's hand to speed up his pace, and at the same time whispered in his ear: "Don't look at those things, they are all fake, old books and newspapers are not worth much, these are not antiques, they are just second-hand goods That's all."

Han Rui was stunned for a moment, and when he heard someone talking loudly, he subconsciously turned his head to look at it. Chu Chen tugged at him, and said helplessly, "Look, those coins from the Republic of China are quite well made, but in fact, few of them are genuine. , Those people use these to fool foreigners. They take out a bunch of fake ones and put them on the stall, and then throw a few real ones in, and when they bargain with people, they take out the real ones. They cheated."

"Then isn't this just defrauding people of money? They are not afraid of others coming to their door?" After hearing Chu Chen's explanation, Han Rui suddenly felt that those people were unreasonable. Does the current Anti-Counterfeiting Association care about this?

Chu Chen shook his head, raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Antique business is based on knowledge and eyesight, not a simple price competition. No matter whether the buyer bought a fake one or the seller missed it, you can't return it or find a later account." , in this, both buyers and sellers bear certain risks. Laymen don’t dare to buy if they don’t understand, but they must be cautious if they dare to buy. Moreover, the rumors in this industry are not tight. If you buy fake products and go back to others to settle accounts, then from now on Someone will do your business again. To put it bluntly, the antique trade is one willing to buy and one willing to sell. Even if the seller sells you the real thing at a low price, he knows that he has suffered a loss and will not come back to you again, because he has to pay attention to it. A reputation issue."

"It's so complicated." Han Rui listened ignorantly, feeling more and more unfathomable in this business.

Seeing Han Rui's dumbfounded look, Chu Chen couldn't help but feel amused, but he pretended to be serious and said: "In the future, Gui Qiutang will ask you to take over, these are all things you must understand."

"Ah." After being reminded by Chu Chen, Han Rui finally woke up from his eyes full of antiques. Thinking of the purpose of his trip, he hurriedly dragged Chu Chen and begged, "I forgot again, tell me again."

Chu Chen looked at him with a smirk on his face, but didn't speak, just walked forward on his own.

Han Rui lowered his face from behind and kept asking: "Brother Chu, Master Chu, tell me again, hello..."

The two of them pushed and pushed all the way to an inconspicuous antique shop, which was much quieter than the flea market at the front of the antique street, but the flow of people was also very turbulent.

Chu Chen made a quiet gesture to Han Cainiao behind him, and then took the lead into the store.

The name of the antique shop is "Weiyue". Although it looks simple on the outside, the decoration on the inside is antique and elegant.The boss, Zhao Laixin, is in his late forties, slightly fat, with a small mustache, looks dignified, and is used to speaking with eloquence.No matter what he talks about, he can always talk about people.Those who can mix in the antique shop usually have these two brushes.

When Chu Chen led Han Rui in, Zhao Laixin was talking with a brown-haired foreigner. The two of them had a jadeite snuff bottle in their hands. Layers of dazzling brilliance.

Zhao Laixin was negotiating the price with someone, when he suddenly saw someone coming in, he immediately stopped talking, the most taboo in their business is to have outsiders present when negotiating the price, so he raised his head, and opened his mouth to say that the store will not be open today, and if he wants to coax him away Knowledgeable guy.

But he didn't expect that it was Chu Chen who entered the door, so he immediately retracted what he was about to say, and nodded and smiled at Chu Chen.

Chu Chen glanced at the jadeite snuff bottle on the table, looked at Zhao Laixin with an inscrutable smile, and said pointedly: "Old Zhao's business is good, and he is killing pigs?"