Chapter 55: Treasure Appraiser



-山泉水: Ahhhh, we win, we win, when I first watched it, I thought we were going to lose!

-I love Olig: Damn, little princess, how come you are so strong!

-June Rain: Who! Who else! .jpg

-It’s hard for gods to tell: I love this woman so much, she’s so awesome!

-Zhou Zhou's Zhou: Who is this? A folk artist? She's so strong.

-Qiandie replied to the blue: The friend above is Shui Yiyao! Her main job is to be an artist and a star~

-Zhou Zhou's Zhou: You're actually an artist! What are your representative works? I'd love to see them~

-Qiandie Huigelan: "Up Mountains and Down Seas" Season 3 Episode 8, go watch it, you will fall in love with her!

In addition to micro-carving, the third segment of the program, treasure appraisal, which is considered an easter egg segment, was the most reposted on Weibo.

The program team will show the contestants video footage of three antique treasures and ask the three contestants to write their estimated prices on the whiteboard.

All three treasures are from auctions and all have specific values, so it will be clear which contestant has guessed the value most accurately.

The program team gave three things in total.

The first one is a porcelain vase with pastel bat and peach pattern.

Shui Yiyao only took a look from a distance and wrote down the price on the whiteboard - 37.043 million yuan.

The barrage flew by quickly.

-Good boy, there are both zeros and whole numbers.

-There's a decimal point, are you serious? Hahaha.

Chi Luoluo also wrote it down, between 37 million and 38 million.

The program team provides some price ranges.

The two people's estimates were surprisingly consistent.

Matsushima Yuki struggled for a while looking at the photo of the porcelain vase, then lowered his head and wrote down 30 million to 50 million.

The final price was announced, the auction price was 37.043649 million yuan.

The host was also shocked. He looked at the decimal point on Shui Yiyao's whiteboard and asked, "How did you guess that?"

Shui Yiyao smiled: "This thing has been on the auction house, I just happened to have noticed it."

There weren't many famille rose vases, just a few from the Qing dynasty. This item had garnered considerable attention within the industry at the time, so she wasn't surprised to learn it. Chi Luoluo's estimate was quite accurate, so she must have paid attention to it, but she didn't remember the exact price.

Host: "Do you remember the auction price?"

Shui Yiyao: "After all, I paid special attention to it."

The second one is a jade ruyi.

Shui Yiyao glanced at the jade ruyi inlaid with tourmaline and dragon pattern, and without even looking at it a second time, she wrote on the whiteboard - 14.36 million.

The price was announced as 14.36 million, exactly the same.

The barrage was filled with “666”.

The host was incredulous: "Have you paid attention to this?"

Shui Yiyao smiled: "Just right."

The barrage of comments was "too powerful".

The third item is a bronze ware - a bronze square jar with phoenix pattern.

When the bronze artifact information was displayed on the big screen, the host looked at Shui Yiyao and asked, "Have you also paid attention to this?"

Shui Yiyao shook her head: "I don't have that."

Shui Yiyao looked at it carefully, then carefully wrote a string of numbers on the whiteboard: 20 million to 25 million.

-Finally met someone she didn't know!

-Will you guess this right?

-I think so. It doesn’t seem difficult for her at all.

Price announced - 22 million.

There was applause from the audience.

-Why did I applaud too? [covering face]

-I also.

-Gentlemen, I have been watching this program for so long, but this is the first time I have seen such accurate valuations.

-An expert in treasure appraisal!

Sister Yu was so happy when she saw the reviews online.

Shui Yiyao’s reputation has always been bad. Whenever she appeared on a show to make announcements, she would offend people as long as she opened her mouth. She offended almost all the fans, big and small.

Fortunately, although she offended many people, she did not go out of the circle. Fans and haters are always things within the fan circle.

But it’s different now. First, he went up mountains and down seas and became popular. Then he pursued it and became popular again. Both times, he received almost all positive reviews.

Although there are still some doubts, things are much better now.

Sister Yu watched the video made by netizens again.

The front of the video shows micro-carving, and the back shows treasure appraisal.

Seeing the micro-carving, Sister Yu once again exclaimed: "You are truly amazing."

The feeling of watching it live is more real, because Shui Yiyao really spent a whole day carving without eating. But the video only cuts one minute, from nothing to something, which is very visually shocking.

The video is short, but Sister Yu can’t get enough of it. She has already watched it for the fifth time.

"You are truly amazing."

Shui Yiyao: “…”

She was checking the order status of her store. After hearing Sister Yu say it for the fifth time, she turned around and extended her right hand towards Sister Yu.

"Look at this." Shui Yiyao pointed to her right index finger and middle finger.

Sister Yu looked over and saw that there were very prominent knots on the left knuckles of her two fingers, and the two sides were very asymmetrical.

Sister Yu placed her right hand against Shui Yiyao's. Normally, their palms and fingers should mostly overlap, except that Shui Yiyao's hand was smaller than hers, everything else should be similar.

But now she clearly saw that the left joints of Shui Yao's index and middle fingers were abnormally larger, and her fingers were not straight, but bent left and right, appearing a little deformed.

She reached out and touched the small extra spot on Shui Yiyao's knuckle. It was hard and rough.

"Made out of a knife?"

Shui Yiyao nodded and withdrew her hand: "That's right. There's no such thing as magic or not. It's all the result of practice. Anyone who practices for seventeen or eighteen years will be the same."

Sister Yu disagreed: "Didn't Songdao Yugui also do it for fifteen years?"

Shui Yiyao: "So not so many people are praising him for his craftsmanship?"

As she spoke, she laughed again. "I later looked it up. Fifteen years ago, he became an apprentice at a jewelry factory. His only job there was sharpening knives. He later changed factories and continued sharpening knives for a few more years. Then, he got lucky and met a great master, and that's when he finally made it."

Shui Yiyao continued, "Actually, he came here with a delegation of craftsmen from their Xiaoshan Country. Many of his companions are master craftsmen. Although Songdao Yuki is the most famous among them, he has won the fewest awards."

Sister Yu was shocked when she heard this: "It's true that a full pot of water doesn't make a sound, but a half-full pot of water makes a tinkling sound."

"You could think of it that way."

Sister Yu sighed and asked, "Is there anyone among them who is more powerful than you?"

"Of course." Shui Yiyao answered without hesitation. She sat in front of her computer, looking at the order information of her store on the screen. As she processed it, she said calmly, "The world is so big, there will always be someone better than you."

So you can only choose to make yourself stronger.

Shui Yiyao processed the accumulated order information and looked at the wooden box at hand. It contained the panda micro-carving that she had brought from the program crew. She wondered whether she should sell this micro-carving panda online.

After the carving was completed, the program team handed over everything they carved to them.

The material cost of this sculpture she made is 6,000 yuan. The craftsmanship is average among micro-carvings, so it is worth 5,000 yuan, and can be sold for more than 10,000 yuan in total.

Sister Yu was incredulous: "Only ten thousand?"

"Ten thousand is already a lot. Unless someone is willing to pay more for it."

As soon as Shui Yiyao finished speaking, she received a call.

——Chi Luoluo.

After coming down from the show, she and Chi Luoluo asked each other for contact information. They were both in the same circle and admired each other's skills, so they agreed to contact each other if they needed related orders in the future.

Chi Luoluo asked her to do a jade carving order so soon?

"My senior brother wants to buy your panda micro-carved jade. He's offering 60,000."

After answering the phone, Chi Luoluo clearly stated her purpose.

"Your senior brother?" Shui Yiyao felt puzzled. "What does he want to do? How can this thing be worth 60,000?"

People in the circle have a scale in their hearts. Although micro-carving is amazing, the micro-carving she did for just one day is not particularly outstanding among all her micro-carving works. It is reliable to charge 6,000 yuan, but 60,000 yuan is too much.

"Yes, let's make friends." Chi Luoluo answered directly.

Shui Yiyao: "If he wants it, just give him 11,000."

It saves her from buying it online.

"11,000?" Chi Luoluo was surprised this time. "You only want 11,000?"

"otherwise?"

"You're so popular right now. If you put it online, I think it could sell for 600,000."

Shui Yiyao laughed and said, "We are in this long-term business, how can we do that?"

“…”

"If you want it, it's 11,000. Make an appointment to pick it up directly at my studio. I'll send you the address later."

"Okay. Also, I have a customer who has placed an order for a gold and silver inlaid jade fish. Can you give me a quote when you have time? I'll send you the specific requirements later."

The two of them talked about business and then hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Shui Yiyao was about to confirm her schedule with Sister Yu to see if she had free time to do the carving, but when she turned around, she saw Sister Yu looking at the tablet screen with an unpleasant expression.

She was surprised because this person was smiling so happily just now.

"Sister Yu? What's wrong?"

Sister Yu didn't say anything.

Shui Yiyao stood up and glanced at Sister Yu's tablet.

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She just read the headline and Sister Yu put the tablet away.

Shui Yiyao: "Hasn't this always been there? Why are you so angry?"

Sister Yu looked at Shui Yiyao and saw that she was not abnormal at all. Then she said angrily, "They are exaggerating and talking nonsense."

After she dropped the tablet, she gritted her teeth and picked it up again: "I want to see what kind of monster this person is."

"Brother Zhang, help me." Sister Yu made a phone call, "Help me find a marketing account..."

Ten minutes after the call, Sister Yu received a reply.

“It’s her…”

"Who is it?" Shui Yiyao was curious.

"Ni Ning."

"Ah? Why is it her?"

I still have some impression of Ni Ning and Shui Yiyao. When I was reviewing the restoration of "Anle Village" before, one of the mentors was Ni Ning. She is an actress and her acting skills are widely praised, but she is not a hot topic.

He has always been a quiet and peaceful person.

Her comments about Shui Yiyao during the Anle Village recording were a bit of a slap on the wrist. Shui Yiyao thought she was just plain disliked, but now it seems that's clearly not the case. If she was just plain disliked, there would be no need to post a post exposing her.

Sister Yu: "There's an ancient puppet show called 'The Mermaid'. The crew has been in touch with me and wants you to play the female lead. But I've been considering it."

She planned to let Shui Yiyao take two acting classes before taking the role.

"Ni Ning is also in contact with the production team for this drama."

Oh, so that's how it is. Why would someone be targeted for no reason?

"What do you think? Do you want to accept it?"

Sister Yu asked, and then said seriously: "The producer promised me that as long as you accept it, this play will definitely be yours."

It is precisely because of this that Ni Ning became anxious and resorted to these tactics.

Shui Yiyao was surprised: "Why did you ask me to answer it?"

She had never acted before, so how could this crew be so confident? They just cast her as the female lead?

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