Chapter 293 Don't worry, I'll do the job!
Gao Mingcheng obtained some knowledge about jade in the name of asking for advice. In the warehouse of the Cultural Relics Management Office, there happened to be a piece of green jade. The green jade was partially damaged and the quality looked average, so he left it here.
"This is jade from the Song Dynasty. Song jade is mainly made of field white jade and green jade. The types of patterns on Song jade are mainly divided into four categories: figures, animals, plants, and geometry. This piece of green jade belongs to the figure. It is carved with a warrior. This warrior has a rough face, wears leather armor, and holds a spear in his hand. He is still very majestic. Unfortunately, the spear head was accidentally broken, so its value is not that high."
"And this is a jade carving of a boy. Jade carvings are the most numerous and the most common. Look, they are quite cute!"
Director Wang took out a small jade carving of a boy and asked Gao Mingcheng to play with it.
Gao Mingcheng felt the texture of the jade and then looked at the carving patterns on the jade. He saw that the boy's head was relatively large, his hair was clearly visible, he had the hair accessories of the Song Dynasty, his eyebrows were s-shaped, his nose was small, his ears were close to his gills, his mouth was small, and he was wearing a short jacket with open sleeves and wide-legged trousers. The folds of his clothes were smooth and the lines were flowing. The corners of his clothes were slightly curled up and decorated with a rice pattern.
He thought of the jade pendant that Huang Dazhi gave him. The patterns on the jade pendant were animals, carved with pine, crane, tortoise and deer patterns. After he got the jade pendant, he looked at it carefully under the light, soaked it in clean water, and finally used a toothbrush to carefully brush off the dirt in the patterns. After cleaning, the texture of the whole jade pendant was much better.
Gao Mingcheng came to see Director Wang this time with a purpose, so he admired all the jade artifacts in the warehouse. Unfortunately, although there were jade artifacts here, most of them were inferior products, and the real good things were not here at all.
Gao Mingcheng felt somewhat regretful that he could not see high-quality jade products.
But through this appreciation and listening to the knowledge points shared by Director Wang, Gao Mingcheng felt that the jade pendant given to him by Huang Dazhi should be Song Dynasty jade.
Their area has the most excavated Song Dynasty tombs, so it is reasonable that there are Song jades left among the people.
Gao Mingcheng spent more than an hour in this warehouse, filling his head with a lot of knowledge about jade. When he walked out of the door of the Cultural Relics Management Office, he still felt dizzy.
There were too many points of knowledge, and he couldn't digest them all at once, so he only had a vague understanding of many things.
After returning home, he took out the jade pendant with pine, crane, tortoise and deer patterns and looked at it carefully, then matched it with the knowledge points about jade in his mind one by one.
He can now be sure that this jade pendant is an antique, and the possibility that it is Song Dynasty jade is as high as 99%, but he does not know how much this jade is worth in the market.
It is said that gold has a price but jade is priceless. There is no standard for the price of jade, and the same is true for ancient jade. The so-called antiques, in addition to their own value, have other added value. For example, if the same thing is owned by a celebrity and an ordinary person, the value may be different.
And things owned by the royal family will be more expensive in the market.
In the evening, Huang Dazhi came to the store to find Gao Mingcheng.
He came after work. Xuanyuemei was cooking in the kitchen. When she saw him coming and knew that Huang Dazhi had a good relationship with Gao Mingcheng, she took the initiative to invite Huang Dazhi to stay for dinner.
Since Huang Dazhi lived in a poor place, he did not cook his own meals and ate in the cafeteria. This time he was anxious to share today's harvest with Gao Mingcheng, so he came here as soon as he got off work.
Gao Mingcheng was sorting the goods in the warehouse and said, "Dazhi, you can stay and have dinner. There is a lot of meat at home recently. You can eat it with big mouthfuls later! Since you didn't cook for yourself, I didn't send you meat. But when I came to the county yesterday, I gave your parents a few pounds of pork belly to help them improve their lives."
Huang Dazhi felt warm in his heart when he heard this.
He knew that Gao Mingcheng had killed a lot of wild boars, and he went to deliver meat to Gao Guobing's family yesterday.
But he didn't know that Gao Mingcheng would actually send meat to his parents. Gao Mingcheng didn't even mention this yesterday.
"Okay. Let me help you. Do you need to take out all these clothes and hang them up?" Huang Dazhi walked over and helped Gao Mingcheng take out the clothes in the bag one by one.
Clothing stores sell some clothes every day and need to replenish them every day. Because clothes will be wrinkled when they are packed in bags, they need to be taken out and hung in advance. Places with serious wrinkles need to be ironed.
Two people working together would make the job faster. Soon, all the clothes were taken out and hung up. As for ironing, Gao Shufang took care of it.
"Dazhi, come to my room." Gao Mingcheng said, leading Huang Dazhi to the room on the second floor.
When the fluorescent lights were turned on, the room was bright.
Gao Mingcheng took out the jade pendant with pine, crane, tortoise and deer patterns from the box and said, "Today I went to the Cultural Relics Management Office to see Director Wang and learned some knowledge about jade from him. This jade pendant is most likely Song Dynasty jade."
"As for its authenticity and value, I don't know yet because it's hard to show to others. I'll estimate the price myself. If it's genuine, and I sell it in places like Guangzhou or Hong Kong, the price will be much higher, at least more than 10,000!"
As Gao Mingcheng spoke, Huang Dazhi's heart began to beat fast, and his eyes sparkled with surprise.
Ten thousand yuan, if divided between two people, each person would get five thousand yuan!
Huang Dazhi quickly took out the things in his trouser pocket and said anxiously: "I went there again today and found these two things!"
Gao Mingcheng took the two things, which were still covered with some dirt. This was because Huang Dazhi had no secret place to dispose of them, so he could only wash them with water.
Those two items were both half of a jade pendant with pine, crane, tortoise and deer patterns. Gao Mingcheng took them out for comparison and found that the half piece was indeed the same, but since it was only half a piece, its value was greatly reduced.
The other piece is a lying cow.
The lying cow is made of topaz, but the quality is good and it is well carved, lifelike. There is a small piece of jade on its butt, the color is darker, and there are some cracks, but the cracks are not obvious.
Gao Mingcheng focused all his attention on the reclining cow. After admiring it carefully, he soaked the cow and the half jade pendant in clean water, and then gently scrubbed them with a toothbrush.
Jade is also a kind of stone. It is hard and can be preserved for a long time, but it is also picky about the environment. If the environment is too dry, jade will easily crack. Therefore, to maintain jade well, it needs to be placed in a place with a certain amount of moisture.
In later generations, a small cup of water is often placed in jade and jewelry cabinets to provide some moisture.
"This cow has been buried in the soil for a long time. This piece should be soil stains." Gao Mingcheng pointed to the darker part of the cow's buttocks and said, "In addition to soil stains, there are also blood stains, which are also called corpse stains. This kind of jade is most likely taken out of the coffin."
Gao Mingcheng learned and taught Huang Dazhi some knowledge about jade.
Huang Dazhi's cultural level was even lower, so he listened but it was as if he didn't hear anything. When the two of them went downstairs to eat, those complicated points of knowledge disappeared from his mind bit by bit.
Huang Dazhi blinked and decided not to dwell on it. Anyway, selling the jade was Gao Mingcheng's business, and he had already said that as long as the jade was sold, no matter how much it was worth, they would each get half.
"Dazhi, you have enough money, and I'm not in a hurry to use the money for anything, so I won't sell the jade right away, to avoid selling it in a hurry and then finding out that I've been cheated." Gao Mingcheng said.
When I sold gold, I didn’t have this worry because the price of gold was there and I could only make a small loss at most. But it’s different with jade, especially antique jade!
You must understand the market situation accurately and then wait for the right opportunity to act.
Gao Mingcheng was also a half-baked antique dealer back then, and he knew a few things about buying and selling antiques.
Huang Dazhi listened to the advice and trusted Gao Mingcheng, so he said, "Mingcheng, I don't understand these things. You can do whatever you want."
Gao Mingcheng smiled, patted Huang Dazhi on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry about me doing it! As long as the things are real, I will never sell them at a low price!"
(End of this chapter)
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