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Chapter 310 The Unlucky Boss
Inside the study.

Wang Han showed Li Fan the cultural relics and antiques in his collection one by one.

Wang Han asked someone to open the glass window, took out a pipe, and said, "This is a pipe given to me by a friend and brought back to China from Europe."

Li Fan frowned carefully, and said, "Lin Yutang's own 'Stanway pipe'!"

Wang Han was shocked, "Awesome!"

Li Fan smiled and said, "You should find the manuscript of Lin Yutang's "Ode to Smoke" again. Combining the two into one will be very valuable."

"This is a pity."

Li Fan suggested: "You should put an explanation of the cultural relics in the glass cabinet."

"I haven't had time to do it yet, Li Fan, you are looking at this inkstone."

Li Fan glanced at it, "It should be from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During this period, inkstones were a bit 'flooded' and mass-produced. However, this inkstone is not bad, it is genuine."

"Well, that's where I bought it, too. You're looking at this old pocket watch."

"It should be from the late 19th century."

……

After looking through Wang Han's collection, Li Fan found another replica, which was also a piece of porcelain, a blue and white porcelain vase.

"This is a replica."

Wang Han asked: "Is there any more?"

"Gone."

Wang Han said: "Fortunately, I bought 6 pieces in that store, and it seems that only these two porcelains are fake."

Li Fan thought for a while and said, "Tell me about the purchase process."

The process is very simple. Wang Han didn't plan to buy porcelain when he came to the store because he didn't know much about it. He mainly went to buy pipes. These two imitations.

Li Fan probably understood, and he asked, "What should I do? Admit it."

Wang Han said: "No, no, they are completely fraudulent and not normal market behavior. Come on, come with me to get the money back."

Li Fan rolled his eyes and said, "Let's clean up the debris on the desk and take them there together."

"Yep!"

Li Fan thought about it again, and said, "Why don't we smash this blue and white porcelain vase too?"

Wang Han was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Yes, so that they don't continue to deceive people!"

After that, there was a crisp sound, and the blue and white porcelain vase fell apart.

……

In antiques, there is a saying of "punching holes". If you buy a defective or fake product, you basically have to admit it. If your ability is limited, you can only bear the loss yourself. This is the industry rule, high risk and high reward.Unless the behavior of the seller is fraudulent, and you have enough evidence to prove that the seller has committed fraud against you, then you can return and exchange the goods accordingly.

However, this kind of return and exchange situation basically does not exist, because you can't prove it at all, unless you meet someone like Li Fan.

The car drove around and drove to the antique market. Li Fan and Wang Han walked outside a large storefront.

"That's it."

"Oh, Brother Han, don't talk when you enter the store, who doesn't know you in Tansha?"

"it is good!"

In fact, Li Fan was a bit puzzled. He even dared to lie to people at the city's business card level. Is this store with an unpredictable background or is it desperate to make money?

I didn't know the details of the other party, so I had to try it out.

The two walked into the store with their feet up, and a clerk had already greeted them.

"Gentlemen, welcome. What are you more interested in?"

Li Fan said with a sharp voice, "Just take a look."

After looking at it casually, Li Fan found that all the products on the surface were genuine products, and there was no fake replica!

Li Fan stopped and watched in front of a blue and white porcelain vase: "This vase is from the Ming Dynasty?"

"You have good eyesight. You are an expert at first glance."

Li Fan rolled up his sleeves and revealed the expensive watch that Gu Yating's relatives gave him, "Well, it's getting late, Old Han, we have to buy it quickly."

Wang Han nodded without saying a word.

When the clerk saw the watch, he immediately burst into a smile. Unexpectedly, this masked hero with ordinary clothes turned out to be a rich man.The clerk said, "Do you want this bottle?"

"No, no, it's no use if I like it. I want to give it to someone. The person above likes calligraphy and painting, so I'm thinking of giving one as a gift."

The clerk tentatively said: "You are really good, and you also know calligraphy and painting."

"Yes, haha, yes, I know a little bit!"

The clerk led Li Fan to a landscape painting and said, "What do you think of this painting?"

Li Fan smacked his mouth and began to babble: "Hey, it's not bad. The trees are painted meticulously, complicated but not messy. The ink is smudged, moist and full of vitality. It's a bit like Tang Bohu's painting style in the Ming Dynasty... ..."

The more he said, the more mistakes he made, and the more mistakes he made, the clerk thought to himself: It's done, you can lie to it... er, no, you can sell it!

The clerk turned around and gave the manager a wink, and the manager said, "Choose one of the paintings upstairs that have arrived in the past two days."

Li Fan said suspiciously: "There are new paintings."

The clerk said, "Yes, the newly arrived paintings are all upstairs."

Li Fan nodded, "Oh, why don't you go upstairs and have a look?"

The clerk "hesitantly" said: "But upstairs is the warehouse—"

The manager interrupted: "It's okay, let's go."

"Well then, sir, please follow me."

thump thud thump, a few people went upstairs, there is no mystery upstairs, it is very different from the antique shops that Li Fan often visits, the warehouses are separated by partitions, and there is a door outside each house. There is a category name.

Li Fan followed the clerk and happened to see the door of a warehouse where porcelain was stored open, and there happened to be a customer drooling over a jade pot and spring bottle inside.

Li Fan took a closer look and saw that there were two large hibiscus flowers painted on the jade pot spring vase. The painting was poorly done and the style was flashy. It was a typical modern handicraft. It could be written: Made-in-China, 2018.

Just as he was about to go in to see the excitement, the clerk grabbed him and said, "Please follow me."

"Okay." Li Fan followed him and continued walking forward.

The clerk wanted to wipe off his sweat, and secretly blamed his colleagues for not closing the door properly.The masked man in front of him still has a certain understanding of porcelain.

Being led by the clerk to a warehouse for storing calligraphy and paintings, Li Fan looked at the dozens of paintings hanging in the room from all over the world, ancient and modern, and could not help but turn pale with shock!

"Bamboo and Stone Picture", replica!
"Su Nv Jing", a copy!
"Shiyuan Landscape Painting", replica!
……

It's all fake!

Li Fan was secretly surprised that in terms of deception methods, many stores really used frequent tricks, emerging one after another.

Having probably figured out how Wang Han got into the trap (of course, the store owner has countless methods and 'techniques' to get the buyer into the trap, after all, he specializes in studying buyers), Li Fan smiled slightly, and it was time to collect the debt.

"Look, this is "Picture of Eighteen Ladies" by Momodaimaru, take a look at this."

"Don't look at it."

The clerk pointed to another painting, "This is "Picture of Outing". Our boss brought it back to China from Singapore."

"Don't look at it."

"this--"

Li Fan interrupted the clerk and said, "Beauty, stop watching."

The clerk asked suspiciously: "Then what are you looking at?"

Li Fan smiled and said, "I want to see your boss, we want to talk to him."

"Eh? You?" The clerk noticed that Li Fan's tone was wrong, and immediately realized that she wanted bad food. Her complexion changed, and her eyes were fixed on Li Fan and Wang Han, wishing she could pull off their sunglasses and masks!
At this time, Li Fan had to reveal his identity, otherwise, the two of them would have to be "served" in the next second if they didn't get it right. It's better to face and solve the problem gracefully and calmly than to fight with swords.

Li Fan took off his sunglasses and mask, and resumed his usual voice, "I'm Li Fan!"

The clerk clapped his hands and said in surprise: "Wow, Li Fan, I even voted for you! So who are you?"

Wang Han took off his mask and sunglasses, frowned and said, "I'm Wang Han!"

The clerk hummed his head, it's over, they are too good at observing words and expressions, knowing that they are looking for the door, she quickly said: "You two go to the lounge to rest first, I will show you two to see where the boss is. not there."

Wang Han said grimly: "It's okay, we will wait for him to come before leaving."

After the clerk led the two to the lounge, she hurriedly found the manager, "The food is bad, manager, Wang Han is here, and Li Fan is here too."

"Uh?"

"The two people brought up are!"

"Damn! I...I...I'll make a call," the manager wiped his sweat, and called the boss, "Boss, don't do health care, go back to the store, Wang Han is back, And bring Li Fan."

Within 10 minutes, the boss trotted open the store door trembling with fat meat. Panting, he pulled the manager aside and scolded angrily: "Didn't I let you watch people order dishes? This kind of celebrity Why are you selling it to them? These stinky cultural people like to show off all of them. If you buy something, you want to let everyone in the circle know. Isn’t selling to them just for death? "

"Boss, Xiao Na sold it. I don't know about it. It's fine if I'm here. What should I do now?"

"Smart people don't do stupid things, I figured out how to round this thing up."

The boss wiped his sweat, took a sip of water, went upstairs and walked into the lounge.

As soon as he entered the door, he opened his arms and threw himself at the two of them enthusiastically, saying: "Hey, these two celebrities are here, and my little shop suddenly shines! Brother Han, Teacher Li, welcome! What an honor! "

After embracing, Li Fan and Wang Han didn't speak, just looked at him with a slight smile, and immediately panicked the fat boss.

"Well, why is no one serving tea? Hurry up and show tea to the two respected teachers! Two teachers, I am so respectful. I am so excited and happy to come to our small shop."

Wang Han said: "Your store is not small. In this antique city, your store is the largest. It has everything you need, and you have everything."

Boss Pin took a look at the words and tone, and quickly found a way out for himself, saying: "Small business, life is not easy, there are risks in our business, if you are not careful when receiving the goods, if you get something that doesn't suit you, you will suffer gone."

Li Fan said with a smile: "You sellers are at risk, and we buyers are also at risk!"

The boss's heart tightened, and he nodded and said "yes".

Li Fan grinned and said, "Brother Han and I are here to exchange goods with you today. Can we exchange the two porcelains we bought in your store with other ones?"

"Yes! Of course! Others can't do it, you two must do it, and break the rules for you!" The boss patted his chest and said, he thought to himself: save some face for himself, to put it mildly, you have wrists .

Wang Han said: "That's easy, thank you boss first."

"You're welcome, I'll send someone to pick it up."

Wang Han said: "No need, we brought it."

"Bring it? Where is it?"

Li Fan took off the backpack on his back, opened the zipper, and took out a plastic bag. After opening the plastic bag, Li Fan carefully placed the pieces on the table one by one.

After the fragments were lined up, the boss's face turned green and he was so angry that he almost coughed up blood.He was angry, laughing and helpless. He was still in the wrong, so he could only giggle awkwardly.

Li Fan counted, "One, two, three, four...a total of 21 pieces, all of them, one piece is not a lot. The boss will introduce what collections can be exchanged for the same value. If you get more, you can get more money!"

The boss asked, "What about the other porcelain?"

"Oh, here it is, almost forgot."

Li Fan took out another pocket from his bag, and carefully arranged three rows on the table, "There are 25 pieces in total, and this one is all together."

The boss's face was green, purple and red, which meant that the two in front of him really couldn't afford to offend him, otherwise he would have beaten him up if he had been replaced by someone else.

The boss thought to himself: These cultural people, come here to pretend to be ignorant, "pretending to be crazy and acting stupid" to anger yourself, and I have to accompany you to pretend to be ignorant, you can do it, you cultural people are really good at it!The book is really worth reading!

At this time, the tea was also served, and Li Fan picked it up and took a sip, then frowned: "This tea is not authentic!"

Seeing this, the boss hurriedly said: "Go and get our best tea!"

The clerk said: "This is the best!"

Seeing that Li Fan and Wang Han didn't say a word, the boss hurriedly said, "Go to the tea house in the back street to buy the most expensive tea!"

"well."

The boss said again: "Brother Han, what shall we replace with you?"

Wang Han said: "I spent 9 yuan to buy a blue and white porcelain vase, and 15 yuan to buy an imitation copper xuan stove. Look, what do you want to replace it with? The boss will introduce it to us."

"Wait a minute, I'll come as I go."

After a while, the boss came back with a painting and asked Li Fan and Wang Han to have a look.

Li Fan took a closer look and found that this "Pavilion of Yique" is an authentic work, and the work is still intact. It is the work of an unknown painter in the Qing Dynasty. The estimated market price is about 20. This boss is quite "sincere".

However, Li Fan shook his head, "I don't like it very much."

Seeing Li Fan shaking his head, Wang Han said, "Me too."

The boss rolled his eyes and hurried out, and came back with a plate after a while.

Li Fan looked at it carefully, and his face suddenly sank, and said: "Boss, the market price of this plate is 3 to 5 lower than the previous "Yique Pavilion", right? Why are you changing things for us more and more?" The less valuable it is?"

The boss was sweating on his forehead at that time, Li Fan, you are so knowledgeable?You two bastards, are you making it clear that you are here to kill me?

The boss quickly said: "This plate of mine is not for your 15 yuan imitation copper stove, but for your 9 yuan blue and white porcelain vase."

Li Fan patted his thigh, "Look, I misunderstood you, sorry, you continue!"

The boss walked out of the lounge, scratching his heart and liver with anger.

Next:
Li Fan shook his head for the small-leaf red sandalwood ornament from India.

Arhat table in the Qing Dynasty, Li Fan continued to shake his head.

……

In the end, the boss gritted his steel teeth and took out the "Migration Picture" by the famous contemporary painter Ouyang Zhenze, but Li Fan continued to shake his head.

The boss quit now. Although he bought this "Migration Map" by himself and only spent 7 yuan, on the market, it is worth at least 100 million yuan. If it is speculated, it is impossible. How much is it?

Two eldest brothers, it’s almost done!
Seeing the change in the boss's expression while standing there, Li Fan knew it was almost done, and he said, "Boss, continue."

"Ms. Li, if you continue, you will really have to pay more."

"We don't add money, or is it like this?"

Wang Han nodded: "That's it."

Li Fan said: "Okay, let's do what we can with this one, wrap up the "Migration Map" first, and then we'll change to another one."

Reluctantly?

The boss thought, what a reluctance!
After the "Migration Picture" was wrapped, the boss came up with three more items, namely the imitation Ru kiln, the paperweight of the Qing Dynasty, and a set of out-of-print stamps.

"Second teachers, please choose one of these three."

Li Fan suppressed his excitement, his eyes were shining brightly, he pointed to Fangru Kiln and said: "That's all, don't need to choose, we are in a hurry to record the show, so hurry up and pack it for us!"

The boss is overjoyed. Among the three pieces, Fangru Kiln is the cheapest, and the market price is only about 9 yuan. It is a blessing in misfortune!

The clerks were rushing to pack, eager to send the two creditors away immediately.

As for Li Fan, he was already a little restless with excitement. After the packing was finished, Li Fan and Wang Han immediately said goodbye, turned around and left.

As soon as the two of them left, the boss was furious in the office: "I'm so angry, ah, no matter whether it's true or not, how can they exchange the pieces for the goods? Why are they here to exchange the goods? They are here to rob Yes, come to suck blood, my "Migration Map", more than 100 million! You grandsons, keep your eyes open for me in the future, who should sell it and who should not sell it, take care of yourself."

The manager said: "Boss, don't feel bad, sell another calligraphy and painting and you will get back your money!"

Li Fan and Wang Han, the two of them fought without bloodshed, did not cross their hips to quarrel and call their father and mother, and did not argue with the boss which goods are fake and why.Without getting angry or swearing, he calmly exchanged for more valuable collectibles, and by the way, pissed off the boss to death.

Li Fan concluded: "We are cultural people, we must cultivate ourselves!"

Wang Han said with a smile: "You, I think the boss is mad at me. I've been in business for so many years, it's probably the first time I've met us."

"However, he is completely fraudulent, so forget it, I am a little bit unwilling."

Wang Han said: "Indeed, if it was just a hole, I can only admit it, but their behavior has risen to fraud, so I have to find them. But we just changed things, and the boss is also trying to save money and avoid disasters, so we don't Well, how about continuing."

Li Fan nodded, "Yes!"

Wang Han thought for a moment, then suddenly took out his mobile phone and made a call: "Mr. Sun, do you still remember the store in the antique city we went to last time? Hey, guess what? I just I went to replace my broken blue and white porcelain and imitation copper Xuan furnace with "Migration Picture" and an imitation Ru kiln."

On the other end of the phone, "Old Han, hey, you are so funny, can broken things be exchanged for "Migration Map"? You really can talk nonsense, what are you playing... Hey, I seem to understand what you mean, I will also exchange ! Then smashed his store and reported him again."

Putting down the phone, the two laughed.

"You are so bad!"

"You are worse than me!"

After another burst of laughter, Li Fan said, "Brother Han, find a place to park."

"Uh?"

"Let me tell you, you've made a fortune. Do you know the price of the imitation Ru kiln?"

"Up to a hundred thousand!"

"One hundred thousand? You stop! Let me tell you, add at least two '0's."

(End of this chapter)