Reborn 1980, I amaze the world by picking up scraps

It turned out that the person standing in front of the old foreign man and arguing with him with his arms akimbo was none other than the big guy who had dealt with Yuanni.

The old foreign man knew something about antiques. He looked regretful and said, "This is not an insult to you. There is something wrong with this painting. Although I can't tell why, I can't buy it."

"Look, you still said you didn't insult me? This is obviously an authentic work, so you can't fault it." The big man said very harshly.

“It was just a feeling of, oh my gosh, I can’t explain…

Little girl, come here and look at this painting for me. It's paid. I'll hire you to do the appraisal. "

The old foreign man was going crazy. He had no choice but to ask Yuan Ni for help.

The chicken cups and snuff bottles Yuanni sold him were genuine and in very good condition, so the old man felt that Yuanni should be a master at them.

It is very popular in the antique circle to hire experts to do appraisals and help with the eyes.

Yuanni had never dealt with the big boss before, but now that the foreign old man was willing to hire her, she immediately agreed.

Walk up to it and look at the painting first.

This is a picture of bamboo with ink, and half a copy of it, signed by Banqiao old man Zheng Xie.

Yuanni's eyes immediately widened, Zheng Banqiao's paintings?

If it's true, it's worth a lot of money.

Seeing Yuan Ni's expression, the big man was very disdainful, "I said you are an amateur. Who do you ask to help you? You have bad eyesight, but you hired a country girl. How can she know how to read?"

The old foreign man smiled and said nothing, but Yuanni had good taste.

Da Zhizi had no choice but to wait patiently and let Yuanni see it.

Judging from the lines and pen and ink, everything was perfect. Yuan Ni could only use her golden fingers and stretched out her right hand to gently rub the drawing paper.

What surprised her was that her right hand was only slightly warm.

How could this be?

Up to now, Yuanni has identified a lot of antiques. She found that the more precious the antiques are, the more severe the burning sensation will be on her right hand.

It stands to reason that Zheng Banqiao's original work is very precious. If it is genuine, you shouldn't only feel such a little warmth. What is going on?

Yuan Ni was very confused and slowly touched the entire painting. She found that the heat in the palm of the hand would be lower where the ink was soaked. On the contrary, the heat brought by the blank drawing paper was very high.

How is this going?

Could it be said that the drawing paper is real and the painting is fake, or is the ink diluted?

Yuanni was puzzled and looked over and over.

"I told you to look at it, but don't let me ruin the painting. You can't afford to pay for it." The big man said sarcastically to the side.

Yuan Ni glanced at him and suddenly had an idea. Is it possible...

In order to verify her conjecture, she reached out and touched the back of the painting. Sure enough, her palms were cold.

"Little girl, do you see what's wrong? Judging from the lines and brushwork, this painting should be real.

But it gave me a very bad feeling, as if a child was wearing adult clothes and it was inappropriate.What do you think? "The old foreign man humbly asked for advice.

Yuan Ni nodded, "Your feeling is right. This painting is half true and half false."

"What is a half-truth?"

"You see, this painting is painted on rice paper. Rice paper is different from your paper. It is very thick and has several layers.

When drawing, colors and lines can penetrate the entire paper, all the way to the bottom layer.

In order to make a profit, someone peeled off several layers of the painting so that one painting could be sold as several. "

After hearing what Yuanni said, the old foreign man suddenly realized, "I understand, this is the bottom rice paper. The pattern is not very clear. Someone must have traced it, so it is stiff and unnatural."

Yuanni nodded, "That's right."

When you uncover a painting, the top layer is clear and can barely be called an original work, so it is still valuable.

The further down the drawing paper is, the blurrier the picture quality will be, so you must perform tracing.

In a sense, the painted paintings can no longer be called authentic.

But laymen don’t understand and often get fooled.

The words were unclear, but now Yuan Ni has made it clear, and the big man's face turned pale, "I didn't know it would be like this. I bought this thing from someone else."

The old foreign man had a good temper and just smiled and nodded, "You are right, so I can't buy such a painting."

"If you don't buy it, don't buy it." The big scoundrel only dared to bully Zhou Jianguo, but he didn't dare to do anything to the foreigner. Seeing that the other party had seen through his trick, he quickly ran away.

The old foreign man introduced himself with a smile, "Mike, you can call me Old Mike. Young lady, can you make a friend?"

Yuanni nodded, "Yuanni, this is my friend, Gu Chao."

"Hello." The old foreign man shook hands warmly.

The new friend politely paid 100 yuan in foreign exchange coupons as the appraisal fee.

"I may want to buy some collectibles the day after tomorrow, Yuanni, can you come over and help me take a look?" Old Mike trusted Yuanni's vision.

"Row."

The two parties agreed on a time, and when the time came, Old Mike came to pick up Yuanni at the door.

After chatting for a few words, Yuan Ni waved goodbye to the other party.

Gu Chao raised his thumb towards Yuan Ni and said, "I underestimated you. I still want my uncle to teach you. It's really unnecessary."

In fact, it's not superfluous at all. Yuanni can see it accurately because she has a golden finger. If there is no golden finger, she is still far behind based on experience alone.

But there was no way to explain these things to Gu Chao.

Yuan Ni was very happy to earn an additional 100 yuan in foreign exchange coupons and continued the topic, "I'll treat you to dinner. If you don't accompany me to the ghost market, you won't be able to make so much money."

Gu Chao nodded, "Okay, then I'm welcome."

Yuanni just got another 100 yuan foreign exchange coupon, plus the 450 yuan she earned before, the total is 550 yuan.

Foreign exchange certificates are said to be equivalent currencies, but they are actually worth more than current money.

Ordinary people who want to go to overseas Chinese stores to buy things can only exchange currency for foreign exchange coupons.

Therefore, in the private market, currency exchange for foreign exchange coupons is almost equivalent to one dollar for two dollars.

In this way, excluding the negligible capital, Yuan Ni made a net profit of at least 600 yuan.

Now that she has made so much money, Yuanni wants to eat something good.

Gu Chao is different from his grandma. Even if he is rich, his grandma is reluctant to eat well and always wants to save money.

Gu Chao is different. He eats when he needs to and drinks when he needs to.

The two of them discussed it and finally decided to have a meal at Bell Tower Dumpling House.

This is a time-honored dumpling restaurant, not too fancy. The prices are written on the small blackboard. Beef and chives are two yuan per pound, and lotus root and vegetable stuffing are one dollar and a half per pound.

Yuanni bought one catty each, thought about it, and asked for three more catties, "Take it back and give it to grandma and uncle to try."

Grandma would definitely be reluctant to eat such good dumplings.

The time-honored dumplings live up to their reputation. Once you take a bite, the delicious juice will flow down the corners of your mouth.

After eating, Gu Chao sent Yuan Ni to her residence and left.

Yuan Ni was full of interest and walked inside carrying an oil paper bag filled with dumplings.

Grandma and uncle were both there, and the old landlady was sitting at the door crying.

"What a sin. This is the only valuable thing in the family. People still say it's fake. How come it's fake? How can I live?"

Yuanni was stunned, "What's going on?"

Grandma quickly pulled her over and said, "Please help me look at this painting."

Yuan Ni looked down and saw a picture of ink bamboo.

The most terrible thing is that this painting is exactly the same as the one the big guy held.

This was taken off a painting.