Chapter 71 Izumo Xuan
After arriving at the Harbor City Wharf, Bai Yujiao said that it was not far from Antique Street, so it would be fine to walk over. The two of them still walked slowly along the way. Xia Yu was also relaxed and comfortable with his suitcase, but Bai Yujiao also added some burden to him from time to time, and laughed and said that it was to exercise his ability to withstand stress.
Xia Yu's ability to withstand stress is beyond words, and his physical and psychological qualities are not as strong as ordinary.
Bai Yujiao had already explained the situation to him. The antique shop they were going to is Izumo Xuan, the shop of her grandfather Bai Gaoze’s house.
Bai Gaoze and Bai Gaorui are cousins. He is only one year older than Bai Gaorui. He was originally a family and has always been in the antique and cultural relics business in Yuhai. When the situation was unclear, Bai Gaorui and others chose to stay in Yuhai, while Bai Gaoze and others took a large number of antiques to Gangcheng, and later settled in Gangcheng and have been in antique and cultural relics business.
There are many similar experiences to Bai Gaoze's family. Now, people who are engaged in antiques in the Gangcheng are not locals, but almost all from mainland China. Many of them have gone from Yanjing, Shanghai and other places, and of course there are many from Yuhai.
The two companies have a lot of contact, especially after the antique business in Hong Kong City has become more and more prosperous in recent decades.
The two of them walked around the antique street, but did not go to other shops, and only looked at them when they passed by. Just looking outside, you can see a lot of ceramics, jade carvings, and many Buddha statues in the store, which is a bit different from the antique shops in mainland China. In addition, some shops also have some things outside the store, which are also dazzling, including ceramics, jade, stone carvings, ivory carvings, bronzes, silverware, lacquerware, furniture, screens, calligraphy and paintings, ancient books, pictorials, etc.
In addition, there are ancient electric fans, phonographs, etc. from the West, as well as jewelry and silverware from Fusang, Siam and Southeast Asia, antiques, and dazzling arrays.
Xia Yu looked at it and said, "I feel that the popularity of Antique Street here is much more prosperous than that of Yuhai's antique market."
Bai Yu nodded, "The main reason is that there are a wide range of customers here. You can come here to buy things by Fusang people, Baodao, Europe, America, and the mainland. But now there is still a little less passenger flow than before, so young people who come to shop and check in are not counted."
He also saw that most of the antique shops were blonde and blue-eyed crooked people, and their age distribution was wide, with old and young.
There are many graffiti on the walls of the alley next to it. Many young people prefer this kind of art and come to take photos and check in. There are not many young people who really go shopping in the antique street to see it. Among them, there are also reasons why young people are generally not so independent in their economic status and are too expensive for genuine antique cultural relics.
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Bai Yujiao was still very considerate of him and did not force him to take photos and check in at the graffiti areas on the walls.
By the time Izumo Xuan arrived, it was almost twelve o'clock. At this time, Izumo Xuan would not eat or not. At least Izumo Xuan opened its doors. According to Bai Yujiao, the antique shop here usually opens for short weekends. Izumo Xuan usually opens at 10 am on weekends and closes after 3 pm. Usually, it usually closes at 5 pm.
Izumo Xuan is the oldest antique shop. Not to mention the large size of the shop, it has three floors.
There are all kinds of antiques and cultural relics in the shop. Before you enter, you can see them on the street through glass doors and windows.
At this time, there were two foreigners in their fifties looking at porcelain in the store, and the one who was entertaining them was a male clerk who was almost forty years old.
After Bai Yujiao held Xia Yu's hand in, she greeted him, "Good noon at noon!"
"Xiaojiao is here! Master is upstairs, you can just go up directly. Is this Xiaojiao's boyfriend?" Lin Xiangyang replied with a smile.
"Yes! His name is Xia Yu, Xia Tian Xia, Yu of the Universe." Bai Yujiao helped introduce it. As for Lin Xiangyang, she had told Xia Yu before. Lin Xiangyang is Bai Gaoze's apprentice and is also a clerk who often manages the store. In addition to greeting customers, she is also responsible for delivery, maintenance of antiques and other work.
Xia Yu also smiled and said hello to him, while Lin Xiangyang also praised him for his talent.
After a few polite words, Bai Yujiao took him upstairs to find Bai Gaoze.
Bai Gaoze was looking at a piece of porcelain. His hair and beard were all white, but his spirit looked quite good.
Bai Yujiao and Xia Yu did not scare him. Bai Yujiao smiled and said hello, "Hello grandpa!"
"Xiaojiao is here!" Bai Gaoze looks similar to Bai Gaorui, and he smiles very kindly. He also asked Lin Xiangyang the same question, "Is this Xiaojiao's boyfriend?"
Bai Yujiao nodded with a smile and introduced Xia Yu to him. He also smiled and said hello, "Hello grandpa! I often hear Xiaojiao mention the glorious deeds of his grandpa."
Bai Gaoze responded with a smile, "Xiaojiao's eyes have always been very high. The young man is very talented and handsome. Tell me how you all know each other. Have you ever seen your grandpa?"
"When my grandfather and I went to Tianguangxu, I met my senior brother in the History Department of Yuhai University. Now I have graduated. In the future, I will ask my grandfather to help take care of him." Bai Yujiao explained the situation clearly in a simple and clear manner.
"No problem! Ayu is also Yu Hai University and has a common hobby with you. It's really good. Nowadays, there are very few young people who like to study history and love antiques and cultural relics!" When Bai Gaoze said this, he also remembered that his children were not very interested in antiques and would rather go out and make trouble than inherit the antique business.
Bai Gaoze is still unable to make it. It is not easy to cultivate a professional, and it takes at least ten or twenty years to work hard. The main reason is that the children are not interested in antiques and think that they can’t make much money. If they don’t like it, it will be useless. They can’t concentrate on learning real skills. No matter how good the family conditions are, it will be useless.
In comparison, it is rare for Lin Xiangyang to like antiques. After the master led the door, he was willing to put in time to study antiques more and market more, and to do things very reliably.
The knowledgeable Bai Gaoze could also tell that Bai Yujiao's face was filled with a happy smile and affectionate eyes, all from the heart. However, Xia Yu, a young man, didn't seem to be as simple as he looked.
Then Bai Gaoze also asked Xia Yu's future plans, whether he was planning to go to the antique industry for professional purposes and whether he should come to Hong Kong City to develop. He felt that the prospects for development in Hong Kong City would be better than in China, even if the antique markets around the world are cooling down now.
Bai Yujiao answered for him, saying that he was planning to go around the world to have a look.
Xia Yu also said, "Xiaojiao and I brought some things we received this time and made a special trip to ask our grandfather to help us with our palms."
"Okay!" I heard that there was something good, Bai Gaoze's professional habits immediately erupted, his eyes glowing, and it seemed that he became more energetic.
Bai Yujiao was very curious about the things in his backpack but didn't ask any questions, because she thought it was just like Doraemon's pocket, and he could always take out some weird things from it. He also packed the bronzes and other things he received before.
What Xia Yu could take out was the treasures he salvaged from a Portuguese shipwreck. As for the source, it depends on whether Bai Gaoze could judge it.
He first took a blue and white bowl wrapped in bubble paper from his big backpack, but it did not have the bottom sheet.
Bai Gaoze’s decades of antique shop owners were not in vain. He quickly judged from the shape, patterns, and bottoms of blue and white branches and flowers bowls, "This is a fine folk song blue and white porcelain from the late Kangxi period. Where did you find it?"
The girl Bai Yujiao was the same, and she smiled and asked him to guess.
Bai Gaoze was not in a hurry to guess, they would always say it.
Moreover, Xia Yu took out another good thing and put it on the table. It was also a declining style. It was a blue and white plate with a very traditional shape and pattern.
He took his hand and rubbed it carefully for a while, and buckled his fingers lightly. After listening to the sound, he said, "This is a blue and white porcelain from the Yongzheng period. It is really rare to preserve the quality so perfectly. You are so lucky that you can receive such a good treasure. Do you have any more? Take it out and take it out and take a look!"
Xia Yu said, "There are only two porcelains for the time being, but there are still gold ingots. Do you want to see them?"
"Of course!" Bai Gaoze replied.
So he took out a piece of "Zhang Ji" ten taels of gold ingot from his backpack.
Bai Gaoze just glanced and confirmed that this was real gold. Gold was the most difficult to fake, and it could not deceive professionals at all. He did not think that anyone would use gold to make such styles and shapes now.
The back of this gold ingot has "Dingyuan" on both sides, which is the top scorer in the imperial examination, the second scorer, and the general title of "Tanhua" is Dingyuan. It is also auspicious words often used in ancient times to symbolize good luck and good luck.
Then use an electronic scale to weigh the gold ingot, 366.6 grams, which is almost ten taels from the time of Emperor Kangxi and Yongzheng.
After seeing this gold ingot, it would be too much for Bai Gaoze to remember. He didn't ask Xia Yu anymore, but only asked Bai Yujiao, "Xiaojiao, is the batch of goods you have recently come from the same place, right?"
"Grandpa has such a good eye!" Bai Yu nodded with a smile. If they wanted to sell this batch of porcelain and gold ingots, they would definitely release the news and the news first. It is normal for Bai Gaoze to get news here, but they mainly do domestic business, because such things are difficult to go to customs. Xia Yu is so brave, and I don't know how he can bring out this thing without being discovered.
"These two pieces of porcelain..." Bai Gaoze sighed, and stopped talking. He turned around and used a magnifying glass to observe carefully in every place, and used a strong light flashlight to search carefully. Finally, he sniffed hard with his nose, but this also made his brows frown even tighter.
Then Bai Gaoze also said, "It doesn't seem like it comes out of water. There will be traces of any of the water. There are no two pieces of porcelain at all."
Chapter completed!