Chapter 147: Purple Sand Tea Set
After asking the shop owner, Chen Kai and Li Jingyue quickly found a shop specializing in the antique street that specializes in the sale of jade and jadeware.
In the end, Chen Kai spent 80,000 yuan to buy a very large piece of high-quality jade. Chen Kai had spiritual consciousness to directly investigate the quality of the jade, so he would naturally not be cheated.
After buying the jade, Chen Kai and Li Jingyue were shopping on the antique street for a while, looking around at the antique calligraphy and paintings, etc. Of course, eight out of ten things in this kind of place are fakes.
When Chen Kai and Li Jingyue visited a shop, Li Jingyue suddenly fell in love with a very exquisite set of purple clay teapots and tea cups. After inquiring about the price, the boss directly offered a price of 180,000 yuan, and said with certainty that this set of purple clay tea set was an antique from the Ming Dynasty more than 500 years ago and was well preserved.
When Li Jingyue heard the boss' offer, she immediately stopped. Her pocket money was only four or five thousand yuan a month, and even if she added the New Year's money she used to celebrate the New Year, she couldn't afford so much money.
But it can be seen that she really likes this purple clay tea set.
Seeing that Li Jingyue liked the set of tea sets very much, Chen Kai walked up and looked at the boss with a smile, then paid the price: "Boss, this set of tea sets looks pretty good. If you are willing to sell them, I will buy them for 5,000 yuan."
"What? Five thousand yuan!? Why don't you grab it?" The boss almost jumped up and looked at Chen Kai with a look of madman.
Even Li Jingyue next to her couldn't help but look at Chen Kai in shock, then quietly pulled Chen Kai's clothes and signaled him to leave.
Obviously, Li Jingyue also felt that Chen Kai’s price was too ruthless, so it was impossible. He offered 180,000 yuan, but even if he bargained, it would not be enough for 5,000 yuan. Even the fraction of the fraction is not enough!
However, Chen Kai reached out and patted Li Jingyue's little hand, indicating that she should not be anxious. Then he looked at the boss and said with a smile: "For this set of tea sets, 5,000 yuan should not be low. Everyone understands people, and you should make a lot of money for 5,000 yuan, right? 180,000 yuan is just a fool who doesn't know how to do things."
Well……
The boss looked at Chen Kai in amazement, hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "Little brother, your price is too ruthless. 50,000 yuan! You can take this set of tea sets."
When buying and selling things, it is basically asking for a lot of money and paying back the money by sitting on the ground. However, it is rare to be able to directly reduce the price of 180,000 to 50,000 yuan at once. It is less than one-third of the previous one.
However, Chen Kai shook his head very decisively and said, "Fifty thousand... If this tea set was really the tea set from the Ming Dynasty more than 500 years ago, then I would definitely take it without saying a word. But..."
Speaking of this, Chen Kai shrugged and said, "Boss, you understand people, so you should know what I mean. Let's do this, eight thousand! Because it's not easy for your business, you can give me a price of eight thousand."
Eight thousand...
The boss was a little hesitant. To be honest, he only spent 2,000 yuan to buy the tea set. It was already three times the profit to be able to sell it for 8,000 yuan.
However, he was still reluctant to sell it at this price.
After the final struggle, the boss said directly: "Twenty thousand yuan! If it is low, I would rather keep it in my hands."
Chen Kai looked at the other person for a moment, and finally nodded, responding: "Okay! Then just 20,000 yuan. Who made my girlfriend like it?"
As he said that, Chen Kai glanced at Li Jingyue beside him and shrugged.
Chen Kai could also see that the price of 20,000 should be almost the lowest price that the other party could accept. Even if you continue to grind, you will be able to reduce it by 30,000 or 2,000 yuan at most, so Chen Kai was too lazy to grind with the other party slowly.
After swiping the card to pay, Chen Kai asked the boss to put the set of tea sets in a good wooden box, and then put the bag on it and handed it to Li Jingyue beside him, "Come on, Jingyue, give it!"
After Li Jingyue took it, a very happy smile appeared on her face. "Chen Kai, thank you!" After that, Li Jingyue held Chen Kai's arm intimately.
At this time, the boss looked at Chen Kai, but said with some pain: "Little brother, you are amazing. I originally planned to not sell this set of tea sets for less than 50,000 yuan. I didn't expect that today I met you, an expert, today!"
Chen Kai smiled slightly and said, "I am not an expert. I just used to be interested in these things and have some understanding. Moreover, I would like to thank the boss for his willingness to give up!"
"Okay, boss, then we'll leave first, business is booming..."
"Well, thank you for your good words. You guys will go slowly!"
After leaving the shop, Li Jingyue finally couldn't help but ask: "Chen Kai, what you said to the boss just now, this set of tea set is not an antique from the Ming Dynasty? Could it be a fake?"
Chen Kai turned his head to look at Li Jingyue beside him and replied: "It's not considered a fake. But this set of tea sets was not from the Ming Dynasty. The four tea cups were no more than three hundred years old at most. They should be something fired in the late Qing Dynasty..."
"Ah? Then are they worth 20,000 yuan? When you bid 5,000 yuan, you said that the boss made a lot of money. So wouldn't we lose if we bought this set of tea set?" Li Jingyue suddenly lost her mouth. Although she liked this set of tea sets very much, she still felt a little uncomfortable when she thought of losing a lot.
"Haha..." Chen Kai smiled, and couldn't help but reach out and pinch Li Jingyue's nose, saying, "It's not a loss! How could we lose?"
"By my guess, the boss must have collected this set of tea sets according to the late Qing Dynasty artifacts, which is only three to four thousand yuan at most."
"Then why do you still say we are not losing? You spent 20,000 yuan to buy something, which is nearly ten times the difference!" Li Jingyue said.
Chen Kai smiled and explained: "Who said this tea set is only three or four thousand. I just said that the price of the boss's tea set is probably around three or four thousand. However, to be more precise, the value of this tea set is far more than this number, and it is even much higher than the price I paid!"
"Hmm?" Li Jingyue was stunned and asked quickly, "What do you mean?"
Chen Kai patiently explained: "It's very simple. In fact, this set of tea sets itself is not a set. At least that teapot and the other four tea cups were not originally matched. If I guess it's good, those four tea cups should have been made specifically to match the teapot in the late Qing Dynasty."
"In fact, the teapot should be around 800 or 900 years old. It is something from the Song and Yuan dynasties, which was earlier than the Ming Dynasty that the boss made up casually..."
"Ah, is it true?" Li Jingyue looked at Chen Kai in surprise.
Chen Kai nodded with a smile, "Well, of course it's true. The reason why the boss didn't see this is because someone made some simple disguise on the purple clay teapot, and usually he would make a mistake if he was not careful."
"And I guess the boss was somewhat misled by the four tea cups, thinking that the teapot and tea cup were originally a whole set. Since the tea cup was from the late Qing Dynasty, the teapot was naturally also from the late Qing Dynasty. So this made us cheaper!"
"Haha, is that right? So, we took a big advantage!" Li Jingyue was very happy to be able to take such a big advantage, with an excited expression on her face.
Chen Kai smiled and said, "I took a lot of advantage. Although I am not sure how much the teapot is worth, I think it should not be less than 100,000 or 200,000. Those four tea cups are indeed not worth much, but after all, they are something that lasts two or three hundred years, and a few thousand yuan is still worth it."
"Also, the styles and materials of those tea cups are completely imitated by the teapot, and it is just right to match the teapot."
"Yeah!" Li Jingyue nodded repeatedly and said, "Anyway, I'm going to give this set of teapots to my grandfather. I believe he will definitely like it very much!"
Chen Kai suddenly realized, no wonder Li Jingyue liked this teapot so much just now. It turned out that she was going to give it to her grandfather.
"I said, I was a little surprised before, why did you suddenly want to buy a tea set. I didn't usually hear you say you like to drink tea. It turned out to be given to your grandfather."
Chen Kaidao.
Li Jingyue nodded, "This is almost the end of the semester. It's not long before the Chinese New Year. My grandfather has loved me since he was a child, so he thought about buying him a gift for the Chinese New Year to go back."
"Oh." Chen Kai nodded.
"Let's go to the park now?" Li Jingyue suddenly asked.
Chen Kai nodded, "Okay! Let's go." After saying that, he looked at the tea set in Li Jingyue's hand and said, "Give me the things, I'll take them."
Li Jingyue naturally would not be polite to Chen Kai. She responded with a sweet smile: "Yeah! Give it~" and handed the bag in her hand to Chen Kai.
After Chen Kai took the bag, she took Chen Kai's arm intimately and walked to a nearby park side by side with Chen Kai.
Because it was still afternoon, there was sunny, and although the temperature was not high, I didn’t feel very cold. I also felt very warm when I was basking in the sun and taking a walk in the park.
Although it was a weekend, there were not many pedestrians in the park, and it was quite quiet. Chen Kai and Li Jingyue were also enjoying the warmth and tranquility in this tranquility.
When the two of them were walking, they didn’t have to talk or say anything. When they held hands with each other, they could feel each other’s existence and felt each other’s feelings. There was a sweet and warm feeling in peace...
After walking in the park for a while, the two found another place to sit and bask in the sun. After staying for about an hour, Li Jingyue suggested that she wanted to go shopping.
So the two left the park and went to the pedestrian street in the city center to stroll. There were many people in the pedestrian street, but they were not as deserted as in the park.
Chapter completed!