Chapter 1087 Huatiantang (Part 2)

"Is this the treasure of 'Huatiantang'?" Cao Yong looked at the things in the tray in the hand of the man in blue behind the inner hall table and asked Yiduli.

It was a purple adult palm-sized grasshopper gourd. Because it was far away, it was impossible to see what material it was. But the manager had just spoken, and the minimum price of this gourd was 600 taels.

According to Iduli's introduction, if a guest from the private room likes it, he will call someone to come and look in front of him. If he likes it, he can write a secret tag, and the price will be higher in the end.

Iduli smiled and said, "These are all things that warm up the field, and the finale is behind."

At this time, the Qingyi steward who was serving outside the Masaya Masaya made a gesture to the man in the middle, and the man held the tray over.

When Yidu saw Cao Yong paying attention, he greeted the manager outside the box here.

After about half a cup of tea, I heard the knock on the door, and then the manager led the man in blue in.

Yiduli took the gourd and handed it to Cao Yong, introducing: "Look, this gourd looks like agate, purple, moist, hard, and thick. Without three or fifty years of playing, there would be no such good patina. It is also ivory mouth, but there is less carving on the gourd, which is a bit insufficient, and can only be considered a medium-class quality. Such an object can be worth tens of thousands or hundreds of taels of silver in the glass factory. If Fu likes it, buy it to enjoy it."

He is a native of the Eight Banners of the Capital, and he talks casually about these gadgets.

Cao Yong was not playing with insects, so he was not unhappy with this cucumber cage, so he waved his hand with a smile.

Seeing that he was like this, Yidu stopped persuading him and sent the man in blue out. He picked out a few pieces of ivory signs placed on the table, dipped them in ink paste, and printed them on white paper.

Then he took out a brush and put the word "Li" on the white paper.

Cao Yong knew that this was to write a secret mark. The ivory brand was printed with 1,200 taels, and with Yiduli's handwritten signature, the mark will not be replaced or changed at will, which can reduce disputes.

This is a bit familiar to me. This is how it is done when the bank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs auctions a secret bid.

Even if the person in charge here was not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he also borrowed from the Bank of Internal Affairs.

At this moment, the man in blue had already put the gourd aside and attracted a cardamom girl to sit behind the table.

The girl was only thirteen years old, wearing a Chinese-style pink gauze dress, with snowy skin, braided two braids, hanging to her chest. There was no jewelry beside her, only a thin chain was laid on her forehead, and under the chain was a bead the size of a little finger cover.

This bead alone adds a lot of brilliance to the girl.

Before the case, there was a guitar playing at some point.

The girl played the piano lightly, and the melodious sound of the piano immediately reached everyone's ears.

If it weren't for the wrong place, she would have looked like the daughter of a wealthy family. Because she has an elegant temperament and no moral character.

But Cao Yong knew that this girl was not a lady, because he saw a familiar shadow from this girl. The "three-inch golden lotus" is weak and beautiful, and is proficient in talent. This is the characteristic of "Yangzhou Slim Horse".

Cao Yong withdrew his gaze and glanced at Yiduli.

Yidu stood at the moment, squinted his eyes, staring at the girl with a concentration, her face full of ecstasy.

Seeing this, Cao Yong couldn't help rolling his eyes. Yiduli had suffered from a woman's misfortune a few years ago. Looking at his appearance, he really didn't know each other for a long time.

The offer for this girl was 4,000 taels of silver.

It was Cao Yong who complained to Yiduli in his heart, but Yiduli withdrew his gaze and poured a cup of fragrant tea himself and drank it all, but he had no intention of calling people to look at each other.

At this moment, a man in blue knocked in the door and held the grasshopper gourd in his hand. But unlike the moment, there was an empty brocade box next to it, which seemed to be used for the grasshopper cage.

Yiduli smiled and took out two silver notes from his purse with a smile, added a ten-two ingot, and handed it to the Qingyi Man.

The Qingyi Mansion packed the silver notes and ingots, bowed and said, "Young Master Xie's reward!" After that, he closed the door and went out.

"Why do you still buy it since you have shortcomings?" Cao Yong asked when he saw him putting the gourd into the brocade box casually, without taking a look at it.

"For Baizhu, that kid is just a stick. It's not that piece of material at all, and he is also a worm. Last time I saw my cucumber gourd, I thought about it and grind my teeth several times." Yiduli snorted twice, and said with a little disdain: "He has lost less good things in my place over the years. If I hadn't fought with him this time, I would have felt a little reluctant to be a brother-in-law. Not to mention a good gourd worth thousands of taels of silver, even a street stall that costs ten cents a day, I wouldn't have been cheaper."

Cao Yong heard this and did not answer.

After spending more than ten years together, he knows Yiduli. Although he is a little lustful, he is very loyal in dealing with people and is a soft-hearted and kind-hearted person.

Although Bai Zhu is not inferior, after all, he is still there. Even if Yi Duli looks down on him, he will not care about him.

I don’t know how much money the girl was sold. In a moment, the man in blue took out two more treasures, and the reserve price was more than 10,000 yuan.

However, Yiduli didn't take a look. When he set up a five hundred arhat carved from a whole ivory that cost 20,000 taels, he became interested and asked people to send the ivory carving into the private room.

This ivory carving is five feet long and is placed on a base of a red sandalwood. It is covered with five hundred arhats of different shapes.

Not to mention such a large ivory, it is also commendable to say that the carving craftsmanship is also very impressive.

"This is something left in the palace of the previous dynasty, which is rare." Yiduli was a person who knew the goods. He looked at him for a while and said to Cao Yong.

Although Cao's mansion also has ivory ornaments, it seems a bit petty compared to the one in front of him.

This is indeed a good thing, whether you stay at home or give gifts. However, although the offer price of 20,000 is not high, if you want to get it, you will probably have to double it.

However, Iduli did not rush to write about Biaoyin, but stood in front of the window, watching the man in blue carrying the ivory carvings and walked through several private rooms. Then, he wrote 50,000 taels from the time he sat down again.

Cao Yong was also paying attention. Four of the ten private rooms saw this ivory sculpture. It seemed that many people were paying attention to this thing.

At this moment, another man in blue had already changed into a blue man and took a scroll. It was the original work of the saint Zhang Xu, with a minimum price of 25,000 taels.

The same cursive script is also a silk painting, which is the "Lady of Guo State's Spring Outing" by Zhang Xuan of the Tang Dynasty, with a minimum price of 30,000 taels.

Yiduli seemed to be not very interested in these calligraphy and paintings, while Cao Yong listened to familiar names and lamented the energy of Huatiantang.

These two calligraphy and paintings, in later generations, are both national treasure-level cultural relics.

Any one of them can also be used as a treasure for the store when you get the antique calligraphy and paintings from Liulichang. However, there are two items here, and you can't blame Huatiantang's gold posts for being so popular. This is indeed a good place for Taobao.

Less than a year after leaving the capital, I was a little like a "earth leopard" who had just arrived in the capital.

After another cup of tea, the man in blue who was the first to hold the long box and went to the private room opposite Cao Yong and the others.

Yiduli sighed and said sadly: "I can do it for others. I'll write less. If I write 60,000, I might get it."

Seeing that he was depressed, Cao Yong comforted him: "Look at the back, maybe things are better."

When he was speaking, the Qingyi Manager who was responsible for serving the private room here had knocked in. The tray in his hand was the bottom of the first written by Yiduli.

I just didn't take a photo, so I still have to return the original owner to the original book.

After the next thing was put out, Cao Yong couldn't help but stand up and walked to the window, his eyes unable to move away.

The thing is as white as jade, which he had seen in later generations. In the Forbidden City Treasure Museum, a child pillow from Ding Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The man in blue who introduced the treasure also said something, which was nothing more than introducing the origin of the thing, with a minimum price of 60,000 yuan.

This kid's pillow is the last treasure sold tonight.

Seeing Cao Yong being solemn, Yiduli also stood up, stood at Cao Yong and looked at him a few times, and then signaled to the manager at the door.

For a moment, the manager led the man in blue to come.

Yidu stood around the Dingyao kid's pillow, his eyes brighter the more he looked, but he refused to say a word.

It was not until the man in blue went out that he sighed and whispered: "There are many things in Ding Kiln on the market, and there are also porcelain pillows that appear on the surface, but they cannot be compared with this at all."

As he had just now, he was following the man in blue who held the treasure. In the ten private rooms, eight private rooms passed the man in blue into the blue.

Yidu sat at the table, frowned for a while before writing a 120,000 taels of silver.

Seeing that he was confused, Cao Yong said, "If you really like it, you might as well write more. I still have tens of thousands of taels of silver here."

Yiduli shook his head and said, "120,000 taels are beyond my expectations. I am lucky to get it, but I will lose my life. At worst, I will come back ten days later." After that, he handed the bottom to the Qingyi Manager at the door.

When Cao Yong heard him say this, he stopped talking.

Yiduli said it happily, but he still cared about it. He was absent-minded and got up and looked out after taking a few bites of tea.

I heard footsteps faintly, as if someone was leaving.

Yidu was restless, making Cao Yong dizzy.

Cao Yong was interested in antiques for the first time. In his mind, he was still a white jade pillow as white as jade. If it weren't for being with Yidu today, he would have wanted to do it.

When introducing this child pillow in the later Treasure House, it was said that it was "unparalleled in the world".

However, if you buy a piece of porcelain for more than 100,000 taels of silver, it is still too ostentatious. Even if you buy it, it will be a disaster unless you never show it in front of you again.

This thing is not something that ordinary people can own.

This time I waited for a long time, and I waited for two quarters of an hour before the Qingyi Man led the man in blue in.

Looking at the brocade box held by the man in blue, Yiduli suddenly jumped up from the chair, excitedly like a child: "I won the bid!"

The Qingyi Man was already full of congratulations, and he was full of auspicious words.

The man in blue carefully placed the brocade box on the table and asked Yiduli to check it out.

Just when I got the gourd, only the Qingyi Manager came in. Now, even the man in blue who was in charge of "treasure appraisal" also entered the private room. In addition to explaining the preciousness of this treasure and making the manager here pay attention, he also wanted to receive a reward.

Yiduli was already smiling from ear to ear, stroking the child's pillow, feeling intoxicated.

The manager in blue and the man in blue did not urge him, and waited respectfully.

It was still Cao Yong. Seeing that it was getting late, he coughed lightly, awakening the intoxicated Yiduli.

Yidu stood attentively and restrained his expression. He took out silver notes from his purse, counted 120,000 taels and handed them to the man in blue. Two more small denominations jumped out and gave them to the man in blue.

The man in blue retreated, the governor of Qingyi stayed, took back the golden post, and led Cao Yong and Yiduli out. During this process, there was no charge for dinner. It seemed that it was included in the golden post.

It was already the second day of the lunar calendar (9:30 pm), and the butler guards of the Yiduli family were already led by them.

The two families walked to the intersection and went to their own homes.
To be continued...