That night, Zhou Zekai took a photo of his painting and sent it to Baihua Painting's competition email. He received news that night. After all, this kind of online review is very fast. The next step is that Zhou Zekai will personally send his paintings to the competition party and accept layers of selection. After the next review, his paintings will appear on Baihua Painting's official voting website.

After going out for dinner in the evening, Zhou Zekai rested all night. The next morning, he sorted out his painting and sent it to Baihua Painting's competition address. He believed that his painting would definitely surprise many people.

After doing all this, Zhou Zekai checked his balance. After Cheng Qingrou kept spending, Zhou Zekai's house was about to expire in more than five months, and only 50,000 yuan was left on the card.

This has to let Zhou Zekai face one thing, that is, he should not be an artist, but a businessman, and only with enough money can he get what he wants.

50,000 yuan, if it is stock trading, it is too little, even if it is profitable, it will not make much money. So Zhou Zekai took the money to see the antiques in Shangyang City. If it is said that it is a waste of sand, many people may not be as good as him.

The antique shops in Shangyang City are very famous and even formed an antique street. Because there were very powerful antiques here in the early years, there were also many antiques sold at the auction house here every year. Many merchants who like antiques like to come to Shangyang City Taobao, hoping to find what they like in Shangyang City.

When he came to this antique street in sportswear, Zhou Zekai was completely out of place with everything around him, and he almost wrote on his face that I wouldn't be fooled by anything! The vendors around him saw Zhou Zekai and wanted to pull Zhou Zekai to their stall to read.

Zhou Zekai was very familiar with such antique streets and found a stall on Taobao. What he was best at was looking for gold in the sand. When he came to a stall, the stall owner greeted him enthusiastically. Zhou Zekai just glanced a few times and saw that he didn't have anything he liked, so he continued to walk towards the next stall.

After all, it is very difficult to find gold in the sand. Sometimes, you don’t know if you can find it, and Zhou Zekai chose it, of course, he would try it!

After watching for more than half an hour, Zhou Zekai stopped in front of a small stall and pointed at the small bottle on it.

"How to sell this?"

When the stall owner saw Zhou Zekai's appearance, he knew that it was his first time to come to such a place, so he hurriedly called out.

"This is only five thousand, and it's all good things. Look at the pattern, it's very beautiful!"

Generally, people know the stalls like this. If you buy fake ones and accept your fate, you will be lucky if you buy them. The real ones are not in the topics they are discussing.

"It's really beautiful, but five thousand is too expensive, right? Two thousand."

Zhou Zekai killed the price and looked at the stall owner with a smile. The thin stall owner looked scared and stared at Zhou Zekai with wide eyes.

"Brother! Is your method of killing the price called killing the price? Is this forcing me to jump off the building? No, no, if you sincerely want it, three thousand, no price~"

He took back this thing for hundreds of dollars, but since there were all suspicions, the stall owner naturally wanted to make more money, so he tried hard to look like I had lost money.

"I'll pay two thousand yuan. Boss, your thing looks very clean. I just take it home and play with it. Look at the patterns. We know the others. I'll buy something. If you do a business, you can't do this business~"

Zhou Zekai didn't add two thousand yuan, which made the thin boss helpless. He thought that a big bull had come, but the result was still like this, so he stretched out his hand and made a gesture.

"Two thousand eight! No less! I have spent a lot of money on this thing, and it really cannot be less!"

The Skinny Boss decided that this thing would cost at least 2,000 yuan, otherwise he would still plan to keep it. Seeing that the man in front of him was not rich, he could afford it even more than 2,000 yuan, right?

Zhou Zekai knew the skinny boss's routine, so he picked up the jade snuff bottle that looked a little inconspicuous and said.

"Boss, since you don't give me less, what if you give me this thing a bonus? Two thousand five, if you can achieve success, I'll take a look again if it doesn't happen."

After saying that, he placed the snuff bottle on the jade plate. The action made the skinny boss next to him very confused. But thinking about it, the snuff bottle was made from the blind old Wang. It must be fake. If it is given, it will be given. Two thousand five is not bad...

"Okay, it depends on what you want to give it to you. If it is an ordinary person, I really won't sell it to them!"

As he said that, he picked up the things and gave Zhou Zekai a plate. Zhou Zekai took out the money directly, counted two thousand five and handed it to the stall owner. The thin stall owner quickly licked his fingers after getting the money, and started counting the money. After enough, he smiled.

"Brother, what else do you want next time? Come to my place~"

Zhou Zekai nodded with a smile, turned around and left, thinking that if you let you know that this snuff bottle is real, you might be so angry that you would be welcomed?

However, Zhou Zekai did not leave, but he set his sights on Yuan Datou on a small stall. The appearance of Yuan Datou is the eight-year-old big head of the open-mouth version, which is very precious in the collection series. It is said that a few years ago, someone spent 2 million to collect this thing. After Zhou Zekai went there, he picked up Yuan Datou, blew it, and put it in his ears, and he had already determined the authenticity of this thing in his heart.

The days I spent in the Republic of China were not fake. After a bargaining, I got 500 yuan, which made Zhou Zekai think that if I had no money in the future, I could come and find a bargain.

The last item was the painting of Tang Bohu that Zhou Zekai found on a calligraphy and painting stall. Although it was not an authentic one, it was also a copy of the Qing Dynasty. Zhou Zekai planned to take it home and enjoy it himself.

After getting all the things, Zhou Zekai found a shop that looked very imposing, walked in, and planned to sell his snuff bottle.

After the waiter inside knew that Zhou Zekai wanted to identify his things, he immediately found an antique appraisal master. Of course, this master would charge a fee, but for Zhou Zekai, there was no pressure at all.

After the appraiser came, Zhou Zekai gave the snuff bottle. He knew that although the snuff bottle was not very good-looking, it was from the Ming Dynasty and had an extraordinary historical price.

For example, the snuff bottles that are circulating on the market today are usually from the Qing Dynasty. There are many smoke lovers in the Qing Dynasty, so there are naturally all kinds of exquisite snuff bottles. However, if the real history of snuff bottles is indeed investigated in the Ming Dynasty, it was still snuff boxes. After the Qing Dynasty, the process of making snuff bottles gradually increased. For example, the Qing Dynasty used jade or precious jade in the late Qing Dynasty, but in the early days, most of them used agate amber and the patterns on them were not as complicated as those in the late Qing Dynasty.

For example, the snuff bottle for the appraiser is the overall color of the snuff bottle, and the thin black lines are used to describe a woman's figure. It doesn't look much beautiful, and the side of it is also not very good due to bumps and bumps.

Holding a magnifying glass, he looked at the snuff bottle carefully. The appraiser also needed to carefully determine the authenticity of these things. At this time, the waiter led another old man over. The old man saw the snuff bottle in the appraiser's hand. He understood that the person was appraising, and he came here calmly and sat down. He loved to see people to identify this thing the most.

Then the appraiser looked at it for a long time, but he could not identify the value of this thing, so he could only put it down and look at Zhou Zekai.

"This gentleman, I'm sorry that I'm not good at studying, so I really can't see the age of this snuff bottle."

The meaning of this is to tell you in a tactful way that this thing is fake and has no value.

In this industry, many times, I really won’t tell you it’s true, and I won’t tell you it’s false directly. It’s just that people say it, it’s the same thing to see if you listen or not.

But this time, before Zhou Zekai could speak, the old man beside him spoke.

"Old Chen, come on, come on, let me take a look first. I think this thing is OK."

As soon as the old man opened his mouth, the appraisal master, Master Chen, looked at Zhou Zekai. After obtaining Zhou Zekai's consent, he gave the snuff bottle to the old man. After the old man studied it for a long time, he said with the snuff bottle.

"Haha, Old Chen, you've misunderstood this time! Look at the cracks of the agate and the pictures of ladies above. These are all craftsmanship from the Ming Dynasty. In our circle, we all show that there are no good snuff bottles in the era, only snuff boxes. But in fact, there were snuff bottles in the Ming Dynasty, but they were not as outstanding as the Qing Dynasty. I saw this little thing worth 70,000 to 80,000~"

After estimating the price directly, Old Chen quickly took the things back and took a look, and now he was laughing.

"I'm old, I'm not as good as you. Lao Yan, doesn't Lao Zheng like to collect this thing? He understands it best."

After saying that, he returned the things in his hand to Zhou Zekai.

"Young man, you have heard Lao Yan's words. This thing is worth like this. If you want to sell it, I happen to have a boss who likes to collect snuff bottles. You can contact me."

After sending out a business card, Zhou Zekai nodded after receiving it.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen."

After saying that, he looked at the old man wearing a black Tang suit, took out Yuan Datou in his pocket and handed it over.

"I wonder if Mr. Yan can help me see this Yuan Datou?"

This is what Zhou Zekai is trying to come here - Yan Yusen, the old man of the Yan family.

His current wisher Cheng Shiyu has married Yan Yusen's grandson Yan Jingjia for his sister Cheng Qingrou. The Yan family is a family of antiques. Not to mention the antiques collected in the early days, the family also opened an auction house, as well as jade shops and jewelry companies. They are rooted in this industry. After his wisher married into the Yan family, only this old man was a little nice to her. The other Yan family looked down on her. Zhou Zekai was very much looking forward to how the other party would perform when he saw Cheng Qingrou in the Yan family.
Chapter completed!