Chapter 672-673 Bronze Lord

"Fourth brother, what's wrong with your phone number? You can't get through?"

Zhuang Rui left the gate of Siheyuan and kept calling Ouyang Jun, but the other party's phone kept reminding him to turn off the phone. It was not until he was about to reach Panjiayuan that Ouyang Jun finally turned on.

"Nonsense, I was busy just now, can I turn on the computer?"

Ouyang Jun replied angrily, but he didn't pretend in front of Zhuang Rui, and just one sentence revealed what he was doing just now.

"Hey, I said your sister-in-law just called, and I said that at Xiaobai, she hung up the phone. What's going on? Didn't you say anything?"

Ouyang Jun was wondering. He usually said that he was here at Xiaobai, and his wife would not have a good tone. He just said that he was slow to help Zhuang Rui get things done. He said that this was true, but he was doing that kind of "thing".

"What?! Are you really in Brother Bai?"

Zhuang Rui was speechless when he heard this, and continued, "I told my sister-in-law, you went to Brother Bai to help me with antiques. Well, you can do it. Fourth brother, I can't get a few antiques back. I won't care about your mess next time..."

"Okay, I just take some broken antiques. I'll bring you a few items back..."

Ouyang Jun replied impatiently and hung up the phone. Bai Feng asked him to take care of the work of the real estate company these days. It is not easy to ask for something? However, Ouyang Jun would not open his mouth and ask for it. When the Zhuangrui Museum is opened, Bai Feng will donate it himself.

Zhuang Rui shook his head, parked the car in the parking lot, got out of the car and walked towards his shop.

It will be afternoon, but the bustling crowds of Panjiayuan still do not decrease at all. This place is already a scenic spot in Beijing. People come here not only for Taobao, but also to experience the rich cultural atmosphere here.

After squeezing along the wall for a long time, Zhuang Rui came to "Xuan Ruizhai". What he, the boss, probably was the only one of Pan Jiayuan. There are probably few people who often hang out with Pan Jiayuan to recognize him.

"Brother Zhuang, you are here..."

The monkey's eyes were pointed. When he saw Zhuang Rui at first sight, he hurriedly came out. However, Nobita was much more steady and nodded to Zhuang Rui, but the person did not come and was still greeting the customers who wanted to buy things.

As for Zhao Hanxuan, he was not in the store now. As long as Master Ge was busy in the corner of the seal carving, the other two clerks were also entertaining guests.

"Monkey, I asked you to run more and more knowledge. Isn't you asking you to pull objects into the store? Don't you know that bronze ware is traded by the state?"

Zhuang Rui glared at the monkey when he entered the door. Anyone who does business is always unwilling to deal with trouble. If those bronzes are really national first-class cultural relics, if they buy them, they will be sentenced to three or five years.

Although there are many fine bronze ware products in many private collections in China, they are all traded privately. Who has ever seen bronze ware that belongs to first-class cultural relics in domestic auctions?

In the grading of bronze ware before the Han Dynasty, most of them were classified as national first-class cultural relics. This is strictly prohibited from being traded by private goods. If you do not want to hand over to the country, you can only stay at home as a family heirloom. In the current cultural relics market, there is no opening for trading of bronze ware.

Moreover, according to national regulations, no matter how high the level of cultural relics you belong to, newly unearthed objects are strictly prohibited. If you are not careful, you may get into trouble.

Zhuang Rui knew about this. A collector from Hebei once brought several pieces of bronze ware to Beijing to participate in a restoration course for bronze objects. During the class, he repaired the pieces he brought.

However, when he returned, this person was in trouble. When he got off the train, he found out the routine investigation. He couldn't tell the legal origin of this thing, so he was detained for fifteen days unjustly.

It’s not that Zhuang Rui cannot buy bronze ware, but he must not buy it in this store, because if that thing is true, the designation of the origin is not very legitimate. Maybe it was just "unearthed". If something happens in the future, it will definitely be pursued.

"Brother Zhuang, I...didn't I bring this to you to see. I don't know if it's true or not..."

The monkey, who was originally full of excitement, was stunned when he heard Zhuang Rui's words. Qiqi Aiai was speechless. He originally thought that he could get something good for Zhuang Ruitao, but he didn't expect that the flattery would hit the slap.

Monkey and Nobita both came from wild ways. When they were in the Pengcheng antique market, they just cheated and made money, so they naturally did not take national laws seriously.

Not to mention anything else, when the two of them were in Pengcheng, they carried a shovel to dig a tomb. If it weren't for the low technical content and had been busy for a few days, they would have helped the farmer loosen the soil, maybe they would have been in the prison now.

When he arrived at Panjiayuan, Nobita was lucky. He was busy learning about stationery supplies from Zhao Hanxuan all day long, and the monkey was having fun. Seeing that the sky was hanging around among the old men, it became even more slippery.

Fortunately, the monkey still had a person in awe. When he saw Zhuang Rui tense his face, he immediately became honest.

"Monkey, I asked you to chat with those stalls outside. It wasn't you asking you to attract people to the store. Some things are private-to-private transactions. If you put them on the surface, you are just asking for trouble. Do you understand?"

Zhuang Rui sighed. The monkey looked smart, but his mind was still a little confused. Zhuang Rui could not say that he mentioned a few more words.

Letting monkeys go out to learn these tricks is to prevent people from seeing through some situations when they are not around and Zhao Hanxuan.

Of course, you can get good things, but you must not involve "Xuan Ruizhai". Zhuang Rui asked himself that he was a serious and innocent businessman.

"Brother Zhuang, I understand. If you have this matter in the future, I will call you directly..."

Zhuang Rui has already said so clearly. If the monkey can't read it clearly, he can buy a piece of tofu and kill him.

"Well, let's go back and make an appointment to check out the things in the teahouse outside. You can book a private room..."

Zhuang Rui nodded and said nothing more. Since he was here, he naturally had to look at things. At most, he would not accept them himself. It would not be illegal to look at objects.

"Oh, Brother Zhuang, I'll do it..."

The monkey agreed and walked out of Xuan Ruizhai with his cell phone to make a call.

"Master Ge, how about it? Are you still used to it here?"

When Zhuang Rui entered the store just now, Master Ge was busy, and he didn't bother. Now he saw Master Ge put down the carving knife in his hand and hurriedly went up to say hello.

Master Ge took off his reading glasses and replied with a smile: "Habit, Habit, Xiaozhuang, I haven't seen you for a few days..."

Master Ge used to set up seals on the street, but he was a pure craftsman. It was inevitable that the wind and sun were exposed. Now he sat in the store, and he had everything from heating and air conditioning, which was incomparable to the past.

"I spent a few days abroad. Master Ge, is the business okay?"

If someone else came to listen to the conversation between the two, he would think that Master Ge was the owner of this store. Is there such a boss? Is his own business? I would ask how the worker is.

"Okay, why can't it be? Xiaozhuang, I took this number last month..."

Master Ge knew that Zhuang Rui was just asking about the matter in the store and how much money he had earned last month, Zhuang Rui didn't know. He stretched out his slap, opened his thumb and index finger, and shook it in front of Zhuang Rui.

"Eighty thousand?!"

Zhuang Rui was really shocked. He gave him a commission of 300 per word for Master Ge. The 50,000 yuan is nearly 300 words. Calculated based on three words in one chapter, there are more than 100 people who chose to let Master Ge engrave the seal manually.

"Well, this is because I can't be busy. I still have more than 200 people in my hand to engrave seals. I guess it will take next month to engrave it..."

Master Ge's face was full of smiles. He could earn such income by carving seals that he would never have dreamed of before.

"That's a good thing, haha, Master Ge, now I know that a word of five hundred is not much, right? What we earn is craft money..."

Zhuang Rui laughed and couldn't help feeling a little satisfied. It seemed that his decision was not wrong. It was just the gimmick of hand-engraved seals that could bring 50,000 or 60,000 yuan to the store every month.

"Xiaozhuang, I think the commission is a bit too high. Look, otherwise I'll get 300 in the store and I'll get 200..."

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Master Ge hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and said the thoughts he had thought about for a long time.

Although this person didn't think he made a lot of money, Master Ge suddenly had a monthly income of nearly 100,000 yuan when he was unemployed the previous month. The gap was a bit too big, and he felt a little uneasy.

In addition, Master Ge also knew that he made more money than Zhuang Rui, which means that the guy made more money than the boss, which made him feel a little nervous.

Zhuang Rui smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Master Ge, don't say this anymore. You should just take 300 and make a living by craftsmanship. It's natural. Speaking of which, the store also has your benefits..."

"Master Ge, I said he wouldn't agree, so you can do it with peace of mind..."

Before Zhuang Rui could finish his words, Zhao Hanxuan walked into the store. Master Ge told him several times that he wanted to reduce the commission. Zhao Hanxuan did not agree. First, this was decided by Zhuang Rui and he had no right to change it. Second, in Zhao Hanxuan's opinion, Zhuang Rui was not short of this money.

Moreover, Master Ge's craft has indeed brought a lot of business to "Xuan Ruizhai". Many artful people have bought the paper and pens needed for writing and painting after engraving seals here. In the past month, the sales of the four treasures of the study in the store have increased a lot.

Master Ge is a honest person. After hearing Zhao Hanxuan's words, hesitated and said: "This... isn't this good?"

"There is nothing wrong with it, Master Ge, in a few decades, maybe many people can't even engrave seals. If you have time, bring more monkeys and Nobita, it can be considered as passing on this skill..."

Zhuang Rui waved his hand and interrupted Master Ge, and then said, "That's all about this. Don't mention it in the future. Lao Zhao, where did you go just now?"

Zhuang Rui had no intention of questioning this. He did not think of Zhao Hanxuan as a working person, but just asked casually.

"Go in and talk..."

Zhao Hanxuan saw that there were many customers in the store and pulled Zhuang Rui into the compartment.

"I went to several other stores to ask. There was a group of people who were selling bronze ware during this period, and judging from their origin, it was a bit like an object that was "pit-grown"..."

The level of contact between Zhao Hanxuan and Monkeys is different. Monkeys mostly deal with the bosses who set up stalls, while Zhao Hanxuan met people who had shops in Panjiayuan, so the information they heard was naturally different.

The "pit" he mentioned refers to the qualitative change caused by the surface of the copper ware being buried underground for a long time. The surface of the qualitative change is naturally caused by various chemical reactions, forming a rust color that is either green, red, blue, purple, or both. This rust color is solid and has a natural sense of change.

Ordinary players use "pit" to describe bronze ware, which means that the bronze ware is not long after it was unearthed.

"Old Zhao, can you be sure?"

Zhuang Rui asked, to be honest, he really didn't believe in Zhao Hanxuan's vision. This guy could buy the ragged thing about pig iron ferrying copper as a bronze Bodhisattva from the Yongzheng Palace Construction Office, which was really not very trustworthy.

"What's this?"

Zhao Hanxuan gave Zhuang Rui a blank look and said, "I know I don't know about bronzes, but Lao Xu has a good vision. He has also seen several objects. He said this..."

The old Xu that Zhao Hanxuan mentioned was a Panjiayuan antique shop specializing in imitating bronze ware. The boss Zhuang Rui had seen it. He was an expert and could not be beaten by ordinary tricks.

Zhuang Rui pondered for a while, then looked up and asked, "Old Zhao, what do you think? If it's a real thing, do you want to eat it?"

Zhao Hanxuan shook his head and said, "If it is true, I suggest not to touch my hands. I have seen a few items, and their shapes are all from before the Qin and Han dynasties. Boss, you don't need this money, why are you causing this trouble..."

Zhao Hanxuan's concerns make sense. Although many wealthy collectors in China have bronzes that are prohibited from trading, they are mostly purchased through foreign auctions or domestic middlemen. It is difficult for the police to pursue them in places like antique black markets.

However, although the possessor Zhao Hanxuan saw was a ancestral object, Zhao Hanxuan could smell the smell of earth on this person's body at a distance. Zhao Hanxuan could guarantee that this person was definitely a good at digging graves.

"I'm not short of money, but I'm short of stuff..."

Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly when he heard this. His museum would open in at most two months. Although there is a batch of porcelain now, he can exchange a batch of collections with the Jimei Museum in Paris in a few days. In Zhuang Rui's collection, there are many valuable items that are considered lonely, but for a museum with the word "country", these things are still a little less.

"I'm not bad? I'm not bad at all these things, but I can't make a deal openly. What's the point of coming?"

Zhao Hanxuan was stunned for a moment. He thought Zhuang Rui wanted to see these items, but he bought them to sell them.

"That's how it is..."

Zhuang Rui wants to run a museum, but it has been organized in the past few days. Even Ouyang Wan only knew about it yesterday. Of course, Zhao Hanxuan and others didn't understand it anymore. So Zhuang Rui told the matter in its original form.
To be continued...