Chapter 49: The Legend of Wenwan Circle (Part 2) Fourth Update

  "Five hundred thousand is not a small amount, but it's still not enough to get things done..."

  Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head, saying: "Secretary Li's fish plate is also an heirloom, originally not willing to sell it. But my son wants to get married and needs to buy a house in Chu Du, so I'm in a hurry to sell it. Now, a 100-square-meter house in Chu Du costs around 600,000 to 700,000 yuan. If you add another 100,000 yuan, I'll make the decision to sell it. Liu Ge, think about it, if this plate is paired with a set, won't its value appreciate?"

  The Zhou Yi is also bad. In fact, when he came, Li Yuanfang's bottom line for him was 400,000 yuan, which was not enough to buy the whole house, but the down payment was more than enough.

  But Liu Ke, this old rabbit is too cunning. Just now when tasting wine, he obviously had a problem, but pretended to be a country bumpkin and fooled Zhou Yi. Now it's also considered settling accounts in June, if Zhou Yi wants another 100,000 yuan, it would be like killing the rich to help the poor and narrowing the urban-rural gap.

  "How come Secretary Li is selling this plate to buy a house for his son's marriage?"

  In the antique market, when a seller says "can't do business", it's like hinting that they won't sell for less than a certain price, no room for negotiation. Liu Ke glanced at Zhou Yi and smiled, nodding: "Alright, since we're all friends now, let's do it as you said, Zhou brother. I won't give you cash either, I'll directly give you a 100-square-meter house in the Business District, how about that?"

  "Is it a business district?" Zhou Yi was taken aback: "That's more than 600,000."

  "This you don't need to worry about, I won't hide it from Old Zhou, this small district was developed by Liu Ge, he didn't lose out either."

  Zhang Zuo laughed and said: "Liu Ge, you too, since things are going well, why did you shake your head earlier? It got me all tense for nothing..."

  "This thing is right, but also wrong..."

  Liu Ke smiled slightly: "Zhou younger brother, what do you think?"

  I Ching in my heart a shock, won't it? This plate if said not to match, then the treasure energy was absorbed by myself, but how can ordinary people see through it? The all-powerful idle person system is unique and unparalleled, even I myself cannot specifically say how to get it, Liu Ke absolutely cannot possess it, could it be that in this world there is still someone who can see through the treasure energy in the plate?

  Although he was surprised in his heart, Zhou Yi still made a puzzled expression: "What do you want me to say, Liu Ge?"

  In college, even if you were a good fellow who participated in the literary society's play performances, even if you're an old fox, you might not be able to see through this good hunter, right?

  "Haha, I guess I overthought it, this thing is just a legend in the entire cultural relics circle, how could you possibly know..."

  Liu Ke smiled self-deprecatingly: "Don't laugh, Brother Zhou, it's just me being possessed by a demon."

  Zhou Yi and Zhang Zuo exchanged a glance, both feeling somewhat itchy and uncomfortable. The more Liu Ke spoke, the more curious they became.

  And... how can this person be dealt with? Haven't you heard the saying: When drinking, don't finish the bowl; when speaking, leave half unsaid. If everyone laughs at him and he remains silent, then he's either a poisonous man or a treacherous one!

  "What's wrong with you two? I'm neither a poisonous man nor a treacherous man!"

  Liu Ke glared at the two of them: "Forget it, I'll just tell you about this legend in the world of art collecting, so that you two won't think I'm that kind of despicable person."

  "Old Zhou, I'm saying that this fish plate is both right and wrong, it's not nonsense. The plate itself has no problem, if you take it to any expert, they'll all say it's the real deal, even if you do carbon-14 testing, it will pass."

  Liu Ke smiled and said: "But I say it's not right, nor is it wrong... because from this fish plate, I can't feel the breath of history..."

  "A breath of history?"

  Zhou Yi was shocked, and then he couldn't help but laugh and cry. This can be considered as a revenge, just after talking about the 45-year-old Mu Tong wine that contained the winemaker's sincerity and joy, which is already quite abstract. Alright, Liu Ke is even more extreme, directly running to Impressionism.

  Zhang Zhuang also burst out laughing: "Alright, Liu Ge, you can stop spouting this nonsense that only fools outsiders. What historical aura? I don't smell anything!"

  "Because you're an idiot..."

  Liu Ke gave him a white eye, and the rabbit's style was occasionally revealed, making Zhou Yi feel a chill.

  "Zhang Zuo I asked you, why did you buy antique collectibles?"

  "Why? For the money, what else?"

  Zhang Zuo was puzzled, what's wrong with Liu Dabo today? He looks like a philosopher, is he going to promote maternalism or something?

  "So you'll just spend your whole life messing around and only be able to move in antique circles, while people like us..."

  Liu Ke said up to here, shook the hem of his Tang suit, and slightly raised the corner of his mouth. Looking at that posture, as soon as the gongs and drums sounded, he could come out and say: "Then it belongs to the circle of calligraphy and painting, this is two different worlds..."

  "Are antiques and cultural relics the same thing?" Zhang Zuo looked at him with an air of superiority, his eyes widening in surprise.

  "That's two different things!"

  Liu Ke said disdainfully: "You antique dealers are all about money, while we connoisseurs of refined art..."

  "Pursuing is the breath of history."

  The Book of Changes has accurately added a sentence, which seems to be both flattery and irony. How to understand it depends on whether Liu Ke has confidence in himself.

  "Yes, what is being pursued is the breath of history..."

  Liu Ke nodded solemnly at Zhou Yi, as if he had met a kindred spirit like the high mountains and flowing water: "We literati, when we get these good things, hold them in our hands, and can breathe with history, communicate with our ancestors in a mysterious way... This state is called 'oneness with the ancient', people who reach this state find it hard to be deceived by appearances, usually just need to touch it once to distinguish between true and false!"

  This kind of talk is often said by judges on antique appraisal shows, but most of the time it's just pretentious nonsense, making the audience or appraisers feel a sense of mysterious and profound admiration.

  It's a bit ridiculous to say something so serious like Liu Ke did to his friends. Zhang Zhao couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing, saying: "Liu Ge, you actually said one correct sentence, I think you're really getting carried away!"

  "What I said was 'walk fire enter magic', referring to Zhou's younger brother's idea, but it's not what this is about."

  Liu Ke shook his head and said, "Zhang Zhao, you've seen too little, and you don't treat these good things as if they were treasures from your ancestors. All you see is a pile of banknotes, so it's no wonder you can't appreciate them. I'm not being pretentious, true men of letters and refined scholars genuinely like these old objects, even worshiping them! Only with this attitude can one feel the historical vicissitudes hidden in each of these cultural relics..."

  "Hehe..."

  Zhang Zuo pouted and didn't say anything, but from his expression, it was clear that he still had some doubts about Liu Ke's words.

  "Old Zhou, there's a legend in the collectibles circle that some people are born with a keen eye. Although they can't distinguish between genuine and fake antiques at first glance, once they enter the collectibles world, good fortune will shine upon them, they'll pick it up extremely quickly, and eventually become an expert!"

  Liu Ke's eyes gazed intently at Zhou Yi: "A person with a congenital treasure eye like this, if they come into contact with an antique, has a certain probability of absorbing the historical aura from the antique. But just now, I didn't feel any historical aura from this fish plate..."

  "Is there such talk?"

  On the surface, Zhou Yi looked innocent, but in his heart, he was shocked. He had never thought that Liu Ke would actually be a connoisseur of antiques and sense that the treasure aura in the fish plate was gone. Fortunately, Liu Ke's keen sense was only developed through years of exposure to antiques and not as intuitive as Zhou Yi's.

  "Perhaps it was Secretary Li's frequent use of this fish plate to serve dishes, treating it like an ordinary plate, that made the historical... atmosphere disappear?"

  Zhou Yi can now only help Liu Ke find the reason, so as not to let him dig deeper. The president of a national top 500 enterprise, if he really gets serious, has a lot of connections and power that cannot be underestimated. Zhou Yi still needs to be careful in his response, lest he disturb his own peaceful and leisurely life...

  PS: Thanks for the support of brothers, it's time to change the list on Monday again. Whether we can maintain the first place depends on you brothers and sisters. Hold on, idle people are relying on you!

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