A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 6 Selling Bowls
Amazing video?
This aroused Zhou Qing's curiosity. There are many scammers on the Internet. He was cautious, but it would be okay to add a friend to see if it was the same "phishing" as before. If it was the same "phishing" as before, he would just delete it.

After taking a mouthful of rice, he put down his chopsticks with his right hand, tapped the screen with his finger, and approved the other party's friend request.

This "Yan Hui Xi Lou" immediately sent a fifteen-second video.

Zhou Qing clicked play.

A faint voice came from the phone: "Look at my bowl, isn't it very similar to the one in your photo?"

His hand holding the chopsticks stopped in mid-air and he stared at the screen in disbelief.

After two seconds, he stood up, put down his chopsticks and walked out!

He ran back to the unit and climbed up to the sixth floor in one breath. Without caring about being out of breath, he closed the door and rushed to the bed. He stared at the porcelain bowl on the quilt and compared it with the one in the "Wild Geese Return to the West Tower" video.

Three minutes later, Zhou Qing was sure that his bowl and the bowl in the video were highly similar in shape and glaze color. Just by watching the video, he couldn't tell the difference, at least he couldn't.

What's the situation?
What a coincidence!

His first reaction was that he had been scammed again, but when he looked at the video carefully, he found that the bowl was placed on a desk in a luxurious study. The video was real and smooth. Current AI technology should not be able to achieve this level in such a short time.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Qing typed, "I've compared them. They're indeed very similar. Aside from a slight difference in color, I can't tell the difference."

"Yan Hui Xi Lou" waited online for his response and quickly replied, "That might be the color difference caused by the filming. If your bowl is authentic, I suspect it was fired in the same batch as mine. Can you take a video from a different angle and show it to me? Also, let me measure the bowl. Mine is 5.2 cm high and the bowl mouth is 10.4 cm in diameter."

She seems very confident in her stuff.

Fired in the same batch?
Zhou Qing thought, that's impossible. Although his bowl was materialized from the novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes" on the panel, the materialization on the panel always leans towards "reality", so it will be based on and referenced from real history as much as possible.

He also wanted to understand the difference between the two porcelain bowls, so he immediately picked up the bowls and held them under the light. He then used his phone to take videos from various angles and sent them over: "Wait a minute for the size. I'll measure it right away."

He turned around and walked to the other side of the bed, squatted down, took out the tool kit he used to draw designs from the snakeskin bag, took out a ruler, and began to measure the data of the porcelain bowl.

Place the bowl on the desk and measure the height first with a ruler standing upright.

The result came out very quickly, and it was exactly 5.2 cm, the same as the bowl in "Wild Geese Returning to the West Tower".

Then measure the diameter of the bowl.

After repeated measurements, the final conclusion was that the maximum diameter was 10.8 cm.

Zhou Qing immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the diameters of the bowls were different and his was only 0.4 centimeters more. Otherwise, it would have been too strange.

He sent the data over, and the two started chatting about the porcelain bowl. The other party also told him that she bought the bowl at an auction last year.

After chatting for more than ten minutes, the other party finally stated his purpose: "Would you like to sell me your bowl? I want to buy it and make a pair."

Zhou Qing once again raised his guard and asked, "What's the price? How do we trade?"

He responded with a screenshot: "This is a screenshot of the auction I participated in last year. The original transaction price was 85,000 yuan. Generally, the price of private transactions is lower than the auction price. However, considering the fate of these two bowls, as long as the bowls are authenticated offline and are authentic, I am willing to buy them at this price."

Eighty-five thousand!

After Zhou Qing finished reading the message, his breathing became heavier.

To a rich person, it might be just a small amount of money, but to him - it's 85,000 yuan!
All my savings now are just over 700 yuan.

"calm down!"

Zhou Qing tried to control his emotions and carefully read the information on the screenshot: "Southern Song Dynasty Longquan Kiln Green Glaze Lotus Petal Bowl, No. 1551, Sold for 85000 RMB. The auction is held by Dongling Seal Society Auction Company. The auction item comes from an important private collection in Zhejiang Province... Dongling Seal Society Auction Company?"

He knew the company, having come across it before while researching. He quickly searched their website on his laptop and quickly found the corresponding auction lot's transaction information.

“They all match!”

The time was last year’s spring auction, more than a year ago.

He searched Baidu based on this information and found that many self-media outlets had mentioned this item.

Zhou Qing finally felt completely relieved.

He looked at the transaction price on the screen again, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"She's right. According to the information I've researched, auction prices are generally higher than private sales, sometimes much higher. She's willing to pay 85,000. Perhaps she really likes this bowl, or perhaps, as she said, she wants to make a pair... If they make a pair, they'll definitely be worth more."

"Anyway, the price she offered should be very sincere."

After a while, he had an idea in mind and picked up his phone to type: "The price is good, how do we make the deal?"

The two discussed for more than ten minutes and reached a consensus.

After the other party went offline, Zhou Qing also logged out of QQ, logged into the 12306 app, bought a second-class high-speed rail ticket to Jiangcheng tomorrow morning, and then searched the traffic conditions from Jiangcheng High-speed Railway Station to Xudong Antique City on the map software.

It took me ten minutes to sort out the travel route and start thinking about the transportation of the porcelain bowls.

"Porcelain is fragile. Fortunately, this bowl is small, so I can put it in a paper box and put it in my backpack. But I have to hold the bag against my chest and protect it with both hands during the trip to prevent any accidents."

He bought his backpack on Taobao when he was in his sophomore year for 35 yuan. Although it was cheap, the quality was very good. He has used it for several years and it has not broken down at all.

“There’s just no paper box.”

He searched the map and found that the nearby Xinjiayi Supermarket was only one stop away, so he quickly ran there and bought a plastic storage box that could hold the porcelain bowl.

He also took apart the quilt he had used for four years in college, took out the cotton inside, stuffed it into his lunch box, and wrapped the porcelain bowl so tightly that it could not move.

At the same time, the lunch box is wrapped in winter cotton clothes and then put into the backpack.

I tried it on my chest and it felt very stable.

After finishing all this, it was already 11:30 in the evening.

I had wanted to start choosing the third novel to read in the evening, but I had to get up early tomorrow, so I had to put it on hold for the time being. I took a shower, set the alarm and went to bed.

Perhaps because of the excitement, Zhou Qing did not sleep well that night. He woke up automatically half an hour earlier than the alarm clock rang at 7 o'clock.

I simply packed up and left early.

To prevent any accidents, I even took the extravagance of calling an online taxi.

After he got on the bus, he didn't put down his bag and kept it on his chest.

When I was about to reach the high-speed rail station, my cell phone suddenly rang. I looked at the caller ID and it was Sun Ke.

Why did he call me so early?
Considering that his phone battery was already very weak, Zhou Qing subconsciously didn't want to answer the call, lest his phone run out of power and delay his important business of selling bowls. However, he quickly remembered that the phone could be charged on the high-speed rail, so he answered it with one hand: "Hello."

Keep your other hand gently on the bag.

Sun Ke's voice immediately came from the phone: "Zhou Qing, I haven't been to Shanghai. Where is your rented house? Can we get together today?"

　I have received a message from the signing station, friends who want to invest will come in quickly!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)