Chapter 598

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, two years passed. Entering the new century, it was once again the turn of the century at the millennium, and it was another midsummer.

In a private room of a restaurant in Xicheng, Meng Xiaozao looked at the Qianlong blue and white plum vase in front of her, holding it in her hand and looking at it over and over, and after a long while, she looked at Cheng Army Supervisor, who was eating vegetables with a smile on the opposite side: "Is this real?"

Cheng Army Supervisor smiled: "Xiaozao, you've been in this line for a few years, you wouldn't know the rules, right? Now the market is mixed, true and false are hard to distinguish, who dares to guarantee for you? It all depends on the eye."

"Then your meaning is that this blue and white plum vase is fake?"

"How is that possible." Cheng Army Supervisor waved his hand repeatedly: "I'm just telling you the rules of this industry, reminding you. This blue and white plum vase, I spent fifty thousand to buy it from my friend, how could it be fake? However, if I have a shallow eye and hit the eye, then this bitter fruit is something I have to suffer myself. Now you want to take this, then this bitter fruit will be something you suffer, I'm just reminding you."

"Look at what you said, can I not know the rules of the industry?" Suspiciously looking at Cheng Army Supervisor for a long time, Meng Xiaozao's eyes turned, and she laughed: "But I want to take this thing back and let my Fifth Brother look at it. You also know, he is a big collector, a director of the collection association. If he says it's real, then I'll buy it. If he says it's fake, then you suffer this bitter fruit yourself."

"Hey, look at me, how did I forget this matter."

Cheng Army Supervisor was stunned for a moment, slapped his forehead, shook his head helplessly: "You, you, really cunning, how can you buy things like this? But who let me be a friend who grew up with Chunming? Fine! You take it back and let Chunming look at it, but I have to go with you. If it's bumped or bruised, it will be troublesome if it's unclear later."

"Got it, I'll call my Fifth Brother right now. We'll go over and let him look at it."

Meng Xiaozao took out her mobile phone from her pocket, flipped a few times, found Han Chunming's phone number and dialed: "Hello? Fifth Brother? Where are you?"

"Help me look at it! Not allowed to disagree, otherwise I'll follow behind your butt all day, and annoy you to death."

"No, in a hurry, right now, tell me where you are and I'll come find you immediately."

"Little sample, can't cure you." She hung up the phone triumphantly, raised her eyebrows at Cheng Army Supervisor: "Drinking with Lord Wang and the others at Old Guan's place, let's go, we'll go over right now."

Good opportunity... A flash of essence flashed in Cheng Army Supervisor's eyes, but his mouth was slightly reluctant: "What's the rush, I just started eating, too wasteful, wait until I finish eating and then we'll go over."

"Hey, hurry up, that table of people eating are all big experts, where is there such a good opportunity on weekdays? Isn't it just a meal, what's the big deal? This meal is on me. No matter true or false, after my Fifth Brother looks at the things in a while, I'll arrange another table for you, thank you for having good things and thinking of letting me have them."

Meng Xiaozao was a stubborn character, naturally arranged for her old man clearly after marriage, and grasped all the big and small things in the family. In these years, the money earned, although not a big deal compared to Han Chunming and others, could also earn hundreds of thousands a year, which was already a wealth that ordinary people couldn't hope for, so the cost of a table of wine and food of eighty or a hundred yuan was naturally nothing.

She could be considered to have ridden Wang Yan's east wind, and was the one with better changes, of course, it was inseparable from herself. Without Cheng Army Supervisor making trouble, she was the lobby manager of the hotel, and with Han Chunming's face there, she earned quite a bit every month, and caught up with the demolition, and had quite a bit of demolition compensation. Finding a man who lived a good life, life wouldn't be too bad no matter what.

"Look at what you said, as if I'm short of this meal, I just don't want to waste it. Alright, go if you want." Cheng Army Supervisor wiped his mouth as if helpless, got up and tidied up, packed the plum vase into the packaging, followed Meng Xiaozao downstairs and out, one person one car, one after another driving toward the alley where he grew up...

"This Cheng Army Supervisor is quite capable, it's only been two years, right? Heard he's buying apartments and opening mobile phone stores, really capable." Seeing Han Chunming put down the phone, Ma Du said with a smile on the side.

"Lord Ma, he started his business by playing with antiques. I heard he picked up a few big leaks, and only then had today. He is really powerful. I heard he didn't know anything before, and only started when he came out of the bureau in '98. I've been listening beside you big collectors for so many years, and haven't picked up any leaks, he's only been doing it for two years, and he's made a fortune; where is the reason for this?"

The one speaking was Li Yuejin, who was sitting on a small stool behind Old Guan, holding a fan and fanning Old Guan, Meng Xiaozao's husband, the one who was cheated by Cheng Army Supervisor in the original drama.

The influence on Meng Xiaozao was still relatively limited, because she was honestly farming at home before, and later was brought into the city by Han Chunming to take care of the family's life just like the original drama. The difference was that her income was much higher than originally. After all, Han Chunming was also a big boss with a name, and he wouldn't be stingy, only better than the original drama. So Meng Xiaozao still met Li Yuejin and married and had a little girl who was already ten years old.

Li Yuejin didn't have a proper job either, just busy at home with Meng Xiaozao, doing some physical work, helping with cooking, etc., and Han Chunming also gave him a salary, basically the same as the original drama.

The family of three lived in Old Guan's small courtyard, which was convenient for taking care of him.

In these two years, because Old Guan was old, their drinking returned to Old Guan's small courtyard. It wasn't to show favor or anything, of course, there was also the meaning of taking care of Old Guan, letting everyone be lively, and letting Old Guan have some interest. But more importantly, this group of people had been drinking together for more than twenty years, and were used to it; drinking anywhere was drinking.

Li Yuejin was listening on the side, so he went out to buy things when he had time, so he had these words.

Puran Hou snorted: "That kid is a repeat offender, can't guarantee he isn't teaming up with people to set traps to cheat people."

Wang Yan was laughing on the side without speaking, but Puran Hou, this old kid, was indeed right, Cheng Army Supervisor was cheating people.

In the past two years, the gifted Cheng Army Supervisor first burned porcelain in Jingdezhen, and soon became proficient in this path. And then started to get some cheap small things and sell them in the antique market. At first, of course, he couldn't sell them, but cheating those who didn't understand for tens or hundreds of yuan wasn't a big problem. He summarized his experience very well and progressed rapidly. However, in one year, he was already able to cheat people who had some research on antiques. And then he found several scammers to team up and act to cheat people of money.

From the beginning of hundreds, thousands, bit by bit to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, cheating everywhere in the country. After earning money, he opened a mobile phone store for the first time.

At this time, it was the time when various mobile phones were competing. From black and white to color, from straight board to flip, to slide, from single card to dual card dual standby, from only playing Snake and Tetris, to supporting some other small games. From only having a small amount of functions, to starting to support reading e-books, listening to music, watching movies. It was in these few years that it developed rapidly.

The mobile phone business, Long Teng naturally also did, and did quite well, of course, the market share was not too high. Because he was doing high-end machines at this time, ordinary people couldn't afford them. It was also like this, although it didn't occupy the low-end market share, the profit wasn't much worse. It was mainly because his mobile phones were several generations faster than others, and now he had started making big screens, but it was a resistive screen that clicked with fingernails, not the kind later. However, research was continuing, and it was estimated that touch screens could start in two years. Communication technology was also advancing by leaps and bounds synchronously; after all, in the mobile intelligent era, communication technology was the foundation.

It was also because Long Teng was leading in front that the capabilities of the manufacturers behind were various explosions. Now the mobile phone market was not what it was originally, but much more advanced and much more active. There was no online sales, only relying on countless offline stores, and the amount of profit decided the recommendation intensity of the shopping guides in these stores. Originally, opening a mobile phone store was profitable, and now opening a mobile phone store was naturally not bad. And the store Cheng Army Supervisor opened wasn't small, and the income was quite good.

However, he opened a mobile phone store, mainly not to sell mobile phones, but to make the money he got clean. He could also open other stores, it was just that the mobile phone market was good now. This was because he had more experience and remembered the lesson.

After that, he bought a three-bedroom elevator apartment, just like what he said to his old father and mother when he came out of prison, found a nanny to take care of their life at home, and let them enjoy happiness and retire.

Although the conditions were better, Cheng's father and mother were not very happy. Because they were too familiar with this script; it was like this the first two times, Cheng Army Supervisor quickly earned a lot of money, and then went to prison. Although Cheng Army Supervisor opened a mobile phone store now, it looked like a proper business, but they still remained suspicious.

However, they were old and had no energy to manage, and even less wanted to manage; they were tired, love how it is, comfortable for one day is one day.

Now, two years had passed, Cheng Army Supervisor had cheated all over the country, cheated out of cars, houses, and stores, and felt that his skills were perfect and ordinary people couldn't see through them. So he found Meng Xiaozao, wanting to come over and test it, to see what the level was.

These things Wang Yan was all clear about; Cheng Army Supervisor had never been out of his palm, easily grasped.

The topic of the crowd didn't always surround Cheng Army Supervisor, just mentioned it simply and passed by. Until chatting for a while, with the sound of the engine opening and closing the car door outside, Meng Xiaozao brought Cheng Army Supervisor in.

"Every Lord!" Meng Xiaozao laughed and greeted with a bow; she was familiar with everyone, although she didn't dare to talk nonsense, she knew everyone. After all, when drinking at Tea Fragrance back then, she arranged the eating and drinking.

Cheng Army Supervisor looked at Wang Yan with a smile: "Lord Wang, haven't seen you for many years, right?"

"Haven't seen you since the Admiral's birthday, eleven years." Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Heard you got rich again? Still started by tossing antiques?"

"Can't talk about starting, just lucky to pick up two leaks and earned some money. It's also because of this that I entered this line, met what I liked and kept it, didn't like it and resold it to friends, earning some pocket money."

"Sister, Brother Army Supervisor, you sit." Li Yuejin took two stools over with a wink.

After the two sat down, Han Chunming looked at Cheng Army Supervisor: "Don't talk much, take the things out and look."

"This was bought from my friend, fifty thousand let to me." Cheng Army Supervisor nodded, opened the box he had been holding, carefully took out the blue and white plum vase, got up and went to the dining table, handed it to Wang Yan: "Lord Wang, you look first?"

"Alright, then I'll look first, but I'm also a half-hanging (amateur), and finally have to see what they say." Laughing, Wang Yan reached out to take the bottle, looked at it inside and out for a while, shaking his head while looking.

Cheng Army Supervisor's heart was thumping on the side. He wasn't afraid, he was just nervously looking forward to the result, wanting to see if he could hide it from Wang Yan.

Fortunately, didn't let him wait too long, the impatient Meng Xiaozao spoke first: "Lord Wang, you speak, what does this light shaking mean? It's killing me."

Wang Yan handed the bottle to Puran Hou beside him, saying: "It looks real, but it also looks a bit fake, can't be sure, let these experts look."

A flash of excitement flashed in Cheng Army Supervisor's eyes, and then he asked suspiciously: "Lord Wang, I heard from Chunming, didn't you collect these old objects as early as '70?"

"This thing still depends on whether people use their hearts. Although I've collected for a long time, I haven't invested too much energy in this aspect, but those brothers who collected things for me have now become experts. I, I still prefer calligraphy and painting, and I'm quite good at this, others are just average level."

"Emotionally you don't collect porcelain?"

"Just prefer calligraphy and painting relatively." Wang Yan waved his hand, raised his head: "Don't you still have a box there? What's inside? Take it out and look together."

"This is a small enamel bowl I got before, put it in the car and didn't take it out. It just happens that you big collectors are all here, let you help look at the true and false."

While speaking, Cheng Army Supervisor took out another yellow small bowl and handed it over, laughing: "You look at this again?"

Wang Yan took the thing and looked at it over and over, "Hmm," said: "Yongzheng style light yellow ground enamel peach pattern small bowl, not bad, the quality is very good, I feel this one looks like it's real, feels not bad. Come, Lord Hou, you look again."

Understood, it's really water goods (fake), confirmed without doubt... Cheng Army Supervisor secretly let out a long breath, because this bowl was real. He deliberately got one real and one fake, just to avoid letting them think he deliberately brought fake things, after all, his reputation wasn't too good, and he had been in prison twice, so not taking some real things would be hard to make people believe. Besides, the people here were all human spirits, had to be careful, and carefulness wouldn't make mistakes.

And he got that bowl by picking up a leak, spent little money, didn't think about taking it back, just wanted to earn a sum from them. Earning money from these people, he was happy to spend it.

However, even if Wang Yan didn't have the level, he could still let Han Chunming and others help look at it. Wanting to cheat Wang Yan directly wasn't a simple thing. And Wang Yan himself said he was more interested in calligraphy and painting, he really wasn't good at this. A bit difficult to handle...

Soon, everyone looked at it once, and finally it reached Han Chunming's hands. Holding the plum vase and looking at it twice, he said firmly: "Fake."

Hearing this, Cheng Army Supervisor was stunned for a moment, and then said in disbelief: "What? Fake? I spent fifty thousand! Chunming, how did you see it?"

"Won't understand if I say too much, I won't talk about the details on the patterns, this inscription is wrong, it's written with a hard pen. Although it's written very similarly, ordinary people certainly can't see it, but it still lacks the center of the brush." Han Chunming turned his head to look at Wang Yan who was gnawing on bones: "Lord Wang, shouldn't be, you didn't see it?"

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows, shook his head with a bitter smile, and frowned again to reflect: "I just said why it felt wrong, maybe I'm old, my brain is a bit muddled, or maybe I didn't take it to heart at all. But it doesn't count as walking the eye (being fooled), if I met this outside, I wouldn't buy it if I felt it was wrong."

Everyone knew Wang Yan was finding an excuse, all smiled without speaking, but Old Guan looked at Wang Yan silently, then looked at Cheng Army Supervisor, and also followed with a smile.

"Fortunately, I thought about coming over to let Fifth Brother look at it, otherwise several tens of thousands would have been thrown into the water, and I wouldn't have a place to cry." Meng Xiaozao sighed, patted her chest, and turned to look at another yellow enamel small bowl: "Then is this one real?"

"Real." Han Chunming nodded, looked at Cheng Army Supervisor and said: "How much did you buy it for?"

"One hundred thousand." Cheng Army Supervisor laughed: "Finally this one is real, if this one was also fake, then I would really cry and find no place."

Generally speaking, the brighter the color, the higher the price, because the firing difficulty of color is greater. This bowl, twenty years later, could probably be worth six or seven hundred thousand. At the current economic level, when people's salaries were only eight or nine hundred, one hundred thousand was about the actual value.

"Sell it to me! I'll buy it!" Meng Xiaozao hurriedly said: "You big collectors have so many good things that you can't put them down, don't grab it from me."

"No, did I agree?" Cheng Army Supervisor waved his hand repeatedly: "When I bought it, I just thought the yellow color looked good, it was bright at home, and it looked comfortable, I wanted to collect it myself."

"Look, the things are all taken out, how can there be a reason to take them back? Besides, you originally planned to sell that blue and white plum vase to me, now that one is fake, you can't let me go back empty-handed, right?"

"Hey, how are you unreasonable, playing rogue?" Cheng Army Supervisor looked at Han Chunming helplessly: "I say Chunming, this is your sister, you don't manage it?"

Han Chunming shook his head helplessly: "I have to be able to manage it."

After grinding for a few minutes, after Meng Xiaozao raised the price, Cheng Army Supervisor half-pushed and half-agreed: "Fine, just one hundred and ten thousand, I'll earn some pocket money, who let you be Chunming's sister, this face must be given."

"Refreshing, then go, go back to the restaurant with me and give you the money." Meng Xiaozao went up to take the bowl and put it in the box, greeted Wang Yan and the others, and turned to leave decisively.

She bought things, naturally not for collection. A wild girl who hadn't even gone to school for a few days, how could she feel the charm of antiques? Her purpose was simple, just having idle money in her hands, keeping it for a few years, and selling it when the price went up later, which was considered investment...

Cheng Army Supervisor shook his head and muttered, packed the blue and white plum vase, and said to everyone: "Then you guys drink, I'll go first. When there are good things later, I'll bring them over for you guys to see."

Han Chunming nodded: "Li Yuejin, send Army Supervisor off."

"Go, Brother Army Supervisor, I'll send you out." Li Yuejin, who had been watching for half a day on the side, stood up and followed Cheng Army Supervisor out: "Brother Army Supervisor, do you still want this thing? If not, give it to me, I think it looks quite good."

"Didn't you hear? Fake, what do you want it for? This bottle is also useless."

"That expert also has times when he's wrong, besides, even if it's fake, such a good bottle, I'll take it to put flowers and put it in the room, that looks comfortable too."

Cheng Army Supervisor stopped, looked at the somewhat wretched Li Yuejin, until he looked at him somewhat at a loss, and then laughed: "Fine, Big Brother can't let you call me Big Brother in vain, give it to you."

Experts also have times when they are wrong; he liked what this kid said, which was a doubt about authorities like Wang Yan and Han Chunming, which was very good.

Immediately, his eyes turned, let Meng Xiaozao go first, he pulled Li Yuejin to the side, shared a "Huazi" (cigarette), and the two chatted. He really hadn't had much contact with this Li Yuejin before, so he had to chat well...

Watching Cheng Army Supervisor leave, Han Chunming drank a sip of wine and asked: "Lord Wang, are you doing this on purpose?"

Ma Du smiled: "Need to ask? Lord Wang's calligraphy and painting are peerless, not worse than those ancient masters who left names in history, how could he not see that the style was wrong. Besides, it's been so many years, you're still clear about Lord Wang's level?"

Han Chunming frowned: "You think there's a problem? He knew that blue and white plum vase was fake, and it was aimed at us? And the craftsmanship of that bottle is not low, ordinary people wouldn't see it if they didn't pay attention."

Wang Yan lit a cigarette: "Usually haven't heard that Cheng Army Supervisor has any dealings with these neighbors, although outsiders don't know he squatted for nine years the second time, but they also know he squatted for four years in '83, would he be willing to let those who know him look at him with colored glasses? How could it be such a coincidence, went to Meng Xiaozao's restaurant, and she saw the things? And came to us here? He is a professional scammer, has a criminal record, and hates me so much, looks at you so unpleasantly, you say there's no problem?"

"Then didn't he also take a real one? One hundred and ten thousand basically didn't earn much money."

"I just let him know today that I'm a half-hanging, don't have any high level. If he has ideas, then there will definitely be actions later, just watch slowly, true and false, who can say for sure?"

Wang Yan spat out a puff of smoke lightly...