Chapter 952

Xu Damao nodded bitterly: "I was blind to take him as a brother! Bullshit brother! From now on, I'll walk my sunny road, and he can walk his single-plank bridge! He won't help me? I don't look up to him either!"

Cao Family

Not long after Xu Damao left, Lu Jin Peng came over with a hemp sack.

The two of them went to the study without saying a word.

After bolting the door, Lu Jin Peng took out old objects one by one from the sack.

With the New Year approaching, the scrap collection business was doing well.

Many families were thinking of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, having a good New Year with good food and drink.

Want good food and drink? Then you can't do without money!

But the salary was only that much, so if you lacked money, you had to find a way to get it.

Selling useless "old, broken, and worn-out" things from home to scrap collectors was one of the ways to get money!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cao Weiguo gave Lu Jin Peng an extra sum of money, specifically asking him to go to hutongs with many old Beijingers and Bannermen.

Sure enough!

It wasn't in vain!

He really caught quite a few good items!

Lu Jin Peng brought a total of sixteen old items, one of which, a hand warmer, was eye-catching.

Cao Weiguo picked up the hand warmer and studied it carefully, the light in his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

Painted Enamel Cloud and Dragon Pattern Round Hand Warmer!

Mid-Qing Dynasty, 12.1 cm high, 17.2 cm in diameter, once part of the old Qing Palace collection.

The hand warmer is round, with an arc-shaped handle, a copper liner inside the mouth, and a cover made of gilded copper wire mesh for ventilation.

The body of the vessel is pink, painted with dragons playing with pearls and cloud patterns, surrounded by symmetrical blue and white decorative bands.

In winter, hand warmers are common items on the desks of scholars for warming hands. Hand warmers are usually round or oval, and their structure is divided into two layers: an outer shell and an inner liner. The outer shell can be made and decorated with different techniques as needed, and the inner liner is usually made of copper and placed on the mouth of the outer shell for burning charcoal. Heat is conducted through the air between the inner and outer layers, making the outer shell warm without burning the hands.

This hand warmer came from the Qing Palace and belongs to the royal imperial utensils. The craftsmanship is exquisite, the cloud and dragon patterns are atmospheric and elegant, and its value is certainly not low!

In addition to this painted enamel cloud and dragon pattern round hand warmer, there were also a Qing Qianlong cloisonné imperial poem flower insert, a Ming Yongle carved red flower pattern, and a late Ming zitan wood hollow-carved Hui Chang Nine Elders picture brush pot...

After carefully putting all the items into the large wooden box in the corner, Lu Jin Peng talked about things on the street.

In this day and age, antiques aren't popular, but there are quite a few people eyeing them.

"There's a Scrap Hou in Zhengyang Gate, and an old man Guan nicknamed Nine Gate Commander!"

"Dong Gui in Dashilan is from the Plain White Banner, and there's a Cui in the East Third Alley..."

"A few days ago, this Dong Gui found me and asked me to give him the hand warmer. I didn't agree, and he left a harsh word before leaving."

Cao Weiguo said calmly: "Brother Lu, you don't need to worry about these things. I'll find someone to handle it. A fallen family dares to come out and shout; I really don't know how they write the word 'death'!"

Keep antiques in peaceful times, buy gold in chaotic times!

People die for wealth, birds die for food!

The antique business isn't doing well now, but antiques are cultural heritage left by our ancestors, depositing countless historical, cultural, and social information, and this information cannot be replaced by any other object.

An ancient work of art is a cultural relic to the cultural relic department because it has cultural protection value; to an investor, it is an antique because it has appreciation value.

Dong Gui's family used to run a pawnshop, and he is an expert in the antique circle, also doing business in picking up leaks.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies, and Lu Jin Peng's activities affected Dong Gui.

Dong Gui harbored evil intentions toward Lu Jin Peng, and Cao Weiguo also had ideas about Dong Gui.

This Dong Gui family has a solid foundation and is also a fallen family with a bad class background.

If his house were raided... wouldn't that be... ===== CHAPTER 954 =====