Chapter 3072: Calculated Plot

Just as Xiao Changkun was proud of himself for pitting Zhou Liangyun, taking revenge, and earning 200,000, Ye Chen, who was drinking tea in the teahouse, couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled.

He had long seen that the person who went into Zhou Liangyun's shop to buy things was a swindler, but he didn't understand why Zhou Liangyun still bought his things.

Could it be that the thing was really from the Northern Song Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Ye Chen almost immediately concluded: "With Uncle Zhou's attainments in the antique field, it is absolutely impossible for him to have missed it in the Jin Ling antique street. I think that copper Buddha must be from the Northern Song Dynasty."

So, he couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this trap was figured out by my father-in-law and Zhang Ermao. If they knew that the thing they sold to Zhou Liangyun for 300,000 today is worth tens of millions, I don't know what their mood would be?"

At the same time.

Zhou Liangyun watched the man go away, then got up and closed the shop door from the inside, then carefully examined the copper Buddha he had just received.

He firmly believed in his own vision. This was a gilded copper Buddha from the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was a little conservative just now. The manufacturing process of this thing, against the background of the Northern Song Dynasty, was absolutely extremely exquisite, and could be considered the peak of copperware in that era.

Very few Northern Song copperware have been preserved, and even fewer are made so exquisitely. Many people who play with antiques might not have touched one in their whole life.

But to be fair, the patina is indeed a pity.

Zhou Liangyun speculated that it was very likely that this copper Buddha passed through the long years and reached the hands of people who didn't understand it. The gilding on the surface was not well maintained, so it fell off. After falling off, they simply gave up and peeled off the mottled gilding layer completely.

Without the gilding, and with the patina damaged during the peeling process, people without deep research on Northern Song copperware, even old players in the antique industry, would probably feel that it was a modern imitation at first glance.

Therefore, Zhou Liangyun speculated that it must be an antique dealer specializing in counterfeiting who, when accidentally obtaining this copper Buddha, judged it to be a modern object, and then re-aged it on its basis, matched it with a copper base from the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty collected from somewhere, and put them together into a set to deceive others that this was something made in the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Liangyun also judged based on this point that the person who came to sell things just now must have come to deceive himself.

That person said he took his father's legacy out to sell for money, but he was very familiar with this copper Buddha in his words, knew the age, knew the background, and could even come up with professional terms like "open-door", and could even say a relatively accurate range of prices for Xuande-year copperware. Logically speaking, he should have some involvement in antiques.

However, this person didn't even know the age of the Northern Song Dynasty. It can be seen that he didn't understand the most basic history at all.

Anyone who has a little involvement in antiques, not to mention reciting the emperors, reign titles, and time of all dynasties, at least has a relatively clear concept. They can have a rough concept of time in their hearts when mentioning any emperor's reign title. Even if they can't remember the year when mentioning the reign title, they can't possibly not understand the five major dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing.

Therefore, according to common sense, it is impossible for that person not to know the year corresponding to the Northern Song Dynasty when talking about it.

Besides, that person made important decisions several times after looking at the mobile phone. Zhou Liangyun speculated that he was just a tool instructed by others, and the person who instructed him must have thought that this thing could bluff himself and let himself miss it, so he let him complete this scam.

Thinking of this, Zhou Liangyun also began to guess the mastermind behind the scenes.

In the antique street, some people specialize in deceiving casual customers, but some people specialize in deceiving merchants.

Taking fake things to deceive antique dealers has long been common in this industry.

It is not strange for him to open a shop and have someone come to deceive him.

But what is strange is that he just barely opened for business today, has no reputation, and doesn't even have a proper signboard. How could someone target him so quickly?

This made him realize that this trap must be specifically targeted at him.

As for who is targeting him, Zhou Liangyun thinks it is highly likely to be Zhang Ermao.

The reason is nothing else, mainly because Zhang Ermao had been to his shop before, and asked about the investment scale of his shop. In order to keep a low profile, he lied to him that it was only hundreds of thousands.

And after the person came with the things just now, he quoted 500,000, which looks like he wanted to take it in one step and deceive all his investment scale of hundreds of thousands.

Moreover, in the antique industry, being deceived out of some money is not the most fatal. The most fatal thing is to spread a reputation of being unprofessional.

Everyone knows you are unprofessional, so people who really want to sell good things will definitely not look for you. Those who look for you are all swindlers who want to deceive you;

And because everyone knows you are unprofessional, people who really want to buy good things will not look for you either. They are afraid that you bought a pile of fake goods without knowing it and sold them as genuine goods.

Therefore, the sinister intention of those who set up such a trap is self-evident. Not only do they want to deceive all his money, but they also want him to have no foothold in the Jin Ling antique industry.

But Zhou Liangyun felt puzzled in his heart. He hadn't offended Zhang Ermao before, why did he want to target him so much?

What is even more ridiculous is that he set up a trap for him, but unexpectedly sent a good thing from the Northern Song Dynasty, which is really unheard of.

And the reason why he told the truth in front of that person just now was that he was sure that no matter what he said, the other party would definitely not believe it, and secondly, it was to leave a piece of evidence for the future.

In the four corners of the shop's ceiling, the monitoring cameras installed on the first floor by the previous shop owner were not removed when he left.

According to the shop owner, it only cost a few hundred yuan when he bought it a few years ago. It was troublesome to move a ladder to climb high to remove it, and it couldn't be sold for much money;

After all, it was something bought several years ago. A camera that cost one or two hundred yuan several years ago, now no one wants it even if it adds up to one hundred yuan, so he simply did a favor and gave Zhou Liangyun the account number and password of the monitoring software.

In that conversation just now, Zhou Liangyun had already explained the pros and cons of this copper Buddha to that person under the monitoring record, not only saying what age it was and roughly how much it was worth, but also giving the other party a proposal of half each, which can be said to be far beyond the average level of the entire antique industry.

The reason why he told the other party the truth was also because he saw through the other party's conspiracy, so he simply played a calculated plot to counter the conspiracy.

He said everything that should and shouldn't be said, just because the other party couldn't believe it, so he said it earnestly and sincerely.

Moreover, the other party didn't believe at all that the item was from the Northern Song Dynasty; they only wanted to scam him. So, no matter how sincere he was, the other party insisted on thirty thousand. Even after being told the true value of the item, they still insisted on thirty thousand. With this chain of evidence, even if the other party found out the truth later and came looking for trouble, he wouldn't have to worry. Even if this lawsuit went to the United Nations, he couldn't possibly lose.

He has been in the antique business for a long time and has seen all kinds of strange things, so he has always had a heart of defense, and has considered everything quite comprehensively.

After Zhou Liangyun downloaded all the monitoring videos just now to his mobile phone, he made a decision to sell this copper Buddha as soon as possible.

The reason for selling as soon as possible is not that he is short of money, but that he realized that someone doesn't want him to have a foothold in the antique street.

Today he collected this copper Buddha, and it won't be long before someone will spread the news in the antique street, letting everyone know that he has been deceived.

If he wants to fight a beautiful turnaround, it is useless to say that the thing is from the Northern Song Dynasty. No one will believe it. Moreover, the antique dealers here, Zhou Liangyun also knows, their professional level is not top-notch. So the best way is to sell this copper Buddha as soon as possible. Once it is successfully sold, his reputation in the Jin Ling antique street can be hit.

As for whether hitting the reputation will expose his identity, Zhou Liangyun is not worried.

Although he picked up a leak, this kind of leak at the level of tens of millions of RMB can only have some influence in the antique circle of Jin Ling, and it is nothing compared to the whole country, not to mention the collections in the European and American antique circles with unit prices of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. The trap Zhang Ermao made for him just happened to allow him to hit his reputation in Jin Ling without being spread too widely. The scale is perfectly grasped. This is not charcoal in the snow, this is sending a villa with heating when it snows.

And at the same time, Xiao Changkun in Zhang Ermao's car also received the 300,000 RMB transferred by Zhang Ermao's little brother.

The thing bought for 98,000 in the afternoon came back for 300,000 in the evening. The profit of 202,000 made Xiao Changkun dance with joy.

Ordinary people's lives are always hard to harvest multiple joys. While making money, it often hurts your muscles and bones and hurts your dignity. Most of the time, you make money on your knees, and few people stuff money into your pocket on their knees; going out to pick up girls will harvest psychological and physiological pleasure, but the money spent will make people feel distressed uncontrollably, and in order to earn this money back, more physical and mental strength will be invested later.

But Xiao Changkun experienced what is called all-round satisfaction today. Money was earned, and it was earned while lying down. More importantly, he earned the money of his enemy and took revenge on his enemy.

Such a good thing is hard for ordinary people to encounter. Its difficulty is equivalent to sleeping with the enemy's wife, the hotel is opened with the money of the enemy's wife spending the enemy's money, and after the event, the enemy's wife takes out all the enemy's money and gives it to herself.

Xiao Changkun, who was in a great mood, couldn't help but praise Zhang Ermao, smiling and saying: "Oh Ermao, you are really a god! Even Zhou Liangyun was played around by you. With this brain of yours, if you continue to do antiques, who in the whole antique street can play with you?"

Zhang Ermao was also completely relieved, and finally didn't have to pay for Xiao Changkun with his own money, so he complimented: "As long as President Xiao is satisfied!"

"Satisfied! Very satisfied!" Xiao Changkun laughed: "The money is in hand, shouldn't it be time to let the whole Jin Ling antique industry know that Zhou Liangyun missed it?"

"That is of course." Zhang Ermao hurriedly said: "President Xiao, don't worry, I have arranged everything."

After speaking, he took out his mobile phone and called Chen Yufei. Once the call was connected, he immediately said: "Zhou Liangyun spent 300,000 to buy that copper Buddha, you can promote it well!" ===== CHAPTER 3073 =====

After saying this, he took out his phone and called Chen Yufei. Once the call connected, he immediately said, "Zhou Liangyun spent thirty thousand to buy that bronze Buddha. You can go ahead and publicize it well!"