The 28th Qing Dynasty Qianlong Period Powder Color Hollow Carved Porcelain

  (This is the third update for today, and there will be a fourth one later. Today's big explosion! Brothers, throw your recommendation tickets to support me!!)

  "Fourth brother, I'm just reminding you, I don't dare to accept this gift." Zhao Long hurriedly waved his hand in refusal. After having a meal with Yi Sitao, he felt even more that the latter had gone through countless things and had reached a certain height in terms of state of mind and attitude. So he insisted on calling him "Fourth Brother", and Zhao Long did so too. But now that he came to give him something, Zhao Long couldn't accept it.

  "Haha……" Yi Si Tao laughed even more brightly after drinking the wine and said: "My good stuff is all hidden away, not here. These are just some ordinary things. You said you also want to open a small shop, but you'll need a few decent items for that."

  Yi Sitao had also asked earlier, and Zhao Long told him the truth. At that time, Yi Sitao asked if he was short of money, and Zhao Long said he just wanted to set up a small storefront to sell some ordinary things and learn at the same time, without planning to do anything big for now. In fact, Zhao Long wanted to take root there and then find ways to make a fortune on Taobao with Lao Shi's help.

  "You're still being cautious with me, but I'm confident that I haven't misjudged you. If you really insist on not accepting it, then I'll follow the rules and give you 10% of the 300 million you saved me today. From now on, we'll go our separate ways and owe each other nothing." Zhao Long refused again, and Yi Sita's temper flared up once more.

  "Go on, go on, Fourth Brother, calm down, I'll take the blame. Looks like you had a bad temper when you were young too." Zhao Long was speechless towards this old man he just met today.

  "Haha……" Hearing Zhao Long say this, Yi Sitao burst out laughing again: "This is right, what's with the hesitation? My brothers should be straightforward and happy. I have no choice, when I was young my temper was big and my body was injured early on. In recent years, I've been calming down, but it's easy to change the world, hard to change one's nature, ah!!"

  When people reach a certain level of maturity and mental state, their words and actions tend to become more genuine. Although I had heard and read about it before, I had never experienced it myself until now.

  But since the rebirth of his left arm, he first lost to Lao Shi and now encountered Fourth Brother Yi Sitao. However, Fourth Brother Yi Sitao is much worse than Lao Shi, that guy is completely unrestrained, doing whatever he wants. In the past, Zhao Long always thought that his personality was similar to Tian Lao Da's, but after a long time of contact, he realized that he had always considered himself as Tian Lao Da and Tian Lao Er.

  Zhao Long turned around in a circle, looking at this and touching that, also examining things according to the old methods he had learned before.

  "Lao Shi, how many of these are fake?" Zhao Long asked after he finished looking at everything. He had already noticed that seven or eight pieces were slightly problematic, but they should all be replicas from the Republic of China or even the late Qing dynasty, and still have some value.

  "Hmm, this place is much better than those antique shops, only forty-six of them are fake." The old man nodded in satisfaction.

  There are over 40 pieces here, with more than 200 exhibits in total. The large ones include the central one that two people can hug together - a tripod, and the small ones are just coins placed there. About twenty percent of them are fake. Zhao Long turned his head to look at Yi Sitao, finding him staring at himself, his expression clearly waiting for something.

  Fourth brother is also indirectly testing his own eyesight, although he had previously helped him identify the Yongzheng famille rose poem on the wall with plum and bamboo patterns. He also knew some basic knowledge very well. However, that kind of freshness he should have felt too, so he was very curious. Zhao Long suddenly understood what was going on in his heart.

  With this in mind, Zhao Long casually picked up a bowl. This bowl should be the most valuable among the more than 40 pseudo antiques. Seeing Zhao Long pick up the bowl, Yi Sitao couldn't help but nod slightly, just about to say something.

  "Fourth brother, this is fake, look..." Zhao Long brought it closer and started explaining. After a round of explanation, Zhao Long handed the bowl to Yi Sitao, then walked back inside.

  "And this one... fake, and this one... fake, and this one... fake... all 46 of them are counterfeit. Although some of them still have some value, but thinking back to the money you spent when you first bought them, it's a huge difference. Of course, I estimate that there are a few pieces here that you already knew about." Zhao Long said, looking at Yi Sitao who was stunned in place.

  Even after Zhao Long finished speaking, he was sweating profusely, with beads of sweat on his already white eyebrows.

  "You little scoundrel, you're deliberately angering your fourth brother! I originally thought that among my collection, having three to five fake items would be acceptable, but I didn't expect there to be so many..." Yi Sitao had also been playing with antiques for over twenty years and felt a lot of emotion at this moment.

  "You're already doing great, haha..." Zhao Long's last smile was somewhat embarrassing, at this time he happened to be passing by a vase, his left arm casually placed on it.

  "Don't move..." Suddenly, the voice of Lao Shi echoed in his mind. Lao Shi exclaimed with surprise: "There is a hint of water energy contained within this. The person who first crafted this vase must have had considerable power to be able to store water energy within it. Using a thread of spiritual energy, I can extract a thread of water energy from it and condense it into the vase. Although it's not enough to make withered branches sprout, if you put fresh flowers in it, they would normally wilt after two days, but this vase can at least double that time."

  The old man's vision was high and boundless, except for the White Sheng painting that he couldn't get his hands on, which had a dragon-like aura. For other antiques, he would only comment on their authenticity, rarely evaluating their quality. Today, after strolling through the Cultural Antiques Street all day and seeing Fourth Brother's collection of several hundred pieces, I heard him say "not bad" for the first time.

  Listening to Lao Shi, Zhao Long also picked up the vase and took a look. It was a hollowed-out porcelain vase, which seemed to be from the Qing dynasty based on some basic characteristics. However, it was not perfect, with some flaws in certain places, no matter how you looked at it, it wasn't as good as Lao Shi had said.

  "Hmph, you can't see the problem, right? Don't believe me, ask this guy, he won't know either. Don't think that just because I, a great and awesome person, can see through something at a glance, you all can understand it too. This is the difference in realm and gap." Seeing Zhao Long ponder for half a day, only to slightly furrow his brow and shake his head, Lao Shi immediately felt very pleased with himself.

  This little guy is also thinking of examining him, so he looks like he's not showing off, but he's not a calm master either. However, the more this is the case, the more Yi Sitao likes it. At this time, Zhao Long was staring at that hollow porcelain bottle, and Yi Sitao put down the bowl and walked up to him.

  "This should also be a genuine product, only with some inferior places. I have found someone to appraise it and studied it myself. Its style is the same as that of Qing Dynasty Qianlong pink glaze hollow porcelain vase, but it seems to have been made during the Guangxu period, which is slightly different from the Qing Dynasty Qianlong pink glaze hollow porcelain vase. How about it? Have you figured out any clues?"

  "You're awesome, you're great, otherwise how could you be Lao Shi? Quickly tell me, what's going on?" Zhao Long now knows a lot but has little actual experience, and his eyesight is far inferior to that of Yi Si Tao, so he can't see the problem.

  "Just knowing that I'm great and awesome is enough, you can learn from me later. Bring some gold over, the person who refined this thing has at least reached the level of a top-notch Innate Master, and he's used some tricks on the outside." Lao Shi was very satisfied and didn't bother to respond to Zhao Long's sarcastic tone.

  Zhao Long knew the method of Old Shi, so he asked Yi Si Tao for some gold powder, the kind made from pure gold. Soon someone brought Zhao Long the gold powder he wanted. Zhao Long slowly applied it to the bottle with his hand, and after applying it, when his left arm passed by again, it quietly absorbed the golden energy inside. It was very weak, and after absorption, it did not enter the body, but directly under Old Shi's control, it was completely injected into the hollow porcelain bottle.

  "Bang, bang, bang..." A faint cracking sound came from the outer layer, and the golden powder that had been absorbed by Zhao Long had lost its golden luster. Along with it, tiny objects on the outer layer of the hollow porcelain bottle fell off.

  Under the sunlight, the bottle looks extremely bright and dazzling, as if it had just been fired from the kiln. It is exceptionally beautiful with light reflecting and shining, looking like an antique but without any sense of age, just like a modern product.

  "It's actually a real Qing Dynasty Qianlong pink enamel hollow-out porcelain vase, and it's much more beautiful and perfect than the other one... how was this preserved?..." Yi Sitao was also stunned at this time, taking over the Qing Dynasty Qianlong pink enamel hollow-out porcelain vase as if he was holding his most precious thing.

  "Hmm..." Zhao Long smiled and said, "Although there are quite a few fakes here, with this Qianlong powder blue glaze pierced porcelain vase, I suppose everything can be made up for."

  "This is too much, this Qianlong pink famille rose vase with openwork is more valuable than everything in this entire collection room. Even among my other collections, this should be the best." Yi Sitao also said excitedly: "About two years ago, a Qianlong pink famille rose vase with openwork was auctioned off at a British auction house for ￡51.6 million, which refreshed the record of China's most expensive artwork at that time. But that one can't be compared to this, it's too beautiful, too perfect, I didn't expect people from hundreds of years ago to have such incredible skills."

  "Fourth brother, I want this one, you don't have any objections, right?" Zhao Long pointed at that clear Qianlong famille rose openwork porcelain vase.

  Yi Si hesitated for a moment, and there was also a hint of reluctance in his eyes, because he too liked antiques, and also because the value was indeed too great, even if it made him feel a little painful. But once the words were spoken, they couldn't be taken back, like spilled water.

  "Keep it, but you absolutely cannot sell it. If you want to sell it, you must notify me first. And when I want to see it one day, you must let me see it at any time." Yi Sitao said with affection.

  "Haha……" Zhao Long smiled and said: "Fourth brother, even if you gave me this, I wouldn't dare to accept it, it's too precious. Although you kept your promise and let me choose freely, I'm still clear-headed about it. It's just that I want to open a small shop, and I really need something to stabilize the shop's atmosphere. So, can I borrow this bottle from you for a year or so to help me stabilize the atmosphere?"

  Actually, the most expensive ones here are only close to ten million, and the general ones are only around one million or even tens of millions, hundreds of thousands. He let Zhao Long pick whatever he wanted, just wanting to thank him a bit. If Zhao Long hadn't said anything earlier and had picked up this Qing Dynasty powder-colored hollow porcelain vase, he wouldn't have known anything, but Zhao Long didn't do that.

  Thinking of this, he wanted to say something else, but Zhao Long imitated him just now.

  "I don't want anything else, but I can borrow this Qianlong famille rose vase with carved empty body for a while. If you don't agree, Fourth Brother, then I'll just ask you for tens of millions of yuan, and we'll go our separate ways, owing each other nothing." Zhao Long said in the same tone as Yi Sita earlier.