Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 367: Can This Really Be True?

"Alright then. I wish you find a good job."

After finishing the meal, Chen Yiyang looked at the young man and said, "But this porcelain, twenty thousand is too expensive. How much does your family need for the medical treatment?"

"The doctor said it’s about fifteen thousand. I was thinking that after paying the fifteen thousand, when my family is discharged, I hope they can rest for a while, which is why I quoted twenty thousand."

This young man is really too honest.

Chen Yiyang was at a loss after hearing the young man’s words.

Initially, he was thinking of haggling for a lower price.

But now he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

So he directly said, "How about this, I’ll buy this porcelain bowl from you for twenty thousand, but we need to write a contract."

"Ah." Yu Dong initially thought that getting a free meal from Chen Yiyang was already unbelievable.

He didn’t expect Chen Yiyang actually wanted to spend twenty thousand to buy his porcelain bowl.

So he was completely stunned.

"Don’t want to sell?" Chen Yiyang looked at Yu Dong and asked.

"Sell, I’ll sell!" Right now, Yu Dong was at his wit’s end. He had borrowed all he could, and as long as he could afford the medical treatment for his family, anything goes.

No matter if Chen Yiyang was a scammer, as long as the money gets transferred to him, that’s fine.

Even if it was ill-gotten money from a scam, as long as he could pay the hospital first and arrange the surgery for his relatives, he was willing to accept it.

Therefore, Yu Dong and Chen Yiyang went to a nearby print shop and simply printed an antique transaction contract.

Then both parties signed it, and Chen Yiyang immediately transferred twenty thousand to Yu Dong.

"Alright, it’s done. Give me the item." Chen Yiyang took the porcelain bowl from Yu Dong’s hands.

"Thank you." When Yu Dong saw the notification on his phone confirming the twenty thousand deposit, he deeply bowed to Chen Yiyang.

This porcelain bowl, though inherited from his grandfather, he knew just how ludicrously supposed it to be from the Great Ming Kangxi Era.

Therefore, he believed Chen Yiyang was purely a kind-hearted person, buying the bowl for twenty thousand was entirely to help him.

On the other hand, after purchasing the porcelain bowl, Chen Yiyang went straight to the museum in Lin’an City to find those experts he knew.

He simply couldn’t understand how this piece, supposedly from the Great Ming Kangxi Era, turned out to be a genuine antique.

"Mr. Chen, your luck is simply unbelievable,"

In the museum, Chen Yiyang handed the porcelain bowl to an expert whose surname was Shi, whom he knew.

After carefully examining it, the expert looked up at Chen Yiyang and said, "Did you hear about our museum’s research progress and then decide to bring this item out?"

"What research progress?" Chen Yiyang wasn’t able to figure it out.

"Come with me." Expert Shi led Chen Yiyang to a display case.

Chen Yiyang took a glance inside.

Behold, in the Lin’an Museum’s display case, there was another porcelain bowl.

And on the back of this porcelain bowl, the same six characters were also present.

Great Ming Kangxi Era.

"We’ve just looked at your porcelain bowl, and there’s no problem. It seems to be from the same batch of Qing Dynasty porcelain as the one in our museum."

"No way, this is really Qing Dynasty porcelain." Chen Yiyang was dumbfounded.

He thought maybe there was something valuable hidden within this bowl.

He didn’t expect the porcelain bowl itself to be valuable.

"That’s correct." Expert Shi said, "We also discovered this Great Ming Kangxi Era porcelain bowl by chance in an ancient tomb.

Initially, we thought it was a modern replica, but the tomb was completely undisrupted, just a Qing Dynasty tomb, so this porcelain couldn’t have been smuggled in.

Later, through evaluation and instrument measurement, we finally determined that this porcelain bowl is indeed a rare Qing Dynasty porcelain from the Kangxi Era bearing an inscription.

"What does this Kangxi Era mean?"

"Kangxi Era refers to the reign period name during Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty." Expert Shi explained, "This porcelain is indeed made during the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period."

"Please explain further." Chen Yiyang was getting increasingly confused.

"Actually, we currently have a few hypotheses."

Expert Shi said, "There are possibly two reasons why this style appeared.

One possibility is that this porcelain might be made during the Kangxi accession and Three Vassals rebellion, created in the Jiangnan Region occupied by the Three Vassals.

Because the reign period referred to was Kangxi, but because the area controlled by the Three Vassals had already become independent, they used the notation Great Ming Kangxi Era.

After the Three Vassals were subdued, the Qing Dynasty enforced increasingly oppressive control on the general populace, leading the owners of such porcelain opting to bury them with the deceased.

Because the supply of these porcelains remained limited, it has only now been discovered by us."

"What’s the other hypothesis?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"The other might relate to the porcelain itself.

Expert explained, "During the Kangxi Era, due to Emperor Kangxi believing porcelain was fragile and inauspicious, he issued an edict outlawing inscriptions on porcelain produced in official kilns.

If inscribed with Great Qing Kangxi Era, once the porcelain shattered, it could impact the Great Qing negatively.

In the Draft of Qing History, Kangxi’s original words were: Ban household insignia or sages’ inscriptions on porcelain to prevent ruin.

But as time progressed, the enforcement loosened among the populace, with many porcelains beginning to bear inscriptions.

It’s possible some craftsmen felt that if they inscribed Great Qing, if the porcelain broke, trouble would easily follow; so they simply inscribed Great Ming instead.

This resulted in the inscription method Great Ming Kangxi Era. So even if the porcelain shattered, it had no relation to the Great Qing."

"I see, that’s enlightening." Upon hearing the expert’s explanation, Chen Yiyang suddenly understood why insider information called this a catch.

In the antique world, such porcelains are equivalent to misprinted banknotes, categorized as extremely rare and valuable misprints.

More valuable than their correct counterparts.

After all, those correctly inscribed are common, but the incorrectly inscribed are this few.

No wait, not few, there are only two known now.

One in the museum, and one with him.

"Mr. Chen, although your porcelain matches the one in our museum, based on the signs of wear, yours has been more used. How about leaving it in the museum temporarily for research?"

After the knowledge session, this expert named Shi eagerly looked at Chen Yiyang, hoping he would leave it for them to study.

"I just bought this item and haven’t had a chance to truly appreciate it myself. Let’s say I’ll take it home and find someone to examine it. We can discuss this matter later."

Chen Yiyang wouldn’t dare leave the item at the museum.

Leaving the item behind was easy, but retrieving it would be much harder.

So Chen Yiyang quickly took the item and left immediately.

If this porcelain was unique worldwide, he might have let it stay in the museum for the experts to study.

But since the museum already had one, it was naturally one for the museum and one for Chen Yiyang — what a perfect arrangement.