Rebirth of the Genius Charlatan

Chapter 18: Antique Market (two more)

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  The antique market in Dongshi is not the same as the antique street in the commercial street. There are shops on the antique street, and there are many authentic goods and large transactions. The antique market is dominated by unused goods, that is, antiques purchased from the Xia villages, mixed with some modern craftsmanship imitations, it can be said that there are really few fakes. But here is also the most practiced eyesight and collection skills, so many people are willing to come here to stroll around.

  As soon as the four of them walked into the market, the stall owner recognized Xia Shao and greeted him warmly, "Yo! Xiaoxia, are you here again?"

  "Xia Xia, come here, here are the new goods, come and palm?"

   "Hey, isn't this Professor Zhou's grandnephew? Why did you come with Xiaoxia? Do you know each other?"

   "Uncle Wu, we are classmates." Fat Dun scratched his head and replied.

   "Yo! Are you classmates? Oh, this is really... For so many years, I don't know that the two youngest Tibetan friends in the market are classmates. My business is really..." Wu Shuhai said with a smile.

  In the past few years, because Professor Zhou likes to collect, Fatton has followed him a few times, and he has become familiar with some stall owners in the market.

When Xia Shao often came to the antique market, these friends didn't know it. Two years ago, Liu Cuicui and Du Ping came to the antique market with their classmates and happened to meet her. Then they knew that Xia Shao often came. Later, Fatton also knew about it, but the three of them only thought that she was influenced by Professor Zhou and liked to go shopping. They didn't think she would really pick up the leak.

  Liu Cuicui and Du Ping think that they don’t have this kind of eyesight, and Pangdun has been influenced by Professor Zhou in the past few years. Although he has learned some knowledge of antique appraisal, his eyesight is undoubtedly very shallow. Even if Xia Shao and Fat Dun had studied with Professor Zhou together, their eyesight was not much worse.

  Five years ago, Professor Zhou picked up the inkstone during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was originally spent 100 yuan. Now if it is auctioned, the reserve price is at least 30,000 according to market conditions, and the auction is basically more than 100,000! If you meet a collector who loves Duanyan, the price can be higher.

  The stall owner who had missed the piece of Duanyan learned that he regretted it, but he was helpless. Antiques is a very special industry. In this industry, there is no fraud, and there is no rule of return. Because buying and selling antiques is a contest between the two sides in the field of knowledge, perhaps the seller has missed the sale, or the buyer has bought the fake and bought the wrong one. They can only sum up their experiences and lessons, and cannot blame others. Therefore, ordinary people in antique shops dare not get involved, and the difficulty lies in true and false.

  But, this is also the charm of this line.

  Xia Shao and the four came to Wu's stall owner. In Liu Cicui and Du Ping's eyes, some ancient jade, porcelain, copper coins, calligraphy and painting were randomly placed together, and they seemed to have ancient charm, and they all looked real.

"Come on, little classmates, take a look at these. They are all old objects collected in the countryside. Maybe you can pick them up!" The stall owner Wu gestured to the area on the left corner with a smile, and motioned Xia Shao to look at this place. Pendant objects.

  Xia Shao smiled when she saw it, just watching, not talking.

  Wu Shuhai couldn't help but sigh when he saw her expression. In the past five years, he has touched Xia Shao's temperament and temperament, but if she smiles like this, it means that he will basically not make a move today. He also wondered why she was not too old, but her smile always made him feel unpredictable, as if he could see his thoughts and the collections on the stall thoroughly at a glance.

  If Xia Shao knew Wu Shuhai's thoughts at this time, he would probably praise him for being intuitive. In fact, there are genuine products on this stall, but they are not in the area that Wu Shuhai pointed out to them. Naturally, these antique vendors are not stupid. They will also distinguish among the objects collected from the countryside. Some of them can be determined to be genuine. Who wants to mix in fakes and lower their value? Those genuine products are often privately traded, and the price of the transaction is kept secret. The remaining objects that are new or inaccurate at first glance will fall into another category, and generally laymen are familiar with such objects.

  Although Xia Shao and Pangdun are no longer considered laymen now, they are both students and they are from ordinary family. To put it bluntly, they have no money. They were genuine at first glance, and they couldn't afford it.

  In the antiques business, there is always a market in the city, and it depends on the price. When you open the door to do business, it is profitable. Since Wu Shuhai knew that they were poor students and couldn't afford the genuine products, he naturally asked them to choose from the cheap. Those things are not worth a lot of money, but if you sell one, you will have the money for today's meal.

  Xia Shao didn't even get started, just smiled and took a look, knowing that there is no genuine product in the pile. Fat Dun squatted down and took a look at it, and finally stood up and said, "Uncle Wu, let's go to another place to see."

"Why, I didn't catch your eye? Don't tell me, you guys look at it again. This is your summer vacation, right? That's right, it's good to buy a piece and go back for fun, isn't it?" Although there is no strong buy in any line The rules of selling, but Wu Shuhai naturally has to make the last effort for today's meal.

  Pang Dun has never refused people. He scratched his head embarrassedly when he listened to the stall owner’s words to stay.

  Xia Shao said with a smile: "Uncle Wu, let's go for a walk again, maybe we'll be back in a while."

  What this said made Wu Shuhai feel hard to say anything for a while, so he smiled and watched the four of them go away.

  After looking at more than a dozen stalls, there was no omission to pick up, but Liu Cuicui saw a jade bracelet at one stall. The bracelet looked like old jade, with a rope tied to it.

  Liu Cuicui looked at joy, so she picked it up and put it on and looked left and right, "Shaozi, come and take a look, isn't she pretty with this bracelet?"

Although Xia Shao has the ability of Tianyan, she has learned a lot of knowledge from Professor Zhou and the stall owners and Tibetan friends in the market over the years. Even if the bracelet is not tested by Tianyan, she knows that it is a c product and has been pickled. And the old ones.

But before Xia Shao spoke, Liu Cuicui asked, "Boss, why do you still have a rope on your jade bracelet? It's really superfluous. Can I untie the rope and have a look? Also, how do you sell your jade bracelet? "

  As early as the moment Liu Cuicui put on the jade bracelet, the stall owner knew that she was an outsider. Because the insiders look at jade, and if there is a rope, they first put the rope on the wrist and watch the jade in the palm of the hand. Liu Cuicui didn't even care about it, so she put it on her wrist, and she actually said that she would untie the rope. Of course, in Xia Shao's opinion, the rope tied on this is purely a swindler, and this jade is not a good jade at all.

   "Puff!" Fat Dun let out a sullen laugh and said nothing.

  Du Ping glanced at him strangely, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the bracelet?"

  Pangdun shook his head, and whispered, “Are there any questions? Sister Cuicui won’t buy it.”

  At this time, the stall owner stretched out his five fingers indifferently. Liu Cuicui was stunned when she saw it, and asked, "What do you mean?"

  Xia Shao whispered to her the price in her ear, Liu Cuicui's eyes widened suddenly, "Ah? Five hundred yuan?! Damn, it's up to my living expenses for three months in school."

  In 1997, although the economy was better than in previous years, and wages increased a lot, most of the ordinary families were still very strict about the living expenses of their children. Liu Cuicui’s family also has a younger brother. Her parents depend on farming for a living. They strictly control her living expenses in the city, which is only one hundred yuan a month. So for Liu Cuicui at this time, this bracelet Still very expensive.

"I don't want it anymore!" Liu Cuicui took off the bracelet. Although she liked it very much, she was also very good-natured. If she couldn't afford it, she couldn't afford it. She didn't say much, so she carefully put the bracelet back to the original. land.

Although she had long expected the result to be like this, Xia Shao couldn't help feeling sore when she saw Liu Cuicui carefully putting the jade bracelet back into place. She lowered her eyes and said with a smile: "Sister Cuicui, you If you like jade bracelets, I will find a good one for you in the future."

  She smiled indifferently, with a long-distance calmness, as if she was saying that.

  Liu Cuicui was taken aback, and then smiled, "Okay! If you say something like this, sister didn't hurt you for nothing!"

  She naturally thought that Xia Shao was comforting her, but even if it was just a word of comfort, she was very moved.

   "Let's go, let's go elsewhere." Liu Cuicui pulled Xia Shao up, and the regret of not buying a bracelet just disappeared in a flash, pulling her to the next stall.

After the four of them walked away, the stall owner gave a blank look, "Bah! I'm looking for a good one! I've been walking around in the market for a few years, and I really regard myself as an expert. An expert who has no money is just a shit! Looking for a good one! , Can you afford it! Pretend garlic!"

The stall owner next to him heard it and smiled: "Lao Ma, what are you angry about with a few students? Current students, I don’t know how to study hard, so I think about something crooked all day long. I don’t even think about it, even a student. If you can pick up the leak, what are we people still messing with in this business? Oh! Forget it, no matter what they do, we don't point to these people to make money, but to these people to send food to the door."

  The two stall owners looked at each other and smiled, and said nothing.

  The two of them did not know that at this time, the four of Xia Shao had already walked through four or five stalls. Suddenly, Xia Shao stopped and looked at a stall ahead.

  On that stall, among the piles of dishes stacked together, a large blue and white plate exudes a touch of antiquity...

  ------Off topic------

   Two more here!

  Everyone work harder, I hope to be able to rush to three hundred today~o(n_n)o~

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