"You're talking nonsense?" A beautiful woman next to the middle-aged man stood up, thumped her numb legs, and said, "If you want to pay a high price for things carved out of ordinary seal stones, you must be a famous master, but even those famous Master, it's impossible for a work in his teens to be so expensive."
Since his potential customer rebutted, of course Brother Hu would not confront others, just smiled and said nothing. Of course Xia Yan wouldn't argue about this, so she told Brother Hu that I'll see you next time, then walked through the crowd and continued to walk towards Jiguzhai.
The beauty looked at Xia Yan's back and didn't say much.
"Boss, help me string five emperor coins." The middle-aged man took five copper coins and said.
"Okay, just wait a moment." Brother Hu took the copper coin and threaded the rope quickly. The middle-aged man asked again: "Boss, what you said just now is true, the seal carved by that young man can really be worth five thousand?"
"I saw it with my own eyes, it's absolutely true, and..." Brother Hu looked at both sides, and said in a low voice, "The person who bought the seal said it was for exorcising evil spirits. I don't know if this is true!"
Brother Hu has a good impression of Xia Yan, anyway, it won't affect his voice, so why not do it by saying a few nice words to help Xia Yan become famous
"Exorcism? Hehe!" The beauty smiled disdainfully, and she became more and more convinced that Xia Yan and Brother Hu were playing double reeds.
The middle-aged man said "Oh", but he became interested in Xia Yan, and asked again: "Boss, where does this little brother set up a stall?"
"This... I don't know. Counting today, it's the second time I've seen him. Xiao Xia doesn't have a fixed booth, so he should come here occasionally to earn some pocket money." Hu Ge said.
"Oh!" The middle-aged man nodded, and stopped asking any more questions. After Brother Hu wrapped up the five emperors' money, he simply paid the money, and continued to visit other stalls with the beauty.
"Mr. Yue, do you believe what he said?" The beautiful woman said as she walked, "Once you hear about exorcising evil spirits, you will know that they are colluding liars!"
"There's no need for them to lie to me. You see, that young man didn't intend to talk to us at all. He's gone now!" the middle-aged man said with a smile.
"It must be playing hard to get, maybe we will meet him by chance later!" The beauty emphasized the word "coincidentally".
"Hehe!" The middle-aged man smiled and did not refute his secretary.
There were more than a dozen customers in Jiguzhai, most of them were wandering around looking at things by themselves. Yao Ting and Sister Li each greeted a customer. Among them, Yao Ting has entered the stage of bargaining, and 90% of the business is done. Xia Yan didn't bother her, and went to check the things in the store by herself.
"Fifty-five thousand, do you want to pay by card or by cash...Okay, thank you for your patronage!" A few minutes later, the customer swiped his card to buy something and left. Yao Ting saw Xia Yan and laughed happily: "Xia Yan, you Here we come!"
"Sister Ting, where's uncle?" Xia Yan asked with a smile.
"Upstairs, go up by yourself, I'll come up later!" Yao Ting said, not treating Xia Yan as an outsider at all.
"Okay, then I'll go up first." Xia Yan didn't understand antiques and couldn't help her, so she went upstairs by herself.
"Xiao Yan, come and sit down!" Yao Shigu was practicing calligraphy and was very happy to see Xia Yan.
"Uncle, how about practicing calligraphy?"
"Yes, in our business, it would be embarrassing if we can't write well!" Yao Shigu put down his pen and said with a smile.
"Miss Min isn't home?" Xia Yan asked.
"She went on a trip with her colleagues, and she didn't tell us where she went. This girl has been wild since she was a child!" Yao Shigu smiled wryly.
"Xia Yan, are you here to carve something today?" Yao Shigu asked again, with a look of expectation on his face.
"Yeah, I have to do what I promised my uncle, and I'm also a little short of money." Xia Yan said with some embarrassment.
"I told you not to be polite, just tell me if you are short of money? Why bother..." Yao Shigu murmured, but he also knew that Xia Yan was a bit stubborn. This kind of principled question probably Unable to talk to him, he said, "Anyway, you can just use the materials in my workshop as you like, and you can use even the best materials for your craftsmanship!"
"Then I'll go." Xia Yan was not polite to him, and went to the workshop openly, and locked the door as usual. Yao Shigu didn't care, and continued to practice calligraphy on his own, but he was worried On Xia Yan's side, the effect of calligraphy practice must be very poor.
Xia Yan closed the door, used mammoth ivory powder to set up the undead melting gold array, first took out the piece of glass jadeite, and carved the Jade Buddha that Yao Ting wanted. It only took a total of ten minutes.
But this is definitely not his perfunctory, it's just that the Jade Buddha is too simple, and he is very familiar with it. In other words, when engraving such a simple thing, he can easily achieve the unity of mind and hand, and the engraved things will definitely not be bad.
Sister Ting should be satisfied, right? Xia Yan put the Jade Buddha aside, took a few mid-range materials from the shelf, and continued to carve. Downstairs, Yao Ting sent out a customer who bought more than 100,000 yuan in antiques. There were seven or eight people shopping in the store, but based on her experience, these people were just shopping, and they couldn't see it at first glance. Knowing how to spend money to buy things, she happened to take a break with a sip of water.
As soon as the light at the door dimmed, two more came in, a man and a woman, the man was a refined middle-aged man, and the woman was a beautiful woman with the figure of a model, hugging the man's arm tightly, staring brightly, The look of "I'm proud to have found a good man" caused other people in the store to keep looking at them.
If Xia Yan had been there, he would have recognized that these were the two people who had spoken to Brother Hu in front of his stall.
"Excuse me, what do you want to buy?" Yao Ting went up to meet him.
"Thank you, let's see for ourselves first." The middle-aged man said.
"Okay, please feel free." Many customers hate being followed, Yao Ting Bingxue is smart, of course she would not make such a mistake, so she retreated behind the counter to deal with other people's inquiries.
Among the man and the woman, the middle-aged man has been silently looking at the things he is interested in, but the beautiful woman with a model figure talks a lot, playing with the antique knowledge he has learned from TV and books.
Some of her plagiarized evaluations are correct, but most of what she said is a joke to the ears of insiders. One can tell at a glance that she is definitely a half-baked person who does not understand. If she encounters a profiteer, this kind of person is The best ones.
"Can't make up your mind yet?" Seeing the middle-aged man hesitate for a few minutes before several sculptures, Yao Ting knew that the opportunity to sell came, so she stepped forward and asked.
This question was clever, the middle-aged man nodded and said: "Yes, everything is very good, I don't know which one to choose!"
"As for the paperweight, it will be the best if it matches with the desk." Yao Ting said.
"Hmm..." The middle-aged man pondered for a while, then pointed to a jade lion and said, "How much is this one?"
"Eighty-eight thousand." Yao Ting hastily replied that the middle-aged man was undoubtedly rich after entering the price asking stage so quickly.
"No problem, let's swipe the card." The middle-aged man didn't even talk about the price, showing his style of local tyrant.