The antique market in the East Market is different from the antique street in the commercial street. The antique street is full of shops, with many genuine goods and large transactions. The antique market is dominated by wild goods, that is, antiques purchased from rural areas, mixed with some imitations of modern craftsmanship. But this is also the best place to train your eyesight and collecting skills, so many people are willing to come here to hang out.
As soon as the four of them entered the market, a stall owner recognized Xia Shao, waved and greeted him warmly: "Hey! Xiaoxia, are you here again?"
"Xiao Xia, come on, come on, come here and take a look at the newly collected goods?"
"Hey, isn't this Professor Zhou's grandnephew? Why are you here with Xiaoxia? Do you know each other?"
"Uncle Wu, we are classmates." Pang Dun scratched his head and replied.
"Hey! Are you classmates? Oh my, this is really... for so many years, I didn't know that the two youngest collectors in the market were classmates. My business is really..." Wu Shuhai said with a smile.
Over the years, because Professor Zhou likes collecting, Pang Dun has followed him a few times, and has become familiar with some stall owners in the market.
These friends didn't know that Xia Shao often came to the antique market at first. It was two years ago that Liu Cuicui and Du Ping went to the antique market with their classmates and happened to meet her. Then they knew that Xia Shao often came. Later, Fatty also found out about this, but the three of them just thought that she had been influenced by Professor Zhou and liked to hang out. They didn't think that she would really pick up the leaks. After all, picking up the leaks also depends on your eyesight.
Liu Cuicui and Du Ping thought they did not have this kind of eyesight. Pang Dun had been influenced by Professor Zhou in the past few years. Although he had learned some knowledge about antique appraisal, his eyesight was undoubtedly very shallow. Even though Xia Shao and Pang Dun studied with Professor Zhou together, their eyesight is probably about the same.
The Duan Inkstone from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that Professor Zhou picked up five years ago cost one hundred yuan at the beginning. If it were put up for auction now, according to the market conditions, the reserve price would be at least thirty thousand, and the final price would be more than one hundred thousand! If you meet a collector who likes Duan inkstones, the price can be even higher.
When the stall owner who missed the sale of the Duan Inkstone learned about it, he felt regretful and beat his chest, but there was nothing he could do about it. Antiques is a very special industry, and it depends on your eyesight. There is no such thing as fraud in this business, and there are no rules about returns. Because buying and selling antiques is a competition between the knowledge fields of both parties, maybe the seller missed the sale, maybe the buyer bought the wrong one, and they can only sum up their experiences and lessons, and cannot blame others. Therefore, most people do not dare to get involved in the antique business. The difficulty lies in authenticity.
But this is also the charm of this industry.
The four of them, Xia Shao, came to stall owner Wu's stall. In the eyes of Liu Cuicui and Du Ping, some ancient jades, porcelain, copper coins, calligraphy and paintings were randomly placed together. They looked ancient and authentic.
"Come on, little classmates, take a look at these. They are all old things collected in the countryside. Maybe you can find something missing!" Wu stall owner smiled and gestured to the area in the left corner, indicating to Xia Shao and the others to take a look at this place. Placed objects.
Xia Shao laughed when she saw it. She just looked and didn't speak.
Wu Shuhai couldn't help but sigh when he saw her expression. Over the past five years, he had learned a lot about Xia Shao's temperament, but whenever she smiled like this, it basically meant that she would not take action today. He also felt strange why, despite her age, her smile always gave him an unfathomable feeling, as if she could understand his thoughts and the collections on the stall at a glance.
If Xia Shao knew Wu Shuhai's thoughts at this time, he would probably praise him for his keen intuition. In fact, there were genuine products in this stall, but they were not in the area Wu Shuhai pointed out to them. Of course, these antique vendors are not stupid. They will also identify the objects collected from the countryside. Some of them can be judged to be genuine. Who wants to mix in fakes to lower their value? Those authentic products are often traded privately, and the price of the transaction is kept secret. The remaining items that look like imitations or are inaccurate at first glance will be put into another category. Generally, these are the types of items that laypeople can get their hands on.
Although Xia Shao and Pang Dun are no longer outsiders, they are both students and have ordinary family backgrounds. To put it bluntly, they have no money. It looks genuine at first glance, but they can't afford it.
In the antique business, the price has always been determined by what the market has to offer. When you open a business, you only want to make a profit. Since Wu Shuhai knew that they were poor students and could not afford genuine products, he naturally asked them to choose from the cheap ones. Those things are not worth much, but if you sell one, you will have enough money for today's meal.
Xia Shao didn't even get started, she just smiled and took a quick look and knew that there was no genuine product in the pile. Fatty knelt down and took a look at a few items. Finally he stood up and said, "Uncle Wu, let's go look elsewhere."
"What, you didn't like it? Don't bother, you guys have another look. You guys are on summer vacation, right? That's just right. It's nice to buy something and go back to play, isn't it?" Although there is no such thing as force in any profession. There are rules for selling, but Wu Shuhai naturally has to make a last-ditch effort for today’s meal.
Fatty never refuses people, so when the stall owner tried to persuade him to stay, he scratched his head in embarrassment.
Xia Shao smiled and said, "Uncle Wu, let's go for a walk again. We might come back soon."
These words made Wu Shuhai unable to say anything else for a moment, so he could only smile and watch the four of them go elsewhere.
After looking at more than a dozen stalls, she didn't find anything missing, but Liu Cuicui fell in love with a jade bracelet at a stall. The bracelet looks like old jade, with a rope tied to it.
Liu Cuicui looked happy and picked it up, put it on and looked around, "Shaozi, come here and have a look. Isn't this bracelet beautiful?"
Although Xia Shao has the ability of the clairvoyance, she has also learned a lot from Professor Zhou and the stall owners and Tibetan friends in the market over the years. Even without testing the bracelet with the clairvoyance, she knew it was a c-grade product and had been pickled. And made distressed.
But before Xia Shao could say anything, Liu Cuicui asked: "Boss, why do you still have a rope hanging on this jade bracelet? It's so unnecessary. Can I untie the rope and take a look? Also, how do you sell this jade bracelet?" "
As early as the moment Liu Cuicui put on the jade bracelet, the stall owner knew that she was an amateur. Because when an expert looks at jade, if there is a rope, he will first put the rope around his wrist, and then put the jade in the palm of his hand to look at it. Liu Cuicui didn't even bother, she just put it on her wrist, and she actually said she wanted to untie the rope. Of course, in Xia Shao's opinion, the rope tied to it was purely deceptive, and the jade was not a good jade at all.
"Pfft!" Pang Dun laughed muffledly from the side and said nothing.
Du Ping looked at him strangely and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the bracelet?"
Fatty shook his head and whispered, "No matter what the problem, Sister Cuicui won't buy it."
At this time, the stall owner stretched out five fingers. Liu Cuicui was confused when she saw it and asked, "What do you mean?"
Xia Shao whispered the price in her ear, and Liu Cuicui's eyes suddenly widened, "Huh? Five hundred yuan?! Oh my god, that's enough for my living expenses for living on campus for three months."
In 1997, although the economy was better than in previous years and wages had increased a lot, most ordinary families were still very strict about their children's living expenses. Liu Cuicui also has a younger brother in her family. Her parents make a living by farming, and they are very strict about her living expenses when she goes to school and live in the city. It is only about 100 yuan a month, so for Liu Cuicui at this time, this bracelet is Still very expensive.
"I still don't want it anymore!" Liu Cuicui took off the bracelet. Although she liked it very much, she was quite straightforward. If she couldn't afford it, she just couldn't afford it. She didn't say much, and immediately put the bracelet back carefully. land.
Although she had expected the result to be like this, Xia Shao couldn't help but feel sour when she saw Liu Cuicui carefully putting the jade bracelet back into place. She lowered her eyes and then said with a smile: "Sister Cuicui, you If you like the jade bracelet, I will find a good one for you in the future."
Her smile was calm and distant, as if she really meant what she said.
Liu Cuicui was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Okay! With your words, my sister's love for you is not in vain!"
She naturally thought that Xia Shao was comforting her, but even if it was just a word of comfort, she was quite touched.
"Let's go, let's go somewhere else." Liu Cuicui pulled Xia Shao, her regret of not buying the bracelet disappeared in an instant, and she headed to the next stall with her.
After the four people walked away, the stall owner rolled his eyes and said, "Bah! I'm looking for something good! I've been wandering around the market for a few years, and I really think of myself as an expert. An expert without money is nothing! I'm looking for something good." , can you afford it? Pretend!"
The stall owner next to him heard this and said with a smile: "Old Ma, why are you angry with these students? Today's students don't know how to study hard and just think about crooked things all day long. They don't think about it, even a student If we can pick up the slack, what are we doing in this industry? Oh! Forget it, no matter what they do, we don’t make a fortune on these people, but we also send food money to our doorsteps on these people.”
The two stall owners looked at each other and smiled and said nothing more.
Little did the two of them know that Xia Shao and the others had already passed four or five stalls at this time. 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 exuded a faint ancient atmosphere...
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Second update arrived!
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