"I have nothing to do tonight, where should I go?" Li Yang has basically finished his work. He really has nothing to do in the evening, but he doesn't understand why Zheng Kaida has to go out at night.
"You don't want to take Li Yang to that damn place, do you?" Sima Lin, who was driving, suddenly turned around and asked Zheng Kaida.
"What's wrong with that damn place? It's a good place for me. With Brother Li's luck, I won't come back empty-handed this time!"
Zheng Kaida chuckled, and Wu Xiaoli, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly felt something in her heart and blurted out: "Brother Zheng, is the place you are going to go to a ghost market at night?"
"Hey, how do you know about the ghost market? That's right, I'm going there at night!"
Zheng Kaida looked back at Wu Xiaoli in surprise. Zhengzhou Ghost Market is not a strange place for people who really love antiques, but for ordinary people, it seems very mysterious and not many people know about it.
"I remembered, you took Li Yang to the antique city yesterday. How could I have forgotten this!"
Zheng Kaida suddenly showed a look of surprise, Wu Xiaoli smiled and did not explain anything. In fact, she really wanted Li Yang to accompany her to visit the ghost market in Zhengzhou tonight.
Zheng Kaida laughed: "This is better. Let's go together in the evening. Sima, do you want to go?"
"You've all gone to that damn place. It's pointless for me to stay in the hotel alone. Let's go and take a look!"
Sima Lin smiled helplessly. Zheng Kaida would choose the opening time of the ghost market every time he came to Zhengzhou. However, he had no interest in it after going shopping with Zheng Kaida once. He would stay up late at night and bargain with vendors in a noisy environment.
Sima Lin really couldn't adapt.
To put it simply, a ghost market is an underground market in the antique world. Many people who like antiques have the experience of shopping in ghost markets. Most of the important big cities in the country have their own ghost markets.
In addition, there are many theories about the formation of the ghost market. The most recognized one is that the ghost market originated in Tianjin during the Qing Dynasty.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, whenever there were natural or man-made disasters, the victims who fled came to Tianjin one after another to find a way to survive. According to historical records, during the Guangxu period, there used to be a porridge factory near Tianbao Road in Tianjin that provided porridge to the victims. A fire broke out and he was burned to death.
There were more than 1,000 people and countless injured. This shows the huge number of victims.
As the number of disaster victims increased, some people began to take advantage of the victims and collect some old things that others did not use and sell them to the victims. Over time, a flea market was formed there.
At that time, these second-hand goods were different. At that time, they were not like now. Most of the second-hand goods were tattered and even unusable. Such things were not easy to sell even to disaster victims. What should I do?
The unscrupulous traders set up stalls before dawn, covered up the goods in the dark, and then sold them to the victims.
For example, some people fold up the areas where the cotton leaks out of torn cotton-padded clothes so that you can't see them; some paint old shoes with ink and they look much newer; others nail the pieces of furniture that are about to be scattered and look.
It's quite sturdy, but it might fall apart after you take it home. To put it bluntly, it's a lie.
Buyers also know that they just can't stand someone who is greedy for petty gains. Although the goods in the ghost market are poor, the prices can be cut very low, but in the end, 'buyers are not as good as sellers', and whoever buys them will be unlucky.
After liberation, this kind of market gradually changed. Many tomb robbers and people who illegally obtained some cultural relics came to the ghost market to sell things. Gradually, there were more antiques in the ghost market, but there were fewer second-hand goods. In the end, antiques
Mix and match old goods, selling old goods during the day and antiques at night. This is now the ghost market.
Later, many ghost markets, large and small, developed and gradually became what they are now.
Zhengzhou Ghost Market is located in the flea market, which is divided into morning market, evening market and night market.
Among them, the morning market opens its stalls at dawn and closes around four or five in the afternoon. This category mainly sells secondhand goods. This is a real secondhand market.
The evening market refers to after five o'clock, or when it is getting dark. At this time, the market is mainly filled with people collecting secondhand goods. Some rag collectors will bring some usable things here to sell. This is better than selling them directly.
The value of rags is higher. Since these second-hand sellers have to walk around to collect things during the day, they all sell them at night, forming a night market.
The night market refers to the flea market after twelve o'clock. The people who come out at this time are not those who buy and sell old goods. Strictly speaking, this time is the real ghost market for selling antiques, especially antiques.
A ghost market named after some shady antiques.
The ghost market in Zhengzhou normally happens once a week, but there will be a big market every three months. Usually they are small markets. There are not many people setting up stalls in the small markets, most of them are local people from Zhengzhou or Henan.
, only during the big market that happens once every three months, do ghost market sellers from all over the country gather here. At this time, it is easiest to find some good things.
Today's ghost market is the big market that happens once every three months, so Zheng Kaida and Wu Xiaoli are paying attention and preparing to go shopping for Taobao.
When he got to the hotel, Li Yang understood all this and was very curious about the ghost market he was about to leave.
Zheng Kaida, Sima Lin and Wu Xiaoli have all participated in the ghost market, and their curiosity is far less than that of Li Yang. Unlike Li Yang, he is still waiting for the time before the night comes, and when should he leave for the ghost market.
It was not until 11 o'clock in the evening that Zheng Kaida woke up the sleepy Sima Lin and set off together. Among the four, Zheng Kaida and Wu Xiaoli were in the best spirits. Li Yang also kept a good spirit because of his curiosity. Only Sima Lin was the best.
Due to lack of energy, the driver was finally replaced by Zheng Kaida.
This time when he went to the ghost market, Zheng Kaida specially prepared a lot of cash, and Li Yang also withdrew a hundred thousand as a spare. If he encountered a 'treasure' like the last stone sculpture, he wouldn't have no money to buy it. There was no other way.
The ghost market only accepts cash, cards and checks are not accepted.
The car made many turns and did not arrive at a dilapidated street until almost twelve o'clock. At this time, many cars were parked at the street, including ordinary vans and some million-dollar luxury cars.
Zheng Kaida's Daben has been following behind. Although the ghost market has its own market order, your absolute safety is not guaranteed here. It is natural to be careful when bringing a large amount of cash to such a place. Zheng Kaida's four bodyguards quietly
Follow behind, just in case.
"Is this a ghost market?"
As soon as he arrived at the street entrance, Li Yang was stunned. The street was not big and quite dirty, but there were already many small stalls on both sides of the street. There were small electric lights hanging on the stalls.
People were walking back and forth in front of the street stalls to pick things. It was like a vegetable market, and there was no sneakiness at all that Li Yang had thought of in advance.
