"Brother Dong, how long do we have until we arrive? How about..., I can sleep for a while first?" After Chen Bao finished yawning, he smacked his mouth and asked slightly impatiently.
"Sleep for a while? If you fall asleep again, I won't wake you! Okay, hold on, we'll be there in three or four minutes!"
"All right!"
Seeing that Chen Bao nodded, but his eyelids were fighting, Liu Dong shook his head helplessly and ignored him.
Fortunately, due to the short time, Liu Dong had slowly parked the car on the roadside outside Panjiayuan before Chen Bao fell asleep.
"Okay, wake up, we're here!"
"Well, ah, we're here! Where are we?" Chen Bao woke up after being slapped by Liu Dong. After looking around, he found that except for the place illuminated by the street lamp, the surroundings were still dark.
"Where is it? I'll find out later when I take you in! Here!"
"What is this?" Chen Bao asked as he looked at the stick that Liu Dong handed over, which was as thick as a thumb and no longer than half a hand.
"Flashlight!" Liu Dong said and turned on the switch above. Immediately a bright but not dazzling Angelica light broke the darkness in the car.
"With such a small flashlight, what can you see? And, Brother Dong, aren't there much bigger flashlights than this? Why don't you bring those big ones? This way, you can see more clearly!"
"A bigger flashlight? Do you think this is going to the vegetable market to buy food? Having a flashlight like this is already very good, at least it is much better than the previous kerosene lamps and candles! Let's go!" After saying that, Liu Dong pushed
He opened the door and walked out.
Chen Bao, who originally wanted to ask more questions, saw this and walked away quickly with a flashlight.
"Brother Dong, this is a fool, where are we going?"
"Where to go? Didn't you already come here during the day?"
"Been here?" Chen Bao was stunned for a moment. After looking around, he suddenly realized that this was the Panjiayuan he visited this afternoon.
“Is Panjiayuan a ghost market?”
"That's right! There is a ghost market here every Thursday and Friday night!" Liu Dong said after nodding.
"This, this is really unexpected!"
"There are so many things in this world that you can't think of. Let's go! Now that we're here this time, let's have a nice stroll!" After saying that, Liu Dong took Chen Bao around a few corners and entered Pan City.
home!
Because he had been here many times, Liu Dong was already familiar with everything in the ghost market. However, Chen Bao, who came to the ghost market with him for the first time, was very unfamiliar.
Looking at Panjiayuan, which was originally bustling with people and densely packed stalls during the day. Although it is still full of stalls and the flow of people is not small at this moment, the atmosphere is actually different compared to the daytime.
Watching the people coming and going, except for the sound of footsteps, there were very few other sounds. And most of the stalls had only a dim lamp in front of them, which could barely illuminate the stalls. Chen Bao felt a hint of ghost from it.
gas.
Chen Bao, who was experiencing this for the first time, trembled in his heart for a few times. He couldn't help but grabbed Liu Dong's sleeve in front of him, then leaned into his ear and whispered with a trembling tone: "Brother Dong.
, this place is too crowded, there can’t really be ghosts, right?”
Turning to look at Chen Bao with a scared look on his face, Liu Dong couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Don't scare yourself, there are no ghosts in this world! Okay. Follow me, don't make any noise. If you come across something you like, tell me and I will buy it for you!"
"No need, Brother Dong! I have money with me!" Chen Bao said quickly.
"I know you bring money. But the rules for buying things here are different from other places. Forget it, I can't explain it to you in one sentence or two sentences. Just remember to tell me when you buy things.
Got it!"
Buying things in an antique store is different from other industries. Because the amount of money involved is huge, buyers and sellers want to ensure that their business secrets are not leaked. Therefore, when bargaining, most of them do not talk verbally, but secretly negotiate.
Hands on'.
Hand-in-hand trading is also a rule passed down from the elders and is still followed by people in the industry today.
However, the sleeves of modern people are not as wide as those of the ancients. With more and more outsiders joining the industry and the rise of the auction industry, fewer and fewer people abide by this rule of joining hands. However, in the ghost market,
This method of trading is still extremely popular.
As an outsider who is not even an introductory collector, Chen Bao naturally does not understand the methods and incisions in Chinese antiques trading. That’s why Liu Dong just said what he said!
Chen Bao is not stupid, and although he is Chinese, he has been influenced by Chinese Confucian culture from his parents since he was a child, and he also has some understanding of life in the country. He knows that there are certain rules in the country, especially in some ancient industries. Therefore, in
After Liu Dong finished speaking, he just nodded his head clearly and said no more!
Following closely behind Liu Dong, the two of them also joined the dense but not crowded flow of people.
Now Liu Dong, as his wealth has become richer, and the collections in his hands have become more and more. He no longer thinks about the time he just got the relic Yuan Guang two years ago. Every time he goes to antique streets or antique shops, there are not many
Look, when you come up, you use your own ability to scan the goods!
Now he enjoys the fun of searching for treasure in the unknown even more.
Of course, if he encounters something unknown, or something he is optimistic about, he will still use the relic Yuan Guang, just like now...!
Liu Dong and Chen Bao stopped in front of a stall.
Generally speaking, the stalls of "Baofu Zhai" that cannot afford to open a shop are all porcelain, calligraphy, paintings, jades and other major antiques. If it were not explicitly prohibited by the state and bronzes could not be sold to the public, I'm afraid this would be the case.
It’s also a must-have at the stalls!
Liu Dong squatted down in front of the stall, scanned the stall that was less than four square meters in size, and then reached out and picked up a string of black beads!
There are nine beads in total. In Chinese culture, 'nine' and 'twelve' are very mysterious numbers. Nine represents the ultimate, shaped like a dragon and snake, and has a sacred meaning. Therefore, there are nine gates in the capital, and the emperor is called 'Nine Five'.
The Lord'! And twelve represents perfection, so there are twelve earthly branches, and there are twelve hours in a day!
Of course, compared to this beaded chain, the meaning of numbers is only people's expectations for a better vision. What Liu Dong really values is the extraordinary materials that make up this beaded chain.
However, no one knows who painted the bead chain with a layer of black paint, and later some dirt stuck on it. It looks dirty and inconspicuous! But even if Liu Dong doesn't use the relic Yuanguang, he can use it alone.
His eyesight is several times higher than that of ordinary people, and he can also find that the quality of the uncontaminated jade in the gaps between the bead chains is so outstanding.
Then he looked at it with the relic Yuan Guang, and a happy look immediately appeared between his eyebrows.
"Boss, would you like to help me?" Liu Dong said.
"Let's help? Okay!" Looking at Liu Dong's young face, the boss, who was middle-aged and quite fat, was stunned for a moment and then reacted immediately.
"I didn't expect that my little brother knows a lot at such a young age. He is indeed a hero from a young age!"
"The boss gave me a reward!"
Seeing that Liu Dong was always talkative, the middle-aged boss smiled and didn't say much. He just stretched out his hands towards Liu Dong.
Because it is common to wear narrow sleeves now, and it is the end of September, so there are not many clothes. Therefore, it is impossible to put your hands completely into the sleeves. Therefore, even if Liu Dong does not stretch out his hands, he can see very clearly with his eyes.
I saw that the middle-aged boss stretched out a finger on his right hand, and indeed, except for the thumb, all the other four fingers on his left hand were stretched out!
Liu Dong glanced at the other person and shook his head. He stretched out his hand and clasped the little finger of the other person's left hand.
But this time it was the middle-aged boss’s turn to shake his head!
But this time he moved not his left hand, but his right hand! He stretched out his thumb and index finger and made an "eight" gesture!
Liu Dong frowned, took the bead string in his hand and shook it towards the other party, then directly broke the 'eight' on the middle-aged boss's right hand into four fingers and lined them up! Then he clenched his fist towards the other party.
.
Seeing the determined look on Liu Dong's face, Boss Zhong frowned. He looked at the bead string in Liu Dong's hand, looked at Liu Dong again, and nodded after thinking for a moment.
Seeing this, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile. Then he took out four hundred-dollar bills from his pocket and handed them over.
"make a deal!"
The middle-aged man took it with a joyful expression and passed Liu Dongdao.
"Um!"
After Liu Dong nodded to the other party, he stood up and pulled Chen Bao out of the stall.
However, Chen Bao, who had long been intrigued by the series of inexplicable gestures between Liu Dong and the middle-aged boss, could no longer bear to ask: "Brother Dong, tell me what happened just now."
What do those gestures of yours mean?"
"It's very simple! The right hand represents numbers, and the left hand represents units such as tens, hundreds, millions, or millions!"
After Liu Dong finished speaking, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on Chen Bao's face. With Liu Dong's practice just now, and because this is not something complicated and difficult to understand, Chen Bao, a college student, can naturally understand it as soon as he explains it!
"That's not right, Brother Dong, one, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, just five fingers. What if you encounter one hundred thousand?"
"Unless you meet 'Big Bang Chui', who else would spend 100,000 yuan to buy antiques at a street stall!" Liu Dong said directly.
"Big mallet?"
"He's just a fool!" Liu Dong shook his head and explained.
Looking at Chen Bao who looked embarrassed, Liu Dong said nothing more. After all, he grew up abroad and it is understandable that he does not understand some of the common sayings in China!
"Brother Dong, are there any antiques worth less than ten yuan?" Chen Bao was embarrassed and quickly changed the subject.
"Of course, you can buy a lot of things with ten silver dollars in the Republic of China! If it weren't used now, one finger would not represent 'yuan', but 'fen'!" (