Chapter seven hundred and fiftieth chapters old bookstall
I parked the car and walked to the street where the market was held in the center of the town. I saw a lot of traffic and people. It was very lively. The noise was full of joy and celebration. As far as I could see, there were vendors setting up stalls, people carrying baskets, and pushing carts to pull goods.
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"Wow, there are so many people here." Xue Qi exclaimed with a happy smile on her face, holding her arms with her high school friend Li Huihui.
Xue Chen had not visited the market in the town for several years. Seeing this familiar scene again felt quite novel and interesting.
"Brother, look, we are selling candied haws on a stick, let's buy some to eat." Xue Qi pointed to a man selling candied haws on a bicycle pushing a bicycle at one end of the market.
"How old are you? You're already in college, but you still miss eating candied haws." Xue Chen said with a smile.
After a while, each of the three people had a bunch of candied haws in their hands. Xue Qi picked a dry, sweet and sandy black date one, Li Huihui held a cantaloupe one in her hand, and Xue Chen had an authentic hawthorn candied haws.
Like antiques, he prefers traditional and old-fashioned ones.
The three of them each held a bunch of candied haws in their hands and ate them as they walked, avoiding the passers-by. At the same time, they stopped from time to time to take a look at the stalls on both sides. The two girls were chattering, whispering to each other, and giggling.
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The two girls mostly wandered around the stalls selling trinkets, picking up small mirrors, small bracelets, and cartoon hairpins that cost two or three yuan and looked at them again and again. They couldn't put them down and discussed whether to buy them.
Xue Chen was naturally not interested in those things, but it was hard to separate, so he had to follow step by step.
Soon, the two girls each picked something, a small bracelet and a Snoopy plastic hairpin. The two items only cost ten yuan in total. The two girls rushed to pay.
"Okay, you and I don't have to pay for anything today. Let my brother pay for everything you buy." Xue Qi said.
Xue Chen, who was following behind, was speechless and laughed: "Why?"
"Just because you are older than me and Huihui, just because we call you brother, can you hurry up and pay quickly?" Xue Qi raised her pretty face, raised the corners of her lips, and said with a smile.
Li Huihui also snickered on the sidelines.
"Okay, okay, what you said makes sense, I'll pay, that's all." Xue Chen shook his head helplessly, took out his wallet and stepped forward to pay.
The three people continued to move forward, and it didn't take long for them to finish all the candied haws in their hands. Just then, they met a popcorn seller again, so each of the three people had a small bag of popcorn in their hands. Of course, Xue Chen paid for it.
money.
When he saw a stall selling used goods and sundries, Xue Chen walked over and took a look. The items sold were quite complete, including copper coin swords to ward off evil spirits, rusty copper Guanyin statues, and
Green with what looks like a clear jade golden toad, and even a crystal ball...
Even without getting started, Xue Chen could tell that none of these things were real old objects. The copper coins on the copper coin sword were so bright that they looked very festive and beautiful with the red string tied around them. It was not good at warding off evil spirits and avoiding evil, so it was used as a decoration.
It's not bad, but the Guanyin statue and the emerald golden toad are too unreliable. The traces of wear and corrosion are written on the face.
Of course, the stall owner has absolutely no intention of selling them as real antiques, and the prices they offer are quite affordable, only one or two hundred yuan a piece, and they are completely sold as decorations.
"Little brother, which one do you like? I'll give you a 20% discount. It's not open today." In the cold morning wind, the stall owner shrank his neck, wore thick cotton gloves on his hands, and sniffed from time to time.
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"That copper coin sword is quite beautiful, I want it." Xue Chen took the copper coin sword, left a hundred yuan and left.
"Thank you, little brother, please walk slowly." The stall owner happily shined the one hundred yuan in the sun and carefully put it into his pocket.
Holding it in his hand, Xue Chen took a look at the copper coins that were almost blinding. He took a closer look and found that they were of the same style. On the front were the words "Xianfeng Yuanbao" and on the back was "500".
"Oh, I still thought it was five hundred." Xue Chen chuckled.
There are many styles of Xianfeng Yuanbao, including one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, one thousand, etc. Among them, five hundred is considered a more precious one. The price is not low in the auction market. A good quality one
When it's five hundred, it's worth easily over a million.
Of course, there are forty or fifty copper coins used as five hundred on this string of copper coins, so they cannot be authentic. They are all modern mass-produced handicrafts.
He held the copper coin sword in his hand and made some gestures. When the sun shone, the copper coin shone brightly, which was quite beautiful. Xue Chen smiled and played with the sword.
When Xiaoqi saw it, she made a joke: "Brother, why did you buy a copper coin sword? It has a red tassel on it. When you acted just now, you looked like a Taoist priest, the kind who exorcises ghosts and captures demons."
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"Like a Taoist priest?" Xue Chen held the copper coin sword and gestured again, looking at Xiao Qi and asked.
"It looks like! It really looks like it. If you don't believe it, ask Xiaohui." Xue Qi's eyes narrowed into crescent moons. Li Huihui also smiled beside her, but of course she was embarrassed to be as bold as Xue Qi and arrange Xue Chen's story randomly.
Xue Qi laughed and said: "Brother, don't be a Taoist priest. I don't have a sister-in-law yet. My second uncle and second aunt will also be sad."
"Xiao Qi, I have to correct your mistake. Taoism is not against marriage. Haven't you heard of a word called Taoist couple?" Xue Chen glanced at Xue Qi, "Besides, if I really want to be a Taoist priest
, I will accept you glutton first. Look, you have eaten up such a big bag of popcorn in such a short time, and Huihui still has half of it left."
"Isn't it just food? Besides, you don't have to spend any money yourself. Of course it tastes delicious." Xue Qi looked like she was "not ashamed, but proud."
Tang's eyes lit up, and he held Li Huihui's hand and killed him, "Brother, I want to eat marshmallows, come here and pay for it!"
Xue Chen slapped his forehead and followed: "Eat, eat, you will definitely regret it when you have ten more pounds of meat after the New Year."
"Crow's Mouth!" Everyone loves beauty, and Xue Qi naturally wants to maintain a slim figure. When she heard Xue Chen's words, she immediately pouted, glanced at the marshmallow, and stopped buying it after thinking about it.
, I’m really worried about having ten extra pounds of meat on my body.
Xue Chen couldn't help laughing and stepped forward to buy three marshmallows.
The three of them stopped and walked, and the market almost ran through the longest street in the whole town. It took an hour for the three of them to reach the end, and the three of them had really eaten a lot of snacks, and each of them had a lot of snacks.
Bag of spiced melon seeds…
While walking, a small stall caught Xue Chen's attention. Unlike other stalls, which all had a tricycle or a long table to place goods, this stall couldn't be more simple, with no specific color visible.
The plaid sheets lay on the floor, with a pile of books scattered on them.
A skinny man about forty years old, wearing a cotton-padded jacket that should have been grass green but now yellow-black. He had oily hair and a dirty face, as if he hadn't washed his face for many days. Eye feces was clearly visible in the corners of his eyes, making the original
His small eyes looked even smaller. He was sitting on a stone on the roadside with his head down, holding a cigarette and chatting with the pork stall next to him.
"Zhuzi, how about you leave the pig's head to me and I let you pick a book from my stall?"
The pork sellers are a couple in their early thirties. The man is short and stocky and has an honest face. The woman is average-looking but plump and has fair skin.
"No, what do I need your book for? It's too hard to wipe my butt, and we both can't understand it." Zhu Zhu glanced at it and replied.
"It doesn't matter if you two can't understand it. You can read it when your son grows up. Your boy is about five years old, Zizhen. When you got married, I saw that your wife would definitely give birth to a fat boy." Selling books.
The man glanced at Zhu Zhu's wife's butt and chuckled.
Zhuzi glanced at the man selling books with some anger and disgust, stopped caring, and concentrated on cutting the pork, entertaining the meat buyers with his wife.
Before he even came close, Xue Chen could tell after hearing a few chats between the two people that this book seller was definitely not a serious person. How could a normal person talk to someone like this? Even a beating would be a minor offense. If you pay attention carefully,
After taking a second look at the man selling books, he suddenly recognized this man. He had seen him before!
That was when he was in junior high school in the town. He heard that someone was beaten by his parents for robbing junior high school students of their living expenses, and was also arrested by the police station. Because the nature was not bad, he criticized the education and detained him for a period of time.
During that time, he met this man on the road, and his classmates pointed out to him that it was the man in front of him who was stealing money!
That was already eight years ago. Eight years ago, when he first saw this person, he was almost the same as he is now, squatting on the roadside smoking a roll. It was the same eight years later. It seemed that his life had not changed. He still looked like this.
I vaguely remember this person's name, it seems to be Zhao Yuande.
Xue Chen walked over and stood in front of the stall. He originally planned to take a casual look and didn't pay much attention to it, but when he got closer, he saw that the first book on the pile of old books was called "The Origin of Chinese Literary Characters"
The yellow leather-threaded book was stunned for a moment.
He knelt down and went to pick up the source of Chinese characters. He planned to take it in his hand and take a closer look, but before he could take it in his hand, he was stopped by Zhao Yuande.
"Hey, I said, you want to buy a book? Don't touch it if you don't want to buy it. This book is very valuable. What should I do if it gets damaged? Can you afford to pay for it?" Zhao Yuande held a cigarette in his mouth and looked as if he was not awake.
By Xue Chen.
Seeing that Zhao Yuande's words were very unpleasant, Xue Chen was not annoyed and smiled lightly: "Let's not mention whether I will be damaged. If it is really damaged, of course I can afford to pay for it..."
At this time, Xue Qi and Li Huihui also walked away from a Chinese knot stall opposite. When they saw Xue Chen running to the stall opposite, Li Huihui whispered: "Brother Chen, why did he go to Zhao Yuande's place?"
"Do you know Zhao Yuande? Huihui?" Xue Qi asked curiously. (To be continued)