The sunshine in May envelopes Jiangnan City warmly, making people so comfortable that they just want to pull up a wicker chair, invite two or three old friends, sit under the tree, have a pot of hot tea, and play poker or chess.
Ju An has lived in the city of Jiangnan for eight years. He went to college in Jiangnan. After graduating from college, he joined a foreign trade company in Jiangnan. This is already the fourth year after graduation. From the moment he entered school, he has witnessed
First, housing prices in Jiangnan City, and then all kinds of things, skyrocketed. The only thing that remained strong in the past four years was my own salary.
As soon as five o'clock arrived, Ju An packed up his things with his colleagues and prepared to get off work.
"Lao Ju, Lao Li, Lao Qi, don't forget to meet at my door at ten o'clock in the morning." A thin young man shouted while packing his things.
"Are you going to ride horses again tomorrow?" asked Zhang Li, the company's female accountant.
"Sister Zhang, what do you mean? It's our first time riding this month. Why don't you come too tomorrow? Brother Li, I'll teach you!"
Lao Li said with a smile. Lao Li's real name was Li Jin. According to Lao Li himself, he was one of the first people in the south of the Yangtze River to ride horses. When the first racecourse opened, he started riding horses. Ju An and Qi Aijun also
There is a thin young man named Wang Dongyu who fell in love with horse riding because of the influence of Lao Li.
"What fun is riding a horse? My sister, I will go shopping with my boyfriend tomorrow, and I will get my hair done the day after tomorrow. How free is it?" Zhang Li replied.
"Hey! I feel sorry for your boyfriend, the whole two days is over." Lao Li shook his head.
"Brother Li, you and Brother Qi are married, but the two of you are still single. Just take them and have fun," Zhang Li said with a smile.
"Sister Zhang, I actually don't like riding horses. If you know any girls, introduce them to my brother. I will draw a clear line with them. I like shopping," Wang Dongyu said with a shy face.
"You traitor translator" Ju An and Li Jin pointed their middle fingers directly at Wang Dongyu.
A few people chatted and made their way downstairs to the company. Ju An said goodbye to them and walked to the bus stop.
The bus station is one stop away from Ju'an's company. There is a direct bus to the community through the antique market in Jiangnan City. This so-called antique market is just a big alley. It is backed by the palace wall of Jingtian Palace.
The half-sized road was slowly formed in the 1990s. It is still mostly filled with street stalls. Many of the old street stalls from the 1990s now have a little money and have rented large stores nearby. However, there are still many street stalls on this road.
Various legends have been told.
The business of the antique market was not very good during this period. There were vendors in small groups passing cigarettes to each other across the stalls and chatting, and some gathered together to play cards.
I swayed slowly and leisurely, looking at the stalls on both sides of the road. These small stalls were filled with piles of copper coins, porcelain, and even some small bronze tripods. People in Jiangnan jokingly called it the fake market.
Suddenly, a small thing attracted Ju An. There were piles of copper coins in a small stall, and a ceramic puppy on the corner of the stall.
"Boss, how much is this copper coin?" Ju An knelt down, picked up a copper coin, and looked at the stall owner.
"Little brother, you know the goods. The best thing in my stall is this coin. Look at the copper coin. It's a serious Qianlong style coin. It's a fixed price. You can give me 500." The vendor pointed at the copper coin and said
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"Boss, I work over there. I'm not here to travel to Jiangnan." Ju An pointed in the direction of the company.
"Cough, cough, this is really an old thing. I won't deceive you. Seeing that you are nearby, you can be regarded as a neighbor. You can give me three hundred and twenty yuan and take it away. I will treat it as a business today.
"The vendor smiled awkwardly.
"Then how do you sell this porcelain dog?" Ju An pointed to the little porcelain dog lying next to him.
"You said this, little brother, let me tell you, I just collected this thing, take a look at it,
This base is made in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty. Look at the quality of the embryo and the color of the glaze. When I collected this thing from the countryside, a fellow villager said that this thing was a large tomb dug out of a reservoir in their village.
What came out of it was a lot of old porcelain, as well as gold and silverware. When it was discovered, it immediately alerted the government. This fellow was quick to get this object." The vendor was ready to tell Ju An about this object.
The origin of.
"Boss, can you really tell me, did Wanli have bulldogs in China at that time? Don't live in vain." Ju An clicked on the porcelain dog.
"Puch!" the vendor next to him laughed. "I said Lao Wutou, this little brother also knows dogs."
"Go, go, I'm doing business, what are you talking about?" The vendor glared at the stall owner next to him.
Ju An casually took out cigarettes from his pocket, gave one to each of the vendors and stall owners, and then lit one himself.
"Haha, golden Jiangnan, good smoke," the stall owner next to him praised.
"This thing was the first time I went to the countryside to collect things. It was about 1992. The first time I didn't have any good eyesight, I just collected something like this." The vendor took a deep puff of cigarette and said, "These mountain people
Every one of them was a thief and a thief, so I punched them in the eyes and showed them to the experts when I came back. I made the whole street laugh at me for more than half a year."
Ju An picked up the porcelain dog and looked at it carefully. It was a sitting bulldog with a collar around its neck. There were some broken things on the collar that seemed to be spikes. The dog's mouth was slightly turned down, with a
With a little smile, I turned the bottom and saw a few small blue characters of Wanli Year.
"Boss, I think this dog is more fun. I plan to buy it and put it on the table for a look. It will last more than ten years at most. It's just a handicraft. Please give me a real price." Ju An put down the porcelain dog.
"Give me fifty and you take it."
"Fifty is too expensive. A porcelain storage jar only costs more than ten yuan. It's much better than this. It can also store money. This thing can only be looked at. Look, the spikes on the dog collar on this neck have fallen off.
, I’ll give you twenty yuan, and if it’s suitable, I’ll take it. If it’s not suitable, forget it. You see if it works.”
"Little brother, when I bought this thing, it was more than forty. I only earned you a few dollars. Do you think you can give me forty and sell it at a loss?" The vendor showed a wry smile, as if he was very reluctant to part with it.
"Twenty, it can't be too high. A brand new thing like this in a china shop doesn't even cost forty yuan. It's too expensive for you to charge me forty yuan if it's broken so much. Why don't you include the copper coins just now and forty yuan?"
An clicked the copper coins placed in front of him.
"Brother, aren't you talking nonsense? This copper coin is more than 40, and I won't take any less than 300." The hawker waved his hand hurriedly.
"Forget it, I still have to catch the bus." Ju An stood up with his legs raised, making a gesture of leaving.
"Then take the twenty. I'm really losing money. Let me tell you, if it hadn't opened today, I really wouldn't be able to part with it. Although this thing is new, it is a lesson for me to spend money to buy it."
"It doesn't mean much." The vendor quickly called Ju An and put the porcelain dog in a small paper box and handed it to Ju An.
Ju An almost became happy when he heard this. You are so important in my feelings.
He took out twenty from his pocket and handed it to the vendor, took the box, turned around and was about to leave.
"Brother, come and take a look at my place. I sell all good porcelain and old items. You can get Yuan blue and white porcelain if you want." The stall owner next to him seemed to think that this was a good example of someone taking advantage of him.
Hearing that there are Yuan blue and white flowers, Ju An almost stumbled and said, "Boss, can I afford to buy your Yuan blue and white flowers? I can't even afford to sell them to me."
"Brother, my honest price is one hundred and fifty yuan blue and white. You also want me to open the business." The stall owner smiled at Ju An, showing his yellow teeth.
"Keep the blue and white flowers of yours for Mongolian foreigners, I won't delay the business." Taking the box, Ju An quickened his pace and walked towards the station.
"I'm talking about Lao Wutou, we just opened today. Where did your crap come from?" The stall owner poked Lao Wutou next to him with his elbow.
"That thing was really collected. It was just a tie-in for the small bottle that I sold to Dao Guangnian of Baoxiangzhai last time. I went to Laoshan. As soon as I entered the door, I saw the bottle. It was just like the one just now.
The gadgets were put together. The family said they all came up from the ground. How could I be fooled? I fought with them for a long time and spent a total of 130 yuan. The bottle changed hands for more than 3,000 yuan, and the dog had no one.
I couldn't find my square stone that I had thrown away at home today, so I brought it out," Wu Tou said proudly.
After riding in the car for nearly an hour, and then having dinner at a small restaurant at the intersection, Ju An returned to the small house he rented. A small room of more than ten square meters cost four hundred yuan a month, and that didn't even include the money.
The bathroom and kitchen are shared. The bathroom is shared, but there is no kitchen at all. This is a so-called rental house in an urban village.
The house is a large room divided by the landlord into two small rooms, with only a few layers of wooden boards separating them. If the couple lived across from each other, Ju An could hear clearly any entertainment activities at night.
If you want to live in a community suite, you will have to spend at least 700 yuan a month. Based on Ju An's salary, almost one third of it has to be contributed to the landlord. At first, Ju An thought it was just a place to sleep, but now
Work harder, save more money, and then you can live comfortably when you have a house. Now that you don't even have a girlfriend, what should you do?
A few years ago, I thought about owning my own house, but after only a few years of living in peace, I didn’t dare to think about it. Why? The house prices in Jiangnan have been rising like a rocket. Now the house prices in the suburbs are 17,800 yuan.
Ju'an's salary is not enough to cover one square meter a year. After you buy a house, you have to repay the loan for decades. After you have paid off the money, the land use rights for decades may be available.
You still have to pay, you evil real estate developer.
After entering the door, he put the paper box on the table, took out the porcelain dog from the box, and placed it next to the computer. Ju An's computer was an antique from four years ago. In the words of a friend, this computer can do more than surf the Internet.
Browsing the web, or flipping through the cards, minesweeper, and other games that come with the system, nothing else can be done.
Qi Aijun said that netbooks are nothing. People in Anzi used netbooks a few years ago. I think Anzi can sue them for infringement.;
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