Chapter 13: Picking up leaks
In the Silitan thrift market, there are mainly all kinds of old books, old furniture and all antiques.
Jade, agate, porcelain, coins, bone carvings, antiques...... Everything that looks like history is sold here.
It's just that this is also known as the place with the most fakes, and at least more than half of the antiques here are imitations.
As for whether the guests buy real antiques or imitations, it depends on their abilities.
Almost every day, countless people here come to Taobao with the mentality of picking up leaks, some people get rich overnight, and some people have no money.
"Little brother, at first glance, you are a connoisseur, I am full of antique treasures here!
"Young man, come and take a look at our store, a customer just picked up a big leak in our store yesterday!" The boss on the right looked loyal and honest, but the words in his mouth were difficult to associate with his appearance.
Li Fan looked left and right, and finally chose a boss who didn't say a word and entered his shop.
There is an old plaque hanging in front of the store, and the whole store looks antique.
There were antiques on the shelves that I didn't know if they were real or fake, and Li Fan was dazzled, Li Fan pretended to come forward and take a closer look, then reached out and touched it gently, shook his head, and looked at the next one.
The shopkeeper looked at Li Fan's appearance, and only felt funny in his heart, this young man, he didn't know how to do it at first glance, he pretended to be, and he had to kill this fat pig later.
This boss doesn't say a word on the surface, he is honestly tight, but in fact, he is bad in his heart.
Thinking of this, the boss walked over, picked up a ceramic vase, and recommended to Li Fan: "This little brother, are you here for the first time? Let me introduce you to you, this vase in my hand is a genuine Qing Dynasty antique, Li Hongzhang used it back then, if you sincerely want it, I will count you for 20,000 yuan......
"Things from the Qing Dynasty aren't very valuable. Li Fan shook his head.
The boss put down the vase, picked up a pair of jade bracelets, and recommended them endlessly:
"Little brother, you know how to do it at a glance, this vase of the Qing Dynasty can't get into your eyes, then look at this bracelet of the Ming Dynasty, you know Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, right? Prime Minister, this bracelet, that is worn by Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng's wife, if you want it with peace of mind, I will only count you 40,000 ......."
"It's good, but I don't think it's good enough. Li Fan looked hesitant.
The boss laughed: "It seems that the little brother has a high vision, I have to take out the treasure of the town store, you see the "Lamei Mountain Fowl Picture" on the wall, yes, it is that one, this is Song Huizong's own handwriting!"
Seeing Li Fan's surprised look, the boss lowered his voice and whispered: "In the past, this painting was a treasure from the Bay Island Museum, but later, it was stolen by someone, and I didn't dare to make too much publicity, so I put it here to sell, and I didn't tell him about it! This painting, 80,000 yuan, a fixed price!"
"Eighty thousand? It's too expensive, I didn't bring that much money today, can I do fifty thousand?"
Li Fan gritted his teeth, and deliberately took out a credit card from his pocket, which Liu Wanyi was afraid that Li Fan would spend money on, so she specially stuffed it into him.
The boss was already happy in his heart at this time, as an old fritter in the Silitan thrift market, the boss had seen many young people who wanted to learn to pick up the leaks, this kind of young man, it was a flicker.
And the boss still has his own routine, the vase he took out at the beginning is genuine Qing Dynasty porcelain, and the price of 20,000 yuan is also fair, if Li Fan likes it, then the transaction will not be lost.
The jade bracelet he took out for the second time was just an ordinary product, with a maximum value of a few thousand yuan, but he shouted that the price was 40,000, if Li Fan knew the goods, he would definitely point it out, and Li Fan didn't point it out, which means that Li Fan didn't know the goods.
The calligraphy and painting he took out for the third time was purely a counterfeit, and the cost of a few hundred yuan was a few hundred yuan, but he dared to shout 80,000 yuan.
This is also to capture the psychology of ordinary people, ordinary people will think, this boss recommends their own goods, must be to leave the best at the end, who knows, this cunning boss but the opposite, first with the real goods to test the eyes of the guests, and then with fake goods to sell at a high price.
Now Li Fan proposes to reduce the price from 80,000 to 50,000, so as long as the boss agrees, 50,000 will be in hand.
The boss forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, the muscles on his face trembled, pretending to be reluctant to cut the meat, and was about to open his mouth to agree, but Li Fan seemed to pick up a palm-sized stone on the shelf at random, pretending not to care and said: "Give me this broken stone, just let me take it back and press the painting, so as not to be blown away by the wind." ”
The boss looked at it, this broken stone, wasn't it the scraps cut down when a guest came to gamble on the stone? This thing is worthless, and he has long wanted to throw it away.
This stupid boy actually said that he would take the stone back and press the painting, so as not to be blown away by the wind, what a stupid person can say such stupid things!
If it was really the true work of Song Huizong, it would have been hidden like a treasure a long time ago, and it was still pressed with a stone?
It seems that this is not just a fat sheep, but also a stupid sheep!
"Cheng, although this piece of jade is not cheap, I will give it to you, little brother, so I should make you a friend!"
The boss pretended to be heroic and said, thinking to himself, when this fool bought this fake painting for 50,000 yuan, he didn't have to open a store again this month, so he simply closed the door and went to Niuerdives to travel.
"Yes, thank you so much! Boss, I've made up your friend! I'm leaving, bye-bye!" Li Fan heard this, grabbed the stone and walked out the door.
"Hey, little brother, where are you going?" you haven't bought the painting yet!" the boss was stunned.
"Oh, I suddenly don't want that painting. Li Fan looked back and grinned.
"That'...... Then what kind of painting are you using stones?" the boss asked stupidly.
"Oh, I'll go back and paint a picture myself, you promised to give me this stone yourself, you can't go back. Li Fan didn't look back.
"Huh?"
The boss froze in place, thinking about it for a long time and didn't figure out who was stupid.
......
Walking out of the antique street, Li Fan held back the ecstasy in his heart and came to a nearby park.
Finding a secluded place, Li Fan took out the piece of jade in his pocket and looked at it carefully.
It turned out that he was just in the antique shop, and Li Fan felt that the jade seemed to have a different aura at a glance.
So Li Fan urged the qi control technique, condensed the purple qi in his eyes, and used his perspective ability to clearly see that inside the jade, there was a walnut-sized stone, looking at its shape and feeling its breath, it was very similar to something recorded in the classics of the master's sect.
Li Fan was afraid that the owner of the antique shop would not sell it, so he had to pretend to look at the porcelain vase, the bracelet, and the painting, and finally pretended to inadvertently get the stone in his hand.
The jade was broken into several pieces by Li Fan with a snap, revealing a walnut-sized stone that was not gold or jade.
Gently touching it with his hand, a rich breath suddenly came, Li Fan knew that this thing couldn't be wrong, it was the spirit stone recorded in the classics of the master's sect!
According to the oldest classic book of the master's sect, the spirit stone contains a large amount of spiritual energy, which can be absorbed into the human body with special exercises, which can play a role in multiplying the result with half the effort for cultivation, and is a necessary thing in the cultivation world a few years ago.
But according to what the old man said from the master, no one in the master has seen the spirit stone for hundreds of years, so much so that the cultivation world today is doubting whether this so-called spirit stone really exists?
For today's cultivation world, spirit stones and spiritual energy are just a distant legend.
In legend, the cultivators of ancient times had great powers.
Can move mountains and reclaim the sea!
Can slash the void with a sword!
It can be instantaneous!
It can turn decay into magic!
But in today's cultivation world, although cultivators can also exceed the limits of ordinary people, at most they can only achieve ten enemies, a hundred enemies, and more, just like the saying goes, more ants bite the elephant to death.
Why are today's cultivators so weak compared to the cultivators of the ancient era?
There are two reasons for this.
One of them lies in the exercises!
The exercises of ancient times were extremely powerful, but most of them have been lost.
The second and fundamental reason is Reiki!