There are all kinds of small items on the shelves, and the items are stacked together, which looks disorganized, and there is a sign posted on the top of the shelf, and the sign reads three big words: Shop with your hands. There is an introduction under the word, and the things in the shelves are all picked up by the shopkeeper and sold as souvenirs, and a piece is fixed at 200 yuan.

Zhao Yangling watched one item after another, the third eye between his forehead quietly opened, and the pitch-black pupils glowed with a faint white light, which looked extremely weird.

At the top of the shelf hung an ordinary bronze mirror, the mirror reflected Zhao Yang's face, and the strange thing was that the third eye between Zhao Yang's forehead did not appear in the bronze mirror.

"Why did you come here?" After a while, Su Jingnan walked over and asked strangely.

"It's too expensive over there, I'll take a look here. Zhao Yang replied casually.

"I bought it and you didn't buy it, just pick it for me!" Su Jingnan said puzzled.

Zhao Yang put down the things in his hand and said lightly, "Aren't you going to pick up the leak?"

Picking up leaks, that is, finding the most expensive things at the least cost.

"Those things in it are either ridiculously expensive or fake, when they are sold at a high price, how to pick up the leaks?"

Su Jingnan was speechless for a while.

Seeing this, Li Johnson sneered in his heart, and looked at Zhao Yang's gaze with a trace of disdain, "What a leak, don't you know that there is no leakage in the antique shop? Everything is at that price, whether it is true or not, just sell it, you can buy it if you have money, and if you want to pick up the leak, you have to go out to buy it with your ability, do you know why so many people would rather go into the store to buy at a high price than buy it at the stall?"

Seeing that Zhao Yang didn't answer, Li Johnson said with contempt, "Because there are more genuine goods in the antique shop, and the things on the stall, even if you collect 10,000 pieces, you may not be able to find a real thing, so if you don't have real skills, it's better not to show off, it's easy to look foreign!"

Zhao Yang glanced at Li Johnson lazily, brushed aside the pile of small objects, and picked up a long cigarette stick from it.

"Yo, two hundred yuan to buy a souvenir of more than ten yuan, your eyesight is really good! Miss Nan, I'd better accompany you to shop for antiques, otherwise you will lose." Johnson Lee couldn't help but scoff.

Su Jingnan looked at Zhao Yang suspiciously, "Do you really want to buy this?" There are a lot of cheap souvenirs outside, I can give you a few." ”

Zhao Yang shook his head, pointed to the cigarette stick and said, "I want it." ”

Su Jingnan didn't frown, "Hey, I don't spend money in vain." ”

"If you don't buy it, I will buy it. ”

Zhao Yang walked straight towards the counter, there was a door curtain behind the counter cashier, and when Zhao Yang put the cigarette stick on the counter, the door curtain was lifted.

"Hey, young man, is that you?"

The old man who came out from behind the curtain was the old man in a tunic who had spent 500,000 yuan to buy Zhao Yang's flower and bird folding fan.

As soon as he saw the old man coming, the cashier immediately respectfully gave up his place and said respectfully, "Boss." ”

Zhao Yang nodded in surprise, counting it as a response.

"Young man, are you sure you will pay 200 yuan for it?" the old man looked at the cigarette stick in confusion, and made sure again.

"Hmm. ”

"For the sake of our fate, do you want to think about it again?"

"No"

Zhao Yang didn't say much, and directly put the two hundred yuan next to the cashier.

The old man's face changed, according to the rules of the ghost market, once the money is in the hands of the seller, the transaction will be completed by default, no matter which party repents, it will be shown as breaking the rules, and he will never be allowed to mix in this business.

The old man sighed helplessly, "Okay, my original intention is to sell those small items that I am picking up with my hands to sell to people who are destined, as long as you like it, no matter how expensive it is, someone will buy it, it seems that you have a fate with it." ”

Zhao Yang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the deal was completed, and said lightly, "Old man, the cigarette stick in my hand is more than two hundred yuan. ”

"What?" the old man was surprised.

Even Su Jingnan, who had just followed over, looked curiously at this extremely ordinary cigarette stick.

This thing, more than two hundred?

Is it worth two hundred and one?

"Are you kidding, young man? When I first found this cigarette stick, I thought it was a modern craft, but I just liked it, and I bought it, are you mistaken? The old man said with a smile.

Zhao Yang smiled and said, "Old man, I'm not mistaken, this cigarette stick is a cigarette stick from the Qing Dynasty." ”

"What? Cigarette sticks from the Qing Dynasty, ouch, young man, don't make me laugh at this old man. The old man couldn't help but laugh.

However, Zhao Yang was determined, and the eye on his forehead that could not be seen by ordinary people flashed white light again.

"If it's true or not, won't you know if you identify it!"

Su Jingnan simply turned his head behind him and said, "Johnson, look at this cigarette stick, whether it is a Qing Dynasty cigarette stick." ”

It's finally your turn to perform!

Li Johnson's face was happy, and he hurriedly took the cigarette stick, and then said with a mocking face, "Such an obvious fake, but also the Qing Dynasty cigarette stick? It's just a laughing person, in addition to the cigarette holder is suspected of being old, the cigarette stick is obviously a modern handicraft, you see this, there are traces of machine scraping." ”

In the face of such a real hammer, if you were someone else, you would already be red-faced, but Zhao Yang calmly held the cigarette stick, unaffected, "Just looking at the surface, of course, it is a cigarette stick made by modern technology, but one thing you said wrong, this cigarette holder is not old." ”

Li Johnson's face changed, and he said unhappily, "What do you mean?"

The corners of Zhao Yang's mouth hooked, "It means that the cigarette holder can be washed." ”

After speaking, Zhao Yang asked the old man for a basin of boiling hot water, and carefully put the cigarette holder into the hot water, and the water only submerged the part of the cigarette holder.

At first, the mouthpiece stretched into the hot water did not change, but gradually, a trace of black dye dissolved from the heat, and from solidification to dispersion like ripples, and finally, little by little, the whole basin of water was dyed pale black.

Johnson Lee's face changed, he had heard that some dyes could not be washed off once they were applied to items, but they could decompose on their own under high temperature conditions, could it be said?

As if in order to verify Li Johnson's conjecture, Zhao Yang took out the cigarette holder in the hot water and gently wiped it with a paper towel, and soon, the original appearance of the cigarette holder was revealed.

The cigarette holder was originally made of dark gold metal copper, and like other cigarette sticks of the late Qing Dynasty, it was slightly curved like a soup spoon, and because it had been wrapped under the dye for a long time, it looked particularly new after losing the camouflage of its appearance.

"Let's take a look, do you have anything to say?" Zhao Yang said lightly, handing the cigarette stick to Li Johnson.

Johnson Li stared at the cigarette holder, and soon his face became extremely ugly, "I admit, I made a mistake, the cigarette holder is indeed real." ”

"And this kind of operation!" Su Jingnan opened her eyes.

She has seen countless appraisers and players appraise antiques, but she has never seen the disguise of antiques uncovered like this, and Zhao Yang's image suddenly raised a cut in her psychology.

The old man was also amazed on the side, and said approvingly, "It's terrifying to be able to find such a secret disguise, rare, rare!"

Being slapped in the face by a poor layman, Li Johnson felt insulted, and his eyes were full of hostility, "Even if the cigarette holder is real, how do you prove that it is a Qing Dynasty cigarette stick, but the traces of craftsmanship on the cigarette are obvious, how do you explain it?"

"It's really stupid to say that you are stupid, and you occupy the name of an antique appraiser, and you have a false reputation. I can't even see a simple flaw, I'll let you see it for a long time today, don't fiddle with that poor ink in your stomach!"

Zhao Yang's tone suddenly turned cold, and the cold glint in his eyes stabbed at Li Johnson like a sharp sword, making the latter's face pale and too frightened to speak.

Immediately, Zhao Yang put the cigarette stick horizontally in his palm, raised it, and said to him, "Don't you see that the cigarette stick is too fat?"

As soon as these words came out, not only Li Johnson, but even the old man was stunned, because just now they all paid attention to the traces of the craftsmanship of the cigarette body and did not notice its appearance.

"Hey, it's twice as big as a normal cigarette stick. Su Jingnan said seriously.

"It's twice as big!"

Zhao Yang's expression was serious.

"In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there is a characteristic, the cigarette body of the cigarette holder is made in one go, rarely combined, the outline of the cigarette body is not larger than the cigarette holder, and even for the sake of beauty, many cigarette bodies are relatively slender. ”

"But this cigarette stick, the cigarette holder is real, but the cigarette body does not match the cigarette holder at all......"

Speaking of this, Li Johnson snorted coldly and interrupted, "Hehe, this shows that the cigarette holder is genuine, and the cigarette body is just a patchwork, at best, this cigarette holder is an assembled parallel import!"

"Oh?

Zhao Yang suddenly showed a dangerous smile, which made Li Johnson shiver.

"Say you're stupid, you're really stupid, you don't have knowledge, and you have to learn to be embarrassed!"

"Let your eyes be opened now, and you will be able to see for a long time!"

As he spoke, Zhao Yang pinched one end of the cigarette holder with one hand, and pinched the metal hoop under the cigarette holder with the other, and twisted it hard little by little.

The sound of metal rubbing sounded.

Zhao Yang's actions attracted many players browsing antiques nearby.

"Slippery"

The cigarette body, which was originally difficult to twist, suddenly became smooth, and under everyone's gaze, Zhao Yang unscrewed the cigarette body that seemed to be connected to the cigarette holder.

As the outer layer of the metal body slowly fades, the inside and the mouthpiece are quickly exposed.

Like the color of the mouthpiece, the body of the cigarette is dark gold, made of metallic copper, and has faint markings on the surface, which is caused by the shape of the shell hidden under the shell for a long time.

As long as people who have come into contact with the copper cigarette stick of the Qing Dynasty know that the cigarette stick in front of him is obviously a typical dark gold copper cigarette stick made in the Guangxu year.

"Do you know why it's so hidden?"

Zhao Yang raised his head suddenly, staring at Li Johnson with wolf-like eyes, which made the latter shudder.

"Because it is used by Li Hongzhang. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yang gently stroked the cigarette stick up and down, and finally touched the uneven three small characters in the middle of the cigarette stick, "Li Shaoquan".

"Li Hongzhang, the word Shaoquan, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, a Jinshi in the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang ...... Qing Dynasty"

"Later, he traveled with Zeng Guofan to study, and the official became the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang trade, because his power was comparable to that of the prime minister, and later generations called him Li Zhongtang......"

"Do you know, in history, how many people can be worthy of the title of Shangzhongtang?"