Text Chapter 18 The baby is in hand
The next day, Xia Haoran went out after eating early. Stopped a taxi at the entrance of the community and went straight to Lingnan Antique Street.
Antique street, in addition to the shops and stalls on both sides of the street, there are also many people who set up stalls on the bluestone road along the street, some of these people sell antique calligraphy and paintings, some fortune-telling, and so on.
The antiques on display here include bronze, silver, iron, ceramics, wood, crystal, glassware, portrait carving handicrafts, and everything from ancient to modern times.
In general, there are three kinds of people who come here: one is the antique lovers who come to pick up the slacks, the second is the jewelry companies and auction companies to develop their business, and the last is the one who is purely curious.
Xia Haoran is purely a layman, walking on this old street, looking like an antique, he can't tell the truth from the fake at all. He shrank his consciousness within ten meters, pretending to look at the strange old objects one after another, carefully feeling whether there was anything special in them.
There are a few things that people who cultivate the truth value the most, which are magic weapons, elixirs, and spirit stones. Magic weapons, that is, those that have been refined by the cultivators, weapons and appliances with a certain amount of mana, there are many types of weapons, the so-called eighteen kinds of weapons and so on; the elixir is obvious, it is the cultivator who refines some special Chinese medicinal materials according to a certain formula; and the spirit stone is a very special ore, this kind of stone, contains a very strong aura, the cultivator can use it to directly absorb refining and improve cultivation, and can also be used to arrange various formations.
Xia Haoran didn't expect to find magic weapons and elixirs here, what he wanted to find most was the spirit stone.
In the world of cultivators, spirit stones are the most common currency. Ordinary people take food as their sky, and cultivators take spiritual energy as their heaven, so this spiritual stone is the food and currency of cultivators.
When he looked up and saw a jade shop with a plaque of "Pin Yuxuan", Xia Haoran walked in. The shop is full of all kinds of jade, these jade are carved into all kinds of jewelry, the boss is an old man in his fifties, seeing that this young man is dressed plainly and young, instinctively thinks that this is a master who has nothing to do to walk the street, so he simply stood in the counter, ignoring Xia Haoran who came to the door.
Xia Haoran entered the store, and looked carefully at the jade stone by jade in front of the counter, although the boss didn't want to deal with Xia Haoran, but he had been doing business in the old street for many years, and knew that there was no rule for rushing out to catch customers, so he let Xia Haoran lean over in front of the counter and watch. After turning around, he didn't find any jade with spirit stones, Xia Haoran couldn't help but show a trace of regret on his face, but this expression was seen by the boss, and he couldn't help but be curious.
Coming out of the jade shop, Xia Haoran entered several similar jade shops, but none of them gained anything.
There are also many antique vendors setting up stalls on the streets, and some even hold unearthed artifacts that claim to be thousands of years old. Xia Haoran saw some small traders who casually grabbed passers-by and stepped forward with a mysterious look, what made him helpless was that those so-called unearthed cultural relics with thousands of years of history knew that there was no trace of antiquity with a slight sense, not to mention thousands of years, not even his mother's decades of history, obviously a modern product that was old and deceitful.
However, on a stall, Xia Haoran found a pair of ancient needles, which numbered ninety-nine eighty-one. After some bargaining with the stall owner, he finally bought it for 8,000 yuan.
Today's move can be regarded as a coincidence. But who would have thought that today's unintentional move would actually create the prestige of a generation of miracle doctors! Of course, this is a later story.
In the end, Xia Haoran selected more than a dozen pieces of ordinary jade with relatively high cost performance, and prepared to go back to learn the inscription pattern.
"No money!"
Looking at the dozen or so spirit stones in the bag, Xia Haoran was speechless for a while. Just these few broken stones swept away more than 100,000 oceans from him. After thinking about it, there are more than 1.3 million in his card, just this amount of money, the current price of jade in the antique street, is not enough for me to toss a few times, in other words, I can't afford to toss it at all!
After visiting a few more stalls, Xia Haoran still didn't find anything valuable to him, and when he thought of today's harvest, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
Just when Xia Haoran was about to go home, a guy dressed as a migrant worker was holding a thing wrapped in silk cloth in his arms, and came to Xia Haoran's side with a sneaky face, gently pulled him, and said in a low voice: "Brother, I have a good treasure that has just been unearthed, are you interested in seeing it?"
Xia Haoran frowned, it didn't mean much to him whether it was unearthed or not, what he wanted was a spirit stone or something related to cultivation, so he waved his hand and said, "No need, I'm not interested." ”
The guy dressed as a migrant worker didn't seem to be willing to let go of the buyer in front of him, grabbed Xia Haoran, secretly revealed the corner of the thing hidden in his arms, and said: "Brother, look, this is a bronze vessel, and it's worth a lot of money! I'm short of money, you give me 50,000 yuan, and if you take the things, you should treat me as if you've never seen me, and whoever you meet in the future can't say that I sold this thing to you." ”
Xia Haoran frowned, subconsciously glanced at him in his arms, and suddenly stood on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning!
From the corner of the silk cloth, Xia Haoran saw a Ding furnace! And this Ding furnace is not a bronze, but a real alchemy Ding furnace! The special pattern on the Ding furnace is not known to ordinary people, but Xia Haoran knows that that kind of pattern is an engraved formation.
At this moment, Xia Haoran's heart was turbulent, but he was still very calm on the surface, he frowned, and said to the man: "Dude, you are not a bronze at all." ”
The man was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that he was unlucky, and he actually met a connoisseur, and knew at a glance that this was not a bronze artifact. Originally, I thought that this guy was a Kaizi and was ready to slaughter him, but now that the other party has seen through it, this business cannot continue. Immediately, the man wrapped the furnace in his arms and turned to leave.
The reason why Xia Haoran concluded that this thing was not a bronze was very simple, because he knew that the Alchemy Ding Furnace could withstand the calcination of the True Fire of True Qi Transformation, otherwise, before the pill could be refined, the Ding Furnace would be burned first. The true fire of the true qi of the cultivator is also known as the Danhuo, which is second only to the existence of the three-flavor true fire, as we all know, how high is the melting point of copper?
Just as the man turned around to leave, Xia Haoran grabbed him and said, "Dude, don't worry!"
Xia Haoran had already determined in his heart that this kid came to the antique street with this Ding furnace to fish, so he made a trick to attract the attention of people who didn't know how to do it, and then took the opportunity to sell it at a high price. For this Ding furnace, he offered 50,000 yuan, maybe in his own mind, it was not even worth 500 yuan.
The guy dressed as a migrant worker also looked at Xia Haoran with a cautious face and asked, "Brother, what else do you have to do?"
Xia Haoran smiled slightly and said, "Although it's not a bronze object, I like the appearance of this thing very much, why don't you make a price, I'll ask for it if it's suitable." ”
The man frowned and looked at Xia Haoran for a long time, not knowing if the young man in front of him was playing tricks on himself. When he found that Xia Haoran's expression didn't look like a joke, he said with the attitude of trying it out: "Although this thing is not bronze, but it was also collected by me from the countryside, and I also found an expert to identify it when I came, although I can't tell the material and age, but it must be an old antique, and it is also worth some money, if you really want it, give 20,000 yuan and you can take it." ”
Xia Haoran suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said calmly: "Twenty thousand yuan can be considered, but I want to take a closer look." ”
The guy dressed as a migrant worker no longer pretends to be cautious at this moment, you must know that he is holding this Ding furnace, and he has been selling it on the antique street for a day without success, and it is possible to sell it at a good price, so he took out the thing generously, hesitated for a moment, and put the thing on the ground again.
"Treasures are not in hand, this is the rule of this industry. The main reason is that I am afraid of accidents when I pass over, such as falling and so on, which is easy to rip off. Looking at Xia Haoran's surprised eyes, the guy explained.
"Oh!"
Xia Haoran nodded in understanding. After trying to calm down his excitement, he stretched out his hands to hold the Ding Furnace in his hands, carefully checked it, and after confirming that this was the Alchemy Ding Furnace, he said: "I think your object is indeed a bit interesting, so let's do it, I'll give you 10,000 yuan, can I sell it?"
The guy was snickering in his heart, this thing cost 200 yuan when he collected it himself, and now someone is willing to pay 10,000 yuan to buy it, and make a lot of money!
Xia Haoran took the man to the ATM at the end of the street, took out 10,000 yuan in cash in two installments and handed it to the other party, and the man counted the money and left happily. But Xia Haoran stood alone in front of the ATM holding what looked like an incense burner, hehe, and smirked.
This Ding furnace may not be worth much money to ordinary people, but for himself, it is a treasure that is difficult to change!