Chapter 21 The Antique Market
Zhuang Rui put down the girl from his shoulder, but the girl was very well-behaved, and after climbing onto the chair with great difficulty, he said childishly: "Uncle Rogue has a good New Year, I have a New Year's greeting for you." "I really kowtowed, I almost fell off my chair.
Liu Chuan didn't care that it was the hooligan uncle who shouted in his mouth, he was overjoyed at the moment, he held Nannan in his arms with one hand, and grabbed a handful of 100 banknotes from the drawer with the other hand, and didn't count them, stuffed them directly into the small satchel on Nannan's clothes, and shouted in his mouth: "Hey, baby girl, you can pick whatever the things in my store, and choose your uncle to send them to your home, but Nannan, how can you climb on the chair to greet your uncle for the New Year?"
Nan Nan will look at the small animals in the store, her eyes are not enough, and she said that she is not asked: "Uncle Nan said that Nan Nan kowtowed to the hooligan uncle and got the money, and Nan Nan can buy the white rabbit milk candy if she has money, and her mother always doesn't give Nan Nan to eat, and Nan Nan is wearing new clothes, and she will be scolded by her mother if she gets dirty on the ground." ”
"Forget it, except for Wang Ba in your shop, you are a brute, and my niece doesn't want it......."
Zhuang Rui teased on the side, but Liu Chuan's business is really good, less than five minutes after coming in, there were several pairs of men and women who seemed to be in love who bought a few turtles and hamsters, and Zhuang Rui was slightly surprised that just these few inconspicuous gadgets were sold for thousands of yuan, and the pair of golden mice were sold for 600 yuan, Zhuang Rui couldn't help shouting profiteers in his heart.
"What are you looking at everywhere, tell you, Lei Lei and Qin Xuanbing are going to come over to help in a while, hey, although that woman is a little colder, but that appearance is really overwhelming, you kid is really not tempted?" Liu Chuan put Nannan on the ground, and while greeting the guests, his mouth was not idle.
"Come on, it's the eldest lady at first glance, buddies can't afford it, didn't they say that they left Pengcheng on the fifth day of the new year, by the way, hooligan, you take the girl to play, I'll go out for a ......."
Zhuang Rui said casually, seeing that his niece who had been pestering him for several days finally put her mind elsewhere, Zhuang Rui was ready to go to the antique market to hang out, as for Qin Xuanbing, Zhuang Rui knew that she didn't have a good impression of herself, and she didn't bother to warm up her face and face a cold ass.
"I don't know, Lei Lei called and said that she would leave in a few days, you should go to the market, but come back early, I have something to discuss with you." Liu Chuan waved his hand and signaled Zhuang Rui to go early and return early.
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Pengcheng has been one of the world's nine states since ancient times, is a place with deep historical and cultural precipitation, especially the Han culture has made a deep imprint in this city, and the Han Dynasty and even earlier cultural relics collections can often be encountered in Xuzhou, which is also a place that Pengcheng people are proud of. Perhaps because of this, collecting has become a joy in the lives of many Pengcheng people, and happiness and loss come and go one after another.
This place where Zhuang Rui is located is the most concentrated and lively place in Pengcheng City, and it is a good place for almost all collectors in this ancient city to hang out, and it is a place where opportunities and traps coexist, happiness and loss coexist.
In the beginning, the collection market was not as large as it is now, and most of the shops were operated in a small park next to it, but later the popularity of the outside market gradually improved, and now only a small number of stalls and shopkeepers are operating in the adjacent park, and it seems that the situation is not too good, so most of the shops inside have changed to sell fish, insects, flowers and birds.
There are many types of collectibles on the market, and it can be said that almost every conceivable collectible item is likely to be found here, and collectors will basically not leave empty-handed as long as they pay attention. Jade, bronze, coins, wood, porcelain, silverware, miscellaneous pieces, calligraphy and paintings, villain books...... There are too many types, but the most characteristic collections of Pengcheng may still be the utensils of the Han Dynasty, such as Han mirrors, Han jars, Han portrait stone rubbings, etc., which are very popular with local and foreign friends in Pengcheng.
There are also many shops in the market, but there are not many that specialize in antiques, and there are also some shops that are engaged in tea houses and coffee houses.
Like many collectibles markets in China, there are not too many tourists who usually come here, most of them are tourists from other places, but on weekends or holidays, it must be another bustling scene, most of the time it will be very crowded like now, on the one hand, many people have time to try their luck on weekends and holidays to see if they can find a satisfactory collection, on the other hand, many small traders in the surrounding areas also come to admire, a newspaper or a piece of flannel has also become a counter, put all kinds of old things in the four corners up, and then get a small stool to sit on, the business is opened。
Although it is still cold, but Zhuang Rui saw in the crowded crowd, are full of festive smiling faces, carefully observed, the most people are still young men and women, but they are all sightseeing, in front of a stall can rarely stay for a few minutes, most of the purchases are handicrafts, the price is also ten yuan or eight yuan, relatively cheap, far from being a valuable collection, and those who stand or squat on the edge of the stall to stop, often are some middle-aged and elderly people, some are still holding a magnifying glass the size of a coin, in careful screening, some people are talking to the stall owner about the priceThese talents should be the main consumer force in the collection market.
Lively is lively, Zhuang Rui knows in his heart, it's better to be careful when you want to make a move, Yang Wei's father is famous, not because he is rich, but because he received a room of fakes, often people in the circle flicker, telling a few stories about the origin of the objects in his hands, Yang's father was blindfolded, these years have also paid millions of tuition, and still haven't found the way, which is also a joke in their circle.
In this world, most of the people who drown can swim, and for the antique industry, the slaughter is those who seem to know about antiques, half-baked people, these people often buy ten objects, can be one of the old things, then it is considered lucky.
The unspoken rule of the collection industry is that there are true and false, all by the buyer's discerning eyes, it is not impossible to get old things by panning for gold in the sand, and it is more common to buy new goods without paying attention, so whether it is to pick up the treasure or to dig out the pocket, all in the collector's thoughts, for ordinary people, collecting, playing is eyesight, opportunity, and playing is the heartbeat, but Zhuang Rui feels that he does not seem to be in this ranks.
Zhuang Rui followed the flow of people, slowly wandering around the stalls on both sides of the street, he didn't want to enter those shops, not only because he went to a shop before the year to be regarded as a Kaizi, but also Zhuang Rui used to chat with Uncle De, he also heard him mention it, in the antique collection industry, the shops that can be opened, are generally old customers, and it is not open for three years, open for three years, most of the things on the shelves in the store are modern handicrafts, so these shops in front of you, not to mention that the real goods will not be placed on the shelves, just those guys take a spittoon and say that it is the mouth used by Emperor Qianlong, which is also unbearable, Zhuang Rui is also too lazy to beg for fun.
Zhuang Rui is more interested in those stalls that sell calligraphy and paintings, often squatting for half a day, picking up everything and looking at it carefully, I don't know that I think this is an expert, I look so carefully, I don't know that he wants to distinguish one by one, of course, it takes time, but after more than two hours of shopping, I also looked at more than a dozen stalls, Zhuang Rui was stunned that he didn't find a valuable thing, and he was slightly disappointed.
"This big brother, I'm a bit of an old thing, do you want to take a look?"
Seeing that it was almost noon, Zhuang Rui shook his head, turned around with some disappointment, and when he was about to go back, he was coldly pulled by his sleeve.
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