The two turned to look and saw two other people walking into the store, one of whom was also wearing a police uniform and a shoulder-mounted body camera. The boss hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Director Guo, why are you here?"

The man in the police uniform is named Guo Yi. There are many shops in this area, and the flow of people is complicated, so the Xinshikou Street Police Station deliberately set up a public security joint defense office in the market, and there are only three official police officers plus a few auxiliary policemen, Guo Yi is only the person in charge, not a formal leader, but the shop owners in this area call him Director Guo to show respect.

Director Guo replied: "I was on patrol today, and I happened to meet a leader friend, so I accompanied him for a walk. Boss Wang, let me introduce you, this is Section Chief Li Pin Li of the District Procuratorate. Section Chief Li likes to collect things when he has nothing to do, and he just took a fancy to your two bricks. ”

Boss Wang hurriedly shook hands with Section Chief Li and said hello, bent down and handed over the business card. Section Chief Li didn't have a smile on his face, his expression was very serious, and he nodded slightly and said, "Boss Wang, I also take a fancy to those two ancient bricks, do you sell them?"

Boss Wang said with a smile: "What you said, how can there be a reason to drive customers out when you open the door to do business? But just now this gentleman has taken a fancy to it, and I promised to sell it to him." ”

Section Chief Zhang was not polite at all, and still said with a straight face: "I heard it, he wants to buy it, and he wants you to offer a price, two bricks are a total of ten pieces, right? ”

Boss Wang: "It's just two worthless bricks, but you have to pay attention to credibility in business, and this gentleman is also a regular customer, so I don't want to go back on my word." ”

Guo Yi interjected: "Am I not an old patron? I see each other every day!" As he spoke, he turned on the law enforcement recorder.

Section Chief Li said again: "To do business, you have to be like a business, they are all customers, who sells to whom at a high price! Boss, are you right?"

Zhang Wangxiong's face on the side did not show much abnormality, just like an ordinary customer, and only then did he speak: "Boss, I really fancy these two ancient bricks, and I sincerely want to buy them, so that you will not be difficult to do, let alone let you suffer, and I will pay twenty yuan." This Section Chief Li has to pay attention to first-come-first-served when doing business, and I take a fancy to him first!"

As he spoke, he wanted to continue to pay for it, but as soon as the two ten-yuan tickets were taken out and not handed out, Section Chief Li suddenly said, "I'll pay two thousand!"

Several other people were stunned, they had never seen such a price increase, this section chief Li had a good temper. It was twenty yuan just now, and Zhang Wangxiong was willing to pay it, but he was good, and there was no increase of ten or eight yuan, and it directly increased a hundred times. Is he crazy to buy two worthless bricks for two thousand dollars?

Either he really wants to buy it, or he's just here to find fault. Open the door to do business, if it is not sold at this price, either the boss has a problem, or the two bricks have a problem, or Zhang Wangxiong, a customer, has a problem.

Boss Wang came back to his senses and hurriedly smiled: "Section Chief Li, I can't sell two thousand." Do you think this is good? The ancient bricks of better quality, I will buy you a few more, this thing is not valuable, I will not charge money, I will send it to Director Guo when I go back. ”

Section Chief Zhang frowned and said: "I'm just shopping to buy something, what do you mean by this, do you want to corrupt the party and government cadres? I want to buy these two bricks, and if someone else wants it, then bid on the spot." As he spoke, he glanced at Zhang Wangxiong with a provocative gaze, which seemed to mean - if you shout 20,000 yuan.

Zhang Wangxiong's face was not very good-looking, and he lowered his voice and said: "Section Chief Li, as a national political and legal cadre, go to the market to buy something, so you don't pay attention to the impact?"

Section Chief Li became angry when he heard this, and took a step forward to stare directly into Zhang Wangxiong's eyes, almost touching the tip of his nose: "Who are you, what do you mean by this? I don't force you to buy and sell, you give 20 and I pay 2,000, does the boss have to sell to you and not sell to me? Then you are bullying and dominating the market! Less yin and yang here, what I hate most is your kind of goods!"

From a bystander's point of view, Li Pin has nothing wrong at all. Buying something is usually a downward bargain, but if several people have their eye on one thing at the same time, it is an upward price. The deal between Boss Wang and Zhang Wangxiong has not yet been completed, and Li Pin has no problem selling a higher price.

If there is any problem, it is that Section Chief Li's price is too high. Two thousand yuan to buy two bricks, although it is ridiculously expensive, is not a sum of money that ordinary civil servants cannot afford. And Zhang Wangxiong's words were vaguely threatening, which could somewhat reflect his usual habits.

The atmosphere instantly became a bit gunpowdery, but don't forget that there was a police officer standing next to him, and the body camera was also on. Zhang Wangxiong suddenly took a step back and smiled, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I won't buy it." Since this leader has paid a high price, boss, you can sell it to him, and you can't afford to be angry with two bricks. ”

After speaking, Zhang Wangxiong turned around and left, because he saw two more people appear outside the door, it was Zhu Shanxian and Ding Qi, and then he realized that he had a lot of things exposed. In the eyes of Lao Jianghu, the problem between him and that Boss Wang is simply self-confession. Zhu Shanxian also turned around and walked with him, while Ding Qi stepped into the store.

Seeing Zhang Wangxiong leaving, Section Li Changju also waved his hand and said: "Forget it, it's really not worth it for two bricks, since that gentleman won't buy it, then I won't buy it either." ”

The boss was surprised: "You don't buy it?"

Section Chief Li: "It's not that I don't buy it, but you don't sell it." You don't sell it if I pay 20,000, and you say you won't sell it if you give 2,000 just now, and now I don't want to buy it, even if I give it away for free...... Xiao Guo, let's go, how did you meet this kind of boss?"

Officer Guo Yi was confused, and glanced at Boss Wang with dissatisfaction: "What tricks are you doing, do you want to do business well?" After speaking, he also accompanied Section Chief Li and passed by Ding Qi, who had just entered the door.

The boss sighed and shook his head, put the bronze ancient sword back on the stand made of two bricks, turned around and said with a professional smile: "This gentleman, do you want to mess with something, or do you want to take a casual look first?"

Ding Qi pointed to the bricks on the shelves and asked, "Boss, what happened just now? I seem to have heard two customers fighting over the bricks, and in the end they didn't buy them?"

The boss sighed exaggeratedly: "Alas, it's just to get angry!

Tincey has been watching the boss's reaction. Under normal circumstances, if any shop owner encounters the one just now, it is estimated that he will be broken, but the reaction of the boss in front of him is obviously not normal. Before Zhang Wangxiong did not express his attitude, no matter what price Section Chief Li offered who suddenly disturbed the situation, the boss obviously did not dare to make the decision to sell those two bricks to others without authorization.

In fact, from Boss Wang's point of view, there is no situation that offends Zhang Wangxiong. If Zhang Wangxiong is just an ordinary customer, and the things have not yet been bought, Li Pin also wants to buy them, and it is normal to pay a high price.

Open the door here to do business, in fact, it is the "Director Guo" who cannot be offended. Li Pin came with Guo Yi, and he offered such a high price, and the boss still didn't want to sell it to him, so there was obviously a problem. It is said that Li Pin stirred up such a meal, and finally stopped buying it, the boss should be very angry, but when Li Pin left, Boss Wang was obviously relieved.

When you encounter this kind of thing in an antique store, such as an obviously worthless thing being quoted at an unreasonably high price, usually the boss will also have another reaction, that is, whether the thing is blind to itself, but is actually a treasure, so he doesn't want to sell it. But the focus of this boss Wang has not been on those two bricks from beginning to end.

Ding Qi saw these details, he picked up the bronze sword again and asked, "Boss, how can this sword be sold?"

Boss: "I just collected it recently, 5,000 yuan!"

Ding Qi: "It's cheaper, how about 500 yuan?"

Boss: "You don't really want to buy it at this price, I can only give you a minimum of 3,000." I see that you are a knowledgeable person, this sword is a good thing, but the condition is a little crippled......"

Ding Qi: "Where did this sword come from?"

Boss: "Received, the rules of the antique shop, we don't inquire about the origin." ”

Ding Qi held the sword and closed his eyes slightly, feeling the aura contained in this sword. He was observing not only people but also things just now, and found that among the large and small artifacts in this room, I am afraid that only three things are real antiques, and they are also artifacts with some kind of "spirituality", they are this bronze sword and two bricks used as sword stands.

Ding Qi is not incomplete, let alone an expert in archaeological identification, what he feels is only the breath of the thing itself, and he can't tell whether it is the Xingshen technique or the microscopic technique, or the body contemplation technique and the qi viewing technique, maybe both, in short, it is the perception ability of the current realm. It was as if it could speak, in a way that could only be understood but not spoken.

The shopkeeper once introduced to Zhang Wangxiong that this was a Chu sword from the Warring States Period, but Ding Qi didn't know much about this convenient professional knowledge, so of course he couldn't identify it. He could only tell that it was indeed an old artifact, and that it had been buried for a long time, and had only been excavated about a year earlier.

How could an ancient sword from the Warring States period appear on the shelves of an antique store and only sell for 5,000 yuan? In the past 20 years, various localities have engaged in large-scale urban construction and development, the scale of urban agglomerations has expanded dramatically, and high-rise buildings have risen one after another. The higher the building is built, the deeper the foundation is laid, and the antiquities buried in the ground are often dug up.

If an important historical site is in existence, the cultural relics department will try to take protective and rescue measures after learning about it, and then organize archaeological research. However, all kinds of scattered utensils are dug up, and many times they are unknown, and they often secretly flow into the cultural and entertainment market, and many things are from tomb robbers.

Many people may not be too clear about the difference between archaeology and tomb robbing, and some people even deliberately confuse the rhythm of audio-visual tape, so that many people have misunderstood, in fact, there is an essential difference between the two, and it is not the same thing at all.

The archaeologist's purpose is not to find any valuable treasures in the market, but to protect and salvage the artifacts. The value of the so-called cultural relics is also different from the market price, which lies in the information carried and conveyed by the monuments and antiquities, which can tell people the way of life, social structure, development level and ideological and cultural core of a certain era and civilization.

This is the ultimate goal of archaeological research, and it is also the so-called "text" of cultural relics. Some people may think that the older things are, the more valuable they are, but this is actually a common misconception, the value of cultural relics does not only come from the simple time, the so-called time age is a historical parameter.

The value of cultural relics is the information it conveys and carries, and it contains the overall microcosm of the civilization and culture of the system, and the more representative the utensils, the more precious they are. If the integrity of the message it conveys is destroyed, and only one thing is taken out in isolation as an antique, its cultural value will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the value of the artifact is not given by the excavator, but by the overall civilization and cultural inheritance in history. Specific to Chinese cultural relics, it is the wisdom of the dedication, creation and inheritance of the ancestors of the past dynasties that give them value.

After the cultural relics are excavated or discovered, archaeologists do not take things as their own, but only have the responsibility of protecting and inheriting them, first of all, they must carefully restore and protect, and then carry out research and research.

This process is extremely long and arduous, for precious cultural relics, just the restoration work often takes years or even decades, and the cost of its investment is huge, even far more than the price of putting this artifact in the antique market, not to mention the effort and energy consumed.

For example, Zhou Xiaoxuan, Shi Buquan's mentor, has restored countless cultural relics in his life, most of which come from rescue protection and excavation sites, which are not his own, but have been "reborn" in his hands.

Tomb robbing is a different matter, completely destructive, not to mention the responsibility of protection and inheritance. What will be stolen depends only on the market price of antiques at the time and whether it is easy to sell. Those things that are difficult to repair and preserve, and which are difficult to monetize, are destroyed and destroyed in large numbers.

For example, in many of the historical sites that have been stolen and excavated, a large number of pottery have been destroyed, because this kind of thing cannot be sold at a price when it is taken outside, and it will be destroyed if it is touched a little during the excavation process. Many people probably don't know that when they are just opened and buried, many pottery pieces are actually soft, and they can be printed with a pinch of their hands.

In ancient times, tomb robbers mainly looked for red goods, that is, gold and silver treasures. For example, there were tomb robbers who dug up the golden threads of jade clothes, and only took out the gold threads on the jade clothes and took them away, and the jade pieces were destroyed at will. Because gold silk is valuable and easy to carry, scattered jade pieces are worthless, and it is difficult to explain their origin.

There are many gold and silver utensils, and in order to prevent revealing their origins, they are even melted directly into gold and silver ingots. A large number of textiles, bamboo and wood slips, and books and scrolls in the ruins are often damaged or weathered, because these things are difficult to preserve, restore and sell.

In recent years, many artifacts have been auctioned for sky-high prices, and some people think that all antiques are valuable, which is actually an illusion. The market prices of popular collectibles are mostly the result of deliberate hype, and there are often people behind the scenes.

There are several elements that must be met for this hype. First of all, the number of people in the world is large enough, and secondly, the aesthetic level of most people can basically be appreciated, and on this basis, a public appreciation system and a large-scale circulation market can be formed. If there is no corresponding system of appreciation, then create one or even make it up.

When there is capital to hoard a large number of such utensils, the market fever for the purpose of capital speculation appears. Originally, there were complete aesthetic values and appreciation systems of utensils, the most typical representative is Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain. It was the first to be hyped, and it was also the hottest in the market.

Some things may not be cultural relics, and even if no one paid attention to them before, they suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but they all fit this routine. For example, in the past few years, Dzi, all kinds of Bodhi and Ya Cypress are more typical cases, and some people have woven a so-called appreciation system while hyping it.

In the final analysis, in fact, it is the threshold of the "Ball Bureau" of the Jianghu book, but it has changed its tricks in the context of the new era.

And the ancient sword in Ding Qi's hand obviously does not meet the above hype conditions. The existence of such things is limited, most of them are of unknown origin, it is difficult to auction publicly, it is difficult to appreciate and appraise, and it can only be transferred and traded privately, and it cannot form a large-scale circulation market, so there is no very clear reference price.

Regardless of the value of cultural relics, only the market price of cultural toys, no one can say how much it is worth, and only buyers and sellers can negotiate on their own. And there is a great difference between different utensils, such as the Yue Wang Goujian sword, which has no price at all, and it is a national treasure that cannot be circulated in the market. And an ancient bronze sword of unknown origin, incomplete quality, ordinary craftsmanship, and unidentifiable may be sold for hundreds of yuan.

The sword was dug up by a worker who buried the water pipe a year ago, and then quietly sold it at the antique market, and Boss Wang collected it for 500 yuan at the time. Whether this price is suitable or not, no one can tell, digging up something that does not belong to you in a place that does not belong to you, and selling it for 500 yuan seems to be profitable.

It was also taken by Zhang Wangxiong for a while, and then it was taken back, maybe he didn't use it or didn't play a role. But today when it was in Ding Qi's hands, there was another feeling, Ding Qi seemed to be able to feel the "emotion" of this sword, and even felt a trace of sadness.

A sword may not be sad, but perceiving the breath left by its experience produces a certain emotion, both the feeling conveyed by the object and the feeling of the person himself.

In Ding Qi's Yuan Shen perception, the sword seemed to be crying. When it was unearthed a year ago, it was still in good condition, and the blade was still sharp, but it was not professionally restored and poorly preserved, and it was once left in a humid and stuffy place, and it soon became like this. It has been touched by many hands at will, and some people have tried to talk to it......

Standing in the antique shop and talking about business with the boss, Ding Qi could not go deep into the fixed realm to feel, only the first perception. He felt that it was not impossible for him to try it by borrowing the methods of the book to help cultivate his divine sense, so he wanted to buy this sword, and planned to take it back and think about it later.