Tianguang Market, a special market that opens in the early morning and closes at dawn. In the north, such late-night markets are also known as "ghost markets". In Guangzhou, at 3 o'clock in the morning, the door of Tianguang Market opened, which was the real river and lake without light.

Yuan Qiuhua and Lan Xinyan are frequent visitors to Tianguang Market. Most of the time, asking for a price, amusing me, wandering around, killing time! Through antiques, I have made friends from all walks of life. At first sight, you can only be like-minded.

If you can't afford to be early, you can't sleep if you don't have it, and of course you want to pick up the leaks. But picking up leaks is a legend of discernment, an unexpected surprise, and the acquisition of this unexpected joy depends on eyesight or fate. Practicing a pair of discerning eyes, is by no means an idle effort, to pay tuition, after the pain of Hob Mountain, after nine steaming and nine sun, the regret of losing the eye, once you have a fiery eye, you can fly the sky high, the sea is wide with the fish jumping, whether it is in the antique auction, antique shop, or in the cultural stall, rare treasures are waiting for a pair of discerning eyes.

Antiques are for play, not for frying. In the process of playing, keep collecting hobbies that interest you. If you can play well, you can mix well. With the help of collections, more and more people know each other, and when the time comes, what you need, others have, others need, you also have, trade with each other, and naturally form a niche bazaar.

The collections bought and sold are all gadgets for a few dollars or dozens of dollars, which is called small profits but quick turnover. During the day, I go to the countryside to shovel the land (door-to-door purchase), collect old coins, collect old porcelain bowls, and can't touch the sky-high asking price, the people are simple and simple, and they are very easy to talk. Clear money, small flat money, copper plates, iron coins, just a few dollars a piece. The two jujubes were sent away. Don't underestimate it, these small leaks, cumulatively, the income is also considerable.

Visiting the Tianguang Market stall, Yuan Qiuhua chose a Chongzhen Tongbao back two coins, this money is heavy, copper-colored golden, the text is deep, and there are obvious traces of chiseling. The seller was suspected of being a counterfeit and offered 10 yuan. She bought it. Turn your back and snicker, ecstasy, cheer for yourself. In fact, this is a carved mother coin, carved with fine copper, that is, copper carved mother money, for the rare product, the market price is over 10,000. The real mother money is not to repair the seal, not to repair the text, but to modify the piercing.

You don't just find a coin and get rich right away. Dozens of foundry bureaus, Sichuan furnace, Hunan furnace, Gong furnace, etc., all kinds of furnaces, if you don't know at all, you don't want to rely on a few coins to make a fortune, then you will definitely be targeted by all kinds of scammers!

If you don't have the ability to go home, you are not qualified to play a game. In order to determine whether he had lost his eyes, Yuan Qiuhua consulted a lot of materials in various libraries in the province, read almost all the books on coins in China, and turned over and over the coins collected by his grandfather, pondering for three days and three nights. Grandpa borrowed a thread-bound book that recorded ancient coins, saying that the owner would only borrow it for one night and that it would have to be returned tomorrow morning. Yuan Qiuhua didn't dare to delay for a minute, and sat down with a book in his hand in an instant, eager to give birth to four eyes and be able to see a hundred lines at a glance. It's the Hong Kong version of traditional Chinese characters, and it's vertical, and I'm used to reading the horizontal version, and I'm looking at it with my fingers line by line, and I can't read it quickly. When you stay up until the afternoon and your eyes are tired, soak them in cold water. Even read and flipped over, and when it was dark, I actually finished reading the whole book. This record of reading books has not been broken so far. She folded her roll and looked up, drowsy, as if she had gone through a thousand catastrophes, in the clouds and fog, everything around her looked strange.

Knowledge takes time to accumulate, and no one can reach the sky in one step! Later, in front of this friend's stall, Yuan Qiuhua saw a book Yuanfeng Tongbao Kuoyuan thick meat money. She took it in her hand and found that it was slightly larger than the two coins, and under careful examination, she thought that Yuanfeng was folded into two, and there was no such big sample, so she exchanged it for a small silver yuan. When I went home, I compared it with the iron money, and it was confirmed that this money was an iron mother coin, and it was not sold for 1,000 yuan.

On the stalls of Tianguang Market, bronze, coins, jade, coral, rhino horn, ivory, red agate, yellow amber, ancient calligraphy and painting, ancient clocks, old furniture, ancient books, porcelain bottles, red sandalwood strings, walnut balls, Yabai handles, Bodhi beads, gold and silver ornaments, bamboo and wood miscellaneous pieces, are all tens to hundreds of prices, there are no fakes, belong to the big currency, and there are few sharp goods. There is no value in literary play, as long as you like it, dozens of dollars of bracelets can also be slurred, as long as you can stand the grinding of time, you can play anything brilliantly!

Lan Xinyan pan to the red sandalwood paperweight, the old silver zodiac, Qingtian stone ruler, ivory paper cutting knife, calligraphy and painting bamboo tube, double happiness bronze account hook, silver enamel hairpin, Changhua bloodstone seal.

Antiques, ancient cultural toys. In the antique industry, there are many rules, and those who have always been mixed in the antique world are either princes and nobles, or businessmen and wealthy people, or literati. Either rich or expensive, it is more than eyesight, and it is fun to play. The literati thought that talking about money was a bit vulgar, and they used their fingers to make gestures. The whole transaction process, without saying a word, all rely on gestures and eye bargaining.

Three refers to hundreds, four refers to thousands, and five refers to ten thousand. 1-3 is small, 3-6 is medium, 7-9 is large, and so on. Combined, it's easy to see what that means. For example, primary three refers to 100-300 yuan. The junior year refers to 700-900 yuan. Form 5 refers to 3,000-6,000 yuan, and Big Six refers to 70,000-90,000 yuan.

This is the rule set by our ancestors. If someone asks, the stall owner will either ignore it, or sell fakes, and the deception is not negotiable. I don't know how to play, I'm not honest, I don't know how to pretend to understand, my heart is still very greedy, what kind of fun, it's great to be rich, there is no room for a knife, so that you can remember it for a long time.

Antiques are all leftovers from the ancestors. Expensive things are not necessarily good, and good things are not necessarily expensive. Trading is gambling, eyesight, and luck, of course, because of poverty! With little money, what can you afford?

As the saying goes, gold has a price, but jade has no price. Because it is a non-renewable resource, cutting-edge jade is a hard currency that only rises and does not fall. insisted on visiting Tianguang Market, Yuan Qiuhua just wanted to buy a piece of mutton fat jade rough. Xinjiang Hetian jade has always been a hot spot for investment collections, but unfortunately the best time to buy it has basically been missed, and now the price is also rising.

The color of mutton fat jade is fat white, or relatively white, and can be slightly bluish, also known as green mutton fat. The layman looks at the color, the insider looks at the water, and then pays attention to the water color under the condition of planting good water.

Mountain material: Kunlun Mountain is covered with snow all year round, Hetian jade mountain material, the block is very large, with edges and corners, and bracelets can be used. The rough stone needs to be opened and sliced in order to see the true face. Gambling stones, most of them are gambling on mountain raw stones. The rough stone is often with a leather shell, and the gambling nature is also larger, and the gambling stone is to gamble on the water and color. One division of water means that the light can penetrate 3 mm, two parts of water means that the light can penetrate 6 mm, and three points of water means that the light can penetrate 9 mm. In contrast to the traditional description of transparency, three parts of water is transparent, one part of water is translucent, and half of water is slightly transparent.

Sheep fat jade is the essence of mountains and rivers for hundreds of millions of years, and the output of raw materials is less than 1%. Now the value of mutton fat white jade is 10,000 yuan and 1 gram. A pendant was sold for one million yuan, a finger-sized ring face was sold for 10 million yuan, a bracelet was sold for 19 million yuan, and a bead chain was sold for 80 million yuan.

Water material: Kunlun Mountain is full of glacial rivers, Yulong Kashgar River and Karakash River, water material in the river, large pores, but still retains the general form of mountain material and more fracture pits, jade bracelets, jade pendants, jade plaques, etc. Don't look at jade under the lamp - veterans will look at jade in the sun. Under the light, you can only see the texture of the jade and the cracks. To see the length of the head, the degree of reflection, or other characteristics, it is necessary to observe and evaluate the color of the jade under natural light. The color difference is one grade, and the price difference is ten times.

As the saying goes, "flawless does not make jade", and flaws are inevitable in natural jade. The flashlight is lit on the side at 45°, the structure is delicate and meticulous, and the occasional cotton wool-like structure is normal, and the naturally produced jade always has natural traces. Completely white and flawless, it is very likely that it is not jade, and the less than 200 yuan on the market is not enough to process the wages of a bracelet, that is, stone, not even jade, and being greedy for cheap is to add to their own blockage. If you like a natural baby, you have to accept its flawed beauty. What is a flaw? Simply understood, it is some small faults, or spots, or jade lines (also called jade tendons), and some other small defects that affect the overall perfection, but they are harmless. As the so-called "flaws are not hidden", as long as the fault is not fatal, we should still hold a tolerant mentality. It is precisely because of these flaws that the unique piece of jade in his hand has been achieved.

Seeds: The pebbles in the dry river, that is, are called seeds, polished into ring surfaces, bead strings, etc. Qinghai material, transparent but not condensed, Hetian seed material moistens oil like clotted fat, not dry or astringent, and has a soap-like feel to the touch. Using a magnifying glass to observe, natural jade will not have a small bubble inside. Natural jade, which contains cotton-wool-like crystals inside, is called "snowflake cotton" and "fly wings" in the jargon.

Gobi material: The gravel material of the Gobi Desert, due to the erosion of wind and sand, has a special uneven leather shell on the surface, which can be used as pendants, pendants, etc. Gobi material, cotton dots can be seen with the naked eye, in fact, its structure is relatively coarse, large particles, can not be finely worked.

In addition to the theory must be passed, more attention is paid to practice, and a large number of different origins and different grades of raw jade materials need to be seen. Looking more is the premise of buying. For the purchase of jade, looking more is not only a process of selection, but also a process of comparison, and at the same time, it is also a process of accumulating and verifying experience. There is another meaning of buying more, that is, buying less is not not not not buying, where does the experience come from? First of all, admit that you are a student and need to study so that you can have a good time. Buy a hundred pieces of general products, it is better to buy a boutique, if the financial resources permit, to buy boutiques, bracelets, brands, handles, chains, wrenches, white jade, blue and white, all kinds of things are almost received, but also into the door, should turn to specialize in the same.

Most of the boutiques operate underwater, so don't expect to encounter much on the stalls. But anything is possible, and everything is routine. Sheep fat jade, in the world only Xinjiang has this variety, because the yield is very scarce, so it is extremely precious.

Yuan Qiuhua found the target in the stall of an elderly man in Xinjiang. This book is a large, blue brick-thick Xinjiang raw stone. The old man in Xinjiang is not familiar with his face, his expression is haggard, his face is tired, and he has a canvas duffel bag behind him, and he is suspected of an attempt to visit relatives, and he has no whereabouts for food and housing, or he has been tricked and suppressed by merchants selling jade, so he came to Tianguang Market to try his luck.

Waiting for the rabbit, finally waiting for the rabbit. After thinking about it for a while, Yuan Qiuhua guessed that he was in a hurry, and he might also get rid of it at a low price. Souvenirs can be sold for some money in the city, and if they are brought home as they are, they are jokes and laughing stocks. She squatted down and looked carefully, the original stone yellow sand shell, the color of the shell is like egg yolk, there are signs of partial desanding, and the peeling place reveals a yellow mist of water and wine, and there are not a few cracks on the whole body. Sensei looks gorgeous on the outside, but on the inside, he may be hiding a murderous motive. She held it in both hands, touched it here, looked there, and weighed about 5 kilograms, which was heavier, solid, and thicker, and generally heavier than other jade. She took out the stone hammer and struck it a few times, and the sound was crisp, loud, like steel. The previous suspicion was reduced by half, she took out a strong flashlight, turned on the light to take a look, wow! She has a bottom in her heart, and the best thickness of the bracelet is less than 8mm and more than 6mm. I thought to myself, and with a horizontal cut, it looks like there are ten bracelets.

Yuan Qiuhua stretched out his right hand, his palm hung obliquely, shook it, and bid. (Little four!)

The old man opened his mouth with a lion and his thumb up. (Form 6, no counteroffers.) ）

Yuan Qiuhua said that it was too expensive: Then you can keep it for yourself, fried fat sausages with green peppers, bubbling in red oil, it's delicious. (At dawn, I went to the antique street to set up a stall, was targeted by black traders, replaced for you, and I couldn't see a single bubble of your red ticket.) ）

The old man frowned and lowered his eyes. (It's because I've suffered a big loss and was hacked miserably, and I want to make a profit this time, so I don't let it go!)

Yuan Qiuhua blinked. (Sensei is too greedy.) Take it when you see it. You don't deceive, I don't deceive, long-term cooperation, mutual benefit. ）

The old man gritted his teeth. (Connoisseur.) First-class goods. The goods are good, and I am not afraid that no one will know them. ）

Yuan Qiuhua left as soon as he started, and immediately said that he would not buy it. (If you have money and eyes, you don't have to worry about not being able to touch a better one.) The jade carving master is in charge, the carving is ingenious, the goods are a little short, and they can make up for it, and they still produce high-quality products. ）

She looked up at the starry sky. (Top goods, fall into the hands of local tyrants, play will not play, reward will not be rewarded, the masterpiece will become residues, spoil the heavens, the gods will cut off your wealth.) ）

The old man did not waver. (Form 6, no counteroffers.) ）

Yuan Qiuhua turned his head, bared his teeth, grinned, shrugged his nose, shook his eyebrows, put his hand on his forehead, and made a monkey appearance of Sun Wukong. (Spoiled, take care of it, naughty, really like it, seek fulfillment, sincerely, have a central request, and reveal your thoughts.) ）

When the old man saw the funny monkey face, he couldn't help but smile and clapped his hands. (Price 10,000.) Just look at the color of the goods, it's useless. ）

Lan Xinyan couldn't hold back and smiled. Yuan Qiuhua went astray and dared to show his cards, but the old man took the opportunity to raise the price, and he did not pity each other. Yuan Qiuhua is wearing overalls, and at first glance she is a migrant girl in the factory, but she is really a beautiful lady, raising her hands and feet, her demeanor is generous, her eyes are clear, and she is calm, where is the figure of a peasant girl?

Yuan Qiuhua saw the original stone, his eyes lit up, he took out the cotton gauze gloves and put them on, picked up the material, weighed it first, divided it into weights, and then took out the stone hammer, tapped it, and listened to the sound quality, followed by a flashlight light, oblique illumination, pressure light, covering the light, and seeing through the back, what he did was nothing more than to distinguish the color, and it was a spectrometer to measure the softness and hardness, and to measure the radiation. Not to mention wearing workers' clothes, but wearing beggar's clothes, unkempt, sloppy, as soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one, and the experts in the industry can still see through it, she is a top person. Besides, how can there be an impermeable wall in the world? As long as she travels, there are always followers who pretend to be passers-by behind her, she is a jewelry appraiser at a high-end auction, she picks and appraisals for free, and she can pick up treasures with her! As long as she bids but does not sell, then someone always pays for it, and she has to buy it twice, and no one has the ability to let her do it with her proud personality!

The old man became more and more calm, raised his eyes and swept around, there were at least a dozen of her fans on the street, all anxiously looking forward to her leaving.

Of course, Lan Xinyan knew about these situations, but she covered them up tightly, covered them up, and didn't let Yuan Qiuhua know, first, she couldn't let mundane things disturb her, only let her study knowledge, and second, her temper, knowing that she was going to pick on her.

He didn't say a word, dug out of his pocket, paid 10,000 yuan, and bought it.

The old man stretched out his thumb at Lan Xinyan. (Didn't take advantage of the fire to rob, fell into the well, you are good.) ）

Lan Xinyan said: I'm convinced! You guys are like this, obviously fighting for the pattern and the realm.

The old man took out a piece of paper and asked Yuan Qiuhua to leave his phone number.

He also used obviously stumbling and jerky, awkward but corrective, and strange Mandarin to say: You are loyal, you are a good girl, you have good vision, you can see the jade accurately, you can see the people accurately, and you will have good fortune in the future!

Yuan Qiuhua felt that the old man was stubborn and stubborn.

She smiled and said: Every piece of jade I buy is because I like it, not because it is cheap, just like getting married, because of love, not because of improvisation.

The old man said: You can know the goods at a glance, gather like things, and cooperate happily! I am good and cheap, you are worth the money, and you have made money!

Lan Xinyan started the motorcycle, Yuan Qiuhua held the original stone in both hands, and went home.