The Confucius Temple on the bank of the Qinhuai River was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Yan Xiankang for three years, according to Wang Dao's proposal to "govern the country to cultivate talents as the priority", and established Taixue on the south bank of the Qinhuai River. In that year, there was only the school palace, and the Confucian temple was not built, the Confucian temple was expanded in the first year of Song Renzong Jingyou on the Eastern Jin Dynasty school palace, because it was Confucius who was worshipped, so it was also called the Confucius Temple.

Since ancient times, the Confucius Temple has been the crown of Qinhuai, shining with charming brilliance. Here the humanities gather, businessmen gathered, known as the "beautiful place in the south of the Yangtze River" reputation, just Nanjing is known as the place where the soldiers must pass through, the past dynasties suffered many military disasters, the Confucius Temple in history has been destroyed four and five built, in 1984, the Confucius Temple Qinhuai scenery belt began to rebuild, has invested more than 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 More than 300,000 square meters of ancient buildings, the daily flow of people is more than 100,000 people, and the holidays are more than 300,000 people, the Qinhuai River from ancient times to the present, are the places where the literati and scholars sing poems against each other, dance and make ink, is located in the Confucius Temple on the bank of the Qinhuai River, antique calligraphy and painting, flowers, birds, fish and insects have become the most important selling point, often attract many tourists to stop and watch.

Because the Confucius Temple is also a collection of antiques and flower and bird markets and one, so Liu Chuan is also very familiar with the Confucius Temple, with everyone from the east side into the Confucius Temple market, just into the square, you see a stone pillar on the east side of the temple, on the book "the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs has dismounted here", presumably it is the reverence of the "Holy Wenxuan King".

At this time, the Chaotian Palace antique market, which is known as the antique industry "Pan Jiayuan in the north, Chaotian Palace in the south", has not yet been rebuilt, it is because more antique lovers are concentrated in the Confucius Temple antique market, in other cities, when night falls, often the antique market will disperse in the stalls, but the Confucius Temple antique market next to the beautiful scenery of Qinhuai at night is full of people, lively and extraordinary.

On both sides of a long street, all of them imitate the buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, giving people a sense of time and space disorder, the feeling of being in ancient times, because there are too many tourists, Liu Chuan will already hold the black lion in his arms, but the little white lion is not afraid of loss, dexterously walking under the legs of everyone, always following Zhuang Rui.

"Wood, slow down, slow down, where are we Taobao picking up leaks, this whole big set, there are good things I want to find." After following the flow of people for a while, Liu Chuan couldn't hold back his energy, there were so many people, he couldn't stop in front of the stall at all, and before you could stand firmly, the people behind pushed you forward.

In fact, most of the people who visit the Confucius Temple at this o'clock are foreign tourists, admiring the reputation of the Confucius Temple, just to have a lively picture, not interested in antiques or want to come to Taobao to pick up leaks, and those stall owners sell, not to mention all modern handicrafts, at least Zhuang Rui walked through seven or eight stalls, scanned it with his eyes at will, and has not found an object with aura, so that tourists can buy some souvenirs, and the stall owners make some hard-earned money, but they are all happy.

The real local old players also come to Confucius Temple, but most of the time they come here is early in the morning, and they come to visit the "ghost market" here, the so-called "ghost market" is actually what people call the night market now, but before the liberation, it was called Xiao City, or "ghost market", and it has been renamed the night market in the mouths of young people, but in the antique shop, the name "ghost market" has been continued.

Antique ghost market is generally traded in the second half of the night to before dawn, and the current night market time has a certain difference, the ghost market because it is traded at night, the goods are difficult to distinguish between true and false, good and bad, so it is easy to be deceived, especially a lot of stolen goods are often listed here to get rid of, if you don't get it right, you will eat a lawsuit, which makes people have a hard to argue.

After the liberation, the people's government stipulated that no trading was allowed before the street lights were extinguished, and the ghost market was gradually abolished. But now there are ghost markets again in various places, the most famous is the Panjiayuan in Beijing and the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, the rest of the places are also available, not the same, the time is generally from three o'clock in the morning to seven or eight o'clock in the morning, there are also some second-hand goods will continue to noon, the owners come from all over the country, the goods are various, most of them are imitation antiques, but there is no lack of treasures.

It's a pity that Liu Chuan came here in the past, just for the purchase of pets, and he doesn't know much about the antique market, and he doesn't know the existence of a ghost market, otherwise, with Zhuang Rui's eyes, he will definitely be able to find a lot of good things in the ghost market.

Seeing that Qin Xuanbing and Lei Lei were both frowning, constantly dodging the crowd crowd, there must be no shortage of dirty hands who wanted to touch women in troubled waters, Zhuang Rui opened his mouth and said: "Let's go to the store, it is estimated that even if there are any good objects here, they have already been snatched away, where can we still get our turn." ”

At that moment, Liu Chuan and Zhuang Rui protected their two daughters, squeezed to the back of those scattered stalls, and entered a relatively large antique shop from the façade.

It seems that there are many people who think the same way as Zhuang Rui, not to mention the business of this antique shop, at least the popularity is strong enough, three or five clerks wearing ancient short-cut clothes, are talking about the items in the store to tourists, Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered a story, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Zhuang Rui, what are you laughing at?Is it wrong for that person to say?" Qin Xuanbing on the side pointed to the clerk who was like a river and asked Zhuang Rui.

"No, I thought of a joke for you, it is said that there is an antique shop that recruits salespeople, and the advertisements have been out for more than a month, and there are many applicants, but none of them have been hired.

Two young people came on this day, one of them arrived more than five minutes first, and as soon as he entered the store, the owner picked up a small piece of sawdust from the ground, put it on the red silk mat, and asked the young man, "What is this?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and replied, "It's a piece of sawdust."

The boss shook his head, threw the sawdust from the red silk mat back to the ground, and said, "Young man, you were not admitted. ”

The young man was a little puzzled, but someone else was the boss, and he couldn't help it, and when he was about to leave, another applicant walked in outside, and he stopped to see how the person answered.

Sure enough, the boss still made the same move, picked up the sawdust thrown on the ground again, put it on the red silk mat with great care, and asked the young man who had just entered the door, "Can you tell what this is?"

The young man was also stunned for a moment when he heard this, but then a smile appeared on his face and said, "This is the toothpick that Lafayette Cixi once used." ”

"Great, you can get to work now. The boss was overjoyed, and immediately decided to hire the young man who came later, and the previous one hid his face and left.

Xuan Bing, look at that clerk, is he a bit like the person I said, the kung fu is all on the lips. ”

Zhuang Rui's words caused Qin Xuanbing and Lei Lei to laugh, but Liu Chuan had obviously heard the story, and said unconvinced: "Wood, your story is outdated, see buddy tell you one." ”

"Do you still tell stories?" Zhuang Rui's words and the contemptuous look cast in the past made Liu Chuan very dissatisfied.

"What are you talking about, listen well, once upon a time there was an antique dealer, married for more than forty years, nearly sixty years old, fell in love with Madame's maid, and always did something to the maid behind her back, and after Madame knew about it, she discussed it with the maid.

One day, the maid said to the antique dealer: Master, come to my room tonight, the antique dealer was overjoyed, and when he arrived at the third watch, the antique dealer sneaked into the maid's room, and at this time the maid had changed rooms with his wife, and after the antique dealer went to bed, he didn't say anything, and he did his best, and he ate viagra.

After waiting for the matter, the antique dealer lay on the bed and said happily: "Hello, much better than my old yellow-faced woman." As soon as the words fell, the lady kicked him to the ground and scolded: You have been playing with antiques all your life, and you don't even recognize such an old thing. ”

"Liu Chuan, you're not a good thing!"

After Liu Chuan's joke was finished, Qin Xuanbing and Lei Lei, who listened to it, turned crimson, and Lei Lei stepped forward to pinch Liu Chuan's soft flesh, and Liu Chuan, who was in pain, begged for mercy in a low voice.

"This little brother, you're not talking about me, I'm in my sixties as you said, old man, but the majesty is no more, old, old. ”

Suddenly, a voice came from behind Liu Chuan, and several people were startled when they heard it, if this joke was taken seriously, it would be a grudge against someone for no reason.

The person who spoke was indeed an old man, white and fat, with a ruddy complexion, looking at his age, he was in his sixties, with half black and white hair on his head, a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and on the thumb of his right hand, he was wearing an emerald green wrench, squinting his eyes with a smile, looking at Zhuang Rui and a few people.

"Old man, a few of us are joking, how dare you say you, besides, you are not an antique dealer. ”

Liu Chuan got rid of Lei Lei's little hand and said to the old man with a smile.

"Hey, as it happens, I'm really an antique dealer and the owner of this shop. ”

The old man had a good temper, and he was not angry, he replied with a smile, but he listened to Liu Chuan's black line of melon seeds, what the old man wanted to say was true, what he said just now, but he pointed to the monk and scolded the bald donkey, the age and identity are all matched, how could it be so coincidental.

"Old man, don't be angry, this person is so stinky, Liu Chuan, don't apologize to the boss. ”

Zhuang Rui didn't know whether the smile on the old man's face was true or not, after all, it was a bit inappropriate for Liu Chuan to make such a joke in someone else's store.

"I'm not angry, I'm not angry, how many little brothers like these things, can you see that I'm here, which thing is the most valuable?"

The fat old man waved his hand again and again, he really didn't look angry, the busy feet of the guys next to him didn't touch the ground, he didn't say that he would go up to help, but he had the leisure to chat with Zhuang Rui and others, is it really the boss who doesn't talk about it, this boss is full of ......

(To be continued)