"What's the matter? What good things have you found again?" Gao Meng noticed Xu Zhuo's expression and couldn't help but be stunned. Now, he vaguely felt that Xu Zhuo was a little mysterious.

"Not sure. Let's go, go over there and have a look!" Xu Zhuo walked straight to a small stall ten meters away. It mainly sells jade objects and the like.

"What's there to buy about this kind of thing, most of them are fake. Gao Meng shrugged. Even with his eyes, he could see that the jade here had been treated with modern techniques.

When the stall owner heard this, he didn't refute it, but just said with a smile: "Small business, make a cigarette money." ”

Xu Zhuo originally wanted to pretend to pick it first, but when he saw the stall owner say this, he directly reached out to get the object he fancied.

It's a wrench.

Yes, it's a jade wrench! It is a relatively delicate white jade, but the appearance is a little yellowish, which looks not much different from the various ancient jade objects made of Russian white jade imitation placed around.

The reason why Xu Zhuo took a fancy to it, naturally, was because just now, the ability of "appreciating treasures" was triggered again, and he saw from a distance that the surface of this jade wrench was covered with a faint halo, like a treasure glow, like a candle in the dark. And obviously, others are invisible. For example, the stall owner, if he could see it, naturally he would not place this wrench at will, and put it together with so many mediocre fake ancient jade.

"This thing, at least it has to be from the Qing Dynasty. And the jade is delicate, not the old yellow, but the yellow that has been 'raised' for a long time and is naturally produced. The most important thing is that this is a must-have for practicing archery!" Xu Zhuo muttered to himself, casually playing with the white jade wrench and trying it on his thumb.

The wrench, its predecessor is called Chi (sound shot), "Shuo Wen" said: "Chi, shoot also", indicating that this instrument is a tool for riding and shooting. It is often worn with the fingers of the hook to hold the bowstring. At the same time, it can also prevent the bowstring from grazing the fingers when the arrow is released, so it is also a hand guard tool. The ancients also called it "machine", which is similar to "trigger", indicating that the role of the wrench is equivalent to the trigger.

It was first seen in the Shang Dynasty (17th to 11th centuries BC), and was very popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (8th century BC to the 3rd century BC).

In the Qing Dynasty, archery was an important personal military skill in the era of cold weapons and was greatly valued as the core armament of the Qing Dynasty's military force, the Eight Banners, which attached great importance to this thing, and almost everyone had one, so it became a habit. At the beginning, due to the importance and practicality, the size of the wrench was made of tough and astringent materials, and the width and narrowness of the wrenches were different, which varied from person to person, so as to be able to straps. After entering the customs, the world to support the Eight Banners, get it for nothing, the treatment is good, the atmosphere of the Eight Banners is becoming more and more extravagant, the military equipment of the wrench has gradually become a very fashionable ornament, the children of the Eight Banners compete to make the fingers of precious materials, compare and show off with each other. In the end, from the emperor and princes and ministers, down to the children of the banners of Manchu and Mongolia, as well as the rich merchants and magnates with vassal elegance, they all liked to wear it despite their different respects and inferiors.

If Xu Zhuo sees it correctly, this wrench is made of mutton fat white jade from Hetian, which is definitely used by nobles. In this stall owner, it is really a pearl and dust.

"Boss, I like this wrench very much, how much does it cost?" asked Xu Zhuo.

The stall owner thought for a while and said, "I really want it, a hundred yuan!"

Xu Zhuo was secretly happy, but how could there be no bargaining in business? Therefore, he still added a sentence very necessary, and said: "You see that I am also a student, and I don't have a stable financial source yet, so it's better to be cheaper, right?"

The boss said: "At least eighty, no less!" This wrench, like a large pile of antique jade, was wholesaled by the boss at the cost price of sixty-five yuan a piece, and if he sold it for sixty, he really didn't make much money.

Hearing this, Xu Zhuo paid the money very happily, and then wore a wrench and prepared to leave. Who knows, at this time, things happened suddenly.

I only heard an old man's voice coming: "Young man, I will pay 300 yuan for this wrench, you can sell it to me!"

Xu Zhuo turned his head and saw a man in his sixties walking slowly with a cane on his head, about sixty years old.

"Ah, isn't this Huang Lao?" the stall owner was the first to be pleasantly surprised. I only cared about the surprise and greeted Huang Lao, but I didn't pay attention to Huang Lao's words just now.

Gao Meng seemed to know this person as well, and whispered in Xu Zhuo's ear: "This person seems to have a very high status in the antique market." I've been here before, and I've met this guy once, and I've seen a lot of big store owners greeting him respectfully!"

"Oh?" Xu Zhuo thought to himself, this old man may be a master in the antique world! Master, no wonder he took a fancy to my ancient jade wrench at a glance. However, if you want to buy my jade wrench finger for only 300 yuan, it's too underestimated, right?

"Sorry, don't sell!"

"Ahh At this time, if you regret it, it will not work, everything will go to someone else's hands, and the money will be collected. Moreover, it will also be looked down upon by Huang Laoxiao. After all, keeping one's promises is an important virtue. Doing business is credibility. It's only about 200 yuan, forget it!

Huang Laochong nodded slightly, turned to Xu Zhuo again, and said, "Young man, don't you really sell it? If the price is low, how about five hundred?"

The stall owner's heart skipped a beat!

Xu Zhuo: "Not for sale!"

"What about six hundred?"

The stall owner's eyelids jumped twice in a row, Nima, the loss is more than five hundred!

"I'm sorry, senior!" Xu Zhuo shook his head, still not selling.

"Then, two thousand!" The old man thought about it and directly offered a high price! The stall owner exclaimed again, looking at the wrench in Xu Zhuo's hand, the intestines in his stomach were almost repentant. This, this, a loss of more than 1,900, how many packs of cigarettes can be sold?

Gao Meng was also pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect this brother of his to be so powerful, and the things he bought for eighty yuan could be sold for two thousand yuan in the blink of an eye! This is a lot of money! Hurriedly instigated Xu Zhuo to hurry up, after this village, there will be no such shop, and next time there may not be anyone willing to pay this high price! This jade wrench, he doesn't look at it much, and it is definitely not as valuable as his bronze wine bottle.

Xu Zhuocai didn't bother to pay attention to him, just smiled apologetically at the old man, and said, "I'm sorry, I don't plan to sell this object for the time being." After speaking, he pulled Gao Meng and left, without looking back.

Huang Lao glanced at Xu Zhuo's back deeply, turned his head, and saw the stall owner who was stunned on the side, he couldn't help but shake his head, and said with regret: "It was a treasure just now, and you sold it as grass! Its value is definitely more than two thousand!"

"Huh?" The stall owner was even more dumbfounded!

Huang Lao leaned on crutches, hummed a little song, and continued to walk slowly. He has seen countless treasures in his life, and he is not sorry that he didn't buy that jade wrench. After all, no matter how expensive the jade wrench is, it is only worth tens of thousands of yuan, which is just a drop in the bucket for his level, and it was just a matter of interest just now.