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Chapter 747: Vancouver's Thrift Market

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"So you're going to New York?"

After listening to Liu Dong's words, Uncle Long said.

"Yes, I'll come and see you, and then I'll fly over at the end of the month!" Liu Dong said.

After nodding, Uncle Long sighed slightly: "The capital of the twelve beasts of the Old Summer Palace is a national treasure of our country, and since you have seen it, you should buy it back...... By the way, Xiaodong, do you have enough money with you, if it's not enough, I'll add some to you!"

"No need, Uncle Long, this time in order to buy the tiger head and the pig head, I prepared 100 million US dollars, which is enough!" Liu Dong hurriedly said.

"Hehe, that's good! It seems that I haven't seen you for more than a year, and you kid is really good! Okay, since you have your own money, then you don't have to worry about me as an old man for you, these few days in Vancouver, you can have fun!"

"Then I'll bother you, Uncle Long!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

"Hey, what's this called, you can come and see me, I'm too late to be happy!" ......

Several people chatted with each other until noon, and then after a brief walk around in the afternoon, Liu Dong had to move from the hotel to his home in the evening because of Uncle Long's insistence.

Liu Dong, who got up early in the morning to exercise, met Uncle Long, who was also standing in the yard.

"Xiaodong, I'll take you to the antique market here after breakfast, I know you're most interested in this!"

"Okay, Uncle Long!" Liu Dong nodded and agreed.

He was really interested in the antique market here. And being able to walk around and chat with the old man is also the purpose of his here.

However, the antique market in Vancouver is a little surprising to the antique market that Liu Dong knows. A more accurate definition here would be the second-hand market.

abroad. The second-hand market for furniture, children's toys, and collectibles is common, and it's a frugal way of life, and it's a popular place for anyone who likes to shop and grab something.

Generally, it is only open on weekends, and most of them belong to private rented stalls, while the thrift market that is open every day belongs to the state or welfare institutions, and the thrift market that Uncle Long brought Liu Dong to is the latter.

The market is not big, that is, three floors. Like many antique markets in China, the building is divided into large and small stalls, with old furniture, old toys, small commodities, stamps, oil paintings, porcelain and so on!

And the flow of people is very lively, this is the first time Liu Dong has met so many people in Vancouver, yesterday when he went shopping with Uncle Long, the surroundings were deserted, which made him a little uncomfortable from China.

"Look, this is the biggest antique market in Vancouver, and I've been here a few times before, but I don't know much about other antiques other than wood carving. So I didn't buy anything, but you're a great kid. I heard Lao Li call me and say that you made a lot of big leaks when you were in China, so it's up to you today, and my old man can't help you!"

Listening to Uncle Long's words, Liu Dong smiled and didn't speak.

One is the eyesight of the school examination, and the other is luck.

Liu Dong's eyesight is fine, and no one in this world can even surpass him, but luck is not under human control.

Moreover, compared with China, most of the top products in this thrift market are second-hand old goods, and there are not many works of art that can be called antiques. Therefore, Liu Dong didn't have the intention of picking up leaks, he just wanted to accompany the old man to go shopping and be happy!

"Huh!"

Liu Dong, who had no intention of picking up the leak, really found a good thing.

And Old Man Long, who knew him well, understood what was going on when he saw Liu Dong's expression.

"Found something good?"

"It's not too good, it's okay!" Liu Dong said.

Nowadays, he has seen a lot of top-level antique artworks of national treasure, which are generally likely to be big leaks in the eyes of others, but in his eyes, they are average.

"Let's go, go over and have a look!"

After listening, Liu Dong nodded, then took two steps forward and stopped in front of a stall.

There are some oil paintings on the stall, the most is some spoons, plates and bowls, etc., which look very exquisite, in fact, they are all modern handicrafts, and there are no domestic scroll paintings and ancient books, jade carvings, etc.!

In addition, unlike the lively domestic antique market, even if there is a relatively large flow of people here, there are few in front of each stall, so when Liu Dong and the two walked over, the white stall owner who was sitting in a white T-shirt and slightly obese had already stood up from the Mazha and greeted: "Two, what do you want?"

After Liu Dong looked at the stall a few times, he picked up a small and fist-sized white vial from the corner, the height of the vial is about 10 centimeters, the whole body is white, the hand is warm and delicate, the bottle body is carved with the technique of openwork and openwork, carved with the most noble totem in China - dragon, Liu Dong counted, on the bottle body of this square inch size carved nine lifelike, or hovering, or driving clouds, or catching and other images of different nine dragons.

However, a lot of dust has accumulated in the cracks of the bottle carving and has not been cleaned up, which covers the style of this exquisite work of art, and people abroad lack understanding of things from China, so this original royal tribute was buried in the dust.

Fortunately, it met Liu Dong.

"Boss, how much does this thing cost?" Liu Dong raised the vial in his hand.

"$150!"

The white trader rolled his eyes.

Liu Dong knew that this price had exceeded the original price of the vial in his hand, but he didn't care, in comparison, he still made more money, so Liu Dong didn't bother to bargain, and directly paid 150 Canadian dollars to the other party.

Watching Liu Dong buy the things, Uncle Long, who had been standing on the side just now, also took the things from Liu Dong's hands.

"Is this a snuffbox?"

Uncle Long had seen the Kangxi enamel colored snuff bottle that Liu Dong sold to Zhao Defa, so he was no stranger to the things in his hands.

"Uncle Long has good eyesight, this is indeed a snuff bottle!"

"Okay, don't put a high hat on me, tell me quickly, what is the origin of this thing, but this carving is good, it looks like it should be the technique of the Northern School, revealing a great ingenuity and luxury!"

"Uncle Long, this is the Qing Dynasty Qianyu ivory Nine Dragon snuff bottle!" Liu Dong said.

"You say it's ivory?"

"yes!"

"Oh, I said that this touch is different from the one you picked up last time!" After playing with the snuffbox, he returned it to Liu Dong, "It didn't take long for your kid to pick up a big leak, and more than two million yuan was in hand!"

"Hehe, Uncle Long! This snuff bottle can't be compared, the last Qing Dynasty Kangxi enamel color snuff bottle, if it is auctioned, the price is only a little more than half of the last time!" Liu Dongdao.

"Okay, half of it is more than one million, enough for you kid to earn!"

The two chatted and strolled through the thrift market, but while they were happy, Liu Dong didn't find anything else he liked.

"By the way, Uncle Long, yesterday I heard Uncle Long say that you bought a farm here?" Liu Dong said.

"Yes, this foreign country can't be compared with China, there are few people, you have to make an appointment in advance, plus I don't know a few neighbors, I don't understand the language, and I stay at home and I am bored, so I bought a farm in the suburbs of Vancouver, how about it, go to my place?"

"Okay!"

Liu Dong was interested when he heard it, anyway, he also visited this thrift market, except for a snuff bottle, he didn't find anything valuable, and it was not interesting to stay here!

In addition, Liu Dong has also been famous for a long time for large farms abroad, and he wanted to experience it when he was in the Netherlands, but there were too many things happening in the middle, and he never found the opportunity, so it is just right to go to Uncle Long's farm now.

Seeing that Liu Dong agreed, the two went out of the thrift market, and then Liu Dong drove out of Vancouver under the guidance of Uncle Long.

Looking at the wide and straight asphalt road, with few vehicles, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile: "If only we could be like here in China, there are not so many cars, and there is no traffic jam on the road, saving more time!"

"Hehe, it's not that there are fewer cars here, but that there are fewer people driving, a city of 600,000 people in Vancouver is not as good as a county under Quancheng!"

"Hey, Uncle Long, are these farms?" Liu Dong couldn't help but ask, looking at the single two-story buildings that swept by from time to time on both sides of the road.

"It's all!"

"That's too much!" Liu Dong said in surprise.

"Hehe, Canada is different from our country, there are fewer people here, there are more land, the country's 35 million people are not as large as the population of our hometown of Shan-Dong Province, but the country area is larger than our China, so here is not like our country, ordinary farmers do not farm a few acres of land, but hundreds of acres, thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres of large farms, all of which are big landlords...... Oh, there's my farm right in front of me!"

Following the direction pointed by Uncle Long, Liu Dong saw a small two-story wooden building not far from the road, and there was a row of bungalows and some simple agricultural machinery next to the small building.

Surrounding these buildings is a row of wooden fences more than one meter high, the fence is crawling with unknown wild vines, and it is full of colorful small flowers, reflecting the endless green in the distance, as well as the cattle and sheep hidden in the green, quite a bit of a leisurely artistic conception beyond the world!

When Liu Dong's car drove along the dirt road leading to Xiaolou, the fierce barking of dogs sounded.

Soon two German black-backed, commonly known wolf dogs, barked at Liu Dong's car through the fence.

When Uncle Long got out of the car, soon the two faithful little guys wagged their tails again, and looked at Uncle Long's eyes with a look of flattery.

"Xiaodong, I'll open the door, you can drive the car in!"

"Got it, Uncle Long!"

………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)