Chapter 1099 Ghost City

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"Brother Dong, how long do we have to get there? , I'll sleep first?" asked Chen Bao after yawning, patting his mouth and feeling a little impatient.

"Sleep, you fall asleep again, I won't call you! Okay, keep going, it's three or four minutes ahead!"

"Okay!"

Seeing that Chen Bao nodded, but the two eyelids were fighting, Liu Dong shook his head a little helplessly, and didn't care about him anymore.

Fortunately, because of the short time, before Chen Bao fell asleep, Liu Dong had slowly parked the car on the side of the road outside Panjiayuan.

"Alright, wake up, we're here!"

"Well, ah, it's here!" Chen Bao, who was slapped by Liu Dong and woke up, looked around and found that except for the place where the street lamp shone, the surroundings were still dark.

"Where's it? I'll find out when I'll take you in!

"What is this?" Chen Bao asked looking at the stick that Liu Dong handed over as thick as a thumb and no longer than half a palm.

"Flashlight!" said Liu Dong as he turned on the switch above. Immediately, a bright but not dazzling white angelica light broke the darkness in the car.

"What's the light flashlight like this, what can you see here? And, Brother Dong, isn't there a much bigger flashlight than this? Why don't you bring those big ones? That way, you can see more clearly!"

"A bigger flashlight? Do you think this is going to the vegetable market to buy vegetables? It's already very good to have a flashlight like this, at least it's much stronger than the kerosene lamps and candles in the past! Let's go!" After speaking, Liu Dong pushed the car door and walked down.

And Chen Bao, who originally wanted to ask something more, hurriedly walked down with a flashlight when he saw this.

"Brother Dong. This black light blinds. Where are we going?"

"Where are you going? Didn't you already come during the day?"

"Have you been here?" Chen Bao was stunned for a moment. After looking around, he suddenly realized that this was not the Pan Jiayuan he had come to this afternoon?

"Panjiayuan is a ghost market?"

"That's right! There is a ghost market here every Thursday and Friday night!" nodded and Liu Dong said.

"This, this is really unexpected!"

"There are more things in this world that you can't think of, let's go! Since we're here this time, let's have a good stroll!" After speaking, Liu Dong took Chen Bao with a few turns and entered Panjiayuan!

Because of the reason that it has been here many times. Liu Dong has long been familiar with everything in the ghost market. However, Chen Bao, who came to the ghost market with him for the first time, was very unfamiliar.

Looking at the Pan Jiayuan, which was originally bustling during the day, with an endless flow of people and dense stalls. Although the stalls are still full at this moment, and the flow of people is not small, the atmosphere is unexpectedly different from that of daytime.

Looking at the people coming and going, except for the sound of footsteps, there are few other sounds of people. And most of the stalls have only a dim lamp in front of them, barely able to illuminate the stalls. Chen Bao felt a hint of ghost aura from it.

Chen Bao, who experienced it for the first time, couldn't help but grab Liu Dong's sleeve in front of him after trembling a few times. Then he leaned into his ear and whispered with a little trembling in his tone: "Brother Dong." It's too infiltrating here, there can't really be ghosts, right?"

Turning his head to look at Chen Bao's frightened expression, Liu Dong couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Don't scare yourself, there are no ghosts in this world! Okay, follow me, don't make a lot of noise, if you come across something you like, tell me, I'll buy it for you!"

"No, Brother Dong, I have money with me!" Chen Bao hurriedly said.

"I know you're carrying money. However, the rules for shopping here are different from those in other places. Forget it, I can't explain it to you in one sentence or two sentences now, you just need to remember to tell me when you buy something!"

Buying things in an antique shop is different from other industries because of the amount of money involved. Therefore, buyers and sellers ensure that their trade secrets are not leaked. Therefore, when bargaining, most of them are not lip service, but secretly 'hand-holding'.

And hand-to-hand trading is also a rule handed down from the elders, and it is still observed by insiders in the industry.

However, modern people do not have as wide sleeves as the ancients, coupled with the increasing number of outsiders joining in, and the rise of the auction industry. This rule of hand-in-hand is less and less observed. However, in the ghost market, this method of trading is still extremely popular.

As an outsider who is not even a beginner in collecting, Chen Bao naturally does not understand the doorways and incisions in the Chinese antique trade. That's why Liu Dong said what he just said!

Chen Bao is not stupid, and although he is Chinese, he has been influenced by Chinese Confucian culture by his parents since he was a child, and he also has some understanding of life in China. Know that there are certain rules in China, especially in some ancient industries. Therefore, after Liu Dong finished speaking, he just nodded knowingly, and then didn't say anything more!

Immediately behind Liu Dong, the two also joined the dense but not crowded flow of people.

Now Liu Dong, with his rich net worth and the collection in his hand, has become more and more. I don't want to be two years ago, just got the relics of the Yuanguang meeting. Every time I go to the antique street or antique shop, I don't look at it much, but I come up and use my ability to sweep the goods!

Now he enjoys the fun of searching for treasures in the unknown.

Of course, if he encounters something unknown, or something he is optimistic about, he will still use the relics yuanguang, such as ...... now!

Liu Dong stopped in front of a stall with Chen Bao.

Dafan like this kind of can't afford to open a shop' baggage Zhai, the stall is basically porcelain, calligraphy and painting, jade and other antique items are all-encompassing, if it is not forbidden by the state, bronzes can not be sold publicly, I am afraid that this stall is also indispensable!

After Liu Dong squatted down in front of the stall, his eyes swept over the stall that was less than four square in size, and he reached out and picked up a string of black beads!

There are nine beads in total, and in Chinese culture, 'nine' and 'twelve' are very mysterious numbers, nine represents the extreme, shaped like a dragon and snake, and evolves the meaning of the sacred. Therefore, there are nine gates in the capital, and the emperor is called the 'Ninety-Five Honor'! And twelve represents perfection, so there are twelve earthly branches, and there are twelve hours in a day!

Of course, compared to this beaded chain, the meaning of the number is only the expectation of people's beautiful vision. What Liu Dong really values is the extraordinary material that makes up this beaded chain.

However, now I don't know who painted a layer of black paint on this bead chain, and then some soil was sticked, which looked dirty and inconspicuous! But even if Liu Dong didn't use the relics Yuanguang, just with his eyesight several times higher than ordinary people, he could also find that the jade quality in the unstained places in the bead chain was so good.

Then he looked at it with the relics yuanguang, and a look of joy immediately appeared between his eyebrows.

"Boss, can you take a hand?" Liu Dong said.

"Hand on, okay!" Looking at Liu Dong's young face, the middle-aged, rather fat boss was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted.

"I didn't expect the little brother to be young, but he knows a lot, and he is really a hero out of a teenager!"

"The boss has won the prize!"

It can be seen that Liu Dong is unswerving. The middle-aged boss smiled and didn't say much. just stretched out his hands towards Liu Dong.

Because it is common to wear narrow sleeves now, and it is the end of September, there are not many people who wear them. Therefore, it is not possible to bring your hands completely into your sleeves. Therefore, even if Liu Dong does not stretch out his hand, he can see it very clearly with his eyes.

I saw that the middle-aged boss stretched out a finger on his right hand, and his left hand was indeed stretched out except for the thumb, and the other four fingers were all stretched out!

Liu Dong glanced at it and shook his head at the other party. Reach out and clasp the little finger of the other person's left hand.

But this time it was the middle-aged boss's turn to shake his head!

But this time he didn't move his left hand, but his right hand! His thumb and forefinger stretched out, and he sat in an 'eight' gesture!

Liu Dong frowned, took the bead string in his hand and shook it at the other party, and directly broke the 'eight' of the middle-aged boss's right hand into four fingers side by side!

Looking at the resolute look on Liu Dong's face, Boss Zhong frowned. looked at the bead string in Liu Dong's hand, looked at Liu Dong again, and nodded after a little thought.

Seeing this, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile on his face. Then he took out four hundred-dollar bills from his pocket and handed them over.

"Deal!"

After the middle-aged man took it with a happy expression, he said to Liu Dongdao.

"Hmm!"

After Liu Dong nodded at the other party, he stood up and pulled Chen Bao out of the stall.

However, Chen Bao, who had already been curious about the series of inexplicable gestures between Liu Dong and the middle-aged boss before, couldn't help but ask at this moment: "Brother Dong, tell me quickly, what did you mean by those gestures just now?"

"It's very simple! The right hand represents the number, and the left hand represents the ten hundred thousand units!"

After Liu Dong finished speaking, Chen Bao's face suddenly showed a sudden look. With Liu Dong's practice just now, and this is not a complicated and difficult thing to understand, Chen Bao, a college student, will naturally understand it as soon as he says it!

"That's not right, Brother Dong, one, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand, just five fingers, what if you run into one hundred thousand?"

"Unless it is a 'big stick mallet', or who spends 100,000 yuan to buy antiques on the stall!" Liu Dong said directly.

"Sticksticks?"

"It's a fool!" Liu Dong shook his head and explained.

Looking at Chen Bao with an embarrassed look on his face, Liu Dong didn't say anything more. After all, the other party grew up abroad, and it is understandable that he does not understand some of the current Chinese sayings!

"Brother Dong, are there any antiques under ten yuan?" Embarrassed, Chen Bao hurriedly changed the topic.

"Of course, there are more things that can be bought for ten silver dollars in the Republic of China! If it weren't for the fact that it is not needed now, a finger will not represent 'yuan', but 'points'!" )