Following Lancelot to this Mag bookstore, Zhang Tianyuan did feel an unusual taste.

There is a blue sign on the exterior wall here, with the logo of royal authorization and the date of the establishment of the bookstore, which looks like a gentle and elegant old gentleman who drinks afternoon tea.

Wandering around the bookstore, there are naturally a lot of books that you can afford.

Of course, this is for Zhang Tianyuan, and for most people, the price of books here is a bit expensive.

But even if you can't afford it, if you come here, you can still come across some interesting books from time to time, and the process of searching is the greatest pleasure.

Zhang Tianyuan casually opened a woodblock overprint Taohuawu New Year album, the book has become very yellow, but it is well preserved, and the five colors of red, yellow, green, black and blue are still very bright. The pictures include "A Ball of Harmony", "Doll Profit", "Bang Hai Plays the Golden Toad", "Year Dynasty Picture", "Spring Cow Picture", "Harvest Picture", "Yuqiao Ploughing Reading", "Daqing Harvest", "Gusu Wannian Bridge", "Suzhou Changmen Map", "Wu Song Fights Tiger", "Huaguo Mountain", "Dingjun Mountain", "Xuanmiaoguan Temple Fair", "Three Hundred and Sixty Lines Inside and Outside Suzhou City", etc., the customs and customs are vividly on the paper.

Far away in a foreign country, I was even more fascinated when I saw this kind of thing by chance.

"Boss, this thing has been bought!" Liu Mengxun saw that Zhang Tianyuan was fascinated, and finally a smile appeared on his face, and he shouted at the boss.

"Thank you, dear. Zhang Tianyuan did not refuse Liu Mengxun's kindness, he was not short of money, and Liu Mengxun was not short of it, if such a thing could bring the relationship between each other closer, it would be great.

Besides. The price of this thing is quite appropriate, and Zhang Tianyuan plans to take it back and collect it. Although the price is much lower than the rest of the things in his private museum, this thing is so distinctive. But it's also rare.

After buying this, the two of them went around again, bought a few books that they had always wanted to read, but couldn't buy in China, and then put them in the car and left.

However, they did not leave the antique market, parked their car in a nearby parking lot, and then spun around the market again.

Turning around, I walked from the more prosperous street to an alley.

Lancelot told Zhang Tianyuan: "Actually, don't look at the antiques over there, they are actually for foreign tourists." Locals come here to buy things. ”

Zhang Tianyuan noticed that this antique market is located on a remote and quiet side street, and usually only storefront shops are open, which is no different from ordinary commercial streets. It's just that the glass windows are full of antiques with different cultural appearances of various countries. Compared with the general casualness of the thrift stalls on Dongtai Road in Shangpudong, the furnishings in their stores are many but not messy, spotless, and quite displaying.

Lancelot is built in yì, and it's really worth seeing.

Because Zhang Tianyuan and they came out very early that day, even after visiting the Tower of London, the National Gallery and the British Museum. It was still not eight o'clock yet.

But even so, the doors of the shops on the antique street were almost all closed, and it was deserted, which surprised Zhang Tianyuan.

However, there was one phenomenon that caught Zhang Tianyuan's attention. In front of a small shop, there were two or three people, seven or eight people standing unevenly. He didn't know why, so he consulted Lancelot. He told Zhang Tianyuan that these are collectors who come and go with a clear goal. Where did he stand? It was a merchant who specialized in the kinds of artifacts he needed, and there was often a new shipment every weekend.

Really. As the temporary stalls on the side streets flocked to the sidelines, several storefronts also opened their roller shutters. Strangely enough, at this time, customers were as fast as hearing the meeting number, and the street was filled with shops at once, and the place immediately became a bustling city.

"It's the weekend!" Lancelot shrugged, "Looks like we're here at the right time!"

The seller's new goods are all brought with the car on the same day, and the people who are waiting are desperately trying to seize the advantageous position, staring at the boxes, boxes, and bags in the hands of the shopkeeper, and constantly asking the shopkeeper if he has what he wants, lest the "big fish" slip under their noses without paying attention. Their attentive and direct eyes or deliberately pretending to be dismissive, those rich body language of scratching their heads and squeezing from the inside out, leaning over and squeezing, are very picturesque on the various people who are fat and thin, tall and short, and dressed in different ways. Zhang Tianyuan suddenly thought of the immortal masterpiece of the Russian painting master Repin "The Chaporosh Man Writes a Letter to the Sultan of Turkey", but the picture is solid, but the front is vivid.

The Chaporosh people were an organization of Russian Cossacks in Ukraine from the 16th to the 18th centuries, most of them were serfs who escaped from the slavery of landlords, with a standing army of more than 20,000 people.

The Turkish Sultan had written a letter urging them to submit to the Turkish Empire, and these Cossack warriors loved their homeland and would not surrender, so they prepared a letter to the Sultan. This painting depicts the scene when the reply letter is written, and the people laugh with the language of mockery and sarcasm of the Turkish king. All the people in the painting are laughing, but due to the different status, origin, and personality of the characters in the painting, the posture and expression of the smile are also different, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of human laughter.

In order to create this work, the artist visited the places where the Chaporos lived, not only studied their historical materials, but also painted many props and ornaments with national cultural characteristics, in order to show the great spirit and civilizational traditions of the Russian nation. In the foreground, Repin prominently depicts two figures with their backs to the viewer, with many props behind their backs and around their waists, a subtle addition that reflects both the love of life and the joy of life of the Chaporosh people, and also contains a profound philosophy that the Cossacks of Russia have their own cultural traditions, and each of them has his own distinctive personality traits, showing the world as a whole the spiritual image of a people - they are invincible.

Repin said of the conception of the painting: "What pleased me about our Chaporos was freedom, and they created an equal brotherhood to defend their faith and the highest character of their personality. The warriors of these small groups had great spiritual strength and not only defended Europe against the marauders of the East. And to make fun of the arrogance of the eastern marauders. ”

Ilya Efimovich Repin is a Russian painter. An important representative of the traveling exhibition school. Born in Chuguev, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. From 1873 to 76 he traveled to Italy and then to France. He studied classical and modern European art. After returning to China, he worked diligently and created a large number of historical paintings, genre paintings and portraits, expressing the poverty and suffering of the people and their desire for a better life. In 1878 he participated in the Traveling Exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts. His representative works include "The Slender Man on the Volga", "The Arrest of the Propagandist", "Unexpected Return", "The Chaporosh Reply to the Sultan of Turkey" and "Tolstoy".

I guess many people in the 80s were familiar with the painting "The Slender Man on the Volga", and I remember that there seems to be a similar article in the Chinese textbook.

Such a good picture, of course Zhang Tianyuan would not miss it, so he took out his digital camera and took a few photos, these things can be shown to the people in the circle when they go back.

Zhang Tianyuan really wanted to see a few transactions on the spot, but the distance between the buyer and the seller's expectations was different. It's hard to get closer for a while. In fact, even if this kind of business is closed, it will not be so direct, and there will always be a fierce but no gunpowder wrestling at the bottom.

But the excitement seems to be interesting.

At this time, the stalls, tables, and caravans on the side streets were already intertwined. Compared with the antiques in the store, the sense of historical precipitation and value is much worse, and many of them are even modern knives and forks, bowls, belts, sabers, binoculars, etc., which obviously do not make much sense to spend time here.

So Zhang Tianyuan seized the time to carry out a carpet "sweep" of the shops along the street. It is found that although they lack the treasure-level large and heavy objects of museums and auction houses, they have their own emphasis, almost one shop and one style of antiques, and more of them are quite easy to arouse the desire of customers from all over the world to buy and possess all kinds of fine wares with graceful shapes, small and exquisite, and exquisite craftsmanship. It's a condensed world art fair. Compared with the abundance of domestic fakes. The state that the "trap" is difficult to guard against, and it is more reassuring here.

From eight o'clock until almost lunchtime, the flow of people on the street was rapidly decreasing, and the stalls were already retreating. Apparently the climax has passed, and in a moment it will be calm again.

Zhang Tianyuan was about to find a place to leave and eat, when he was suddenly led to the door of a store by Lancelot. said that there were still many shops missing here, Zhang Tianyuan was stunned. Because they had been here, but they hadn't noticed the steps of a doorway that was indistinguishable from the others. It is actually an underground antique market with hundreds of shops.

Although the space inside is relatively cramped, the content is rich and colorful, just entered the store, Liu Mengxun fell in love with a white jade work, identified by Zhang Tianyuan, quality, craftsmanship, 300 pounds Shun lì to win, much cheaper than the domestic market.

"Look, husband, there are a lot of Chinese things in here, although they are all gadgets, but they look so exquisite......"

After buying the white jade object, Liu Mengxun's mood was obviously very good, but Zhang Tianyuan smiled a little bitterly, in fact, although this white jade object is very good, but at most it is something from the Republic of China, this kind of thing is also very much in China, and the jade quality is not very good, but he has a Hetian jade mine, if Liu Mengxun likes it, then he can give him a truck.

Or he can't say these words, since his wife likes it, it's not wrong to go shopping with his wife, and in fact he knows, the reason why Liu Mengxun came to the place is just to make him happy, if he doesn't know what to do, it's too incomprehensible.

"Hey, this place is really good......

Zhang Tianyuan glanced into the depths of the store, his eyes showed a look of surprise, although the area of this store is not large, and the inside is very compact, but there are definitely a lot of things, and the layout is very reasonable, the placement is also very neat, there is no feeling of crowding at all.

He originally thought that the things sold here were also modern handicrafts, but after careful observation, he found that the worst things in them were actually things before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

This is much better than the stalls he saw in the flea market before, the things on those stalls are basically exported to domestic sales, and many Chinese who travel abroad do not look carefully when they buy things, only to find out that they are "Made in China" when they buy them, making a bunch of jokes.

Fortunately, this store is different, and the things here can at least make Zhang Tianyuan stop and watch. (To be continued......)