At four o'clock in the morning, Zhao Ran appeared at the door of Panjiayuan.

After replying to Qin Siyao's text message, Zhao Ran took a taxi and returned to the hotel, he couldn't fall asleep in bed for some reason, and when he got up and looked, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

Since he can't sleep, then find something to sit down, he has long heard of the name of the Panjiayuan ghost market, and now the time is about the same, just to go over and see the world, to see if he can pick up some good things.

Speaking of Panjiayuan ghost market, it can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, the fortunes of the country were in decline, and many dignitaries and dignitaries were in the middle of the road, so they stole the antiques at home and sold them. After all, this is a very important thing, and you can only choose to trade with lanterns at three or four o'clock in the morning.

Because there are many things that come from improper sources, you can often buy good things at a low price, so the name of "good goods from ghost markets" has been spread.

In the past, the ghost market of Panjiayuan was called the night market, starting from the second half of the night, limited to the dawn, the stall was closed at dawn, and the people vividly called it "the sale of the stall in the middle of the night

Further down are some bizarre legends, talking about what kind of people and ghosts trade, the front foot to do business with you, the next second to lie back in the coffin, in short, different ghost markets around the country often have a lot of unclear relationships.

In fact, everyone listens to these strange legends, the so-called ghost market is not so mysterious, to put it bluntly, it is an antique trading market, but you want to shop for goods in this antique market, more sophisticated eyesight.

The ghost market has developed to this day, and there are a lot of good things, but there are few fake ones! Don't think that you can buy a baby here casually, the experts and professors who pay the tuition here, you can't pull it with a truck.

Zhao Ran's first feeling after walking into the ghost market was quiet! An eerie quiet, you can imagine, a crowded market, no one dares to make a loud noise, isn't it weird what?

Everyone is holding a flashlight, each looking at each other, and even if they do, the conversation is very small, and it will not break the silence, and the centuries-old tradition has been preserved.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Ran's heart was a little excited, this kind of place was really to his liking, maybe he could make a lot of money tonight, took out a flashlight, and rushed into the crowd.

Twenty minutes later, Zhao Ran secretly complained in his heart: "Damn, which shameless person said that the ghost market is so good?" These stall owners are really better than one another, and the good things are hidden and tucked away, but they are still international, and this foreign language is really smooth! ”

Listening to these stall owners, whether it is English, Korean, Japanese, or other Chinese, they can do translations, right? The eyesight is also strong, good things are generally picked out, and for a full twenty minutes, Zhao Ran was stunned that he didn't gain anything, but he touched a lot of aura.

In fact, it's no wonder that there are few treasures here, the ghost market of Panjiayuan in the early years can be said to be full of treasures, and at that time there was no such thing as missing at all, because the antiques at that time were basically low in price and few fakes.

Especially in that era of breaking the four olds, cultural relics and monuments have become the focus of the broken place, the turmoil of history has brought a catastrophe to these treasures, the Red Guards shouted the slogan of "smashing the old world", door-to-door search, everyone is in danger for a while, many people secretly burn the old calligraphy and paintings in the middle of the night, and many precious porcelain are either smashed or thrown away.

Since the 90s of the last century, the ghost market has gradually become large-scale and formalized, and through the joint efforts of antique dealers from all over the world, it has gradually become such a scale today.

"Alas, the atmosphere and scale have come up, but unfortunately this good object is still hard to find, especially in this era of antiques, if you want to dig a treasure, in addition to eyesight, you need luck."

Speaking of luck, Zhao Ran thought of the little dragon in the altar space, its ability can be described as against the sky, but unfortunately he can't use it at all now, otherwise he probably won't have it anymore: "Forget it, I'm lucky, I lost my life, I can't find good things, just take it as a tour, it's not bad to be able to collect some aura!" ”

Continue to visit a few stalls, not to mention, although there are few treasures here, but there are still a lot of real things, but these real things are generally known to stall owners, if you want to fish? Watch out for jokes.

Besides, these antiques are not valuable objects, so Zhao Ran touched and absorbed the aura, and did not plan to really buy them.

"Why are you here?" Suddenly, he felt that his shoulder was tapped, and Zhao Ran turned around and saw a strange man standing behind him.

"Who are you?" This person made him feel strange and familiar at the same time, very strange, he shouldn't have such a friend, right?

"I'm your second senior brother, didn't Xiao Gu hand you over the disguise makeup technique?" The man tore off the beard on his nose, and Zhao Ran looked at it, hey! It's really his second senior brother Yi Tian: "It turned out to be the second senior brother, it's so easy that I don't even recognize it, why are you here, senior brother?" ”

Yi Tian put his beard back and said slowly: "Aren't I in a panic?" But you're a kid, you won't have class tomorrow? Still here on the big night? ”

Although Zhao Ran's participation in the sports meeting was very noisy, Yi Tian basically didn't pay attention to these things, and he either stayed in the forbidden research room every day, or disappeared, and it was very mysterious.

"Don't say it, I don't plan to go to school these days, stay at home for a few days before I go."

Yi Tian didn't ask much when he saw him say this, but said, "That's it, then continue shopping, wait until you say that you plan to leave, remember to make a call, and go back together then." ”

Of course, this ghost market has to be interesting to visit by yourself, otherwise you can't show it with yourself, Zhao Ran just said: "Okay." "Next, let's continue to look at the objects on the stall.

Just now he was looking at an interesting object in this stall.

This is a big brush, Zhao Ran compared it, and it can be determined that the caliber of this pen is about three centimeters, the edge is about ten centimeters, and the total length of the pen is about thirty centimeters.

The brush is the writing tool of traditional calligraphy in our country, the origin of the brush can even be traced back to the Neolithic Age, in 1980 in Jiangzhai Village, Lintong, Shaanxi Province, a tomb was excavated 5,000 years ago, and the traces of the brush depiction can be clearly seen from the unearthed painted pottery cultural relics, confirming that there was a prototype of the zài brush 5,000 years ago.

The development of the brush so far, as one of the four treasures of China's study, according to the elasticity of the pen hair can be divided into, soft, hard, and so on, according to the use can be divided into two kinds of calligraphy and painting pens and writing pens, according to the shape can be divided into round, sharp, etc., according to the pen can be divided into long, medium and short, if it is to make zuò materials to divide, it is really countless!

Zhao Ran's big grab pen in his hand is mainly used to write the big characters of the list, and he has seen it in Mu Lao's study, and I still remember that he said at that time: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and if you don't have a special special big grab pen, don't want to write a majestic list!" ”

The list of books here refers to the book, the ancient name is "signed book" also known as "擘窠 (boke) big characters", the Ming Dynasty Fei Ying recorded in the "big book long language": "Qin waste ancient text, the book is stored in eight bodies, and the person who signs the book is also signed with a large character inscription on the palace plaque." Emperor Han Gao's palace in front of the palace was completed, and the title of Xiao He was the beginning of the signature. ”

Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, was the first calligrapher to use the art of the list book to decorate the emperor's palace, but he was not the first calligrapher to write the list book. Long before the unification of the Qin script, the list book appeared. According to the carved stones and documents of "Mount Tai", "Lang Evil", "Yishan" and "Huiji", the first calligrapher to write the list book was Li Si, the prime minister of Qin.

According to the origin, it can be seen that the list book is mainly written with "plaques" as the writing object, such as the imperial pen of Emperor Qianlong of Mount Tai "Wuyue Zhizun", and the "first pass in the world" plaque of Shanhaiguan City Tower, whose writing fonts are all list books.

The reason why Zhao Ran grabbed this big grab pen now is not to see that this is an antique or something, the main reason is that there is a problem with the weight of this thing, he has played with similar brushes in Mu Lao's study, this pen is really a little too light!

This big grab pen is made of hard mahogany, the pen is very well connected between the barrels, and some parts of the pen body are also carved with patterns, which is very good overall.

It's just that this feeling is different when it comes to Zhao Ran's hands, and his first feeling as soon as he gets started is that it is too light, and it is several taels lighter than the master's!

This aroused his interest, and he hurriedly opened the spirit exploration eye to take a look, ho! Not at all.

Looking at the pen barrel again, this thing is so light, is it empty inside?

Immediately, he opened his clairvoyant eyes and looked inside! Well, it's in stock.

The middle part of the brush was completely hollowed out, and a rolled-up paper object appeared in his eyes.

"I knew it was in there!" No matter what the stuff is, this feeling of discovering the secret is so refreshing, it's like picking up a big leak: "Hold on!" Hurry up and hold back, you must not be discovered. ”

After suppressing the joy in his heart, Zhao Ran casually asked the stall owner: "Boss, this pen is really big, I don't know if it's for sale?" Give a price? ”

"This boss, your vision is so good, let me tell you that this is a treasure of the Qing Dynasty, and it is said that it was once used by Ji Xiaolan" The boss saw that someone came to ask for the price, and hurriedly whispered.

Zhao Ran listened to it with black lines on the side, and Ji Xiaolan used it? Why don't you say Heshen? Hurriedly interrupted in a low voice: "Come on, you, don't brag so much to me, do you know who I am?" The capital has been mixed for more than 20 years, and my grandfather tells me these tricks every day, and I am tired of listening to them, so hurry up and quote! ”

When the dealer heard him say this, he felt a little bitter in his heart, and he was most afraid of meeting this kind of person, and it was not easy to fool him at all.

After so many years of development, the ghost market of Panjiayuan is no longer the fixed market of the year, and now whether it is a buyer or a seller, one by one the ghosts who have learned, the head of the Tao here, is really not enough for outsiders.

"Why don't you give the boss this number?" The boss held out a finger and asked tentatively.

"Ten bucks? Deal! After Zhao Ran finished speaking, he planned to pay for it.

"No, no, no, boss, I can't even earn ten yuan for gas, do you look at the extra points?" The boss hurriedly waved his hand and whispered, Ten yuan? Are you fools?

Zhao Ran also nodded and continued: "Then twenty, no more!" "Since you asked me to make a bid, then I will be shameless, who told you not to offer?

"Don't, boss! I just said 1000, you cut me two zeros at once, and the cut is too hard! The boss of the dealer couldn't help but complain to Zhao Ran in his heart: "Damn, the premonition just now is really right, this person is really a hard stubble, so difficult to deal with." ”

"Boss, you just give a real price, don't look at me when I'm young and think I'm good, I can tell you, I've been in contact with antiques since I was a child, and I've seen more things than you, this big grab pen is used"

Brother is such a good pit person? Although most of these words are bragging, but you dare to compare your knowledge with me?

"Stop, stop! This big brother, I call you big brother, this pen, 400 yuan, if you like it, take it, don't bargain with me anymore, if you don't buy it, you can leave. ”

This boss is really afraid of Zhao Ran, this set of thoughts makes his head hurt, so he casually quoted a price, he likes to buy and buy, and he doesn't buy it.

This time Zhao Ran was not hypocritical, he took out four hundred yuan directly from the wallet and handed it over, now there is still more than an hour before the black market stall closes, after buying this pen, he plans to go shopping again, and then say four hundred yuan, there is no need to continue to rip it off, the most important thing is to get something.

After paying, the dealer took another bag and filled it for him, and Zhao Ran continued to wander among the stalls with the brush.

It's just a pity that he didn't buy anything during this hour of wandering, these bosses are too shrewd to buy it at all, but well, although he didn't buy anything, he absorbed a lot of aura, and the big bowl in the altar space was filled with white and red crystals, as for the advanced ones, he didn't see them tonight anyway.

Seeing that there was probably nothing to shop here, Zhao Ran left Panjiayuan directly, walked to the door, took out the phone and broadcast it to Yi Tian, the phone rang three times, and it was connected: "Senior brother, I have come out, and I am waiting for you at the door now." ”

Yi Tian just whispered "um" and hung up the phone.

In about ten minutes, the two met at the door.

When Yi Tian appeared, he was still holding a plum bottle in his hand, Zhao Ran opened his spiritual eyes with a little curiosity, and a thick and extreme yellow aura came into view, his senior brother is amazing, he really let him buy good things in it, and the density of the aura of this plum bottle is at least tens of millions.

"Senior brother! Amazing, the little brother just walked around in it for a long time and bought a bad pen holder, and the senior brother actually bought a good baby in it. ”

When Yi Tian heard him say this, he suddenly became interested: "How do you know that I am a good thing?" ”

"Isn't it a good thing to talk about later, I'm starving to death, let's find a place to have breakfast first."

Zhao Ran shook his head, now that the ghost market is facing the time to close the stalls, there are people coming in and out of the gate from time to time, and this is not a good place to talk, it is better to find a store door, call something to eat, wouldn't it be nice to chat while eating?

Yi Tian nodded in agreement, and the two drove to find a stall that opened earlier, ordered something to eat, and talked slowly. (To be continued.) )