Chapter 68: The Ghost Market (1)
"I'm fine at night, where are I going?" Li Yang's affairs are basically over, and there is really nothing to do at night, but I don't understand what Zheng Kaida has to go out at night.
"You don't want to take Li Yang to that ghost place, do you?" Sima Lin, who was driving the car, suddenly turned his head and asked Zheng Kaida.
"What's wrong with that place? It's a good place for me, and with Brother Li's luck, I definitely won't go home empty-handed this time! ”
Zheng Kaida laughed, and Wu Xiaoli, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly moved in her heart, and blurted out: "Brother Zheng, the place you are going to at night is a ghost market?" ”
"Hey, how do you know about ghost markets? That's right, I'm going there at night! ”
Zheng Kaida looked back at Wu Xiaoli in surprise, Zhengzhou Ghost Market is not a strange place for people who really love antiques, but for ordinary people, it seems very mysterious, and not many people know about it.
"I remember, yesterday was the antique city where you took Li Yang, how did I forget this!"
Zheng Kaida suddenly showed a sudden look, Wu Xiaoli smiled, and didn't explain anything, in fact, she really wanted Li Yang to accompany her to visit the ghost market in Zhengzhou tonight.
Zheng Kaida laughed: "It's better this way, let's go together in the evening, do you want to go Sima?" ”
"You all went to that hellish place, it's not interesting for me to stay in the hotel alone, let's take a look!"
Sima Lin smiled helplessly, Zheng Kaida would choose the time when the ghost market would open every time he came to Zhengzhou, but he had no interest in it since he had followed Zheng Kaida once, and he didn't sleep in the middle of the night and bargained with the vendors in a noisy environment, Sima Lin really couldn't adapt to it.
Ghost market, simply understood is the underground market of the antique world, many people who like antiques have had the experience of ghost market Taobao, most of the country's important big cities have their own ghost markets.
In addition, there are many theories about the formation of ghost markets, the most recognized being that ghost markets originated in Tianjin during the Qing Dynasty.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, whenever there was a natural disaster, the victims who fled came to Tianjin to find a way to live. There are historical records that during the Guangxu period, there was a porridge factory near Tianbao Road in Tianjin that gave porridge to the victims, and a fire killed more than 1,000 people and injured countless people. It can be seen that the number of victims of the disaster is huge.
As more and more people began to get into the disaster, some people began to take some old things that others didn't use to sell to the victims, and after a long time, a thrift market was formed there.
At that time, these old goods were different, not like now, when most of the old goods were in tatters, or even unusable things. It's not easy to sell such things even if they are sold to the victims, so what should I do? These merchants wanted to make ghosts, set up stalls before dawn, cover up things in the dark, and then sell them to the victims.
For example, some people fold the place where the cotton leaks out of the torn cotton clothes so that you can't see it; Some of them brush their old shoes with ink, and they look much newer, and some of them nail the furniture that is going to be scattered, and they look very sturdy, and they may fall apart when they are pulled home, which is a lie to put it bluntly.
The people who buy it also know that they just can't stand up to some people being greedy and cheap, although the things in the ghost market are poor, but the price can be cut very low, but in the end, it is 'the buyer has no seller', and whoever buys it will admit bad luck.
After the liberation, such a market gradually changed, many tomb robbers and people who illegally obtained some cultural relics went to the ghost market to sell things, and slowly the ghost market had more antiques, but less old goods, and finally antiques and old goods were mixed together, selling old goods during the day and selling antiques at night, this is the ghost market now. 、
Later, ghost markets of all sizes developed a lot, and slowly became what they are now.
The ghost market in Zhengzhou is in the thrift market, where it is divided into morning market, evening market and night market.
Among them, the morning market is when the stalls are almost dawn, and they close at about four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
The evening market refers to after five o'clock, or when it is almost dark, at this time the market is mainly people who collect old goods, and some of the people who collect tatters will send some usable things here to sell, which is more valuable than selling tatters directly. Since these thrift sellers still have to walk around during the day to collect things, they all concentrate on selling at night, which forms a night market.
The night market refers to the thrift market after twelve o'clock, and the people who come out at this time are not those who buy and sell thrift goods, strictly speaking, this time is the real ghost market, with the sale of antiques, especially the ghost market in the name of selling some shady antiques.
The ghost market in Zhengzhou is normally once a week, but there is a big market every three months, and it is usually a small market. There are not many people who set up stalls in the small market, most of them are local people in Zhengzhou or Henan, and only when there is a big market in these three months, there are ghost market sellers from all over the country gathered here, and it is easiest to find some good things at this time.
Today's ghost market is a big market once every three months, so Zheng Kaida and Wu Xiaoli are paying attention and preparing to come to Taobao.
When he arrived at the hotel, Li Yang figured all this out, and he was also very curious about the ghost market he was about to go.
Zheng Kaida, Sima Lin and Wu Xiaoli have all participated in the ghost market, and their curiosity is far less than that of Li Yang, unlike Li Yang, who counts the time before the night arrives, when should he leave for the ghost market.
waited until eleven o'clock in the evening before Zheng Kaida woke up the sleepy-eyed Sima Lin and set off together, among the four people, Zheng Kaida and Wu Xiaoli were in the best spirit, Li Yang also maintained a very good spirit because of curiosity, only Sima Lin was the most spiritless, and finally the driver who drove was replaced by Zheng Kaida.
This time I went to the ghost market, Zheng Kaida specially prepared a lot of cash, and Li Yang also took 100,000 yuan for backup, in case he encountered a 'treasure in the belly' like the last stone carving, he would not have no money to buy it, no way, only cash is accepted in the ghost market, credit cards, and checks are useless.
The car turned many times, and it was not until twelve o'clock that it reached a dilapidated street entrance, at which time there were many cars parked at the street entrance, ranging from ordinary vans to some million-dollar luxury cars.
Zheng Kaida's Daben has been following behind, although the ghost market has its own market order, but there is no guarantee of your absolute safety here, it is natural to be careful when you come to such a place with a large amount of cash, Zheng Kaida's four bodyguards are quietly following behind, just in case.
"This is a ghost market?"
As soon as he arrived at the corner of the street, Li Yang was stunned there, this street is not big, the street is quite dirty, but there are already a lot of small stalls on both sides of the street, and there are small electric lights hanging on the stalls, plus people who keep walking around in front of the stalls to pick things back and forth, this whole thing is like a vegetable market, and there is no sneaky appearance that Li Yang thought about in advance.
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