Chapter 1: The Earth in Miniature

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As the saying goes, antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.

Nowadays, in this peaceful and prosperous world, antiques have naturally become fragrant and sweet, and the news of getting rich overnight by relying on antiques is also flying all over the sky.

In Qin'an City, the Yanzishan antique market is in full swing every day, crowded with people and stepping on their feet.

Ye Chen had only walked a few steps with the crowded crowd, and he was annoyed by the noisy scenes around him.

However, the three classmates who had to pull Ye Chen to visit the antique market in front of them were in high spirits, walking in front of this stall, looking in front of that stall, full of elation, Ye Chen really couldn't understand, isn't it just some broken pots, what is there to look at~~

If Ye Chen was allowed to choose by himself, he would never come to the antique market!

Besides, Ye Chen didn't believe that there could be anything good in this antique market at all. Originally, the antique industry was nine pits out of ten, and with his layman's eyesight, it was definitely ten pits out of ten! With this spare time, Ye Chen would rather submit a few resumes and look for a job again......

Thinking that it has been almost a month since he graduated, and the job is still not settled, and his parents in the rural hometown who are getting old are still waiting to make money for their own retirement, Ye Chen's head hurts even more.

Ye Chen graduated from the agricultural class, and the students who graduated from the agricultural class really don't want it in other places except for going to places like the Agricultural Bureau, the Forestry Bureau, and the seed station......

And Ye Chen, who has no money and no power, can only be in a hurry, and now Ye Chen's living expenses are almost gone, it is really not good, except for finding a job in the wrong way first, he can only roll up and roll back to his hometown in the countryside...... It's just that Ye Chen is unwilling!

After four years of college, I have to go back in the end, where does this make the faces of the old parents who are counting on their glory to their ancestors?

"No, no, there are too many people, I have a headache...... Otherwise, I'll be waiting for you here, and you guys will go shopping first, shall you? Ye Chen finally squeezed into front of a stall with few things and few people asking, Ye Chen, who was really not in the mood to go down, shouted to the three classmates in front of him, covered his head, and said to him.

"Headache? Are you okay? Lin Huanxi, who was originally in high spirits, immediately stopped when he heard that Ye Chen had a headache and looked at Ye Chen with a concerned face.

"Are you alright?" The remaining two were also Ye Chen's classmates, Zhang Kun and Ma Long also came over.

"Hey, it's okay, I'm sick, I can't see the noisy environment......" Ye Chen waved his hand and grinned, indicating that he was fine.

"Then I won't go shopping anymore, I'll accompany you here." Lin Huanxi, who grew up in a big city since she was a child and had never been to this place, was full of curiosity about the antique market, but seeing that Ye Chen was no longer interested, she also squatted down obediently.

"No need, I'll do it myself, you guys go shopping." Ye Chen looked at Lin Huanxi, who had a superior family background and was arranged by his family to work in the Forestry Bureau as soon as he graduated, not only remembered that he went to Shanghai after graduation, but also never contacted his girlfriend Qi Yumeng, and his heart not only tingled.

"It's okay, I'm ......"

Lin Huanxi still had to say something, but he was already depressed, and Ye Chen, who was in a worse mood after thinking of Qi Yumeng, waved his hand, and interrupted Lin Huanxi's next words.

"You guys go shopping, I want to be alone ......"

"That's it, Ye Zi is such an adult, he can't lose it, let's go Huanxi, let's go shopping three times." Ma Long, who had always had thoughts about Lin Huanxi, had a somewhat unsightly face, and leaned over and pulled Chen Huanxi.

“…… Okay, then you can be careful here, call me if you have something, and when you come back later, we'll have dinner together. Lin Huanxi was helpless, sighed, asked and got up and followed the two to continue shopping.

Ye Chen looked at Lin Huanxi who blended into the crowd and smiled bitterly, how could he not see Lin Huanxi's concern for him, but unfortunately, Ye Chen has now been frightened by Qi Yumeng, who left without saying a word after graduation, he is a young graduate who has no power and power, and he can't even find a job, even if he is really a beautiful Lin Huanxi, who is a good person with a good family background, can he not break up under the oppression of reality?

Ye Chen really didn't dare to guarantee it......

"Damn, when did Lao Tzu become rich and powerful! Now I don't even dare to ask for a woman chasing after her! What a bag! ”

Ye Chen secretly scolded himself for being incompetent, and blamed this world for being too, if you have power, you will have money, and if you have money, you will have women, in such a realistic society, how can he, a flat-headed ordinary person, get ahead?

……

"What do you want, young man? Come and see my antique? On the opposite side, the stall owner, who had been ignored for a long time, an old man in his sixties and seventies, with a wrinkled face and a smile, poked Ye Chen with a dry tobacco stick in his hand.

"What to buy, I can't afford to eat." Ye Chen pursed his lips, he was in a bad mood, so naturally he didn't have a good breath.

The old man on the other side was not angry, his little eyes narrowed, he happily took a puff of dry tobacco pouch, and after taking care of himself, he said slowly.

"Then I'll give it to you for free, do you want to?"

"Given away for nothing?" Ye Chen didn't understand, and curiously raised his eyes to look at the old man opposite with a wrinkled face and a pair of small eyes that were dark and bright.

"I've been here for a few days, and very few people have been looking at my antiques, and you're the first person to take them in front of my stall for so long, and it's not because you're buying antiques...... Hehe, it seems that I really can't sell these gadgets, Suo surname, see that you are also fateful, I will give you one today, and I won't sell the rest, take it home and see it yourself! The old man smiled, carried the dry tobacco pouch, and explained to himself as he smoked.

And this good thing?

As soon as Ye Chen heard the real delivery, he looked down at the old man's stall for the first time......

Nima, no wonder it's for nothing, there's really no good thing in this stall...... Not to mention that the objects are not big, most of them are mutilated, and most importantly, the objects look new, not antique at all.

The most complete one is a small weighing stone with a height of six or seven centimeters and a diameter of three or four centimeters.

The rest are a small broken rockery, a small copper fish that has lost its mouth, a pair of reading glasses with a missing leg, and most bizarrely, a miniature version of the globe that has lost its base, and the remaining part is also pitted and not rounded...... Is there such a thing as a globe? Could it be a realistic earth?

Is this the brain-dead design? Is it convenient to look at the globe like this?

I don't understand, I don't understand!

Even Ye Chen, a layman, thinks that this thing is a trick, and it is strange that someone can buy it.

"This ...... Uncle, these things are you...... Uh...... "Seeing that this old man was kind enough to give himself something, Ye Chen naturally wouldn't be so impulsive when he spoke, but after thinking about it for a long time, he really couldn't think of a word that could not only express these antiques, but also be too hurtful to describe it, so he could only get stuck."

"What, can't you look at it?" The old man, who was originally smoking a cigarette, opened his small eyes and glared at Ye Chen and asked.

"No...... No, that's good...... Hehe......"

"Then pick one." The old man didn't wait for Ye Chen's reaction, so he continued to smoke with his head bored, like that, there was a posture that he had to ask for it, and he didn't want it.

This is to be forced!

"That'...... Just thank you. Ye Chen felt that this old man was weird, and people were also weird, so he didn't want to stay any longer, so he could only pick one.

Ye Chen looked back and forth for a long time, and the ghost envoy almost touched the broken globe that was oval, the size of a fist, and similar to the shape of a realistic earth.

Who knows, when you take it, it's quite heavy, and it seems to be a solid general.

"Yes, that's it, I don't have much money on me, so I'll give you five yuan, and the rest is enough for the fare." Ye Chen naturally wouldn't really take it for nothing, and Ye Chen didn't feel comfortable eating the free lunch, so after touching his pocket, he took out five yuan and put it on the stall.

And when the old man saw that Ye Chen finally chose the globe, he immediately had a smile on his face, as if he was very happy.

And in Ye Chen's eyes, he was happy because he put down the old man who had put down five yuan......

"It can't be a game that this old man deliberately did, pit himself, right?"

Ye Chen blinked, isn't it just five yuan, if it's a pit, it's a pit, besides, this globe is quite heavy, and it might be worth three or four yuan to sell bronze when you take it back and sell it.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen turned around and left the stall in resignation, and did not wait for the three of them to eat, after going out of the crowded antique market all the way, he squeezed the bus back to the small rental house he rented after graduation, which was only three or four square meters and could only fit one bed.

Then, Ye Chen, who was tired enough to choke after standing all the way, lay down and fell on the bed, but jumped up again.

"Wipe ...... This broken globe is dead! ”

It turned out that Fang Cai was too crowded on the bus, Ye Chen casually put the globe in his pocket, and when he came back, he patronized and lay down comfortably, but he forgot that after this laydown, the fist-sized, uneven globe on it was just resting on Ye Chen's thigh, Ye Chen's face was suddenly pale in pain, and he broke out in a cold sweat!

"Yaya, Lao Tzu is miserable enough, even this thing is joking with Lao Tzu? Fuck you! ”

Ye Chen took out the globe and slammed it on the ground, who knows, just this fall, the globe was suddenly thrown out of the crack, and there was a faint blue halo in the crack, which looked very good.

"Huh, what's going on? Could it be, this thing is ...... Baby? ”

After Ye Chen found this, he couldn't care about the pain in his legs, and got out of bed with a limp, wanting to go over and have a look.

Who knows, just when Ye Chen reached out to touch the globe, the blue halo between the gaps in the globe suddenly rushed up along Ye Chen's arm.

Then, Ye Chen felt a sharp pain in his head and fainted completely......

In a trance, Ye Chen seemed to have come to a beautiful place with green mountains and green waters, like a fairyland......

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