Chapter 19: Ghosts

Where had Han Duoer seen so many antiques, and when she saw a piece of jade porcelain that seemed to be genuine on the stall, with mud and the like on it, she couldn't help but be amazed, and couldn't help asking, "How many of the things here are real?" ”

Ji Xiaofan replied with a smile: "1%." ”

"That's 99% fake, this is too many fakes." Han Duoer was surprised.

Zhao Zhuo explained: "This is just a probability, which means that there are a lot of fakes. However, if you can distinguish the real thing, you can buy something worth tens of thousands for thirty or fifty, three or five hundred. ”

Han Duoer said happily: "That's great, it's hard to come here, and you can help me pick out some value-added things later, I just want to give it to my mother, and my father, since he was going to open a porcelain factory, he is very obsessed with porcelain, so I bought a porcelain for him by the way." ”

Zhao Zhuo said that this was a good idea, so he promised it, and at the same time thought in his heart, it would be better to buy one and give it to Han Duoer.

At this moment, Ji Xiaofan suddenly walked towards a person, slapped him on the back, and called: "Heizi!" ”

The man named Kuroko immediately turned his head, but it was a young man of 25 or 6 years old, thin and thin, and his appearance was also delicate, but he had the feeling of a thief's eyebrows and rat eyes, as if his eyes were obliquely coming.

When he saw that it was Ji Xiaofan, he breathed a sigh of relief, put away the wooden box sandwiched under his armpit, patted his chest and said, "It turned out to be Young Master Ji, don't scare me when you are old, I will be scared to death by you sooner or later." ”

"Yo, what are you afraid of, there's a fake in the box?" Ji Xiaofan quipped.

Heizi hurriedly puffed out his chest and said: "Of course not, you don't know the reputation of my sunspot, you don't know it, we are just upside-down gadgets, and we never do anything about selling fakes, but we are timid and most afraid of people patting the back." ”

At this time, he noticed Zhao Zhuo and Han Duo'er, and said with a smile: "Is this Ji Shao's friend?" Could it be that Ji Shao is here to take care of my business today? ”

Ji Xiaofan said: "It's not impossible to take care of your business, but you have to answer me a question first." ”

"What kind of question, Ji Shao, you can ask casually." As soon as Heizi heard that Ji Xiaofan wanted to take care of business, he hurriedly said.

Ji Xiaofan asked in a low voice: "Have you heard that someone has a modern emerald ware to sell, and it is relatively valuable." ”

"Emerald?" Kuroko frowned, thought about it and shook his head affirmatively, "No, at least the fixed stall owners here that I know don't sell this." You also know that there are all upside-down antiques here, there are a lot of jade, and there are also emerald objects, but they are all from the Qing Dynasty. As for this modern emerald ware, I really haven't seen it, and it's in the auction house to sell it. ”

Ji Xiaofan nodded, and selected a small jade carving seal and a few gadgets from the wooden box he opened, and spent four hundred yuan.

Zhao Zhuo glanced at it, the other pieces are average, but this jade carving is not bad, although the size of two fingers, there is no inscription at the bottom, but the texture is good, and it is also a genuine product of the Qing Dynasty.

"Is this thing real?" Han Duoer asked in a low voice.

Zhao Zhuo nodded, and explained roughly, I heard that it was true, and the jade carved seal could be sold for five or six hundred, Han Duoer couldn't help but glance at the box, but found a favorite jade.

When Heizi walked to the other side to solicit business, Ji Xiaofan said: "Heizi used to be an old ghost here, and in recent years, he has specialized in pouring antiques, that is, he has made some low-cost ones from other places, and he has sold them here to make a difference." The things are all genuine, but there are many small ones, and occasionally you will get fakes. However, this guy is more well-informed, and since he said that there are no permanent stall owners here, then we will go and see the fresh faces. ”

After Ji Xiaofan finished speaking, he told Zhao Zhuo that there are generally two types of people who set up stalls in the ghost market, one is the fixed type of stall owners, these people specialize in pouring antiques, getting goods from wholesalers, and then selling them here.

As for the composition of wholesalers, it is much more complicated, there are shady tomb robbers, there are also specialized counterfeiters, there are many doorways, and they are very hidden, and it is difficult to reach.

The other category is some old ghosts who take out the goods they bought before and resell them.

In addition to these two categories, there are also some family heirlooms or stolen things to be stolen and stolen to sell, judging from Ji Xiaofan's mixing here for so many years, he can naturally tell at a glance which ones are buyers and sellers, which are fresh faces and which are familiar faces.

However, after turning around the square several times, Ji Xiaofan didn't find any newcomers selling emerald ware here.

Ji Xiaofan said: "Why don't you help Miss Han pick things first, it's not a way to consume it like this, if a new person comes, I can recognize it at a glance." ”

Zhao Zhuo nodded, and asked Han Duoer to find what he liked, and as he walked, he was thinking again, not knowing that the thing in the stall here was the force that Wang Zhengming was looking for.

And it is obvious that that force obviously belongs to the role of wholesalers, and it is impossible to come out to sell it in person, and it is probably not so easy to go through the vine, otherwise Wang Zhengming's strength will still sit firmly in Huaihai City?

After Han Duoer walked a few stalls, she stopped in front of a stall, picked up a topaz pendant, screened it very carefully, and said confidently: "This shape is very good, how about it?" ”

Zhao Zhuo took it and took a look, and said in a low voice: "The traces of modern processing are obvious, and there is no doubt that it is a fake." ”

Han Duoer put it down helplessly, carefully picked out another jade bead necklace, and said with a smile: "What about this one?" ”

Zhao Zhuo wiped it with his fingers and said with a smile: "It's also a fake, this is made of a stone with a similar hardness to jade, it looks moisturized, but it feels rough to the touch." ”

Han Duoer reluctantly put it down, transferred to the second stall, and after thousands of choices, she took a fancy to a white jade bracelet.

The stall owner glanced at her, saw that she was dressed in a good temperament, and immediately recognized that she was an authentic gold owner, and immediately raised her thumbs and praised: "The little girl is young, and her eyes are very old and spicy." This jade bracelet is a good product just purchased from the countryside today, you are a connoisseur, you see, this texture, this color, this workmanship, pure Qing Dynasty court goods, maybe which concubine and queen mother wear, you wear just right, double noble. ”

Although the stall owner did a good job of patting the horses, Han Duoer did not lose his composure, and felt quite faceless after making mistakes twice, so he handed the jade bracelet to Zhao Zhuo again, and asked carefully, "How about this?" ”

Zhao Zhuo squinted his eyes at the light, he really couldn't bear to hit her, and said euphemistically: "Although it is a modern fake, this material is okay, if the price is right, it is also good to buy." ”

Han Duoer was suddenly a little deflated, and muttered in a low voice: "The proportion of this fake is too much, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Speaking of this, he suddenly glared at Zhao Zhuo and said, "Wood, you shouldn't have planned to see me make jokes early in the morning, right?" ”

Zhao Zhuo hurriedly made a gesture of surrender and said with a smile: "How dare such a pure person as me have such a bad heart, or I will help you choose, if you think the style is suitable, we will buy it." ”

"Hmph, that's pretty much it." Han Duoer snorted lightly.

With Zhao Zhuo's help, the selection naturally went much smoother, and soon Zhao Zhuo picked out a string of topaz bracelets, and he asked, "How much does this bracelet cost?" ”

The stall owner smiled and said: "Young man, you really have a vision, this bracelet is a good thing from the palace, the best of the best, I see that you have a good eye, so I will give you a cheap price, 10,000 yuan." ”

Zhao Zhuo didn't expect his price to be so high, although 10,000 yuan was worth it, at this moment, Ji Xiaofan walked over and said in local dialect: "Lao Yu, you can open this price a little harder." These two are my friends, so I'll give a real price, how about eight hundred? ”

Lao Yu smiled, didn't feel embarrassed, and said with a thick face: "It turned out to be Ji Shao's friend, but these eight hundred are too little." A little more, a little more. ”

"Eight hundred and five." Ji Xiaofan smiled and took out the money from his wallet.

After leaving the stall, Ji Xiaofan said: "You must ask the price here in the local dialect, if you ask in Mandarin, people will know that you are from outside, and it is indispensable to raise the price." ”

Han Duoer couldn't help asking, "Then we bought it for eight hundred and five, did we make money?" ”

"Of course I made it, I have to buy it in an antique store, and it will cost more than 20,000 yuan." Zhao Zhuo said with a smile, ninety percent of the things in this ghost market are fakes and new products, if there are genuine products, they are mostly big road goods or inferior products, and they rarely encounter high-quality products, so this one is also a good harvest.

"Wow, didn't that stall owner get it at a lower price?" Han Duoer said strangely.

Ji Xiaofan said: "Of course, in fact, this ghost is a mixture of truth and falsehood, and even the stall owners themselves don't know, they basically sell when they have money, like this kind of thing, it is estimated that it is regarded as a fake, and it will be collected for one or two hundred yuan." ”

"Then they made six or seven hundred in one fell swoop, which is not bad, but we made more." Han Duoer said happily.

Ji Xiaofan said with a smile: "There were a lot of such things before, many buyers actually don't know the goods, I heard one thing, there was a new ghost who spent a small amount of money to buy a bronze in the ghost market, and later was seen by a friend, and bought it from him for 10 times the price, but later he heard that the friend sent the bronze to the auction house, and the price was more than ten times higher than the price he bought from himself." ”

Han Duoer sighed when she heard it, she didn't expect the price to be so different.

The bracelet was bought, and the next thing was to buy porcelain, Zhao Zhuo looked at several stalls one after another, all of which were fakes.

Time seems to run out very quickly in the ghost market, because things are very miscellaneous and the light is not very bright, so it takes a lot of effort to identify, and before you know it, it has reached five o'clock, and it will be closed after a while.

(To be continued)