Chapter 10: Old Classmates
As soon as he got out of the car, Ye Qiu saw a huge mansion in front of him, spanning more than 100 meters from east to west, but the gate was more than ten meters wide, it was really magnificent, but this magnificent mansion was an abandoned mansion and had been deserted.
Speaking of this house, it is also very historical, at least hundreds of years, at first the government wanted to make this a museum, but then it was not done, and then wanted to push the whole house to, build a building, but the developer has changed countless times, this house is still here today.
The ancient street was preserved because of this house, otherwise according to the urine of the government at that time, all dilapidated buildings should be demolished to build a modern city.
However, fortunately, some of the culture and ancient buildings of Dragon City have been preserved.
Although it is only five o'clock now, the ancient street is already lively, all kinds of small stalls on the side of the street one after another, this is a characteristic of the ancient street, it is the morning market of the ancient street, generally the market is open at three or four o'clock, and the people are scattered at six or seven o'clock.
There were all kinds of things sold on the street, but Ye Qiu didn't look at those, he stared at the stalls to see if there was any jade.
Finally, Ye Qiu found that there seemed to be jade artifacts on a stall, and there were really a lot of things on the stall, ancient swords, ancient calligraphy and paintings, blue and white porcelain vases, jade ornaments, and people who looked at them were dazzled.
"Little brother, what do you like? I've got all the good stuff here. The stall owner was a middle-aged man in his forties, and he immediately said enthusiastically when he saw Lin Yixuan's arrival.
Ye Qiu looked at a big jade Ruyi on the stall at first sight, and before he could speak, the stall owner immediately said: "Little brother, you really have a vision, this is the Ruyi of the Qing Dynasty, a palace object, a good thing." โ
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Ye Qiu almost squirted, big brother, do you dare to blow some more? Qing Dynasty court wishes? Why don't you say it's from the Han Dynasty? Isn't the Qin Dynasty's more valuable?
This look is made of fake jade, you dare to blow it, please blow you to get a decent high imitation, this thing in front of you is not even the color.
Ye Qiu directly looked at the small jade ornaments on the side, these are relatively reliable, although they are all scraps of less than 100 yuan, defective products, but they are all real jade.
"Little brother has a good eye, this pendant is worn by Cixi-"
As soon as the middle-aged man saw Ye Qiu's gaze shift, he immediately blew again.
Ye Qiu's eyes twitched slightly, your sister's Cixi wears this stall? What has become of her poor in the end? And your sister has a lot of bags in the back of you, okay, is your Cixi wholesaling?
"Show me all your packets, I'll pick and choose."
Ye Qiu ignored the middle-aged man's words, and said directly, there is no spirit jade outside, after all, spirit jade is rare, and this kind of inferior jade is even more difficult to find, but he still wants to find it again.
After all, it is not only the jade of good grade that has spiritual jade, and the inferior jade also has spiritual jade.
The middle-aged man reluctantly took the black bag that was placed in the back, there were really a lot of jade in it, Ye Qiu looked at them one by one, but unfortunately they were all ordinary jade.
A bag of jade was almost finished, and finally Ye Qiu found a piece of spiritual jade, only the size of a little thumb, and the spiritual energy stored in it was pitiful, but it was already very happy for Ye Qiu, after all, no matter how small the mosquito was, it was also meat, and it was a good start for the first time, which made him more confident.
"How much does this cost?"
"Little brother, you are too discerning, this is the Qianlong period-"
"Fifty!" Ye Qiu didn't wait for the middle-aged man to finish speaking, and directly said the price.
"Damn, this is a good thing in the Qianlong period, fifty you are embarrassed to say, sue you, one hundred and two less will not be sold!"
"Sixty, is this still the Qianlong period? Why don't you say dinosaur period? โ
"Don't say it, this thing was formed earlier than the dinosaur period, one hundred and one, love or not."
"Seventy at most, don't sell me and I'm gone." Ye Qiu rolled his eyes and threw the seventy yuan directly on the stall.
"You're a bright robbery, but forget it, whoever makes me have a good heart, seventy is seventy." The middle-aged man saw that Ye Qiu really didn't want to increase the price anymore, so he sold it directly, the purchase price of this thing was less than thirty, and it was already profitable to sell seventy.
"You're not going to buy anything else?"
"Don't." Ye Qiu put the jade in his pocket, turned around and left, along the way, there were many such stalls, but unfortunately, a piece of spiritual jade was not found.
It seems that the spirit jade is not so easy to find, Ye Qiu sighed slightly, and finally entered a jade shop.
Ye Qiu looked at it casually, there was a big difference in the price of jade here, hundreds or thousands of cheap, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of expensive ones, it was obvious that these were not his dishes, his goal was the cheapest.
"Ye Qiu?" Ye Qiu was looking at it, and suddenly a slightly puzzled voice came.
Ye Qiu was slightly stunned, and when he turned his head, a young man was looking at him with a smile on his face.
Ye Qiu frowned slightly, and then smiled: "Sun Lie, why are you here?" โ
Sun Lie is Ye Qiu's junior high school classmate, he has been in the same class for three consecutive years, and the relationship is very good, but after high school, he dropped out of school and went to other places, and the contact was broken, and now I think about it, I haven't seen him for seven or eight years.
"This is my shop, of course I'm here, I haven't seen you for so many years, you have changed a lot." Sun Lie said with a smile.
"You've changed even more, and now you're the boss." Ye Qiu said with a smile, Sun Lie was famous and disobedient back then, at that time, he may have seen too much, and he just wanted to be the boss of the society, but although he was a little confused, he was very righteous, and Ye Qiu was also very relieved to see that his old classmates had finally returned to his heart.
"It's not like I learned the craft of carving jade, so I opened a small shop by myself." Sun Lie said with a little vicissitudes.
It seems that Sun Lie has experienced a lot of things over the years, and he has matured a lot.
"You're still a small shop? It's so hypocritical. Ye Qiu said with a smile.
"What is hypocrisy, I call it modesty, okay? You sit down first, and I'll pour you a cup of tea. Sun Lie beckoned Ye Qiu to sit down, and was about to pour tea for Ye Qiu.
"What kind of tea do you pour, I'm not a guest." Ye Qiu hurriedly grabbed Sun Lie and said.
"Why aren't you a guest, my little shop hasn't opened today." Sun Lie was not reluctant, after all, the tea in the morning was not very good, so he directly took a can of drink for Ye Qiu.
"If you want to open it, show me the jade." Ye Qiu did not forget the purpose of his own here.
"Which one do you like? I'll get it for you. Sun Lie asked.
"Show me all of this." Ye Qiu was unceremonious, pointing to those jade pieces of one hundred and ten yuan and said.
"Damn, you've been addicted!" Sun Lie saw that Ye Qiu was pointing to dozens of jade artifacts, and he was not calm on the spot. But he still took out the jade one by one.
Ye Qiu just picked up the first one, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he didn't expect his luck to be so good, he just picked up the first one, it was a piece of spiritual jade, although the quality was very inferior, but it was not small, and there was a lot of spiritual energy in it.
Putting the spirit jade aside, Ye Qiu checked it one by one, and after about dozens of pieces, he found another piece of spirit jade, this piece of spirit jade was not big, and the spiritual energy in it was limited.
But even so, Ye Qiu was overjoyed, and found two pieces of spirit jade in a row, far exceeding his expectations.
However, the surprise did not end there, among the jade pieces that Sun Lie took out in the end, there was also spiritual jade, and it was not one, it was a string of bracelets, a full fourteen jades, all of them were spiritual jade, just observing it, Ye Qiu couldn't help but sigh lightly.
These fourteen spiritual jades should have been changed to a whole, if it was a whole jade, the aura in it must be considerable, but now although there are fourteen, the aura in them is probably less than half of the whole jade.
However, Ye Qiu only sighed, after all, harvesting fourteen spirit jades was already very good, far beyond the estimate, if he could find another piece of spirit jade of better quality, he could even arrange the spirit array.
"How? Are these three things you like? Sun Lie saw Ye Qiu put the three jade pieces aside separately, so he asked.
"Well, give me the math of how much it is." Ye Qiu put the three pieces of spirit jade in front of Sun Lie.
"Whatever kind of money you have, take it if you like." Sun Lie said.
"Do you think my brother is here to fight local tyrants?" Ye Qiu glanced at Sun Lie and said.
"What I said is true, this thing is worthless, I carved it myself, I am embarrassed to ask you for money?" Sun Lie said, but seeing that Ye Qiu didn't seem to be moved, he said again: "That's it, let's get together at noon, you have a treat, it's okay." โ
"Alright, we'll get together at noon." Ye Qiu didn't pretend anymore, nodded and said.
"By the way, do you still have the jade material you said?" Ye Qiu was very interested in what Sun Lie said, you must know that the spirit jade after carving is always a part of it, if there is a complete human spirit jade, then it is better, and listening to Sun Lie's tone, there should be a lot of this jade material.
"When were you interested in these? Let's go to the back and have a look. Sun Lie saw that Ye Qiu seemed to be very interested in the jade material, so he pulled Ye Qiu to the hut behind.
The back hut is a studio, the studio is very simple, only a few cabinets, and a workbench, Ye Qiu looked at those cabinets, which were placed with large and small jade materials
"Don't look at those, those are good-looking, and that's what I'm showing you." Sun Lie walked to a box and opened it directly, the whole box was full of jade, but all of them were broken jade, and the quality was not very good, either there were many impurities, or there were cracks, which was far less beautiful than the processed jade.
But for Ye Qiu, it's different, he doesn't care about beauty or not, after all, he chooses spirit jade, so many jades, although they are all inferior, but there is always some spirit jade.
"Where did you get so much jade?" Ye Qiu casually stroked the jade in the box and asked.
"Of course I bought it, don't look at so many here, but it's really not expensive, so many jades, it cost less than 10,000." Sun Lie said proudly, although such broken jade is not valuable, but he can find so much for less than 10,000 yuan, it is also quite capable.
These jades don't look valuable, but as long as he carves them, he can sell them for a few hundred yuan, so this kind of jade is sold for more kung fu money.
"This piece, this piece, and this piece, I took it all." Ye Qiu searched in the box for a while, and found nine pieces of spirit jade, this proportion is really disproportionate, you must know that there are only a few pieces of jade outside, he got more than ten pieces of spirit jade, and now there are so many in this box, there are only nine pieces. Fortunately, there are a lot of spiritual energy stored in these nine pieces, and three pieces are enough to be comparable to those spirit jade picked outside.
"Damn, you pick out the good ones, take these pieces, why don't you invite you to Juxian Tower to eat at noon today." Sun Lie pretended to be distressed and said.
"Okay!" Ye Qiu nodded, he was very happy to get so much spirit jade today, and happily agreed.
"Go, yours, I'm joking, let's just go to the food stalls." Seeing Ye Qiu's direct agreement, Sun Lie couldn't help but roll his eyes, Juxian Lou is a high-end restaurant in Dragon City, eating there, no matter how much you save, it will cost thousands of dollars for a meal.
"Let's go to Tianfu Restaurant, the things there are good, and they are not expensive." Ye Qiu nodded, going to Juxian Mansion to eat is purely for money to burn, or going to Tianfu Restaurant is cheap.