Chapter 338: Chase-Run
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There are really a lot of stalls selling all kinds of snacks in the market, so to fill your stomach, you don't need to go outside, Jin Muchen lingered in front of several snack stalls for a while, and was stuffed with these foods from European countries.
Although the dark cuisine of the rotten country is notoriously scary, but fortunately, the food from the European continent is not bad, in addition to French snacks, those Italian-style and Turkish-style snacks are very appetizing to Jin Muchen.
Once you've had your fill, you'll continue to wander around.
Along the way, I also saw a lot of antique stalls selling Chinese porcelain, and most of the porcelain on these stalls was exquisite export porcelain.
Even a lot of porcelain really opened Jin Muchen's eyes, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, it was really hard for him to imagine that we Chinese could actually burn such a strange-shaped porcelain.
Of course, this must be related to the orders placed by foreign devils who did import and export back then, those things, maybe we Chinese don't like them, but foreigners must like it very much.
Especially those porcelain carvings that are difficult to see in China, they just opened Jin Muchen's eyes.
The shape, painting and decoration of many porcelain are rare for Jin Muchen, after all, the porcelain he has seen most in the past is in line with the traditional taste of our Chinese, and such porcelain is not common here.
The Chinese porcelain here is more of an export porcelain that prefers the appetite of foreigners, with a wide variety of fancy styles and more bold paintings. Anyway, I looked around and came down. It made Jin Muchen feel a lot of knowledge.
Face these porcelain. The previous set of standards for judging Chinese antique porcelain is not used here, after all, many of the types and paintings are seen for the first time.
The price of porcelain this time is not very expensive, compared with the porcelain of the same period in Donai, the price is about half of the domestic porcelain, if it is not for the fact that there are too many good things in his hands now, he will have to keep a low profile for a period of time after returning to the United States. Jin Muchen really wanted to sell a few pieces back.
These porcelains are all hundreds of years old, but they are in a very good state of preservation, and some are even very new, which is not the same as the porcelain of the same era in China.
The reason why these porcelains are so well preserved is related to the fact that these foreigners were crazy about these porcelain, and if you can see porcelain of the same era in China, if it is not old and dirty, people will wonder if this thing is genuine.
Of course, there are a lot of fakes on this street, but unlike those domestic street vendors who blatantly put a lot of fakes on their stalls, the stall owners here still at least talk about a little bit of professional ethics.
Fakes on their stalls. At least they are all high-end imitations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, or the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. Although they are all imitation official kiln things, these porcelains are also very good in workmanship, and they can be regarded as antiques now.
Compared with the stall owners in the domestic stalls who simply put on modern old fakes, the stall owners here are a bit conscientious.
But there are some things that you still have to be careful to deal with when you look at them, that is, a lot of porcelain looks good, but if you look closely, you can see that there are traces of restoration.
The restoration techniques of these Western technicians are very superb, Jin Muchen has also seen the works restored by Chinese antique restoration technicians before, to be honest, compared with the craftsmanship of these Western technicians, there is still a gap.
Of course, no matter how superb the restoration techniques of these Western technicians are, they cannot be compared with the purple jade space in Jin Muchen's hands.
After briefly browsing these stalls selling Chinese antique porcelain, Jin Muchen probably made a judgment in his heart, these stalls were much more professional than the stalls he saw in Panjiayuan, not to mention those counterparts in the United States.
It seems that the century-old heritage of the empire on which the sun never sets is really not given in vain, so many ordinary small stall owners can have so many good things in their hands, which shows the wealth of the people of the British Empire during the period of the empire.
But it seems that Jin Muchen still didn't make a move, although these export porcelain workmanship is very exquisite, but he himself doesn't like this style of things very much.
And now the business in his store is not very good, such things, often tens of thousands of pounds, back to the United States, may not be able to sell well.
So after thinking about it again and again, Jin Muchen still decided to give up.
But when he left, it wasn't that he didn't spend a penny, and he came to England anyway, so he had to bring something back to Candace.
At a booth, Jin Muchen saw a few Cartier ornaments made during World War II, which was very good.
One of them, a diamond-encrusted bird of paradise brooch, looks very beautiful.
This bird of paradise is very beautiful, the shape is a bit like the shape of the phoenix bird in Chinese history, the whole body is made of platinum, and it is inlaid with small diamonds, which looks very eye-catching and beautiful.
There is also a Cartier belt that is also very beautiful, and the chinoiserie decoration on this belt is even more obvious, made of gold throughout, and inlaid with a few pieces of turquoise jadeite.
Although it is a decorative belt, the gold is made in the style of copper wire, polished, carved and inlaid with neat jadeite, which looks like there is a Chinese Confucian flavor in it.
After Jin Muchen saw these two jewelry, he felt very satisfied.
The stall owner was a white-haired old lady in her fifties, and when she saw Jin Muchen holding the two Cartier ornaments and couldn't put them down, she came over to sell them.
"Young man, these two are masterpieces of Cartier during the Second World War, and they are still in such good condition that if you can buy them back and give them to your girlfriend, she will definitely like them very much. Such a beautiful thing should be matched with a wonderful person like her. ”
This old lady is very good at talking, and Jin Muchen was very happy when she heard her say this.
"How much!"
"It's not expensive, 10,000 pounds!"
To be honest, this asking price is not very low, after all, the pound is still relatively strong now.
But these two Cartier jewelry, after all, are old, and the workmanship is also very good, which can be regarded as the category of antique jewelry, and it is not expensive to buy such two antique jewelry for 10,000 pounds.
"Okay, wrap it up for me."
Just made a fortune, 10,000 pounds is nothing to Jin Muchen, and he doesn't bother to waste his tongue to bargain.
The old lady smiled happily and took the two ornaments, and then began to pack, at this moment, there was a commotion in the distance.
Jin Muchen turned his head to look, and saw that on the long street in the distance, there were just a few people running over to this side, and behind them, there were several guys, who were chasing after them.
While chasing, I didn't know what I was shouting, but the guys in front didn't care what the people behind were shouting, they just ran frantically to the front, and they hit countless pedestrians along the way, and even several stalls were knocked to the ground by them.
The people on the street looked curiously at the two groups of people who were chasing and fleeing, and they had no intention of dispersing.
"Young man, you'd better lean to the side, if you get hit by them, the police won't pay you for your medical expenses."
The old lady of the stall owner kindly persuaded Jin Muchen to say a word, and Jin Muchen raised his eyebrows.
"Is it the police who are chasing people? And who are the people who fled ahead? ”
"Humph! Who can it be, they are usually our counterparts here, but they have problems with their access to them, and no one usually cares about them, but you also know that two major robberies just happened in two museums in London two days ago. The police must have been forced by the top to do nothing now, so they will find these people on the ......"
This old lady has obviously seen a lot of such scenes, Jin Muchen couldn't help but smile when he heard that this was the case, it seems that these are the pond fish that have been affected by himself.
The guys who ran in front of them were obviously much better at running than the policemen with big bellies in the back, and the distance between the two sides had never been shortened.
But even so, they still ran very hard, and more and more people put down what they were doing and looked up at this interesting scene of pursuit.
even made way for these two groups of people, because it was downhill, and the people in front were running faster and faster, and they were about to rush to a piece of land in front of Jin Muchen.
At this moment, two black shadows suddenly rushed out of the crowd, and the three guys who rushed forward rushed rushed over, obviously this is an ambush by the police here.
The three figures who ran frantically were very flexible, and as soon as they dodged, they dodged the two black shadows, and at the same time grabbed two figures from the crowd around them and pushed them into the arms of the two black shadows who rushed over.
The two black shadows, ignoring the figures they pushed over, raised their hands to push the two hostages away, and continued to chase after the three guys.
The two hostages were like leather balls, being pushed around by these two groups, especially the two black shadows, which made these two people lose their balance directly, and fell in the direction of Jin Muchen.
Jin Muchen didn't have time to think about it at all, but instinctively stretched out his hands and hugged the two figures that rushed over.
The place where he was was was really on a ramp, the two figures were pushed around by the two groups before, they had lost their balance, and the distance from him was relatively close, it was too late to dodge, if he didn't hug the two, he was likely to be hit by these two people into a rolling gourd, rolling all the way down the small hill.
At that time, even if he doesn't die, it is estimated that he will have to go to the hospital, Jin Muchen doesn't want to go to the hospital, so he can only stretch out his hands, and at the same time exert force on his waist, and do his best to hug these two people.
The two outstretched arms, after making contact with the two black shadows, felt like they were suddenly in their hands backwards, as if they were about to be torn off from his body, but fortunately, his muscles tensed immediately after that, and he began to exert force...... (To be continued......)