Chapter 500: Xiangjiang

Last time, Jin Muchen had already told Wang Xueming the news about this Sister Tao, and presumably Wang Xueming also relayed the information about this woman to his friend.

But after such a long time, this Sister Peach's life is still so moist, there must be a reason.

Wang Xueming's friend has been holding back and not doing anything, maybe he also has his own concerns, or he has a big plan, but no matter what Wang Xueming's friend is thinking, Jin Muchen doesn't care.

The last time I came into contact with Sister Tao, this woman also hinted to him more or less that the batch of antiques they smuggled to the United States had actually been selected by thousands of people, and the good things had already been selected after they were transported to Xiangjiang.

Before these smuggled antiques arrive in the United States, they will also be in Japan, and the Japanese will buy them directly, and those that they can't see will be shipped to the United States for those Americans who have little strength but like to buy Chinese antiques.

This time they prepared an underground auction in Xiangjiang, presumably there will be a lot of good things on this auction, and Jin Muchen really wanted to go over and take a look.

What if I come across something I like?

Besides, he had just received a $3 million reward from the Sultan of Brunei, which was a windfall, and he felt a little itchy if he didn't spend it.

As for the compensation for the ship they rented from Australia, the Sultan has already covered it all, so their trip to the South Pacific can be said to have made a lot of money.

Anyway, there are two people who suffer money, and they don't spend it well, so I'm really sorry for myself.

What's more, he didn't come to Xiangjiang just for this underground auction. There is another very important factor. This is because Hong Kong is also a well-known antique distribution center in Asia.

In Asia, in addition to the Panjiayuan in the capital. The antique market in Xiangjiang is the most famous, Jin Muchen has seen many introductions about the antique market in antique magazines before, and he has long wanted to find an opportunity to take a look.

This is the opportunity to take a good look at the antique market in Hong Kong.

After checking in at the Four Seasons Hotel, because it was not early, Jin Muchen took Belin to find a well-known Xiangjiang Hotel outside and had an authentic Cantonese dinner.

Recent times. Xiangjiang's mood is more serious, especially those new generation of young people who have grown up after the return, baptized by the pan-Internet tide, coupled with the sluggish economic development of Xiangjiang in recent years, the people at the bottom can not share the cake, and there are some people with intentions, this group of new generation of Xiangjiang people who claim to have grown up in a free land is quite exclusive to tourists from Chinese mainland.

However, this also happened to leak another face of these pan-foreign slaves, who are also black-haired, yellow-skinned Asian races. If you speak Mandarin, there's a good chance you'll get a roll of their eyes on the street.

But if you speak English. Or if you have one or two white girlfriends with a very affectionate attitude, then you will get an unusually envious gaze and unexpected respect.

Jin Muchen has been deeply touched along the way, but he is helpless to take such an atmosphere.

However, he didn't like to communicate with those Xiangjiang people, he finished dinner with Belinda, and then went to the well-known Victoria Bay in Xiangjiang to see the night view, and then Jin Muchen took Belinda back to the hotel and had a good exchange.

Early the next morning, Jin Muchen took Belinda from the hotel and went straight to the famous distribution center of Xiangjiang antiques, Zhongxi @ District!

The Four Seasons Hotel is located in the most prosperous Central area of Xiangjiang, but Jin Muchen and Belinda's trip is not only for the antique distribution center, but also to visit the heart of the city, known as the Pearl of the Orient.

They walked first to Sheung Wan and then walked from Western Point City in Sheung Wan to the Legislative Council Building in Central.

Along the way, it can be regarded as seeing countless unique ecological scenery of Xiangjiang's residents, such as they passed by Yongle Street, which is lined with ginseng and bird's nest shops, and Wenwu Temple, an ancient temple where incense flourishes, and also walked, they have been in the classic Central escalator in Xiangjiang movie shots countless times, as well as the crowded Lan Kwai Fong......

It was a stop-and-go journey along the way, because Jin Muchen was accompanied by Belinda, and he and Belinda were communicating in English throughout the whole process, so they didn't encounter the harassment of those Hong Kong cowards, and they gained a lot of envious eyes.

finally walked to the place they wanted to go, but it was close to noon at this time, and the two were not in a hurry to go shopping, but first found a restaurant for lunch.

After a full meal and drink, this began to enter one of the themes of this trip to Xiangjiang.

Although it is already cold winter in the northern hemisphere at this time, the climate here is not very cold because of the geographical location of Xiangjiang, as long as a long-sleeved shirt and a jacket will make you not feel cold.

The afternoon sun is warm, and it's a great time to visit the antique market.

The antique distribution center of Hong Kong is located in the Upper West @ District, which is actually located on the two main streets here, one is the famous Hollywood Road, and the other is Morro Street, which is not far from Hollywood Road.

The two roads are not long, Hollywood Road is longer, only more than 100 meters, and Morro Street is shorter, but they are such short two streets, but they are the two famous antique streets in Xiangjiang and even in the Chinese circle in Southeast Asia.

The density of antique shops here is probably only comparable to Panjiayuan in the capital.

And don't look at the length of these two streets, but the trading activity of the shops on these two streets is far from being comparable to other antique markets.

Of course, this also has a very important relationship with the fact that Xiangjiang lives a rich life and has more rich people.

Soon Jin Muchen and Belinda walked to Hollywood Road, and as soon as they turned into this street, they could immediately notice the difference between this street and the street outside.

On the street outside, because today is not a weekend, and it is still work time, there are not many pedestrians, and even if there are some, most of them are in a hurry.

But once you enter this street, you can see that it is bustling with people who come to visit antique shops, and the people here are far less fast walking than the pedestrians outside.

This between fast and slow, it seems to make people feel like they have entered two worlds at once.

Jin Muchen and Belinda were originally led by those pedestrians to speed up the pace, but when they arrived here, they followed the pedestrians here, and suddenly they became slowed down.

This Hollywood farewell is only more than 100 meters, not long, but it is one of the most famous streets in Xiangjiang, and now several buildings on this street have become well-known ancient buildings in Xiangjiang, such as the very ancient Greek style building in the middle of the mainland, where is the former Xiangjiang Central Police Station.

This Hollywood Road has a history of more than 100 years, and if you trace its origin, it can be traced back to the earliest British colonial period in Xiangjiang.

At that time, it was the first official street established by the British in Xiangjiang, and most of the people living here were Chinese.

This road was named Hollywood Road, not because of the famous Hollywood in the United States, but because when the road was built, the green trees planted on both sides were holly trees, and the English name of this tree is Hollywood.

That's where the name of the street comes from!

Like the antique markets in several major European and American cities that Jin Muchen has visited, the antique market models in San Francisco, London, and Boston are almost all a combination of high and low.

Sometimes, a famous street is often crowded with very tall and tall shops, which can be said to be bright and clean.

Through the large area of the window, you can see all kinds of antiques placed in the store, those antiques placed in the window, more basically are larger, fine workmanship of exquisite antiques, from those windows will catch people's attention.

However, the shops in such an antique street are not something that ordinary antique enthusiasts can visit.

Because the owners who can afford to open such a store with the capital and strength are generally very specialized in antiques, and the guys with superhuman eyes want to pick up leaks under their hands, it is basically not very possible.

Therefore, the antiques sold in their shops have a higher chance of being genuine than those on the side of the road, but the prices are often not too cheap, and the average antique lover can come here to enjoy it, but they can't afford it at all.

The antique shop on Hollywood Road is very much in line with this characteristic.

Jin Muchen took Belinda to walk slowly on this street, and along the way, in addition to the crowd of people, he only saw all kinds of antiques displayed in the window that made people dizzy.

For example, in one of the antique shops called Hengbaoxuan, behind the window, on the Bogu shelf made of rosewood, there are large and small Buddha statues and Buddha shrines, and the workmanship is exquisite, and those Buddha statues, there is a small half of the Buddha shrines, and Jin Muchen can see all kinds of red and yellow lights flashing on their bodies.

This shows that these Buddha statues and Buddhist shrines are genuine, but these things are not comparable to those Buddha statues that he looted in the Boston Museum.

But it is not easy for the shopkeeper to collect so many Buddha statues, Buddhist shrines, and so many genuine products.

These Buddha statues and shrines cannot be compared with the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, even in terms of quality and artistry, but when placed in the same kind of antiques, they can be regarded as the best of their contemporaries.

The window of another antique store named Tan Yuan opened Jin Muchen's eyes even more, the window of this antique store is particularly large, but behind the window, there are only two fine products...... (To be continued......)