Shitamachi is a memory of Tokyo from the Edo period, and in Tokyo, in addition to the famous Shitamachi such as Nihonbashi, Kyobashi, Kanda, Asakusa, and Fukagawa, most of Taito, Sumida, and Koto are also included in Shitamachi.

Like the old streets of every city in China, Shitamachi is the old town of Tokyo, with its low-slung old Japanese houses, shopping streets lined with shops, Japanese sweets shops that have been in business for decades, and long alleys and unexpected shrines around the corners.

There are also izakaya that operate late into the night and enthusiastic restaurant owners, all of which have a unique atmosphere and charm that is different from the bustling areas of Tokyo.

With the evolution of the times, this synonym that was originally just a geographical division has gradually become a kind of nostalgia for simplicity.

Over the years, Shitamachi has become the go-to destination for artists and creators who have held art exhibitions, designed, coffee shops and grocery stores in these quaint residential buildings.

Shitamachi has become a fusion of old and modern, where art meets tradition.

Therefore, it has also attracted many collectors and pawn shops to open branches here, in order to get more information as soon as possible.

This is also the reason why Bucky brought Wusheng over after he roughly understood what Wusheng wanted to sell.

It's a mixed bag, and everyone only looks at whether your stuff is good or not, and doesn't care about the source at all.

What's more, what Wu Sheng and they are going to shoot is not a particularly famous master's work.

“....... So I'll take you to a store that I frequent, and I'll probably be able to sell it soon. Bucky walked in front in a pair of flip-flops to lead the way, explaining why he had brought them here while introducing the place to Takesheng and Zoro.

"Some of the little things I got from over there, too, were sold here."

"Uh-oh." Takesheng nodded, looking at this low and flat commercial street, he didn't expect that in a modern big city like Tokyo, there was such an ancient area that seemed to be undeveloped, if it weren't for the Tokyo Tower and the steel forest looming in the distance on the horizon, he would have thought he was back in the Edo period.

"It seems that the story scene of Gintama's story is not completely fictional, but really has a certain source of realistic conception?" He looked left and right, looking like he was coming for the first time.

Seeing his tourist-like appearance, Bucky couldn't help asking, "You're from Tokyo, haven't you been to Shitamachi for so long?" ”

Wu Sheng scratched his head: "I don't have any impression, I shouldn't have been here, right?" ”

Zoro nodded: "Occasionally, I will go to Sensoji Temple to worship during the New Year." ”

"You young people...... 32-year-old uncle Bucky sighed: "Don't stay at home and school every day because of the Internet era!" ”

“？？？？”

Wu Sheng was speechless, you, a 32-year-old middle-aged house who is still chasing idols, are not qualified to say this?

But today he had a request for someone, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart and didn't say a word.

However, Zoro had some questions: "Uncle Bucky, I'm not too worried about these jewelry necklaces, but I brought a crocodile skin today, a precious material from the treasure jade of the sin world, I don't know if I can make a move?" ”

"Don't worry, it's because Takeda-kun said that there are materials that I brought you here." Bucky gave Sauron a look of relief from me: "You can actually sell ordinary things on the Internet, but there is only one leather material, which is cheap and distressing to sell online, and no one wants it when it is expensive, only if you find the right buyer, you can make a quick move." ”

"Okay, then it's up to you today, if the thing is sold for a good price, today."

I will invite you to dinner in the evening. ”

"Excuse me." Bucky said, "I'm not going to let you two high school students have a treat. "After all, it's old, and the growth environment is different from that of the pirate world, so "Urban Fat House Bucky" still has to save face.

Bucky walked around the dense street of old buildings, and finally came to a small street under a long green plastic shed, where there were not only various "antique shops" but also various shops selling old and second-hand potted plants, as well as more ancient shops making custom kimonos.

What makes these shops different from other shopping streets in Tokyo is that they sell everything outside the store.

Wu Sheng found a shop selling bracelet jewelry at the entrance of Short Street, and stopped to see the specific price.

The boss is a middle-aged man wearing a gentleman's hat and a flower shirt with a washed plain white vest in the flower shirt, and is holding a book and reading.

When the boss saw Wu Sheng stop looking at things, he smiled happily: "You can tell me what you like." ”

Wu Sheng picked up a string of stars and moons that were coiled into amber Bodhi, he didn't expect that there was also this thing in the cultural and entertainment market here, the string in his hand was in good condition, most of the stars and moons were in the middle, the size was uniform, and the overall distribution of the star eyes was also very uniform and sparse.

But this string of stars and moon Bodhi is not priced, this thing is not cheap in China, and it is estimated to be more expensive when he comes here, anyway, he is just curious, and he took a plate in the boss's afterglow, and put it down without saying anything.

The boss's lips moved, Wu Sheng picked it up and put it down for only a few seconds, and he didn't have time to say anything, and how do high school students know how to enjoy these things, it is estimated that when they ask about the price, they will feel that he is slandering, so they simply don't say it.

Bucky in front of him walked for a while and found that Wu Sheng hadn't followed, and when he turned around and saw him stopped, he walked back and said, "Let's go, let's get rid of the things first and we'll go shopping." ”

Wu Sheng nodded, very interested in such a small flea market: "Oh, good. ”

Although Bucky led the way, they still didn't move fast, there were a lot of people on this street, and the road was narrow and crowded because the shops were putting things out.

The three of them are not in a hurry, it has not yet entered dusk at the moment, and at the most tender moment of the afternoon sun, the three of them stopped and watched, thinking that even if they don't sell anything today, it is good to come here to shop.

They were walking, and suddenly Zoro stopped and stared at a shop, Wu Sheng looked in the direction, and sure enough, a sword shop.

The two of them looked outside the door and found that this was a sword shop, more like a Tibetan shop, all of which were ancient Tibetan knives, and there seemed to be no modern or contemporary products.

"Let's go, we can't afford this kind of knife." Wu Sheng pulled La Solon, and the Tibetan knives at the level of cultural play are millions and millions at every turn, and they are basically heirlooms in ordinary people's homes.

"Uh-huh." Zoro greedily looked at the Echizen Shousuke Hiro who had just taken a fancy to him, this is one of the few masterpieces in Osaka's new knife work, with a price tag of 24 million below.

Zoro didn't expect to be able to see this kind of art-level important sword in this kind of flea market, it was really powerful.

Like this, which is marked as an "important sword", it can only be bought back in the neon domestic collection, and if you want to ship it abroad, you can only choose to smuggle it, otherwise it will not be able to get out of the customs.

I don't know how the combat power of this kind of thing is, and it must not match its own value, because of the problem of purchasing power, they don't know if there will be any difference between the modern knife and the ancient Tibetan knife after they go to the criminal realm.

Zoro thought to himself, and suddenly it occurred to him that Bucky wasn't here? He hurriedly told Bucky the doubts in his heart.

However, Bucky did not know that he

He also quit the battle sequence when he went to college, and no one in their team was willing to buy the ancient Tibetan knife when he quit anyway......

"That's right......" Zoro suppressed the question, and next time ask Miss Kuhalei, she has been active and should know some news.

The three of them swooped through the crowd with backpacks on their backs, and finally arrived at a leather goods store at the end of the street.

The shop is very unremarkable, with a gray penguin statue with a straw hat and a lotus flower tank just outside the door.

The wooden sliding door is a canopy made of book cover, and when the wooden door is opened, the light inside is dim.

The walls of the shop are gray and white, and when he first enters, he thinks he has entered a small factory and laboratory, and on the walls of it are all kinds of belts of unknown leather, outerwear, and some unknown geometrically cut leather.

On the table and on the ground, there are many mottled metal ironware and sculptures, including a series of tea utensils such as iron kettles, pot bearers, and wind stoves. The pulp formed by the old iron over the years, the texture formed by hand-beating on the surface of the utensils, and then combined with the simple shape, a kind of beauty of time and art comes to the face.

There are not many things, Wu Sheng looked at the past one by one, and found that they have a unique shape and have their own unique aesthetics, Wu Sheng was shocked by this kind of non-pursuit of functionality and practicality, only the purest side of the items.

Human beings' appreciation of beauty is universal, and it does not need to be exercised, and beauty is beauty at a glance. These crafts have been devoid of traces of human processing, following their materials, cortical textures or natural state, and the materials have been treated to give them the power to emerge from nature.

On the table, there are many transparent bottles and jars, which contain various test samples, marked and recorded the form of leather and metal and stone in different temperatures and humidity, as well as the unique colors formed by adding other color blends.

It's a small art fair, isn't it? Wu Sheng was a little surprised, he had never gone to art exhibitions in the magic capital in his previous life, and the things here were not much different from those large-scale art exhibitions in his aesthetic opinion.

"Bucky's cheating!"

Bucky ignored him, and when he saw that there was no one in the storefront, he shouted into the back room, "Uncle Reilly! ”

Although Wu Sheng admired the artwork in the store, he still paid a little attention to Bucky.

Suddenly hearing his name, he turned his head sharply and looked at Bucky in shock, what are you shouting?!

Bucky didn't notice Wu Sheng's eyes and continued to shout.

Soon, a deep but gentle voice sounded in the inner room.

"Here we are, wait."

After a while, an old man with long gray hair and round glasses, but in good spirits, walked out, and at a cursory glance, he was nearly 1.8 meters tall, and his ruddy face was slightly wrinkled, but the chest muscles and abdominal muscles in the open white shirt on his upper body clearly indicated that the old man's physical condition was super good.

"I didn't expect you to arrive so soon, I just smoked in the back room." The sturdy old man smiled easily, and his calm eyes were very bright and calm. This is the look that only people who have experienced wind and rain, life and death, and have seen the vicissitudes of the world.

"You're smoking again? Aren't you afraid that Sister Xia Qi will catch you? Bucky laughed and teased, looking very familiar with Reilly.

"Okay, if you don't say it, I won't say it, how can she know." Reilly slowed down and made a disgusted "go, go" gesture to Barkibi.

"Oh, yes!" Bucky didn't forget what he was here for, and pointed to Wu Sheng and Zoro and said, "This is the newcomer I said yesterday, to deal with those things." ”