Chapter 295: Black Market
Lin Xi walked back to the inner house, and Zhou Wanling took a dragon turtle that he bought with a lot of money to Lin Xi and said, "What about this?" Do you need it now? ”
Lin Xi looked at it twice and said: "Things are good things, but if you want to get rid of the evil qi in the house, you must first use a lotus cup to purify, and then put this dragon turtle in the northwest direction to display, and this dragon turtle can move behind it, and put some tea leaves in it to enhance its effectiveness." ”
Zhou Wanling wrote down what Lin Xi said one by one, and Zhou Jiechuan asked Lin Xidao: "Is there anything else that needs to be changed?" ”
Lin Xi took a general look at the structure of the house, and the big ones couldn't be changed with their money strength, she could only ensure that although the house was not prosperous, at least it would not harm people.
"I still need to buy a few strings of Five Emperor coins in the antique market, do you still have an antique market here?"
The previous Red A guards smashed these things quite badly, and the rich and noble people couldn't keep them, let alone these small antique merchants.
"As far as I know, there is also an underground antique black market open, some of which are inverted goods, so newcomers generally can't enter, so I'll find you a local snake and let him take you in."
Lin Xi nodded, waited for Zhou Jiechuan to go out and contact people, and took them to a deep alley, Lin Xi and Lin Nan saw a short man who looked like a monkey standing in front of them, the man looked at the two people led by Zhou Jiechuan and turned around and wanted to leave, Zhou Jiechuan grabbed him and said, "What are you doing?" ”
"You brought two children here to coax me, didn't you deliberately provoke me?"
"People are children you can't afford to mess with, you look like this, did Zhang Yi dislike you for being small? Don't you still let you bring the goods, why do you still discriminate against others. ”
Qiu Monkey only listened to the first few words, thinking that Lin Xi and Lin Nan were children from rich families who came to the black market for stimulation, scratched his nose and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take them down to have a look." ”
Zhou Jiechuan patted him on the shoulder: "Then don't bully others." ”
Qiu Monkey waved his hand impatiently, and asked Lin Xi and Lin Nan to follow him to the dilapidated temple outside the city.
Qiu Monkey glanced at them, touched the mechanism on the incense case, and the small door under the seat of the Buddha statue opened, and Qiu Monkey took the lead in lying down and said, "You guys come up." ”
Lin Nan asked Lin Xi to go in first, and he was behind the back hall, Qiu Monkey took the two of them down, took out a flashlight inside, and shook it indiscriminately, Lin Xi saw that it looked like an air-raid shelter, Qiu Monkey said: "This is an air-raid shelter built before the war, it is very hidden, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find this." ”
"And ......" Qiu Monkey secretly said to Lin Xi: "The people above haven't found it either." ”
In other words, when this air-raid shelter was not discovered by the local government, these people directly requisitioned it.
The three of them continued to walk for a while, Qiu Monkey deliberately turned off the flashlight and took them around, Lin Nan went up and held Lin Xi's hand, Lin Xi looked at the darkness in front of him, and said indifferently: "I'm not afraid of the dark." ”
"I'm afraid." He replied so confidently that Lin Xi couldn't refute it.
After walking in the dark for more than ten minutes, Lin Xi saw that the lights began to shine in front of him, as if in another world, a teenager came out from the side and said, "Qiu Monkey, are you nursing a child?" ”
He alluded to Qiu Monkey bringing two children in, and Qiu Monkey snorted him and said, "Little Qisan, you don't see how old you are." ”
The young man grimaced at Qiu Monkey, jumped to Lin Xi's side and said, "Beautiful sister, don't listen to this Qiu Monkey, he is the best at deceiving people." ”
Seeing the young man approaching Lin Xi, Lin Nan reminded beside him: "There is a beautiful brother here." ”
The young man glanced at Lin Nan and wrinkled his nose, and ran away, Qiu Monkey saw that he couldn't beat anyone, and said to Lin Xi: "Don't believe that kid, that's a ghost and a clever man." ”
Lin Xi looked ahead and said, "Take us to the front to have a look." ”
The small and small part of this air-raid shelter has been invisibly cut into their own territory by these people, and they have their own piece of land, spread an old white cloth towel on the ground, and swing the things on it, waiting for the buyer to receive the goods.
They are more sensitive to newcomers, for fear that some police will sneak in and arrest people, but seeing that Qiu Monkey is leading the way, knowing that their identities have been checked, they retract their eyes and stare at their utensils ready to make a deal at any time.
There are still a lot of people today, most of them are some antique collectors who come to the black market to see if there is anything they want, Qiu Monkey directly led them to a remote corner, this person set up a business stall at the entrance of the sunken hole, looked at Qiu Monkey brought people here, and said with a smile: "What do you want to order?" ”
Lin Xi picked up the kerosene lamp placed on the side and looked at the objects placed on the ground, and took a gilded Buddha statue of the Nine Heavens Goddess, and the seller pointed to the Buddha statue and said: "During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the palace made it, although the size is a little smaller, but now this Buddha statue is very popular in the market." ”
Seeing that Lin Xi didn't speak, the seller said: "This one you fancy is a real royal thing, and I personally bought it from a eunuch." The eunuch also served Pu Yi. ”
Lin Xi smiled and asked, "How much is this Buddha statue?" ”
The man compared a number of three, but behind Lin Xi and Lin Nan, there was suddenly a person who said, "I'm out of four thousand." ”
Lin Xi put down the Buddha statue in his hand, picked up the Qianlong coins on the ground and looked at them carefully, and said to the boss after a while: "If I pay four thousand five, can I take these Qianlong coins together?" ”
The boss nodded: "The loss is given to you." ”
The man in the back came and said, "I'll buy it for 5,000." ”
Lin Xi smiled: "It seems that you really want this Buddha statue." ”
"Of course, it's a big hit in the market."
"Okay, then I'll give it to you, but this boss said that the copper coin can be sent, and I will give you fifty yuan to ask for this copper coin, not this Buddha statue."
The man was stunned, Lin Xi stood up and looked at him and said, "What, didn't you want it very much at first?" If it weren't for the fact that you and this boss wanted to raise the price, this would be a trick to us. ”
Lin Xi's voice was neither high nor low, but it could be heard by the people around him, and the other buyers all looked here, and the man said weakly: "I remembered, I didn't bring much money today, I will come back tomorrow to buy it." ”
After he finished speaking, he ran away, leaving the boss alone looking at the gold, silver and jade under his feet and not daring to escape, Lin Xi picked up a string of five emperor coins and said: "Five strings, fifty yuan, otherwise I will tell all the fakes on your stall." ”
The boss looked very happy, and secretly said that he was planting seedlings today, and he was seen by a little girl, and he just wanted Lin Xi to leave quickly: "Take it, take it, don't stay here." ”
He didn't expect to meet a master today, and he could see at a glance that his stall was full of imitations, and if he let her continue to talk here, he was afraid that his business would not be successful.
Lin Xi took the Five Emperor Money, and Lin Nan was puzzled: "This Five Emperor Money is also an imitation, why do you still want to buy it?" ”
"Although it is an imitation, it is a high imitation, unlike other imitations of the Five Emperors Coin, not to mention that the real Five Emperors Coins copper has been eroded, not as good as this new one, the "gold" quality is higher, and it is more conducive to driving away evil spirits. ”
Lin Nan nodded, but suddenly found that the Qiu monkey who was following them was long gone, Lin Xi said: "He is specifically here to coax the newcomer, and he has already run away with a weak heart, let's go find something ourselves." ”
"Pretty sister, do you need someone to lead the way?" The young man came out again at this time, and Lin Xi looked at him and said, "What's your name." ”
The boy grinned, "My name is Archie." ”
"Archie, do you know where the shop that sells good jade here is?"
Archie nodded and led Lin Xi and Lin Nan to turn left, Lin Nan bowed his head to Lin Xi and said, "You're not afraid that he will lie to you?" ”
"Archie won't lie to a beauty."
He turned his head suddenly, busy defending himself, Lin Xi patted Lin Nan's chest and said, "Hear it, have confidence in your appearance." ”
Lin Nan smiled helplessly, so he had to follow the two up.
Archie took Lin Xi to a sparsely populated place, Lin Xi saw an old man in a milky white cloth shirt with reading glasses, looking at the things in his hand carefully, as if he was studying something, Archie jumped up and said, "Old man, I'm here for you." ”
The old man looked up and scolded him: "Lao Tzu is not a bustard, and he still needs you to pick up customers." ”
Archie wrinkled his nose and ran away again, and the old man waved his hand casually and said, "See what you want, clearly mark the price and don't bargain." ”
He was the one who lit the most kerosene lamps, as if he was afraid that customers would not be able to inspect the goods here.
Lin Xi looked at the goods of this stall, Archie really didn't bring them to the wrong place, the goods here are all real, not like some stalls sell half-truths and half-truths for profiteering.
Lin Xi picked for a long time, and chose a jade unicorn engraved with charms, she looked under the kerosene lamp, it was full of Buddhist scriptures, and the color of the jade was also good, it was a fine product. The old man saw that Lin Xi took the treasure, looked at Lin Xi through reading glasses and said, "Little girl, that asking price is not cheap, and this thing has gone through several twists and turns, I only kept it from that group of crazy people, and my offer will only be low and not high." ”
Lin Xi smiled: "I believe sir, the price is arbitrary." ”
Anyway, this thing was bought for the house that helped Ye Qi, and this blood must be paid by them.
The old man looked at the jade unicorn in Lin Xi's hand, his eyes were full of reluctance, but in the end he gave Lin Xi a fairly fair price.
Lin Xi finished paying and was about to turn around and leave, but the old man stopped the two of them: "I don't know if there is one thing you are still interested in." ”
As he spoke, the old man turned around and bent down to take out something from one of his large boxes, and Lin Xi and Lin Nan glanced at each other.