I was sitting on a rickety bus.

Emotional.

At this time, Ye Qian's call came.

"Writer!" Ye Qian joked, "It's all in the newspaper!" ”

"You saw it too!" I laughed.

"Come out and talk!" Ye Qian said softly, "I want to talk to you!" ”

"Where?" I asked.

"Where are you now?" Ye Qian asked.

"I've just come out of the publishing house," I said, "and I'm going to visit the Liuli Factory!" ”

"Then you can wait for me there!" Ye Qian thought about it and said happily, "Anyway, there are still big fences and front doors in that area, we can leisurely take a good look at these small streets with Beijing characteristics......

"After coming out of there, we can also go to Quanjude to buy roast duck to eat!" I said happily, "It is said that the Quanjude roast duck in Heping Gate is the most authentic, sliced into 108 slices, no bones, no oil in the middle, fragrant, slices of meat, slices with skin, like the size of clove leaves, thin but not broken......"

"Okay, okay," Ye Qian smiled, "Don't say it, my saliva is coming down!" ”

I smiled.

I put down my phone and started wandering the streets of Liulichang, which is located outside the Peace Gate.

The street of Liulichang is very long, east to Yanshousi Street, west to North and South Liuxiang, and South Xinhua Street in the middle. On both sides of the street, the shops are paved, the bricks and gray tiles, the bricks are carved and painted, and they are antique, with a strong color of the ancient market.

Standing on the street, I looked at the shops on both sides of the Chinese classical architectural style with arches and cornices, green tiles and red walls, and suddenly felt as if I was separated from the bustling and hustle and bustle of Beijing, and my heart suddenly felt clean and comfortable.

It didn't take long for me to see Ye Qian coming from a distance.

She had a big smile on her face.

"Why didn't you mention that to me?" Ye Qian asked me in confusion.

"What you can solve, I won't trouble you!" I said solemnly, "If I can't solve it myself, it's not too late to discuss it with you; If I can't solve it after discussing it with you, then the gold pistol with an ivory handle will come in handy! ”

"That's right," Ye Qian smiled, "I believe you have the ability to solve it!" ”

"Then I want to hear your opinion on my handling of this matter," I asked Ye Qian seriously, "Do you think my handling method is right or wrong?" ”

"That's right!" Ye Qian said affirmatively, "In life, sometimes it's too soft or not, and that's what 'Ma is good at being ridden'." But it's too hard, and if you really cut him with a kitchen knife, I'm afraid the result won't be much better. The best way is not to be soft or hard, or soft in hard, hard in hard! ”

"Yes," I said with emotion, "it's too soft, it's easy to 'be ridden by others', so that others can get an inch; it's too hard, it's easy to 'needle to wheat', so that other people's dogs jump off the wall; it's not soft or hard, you can straighten your waist anywhere!" ”

"The competition in Beijing is very fierce," Ye Qian said with a deep face, "People will always have to fight with others for something, for fame, fortune and love, and even for a bite of food, or literature or martial arts, they should talk about some proportions that are neither soft nor hard." If you can do it softly, you can do it softly, and if you can do it hard, try to do it softly, and if you can't do it, give him some hard work! ”

"Thank you for your understanding," I said with relief, "well, let's not talk about upset!" ”

Ye Qian smiled.

"You say, is the glass factory named after the glass factory?" I asked Ye Qian with interest.

"No," Ye Qian said seriously, "in the late Qing Dynasty, there used to be a kiln factory for firing glass tiles, and later this kiln factory moved, but the name remained, and it became a famous cultural street in Beijing." This probably originated in the Qing Dynasty, when most of the people who came to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination lived in this area, so there were many shops selling books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone here, forming a strong cultural atmosphere......"

We chatted and started wandering the streets.

Although I am not proficient in calligraphy and painting, the four treasures of the study, nor do I know antique calligraphy and painting and ancient books, but when I walk down this street, I still try to pretend to be very cultured and artistic, nodding my head or frowning with satisfaction from time to time to show my likes and dislikes.

In this way, we visited the well-known Rong Bao Zhai and Wenkui Hall, Di Ya Zhai, Bao Gu Zhai, Qingyun Hall and other places together. Everywhere I passed, every shopkeeper I saw seemed to be very familiar with Ye Qian, and they said hello from time to time. I found that the shopkeepers here were not as busy and nervous as the businessmen I usually met, and they all put on a relaxed expression of "love does not come" or "Jiang Taigong fishing", as if they completely regarded doing business as entertainment or spice in life.

We walked from West Street to East Street.

We just went from shop to store.

The streets are still sparsely populated by tourists.

The shopkeepers' expressions were still relaxed.

"Later, as the number of bookstores increased," Ye Qian continued, "the street slowly began to sell antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and ceramic and jade merchants also came here to set up shop." It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the cultural relics here range from bamboo slips and oracle bones, to the bronze tripods of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Buddha heads of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the characters of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Some of the items sold in the humble shops are even comparable to the national treasures collected by the Forbidden City. Although there are no longer amazing and valuable cultural relics in the current Liuli Factory, it is also quite pleasant to linger among the porcelain bottles, jade bowls, pottery horses, and bronze mirrors, and imagine the poetry and wine style of the literati and artists 200 years ago......"

Ye Qian cleared her throat and said coquettishly.

I listened quietly.

As I passed a jade antique shop, I stopped and shouted with joy as if I had discovered a new world:

"Look, how beautiful this jade doll is!"

"What kind of jade is this?" Ye Qian said with disdain, "This can only be regarded as a piece of jade at best!" ”

"Is there any difference between jade and jade?" I asked, puzzled.

"Of course there is," Ye Qian explained solemnly, "In gemology, there are only two kinds of jade, namely jadeite and nephrite; According to the different colors, it is divided into white jade, jasper, and black jade; Others such as agate, chalcedony, Xiuyu, turquoise, lapis lazuli, etc., all belong to the general jade ......"

"Does that matter?" I laughed.

"Of course it's important," Ye Qian affirmed, "people's love for jade is not only that it is a crystal clear, colorful, and pleasing ornament, but because jade has a wealth effect, is a hard currency, and has a great potential for appreciation." ”

"I didn't expect it to go up," I said with a laugh, "I just like it!" ”

"Then at least you can tell whether it is real jadeite or nephrite," Ye Qian explained with great interest, "You must know that there are a large number of imitations of jadeite and nephrite in today's market, some of which are completely different from jadeite and nephrite in material composition, but there are some similar natural substitutes in appearance, such as Keao jade, albite jade, Wulan cuima jade, etc., which can be passed off as jadeite, and Beijing white jade, Afghan white jade, Han white jade, etc. can be passed off as white jade. Although these substitutes are very similar in appearance to the real thing, and have a certain value of their own, they cannot be compared with the real thing in terms of market price because they are not as good as the real thing, or because they are relatively abundant in nature. If you buy it back as natural jadeite or white jade, it will be a big loss! ”

"I didn't say I was going to buy it back as natural jade or white jade!" I said to Ye Qian seriously.

"Then you should at least distinguish between the good and bad of its quality!" Ye Qian gushed out, "This is a more complex subject, involving several evaluation factors, the first is to see whether the color is pure, whether the texture structure is dense and delicate, whether there are impurities and cracks, and the size of these impurities and cracks, their degree of harm, but also to see their size of the block, but also to see the quality of their workmanship, whether it is from the hands of famous artists, whether it is cultural relics left over from ancient times, etc." ”

"What I want to say to you," I smiled, "first, I just think it's beautiful and profound, and I want to put it on my computer desk, look up and play with it between the codewords, which is both relaxing and interesting, and what does it do to me if it's jade or jade or the hardness?" Second, I think it's cheap, and I'm not afraid of thieves stealing it in the house, nor afraid of others accidentally breaking it, so what is the use of me if it's from a famous artist or if it's a relic left over from ancient times? Since it's something I like, it doesn't really matter if it has impurities, cracks, and blemishes! ”

"I was wrong, okay!" Ye Qian smiled.

"You're not wrong," said the old man, who had been silent at the counter, "you just look at jade from an investment point of view, and he looks at it from a decorative point of view." But the person who really knows this piece of jade is him! After sipping the fragrant tea comfortably, the old man stroked his beard and said loudly, "Since you like something, you must accept everything about it, including its flaws." ”

"yes!" Ye Qian said with emotion, "If you love something, you must accept all of it, including flaws and defects!" Because nothing is perfect in this world, including love! Ye Qian looked at the jade doll in her hand, then at me in front of her, and smiled embarrassedly, "Actually, the old gentleman's words also made me understand a lot, if you love someone, you have to accept everything about him, including that education level and that hair!" ”

"Which level of education?" I wondered, "What hair?" ”

"Let's go!" Ye Qianwan smiled, "I'm done shopping here, and I've bought a kissing doll, now it's time to go eat roast duck!" ”

"That's right! Right! Right! I nodded busily.