Fangshan, Beijing, in a cave in the mountains. A middle-aged man in his early forties meditates with his eyes closed in a cave filled with stone Buddha statues. The man muttered an unknown incantation, and saw that the middle finger of his hand was wearing this ring, and the ring on the ring faintly emitted a faint blue light. The eyes of the surrounding Buddha statues also kept flashing with various colors.

At that moment, the man stopped the spell, opened his eyes, and rose from the ground. He slowly walked to the Buddha statue in the middle. This Buddha statue is not like other Buddha statues, but has a sad face, which makes people very uncomfortable to look at.

The man looked at the weeping Buddha statue and recited a few unknown incantations, and then took off his ring from his hand, took off the stone ring that resembled an eyeball, and placed it in the eye socket of the Buddha statue in front of him. At the moment of putting it in, the Buddha statue that was crying shed a line of blood and tears, and slowly leaked a strange smile, followed by a "click" sound, and the left arm of the Buddha statue slammed into the man in front of him. The man was also quick and quick, and he dodged the stone Buddha's elbow very quickly. At this moment, the head of the stone Buddha suddenly turned to the right, and with another click, the Buddha statue leaked out the left head, and it was a terrifying and hideous face similar to that of a demon.

I saw that the hideous monster opened its mouth, spit out a steel nail, and hit the door in front of the man. The man shook his head suddenly, dodging the steel spike.

"Hiccup~"

The Buddha statue let out a strange howl, and only then did it stop attacking, and the Buddha's head slowly turned around, revealing a solemn Buddha face. At this time, there was a loud clicking sound outside the cave, and a gate suddenly appeared in the center of the cave, the man looked at it and nodded, and walked towards the abyss inside the door alone, but unexpectedly, a group of black shadows with strange smiles were following behind him.

In Panjiayuan, Beijing, a young man in his early twenties holds a green incense burner and bargains with a stall owner.

"I shot the plate incense burner, you see this plate is hairy, five hundred is not a lot."

The stall owner scratched his head, looking embarrassed. "It's really not good, you give eight hundred, and you can't let me pay it."

The young man smiled and got up and pretended to leave.

The stall owner hurriedly chased after him: "Take six hundred." Okay, just don't pull down. ”

The young man smiled, with a look of disdain: "I have a problem with this person, and I don't eat back grass." When I get up, you sell me a hundred, and I don't want it. ”

When the stall owner heard this, he smiled bitterly: "Okay, five hundred is five hundred." I'll wrap it up for you. ”

The young man opened the Xiangfei bamboo fan in his hand and fanned it: "You are like this, I will give you five hundred and five, and you can take the agate bead in your hand for me together." ”

The stall owner nodded, took out two boxes, and put the green incense burner and a plate with a red shou character in the middle. The young man handed over the money, took the two boxes and the beads. Turned around and walked to the shop next to him. This young man is me, and everyone calls me "Qiu Tong".

I walked into a shop with two boxes on it, and the words "Momofudo" were written on the plaque. Inside, there were three people seated, a young man in his early thirties, bald and wearing glasses, wearing a Peking wrestling jacket, bloomers, and round loafers. This person is Xu Ning, the current head of Baifutang. A couple of about sixty years old, the old man has very small eyes, always gives people a sense of obscenity and treachery, wrinkles on his face, and always smiles, just like the bad eunuch in the movie, but it makes people look very uncomfortable. The old lady looked like she had no features, but from time to time she looked at people with squinted eyes, and wore five or six rings on her hand, as if she was afraid that others would not see her. These two people are Xu Ning's parents, and the three of them can be regarded as the first batch of merchants in this Panjiayuan.

The three of them saw me come in with two boxes, the old man continued to sit and drink tea, the old lady continued to eat melon seeds, this Xu Ning crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Yo, what kind of wind gave you out?" Came to Panjiayuan to pick up the leak again? ”

I smiled: "Let you guess, you can see." Then I handed him the box with the green incense burner.

I saw Xu Ning open it, his eyes lit up, and he took it out and looked at it carefully for a long time: "This is the green brother of the Qing Dynasty, right?" Twin beast ears Qianlong's. ”

I nodded: "You show this to the old man, and you look at the second piece." Xu Ning listened to me, handed the incense burner to the old Xu Tou sitting next to him, the old Xu Tou looked at it over and over, nodded, and said in an extremely ugly voice: "Yes, it's Brother Lu." ”

Xu Ning nodded, opened the second box, took out a plate, looked at it and nodded: "Well, Wufu holds longevity with the "Great Qing Guangxu Year". There are remnants at the bottom of the plate, and the edges are hairy, not as good as that green brother. ”

I smiled, and Mrs. Xu, who was eating melon seeds next to me, answered: "These two things don't have to cost one or two thousand?" ”

I glanced at the old lady: "You didn't say that you bought it for a hundred, but it cost five thousand and a half in total." ”

When Old Man Xu heard this, he snorted coldly: "Sell me this stove." How much do you want to sell? ”

I opened the fan in my hand and fanned it: "Don't worry, I'll go out for a while and we'll talk." With that, he picked up the two boxes and left.

Walking out of Momofukudo, I walked to a shop at the east gate of the market, walked in and knocked on the door. I saw that the store was in a mess, the floor was full of dust, and the floor was full of bottles and jars, large and small, with fragments and complete vessels. On the right side of the door, there is a dirty Ming Dynasty Huanghuali chair, on which sits an old man, combing his hair and looking at it for a long time, full of hair oil, wearing a black and white checkered T-shirt, wearing a pair of jeans, and small leather shoes like unearthed cultural relics. There was a pile of inkstones in front of him, and a laptop was placed on the inkstone, and the old man was looking intently at the red and green stocks displayed on the computer. This old man is my master.

"Master, what about stock speculation again?"

Master heard me speak, sighed, closed the computer, and apparently lost again. Seeing that I was holding two boxes in my hand, Master said, "I'll take a look at what I bought again." ”

I smiled and handed the box with the plate to Master. The master opened the box and put the plate on the table next to it, brought the tortoiseshell crystal eyes on the inkstone, picked up the plate, and nodded: "Five blessings for longevity, the Guangxu year of the Qing Dynasty, and the people imitate the officials, but the road is too low." ”

I nodded, and Master was about to open the box containing the green brother incense burner, and I blocked Master's hand with a fan: "Master doesn't need to look at this one, it's not right." ”

The master was stunned for a moment, took out this fake "Qing Qianlong Double Beast Ear Green Brother Incense Burner" from the box, looked at it and put it down.

"You know why don't you buy it, you have money and nowhere to spend it?"

I scratched my head and smiled, "Hehe, you keep looking at this." As I spoke, I took out the beads from my pocket that I had half sold and half given away from the stall owner.

The bead is pale red all over, with rows of white dots on the surface, as if someone had dotted it with correction fluid. The master took the beads and looked at them: "I said that you kid can't be so stupid, this starry sky is really good, and the etching points are also very neat." ”

Inlay etching, an ancient technique, is to paint totems on beads by using natural materials to corrode the body of the beads. Most of the dzi we see are painted by the etching technique, which prevailed in the Tang Dynasty and is available in both China and abroad, but in different ways.

Master handed the beads back to me, and I picked up the green brother incense burner: "Master, the old Xu Tou of Baifutang didn't see that it was wrong. He said he wanted to buy it. What should you do about this, it's not right to sell him, and if you don't sell him, he hates people, and you don't know the temper of this old man. What do you think is appropriate? ”

The master thought about it, took out an unsmoked cigarette fart from the red incense burner of the Lang kiln at hand, lit it and took a puff, pondered for a long time, and sighed: "If you don't sell him, he will definitely hate you, and he also understands that this thing will be right for hundreds of thousands, you still sell him, the grudge of the province is not that you are not authentic, he has to rely on anyone, and besides, deceiving him is not a lack of virtue, and no one in the industry knows his virtue." You can do it, don't be too ruthless. ”

I nodded, and handed the Wufu Shou plate to the master: "Yes, make it a dish for you, I'll go." "I said goodbye to Master and returned to Baifu Hall.

Entering the gate of Baifutang, the old Xu Tou was still drinking tea with a bowl, the old lady was standing at the table and eating melon seeds, and Xu Ning was brushing walnuts with Erlang's legs crossed. Seeing me come in, the three didn't get up. Old Xu Tou was stunned when he saw me holding a box: "What's the matter, I sold one?" ”

I shook my head: "Ahem, a friend of mine bought the Wufu Shou Pan and sold it for 3,000, and I stopped it if I wanted this green brother incense burner, and I told him that the old man Xu of Baifutang said yes, he didn't sell you again." ”

Old Xu nodded and took a puff of his cigarette: "Make a price." ”

I smiled and said, "You also know how much this stove is worth, you know it in your heart, you can look at it." ”

The old man smiled gloomily: "Give Mr. Qiu 3,000 yuan." I'll leave you 500 profits, you see, okay? ”

I opened the fan and fanned it: "Old man, I don't plan to sell you, if you really want this stove, let's exchange the stove for the stove." I pointed to the Ming Dynasty white marble double-eared incense burner on the wooden pier on my right hand.

"There is just one less pot for flower arrangement in my store, so give me this incense burner, let's also exchange the goods for two ends, and it is not appropriate to save more money or less." You say yes, right? ”

The old man nodded, took the green brother incense burner over and looked at it carefully for a while, and said to Xu Ning: "Xu Ning, you drive this stove to Mr. Meng's shop," he turned his head and smiled at me, "You can be regarded as taking advantage, this stove turned out to cost 6,000 when I bought it in Shanxi." Okay, I see that you are also a junior who asked you to order, I have never been careful. If you like it, you can get it. ”

I nodded, thinking: Old boy, you still have to sell cheaply, come on, anyway, the stove is also blind, this white marble stove is earned. Say goodbye to the two old guys, ask Xu Ning to put the incense burner in the car, and drive back to my shop.