Chen Ziyang really wanted to study this compass well, but the current conditions did not allow him to do so. Because he was afraid that if he went somewhere else, the compass would stop turning, he could not leave the wooden bench now.

And although this place is remote, there are still a lot of vendors operating there, although the flow of people is not very large, but there are occasional people walking around, if you just hold the compass in your hand and study, it is inevitable that others will covet it.

So Chen Ziyang had no choice but to study this compass in his backpack, which was also a helpless way. He put the backpack on his chest, stretched his two arms into the backpack, and used the backpack to block the vision of others, in the eyes of others, he seemed to be looking for something in the backpack, but Chen Ziyang's hands kept holding on to the compass, and his eyes were always staring at the compass.

The heavenly pool of the compass is stationary, but the inner disk of the compass has been rotating, and the rotation is very regular, every few seconds, the outer disk of the compass will rotate a grid, making a clicking sound. Chen Ziyang watched it for a long time and didn't see why.

The purpose of the compass is nothing more than to calibrate the bearing, and since the compass turns on its own, it must indicate that the owner of the compass has something unusual in the vicinity. Although Chen Ziyang didn't understand why this compass rotated on its own and where its power came from, he was now more interested in what the compass indicated.

To indicate a direction, there must be a straight line or an arrow pointing to a certain direction so that the person using the compass can find it, but the inner disk of the compass is constantly rotating slowly in one direction. Although there are many lines on the compass, the length and thickness of these lines are exactly the same, and there is nothing special about them, which means that the things that can indicate the direction are not on the inner disk.

All that remains is the outer disk of the compass and the heavenly pool. Chen Ziyang, the outer disk of the compass, has been observed countless times, and there are no notches or marks on it, so the only thing left that can indicate the direction is the Tianchi of the compass.

The pointer in the Tianchi is still facing the north-south direction, which is very normal, so it is not the compass pointer that indicates the direction. This is strange, Chen Ziyang stared at the Tianchi of the compass carefully, and at this time he suddenly realized.

At the edge of the compass Tianchi, near the inner disk, there is a small gap, when studying this compass before, Chen Ziyang had paid attention to this gap, he thought that this place was because the compass was too old, so it was broken when it was used, but now it seems that the only thing that can indicate the direction of the entire compass is this gap.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang slowly turned the heavenly pool of the compass at a small angle. Adjusting the gap to the other direction, he then took the compass and watched quietly, trying to see if his guess was correct.

A few seconds later, with the rotation of the inner disk of the compass, the Tianchi of the compass actually rotated, but the direction of the rotation of the Tianchi was completely opposite to the direction of rotation of the inner disk, but what made Chen Ziyang happy was that the direction of the compass rotation was the opposite of the direction he had adjusted the direction of the notch before, that is to say, the gap was rotating in the direction indicated just now.

After a while, the gap stopped again at the position before Chen Ziyang rotated the Tianchi, and after reaching this position, the Tianchi of the compass also stopped rotating. Seeing this, Chen Ziyang knew that he had found the right way.

In order to verify his idea again, Chen Ziyang turned the Tianchi again, so that the gap deviated from its original position again, but this time the direction of the Tianchi that rotated the compass was the opposite direction of the rotation between him.

Similarly, after a few seconds, the compass's celestial pool rotated again, this time in exactly the same direction as the compass's inner disc rotated, and the gap again pointed to the position indicated earlier.

Don't try anymore, Chen Ziyang is now very sure that this gap is a hidden thing that indicates the direction. Although Chen Ziyang was full of questions now, he did not continue to study the reason for the rotation of the compass, but set his eyes on the direction pointed by the opening of this Tianchi.

According to Chen Ziyang's guess, this compass will stop rotating when it leaves the range near the bench before, most likely because this compass is like a radar and has a certain detection range. And according to his previous experiments, the detection range of this compass should not be too far, so when Chen Ziyang looked at the direction indicated by the gap, he also looked from near to far.

There are a few small vendors selling things in the place directly opposite the gap in the Compass Tianchi, because this area is already the most marginal area of this antique city, so there are not many vendors here.

There was nothing far away, so Chen Ziyang estimated that the things suggested by the compass should be in the hands of those small traders. So he walked to the place where the vendors were.

The three stalls were next to each other, not very far from each other, Chen Ziyang walked over one by one, looking at them one by one. The first stall sells some porcelain, which is large or small, but every piece of porcelain here looks very awkward, and Chen Ziyang knows that most of the things sold in this stall are modern and anti-deceptive, and the antique craftsmanship is very inferior.

When he visited this antique market before, Chen Ziyang found that he could distinguish between items with inferior antique craftsmanship at a glance. This is not because he has knowledge of antique appreciation, but only because he has seen more real things.

I have seen a lot of real things, and I will feel very awkward when I see some imitation and fake goods, and I always feel that it is not right here, and it is not right there. Chen Ziyang has been to a lot of tombs, and at the same time, he has seen a lot of fine products in Wang Lele and his fifth grandfather Chen Benzhong, so his starting point for appreciating antiques is relatively high.

When he visited this market before, Chen Ziyang found that he still had such an eyesight, and he thought of the reason. Chen Ziyang remembers that he once read a story about a foreign bank trying to train the counter staff to identify counterfeit money in order to avoid mistaking counterfeit money.

However, the methods of counterfeiting money emerge in endlessly, and the counterfeit money is also made batch after batch, these counterfeit coins are made by different people, and the methods of screening counterfeit money are also varied, very complicated, and it is impossible to remember at all.

By the time this group learned to identify all the types of counterfeit money on the market today, more than a dozen new counterfeits appeared on the market, so this training method had little effect.

Later, a lobby manager proposed a solution, he did not let these tellers touch the counterfeit money, but only let them touch the real money, these counter handlers every day in addition to eating and sleeping, the rest of the time is spent dealing with the real money, these people need to keep stroking all kinds of new and old different degrees of real money, familiar with the feel of this real money.

Later, when the counterfeit money came into the hands of these people, although they could not immediately identify this one as a counterfeit currency, they would feel very awkward when they touched the counterfeit money, which immediately raised their vigilance, and because of this, the bank almost never received a counterfeit currency by mistake.

Chen Ziyang knows that the reason why he has some eye for antique appreciation is the same as this reason, that is, because he has seen too many real things, and he will feel awkward when he sees these low-end imitations.

But his ability to appreciate is limited to this, if there are some imitation more real items in front of his eyes, he will still be eye-catching, not to mention the things made by counterfeiters like Yu Linglong, not to mention the things made by Yu Linglong, let alone himself, it is estimated that even many experts do not have the ability to distinguish.

Seeing that the items on the small porcelain vendor were all inferior imitations, Chen Ziyang walked to the second stall.

The second stall was full of old copper coins. These coins come in a variety of styles, large and small. Although there are many types of copper coins, Chen Ziyang took a general look, except for a few copper coins of the Song Dynasty in a special box and placed in a more conspicuous position, although there are many other copper coins, most of them are from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

These copper coins could not have been indicated by the compass, because Chen Ziyang felt that these copper coins did not match the age of this compass. When he was studying the Qingying Ancient Sword before, Chen Ziyang conducted a detailed investigation into the casting of bronzes.

Although he didn't know what age the compass left by the Du family was cast, he was sure that the age of this bronze compass was definitely farther than that of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Chen Ziyang felt that there was a loophole in his idea, and it was very likely that this compass would rotate on its own in response to some special substance, and it had nothing to do with the age of the indicated item.

But he just had the feeling that this compass had nothing to do with these copper coins. So Chen Ziyang walked to the front of the last stall.

The third stall is very mixed with jade, porcelain, bronzes, etc., and even some ancient books. These things are arranged in a haphazard manner, and the arrangement of these items is very random, and the goods are not arranged in an orderly manner like other stalls.

The whole antique market is very well planned, and there are some vendors who specialize in a certain category, and the market will manage them in sections. If you want to buy jade, you can go to this area, where most of the jade products are sold, and if you want to buy porcelain, you have to go to the other side, where most of the porcelain is sold.

Although the goods sold at each stall are not necessarily limited to one category, these stall owners will put their goods in an orderly manner. Jade is put together, porcelain is put together, and so on, although it may not be neatly arranged, but people can find what they like at a glance.

Maybe it's because it's the edge of the market, the lack of management, the stall owner's laziness, or his informality, and everything is a mess. If he wanted to find the things indicated by the compass among these things, Chen Ziyang really had to work a lot of effort.

Seeing someone standing still in front of his stall, the stall owner became enthusiastic and took the initiative to greet Chen Ziyang. Chen Ziyang looked at the stall owner, who looked like what he was selling, he was really an unruly person.

The stall owner is very sloppy, this is Chen Ziyang's first impression of him. The stall owner was a man, fifty-five or sixteen years old, and his hair had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, all of which were stained with oil, and a large amount of dust had adhered to them, making the stall owner's hair look gray.

Moreover, the stall owner's big beard is also unkempt, these beards are long or short, and they look like they haven't been repaired for a long time. The clothes worn by the stall owner are also very dirty, and the clothes are deep and shallow, and I don't know how long they haven't been washed. And there was an unpleasant smell emanating from his body, smelling this stench mixed with strange smells, Chen Ziyang subconsciously rubbed his nose.

Although Chen Ziyang was not a very clean person, he really felt very uncomfortable when he saw the beggar-like stall owner in front of him. It's no wonder that there are more or less people asking for quotations in front of other stalls, but here there are many people. But in order to find what the compass indicated, Chen Ziyang didn't care so much.

"Little brother, what are you going to buy? I see that you are looking around, you probably haven't decided what to buy, it seems that you are not here specifically for a certain item, you want to buy a gift to give away, right? I don't need to introduce you to it, I have a lot of good things here. The stall owner said enthusiastically to Chen Ziyang.

"Oh, I'm just going to take a look, you're busy, I'll ask you if I have anything I like." Chen Ziyang replied perfunctorily.

As soon as Chen Ziyang said this, the smile on the stall owner's face immediately stiffened. Chen Ziyang's answer is almost a standard answer, although he said it very politely, but the stall owner can hear that Chen Ziyang is just a casual look, people like him are generally tourists, most of them come to Xi'an to travel, to see the antique market here, so the possibility of such people buying things is very small.

So the stall owner really ignored Chen Ziyang, but turned around and sat on his chair, assuming a very lazy posture. Looking at his laziness, he seems to regret that he spent the effort to talk to Chen Ziyang just now. Chen Ziyang didn't care about the change in the stall owner's attitude, but concentrated on looking for what he was looking for in this stall.

Although the compass was in the backpack behind him, Chen Ziyang could still hear the clicking sound from the compass, I don't know if it was his illusion, Chen Ziyang actually felt that since he stood in front of this stall, the frequency of this clicking sound seemed to be getting faster and faster, as if the compass was urging himself, telling him that what he was looking for was in front of him.

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