Chapter 0045 Yiling Antique Street

I didn't drive myself to Yiling, and I felt that the goal was too big and inconvenient.

The size and prosperity of Yiling is astonishing, and looking for three people in this vast sea of people is really like looking for a needle in a haystack. I had to book the hotel first and put my luggage away before making plans.

Where do you start? I think it's better to go to the antique market first.

Yiling Square is the most famous square in Yiling City, in the south of Yiling City. The antique market is located in a north-south alley in the middle of Yiling Square, and there are about forty or fifty shops on both sides of the alley, and there are many people in the area. Half of it is mainly porcelain and jade, and strange stone calligraphy and painting is also a major item, with an estimated one or twenty companies, four or five miscellaneous ones, and two or three companies specializing in jade. In addition, there are some stalls, such as old comic books, old renminbi, ancient coins and so on. In such a market, most of them are still fakes and modern antique handicrafts, and it is estimated that it is difficult to pottery really good things.

I first went to a jade shop to look for clues. A thin middle-aged man stood up when he saw me come in, and seemed to treat me as a casual guest, and enthusiastically introduced the contents of the cabinet.

I took a visual look at the displays in his store, and it was really varied, and everything was available. From primitive ancient jade, to Liaojin, Chunshui, Qiushan jade, to Ming and Qing pendants, jade pendants, to Burmese jade.

I first asked him to take a piece of ancient jade from the Hongshan culture to take a closer look, and the shopkeeper was immediately overjoyed, praising me as a person who knew the goods, and chattering about this "work":

"Look at this material, the standard old Xiuyu, and then look at this stain, how natural, it is definitely not dyed, and then look at this rust, which has just been unearthed, it is absolutely reliable. He said a lot in one breath, observing my reaction, and seeing that I was showing interest, he immediately added:

"It's something that the archaeological team members over there secretly came out, and it's cheap, if you want, this number. After speaking, he used his right thumb and index finger to compare "eight".

I ignored his nagging, and carefully observed this jade pig dragon, the jade quality is no problem, but the outline is too sharp and regular, obvious traces of modern machine processing, and what adds to the painting is that two ridges are added to the back of the pig dragon, and the so-called "Qin spot" , but the selection of a piece of variegated Xiuyu leftovers, the jade generated in the variegated stone crystal is really a bit like a spot, and then look through the hole, a very straight round type, is also obviously drilled out with a tubular tool on the machine tool at one time, in order to imitate the original jade flared perforation, and around the orifice to do a little flar-shaped expansion, the inner diameter is very consistent.

Although I am not an expert in cultural relics, I can still see these low-quality things because I have participated in several cultural relics identification trainings and bought a lot of books to study.

Seeing that I was silent, the shopkeeper made a "six" with his thumb and little finger:

"That's it, 60,000, it can't be less, it's really a friend who needs money urgently, and this thing can make two or three times as much money as a change of hands. ”

I feigned hesitation and said to him:

"To tell you the truth, I was commissioned by a friend this time to buy some ancient jade artifacts of Ba culture, and my friend is preparing a Ba culture museum, which is relatively lacking in jade, such as this kind of thing. ”

After speaking, he handed him the drawing of the handle of the Ba Wang Scepter that he had drawn in advance, and the shopkeeper looked at the drawing and shook his head vigorously:

"I've never seen this thing before, it looks like a bone, what's the name, I'll help you ask. ”

This is the result I expected, but I am still a little disappointed, and I still have some thoughts in my heart:

"Well, if someone comes to sell something like this, or if you know someone who has it, let me know right away, and they'll give you a referral fee. ”

The shopkeeper immediately nodded: "That's a certainty, but what about this thing, it's really a good thing, do you want to think about it again, the price is negotiable." The shopkeeper still didn't give up and continued to sell his Red Mountain "Jade Pig Dragon".

I had to make up an excuse to prevaricate him: "Well, I'll take a picture and send it to a friend." ”

The shopkeeper looked disappointed, but immediately hid it:

"It's okay to take pictures, but don't show them to any third party, you know that you can't let the official know about this thing, it doesn't matter if the business can't be done, it affects the future of my friends and my job. The shopkeeper continued to play his trap, but I wasn't a "mallet" yet.

Leaving the jade shop, I came to a miscellaneous shop, but the keeper of the shop was an old man, who saw me enter the store, but did not get up, and continued to read an old book bound by threads, because it was miscellaneous, so jade, ceramics, metalware, tooth horns, Xuan furnace, coins, bronze mirrors, snuff bottles and so on are a little bit.

Without exception, most of the things are fakes, and occasionally one or two real things are nothing more than worthless folk utensils. In order to attract the attention of the boss, I pretended to let him take a pastel hat barrel from the end of the Qing Dynasty and look at it. When the boss saw that the first thing I wanted was more reliable, his face was a little more pleasant, but he just looked at me quietly and did not speak.

After reading this hat tube, I took a Ba-style copper Ge to see, but it was a fake, but the imitation was quite realistic, but the skin color and rust showed flaws, the copper skin was blue and black corroded with strong acid, and the rust was newly dyed, floating and shallow.

I returned it to him and asked if there was anything like it. The boss looked at me as if I was a knowledgeable master, hesitated for a while, took out a newspaper wrapped in something from the back room, and unfolded it, but it was an ancient sword, about fifty centimeters long, without a lattice or handle, and the tail was a thin bolt-like protrusion with holes, which was used to bind the hilt of the sword. The hilt of the sword of the Ba people is made of two fast wood, which is tied to the tenon at the end with hemp rope, and then wrapped in linen cloth or silk on the wooden handle, which is different from the handle of the Yue sword.

The body of the sword is black-green, it is a silver rust generated by oxidation, which is very different from the effect of strong acid corrosion, I have seen the silver-plated sword body in the coppersmith shop in Longge, so after two thousand years of oxidation, there should be no problem with this color, there are neatly arranged pits on both sides of the sword body, which is for the blood groove, and it also coincides with my "Golden Snake Sword", and the tail of the sword is also engraved with a palm pattern, which is also an important symbol of Pakistan, and all kinds of signs show that this is a real sword.

When the old man saw that I was looking closely, he kept nodding his head, knowing that he was an expert, so he stretched out two fingers.

"Twenty thousand?" I asked, pretendingly.

"Two hundred thousand. The old man gestured with the index fingers of his two hands together.

"It's too expensive, can you make it less?" I continued to act, and I wanted to investigate what I really wanted and couldn't really do it without pretending.

"Nothing less than the real thing. "Jiang is still old and spicy, and the old man seems to have seen through my thoughts.

"It's not something I want, it's a request from a friend. "So I concocted the same words I had said to the jade boss before.

The old man was noncommittal, and when I asked to take a picture, he was also refused, and bluntly said: "If you can't make the decision, ask your friends to decide for yourself." With that, he wrapped the sword in newspaper and put it back in the cupboard.

"The old man will see if there is anything similar, and the price is negotiable. I showed him the drawings of the scepter and the strange axe, and the old man's eyes flickered when he saw the drawings, and then he said in a faint tone, "I have never seen anything like this." ”

As usual, I left a phone call for the old man, but I didn't get a warm response.

When I left the old man's grocery store, I felt a sharp stare on my back all the time, and wondered if the old man was using me as a plainclothes policeman investigating stolen cultural relics.

Then I went to a few more antique shops, but still found nothing. I had to go back to the hotel in a huff, take a shower and sleep, and lie on the bed to sort out my thoughts.