After hanging up the phone, Xia Li took out 20,000 yuan from the box and gave it to his mother, asking her to transfer it to her father to settle the wages of the nearest workers.

After explaining to his mother, Xia Li packed up his things and left.

Because it was Shiyi's company phone on the other end of the phone, it was inconvenient to talk too much, so Shiyi only gave him an address and hung up after agreeing to meet in the afternoon.

Although it was agreed to meet in the afternoon, Xia Li passed early, and he wanted to take this opportunity to take a look at the city.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived in the city, so he had a casual bite to eat and went to the flower and bird market in the city.

The flower and bird market in the urban area is more than the county, in addition to the main flowers, green plants, aquarium area, the new home living area, handicraft walking block, so that the market format is more perfect.

The business varieties include flowers, orchids, green plants, bonsai, strange stones, crystals, jade, mahogany furniture, porcelain, root carving, high-end ornamental fish and more than 1,000 kinds.

Sanyang Bird and Flower Market is a combination of flowers, trees, antiques and other ornamental gadgets, and has become a larger and more complete market.

After leaving, you can see that there are the most flowers, trees and bonsai, but there are also many gold and stone products such as strange rockeries, and there is no shortage of various handmade handicrafts, and there is also a special place to open up exhibitions and buy and sell pets.

Along the way, there are not a few precious and valuable flowers, and there are several flowers that are priced at tens of thousands of dollars in a short distance.

Some bonsai are even more valuable, even hundreds of thousands. The more expensive the item, the more people stay in front of the onlookers, whether they buy it or not, the expensive and good-looking flowers are a kind of enjoyment for these flower friends.

Moreover, some people will mark the price very high, not to sell flowers, but just to take out their own bright, favorite things can be recognized and envied by the majority of peers is a face-saving thing.

There are also people who have the intention to speculate, the price is very high, and some people want to reduce the price, but the seller always laughs and does not say anything, just quietly waiting for the evaluation of the passerby, and the reputation is beaten out first, and then the price can be sold.

In any case, as long as these flowers can be put on display, they always have their own special features, and they are worth the price, and in general, there is no indiscriminate asking price.

The most expensive bonsai is an orchid, and the onlookers say that it is a newly cultivated variety, and the price is 400,000.

Xia Li may not even be able to buy a leaf with the money he brought today, there are many onlookers, and he is not interested in orchids for the time being, so he didn't squeeze in to see what kind of flower shape and color.

Of course, there are many handicrafts that can also make Xia Li stop and watch for a while. Many of the stone scenes are still quite innovative.

There is a stone craft shop that has a treasure in the town.

It is a piece of jade according to the general shape of the jade, plus a little manual chiseling peck, carved into a courtyard of ancient rich and noble families.

The pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard are all available, the carving is meticulous and true, and even the expressions on the faces of the young ladies and maids who are clustered together and laughing at the bottom of the pavilion are vivid, as if they have come to life.

The shopkeeper cleverly poured a pool of water into the small garden as a pond in the yard, and planted small lotus flowers of strange varieties, blooming small white lotus flowers the size of coins, adding a lot of life to this jade handicraft. It's as if this was a shrunken real courtyard.

The courtyard is placed in the most conspicuous place of the stone store, and you can see it when you stand at the door of the store before you enter the store.

Xia Li is outside the store admiring the jasper cabbage placed at the door.

The milky white jade is carved into cabbage, and it is dotted with some turquoise insects that eat cabbage.

The "dish" and "wealth" of cabbage have the same sound, not to mention the pleasing appearance, but the meaning is even more beautiful.

Basically, it is a must-have thing at the door of every jade shop, and it has the meaning of attracting wealth and treasure.

Unexpectedly, when I looked up, I saw the courtyard carved from jade, so I walked into the store out of curiosity.

There happened to be someone in the store who was looking at jade, and when he saw that the boss wanted to separate and greet him, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Boss, you are busy with yourself, I'm just coming in and taking a look." ”

So the boss continued to be busy introducing the price to the guests, and Xia Li walked around the store alone to watch the jade products placed on the store's furnishings and item shelves.

I took a closer look at the jade courtyard, and it was seventy or eighty centimeters square. In fact, the texture of such a large piece of jade is not a good and well-known jade.

Xia Li thought about it, if it is a good jade, such a large weight is a treasure, plus such a fine carving, the price is not easy to estimate, and it will not be placed here, I am afraid it will be up a long time ago.

At that time, it will be hidden as much as possible, rather than being placed in a conspicuous place as it is now, lest others will not know about it.

Therefore, the main highlight of this piece is in the craftsmanship of carving, which can be described as ingenious, and it is not an exaggeration to turn decay into magic. If it is just such a piece of jade, no matter how good or even a little rotten the quality is, it will not be worth much, and it will be 10,000 or 20,000 yuan to death.

But now, after the magical carving of I don't know which master, the price immediately increased dozens of times.

I remember that in my previous life, I had identified a piece of chicken blood jade in the treasure appreciation program of the central ten sets.

The jadeite is half a meter tall all over, and the whole body is blood-red, as if it has just been sprinkled with chicken blood.

Similar to this piece, that piece is to see the whole jadeite as a mountain, spiraling up at the same time on the jadeite without blood-red places carved out of many scattered houses and pavilions, the carving is also exquisite and magical, the eaves hang corners, the autumn is complete.

It's just that the main material is valuable, and the good carver highlights the red color of the jadeite, and the final price is more than 18 million.

This piece cannot be compared with the bloodstone in terms of material, but it is superior in carving. Therefore, this piece is mainly sold for carvers and the ingenuity of carving. Xia Li is initially estimated to be around 600,000.

After a while, the boss was busy and came over to entertain Xia Li with a smile. Judging by the smile on his face, the last customer must have made him a lot of money.

"Which one does the gentleman fancie? The shop is full of authentic Lantian jade. ”

Xia Li shook his head, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Do you think I'm a person who can afford jade?" ”

"Jokefully, clothing or something doesn't necessarily judge a person's purchasing power. Nowadays, many people are very low-key, and they can't see it from the outside. ”

"I don't really have that purchasing power right now."

The boss still smiled and said, "Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean you won't have it in the future, right?" It's good to take a look at it now, and if you want to buy it in the future, you can buy it at any time. ”

Xia Li smiled and didn't speak. The boss explained the jade in the shop.

"My store mainly sells Lantian jade, of course, there are other jades, but there are not too many, Lantian jade can be complete."

Lantian jade, Xia Li is also a person who has experienced the hardships of the college entrance examination, and he still remembers some poems, and Li Shangyin has a sentence "Lantian is warm and jade produces smoke" has been handed down through the ages.

When introduced to the Jade Courtyard, the boss obviously brought some pride to his tone.

"This one was carved by my grandfather himself, and it has been passed down to me as a family heirloom."

Xia Li asked curiously, "This is the most valuable in your store?" ”

"That's not it, I still have a better jade quality than this, but the reason why this piece is a treasure of the town store is because he was carved by my grandfather, and it has some commemorative value."