Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Lattice
It snowed for two or three days in a row, and today it finally stopped, and the roads, treetops, eaves, and rooftops were full of white patches, making the city look like a world of snow and ice carvings. γGalaxy the Great, no pop-up ads to read. γ
Although everyone walking on the street is bound by the cold and the tip of the nose is red, it also brings endless joy to people. Children are busy building snowmen and having snowball fights on the streets, and from time to time there are older children playing sledding, skateboarding, and of course, many of them performing "street wrestling". In short, walking on this street that is not particularly spacious and luxurious, a warm, secular atmosphere of life comes to your face.
In fact, this ghost market can also be called a thrift market, because the old word is also equivalent to the old word, and only old objects can be called antiques, so there are many people who like to call old objects when they say that antiques are real or fake.
At this time, although the snow had stopped, and the sun in the sky had shown its red face, the temperature had not risen because of this, but it had fallen a lot more than when it snowed. Both sides of the street were lined with thrift stalls, all of whom were red from the cold, all dressed in thick military coats, or bloated eiderdown coats, and hats that covered their ears, stamping their feet and rubbing their hands together to attract customers.
Their stalls are basically selling coins and jade, porcelain, pottery, and some bamboo, hornware, toothware, etc., I don't know if it's true or not, in short, it looks like an old thing at a glance. Of course, although there are all kinds of products sold here, there are no calligraphy and paintings. Because of the weather, whether it is a real calligraphy or a fake calligraphy or painting, as long as it is wet by this snow, it will become a bad calligraphy and painting.
Maybe it's because it's still a holiday season. So there are still a lot of people who come here to Taobao. It is estimated that many people have the dream of wanting to have a discerning eye and find a pearl from the eyes of this pile of fish. And An Xiangyu, who was excitedly drilling around in the crowd at this time, should be regarded as one of them, and I don't know why, he is not worried about today's gambling contract at all, because in his heart, An Xin is already an omnipotent superman, and any problem in her hands can be solved, and it is impossible to become a trouble at all, so he is relieved to regard this event as an alternative shopping experience.
An Xiangyu had a great time. also greeted An Xin happily from time to time: "Sister, you see that this snuffbox looks good, will this be real?" Hey, sister, you see that ivory carved boat is also very good. Come and see. β
An Xin was almost speechless and asked the sky, I really don't know if this second product is too nervous, or if he really has an inexplicable grasp of victory, otherwise, he looks like he has no pressure at all, just like where did the interest in shopping come from?
You must know that although An Xin proposed such a bet, she still has no clue until now. Although she could find pearls from the eyes of the fish with her own eyes and her inner breath. But the premise is that there must be pearls in this fish eye, and if there is really a bunch of dead fish eyes here today, and there is not a single pearl, then she will be blind today.
So she didn't pay attention to An Xiangyu's babbling, because time was limited, and there were too many stalls here. At least two or three hundred. If you look at it slowly one by one, it will definitely be too late, so she turned on the cheating mode crisply. She secretly poured internal force into her right hand, and then launched it at the stalls in front of her.
Because after her "Supreme Heart Sutra" had reached the third level, she had discovered it by accident. She doesn't need to touch those old objects with her hands, as long as she instills the internal force into her hands and sends them out, then in the place where her internal force sweeps, as long as she touches those objects that contain spiritual power, she will automatically absorb the spiritual power on that object.
With this ability, then she doesn't need to look at it with her eyes at all, she just needs to turn on this cheat mode, just sweep it, then she can figure out whether the goods on a stall are real or fake in half a minute, and hunt for treasure in this way, although she is tired, but the speed is really fast enough.
An Xin ignored the call of the stall owners, and she quickly saw most of the stalls on the street in half an hour, and each stall had at least dozens or even hundreds of objects. It's a pity that the result is as she expected, among the thousands of objects in these more than 100 stalls, there are only two objects that make her feel the fluctuation of spiritual power. And even if there are spiritual power fluctuations, it is a pity that it is very thin, and it seems that they should be objects within fifty years, and their value is not very high.
An Xiangyu followed An Xin and originally wanted to make a few suggestions, but An Xin walked so fast that he didn't have a chance to speak at all. He had to walk with her quickly, and then he didn't even have time to see what was being sold in the stalls he walked by.
"Huh?" After walking through most of the market, An Xin's footsteps finally stopped. An Xiangyu still followed her honestly and hurriedly walked forward, never expecting An Xin to stop suddenly. As soon as he was careless, he hit An Xin's back, who knew that An Xin, who was hit, stood there as steady as Mount Tai, nothing at all. On the contrary, An Xiangyu, who hit people, took a few steps back, and almost sat on the ground with a butt.
An Xin hurriedly helped him and asked with concern, "How is it, are you okay?" β
An Xiangyu said sadly: "Stop whatever you say, and don't squeak in advance." "You must know that a fall on the ass is a small matter, but a big loss of face is a big matter.
It's a pity that An Xin couldn't pay attention to his fragile young man Qing Huai, and she saw that An Xiangyu didn't really fall, so she didn't pay attention to his resentful eyes. An Xin was secretly happy at her inadvertent discovery, because she actually felt a strong spiritual power fluctuation in this inconspicuous stall, but it was not visible from her face at all. An Xin pretended to be indifferent and squatted down in front of a stall, looking uninterested, picking and choosing in this stall.
"Could it be that there will be something good in here?" An Xiangyu saw that An Xin ignored him, so he had to put away the resentful look he pretended, followed An Xin to squat down in front of the stall, and began to pull up in that pile of things with great interest.
This stall is still different from what the two of them began to see in front, he sells some all kinds of wood carved ornaments, what are the gourds, the zodiac, the statue of Guanyin, the statue of Maitreya Buddha, the statue of Guan Erge, and some eagles with meanings spread their wings, Fu Lu Shou three stars, carp over the dragon gate, etc., in short, it looks really dazzling, colorful.
Among them, An Xin was most interested in the four rectangular wooden lattices that looked not only dilapidated but also dirty. There are four of them, each 20 centimeters high and 28 to 29 centimeters long, which looks very similar to the decoration used on the shelves used by large families in the past, and it is also the marriage bed used by newlyweds. I don't know which family's unfilial descendants demolished the ancestors' beds, and An Xin secretly slandered in her heart.
Because of the skillful use of the double-sided carving, according to the empty carving and other techniques, carved this group of all are children's theme of the lattice, they are either playing or dancing, there are boys wrapped in turbans riding bamboo horses, wearing tight-fitting robes, collar money tied with bows in the jumping, innocent play. There are also girls holding their hair in a bun and wearing Luo skirts on the swings in a radiant spirit.
Come to think of it, I don't know how many years ago, before the bride got married, her mother's family carefully created this gorgeous wedding bed for her, and carefully decorated the marriage bed with these children's lattices, which also means that the husband and wife can have more children and more blessings. Unfortunately, this beautiful lattice has now been rudely removed from its original body, and is still covered with stains and dirt.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a thick military coat and a thick felt hat. He also has no special skills, usually in some handicraft markets, into these wood carving handicrafts produced by the unified assembly line to sell here, to make some money.
As for these beautiful lattices, they were removed from an old bed that he threw out when a family moved. At that time, he also felt that the children carved on these lattices were all lifelike and very smart, and it would be a pity if they were chopped up like this and used as firewood. And he subconsciously felt that someone should like it, so he put them here together to sell.
It's a pity that I don't know if modern people are used to sleeping Simmons, these pieces of lattice have been here for almost half a year, and there is no one who is not interested in the decorations on this once luxurious shelf bed. He was very discouraged, and had the idea that if no one wanted it, he would simply throw it away.
An Xin and An Xiangyu were still picking and choosing among his pile of wood carvings, and the stall owner immediately greeted him cordially: "Little girl, young man, you just have to pick whatever you want, and I will give you a few more pieces to be cheaper." β
At this time, An Xiangyu picked up the largest eagle wings ornament from the pile of wood carvings, and asked An Xin with great interest: "Sister, what do you think of this?" I think it's the biggest of them, and it's probably the most valuable. β
The stall owner immediately laughed at Mimi's flattery and said, "This little brother is really discerning, this is indeed the most expensive ornament I have here." β
These people who have been in business for many years are not monkey jing, and when he looks at the two young men and women in front of him, he knows that they are the kind of people who have a lot of money and have nowhere to spend. Such customers are generally not touched by people who set up stalls, because even if they want to buy anything, they will go to a fixed store to buy it, and basically they will not patronize these stalls. But if you really make a deal with them by shit luck,
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