We had a barbecue until almost eleven o'clock at night.
The three of them drank seven bottles of beer in total. Tang Songyuan didn't feel full yet, so he spent more than seven hundred. Fortunately, Li Yangqiu paid the bill.
That's what's so good about Sichuan's barbecue. It treats locals equally.
The next morning, Tang Songyuan woke up in a familiar bed at home.
I rubbed my sleepy eyes and walked into the bathroom. While brushing my teeth, I admired the young woman's morning yoga exercise downstairs.
Well, Li Yangqiu was right, he was just boring.
But I have to say that this girl has a really good figure, with bamboo shoot-shaped breasts, pear-shaped hips, honey-waisted chopstick legs, and a flat belly that is not very noticeable despite her five-month pregnancy...
After washing up, I went downstairs to find a place to have breakfast.
Most people in Lancheng eat noodles for breakfast, and there are also buns, steamed buns, soy milk and fried dough sticks, but most people eat noodles.
Tang Songyuan's plan today is to visit major stores and pay attention to the real prices of various types of jadeite on the market.
Tang, Song and Yuan had no reason to give up on making money by betting on stones. They finally had the power of clairvoyance. If they didn't make good use of it to make a fortune, wouldn't it be a waste of resources?
Knowing the price of finished jadeite in the market will give him a clearer idea of what kind of jadeite is worth and what price it is worth.
Prior to this, Tang, Song and Yuan's views on jade were limited to what they saw in online novels, and some of them were even made up by the author.
After all, writing novels and gambling on jade stones are not the same thing at all.
But Tang, Song and Yuan still thought wrong. After all, Blue City was only a fourth-tier small city.
In some jewelry stores on the street, most of the jadeite on display is low-quality jadeite, and there are only a handful of high-quality ice jadeite products.
There are even some salespeople who can’t even explain the planting water to you clearly.
Even a dabbler like Tang, Song and Yuan knew that jadeite's species and water are two microscopic concepts, species refers to the structure and texture, and water refers to transparency.
"Sir, you have been looking at it for a long time. Do you have any favorite styles?"
In the third jewelry store that Tang Songyuan visited, a female salesperson in black professional attire asked politely.
"Sir, are you planning to send it to your girlfriend or to your family? We can recommend it for you..."
It is said that salespersons can make the dishes according to their needs, but in fact, salespersons have undergone strict training and market practice. Even if they despise most of them, they will not say it openly.
Tang Songyuan touched his nose in embarrassment, "Oh, I'm sorry, I just took a look, no need to bother."
"It's okay, sir," the salesman said politely as before: "We also have many styles suitable for men. You can try on the ones you like."
"No need, I really just took a look, you are busy with your business!"
Tang Songyuan politely refused again. A small watch with a big gold chain was not his style.
After looking around, Tang Songyuan had a rough understanding of the prices of finished jadeite jewelry on the market.
A jadeite pendant weighing less than 50 grams, paired with a silver necklace, was priced at 1,500 yuan.
It is also a pea green Buddha statue of about 50 grams. It is of slightly better quality and has a gold rim. The price tag is as high as 2,000.
A Bingpiaohua bracelet can even be sold for four to five million yuan.
There are also slightly lower prices, but they are all pickled B-type jadeite. The color looks good, but the quality is worrying.
Come with good fortune and return with bad fortune.
Although he only saw three or four, these were already relatively large-scale jewelry stores in Blue City that Tang Songyuan knew, but they still did not have much reference value in his eyes.
Under the helpless gaze of the salesman, Tang Songyuan went out empty-handed and turned right.
Hey~!
Not far ahead is Dongmen Street in Blue City. Maybe you can go in and take a stroll to see if you can pick up anything.
Dongmen Street is actually a flower and bird market in Blue City, but there are also many old men and women setting up stalls along the street selling some porcelain, coins or pots and jars.
When people from the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties met in the past, they felt that most of these things were fakes.
But now that he has the clairvoyant vision of the appraisal function, he might be able to pick something out.
Anyway, it was idle, so Tang Songyuan strolled towards Dongmen Street.
Dongmen Street is about six or seven meters wide, with stone piers installed at the street entrance. There are many pedestrians coming and going, but few people pay attention to the 'antique stalls' that line half of the street.
Tang Songyuan opened his perspective and casually walked past these stalls.
There are countless varieties of miscellaneous items on these stalls. The porcelains of various sizes are all gaudy, and the pots and jars look quite similar.
There are also corals, beads, seals, gourds, incense burners... and even gold and silver ingots, to name a few.
Tang Songyuan scanned them one by one with leisurely elegance and a mentality of picking up leaks.
But unfortunately, 99% of the things on these stalls are new.
Even if some of them look old, the traces of artificial distress are obvious. They have nothing to do with antiques, and they have no value at all.
Tang Songyuan couldn't help but shake his head due to the identification information provided by the perspective vision, such as production date and place of origin.
Um~~wait!
There is a real one here.
It was a small porcelain vessel that looked like a garlic mortar. It didn't look big, and the blue and white background looked inconspicuous.
The identification given by the perspective view is that the porcelain incense burner: production date 1542 (the 30th year of Jiajing), place of origin Jingdezhen, height 6.66 cm, bottom diameter 3.33 cm...
Originally, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties had given up all hope, but they did not expect that such a stall would actually have real things.
He kept walking and walked through the stall without looking sideways, and then casually took out his mobile phone to check the price of a small Ming Dynasty porcelain incense burner.
Information shows that this kind of small incense burner was used by ancient literati to burn incense, and its characteristic was that it only lit one incense.
Burn incense to cook wine, drink tea and listen to the piano. In some places, this thing is used to burn incense, which is considered a stationery item.
As for the price, the lowest price in the antique market is 200,000.
Tang Songyuan made up his mind and hesitated for a few more minutes before returning to the stall just now.
He knelt down, pointed to the stall and said with a smile: "Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, the Five Emperors Yuanbao, boss!"
The boss is a middle-aged man in his forties. There are not many stalls here at this age.
He was holding a string of gloomy wooden beads in his hand and kept twirling them. Seeing that Tang Songyuan was interested in the things on his stall, he quickly responded:
"Yes, authentic Qing Dynasty Treasury silver is the only one in this market!"
There are many things in the boss's stall. In addition to five gold ingots, there are also plates, pen washers, old abacus, etc. A small incense burner is also one of them.
Tang Songyuan picked up a gold ingot with one hand and weighed it a few times to feel the weight and said, "It's quite heavy. How much would it cost if I took all five of them?"
Take all five?
This is a big business. The boss was very happy and said casually:
"If you take all five, it will cost you three thousand yuan, six hundred each! If you take only one, it will cost you at least one thousand yuan each..."
Tang Songyuan sneered in his heart and said without changing his expression: "That's not cheap. How much does this one cost?"
The boss sat on the pony and said without thinking: "I haven't weighed it yet, and I don't know what I received. If I put this one away, it would cost at least fifty taels?"
"If I sell it to you, I won't be able to get it no matter what I want. This is it..."
Tang Songyuan looked a little regretful and complained: "Oh, the price of three thousand yuan is a bit high."
The boss also looked embarrassed: "Brother, you must know that this thing is not easy to collect. Do you know how difficult it is to collect the ingots from these five different dynasties?"
"It is difficult to find a second set of such complete ingots in the world..."
This is really nonsense. Believe it or not, I left the market and you took out an identical set from your pocket the next second.
Tang Songyuan put the ingot in his hand back to its original place and said, "What's the lowest price for this?"
The boss hesitated for a moment and said, "The minimum is two thousand five thousand!"
Tang Songyuan raised his eyebrows: "Boss, I sincerely want to buy it, but your price is not suitable. Can I give you a price?"
The boss nodded and simply said "OK!".
Tang Songyuan: "Don't be upset if you don't talk enough!"
Boss: "If you don't say enough, I don't have to sell it. We can still discuss it further!"
"That's the truth!" Tang Songyuan laughed and said: "Fifty, I'll give you fifty-one!"
"How much!" The stall owner said angrily, as if he had been insulted: "Fifty, why don't you go and grab it? You can't even add another zero!"
Just now I said two thousand and five, but now I can’t add another zero.
Tang Songyuan was unmoved and said with some disgust: "You are not sincere in selling!"
"Why didn't I sell it sincerely?" The boss responded angrily: "You cut the price too hard. For such a big ingot, it is genuine and the price I told you was my sincerity price!"
"It cost me a lot of money to collect it. We haven't even opened today and I've encountered someone so unreasonable like you. You should at least give me a real price..."
I believe you, you are such a bad old man!
Tang Songyuan didn't even look at the small porcelain incense burner from beginning to end, and continued to talk: "Boss, I really like it and I sincerely buy it. Please think clearly and give me a real price!"
The street stall owner looked embarrassed: "At least you can give me 1,800 yuan! I've given you 700 yuan less all of a sudden. I'm sincere enough!"
Tang Songyuan sneered: "One thousand and eighty is enough sincerity? I will give you one thousand at a fixed price, and you can sell it or not. I will go to other places!"
"Then you go around..." The boss was already happy, but he said as if he didn't care.
Tang Songyuan really got up and left without any nostalgia.
"Hey~ wait, wait, wait, take away one thousand!" The stall owner hurriedly stopped Tang Songyuan and said: "Forget it, let's just treat it as opening a business."
Earn nine hundred and eighty with tears and blood!
Tang Songyuan complained in his heart, stopped and said: "Really a thousand?"
"It's really a thousand!" the stall owner assured, patting his chest.
Tang Songyuan frowned and said, "But why do I feel that buying these few ingots for one thousand...is a bit of a loss?"
"What a loss!" The boss stopped trading his bracelets, took a bag, put five ingots in it and handed it to him: "If this wasn't a business, would I let you take advantage of this?"
"Yes!" Tang Songyuan took it over in a daze, took out his mobile phone and prepared to pay in front of the boss.
Scan code successfully, enter one thousand.
But when it came to the last digit of the password, Tang Songyuan stopped.
He bent down and picked up the small porcelain incense burner and said, "I still feel a little bit shortchanged. Why don't the boss use this as a supplement? I'll take it back and use it as a garlic mortar..."
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