As for the old man with gray hair and beard, he looked at me with a deep look on his face, his eyes narrowed to a slit, and a faint smile on his face.
But I always felt that the old man's smile looked so malicious.
After walking out of the crowd, Fatty Wu looked like he was hugging a golden pimple. He grinned so much that his teeth were exposed with joy.
When we walked to a deserted corner, I threw the five-yuan fake vase in my hand into the corner, and it broke into countless pieces with a crisp sound.
Fatty Wu looked at the pair of broken porcelain shards in the corner. After smacking his mouth twice, he raised his hand and gave me a thumbs up.
"Dongzi, I really have you. It's a shame that I brought you here today, otherwise I would have bought it back for eight hundred yuan and it would be a fake."
As he spoke, Fatty Wu looked around and took out the snuff bottle from his arms. No matter how dirty it was, he held it with both hands and kissed it twice.
"I'll go. I really missed the mark this time. I'm just walking around. Brother, I'll treat you to a skewer and a beer."
"Didn't you say you wanted to visit the antique market? Why are you leaving now when you've just arrived? Let's go shopping for a while."
With that said, I walked back to the main road of the antique street. Upon seeing this, Fatty Wu hurriedly caught up with me and said cautiously: "It's not Dongzi. Didn't you see that stall owner looking at you just now?" Look, I think we should just close it after the construction is completed, so as not to be blocked in a corner and slapped by others."
"If you are afraid, just go back. Anyway, I am not afraid. If you want to block him, let him block it. It just so happens that Brother Dong, I want to teach him how to be a responsible person."
Seeing that I didn't even take what happened at all to heart, Fatty Wu immediately slapped his big, fat chest and said, "Come on, since you said so, brother, I'm afraid of nothing. Even if there's something ahead of me, Even through mountains of swords and seas of fire, brother, I am willing to accompany you through this journey, so we are brothers, right?"
I knew very well what Fatty Wu was thinking, but I pretended to be confused because I came out this time to pick up what Fatty Wu had missed. It’s not like anyone can take advantage of someone else, brother. .
In fact, the reason why I followed Fatty Wang to visit the antique market was because I was also thinking about my own little Jiujiu.
I think Mr. Liu once set rules for me. He only asked me to concentrate on guarding my own three-quarter acre of land. He didn't let me go to the antique market when nothing happened, let alone go to other people's stores. Picking up leaks at the stall will cause unnecessary trouble.
I have always behaved myself over the years, but this time maybe it was because Mr. Liu was not at home, or because Fatty Wu was trying to persuade me, or maybe I really wanted to visit the antique market.
After all, my small purpose is already clear. I want to gain a little fame in this antique market, just like my godfather Liu Baye. Everyone in the entire antique market knows it. .
The antique market is a thousand meters deep, with countless stalls. If you want to walk back and forth, it will take at least half a day to take a look at each stall without stopping.
That's what I planned too. Now that I'm here, I have to take a good stroll. Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I just treat it as relaxing.
It was a good idea, but unexpectedly, the weather was not good, because it was close to the ferry of the Yellow River, and the weather was changing. One second, the sun was shining brightly, and the sky was clear. Down.
After walking a total of about a hundred meters, I collected a few pieces of folk kiln porcelain from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China for Fatty Wu at the lowest price. The rain started to fall.
The rain came without any warning, catching Fatty Wu and I by surprise.
But it doesn't matter, because the stall owners in this antique market are all seasoned. In order to cope with such unprovoked weather, they have already prepared awnings. When the rain comes, they are done. No need to worry about cleaning up in a hurry.
The rain was getting heavier, and Fatty Wang and I huddled together in a stall with a slightly larger awning.
The stalls sell old brocade boxes, furniture, jewelry boxes, and the like. Fatty Wang and I are not interested in such things.
But after all, we were using someone else's place to take shelter from the rain, so we chatted here and there.
Fatty Wu was having a lively chat with the stall owner, while I started to think but had already wandered out of the awning.
Looking around the antique street, there are clear awnings, but there is a stall among them that is very eye-catching.
The stall was located in a secluded corner. There was no awning, and the stall was not very big. To put it bluntly, there were several items bustling on a palm-sized exhibition cloth.
The stall owner is a rough man who looks to be in his fifties or sixties, with sunken eyes and stubble all over his face. He is squatting in front of his stall motionless, letting the cold icy rain beat randomly on his body. .
"Boss, do you have an umbrella? Can you lend it to me?"
The owner of the stall where we took shelter from the rain was quite nice. He lent me an umbrella casually. Although it was a little broken, it was not his intention.
Fatty Wu saw me borrowing an umbrella and asked me what I was doing. I casually said to put out the water, then opened the umbrella and walked out of the awning, and went straight to the stall that was out of place.
“Boss, it’s raining so hard, don’t you even have a rain gear?”
The man raised his head and looked at me, raised his hand to touch the rainwater on his face, grinned his yellow teeth, and said to me in a Shaanxi accent: "It's okay, I'll just treat it as a shower." , little brother, do you want to buy something?"
Taking advantage of his words, I squatted down holding an umbrella and looked towards the palm-sized piece of cloth.
I saw a total of three things placed on the cloth in front of me, a wine glass, a small square tripod, and a bead similar to the size of an eyeball.
Among these three things, the wine cup and the square tripod are both made of bronze. Originally, there was a lot of mud attached to them, but after being poured by the heavy rain, they are quite clean.
I picked up the two things and passed them on first, then said to the man with a smile: "Boss, how do you sell these things? Make a price. If they are similar, I will take them from you and save you from getting wet here." It’s raining.”
"Little brother, do you really want to buy it?"
The man asked me with his eyes widened.
"Of course I have to buy it, otherwise why would I ask you? Tell me what price you want to sell it for."
When the man heard what I said, he hurriedly stretched out three fingers.
I was stunned at that time, "Boss, 30,000 yuan is a bit too expensive. Make it cheaper. I think these two things are only worth a thousand yuan at most!"
"One thousand yuan, no, I have to get 30,000 yuan. My aunt is sick and is waiting for this money to save her life."
Although I am young, because I own a store alone, I have met a lot of all kinds of people over the years.
I have to say that the poor acting skills of the man in front of me really need to be improved. Such excuses have long been discarded and have no intention at all.
In fact, I can roughly estimate the price of the two bronzes. They are pre-Qin items at first glance, and their quality is pretty good. If they were placed in my store, they would sell for at least fifteen thousand.
I thought I would just give it up, but I never thought that the man, who seemed to be quite honest and responsible, would actually open his mouth and slaughter me like a lamb. How big of a burden would I have to have on my head to spend such an unjust sentence? money.
"Um...that one is really too expensive, you might as well sell it to someone else."
As I said that, I stood up and was about to leave, but I never thought that the man would grab my clothes.
I was very disgusted at the time, wondering why it was up to me not to buy it.
Just as he was about to say something displeased, he didn't expect the man to kneel down with a plop.
"Little brother, please help me. I'm not lying to you. My mother-in-law is really sick. She is waiting for a 30,000 yuan operation in the city hospital in Tongcheng. If I can't pay this today For thirty thousand yuan, my mother-in-law might just..."
As he said this, the man in his fifties or sixties started sobbing. I didn't know whether he was crying or not, because I couldn't tell whether the tears flowing down his face were tears or rain.
