Liu Yingying knelt down to take a look at one, but Li Mo quickly grabbed her wrist and prevented her from touching it.
"Don't take it."
"What's wrong?"
"let's go."
"Young man, these are ancient coins from the Qing Dynasty. Thirty yuan a piece is a no-brainer. If you buy more, how about I give you some discount?"
Seeing that they were leaving, the old man stood up and greeted them.
"Ancient coins from the Qing Dynasty? Sir, your pile of coins cannot be more than a year old. They should have been weighed in a village in the south."
The old man was stunned and smiled awkwardly.
"I didn't expect you to be an expert."
"I can't speak to an expert, but my master has a shop in the Antique Street. If you have seen it a lot, you probably know what's going on. Uncle, the sales of these old copper coins you brought out are really not good. If you I really want to make a living, so I’ll choose carefully next time I purchase goods, so that they don’t all look the same at first glance.”
"Ah, is there such a thing?" The old man was obviously confused. He looked down at the coins on the ground and muttered, "No wonder there is no business."
Even Liu Yingying laughed.
"Xiao Mo, let's go into this shop and look at the tea leaves."
Li Mo saw that she had opened the door and walked in, so he had to follow her.
The old man looked at it and stopped caring about the copper coins on the ground. He hurriedly followed and said with a smile: "It turns out that you two want to buy tea. My store is famous in the tea market. Which kind do you want to buy? Biluochun, Tieguanyin, Anji white tea." , or something else?”
"Are you the owner of this store?"
Liu Yingying said in surprise, "Why did you start other side businesses as a tea shop owner? No wonder you can set up a stall at the door."
"Boss, is there a special-level Taiping Monkey King?"
"Of course." The boss walked to the shelf and took down a glass jar, "Look, the top Taiping Monkey King."
Li Mo opened the seal, looked at the color of the tea, and then came closer to smell the aroma of the tea. He frowned and said, "Boss, you are not kind enough in business. The quality of this Taiping Houkui is not even as good as the first grade. We were originally rushing today. If you go there with 50,000 Chang, I won’t even bother to ask about the price if you act like this.”
"Oh, let me take a look. Sorry, I accidentally picked up the wrong one. Please wait a moment."
As soon as the boss heard what he said, he knew he was not being fooled. He quickly brought out another glass jar and said with a smile: "This is my last top stock this year. You will be satisfied with the quality."
Li Mo checked again and found that this time it was indeed the Special Gong-level Taiping Monkey King.
"Please give us a realistic price. Don't think we don't understand the market."
"You also know the market price. If this special tribute-level Taiping Monkey King is sold in Wuwanchang, it will be at least two thousand per catty. I will also give you a real price. How about 1,800?"
"Are you sure this is the real price?"
Li Mo smiled half-heartedly, but the boss looked away.
"I don't earn much, how about making it a hundred cheaper?"
"Have a pound."
While the boss was busy, Li Mo turned around and looked at the ancient shelf on the other wall, which was filled with various teapots. This boss is too good at sneaking around and doesn't know how to clean up the store environment.
There are too many teapots on this ancient shelf, and they are all dazzling. If good and ordinary ones are mixed together, even high-quality teapots will not sell for a good price.
"Boss, do you also use these teapots as a side job?"
"I have a relative who is in the purple clay pot business. His business is not doing well. He might as well close it down and go abroad to find his son to enjoy his life. I will move the last bits of inventory in the store and warehouse here to sell them on my behalf. How about you choose one too? How about I just make a fortune?"
Li Mo walked to the Bogu shelf and picked up a purple clay pot. He looked at it for a while and then shook his head and put it down.
He continued to scan the ancient bookshelf, then suddenly paused and reached out to pick up another purple clay pot.
This purple clay pot is about nine centimeters high and eighteen centimeters wide, and is reddish-brown in color. The body of the pot is slightly oblate, with six edges running through the button, lid, mouth, body and ring foot.
The lines are clear and neat, the turns are well aligned, the tendons are full and round, the circles are square, and the squares are round.
This kind of purple clay teapot is difficult to mold, has an upright shape and rigorous workmanship, so you can still find it here.
Li Mo turned over the pot, and there was a seal on the bottom: A day trip will be a blessing to me.
This sentence is somewhat familiar.
Li Mo hurriedly lifted the lid of the pot, which also had a seal: Gu Jingzhou.
Could this be the work of Master Gu Jingzhou, known as the "Master of Pot Art"?
Li Mo's heart stirred up huge waves. He had seen a collection of purple clay pots with the same shape in the Shanghai Museum.
The eyes of the strange pupils enveloped the purple clay pot, and they saw milky white light coming out of the body, forming layers of apertures and spreading around.
This is definitely the work of Gu Jingzhou, a master of pot making.
However, he remembered that this kind of collection-grade pot should be made in sets, with one pot, four cups and one tray. He then searched again on the ancient shelf and found four six-sided teacups.
But I don’t have the matching tray, so I don’t know if it’s still there.
The pot and four cups in front of me are in good condition and have no bumps or scratches. I am really lucky.
He put the pot back on the shelf and picked up other purple clay teapots to look at them, but his mind was already unsettled.
"Xiao Mo, Taiping Houkui has already packed it, do you still want to buy a purple clay pot?"
Liu Yingying came over and asked.
"Young man, these purple clay teapots are all exquisite products left by my relatives. You can see that some of them have patina on their surfaces. They must be old objects. Maybe some emperor used them."
The boss also came over and introduced enthusiastically.
"Boss, stop bragging. If there was a purple clay pot used by the emperor, would you still find ways to start a side business?" Even Liu Yingying couldn't bear to listen. This boss doesn't keep his mouth shut and can say anything. They are not noob.
"I've said too much, I've said too much." The boss smiled cheekily and continued, "Everything is good at first glance. I'll give you the cheapest price."
"Boss, the purple clay teapots you sell are not complete sets. They are all missing trays. When I buy them back, I have to make a different one. It's ugly."
"The pallets are all in the warehouse. There's no place to put them on this rack, so I didn't take them out."
Li Mo raised the purple clay pot in his hand and said, "How much does it cost to bake this colored clay?"
"I'll give you the lowest price of ten thousand yuan."
The boss said seriously.
Li Mo didn't say anything and silently put the purple clay pot in his hand back on the ancient shelf.
"Boss, I'll just buy tea leaves and purple clay pots from other stores."
Li Mo took out his mobile phone and was about to pay. The boss said hurriedly: "You pay me a price. As long as I don't lose money, I will deal with it, so as not to take up space here."
"Boss, I can buy several sets of high-end tea sets at the price you are offering. The tea sets you have here are not worth mentioning. I will take one set away for only five hundred yuan."
"Xiao Mo, if you want to buy tea sets, let's go to a high-end specialty store. They are more expensive, but the things are exquisitely made and look high-end."
Liu Yingying really thought he wanted to buy a tea set.
"Little brother, I see that you are a knowledgeable person, so I will deal with it at a loss. One thousand and five sets, you can choose whatever you want."
Li Mo thought for a moment before saying: "I didn't get a bargain at this price, but you won't suffer either. Okay, I'll choose two sets to take away. I want this set of clay and flower purple clay pots, and I'll choose another set. .”
After pretending to choose for a moment, he selected a pot and four cups from Gu Jingzhou, the master of pot art, and placed them on the counter.
"Just these two sets. I'll pay first and you can find the two matching trays."
