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Chapter Forty-Fifth: Eyes Don't Know Gold and Jade

"Boss, do you want to take a look? The ancestral general's talisman is definitely a good thing."

"Brother, do you want to buy antiques to give away? I tell you that the entire street belongs to me and is the most affordable..."

Jiang Ge took Liu Songwen on the street and passed each stall. The bosses were very enthusiastic.

There are all kinds of things on display at each stall, and they all look like good things, making people unable to take their eyes away.

Liu Songwen complained, "Brother Jiang, these things look like antiques to me, but they seem so fake that my head hurts."

"What do you know? Antiques test your eyesight. You can see the word "ancient". Usually, good products are not called "ancient". Those with the most aggressive names are fake at first glance."

Jiang Ge curled his lips but did not stop.

Antiques are more valuable the older they are, and the rarer the items, the more valuable they are. Grandpa Shi Zhongxian once told him that antiques can deceive people more than gambling on stones.

It is difficult to fool people into whether jade is genuine or fake, but this is not necessarily the case with antiques. The value of antiques may not be clear based on the material alone.

The two of them walked for most of the street, but Jiang Ge didn't find anything valuable. Most of them were imitations of modern technology, but not a single real antique.

Just when he was about to go back home, he was suddenly attracted by something from a stall. It was a gold-plated jade Guanyin. The outside was covered with a layer of gold powder, and a lot of it had fallen off, revealing the white jade inside.

His eyes moved and he stopped.

"Beauty, the things on your stall look very new. They are not imported from elsewhere. They look pretty good."

Jiang Ge pretended to pick up a jade bracelet and looked at it. It was a piece of rice soup jade, but it was real jade. It was just not valuable, only worth a few hundred yuan, but the color of the bracelet showed that it had been worn for a long time.

Effect.

This is very rare, and the things sold at this stall are all household trinkets, which are completely different from other kinds of trinkets.

"What nonsense are you talking about? This is my own home. If grandma hadn't been sick, I wouldn't have sold these. If you want to buy it, just buy it. If you don't want to buy it, don't stand in the way."

The owner of the stall is a girl in her twenties. She is very pretty and does not look like someone who is short of money. This makes Jiang Ge even more interested.

He didn't go straight to the Jade Guanyin, but casually picked up a green hairpin and asked, "This hairpin looks very beautiful, how much does it cost?"

"Take it if you want 2,000 yuan. This is jade. Although I don't know what kind of jade it is, it is also passed down from ancestors."

The little girl raised her head indifferently, as if she didn't care about the business.

"Okay, I like it quite a lot, so I won't bargain."

Jiang Ge nodded and took out his wallet to count the money.

Liu Songwen became anxious when he saw it, "Brother Jiang, this hairpin looks too ordinary. For two thousand yuan, I have several hairpins at home. Do you want to stop thinking about it?"

Although he doesn't have the ability to look at antiques, he's not stupid. This green hairpin has no appearance and no origin. It's worth two thousand yuan, and I haven't heard that hairpins are worth a lot of money.

"What do you know? I bought it for my mother. The money is too little and I can't afford it. What I want is my heart!"

Jiang Ge glared at Liu Songwen and pretended to be annoyed, but in fact he was pretending to be a nouveau riche.

Liu Songwen suddenly opened his eyes wide and became sulky and didn't want to speak.

When the little girl heard this, the corner of her mouth turned up. In fact, she was just talking nonsense. This hairpin was not an antique at all, but the most worthless of all the things. Unexpectedly, Jiang Ge fell in love with it like a fool.

Zheng Xueqin suddenly felt happy, thinking that she had met a rich fool.

"Here, here are two thousand dollars. Take it."

Jiang Ge naturally knew what the girl was thinking, so he counted two thousand yuan and threw it to the girl.

Then he picked up an ancient small mirror and said, "This object looks quite old, not bad, how much does it cost?"

"Three thousand!" The little girl didn't even look back.

Jiang Ge didn't bargain, he just took out three thousand and took the mirror away.

"This bell is very cute. It looks like an antique. How much does it cost?"

After a while, he seemed to have his eye on a bell.

"Two thousand and five." Zheng Xueqin was so happy that she felt like she had met a stupid rich man.

"Two thousand and five thousand is not much. Oops, I don't seem to have enough money."

Jiang Ge touched the few hundred yuan in his wallet and looked at Liu Songwen, "Songwen, give me the money and I'll lend it to you."

"Oh!" Liu Songwen was a little reluctant. After thinking about it, he felt that Jiang Ge was indeed not short of money now. Even if it was expensive, it didn't matter. He was the boss.

Reluctantly, he took out the money. At this moment, Jiang Ge looked at the jade pendant next to him, "This jade pendant is pretty good. The man wears Guanyin and the woman wears Buddha. It seems to be gold-plated. Songwen wears it just right for you!"

He picked up the Jade Guanyin and looked at it. The gold paint on it had long been severely worn, and the red rope was new, but the carving was lifelike. It felt warm and moist in his hand. He could tell at once that it was a good piece.

Jade.

"I don't want it, this thing is so ugly."

Liu Songwen rejected it immediately, thinking that Jiang Ge really wanted to give it to him.

"If you don't want me, how much does it cost?" Jiang Ge pretended to be casual and asked, but actually he was a little nervous inside.

If he read it correctly, the top-grade mutton-fat jade wrapped inside it would be unmistakable based on his jade appraisal skills.

"This is gold-plated, but it's been passed down from my family. The gold on it is worth a lot of money. I didn't intend to sell it. I've had it for a while since I was a kid. If you want it, I'll give you 20,000 yuan."

Zheng Xueqin looked at Jiang Singzhong's jade pendant with some reluctance. It was given to her by her grandmother. It is said that it was passed down from ancestors, but the gold on it has fallen off due to age and is worthless.

She didn't originally plan to sell it, she just put it up for trial use, but she didn't expect that someone would actually take a fancy to it.

"Twenty thousand yuan is a bit expensive, aren't you? You won't cheat me, right?" Jiang Ge pretended to be slightly angry.

"Who cheated you? Don't pull me down?" Zheng Xueqin became angry when she heard this and wanted to grab it back.

Jiang Ge didn't give it to him, he just put the Jade Guanyin in his mouth and bit it, "You don't know whether gold at this level is real or fake. It's only worth 20,000 yuan, and 10,000 yuan is about the same."

As he said that, he threw the jade pendant on the stall. The little girl immediately felt disgusted and said angrily, "You've already bitten it and returned it to me. I don't want it, so you compensate me."

"Hey...you don't want to rely on me, do you? I don't recognize it." Jiang Ge pretended to leave.

"Ten thousand...I give it to you!"

Zheng Xueqin was helpless. She had never seen such a shameless person. The first time she came to set up a stall, she met a scoundrel like Jiang Ge. She was disgusted by the bitten things and had no choice but to sell them.

"Fine."

Jiang Ge pretended to be reluctant and put the Jade Guanyin around his neck, and asked Liu Songwen to pay. Then he pretended to look at other things and found that there was nothing valuable, so he got up and left.

"Little brother, wait a minute, can you show me the jade pendant on your neck?"

As soon as he stood up, an old man with glasses stopped him.


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