Chapter 1 Getting caught under the cover
It hurts!
Chen Jing sat on the curb in front of the city hospital, covering the back of his head and grinning in pain.
The expression on his face at this moment was very complicated, with anger, helplessness and bitterness.
"Are there any sequelae of a concussion?"
Chen Jing looked at the strands of golden light that kept appearing in front of his eyes, which looked a little magical and a little dizzy.
He shook his head vigorously, and the strangeness in front of him disappeared.
"Young Zhang Rui, I'll take this grudge!" Chen Jing cursed angrily.
Chen Jing was originally a junior student at Changcheng University, a nationally renowned institution of higher learning. Although he was born in a rural area and came from a poor family, he had excellent grades, outstanding performance, good abilities, and was considered promising.
But not long ago, an unthinkable disaster befell him.
Speaking of which, Chen Jing is pretty good-looking, and for some reasons, a girl in the school who can be said to be the school belle has always liked him, and is even pursuing him.
But Chen Jing has always refused. He is a very self-aware person. The girl's family is well-off and it is difficult for him to match her. Besides, he has no money to fall in love, and the girl's family will not agree. This is a very real problem.
Originally this was nothing, but a rich second-generation man named Zhang Rui in the school recently started to pursue the girl. After being rejected, he found out that the girl liked Chen Jing, so he immediately found him and ridiculed Chen Jing in various ways to make Chen Jing want to eat swan meat.
etc.
These were all fine, but Zhang Rui went too far, talking about low-class people, rural bumpkin, etc. In the end, he even began to insult Chen Jing’s family,
At this time, Chen Jing couldn't help it anymore and beat Zhang Rui violently on the spot.
But it was just such a fight that brought Chen Jing to his current situation.
Originally, Chen Jing could at most punish him one by one, but Zhang Rui's family was rich and powerful, so they used their connections to force him to be fired!
This result was more than a bolt from the blue for Chen Jing. He was angry and wanted to resist, but as a rural person, what ability and capital did he have to resist?
After being expelled, Chen Jing did not dare to return to his hometown. He did not know how to face his parents who had placed all their hopes on him.
He had no choice but to carry it on in Changcheng, taking the little more than 800 yuan he had with him and preparing to find a job first.
But Zhang Rui did not let him go. He found someone to give Chen Jing a sap, but fortunately he only suffered a slight concussion.
"Chen Jing cursed in his heart. This is really a disaster for him. To put it in Versailles terms, what does it have to do with him if the school belle likes him?
After being angry for a while, Chen Jing finally calmed down and faced reality.
Revenge, in fact, is unrealistic based on Chen Jing's current situation. How can a three-no student from a rural area compete with the rich and powerful Zhang Rui?
Chen Jing took out his cell phone and took a look. He just spent more than 300 yuan on a check-up at the hospital, and he only had a little over 500 yuan left.
"The top priority is to find a way to find a job. We have to survive before we can consider other things."
A person's first priority is to stay alive.
Chen Jing opened a recruitment website and started browsing with hope, but he soon became helpless.
Almost all of these slightly better jobs require a bachelor's degree. Even those with low academic qualifications still need to master relevant skills.
"If it doesn't work out, just find a labor force or service industry first." Chen Jing murmured to himself.
He originally wanted to find a job with promising development prospects, where he could at least learn some skills. After all, he was a college student and his vision was still very far-sighted.
At this time, a recruitment message jumped into his eyes.
"Gaogulou, Changzhou Antique Street is recruiting a number of apprentices, regardless of gender, 18-30 years old, high school education or above, monthly salary 2,500-3,000..."
This recruitment brightened Chen Jing's eyes. He had to pass the academic requirements and the salary was not high, but it could guarantee a living.
The most important thing is that the antique business has development prospects!
Although Chen Jing has never been in the antique business, he has never eaten pork and has always seen pigs running away.
With the popularity of various treasure appraisal programs in recent years, who doesn’t know that antiques are of high value and very valuable?
"If you can learn how to identify treasures, you might be able to make a lot of money in the future!"
Chen Jing, who had been bullied by money and power, longed to become rich and powerful.
Thinking of this, Chen Jing no longer hesitated, took the subway and quickly rushed to Changcheng Antique Street.
Changcheng, located in the eastern part of the country, is one of the most developed metropolises in the country. At the same time, due to historical reasons, Changcheng has a rich historical heritage, and many ancient streets and ancient buildings have been preserved.
Among them, Changcheng Antique Street is a typical ancient street, antique and charming, and is a famous tourist attraction.
At the same time, Antique Street is also one of the gathering places for collectors, antique dealers, and antique lovers across the country.
Although today is a working day, there are still many people in the antique street. There are street stalls on both sides of the street. The sounds of shouting, discussion, and bargaining are mixed together. With this ancient street, you actually have the illusion of being in ancient times.
Chen Jing hurried to the antique street without bothering to look further. He found Gao Gulou according to the address on the recruitment information.
Gao Gulou is a medium-sized shop with an ancient style house. There are several antique shelves inside, which contain various antiques, porcelain, jade, wooden ornaments, etc. There are also old traces hanging on the surrounding walls.
Dappled calligraphy and painting.
A young man in the store saw Chen Jing walking in and immediately asked, "What do you want to buy? Just take a look."
Chen Jing heard this and said quickly: "Hello, I saw the recruitment information. Are you recruiting apprentices here?"
When the young man heard this, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Chen Jing, with a smile on his face.
"Ah, yes, we are recruiting apprentices."
Chen Jing breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that they were not full yet. He asked again: "Are you the boss?" The man looked young and did not look like a boss.
The young man smiled and said: "I'm not, I'm a clerk here. The boss has something to do."
After a pause, he added: "However, I can also decide on recruiting apprentices. Just wait."
As he spoke, the young man walked into the storage room behind the store, minding his own business.
Chen Jing felt a little strange. Can the clerk decide to recruit apprentices?
Soon, the young man came out carrying a big box and placed it at Chen Jing's feet.
The box contained a bunch of antiques, porcelain, jade, and ancient coins, all of which looked very old.
"Brother, this antique business requires talent. These objects are all recently collected. You choose one to buy. If it is genuine, it means you have talent. We, Gaogulou, will recruit you as an apprentice."
Chen Jing was slightly stunned, and felt even more strange in his heart, but what the other party said seemed to make sense. Antique appraisal definitely requires talent.
Chen Jing stopped thinking and looked carefully at the items in the box. He also wanted to know if he had any talent.
But in fact, Chen Jing knows nothing about antiques now. Even if he has talent, he can't see why.
Therefore, Chen Jing had no choice but to randomly choose a beautiful blue and white porcelain bowl and said, "I will choose this one."
The young man glanced at it, looked slightly happy, and said, "This is blue and white porcelain, worth thirty thousand."
Thirty thousand!?
Chen Jing felt his heart beating violently. How could he have so much money?
When the young man saw this, he sighed to himself: "What a pity, he is not a fat sheep."
But he still said: "Brother, the antique business is very promising, so you can use this 30,000 yuan as tuition."
Chen Jing shook his head: "I, I'd better choose another one. Are there any cheaper ones?"
The young man suddenly became impatient. He pointed at a dark brown porcelain bowl in the box that looked like a tea cup and said, "This is the cheapest one, three hundred yuan."
Chen Jing's mouth twitched, he picked up the small porcelain cup and looked at it for a few times. When he touched it in his hand, it felt a little rough and gray, far less beautiful than the blue and white porcelain.
Just this thing, three hundred? Damn it, throw it on the street and no one will pick it up!
Chen Jing couldn't help complaining in his heart, but he also realized at this moment that Gao Gulou was not recruiting apprentices at all, but a trap to defraud money.
He was just about to put down the small porcelain cup in his hand and say goodbye.
At this moment, Chen Jing's eyes suddenly blurred, and the strands of golden light that had appeared before his eyes appeared again, and circled around the small porcelain cup a few times, and then returned to his eyes.
Then, the golden light turned into rows of words!
"This object is: a rabbit-hair lamp from a kiln built in the Song Dynasty."
"This thing has a gauze mouth, an oblique curved wall, small and very shallow circles, the exposed part is gray, the inside is full of glaze, and the glaze on the outside does not reach the bottom. The lower part of the belly has thicker glaze, the rim of the cup is ocher brown, and the texture is astringent.
Then the crystallization was released and flowed downwards, forming traces of rabbit hair. Therefore, people in the Song Dynasty called it "rabbit hair lamp", which is a typical feature of building kilns."
"Historical value of this thing: People in the Song Dynasty advocated tea fighting. Before drinking tea, they first grind the semi-fermented tea paste cake into fine powder and put it in a tea bowl. Then they poured it with newly boiled water. A layer of white foam appeared on the water surface.
Observe the concentration, brightness and duration of the foam to determine the outcome of the tea fight."
"Su Dongpo recorded in "Farewell to Nanping Qianshi": 'The Taoist went out of Nanping Mountain to try tea samadhi. Suddenly he was surprised by the rabbit hair spots on the afternoon lamp, and he made a spring urn of goose wine.' It can be seen that the lamps built in kilns are quite precious.
, rabbit hairs are even more valuable.”
Chapter completed!