Harrison Avenue is very lively, and you can meet tourists from different countries and different skin colors. Li Mo is there, listening to different languages ​​​​from all over the world, and feels like he is at the United Nations General Assembly.

Steven and Gulish also deliberately wore ordinary casual clothes today. If they were too formal, they would attract the attention of interested people.

"Mr. Qin, should we go directly to the antique area? When it comes to food, compared with the food streets in China, there is a huge gap. However, if you go to the stalls run by Chinese, you can still find good ones.

Delicious food, such as pancakes and fruit pancakes, egg-filled pancakes, roujiamo, etc., which are more popular than hamburgers in the United States."

Steven was quite familiar with this place, and then he smiled and said: "There is also a Chinese delicacy here called hairy eggs. I didn't know about it at first. When I came here last year, I heard someone said that the hairy eggs are fried in oil. That's awesome.

It's extremely delicious. And I've heard that eating more of it can enhance a man's abilities, so people here love it very much, and they can't sell enough of it every day."

Li Mo suddenly wanted to laugh, it was so ridiculous.

"We're not hungry now, so let's just take a walk."

Because there were too many tourists, the four people arranged next to Li Mo were a little nervous.

"You don't need to be nervous. I have a sixth sense and can sense danger in advance. Take advantage of this opportunity and follow me to relax. Don't tense up all day long. It's not good for the brain. It's easy to get old in your later years."

dementia."

Li Mo said half-jokingly.

"Mr. Qin, is there such a thing?" The beautiful security guard was a little surprised.

"Do you mean the first sentence or the last sentence?"

"The sixth sense is a super-sense. The scientific community has been doing research. There are also news reports saying that so-and-so has super-sense. But more research shows that those so-called precognitions are just a coincidence and a matter of probability. Naturally, I asked

The next thing."

Li Mo turned to look at her: "Are you all so serious about what you say?"

Forehead-

The beautiful security guard replied seriously: "I just want to know more about her."

Li Mo didn't answer. He just said it casually to adjust the atmosphere, but she didn't know she took it seriously.

A group of people were wandering around as ordinary tourists. About half an hour later, they turned from the food street into the antique street. Boston Antique Street is more lively than in China. The weather is good today, so there are many stalls set up, and they are all of the same standard.

The booths are all numbered.

“This open-air antique street looks quite formal.”

"Indeed, any item purchased here will be cashiered and invoices will be issued. This is mainly to facilitate tourists to have customs clearance certificates when they return."

Li Mo nodded and saw at a glance that there were several people gathered around each stall, most of whom were haggling. He walked closer and looked at several stalls. There were many kinds of things on them, and the styles were very different, including Chinese,

Some are from Southeast Asia, some are from Europe, and there are also objects that look like native Indian civilizations.

Especially weapons, such as scimitars, bows and arrows, long swords and shields, are sold directly at the stalls. If these things dared to appear in the Chinese market, someone would have invited you to the bureau for tea.

Some things have a very good old-fashioned effect, and they look very chronological. Li Mo walked to a stall and saw a variety of things on display. What surprised Li Mo the most was that this stall actually had an abacus.

There is no doubt that these abacus must come from China. I picked up one of them and looked at it carefully. They are all modern handicrafts, and they are quite exquisite. The boss is a foreigner with a stubble on his face, and his blue eyes are shining.

He stared at Li Mo, as if he was on guard against him.

"Island people?"

The foreigner asked a question, but Li Mo could understand it. He immediately put down his calculations and counterattacked: "You are an islander, and your ancestors have been islanders for eight generations."

"Eighteen generations of your ancestors have been islanders."

Others also responded one by one in Chinese.

When the foreigner saw them all leaving angrily, he scratched his messy hair and muttered something. Steven, who was walking at the end, looked back at him and shrugged.

"What did he say last?" Li Mo asked Steven.

"What the boss means is that if you are an islander, he will not do business with you."

ah--

Li Mo was a little embarrassed. He had misunderstood the foreigner. Look at him, he was still on the same front as him.

However, there were too many people coming here to play, and what happened just now was quickly forgotten. Following the flow of people, I walked forward a few steps, and then stopped at a stall. This stall was relatively large, and the things on it were very special.

, they are all bronzes. They range from knives and coins to large tripods, and there is even a chime.

Li Mo picked up a bronze wine jue, put it under his nose and smelled it, then put it back in disgust. He looked down on it, but other tourists watched it with gusto and kept communicating with the boss.

"Mr. Qin, are these all imitations?" the beautiful security guard asked curiously.

"It was transported from a mountain village in the south of China." Li Mo walked slowly with his hands behind his back, and added, "The method of making it is quite disgusting. It was soaked in a manure pit."

Only then did the others look suddenly enlightened. No wonder he looked disgusted just now. At this time, Li Mo stopped in front of a stall again. The boss was an American woman. She was sorting the goods on the stall. The items were quite mixed and seemed to come from several companies.

Guo Li Mo's eyes suddenly fell on an abacus. The frame of that abacus was actually made of rosewood. It may have been improperly maintained, and there were several clear scratches on the surface.

The abacus beads are all made of top-quality Hetian jade, which looks round and white. Each string of upper and lower jade beads corresponds to a unit of measurement, which is "li, cents, money, liang, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, and one hundred thousand."

Seeing several people surrounding the stall, the brown-haired woman greeted them enthusiastically.

"Mr. Qin, she said that if you like something, she can sell it to you cheaper."

Li Mo first picked up the abacus, turned it over and looked at it. There was a mark on the back, which turned out to be four characters in block letters: Daoguang Year System.

No wonder the materials used for the abacus frame and abacus beads are so particular, as they were actually used in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty.

"How much does this cost?"

Steven translated, and the boss quickly gave a number.

"She said it was an antique from China and cost at least 20,000 US dollars."

Li Mo smiled and asked, "Can you tell me the specific origin of this abacus?"

Steven translated at the same time, but the female boss just spread her hands and muttered without knowing what to say.

"Mr. Qin, she said she didn't know the exact origin. It was left to her by her grandfather."

Well, you don’t know anything and you want to fool me.

"Two thousand dollars, I'll take it away."

The female boss was obviously dissatisfied with Li Mo's bargaining so harshly, and she shook her head.

Li Mo did not continue to bargain with her, but picked up another item, which was a mask, woven from the feathers of a certain bird, with bright colors. After looking at it for a while, he put it back where it was, and then said:

"let's go."

Before they even took two steps, the female boss called them to stop them.

"Mr. Qin, she said that two thousand US dollars is too low, and asked if she could add another two thousand US dollars?"

Li Mo turned around, shook his head hesitantly and said, "The most I can offer is three thousand US dollars. This is the maximum I can bear."

Steven hurriedly negotiated with the other party, and after only a few back and forth, he said respectfully: "Mr. Qin, the deal is $2,800. All she needs to do is open an invoice and make the payment in one go, and the transaction can be successful with the invoice.

"

"Okay, I'll trouble you." Li Mo glanced at a security guard, who nodded and followed Steven to go through the formalities. About seven or eight minutes later, the transaction was completed. Li Mo looked at the remarks on the invoice and saw that it was a handicraft.

.

The female boss was very happy and helped Li Mo hand the abacus securely to him. Another security guard carrying a large bag put the abacus into the bag and continued walking forward.

"Mr. Qin, is this abacus an antique?"

Gulishi asked curiously.

"The Daoguang red sandalwood and white jade abacus from the Qing Dynasty came out of the imperial palace."

Several people looked at each other, good guy, it was actually passed down from the palace.

"How much is the thing you bought for 2,800 US dollars actually worth?" Gu Lishi didn't know much about the market for antiques, so he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's not too expensive. It's probably worth more than one million in China."

This was Li Mo's conservative estimate. After all, the frame of the abacus was made of rosewood and the beads were all top-quality Hetian jade. But others were secretly surprised, which meant that Li Mo could make a hundred times the profit if he changed hands.

The few security guards who followed him understood how Li Mo's astonishing net worth had been accumulated in just a few years. With such a speed of making money, it was difficult not to get rich.

After walking a few meters further, Li Mo stopped in front of a stall. This stall was filled with various sculptures, including wood carvings, stone carvings, and jade carvings. It was the first stall that was very exquisitely made.

There were six or seven people looking at the sculptures on the stall.

Li Mo's eyes first fell on the jade carvings. The quality of the jade was relatively poor. As for the carving craftsmanship, it could only be said to be average. It probably didn't come from China and had no great value. Then his eyes fell on the wood carvings. There were figure sculptures and some

Bird and insect sculptures are quite lifelike

Lifelike, very good. The last thing I looked at was a stone sculpture, only one. Li Mo looked carefully and was very embarrassed. He could not understand the meaning of these stone sculptures. Just like European oil paintings, the stone sculptures

The face gives people a hazy feeling.

To put it more bluntly, these stone carvings have unclear facial features, and foreigners’ aesthetics are indeed different from mine.

However, it was precisely because this stone sculpture was so weird that Li Mo looked at it curiously with his strange eyes. A light gray halo was transmitted through it, and then turned into a circle of light and spread around.

Hey, it’s weird, this character stone sculpture is actually an antique with extremely high artistic value and market value. Judging from the color of the halo, it must be at least more than a hundred years ago.

Li Mo looked at other sculptures, they were all dull and of no artistic value, except for the wood sculpture which had some appreciation value. He picked up a wooden sculpture of a figure, which was the image of a bearded old man. He looked at it over and over for a long time, looking like he couldn't put it down.
To be continued...