"Are these two iron balls a treasure?" Chu Bai grabbed the two rusty iron balls in his hand, weighed them with his hands, and found that they were the same weight.
The uncle who set up the stall looked like an amateur. There were a lot of messy old objects in front of him, including rusty iron balls and some old pots and pans. None of them were too old, so he
The stalls receive little attention.
When he saw Chu Bai coming to ask about the two iron balls, his eyes couldn't help but light up, but then he concealed his happiness and nodded: "It should be, but it's rusty. You can take it back and use sandpaper or a grinding wheel."
Rubbing should remove the rust stains.”
"Oh, that's right, but it's too expensive. Two rusty iron balls cost one hundred yuan, which I can't afford." Chu Bai put down the iron balls with some reluctance and shook his head lightly.
"Two hundred yuan is still expensive? How much can you pay?" The uncle finally saw that someone took a fancy to his items, so of course he had to try his best to sell them. To be honest, it was his first time to practice the stall, so he knew
None of my belongings are valuable.
Chu Bai scratched his head in embarrassment, and then took out all his savings: "The total is forty-seven yuan and sixty-five cents. If you sell it, I will give you all the money, and I will walk back."
"Uh. Forty-seven dollars, sixty-five cents? Are there still five cents these days?" When the uncle saw Chu Bai handing over a neat forty-seven dollars, sixty-five cents, his forehead was filled with black lines.
This young man either has a special hobby of collecting, or he is from a very poor family. Judging from his thin body and the shabby robe he wears, it must have nothing to do with collecting, so he can only be the kind of person whose family is very poor.
type.
"What did you buy this for?" The uncle did not take Chu Bai's money immediately. For someone who set up a stall for business on the first day, he was not a fully qualified businessman, so he felt a little sympathy in his heart.
Chu Bai also saw a trace of sympathy in the uncle's eyes, so he originally wanted to lie to him that there was a patient at home, but after thinking about it, he didn't have the nerve to speak, so he just shook his head. After wandering around the antique trading market for a while,
He also understood some of the rules of the game.
"You kid, come on, you're the first one who asked me to open the business, so I'll sell it to you cheaper. Take it away, I'll charge forty-five yuan, and I'll leave you two yuan to take the bus!" The uncle felt a little disgusted.
, he really doesn’t want to do business with such poor people, but there are urban management personnel who set up stalls on Antique Street to collect road operating fees. He can earn 45 yuan, which is a small profit. After all, two iron balls
When he collected it in the countryside, he only spent two yuan.
"Thank you, uncle." When Chu Bai heard this, he was overjoyed. At the same time, he also lamented that people are different. This middle-aged uncle has a good heart and is not a qualified profiteer. Of course, he does not know that the uncle has a good heart, but he is also a profiteer.
He doubled the profit of the two iron balls by more than 20 times.
After quickly picking up the two iron balls and throwing down another forty-five yuan, Chu Bai immediately blended into the crowd, while the middle-aged uncle muttered: "It's finally open!"
After Chu Bai walked about five hundred meters, he turned around and entered a store called Yubaozhai. It was a relatively large antique store on Antique Street. It had a complete range of old items, including blue and white porcelain vases, authentic works of celebrities, and even some handicrafts and jades.
There are many.
"Young man, what do you want to buy?" The owner of Yubaozhai, Liu Lan, sat down in person today. This is also the custom every weekend, because business is particularly good every weekend.
"Do you want to take this here?" Chu Bai casually took out an iron ball and placed it in front of Liu Lan.
"Oh?" Liu Lan raised his eyebrows and glanced at Chu Bai in surprise. Suddenly, he felt that the young man in front of him seemed familiar. However, he couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he frowned and thought for a moment.
Pick up the magnifying glass and look at it.
However, he looked at it for a long time and even wiped away a lot of the rust. He didn't find anything different about this iron ball. Is it exactly that kind of iron bead? It's not gold or silver. This thing needs to be processed on a lathe.
You can grab a lot of them from a factory or a bearing factory or something like that. It’s really not a strange thing.
"Young man, Mr. Liu has poor eyesight. We don't accept this item from you!" Liu Lan handed the bead to Chu Bai very humbly and did not ridicule him. After all, in the antique business, there are often times when the bead is scratched. What if this bead
If there is any difference, people will laugh at it if it spreads in the circle, so I don’t know and don’t understand it, so I won’t comment.
"Oh." Chu Bai picked up the bead and turned around to leave. I am afraid that few people would be able to discover the trick in this object, but he did not want to say it clearly because the object inside the iron ball was too valuable. If he took the initiative to tell the truth,
, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble, so I need to meet a real expert.
"Chu Bai!"
However, before Chu Bai walked out of the door, Chen Pingping suddenly walked away from Chu Bai, so he shouted in surprise.
"Sister Ping?" Chu Bai was stunned, why is Chen Pingping here? Could it be that he is here to see her?
"Come in quickly, the owner of this store is not an outsider, let me introduce him to you." Chen Pingping immediately pulled Chu Bai back to the store, then smiled at Liu Lan and said: "Uncle Lan, this is your fault.
Ah, Chu Bai is my younger brother."
"Pingping, why are you here?" Liu Lan was startled, then overjoyed, and walked around the table to greet him. It seemed that he and Chen Pingping were really familiar with each other.
"Uncle Lan, let me introduce you. His name is Chu Bai. Does he look like my younger brother?" Chen Pingping asked with a smile.
"Huh?" When Chen Pingping said this, Liu Lan looked at it carefully. Not to mention, he looked very similar to Chen Pingfan. No wonder when he saw Chu Bai for the first time just now, he felt a little familiar.
Like Pingping's younger brother?
At this time, Chen Pingping continued to introduce: "Chu Bai, this is Boss Liu of Yubaozhai. You can just call me Uncle Lan with me."
"Hello, Boss Liu." Of course, Chu Bai would not call anyone uncle casually, so he did not follow Chen Pingping's example of calling Uncle Lan, but took the initiative to reach out and call Boss Liu.
Liu Lan was slightly stunned, but then he laughed and said: "Ping Ping, Chu Bai, sit down quickly."
"By the way, Chu Bai, what are you doing here? Do you want to buy antiques? Uncle Lan has a lot of treasures here." When Chen Pingping said this, he paused, and then suddenly remembered where Chu Bai had any money.
Buying antiques? So I looked at Chu Bai in surprise, wondering why Chu Bai came to Liu Lan.
"No, Chu Bai is here to sell antiques." Liu Lan smiled and said: "But my eyesight is poor, and I didn't see what kind of treasure Chu Bai was selling!"
"Really? Chu Bai, what are you selling? Uncle Lan has a good reputation in the antique circle. If you really have good things, Uncle Lan will not let you suffer."
In fact, Chu Bai also knew that Liu Lan's large-open Yubaozhai had a good reputation in the antique circle, otherwise he would not have come directly. However, Liu Lan was not an expert, so he did not talk to Liu Lan at that time.
Lan was interested in continuing the conversation.
But now when asked by Chen Pingping, Chu Bai thought for a while, took out the iron ball again, and said with a smile: "Boss Liu, Sister Ping is not an outsider. I originally wanted to go to a few more places, but since you peaceful
I know my sister, so if you want this object, I’ll give it to you.” While Chu Bai was speaking, he squeezed the iron ball hard with his palm, and then the iron ball in his hand cracked, and a lot of fragments fell down.
, revealing a misty bead.
"Is this an iron-clad oar?" Liu Lan was shocked. He had looked at it carefully just now and thought it was just a solid iron ball. But now the iron ball turned out to be an iron-clad oar? Is there something useful inside?
"Would you like to take a closer look?" Chu Bai smiled and handed the beads to Liu Lan's hand.
However, as soon as Liu Lan took the bead, he was suddenly startled, and then he jumped up like his butt was on fire.
"This. This." Liu Lan felt that the bead actually had some residual warmth in his hands, the kind that had absorbed the heat of the sun. So he was shocked and immediately took out a magnifying glass to look at it.
"Oh my God!" Liu Lan took a breath of air after only looking at it for a few seconds. After looking around a few times, he immediately clasped his fists at Chu Bai and said, "Brother Chu, can we talk upstairs?"
Chen Pingping was extremely surprised at this time. She found that Liu Lan's forehead was covered with tiny beads of sweat, and his hands shrunk in his sleeves were trembling a little. He seemed quite nervous and at the same time unusually excited. What could make Uncle Lan so abnormal?
This bead must have an extraordinary origin.
"Okay." Chu Bai nodded with a smile and did not take the initiative to ask for the beads back. Instead, he followed Liu Lan and Chen Pingping to an office on the second floor.
When Liu Lan arrived at the office, he immediately locked the door. At the same time, he ignored Chen Pingping. He anxiously took the beads and put them under a special microscope placed on the table. He looked at them carefully again and seemed to see Chu Bai and Chen Pingping.
All have forgotten the same thing.
"Chu Bai, what is that? Why is Uncle Lan so nervous?" Chen Pingping asked in a low voice.
Chu Bai shook his head: "Wait a minute."
"You. Why are you so stubborn?" Chen Pingping couldn't help crying or laughing. It seemed that from yesterday to now, Chu Bai's expression was too indifferent to everything.
"It's real. The texture and texture are real and naturally formed. I never thought that I, Liu Lan, would see this kind of warm jade again in my lifetime!" About ten minutes later, Liu Lan let out a long sigh of relief.
, turned around and looked at Chu Bai with complicated eyes.
"Uncle Lan, do you think this is warm jade?" Although Chen Pingping doesn't know much about antiques, he also knows something about jade. Nuan jade is just a legend in the antique world, and few people have seen it.
Liu Lan smiled and shook his head: "It is a kind of ore. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say it is jade, but it is more precious than jade. Most of this kind of warm jade was formed in volcanic rocks during the changes in the ancient earth's crust. It is naturally
With a certain temperature, it has obvious effects on human health."
"But I think it's cloudy and not as beautiful as jade!" Chen Pingping said with confusion.
"It hasn't been polished yet. It will be crystal clear after polishing." Liu Lan explained casually, then looked at Chu Bai, took a deep breath and said, "Brother Chu, please keep this warm jade for me."