The largest stone gambling market in Jinling City is located in this antique street.
As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and an ancient cultural city, Jinling also has a very strong antique culture. When you walk into the antique street, you will see a huge flow of people inside. Most of them are tourists, taking pictures and lingering.
There are people selling porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and countless others.
There are also some shops filled with all kinds of things used in the last century, the 1970s and the 1980s, such as black and white televisions, iron airplanes, old tapes, canvas bags, military kettles and other gadgets.
Older people, when they come to this kind of shop, will often stop and look for memories of the past from a certain item.
"Qin Changsheng, can you help me take a photo here?"
Walking to a shop that made candy figures, Qian Ziya liked the candy figure displayed on the window very much and couldn't help but ask Qin Changsheng to take a photo for her.
"sure."
Qin Changsheng smiled and took Qian Ziya's cell phone and took some photos of Qian Ziya.
His photography skills were average, but Qian Ziya was very satisfied and thanked him with a smile.
"You're welcome. I've troubled you a lot lately. It's my turn to say thank you."
Qin Changsheng waved his hand. Recently, he had troubled Qian Ziya several times, asking him to help deliver medicine. Every time, Qian Ziya did not hesitate at all, and worked quickly and efficiently. Qin Changsheng kept these in mind.
"Haha, you're welcome. As long as you don't forget me when you bet on stones, I'll be happy."
Qian Ziya was in a happy mood, and she bet with Qin Changsheng on stones. Qin Changsheng gave her a random stone, which could be hundreds of thousands or millions of profits, especially the exciting feeling when the good material was found, which fascinated her.
Compared with these, sending medicines occasionally is nothing.
"By the way, why do you like gambling on stones so much? Because of gambling on stones, you owed so much money and almost even the drug store was closed down?"
The two were walking and chatting, and Qin Changsheng asked curiously.
"This matter is related to what happened to me when I was a child."
Qian Ziya's eyes showed a trace of memories and said: "When I was young, my father once went out to buy herbs and brought me a stone. It looked ugly and I didn't like it, but my father said, don't look at the stone.
Ugly, there is probably a shiny jade inside."
"I listened to my father's words and polished the stone every day. I kept grinding for more than a month and polished off one-third of the stone. Just when I was about to give up, I actually polished the jadeite!"
Speaking of this, Qian Ziya's beautiful eyes sparkled, and she stared at Qin Changsheng closely and said, "Do you know that feeling? I was completely shocked at the time. I happily took the stone to show to my father.
My father took me to find someone to dig out the jadeite completely. The quality of the material inside was not good. After asking for my opinion, my father asked the master to polish and make three jade pendants. My father, mother, and I each
one."
Having said this, Qian Ziya untied her collar a little, pulled out a string of pendants from the deep groove on her chest, and said to Qin Changsheng: "No, this is it. I have been wearing it for almost twenty years.
Years ago...Since then, I have fallen in love with gambling on stones."
Qin Changsheng was stunned after hearing this. He stared at the pendant in her hand and sighed, "Your father is so kind."
"My dad is very good. Although he always studies Chinese medicine like an old scholar, is a bit dull, and has many bad habits, I can't say that he is a good father."
Qian Ziya smiled, stuffed the pendant back into the gully, turned around and asked, "What about you, when you were young, was your father good to you?"
Qin Changsheng was startled for a moment, shook his head and remained silent.
Qian Ziya realized that Qin Changsheng didn't want to talk about this topic, so her eyes flickered and she didn't ask any more questions.
At this time, the two of them reached the middle of the antique street, not far from the Stone Gambling Market. Suddenly, they saw a quarrel coming from the door of an antique shop in front of them.
"Unscrupulous merchants, you are selling things all over the street, but you actually said that they are the only two in the world. One of them sold to me for 3 million! I will refund my money!"
I saw a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes standing in front of an antique shop named Qi Yuxuan, with his face flushed and shouting curses.
Two strong men stood at the door of the antique store, blocking the middle-aged man and not letting him in. One of them said angrily: "Buying things in an antique store relies on your eyesight. After paying for the money, where can you find anything else?"
The reason for going back on your word? Get out of here immediately, don’t blame us brothers for being rude if you continue to cause trouble!"
The middle-aged man held a gold ingot in his hand and said through gritted teeth: "I believed your lie. A gold-plated copper lump lied to me, saying that the gold ingot brought back by Zheng He from his voyages to the West was still a treasure handled by Zhu Di.
You cheated me out of three million, fuck, let me go in and give me my money back!"
The people watching the excitement around heard the middle-aged man's words and stared at the gold ingot in his hand. They were all a little amazed and couldn't help but point.
Three million dollars to buy a copper pimple, how big of a mistake does this have to be?
A middle-aged man with a fair face and no beard walked out of the antique shop. He was wearing a Tang suit and playing with a peanut-sized red jade gourd in his hand. He had a pair of small glasses on the bridge of his nose. He looked a little indescribably noble. He should be from the antique shop.
boss.
He stood on the steps at the door, stared at the middle-aged man arrogantly, and said coldly: "Brother, I, Qi Yuxuan, opened my business to welcome customers from all over the world. I have been here for more than 20 years, and I still never come here."
No one dares to make trouble with me. If you know the rules of the antique shop, you can leave now. If you don’t know the rules, I can tell you what the rules are!"
After saying that, he calmly ordered: "Tell Master Qi that someone is causing trouble here and ask him to send someone to deal with it."
A man heard this and immediately took out his phone to contact me.
Someone around heard that the owner of the antique shop was looking for Master Qi, and they immediately said to the middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes: "Hey, let's go quickly. This is how you buy antiques. If you get blinded, you have to accept your fate. Master Qi is the manager of the antique street here.
My subordinates are all masters who have seen blood. If you are messing around here, they will beat you out, and even the police will not be able to control you."
"Yes, let's go quickly. If you continue to make trouble, you will suffer big losses!"
Many people started to persuade me.
The middle-aged man was a little frightened. He couldn't help but snorted angrily, smashed the gold ingot into the antique shop, and cursed: "I'll keep the three million for you to buy a coffin!"
After scolding, he turned around and left angrily.
The shop owner sneered and ordered his servants: "Pick up the gold ingots. These are the treasures brought back by Zheng He from his voyages to the West. Zhu Di put the things he played with back into the shop and sold them to new people."
The men picked up the gold ingots and walked back with a smile. The boss did not forget to raise his hands to the onlookers on the street and said with a smile: "Everyone, our Qi Yuxuan is a century-old store, and we are very young. What do you want to see?
Just come in and take a look. There is no righteousness in business, so there is no harm in making friends!"
"This person is so shameless. This incident just happened under everyone's noses, and he started soliciting customers. Does he treat everyone as a fool?"
Qian Ziya saw this and couldn't help but complain.
Qin Changsheng stared at the ruby gourd in the shop owner's hand, showing a hint of interest, and said to Qian Ziya: "Come on, let's go in and take a look?"
"Where should I go to take a look?" Qian Ziya didn't react for a while.
When he saw Qin Changsheng going to Qi Yuxuan, his eyes widened: "Are you crazy? That boss can sell a copper lump as an antique for three million. It is obvious that he is a profiteer, and you still go to him?
shopping?"
"Nine times out of ten people doing business in antique shops are like this, what's so strange about it?"
Qin Changsheng replied lightly and already went up the steps.
"A distinguished guest is here, please come in!"
The boss's eyes lit up and he immediately reached out to invite Qin Changsheng in.