After hearing this, Li Jin was even more dumbfounded and quickly stopped: "No! But please don't, we are serious people, not what you think!"
"Tch, if you are serious, then there will be no serious people in this world." Li Songci rolled his eyes and said.
"Okay, don't you want to accompany me to choose a birthday gift?"
"Then let's go now." She said and walked out.
Li Jin quickly followed, and the two came to the antique street of Kowloon City.
This is one of the more famous antique trading markets in Hong Kong City.
It has been in existence more than a hundred years ago. Many stores are time-honored and have a guaranteed reputation.
Even so, customers who don't usually come often have to keep their eyes open when they go in to choose something.
After all, there are only so many genuine products in the world, and most of them are fakes and high imitation handicrafts.
"We're here, let's get off the car!"
Li Jin parked the car near the antique street and got out of the car with Li Songci.
Both rows of the streets here are lined with neat antique storefronts, some large and some small. The smaller ones are no more than a dozen square feet, while the big ones are more than a hundred square feet.
Some even have an entire building with two or three floors, all filled with various antiques, calligraphy and paintings.
After Li Songci stood on the street and took a general look, he couldn't help but sigh: "I have never seen such a wide variety of antique shops when I was in Yanjing. It seems that what they said is true."
"Goods from mainland China have been stolen by tomb robbers more than a hundred years ago and have been stolen to port cities and abroad. As the local Yanjing market, genuine products are rare."
As she spoke, she noticed that the store on the left in front of her was well decorated, turned around and said to Li Jin, "Shall we go to that store first?"
Li Jin nodded: "Okay."
After saying that, he followed her into the store.
There is only one owner and one waiter in this store, both of whom are middle-aged men over forty years old.
After seeing a customer coming in, the waiter hurriedly greeted him warmly and asked: "Sir and madam, please come in. What do you two need to find?"
Hearing this, Li Songci turned to look at Li Jin and asked with a smile: "This store has antiques, calligraphy and paintings, what kind of gifts do you think Mr. Huo would like?"
After Li Jin glanced around, his eyes locked on a purple clay teapot on the shelf not far away. He pointed and said, "Can you help me take down that purple clay teapot and take a look?"
When the staff heard this, their faces suddenly lit up with joy, and they quickly introduced: "Oh! Mr. and Mrs., you are so discerning. This purple clay pot is the treasure of our store!"
"I'll take it off for you and take a look!"
As the staff spoke, they brought over a ladder, stepped on it, and took down the purple clay pot placed on the third shelf.
Li Jin just smiled, who would put their store's treasure in such a remote place?
If you don't look carefully, you really can't find it, but he also understands that this is just a way for the store to raise the price later.
Soon, the staff carefully took out the purple clay pot and handed it to Li Jin and Li Songci.
"Sir and Miss, take a look, this is the purple sand produced in Jingdezhen in the Northern Dynasties. According to reliable records, it was once used by a prime minister!"
The staff member was still talking nonsense, but Li Jin didn't listen to what he said at all.
Instead, he picked up the purple clay pot and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.
The craftsmanship of this purple clay teapot is indeed good, and its date is indeed the Northern Song Dynasty.
"How's it going? Did you see anything?" Li Songci asked from the side.
She didn't know anything about antiques, so she could only wait for Li Jin to take a look.
After a while, Li Jin put the purple clay pot on the table in front of him and said in a calm tone: "Although this thing of yours is from the Northern Song Dynasty."
"But it's not a good product that the prime minister used, but a defective product at that time."
"Real princes and nobles will not use this kind of thing at all. Only some common people from relatively well-off families will buy it back and use it for daily use. It can be saved, but it is really not easy nowadays!"
"Ah...that's it! I didn't expect you to be quite knowledgeable about antiques." After listening to his explanation, Li Songci felt a little disappointed even though he didn't know when Li Jin had studied antiques.