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Chapter 43 Ghost City (2)

The trading method of the ghost market is the most common and primitive street stall shopping. This method is also the most satisfying and yearning for buyers. The big leak often exists in the middle of this trading method. The ghost market is also the prototype of the cultural relics market. The first batch of big celebrities in the domestic antique collection industry rely on the ghost market to make their fortunes. As the collection enthusiasm continues to heat up, there are fewer and fewer valuable antiques. It is difficult for those mature antique markets to find a leak. In contrast, the chance of picking a gap in this ghost market is much higher. Of course, opportunities and risks coexist, and the chance of being deceived and taking medicine in the ghost market has also increased greatly.

Liu Yue's time judgment was very accurate. Half an hour later, the streets under the teahouse, which were not spacious, began to lively on both sides. The buyers and sellers seemed to emerge from the underground. Before the ghost market was fully opened, Tang Feng stood up and said, "The early birds have food to eat, let's go."

"Those early insects are in great danger." Liu Yue stood up and nodded and said, "Let's go."

Men may not necessarily pay for women. After Tang Feng paid the bill, he walked out of the teahouse with Liu Yue to the ghost market. Although the ghost market is also an illegal antique trading market, the source of antiques is cleaner than that of the black market. Some of the vendors are selling old versions of RMB, and these things must not be produced by tomb robbers. Seeing those valuable old versions of RMB, Tang Feng only regretted that he had been born twenty years late, otherwise he would have distributed all the old versions of RMB.

To put it bluntly, what you play is the time difference. The collection of the old version of RMB is the best example. Most Chinese people are confused by this time difference. How could they think that the banknotes they used to be often now have become collectibles. The ones who regret the most must be those rich people. When the new version of RMB was released, they immediately exchanged the old coins in their hands for new coins, for fear that the old coins would be invalid. Now, they are pushing out the God of Wealth alive.

Speaking of old RMB, there are three different versions of old coins with different face value. The current market trend of the 80-version 50 yuan RMB closest to us is 350 per piece; the "pingshui version" 50 yuan banknote issued in 1972 once broke through the 500 yuan mark; and the "green-backed butterfly coupon" that briefly passed in the 1960s was even more amazing. The back pattern is dark green ju flowers, which looks like a butterfly spreading wings. The current market trend of the banknote has reached 10,000 yuan per piece. That is to say, as long as you have one hundred such 10,000 yuan, you are a millionaire, and its real circulation value is only ten yuan. Antiques are not far from our lives. The old RMB are just banknotes flowing through large areas. In the past period, these things were not very eye-catching, but people at that time did not think of collecting these.

Although the old version of RMB is old, it is a currency that has passed through, and there are very few counterfeit products. After all, compared with the huge profits of the old currency, the crime of counterfeiting is still a bit greater, and the difficulty of counterfeiting the old version of RMB is even greater than that of the new version of RMB. After reading a few old version of RMB, Tang Feng could no longer bear the stimulation of not collecting it early, so he turned to other street stalls. Liu Yue next to him pointed to a street stall surrounded by a large group of people and said to Tang Feng: "Let's go there and take a look."

"Well, okay." Tang Feng and Liu Yue walked to the street stall together. The vendor was selling a bronze tiger in his hand to his potential customers. He said it was a tiger, but it was actually just like a lying tiger. The tiger's shape was very exaggerated. The tiger's mouth was a round mouth that protruded forward and slightly raised. There was a lifting beam connected to the tiger's mouth and tail. He said that the lifting beam was a scientific name, which was not something that people in the industry could not understand. It was equivalent to carrying the handle of the bronze tiger. The entire tiger's body had no patterns and was plain. There were four fake tiger claws attached to the body of the instrument. Tang Feng asked Liu Yue with a smile: "Does Miss Liu know what this is for?"

Liu Yue gave him a blank look and said angrily: "Rogue."

"Haha." Tang Feng couldn't help laughing. The academic name of this type of instrument is called Huzi. There are various explanations in ancient documents about the use of Huzi. One is a washing machine, one is a urinary device. So far, there is no conclusion. Whether it is a urinary device or a urinary device, there are obvious flaws. You say it is a urinary device. What can a small tiger's mouth be washed? To put it bluntly, it is a man who receives urine. This kind of thinking is untenable. It is dark in the middle of the night, so I took such a horrible thing and put it in it.

Although there is controversy, it is generally believed that this is a toilet, so Liu Yue said that Tang Feng was a hooligan. The tiger was blue and purple, and there was no inscription to prove the age. But the vendor said: "Please look, this is a bronze tiger from the Spring and Autumn Period, casting by lost wax, and a typical spring and Autumn characteristic."

Tang Feng nodded. The lost wax method is a casting process invented in the Spring and Autumn Period and has been used to this day. This casting method is to cast beeswax molds, then repeatedly wrapped and pressed with fine mud. After compacting, a hole is left. Then, the mud and wax molds are fired and heated. The wax mold melts when heated and flows out through the holes. Only the hollow mud mold is left. Finally, copper water is poured into the mud mold to complete the casting process. The bronze ware cast by the lost wax method is smooth and has high precision. One of the first cultural relics in China is forbidden to exhibit abroad. The famous Zeng Houyi bronze throne was cast using the lost wax method. It is really not simple to say that Zeng Houyi is not a man. He was just the king of a small country in the early Warring States Period. However, among the first cultural relics that were forbidden to exhibit abroad, he occupied three of them, and two were the chime bells of Zeng Houyi and the coffin outside the tomb of Zeng Houyi.

Tang Feng glanced at him from a distance for a few times and felt that he could take a look. He said to the vendor, "Give it a look for me."

With a beauties of Liu Yue's level by his side, Tang Feng was greatly embarrassed. The vendor immediately presented the tiger with his hands with a smile on his face. Tang Feng took the tiger and looked at it. The tiger was quite heavy, and his whole body was covered with green copper rust, which looked very old. Since it was a toilet, it was inconvenient to smell it. Tang Feng carefully observed the green rust on the tiger. Generally speaking, fake rust floated on the surface. Wiping it with vinegar or digging it with nails can easily cause the rust to fall off.

Tang Feng turned his face and asked Liu Yue, "What do you think?"

Liu Yue asked back: "What do you think?"

Tang Feng said to Liu Yue softly: "I don't think this is from the Spring and Autumn Period."

Liu Yue asked, "Which period does Mr. Tang think it was from?"

Tang Feng said lightly: "It is from the Beginning of Autumn."

★The birds who get up early have food to eat, do the authors who get early updates have tickets? There is another chapter to update in the evening. Brothers, please give me a vote. ★Spoiler, the protagonist is now in Zhejiang, where the famous Longquan Kiln is located, and the ghost market has a future.

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