Baojian

Chapter 48

Shishi is the capital of Hebei Province and the center of politics, economy, culture, transportation, science and technology, finance and information of the whole province. It is an area where human civilization was developed earlier and has a very profound cultural heritage.

Baifokou Culture, Zhongshan Kingdom Culture, and Western Merchant Culture all originated in Shishi, creating a civilization that attracted the attention of the world. Due to its convenient transportation and rich natural resources, it quickly became a pearl in the North China Plain.

In an ancient city with historical and cultural heritage, relatively speaking, the business in the antique market has always been very good. Especially in recent years, Chinese artworks have become popular in the international investment market, and even the domestic antique market has also flourished.

In Baifo Street and Hongqi Street in Shishi, several antique markets have been established one after another. Every weekend, you can always see some people who come here with magnifying glasses and small flashlights to shop for treasures.

"Brother Feng, these old men are here, why are we here?"

Walking in the antique market on Baifo Street, Li Tianyuan became a little impatient. Just now he saw a nice jade carving Pixiu, and wanted to hold it in his hand, but was caught by the stall owner like a thief. Li Tianyuan I feel uncomfortable all over.

However, Li Tianyuan was right, the treasure appraising program on CCTV hadn't come out yet, and it hadn't yet formed the kind of nationwide treasure-hunting craze in later generations. At this time, the prosperity of the antique market was only in those specific circles.

And most of the collectors now are middle-aged or retired old people with some financial foundation. Qin Feng's three young men are hanging around here, which is indeed a bit eye-catching.

"Boss Li, you don't understand now. What you are playing here is your eyesight. If you can pick up the leak, you might be able to earn tens of thousands of dollars with just one thing."

People who have money have to pursue taste. When Xie Xuan was not bankrupt, he also wanted to play some elegant art, but he spent a lot of money on antiques. Although most of them were fakes, Xie Xuan knew a little bit. The doorway inside.

"Come on, the boss bought a lot of things at that time, didn't they all be identified as fake later?"

Li Tianyuan brushed it off when he heard the words, but when Xie Xuan mentioned this, he remembered that once Xie Dazhi asked him to pick up a master appraiser to his home, and entertained him with good tea and wine.

But when the master left, Xie Dazhi's face turned dark. He bought a room full of gadgets, but none of them were real. Xie Dazhi was so angry that he smashed everything in the room to pieces.

"Yuanzi, Xiaopang is right, this thing is all about eyesight..."

Looking at the tall and strong Li Tianyuan standing beside him, it was indeed a bit eye-catching, Qin Feng said: "Yuanzi, if you don't like shopping, go to the door and wait for us!"

"Okay, Brother Feng, I'll wait for you at the exit!"

Hearing Qin Feng's words, Li Tianyuan was overjoyed, turned around and ran to the gate of the antique city market, lit a cigarette and squatted there to smoke. Looking at the beauties on the road here is more comfortable than shopping with Qin Feng.

After Li Tianyuan left, Qin Feng's shopping became more and more meticulous. He would stop at almost every stall, from jade wares to bronze wares and coins, and chat with the bosses for a long time.

Although he doesn't look very old, Qin Feng can speak eloquently when he picks up everything. Those old oily people are often speechless by Qin Feng's words. Without much effort, Qin Feng wears it on his hands and neck. Full of all sorts of antique trinkets.

"Brother Feng, do you still like to wear these things? But... but these things are all fake!"

Looking at the ivory carved bead chain on Qin Feng's neck and the small sandalwood bracelet on his wrist, Xie Xuan's expression became very strange. He didn't understand why Qin Feng would still spend money after saying that these were all fake things. Money will buy it?
Although these things are not expensive, they add up to 50 yuan, but Xie Xuan knows that after giving them 500 yuan, there is only 700 yuan left in Qin Feng's pocket.

"It's fake, but the workmanship is not bad. If you don't hold it in your hand and look carefully, you won't be able to tell it at a glance."

Qin Feng smiled when he heard the words, and said casually: "Pang, what kind of antique business is the Nie family mainly engaged in? Is it calligraphy, painting, jade, or ceramics and bronzes?"

"I heard that they are made of jade, right? I heard Boss Li once said that they seem to have bought some kind of jade mine in Xinzhou."

When Xie Xuan entered the juvenile detention center, Nie Yuanlong had already been released from prison. He also heard some things about the Nie family from Li Tianyuan later, so he didn't know much about it.

"Playing with jade?" Qin Feng nodded, without saying anything, but when he walked around the various stalls, his attention was obviously focused on various jade objects.

The sellers on Antique Street are generally divided into two types. One is to set up street stalls. You can start a business with a newspaper. This kind of cost is very low, and you only need to pay a market management fee of five yuan a day. That's it.

For this kind of seller, the stalls are often filled with ancient coins or jade pendants, most of which are covered with mud, which looks like they have been around for a while.

The input cost of the second type of sellers is much higher, because they operate in a shop style, and they have to deliver water, electricity and rent to the market every month.

The classification of antiques operated by these shops is very detailed, some specialize in calligraphy and painting, and some specialize in jade. The things placed inside are extremely exquisite under the projection of lights.

Of course, the price of the items in the store is also staggering. A gadget that looks the same as the outside, but the price is hundreds or even thousands of times higher than that on the street stall.

After walking around the street stalls, Qin Feng began to visit those antique shops, but the attitude of the antique shop owners was much worse than that of the street stall owners. When he looked up, he saw two young people, and they didn't care about it at all. Doing your own thing.

After coming out of an antique shop, Xie Xuan said a little unhappy: "Brother Feng, can they make money by doing business like this?"

What matters in business is to open the door to welcome customers, and those shops are always open, but the bosses completely treat the two of them as air, Xie Xuan still has a young master's temper in his bones, and he couldn't bear it immediately.

"Xiao Pang, in the antique business, it is often not open for three years, but it can be eaten for three years after opening, and those who open the store will accumulate some old customers or Tibetan friends, and they will not make money at all by retailing."

Seeing Xie Xuan's indignant look, Qin Feng laughed and said, "How about...you go to Yuanzi, and I'll go out after a while."

To Qin Feng's surprise, Xie Xuan shook his head and said, "No, Brother Feng, I will accompany you and increase your knowledge with you."

"He is more suitable for this job than Li Tianyuan."

Seeing that Xie Xuan suddenly calmed down, Qin Feng couldn't help but secretly nodded in his heart, "Look more, talk less, and keep in mind" these six words have always been good advice in the antique industry.

Before liberation, the antique business could be regarded as a foreigner, because no matter which antique shop or pawnshop, there was always the word "thousand".

Counterfeit antique dealers always want to sell things as fakes, and shops naturally don't want to receive fakes.

During this process, all kinds of bizarre stories happened from time to time, and of course, the old liars from Qianmen were making waves in it, and some shops were even opened by people from Qianmen.

Unlike traditional businesses, the most important thing to open an antique store is not the source of funds, contacts and goods, but the eyesight, because whether it is buying or selling, once the eyes are hit, the loss will be huge.

Before liberation, no matter how large or small an antique store was, there would always be a big shopkeeper, whose status was not lower than that of the owner, and many even owned some dry stocks in the store.

Those who have shopkeepers naturally have apprentices, but at that time, apprentices could only watch but not ask. If they were not accepted disciples, the shopkeeper would not teach them anything. If they wanted to learn skills, they could only observe more often.

Although Xie Xuan's temperament is jumpy, his eyesight is much better than Li Tianyuan's. At least in the bargaining just now, Xie Xuan spoke authentic Shishi dialect, which really helped Qin Feng save some money.

Seeing Xie Xuan's performance, Qin Feng was a little bit moved to bring him into the industry, because according to the master's statement, this industry will do a lot in the future with gold and antiques in troubled times!
The current Qin Feng is no longer the Qin Feng who could be satisfied with opening a waste collection station in the past, so I am too sorry for what he has learned in his heart.

Qin Feng is familiar with the Three Kingdoms, but Zhuge Liang is the one he dislikes the most. That buddy is exhausted to death, but now Qin Feng is thinking about forming his own team.

With this in mind, Qin Feng talked more, and instilled some knowledge of the antique business into Xie Xuan intentionally or unintentionally.

(End of this chapter)