Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 286 The Origin of the Ghost City

Such things are not easy to sell even if they are sold to disaster victims. What should I do?
These profiteers wanted to play tricks, set up stalls before dawn, covered up their things in the dark, and then sold them to the victims.

For example, some people fold the torn cotton clothes in the place where the cotton leaked out so that you can’t see them; It looks quite solid, maybe it will fall apart when you pull it home, and it is a lie to put it bluntly.

Buyers also know that it's just that there are people who are greedy for petty gains. Although the things in the ghost market are poor, the prices can be cut very low, but in the end it's all "bought but not sold". Whoever buys will be unlucky.

Zhengzhou ghost market is located in the flea market, where it is divided into morning market, evening market and night market.

Among them, the morning market is open at dawn and closes at about four or five in the afternoon. This category mainly sells second-hand goods. This is a real second-hand market.

The evening market refers to after five o'clock, or when it is getting dark. At this time, the market is mainly filled with people who collect second-hand goods. Some collectors will send some usable things here to sell. The tattered ones are worth more.

Because these second-hand goods sellers have to walk around to collect things during the day, they all sell at night, which forms a night market.

The night market refers to the flea market after twelve o'clock. The people who come out at this time are not those who buy and sell second-hand goods.

Strictly speaking, this time is the real ghost market, a ghost market in the name of selling antiques, especially some shady antiques.

Normally, the ghost market in Zhengzhou is once a week, but there will be a big market every three months, and usually it is a small market.

There are not many people setting up stalls in the small market, and most of them are locals from Zhengzhou or Henan. Only when the big market comes once every three months, do ghost market sellers from all over the country gather here. This is the easiest time to shop around. Get some goodies.

Today's ghost market is exactly the once-in-three-month market, so Zheng Kaida and Chen Manfei both paid attention to it and prepared to come to Taobao.

When Wang Haoming was in Pingzhou, he also went to the ghost market to search for treasures, and the harvest was not small, but he had never been to the ghost market in Zhengzhou.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening that Zheng Kaida woke up the sleepy-eyed Ma Lin and set off together. Among the four, only Ma Lin was the most lethargic, and finally the driver was replaced by Zheng Kaida.

This time when we went to the ghost market, Zheng Kaida specially prepared a lot of cash, and Wang Haoming also took [-] as a backup. In case you encounter something you like, you won’t have money to buy it. There is no way, the ghost market only accepts cash. Credit cards and checks are useless.

The car turned many turns, and it was almost twelve o'clock before reaching a dilapidated street entrance. At this time, many cars were parked at the street entrance, including ordinary vans and luxury cars worth millions.

Zheng Kaida's big rush has been following behind. Although the ghost market has its own market order, your absolute safety is not guaranteed here. When you come to such a place with a lot of cash, it is natural to be careful. Zheng Kaida's four bodyguards are all Follow quietly, just in case.

This street is not big, and the street surface is quite dirty, but there are already many small street stalls on both sides of the street, and a small electric light is hung on the street stalls.

Coupled with the people who kept walking back and forth in front of the stalls to pick things up, it was like a vegetable market.

"I remembered, you took Wang Haoming to the antique city yesterday, how could I forget this."

Zheng Kaida suddenly showed a dazed look, and Chen Manfei smiled, and didn't explain anything. In fact, she really wanted Wang Haoming to accompany her to visit the ghost market in Zhengzhou tonight.

Zheng Kaida laughed loudly: "It's better this way, let's go together, old horse, do you want to go?"

"You all went to that ghostly place. I don't care if I stay in the hotel alone, so go and have a look." Marin smiled helplessly.

Every time Zheng Kaida came to Zhengzhou, he would choose the time for the opening of the ghost market, but since he went shopping with Zheng Kaida once, he was no longer interested. He didn't sleep in the middle of the night and bargained with vendors in a noisy environment. Marin was really used to it. no.

There are many theories about the formation of the ghost market. The most recognized one is that the ghost market originated in Tianjin in the Qing Dynasty.

It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, whenever natural or man-made disasters occurred, the refugees who fled came to Tianjin one after another to find a way to survive.

According to historical records, during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, there used to be a porridge factory near Tianbao Road, Tianjin, which provided porridge for the victims. A fire broke out, killing more than 1000 people and injuring countless people, which shows the number of victims.

As more and more people were affected, some people began to take advantage of the victims, collecting some old things that were not used by others and selling them to the victims. Over time, a second-hand market was formed there.

At that time, these second-hand goods were different. At that time, it was not like now. Most of the second-hand goods were tattered and even unusable.

As more and more people play collectibles, more and more people know about ghost markets and go to ghost markets to find treasures.

A few years ago, especially more than ten years ago, the ghost market still chose to start in the middle of the night and end before dawn, but now the ghost market has already started from midnight.

"Come on, go in and have a look." Zheng Kaida rubbed his hands, his face full of excitement.

He didn't buy any good things in the antique city, and pinned all his hopes on the big market of this ghost market, and with Wang Haoming by his side, Zheng Kaida was very confident at this time.

Walking into the ghost market, Wang Haoming immediately frowned. The stalls around him always smelled a faint and unpleasant smell, which was much dirtier than the Pingzhou ghost market.

There are also many fakes in the ghost market, but these counterfeit ones are of a certain level, unlike the people in the antique city who directly use handicrafts as antiques to deceive those novices who have just entered the collecting world.

Chen Manfei walked a few steps and squatted at a booth to observe a piece of ancient jade.

Wang Haoming followed and squatted down. Apart from ancient jade, this booth also had some ceramics. Chen Manfei didn't ask questions, and the booth owner didn't speak either, just looked at them with a smile.

Wang Haoming carefully looked at the several pieces of ancient jade in front of the booth. There were more than [-] pieces of ancient jade in front of him. He didn't bother to look at them one by one. There is no mistake in spiritual power discrimination.

The situation of more than [-] pieces of ancient jade was immediately and clearly displayed in front of Wang Haoming. Nearly half of these things that looked like jade were not jade at all, and the level of artificiality was too strong.

In addition, there is a third of poor jade, which is basically of no value.

The last few remaining were real jades. Wang Haoming glanced at Chen Manfei quietly, and found that what she was observing were these few ancient jades. After a few minutes, Chen Manfei shook his head and left again, and the last real jade was also shot dead by Chen Manfei.

Wang Haoming thought in his heart: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from Sister Chen's eyes. I have also learned a lot from Sister Chen, about the identification of various jades."

After walking two stalls forward, the two stopped. Zheng Kaida was standing there carefully observing a calligraphy and painting. Marin was standing beside him, looking at the words on the painting with his hands behind his back. Is this painting old? I don't know, but Marin appreciates the writing of this word.

"How about it, did you fancy anything?"

When Wang Haoming and Chen Manfei walked by, Zheng Kaida just put away the calligraphy and painting and handed them to the peddler next to him.

"No, one year is not as good as one year!" Chen Manfei smiled wryly, and Zheng Kaida nodded deeply.

Nowadays, there are more and more people collecting collections, but most of those collectibles in the antique world are first obtained by those who are one step ahead, and the rest have to be searched for a needle in a haystack in the vast crowd.

So now there are more and more examples of eye-catching in the collection field, but less and less people are listening to things that are missing.

"Go ahead and have a look. This kind of thing can't be rushed, just take your time."

Zheng Kaida walked in the front again, and he didn't mention the calligraphy and painting in the end, but Wang Haoming already understood that there must be something wrong with the calligraphy and painting, otherwise Zheng Kaida would not have left so readily.

More and more people walked forward, time passed slowly, after a while, it was more than one o'clock, the stalls in the ghost market were basically full, and people speaking many kinds of dialects were here non-stop. Bargaining or arguing with buyers is much like a hodgepodge market.

During this period, Wang Haoming activated his spiritual power twice more, one time to observe the ancient jade, and the other time to observe a batch of root carvings, hoping to see if he was lucky enough to find any treasures from the root carvings, but he was completely disappointed in the result.

Chen Manfei and Zheng Kaida both fell in love with a ceramic horse at the same time. This horse doesn't look special, and it feels like it's not as good as the ones you usually see or have at home.

"Look first, I'll go ahead."

Zheng Kaida laughed suddenly, both of them found that the other was interested in this thing, Zheng Kaida took the initiative to make a concession.

"Okay, thank you Brother Zheng, I'll look for you later."

Chen Manfei was not polite, this ceramic horse was really good, and she had basically seen that it was an authentic Tang Sancai. Tonight, she finally came across an old thing that caught her eye.

Ma Lin greeted Wang Haoming, and then continued to follow Zheng Kaida to visit the ghost market. Chen Manfei observed the tricolor horse carefully for a while, and finally nodded secretly.

Wang Haoming activated his spiritual power again while Chen Manfei was negotiating with the stall owner, and realized that the three-color horse that Chen Manfei was looking for was genuine, and the spiritual energy inside was very strong.

In addition to the strong aura of the three-colored horse in front of me, there are three or four other things in the stall with aura.

"Let's go. It's good luck to have you with me. I finally found a satisfactory one."

Chen Manfei patted Wang Haoming's shoulder suddenly. Chen Manfei had carefully put the three-color horse in a wooden box. The three-color horse was not big, and it was not too heavy to hold, so he directly stuffed the wooden box into the bag. Inside will do.

Walking behind Chen Manfei, someone grabbed his shoulder suddenly, so scared that Wang Haoming almost didn't jump up, and turned around in a hurry.

"Brother, do you want something good?"

A man who was less than 1.7 meters tall and rather obscene was standing behind Wang Haoming just now. His hand just drooped, and it was Wang Haoming's shoulder he was holding just now.

"Look at this, how about it?"

Seeing Wang Haoming turning his head, the wretched man opened his clothes to reveal the things in his arms, and kept squeezing his tiny eyes.

"what is this?"

Wang Haoming looked down subconsciously, and in the arms of the wretched man were actually two bronze triangular cups full of copper rust.

"Good stuff, are you interested?" Seeing the other party's question, the wretched man hurriedly laughed, and dragged Wang Haoming to the street.

Standing on the side of the street, Wang Haoming realized that there were quite a few people standing like them, and many of them were still talking in low voices.

"Haoming, where are you?"

Chen Manfei was observing the things in a booth, and she was taken aback immediately when she turned her head. She was afraid that Wang Haoming would be tricked into taking off her pants.

At this time, Wang Haoming was shaking his head and laughing strangely. The surface of these two bronze triangular cups covered with copper rust also only had a faint aura, and through the spiritual power, it can be clearly seen that the inside of the bronze triangular cups is not made of copper at all. of.

Except that this thing looks like a bronze vessel on the surface, there is nothing related to this bronze.

"The ones from the Han Dynasty only cost [-] yuan. This is an absolute good thing. If you miss it, you will lose your chance."

The wretched man looked at Wang Haoming with satisfaction. Wang Haoming's expression had already convinced him that he was a novice. Such a person is the easiest to be bluffed, and he is very confident in his fake bronze ware. As long as the other party is interested , I am not afraid that he will not take the bait.

"Twenty thousand?" Wang Haoming smiled lightly and shook his head.

"Haoming, Big Brother Zheng is waiting in front, are you leaving?"

Just as Wang Haoming was about to leave, Chen Manfei had already come to his side, and pulled Wang Haoming to look at the wretched man vigilantly. Chen Manfei had seen many such people, and they were basically liars.

"Okay, let's go!"

Wang Haoming followed Chen Manfei and turned around to leave. The wretched man was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly followed. He didn't want to just give up when he saw a big fish just now.

"Wait, little brother, why did you leave before you wanted anything?"

The wretched man took a step and stood in front of Wang Haoming and Chen Manfei, and stopped them there with his arms stretched out.

(End of this chapter)