After Hu Bayi met with Fatty Wang, he knew that the fat man had also been cursed, so he followed him to ask the team members who returned to the exam but found that they had nothing to do.
It was naturally impossible for Hu Bayi to say the curse, so after chatting with the archaeological team for a few words, he hurriedly left.
Faced with the curse, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan had no choice. After all, Zhao Shucheng could not solve it, and they had no idea.
In desperation, the two of them could only think that nothing happened. After all, this curse would break out after the age of fifty, and they still have time to slowly find a solution.
On that day, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan set up a stall in Panjiayuan. Hu Bayi arrived at the place and lay on the recliner with a palm fan on his face.
Wang Kaixuan was different. He enthusiastically invited people to see what was on his stall. Unfortunately, the two of them might be good at fighting, but doing business is another matter.
After not completing a transaction for a long time, Wang Kaixuan looked at Hu Bayi helplessly and said, "Old Hu, please help me and attract some business. This is not my business alone, and I can't rely on me alone."
"We have been here for a day or two. The money I'm not enough for me to go back and buy tapes."
Hu Bayi ignored Wang Kaixuan and looked at the figure in the distance through the gap of the palm fan.
"Fatty, if you see, that's the real master."
"Who?" Wang Kaixuan looked over curiously.
"Just that middle-aged man in his thirties, his skin is purple-red. He looks like he has been doing farm work on the half-plateau all year round. If I guess correctly, this guy should have come from the Loess Plateau."
"Okay, I'm a scout, my insight is extraordinary."
"That's it!" Hu Bayi smiled proudly.
"This guy has a broken bag and has been wandering around this market for more than a week before you can see it?" The fat man looked at Hu Bayi with a funny look.
"Why didn't you say it earlier?"
"How fresh, you have only been there for eight hundred years, so naturally I don't know." Wang Kaixuan asked suspiciously: "No, Lao Hu, what else do you see?"
"Look, those who are anxious to release things are all mysterious, for fear of being deceived or robbed. This guy is a typical example at first glance, and there must be something to be released."
Wang Kaixuan immediately became interested and said, "Anyway, we don't have any business, otherwise we would tease him. Maybe we can get it even if we have good things, right?"
"Don't bully honest people."
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The antique market is full of people, and Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan don’t want to be disturbed, so after confirming that Li Chunlai really wants to release something, he made an appointment to go to the hotpot restaurant together and chat while eating.
Li Chunlai also wanted to sell the things in his hands early and wanted to sell them for a good price, so he agreed to Hu Bayi.
Li Chunlai ate for a while and looked at Hu Bayi and said, "I have a child, I don't know if it's worth it."
Wang Kaixuan said in shock: "Child? We are in antique business, serious business, and do not accept children. It is illegal to traffickers and harm their good deeds. Don't joke. If you talk nonsense, I will really send you to the police station."
"Fatty!" Hu Bayi said: "Child, the local dialect of the Three Qins land means shoes."
"Oh, did you talk about shoes? I've said it earlier, and I was shocked."
Hu Bayi saw Chunlai's shoes flashing when he opened his bag and said, "Brother Chunlai, if you have to speak your head, you will definitely be able to sell it for a lot of money. You will be fine if you eat meat every day in the future."
Li Chunlai said honestly: "I never thought about eating meat every day. My ideal is to sell this shoe at a good price, return to our hometown, be able to marry a wife and have a baby, and your life will be perfect."
Hu Bayi said: "Don't you all say that Mizhi's wife Suide's wife. If these shoes are sold at a high price, you can marry Mizhi's wife in minutes."
Li Chunlai hesitated for a while, looked around for a long time before he opened his bag, took out an exquisite embroidered shoe from it, and handed it to Hu Bayi.
While Hu Bayi was looking at him, Zhao Shucheng also came to the hot pot restaurant near Panjiayuan for dinner, and happened to see Hu Bayi and the others.
"Old Hu, do you have business?"
Hu Bayi saw that it was Zhao Shucheng and said with a smile: "Master Zhao, it's better to come than to come." This brother Chunlai brought a shoe, and you can help me with the palm of my hand?"
Zhao Shucheng glanced at the embroidered shoes and said, "Things are good things. Unfortunately, only one is one, and it can't be sold at any price."
Hu Bayi was a little confused when he heard this and said to Li Chun, "Brother Chunlai, where did you come from? Is there another one?"
Li Chunlai began to tell the origin of this embroidered shoe: "Our place is called Gulan County. It has not rained much in recent years and has been drought. Our village chief said he wanted to fight the drought, and it would rain if he fought the drought."
“What drought?”
Hu Bayi said: "It is a drought, that is, a dry bone pile. The Ming people wrote in "Pengxuan Farewell Records": "Shandong and Henan people were ignited and buried in the corpse, smashed to pray for rain..."
Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "Yes, but although this behavior was strictly prohibited in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has been repeatedly banned. I didn't expect that there are still places to use such superstitious methods now."
"In fact, this behavior has no basis for any reason. Even the so-called drought is just a speculation by some people. The earliest legend of the drought is the daughter of Huangdi. It can dispel wind, rain, and fog, but it is also believed that it will cause local drought, and thus be expelled from people wherever you go."
"However, after the Ming Dynasty, Drought Ba changed from the previous celestial goddess or evil identity to the image of a big dumpling, which generally refers to some zombies."
Hu Bayi asked Li Chunlai to continue to tell the story. Li Chunlai said that he was going to burn the body at that time, but Ma Dadan secretly kept the body without letting it burn. In order to prevent Li Chunlai from telling the matter, he took out a shoe from the coffin and said it was a hush fee.
However, that night, Ma Dadan, the coffin shop and his dozen of his brothers were killed by Lei. Li Chunlai felt that this was a punishment from heaven, so he came to the capital and prepared to sell his shoes and go home to marry a wife and live a good life.
Wang Kaixuan was a little disbelief when he heard Li Chunlai's story, and thought that Li Chunlai was making up stories. After all, if there were really karma, or even such things as Tianzhu, there would not be so many bad people in this world. Even the Japanese who committed the sin back then had been struck by the sky by thunder, and it would be impossible that they still live well now.
Hu Bayi was half-believing and half-doubted about this. Although Li Chunlai's story was a bit fantastic, the experience of Jingjue Ancient City made Hu Bayi rather believe in these things about gods and ghosts.
The origin of these embroidered shoes is so tortuous that they can still be preserved well to this day. However, this antique industry also pays attention to a full set. The more complete the set, the more valuable it is, the more valuable it is. Of course, except for the lonely product, because there is only one piece in the world, there is no same work, and even fewer works of the same kind, which is the most valuable.
"I really didn't expect that it is rare to see that a pair of shoes that have been preserved for hundreds of years can be so well-preserved. But you only have one, and it's not worth a lot."
When Li Chunlai heard this, he became a little anxious and said, "How come he is not worth a lot, this is a treasure!"
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "This is indeed a treasure, but the antique industry does not mean that the treasure is valuable. It depends on the completeness, material, craftsmanship, taste, existence, even age, and popularity."
"Some things are valuable individually, but some things are valuable only in a set. Just say, if you buy shoes yourself, would you only buy one?"
When Li Chunlai heard this, he shook his head and said, "No!"
"That's it. You won't even buy a shoe. Of course, we also hope to have a pair so that we can sell it better." The fat man clapped his hands and said.
When Li Chunlai saw that Zhao Shucheng and the other three said this, he still didn't believe it. He thought they were just coaxing themselves to buy their shoes at a low price.
Seeing Li Chunlai like this, Hu Bayi simply took Li Chun to the antique shop of Dajinya and asked him, a professional, to show it and offer a price.
Li Chunlai hesitated for a moment and agreed. When he arrived at Dajinya, Dajinya glanced at the embroidered shoes, then looked at Zhao Shucheng and others, and said, "This shoe was from the Ming Dynasty. The peony embroidered with gold thread on it is very artistic collection value. If this one is worth 200 yuan, it can be given 500 yuan. However, if you can make up a pair, it will be less than 500 yuan. If you meet someone you like, it is not impossible to have a thousand."
Hu Bayi said without hesitation after hearing this: "Fatty, pay for it!"
Wang Kaixuan didn't say anything nonsense, and took out a stack of money from his pocket, counted out two hundred, and placed it on the table.
Hu Bayi took the money and said, "Brother Chunlai, we don't cover you. This is two hundred yuan. If you are willing, leave your shoes and take them away. If you don't want to, you can just leave with your shoes. You can go to Liulichang and Panjiayuan to check out. There should be no higher price than we offer."
When Li Chunlai saw Fatty Wang paying money, and his previous style of eating meat in a hot pot restaurant without feeling sorry for money, he immediately knew that he had found his goal. After pretending to hesitate, he said, "I won't sell these shoes."
When Wang Kaixuan heard this, he became anxious and said, "No, you won't sell it anymore? With this price, you can't find a second person who can give you this price. You have been wandering around Panjiayuan for a week, and you should be very clear."
Hearing this, Li Chunlai pretended to hesitate and said, "Boss Hu, I have a box of more valuable treasures. If you can go with me and estimate the price of these treasures. If the price is right, that box of treasures will all belong to you. My ideal will be achieved by marrying a wife and having a baby."
Hu Bayi became a little cautious and said, "Didn't you say you only have this embroidered shoe?"
"I hadn't finished speaking just now. It was Ma Dadan who gave me only one shoe, but after Ma Dadan's coffin shop was struck by lightning, the coffin shop was burned out. But is it strange that there was another box without any trouble. I took the box home while others were not paying attention. It was full of treasures and another shoe."
"I came out this time and just searched for it. If there were people who were worth the right offer, they could go back to my hometown with me and collect all those things."
When Hu Bayi heard this, he looked at Wang Kaixuan, then looked at Zhao Shucheng who seemed to be watching a show, and said to Da Jinya, "Let's do this, let's discuss it before making a decision."
Li Chun said, "Okay, I'll leave you an address and go back and wait for your news."
After Li Chun came to leave, Da Jinya looked at Hu Bayi and said, "Master Hu, Master Zhao, when I offered the offer just now, I had already kept a hand."
Wang Kaixuan looked at the big golden teeth and said, "Master Jin, that's OK."
"Of course, I have to say that this shoe can be worth at least 500. If it is really a pair, it will not be a problem to double it."
Da Jinya said and looked at Hu Bayi and said, "Master Hu, don't say I'm treacherous. There are rules in this industry. In this antique industry, eyesight, experience and courage are indispensable, and it is also wealth. I can pay 200 yuan for you, Mr. Hu. Otherwise, even if Li Chunlai is a timid person, even if he travels all over the capital, no one will give you a price higher than fifty. That is, Mr. Hu, you are kind and righteous, so Li Chunlai is willing to tell the matter of the box of treasures. The subsequent transactions cannot be done, so we have to learn from Mr. Hu."
Hu Bayi looked at Zhao Shucheng with some surprise and asked: "Master Zhao, you didn't say much along the way. What do you think about this matter?"
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "It's nothing to go there. It's true. It's also considered that we've caught it this time. If it's fake, we'll just see what he wants to do, right?"
Hu Ba nodded and said, "Master Zhao is right, let's go and have a look?"
After hearing this, Da Jinya quickly said, "Master Hu, Master Zhao, if you want to go, don't forget to take me with me. I have heard from my colleagues who went to Shaanxi to collect things. This place is a good place, with the 800-mile Qinchuan and the civil and military avenue, and the Three Qins are even more treasures of things. Xi'an is the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties. There are so many emperors, generals and ministers buried underground, and countless cultural relics left by the people are countless. I have always been determined to collect some good things there and have a long experience, but I am afraid of suffering and troubles alone, so I am afraid of not being able to solve it. So I have not made a journey."
"This time Mr. Hu, Mr. Zhao, and the fat brothers will go together. We will take care of each other when the time comes."
The four of them discussed and decided to go to Gulan County in a few days to see what the so-called box of treasures is.
Chapter completed!