Chapter 60

The next day was the weekend.

Ye Chen was pulled by his father-in-law and drove to the Antique Street early.

His father-in-law was refreshed. As soon as he got out of the car, he waved to Ye Chen and said: "Let's go, I'll show you what it means to pick up a bargain."

After speaking, he strode towards the Antique Street.

Ye Chen had to follow quickly, looking around while walking.

On weekends, there were many more people on the Antique Street than usual.

The antique and jade shops on both sides were very dense, and the stalls set up by vendors on weekends were also dense, blocking the whole street in an instant.

There were also many vendors who just spread a plastic cloth on the ground, filled with all kinds of antiques and jade, welcoming guests on the spot.

Ye Chen glanced at it casually and almost didn't see any genuine products. They were all fakes used by black-hearted merchants to deceive laymen and tourists from other places.

Many tourists who bought fakes were completely kept in the dark, holding the imitations and smiling, thinking they had taken a big advantage.

"It's here!"

Xiao Changkun stopped, standing in front of a simple stall, his face unable to hide his excitement.

Only to see a few tourists standing beside the stall, picking antiques. Xiao Changkun was afraid of falling behind, so he hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.

Ye Chen glanced at it. This stall was nothing more than spreading an oil paper on the ground, with more than a dozen antiques covered in mud, such as blue and white horses, five-emperor copper coins, copper wine cups, blood jade bracelets, yellowed calligraphy and paintings...

The things were dazzling, but Ye Chen just took a casual look and found that they were all fakes.

The stall owner was a thin man with dark skin. He wore a blue coarse cloth garment, his hair was oily and messy, and he looked honest and simple, looking wooden to the extreme.

"Look at this!" Xiao Changkun excitedly greeted Ye Chen, pointing to a colorful vase with a big belly and a small mouth, and whispered: "This is the wine barrel that goes with my two cups! I'll buy it back and make a set, and the price will double!"

Ye Chen glanced at the wine barrel, weighed it in his hand, looked up and asked the boss.

"How much?"

The boss stared with bulging eyes and said stupidly: "I, my dad said, at least 20,000, not for sale for a cent less!"

Xiao Changkun almost laughed when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Ye Chen: "This boss doesn't know the goods, let's buy it quickly, lest it be picked up by others."

After speaking, he hurriedly reached into his pocket.

Just at this time, Ye Chen pressed his hand nimbly and smiled: "Dad, this thing is not worth 20,000, let's not buy it."

"What?" Xiao Changkun was stunned, "Then... how much do you say it's worth?"

Ye Chen stretched out his palm and shook it in front of the boss: "This number."

"5,000?" the boss asked with wide eyes.

Ye Chen shook his head: "No, it's 50 yuan."

The boss stared at Ye Chen for several seconds as if looking at an alien, and suddenly shouted: "Do you know the goods? This is an antique left by my grandpa, a genuine treasure, you city people are too bullying."

Xiao Changkun was also anxious and pulled Ye Chen: "Don't talk nonsense, be careful not to ruin the business."

Ye Chen smiled, picked up the bottle, turned it over, flicked the yellow mud on the bottom of the bottle with his hand, and pointed to the middle of a narrow slit, saying: "Dad, look at what this is."

That slit was extremely small. If Ye Chen hadn't pointed it out, ordinary people wouldn't have seen it at all. In the middle of the slit, a row of extremely small English letters was revealed.

"madeinchina."

Xiao Changkun was stunned, his mouth wide enough to stuff an egg, unable to react for a long time.

Suddenly, he came back to his senses, his face flushed red as he pointed at the boss and shouted.

"You, you scammer!!"

Ye Chen held the wine barrel and shook it at the boss, saying: "Even the manufacturer doesn't dare to blatantly forge antiques, deliberately writing this sign. You are quite smart, knowing how to block it with mud. One sentence, 30 yuan, sell or not?"

"This..."

The boss was stunned for a moment, and suddenly the honesty on his face disappeared, and he slapped his forehead and smiled awkwardly.

"Two bosses, I went out in a hurry today, I took the wrong bottle."

"Took the wrong one?" Ye Chen smiled, picked up a snuff bottle covered in mud again, dug the mud at the mouth of the bottle with his hand, shone it against the sun, and said seriously: "This one didn't take the wrong one, it was produced in Suzhou."

In the snuff bottle, there was a row of transparent small characters.

"Made by Suzhou Handicraft Factory."

"I don't know how to read, who knows what kind of stuff is written on this." Seeing the exposure, the boss didn't even do business, and while smiling awkwardly, he wrapped the oil paper cloth and wanted to run away.

Xiao Changkun completely came back to his senses, so angry that his seven orifices were smoking. He had been played like a monkey for a long time.

He grabbed the boss and roared.

"You scammer, return the money to me."

"What money, I have never seen you." The boss struggled hard, and fake copper coins and fake jade horses kept falling from the oil paper cloth he was carrying.

The jade horse fell on the ground and didn't even break. It seemed to be made of hardened plastic.

"If you don't return the money, I'll call the police!" Xiao Changkun roared with wide eyes, so angry that his lungs were about to explode.

During the tug-of-war between the two, something suddenly fell from the boss's bosom.

Just as this thing fell, Ye Chen suddenly frowned and stared at the thing on the ground.

This thing was a white pebble the size of a fist, exactly the same as the kind of pebble on the river beach, gray and white without luster.

But one thing was different: there were a few words carved on this pebble—Peace and Wealth!

The font was crudely made, and it looked like it was carved by hand.

This kind of carved stone was everywhere in the scenic area and was worthless, so it was no wonder the boss didn't put it out just now.

However, Ye Chen took a step forward, picked up the stone, and his blood suddenly boiled.

Just now, he felt a different kind of aura emanating from this antique!

Calling it an aura, it was actually more like a kind of energy, a kind of magnetic field, which had a powerful attraction to him.

Ye Chen knew that this should all be the spiritual energy recorded in the "Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra"!

Spiritual energy is a mysterious energy that has been lost for a long time. It can not only thoroughly transform a person's physical fitness, but even cultivate and produce many effects that are unimaginable to ordinary people!

Ye Chen was overjoyed, weighed the pebble in his hand calmly, and asked: "Is this thing yours?"

The boss was stunned for a moment, and nodded subconsciously, "Yes."

"How much for this stone?"

Xiao Changkun was also surprised and asked: "Why are you buying this broken stone! Don't you know that this profiteer sells all fakes!"

"Just a stone, buy one to wash away the bad luck." Ye Chen smiled and said.

The boss took the opportunity to break free from Xiao Changkun's hand and smiled awkwardly at Ye Chen: "You really want to buy it?"

Ye Chen nodded: "Really buy!"

The boss immediately got into the spirit and said eloquently: "Brother, you really have vision! Don't look at my pebble as unremarkable, but it has an extraordinary origin. This was placed on the dragon desk in Emperor Gan's study back then, as a paperweight..."

Ye Chen didn't have time to listen to his long-winded talk and interrupted impatiently.

"Spare me the nonsense, get to the point!"

The boss smiled dryly: "Since you are a person who knows the goods, then... 20,000!"

Ye Chen said disdainfully: "You're crazy about money, right? One price, 300! If you don't sell it, I'll call the police to arrest you."

"300?" The boss sighed and smiled dryly: "Brother, you are a person who knows the goods, 300 it is."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and pinched the stone in his hand.

Xiao Changkun was suspicious in his heart, not knowing what he bought such a broken stone for. Just as he was about to ask, a dangling voice suddenly came from the side.

"Yo, this stone is not bad, this young master wants it!"