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Chapter 46: Possessing the ancients is not rich, knowing the ancients is not poor (1)

As soon as he entered the flea market, Emilia was like a curious baby who would like to take a look at anything. She dragged Arthur's hand and kept 'jumping' between various stalls.

Sometimes I picked up a Czech double-mouthed porcelain jar and smiled at Arthur. Sometimes I ran to another stall and pointed to the porcelain sculptures in Naples, Italy, saying that I liked it. I squatted in the pile of gold and silver jewelry to pick and choose. From time to time I picked up one and compared it in front of me, seeking Arthur's advice...

There are a wide range of goods on the street stalls, including precious ceramic images, old-fashioned magnifying glasses, etc., in short, everything you want. The most common goods here are silverware, paintings and furniture, and Taobao will be surprised all the time.

However, compared with the antiques in the store, the sense of historical precipitation and value is much worse, and many even modern knives, forks, bowls, belts, sabers, telescopes, etc.

After spending dozens of pounds, they bought an exquisite silver carved jewelry box and gave it to Emilia. After she happily gave her a sweet fragrance, the two of them began to browse and enjoy it at various stalls.

“Huh?!”

When passing by a young boss sitting in a stall where he was napping on a folding chair, Arthur saw a string of white melon-edged bracelets on the other party’s wrist. When did the blond young foreigner start playing with bracelets?

Arthur's eyes and expression were surprised and shocked, and gradually became meaningful. The eyes in his eyes became extremely bright. He did not stop and continued to walk forward. After walking past the stall, he whispered a few words in Emilia's ear.

After Emilia was slightly stunned, her eyes turned to the owner of the stall who was dozing off, and then said suspiciously: "Go, Paul and I will go ahead to see it first. We will come back to find you later."

"Well, Paul, give me some money." Arthur said to the butler Paul with a smile.

The housekeeper Paul took out his wallet without hesitation and handed it to Arthur, "There is about a thousand pounds of cash in it."

"Haha, enough..." Arthur smiled confidently, then nodded to the two of them, turned around and walked over to the stall.

Instead of waking up the sleepy young boss, Arthur squatted down and checked the goods on the stalls, which were similar to most vintage stalls. Not only did they contain vinyl records, various silver jewelry, but also some World War II items, old small clocks, pocket watches and other old items.

However, it can be seen that most of the things in it have been in the past few years, and there are several boxes covered. Arthur knew at a glance that it was a cloth gift box like the Celestial Empire, and his eyes became even more eager.

"Sir, can I open the box and see what's inside?"

Arthur looked up and seemed to notice a guest coming. He opened his sleepy eyes, and asked the young boss who was still indifferent to his interest.

"Please feel free"

"Thank you." Arthur smiled and nodded, then reached out and picked up a larger flat rectangular box first and slowly opened it. Seeing what was inside, Arthur's eyes, which were lowered, were flashing with extremely hot light, forcibly suppressing the excitement and excitement in his heart. As if nothing had happened, he reached out and lifted the string of amber beads with lustrous oil in the box. However, he did not take it out directly and put it in his hand to look at it.

Courtyard beads!

Arthur was extremely sure. After all, he had seen several court beads in his previous life, but this one seemed to be missing. There were only the finished main bead strings, with three small beads attached on both sides and they were nowhere to be found.

Xunxu checked the number of amber beads, and it was exactly 108. Between every 27 amber beads, there were 4 pink tourmaline "Buddha heads" spaced, slightly larger than the amber beads. Under a tourmaline Buddha head, there was a gourd-shaped tourmaline "Buddha head tower". There was a string of tourmaline round beads connected to the Buddha head tower, which was slightly smaller than the amber beads.

The beads of different textures and colors represent the heaven, earth, sun, and moon. The amber beads were worn during the sacrifice of the earth. The beads were evenly round and uniform in size, and the color was as gold as gold. Arthur guessed that this might be a string of golden beads.

He covered the box calmly and put it aside. He reached out and was about to pick up another cube box, but was interrupted by the young boss. "There is a teapot made of mud in it, so I'll help you get it."

When Arthur heard this, he stopped in the air and retracted his hand, with an awkward smile on his face, and said to the other party with great embarrassment: "Sorry, I... I'll trouble the boss."

One of the major social unspoken rules of the British is to advocate "clumsiness". If you want to be a completely impeccable British, the only sure rule is to be clumsy and embarrassing in self-introduction and greeting occasions. A person must subconsciously do this, be uncomfortable, clumsy, and most importantly, embarrassing. Those eloquent, good-talking, and full of confidence are all improper behaviors and are completely non-British behaviors.”

Arthur's embarrassment and clumsiness did not seem to surprise the young boss, but opened the box without caring about it and raised a purple clay teapot with a shiny body from it.

A purple clay pot with beam lifting, but why is the body of the pot so bright?

Arthur frowned slightly, and the metal movable lifting beam, spout, lid, and ring foot were wrapped in metal. Purple sand polished? Glazed? I haven't heard of it at all...

He reached out and carefully took the purple clay pot with his hand. Arthur flipped the pot and looked at the bottom.

The engraving of ‘A piece of ice heart in the y pot’ and a seal of Meng Chen.

Meng Chen Pot!

During the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Arthur knew the famous Mengchen pot, but he had never seen such a polished purple clay pot. There was nothing strange about the metal lifting beam. After thinking for a moment, he carefully handed the purple clay pot to the young boss with a somewhat indifferent expression.

"May I ask, can I take a look at the things in this box?" Arthur asked at the other party with a little awkward smile.

"Yes, here is a beautifully carved white stone plaque..." He said that, and handed the box to Arthur.

Arthur heard the other party's introduction and pulled the corners of his mouth in a hidden way. When he opened the box, his pupils shrank slightly, and a brilliant flashed. He picked up the white jade dragon jade plaque in the box and put it in his hand to check it carefully.

Arthur was not surprised that foreigners could not understand or look at the jade of the Heavenly Dynasty. Even in ten years, items like jade would still be cold overseas. Compared with dazzling gems, foreigners were suspicious of the high-priced jade and shouted that they couldn't understand it!

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Wei Guoren, because they are "uneducated". Ahem, here it means there is no "jade culture".

"Good carving, what kind of animal is there on it? It's very strange..." Arthur asked with great interest in the carving on the stone sign.

"It seems like it is a dragon from the Celestial Empire. I don't know very well. Their dragon has no wings..." As he said that, the young boss curled his lips and shrugged his shoulders, with an expression that he couldn't understand.

Arthur also showed doubts, shook his head, then put down and said, "But the carvings are very beautiful, what is the price?"

"50 pounds." The young boss glanced at Arthur indifferently, said the price without hesitation, and then put the box back to its original position, as if he thought Arthur was the same as other customers and would leave as soon as he asked about the price.
Chapter completed!
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