Chapter 0165 – Ghost Market

Ghost market in the first twenty to thirty years before liberation. The most prevalent, after the liberation of the implementation of the planned economy, before the reform and opening up, not many people dare to boldly on the street stalls, so the ghost market once disappeared in the crowd’s line of sight, to the nineties, only to slowly reappear in the people’s field of vision.

However, antique ghost market, or extremely rare, in addition to like Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Xi’an and several other major cities, even Guangzhou has no ghost market exists, although the Cantonese language “walking ghost” word, but that refers to some of the unlicensed traders, and antique ghost market is completely irrelevant.

Even in the existence of antique ghost market in those cities, the ghost market is not every day, because the vendors in the ghost market are often from the north and south of the world, mobility is very strong, and its identity is complex, the three religions and nine streams of everything, so in those cities, every week only one to two days of time, there will be antique ghost market.

“Fourth Brother. Are you telling the truth, there will be a ghost market in this place in Pingzhou?”

Zhuang Rui was a little unconvinced, in several big cities are rare to see the antique ghost market, in Pingzhou this small place will have?

“My old man said there is, he came last year’s time, what exactly is going on, I don’t know, wait, I’ll find someone to ask.” Although Bi Yuntao is from Guangdong, but it is also the first time to come to Pingzhou, the ghost market is something he heard the elders of his family mentioned, thinking that Zhuang Rui is now mixing with the antique line, that’s why he mentioned it in passing, and then asked in detail, he doesn’t know anymore.

The old four to live in Pingzhou, very is not cold, in his eyes, Pingzhou and the countryside is almost the same, now live in this hotel, although claimed to be four-star, but and Guangzhou’s three-star hotels compared to that are a lot worse, and this time due to the opening of the original stone trade fair, the price of the rooms can be almost compared with the five-star hotels.

Just now, the old four persuaded Zhuang Rui to live in Guangzhou, anyway, the distance is not very far, if you drive, you do not need an hour to come over, just Zhuang Rui and Song Jun appointment is to meet in this hotel. And it’s convenient to bring the white lion in this small place, he can’t run a city dog license everywhere he goes!

“Hey, pretty girl, come here for a second, yes, that’s you.”

Old four from the sofa stood up, to the service desk in front of a waitress shouted, Zhuang Rui and the boss looked up, and hastily put his head down again, the heart of the old four that is the admiration of the body, at this time there is no Phoenix and other sirens, if there is, this waitress looks are enough to fight with the stream of Phoenix.

“Beauty, and you ask a thing, I heard that there are early morning stalls here, is it true ah? Do you know where it is? It doesn’t matter if you don’t know, how can a beautiful woman like you go to a stall!”

Lao Si’s power was deep enough, looking at the buck-toothed, freckle-faced waitress in front of him, not only did she talk and laugh freely, but her compliments came out of her mouth. Hearing what Zhuang Rui and Wei ate last night, a burst of outward flooding, just short of spitting out, they can not figure out this hotel still want to do business ah! Arranging for such an individual to stand at the front desk.

“Pretty boy, tell you, you really inquired about the right person, this thing I know, those who are on duty during the day, really don’t know this thing, I’m on duty at night, some of the guests at four or five o’clock in the morning when they go out, is to go to the market you said that early in the morning stalls, I heard that ah! That market inside are not good people, one by one are sneaky, and ……”

“Wait, you’d better say first, that early morning stall market in what place! This day is bright, go late on no ah!”

This buck-toothed waitress may be a night shift, was suffocated not light, see the old four so a handsome boy shouting beauty, suddenly came to the spirit, but pulled half a day froze did not say the subject to, spittle is sprayed the old four back and forth, because if he stood there not moving words, that blood red mouth, it is estimated that it will be printed on his face to go.

“Not in the jade street well! From here out, go forward three hundred meters around the corner to the, that place what good to go, I heard are selling some broken iron, which has here blowing the air conditioning comfortable, I said pretty boy, hehe …… people?”

Buck-toothed waitress is talking about the happy it, suddenly found that the original sitting on the sofa of the three people, at the moment all disappeared, even has been honestly lying on the ground of the big dog, have disappeared.

“Gas sex (Cantonese: nerves), there is a beautiful woman to accompany the chat still running around ……”

The buck-toothed woman bared her teeth, twisted her bucket waist and turned around to go back inside the service counter, but she would definitely be in a good mood today, knowing that it was rare for someone to call her a sub-pretty girl throughout the year.

“Old four, I now sort of know, if than shameless, old two absolutely than you, that kind of woman, you can also shout out the word beautiful, brother I served you.”

At this time, the three of them were already walking on an empty street, and Zhuang Rui was still followed by White Lion. Wei’s voice echoed loudly on the road.

The oldest four sniffed and said in disbelief, “What is this, Cantonese people talk like this, Zeng Zhiwei like almost fifty old man can be called pretty boy, I shouted beauty how, right, the youngest, you this dog does not bite people right! Otherwise it’s easy to get into trouble here.”

Seeing that the white lion had also followed him out, the oldest couldn’t help but speak out and ask. Although Guangdong didn’t prohibit keeping pets, but the control of large dogs was still very strict.

Zhuang Rui rubbed the white lion’s big head and replied, “It’s fine, the white lion is very obedient and won’t bite …… indiscriminately.”

When the white lion is small, it is very cute, then maybe someone will tease it, but now the white lion can only be described by the mighty, the average person sees the fear of avoiding, where dare to go up to provoke it ah! The white lion is now immune to crowds of people, at most baring its teeth to scare people, and will not really bite.

Pingzhou Jade Street is located in the South China Sea District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, Guicheng Street, Yongan Road, in the mid-1970s, has been the beginning of the end of the last century, in the line that is quite famous, jade production and sales of the country’s largest, ranked first in the country’s four major jade market to process Jadeite A light body jade and known far and wide.

Since the reform and opening up, individual households have sprung up in Pingzhou.

Scattered all over Pingzhou, the old line of jade respect, skilled craftsmen, have self-financing, to the Yunnan China-Burma border along the Tengchong, Yingjiang, Zhang Feng, Ruili, Wanchao procurement of Burmese jadeite jade back to the family workshop-style processing production and marketing of finished jade products. As Pingzhou jade craftsmen were good at making polished pieces, they were not only of good quality and craftsmanship, but also sold at a cheap price, which soon made them famous in the jade industry in China’s mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as in Southeast Asia.

Jade traders from all over the country came directly to Pingzhou Pingdong Duntou Village to purchase finished jade products, and the Pingzhou Jade Market was thus formed. Formed in the mid-1980s, the Pingzhou Jade Market increased its sales value to over one hundred million dollars by the mid-1990s.

Pingzhou jade products mainly include jade bracelets, jade buttons, chicken hearts and gall bladders, and its processing technology is exquisite, especially the majority of varieties of jade buttons, all of which make “Pingzhou buttons” famous, and every year there are a lot of tourists from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan who often come here in admiration of the name.

From the hotel to the Jade Street, but is a few minutes away, turned a corner, Zhuang Rui and others saw this famous domestic jade street.

Jade Street from east to west is probably more than 2000 meters, on both sides of this street, both the Jade Street citizen’s home, but also by the public in the home opened by the jade store, this street on the hundreds of residents of almost every household has a processing jade workshop, is a typical front store after the factory marketing model. There are also workshops specializing in processing, such as professional valet opening, valet carving, valet polishing, etc. Although not many stores are open for business right now, the signs in front of the stores, however, are all written in such words.

Now but more than six o’clock in the morning, although the sky is already bright, but the sun has not come out, coupled with a rain here yesterday, this will have some thin fog, through this layer of thin things, can vaguely see both sides of the jade street, there are a lot of people walking around, but there is no general market clamor here, but it is really something like ghosts open, small ghosts stalls in general.

“The youngest, how do I feel this place through the evil ah! What good things can there be here? Besides, this weather, there are good objects you can not see ah! Let’s go back and come back when the sun comes out.”

Yang Wei has always been very small, to this somewhat bizarre place, the heart can not help but nervous up, reached out and pulled Zhuang Rui, stood in the street, obviously do not want to go in.

“Boss, these stalls, most of them are digging graves and digging tombs, their bodies are more or less stained with dead people, you be careful! Don’t let which unjustly dead little ghost, hook your soul away.”

Lao Si knows that Wei brother is timid, usually afraid of ghosts and gods and other things, deliberately behind the words to scare him, Wei brother also partial to eat this set, dead grasp Zhuang Rui’s clothes, said nothing is willing to go forward.

“I say fourth brother, don’t scare the boss, this kind of ghost market opportunity is very rare, Brother Wei, don’t be afraid, follow the white lion, all evils will not be invaded.”

Zhuang Rui was said by the oldest four crying and laughing, he is now anxious to go in, because according to common sense, this place in Pingzhou is generally impossible to have a ghost market, it is estimated that the east wind of this raw stone trade fair, those people from all over the country who play antiques in the three religions and nine streams, will gather here.

To know, antiques and jade, this is connected, many jade merchants are often also antique collectors, antique collection of this circle is more powerful group of people, so all over the country antiques “ghosts”, will be at this time to focus on this location.

As the old four said, the identity of these people are very complex, really appear some digging graves, that is not unusual, but also often is the hands of these people, will appear in some of the antiques in the fine objects.