Yuncheng Antique Market is the largest antique art city in Yuncheng. It has three floors. The first floor is mostly scattered stalls, and the second and third floors are some finely decorated antique shops. The second floor is mainly popular collectibles such as calligraphy and painting, jade and ceramics, while the third floor is mostly miscellaneous items and jade jewelry.

Today is the weekend, and the streets of the antique city are already occupied by scattered stalls, crowded with tourists, and very lively.

The items displayed on the stalls are also dazzling and varied.

Porcelain with simple patterns, Buddha statues of different shapes, colorful beads... each one reveals the vicissitudes and heaviness of history, which makes Lu Xingchen dazzled.

Are these things antiques?

"Come, take a look, take a look! There are only 300 authentic Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelains left in the world. If you miss this opportunity, there will be no next time!"

"Little brother, this is a Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup, a great product from Dakaimen, would you like to take a look at it?"

"Brother, little sister, come and have a look. This is a national treasure that was unearthed not long ago. If my children were not anxious to get married, I would never sell this precious treasure! Hey, brother, don't leave, stay and have a look!"

"..."

The shouts from both sides rushed into Lu Xingchen's ears.

Lu Xingchen's eyes widened when he heard this.

He had never heard of the Chicken-Glazed Cup, but he knew about Yuan blue and white porcelain.

At one auction, a Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain jar depicting Guiguzi descending the mountain was sold at a sky-high price of 2.3 million yuan.

During that time, his old man kept talking about wanting to buy a piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain, but in the end nothing came of it.

Unexpectedly, he would meet him here. Lu Xingchen could not move his feet and stared at the stall selling Yuan blue and white porcelain.

Yu Sheng walked forward a few steps, and seeing that Lu Xingchen had not caught up, she turned around to look for him.

Following the direction of his gaze, Yu Sheng couldn't help but laugh, "You want to buy a Yuan blue and white porcelain too?"

"Ok!"

Lu Xingchen nodded heavily.

This is a Yuan blue and white porcelain that even his old man didn't receive. If he buys it back, he will be so proud.

Yu Sheng laughed again and leaned close to his ear, "Cover your mouth first."

Lu Xingchen:?

Yu Sheng insisted: "Cover your mouth."

Lu Xingchen could only put his hand on his mouth in doubt.

"They are fake. It's hard to find a real thing among a hundred items on these stalls."

Lu Xingchen’s eyes widened and he almost shouted out loud.

fake?

This shouldn’t be the case. Aren’t these people afraid that buyers will come to them after finding out about the fakes they sell?

This is knowingly selling counterfeit goods.

"Very surprised?"

Lu Xingchen nodded.

Yu Sheng motioned for him to put his hands down, and then explained to him as they walked.

"The antique business is different from other businesses. It requires good eyesight. Those who are involved in this business must accept an unspoken rule, which is that they must accept defeat if they lose."

To put it simply, antiques are collectible objects that have been preserved from ancient times.

Of course, China has a long history, and not all old things that have been passed down are good things. It also depends on the cultural and artistic value behind them.

The rise of antique collecting has made everyone realize the value of antiques, and more and more fakes have flooded into the market.

There are many scam teams on the market that specialize in setting up traps to defraud people, making it difficult to guard against them.

In order to identify antiques, one has to consider many aspects. Even experienced and knowledgeable experts can make mistakes and misjudge treasures.

Therefore, selling fake goods is very common in the antique business and it has almost become an industry trend.

If you buy fake goods, it means that you are not good enough. You can't blame others. You can only consider yourself unlucky.

What Yu Sheng said were almost all the commonly accepted rules in the industry, which gave Lu Xingchen, who had never been involved in the antique business, a huge shock.

"But isn't this a lie?"

Yu Sheng curled the corners of her lips, "Let's not talk about whether you can find the person who sold you the fake goods after you bought them. Let's say that after you bought the fake goods, what evidence do you have to prove that it is a fake?"

Lu Xingchen thought for a long time and finally said, "...I can ask an expert to identify it."

His old man often looks for experts to identify treasures for him.

The attitude towards the experts was much more enthusiastic than towards him.

“The store owner can accept what the expert says, but what if he refuses to admit it?

There are also reminders in antique shops that no refunds or exchanges are accepted once you leave the store.

You took the item out, and it's possible that it was replaced in just one minute.

The other party uses this as an excuse to refute you. Can you prove that the things have not been replaced? "

Lu Xingchen was speechless.

He didn't know there were so many pitfalls in the antique business.

"Then why are we here? Waiting to be cheated?"

Yu Sheng: "I only said that there are few real things in here, but I didn't say there is no real thing at all."

Searching for treasures in an antique city is like panning for gold in the waves, and the right time, place and people are all essential.

Yu Sheng was not sure if she could find real antiques on her first visit. Her real goal was the antique shop left by her grandfather.

Yu Sheng's grandfather, Old Man Yu, once ran an antique shop in Yuncheng Antique City.

Mr. Yu is a businessman, but he is also an appraisal expert with great integrity. He will mark whether any antiques he handles are authentic or fake, and he never cheats.

Therefore, the antique shop he runs is quite trusted by local collectors.

However, it is difficult to build trust, but it is very easy to destroy it.

Some people took advantage of this and set up a trap to frame Mr. Yu, replacing the things he marked as authentic with counterfeits, and then exposed the counterfeiting on the spot at an antique event.

From then on, Mr. Yu's reputation plummeted, and he himself was attacked by many collectors in Yuncheng.

Old Man Yu became disheartened and handed his antique shop over to someone else to run. He returned to his hometown in Nancheng alone and never did appraisals for anyone again.

Yu Sheng didn't know about these past events until her grandfather passed away. It was only when she returned to Yuncheng and found the antique shop with the ownership certificate left by her grandfather that she pieced together the truth from many people who knew the truth.

Yu Sheng originally wanted to use her own strength to clear her grandfather's grievances, but she didn't know that the younger generation that her grandfather trusted at the time had already been in touch with Jin Lan for more than ten years.

The antique shop also became an accessory for Jinlan and her daughter.

As soon as she left the antique shop, the ownership certificate of the antique shop disappeared.

Until the day she died, she was never able to take back what her grandfather had put in his life.

Yu Sheng glanced in the direction of the second floor of the antique city and smiled meaningfully, "It's still early, let's take our time."

Lu Xingchen said "Oh" and his emotions slowly calmed down. He was no longer as excited as before, but his eyes were still looking around curiously.

Without paying attention, he bumped into a short man.

Wow!

Before Lu Xingchen could react, his arm was grabbed tightly by someone.

The man shouted at the top of his voice with an excited look on his face.

"Okay, you broke my baby! Pay me!"

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