In the end, Yang Jing spent 800 yuan to buy the bronze statue of the "Dance King Shiva inherited the mortal statue of the Ganges River".

This is because this bronze statue is made of copper. In 1994, the price of copper was about 16 yuan per kilogram, and this bronze statue is about 7 kilograms. Even if it is a waste purchase station, it can be sold for 300 yuan.

Yang Jing wanted to win it for 500 yuan, but the boss was unwilling to say anything, so he could only give 800 yuan in the end...

Through this incident, Yang Jing also understood more why the prices of antiques in this era were so low. On the one hand, the most important reason was that because the information was underdeveloped, most of the antiques sellers did not know what the things they were in their hands were. How could they sell the prices?

Take this bronze statue as an example. If you meet someone who knows it in India or knows it, let alone 800,000 yuan, you can take it down to be your ability! This thing is a serious national treasure. Although it is a national treasure of India, it is also a national treasure, right?

When did you hear that national treasures can be bought for 800 yuan?

As for how this bronze statue fell into the hands of this dealer, it is actually not difficult to imagine.

In the 1990s, incredible thefts often occurred in chaotic India. It would be better if the wealthy families were stolen. It was not uncommon for the National Museum to be stolen. What's even more exaggerated is that even the Prime Minister's Office was stolen every few days...

This bronze statue is probably the treasure of a museum, or the heirloom of a family of higher surnames, and was stolen. Then the Buddha statue was trampled to China for some unknown reason. As a result, the Chinese dealers did not understand that it was an Indian national treasure. After one or two transmissions, they finally sold it to the dealer in Panjiayuan at the price of scrap copper. But the dealer did not understand this, so he became a fool to get Yang Jing.

In fact, in the 1980s and 1990s, many things that were considered national treasures in later generations were very low in prices, and a large part of them were caused by this reason.

In the early years, I often heard that someone bought a Qianlong pastel plate in Panjiayuan for 300 yuan, someone bought a manuscript from Lu Xun at Liulichang for 200 yuan, and someone bought a genuine work of Tang Bohu at Baoguo Temple for 400 yuan...

In fact, this is because the people who sell these things don’t know what kind of national treasure they are.

In this era, there was no Internet or smartphone, and there was no such thing as in later generations. If you wanted to check something, you could do it with just one move of your finger. Therefore, it became increasingly difficult to find a bargain in later generations. In this era, picking a bargain cannot be said to be like drinking cold water, but it is much easier than in later generations.

I spent 800 yuan to buy a national treasure-level antique worth more than three million US dollars in later generations. This can be regarded as the biggest leak I have picked up today.

However, this bronze statue also brought endless troubles to Yang Jing.

"Damn, how do I take this bronze statue?" I was just shopping to buy this bronze statue, but after I bought it, Yang Jing realized that this bronze statue was still a big deal. Trouble.

The bronze statue weighs nearly fifteen kilograms and is half a meter high. The most important thing is that this bronze statue was well protected before. If I carried it like this, if I accidentally bumped it into it, I wouldn't even find the place to cry.

But if you don’t hold this thing, there will be no place to put it!

Yang Jing planned to stay here all day today. If he was holding such a big guy around, it would be inconvenient. Just this weight would make him exhausted.

At this time, Yang Jing realized that although he had made a lot of preparations before coming, when something really happened, his preparations were still far from enough. At least Yang Jing didn't know where to put the bronze statue in his arms.

He held the bronze statue and poked the edge of the greenhouse area like a telephone pole for a long time. Only then did Yang Jing temporarily give up the idea of ​​continuing to visit, but instead planned to find a place to put the bronze statue up first.

Not only this bronze statue, but also the Longquan Ge Kiln Huakou Plate in the bag and the 1944 "Selected Mao" can't be kept in the bag. One of these two things is afraid of touching, and the other is quite heavy. It's quite tiring to carry them on your back.

You should know that before Yang Jing traveled through time, he not only prepared a total of 100,000 yuan of "four-headed" 100 yuan bill, but in order to prevent it, he specially bought two "little yellow croaker" from a jewelry store, put them in his bag and brought them over.

Including these things, the things in the backpack alone weigh more than ten pounds. Walking around the antique market with such heavy things is simply to give yourself eye drops.

Thinking of this, Yang Jing walked out with the bronze statue in his arms. Yang Jing's idea was to see if he could temporarily rent a house in the opposite house to store these things, and take them away together when he left.

But after Yang Jing walked to the gate, he suddenly realized that it was only around 5 a.m., and it was still 5 a.m. in winter. At this point, where are the people who get up? Where can I go to find a house to rent?

Yang Jing stood alone at the gate of the market with the Buddha statue in his arms. The feeling was really miserable.

But there are always many kind-hearted people in this world.

After Yang Jing stood for a while, the door of the duty room at the gate opened, and a market staff member in uniform walked out.

"Young man, have you encountered any difficulties?" The staff member's voice was very gentle, completely different from the cold wind in the early morning.

Yang Jing was stunned and then understood that his actions fell into the eyes of the staff member, which obviously made him think he was in trouble.

After looking at the duty room, Yang Jing's heart moved and then said, "This comrade, I really encountered some difficulties."

"Come on, I'm talking in the room, it's very cold outside." The staff member enthusiastically welcomed Yang Jing into the room. As soon as he entered the room, Yang Jing was moaned twice by the heat coming towards him.

I've been freezing outside for more than an hour, and nothing is more comfortable than being able to enter such a warm cabin.

"Comrade, have you encountered any difficulties?" the staff asked kindly.

Yang Jing smiled bitterly and said, "Comrade, I have only been to Yanjing recently. I heard that there is a ghost market in Panjiayuan, so I came here early this morning. I bought a few things, but I found that the things I bought were not available for the time being, but I didn't want to go back so early, so I wanted to see if I could rent a house nearby. But now it's just this..."

The staff member smiled and said, "No wonder you are from another place and don't know the situation in Panjiayuan. But since you have encountered such a situation, it is not appropriate to rent a house now. I don't think it's OK, so you put the things here first. I'll send you a receipt and take them away when you leave."

“Is this appropriate?”

"Haha, there is nothing suitable or not. As long as you feel at ease with me, I promise that your stuff can't be lost here."

Of course, Yang Jing wanted to find a place to store the things, but Yang Jing was still a little worried about the staff who was looking at the door. After all, the things in his hand were all real old items that opened the door. As long as you bring them back to 2017, you will pick out any good things worth more than one million.

But it won’t be possible if you don’t put it here. Where can you ask Yang Jing to go to find a house? You can’t just smash the door of someone else’s house and say you want to rent someone else’s house? Why don’t you beat Yang Jing out with a fire stick?

But if Yang Jing was allowed to stay here without going to the ghost market, it would obviously not be what Yang Jing wanted.

He made so many preparations and accumulated so much treasure energy to come to this era to have a good time in the ghost market. If he stayed here and looked at these things, he would be really sorry for his previous preparations.

The staff seemed to see Yang Jing's hesitation, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, no one has temporarily stored the things here before. Panjiayuan is still a little bit off. Some people from Haidian and Xicheng who come from Haidian and Xicheng will not be able to take them away after buying things, and they will often store them here. Don't worry, I've signed a receipt for you to ensure that your things are indispensable."

People said everything like this. If they refuse again, it would be too disgrace. Moreover, Yang Jing really had no place to put this bronze statue, so he smiled and nodded and said, "Master, that's really a trouble for you." As he said that, Yang Jing took out two boxes of camel cigarettes from his bag and put them on the table, "Master, this is the cigarette I brought from the UK. It tastes pretty good, please try it."

"Oh, this is a rare thing, thank you." The staff member didn't bother and smiled and took the two boxes of cigarettes.

Yang Jing thought about it, but in the end he did not leave the things in his bag, but only left the bronze statue. In this era, there are very few that can be recognized in China, and probably no one has the idea of ​​this bronze statue.

"Yeah, where is the Buddha statue? I can't tell it! But this shape is really rare!"

The staff obviously did not recognize the origin of the bronze statue, but they still left the name "Four-arm Dancing Bronze Statue" on the receipt. This made Yang Jing feel somewhat relieved.

After receiving the receipt, Yang Jing thanked him and walked out, and soon returned to the greenhouse area again. However, after delaying for a while, there seemed to be more people in the greenhouse area, and many people surrounded the stalls. Even if Yang Jing wanted to see, he couldn't squeeze in front of him.

In desperation, Yang Jing had to find those stalls with few people.

That’s right, this era is not like Panjiayuan more than 20 years later, with more people selling than buying. In this era, there are far more people coming to Panjiayuan Taobao than people setting up stalls, especially when opening a ghost market, there are a lot of people surrounding almost every stall.

In a corner of the greenhouse area, Yang Jing saw an old newspaper selling old books and old newspapers.

At this time, the old book area of ​​Panjiayuan had not been moved to the west of the market. At this time, whether it was the old book, the miscellaneous or stones, they were concentrated in the greenhouse area.

There were not many people in front of this stall, so Yang Jing came over.

"Boss, what do you want? I have a lot of old books, old newspapers, and a lot of other information." The boss was very enthusiastic. There were several people or even more than a dozen people around the other stalls. He was deserted here, and finally one came, and he had to catch whatever he said.

Yang Jing squatted down and looked at the things on the stall with the help of the dim light.

This stall is indeed mainly composed of old books and newspapers, but most of them are not very good at making any moves.

Most of the old newspapers and magazines were newspapers and magazines before and after the liberation. Although there were many years, they did not have much collection value. As for those old books, most of them were old books from the Republic of China period, and the preservation was not very good.

No wonder there is no one in this stall. As long as you know a little, you will never waste time on this stall.

Yang Jing shook his head slightly, and was about to leave, his eyes were suddenly attracted by the stack of manuscripts in a corner of the stall.

"This is..." Yang Jing's heart jumped twice involuntarily with this look, and then Yang Jing picked up the publication that looked very old.

When he picked up this slightly old but well-preserved publication, Yang Jing was shocked by the four words on the publication.

This turned out to be the first issue of "New Youth" "Youth Magazine"!

The cover of this magazine is light yellow, with a black frame above the front of the cover. The top of the inside is LA-JEUNESSE, which is written in French. This word means "youth". Below this line of French words, there is a row of young people sitting upright; under this black frame, there are vertical arrangements from right to left, and the red font "Youth Magazine" is a person's avatar that can't be seen clearly, and the left is the six characters in the first volume arranged in vertical arrangement; and at the bottom of the cover is the publisher of this magazine - the Huhai Qunyi Bookstore.

"Damn, this is actually the first issue of "New Youth"!" Yang Jing was really surprised.

"New Youth" magazine is a very influential revolutionary magazine in my country in the 1919s and 1920s. It was originally named "Youth Magazine". It was renamed "New Youth" in the second volume, which played an important role during the May Fourth Movement.

As for the magazine in front of you, Yang Jing dared to confirm that if he read it correctly, it would be the first issue of "New Youth", which is "Youth Magazine"!

Although "New Youth" is not a rare ancient book, it has very important historical significance, especially for Chinese youth organizations, it has a height that other books and magazines cannot reach. Its preciousness is definitely not below those rare ancient book books.

But how could such a precious publication appear in such street stalls? Shouldn’t such publication appear in major libraries or museums?

The incredible Yang Jing suddenly activated the identification skills. Wasting that little energy in front of such a precious publication is nothing.

Sure enough, the answer given by the Holy Ring told Yang Jing that this was indeed the first issue of "New Youth" published on September 15, 1915.

After the Holy Ring gave the answer, Yang Jing felt that his hands were shaking with this magazine. As a result, when he looked at the stack of books and magazines again, he almost threw away the book "New Youth" in his hand.

It turns out that under this book "New Youth", there is also a book "New Youth". Judging from the appearance, it is obvious that this publication is very old.

Yang Jing pulled down without believing in evil, and all the ones that caught his eye were "New Youth", and from the second volume of the first volume to the first volume of the second volume, that is, the magazine that was reprinted to "New Youth", there was no difference, and there was "New Youth" down, but the issue number had been changed to the third volume and the fourth volume...
Chapter completed!