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Chapter 190 Collecting Antiques

The next morning, mother thought Li Lang was going to work today, so she woke him up early.

Li Lang, who wanted to sleep until he woke up naturally, couldn't sleep after waking up. After eating the breakfast made by his mother, he simply went out and continued to wander outside.

As soon as he unlocked the bicycle, Wang Qiang, who was going to work, pushed the bicycle and walked towards him.

She is like a proud big white goose, her eyes look at the sky when she walks, and she regards Li Lang as air.

Li Lang smiled indifferently, that's pretty good too.

Two days ago, when he was shopping outside, he spent [-] cents and received a small item, a bronze Buddha statue from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the system determined that the value index of the Buddha statue was 48, which was lower than 60, and no reward was triggered.

Today, his good luck came.

When Li Lang passed by an alley, he saw a four or five-year-old boy sitting beside a pile of sand, holding a small wooden sword in one hand and a small iron sword in the other. His left and right hands were competing with each other.

"Watch me chop Huashan with a knife."

The little boy held the small iron sword in his right hand, and slashed vigorously on the wooden sword in his left hand, having a great time playing with it.

Li Lang remembered that he also had such innocence when he was a child, so he couldn't help slowing down, watching the little boy amuse himself, and laughed.

Suddenly, he found the iron sword in the boy's hand, which was a bit unusual.

It looked like a coin.

He immediately stopped the bicycle, went to the child and squatted down.

With Li Lang's proficient cultural relics appreciation level, he took a closer look and found that the child was holding a knife coin.It's just that the true face of the knife and coin is covered by rust and mud.

Although he can assess the value index of cultural relics, it must be cultural relics that already belong to him.He still relies on his own eyesight to collect old objects.

Although Li Lang was by his side, it didn't affect the little boy's interest in having fun.

I saw the little boy thrust the knife coin into the sand and said, "I beat you, hahaha."

Li Lang's heart aches when he sees it. It's a cultural relic more than 200 years ago. Didn't you think you used it to insert sand?

"Little friend, give me the iron sword in your hand, and I'll buy you a bottle of soda, okay? Add another ice cream."

"Okay." The little boy agreed without thinking.

In this day and age, whether it is a bottle of soda for [-] cents or ice cream for [-] cents, it is very attractive to children.

The four or five-year-old child was unsuspecting, so he directly gave Li Lang the "iron sword" in his hand.

Li Lang rubbed the dirt on the "sword" for a long time, and vaguely saw a few words - "Qi Jianbang Chang Fahua".

This is not just as simple as a knife coin, but also the six-character knife coin of Qi State.

The state of Qi is now Dongshan Province.

In the 21st century, Mr. Zhu Huo, a former researcher at the Dongshan Provincial Museum, mentioned in his "New Code of Ancient Coins" that there were 32 batches of Qi knives unearthed in various parts of Shandong over the years, and there were only 9 six-character knives.

There are 32 Qi knives of various types unearthed in these 4950 batches, but there are only 16 Liuzi knives, accounting for only 0.3% of all unearthed Qi knives, and most of them are treasured by museums.

Six-character knife coins, until 2021, the number of discoveries is less than 30, which is extremely rare.

Li Lang knew that in a few decades, this good-looking six-character knife coin could easily sell for a million dollars.

He was holding a six-character knife, ready to buy soda and ice cream.

"Want it? Three dollars."

A woman's voice made Li Lang stop and turned around: "Are you, this kid's mother?"

"Yes. Three yuan, give it if you want it, and let it go if you don't want it."

"Five cents."

Li Lang knew that this woman was asking a lot of money.If she thought that the "iron sword" was worth two yuan, she would definitely not give it to her son as a toy, so Li Lang returned the money on the ground.

"Two pieces."

"Seven hairs."

At this time, a very discordant voice sounded: "Take away the rags, and sell the rags."

The yelling of the rags was loud and close to the two of them, attracting the eyes of the two who were bargaining.

"Yo, kid, it's you."

The man who was dressed in rags and who lived up to his name recognized Li Lang.

He was very impressed with Li Lang.Back then, he had no money to eat and was so hungry that he couldn't even walk. He was sitting on the street when Li Lang was about to buy watermelon and saw him.

At that time, Li Lang must have felt sorry for him and gave him the five cents to buy watermelon.

In the end, he didn't want Li Lang's money in vain, so he poured out a few books from the sack and gave them to Li Lang, which meant that Li Lang should not treat him as a beggar.

"Yo, isn't this... Broken Hou?" Li Lang recognized the man in front of him at a glance.

"Boy, you have good eyesight, and you know my name."

Poor Hou glanced at the knife and coin in Li Lang's hand, and muttered, "It's interesting."

He turned to look at the child's mother, and continued, "Auntie, is your son's toy sold?"

"Sell, I just talked to this guy for two yuan, he thinks it's too expensive, so I'll sell it to you if you want it."

"Two dollars? Don't mention him, I think it's too expensive. I'll give you one dollar at most."

Li Lang turned his back to the aunt, and said in a low voice: "I said that you are too mean. I am negotiating the price, so you come to add to the chaos. Why do you have to talk on a first-come, first-served basis?"

Poor Hou also said in a soft voice: "Boy, don't you understand? In this business, what is important is not to come first, but not to raise the price indiscriminately. I will pay one dollar for this thing, the normal price range, there are no bad rules."

The aunt said impatiently: "I said you two have been muttering over there, do you want more? Whoever wants it should bid quickly, and the highest bidder gets it."

Broken Hou: "Boy, I paid a dollar, which is 3 cents higher than yours. If you don't bid, it's mine."

Encountering the tattered Hou who came out halfway, Li Lang had a thought... Li Lang looked at the tattered Hou very angrily, and said displeasedly: "Tattered Hou, a year ago, you sat on the side of the road and had no money to eat, and you were so hungry that you were on the road. I can’t walk anymore, I feel sorry for you, so I gave you 5 cents.”

"I can't imagine that you are now...you pay my price, right? Okay, who is afraid of others, then give it up. I will offer one yuan and three."

Poor Hou shook his head: "Boy, you are ruthless, it's yours."

Li Lang showed a panicked expression on his face: "No, you don't want to add one yuan and three? If you add another ten cents, it will be yours."

Poor Hou said decisively: "One dollar at most, no more cents."

Li Lang: "But, I..."

He looked at the child's mother: "Auntie, let's discuss it. I was just fighting against him just now. I... oh. How about you sell it to him for a dollar?"

"That won't work, you have to buy it for one yuan and thirty cents. You are a big man, you won't be so dishonest?"

"I... oh, why are you fighting?"

Li Lang glanced at the knife coin in his hand with "disgust", and said hesitantly, "One piece and three...one piece and three. Then, all right, I accept it."

Li Lang paid the money "reluctantly".

This Qi Liu Dao belongs to him.

He didn't win over Li Lang, and the Broken Hou didn't care. He glanced at Li Lang with a half-smile, and continued to collect his trash.

"There are broken ones for sale. If there are foreign bottles and rotten jars, I'll buy them."

Li Lang pushed his bicycle and walked side by side with Poor Hou.

Ratty Hou looked at Li Lang with a strange expression, and said in a tone of admonishing the younger generation: "Boy, in the antique business, the most taboo thing is impulsiveness. Do you regret it? You will learn a lot of wisdom."

Li Lang didn't speak, and his expression remained weird, as if holding back?

"Boy, a year ago, instead of giving me 5 cents, you spent 5 cents to buy me a few books. That 5 cents, is it worth it?"

"It's worth it. But this matter can't be equal. You were so hungry and weak at the time, and your stomach was empty. Gold is not gold. I exchanged 5 cents for your book, and you are not losing money."

"What's the matter? You mean, you are cultivating the virtuous and becoming good, and I am an exchange of equal value?"

"Exactly."

"You boy, you can speak well... wait."

Poor Hou stopped and looked at Li Lang strangely, "You said it was worth buying my book, and you just said I was ungrateful in front of that aunt? Could it be that you were acting just now?"

Li Lang laughed "haha", and gave a thumbs up to Poor Hou: "I figured it out so quickly, it really is an old senior."

"Ha." Poor Hou laughed and said, "Good boy. Good means."

"You were afraid that your aunt would see that you were determined to win the knife and coin, so you acted that one, making her think that you bid one yuan and three because you were fighting against me."

"In the end, she was afraid that you wouldn't want it, so she definitely didn't dare to raise the price again. Then you took the knife and coins."

Li Lang said proudly: "Exactly. Thank you for your help."

Poor Hou: "Yo, are you still proud? You are so proud. I say you are not stupid. Even if you offer one dollar, I will not fight with you. If the aunt says not to sell, you just leave, she will definitely sell to you."

Li Lang's expression was still very complacent: "You don't understand that. My acting is mainly for you to watch, and it's just incidentally, auntie."

"What do you mean?" Poor Hou's curiosity was aroused.

"If you find out, I'm determined to win this coin. You're so smart, maybe you'll get your hands on it yourself. At that time, let alone one yuan and three dollars, it's unlikely that you will raise the price to 13 yuan for me. "

"Hey. You mean, I've drilled eyes? Qi Guo's knife coins, you Lord, I can drill them? The cheapest one I received was 8 cents, and the most expensive one was only [-] cents. Boy, you are still young a bit."

Li Lang put away his proud expression, took out the knife coin from the canvas bag, held it in both hands, and handed it to Poor Hou: "Please hold your eyes."

Broken Hou took the knife coin with both hands. When he carefully wiped off the dirt on the knife coin, he saw that there were six words vaguely on the knife body: Qi Jianbang Chang Fahua.

In the past few decades, he has seen at least ten or twenty pieces of Qi sword coins, but this is the first time he has seen six characters.

He raised his head and asked Li Lang in an attitude of asking for advice: "Is there any six-character knife coins?"

Knife coins are different from other cultural relics.

Things like ceramics, jade, calligraphy and painting, as well as various sculptures, four treasures of the study, lacquerware, bronze ware, Buddha statues, etc., have been collected by people in all dynasties.

Everyone knows the collection value of this kind of collection, and the research is thorough.

But knife coins are different. The first knife coin was unearthed in 1918 in Chejiaohe Village, Shidao Town, Rongcheng City, Dongshan Province.

As the so-called gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.

The sword coins that appeared in the troubled times were not taken seriously.

In recent years, collectors have not done much research on knife coins, and do not know the rarity and value of six-character knife coins.Even most collectors don't even know the existence of the six-character knife coin.

Although Broken Hou has a collection of knives and coins, his understanding of knives and coins is not as good as Li Lang.

Although he didn't know that there were six characters on the knife coin, if he noticed that there were six characters on the knife coin, he would definitely not let Li Lang pick it up at such a low price.

Li Lang: "Yes, the six-character knife coins of Qi State are quite rare in the world."

Broken Hou held the knife coin in both hands, and returned it to Li Lang, and said with a helpless smile, "Good boy. I accept it. I learned a trick today."

Poor Hou is also a wonderful person. Although he was tricked by Li Lang's acting skills, it didn't affect his mood.

Li Lang found a place to sit down, and used the system to assess the value of Qi Liudao.

Li Lang immediately clicked to learn, and immediately felt that there was a lot of music knowledge and piano playing skills in his mind.

Now he has a feeling that playing the piano, which he has never touched before, will be as easy as making bread.

He thought of the first meeting in the near future, and with the piano playing skills at the proficient level, he would be able to teach Qianli how to be a man.

Li Lang found some changes in the skills he mastered.

With zero basic piano playing skills, it rose directly to lv5 just after eating a skill book.It seems that if you want to quickly upgrade your skills, collecting more high-value antiques is the kingly way.

The two-day holiday passed in a noisy and leisurely way.

The next morning, Li Lang started to go to work.

When he was pushing the cart and was about to leave the hospital, Wang Qiang appeared in front of him again.

Still like a proud big white goose, she ignored Li Lang, pushed the cart, and walked out of the courtyard in front of Li Lang.

"Is it such a coincidence? We met each other two days in a row. It seems that we have to go out later tomorrow."

Of course Li Lang wasn't afraid of her, but he was afraid that when he saw her looking up at the sky and walking, he couldn't help but wanted to lower her proud head...

Li Lang returned to the factory and walked into the workshop.

As soon as Sha Zhu saw him, he walked over quickly and gave him a strong hug between men.

"Li Lang, welcome back."

The others didn't make any outrageous gestures like hugging him this time, but just smiled at him.

Li Lang put on his overalls and was going to go to the director to see how he would arrange the work.

But the section chief and the director came together and called the people in the workshop together for a morning meeting.

Section Chief Zhao: "This morning meeting. There is only one theme, which is to welcome Li Lang back to our big group. Applause and welcome."

Clap clap clap clap.

There was warm applause.

Not only Taozi and Cai Xiaoli, many workers had smiles on their faces.

Their smiles come from the heart.

Li Lang used to be very kind to everyone. No matter who was in trouble at work, he would take the initiative to help as long as he could.

Moreover, he is especially good at enlivening the atmosphere, and he is very loyal in doing things. Everyone likes to get along with him very much.

After Section Chief Zhao and Director Wang said a few words, the morning meeting was dissolved.

They called Li Lang to the office.

Section Chief Zhao: "Li Lang, there are several bread production workshops in our factory, and I am going to let you take charge of the production of one workshop. But there is a problem with this."

"If the workshop you are in charge of produces something different from other workshops - it must be that you are doing better than them."

(End of this chapter)