Happy Tycoon

It was past two o'clock in the afternoon when I left Professor Tang's house.

After drinking a little wine with Aunt Gao at noon, Ge Ge's little face looked extraordinarily delicate.

Originally, Yang Jing wanted to send Gege back to let her have a rest, but the girl didn't say anything and insisted that Yang Jing accompany her to finish the other half of the campus that she hadn't visited yet. As a result, the two of them walked around until it was getting dark.

Gege's grandmother called and asked her to take Yang Jing home for dinner at night. When Yang Jing came to pick Gege up in the morning, the girl told her grandmother.

So, in the evening, Yang Jing had another dinner with Ge Ge's grandmother. But it was just the three of them at dinner, Gege's mother and aunt didn't come back, and Gege's uncle and his family were all out of town, so only the three of them ate this meal together.

Gege's grandmother obviously liked Yang Jing very much, and Yang Jing also liked this cheerful old lady. The old and the young talked a lot, and Yang Jing didn't leave until after nine o'clock in the evening.

Of course Yang Jing wanted to bring Ge Ge out, but this girl was too shy, and she didn't follow Yang Jing out, so in desperation, Yang Jing had to stay alone in the vacant room

Unbearably lonely, Yang Jing simply activated the restricted space-time shuttle skill and ran to the vicinity of Chaotian Palace at 3 am on July 10, 1982.

Chaotian Palace is a famous tourist attraction in Jinling, and it is also the largest antique market in Jinling. As the saying goes, there is Panjiayuan in the north and Chaotian Palace in the south, which is enough to prove that the Chaotian Palace antique market is famous.

However, in 1982, the Chaotian Palace antique market had not yet been established.

However, near Chaotian Palace at this time, the ghost market is very famous.

As far as the ghost market appears sooner or later, the ghost market in Yanjing can't keep up with the ghost market in Chaotian Palace.

How long has the ghost market in Chaotian Palace appeared? There is no way to study this at all, but one thing can prove that the ghost market of Chaotian Palace existed at least during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. In the notes of Mr. Gu Qiyuan during the Wanli period, there is a record of Heyueguangli, Jinling City.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the ghost market in the Chaotian Palace area became even more prosperous. At that time, the teahouses on Pingshi Street were the main places where old and young people from the Ming Dynasty traded their treasures.

These remnants of the former dynasties have a good face and are unwilling to go to the ghost market to do business like those local masters, so they do business in this kind of more elegant teahouse. Gradually, Pingshi Street became the most prosperous antique market in that era. .

However, with the rapid decline of those old and young, the prosperity of Pingshi Street will soon cease. More people were still active in the areas of Shuiximen, Mochou Road, and Tangzi Street, and the trading time was postponed from dusk to night to before dawn.

At that time, the name ghost market was rarely called, but it was called black market. Before dawn, the sky is dark, the people are dark, the goods are dark, and the price is dark. Thieves, second-hand traffickers, old people and young people... All kinds of people gather here during this darkest time. It was omnipotent, and it became the most chaotic area in Jinling City at that time.

Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the name of the black market was too ugly, and the name ghost market passed down from the north was more appropriate, so the black market near Chaotian Palace gradually returned to the earliest ghost market.

But if you want to talk about the origin of the name ghost market, it is said that it can be traced back to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In Jinling local folklore, it is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing, Weifu once passed by a Taoist temple when he was visiting. This Taoist temple was later Chaotian Palace. He ate a bowl of plain noodles for pilgrims and praised it greatly. After returning to the palace, he also asked the imperial dining room to make it, but the imperial chef couldn't make it. When Empress Ma sent a young eunuch to the Taoist temple to check, she found that the plain noodles were originally made from broth. Not to mention the killing of life by the Taoist priest, but also confused the pilgrims who didn't know about it. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he learned about it, and ordered to kill all the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple.

Later, after the night market was formed in the Chaotian Palace area, one day when the stalls closed at dawn, many stall owners found that the money in hand was fake when they checked their income.

At the beginning, the stall owners cursed Wuliangxiaoxiao, but then some people thought that many Taoist priests had been clicked here. Some people even suspect that this is the intersection of Yin and Yang. During Ching Ming Festival and Hungry Ghost Festival, children and grandchildren honored some paper money. Those Taoist priests who were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang naturally couldn’t spend it during the day, so they came here at night to do some shopping. The money of filial piety from descendants is spent

The stall owners couldn't see it at night, but the next morning when the dark coins saw the sun, they would naturally appear. As a result, the name of Ghost City quickly spread.

This legend is a bit scary, but it can explain the origin of this ghost market very well.

Yang Jing attended university in Jinling for four years, during which time he came to Chaotiangong Antique Market countless times. Of course, he had heard these legends about Chaotiangong ghost market more than once or twice.

Although this legend is a bit scary, Yang Jing doesn't believe in those things at all, especially when Yang Jing was in college, he heard many people say that in the early 1980s, there were some good things in the ghost market in Chaotian Palace. Who bought some old thing with the door open for more than a dozen dollars.

Good things come out of the ghost market, whether it is the ghost market in Yanjing, the ghost market in Chaotian Palace, or even the early ghost markets all over the country, it is a fact that is close to the truth.

Especially in the 1980s, the ghost market in that era was synonymous with good things, old objects and even open doors!

Yang Jing, the ghost city of Panjiayuan in Yanjing in the 1990s, has personally experienced it. There are so many old objects and good things that people are jaw-dropping. But Yang Jing had never experienced the ghost market in Chaotian Palace, so since he was feeling very lonely tonight, he might as well go back to the past to find some good things.

The winter in Jinling is very tormenting. Yang Jing didn't want to go to the cold in the early morning, so he simply chose the hottest season in July to go there. At least in the early morning of summer, the weather is relatively comfortable. Suitable for Taobao or something.

The location where Yang Jing crossed over was set outside the south wall of Chaotian Palace. In the 1980s, Chaotiangong Antique Market had not yet moved to Cang Lane, Anpin Street and Nanyi Back Street. Chaotiangong West Street, located west of Chaotiangong, was the busiest antique market at that time, and the ghost market was also there. On this street running from northwest to southeast.

In the vicinity of Chaotian Palace in 1982, there were no high-rise buildings at all. In this era, there are all bungalows here. Moreover, the very spacious Chaotiangong West Street in later generations is now a small road less than ten meters wide.

Yang Jing adjusted his appearance to that of someone in his thirties, and then walked out from the bushes on the south wall of Chaotian Palace. Even if someone saw it, they would think that he had just finished undressing there.

The sky was too dark to see anything, but in another hour or so, the sky should light up.

Yang Jing soon walked to Chaotiangong West Street, but to Yang Jing's slight disappointment, it was far inferior to the Panjiayuan ghost market in 1994. At the very least, whether it's stalls or shopping, the number is far inferior to the Panjiayuan Ghost Market.

But it's relieved to think about it. It is now 1982. In this era, there are not many people who dare to take risks to go out of the ghost market, and there are not many people who come to visit the ghost market.

In fact, since the period of the Republic of China, the area from Hanzhong Road to Chaotian Palace has become the largest collection and distribution center for antiques in Jinling. Later, the antique trade is still concentrated on Mochou Road, Chaotian Palace West Street, and Tangzi Street. It was not until the middle of the 1950s that the government reformed it, stipulating that it was only allowed to enter the market at dawn, and took measures to prevent thieves from selling their stolen goods. Although people used to call it a black market, in fact, most of the connotation of black has been lost, and the black market has gradually changed. into a second-hand market for common scrap collections.

Later, in that turbulent era, the powerful broken four olds appeared. In that era, not to mention the antique trade, even the second-hand goods trade had no room for survival. It was not until the end of the 1970s, after the chaotic era, that the old antique market was gradually restored along Chaotiangong West Street. Similarly, ghost markets also appeared.

However, until now in 1982, the scale of the ghost market here is still not very large. Those dealers or antique lovers also sneaked in while it was dark. But at this time, there are still many good things on the ghost market here, unlike a few years later, it has become a professional second-hand book market

Not long after Yang Jing walked in this ghost market, his attention was attracted by a street stall.

With the help of the dim battery light on the booth, Yang Jing could clearly see that all the colorful porcelains were placed on the stall.

It's just that these porcelains are very different from the porcelains Yang Jing is familiar with, both in terms of color and shape.

Yang Jing was immediately interested in this strangely shaped and brightly colored porcelain, which made him squat down in front of the booth.

No matter the shape or color of these porcelains, Yang Jing felt a little baffled. It was really hard for him to think of any porcelain from that dynasty that could compare in color with the porcelain in front of him.

If we compare the porcelain made by the Chinese ancestors to elegant ink landscape paintings, then the porcelain in front of us is like brightly colored oil paintings

In addition to the color, the shape of these porcelains is also very different from that of any dynasty that Yang Jing has ever seen. Although these porcelains look quite beautiful, they seem to lack a kind of grandeur and stability, as if there is a vague feeling that painting a tiger is not an anti-dog.

After staring at these porcelain for a long time, an idea came to Yang Jing's mind.

These porcelains are not