Antiques with golden eyes

"Eating for free? There are people who come to the fly restaurant to eat for free? Isn't this too unrefined?" Chen Xiaoyu muttered.

A fly restaurant is a name given by diners to a restaurant that opens in a corner, doesn’t pay much attention to decoration, and has average sanitary conditions, but the food is cheap and tastes great.

This is also a kind of joking name, and it does not literally mean that flies are flying all over the restaurant. If that is the case, no one will go in to eat.

This meat shop is an old neighborhood shop that has been around for decades. It is only about 40 square meters in area. In addition to the liquor and charge counters, the shop can barely accommodate eight dining tables.

Shen Yu has been coming to this restaurant frequently before. The food here is large in size, tastes good, and the hygiene is good. Therefore, just relying on tourists from the antique market and those who set up stalls can make a lot of money.

However, this was the first time Shen Yu heard of someone eating Bawang meal here, and it was quite interesting when he thought about it.

When I turned around, I saw the shop owner and two waiters holding rolling pins surrounding a short, fat middle-aged man in his early fifties to less than sixty.

The middle-aged man with a wry smile explained that it was not the Overlord meal, but that he had lost his wallet, and he would return the money for the meal to the store after he went back to get the money.

But how could the store owner agree?

This person ordered two large plates of cold beef, a few of the store's signature side dishes, a pound of mutton dumplings, and a bottle of 62-degree Chuzhou Daqu in the middle.

Not to mention the cost of food, this bottle of high-quality Chuzhou Daqu costs 298 yuan, and this meal costs at least 500 yuan.

For a restaurant owner, once a freeloader lets him go, it means that the money is gone. How many people will come back to give money?

So the store owner took out his mobile phone and asked the middle-aged man to call home and ask his family to send money.

But the middle-aged man said that he was not from Dongjiang, so the two sides began to argue.

Shen Yu glanced at it for a few times and then turned away. He was not gossipy enough to see the fun of five hundred yuan.

After thinking about it, Shen Yu took out two envelopes containing money from his shoulder bag, put 20,000 yuan in them and pushed them in front of Chen Xiaoyu.

"I'm giving this to you, and it's not for free. It will be deducted from your future bonuses. Don't worry about it, gentlemen."

Chen Xiaoyu bit his lower lip hard, "Brother Qinan, I can't guarantee how good I can be, but I can guarantee that I will do a good job in the store in the future."

"Don't worry about that. I have something to do in Dongjiang these two days, so I might as well drive you back. How about this? You go back by bus first. Don't be anxious. You can spend a few days with your aunt first. If you have any troubles, feel free to call me. Call, by the way, do you have a mobile phone?"

Chen Xiaoyu scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment, "No, I had one before, but the screen was smashed by me."

"Do you still have the mobile phone card?"

"Yes, I have stopped my phone to protect my account."

Shen Yu nodded, casually opened the canvas shoulder bag beside him, flipped through it a little and took out an unopened mobile phone, "This is the newly bought Xiaomi Mi 1S, you can use it first.

"Then remember this number and address."

Shen Yu took out a pen and paper and wrote down his mobile phone number and the specific address of Chuzhou Antique City.

After putting away the pen and paper, Shen Yu was about to hand the note to Chen Xiaoyu, but found that Chen Xiaoyu was staring directly behind him.

It's only 9:15 in the morning, and there are no diners in the store. It should still be the so-called overlord meal.

Shen Yu turned around and looked back again, but his eyes narrowed slightly at this sight.

It turned out that the middle-aged man saw that he would never be able to leave without paying for the meal, so he took out a "longevity lock" from his handbag.

I just heard him say with some reluctance: "This is an antique handed down from my family. Now it is placed with you as a mortgage. I also have an antique in my bag. I will have money after I go to the antique street to sell it. I will come back then." Your store has redeemed this item. Is that settled?"

The shop owner was in his thirties and could be considered the youngest owner of this second meat shop. He took the longevity lock and looked it over a few times before shaking his head, "No, my small shop is located next to the antique street. As long as I can remember, it has been I don’t know how many people I’ve seen using fake antiques to cheat food and drink.

"I'm not bragging. I still have three pieces of 'Tang Sancai' and a dozen pieces of so-called 'official kiln porcelain' from the Ming and Qing Dynasties at home. As I said, you can't leave without paying."

The middle-aged man sighed heavily, "Take a closer look. This is mutton-fat white jade from the Qing Dynasty. It is a very precious antique and is worth hundreds of thousands."

The shop owner wiped his sweat with the towel on his shoulder, glanced at the middle-aged man again, and revealed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, "Come on, you are the only one with mutton-fat white jade? I think it is polished with white stone." .

"If you go to all the jade shops in the antique market one by one, there are only a handful of shops that sell mutton-fat white jade."

Knowing that the other party didn't understand anything, the middle-aged man sighed and said nothing more.

The longevity lock, also known as the "name lock", is a traditional Chinese ornament, most of which look like ancient bronze locks.

Nezha in the movie and TV series "Apotheosis of the Gods" wore this longevity lock around his neck when he was a child, and the Holy Infant King Hong Haier in "Journey to the West" also wore this.

As the name suggests, the longevity lock was designed by the ancients to hope that babies or children would live a long life, eliminate disasters and evil spirits, and achieve both happiness and longevity.

There are many auspicious patterns carved on it, such as various auspicious animals, longevity peaches, lotus flowers, wishful thinking, blessing characters, etc. The most common material is silver, in addition to gold, copper, jade, etc.

Even people from poor families can sew one with needle and thread.

It is difficult to verify when exactly this kind of jewelry appeared. It is said that it evolved from the "longevity thread" of the Han Dynasty.

The longevity locks that Shen Yu knew about should have become popular during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Not that he had done much in-depth research, but because the antiques of the longevity locks currently on the market are either from the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. of.

"Xiaoyu, do you know that thing?" Shen Yu wondered if Chen Xiaoyu also knew about antiques besides porcelain?

Chen Xiaoyu chuckled, and then whispered: "This shop owner doesn't know anything, but the middle-aged uncle is bragging.

"If I read it correctly, his longevity lock should be ordinary white jade, not mutton-fat white jade.

"But it should be very valuable. After all, it is real jade. I don't think it will be less than 80,000 yuan.

"The owner of this store is actually quite stupid. If he has no eyesight, he has no eyesight. He still insists that other people's items are junk."

Shen Yu secretly thought that he was lucky.

I really picked up a treasure today. The longevity lock is indeed an ordinary white jade. Shen Yu also used his special ability to identify treasures just now to see it. The light blue treasure is the size of a pea.

The shop owner became a little irritated when he saw the short, fat middle-aged man whining, "I said, what's the matter with you? The shop is about to be occupied, and I have to go to the kitchen to prepare food, but I don't have time to talk to you. If you keep gossiping here, I will call the police."

"That's all, can I leave this family heirloom at your head office?" The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and took out a square jade medal from his handbag.

This seal is small, ripe maroon in color, about nine centimeters high and four centimeters wide.

As soon as the seal was taken out, Shen Yu's heart immediately started beating violently.