Chapter 1251 Town Market

Li Mo followed the crowd in the banquet hall and came here. If he didn't have a pair of strange eyes, he would probably have taken out his mobile phone and took pictures like everyone else.

"Mr. Li, let's go see the garden over there. The scenery is more beautiful."

Anna pointed in the direction of the garden, but Li Mo said: "It's the peak tourist season now. There are people everywhere. There's nothing to see. It's just about counting heads. We can just walk around outside. In fact, the buildings here are also Very beautiful.”

Li Mo walked slowly around the banquet hall building as he spoke. His eyes were constantly exploring the treasures hidden on the first floor of the banquet hall. This time he saw correctly. What was covered was indeed amber wall paneling, but there were only eight pieces in total, which was four pieces short of the number recorded in history. On the ground lie eight pillars, four of which are also missing.

This is a bit interesting. According to historical records, when the German army invaded Tsarskoye Selo, the staff here tried to protect the Amber Room, but it was still discovered. In the end, the Amber Room was dismantled and taken away.

Later, the Amber Room disappeared without a trace. After more than half a century of searching, the fighting nation could not find any clues. Instead, many so-called people who knew the clues died during the search.

But no one thought that there was another underground space in the banquet hall, and there were also a considerable number of various cultural relics and antiques piled inside, and there were even eight amber wall panels and eight column bases.

This is seriously inconsistent with historical records.

However, based on Li Mo's experience, it is speculated that before the German army invaded Huangcun, the people here had dismantled most of the Amber Room and buried it with various other rare antiques and cultural relics in the underground space on the first floor. Then fill in the entrance.

The remaining ones that were not dismantled or moved and hidden in time were snatched away by the Germans. As for those who knew the whereabouts of the treasures, they were probably murdered.

It doesn't matter whether the stolen part of the Amber Room was destroyed in the war or buried in some unknown hidden place.

"Brother Daxia, is this building special?"

Zhu Caicai thought it was just okay, but Li Mo looked at it very seriously and had already looked around.

"Let's go and look elsewhere."

Anna took Li Mo for a walk outside Huangcun. On the way, she actually met many compatriots from China, and they all came up to say hello to Li Mo.

Seeing that the situation was getting a little out of control, Anna decisively asked Li Mo to leave Huangcun immediately. When the convoy left Huangcun, Zhu Caicai wiped the sweat from her face with a tissue, and finally squeezed out of the encirclement, almost unable to get out.

"Brother Daxia, what are you thinking about, so absorbed?" Zhu Caicai handed him a piece of paper, "Wipe the sweat on your forehead first, you have too many fans. Not only domestic ones, but also foreign ones. All."

Li Mo took the paper and wiped his sweat while secretly thinking that he had seized the big opportunity this time. The basement floor of the Huangcun Banquet Hall must have been excavated later, because the area was only one-third of the banquet hall, but hidden inside should be a batch of the most valuable cultural relics and antiques in Huangcun at that time.

It's a pity that this is the territory of a fighting nation, and Huangcun is also a tourist attraction. I have no chance to do anything in private.

The car sped along the highway, and after about two hours, we turned off the highway and prepared to find a place to eat nearby.

"Mr. Li, there's a traffic jam ahead."

Li Mo also saw that there were many vehicles and passers-by on both sides of the road ahead, just like a small market. The cars were driving and stopping at a very slow speed.

The leading car in front stopped at the roadside, and then Anna walked to Li Mo's car. Li Mo lowered the window glass and heard the other party say: "Mr. Li, this is a farmers' market. It is very congested and it is difficult to get there. After passing it, there is a town. We can rest there."

"Can I go around it?"

"Others are all small roads that cannot be passed by cars. If we go back the same way, it will take more than an hour to reach the next town. Otherwise, we can park the car here and walk there, which will take about five or six minutes. You can get there.”

Li Mo nodded, and there was no better way. The roads here really couldn't be compared with those in China. He got out of the car and followed Anna towards the noisy market.

"It smells so good."

This market is similar to domestic markets. Most of the stalls are people from the surrounding rural areas who come to sell some of their own vegetables and fruits, honey and bacon, as well as domestic and wild ones.

There are also many farm tools and daily household necessities. There are also many stalls that are food stalls, selling all kinds of delicious food. The aroma is wafting everywhere. As lunch time is approaching, it arouses the greed in the stomachs of countless people. The business of each stall All very good.

"Don't eat in restaurants in town. I think the food at the stalls here is pretty good."

Just eat something to fill your stomach, there is no need to have a meal.

"Mr. Li, if you don't mind, then we can just eat something at the market." Since Li Mo didn't care, Anna naturally didn't behave herself either. When they were on missions before, it was normal to eat takeout or roadside stalls.

Li Mo walked to a stall where he was frying steak on the spot and adding a side of spaghetti. There are four tables next to the stall, all of which are full of adults and children, especially the children who are quite happy to eat.

"Brother Daxia, this looks very appetizing. How about we eat this." Zhu Caicai touched her belly. She must have been hungry for a long time, so she couldn't help but buy it after smelling the fragrance.

"Okay, you guys take a seat here first, and I'll go over there and take a look."

Li Mo saw a relatively large stall diagonally opposite. There were all kinds of old things on the ground, such as porcelain, wood carvings, silverware, stone carvings, rough stones, etc.

"Miss Anna, you stay here to protect Miss Zhu, and I will protect Mr. Li." Fang Ya said and quickly followed Li Mo. They came to the street stall diagonally opposite. There were quite a lot of people watching here. Occasionally A few even picked them up and looked at them carefully.

Anna winked at the others, and then trotted towards Li Mo.

Li Mo's appearance immediately attracted the attention of everyone around him, after all, his appearance was too obvious. I picked up a wooden sculpture from the ground. It was carved with a statue of Guanyin, not in the shape of a sitting lotus, but in the shape of a standing Guanyin holding a water purification bottle.

The face of Guanyin is carved very full and the lines are delicate. In terms of carving technique alone, it is also very exquisite. Judging from the inheritance of skills, it seems to be a school from Huaxia Guangdi. It's a pity that it's not the original one, but a work of art imported from China.

I don’t know what they were thinking. They imported the wooden carvings of Guanyin and then resold them. Is it possible that there are still people among the fighting nation who are fighting against the sky and the earth who would worship Guanyin?

Huh--

Li Mo's eyes fell on a piece of porcelain. It was a small pot, a small pot of doucai. It is not large in size, about 25 centimeters in height, about 10 centimeters in diameter at the mouth of the bottle, about 18 centimeters in diameter at the waist, and the base is about the same as the mouth of the bottle.

The small jar depicts a picture of a good harvest.

I picked up the small jar and looked at the bottom. There were obvious red groupers on the bottom, but there was no mark on it. There is no problem with the age of this small doucai jar, but it was fired in a private kiln, so the fine brushwork in the painting is a bit rougher than that of the doucai pot fired in an official kiln.

However, this small pot of doucai from a folk kiln in the mid-Ming Dynasty is well protected. Except for a small bump on the mouth of the bottle, everything else is intact. You can find someone to repair the bumpy areas later. Even if it doesn’t have a place in the museum, it’s quite eye-catching to put it as a decoration at home.

"Anna, can you help me ask how much this piece of porcelain costs?"

Anna looked at the porcelain in his hand, then at the stall owner, and gave him a moment of silence in her heart. The antiques that Li Mo would like to inquire about must be antiques from China. And she also understood that if Chinese porcelain was genuine, the price would usually be very high. Then she exchanged a few words with the boss.

Li Mo wore literal translation headphones on his ears. He couldn't speak but he could understand.

The boss offered six hundred thousand rubles.

"Mr. Li, what do you think of the price offered by the boss?" Anna asked tentatively.

Li Mo put the small pot of doucai from the mid-Ming Dynasty back to its original place: "I'll take a look at the others."

Anna was a little confused. Could it be that Li Mo just wanted to ask about the price? He didn't even seem interested in counteroffering.

Li Mo's eyes moved around the stall and suddenly stopped at another wooden sculpture. The wood carving is a bit interesting, not that the shape of the carving is exquisite and attractive, but that the materials used are very rare.

It was a small-leaf rosewood carving with the image of a tiger descending from the mountain. The tiger going down the mountain is hungry, so it has a powerful and overbearing aura, ready to kill at any time. Li Mo's one hand happened to hold the waist of the wood carving of Xiashan Tiger. It is an antique from the late Ming Dynasty and has a thick layer of patina on the surface. When you get closer, you can smell the faint fragrance of red sandalwood, which is refreshing.

This small-leaf red sandalwood carving is much more expensive than the small colorful pots from folk kilns in the mid-Ming Dynasty, and it is also very useful to display at home. He didn't ask for a price and just put it back in its original place.

Li Mo's eyes continued to scan and fell on a rough stone again. It was a rough stone with a brownish-gray surface.

"Boss, what kind of stone is that? Are you taking it out for sale?"

Li Mo asked with a smile, while Anna translated on the side.

"The rough jade stones were obtained from my son's warehouse. My son is in the jewelry business in Moscow. He bought all these rough stones from Myanmar. I picked up two small pieces and sold them."

The sixty-year-old boss didn’t know whether what he said was true or not, but no matter what, only one of the eight rough stones placed on the stall could be cut into a little waxy green jadeite. The quality was not considered good, but if the jadeite rough stone If it's cheap, the jadeite inside could be worth about 150,000 yuan if resold.

"Boss, how much does the stone cost?"

Li Mo asked, pointing to the largest one.

"Two and a half million rubles."

A piece of rough jadeite weighing about 40 kilograms was priced at about 200,000 yuan. The boss was very bold in asking this price. He didn't know if he had thought about it. It was easy to set the price, and the most important thing was whether anyone was interested.

"Boss, what about that one?"

Li Mo pointed to the original stone with jade flesh.

"One million and two hundred thousand rubles." The boss kept gesturing at the price.

Li Mo said without changing his expression: "The price is one hundred thousand rubles. If you agree, I will take it away."

After Anna translated, the boss immediately jumped up and kept waving his hands. What a joke. Li Mo cut his asking price to the bottom.

"If you want it, I can give you one million rubles, and I won't sell it any lower."

Li Mo didn't ask him about the price anymore, but pointed to the small-leaf red sandalwood tiger wood carving: "How much does this cost?"

"Twenty thousand rubles."

Li Mo picked up the tiger wood carving again, looked at it carefully and said, "For fifteen thousand rubles, I bought it and kept it at home."

This time the boss seized the opportunity and made an OK gesture: "Deal for 15,000 rubles."

Li Mo pointed at the waxy green jade stone again: "Boss, don't play tricks on me. I'll add another fifty thousand rubles and take it away with you if you can."

When the boss saw that he was ready to leave at any moment, he quickly smiled and said: "At least two hundred thousand rubles."

Li Mo made a pity expression, and then took out three 5,000 rubles from his bag. Since he couldn't reach an agreement, he stopped buying it.

The boss was a little anxious. He said: "Two hundred thousand rubles is really the lowest price. I can't explain it to my son for a price lower than this."

Li Mo thought for a moment and said, "That's good. Including the small jar, I'll bid 230,000 rubles for two pieces."

With Anna's eyelids twitching, he finally reached out to the piece of porcelain. It is possible that in his eyes, any jadeite or wood carvings were just deceptions, and his real target was still the piece of porcelain.

If Li Mo knew what she was thinking at this moment, he would definitely laugh.

The boss listened to Anna's translation with a very confused expression. He had previously offered 600,000 rubles for that piece of porcelain, but he didn't even counter-offer. Now he is buying two pieces together. The price is high, but it hasn't reached his heart yet. expected.

To put it mildly, not doing this deal is an opportunity. He knows best how long the things on the stall have been in his hands.

"Miss Anna, let's go eat, my stomach is growling with hunger."

Li Mo walked towards the steak stall opposite without looking back. Even when the boss called him from behind, he didn't stop.

Zhu Caicai was really hungry and had already started eating.

"Brother Daxia, what did you buy?"

Li Mo put the small-leaf rosewood carved tiger in front of her eyes and said with a smile: "If you can't sleep anymore, just put this on the bedside. It's made of small-leaf red sandalwood, and it's very rare."

"Thank you, I'll accept it without any courtesy."

If Li Mo said it was a good thing, it must be a good thing.

Fangya and Anna also came back and started eating steak. The latter looked at the wood carving and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Mr. Li, what is the origin of this wood carving?"

"No, it's just a wood carving. I just thought the carving technique was quite delicate, so I spent a little money to buy it."

Anna knew that he didn't tell the truth, so she couldn't continue to ask the truth.

Before the meal was finished, I saw the boss diagonally across from me walking over carefully holding the jade stone in one hand and the small jar in the other.