Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 2613: Lively antique area

Lin Ran and the three of them wandered all the way from the food area to the antique area like ordinary tourists.

I stayed in the food area for nearly half an hour and walked to the antique street for more than ten minutes. All in all, I didn't waste much time.

The weather in Poreton Prefecture is good today, and the antique area is more lively than the food area. People are walking shoulder to shoulder, and the level of excitement is similar to that of Panjiayuan in the morning.

And at a glance, most of them are Asians. You can probably guess that they are overseas shoppers from China.

It was rumored that it was easier to go shopping for antiques in Eagle Country than at home, so these people flocked to it.

Little did they know that it was already a red sea.

There are many people setting up stalls in the antique area, completely imitating the style of Panjiayuan.

It's just that the vendors here use unified standard stalls, which are all cart-shaped stalls. Various small exhibits are placed on the stalls, and large devices are placed on the shelves at the back, even on the shelves. The fur fabrics on the ground were of uniform specifications and looked very neat.

In order to attract Chinese businessmen, they also took great pains.

"It seems that the people of Eagle Country are quite business-minded and manage things in a decent manner." Lin Ran praised.

I originally thought that in a place like theirs that advertises "freedom", vendors can set up their stalls as they please, but it turns out there are still certain requirements.

"Yes, even though this is an open-air market, it is actually quite formal." Hans explained, "For commercial activities here, you need to pay taxes. The more they sell, the higher the taxes they collect. , so I’m more willing to put in the effort.”

You don’t need any vouchers to buy goods from street stalls in Panjiayuan. After all, people just pick up the goods and keep the price down if they can.

It's just the opposite here. If you buy any piece of antiques in the antique area, you must issue an invoice.

Because the main service here is foreign customers, without invoices, you can't get customs clearance certificates, and you can't take things abroad.

In the past, it was all through smuggling, but in recent years, business activities have become more and more formal, and regulations have been formed.

"I see." Lin Ran nodded. In this way, we can probably see the Boreton State's considerations.

They turned a blind eye to the trade of folk cultural relics. After all, they had plundered so many cultural relics that museums and exhibition halls could not accommodate them, and Chinese businessmen were keen on buying cultural relics. They killed two birds with one stone. ways to promote local economic development.

Because invoices need to be issued, prices will naturally go up.

Lin Ran didn't care about the money, anyway, Hans said that they would bear the cost.

Moreover, this place is in a fantasy world. Even if Lin Ran likes the cultural relics in it, he can't take them out. He can simply help them carry out a wave of repatriation of lost cultural relics among the people.

Lin Ran didn't speak anymore. When he arrived at the antique area, which was his home court, Hans and Cliff followed him.

Through the secret technique of treasure appraisal, you can feel the concentration of antiques in each stall. This is a very strange information, just like the smell of perfume. The antiques of each dynasty will have a unique atmosphere.

But they are basically very bland, and there is one that means they are not precious antiques.

Walking forward for a while, I found that it was really lively here.

There are merchants haggling in front of almost every stall. Unlike Panjiayuan, the people here obviously don't understand the rules of antique trading. You can just look at the goods on the stalls, and multiple people are allowed to quote at the same time, and the one with the highest price gets it.

This kind of rule-breaking behavior is impossible in any domestic antique trading market, because this method will destroy the interests of buyers, but it can allow sellers to maximize their interests.

Driven by profit, the Eagle Country businessmen didn't care.

The people surrounding the stall were either playing with toys or bargaining with the stall owner, which seemed very lively.

Coupled with the open-air environment, there is no industry in this city. The sky is very blue and surrounded by grass, which is quite pleasant.

A market like this is very suitable for Lin Ran to play.

Although his aura was weak, Lin Ran was still looking for suitable antiques. Now that he was here, he couldn't miss the valuable antiques in the market.

After passing through the sea of ​​people bargaining, Lin Ran visited a few stalls because he could feel the faint breath here.

Most of the stalls sold fakes and imitations, which had no research value at all. Lin Ran planned to visit any stall that had a slight flavor.

He looked at several stalls and found that these stall owners were different from those in Panjiayuan.

After entering the 21st century, stall owners began to provide differentiated services in order to increase transaction rates. The most important of them was vertical services, such as only selling calligraphy and painting from the Qing Dynasty and porcelain from the Tang Dynasty.

This can attract collectors who specialize in classification, and at the same time increase the difficulty of identification, making it easier to fish in troubled waters.

It's different in the open-air market. The stalls here basically sell whatever they want. There are a wide variety of cultural toys for sale, and they have unique styles.

For example, the stall I just looked at has Chinese ceramic products, and even Cambodian bronze statues, wood carvings, and neon ukiyo-e paintings.

Of course, various weapons of Indian civilization are also indispensable, such as long knives, bows and arrows, blow darts, and even wooden shields.

It is quite the style of the Eagle Country. If it were China, these would be strictly sold goods, even antiques.

Not all tourists come here for the purpose of making money. Some of them are not short of money at all and just come to buy some souvenirs. After all, buying some souvenirs is a ritual when traveling.

Lin Ran looked at these cultural relics and lamented that these "peasant merchants" from the Eagle Country had something.

Perhaps because they have been doing business with Chinese merchants all year round, they actually have a certain ability to review and start making imitations.

At first glance, it looks decent, and it has also been aged.

Lin Ran couldn't judge its authenticity for a while, but before the secret technique of treasure appraisal, everything was just a cloud. He could tell the authenticity just by touching it. It was already rare to be able to do this.

Lin Ran had just put down a comb made of rhino horn, and a fat woman next to him picked it up and anxiously asked the price.

Hans glanced at Lin Ran, who shook his head and told him that there were no rare goods here, and the three of them turned and left.

At first, he thought there was nothing rare, but Lin Ran felt a unique aura.

Following the scent, Lin Ran saw a very special stall.

No other items were purchased from this stall. There was only a Lucky Cat toy on the counter, waving his hands.

On the cabinet at the back, there are densely packed Buddhist amulets.