A new day has begun.

"Xiao Jing! Xiao Jing!" It was my mother's voice.

I came to my senses and found that I was biting half a tea egg in my mouth, holding a soy milk and porcelain bowl in my left hand hangs in the air, and the tip of the chopsticks on my right hand was inserted straight into the pickle dish, motionless. I blinked dullly and saw my mother sitting on the round stool opposite staring at me with a "gripping teeth" look.

I laughed dryly and burped my head to have breakfast.

"You have been in this posture for a minute. I am really convinced that you can still eat and be distracted!" At this time, the old Changhong 29-inch color TV on the TV cabinet broadcast a treasure appraisal program with Yan Wanru as a guest. After scolding me, my mother glared at my father who was watching TV on the sofa, and slapped the bamboo chopsticks on the round table: "Yan Wanru! Yan Wanru! You know Yan Wanru! Your eyes are glaring like a cow! You're just going to see it on the screen, right?"

My father curled his lips and slowly picked up the cigarette pipe pot, and took two sips.

The mother snorted and looked at me and my dad separately: "I can't make a fuss! Xiao Jing's stupid look is all with you! Look at whose child is not lively? Look at your son again!"

My dad knocked his pipe in the crystal ashtray, "The rabbit is lively! If you have the ability, you can give birth to one!"

"Gu Dahai! I'm fighting with you!"

I was used to this kind of scene. After eating, I simply packed up the dishes and chopsticks. I got up and pushed the door out of the northern room, and turned into a small house less than eight square meters in the Siheyuan, next to my parents' room. Seeing that the watch pointer was getting closer and closer to Ba, I changed into a clean sportswear and prepared to go out.

When I passed by the toon tree in the middle of the courtyard holding the fine branches and leaves, my mother opened the door and called me from behind.

"I've asked my old classmate about it. Are you going to work in the antique city?"

I touched my nose apologetically: "I suddenly don't want to go."

My mother looked at me: "If you love, do you want to go? Anyway, your dad meant that way. I'm afraid you'll mess with other people's things. Well, we'll go to work later. You can make do with the leftovers at noon. There was still half a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork leftovers left."

Take the subway at Qianmen Station and I rushed towards the school.

Originally, if history had not changed, I should have been interviewing in the Antiques City today and work officially tomorrow. I remember very clearly that on the first day of my work, I called my dormitory roommate Sun Xiaolei and asked if I needed to send him on the train. He was not a local, so I bought the ticket before I had time to go home. When I heard that I was in the jade shop, Sun Xiaolei told me something. A buddy in the dormitory on the same floor of our dormitory building collected a jade piece at a construction site not far from the school yesterday. Sun Xiaolei saw it and it seemed very good.

Calculate the day, it's today.

But he was vague at the time. As for where the construction site is and what jade artifacts are, I don’t know very well.

But in my impression, there seems to be only one place near the school, and it should be there.

I got off the subway and took the bus to the Xiaoying Campus of Beijing University of Information Technology. I walked north for about two kilometers. The banner of the "Fengrun Phase II Project" was vaguely visible. A year later, the building was still not completed because of some disputes. The crossing was on the west side, and the construction sound was deafening, as if I was digging a foundation to build a building. After passing the traffic light, I covered my nose and avoided the dust raised by the truck. Seeing that there was no security guard stopping me, I walked into the construction site along the slope.

I looked around and saw that there were at least nearly a hundred people in the huge construction site. Can I receive jade in just this place?

I couldn't help but sigh, regretting that I didn't ask the details at the beginning.

"Oh!"

A sixty-year-old man jumped into my sight.

The old man seemed to have his feet mixed by an iron pipe and almost fell to the ground.

Seeing this, I immediately met the old man and helped him up: "Grandpa, are you okay?"

The old man exhaled in fear: "It's okay, it's okay."

"I'll help you out."

"Young man, thank you. Oh, I'm old and my legs are not good."

"The construction site is the most unsafe place. You have to be careful in the future. By the way, why are you here for? If you buy a house, there should be a special sales office outside, right?"

"Hey, don't mention it. I'm not buying a house. Just now, my daughter-in-law was taking the children here to play with the sand, and happened to see a few migrant workers digging out a piece of jade from the ground. My daughter-in-law took a photo with her mobile phone. When I went back, I saw that the stones were of good quality, so I came over to ask."

I was stunned, "...you bought the stone?"

"I paid a hundred yuan, and they didn't sell it. I didn't know much about stones, so I didn't dare to increase the price." The old man leaned on a crutch and pointed at the few people near a tower crane: "...just them."

After seeing off the old man, I turned back again, suppressed my excitement and walked to the three migrant workers who were squatting on the ground to rest, "I heard that you have dug up a jade? Can you show me?"

The three of them looked at me, and the gray-clothed worker closest to me reached out to take out an object from his pocket and put it in his palm.

I bent down and calmed down, and the corners of my eyes couldn't help but jump slightly, "I hope you can turn it over."

This is a blue-white jade plaque. To be precise, people in the industry usually call it "Ming and Qing plaque". This plaque is about four centimeters high and two centimeters wide. It is finely crafted and has oily and delicate jade. The front is hollowed-out flower and grass carving, and the back is simple and natural figure carving. There is also a red rope that is almost broken in the small eyes at the top of the jade plaque. From the analysis of the new and old aspects of the rope, the jade plaque should not be buried for long.

After working in the collection circle for so long, I know more or less.

I thought about the language and looked up and asked, "Please give me a price?"

"What? Take a leave?"

"Oh, I just ask you how much you can give it to me."

Several people looked at each other, but the gray-clothed worker with a heavy accent said, "At least five hundred."

I smiled bitterly and didn't fall down: "Can it be cheaper?" My family has to make careful calculations every month, so before going out, I didn't have the nerve to care about my parents asking for money, and I only had more than one hundred yuan on my body, which was not enough.

"How many did you think of?"

"I probably have it here..." I'm not good at lying, so I opened my wallet and took out all the money in front of them: "There are 185 yuan. If you think it's OK, we'll make a deal. If it doesn't work, I won't have any extra money."

"It's too few, don't sell it." They shook their heads firmly.

I didn't want to give up this rare opportunity, so I hesitated for a moment and took off the mechanical watch worth about 200 yuan on my wrist, "Will this watch be added?"

The watch was bought by my mother using the New Year’s money given to me by grandma’s house two years ago.

The three of them discussed secretly, and finally took the money and the table and handed the jade to me.

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Chapter completed!