Cheng Yu's body moved involuntarily for a moment when he saw the wooden carving that Gu Mian took out, but he quickly returned to normal before anyone else noticed.
The stall owner sitting behind the table glanced at Gu Miao's wooden carving, his face expressionless, but a flash of calculation flickered in his eyes as he said to Gu Miao: "My things are all ceramics, if you want to exchange, you can only use ceramics for exchange. If you really want to exchange, use another thing from your bag."
Gu Mei raised an eyebrow. The other person's eyes were too sharp, weren't they? She hadn't even taken out the genuine article she had brought with her, so how did the other person see it?
It seems that this person is also not easy to fool around with, and directly refused her wooden carving. She had originally thought about trying to get a bargain back home.
Just now she saw Mr. Qiao and Qin Sheng take something that looked very familiar to her and exchange it for other things.
"This little vase of yours is just an ordinary thing, but this wooden carving of mine is quite good." Gu Mian deliberately waved the wooden carving in front of the other person's eyes.
The stall owner remained as calm as Mount Tai and didn't react to Gu Mian's actions.
Gu Mei wasn't the kind of person who didn't know when to quit. Since others had clearly shown no interest in her wooden carvings, it was pointless for her to continue lingering around. Moreover, she wasn't particularly fond of this small blue-and-white porcelain vase either, so whether or not she could exchange it for something else didn't really matter to her.
She just wanted her to exchange that blue and white porcelain vase for that ceramic ware with a water-dripping sound, which was absolutely impossible.
The other party is sharp-eyed and she's no fool either.
Before that, she had shown the thing to Professor Wang, and it happened that Mr. Qiao was also there, so they looked at Gu Mian's thing together.
She couldn't figure out what it was, but after Professor Wang and Mr. Qiao's unanimous judgment, they all thought this should be a Han Dynasty yellow glaze ceramic water clock, which is an ancient timing tool, but this kind of device is not common in the market, unless you often deal with these things, and people who often go to various museums and antique markets to learn are not easy to recognize.
This Han Dynasty yellow glaze ceramic water clock is worth at least 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, which is more expensive than ordinary Qinghua small vases.
"That's all then." Gu Mei smiled slightly at the stall owner and didn't say anything else, turning around to leave.
The stall owner saw Gu Mian leave so abruptly, subconsciously wanting to call out to him, but in the end still forcibly restrained himself. He muttered a few words to himself, took out a clean white cloth and carefully wiped the small blue-and-white porcelain vase that Gu Mian had touched.
Cheng Yu finally didn't change out of that little bottle she had been looking at from the start, and instead followed Gu Mian to leave the table.
"Be more careful next time you take something." Suddenly, Cheng Yu walked up to Gu Mian's side and said in a low voice.
Gu Mei was taken aback and turned to look at Cheng Yu. This was the first time Cheng Yu had spoken to her since they were introduced, she thought that until this transaction was over, he wouldn't speak to her at all.
Cheng Yu looked at Gu Mian, who was staring blankly at her. She couldn't help but frown slightly, and although there was a hint of impatience in her tone, she still spoke up: "This place is full of all sorts of people, it's not just any ordinary antique market. Be more careful."
"I know, thank you." Although Cheng Yu's tone wasn't very good, it couldn't be denied that what she said was actually for Gu Mian's own good.
"Hmm." Cheng Yu saw that Gu Mian didn't seem to have any objections, and his mood improved slightly. His originally cold face also relaxed a bit.
Gu Meng couldn't help but secretly laugh as she watched Cheng Yu walk away to continue shopping, thinking that the eccentric Cheng Yu also had a warm side, was this what they meant by "cold on the outside and hot on the inside"?
But it's indeed her fault, just now she only thought of taking out the wooden carving to try it out and forgot to pay attention to details. No wonder the stall owner immediately said that if they wanted to exchange, they would use the ceramic products in her bag, it turned out that when she took the wooden carving, she was seen by others.
"What's wrong? Changed again?" Before she knew it, Qin Sheng had appeared beside Gu Mei.
"There's nothing particularly impressive about it." Gu Mian recalled Professor Wang saying that Qin Sheng was extremely cunning, and at this moment, his gaze towards Qin Sheng couldn't help but become a little strange.
Qin Sheng met with Gu Miao's strange gaze. (Cotton Candy) thought about himself from head to toe and didn't find anything out of place. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Gu Mei shook her head, and it was better for her to keep Professor Wang's words to herself. She couldn't very well ask him if he was being very cunning in front of everyone.
Qin Sheng saw that Gu Ming was unwilling to say more, so he tactfully stopped asking and instead said: "Since there isn't anyone you like here, it's crowded, let's go out and wait for a while. We'll be going somewhere else later."
"I know, Professor Wang just told me." Gu Mian followed Qin Sheng out of the room without any objection, standing in the corridor outside, leaning against the railing and watching people coming and going on the first floor. After a moment's thought, Gu Mian still opened his mouth to ask: "I feel that you don't seem to take this trading meeting very seriously."
This feeling was discovered by Gu Mei not long after she entered, although Professor Wang had shown a very expectant attitude before she came, which made her feel itchy too. However, after arriving here, she found that it seemed not to be the case.
The first and second floors of the villa were crowded with people, and there were many items being traded, including some rare treasures. However, unlike what Professor Wang had told her earlier, they didn't see anything particularly strange or unusual. Professor Wang and his companions simply browsed around casually, without showing much excitement.
After so many rounds, she didn't have much enthusiasm left.
"It's not that I'm not taking it seriously, it's just that the climax hasn't arrived yet. Don't worry, time is almost up, it'll be over soon." Qin Sheng glanced at his watch and said to Gu Mian.
"Is it the place you said we're going later?" asked Gu Mian.
"Hmm." Qin Sheng nodded and pointed vaguely in the direction of the third floor: "The people up there are basically all heading to where we're going later."
Gu Mei understood the implication, and at this time, there were also many people who came to the corridor outside. Gu Mei and Qin Sheng didn't continue with this topic either, casually chatting about other trivial matters.
It's quite pleasant to chat with Qin Sheng. No matter what topic Gu Mian brings up, Qin Sheng can naturally pick it up and there won't be any awkward silence between them at all.
Not long after, Professor Wang and others also came out of their respective rooms. Everyone saw Gu Mian and Qin Sheng in the corridor and tacitly surrounded them.
"It's about time, let's go!" Mr. Qiao led the way and took everyone directly to the third floor.
Professor Wang was still very responsible and feared that Gu Mian would accidentally get lost, so he called out to Gu Mian to follow him closely.
The third floor was originally a place for some people to rest, but at this time the third floor gathered a lot of people, and there were also people who seemed to be shuttling back and forth in the crowd, as if they were checking identities.
On the third floor, Mr. Qiao suddenly pulled out a bunch of feather eye masks like magic, and after wearing them, they could block most of a person's face. If it wasn't someone you were particularly familiar with, you basically couldn't recognize their appearance.
Gu Mei put on a plain black feather eye mask, thinking to herself that it was no wonder Professor Wang had specifically instructed her yesterday to dress normally.
Noticed that the people around them were in a similar situation. Either wearing masks or goggles, and their clothes didn't have any distinctive features. Some people couldn't even be told apart as male or female.
"Let's go." Professor Wang pulled Guxiang along, indicating for her to follow.
Gu Mei only then withdrew her gaze and discovered that the wall of the house they were originally in had an additional small door, with a narrow path inside. The person in front was walking towards it.
Wow, I don't know why. Gu Mian suddenly felt that they seemed to be a cult organization having a secret meeting, and even the hidden passage came out, which was really unexpected.
After entering the small door, a ladder leading straight down came into view. Everyone remained silent and walked down the ladder in an orderly manner. Gu Qingchu walked down while listening carefully with his ear to the side, but apart from the sound of footsteps and breathing around him, he couldn't hear anything else. It seemed that the soundproofing facilities here were quite good.
The ladder was very long, according to Gu Mian's estimate, this ladder had already exceeded three floors, which means they were actually walking underground, and the destination was likely to be the basement of this villa.
The ladder leading to the basement seems to have grown too long. Gu Ming calculated in his heart that they had probably gone down about five floors before reaching their destination.
In the minds of many people, basements are often dark and damp, cluttered with disorderly things, and walking in makes you feel like something scary is secretly peeking at you.
But the basement that Gu Meng walked into was not ordinary at all. If she hadn't been certain that she had gone down at least five flights of stairs, which left her legs trembling slightly, she wouldn't have believed that this place, decorated like an auction hall, could be a basement!
There was no darkness, the light was very sufficient, and the entire basement was quite large, even larger than the villa's floor area, making Gu Miao feel like this basement had been extended to the garden behind the villa.
People who have been to the housing fair know that it is in a large exhibition hall where each real estate company divides a piece of land and arranges it according to their own style to attract customers.
The basement now gives Gu Mian a feeling like this, the large basement is divided into several blocks, each block is like a small auction hall.
Inside, not only were comfortable sofas prepared, but also many exquisite delicacies, and waiters dressed in uniforms came back and forth with wine glasses, I don't know who would think this is a trading meeting, it's really an upper-class banquet.
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