"Scavenging in the Marketplace: I Can See the Age of Cultural Relics"
Shen Shi, a three-year apprentice in an antique shop, was fired on the spot because he refused to help his boss with the fraud.
I was penniless, my rent was about to expire, and when I was desperate, I was accidentally bound to the market leak detection system.
No defiance, no feeding, no mandatory tasks, just the real year.
Ghost markets, secondhand stalls, demolished villages, old private households...
Others see truth and falsehood, but he sees time; others bet on luck, but he sees time.
Broken bowls from the Northern Song Dynasty, bronze Buddhas from Shunzhi, mahogany from the Republic of China, huanghuali from Yongzheng, fragments from official kilns...
Each dusty old thing reappeared in his eyes for thousands of years.
Don't cheat the elderly, don't deceive laymen, don't make fakes, and don't play tricks.
Use your conscience to pick up leaks and rely on your eyesight to stand on your own.
From being fired as an apprentice, to being the master of Shiguzhai, to being recognized throughout the city as Mr. Palm Eye.
He tells you in the cleanest way:
The real world of antiques is not found in sky-high auctions, but in the fireworks of the world.
