It was already past two in the afternoon when we left Professor Tang's house.

At noon, I drank a little wine with Aunt Gao, and Gege's little face looked particularly beautiful.

Yang Jing originally wanted to send Gege back to let her rest, but the girl refused to do anything and insisted that Yang Jing accompany her to finish the other half of the campus. As a result, the two of them walked until it was getting dark.

Gege's grandmother called and asked her to bring Yang Jing home for dinner in the evening. When Yang Jing came to pick up Gege in the morning, the girl told her grandmother.

So, Yang Jing had dinner with Gege's grandmother in the evening. However, there were only three of them at dinner, as Gege's mother and aunt were not home, and Gege's uncle and his family of three were out of town, so they had to eat together.

It was obvious that the princess's grandmother liked Yang Jing very much, and Yang Jing also liked this cheerful old lady. The two talked for a long time, and Yang Jing did not say goodbye until after nine o'clock in the evening.

Of course Yang Jing wanted to bring Gege out, but the girl was shy and refused to follow Yang Jing no matter what he said. In desperation, Yang Jing had to stay alone in the empty room...

Unable to bear the loneliness, Yang Jing simply activated the "restricted time and space travel" skill and ran to the vicinity of Chaotian Palace at three o'clock in the morning on July 10, 1982.

Chaotian Palace is a famous tourist attraction in Jinling, and it is also the largest antique market in Jinling. As the saying goes, "There is Panjiayuan in the north and Chaotian Palace in the south", it is enough to prove the fame of Chaotian Palace Antique Market.

However, in 1982, Chaotian Palace Antique Market had not yet been established.

However, at this time, the ghost market near Chaotian Palace was very famous.

In terms of the early or late appearance of the ghost market, the ghost market in Yanjing can never catch up with the ghost market in Chaotian Palace.

How long has the ghost market in Chaotian Palace existed? There is no way to know this, but one thing can prove that the ghost market in Chaotian Palace existed at least during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. In the notes of Gu Qiyuan during the Wanli period, there is a record of "Jinling City Heyueguangli".

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the ghost market in the Chaotian Palace area became even more prosperous. In that era, the teahouses on Pingshi Street were the main places where the former Ming loyalists traded their treasures.

These old people from the previous dynasty were very concerned about their reputation and were unwilling to trade with the ghost market like the local robbers, so they conducted business in this more elegant teahouse. Gradually, Pingshi Street became the most prosperous antique market of that era.

However, with the rapid decline of those old and young people, the prosperity of Pingshi Street soon disappeared. More people were active in the areas of Shuixi Gate, Mochou Road and Tangzi Street, and the trading time was postponed from dusk to night to before dawn.

At that time, few people called it "ghost market" anymore, and it was called "black market". Before dawn, "the sky was dark, the people were dark, the goods were dark, and the prices were dark". Thieves, middlemen, old people and young people of all kinds gathered here during the darkest time. Stolen goods, counterfeit goods and other items were sold at all costs, making it the most chaotic area in Jinling City at that time.

Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the name "black market" was too ugly, and the name "ghost market" from the north was more appropriate, so the black market near Chaotian Palace gradually reverted to the earliest "ghost market".

But if we talk about the origin of the name "Ghost Market", it is said that it can be traced back to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

According to local folklore in Jinling, after Zhu Yuanzhang established Nanjing as the capital, he passed by a Taoist temple during his incognito tour. This Taoist temple was later known as Chaotian Palace. He ate a bowl of vegetarian noodles for pilgrims and praised it highly. After returning to the palace, he also asked the imperial kitchen to make it, but the imperial kitchen could not make it. When Empress Ma sent a young eunuch to the Taoist temple to check, he found that the vegetarian noodles were made from meat soup. Not only did the Taoist priests kill people, but they also made the unsuspecting pilgrims eat meat without knowing it. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he learned about it and ordered the killing of all the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple.

Later, after a night market was formed in the Chaotian Palace area, when they were closing their stalls at dawn one day, many stall owners found that the money they had was fake when they counted their earnings. What's more horrifying is that the fake money was actually paper money burned for the dead!

At first, the stall owners cursed the unscrupulous villains, but later someone thought that many Taoist priests had been "clicked" here. Some people even suspected that this was the intersection of the Yin and Yang worlds. During the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, the descendants offered some paper money. The Taoist priests who were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang naturally couldn't spend it during the day, so they came here at night to shop, and by the way, they spent the "money" offered by their descendants...

The vendors couldn't see the ghost money at night, but the next morning, when the paper money came into contact with the sun, it naturally became visible. As a result, the name of the "ghost market" quickly spread...

This legend is a bit scary, but it can well explain the origin of this "ghost market".

Yang Jing went to college in Jinling for four years, during which time he visited the Chaotian Palace Antique Market countless times. Naturally, he had heard these legends about the Chaotian Palace Ghost Market more than once or twice.

Although this legend is a bit scary, Yang Jing doesn't believe in it at all. Especially when Yang Jing was in college, he had heard many people say that in the early 1980s, there were some good things sold at the ghost market in Chaotian Palace. Some people spent more than ten yuan to buy some old things with big doors...

The ghost market produces interesting things. This is a fact that is almost true, whether it is the ghost market in Yanjing or the ghost market in Chaotian Palace, or even the early ghost markets across the country.

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