"Minmin, there are 200,000 yuan in this card, and the password is your birthday. When your father returns, you can leave it to him to pay off the debt! I have also chosen the date of the engagement, which is the second day of June, which is an auspicious day for the zodiac. ”

Tang Xin handed a bank card to Huang Min, his face showing heartfelt joy and longing.

Huang Min didn't take the card immediately, frowned and said a little depressedly: "You still give this card to my father! If I take it, it always feels weird, like selling myself." ”

Tang Xin hurriedly said: "This is the bride price money for the engagement, and it is the custom of your hometown. Although you and I are in free love, we should also follow the local customs!

"What's more, if your father hadn't been in a hurry to repay Li Tao's usury, he wouldn't have forced me to pay this bride price. Minmin, don't think too much, and don't misunderstand your dad. ”

Huang Min stared at him and asked, "Tell me the truth: In order to raise the 200,000 yuan, did you borrow money on an online platform?"

Tang Xin didn't want to hide it from her, so he nodded frankly: "I have 150,000 yuan in savings, and I borrowed 50,000 yuan on an online loan platform. You can rest assured, those platforms are very formal, and the interest rate is not high. ”

Huang Min made a silent calculation in his heart: he doesn't smoke or drink, he is an orphan, he eats and lives in the Huang family's antique shop, his monthly salary is three thousand five, and he can save at least two thousand five. In five years, there should indeed be 150,000 savings.

"Okay, I'll put this card in the safe, just tell my dad later. When I got engaged on June 2nd, I had to hold a few tables of banquets to entertain relatives and friends, and I will figure out how to use that money, so you don't have to go online for a loan again. ”

Huang Min loved Tang Xin very much and didn't want him to take on too heavy debts, so he told him.

When Huang Min walked into the inner room to open the safe and put the bank card, Tang Xin looked at a few pieces of jade rough stones stacked in a corner of the storefront, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Huang Min's father, Huang Zhixin, entered the largest antique market in Northwest China more than 20 years ago, and took the current store and named it "Gu Xin Zhai".

His antique business was originally going smoothly, and he earned tens of millions of family properties in more than ten years, and he is also a well-known boss in this antique market.

Unexpectedly, three years ago, his wife, who had started a business with him and shared weal and butter for more than 20 years, suddenly fell ill and died.

In addition to grief, he changed his cautious and steady business style in the past, and became obsessed with the ups and downs and very exciting "gambling stone" business.

The outcome is conceivable: due to his ignorance of the market, and his lack of vision and experience in identifying raw materials, he lost almost nine out of ten gambles in his three-year "gambling stone" career, and soon exhausted tens of millions of family properties and owed more than one million yuan in debt.

Just three days ago, Li Tao, who specializes in loan sharking in the antique market, suddenly led a few of his subordinates to break into Gu Xinzhai and ordered Huang Zhixin to return the 500,000 yuan owed to him within a week, otherwise he would take over the shop according to the agreement.

Huang Zhixin had always opposed his daughter's love with Tang Xin, so he took the opportunity of Li Tao to force the debt and asked Tang Xin to pay 200,000 dowry money to get engaged to Huang Min. Otherwise, he will be kicked out of the store and never allowed to see Huang Min again......

"Xiao Tang, where's Boss Huang?"

A rough voice interrupted Tang Xin's contemplation, and when he looked up, it was Li Dacheng, who often came to the store to sell goods, who spoke.

Li Dacheng is a small cultural relics dealer, who specializes in walking the streets or going to the countryside to collect some old goods and antiques, and then resell them to antique shops to make a little difference, commonly known as "shoveling land".

"My master went to the jade raw material market to see the goods, and it is estimated that he will not be back until the evening. Brother Li, did you receive any good goods?"

Li Dacheng patted the artificial leather bag on his waist with his hand, and said happily: "This time I went to Dongshui County to shovel the ground, picked up a big leak, and found a Yongle sweet white glazed goblet. Mr. Huang is my old customer, so I will show it to his old man first. ”

Tang Xin was taken aback when he heard the words "sweet white glaze": the sweet white glaze goblet in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, if it is genuine, it is always valuable. Wherever you go to any auction house, the starting price is more than 3 million yuan.

So, he asked in a skeptical tone: "Brother Li, are you sure that the goods you found are genuine?"

Li Da was displeased and said: "Xiao Tang, I have been shoveling the land for more than ten years, although I haven't picked up any big leaks, but I rarely hit the eyes. That's it, since you don't believe me, and Boss Huang is not here, I'll go to Rongyuanzhai to find Boss Dai. ”

Then he turned and walked to the west of the market.

Huang Min happened to come out of the inner room, heard his last words, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Li, what kind of good goods are they, can you show me?"

Li Dacheng carefully took out a white goblet with a glazed jade from his leather bag, took out a flannel cloth from his pocket, put it on the glass counter, and then put the goblet on the velvet cushion and made a "please" gesture to Huang Min.

Huang Min walked to the glass counter, first carefully looked at the shape, glaze and thickness of the cup, then gently held up the cup, sighed towards the bottom, smelled the taste, and showed a hint of joy on his face.

"Tang Xin, come and see, this cup is a little interesting. ”

After Tang Xin waited for her to get out of the way, he also stood in front of the glass counter like her, first looked at the glaze and pulp, and showed a look of doubt on his face.

Then, he held up the cup, carefully looked at the lap foot and the bottom of the exposed tire, and then took out a magnifying glass to carefully observe the bottom of the exposed tire for a few minutes.

Judging from the flint red on the hoop feet and the bottom, this is clearly an old artifact. However, how can the glaze and pulp on the cup not look right?"

Tang Xin muttered in his heart, glanced at Huang Min, and then said to Li Dada: "Brother Li, we can't hold this artifact accurately, and we can't decide whether to accept it until my master comes back." Why don't you come back in the evening?"

Li Da said with a smile: "Then I'll go to Rongyuanzhai, Boss Dai is a cheerful person and has a great eye, maybe I can sell it at a good price at him." ”

As he spoke, he was about to reach out and take the cup.

Huang Min hurriedly said, "Brother Li, wait a minute, I'll discuss it with Tang Xin." ”

Then, she pulled Tang Xin into the inner room and said anxiously: "That cup is clearly genuine, what are you hesitating about?"

"Judging from the characteristics of the lap foot and pulp at the bottom, as well as the flint red, this cup is indeed genuine. It's just that the glaze and pulp on the body of that cup, I always feel that something is wrong when I look at it. Tang Xin explained.

"Look at the porcelain and look at the bottom, this is an old saying, have you forgotten? Since you are sure that the bottom of the cup is genuine, what do you suspect? Go out and negotiate the price!"

Tang Xin said: "You better call your dad first, and let him come back to be the master." ”

Huang Min hurriedly picked up his mobile phone and dialed Huang Zhixin's number, but there was a voice prompt of "temporarily unreachable".

"My dad may have been talking to someone about business and turned off his phone. Let's go, let's go out and talk to Boss Li first. If the price is right, let's buy it first. ”