Chapter 8 Antiquities Dealers in Shanghai

It is an old imported safe, with a bronze nameplate clearly engraved "1951" and two rows of Russian letters. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info double-disc combination lock and double-hole four-corner key, and the brother-in-law also opened it to look at the thickness of the steel plate, and the thief who will be 800% can only stare dryly!

"This safe is said to be fireproof, but your sister is careful, and the cabinets for clothes in the room have been moved to the next room. ”

That way, even if there is a fire, the main room will not be too hot - all my sister's belongings are in this safe.

The safe was large and contained four cotton bags in addition to a few silver dollars, a gold ring and a few papers.

"It's all two?" Zhang Nan turned his head and asked his cousin.

"All of them, a total of 12 bundles, twenty-four thousand. There are whole boxes in the bank, and I didn't dare to ask for them. "A box of ten bundles, wrapped in thick kraft paper, if you don't open the bag, you can't see the money inside. Not to mention brother-in-law, Zhang Nan didn't dare to ask for it.

Saying that, the brother-in-law also opened a pocket, and four bundles of "lathe workers" honestly inside.

Even Zhang Nan had only heard of the whole bundle of "lathes" in 2011, but had never seen it, at least three million bundles! The whole product was more valuable than the old one, the whole knife was more expensive, and the whole bundle was on a new level. As for the whole piece (that is, the whole box) of the "lathe", probably only in the warehouse of the head office of the People's Bank of China!

I calculated in my heart, "Nima, at least 36 million!"

My cousin-in-law became a soldier at the age of 18 and worked as a scout, but later became a motor soldier because of a little injury, and in 79 years he was professional after fighting the self-defense war against Vietnam. My cousin also joined the job after graduating from high school at the age of 18, starting from an apprenticeship of 16 yuan a month, and the two got married in 78 years, I don't know how many people I have to envy to death when I can save so much money over the years!

You must know that in the 80s, an old worker would only be more than 40 yuan a month, and the driver's flexible brain could add up to one or two hundred. Zhang Nan knew that the drivers of the Materials Bureau could basically earn four or five hundred per month in the past two years, and his cousin's monthly salary plus bonus was also one hundred and fifty six, but saving this money was really not an ordinary cattle fork.

"Sister, brother-in-law, don't touch this money. If there is an urgent need at home, I have, and I have made thousands of dollars in the past few months. ”

"Don't worry, you have money for emergencies. I told an acquaintance that as soon as the news of the new money you said came out, all the money on hand would be exchanged, and yours would be exchanged together at that time. ”

I told my brother-in-law and sister about the importance of collecting, and they understood it. Although the bank will not be able to collect and pay this "turner" until 92, it is estimated that it will be difficult to change the whole knife in another year or two -- it seems that the fourth set of renminbi will be printed next year.

Seeing that there was still room in the safe, "Brother-in-law, I have a valuable jar and some silver dollars for you to put here." ”

"Okay, why don't you go now?"

"Good. ”

The "inventory" that Zhang Nan got most of the first half a year was sealed into the wall, and what he brought back this time was his brother-in-law's insurance.

"Looks like we'll have to find a way to get a big safe. "I thought to myself.

I didn't ride, and half an hour later, the two of them went back and forth, putting the cardboard box with the porcelain jar and a pack of silver dollars into the safe and locking it.

There are not many thieves in these years, and the walls of Zhang Nan's courtyard are full of broken glass, so such thieves generally avoid it and can't take risks. But just in case, Zhang Nan kept dozens of yuan in the bedside table at any time, just in case the thief didn't go empty.

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After finishing his errands early the next morning and eating lunch early, Section Chief Ding asked the driver in the bureau to help, and drove an old-fashioned gas 69 to send Zhang Nan to the parking lot of the food company's fleet.

This treatment is good, although the gas 69 is old-fashioned, but there will only be 5 cars in the county: two Beijing jeeps in the county party committee and county government, the material bureau has a gas and a Beijing jeep, and an old gas in the second light bureau. The classic car that Zhang Nan sat in is often borrowed by the county government.

The eight-ton old liberation, loaded with a cart of peanuts, more than 300 kilometers plus halfway to eat, arrived at Shanghai Shangcheng District at 10 o'clock in the evening. Halfway down the road, Zhang Nan also drove for three or four hours on behalf of the driver Lao Qian and let him sleep: Zhang Nan has a driver's license, and his cousin-in-law taught him to drive when he was 15 years old, and he can repair the car a few times.

In the first half of the year, I simply spent some money, and asked someone to find a way to get this driver's license from the Public Security Bureau, and it would be difficult to get a driver's license, and it was so easy to say that it was simple.

Every night after 10 o'clock in Shanghai is the most prosperous Nanjing Road trucks are casually driven, which is completely unimaginable in the "magic capital" of Shanghai 30 years later!

Because he had already said hello in advance, the driver Lao Qian rumbled in the middle of the night to drive a heavy-duty truck, first sent Zhang Nan to the East China Electric Power Bureau, and took the train ticket. He was sent to the Shanghai Railway Bureau Guest House next to the train station, which was past 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Saying goodbye to the old money, he had to unload the goods overnight.

With a letter of introduction and a soft sleeper train ticket, I successfully got a small single room.

The next morning, I didn't bring a bag, squeezed the bus with my empty hands, and rushed to the Huiji Road antique market with familiar knowledge, speaking Mandarin with a bit of Beijing flavor that I had practiced in my previous life, and found the ticket seller I knew when I came here a few times before.

I paid a deposit of 300 yuan in advance, and made an appointment to meet in the old place after two or three weeks, and prepared at least 10,000 catties of national food stamps.

This will be a mix of fish and dragons in the semi-underground form of the antique market in Shanghai Huiji Road, but as long as it is a familiar big customer, old customers, there are really not many people who play black and eat black.

After negotiating the matter of food stamps, he also exchanged a lot of foreign exchange papers, and the ticket seller surnamed Wang also introduced Zhang Nan to a dealer who played with ancient coins.

Because the Huiji Road Market is completely in the form of a stall, and it has always been investigated by the public security and industry and commerce, the three of them made an appointment to talk in a snack bar on the side of the road.

The person who came was a native of Shanghai, in his forties, also surnamed Zhang, who was thin and inconspicuous.

"Brother is generous!" Hearing that more than 500 silver dollars would be traded at the end of this year, the coin dealer Lao Zhang directly gave a thumbs up.

"Lao Zhang, I like Long Yang, I want to be in good condition, and the smaller ones in the world are better shots. Dude, do you have one?"

Zhang Nan not only bought, but also made a move: he planned to deal with all the miscellaneous varieties of the ordinary varieties of Dalu goods, such as Yuan Datou, Xiaotou, Zhanyang, Zayang and Yingyang, leaving only good quality Longyang and various rare varieties.

They are all insiders, so there is no need to talk nonsense. "Yes, quite a bit, but the price is slightly higher. Brother, you said that there is something today, I will bring it to you now, can it be about half an hour?"

"It's too late, we'll meet here later, I'll go shopping first. "After eating and talking, let's go and hang around first.

After the rebirth of this place, every time I come to Shanghai on a business trip or wait for the bus, as long as I have time, I will come and go around shopping for goods, and I am very familiar with it after a few trips.

However, in my previous life, I didn't go here in Shanghai, because in 1988, the vendors on Huiji Road were forcibly relocated to the "Liuhe Road Old Crafts Market".