The pawnbroking industry in Hong Kong has a long history and is quite large-scale.

Since the British government promulgated the pawn law in 1926, the first pawnshop in Hong Kong has been completed. Over the years, it has endured, and it has become more and more open.

Pawnshop in the commercial society, pawnshop actually plays the role of a lender. However, unlike banks, which guarantee property and creditworthiness, pawnshops are secured by small physical objects. For people who want to solve their urgent needs, it plays a certain role in emergency regulation.

At this time, because of the economic depression in Xiangjiang at the end of the 70s, the pawn industry has developed rapidly, and in the 90s, more than 200 pawnshops of all sizes have blossomed all over Xiangjiang.

Of the more than 200 pawnshops, nearly one-third are in Kowloon.

Looking at the red-lettered plaque of "Fu Ji Pawnshop" in front of him, and the small wooden signs on both sides of the antique shop that "save the emergency but not the poor" and "SARS do not enter the door", Li Xian stopped.

"Hey, old watch, let's go. ”

The liar behind him, who called himself "Jiuzai", saw that Li Xian stopped, and urged a little anxiously.

Li Xian smiled secretly, looked at the big plaque of the pawnshop again, and hesitated: "Hmm...... I don't think that's right. ”

"How spicy!" Seeing that Li Xian seemed to be about to repent, Jiuzai stomped his feet anxiously.

Li Xian spread his hands, "Brother, let's do it, I want this watch." Let's not go to the pawnshop, okay?"

"Angang?" Jiu Zai heard that Li Xian wanted to watch, and said, "How is it prismatic?"

"I'll give you money!" Li Xian directly offered the price, "That's it, brother, I'll give you five hundred yuan." The watch is mine. ”

Hearing this price code, Jiuzai was stunned.

The gold watch fraud on the street is generally four or five hundred yuan at a time. Seeing that the watch Li Xian was holding just now was not the one he lost, but Lange, who looked quite valuable, he moved his mind.

At this time, hearing that Li Xian took the initiative to give himself money to buy the watch, Jiu Zai was happy: "Roar too, you should have found about 500 yuan on it." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

Seeing the palm spread out in front of him, Li Xian smiled slightly, and took out a few Hong Kong dollars exchanged at the port from his pocket. Counting it, it's only two hundred and three in total.

After a few minutes,

Seeing that Li Xian didn't make up enough five hundred in his pockets left and right, Jiuzai became impatient, "Hey, old watch, is it enough?"

Is it enough?

There are more than 30,000 in Lao Tzu's bag! Unfortunately, I can't let you see it.

despised the liar a hundred times in his heart, and Li Xian's face was bitter: "It's not enough, isn't it okay to have two hundred and three? ”

Seeing Jiu Zai shaking his head like a rattle, Li Xian shrugged helplessly, "What's the matter?"

Jiuzai also shook his head in confusion, indicating that he didn't know.

Standing in place and looking around, Li Xian silently stood in front of the pawnshop, making a bitter and hateful and helpless appearance.

Just when the situation was at an impasse, Jiu Zai sighed, as if he had discovered a new continent, and stretched out his hand to point behind Li Xian: "Stupid!

Hearing this method, Li Xian patted his head and directly gave a thumbs up, "High! Brother, your method is really high!"

……

At the entrance of Fu Ji is a large black curtain, on which is written in red letters with a large "charge" character.

Inside the door, there is a woodblock screen with the words "O'Charge" written on it. After passing through the screen and turning along the old corridor, I really reached the inner business part of the pawnshop.

As far as the eye can see, in the tall and solemn counter with window frames, an old man dressed in a black Tang costume with a cold and stereotyped face like a photo on an urn is standing motionless, staring ahead.

The whole room is shrouded in oldness, rigidity and coldness.

A great venue for a horror movie.

Li Xian secretly vomited in his heart, and then walked to the counter under the urging of Jiuzai. He lifted the piece in his hand high and placed it on the cabinet.

"I'm going to take it as five hundred dollars in a hurry, and I'll come and get it at night. ”

After listening to the offline request, the old man didn't reply, just clamped a magnifying glass the size of a wrench to his eyes, picked up the watch and examined it carefully.

Only then did he turn around and sing a Cantonese sentence behind him that Li Xian didn't understand.

A few minutes later, a handwritten pawn ticket and 500 Hong Kong dollars were placed on the counter. Li Xian's eyes were quick, and he grabbed the pawn ticket and money in his hand before Jiuzai, who was already scratching his ears and cheeks beside him.

Then, he nodded to the old man who was still expressionless, "Sir, I will come to redeem it at night, I have just arrived, and I will ask you for a piece of paper? I don't know the way, I'm afraid I won't find it for a while, so I have to go out and copy the street sign." ”

Seeing what he said politely, the old man nodded slightly, took a blank pawn ticket casually, and put it on the cabinet.

Li Xian smiled and thanked him, and after taking it, he went out of the pawnshop.

Outside the door.

He directly handed the money that didn't go into his pocket to Jiu Zai beside him, "Well, the money is for you." The watch is mine. Let's go. ”

Jiuzai lowered his head and looked at the money in his hand over and over again. Although he was wearing a peaked cap, Li Xian couldn't see his face, but from the hand that kept patting the money, he could see that this product was very happy.

Seeing this, Li Xian smiled, "Thank you! ”

Leaving such a sentence without a beginning or end, he turned around and left directly.

Looking at his back, Jiuzai, who was holding the money, frowned, and then went back to the pawnshop like a loach.

"How much money did that watch just now?" asked Jiu Zai in front of the counter.

Lao Dian looked under the cabinet and gave the answer coldly: "Longge classic 18k, death is worth fifteen thousand." ”

"Lost!"

Jiuzai hammered his palm fiercely and ran out directly.

……

Li Xian didn't go far.

When Jiuzai's shout came from behind him, he had just come out of a small shop.

Seeing this thing panting and running in front of him, clutching his sleeve, Li Xian frowned and clenched his pockets: "What are you doing?"

"Old watch, old watch! A certain sheep remembered that tomorrow will be my grandfather's birthday," Jiuzai breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly: "Lei gave the pawn ticket to a certain roar?"

As soon as he heard this, Li Xian sneered and flatly refused: "Didn't you say that I want to ask you for money? I can tell you, this matter has been decided, and the money has been given to you, but there is no regret!"

After speaking, he broke free from Jiuzai and strode forward.

Behind him, Jiuzai quickly ran in front of him, clasped his hands together and begged: "Old watch, old watch is good on the beam!"

Seeing that Li Xian still ignored it and strode away, Jiuzai jumped on the spot in a hurry and shouted: "Give Lei money!"

Hearing these four words, Li Xianzhen couldn't do it.

On the bustling street, he held himself back to the point where he almost didn't have internal injuries before he finally resisted the urge to laugh.

"How much do you give?"

"Six hundred!"

Li Xian left directly.

"A thousand!"

Keep going.

"Two thousand!"

Keep going.

"Four thousand five, that's a lot!"

Hearing this price, Li Xian stopped.

Half an hour later.

Before a bank on Shanghai Street, Li Xian took the thick wad of Hong Kong dollars.

Seeing that the other party was rubbing his hands anxiously, he took out the pawn ticket in his pocket.

In Jiuzai's eager gaze, he handed it over. But at the moment when he was about to be handed over to the other party, he pulled it back, and the fox asked: "No! Old watch, you are not right! Is that watch just now quite valuable?"

"So-and-so, so-and-so! It's not worth much, it's not worth much, so I don't like it. Ah Jiu raised his hands and swung them again and again, and his head with a cap shook like a rattle.

"Oh,"

Li Xian nodded and handed over the square-folded pawn ticket.

As if he was afraid that Li Xian would regret it, Jiuzai took the pawn ticket and opened it and glanced at it, then immediately said bye and ran away happily.

Li Xian noticed that when the goods walked to the corner, he jumped and kissed the pawn ticket in his hand.

Seeing this scene, he flipped the wad of Hong Kong dollars in his hand and hooked the corners of his mouth.

A rookie, a scholar comes out to deceive?

hehe

Today's tuition, the master has collected.

……

Fu Ji pawnshop.

Jiu Zai couldn't believe his ears.

Standing on tiptoe and slapping the counter, he shouted, "How many more times does Ray speak?"

"Lei Jiedian's ticket, it's a fake!" In the cabinet, Lao Dian said again, and threw the pawn ticket out of the counter.

The pawn ticket with creases, like a bamboo dragonfly, swirls and gently falls in front of Jiuzai.

After staying on the ground for a long time, he picked it up from the ground with a face full of disbelief. His eyes widened, and he took a closer look at the pawn ticket boy who didn't seem to have any problems, but only didn't have a pawnshop stamp.

And then......

Jiuzai is crazy.

"Ahhh

With an extremely pleasant scolding, the crumpled pawn ticket was slammed to the ground. It seemed to be a ping-pong ball, and after a few bounces, it rolled into the corner.

Still not feeling angry, Jiu Zai took off the hat on his head and fell to the ground.

Without the shackles of a hat, "Jiuzai" wore long black hair on his head, scattered like a waterfall.

"on the street!

She clenched her little fists, closed her eyes tightly, and shouted under the high counter.

"Hey. On her head, Lao Dian shouted in a deep voice: "Hurry up and go out with me, don't worry about it and make a shock." ”

"Y-ahh

was yelled at by the old man, and the momentum on "Jiuzai" disappeared suddenly. He turned around and bowed to Lao Dian, then walked away with his head down.

"on the street!

More than ten seconds later, listening to another scolding outside the pawnshop, Lao Dian shook his head helplessly.

"Little shrimp met the dragon and spit the pearl ......"

The pawn shop's old pawn, although he doesn't say a word much on weekdays. But in the pawnshop, a place where the cold and warmth of the world are commonplace, stay for decades, and there are few impenetrable roads in the world.

The old man, who had already figured out all the joints, shook his head, picked up the feather duster on the counter, brushed the spotless counter, and sighed.