Chapter 2: Juvenile Madness
Wei Xiu's pupils dilated abruptly and turned his head to look at the young man, or at the ceramic Guanyin in his hand.
"Sir, please wait a minute. Wei Xiu suddenly turned his head and shouted at the young man who was about to leave. The youth turned a deaf ear, or at this time his decadence had ignored the external environment.
At this time, the middle-aged boss, who was taking over the wood carving, raised his head and looked at Wei Xiu in surprise.
Wei Xiu didn't care about the eyes of others at this time, and quickly caught up with the young man and patted him on the shoulder, looking at his blank expression, he smiled and said, "Excuse me, may I ask if the Guanyin statue in your hand is for sale?"
When the young man heard Wei Xiu's words, his decadent eyes suddenly lit up, he raised the statue of Guanyin in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "You want this thing?"
"That's right, you quote a price, right?" Wei Xiu said dryly.
A touch of cunning suddenly appeared in the young man's decadent eyes, and the lion opened his mouth and said, "This thing is a family heirloom left by my grandfather to my father, so let's do it, ten thousand...... Five thousand, you give me five thousand dollars in cash now, and this thing is yours. ”
Wei Xiu's face instantly became gloomy, and this young man was simply a lion's mouth. Not to mention that he had heard the words of the middle-aged boss, even if he discovered the special features of the Guanyin statue because of his special ability, it did not mean that Guanyin was a valuable commodity, but just because the Guanyin statue happened to have the material of the restoration explorer.
Wei Xiu stopped talking, turned his head and pointed to the wood carving, and said, "Boss, ...... this thing?"
The middle-aged boss glanced at the stunned young man, and a sneer appeared in his heart, obviously it was a fake and wanted to deceive others, no wonder people didn't give you face so much.
Thinking like this in his heart, the middle-aged boss still smiled politely and said: "I don't see this wood carving well, why don't you go to the back and rest first, and I'll find a professional appraiser to identify it again, what do you think?"
Don't look at the middle-aged boss one by one, in fact, looking at his appearance, it is obvious that this wood carving definitely has something to attract his attention. It's just an excuse to stabilize Wei Xiu with inaccuracy, and ask someone to identify and confirm it in detail again.
"Bad look" in the antique circle, the meaning of the representative is worth playing, sometimes it is not sure that it is unwilling to offend people, unwilling to say that your things are fakes; sometimes it is true to see a little taste, but there is a lack of decisive basis, so it is said that it is not accurate.
However, Wei Xiu didn't know the circles in it, so he nodded very simply: "Okay!" After speaking, he had to follow the boss's gesture to the lounge in the back.
"Wait, that...... How much do you say?" the young man was anxious when he saw that Wei Xiu was about to leave.
Wei Xiu turned around, looked at the young man with an overindulgent appearance, and opened his three fingers and said, "Three hundred...... Three hundred bucks at most!"
"You...... Why don't you go and rob!?" the young man suddenly roared angrily.
Wei Xiu didn't speak, shrugged his shoulders and turned around to leave. In fact, three hundred is too much. After all, he didn't know if the substance in the statue would be like the one he had absorbed on a lamp pole, and if it did, he would have lost a fortune.
He is very poor, 300 yuan is his living expenses for a month!!
"Okay, good, count you ruthless, three hundred is three hundred, I'll sell it!" The young man looked at the statue of Guanyin in his hand, which was completely a modern handicraft, and gritted his teeth.
"Deal!" Wei Xiu took out his wallet a little painfully, handed over the money with one hand and received the goods with the other hand to get the Guanyin statue.
The middle-aged boss didn't speak, and waited until the young man left before he smiled slightly: "Buying a modern handicraft for three hundred yuan, although it looks a little loss, but looking at the firing method of the style of thirty or forty years ago, from a certain point of view, it is not a loss." ”
Wei Xiu smiled and didn't explain, but the hand holding the Guanyin statue tightened a little. The message from the depths of his pupils surprised him to realize that he seemed to have picked up a treasure.
Wei Xiu, who sat in the lounge, quietly looked at the elegant and rustic room layout. On the table, there is a wooden carving of him and a statue of Guanyin, which he has just acquired.
As for the middle-aged boss, he said goodbye and went to find someone who could identify the wood carving.
Just when Wei Xiu was a little bored and was about to study the Guanyin statue, a girl with a tray walked into the lounge.
Wei Xiu looked up, his eyes suddenly round with a surprised expression.
The girl walked in and brought down the teapot on the tray, and said with a smile while making tea for Wei Xiu: "Looking at Mr.'s expression, you seem to know me?"
'I just saw it last night, can I forget?' Wei Xiu muttered in his heart, this person was none other than the woman who asked for the price of wood carving yesterday.
"Did you ask for a wood carving at the stall at the north gate of Nanda last night? Hmm, this is it?" Wei Xiu pointed to the wood carving.
At this time, the girl who had already made tea elegantly sat on the sofa next to her and glanced at the wood carving, and her eyes suddenly lit up and said, "It turns out that this wood carving was bought by you?"
"Hmm!" Wei Xiu scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly.
Looking at the girl's clean face and the calm appearance of the breeze, Wei Xiu's heart moved: "Are you working part-time here?" I saw you enter the school gate last night, ......" As soon as Wei Xiu said this, his face suddenly became embarrassed.
Because no matter how you hear this, you have a feeling of stalking someone.
The girl was slightly stunned, a smile flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she nodded, "Well, yes." My name is Mu Qingqing, and I'm a sophomore, what about you?"
"Wei Xiu, the Wei of Jingwei reclamation, the cultivation of self-cultivation, is also a sophomore. You ......" Before Wei Xiu could finish speaking, the door of the lounge was suddenly pushed open.
The middle-aged boss respectfully welcomed in an old man who was almost old, the old man was dressed in a slightly white tunic, and his spirit was excellent.
"Mr. Wei, let me introduce you to you, this is Professor Chang, the chief appraiser of our store. …… Professor Chang: This is Mr. Wei, the owner of the wood carving. The middle-aged boss introduced to Wei Xiu. Before, Wei Xiu had exchanged names with the middle-aged boss, and Wei Xiu only knew that the boss's surname was Mu.
At this time, Mu Qingqing also stood up and nodded respectfully to the old man.
The old man seemed to be a little speechless, nodded to Wei Xiu and Mu Qingqing, sat down with a big sword, and took out a high-powered magnifying glass from his arms, and then picked up the wood carving on the table and observed it carefully.
The old man had not said a word until he entered the door, but everyone did not feel rude at all, but had a sense of awe.
Boss Mu quietly found a seat and sat down, quietly looking at the old man's expression.
After a long time, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, put down the high-powered magnifying glass, and his expression remained silent. However, this expression fell into Boss Mu's eyes, but he already had an answer.
The rest depends on whether the customer understands the wood carving, and if the other party does not understand, then they can buy it at a reasonable low price. It's not that they are black-hearted, but because this is the rule of the industry, which is a leak they pick up, after all, they are businessmen, and businessmen pay attention to profits.
If the other party understands, then the price is negotiable, and of course they must make a profit.
"This little brother, I don't know how much you know about this wood carving?" Professor Chang asked with a smile at Wei Xiu.
At this time, Mu Qingqing also looked at Wei Xiu with big eyes, you must know that this wood carving last night was a bit extraordinary out of her professional sense.
Wei Xiu blinked, he was not a stupid person, and the old man's posture and expression seemed to confirm the accuracy of the explorer's information.
I don't know if it's because of Mu Qingqing's presence, Wei Xiu, who has always been low-key, suddenly had a desire to express himself in his heart, and he organized the wording in his heart, and then smiled slightly.