Chapter 46: Copper Basin
"By the way, eldest sister, I heard what you mean, your consignment point is similar to your own business. There is a copper basin in my village that makes copper basins at home, can you take a few back and sell them?" Master Zhang suggested to his grandmother.
Grandma hurriedly inquired: "What's the situation?" brother. ”
It turned out that there was a coppersmith in his village, who was very good at his craft, and he had opened a small workshop at home earlier to process small objects such as copper basins, copper spoons, and copper incense burners.
After the Cultural Revolution, he was not allowed to open a workshop at home, and the processing factory in the county heard that he had good craftsmanship, so he entered the factory as a worker and made bronze statues of great men. In the past two years, there are not many people who buy the image badge, and he has also reached the age of retirement, so he retired and let his children take over.
When he was idle at home and had nothing to do, someone took the copper incense burner and other prohibited items stolen at home and asked him to process copper basins and spoons. came and went, and more and more people were looking for him to process, and there were many staff.
He also saw the doorway, and the policy above was loose. I secretly bought some scrap copper and processed copper basins and copper spoons at home. Not to mention, business is quite good, young people are willing to buy a new copper basin when they get married, and old people also buy a copper spoon for the younger branch.
Now the enamel basin is fashionable, light and strong, bright in color, but there is a fear of falling and being afraid of touching, and it is easy to lose the magnetism when it is touched, and it will rust and leak when the magnetism is lost, and it can not be repaired, so it must be used very carefully.
The copper basin is much stronger, it will not be destroyed easily, and a copper basin can be used for several lifetimes. The copper basin generally weighs two catties and sells for four yuan, which is two or three more expensive than the enamel basin, but ten porcelain basins can not make a copper basin. Therefore, copper basins are very easy to sell, but they can't be sold openly, they have to be stolen.
When Grandma heard this, she said she wanted to go and see it. Master Zhang was cool, and led his grandmother to the coppersmith's house. The coppersmith master is also surnamed Zhang, and they are still one person, and they are not brothers in five suits (five generations).
Seeing that it was a guest brought by his brother, the coppersmith opened the locked door of the east house. There are stacks of new copper basins inside, and there are more than 100 large and small copper spoons in one basket.
There are still a lot of scrap copper piled up in the room, and you can take a look at it, in addition to the damaged copper basin and copper spoon, it is a copper lock, a copper incense burner, and only a small number of copper door nails and copper door leaves.
Looking at the copper locks and copper incense burners of different shapes, Yoyo was very reluctant to buy them. Squatting there and pulling, I casually found a few strangely shaped copper lock copper incense burners.
There are five wholesale copper basins, three yuan and five cents each, and grandma asked for ten. The copper spoon weighed in pounds, eight pounds a catty, and grandma also asked for twenty, so you put the things you picked out in the copper spoon and let him weigh them together.
Grandma explained: "This child of my family likes these strange things, you weigh them, you should buy something for the child." ”
The coppersmith took out a few things and said, "Big sister, since you are willing to buy it for the child to play, then calculate it separately, this is what I collected according to scrap copper, a piece of five pounds." But be careful when you let your kids play, these things are causing trouble now."
Yoyo asked, "Then grandpa, where did you buy these beautiful things?"
"There are those who are looking for goods to collect, and most of them are bought by people at the acquisition station. The old man replied.
Yoyo was greatly inspired by this, and it seems that there is still a way to buy things at the acquisition station at this time.
When I went out of the village to see that there was no one on the road, I received things into the space, and my grandmother rode briskly. I took it out when I was almost home, but the child model didn't take it out.
The copper basin grandma didn't put it out to sell, but the copper spoon came out, and it was a good purchase. Grandma also mobilized everyone to exchange scrap copper, one and a half pounds for one pound. Not to mention, it's really changed to a few copper locks and copper incense burners.
Although there are no treasures, by the fifties of the twenty-first century, it has become a hundred-year-old object, and it is worth a lot of money, and there is no one who can't buy it for three thousand or two thousand.
With a large number of child models, they ran around the ponds and pits, stealing into the space to collect cement. It was beaten and pliable by the machine, divided into small packages, and accompanied by a video of the village children making child models, and the child models were sold together.
The result was unexpectedly good, and the price of a set of 1,000 yuan was not too high, and it was rushed to buy on the shelves. Although grandma didn't see the cash, she looked energetic, and the copper basin was selling well, so she took Youyou to the "clay man Zhang" house twice in a row to buy goods.
Thanks to the hot sales of child models, Yoyo opened a "Memories of the Years" nostalgic store in the mall, specializing in things from the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, candy paper, matchboxes, cigarette boxes, posters, villain books, portrait badges, child models and other items.
Nostalgic shops are very popular with the elderly and children, especially some farmhouses and nostalgic restaurants.