As soon as he walked into the trading hall, several well-dressed men surrounded Xiao Peng and the others, and they knew Buck at a glance: "Oh, Buck, are you okay?"

"Buck, we wanted to go out and help you just now, but you settled the matter before I got out. ”

"Buck, you're going to trade with us this time anyway, right?"

“。。。。。。 ”

These people are all jewelry buyers, and they have their eyes on Buck's black opal, and when Buck was beaten, they didn't show up, and now they look fine, and they all pop out. Yang Meng's face was full of disdain: "The icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, I don't understand such a simple truth, what else do you want to do as a jewelry buyer?"

Xiao Peng explained: "They don't want to offend those gang members, they still want to continue to trade Opal here, what if someone comes to make trouble on the future trading day? Armand has done a good job, and he should give face to him." ”

After listening to the words of the two, Armand asked curiously: "By the way, Xiao, I just heard you say that you Chinese love 'face' the most, what is this face?"

Xiao Peng smiled: "Face? Uh, how to say it? It is the most important and useless thing for Chinese, to put it bluntly, it means 'vanity', 'sense of identity' and the like." Wherever Chinese go, almost all of them crave this thing, but to be honest, this thing is directly proportional to people's economic strength, and there is no money and no face. If you have money, you will be richer than you, and you will be able to save face more than you. You see, our Chinese Jack Ma father has a lot of face everywhere he goes, for what? He has a charisma? Of course, he does have a charisma, and this cannot be denied, but just because of his personality charm, he can have such a high status and such a high popularity today, and he can have face everywhere he goes? In the final analysis, isn't it because he is rich?"

Armand didn't understand even more after hearing this: "Xiao, you said it yourself, this face is the most useless thing, so why do you attach importance to him?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "The more people lack something, the more they desire something, in the final analysis, it is still a lack of self-confidence." Chinese care about face, in fact, they care about 'how the other party sees themselves', showing off their economic ability, showing off their famous university degrees, in order to let others affirm themselves, by the way, and titles, I can call you Armand, but if you are in China, people will add a title of yours, which is a kind of identity, and when people love face the most is when they lack the most self-confidence in their own intrinsic value. Of course, this is also due to traditional culture. ”

Xiao Peng didn't talk nonsense, everyone thought about it, since we were in school when we were children, the teacher would say: "It's the most noisy in our class, you have disgraced my face!" Now whenever someone has something happen in a foreign country, someone will say, 'This person has lost his face abroad.'" If someone has done something good, there will be people who say, 'This person has won glory for the country and earned enough face,' and when he arrives at home, he will say, 'The ugliness of the family should not be publicized.'" Since childhood, Chinese have been accustomed to hanging what one person does with one's collective view of honor and disgrace.

In the final analysis, it is the economic foundation that determines the superstructure, and China's thousands of years of small-scale peasant economy have created China's face-saving culture. Closed, conservative, and not good at expressing their inner thoughts and communicating with others led to this situation. Now China's economic development has caught up, but people's ideology has not kept up, which has led to this result.

Now that many Chinese have gone abroad and brought this face culture out of the country, Chinese rich have become the world's largest purchasing power of luxury goods, buying brand-name bags is like purchasing cabbage. What is it for? Is it really a need for those luxuries? Is it not the vanity?

Especially in foreign Chinese immigrants, they want to save face, but unfortunately this is the most difficult, unless they really have extraordinary financial resources, no money no friend, the more money the bird is, this principle is common to the whole world.

Armand's expression was even more confused now: "Since you see it so clearly, then why do you care about face?"

Xiao Peng glanced at him: "Look at what I'm wearing, like a person who cares about face? What I care about is my mood! When I don't have money, I have to compromise everything I do, and look at people's faces everywhere, now that I have money, why should I live so aggrieved? Everything I do now is not to let myself be wronged." Do what you want. Who still gives me a look on my face now? Who has made these years that only economic independence can be truly independent of personality. ”

Armand nodded: "What you said is really good! In this world, in many cases, economic strength determines status. Of course, I don't know if this counts as the sorrow of this world. Congratulations on living so freely now. ”

Xiao Peng said angrily: "My life has been criticized since I was a child, and now I finally don't have to! No one can talk nonsense about my life anymore!"

Yang Meng did not hesitate to expose him: "I don't believe that you don't listen to your mother." ”

"Well, you don't have any friends if you have nothing to do with it. Xiao Peng glanced at Yang Meng and looked at Armand with a wry smile: "This is our traditional Chinese virtue, and filial piety comes first." We Chinese young people are not as good as you in this regard. ”

Armand shrugged: "Trust me, we are each other, my mother yells at me, and I am afraid like a puppy." Xiao, you've been talking to me for a long time, but you still haven't explained it, what is that 'face'?"

Xiao Peng smiled and patted Armand's shoulder: "Then I'll let you personally understand what face is." ”

After speaking, Xiao Peng walked to the group of people around Buck: "Let's let go." After saying that, he pulled Buck out of the crowd.

"Who are you? Why did you take Buck?" someone next to him was dissatisfied.

Xiao Peng smiled and asked, "You're a jeweler, right?"

"Yes, yes, I'm Lea of Givenchy. Can we talk?"

"This gentleman, this is my business card, I am JOLEE'。。。。。。 ”

Many people handed Xiao Peng business cards, but Xiao Peng shook his head: "I know everyone means to buy this batch of Opal, right?"

"Yes, yes, I look at the quality of this batch of black opals, sell them to me, and I will definitely give you a good price!

"Don't listen to her, our Fendi price is the best!"

"Hmph, sir, don't believe him, or believe us Cartier, only we can make these black opals into the most beautiful jewelry. ”

Seeing that Xiao Peng was about to take Buck away, the jewelers became anxious. Xiao Peng waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and Xiao Peng said: "Everyone wants this batch of black opals, but I want you to know that there are only so many black opals. And we already have buyers for this batch of Opal. This pack of Opal was sold to Armand of Van Cleef & Arpels. Brave and kind people always have good luck. ”

After speaking, regardless of their reactions, he directly dragged Buck and them to Armand's side: "Armand, this is called face." ”

Armand looked at the envious eyes of others, sighed and said, "Anyway, this is really a good mood. ”

Xiao Peng patted Armand: "You have to give my friend a good price." Don't let him suffer, okay?"

"Don't worry, I know what to do!" Armand looked good. In order to ensure the prestige of the brand, Van Cleef & Arpels' jewelry has always been the kind that does not follow the quality rather than quantity, and does not belong to its own Opal mine, so it can only rely on the purchase of Opal. This sophisticated manufacturing model also puts Van Cleef & Arpels under great economic pressure. In the purchase of Opal, and then the rest of the wealthy luxury brands often fall behind in the competition, now it is good, he actually got a first-hand resource, can he not be happy?

Xiao Peng looked at Buck: "That, I'm good at helping you set a buyer, there's no problem, right?"

Buck nodded, "Of course, Xiao, I trust you." ”

Even if Buck were rough miners, they weren't fools. Looking at Xiao Peng's appearance just now, he already knew that Xiao Peng's social status was very high. Don't fight with the rich is the basic rule of all capitalist countries. Besides, if it weren't for Xiao Peng just now, their Opal might have been snatched away. It's better to listen to Xiao Peng, sell to Armand, aren't these Opals sold for money?

One of the major features of the trading center is that all Opals are rated on the spot! The quality of Buck's batch of Opals is still very good. In the end, Armand gave them an offer of 1.4 million.

Buck had no expression on his face, but he was still not too satisfied in his heart, the transaction currency here is US dollars, 1.4 million, US dollars, this price is not very high, not very low, it can only be said to be a normal price, even a little low, to be honest, Buck is a little dissatisfied, he thinks that this is only appropriate to sell to the price of 1.5 million. But who made this recommended by Xiao Peng? I had to accept the price.

Armand seemed to see Buck's dissatisfaction, and patted Buck on the shoulder: "The price I gave is euros." ”

When Buck heard this, his face was ecstatic, 1.4 million euros? That's about $1.65 million! This price is too satisfying for Buck! This is more than $100,000 more than Buck's heart! How could he not be happy?

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Armand, this price is good." ”

Armand patted Xiao Peng on the shoulder: "Didn't you say to give face? You have given me face, so I will naturally give you face." Anyway, it is within the range of reasonable acceptance. ”

Xiao Peng gave a thumbs up: "Well done." You are a person who deserves to make friends. ”

Armand laughed: "It was my pleasure. Armand carefully placed the acquired Black Opal in two lockboxes and handed them to his assistant. His assistant handcuffed the lockbox to his wrist.

Xiao Peng pouted: "As for it, it's so careful." ”

Armand said: "This is for the company, of course you have to be careful." ”

Xiao Peng was stunned: "This amount is not much, and there is no super black opal." As for being so nervous?"

Armand sighed: "You don't understand the situation, just these quantities are also very important to us Van Cleef & Arpels, otherwise our brand's black Opal jewelry may be out of stock." ”

As soon as Xiao Peng wanted to speak, he heard someone next to him laugh and say, "Armand, you did a good job." I'm very satisfied with this black opal, come on, give me the black opal. ”

Armand saw the person clearly: "Rupert, what do you want? I won't give you these Opals!"

Xiao Peng turned his head, uh, isn't this the jewelry buyer of the Cartier company just now? Why did he come to Armand to ask for these black opals? Why is this?