Chapter 358: The Shen Family's Pawnshop

readx;? In the city of Chongqing, there is such a pawnshop, which began in the heyday of the Qing Dynasty and has experienced many baptisms of war, and has continued until now. According to legend, the first generation of the Shen family pawnshop is also the founder of this pawnshop, who was the imperial treasure connoisseur of the Kangxi Emperor, and later left the court and returned to Chongqing to establish this pawnshop.www.biquge.info It's strange to say, since he opened this pawnshop, there has been an unwritten rule, serious things go through the back door, but things that are upside down in the tomb can go through the front door, and these things can always be sold at a better price than those things that come from serious ways. Regarding this matter, the shopkeeper of the Shen family's pawnshop did not answer positively, but the others still learned a thing or two from the mouths of some people who had worked in the Shen family's pawnshop. Said, the big proprietor of the Shen family thinks that although this Tufuzi, touching the gold school captain to hunt for treasures from the tomb is not a righteous and bright business, but people have obtained these treasures by virtue of their true skills, which is naturally respectable, and the things brought by these people are generally good goods, and it is natural that the price given is high. And those serious things, more are some of the sons of the gentleman or the second ancestor of the ruined family who are ruining the family business and the things left by the ancestors, Shen Da's shopkeeper sneers at this kind of people, but the business can't be left out, so he set a rule to let them go through the back door, and the price is lower than those things that are poured out of the tomb. Of course, this is said to be low, but also compared to the price of the Shen family to those unearthed goods, looking at the whole country, whether it is a pawnshop opened by Chinese or a commercial house opened by foreigners, there is really no one that can open the price of the Shen family's pawnshop, one is that the Shen family was indeed rich at that time, and the second is that the Qing Dynasty emperor is behind the support, so this Shen family pawnshop is getting bigger and bigger, and by the Qianlong period, it has spread all over the country and is famous.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreigners used foreign guns and artillery to blast open the door of China, and foreigners ran rampant in the city, peeking at every grass and tree on the land. At the beginning, they started with some small antique shops and pawnshops, and under the name of cooperation, they did robbery, and in the end, they extended their black hands to the Shen family's pawnshop. At that time, the fifth-generation shopkeeper of the Shen family had just passed away and was holding a funeral in the old house in Chongqing, and the representatives of the foreigners came to the Shen family, regardless of the funeral etiquette, and forced the Shen family to trust the owner to sign a cooperation agreement. The foreigners who had lost face were angry, so they began to forcibly plunder the Shen family's pawnshop. The Shen family did not sit still, but started a fierce battle with the foreign devils without the permission of the owner, which gave the foreigners a reason to act recklessly, in just a few months, one hundred and nine Shen pawnshops all over the country were looted by foreigners, and more than half of them were burned clean. In the end, only the Chongqing City family, which made foreigners deflated, remained.

This time, the Shen family did not close the door to greet the guests, but opened the door to welcome the foreigner into the living room, and the Shen family's shopkeeper sat alone in the hall, waiting for the enemy who robbed his pawnshop.

"Shopkeeper Shen, I think you also know what it means to toast and not eat and drink, right?" The one who came to the Shen family was still the one who was kicked out of Chongqing last time, and as soon as he entered the door, he said triumphantly to the shopkeeper of the Shen family.

"I just drank this glass of wine!" the shopkeeper of the Shen family said in a deep voice, but there was not much change on his face, and he looked indifferent.

"Oh, haha, since the shopkeeper Shen has already tasted this cup of fine wine, he also knows how bad it tastes, right?" said the foreigner representative with a wicked smile.

"The taste is really not good!" said Shen Da Shopkeeper still lightly.

"Since this penalty wine doesn't taste good, why don't you choose to drink a toast?"

"Toasting? Is there any difference between your toast and punishment wine? It's nothing more than selling dog meat on a sheep's head, isn't it all the same result, does it make a difference what I choose?" said Shen Da Shopkeeper, and then slowly stood up from the Taishi chair.

"Our Shen family has ancestral teachings, others toast me with a glass of wine, I must return a toast, if the other party is not happy, then find a way to make the other party drink to the fullest!"

"You, what are you going to do?" asked the foreigner representative tremblingly, as if Shen Da's shopkeeper could eat him at any time.

"What do I want to do? I, I just want to give you a glass of wine in return!" Shen Da shopkeeper said coldly, and soon, a young man came to the hall with a white jade wine jug, and after pouring two glasses of wine without speaking, the first cup was given to Shen Da shopkeeper, and the second cup was sent to the foreigner representative, who looked at the cup and hesitated, and did not dare to touch it.

"Mr. Representative, are you afraid that I will poison the wine? Don't worry, my Shen family has never used this kind of trick! If you don't worry, the two of us can exchange a glass of wine!" Seeing the foreign representative hesitate, the shopkeeper Shen immediately spoke.

"No, there's no need to change it! I don't have to worry about Shen's shopkeeper!" Although the foreigner representative was terribly afraid, he didn't dare to lose face in the Shen family, so he took the wine glass head-on.

"Mr. Representative, I'll do it first!" said Shen Da's shopkeeper in a loud voice, and then drank all the wine in his cup. When the foreigner representative saw that Shen Da's shopkeeper had finished drinking, he carefully raised his wine glass, first took a sip, and then looked at the young man who gave the wine and looked at him with disdain, and then drank the rest of the wine in one gulp. When he finished drinking and was about to return the glass to the young man, when he looked down, he saw not the same young man just now, but a pale, bloody and terrifying face.

The foreigner representative was startled, hurriedly took a few steps back, and then looked at the young man again, this time, the young man changed again, this time, he became a familiar person to the foreigner representative, the apprentice of the Shen family's pawnshop who was brutally killed by him not long ago.

"Ghost, ghost!" the foreigner representative pinched himself, but the apprentice was still standing there, looking at him coldly, and he finally couldn't help but shout!

"Hahahaha, Mr. Representative, this toast doesn't have to taste as bad as your cup of fine wine!" said the shopkeeper Shen with a sneer, and the foreigner representative was full of fear and scurried around in the Shen family's hall!