Chapter 2 Glamorous Neighbors

"Xiaodong, you kid is making a lot of money this time!"

Just after Liu Dong collected the money, next to his stall, a middle-aged man wearing a gray vest and a pair of blue slippers on his feet, with a slightly dark face, said with envy on his face.

Hearing his words, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile, the person who was talking to him was named Wu Yunxin, and the two had known each other for almost two years. They are very familiar with each other, but Liu Dong is engaged in wood carving, while Wu Yunxin's stall is in the most common antique business in the antique city.

However, this person has just entered the industry not long ago, his eyesight is not good, his strength is limited, and there are few channels for shopping for goods. So I can only squeeze with Liu Dong to set up a stall on the side of the road to earn hard money. Of course, although it is not much, it is enough to support the family.

I think at the beginning, because the two often occupied each other's positions, they became friends who forgot about the year when they came and went. Very familiar with each other.

"Uncle Wu, I'm just making a little fuss, and I can't compare to your antique business in terms of making money!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

He didn't talk nonsense, as there are more and more people playing and collecting in China, the antique industry has become more and more popular, and a small stall like Wu Yunxin, when the market is good for a month, it is not much to earn one or two thousand.

Hearing his words, Wu Yunxin couldn't help but shake his head, "It's different, it's different!" Antiques are too deep, leaking treasures are common, although there is a lot of money, but the risk is also large, far less reliable than learning a craft! ”

After listening to his words, Liu Dong also thought so. It is said that art is the same, and with the improvement of his carving skills over the years, his understanding of ancient Chinese culture has become deeper and deeper, especially in the antique city, Liu Dong's collection of antiques has gradually changed from strange to familiar, from familiar to like. However, he also knows the risks of the antique shop, and in the three years he has been here, he has seen too many people scratch their eyes, and even be 'buried by mines', and the story of their family being ruined overnight.

Therefore, he often admonishes himself to be cautious, antiques are rare and true, and he often only looks at the antiques sold on these stalls. As for those antique shops in the antique city, not to mention, if you don't have the eyesight to enter, you will only be slaughtered.

"Xiaodong, you are also twenty this year, right?" Wu Yunxin asked.

"Well, after my birthday in November this year, I will be twenty-one years old!" Liu Dong nodded in response.

"Alas, when I see you, I think of that kid in my family, who is three months older than you, but he still looks like a hanger all day long, except for playing games and playing computers, he doesn't have a proper line all day long, and he is going to graduate from college in another year, I really don't know what he can do after he comes out?"

After a pause, after looking up at Liu Dong, Wu Yunxin said again with a sigh: "If only he had half of your ability, then I wouldn't worry that he wouldn't be able to find a job after graduation." ”

After listening to his words, Liu Dong couldn't help but smile faintly, Uncle Wu's son has also met a few times, but he is not easy to evaluate the specifics, after all, the two sides have too little contact, and he is not very familiar with it.

"Uncle Wu, don't worry! Isn't that the case with college students nowadays? And they have diplomas, so it's not difficult to find a job after they come out! After a pause, "If it weren't for the fact that my family was poor and couldn't afford to pay the tuition, I would have gone to college a long time ago." To be honest, I envy Angkor! ”

Liu Dong didn't tell a lie, with his grades when he was in high school, even if it was a key book in China, it was picked at random, but the family really didn't have much savings, and he couldn't support two children to go to school, so Liu Dong hid from his parents, and after dropping out of school, he secretly followed a few classmates who also dropped out of school and came to the city to 'break into the future' to Quancheng, and now it's been three years, and he has almost never returned home in three years.

It's not that he doesn't want to go home, but now that he has achieved nothing outside, how can he have the face to go home and face his elderly parents.

Thinking of this, Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, and his face showed a hint of gloom.

"Okay, let's not talk about these frustrations. It's noon now, and there are not many guests, so let's have lunch first! Looking at his face, Wu Yunxin, who was old and sophisticated, naturally guessed what he was thinking, and after secretly complaining about himself, he quickly changed the topic.

"Uncle Wu, it's better for you to eat first, I'll show you the stall!" Liu Dong said.

Although there are a lot of people outside the antique city, there are few places to eat, so in addition to bringing them from home, they can only go to the roadside food stalls in the distance to buy and eat, but the stalls placed here by the two are for people to see. Therefore, the two of them also took turns to eat with each other before.

Hearing his words, Wu Yunxin smiled and waved his hand, and said, "No, no, when I left the house this morning, your aunt made dumplings for me, serious leeks and big meat, very fragrant, you can also come and eat together!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Dong did not refuse, this is not the first time this kind of thing, in the more than two years that the two have known each other, it has been common to eat at noon.

In the middle of the summer, the temperature outside is so high that even though the tall willow trees next to it block most of the sunlight, the crowds on the streets become sparse in the heat wave. It wasn't until after four o'clock in the afternoon, after the sun was setting in the west, that the people began to gradually rise again, and around six o'clock in the evening, when the sun was about to set, the antique market was at its most crowded time of the day.

The sound of shopping, shopping, bargaining, the horn of the car, the crying of children, and the crowded streets staged the most realistic ecology. And Liu Dong and Wu Yunxin's stall also ushered in the busiest time of the day.

By the time the lights were on, all the wood carvings that Liu Dong had prepared for more than a week were basically sold.

After breathing a sigh of relief and wiping the sweat on his face with the white towel he brought with a joyful face, Liu Dong rolled up the plastic sheet spread on the ground and put it back into the black camphor wood box he had made, and then cleaned up the things that fell on the ground, Liu Dong picked up the wooden box he had been carrying for nearly three years and prepared to go home!

"Uncle Wu, I'll go back first!"

"Well, I'll pack up and get ready to go home later! Xiaodong, will you come over tomorrow? Wu Yunxin asked with a smile.

His business today is also good, especially in the afternoon, he fooled an American foreigner who came to Quancheng for a tour, and bought a blue and white gourd vase from his stall at a high price of 10,000 yuan.

But even with Liu Dong's shallow level of antique identification, it can be seen that this blue and white porcelain that was blown into the Qianlong official kiln by Wu Yunxin is a serious modern handicraft.

But I can't stand the love of the United States, and the dazzling 'thief light' on it also makes this porcelain look very beautiful. Therefore, when both parties are happy, the deal is happily closed.

With the foundation of this big business, plus a few other things sold in one day today, Wu Yunxin's income has steadily exceeded 20,000 yuan, although his cost is much higher than Liu Dong's wood carving, but the profit has also reached 189,000, which shows the huge profits of the antique business.

After listening to his words, Liu Dong patted the wooden box that he was carrying diagonally behind his buttocks, shook his head with a smile and said, "No, all the wood carvings carved before have been sold, so tomorrow I will go to get the goods again and carve again, so I won't come first!" ”

"Well, then I won't give you land tomorrow!" Wu Yunxin said with a smile.

"Okay! Then Uncle Wu, I'll go back first! ”

"Well, be careful when riding on the road!"

"Got it!" After agreeing, Liu Dong turned around, picked up the little maza he was sitting under his buttocks, and turned around and walked towards the Golden Deer brand black bicycle that was placed aside.

Now, he rents a house in the Dijingyuan community on Weier Road, and it takes at least half an hour to ride a bicycle from here in the antique city, but it is much closer than the bridge cave where he lived at the beginning and the suburban village later!

In the summer, especially in July, the days in the north are the longest of the year, and the street lights are usually lit up at 8 p.m. Liu Dong's bicycle is an old-fashioned 'Golden Deer' that he bought from a scrap yard when he first came to Quancheng.