Chapter 41 The Treasury
Li Rui and Manager Feng didn't return for a long time, and Zhou Xuexue was there to watch the staff busy counting and packing, so he pulled Yang Jin to take a look at the situation.
"What's the good thing you're looking for again?" the voice came before the man arrived. After experiencing the initial shock, Zhou Xuexue gradually returned to normal, and became a little excited, like buying cabbage to buy antiques, a rare encounter in his life, as a witness is naturally excited.
I can take it out and brag about it when I go back.
Yang Jintong was much calmer, smiling, and did not speak.
"Na, it's all here, a Qianlong incense burner, and two Arhat statues of the Yongzheng Dynasty. Li Rui shook the incense burner in his hand, and pointed to the Arhat statue held by Manager Feng.
"Just three?"
Zhou Xuexue was surprised, according to Li Rui's previous buying method, after shopping for nearly half an hour, he thought that there would be porcelain all over the place.
Collectors buy three pieces of porcelain at a time at an antiquities store, which is not a small amount.
But.
Zhou Xuexue naturally felt that Li Rui only picked out three pieces of porcelain was too few, far below psychological expectations!
Manager Feng smiled: "I'm still picking, and, after reading the things here, I will take the little brother to the backyard warehouse to see." ”
Storeroom?
Zhou Xuexue was surprised, don't look at the inventory in the cultural relics store, and even place it as ordinary items at will, it doesn't mean that you don't pay attention to it.
It is not easy for outsiders to enter the warehouse.
If a museum staff like Zhou Xuexue wants to enter, they have to write an application and the leader sign and approve it.
Cultural relics stores, or the attitude of the domestic cultural and museum circles towards antiques are a little deformed, the antiques are piled up at will like garbage, and no one takes it seriously if they are damaged, but it is difficult for outsiders to enter the warehouse, and there is no window if they want to get a few pieces of "garbage".
Their Taidu is very clear, this thing is mine, even if it is rotten, it must be rotten in the pot, and outsiders don't want to touch it!
"Manager Feng is so bold. Zhou Xuexue exclaimed.
Customers go directly into the warehouse to pick up things, and those big bosses in Hong Kong and Treasure Island who are generous don't have such treatment.
The storeroom is not neatly arranged like the antiques on the counter, most of them are randomly thrown together, and they look messy.
There is a great risk of bringing outsiders in. It's so messy inside, it's hard to find anything missing, especially those small and delicate antiques.
You can't be searched every time you leave.
It's okay if it's broken or rotten, it's forced by the situation, normal wear and tear, but it's lost inexplicably, and it can't be explained clearly when it is found out.
"What kind of courage, it's all forced, it's too difficult for us to live in the cultural relics store. Manager Feng waved his hand and said with a wry smile.
Then his face turned pale, and he smiled again: "The little brother is a friend of Teacher Zhou, and his temperament is extraordinary, I believe that there will be no omissions when entering the warehouse." ”
Well?
Li Rui was confused and inexplicable.
"Brother Li Rui, you don't think that anyone in the warehouse can enter casually, right? I am also an old customer for more than three years, spending hundreds of thousands of yuan before and after, and I don't even know where the door of the warehouse is facing. Yang Jintong explained with a smile.
"Ha, Boss Yang, it's naturally no problem if you want to enter. Together, let's ......" Manager Feng smiled and hurriedly answered. This is not a kind word, he wishes that Yang Jintong could also get a few more antiques.
"Since I happened to meet it, I naturally want to go in and have a look. Yang Jintong said with a smile, he didn't blame Manager Feng for favoring one over the other.
Yang Jintong bought a lot of things in the cultural relics store, but the time span was very long, and he only bought one or two pieces at a time, unlike Li Rui, who swept the goods wholesale and had no need to enter the warehouse. He believed that if he had made a request to enter the warehouse before, Manager Feng would not refuse.
"Thank you Manager Feng for your trust. Li Rui understood the reason and said with a smile.
Li Rui also knew that Manager Feng had taken a fancy to his strong spending power, and if there was no crazy sweeping of goods, the other party would not have offered to take him into the warehouse.
While speaking, Li Rui browsed all the remaining shelves, all of them were good things, but he didn't find mid-to-high-end goods, so he didn't have the interest to make a move.
And.
Next, he had to go to the storeroom with a rich collection, and the general items were even more unsightly.
As soon as Li Rui walked out of the aisle between the two rows of shelves, Manager Feng couldn't wait to meet him and invited Li Rui to the warehouse to see the goods.
Zhou Xue and Yang Jintong both laughed, and at the same time, they also secretly sighed in their hearts about the embarrassment of the cultural relics store, and they might not be so positive if they were not forced into a desperate situation.
No way.
In the past two years, the antiques market has undergone tremendous changes.
In the past, cultural relics stores monopolized the antique market, and they made money while sitting and lying down. Now that the private trading market has emerged, the good old days are gone.
……
Manager Feng led the way in front, Li Rui, Zhou Xuexue and Yang Jintong followed, and they were followed by many staff, not to supervise them, but to be ready to pack the antiques selected by Li Rui at any time.
"Little brother, Boss Yang, Teacher Zhou, please!" Manager Feng opened the iron lock of the warehouse, and opened the iron door with a bang.
The warehouse is a flat room, which is basically the same as the warehouse of the later factory, nothing special, but one advantage is that the space is large enough.
As soon as Li Rui stepped into the warehouse, he couldn't help frowning slightly, the air here was filled with a musty smell, slightly pungent.
"It's been a long time since we've been ventilated, and it's all moldy. "Zhou Xuexue is not polite and authentic.
"Ahem~~"
Yang Jintong was so smoked that he coughed directly, and almost couldn't help running out of the warehouse, as if he had never been in such a bad environment.
Forehead.
Manager Feng's face showed embarrassment, and he explained with a smile: "It has been unventilated for a long time, and the air is a little turbid. ”
The business of the antiquities store is deserted, there is no need to replenish the containers, and of course no one will be idle and bored to run the storeroom to play. As far as he knows, the last time the door to the warehouse was opened was more than a year ago.
casually complained a few words, and everyone did not complain again, so as not to make Manager Feng fall into deeper embarrassment.
Well.
The air is turbid and pungent, but there is no foul smell, and with a little patience, you will gradually get used to it, and you will not be as sensitive as when you first entered the warehouse.
While everyone was talking, Li Rui had already quietly looked at the warehouse, and all kinds of items were piled up like small mounds.
The number is difficult to estimate......
"Manager Feng, how do you handle the items in your warehouse?" Rao Shizhou had told before studying, but after witnessing it with his own eyes, he still couldn't believe it.
"Yes, it's all worthless stuff, and the ones with high value are packed and stored. Manager Feng replied.
Oh.
It turns out that these little mounds, oh no, are antique mounds...... It's all some big road goods. The value is low, and naturally no one pays attention to it.
Li Rui felt that he saw the essence clearly, and he was not entangled, and continued to look elsewhere. Nima, when Li Rui's gaze fell on an antique pile, he felt that his eyes were blind, and he actually saw it......