Chapter 68: I want to put down roots in Manhattan

Ask for collections, ask for recommendations......

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Uncle Fang looked at Jin Muchen's eyes, quite angry.

And Jin Muchen lowered his head a little ashamedly.

"Mu Chen, you must know that for antique collectors, such a bowl is a treasure that can be met but not sought! Even if you read countless treasures in your life, you may not be able to really get one such a treasure!? ”

Uncle Fang said with some heartache, but this time Jin Muchen raised his head, and his gaze became very firm.

"Yes, Uncle Fang, I know, but do you think that I am under such conditions now, is it suitable to collect such a treasure? I'm just an entry-level antique dealer now, not an antique collector yet. This bowl is indeed a national treasure, but you also know that the current situation of my family really needs money, and on the other hand, I have recently wondered whether to set up a home in the United States and then bring my parents from China, which will require money. ”

Jin Muchen was telling the truth this time, and after hearing this, Uncle Fang did not speak out against it, but fell into deep thought.

Before the family's capital chain went wrong, Jin Muchen had sent back more than 200,000 US dollars one after another, but every time he called his mother, his mother's side was also branched, and he did not tell him in detail about the situation at home, so Jin Muchen estimated that the trouble at home should not be small, and there should be a certain gap in money.

On the other hand, he's only an entry-level antique dealer now, not a player, and there are a lot of treasures in the United States, but you can't necessarily pick them up every time, and there are always times when you need to spend money to buy them.

And antiques, unlike other commodities, are often hundreds of thousands, millions of transactions, in the future, maybe he will use money for some good things, and he can't borrow money from others when the time comes, or just stare and miss it, right?

Another point is that he has long been thinking that after he leaves the school, he will open his own antique store.

If you play with antiques in the future, you can't just go in and out, you have to find a living for yourself, right?

And for a while after he entered the industry, through his own study and comparison, he felt that it was best to open a store in Manhattan to do antiques business, after all, it was the closest place to real high-end customers.

So he had long thought that if he had money one day, he would have to buy a house in Manhattan and open a shop.

He grew up in the city, and he never had the idea of buying a country house in the beautiful and elegant rural United States.

He had also read a lot of YY American novels on a YY website in China before, and the routine was generally to buy a big villa in the countryside, or open a big farm or something, and live a free life.

At that time, when he read a novel like that, he just laughed it off, but he was just a writer who lived in the city all day long, in YY, if you really got him to live in the big countryside of the United States for a period of time, he would say a year, I'm afraid it would be a month, and he wouldn't be able to stand it.

The environment of the big farms in the United States is really good, but it is in response to the saying, good mountains, good water, and so boring.

If he were allowed to live in a deserted place for several square miles, and it would take more than an hour to drive into town to buy paper, he would probably go crazy in less than a week.

So compared to the quiet rural environment, he still likes densely populated cities, and the core of New York is in Manhattan, but the housing prices in that place are not cheap at all, and the best location, even the housing prices are not much worse than the five entrances in the center of the universe.

A two- or three-hundred-square-meter apartment building is often worth tens of eight million dollars, which is definitely not what he can afford now.

But if this bowl can be auctioned successfully, it will be different, and he will go from a millionaire to a multimillionaire in an instant.

When the time comes, put down roots in Manhattan, buy a house and open a store, that's not a thing!

"Well, what you think, I understand, I really didn't think about it that much before. If you want to buy it, after all, such a national treasure-level collection really shouldn't be stored in the hands of our people, if it is known, it is inevitable that some people will have some bad ideas. ”

Fang Bo also figured out this matter at this time, and he didn't say anything against it anymore.

"But ......"

"Hehe, Uncle Fang, don't worry, since this bowl is in my hands, I will definitely not sell it to those foreign devils, I must find a way to get it back to China, at least let domestic collectors collect this bowl."

As soon as Uncle Fang spoke, Jin Muchen knew what he meant.

Indeed, such a national treasure has been adrift overseas for so many years, and it is time to let it go home and let the people of the motherland get to know him well.

The significance of such a bowl appearing in a certain museum in China is far from being strong and cherished by these foreign collectors.

"Well, if you can think like that, that's good, so let's do it, I'll contact you with buyers. It is estimated that such a treasure can be withstood by the boss Wang last time, and I estimate that other people, even if they want to buy it, they are powerless. Although we want this bowl to flow back to China, we can't do it ourselves in vain, right? ”

At this time, Uncle Fang smiled, and Jin Muchen seemed to have seen Uncle Fang with a thick face and a black heart that day.

"By the way, do you want to sell all of your other things as well?"

Uncle Fang remembered the other bottles and jade artifacts that Jin Muchen had brought back today.

Jin Muchen nodded: "Well, sell them all, and don't keep any of them." ”

Now his mind is full of Manhattan houses, and it's not enough to have a house, but also a shop?

Although Manhattan is the best part of New York, it is not the best place on the island.

Anyone who has lived in Manhattan would not like to go to Harlem or Washington Heights.

Harlem is located in Manhattan, but the reputation of that place is no different from that of Brooklyn, which is a notorious black ghetto, a place where crime is rampant.

So if you want to live in Manhattan and do business, it's best to stay away from that place.

And decent places, such as the upper city district, or the soho district, these are all well-known areas with high housing prices, so at this time, he wondered if the more money in his hand, the better.

Even the national treasure-level gold binding utensils are not kept, what is the use of those bottles still kept, it is better to sell them all in one go.

"Okay, then I'll contact that Mr. Wang first, see if he is still in the United States, can one person eat so many good things, if not, I'm contacting other people. If it really doesn't work, I can only find a way to transport these things to Xiangjiang, or put them on the domestic auction, which will be more troublesome, and the cycle will be very long. ”

Fang Bo said that he picked up the phone, and Jin Muchen nodded.

"It's okay, Uncle Fang, I can afford to wait."

But this time it was unfortunate that Uncle Fang made a phone call, and Mr. Wang was not in a hurry to pick it up, and after calling twice, Uncle Fang could only put down the phone helplessly and wait for tomorrow to contact.

A few treasures were locked in the safe downstairs.

The next day, Jin Muchen got up and called Candace first, but Candace didn't answer, so Jin Muchen had no choice but to wait for the afternoon, or in the evening, find a time to meet Candace in person, and then explain to her.

After eating in the morning, Uncle Fang finally got in touch with Mr. Wang.

Tell Mr. Wang about the situation here, Mr. Wang is really interested, especially after hearing that Uncle Fang actually received a national treasure-level treasure this time, Mr. Wang was even more anxious and couldn't sit still.

However, he is now in China, and he is still entangled in some official business, even if he wants to come over, he is not so fast, so he made an appointment with Uncle Fang to keep things for him, and when it was Christmas, he rushed over to collect them together.

It just so happened that there was still more than a month left for Christmas, so Uncle Fang agreed.

There are few customers in the antique store in the morning, and this is how the antique business is, so you have to endure loneliness, because the ancestors of this business have long been summed up, and it will not be open for three years, and it will be open for three years.

In the afternoon, Jin Muchen said hello to Uncle Fang and wanted to go to the distribution center.

After all, he had already quit his job with John, and there were still some formalities to deal with, especially some of the work clothes that had been assigned to him before, which had to be sent back.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, he appeared at the gate of the distribution center on time, and several familiar workers saw him driving over and greeted him one after another.

"WTF, Mu Chen, what have you been doing lately? Got a fortune? Even Infiniti is on? Depend on! I already knew that you kid was not simple, so tell me honestly, what are you doing at home? Is it the red aristocracy of the Celestial Empire? ”

Paul was the first to run over, and as soon as he came up, he put his arm around Jin Muchen's shoulders and asked with a fluttering eyebrow.

Jin Muchen has long been accustomed to this guy's open-mouthedness, and he is not angry at all.

"Come on, huh? If my family were a red nobleman, would I still need to come here as a porter? ”

"Hehe, who knows what's wrong with you guys, anyway, I know that you rich people will have some quirks of one kind or another......"

Paul said to Jin Muchen with a smile, and Jin Muchen shook his head.

"Where's John? I've got something to look for him. ”

"It's in the office over there, you're leaving, and John seems upset. Go ahead, and remember to come out together when you have time! ”

"Don't worry, definitely."

Jin Muchen pushed Paul away with a smile and walked in the direction of the simple office made of containers over there.