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After the episode of that day, the days soon returned to calm, and even Helen, who Jin Muchen had been worried about, did not call.

However, Jesse seemed to be in a hurry, and called him twice in three days to ask him if he had contacted Capote.

Jin Muchen has also been working hard, but Capote's gang is like a group of men who disappeared into the wind, and when he called him some time ago, he told himself that they would be silent for a while and prepare to sneak back to the East Coast of the United States.

Maybe they were also preparing some big action, so the phone was all shut down, and even a few emails were sent to him, but they were all lost, and there was no reply.

He could only tell Jesse the general situation, so that she could be patient, although Jesse was very anxious, but he could only choose to wait helplessly.

The business of Kim's antique store is gradually on the right track, and such a newly opened antique store, and it is still open in such a good place, of course, will attract attention.

What's more, there were a lot of rich people living in SOHO, and with the presence of many big people that day, there was news the next day, and there were several tabloid headlines, which was also a small advertisement for their antique store, coupled with Fang Bo's previous channel resources, which made their store's business gradually improve.

Unlike other businesses, antique shops are places that have not been open for three years and have been open for three years, so there are not many people in many antique shops on weekdays.

But the customers of the Kim antique store. Recently, there have been quite a few. Average daily footfall. It can reach about 100 people, compared with shopping malls and supermarkets, this flow of people is not worth it at all, and even a little funny, but for antique shops, it is quite a remarkable number.

You must know that even in Manhattan, where the economy is most prosperous, many antique stores do business on weekdays, that is, the appearance of three or two kittens.

Compared to the foot traffic in their store. The flow of people in the Kim antique store can definitely be described as a surplus of customers.

Uncle Fang is very happy about such a large number of lovely people, because the more people come, the greater the possibility of the business volume being enlarged, and the more money they make.

But in fact, Jin Muchen didn't particularly care about these things, because for him, he didn't really care too much about the turnover of this antique shop, because he was not short of money, and now he has reached the stage of raising it with hiding.

If it was before. He was a pure antique dealer, so now he is. He has evolved into a real antique player, and when he sees good things, as long as the price is right, he likes to collect them and watch and play with them himself.

As for money, as far as he is concerned, as long as it is enough, you must know that he still has more than 9 million US dollars lying in his bank account in those small countries in Western Europe, and he doesn't have to worry about his parents' life at all, so he doesn't need to worry about money at all.

Recently, there are a lot of customers who have come to the store, and there are not a few transactions every day, almost every day can reach more than 50 transactions, but most of these customers come to their store to buy some of the handicrafts he brought back from China.

Not to mention these things, his average purchase price at the beginning was only a few tens of yuan a piece, but here, he can sell them for hundreds or thousands of dollars, which shows the consumption power of the wealthy class in Manhattan.

Even the sales volume of those decorative oil paintings he brought back from China was very good, especially those digital oil paintings, the average cost was less than 100 yuan, and when he changed hands here, he could sell them at a high price of more than 500 US dollars, which could bring him a huge profit.

Although the price of those hand-copied decorative paintings is higher, there are still some rich people who like to be vassal-styled and elegant, and buy two pieces back from time to time to decorate the walls of their homes.

Even Jin Muchen didn't expect that this oil painting business would be so good, but it was okay, anyway, they were all here to send him money.

However, what he really didn't expect was that when he and Uncle Fang calculated the revenue of the store half a month after opening the store, in just half a month, they actually earned a total of 100,000 yuan in gross profit.

Most of these profits are brought to them by those handicrafts and oil paintings, which actually account for about 80% of their total revenue share.

I really didn't expect that in the end, it was those small handicrafts that supported the store's business, and as for those real antiques, only two pieces were sold in half a month, and they were all relatively low-end porcelain that had been restored by his space.

They are all works of the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the price of 20,000 or 30,000 US dollars, and as for those really high-end antiques, no one cares.

Come to think of it, after all, it is something that costs millions of dollars at every turn, and even if there are many rich people in Manhattan, it is impossible to spend a lot of money to buy these things every day.

Even if someone is willing to spend money to buy it every day, they may not be able to find their antique store directly, after all, there are not a thousand antique stores in Manhattan, but there are also five hundred, so many competitors, not to mention that they are still a new store that has only opened for half a month, and it is still in the stage of making a name.

However, during this time, there were two other people who were the most diligent in running the store, namely Andre from Christie's and Vince from Sotheby's, who almost seemed to have grown into their store, and they came to report almost every day.

And the purpose of coming every day is the same, that is, soft grinding and hard foaming, I want Jin Muchen to take out a few things and hand them over to their company to auction.

It's a pity that their requests were all ruthlessly rejected by Jin Muchen one by one.

Candace now lives in Jin Muchen's house, although nominally the two still sleep in separate rooms, but almost every night, she will quietly sneak into Jin Muchen's room, and Jin Muchen is not happy for her to do that.

Later, because the two of them made too much noise, Fang Bo euphemistically expressed his protest, and the two simply moved from the master bedroom on the fourth floor to the attic on the roof.

During this time, the two lived a life of only envying mandarin ducks and not immortals, they were tired of being together at night, doing business together in the store during the day, following Fang Bo and Jin Muchen for a while, Candace also learned a lot of knowledge about antiques and handicrafts, plus she was already smart and beautiful, but it has also become a beautiful scenery in the store, and even some white-collar or gold-collar workers who work in Shang@Cheng@ District will come to the store for her every day to buy a few gadgets, which can be regarded as generating a lot of profits for the store.

After five o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Jin Muchen turned over the sign hanging on the doorknob very punctually, and then put away some precious items with Fang Bo, Candace had already prepared some dinner upstairs, and by the way, he also ordered some takeout from Chinatown, and everyone was ready to have a good meal to celebrate the recent business success.

But as soon as he and Uncle Fang had put away their things, before they could go upstairs, the door of the store was pushed open from the outside.

"Sorry man, we're closed for today, you can come back tomorrow if you need anything."

Jin Muchen said without raising his head while wiping the counter.

"Hey, hey? Is it? Out of business? This is not a good business philosophy, but now is the age of the customer is God, you treat customers like this, don't you want to do business? ”

A voice with a bit of ruffian smell sounded in his ears, Jin Muchen and Fang Bo both raised their heads, especially when Fang Bo saw the comer, he frowned.

At this time, there were two tall middle-aged men who entered the store, both wearing loose old suits, but not shirts inside, but both wearing tight body shirts, with equally thick gold chains hanging from their thick necks, black hair, dark skin, and a series of huge gold rings on their big hairy hands.

One has a relatively clean face, and the other has a mustache on his lips, looking at Jin Muchen and Fang Bo's eyes, he also looks like he is not smiling.

"What? Is this how you entertain your guests? Don't even have a cup of coffee? ”

The guy with the mustache is obviously taking the lead, and the one behind him should be a thug, Jin Muchen also understands it, but he can't figure it out, he doesn't seem to have offended anyone recently, what are they doing?

Could it be that they are Capote's enemies? But no matter how you look at it, I don't want to, the group of guys they are facing are a group of mercenaries who kill people without blinking, and the two in front of them are more like the gangsters in New York!

"I'm sorry, our shop is closed, if you need anything, please come back tomorrow."

Uncle Fang has been in the antique business for many years, and in the early years, he often dealt with such guys, so he knew at a glance what these two guys were for.

"Smack!"

As soon as Fang Bo's words fell, suddenly the thug standing behind the mustache suddenly pulled out a hammer from his arms and slammed it on the counter in front of him, but there was no scene of glass breaking and debris splashing, which made him stunned.

"Yo! Are you willing to spend your money? Bulletproof glass used for counters! ”

The mustache sneered and looked at Uncle Fang and Jin Muchen and said, Jin Muchen's face was cold: "Listen, I don't care who you are, get out of my store immediately!" ”

"Hey! Boy, to put it mildly, do you know what this place is? This isn't a damn Chinatown, Yankees, be honest with me. Listen, if you want to do business here safely, starting tomorrow, I will come and collect the protection fee of 200 yuan a day, once every two weeks! ”

The mustache looked at Uncle Fang and Jin Muchen with a gloomy face and said, and the thug behind him had already reached his waist, as if he was about to pull out his gun if he didn't agree with him next.

I rubbed it, I really didn't expect that these two were actually the legendary ones who collected protection money! (To be continued......)