Chapter 34: The Wrench
After Yu Lifei had dinner with Xia Riming, he was carried by Xia Riming, who was in high spirits, and was ready to go to the antique market. Although the antique market is only a few dozen meters away from the museum, it is much more attractive to him than the museum. As soon as he walked to the door, he saw Ren Jingtian standing next to a police car, looking towards the museum.
"Anything, to do something?" When Xia Riming saw Ren Jingtian looking at this side, he automatically ignored Yu Lifei, thinking that Ren Jingtian was looking for him, and immediately ran over in a fart. The police station is the business supervisory unit of the security department, and the police station once sent people to the museum to train security guards, so he naturally knew Ren Jingtian.
"Find someone." Ren Jingtian responded casually, left Xia Riming, and walked towards Yu Lifei, with a smile on his face, patted Yu Lifei's shoulder affectionately, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's eat together." ”
"Brother Ren, I've already eaten, and I'm about to go to the antique market with Brother Xia." Yu Lifei said with a smile that Xia Riming didn't even change his security uniform, and he was about to leave with him.
"What antique market do you two visit? It's full of mud and pits, and I'll take you there. Ren Jingtian's eyes lit up when he heard that he went to visit the antique market. It is basically natural for him to visit the antique market like a beautiful woman who likes to go to cosmetics stores and department stores.
Xia Riming was originally very depressed about Ren Jingtian's ignorance, and he put his hot face on other people's cold butts, and he didn't have any face at all. Luckily, there was no one else around, and I wasn't worried that anyone would laugh at me. When he heard that Ren Jingtian was going to go to the antique market with him, he was immediately overjoyed.
Although Ren Jingtian is only the deputy director of the police station, in his eyes, he is definitely a real power figure. He has always wanted to find an opportunity to get close to Ren Jingtian, but there is always no suitable opportunity. I didn't expect to find nowhere to step on the iron shoes, and the opportunity suddenly came. Although he was very curious about the relationship between Li Fei and Ren Jingtian, he didn't think much about it. Now his only thought is to rejoice. If it weren't for Yu Lifei coming and having a good relationship with him, I'm afraid it would be impossible to say a few more words to Ren Jingtian alone.
Under the leadership of Ren Jingtian, the group went to the antique market, ready to pick up the leakage of Taobao. It is said that with Ren Jingtian's identity, as long as he is willing, these shop owners in the antique market will scold him. But when he arrived at the antique market, he abided by the rules of the antique industry. In order not to attract attention, he even deliberately parked his police car at the museum and changed into civilian clothes before entering.
Compared with Ren Jingtian and Xia Riming's excitement, Yu Lifei just felt lively. He has only been in Tanzhou City for a few days, but now he is accompanied by friends to go shopping together. This made him cherish it, and he followed them to their home, an antique shop and an antique shop.
There is a distance from the museum, and the cultural relics in the museum have a much less impact on Lifei. But he followed Ren Jingtian to see several antique shops in a row, but there were no objects in them that could attract him. Even if there are occasionally one or two pieces, they are carefully covered by the boss with a glass cover and regarded as the treasure of the town store.
Seeing them like palace draft girls, every time they go to an antique shop, they have to devote themselves to it, and when they find familiar objects, they have to talk about it, Yu Lifei just listened quietly by the side. Books for the introduction to antiques, he only started to touch last night. It would be impossible for him to say that he was ugly in front of something in an antique shop now. Therefore, it is better to hide yourself.
In fact, Yu Lifei's approach is exactly the mentality that he should have when he has just entered the antique market, to see more, listen more, talk less, and ask more. As soon as the connoisseur stretches out his hand, he will know whether there is one, whether you are an expert or a mallet, as long as you have a mouth, others will immediately know the Tao. Who can open an antique shop is not the most shrewd person? Without two brushes, it would have been eliminated from the market a long time ago.
"Brother Ren, you don't have to go to work at night?" Yu Lifei followed Ren Jingtian to leave an antique shop again and asked casually.
"It's okay, the jade of this Henggu Zhai seems to be good, go in and take a look." Ren Jingtian looked at the time, there was still more than half an hour before the evening duty, and he could stay here for another twenty minutes.
Yu Lifei could only smile helplessly, and followed Ren Jingtian into this Henggu Zhai. This Henggu Zhai mainly deals in a wide range of projects, but jade is the main business. The store is not large, and there are some jade ornaments in the window facing the street. After entering, there is a counter dedicated to jade ornaments, and then inside, there is a table with flannel cloth, which is full of piles of jade products. All kinds of jade, it can be said that there is everything.
Of course, there may be some resin plastic products as well. It seems to be rich in variety, but it is also a mixture of fish and pearls. The merchant puts the goods out, the test is the buyer's vision and knowledge, if you hit the eye, the merchant will naturally steal the fun.
"Less, do you want to touch your luck, although there are many handicrafts in it, but there may be objects that open the door widely." Xia Riming pulled Yu Lifei aside and whispered.
"Look, I'll just see what I'm going to do on the side." Yu Lifei refused with a smile, and now Xia Riming and Ren Jingtian are chatting very speculatively. The level of the two is not far apart, although there is not much professional knowledge of antiques, but listening to them tell some anecdotes about antiques is also a kind of learning.
Yu Lifei's mind was to watch from the side, even if he wanted to buy it, but there was not enough money in his bag. The antique shop is different from the antique bazaar, and Ren Jingtian didn't ask the price just now, basically there is nothing that costs dozens of yuan. But when he approached the pile of jade, he suddenly felt something in his heart.
Something like this in front of him can make Yu Lifei feel that after seeing so many stores, there is no surprise until here. But even if he feels it, Yu Lifei may not be able to make a move. With his current funds, he can't use toothpaste and soap for nothing, right? This is definitely not Yu Lifei's character, even if he lives in Ren Jingtian's house, he already feels very embarrassed. Whenever possible, he will find a way to move out immediately.
But whether you can buy it or not, it's always good to look at this thing, and if you can buy it, it's naturally better. Yu Lifei didn't immediately sense which antique it was, such a pile of jade, he could only use the most direct method, one by one. But Yu Lifei's so-called hand-holding, not every piece is picked up and looked at carefully, he holds the jade in his hand one by one, as long as there is no induction, he will immediately change a batch.
A few minutes later, Yu Lifei looked through the pile of jade like mud. Yu Lifei's actions made the boss very worried, what kind of jade is this? It's like looking for grains of sand in rice.
"Boss, how much is this jade ring?" When Yu Lifei picked up a handful of jade again, a hollow cylindrical three-dimensional diagram immediately appeared in his mind. But he just picked up a small jade ring and asked the boss.
"Three hundred."
"Where's this?" Yu Lifei picked up a small piece of Jade Guanyin again.
"Three hundred."
"Boss, isn't it that everything here is three hundred?" Yu Lifei smiled, there is actually no unified pricing for antiques, this is not an ordinary commodity, and many things are unique. Therefore, when the seller sets the price, he quotes a new price according to his own purchase price, plus the market situation, and the profit he wants to add to it. Like this boss, he quoted 300 yuan for every small thing, not like he was selling antiques, but like he was wholesale haberdashery.
"Five hundred for the big ones, three hundred for the small ones." The boss smiled, some of the jade artifacts in this pile were indeed collected from the shoveler, but now the goods in the shoveler's hand may not all be real. So after he picked what he thought was valuable, the rest was piled up here, and in a few years, there was such a big pile.
"Can this be cheaper?" Yu Lifei took out the hollow cylinder that appeared in his mind this time, and he could see things clearly when he held it in his hand. Prepared to say, this should be a cylindrical object, with a concave edge at one end, gradually thinning from the inside out, and a slight protrusion at the other end. It is about two fingers wide and about three fingers in diameter.
"You've got a lot of vision, and that's a good thing." The boss saw the jade wrench in Yu Lifei's hand, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he vaguely remembered that this was the goods that were put in last night. At that time, he didn't see it too clearly, and felt that it didn't look like jade, but like the horns of animals.
"As long as it's something that customers want to buy, it's all good for you." Yu Lifei smiled, he now knows some rules of antiques, he is negotiating with the boss, Ren Jingtian and Xia Riming are beside him, he can only look at it but can't say it. If some professionals even leave under the pretext of leaving so that they can have a good fight. Any sale of antiques can actually be regarded as a psychological battle.
"It's a good thing indeed, two hundred dollars if you want it sincerely." The boss said that for merchants, no matter whether something is real or fake, as long as it can make money, it is good. Even if it is a valuable object, if it is collected for 100 and sold for 500, they will not regret it. After all, I can't recognize good things in my own hands, so I can only complain that my vision is not good.
"I don't know much about antiques, I just think this thing is fun, can you think thirty yuan?" Yu Lifei asked, now his ability to bear it can only be at this price.
Xia Riming had been observing Yu Lifei from the side, and when he heard him quote such a price, he quickly turned his face around, his shoulders twitched slightly, and he couldn't hold back his forced smile anymore.
Yu Lifei admitted that he didn't understand antiques, which was unexpected by the boss. Many people come to visit antique shops, and they like to pretend that they don't know anything, and they want to pretend to be experts. Such a person, even if he sells him something for ten yuan and gives him 10,000 yuan, he will not feel guilty in his heart.
But if the buyer takes the initiative to admit that he doesn't understand, the average seller will not deliberately rip off the customer. The boss pondered for a while and said, "That's it, you take a hundred yuan." ”
"But I'm only over forty, don't you see forty?" Yu Lifei was even more simply, he took out all the family property in his pocket, only forty-six yuan two, if he paid forty, then he really only left the toothpaste and soap money.
"Friend, aren't you embarrassing me?" The boss said with a wry smile, but his eyes glanced at Ren Jingtian and Xia Riming, the meaning is obvious, you didn't bring money, but you have two friends here, you can't have them without money.
"Once born, twice matured, maybe we can become friends in the future. I work at the museum and will be coming here more often in the future. Yu Lifei said sincerely.
"Okay, then make a friend." The boss said happily that this may be the smallest business he has done this year, but Yu Lifei said that he didn't understand antiques when he came, and secondly, he showed enough sincerity to take out all the money on his body. In fact, it is not good to borrow money from people next to you to buy antiques, even if you borrow it, you must return it immediately, otherwise you will not be able to tell if the antique appreciates in the future.
There is a rule in the antique world that if a buyer sees a good thing, but the money is not available, he can find another one and buy it together. At that time, after the things are sold, the money will be divided, as if it is a one-time joint-stock company. The boss saw Yu Lifei's eyes firm, thinking that he didn't want to cause unnecessary disputes. Of course, in his pile of jade, it is basically impossible for this to happen, but if people want to think like this, he can only guess like this.
But this time the boss will be wrong, Yu Lifei is not worried about others sharing profits with him, he just doesn't want to open his mouth. If he knew that there was such a rule in the Dao, he would definitely call Ren Jingtian and Xia Riming to borrow a few dozen yuan from each of them and buy things.
PS: I went out at six o'clock this morning, and I didn't come back until nine o'clock in the evening. It's just a chapter today, and tomorrow is a new week, so it seems a bit cheeky to ask for a ticket at this time. But if you don't ask for votes, and it's not a big character, after thinking about it, it's still shameless, solemnly ask everyone for recommendation votes, ask for collections, and strive to have better results next week. Now that they're eighth overall, can they finish in the top five next week?