Although there is envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart, on the surface, Ma Laocai still looks no strange with a smile on his face.

"Xiao Ren, I don't know how much you drink? It's no problem to drink half a catty of Lao Baigan, come on! Drink a little more with me, I still have some bacon in the house, let's finish eating. ”

Saying that, Ma Laocai didn't care whether Ren Qiangtong agreed or not, so he walked back to the house, but Ren Qiang usually likes to eat this specialty of Wucheng the most, and the old customer will have to wait for a while to arrive, so he didn't stop it after a little hesitation.

However, as soon as Ma Laocai entered, it took three to five minutes to come out, which made Ren Qiang feel a little strange.

Ma Laocai put the bacon on the table, smiled and apologized: "Xiao Ren, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I originally planned to take this bacon back to eat, but I didn't cut it when I bought it, I cut it just now, and I delayed it for a while." ”

Looking at Ma Laocai's somewhat greasy hands, Ren Qiang was also relieved, raised his wine glass and said, "What is there to say about this, Brother Ma, I respect you......"

After he was full of wine and food, Ren Qiang went back with a wine burp, and Ma Laocai also showed a meaningful and a little hideous smile.

The reason why Ma Laocai has such a smile is also because just now when he took advantage of Ren Qiang's drunkenness, he casually inquired about the information of Ren Qiang's old customer, and as a result, he asked something that made him particularly angry.

It turned out that a month ago, Ma Laocai bought a work by Zheng Xiaoxu, a calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, from Ren Qiang, who got it from Ren Qiang's old customer and resold it to him. And based on today's Wang Duo's work, Ma Laocai felt that Ren Qiang must have received the painting very cheaply. He must have been slaughtered by Ren Qiang.

Ma Laocai was originally open-minded about money, and he was mean. After learning about this, I was very unhappy. Not to mention that he was made money by Ren Qiang, and he also made a lot of money, how can he bear this kind of thing?

In fact, Ma Laocai is completely a villain's heart, and when Ren forcibly sold his work, he only added some 100 yuan in hard work, and it is understandable to earn him this money.

Therefore, in the heart of the villain, there will never be a real friend. Even if it's a slightly better friend, when you encounter an entanglement of interests, the word friend is equivalent to farting. ……

It can be regarded as Ren Qiang's bad luck, and when he went back for a while, his old customer came, the two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the other party took out the things, Ren Qiang carefully identified that it was indeed genuine, and wanted to negotiate the price with the customer. But before he could speak, his stomach rumbled, followed by a sharp pain.

"Oops, why did you eat a bad stomach!"

Ren Qiang hurriedly said hello to the customer. Then he rushed to the toilet, because his gastrointestinal function was weak, so he didn't think much about it at first. I thought it was gluttony and my stomach was ruined.

Ren Qiang squatted in the toilet for a long time this time, just when the man was bored with something. I saw a very kind face sticking out from the pù of the shop next door. It is Ma Laocai who is waiting for the opportunity.

"It's here to deliver, right?" Ma Laocai asked with a smile.

The man nodded, but ignored him.

"You sold a piece of Zheng Xiaoxu's work to Ren Qiang before, right? I bought that piece! ”

The man was slightly stunned, and then a sense of chagrin rose in his heart. The reason why this is the case is also very simple, what he sold to Ren Qiang turned out to be bought by Ma Laocai, who is also an antique businessman, in the blink of an eye, which shows that Ma Laocai is actually making money, that is, he can sell it for more money.

That person is not a fool, he should want to sell his own things at a good price, but there is a way to believe is to believe, and now that Ma Laocai said this, he was only half-convinced.

Ma Laocai also understood this truth, so he called the man into the house, and then took out the work. When the man saw that it was really the work he had sold to Ren Qiang before, not to mention the remorse and depression in his heart, he immediately expressed angrily that he didn't want to do business with Ren Qiang anymore.

Ma Laocai saw that he had achieved his goal, so he said: "Hey, after all, they are all neighbors, and they don't look up every day, and I can't say much about some things, but I also feel very sorry for you, it's not easy to have some good things, who doesn't want to sell them for a good price?" I can't get over it with my conscience, so I can't help but remind you, but if Ren Qiang knows about this, we will definitely have friends who don't have to do it. ”

"Phew, such a profiteer, whoever is friends with him is unlucky! Thank you for your reminder today, I will sell you this Wang Duo's work! ”

Ma Laocai happily agreed, and then the two quickly went to the bank to transfer the account and completed the transaction.

After Ren Qiang came out of the toilet, he wondered how the figure was gone, and at first he thought it was a customer who was in a hurry and left first, but he really liked the work, so he directly touched the old customer's home.

When the two met, Ren Qiang found that the old customer gave him a stinky face, which made him very strange, but he was anxious to want the work, so he said directly:

"Lao Zhang, I like that calligraphy very much, and it's better than what we said on the phone, I'll pay you 80,000 yuan, but you also know that I don't have enough liquidity, can I give you the rest tomorrow?"

"How much do you say? Eighty thousand? When the man heard the price given by Ren Qiang, he was stupid on the spot.

Ren Qiang thought that the other party was too little, and hurriedly said: "Lao Zhang, we are also old friends, although my bid is not necessarily the best market price, but it is fair, if you don't believe it, you can also inquire." ”

"But that work, I sold it for 55,000 just now!" The man said without tears.

"What!"

Ren Qiang exclaimed in surprise when he heard this, so the man told the matter one by one, and at the end, he said with a bitter face: "I said Boss Ren, why didn't you say that something could be worth 80,000 earlier!" ”

Ren Qiang knew that he was actually pried by Ma Laocai, not to mention how tired he was, and said angrily: "This Ma Laocai is too much of a thing, I just added a hundred yuan to that Zheng Xiaoxu's work, which is already very interesting to him, and he actually uses this to slander me!" ”

"But Lao Zhang, who am I, don't you understand? Let's talk about the price of this work, didn't we already talk about it before, tentatively 50,000, if it's good, I'll add money to you when I see the real thing, why don't you wait for me? ”

The man was ashamed when he heard this, and said curtly: "I am indeed responsible for this matter, but you have been going to the toilet for too long, and it is too boring for me to wait." ”

Ren Qiang is a little embarrassed about this, who called himself greedy at noon? Wait a minute! He suddenly thought of a possibility, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was like that, because it was not the first time he had been there for Ma Laocai, and he had never seen any kitchen knives there, but the bacon was cut with a very sharp knife.

Ren Qiang is almost certain that the bacon should have been cut when he bought it, so Ma Laocai was behind for so long, and he still asked him to eat more, plus he happened to have diarrhea again, and it is not difficult to guess the connection.

Thinking that he was actually plotted by Ma Laocai in such a way, Ren Qiang was angry that the first Buddha was born, and the second Buddha ascended to heaven, so he couldn't wait to go to Ma Laocai to settle accounts at that time.

However, Ren Qiang is not a brainless person, he knows that the matter has come to this, even if he goes to Ma Laocai to settle accounts, it is impossible for things to come from Ma Laocai's hands again, and in the end, he can only swallow the bitter fruit into his stomach.

In this way, everyone found that Ma Laocai was such a person, and gradually many people were no longer willing to deal with him, which made Ma Laocai's business more and more sluggish.

However, Ma Laocai doesn't take this seriously, plus he has a mind and a three-inch tongue, he can usually tinker with some rare goods, make some small money, and live without worry.

It's just that Ma Laocai is cold and jealous by nature, seeing that his own business is not good, but other people's business is very good, especially a shop not far from him, the store opened later than him, but because the owner of the shop is kind, the business is much better than him, so he is jealous and wants to calculate others.

It didn't take long for him to really find a chance.

Once, Ma Laocai happened to hear that the owner of the antique shop was in contact with a group of Tufuzi and wanted to buy one of the unearthed cultural relics with a market value of nearly 200,000 yuan. So he secretly inquired about the matter and reported it to the relevant units, and the person was indeed sanctioned, confiscated things, and fined a large sum of money.

There is a way to want people not to know, unless you don't do it. Ma Laocai's despicable deeds soon spread to the antique shop, to the ears of the shopkeeper. Everyone scoffed at this villainous behavior that harmed others and was not beneficial to themselves, and the shopkeeper was even more resentful.

To say, it is normal for an antique shop to buy some unearthed cultural relics, Ma Laocai himself has bought it, so Ma Laocai's behavior can be said to be taboo in the antique shop.

When this kind of thing happened, everyone even excluded Ma Laocai, and a friend of the shopkeeper directly bought Ma Laocai's shop and drove him out.

Ma Laocai had no choice but to find a new place, but even if a good location was not rented out, everyone didn't want to rent it to someone like him, and in the end he could only find the most inconspicuous shop to survive.

Perhaps it is true to the old saying of the ancients, good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, it is not that it is not repaid, the time has not come. Because the location of the store is not good, Ma Laocai wants to continue to make money in this industry, he must find some good things, but no one else takes him to play, even if he wants to go to his peers to get some good things, it will not work.

In this case, the best way Ma Laocai thought of was to go to the countryside to receive the goods, but he was already old, and it would definitely not be realistic to run like before, so he handed over this job to his son, who had graduated from high school for more than two years and was still at home and doing nothing. (To be continued......)