Chapter 16: Treasure Spring
Everyone was deterred by Miss Yao's ambition, and even Chen Zikun couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself, feeling that he was a big man and not as bold as a little girl, he slapped the table and said: "To buy a car, you have to make it big, ten cars are not enough, at least twenty cars, and then pick a few clever ones to go to Shanghai to learn to drive, and come back to unify Beijing's automobile industry." ”
Everyone applauded together, Xue Baoqing, Wang Dongliang and others were even more green eyes, the car is too rare, people can drive the car away by sitting in it, and run hundreds of miles in one breath without resting, the coachman is wearing a new uniform, and he is very angry, it is said that the monthly salary is also very high, and he hires a coachman in Beijing, at least 20 yuan a month.
"But where does the money come from?" Baoqing raised a question, which is also everyone's question, a pair of eyes looked at Chen Zikun, and Chen Zikun looked at Yao Yilei.
Yao Yilei took out the checkbook and showed everyone this thin booklet, and the beautifully brushed check was printed with the letterhead of the Bank of Communications, which everyone knew.
"I write the amount of money on it, sign it, and then I can take it to the Bank of Communications to exchange it for the ocean, this is called a check." Yao Yilei said.
Everyone looked at each other, revealing an incredible look, the big guy sells coolies every day, runs from morning to dark, and only earns dozens of big sons in a day, and can save thirty yuan a year is quite good at living, and rich people can write a few words casually is thousands of dollars, this is really more popular than people.
Yao Yilei continued: "If you want to buy a Ford car, it is cheaper than German cars and British cars, I have inquired, the price of the Model T car in the United States is only 850 US dollars, which is equivalent to 2,000 dollars in cash, plus tariffs or something, more than 3,000 yuan, you can get a discount if you buy more, and 20 cars are only 60,000 yuan, which is trivial." ”
60,000 pieces! It's still a small meaning, everyone's eyes are about to pop out, 60,000 yuan can buy a palace, and it becomes a small meaning in Miss Yao's mouth, does this still let the poor live.
Just do it, Miss Yao took out a fountain pen, wrote the words "Lu Wan three thousand yuan" in the checkbook, tore it off and handed it to Chen Zikun: "Well, you take this, just go to the car dealer to order, I estimate that they don't have so many cars, and they have to transfer them from Shanghai, but it doesn't matter, it's long to come to Japan." ”
Chen Zikun hesitated a little, he knew that if he accepted this check, fate would be tied to Miss Yao and could not be separated again, but a girl in another family would be good to herself if she was so upside down, and if she was hypocritical, she would still be a person.
He took the check happily: "I'll borrow you." ”
"What nonsense, it was originally the capital I invested in, hum, Ziguang Depot, now I am the chairman, that little one, pour tea for this girl." Yao Yilei lifted Erlang's legs triumphantly.
Xiao Shunzi was the most eye-catching, and came over to help Miss Yao make tea, and said with a shy face: "Chairman, please use tea." ”
"Yes, good." Yao Yilei's eyes smiled like crescent moons.
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Yao Mansion, Yao Qizhen was furious, and he was furious at his wife: "Look at the daughter you are used to, what kind of system she has become, she actually eloped with a foreign car." ”
Mrs.-for-tat: "It's what you're used to, okay, everything is up to her temperament, and now that things come out, blame me again, what did you do earlier." ”
was arguing, and the housekeeper came to report: "Old lady, someone came to collect the account, saying that the young lady owed money outside." ”
"What?"
"The furniture, bedding, and porcelain furnishings that Miss bought on credit yesterday are hanging in the account of the house."
"Let them get out of here, and whoever owes the debt will go." Deputy Chief Yao waved his hand in disappointment, just let the housekeeper send away this kind of trivial matter.
Suddenly, he had an idea, and a good idea jumped out.
The daughter has been used to food since she was a child, so she cut off her supply and didn't come back obediently.
Immediately picked up the phone, called the Bank of Communications, and ordered all of Yao Yilei's accounts to be frozen.
This trick is really ruthless, in the afternoon, those merchants all ran to the Ziguang car factory, while making amends, while moving all the belongings sent yesterday back, Miss Yao knew that something bad was going to happen, and wrote a check for Xiao Shunzi to take to the Bank of Communications to redeem the money, as expected, not a penny could be redeemed.
Yao Yilei was dumbfounded at this time, she didn't have much cash on her, only checks and passbooks, but the big words had already been spoken, but she couldn't recycle them, so she had to think about the jewelry on her body.
Although Miss Yao is the daughter of a large family, after all, she is only a girl who has not been out of the cabinet, and in terms of the accumulation of jewelry and jewelry, she is even inferior to the wife of an ordinary wealthy family, she only has a dozen pieces of jewelry in total, and they are all ordinary goods that are not worth three dollars or two dollars.
No matter how many it is, they all went to the pawnshop, the necklace ring bracelet was put in the small window of the high counter, the old Chaofeng condescended, glanced at Miss Yao contemptuously through reading glasses, and picked up the jewelry to elongate the tone: "The gold ring is not naked, at most 18k, the jade head is insufficient, it is not the color of the old pit......"
Miss Yao had never been to a pawnshop before, and when she saw the high counter, the narrow window, and the arrogant court, she was full of displeasure, and waved her hand before he finished speaking, "How much can you give?" ”
Chao Feng dialed the abacus and said with a sneer: "Your belongings are at most five hundred yuan." ”
"What! Five hundred, you're crazy poor, I bought this for a thousand dollars. Miss Yao's eyes widened and she pretended to exaggerate, but in fact, she didn't know how much the jewelry was worth, and she was just bluffing.
Chao Feng said: "Miss, the pawnshop has this rule, if it is purchased at the original price, will we still do business?" If you want to change some more money, you will die, and I will give you 800 yuan. ”
"Death is death." Miss Yao was impatient.
Chao Feng accepted the jewelry, gave Miss Yao a pawn ticket, which indicated that he was dead, and gave her a Zhuang ticket of 800 yuan.
Miss Yao went out with the Zhuang ticket and the pawn ticket, the white sun shone on her head, and she sighed: "I didn't expect Miss Ben to fall into this field, Daddy Mommy, you want to see my jokes, there is no door." ”
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In Yao's mansion, the pawnshop stood in front of Vice Chief Yao on his knees, and presented Miss Yao's jewelry as if she were gone, and Vice Chief Yao immediately wrote a check for 1,000 yuan to him and sent him out.
Mrs. Yao came over with a sad face: "My daughter really went to be a jewelry, and if she continues like this, I'm afraid she will have to follow Zhuo Wenjun's example to sell wine." ”
Vice Chief Yao picked up his pipe and smoked it, and said: "Hmph, Zhuo Wenjun Sima Xiangru, do you see what they look like, our daughter doesn't need to say it, that Chen Zikun, I have already sent someone to understand his details, it turned out to be a bandit!" Standard martial artists, our Yao family, must not allow such a person to enter the door. ”
Mrs. Yao said, "Qizhen, you have to think of a way." ”
Yao Cichang said: "I have already figured out a way. ”
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In the past few days, the business of the Ziguang depot is very bad, because the patrol police always like to find fault, although there are only 20 foreign cars in the Ziguang depot, but the shape is unique, and there are four car lights, no longer easy to recognize, the patrol police on the street seem to pass through, see the fine, but the drivers are some bloody young men, do not agree with each other, come and go but were detained several cars, the business of the car factory plummeted, dozens of mouths to be fed, can not expect Miss Yao to sell the money to live.
Chen Zikun found Xu Guodong to dredge, Xu Guodong was also a happy person, and directly exposed the bottom to him: "Brother, it's not that I don't help, this matter was arranged by Deputy Director Yao of the Ministry of Communications through Director Wu, and I don't have enough spare energy." ”
On the way back from the National Police Department, he heard the newsboy shouting: "I read the newspaper, I read the newspaper, the young lady of the vice minister of the Ministry of Communications eloped with a foreign car." ”
Chen Zikun took out a copper plate, and didn't look at it and threw it away: "A newspaper." ”
The newsboy grabbed the copper plate, looked at it and said, "You change it." ”
It turns out that this is a small Guangxu Tongbao coin, although it is still in circulation, but the face value is too small, basically can not buy anything, commonly used are when ten and when twenty copper dollars.
He took the coin thoughtfully, and the newsboy shouted again: "Sir? ”
"Oh" Chen Zikun took out a copper dollar, bought a newspaper and looked at it casually, it was all a matter of chasing after the wind and shadows, except for ruining the reputation of Vice Chief Yao, there was nothing to see.
Back at the depot, Chen Zikun brought Xue Pingshun to ask "How many emperors were there in the former Qing Dynasty?" ”
Xue Pingshun pinched his fingers and counted: "From Lord Shunzhi to Lord Xuantong, there are a total of ten emperors." ”
Chen Zikun said: "It's not a hassle to collect all the treasures of these years, right?" ”
Xue Ping said smoothly: "What's the matter, it's everywhere on the street." ”
Chen Zikun said: "That's good, you can help me collect this money, the more the better, the year must be complete, I will be useful." ”
I went to the carpenter's shop to order a good nanmu box with a gold velvet lining.
Then I found Gu Hongming and asked him to write a simple introduction to the Ten Emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in English, nothing more than the date of birth and death, life achievements, etc., just a few sentences, Gu Hongming is responsive to his beloved disciple, and he completed it immediately.
The most important part is also the most difficult, but Chen Zikun has a way, he first finds Sean, who admires him. Dr. Stanley asked him to come and meet Mr. Johnston, who had moved to Di'anmen Street, and we sat down together for a cup of coffee, and then we were done.
Now Johnston's identity is the English teacher of the abolished emperor Puyi, and it is not difficult for him to come forward to ask Puyi to inscribe the inscription.
Two days later, there was an echo in the palace, and the young Pu Yi happily inscribed, not only inscribed, but also stamped his own jade seal, and Chen Zikun immediately found a craftsman to engrave the words on the wooden box.
Nanmu box, gold velvet lining, the copper coins of the ten emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are placed in order, and there is also a brief introduction written by Gu Hongming, as well as the imperial pen of the last emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
This box of "ancient money" should be shelved in the glaze factory, and if it is higher, it may be sold for five yuan, but no one may want it.
But in a place like the Six Nations Hotel, where foreigners gather, it starts at 100 yuan, and there is no counteroffer.