"Pick it up lightly, don't bump it......," a young man with glasses told the workers who were moving things. Holding a stack of A4 paper in his hand, he urged the workers to pack their belongings while drawing checkmarks on the paper from time to time. This person claims to be surnamed Yang, I don't know what the specific name is, I also handed me a business card when I first met two days ago, but I didn't look closely, I only knew what kind of department manager it was. That stack of A4 paper was handed over to him by me two days ago, and today he brought someone over to take stock of the transaction.

"Boss Qin, this carton?" He asked, pointing to a cardboard box I had placed on the table.

I took one look and said, "Put it on the ground, there are reference books and some daily necessities inside." ”

"Boss Qin, shouldn't there be any treasures hidden?" He was joking, he had already moved the box to me, and he had no intention of opening it, and had already gone to beckon the workers to move the table.

I couldn't help but sigh a little as I watched them go about their lives. I have spent almost all of my parents' savings to open this antique shop, and if I can, I hope to keep it open, at least as a profession and hobby. Housing prices across the country have been rising in recent years, and Xi'an is no exception. Housing prices go up, prices go up, and rents have to go up with them. From the beginning of the profit, to the same as the rent, to the current unsustainable. Finally, when the landlady quoted me a price that I couldn't accept, I knew the store was not going to work.

Some people say that it is a huge profit, but you are crying poor when you say this. The main reason for this is also that I personally majored in archaeology, which is an unpopular university, and I will never touch anything that can be used as cultural relics. I'm too upright, I sell whatever I want, and I have a good reputation, but there aren't many valuable things in the shop. That is, in the past few years, tourism has been booming, and I rely on selling some handicrafts to maintain daily expenses.

To be honest, I was still a little reluctant to sell all this store, but this was already a helpless move. When I released the wind to be packaged and sold, not many people asked, and in the end, it was a friend who introduced me to have today's transaction. It is said that the buyer's surname is Liu, but he has not shown up, and it has always been the young man surnamed Yang in front of him in Zhang Luo, and I have met this Yang manager twice before and after, once is to take stock of the transaction now, and once is when he came to negotiate the price two days ago.

Speaking of the price, I can't help but be a little confused, because the last time he came to the house, he just took a series of photos before and after taking his mobile phone in the house, and then asked me how much I planned to sell it in total. I have a good idea of my own things, because some of them have been sold at a low price before, and the rest except for some worthless handicrafts, the total is about 200,000 yuan, because it is estimated that someone will pay 150,000 yuan for packaged sales. I thought he was going to make a counteroffer, so I opened my mouth and quoted 200,000. What I didn't expect was that he only went out to make a phone call after listening to it, and then said that his boss agreed, and hoped that I could sort out the schedule for him and then trade as soon as possible. The hundreds of thousands of transactions are like buying cabbage in the market, and their attitude makes me wonder if there is something in my shop? I told myself that I had absolutely not, and in the end, I stopped bothering about it and agreed to trade today.

"Boss Qin." Manager Yang came over and said to me with a smile: "The registered ones have been counted, and we will ask you if the rest can be packed together." ”

"The rest?" I subconsciously looked around, but I didn't see anything of value left. Of the rest of the things, the most valuable thing is probably the old air conditioner in the corner, but it has been used for five years. There are still some handicrafts in the island cabinet, all of which are mass-produced goods, and they are stained with five or ten self-adhesive labels. When I bought the shelf, it was quite expensive, but it also took five years, and now it is estimated that it is also used as firewood.

After confirming all this, I pointed to the box at my feet and said, "Except for the contents of this cardboard box, you can do whatever you want." ”

"Refreshing." As he spoke, he untied the bag on his back, took out a brown paper bag from it, handed it to my hand, and said, "Boss Qin, here is 200,000, you can count it." Without waiting for me to speak, he turned around and instructed the workers to continue packing the remaining handicrafts.

I held the heavy brown paper bag, and when I opened it, I saw two neat bundles of 100 yuan bills inside. It's not a new banknote, but it's clearly a bundle of turns in the bank, and the transparent special bundle is sturdy with turns. Nowadays, mobile phone transfer is convenient, and few people use cash, but in the antique industry, it is more special, and large transactions are basically cash. So I didn't pay much attention to it, looked at the corners, confirmed that it was genuine, and then stuffed it into the brown paper bag again, and held the brown paper bag in my arms, patiently waiting for them to move things.

I saw the workers carefully packing the items one by one, and even the handicrafts were carefully packed into wooden boxes. I can see that everyone present, including this Manager Yang, is a layman and does not have much ability to distinguish antiques. If this is met by a scammer merchant to come to a "tanuki for the prince" and replace the few real things in it, the money will be wasted. Asking a layman to buy antiques, and it is such a large commodity, I am a little curious about who this Mr. Liu behind the scenes is.

It didn't take long for the contents of the store to be emptied by them one by one. Manager Yang came over and exchanged a few polite words with me, and then left with the workers. I was the only one left in the empty shop, and all around except for the old air conditioner in the corner, the house had been completely removed, and even the business license I hung on the wall was gone. I couldn't laugh or cry, where did this Mr. Liu buy antiques, it was clear that he was robbing his house.

After all, they were all things that I didn't plan to want, so I didn't bother too much, and after a while, I took out my phone from my pocket and made a call.

"Hey, Dad...... I'm fine, business isn't going to be good and I'm going to close the door for a few days...... Get out for a walk...... I'm really fine...... I don't have a girlfriend, how can I fall out of love...... Not short of money, just want to get out and about...... Well...... Well...... I'll go back to my hometown in two days to see my grandfather...... Hmmm......"

After the call, I breathed a sigh of relief, and I wanted to talk about the closure of the store directly, but I swallowed it back when the words came to my lips, and I would talk about it after meeting in two days.

I leaned over and opened the cardboard box at my feet and stuffed the brown paper bag with cash in my arms. I thought that this hammer deal was done, and it was time to call my friend who introduced the buyer.

This friend of mine is named Wang Bo, because he is fat, everyone calls him fat, straightforward, and has a very good relationship with me.

"Hey, how did you remember to call me, shit." As soon as the phone was dialed, the fat man's voice had already come before I could speak: "Why have you been living so peacefully in the past two days, and what are you doing in your small store?" ”

"Dead fatty, you are embarrassed to ask me, don't you have no news these days."

"The fat man is going to do big things, how can he take care of you, and I will go to your store to drink tea in two days."

"The store is sold out, drink a fart tea."

"What?" Hearing me say this, the fat man's tone was much more serious, and he asked, "What did you just say, what did you sell?" ”

"Mr. Liu just called someone to move all the things, I'll close the store with a word to you, and invite you to dinner another day."

"Which Mr. Liu? What are you moving? ”

"The Mr. Liu you introduced came over and pulled all the things from the store."

"What did I introduce? When did I introduce it, why don't I have an impression? ”

Listening to his serious tone, I knew that he was not joking, so I briefly explained to him the events of the past few days, and asked him if he remembered it after speaking. The fat man didn't answer, but asked, "So everything is gone?" ”

"It's not all gone, the old air conditioner in the corner is still there."

"Two hundred thousand in cash?"

"yes."

"200,000 to buy your goods?"

"yes."

After a moment of silence, the roar of a fat man came from the earpiece.

"Qin Fen, you are such a waste, the fat man didn't stare at you for a while and sold himself, you are in the store now, right?"

I was bewildered by his roar and timidly replied, "Yes...... Oh, yes. ”

The fat man then roared: "You first check if the cash is fake, and I will go to you immediately." After finishing speaking, he didn't even have time to hang up the phone, and the sound of the fat man scolding his mother, slamming the door, hurried footsteps, and rough panting came from the earpiece one after another......

I've realized what the fat man is saying, but I can't accept it for a while, knowing that being deceived always feels far away from me. Those places that I feel unreasonable have become reasonable at this time, so I think I have really been deceived, the other party is here for a roll of bags, except for the broken air conditioner, the things in this shop are not even left with a piece of slag. It took me a while to come to my senses, and I remembered that the fat man had asked me to check the authenticity of the cash.

I took out a bundle of banknotes from the brown paper bag, looked at it carefully for a long time, and could not see that it was a counterfeit banknote as a whole, so I could only open it one by one, but the plastic straps that were horizontal and vertical were too strong to be opened with my bare hands. I remember seeing a knife when I was packing up and thinking that it should be okay to cut with a knife. So I rummaged through the cardboard box for a while, and finally found the knife under the book.

The knife looked like a folding knife for peeling fruit, but I don't remember when I bought it, and I thought it should have been put into a cardboard box if someone left it, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now. I opened the knife, and the stainless steel blade was bright and looked new. I tried to scratch the plastic banding with the blade of a knife, but it didn't work out as much as I thought, leaving only a white mark on the plastic banding.

People are unlucky to drink cold water and stuff their teeth, I put the blade in front of me to see clearly, it turns out that this knife has no blade at all, the place where the blade should be opened is round, not to mention scratching plastic, scratching paper is enough to choke. I smiled wryly and gestured the round blade on the wrist where I took the money, thinking that this knife was just beautiful to look at, and it didn't hurt or itch to scratch the skin like this, which was really useless.

At this moment, there was a bang, and the door of my shop was savagely slammed open. Then I saw a fat figure rushing towards me, and without speaking, he flew up and kicked at me.