Doing Li Er's business, naturally, is still very profitable, only those two Double Dragon coins can be sold casually to return to the capital, and the rest is the profit. As for the blue and white jar at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the type of phase is OK, but unfortunately it is a thing from the folk kiln, and the year is also owed, and it is estimated that it is difficult to go at a high price, of course, it should still be possible to sell it for five or six thousand.

The fat man didn't stay long in the antique shop, he went back to the hospital in the afternoon, and didn't come back the next day, he called me and told me that after being discharged from the hospital, he wanted to go back to Xi'an, and he didn't say anything about him.

Liu Rumei arrived at the store that afternoon, she bought a lot of office supplies for the store, and even found someone to install sales software and POS machines. I haven't had these things in Xi'an for five years, and the purchase and sales mainly rely on cash, and there is no need to take such a detailed inventory of my own store. But it's good to be able to install these, at least the accounts will be public, after all, it's not a person's business, and it's definitely not good to hide the accounts.

Liu Rumei transferred the money I spent before to me, and then transferred me an extra million, saying that it was used as working capital, and if it was not enough, I asked her for it, and I didn't refuse. The antique industry is relatively special, and the more the better, if you encounter a good thing, it would be a pity if you don't have the money to take it down.

The environment in the store is indeed much better than before, because the area is larger, the space is also larger, and the things that were not placed in the past are now on display. The overall decoration style of the store is antique, with those old shelves and multi-baoge is even more unique. The large blue vase in the corner is filled with peacock feathers, and some high-imitation celebrity calligraphy and paintings on the wall are even more impressive. In addition, Liu Rumei also specially added a set of tea cases, and the style of mahogany root carving is more simple and elegant.

There is also the plaque at the door, I used to simply hang the three words of antique shop, but now that the business is a pedestrian street, it is time to take a decent name. So, I asked Liu Rumei's opinion, but she just smiled and said that the plaque had already been made for people to do, and it might take a few days. I don't have any opinion on this, it's the same for anyone to take a name, not to mention that the whole store is invested by her.

Liu Rumei also proposed, do you want to find a few beautiful little girls to be salesmen, I shook my head like a rattle. One is a layman, who can't do this insider work, and in the end I have to do everything myself; The second is that this antique shop does not sell clothes, and poking a few clothes racks in the store will naturally not be of much help to business. My opinion is that it is better to find a reliable teacher, and then find one or two solid apprentices and it will be over. Of course, I didn't have much hope for this matter of finding a master, after all, masters with craftsmanship basically have their own careers. As for the apprentice, I think it can still be found, after all, he doesn't need to bring the craft, as long as the person is practical and capable.

In the next few days, Liu Rumei only came and went around occasionally, after all, she had her own company to take care of. Although the two are very close to each other, they cannot always stay in an antique shop. And I am busy taking inventory and displaying it every day, fortunately, I am also a veteran driver who has been the leader for five years, and these things are naturally familiar with it, but there is some time to kill.

Liu Rumei's efficiency really makes me sigh, and she can do some things that are very difficult for me to do. For example, I didn't have much hope for a helper, but on the morning of the fourth day, she suddenly called and said that someone had been found and asked me to meet with us at a certain time. I simply asked her about the situation and set up to meet in the store that afternoon.

In the afternoon, Liu Rumei led an old man and a young man to the store. After mutual introduction, I learned that this old man's name was Wen Shuangnian, about sixty years old, and his kind eyebrows made people feel very kind, and I also called him Wen Bo with Liu Rumei.

This Wember is not an outsider, he was also an officer in the Cultural Relics Bureau back then, and he was also an old acquaintance with my grandfather. Later, after he retired, he opened a small shop in the antique market, but because he was too upright, he did the same business as I did. I don't know how Liu Rumei found him, in short, according to his meaning, the main reason for coming to help this time is to let his grandson learn the craft and gain a long insight.

That young man was Wen Bo's grandson, named Xie Wenjie, who had just turned twenty, and when he saw me, he called him uncle. I had a black line on my face, which made Liu Rumei snicker on the side.

I pointed to Liu Rumei and asked, "Xiaojie, what do you call her?" ”

The kid was not ambiguous at all, looked at Xiao Yanagi and said, "Sister Xiao Yanagi." ”

Originally, I thought that this child could call Xiaoyanagi an aunt and let me find a balance, but when I heard him shout like this, I immediately felt even more depressed. I glanced at Liu Rumei, who was snickering next to me, and she was already trembling with laughter.

I cleared my throat and said to Xie Wenjie seriously: "Xiaojie, you will either call me brother or boss in the future, and call Xiao Qin Ducheng, but you can't call uncle, understand?" ”

Xie Wenjie nodded and said, "Okay uncle, I will call you boss in the future." ”

I think this kid did it on purpose, and then looked at Liu Rumei, who was about to laugh with tears in her eyes, and strengthened this idea.

"Okay, as long as you don't call uncle." I stepped forward and patted Xie Wenjie on the shoulder and said to him, "Xiaojie, go get some water and wipe the counter ......."

"Hmm."

Looking at the back of him leaving, I thought to myself: Xiaoxian, I can't cure you yet.

Sending Xie Wenjie away, Wembera and I came to talk about the previous affairs of the Cultural Relics Bureau, my grandfather, and Wenber's experience, and unconsciously the relationship between the two sides was one step closer.

Everything went well, and Wen Bo and Xiao Jie were basically determined to stay and work in the store. Unexpectedly, when it came to wages, Wember and us were on the same page.

According to Liu Rumei and me, Wen Bo has to earn an annual salary of 100,000 yuan, and Xiaojie has to get at least the same salary as a blue-collar worker even if he is an apprentice. As a result, Wen Bo did not agree, not too little, but too much, saying that he couldn't even spend his pension, and came here mainly to bring his grandson into the industry, and he didn't have to give them a salary. Liu Rumei and I heard that when we didn't give money, we naturally didn't agree to a hundred. The two sides were at a stalemate, and the atmosphere was a little strange.

In the end, Liu Rumei had an idea, so he finally persuaded Wen Bo, saying that he was an old civil servant, so he had to give him a civil servant salary, and said that Xiaojie was a boy, and he couldn't earn less than the little girl at his front desk, and so on. Afterwards, I asked her what the salary of the little girl at the front desk was, and she was stunned by the amount she quoted.

The store has added more people, and the work of taking inventory and entering the accounts has been much faster. In addition to being more upright, Wember is absolutely good at business, and his appraisal of antiques is no longer below mine.

Wember sighed when he saw the stickers on the handicrafts on my counter. I asked him what was wrong, and he said that there were not many people in the antique shop who did this, and he used to do it himself, and it turned out that he was often angry with his peers because of this. I comforted him and said that it was different now, that he would do his own business, and that he would not have to look at the faces of others when he bought and sold publicly.

"Where did you get this jar?" Wen Bo asked as he looked at the blue and white porcelain jar that Li Er sold me.

"That." I took a look at it, and then said, "Two days ago, a guest came to the door by himself, what's wrong with Winsber, isn't this thing right?" ”

"The blue and white porcelain jar with lid in the early Qingming Dynasty and the early Republic of China, things are fine." Wember continued to look at it, and then said, "When I opened the store before, I saw the exact same thing. ”

Blue and white porcelain is not a silver dollar, and the similarities that have been handed down are very good, and generally there will not be anything exactly the same. So when I heard him say this, I immediately became interested and hurriedly asked, "Wember, so you have received such a dog before?" ”

Wember shook his head, and then said, "No, that man is not a canner. ”

"What?" I was confused, and then asked, "It's not a canner, so is he looking for you for identification?" ”

Wember then shook his head and said, "No, the man is selling silver dollars in jars." ”

"Silver dollars?" I'm a little surprised, could it be that Li Er wanted to sell his jar of silver dollars a few years ago? So, I hurriedly brought up all the silver dollars that had been sorted and boxed from under the counter, opened them, and showed them to Wember.

Wember understood at a glance and asked, "The silver dollar is in that jar?" ”

I nodded and asked about Wember's situation and the man who sold the silver dollars. Because I doubt that Li Er didn't sell it at the time, and now the child is in a hurry to get married and use the money.

Wember thought for a moment, and then recounted in detail what he had seen and heard at the time. It turned out that Wember didn't buy the jar at that time, nor did he buy the silver dollar inside, the main reason was that he didn't have the money to collect the amount too much, so he still remembered the jar vividly.

"I remember." After thinking for a long time, Wen Bo suddenly spoke: "The person who sold the silver dollar is from Lijiabao in the west of the city. ”

"Oh?" I was even more surprised when I heard it, because Li Er said before that his home was in Lijiabao. After listening to Wimber's description, I think that the person who sold the silver dollar may be Li Er, of course, this is also speculation, and I am not completely sure to be sure. When I asked him where the silver dollars had gone, he said they had all been bought by an antique shop next door. Hearing him say this, it made me puzzled again, could it be that Li Er's family has more than this can?

When Wen Bo heard me say that his jar of silver dollars was also from Li Jiabao, he was also very surprised. According to him, Lijiabao has never been a wealthy place, the location is remote and the land is barren, there is not even a single landlord during the Qing Dynasty, most of the people who live there are fleeing the famine, and after they have been living here, they have slowly settled down in the wasteland and farming, and it stands to reason that there will not be such a large amount of silver dollars in that place.

In the end, we didn't figure out what was going on, thinking that this was probably the end of the matter, and we didn't think that things would take a turn for the better. Just two days later, Li Er sent his son an invitation to invite me to a wedding wine. I happily agreed, because I wanted to take this opportunity to solve my doubts.