"Tell me to go to the white scum to pick up the basket?"

"That's right, that's what the top master said." Yuan Sihai said on the phone: "He specially explained." ”

The so-called basket picking is a unique "professional term" in ancient lines. A long time ago, Guxing's business routines were more than other transactions, especially at the end of the year, everyone was trying to find a way to ship, which was a bit of a discount in the off-season.

At that time, many merchants gathered in one place, put the goods they came up with in a basket, and marked the price. The baskets are hung in a row, and some buyers will take the baskets off when they see the goods.

With the passage of time, this way of buying and selling has long been in vogue, but the jargon of picking baskets has been retained. Now, picking the inside of the basket is actually a bit similar to the meaning of auction.

There are ancient shops and markets in every place around Huayang, and the same item may have different prices in different places. For example, the cost of this item is 100 yuan, and someone is willing to pay 200 yuan to buy it, but the owner of the goods will wonder, is there still someone willing to pay 300 yuan? In order to solve this problem and maximize the value of the goods of the owner, there will be a person who is highly respected and able to convince the public, come out to bring the buyers and sellers together, and the goods will be publicly unveiled, and then the buyers can bid according to their actual situation, and the one with the highest price will get it in the end, and many sellers are willing to do so.

The person in charge of organizing the event is logically a big broker, he gathers people to make a game, and when each transaction is successful, this person will take a small profit from it. This is tantamount to a win-win situation for all three parties, so the basket picking situation has been prosperous for a long time.

In places like Huayang and Xincheng, the most famous person is called Bai Congwen, nicknamed Bai Slag. The Lao Bai family has been in the ancient industry for several generations, but they have never taken the martial arts road and only do serious business. When the business was at its most prosperous, the Bai family's Zhibao Zhai branch was opened to the south.

Since more than ten years ago, Bai Congwen has organized people to gather together to pick baskets. This kind of thing, not everyone can do, when picking the basket, we must ensure that the buyer and seller are fair and just, no one can bully others, Bai Congwen extracts the benefit fee from the middle, and it is necessary to settle the possible unexpected situation. This requires the people who make up the game to have quite strong connections, and every road has to be smooth.

Bai Congwen is a golden signboard, more than ten years ago began to pick up the basket, there has never been any mistakes, whether it is a seller or a buyer, they are willing to go to him. Bai Congwen may have tasted the sweetness from it, and his store simply closed its door, specializing in the business of making up for water pumping. In the local dialect of Huayang, the word scum has the meaning of making money, and white slag is making money for nothing.

Bai Scum, this person is actually very shrewd, he specializes in picking baskets, and he never goes to engage in goods or sell goods, so as to avoid conflicts with big guys like Lu Fangding and Zhao Sanyuan. The game is very stable, as long as you can control the scene, you can't cut off the income all year round, but you don't earn as much money as Zhao Sanyuan.

"It's all this time, and you're still going to pick up the basket?" I've been feeling relatively low and a little irritable, but Lu Fangding is so easy to appear, so I left such a sentence, and there was no trace, so I felt even more annoyed: "These things, can't you ask you to do them?" ”

"Since the top master said so, it must make sense, don't worry about it first." Yuan Sihai explained on the phone: "Think about it, can the top master let you go to the white scum to pick the basket for no reason?" He said that in the bureau that the white scum made up this time, there is one item that you must get your hands on. ”

"What?"

He didn't say it explicitly, but he said that if you go, you will definitely know. We don't touch anything else, but we must get that item. ”

"What do I use to get it? With my face? Are people willing to take credit? "I lit a cigarette and thought it was. The bureau of white slag is the largest bureau in the ancient line in several nearby areas, and among the people who pick up the basket, some people are not obvious, but the family background is very thick, and a piece of goods finally let the price of tens of millions of dollars have.

"Don't worry about the money, the top master has an arrangement, Xiao Du will make up a sum of money and hand it over to me, you just look at the goods at that time, and don't worry about anything else."

I smoked a cigarette and thought about it myself, what Yuan Sihai said was right, who is Lu Fangding? How could he possibly ask me to do something meaningless and worthless? Since he said let me go, there must be his reasons.

I'm a little worried, because the place where the white scum is made up is at the junction of Huayang and Xincheng. Xincheng is Zhao Sanyuan's territory, the last time I escaped from Zhao Sanyuan's hands, there was a stupid sea to help, I can't be sure, if Zhao Sanyuan sees me when he makes up the game, will there be anything excessive.

However, when picking up the basket in the game, people like Zhao Sanyuan and Lu Fangding generally do not participate in person.

When I think about it, I'll let Yuan Sihai arrange it, I haven't done this kind of basket picking thing once, I don't know anything, everything has to be arranged by him.

During the two days of waiting to pick up the basket, I kept calling Zhang Momo and them, and tried to make a phone call to Lu Fang, but these people's phones never got through.

It's uncomfortable at home, but I don't dare to go out, it's an eventful time now, Zhang Jiafu doesn't know if he will stare at me, with the attitude that more things are better than less things, so he can only stay honestly.

Two days passed, and early in the morning, Yuan Sihai came to pick me up. He was fully prepared and drove straight to the road.

The place where the white slag picks the basket is not very fixed, and it has been in a resort at the junction of Huayang and Xincheng for the past two years. That villa was invested in partnership with Bai Scum, and in the end, it didn't get started, so it was used as a place to pick baskets.

Yuan Sihai probably knew that I didn't want to attract people's eyes, so I went very early, and when we came to Baizha, there were still very few people. The ancient line of Huayang is so big, and there are only a few people with heads and faces. The news of Lu Fangding's disappearance should not spread outside, and the people of the white slag saw Yuan Sihai and were very polite.

The first time I went to the white scum to pick up the basket, and after I actually entered the door, I felt that the people in the ancient industry have actually been keeping pace with the times.

It was a large room, which used to be a billiard room at the back of the lodge, and the four rooms were completely opened, the first and second floors. In the middle of the room there was a large table, which was used to display the goods, and around this large table was filled with seats.

The seats on the first floor are generally not all people who plan to pick up small goods, and the real big customers are on the second floor. The second floor is all separated private rooms, where you can drink tea, browse the goods displayed on the big table through the computer, increase the price and grab the auction, basically you don't have to go out, you can get all the processes done.

I and Yuan Sihai are in the name of landing and putting the top, and we will definitely be able to mix in a private room. When I entered the private room, I was relieved and hid in the private room, even if someone I knew came outside, they couldn't see me.

The two of us were drinking tea and chatting in the private room, and the crowd came, and by ten o'clock, the downstairs was almost full, and the private room on the second floor was estimated to be full.

"From now to twelve o'clock, there are two hours, and if you don't leave at noon, you will have a meal." Yuan Sihai said: "After dinner, you can take a break in the private room, and continue on time at two o'clock in the afternoon until six o'clock." ”

Lu Fangding didn't explain to Yuan Sihai which basket he wanted to pick here. However, Lu Fangding's meaning is actually to tell me that I will definitely be able to recognize that item.

As the two of us were talking, I saw an old man estimated to be about seventy years old walk in through the small door, and Yuan Sihai told me that this old man was Bai Congwen.

Bai Congwen looked at the benevolent eyebrows, but I knew that people in this line of work must not be measured by their appearance.

Bai Congwen showed his face and sat down in an inconspicuous seat. He's telling everyone that with him here, no one can be a moth.

Immediately afterwards, two guys who looked at their forties stood next to the big table, these were all Bai Congwen's guys, old and steady.

The goods are in order, one by one is put up, one is bought, and the second one will be on stage. If no one takes a fancy to the goods, they will be removed in ten minutes. Bai Congwen strictly guards the customer's information, whether it is the seller or the buyer, without his permission, it is impossible for Bai Congwen to disclose the relevant information.

Generally speaking, at the beginning, two or three ordinary gadgets will be used as the door, in order to make a colorful head, so as not to lose the first item. If the transaction fails, the white scum will not be able to extract the benefit fee from it.

Yuan Sihai and I can see the goods very clearly from the computer screen, the first two things are not worth much, and soon someone buys them, and after that, the goods are getting harder and harder, and the price is getting higher and higher.

I looked at each item very carefully, some knew, some didn't, so I waited until about twelve o'clock, and the two guys of the white slag said, the last item before lunch, when it was done, everyone could eat first, and then continue after eating.

I sat in the private room for almost two hours, my butt was numb, and I didn't feel comfortable with the atmosphere. But when the two guys opened one of the boxes on the table, my eyes lit up and my spirits lit up.

I saw a mottled flake in the box. This thing is very familiar, and I can recognize it without too much distinction, it is a bronze medal that has been ordained.

I got a piece of this kind of ordained bronze medal from the side of Ta'er Lake, and I don't know most of the sacrificial texts on it. But this kind of thing with words is quite important, and if you have the opportunity to crack the Zhangzhung sacrifice text in the future, you will be able to know what the meaning of the above sacrifice text is.

I had no idea that there would be an ordained bronze medal in this place.