Chapter Twenty-Four: The Bronze Hammer with a Long Handle
"How did you meet that Ryoko? How many people are left in your gang; Who are they and what are their names; What cases have they done; If you dare to miss a little bit and let us find out in the future, we will close you and the murderer of Liangzi in one number! "Erga is quite threatening.
"Ouch... Grandpa Policeman, that's not our gang, it's 'their' gang, I have nothing to do with them..."Liu Chang couldn't forget to wash himself out for a while, "It's all here, I don't dare to lie to you two if I fool anyone!" … Can you smoke Gen'er again..."
"Lazy donkey grinding...!" Erga handed over another cigarette impatiently.
"Since my grandfather, he was a carpenter, and he passed on to my generation and began to sell furniture..."
According to Liu Changyou's statement, he is more or less a craftsman - the family's ancestral carpenter craftsmanship of three generations, before the sale, he has been working in the timber factory, in the early days of reform and opening up, he began to go to the sea to do business, relying on his own wood is more good, he began to toss antique furniture, small to the pen holder incense case, big to the screen wardrobe everything sold, began to open a small door face in Daqiao Road, and later moved to Shenyang Road, because at that time Shenyang Road did not have a few people to do this, Liu Changyou is the only one, so he also made some money.
Knowing Liangzi, that is, Liu Changyou did antique furniture business when he did, Liu Chang's shop is almost in the middle of Shenyang Road, the market road is narrow and there are many people, and the two ends can't get into the car, so the buyer has to hire three wheels if he wants to ship the furniture out, because Liangzi's family has an accident at two ends in three days (either his father has entered the bureau or his mother has entered), basically every day in a state of urgent use of money, so the asking price is also cheap, and the money is pulled, which leads to frequent contact between Liu Changyou and Liangzi (because of the price smashing, Liangzi has even been beaten by other three-wheelers, but after the fight, he still smashes the price, you start together, and I will pull five cents... However, it is precisely because of its low asking price that Liu Changyou's appetite is invested... )。
Later, there were many shop owners who saw that Liu Changyou made money, and began to toss antique furniture, for a time the same store opened more than a dozen, and then began to smash each other's prices, Liu Changyou's goods in the store itself are not very outstanding things, plus others smashed the price, it didn't take long to be unable to bear, and even the house money could not be earned back all day long, according to his own words: "The purchase price of sandalwood is too high to touch, and the purchase is also less, and the miscellaneous wood is not profitable", in desperation, Liu Changyou began to change his career to sell jade, It was at this time that Liangzi left Shenyang Dao and never appeared again for about a year or two.
"How did you get in touch with him again?" Erga asked.
"What a coincidence! What a coincidence! Liu Changyou said, "Around this time last year... Wrong... We have to move on... I can't remember the exact day, but that day I went to the business to buy a pair of pants, and I happened to run into him, and I was shopping with a little girl..."
According to Liu Changyou's analysis, this Liangzi looks like a bad face, has no culture and no money, and the family conditions are not good, so he should be a single, but at this time, this Liangzi not only led a beautiful little girl to go shopping, but was dressed brightly, wearing a suit and tie, and a gold-rimmed sunglasses, with a big gold ring on his fingers, and an electronic watch on his wrist! Although it is difficult to determine whether the ring is real or fake, this electronic watch can make Liu Changyou envious, more than 1,000 yuan a piece, even if the ring is really pure gold, it is not as expensive as this!
At first, Liu Changyou thought that he recognized the wrong person, so he didn't care, but he didn't expect that the two of them met again after walking around, and Liangzi also took the initiative to come up to say hello, which made Liu Changyou angry, he had worked hard for so long, and the business was not as good as a day. However, being angry is angry, as Liu Changyou is concerned, he still wants to inquire about this emerging big money and make a fortune, so he pretended to ask Liangzi to come to the house to drink. A few days later, Liangzi came to Liu Changyou's house as promised, and what Liu Changyou didn't expect was that this buddy who boarded the third wheel at the beginning was now a shotgun and came in a car, and he hadn't seen him for a few days!? It's not so fast to make money selling white noodles...
"What kind of car is he driving? Do you remember the license number? Liu Dongsheng asked.
"It's a Lada*! White! Liu Changyou said, "The license plate is Hebei 44, 3 several, and finally a zero, and I forgot in the middle... I came by car that time, and then I took a car, I guess he just wanted to show off with me, and deliberately pulled me into the water, big brother police! Until now, Liu Changyou has not forgotten to wash himself.
"Hebei car?" Liu Dongsheng frowned, "Write it down!" Turn around and talk to the north side, and tune out the white lada with 3 dozen heads and zero endings for me! … Boss Liu, you said your... And then? ”
"At first, I was embarrassed to ask him where the money came from, as if I envied him, but I didn't expect him to speak first..."
Seeing Liu Changyou's first thing, Liangzi asked Liu Changyou how the business was doing, although Liu Changyou was blowing hard to get in the way, but a few pieces of broken furniture at home could be exposed, how many people were also people who sold furniture, and they put this broken furniture in their own house?
At that time, Liangzi asked Liu Changyou if he was willing to do business with him, as long as he joined the house, he didn't have to pay the capital, he would add a commission to 5,000 a month, and there would be dividends at the end of the year, and he could earn 70,000 or 80,000 yuan if he encountered a good deal. What was the concept in those days? I have been tossing for so many years since I went to the sea, and I have fallen into seventy or eighty thousand, and I have changed my career to sell jade and paste it as the capital.
"What is he looking for you?" Liu Dongsheng also wondered when he heard it, if it was a tomb robbery gang, everything should be a hammer deal, how could there be such a thing as "guarantee" and dividends...
"Alas! Blame me for being too greedy! Liu Chang was helpless for a while, "They sell all spiritual weapons..."
After determining the partnership, Liangzi tossed things to Liu Changyou's house every three or five times, but they were not valuable objects, and no matter what things could not be done, they would take 5,000 yuan in cash on time every month.
Just when Liu Changyou was holding 5,000 yuan and getting more and more empty, Liangzi's tail was exposed. One night, Liangzi took a paper tube for painting scrolls to find Liu Changyou, about the thickness of a wine bottle, and when he lifted the lid, Liu Changyou himself was shocked, only to see that the box was stuffed with cotton, faintly revealing a layer of copper grain. After taking the things out, Liu Changyou was completely stupid, only to see that the box contained a small bronze hammer, the shape was very strange, the hammer rod was thin and long, obviously not like a hammer used to nail nails.
Although Liu Changyou said that he was doing jade, he also knew a little bit about antiques, and bronze things were not modern things, not to mention two thousand years, at that time, Liu Changyou was really a little scared, knowing that this thing was different from those small objects in the past, maybe it was a matter of losing his head, but as the saying goes, people die for money, and under the temptation of Liangzi's huge interests, Liu Changyou still compromised.
"Boss Liu, didn't I tell you that you can make seventy or eighty thousand yuan in one transaction?" This was Ryoko's original words at that time, "The sale of seventy or eighty thousand is coming...!" ”
"Bronze hammer? What kind? "Liu Dongsheng doesn't know much about history, and I don't know what Liu Changyou said about the bronze hammer at the moment, it seems that I have to consult Li Jiang about this problem..."
Not to mention, this Liu Changyou is worthy of being a carpenter, and the painting is quite vivid, even the patterns are painted, "Okay, okay, just have an outline..." Liu Dongsheng took the paper and looked at it twice, folded it and put it in his clothes pocket, "Go on, and then!" ”
"I don't know what that thing is, but I don't think it's easy...! It's all my uncle's fault! But it makes me miserable! Liu Chang said this, Liu Dongsheng and Erga also gave each other a lot, why did they suddenly pop up a "uncle"?
"What does your uncle do?" Liu Dongsheng said.
"My uncle is in the United States, selling porcelain, my grandmother has six children, my mother is the eldest, my uncle is the youngest, there is a difference of more than ten years in the middle, I am not close, and after my mother died, there will be no contact!" Liu Changyou looked aggrieved, "I wondered, how did that Liangzi know that I still have an uncle in the United States!" ”
"He wants you to pull the strings?" Liu Dongsheng asked.
"Not really!" Liu Changyou cried when he spoke, "My uncle is a person who can't afford to be early!" He didn't show up when my grandma died! It is said that it is quite beautiful in the United States, and it is not easy for me to make money here, not to mention pulling me..."
"You... It's embarrassing to say that others can't afford to be early...? "Erga, as a criminal police officer trying the case, shouldn't have diverted the topic, but at this moment, I really can't help it...
At that time, Liu Changyou only promised to help ask and try, thinking that his mercenary uncle would not come to China in person for a broken hammer, but only wrote a letter according to Liangzijiao's words and sent a photo of the hammer to the United States, but what Liu Changyou didn't expect was that it didn't take long for his riddle uncle to really come back from the United States...
"What's on that letter?" Liu Dongsheng asked...
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Note*:
Lada: A kind of car produced by the Lada Automobile Joint Plant of the former Soviet Union (at that time, all the cars of the factory were called "Lada" regardless of model), which was built in 1966 and headquartered in Togliatti, Russia. At that time, among the so-called imported cars in China, Soviet cars accounted for the majority, the largest number were Volga and Polonaise, followed by Lada, and most of them were public cars, and there were very few private cars.