Chapter 6: Old Mountain Village
I don't know the real answer to this question asked by Boss Xia, I'm afraid that only the senior brother can answer this question, only he knows it best in his heart. But since people asked, I couldn't help but answer, after all, I came here to ask people to do something, so I had to find a reason to make it up.
At this moment, my mind was racing rapidly, trying to make up a reason that would not damage the other party's face, but also not make Fa Qiumen lose face.
"I think you may have misunderstood, but in fact, we are still very important partners." Boss Xia smiled and motioned for me to continue, and I continued: "I think you should have heard that Faqiumen has done a lot of business in the field in recent years, so there are a lot of objects piled up in the company, and when these items have not been sold neatly, how can the company go to the reselling business again."
After I finished speaking, I saw Boss Xia nodding again and again, and I was a little envious of myself, I was able to make up such an awesome reason.
"I take the liberty of asking, do you still have a lot of pressure goods in Faqiumen?" Boss Xia asked.
"Of course, there are some, you don't know that you don't know that there will be new goods unearthed at any time."
"I feel like business between us is coming." Boss Xia stood up and continued: "In the future, I can take action on your behalf for the pressure goods of Qiumen." As for the commission, I can reduce it to the lowest in the country, and some items can even not charge your commission. ”
I agreed without thinking about it, because what I wanted to do at the moment was not a business matter, but the favor she said before, so I was in a hurry to enter this link.
"Okay, the business matter is so decided, and in the future, some of the goods of Faqiumen will be taken care of by Boss Xia's handicap." I picked up my glass and toasted her.
"After the business is over, it's time for us to talk about friendship." Boss Xia said with a smile: "I want to make you a friend, so I will do you this favor and will not let you come in vain."
The rest of the meal was quite boring, and the conversation was full of nonsense, I don't know how true she was, but what I said was half true and half false.
However, on the way back to the hotel after dinner, she told me why she really wanted to help me. She said that the reason why she would help me was entirely because the person who sold the turquoise was not an insider, and if she was an insider, she would not have broken this rule to help me.
From Boss Xia's mouth, I learned that the person who sold the turquoise was a middle-aged man about fifty years old, a local in Guizhou. Boss Xia said that this person was a fresh face, he had never appeared in this industry before, and he didn't understand the rules of this industry. At first, Boss Xia's buddy thought that this person might be a strip, but after finding out, he found out that it was not, it was an outsider who didn't understand the rules at all, and as for how he got turquoise, Boss Xia didn't know.
After sending me to the hotel, Boss Xia gave me the address of the person and told me that she could only help me, and as for whether I could find this person, it was up to me to do it, and then she left.
Holding the address given by Boss Xia in my hand, I glanced at it twice, this person's name is Cao Shengli, nicknamed Cao Daring, unemployed vagrant, I know that this person's age should be about the same as my father's when I look at the name, and people at that age are either called patriotism or victory. The address is very long, it should be a remote village, and it is written in great detail, detailed to several groups and households in the village. There is also a mobile phone number marked below, but there is the word shutdown behind the mobile phone number, which seems to be down. I didn't expect Boss Xia's buddy to be really sloppy in his work, and he actually got this person's information so thoroughly, and even the nickname and the unemployed vagrant were investigated.
After looking at the address, I went back to my hotel room. As soon as I entered the door, I saw the old prostitute sitting inside, and when she saw me coming back, she hurriedly asked, "How is it, who is the person who sold turquoise?"
I nodded, handed him the address, took it and looked at it a few times, then picked up the phone and began to dial the mobile phone number written on it. The voice coming back from the phone is that the person you are calling is down.
"Damn, it's really down." The old prostitute hung up the phone, looked at me and asked, "It can't be so much information, right?"
"Then what else do you want, this information is already quite a lot."
"Don't have a photo? There is only an address and a name, which is not guaranteed, in case the name is fake, where to find this person. The old prostitute wondered.
"Don't worry, this person's name was not left by himself, it was found out by Boss Xia's buddies, there will be no problem." I say with certainty.
"It's the real name, you go to bed early, the little face is like a monkey's ass, I'll go back to the room first to check this address on the Internet, and study tomorrow's route." After the old prostitute finished speaking, she took the address and left.
I sat on the bed, and the alcohol really came up, and I felt dizzy. At that time, when I was drinking, I wanted to confuse Boss Xia, so that I could ask her questions, but I really didn't expect this woman to drink too much, and in the end she almost made me too much.
I thought about getting up and washing, but before I could get up, I threw myself into bed and whirred. When I woke up, it was already half past seven in the morning, of course, it was not a natural awakening, it was the old prostitute who came and knocked on the door and woke me up.
After washing up, I had a simple breakfast, I asked the old prostitute yesterday's address, I had to take a look, I may have really drunk too much yesterday, I don't remember anything about what was written on the address.
The old prostitute said, when I woke up, I would study the address of the cucumber and the vegetables were cold, and he checked the route there, but he said that he lost 100 yuan. It turned out that the old prostitute just got up in the morning, so she played a little clever and asked the waiter to help pay 100 yuan to the mobile phone number on the address, but to the old prostitute's surprise, the other party's mobile phone was turned off, and he made a call in the morning, and the other party was always turned off.
After breakfast, I asked the vice president to go back to Yunnan first, and I didn't let him participate in the matter of finding someone. My wife and I didn't have anything to prepare, and when we came, it was very simple, and we didn't bring a change of clothes, so we set off lightly.
We first took a bus to Libo County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, all the way to the bus sat for more than five hours, all kinds of dense mountains along the way, I didn't have the heart to pay attention to the scenery along the way, I was thinking about this person, how to let him say things about turquoise, whether it was money, or feelings? In the end, I still feel that it is safer to use money, after all, we didn't know each other before, how can I have feelings, even if I say that turquoise is like something handed down by my ancestors for eighteen generations, he may not be moved.
It was already afternoon to Libo County, in order to arrive before dark we didn't even eat, and did not take a minibus again, but took a taxi, the driver looked at the address we were going to, the fare was surprisingly expensive, the old prostitute did not care about these, because he did not have to pay, so he was in a hurry to go. During this period, the old prostitute kept calling Cao Shengli's mobile phone number, but it was still turned off.
The village we are going to is called South Sanchagou Village, the driver said that it is two hours away, I thought it was a very remote mountain village, I did not expect the taxi to turn to the mountain road just out of the county, the speed of this road is 40 miles, and it is very bumpy. I realized that two hours sounds like a long time, but it's actually not too far, it just can't go fast.
After two hours of bumpy rides, we finally arrived at Nansanchagou Village, as for where the third group of the village we were going to, the driver didn't know, so he could only send us to the village and let us inquire by ourselves.
My wife and I found the only small shop in the village, bought two loaves of bread and asked where the third group of the village was. I am very grateful to the owner of the small shop for showing us a shortcut, and we went over two mountain beams to the third group of the village. But it was already dusk, and it was about to get dark.
We looked at the hillside and saw that there were not a few households in the three groups of the village, and there were only six houses in total. The old prostitute jokingly said that this place should not be called the third group of the village, but should be called the sixth.
According to the description on the address, we found the first house in the east, and the old prostitute took a closer look and said, "The direction is correct, it should be this one."
This is an old mountain village house, surrounded by stone courtyard walls, the gate is an old-fashioned wooden door, and there are whitened couplets pasted on it, which is obviously pasted last year. There is a long rod lock hanging from the wooden door, and the lock is not dusty, and it does not look like a house that has not been lived in for a long time. Through the gap in the wooden door, you can see the situation inside the courtyard, the courtyard inside is the ordinary people's house, and then there are three tiled houses inside, which are also made of stone, and there is not half a brick. From this, it can be judged that the houses inside must be thirty years old, to say the least.
I sat at the door with the old prostitute and waited for Cao Shengli to come back, this sitting was more than an hour, and when it was dark, I didn't see Cao Shengli come back.
"Xiao Qi, don't you think it's a little strange here?" The old prostitute asked me.
"What's the blame?" I was puzzled and asked the old prostitute.
"Don't you think it's very dark in this village?"
After listening to the old prostitute, I looked around a few times, and I also felt that something was wrong, so I quickly took out my mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function in the mobile phone, looked around, and found that there were telephone poles here, not without electricity, so how could it be so dark? Why is there no one to light the lamp? I've long heard that rural people save, but they can't save so much, when it's dark, they should always light the lights, so they won't all be dark, I also muttered in my heart.
"Old prostitute, have you ever thought that if he doesn't come back tonight, then what will we do?" I asked.
"Damn, this is not in my plan, let's go to someone else's house to get some water to drink, by the way, learn about this Cao Shengli, if he really doesn't come back tonight, we have to find a place to spend the night first."
As soon as I heard the old prostitute say this, I was looking for a place to stay, so I got up and walked with him towards the other houses.
As soon as I walked with him to the door of the nearest courtyard, I saw that there was a lock on the gate, and there was a lot of dust on the lock, and it looked like I hadn't come back for a long time.
Then we walked a few more houses, until we had walked through all six houses, and we realized why it was so dark, because the other five were unoccupied, and the door locks were all dusty.