Chapter 3: The Buying and Selling of North and South
The fat man and I have always been very curious, and after being at Professor Gu's house for so long, we didn't mention anything about Gutong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info wondered in his heart, but he didn't take it seriously.
After returning to the hotel after dinner, under our questioning, the poison-eyed dragon explained his intention to come to Beijing this time.
The poison-eyed dragon recently made a good deal, set up a shop in Jiangmen, and he knew many peers in Beijing, all of whom said that Beijing's business was easy to do, and he planned to come north to make money at the same time. During this time, I have been looking for a shop outside, but I have never found a good place.
When the fat man heard this, he sighed: "Oops... Unexpectedly, I haven't seen you these days, your business mind is becoming more and more sensitive, yes, this is a good way, the two of us are also like a share, there is a shop we can sell while collecting, the job is too ****** difficult to do, so it saves a lot of trouble. ”
I nodded, "Well, that's a good idea. We are fortunate to have worked hard for such a trip, although the things are not fished, but the funds are still available, by the way, learn antique appreciation with Brother Si, and maybe you can rely on this craft to eat in the future. ”
For the two of us to join the gang, he doesn't have a thing, it's just that these days the poison-eyed dragon is running a shop outside, either the location is not good, or the rent is too expensive, before he gets the nod from the two of us, he has to count all the money, if the fat man doesn't mention this today, I'm afraid he doesn't plan to say it.
The next day, we started to walk around the city of Beijing together, and for three or four days in a row, we finally chose the place in Panjiayuan.
Panjiayuan is a big place, but I have never found a suitable good shop, and then I thought about it, just don't look for a shop, first get something to set up a stall, anyway, that's what I used to do.
The characteristics of Panjiayuan are miscellaneous, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign birds and beasts, clothing, food, housing and transportation, as long as it is something that can have something to do with people, you can find it here, but those more valuable famous weapons, the ghost weapons that cannot be seen are relatively rare, generally traded in private, rarely put on the market.
Under the control of the Poison-Eyed Dragon, our business was quite passable, and the Poison-Eyed Dragon often took us to the suburbs to collect some old money, snuff bottles, clothes and other small items left by the previous dynasty, and took them back and sold them on the stalls.
But there are also times when we are blind, and the fat man and I often do this kind of thing, often without the poison-eyed dragon, and we are losing money on this trip. The two of us don't have a good eye, and we often take some worthless things as treasures, and treasure things often happen. The money-making work is basically done by the Poison-Eyed Dragon, and the two of us have become the corners of losing money.
But we all have a bottom in our hearts, no matter when we collect something, the price can not cross the bottom line, otherwise it is not enough to pay for the gold and silver mountains, and when we encounter something that is not accurate, we have to rely on the poison-eyed dragon to get out, and we have grown some knowledge when we come and go. Pan Jiayuan has been mixed for a long time, and some things have been touched, and the water in the antique business has deepened, and the ability of the poison-eyed dragon is not achieved overnight.
Anyway, on this day, just after noon, Pan Jiayuan looked extremely deserted, standing on the street and couldn't see a few people, I was fighting the landlord with the fat man and the poison-eyed dragon.
The fat man thought he was watching something, and was about to ask a question, when the poison-eyed dragon grabbed him and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, this man, do you have something to do?" ”
The man looked around and said, "What do you know?" Do you accept it here? ”
I have seen the eyesight of the poison-eyed dragon, and there is nothing surprising about it, and I looked up at it, and the man who came was thirty-five or sixteen years old, with dark skin and calloused hands, and it seemed that he should be a perennial manual worker; Dressed rusticly, with a rag bag on his back, and a mouth full of Jing Chu accents.
I thought to myself what good things could be for such a dirty person, so I glanced at the poison-eyed dragon. The poison-eyed dragon is a big expert, he has been in this industry for many years, and his ability to see people is much better than mine, although this fellow is dirty, he didn't dare to underestimate him, nodded at me with a smile on his face, and motioned me to listen to the truth first, and asked me to understand what he was saying.
I took out a cigarette and handed it to the fellow, lit it for him, and invited him to sit down and talk.
The fellow obviously hadn't seen much of the world, and didn't know much about socializing, so he sat on the horse I handed him, looked around nervously, and didn't say anything.
I looked at him, and my eyes fell on the rag bag he hung in his arms, thinking to myself that this buddy wouldn't be our peer in the upside-down fight, how could it be like he had done something wrong, or what kind of shocking treasure he had in this bag? I took a puff of cigarette and smiled: "Brother, come on, you're welcome, smoke, your accent should be from Hubei, right?" We're fellow countrymen. ”
The fellow said, "Huh? Are you also from Hubei? I am from Enshi, where are you? "Maybe I can't get used to sitting on Maza, or maybe I heard that I'm a fellow countryman, so I'm much better restrained, so I pushed Maza aside, sat cross-legged on the ground, and smoked a few puffs of cigarettes.
The fat man and the poison-eyed dragon are pretending to play cards on the side. No matter what kind of business it is, if you want to sell something of some value, you don't want so many people to come and watch. This is especially true in the antique industry, firstly, to avoid the influence of many people on the judgment, and secondly, to fear that too many people will scare the owner away.
While smoking, I smiled and said in Wuhan dialect: "I am from Wuhan, my surname is Zou, you can call me Xiao Zou, do you have any bright weapons to shoot?" ”
"Oh... My name is Liu Jiawu. Liu Jiawu asked puzzledly: "What kind of weapon?" ”
I saw that it was a vegetable head, so I asked him directly: "It turned out to be Brother Jiawu, do you have any antiques or something like that you want to sell?" Can you take it out and let's take a look? ”
Liu Jiawu looked left and right, and whispered: "I have a black stone, can you give a lot of money?" ”
When I heard this, I almost got angry, the black stones still want to sell for money, where can I not pick up thirty or fifty yuan, this thing is sold by tons. But then I thought about it, this thing is not good, what if it is really a thing, and patiently continued to ask, "What stone?" Where did it come from? ”
Liu Jiawu saw that I was more kind, so he mustered up his courage, opened the bag on his chest, and opened another bag from the inside, opening more than ten layers in a row, revealing a thin slit, let me look inside, I stretched my neck to see, in the black rumbling cloth bag, under the reflection of the sun, a black stone reflected the light, which was more translucent than our conventional black.
Before Liu Jiawu could take a closer look, he hurriedly pressed the thing in, and closed it again layer by layer, as if I looked at it more and this thing came into my hand.
I said, "As for you, you show it to me and let me see it, I don't even understand it, where did this thing come from?"
Liu Jiawu said: "Brother, you just tell me the price, you don't have to worry about where you come from." ”
I said: "Brother Jiawu, you have to let me understand, otherwise I really can't make a price for you, even if we are fellow countrymen, the business will be clear." I looked left and right, lowered my voice and said, "Are you afraid that this person will have too many eyes?" Why don't I invite you to eat dumplings, the dumplings in Beijing are much better than ours. Let's talk while eating, if this is really a good thing for you, how about the price is negotiable? ”
As soon as Liu Jiawu heard about eating dumplings, his stomach gurgled twice, probably in Panjiayuan for a whole day, he didn't dare to ask anyone, and he didn't have time to eat. ”
I glanced at the fat man and the poison-eyed dragon, and took Liu Jiawu to a nearby dumpling restaurant. The dumpling restaurant is not big, but the business is unusually hot, the boss is a family of two, they are more loyal businessmen, the dumpling bag is thin and the filling is big, the taste is also very good, the small restaurant is cleaned up, and it is comfortable to look at.
At this time, although it was past noon, there were still many people in the restaurant. We often come here to eat, and after saying hello to the owner, the proprietress of the dumpling restaurant took us to an open space at the back door, and no one was very quiet, so she set up a table for us, put up chopsticks and chairs and went in.
The back door of the restaurant is a small courtyard, said to be a small courtyard, in fact, it is a small open space surrounded by the surrounding houses, only this small door when you come in and out, and we usually have any business, we also follow here to talk.
I said to Liu Jiawu: "Brother Jiawu, how is this place, there is no other place to enter and exit except this door, can you show me your thing now?" ”
Through a door, Liu Jiawu could smell the fragrance of dumplings wafting inside, and the gluttonous worms in his stomach had already been hooked out, deaf to my culture, staring at the small wooden door with his eyes, just waiting to eat.
Seeing this, I had to smile helplessly, pushed his arm, and handed over a cigarette: "Don't worry, these dumplings have thin skin and big filling, cook them for a while, and the proprietress will serve them to us when they are cooked." If you can sell that thing at a good price, it's not a problem to eat dumplings here every day. ”
Liu Jiawu was pushed by me, hurriedly took the cigarette I handed over, listened to my words, and shook his head again and again: "No, no, no, this thing is not mine alone, and when the money is exchanged, I will take it back and share it with someone else." ”
I wondered, "Oh? This thing isn't yours alone? Could it be that it was handed down from your ancestors? The brothers are going to sell this thing? ”
Liu Jiawu clicked on this cigarette roll, no one around, no longer as restrained as before, heard me ask, and replied: "That's not it, I found it with a few playmates, none of them have been far away, only I have been to Wuhan alone." So let me ask the price, and sell it if I can. ”
While talking, the proprietress had already brought the dumplings, steaming dumplings, plus cold beer, Liu Jiawu couldn't care about talking anymore, picked up the chopsticks and gobbled up, and sent the dumplings to his mouth one by one.
As soon as I looked at this posture, my God, this is not just a day without eating, even if it is not eaten for three days, I can't stand it like this, so I quickly asked the proprietress to cook another two catties, and put a plate of peppers on a plate, and said to him: "Brother, the peppers in the north are not as spicy as ours, you may not be used to eating them, just use a makeshift to make do with it, there is vinegar and beer." ”
Liu Jiawu's mouth was full of dumplings, a plate of belly, and a bottle of beer, and he didn't say anything, and only then did he talk to me about the black stone in his bag before the second plate of dumplings came up.
Liu Jiawu trusted me very much at this time, and put the rag bag on his chest on the table for me to see for myself.
I took the bag handed by Liu Jiawu, and after a long time, I finally opened the last layer of the rag bag. During this period of time, following the poison-eyed dragon's ears and eyes, I have not been in contact with antique weapons, and I can already be regarded as half a player, the reason why I am a player, because of the limited contact area, is still far from the expert. I carefully examined the black stone in my hand, the size of the whole stone was the size of a rice bowl, and it was particularly eye-catching in the sunlight of this open field.
The seemingly irregular stones seem to hide some rules, but the weight is completely disproportionate to the size of the stones. It looks extremely unusual.
I was secretly surprised and a little regretful at the same time, I knew that I should have just come to the poison-eyed dragon, in Professor Gu's words, he only needs to smell it with his nose to know the origin of this thing, I naturally can't compare to him, I can't eat accurately. But looking at the condition of this thing, it doesn't seem to be a mundane thing. Something like this is relatively out of the ordinary, and if it doesn't have a serious origin, I'm afraid no one will accept it. But then again, it's not easy for such a thing to have a serious origin.
I asked Liu Jiawu where this thing came from, and Liu Jiawu didn't hide it, and told the origin of 1510.
Enshi, Hubei Province, is located in western Hubei Province, and is connected with Sichuan and Hunan, which belongs to the mountainous area and has very inconvenient transportation. As the old saying goes, the mountains eat the mountains and the water depends on the water, and this is even more obvious to them.
The most common thing in the mountains is natural disasters, it rains for a week in a row, this summer comes much later than usual, a heavy rain has been falling from the beginning of summer to Xiaoman, a full fifteen days, mudslides and landslides everywhere, forcing the people in the village to dare not go out.
In previous years, there will be a drought, but this year it has rained for more than ten days, just when the village people are relieved, the next days are even more difficult, for a month, the water has not fallen, seeing that the rain in the first ten days has been dried by the sun, the village people are helpless. In order to retain some water, the villagers tried their best to think of crooked ideas.
All the ways to pray for rain have been exhausted, and God is like falling asleep, and he simply ignores it. At this time, a baby who went up and down the mountain came back and said that there was a forest in the mountains that had fallen, and some strange things came out of the ground, and there was a fortune teller in the village. (To be continued.) )