Chapter XXXVIII

After passing through the space door, the excitement in Jiang Xuehui's heart calmed down a little, and she found that this was the space she had seen through the space door before, and immediately guessed that Wang Zhi should be communicating with other worlds through here, and then immediately looked around to look at the environment here, this is a rare opportunity to understand Wang Zhi's details, and she naturally will not let it go.

Wang Zhi, who followed Jiang Xuehui back to the space-time corridor, did not stop her from looking around, but just patted her shoulder when she was stagnant, pointed to the exit of the space-time corridor and said, "Passing through that door is the modern world." ”

Hearing this, knowing that Wang Zhi was urging herself, Jiang Xuehui immediately regained her steps and walked towards the exit.

Passing through the exit and seeing the clean and hygienic toilet outside, I don't know why Jiang Xuehui immediately became extremely excited, even though all she saw was a toilet, she still kept turning on and off the faucet like a child.

Wang Zhi, who came out of the space-time corridor after him, saw her behavior and said unhappily: "Don't waste water!" ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xuehui didn't say anything, but stopped playing with the faucet, and immediately opened the toilet door and rushed out.

Outside the toilet is the living room, and when Wang Zhi arrived in the living room, he saw Jiang Xuehui bouncing around on the sofa like a child, with a smile on her face.

Wang Zhi actually understood her excitement a little, after all, she had lived in the reckless ancient times for more than ten years, and she suddenly returned to the civilized world, reused the scientific and technological products of the civilized world, and it was understandable what kind of childish actions she made, so Wang Zhi didn't bother her, but just reminded: "You can play as much as you want in my house, but you can't go out, because I don't have women's clothes here, and you are too conspicuous to wear this, which will cause me trouble." ”

Jiang Xuehui is now wearing ancient costumes, if she wears this out, although she will not be regarded as a traverser, but being watched by onlookers is indispensable, and in terms of her temperament, if she is recorded and posted on the Internet, she will become famous in minutes, she can return to the Tang Dynasty with a slap on her ass, and Wang Zhike will be exposed to the public eye, which is not in line with the principle of low-key accumulation of strength that he formulated before.

"I understand, and I don't really want to go out." After saying a word, Jiang Xuehui got off the sofa and asked Wang Zhi, "Where is your computer?" ”

"Over there." Wang Zhi pointed to his own room and said.

"I'm borrowing a computer, I want to confirm something."

"No problem."

Walking to his room, Wang Zhi turned on the computer on the table, entered the boot password, and then turned to Jiang Xuehui behind him and said, "You can use it as you like!" ”

As soon as Wang Zhi's words were finished, Jiang Xuehui immediately sat down in front of the computer, opened QQ very skillfully, entered a QQ number, and then entered the password, but it was shown that the password was wrong, so she immediately closed QQ, opened the browser again, entered a certain website, and after entering the account login failed, she went to Du Niang and entered a few keywords, which looked like a novel title, but it turned out to be a novel, but as soon as she looked at the introduction and author name of the novel, Jiang Xuehui's face immediately showed a strong sense of disappointment.

Seeing her repeated actions, Wang Zhi could roughly guess what she was doing, she probably wanted to confirm whether this world was the world before she crossed through the QQ number and the account at a certain point, looking at this result, it shouldn't be.

Seeing this, Wang Zhi didn't know how to comfort her, so he didn't speak and stood aside silently.

But at this time, Wang Zhi found that she looked down on Jiang Xuehui, she was just disappointed for a while, her face returned to normal, and said to Wang Zhi in a very flat tone: "I guessed right, this is indeed not the world before I traveled through, and even the novels I wrote have become another theme." ”

"And then?" Wang Zhi asked, "Then what do you want to do?" ”

"What are you doing...... muttering these three words, Jiang Xuehui was silent all of a sudden, although she always thought about what she would do after returning to the real world one day, and what she would do after returning to the real world, but now that she is really back, after confirming that this world is not her original world, she really can't think of what to do next.

After lowering her head and thinking for a while, Jiang Xuehui said: "Anyway, I can't go out, I can only stay at your house, and I can't do anything, so you can borrow my computer to play." ”

"Okay, you can play if you want!"

With that, Wang Zhi sat on the bed next to him and took out his mobile phone. Originally, he planned to go to the No. 7 spare tire world after sending wind power to Jiang Xuehui, but now that Jiang Xuehui has come to his house, it is impossible for him to leave her at home and go to the No. 7 world by himself, he is not at ease, in all senses.

The computer was occupied, and Wang Zhi, who was bored playing with his mobile phone on the side, looked up at Jiang Xuehui from time to time, and saw that she was constantly searching for things and then clicked again, in short, she almost didn't do anything for such a long time.

Wang Zhi used to be like this often, sitting in front of the computer and not knowing what to do, this is a manifestation of emptiness, just need to find a movie and a novel to divert attention, but Jiang Xuehui, who first came to this world, couldn't find movies and novels, fiddled for a while and then stood up, and said to Wang Zhi: "It's boring, it's not my own computer, I'm not used to it, you send me back, anyway, there's nothing to do here." ”

Wang Zhizheng couldn't wait for her to leave, he didn't even say a polite retention, and sat up directly from the bed: "Follow me." ”

Then the two went to the toilet, entered the space-time corridor together, and after opening the space door of World No. 5 and sending Jiang Xuehui back, Wang Zhi did not go back immediately, and turned around and opened the space door of World No. 7.

Through the space door, Wang Zhi saw that Lu Revolution was sitting on the bed bored and reading the newspaper, it was impossible to equip a small hotel like this in this era, and Lu Revolution could only pass the time by reading newspapers and other things.

Walking through the space door, Wang Zhi asked Lu Revolution, who had already put down the newspaper, "Is the pawnshop in contact with you?" ”

After testing the water in three pawnshops last time, Wang Zhi and Lu Revolution have decided to cooperate with the third pawnshop that received their incense burners.

"Their manager has been contacted, and I can call him now if needed." Lu Revolution said.

"Don't worry, did you bring the wooden box you prepared last time, I brought a Buddha statue this time, I have to get a sturdy box to put it." Wang Zhi said that the four-dimensional pocket cannot be exposed to outsiders.

"Got two, right behind you." Lu Revolution pointed to a corner behind Wang Zhi: "It's all one meter long and sixty centimeters wide and high, you can see if it's okay, I also prepared straw as a filler, and stuffed it in a wooden box." ”

Hearing this, Wang Zhi turned around and saw two wooden boxes piled up behind the door, judging by their size, the largest half-human-high Buddha statue should not be able to fit in, but the remaining few are fine, so he said: "It's almost." Then he walked to the wooden box and knocked on the wooden board, tested the hardness, then opened it, took out the straw stuffed inside, took out a Buddha statue more than 30 centimeters high and stuffed it in, and then stuffed the straw into the gap again, and did a good job of shockproof treatment, only to re-close the lid, and after fixing it, he said to Lu Revolution: "You take this to show them, saying that it is just an early sample, let them prepare money, and the follow-up antiques will arrive soon." ”

They didn't come to Xiangjiang to sell antiques, but to raise money, and it didn't matter if they had more or less money, as long as they could get cash before Black Monday.

"I understand this, it's just how many things you can get, and it also makes me have a good offer in my heart, after all, this contact is to officially do business, and people have to quote a specific number to prepare money!"

"Today is October 5th, Black Monday is the 19th, but because the stock market is not open on Saturday and Sunday, we will go to Japan before the 16th, and in order to deal with some emergencies, we will go to Japan at least on the 15th, that is to say, you will depart from Xiangjiang on the 13th to the 14th, and the transaction is best completed before the 12th, and there are seven days left, and you can report as much money as you think they can raise." Wang Zhi said that now he is not worried that he will not be able to get enough antiques, but that buyers will not have enough money.

"But you have to tell me the approximate type and quantity of antiques you can get, and the other party will definitely ask." Lu Revolution said with some distress, if you don't disclose your family background, how can people transfer funds to you after meeting you with a sample, is it so easy to mobilize funds?

Feeling that Lu Revolution was right, he was still too frizzy, Wang Zhi thought for a while and said: "It's roughly the Buddha statues, porcelain and calligraphy and paintings in the Sui and Tang dynasties, I have seven Buddha statues in my hand temporarily, the largest is half a person high, and the smallest is more than 20 centimeters high, all of which I got from the palace, the quality is nothing to say, as for the porcelain, you can report the number casually, as for the calligraphy and painting, there is no accurate number, but there will be Yan Liben's authentic handwriting." ”

"Yes, I've counted." Lu Revolution nodded, from Wang Zhi's words, he could roughly guess that Wang Zhi had a parallel world in the Tang Dynasty in his hand, and the antiques of the Sui and Tang dynasties were really as many as there were, so he immediately had no worries, walked to the door and erected a wooden box containing Buddha statues, and after making a good posture, he turned to Wang Zhi and asked: "Do you go with me or continue to follow me incognito." ”

"I'd better follow you, be careful." As he spoke, Wang Zhi took out his invisibility cloak and put it on.

Seeing Wang Zhi disappear, Lu Revolution immediately picked up the wooden box, opened the door and walked out, and waited outside the door for a while before locking the door.

When he walked to the front desk, the innkeeper saw Lu Revolution resisting a big wooden box, and immediately asked, "Brother Lu, why are you going, bringing such a big box." ”

"Go out and do something."

With a casual response, Lu Revolution left the hotel, walked to the street, stopped a taxi, and went straight to the pawnshop.

This is a pawnshop called Rui On Dang, which is different from the other two pawnshops located in a bustling office building, although it is also in the Central area, but it is next to the street, there is a faΓ§ade that is neither too big nor too small, and the furnishings and decorations inside are also more classical, because this pawnshop is a century-old shop that has been inherited for more than 100 years, and pays more attention to tradition.

As soon as he entered the pawnshop, Lu Revolution asked a salesman, "Is Manager Li here?" ”

"He's here, may I ask who you are?"

"My surname is Lu, I came this morning, I brought something, let Manager Li take a look."

As soon as Lu Revolution said this, the salesman immediately understood, and immediately walked out from behind the counter to lead the way for Lu Revolution: "Lu Sheng, please follow me." ”

Then the two of them went up the stairs next to them, and when they arrived outside a room, the salesman knocked on the door and reported, and a middle-aged man's voice immediately came from inside: "Please come in." ”

Lu Revolution immediately pushed open the door and walked in with the wooden box, the invisible Wang Zhi followed closely, and the salesman went back after completing the task of leading the way.

The furnishings in the room are the interior furnishings often seen in Hong Kong films in the 80s, that is, sofas and tables, and that Manager Li is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a set of standard clothes for successful people at this time - suits, looking very capable, when he saw Lu Revolution coming in, he immediately got up to greet him and greeted him in Cantonese: "I only talked about it in the morning, and I came with something in the afternoon, Lu Sheng is really vigorous and resolute!" ”

"I'm just a little minion, the boss has a mouth, and we break our legs." With a wry smile, Lu Revolution put the wooden box on the ground.

Hearing this, Manager Li laughed and said, "Lu Sheng really loves to laugh at himself, if you are just a little minion, what kind of character should you big guy be." ”

"Anyway, he's very good." With a casual squeak, Lu Revolution said: "Let's take a look at things first!" ”

"Okay, then inspect the goods."

After speaking, Manager Li skillfully opened the wooden box, pulled away the straw, and saw that it was a Buddha statue inside, so he went to get a glove and put it on, carefully moved the Buddha statue out, and took a magnifying glass and other things for a long time before taking off the gloves and asking Lu Revolution: "Lu Sheng, do you know which generation your Buddha statue is?" ”

"When I received it, the family said it was from the Tang Dynasty." Lu Revolution casually made it up.

Hearing this, Manager Li shook his head and said: "It's not from the Tang Dynasty, it should be from the Sui Dynasty, it's rare that this Buddha statue is not a common bronze gilt Buddha statue, but a golden Buddha statue, and the gold content needs to be further measured to know, Lu Sheng, you can make a price for this thing!" ”

"We don't know much about the market in Xiangjiang, so the price is still set by Manager Li!" Lu Revolution looked very innocent.

"Such a large golden Buddha statue is really rare, if it is dead, how about 300,000?" Manager Li tentatively gave a price, in fact, his reserve price is 400,000, because he expects this Buddha statue to be sold at a price of 500,000 yuan, and it is very possible to sell it at a high price of several million if the auction house operates, after all, there are too many rich people who believe in Buddhism in Xiangjiang.

At this time, the exchange rate of Hong Kong dollars against the US dollar was 2.0 to 3 to 1, and 300,000 Hong Kong dollars were converted into US dollars for almost 100,000 US dollars, which was not a lot, so Lu Revolution nodded and said: "Yes, but can you exchange it for US dollars to settle the account, according to the exchange rate of three to one." ”

The reason why it is necessary to exchange for US dollars is because the US dollar is convenient to use in Japan, and the Hong Kong dollar will definitely depreciate after Black Monday, so it is better to exchange it for US dollar insurance.

"Yes." Manager Li agreed, as the financial center of Asia second only to Tokyo, Xiangjiang held more foreign exchange than the mainland at this time, and it was no problem to pay in US dollars: "But I only have Hong Kong dollars here, if you want US dollars, you have to go to the bank to transfer money." ”

"Then give me Hong Kong dollars!" As he spoke, Lu Revolution suddenly leaned forward, leaned very close to Manager Li, and whispered: "Manager Li, this Buddha statue is just a sample, we have brought a lot of similar Buddha statues and porcelain and other things, our boss wants to know if you have the ability to eat all our things?" ”

Hearing this, Manager Li also leaned down and asked softly, "How many things did you bring?" ”

"At least $20 million." Lu replied that this was double the maximum amount of money he estimated the pawnshop could mobilize, and that such a figure would be too much to report.

"So much?" Manager Li was taken aback, 20 million US dollars into Hong Kong dollars is 60 million, at this time money is very valuable, it can't cost so much money to buy a building, his pawn shop usually does tens of thousands of small businesses, hundreds of thousands of occasional only have, 60 million alone can never come up with it.

However, there are always some financing channels for pawnbrokers, and the real boss of the pawnshop has other industries, and it is not a big problem to mobilize to raise 60 million, but it takes time, so he said: "20 million US dollars is not a problem, but it takes time to mobilize funds, and we have to inspect the goods." ”

"Of course, there is no problem with the inspection, but you only have seven days, and you must trade before the twelfth of this month, and we will sell as much as you can raise, and I will call you to inform you of the transaction location."

This kind of transaction is generally to notify multiple potential buyers, and then let them see the goods first, negotiate with them after seeing the goods, and then let the buyers go back to raise money and agree on a date to trade. But now that time is tight, and Lu Revolution is not familiar with the place in Xiangjiang, and the buyer only finds this one, let alone let them inspect the goods first, otherwise after letting the other party know where you are hiding things, what should you do if you mobilize people to give you black food? With the lesson of being deceived last time, Lu Revolution has never been afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice.

"It's only seven days, isn't it too rushed?" Manager Li frowned and said embarrassedly: "Even if we are a pawnshop, it is impossible to mobilize 60 million in cash in seven days. ”

Hearing this, Lu Revolution immediately understood that the other party regarded himself as a traditional cultural relics dealer, and immediately explained: "It doesn't have to be cash, we can accept bank transfers!" ”

"Can I transfer money?" Manager Li was a little surprised, this is not the era of intelligence in the future, the function of the bank is basically storage, and now it is still an era that pays attention to one hand and one hand delivery, especially this kind of gray business, the general seller only accepts hard currency such as cash or gold, and basically does not say that bank transfer can be made.

"Yes, through HSBC bank transfer, you can rest assured and I can rest assured." HSBC is the largest bank in Hong Kong, and it is also a world-class bank, and it also has the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, so it should not be greatly affected by the stock market crash, and there should be no problem with the money deposited in HSBC.

"That's fine, seven days should be about the same." Manager Li said with a smile, if it wasn't for cash, a mere $20 million was not a big problem for the big boss behind him.

"That's fine, then I'll go back first." After finishing his business, Lu Revolution didn't want to stay here for a moment, because he thought of a lot of problems and needed to go back to discuss with Wang Zhi immediately.