When the guy saw that Li Hao was wearing silk, he didn't dare to slack off at all.

The quality of this lighter is not bad, it costs more than 20 yuan a piece, and it is plated with a layer of golden alloy on the outside.

At first, the guy thought it was a piece of gold, but as soon as he got his hands on it, he knew that it was not gold, and that gold would not be so light.

The pawnshop guy held the lighter and looked at it repeatedly, and the more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became. This guy was specially trained by the pawnshop, and since he can sit at the counter, it means that he already has a certain vision for the valuation of items. But he had never seen a lighter, and he didn't know what it was for.

The pawnshop has its own set of methods for identifying items, first look at the material, and the countless people who appreciate the objects can't identify the material. Of course, where has he seen alloys treated with modern processes?

The guy looked at it for a long time, his brows furrowed, this thing was not gold, not silver, not copper, not iron, and he couldn't figure out what it was. But this thing should be quite valuable, as can be seen from the metallic luster on the surface, as well as from its fine workmanship.

The surface of this thing is so smooth that it can even illuminate a human figure, and there are a few straight lines on it, which is full of the beauty of craftsmanship. This can only be done by the best craftsmen.

The fellow raised his head and asked embarrassedly, "This distinguished guest, please forgive me for not being clumsy and not recognizing this treasure." Please give me advice, what kind of treasure is this? As a pawnshop guy, it's embarrassing to ask this, but there is no way, he really doesn't recognize it.

Li Hao smiled slightly, didn't answer, took the lighter from the guy's hand, put his thumb up, and opened the lid of the lighter with a "ding" sound. With another tap, a small flame spat out from the lighter.

The guy exclaimed "ahh

The Song people usually relied on keeping the fire intensifying, and making a new fire required fire knives, flint and velvet. When igniting the fire, first take a little dry velvet and put it on the ignition object, and then hit the flint with a fire knife to produce sparks to ignite the velvet, and finally ignite the firewood, the whole process is very troublesome.

The guy never dared to imagine that something would suddenly breathe fire, it was completely beyond his common sense.

The man's exclamation attracted the others, who approached to see the onlookers. Li Hao demonstrated the lighter again, and the people around him exclaimed in unison.

One of the old men with pale hair shouted, "This is an immortal technique! Huo De Xingjun has descended to earth! Meet the Emperor of Huode. As he spoke, he knelt down.

The old man took the lead, and the others knelt down and said, "Meet Huo De Xingjun!" ”

Li Hao was stunned, the receptivity of this ancient person is too low, a lighter can fool them like this, if you take a tablet computer out and put a "Shushan", or put a few episodes of "Journey to the West", "Fengshen Bang" and the like, don't they directly think they are immortals?

What a bunch of turtles who have never seen the world.

Li Hao helped the old man up, he only wanted to sell the lighter now, and he didn't want to act as a magic stick, and said, "Old man, this is just a tool used to make a fire." It's similar to fire knife flint, but after being processed by skilled craftsmen, the workmanship is very good. ”

The old man was stunned for a long time: "This is not the magic weapon of the Fire De Xingjun?" ”

Li Hao smiled: "Of course not, how can the magic weapon of Huo De Xingjun make a little flame?" Old man, you come and try, press here. As he spoke, he handed the lighter to the old man and taught him how to use it.

The old man pressed the lighter, and a flame burst out. Although a breeze blew, the flame only shook slightly, and was not extinguished until the old man lifted his thumb.

The old man muttered, "This is a magic weapon, this is a magic weapon." ”

The people around him were talking: "It's amazing, it actually conjures up flames out of thin air, this is a spell." ”

"It's not a spell, it's a trick. It's blindfolding, and the flame won't be real. ”

"You're blind, why isn't this fire real, it's clear that there is a flame shaking, why isn't it real?"

Li Hao ignored them and directly handed the lighter into the counter. "It's called a lighter, and it's made by the best craftsmen overseas, and it can be lit many times over and over again. You try! Press here. ”

The guy took the lighter, pressed it according to Li Hao's appearance just now, and also lit the fire, he listened to people's discussions, and hesitantly stretched out his finger to approach the flame. The finger was burned by the flames and immediately retracted.

"Oh my God, it's not a trick, it's really a fire. This lighter...... Chicken, this turkey is too convenient to use to light the fire. The man said respectfully, "Distinguished guest, please wait a moment, I will go and ask the shopkeeper to come." I don't have the right to set a price for this treasure. ”

Li Hao nodded slightly, and the guy hurriedly went to find the shopkeeper.

After a while, hurried footsteps sounded, and the man ushered in a shopkeeper who was nearly half a hundred years old. The shopkeeper arched his hands and said: "The distinguished guests are coming, Han is late to greet him, forgive his sins." ”

Li Hao also followed his example and arched his hand and said, "Don't dare, Shopkeeper Han is polite." ”

Li Hao demonstrated the use of the lighter to the shopkeeper Han. Shopkeeper Han carefully took the lighter, and also tried to fire it twice, he was an old fox in the mall, although he was quiet on the surface, but there was a storm in his heart.

Compared to this lighter, other fire-making tools are simply scum. Shopkeeper Han smiled: "Listening to the accent of the distinguished guest, it doesn't seem like a native of Quanzhou, I don't know where the ancestral home is?" ”

Li Hao smiled in his heart, wanting to get out my bottom line. But this also shows that he values this lighter, otherwise he wouldn't have gone around in circles.

"My name is Li Hao, I was born in the Great Song Dynasty, but I have been studying overseas since I was a child. The people in the family have migrated overseas a long time ago, and I grew up overseas, but I don't understand the Da Song Xiangyin. Shame on you! ”

"Overseas? Where exactly? I have seen the goods of Dashi, Daqin, Persia, Baida, Majia, Gulin, and Sgari, and it seems that they cannot make such an exquisite and practical treasure. "Shopkeeper Han has seen the world, but he is more and more confused about the origin of this lighter.

"Has Shopkeeper Han heard of the carpenter patriarch Lu Ban? They spread their family skills on a continent far away from the East China Sea, where they have been studying various techniques for hundreds of years, making manned wooden birds that can fly in the sky, wooden oxen and horses that can move on their own, and ironclad ships that can drift across the seas. ”

Shopkeeper Han was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while, and said in surprise: "The book says that Lu Ban can be a wooden bird and fly in the sky for three days without falling to the ground, is this true?" ”

"Of course it's true, I've sat on a wooden bird and flown above the white clouds." Li Hao said secretly in his heart, "Brother has never been on a wooden bird, but he took a plane when he participated in the inter-school exchange meeting with the professors of the school, and he did fly above the white clouds, which is not completely fooling you." ”

"Uh......" Shopkeeper Han was speechless, and only after a long time did he hold back a sentence, "Fly above the white clouds, it's very close to the South Heavenly Gate, will the Heavenly Soldiers of the South Heavenly Gate allow mortals to fly into the sky?" Don't they arrest people? ”

"Uh...... "Now it's Li Hao's turn to be speechless, this old man's words are really godly, my brother is going to lose you." Many people have sat on the wooden bird, but they have never seen a heavenly soldier. ”

Shopkeeper Han nodded and said, "Maybe it's still far from the South Heavenly Gate, and the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals are too lazy to care about these things." He came up with a plausible explanation.

Li Hao was not interested, he didn't want to continue to talk with this turtle of the Song Dynasty, there was really a generation gap between the two sides for countless generations, he pulled the topic back and said: "Shopkeeper Han, how much do you think this lighter is worth?" ”

The shopkeeper Han is a pawnshopkeeper, and according to the rules, he should really estimate the price first, and he muttered: "You can use it as 10 yuan in this store." ”

Li Hao checked the prices of the Song Dynasty in history two days ago, and he casually calculated that the purchasing power of 1 cent in the Song Dynasty was about 3 or 4 cents in the main world. And it has always been 1000 yuan, so 10 yuan is a lot of money, and the purchasing power in the main world is more than 3,000 yuan.

Li Hao checked the information, and it is said that Su Dongpo said in his letter to Qin Guan how he thriftily only spent 4 times a month and 500 yuan to support his family.

Although Su Dongpo had been demoted at that time, he was still an official, and he had a wife and concubine, as well as subordinates, even if he was thrifty, the cost would definitely be higher than that of ordinary families, and it can be seen that the monthly income and expenditure of ordinary families was far less than 4 yuan and 500 yuan.

A lighter costs 10 yuan, only wealthy families will buy it, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty is very serious, and there are a small number of people in society who are very rich.

Li Hao smiled and said, "10 yuan? Han shopkeeper, this lighter is made by Lu Ban's descendants, and the production process has been lost, even overseas is a rare treasure. Except for the goods I have here, the Great Song Dynasty can no longer find a second lighter. ”

"How much do you say it's worth?"

Li Hao smiled and said: "One price, 200 yuan!" ”

Shopkeeper Han laughed and said: "It's really a lion's mouth, don't you count how many farming cattle you can buy for 200 yuan?" Is this ignition object worth so much? ”

"There are many cattle in the world, but I am the only one who has a lighter." Li Hao is not in a hurry, anyway, there is more than one pawnshop, and it is impossible to talk about other pawnshops here.

"20 at most, isn't this thing just a fire? Those who can afford this thing are high-ranking officials and nobles, and it is impossible for them to make a fire or light a lamp in person, and buy a lighter, that is, they are just curious and show off, and there is no practical surname at all. ”

Li Hao admits that if only in terms of function, this lighter is indeed not worth the high price. After all, lighters are not irreplaceable commodities, and although the fire knife and sickle are troublesome, the Song people have long been used to it. He opened a super high price of 200 yuan, and he also had the intention of opening a sky-high price, he didn't think that he could really sell it at such a high price, after all, the pawnshop was not an auction.

The two talked again, but no one would give in, and Li Hao saw that he couldn't get along, so he left the pawnshop.

Li Hao found several pawnshops in a row, and the highest price they were only willing to bid was 50 yuan. Seeing that the market was like this, Li Hao sold all the ten lighters he brought here, and the price dropped a little after selling more, and finally sold at 40 yuan.

Ten lighters, sold for 400, at least hundreds of times the profit. Time and space trade is indeed a profiteering industry!

The amount of 400 yuan was quite large, and they completed the transaction in a nearby bank, and Li Hao had an extra stack of silver tickets and some broken silver.