Chapter VI Antique Brokers
I agreed with Boss He to leave tomorrow morning, and after seeing Boss He away, the fat man slowly appeared, followed behind my ass and asked, "What is this dead fat man doing?" ”
I remembered that he was hiding alone just now, so I said to him angrily, "Why are you scolding yourself? ”
The fat man knew that he was wrong, so he scratched his head and explained to me: "I just don't like him, especially when I hear you say that the loss of the golden statue is probably related to him, so I can't wait to beat him." In order to avoid violent and bloody incidents, I hid out, hard work for you. ”
When I heard the fat man apologize, I stopped being angry, and smiled very sly and said, "Actually, it's not hard at all." After speaking, he took out the check from his pocket, pinched it in his hand, and shook it in front of the fat man's eyes in a show off.
The fat man's eyes immediately lit up, snatched the check, counted the zeros with his fingers, and after counting, the corners of his mouth were grinning to the root of his ears, and he slapped me on the shoulder vigorously, so painful that I frowned, and the fat man couldn't hide his excitement and said to me: "Okay, Lao Zheng, how did you get this check." But I haven't made a move yet, and if I do, I guess it's more than that. ”
I gave him a blank look, and said in my heart: You will be an afterthought, where did you run away just now? But I was in a good mood and said to him with a smile: "If you have the opportunity to show your talents, hurry up and pack up, and we will go to Hong Kong tomorrow." ”
When the fat man heard this, he immediately looked at me with a surprised expression of eating a fly, and I was a little puzzled by his expression, so I asked him, "What's the matter?" You don't want to go? ”
The fat man immediately replied: "I have long wanted to visit the prosperous Hong Kong, which is the base camp of the capitalist children who live extravagantly, and the place I have always longed for." ”
After saying that, a pair of bull's eyes smiled into a slit, and I looked at his exaggerated expression and said, "What do you mean by this dirty expression, we are going to get down to business." He Fatzi said that his house is haunted, but we have a task in our bodies, so don't think about it and guess wildly, and you can't figure out the route and policy. ”
The fat man looked at me with a treacherous look that you also understand, and said with a smile: "Fake Sven, fake serious." I've heard that women in Hong Kong are wearing thigh-baring and low-cut clothes all over the streets, don't you want to see it? ”
I pretended to be very stern and said to the fat man: "I am a proletarian revolutionary mass with a firm position, and I will never be sugar-coated by the evil idea of capital. ”
The fat man glanced at me angrily, and then replied to me with great disdain, "I heard you running the train here with a mouth full of hypocrisy." ”
After I finished talking nonsense with the fat man, we discussed the next trip, and I couldn't help but think of the mysterious aunt of the door curtain. This time I was traveling with the fat man, and I really couldn't worry about leaving her alone in the store, in case this mysterious woman took advantage of our absence and made some small moves.
So I said to the fat man, "You pack some necessary items that you need to bring first, and I'll be back as soon as I go out." ”
When the fat man heard that I was going out, he immediately said to me, "What do you have to do now?" ”
I stood up and said, "Something important." Then he went out without looking back. Leaving the mysterious woman Aunt Curtain at home alone, I was really a little unsure, so I planned to go to the fifth master to borrow a guy to help watch the store for a few days, and by the way, help me keep an eye on the aunt of the curtain.
There are several places in Beijing, such as the theater tea house and the hotel antique shop, but he usually stays in the tea house and drinks tea and chats with some craftsmen in the capital. As a result, today I pounced, Zha Wuye was not in the tea house, his buddy said: A group of guests came, among which there were a few foreigners, and Zha Wuye took them to the antique shop.
So, I hurried to his antique shop. Nowadays, in the general antique store, the antiques that are clearly placed on the counter are actually works of art or Xibei goods (that is, high-imitation fakes), and the real good things are not clearly displayed, especially the Ming ware (that is, the burial vessel in the tomb. Generally, after the Ming utensils are taken out of the bucket by the craftsmen of the inverted bucket, they will sell them through antique shops such as Guò Zha Wuye or Yishiju, and the transactions are not on the surface, but flow in the dark. Antique shops with Ming utensils to trade usually release the wind first, and naturally there will be people in need to come to buy, and the merchants who come to buy Ming utensils are almost all people in the circle, unlike the people who visit the "Red Star Old Goods Market", almost all of them are laymen, and generally good and rare utensils cannot fall into their hands.
After the reform and opening up, China poured in a large number of foreign friends, who came to do business and set up factories, or to study and read Chinese, as well as sightseeing, to see the Great Wall of the world's wonders, to visit the Forbidden City, where the Chinese emperor once lived, to eat Chinese food, and to buy some antiques, big-nosed foreigners, especially love Chinese porcelain. At that time, many Chinese treasures flowed out of the country in this way, which was related to the economic environment at that time, after all, a lot of dollars had full temptation.
As soon as the fat man and I have no money, I will take the Xibei goods in the store to the Red Star Antique Market to set up a stall, I like to entertain foreign guests the most, and they can be deceived if they can be deceived and cheated, anyway, when you leave the stall, nothing will be returned, you say that my things are fake, and I also said that you dropped the bag halfway. Once the thing is shot, when the people are far away, they immediately collect the things, pat their butts and leave, and they will not appear again in a short time, and they can't find anyone if they want to find someone. Anyway, at that time, everyone was doing this business, and if they sold one thing, it would be enough to eat for several years, and many people who dumped old things made a fortune in this way.
But now foreigners are becoming more and more savvy, they know that if they want to buy good and real things, they have to go to some antique stores, but they can't go alone, they have to bring trusted locals with them, so as to avoid being deceived.
When I arrived at his antique shop, the room was full of people, three blonde foreigners were sitting on the couch talking, and next to them sat two middle-aged men. After I entered the door, I took a closer look at the two of them and found that they were not antique intermediaries in the capital, because I also run an antique shop, and I often deal with intermediaries who do antique trading, and I know almost all the intermediaries in the capital.
"Antique intermediary" is to take customers to the antique store to buy things, or sell items for others to sell to antique stores, to earn the seller or buyer of both intermediary fees, this business is very profitable, generally made a fortune, in the capital is also very status. However, this antique agency is not something that anyone can do, the first is to have a wide range of contacts, or it is difficult to make money; The second is to have a good vision, because if you buy a fake thing through the guò intermediary, and then you can't find the seller to return it, you can ask the intermediary to compensate, and the risk they have to bear is very large, so they will do business with some familiar stores for a long time.
A few guys in the antique shop were pouring tea for the customers, and the fifth master was being pulled by a short, thin old man to bite his ears quietly in the corner of the wall. The store manager standing at the counter of the antique store saw me, hurriedly greeted me, walked up to me and said to me: "What kind of wind blew Master Wen here, sit inside, why didn't the fat man come with you today?" "The manager of the antique store is a young man in his twenties, his name is Huang Tianming, he is a distant cousin of the fifth master, and he is also the most trusted right-hand man of the fifth master, so he can serve as the manager of the antique store with special significance. There is a store manager in every store in the capital, but all the staff of the store are under the jurisdiction of Huang Tianming, so it is okay to tell him directly about the secondment of the clerk.
So I stood still and said to Huang Tianming: "Xiao Huang, I'm not here today, I have something to find the fifth master, but he is busy, so it's okay to tell you directly." So I decided to seconded the clerk. I told him in detail, anyway, everyone is familiar with my own people, and I don't need to hide it. By stating the situation in detail and specificity, he can better arrange suitable manpower.
After listening to my story, Huang Tianming said to me: "Master Wen, don't worry, I will definitely arrange for a person who is stable and quick-witted." ”
I smiled and said to him, "Xiao Huang, I don't have to worry about your errands, you are so busy here, I won't bother." You tell the fifth master, I will come back and invite him to Hongbin Building to eat seafood, and you will go with you when the time comes. ”
Huang Tianming smiled and said "Okay", and then turned around to go to errands, and when I was leaving, I glanced at the two middle-aged men sitting on the sofa. From the moment I entered the door, I felt that there was something strange about them, they didn't look like antique agents, they were both dark and thin, full of spirit, they looked like they would be windy when they walked, obviously like a practitioner, not like an ordinary intermediary.
Because antique intermediaries often go to dinners to discuss business, they often socialize, so that they are all fat heads, big ears, and big bellies. And I clearly remember that since I came in, the two of them have never spoken, nor have they talked to the foreigners next to them, which is very strange. If the middleman is not a fool, how can he still make a business, it seems that these two are not antique intermediaries. However, how can they bring foreigners to buy antiques, is there anything wrong with this?
I had already walked to the door of the store while thinking about it, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, so I wanted to remind the fifth master. As a result, when I turned around, I saw that the fifth master had already pulled the thin old man into the back room, I knew that behind it was the private warehouse where the fifth master placed valuables, and he usually would not bring strangers in, it seemed that the thin old man should have a great friendship with the fifth master. Thinking that the fifth master is not an ordinary person, his social experience and ability to do things are much stronger than me, otherwise how could people have a few big stores in the capital, and I am guarding a small antique shop, and I haven't tossed and understood, and I have to run to others to seconded the clerk when I encounter difficulties.
Thinking of this, I shook my head, feeling that I was just worrying about it, I still had a lot of things to deal with, how could I have time to worry about others. So he reached out and pushed open the door of the antique shop and walked out.
But what I didn't expect was that the fifth master, a veteran goose hunter, was pecked by the wild goose this time and hurt his eyes.
And because of my negligence, a shocking event happened later, which almost caused all the inverted craftsmen in the capital to perish!
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