Chapter 47: Hooked
"You guy, you can brag, after such a long time, I haven't seen you come up with something that can make my eyes shine!" Boss Zhu smiled and said.
Qi Xiaofei put the backpack on the table in front of Boss Zhu, carefully unzipped it, and then took out a thick red book with both hands, and said confidently: "Boss Zhu, this can make your eyes shine, right?" Haha-"
Boss Zhu shook his head and sneered: "What kind of treasure am I supposed to be, "Reading Newspaper Manuals" is very common." I see you still have some things in your bag, so why don't you take them all out for me to see. β
Qi Xiaofei took out a few more booklets from his bag, Boss Zhu shook his head and said, "These are ordinary goods, and they have no collection value!" β
"Boss Zhu, you said that my "manual" is also very common? Then it's not worth it? β
When Qi Xiaofei first got this "Handbook", he was very excited, and he thought it was a rare treasure. At this time, when he heard Boss Zhu say this, he suddenly felt like a deflated ball, and his face no longer had the look he had just now.
"However, your "manual" has no torn pages, and it is in good condition, suitable for collection."
Although Boss Zhu said that the books brought by Qi Xiaofei were ordinary and common, he still took all the books in his hand and flipped through them, and then he patted the "Manual" and said to Qi Xiaofei, "I want this book, and the other books are really useless." - Make a price! β
"Boss Zhu, you are an honest man, you don't bring such a blind person!" Qi Xiaofei looked at Boss Zhu's face and said gloomily, "You just said it was worthless, and now you want to buy it." This is your routine of receiving goods at low prices, right? I, Qi Xiaofei, also do this business, and I have been working hard for a few years, you can't hide this trick from me! β
"I'll tell you the truth, this book is very common, but not many are in good condition. I didn't get you, you have time to inquire in the ghost market, my old Zhu is a person. Also, you go around the stalls and see if the book has a lot on display. Lao Zhu said a little embarrassed, "I didn't look at it just now, I thought it was a fragment." Due to the times, most of the ones that came out were fragments. β
"There is a saying that real people don't show their faces, and they don't show their faces." Qi Xiaofei's two big eyes were spinning, he gave a thumbs up, and said to Boss Zhu mysteriously, "Hehe, an honest person like you is a blind man, that's a blind person!" β
Boss Zhu knocked on Qi Xiaofei's skull and said, "I'm not what you think." You're a villain! β
"How much can you give this book?" Qi Xiaofei nervously looked forward to the number that Boss Zhu was about to say.
"It's been so long, it's rare that you have brought something decent, and I will give a lot, three hundred yuan, how about it?"
As he spoke, Boss Zhu was about to open the drawer and withdraw the money.
Qi Xiaofei gently pressed Boss Zhu's hand pulling the drawer with one hand, stretched out the index finger of the other hand to Boss Zhu's eyes, and shook it gently: "Boss Zhu, I'm sorry, three hundred is not for sale!" β
Boss Zhu was stunned for a moment: "You have time to inquire in the market, my price is not low." The difference between the quality is dozens of dollars, and some of them are not easy to sell! β
"But a good quality is rare to find a hundred copies, and for collectors, it is even more difficult to find!"
"One in a hundred? Not so exaggerated! Boss Zhu smiled and said, "If you don't believe it, I have several copies of this kind at home, and they are all purchased at a lower price!" β
"That's the seller doesn't understand, and you got it cheaply!"
"And how much do you want to sell it for?" When Boss Zhu saw something slightly better, his heart itched, and he had to get it quickly.
"You say." Qi Xiaofei narrowed his two big eyes, and smiled slightly at the corners of his mouth.
Boss Zhu stretched out four fingers and asked Qi Xiaofei: "Is this okay?" β
Qi Xiaofei straightened Boss Zhu's curled thumb hard: "That's it!" β
"Okay." Boss Zhu thought for a while, and finally nodded helplessly and said, "You kid is really ruthless in business!" β
"Hey, hey, hey, heyγγγγγγ" Qi Xiaofei smiled proudly.
Boss Zhu shook his head and smiled bitterly and said, "It's so difficult to do business with someone like you!" β
Qi Xiaofei counted the money one by one. Boss Zhu held the "Manual" in his hand and wiped it carefully with a clean rag.
"See you back, Boss Zhu!"
"See you later!"
Just as Qi Xiaofei walked out of the store with his front foot, he seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around and walked back.
Boss Zhu was concentrating on wiping the treasure that had just arrived, and when he saw Qi Xiaofei going and returning, he couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Is there anything else?" β
"There's really a big event, I'm so happy that I almost forgot about it!"
"What's the matter?"
"There are a number of excellent collections, I wonder if you are interested?"
"What are they?"
"Propaganda posters, like stamps, etc."
"Show me it."
"I can't take it."
"What's going on?"
"That's rightβ" Qi Xiaofei said, "Some time ago, a friend of mine went back to his hometown in the countryside and accidentally found that his neighbor's house had some old propaganda posters, such as chapters. He knew I was good at it, and he told me about it when he came back.
"I asked if your neighbor wanted to sell these things. He said, "My neighbor is very poor now, and he can't wait to sell his house and land." It's just that this thing is left in the countryside, and no one can afford it.
He also said that these things were intercepted by the neighbor's father when he was a village cadre, and they were all good things, and they were all very well preserved, such as the big chapter, and the gold ones! β
"You can ask your friend to bring his neighbor to my store, and if I look at it, the price will definitely be higher than the market!" Hearing that there was a gold medallion, Boss Zhu's eyes lit up when he heard it.
"My friend's neighbor is too big to be able to bear it. Besides, with so many valuables, taking a train or a car, people are also worried about the loss of things. β
"Where's your friend?"
"Xuzhou's."
Boss Zhu snorted and laughed: "Xuzhou has survived six or seven hundred miles here, where did it come from?" β
"I'm using an exaggerated technique. The main reason for people is that they are old and their bodies can't bear it! β
"Why don't you buy it? Buy it back and sell it to me, and you can make a profit on it! β
"I wanted to buy it, but I was shy in my pocket, and recently Lao Jia came to eat and drink again. I have more than enough heart, but not enough strength. Qi Xiaofei shook his head again and again and sighed.
"Then why didn't your friend's neighbor take it to Xuzhou and sell it?" Boss Zhu asked: "There is also an antique trading market in Xuzhou, where have I been a few years ago?" β
"Is there an antique market in Xuzhou? Where is it? Qi Xiaofei deliberately pretended to be surprised and asked. I really don't know what antique trading market there is in Xuzhou! β
"That's because you're lonely, and besides, you're not specialized in this business, but you usually do it when you're fine, so you don't care about these things." Boss Zhu said, "There are several antique markets in Xuzhou, and as far as I know, there is one in a park in Yunlong District, which is quite large. β
Qi Xiaofei found a crumpled piece of paper from his bag and handed it to Boss Zhu: "Great, please write the address." β
Boss Zhu neatly wrote the address of the Xuzhou antique market. Qi Xiaofei took the paper in front of him and looked at it carefully.
"Yes, they should shoot nearby, and there shouldn't be much distance to Xuzhou." Qi Xiaofei seemed to have a sudden epiphany: "How did I forget this stubble?" I'll have to tell one of my friends about it. β
"Don't, don't!" Boss Zhu suddenly became nervous, "I'll just ask casually, where is your friend's hometown in the countryside of Xuzhou, I'll go for a trip, if the thing is good, I'll take it!"
"You show me the address I just gave you, I seem to have written it wrong."
Qi Xiaofei carefully folded the piece of paper with the address written on it, then put it in his bag, and said, "It's okay, it's a little wrong, it doesn't matter." With this address, you should be able to find the antique market you mentioned. β
Qi Xiaofei's eyes were half-narrowed, the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed, and he sneered in his heart, hum: Sample, play thirty-six tricks with me, you are still tender.
"You write your friend's address, and I'll go in two days!" Boss Zhu handed Qi Xiaofei a brand-new notebook and a pen with both hands.
Qi Xiaofei frowned and said, "I can't give you the specific address yet, when you leave, I'll go with you, my friend's Zhuangzi is not easy to find." β
Qi Xiaofei wrote the approximate address on a piece of paper, handed it to Boss Zhu to collect, and then patted the address given by Boss Zhu in the bag, and asked, "When are you going?" β
Boss Zhu said: "Just the last few days. I have such a big store, and there is still business, how can I explain it! β
"I can tell you, Boss Zhu, if you go late and sell things to others, don't blame me! If my friend's neighbor can't wait, I'll give him this address. Hey! β
"Just these two days, just these two days! I'll get rid of what I'm doing, and I'll get there! β
"Boss Zhu, let's be a villain first, and then a gentleman. If you buy something, how will my share be counted? β
"Information fees? I know. You can rest assured, and the transaction price will be calculated with you at that time. β
"Boss Zhu, let's be a villain first, then a gentleman, according to the rules of the industry, twenty percent!"
"What kind of rules, twenty percent? How did I not know? When was it changed? I only remember ten percent! β
"I changed it last month. You haven't heard? β
"Nope! You changed it yourself, right? β
"Let's not talk so much, you just say 20 percent, okay?"
"No way!" Boss Zhu said categorically, "Our turnover is often in the thousands. That's 20 percent more than I make! β
"Okay, then follow the old rules, ten percent!" Qi Xiaofei thought about it, anyway, he couldn't earn his intermediary fee this time, so he was still here to worry about what he was doing.
"Boss Zhu, then you hurry up and deal with the matter at hand, when can you go, you go to me!" When Qi Xiaofei was leaving, he gave thousands of instructions, in order to let this big fish take the bait as soon as possible.
"Okay, okay!" Boss Zhu agreed.
At this point, Boss Zhu completely fell into the trap set by Qi Xiaofei for him. But Boss Zhu has a shadow in his heart about going out to the countryside to receive goods, which is why Boss Zhu has been anxious to invite Qian Yongqiang and them in recent days.
Besides, after Qi Xiaofei handled the matter well, he left Boss Zhu's "can seek" bookstore with satisfaction. With money in his pocket, his heart itched, and Qi Xiaofei came to a casino happily with five hundred yuan in his arms.
In less than two hours, the five hundred dollars were lost. Just as he came to Lao Jia's rental house dejectedly, he saw Lao Jia holding a wooden stick, standing at the door, waiting for him with his eyebrows crossed.