Chapter 318, Pigeon City 1
In order to arrange a job for Cai Quanwu, Xu Huizhen found Liu Guangqi that night, looking at Xu Huizhen's slightly bulging lower abdomen, Liu Guangqi was full of mixed feelings at that time. After knowing what Xu Huizhen was worried about, Liu Guangqi directly told Xu Huizhen about Chen Xueru's analysis. After knowing that Chen Xueru's target group was different from herself, Xu Huizhen also breathed a sigh of relief. Then Liu Guangqi proposed to help Cai Quanwu arrange a job, after all, Liu Guangqi also asked someone to help him raise his son, but this proposal was rejected by Xu Huizhen.
Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, the days of peace and comfort pass day by day, and soon it will be the day when Liu Guangqi starts school. With the arrival of the school year, Liu Guangqi's days as a teacher in the literacy class also came to an end, and Yan Bugui took over.
In the past half a month, the battle between Qin Huiru and Jia Zhang's has escalated to the point of white heat, almost every day from morning to night, the two can be described as chess opponents, will meet good talents, one is relying on the old and selling the old, and the other is a newborn calf, which adds a lot of jokes to the courtyard.
On the day of the opening of the school, Liu Guangqi had just entered the teacher and was dragged aside by Wang Dongfang, who was waiting here. Although Qin Huiru and Wang Dongfang did not succeed, Wang Dongfang was not angry, after all, he is still a student now, and he mainly focuses on his studies. Liu Guangqi's relationship with him did not have any conflicts because of this incident.
"What are you pulling me here?"
Wang Dongfang looked around, took Liu Guangqi to a secluded corner of the school, and looked at Wang Dongfang's mysterious appearance Liu Guangqi asked curiously.
"You forgot about that."
"What's the matter?"
"This one"
As he spoke, Wang Dongfang took out a bronze jue from his arms. As soon as Liu Guangqi saw this bronze lord, he immediately remembered that he took Wang Dongfang to the glaze factory.
"You really brought it here. Didn't anyone check it on the train? ”
Liu Guangqi looked at the bronze jue in Wang Dongfang's hand and asked.
"I brought him in the crotch of my pants, you can help me see how much this thing is worth."
"You can really do it, and you don't panic."
Liu Guangqi smiled and took over the bronze jue from Wang Dongfang's hand, from the size of the bronze jue, the shape and the pattern on the jue's body Liu Guangqi quickly judged that this should be something from the early Spring and Autumn Period, and it must be from the mausoleum of the prince level, and it is even possible that the mausoleum of Zhou Tianzi, Luoyang is indeed worthy of being the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, and it is a good thing to dig out anything at will.
"Is it worth it?"
Looking at Liu Guangqi's nodding appearance, Wang Dongfang asked expectantly. If this thing is worth a lot, then their family's life will be over.
"It's okay, this thing is not big, and there is no inscription on it, but the year is here, more than 2,000 years old, it can be worth a thousand yuan."
Liu Guangqi gave a pertinent price according to the market he knew.
"Really!?"
Hearing Liu Guangqi say that this bronze jue was worth a thousand yuan, Wang Dongfang couldn't help but tremble. looked at Liu Guangqi with expectant eyes, and stammered and asked.
"Then can you help me sell this thing? Light Qi. ”
Seeing Wang Dongfang's excited appearance, Liu Guangqi deliberately remained silent, intending to tease him.
"What, no? Don't worry, Guangqi, I will definitely not let you work in vain. As long as it can be sold. I"
Seeing that Liu Guangqi didn't speak, Wang Dongfang thought that Liu Guangqi was unwilling, so his heart suddenly sank, and he gritted his teeth and decided to give Liu Guangqi some benefits. After all, he is not a person in this industry, even if he wants to sell, he can't find a seller, and if he really wants to go to the glass factory to sell things, he may be slaughtered, and it is not impossible to even ignore things.
"What do you think, how could I ask for your money, I'm not short of money, if it weren't for your kick, I wouldn't have been able to pick up such a big leak. I'm thinking about who I can sell this thing to, so that I can buy more money, a dime is love, and a dime is love. ”
Seeing Wang Dongfang's trembling lips, Liu Guangqi suddenly felt a sense of guilt, and hurriedly explained.
"Oh"
Hearing Liu Guangqi's words, Wang Dongfang was immediately relieved, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Let's go, let's go to the glass factory now."
Seeing Wang Dongfang's frightened appearance, Liu Guangqi decided to help the other party sell things now. After all, the market is changing day by day, and the price can be higher if you sell a day earlier.
"Then you won't report it."
"No, there are still two days anyway, so there's no hurry. Let's sell the stuff first. ”
After that, Liu Guangqi took Wang Dongfang to Liulichang. I haven't been here for two months, as soon as I entered the door, Liu Guangqi felt a sense of depression, the original crowded street, now has become deserted, originally as soon as I entered the door, there were vendors on both sides of the road, but now this situation, it is like sweeping with a broom, there is no stall.
Seeing this scene, Liu Guangqi sighed in his heart, it seems that the public-private partnership of Liuli Factory has reached the final stage. I'm afraid this thing won't sell.
"Guangqi, where have all the people on this street gone? It's hard to get on holiday."
Wang Dongfang looked at the deserted street in front of him, and his eyes suddenly widened, if it weren't for the clear writing of the big characters on the gate, and the buildings on both sides of the street had not changed, Wang Dongfang thought that Liu Guangqi had brought him to the wrong place.
"Vacation, do you think they have winter and summer vacations like us."
Wang Dongfang took a holiday, and directly smiled at Liu Guangqi.
"Then why is there a stall set up by everyone?"
"Liulichang is conducting a public-private partnership during this time. Those people are supposed to have sold things to state-run antiquities shops. ”
I haven't been here for a long time, and Liu Guangqi is a little confused. However, this situation is also expected by him, after all, the government has even canceled the pigeon market and flea market, and the stalls of this glass factory have been able to last until now.
"Then where are we going to sell it?"
Looking at the deserted street, Wang Dongfang asked anxiously, for fear that the things in his hand would not be sold.
"It's okay, the thing will definitely sell, but the price may be lower than what I said, so you have to be prepared."
Liu Guangqi was afraid that Wang Dongfang would hear that there was a gap in the buyer's offer for a while, so he gave the other party a preventive shot in advance.
"It's fine, as long as the thing can be sold."
The matter has come to this point, and Wang Dongfang can only accept his fate.
"Good shopkeeper Sun."
In fact, Liu Guangqi has already made a decision in his heart about who to sell things to, but he is afraid that Wang Dongfang will have a problem in his heart, Liu Guangqi still plans to take Wang Dongfang to another place first, ask the price, and have a reference price, and when he goes to Lan Yigui's side again, at least he will not let Wang Dongfang feel that he is in the same group as the other party.
"Don't call the shopkeeper Sun, there is no shopkeeper now, only the manager, just call me Manager Sun."
Hearing Liu Guangqi call himself the shopkeeper Sun, the middle-aged man in a blue cloth tunic hurriedly waved his hand.
"Dr. Liu hasn't been here for a long time, do you plan to buy it or sell it this time?"
Manager Sun looked at Liu Guangqi and asked with a smile.
"Sell, but if there's something to my liking, I'll buy it too."
"Oh, what are you going to sell?"
Manager Sun asked across the counter, from this point you can see the difference between the public-private partnership before and after, if it was before, the other party would definitely invite Liu Guangqi to the room to serve a cup of tea, but now you can only stand outside the counter. This store is not my own, so I naturally don't have that energy to do my job.
"A bronze knight, you give the palm of the eye, and estimate the price."
Liu Guangqi put the bronze jue on the counter.
"Forget it, who in our Liuli Factory doesn't know your name, you are the master apprentice of the blue shopkeeper and the Tong shopkeeper."
Although he said so, Manager Sun still took out a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully.
"It's fine, it's a good thing, how many are you going to buy?"
After looking up and down, inside and out, Shopkeeper Sun put things under his nose and sniffed them, and after making sure that there was no smell of the dung pit, Shopkeeper Sun put down his things.
"How much can you make, it's in the early part of the early spring, and it's in such good condition."
"I know what you said, but now that this store is already public, even if I want to give you a high price, you can't do it, what do you think of six hundred yuan."
"Seven hundred, isn't it too little."
When Wang Dongfang heard this price, his eyes suddenly darkened, which was too different from the price Liu Guangqi estimated for him. Almost half of the difference, Liu Guangqi opened his mouth to bargain with the other party when he saw this.
"It's a lot, you also know the market of our industry, day by day is not as good as day, why is this antique expensive, is because it is small, some people rush to buy, so its price will be so high, but now you see, there is not even a person on this street, that is, someone is also here to buy paper and ink, no one buys the price of this thing it naturally can't go up. This is still the current price, and if we wait another two years, maybe it will be even lower. ”
What Manager Sun said was actually what Liu Guangqi wanted Wang Dongfang to hear.
After Shopkeeper Sun finished speaking, Liu Guangqi looked at Wang Dongfang.
"You're tired, shopkeeper Sun, let's go to another place to ask, if it still doesn't work, do you think you can come back."
"No problem"
Shopkeeper Sun also saw that the real seller was Wang Dongfang next to Liu Guangqi. arched his hand and sent Liu Guangqi away.
After the shopkeeper Sun came out of this store, Liu Guangqi took Wang Dongfang to several other stores, all of which were public-private partnerships without exception. Although they are still working separately, it is expected that they will be merged in ten years.
The prices offered by these stores basically hovered around 700, the highest was 7200, and the lowest was even only 600. If it weren't for the columns that Liu Guangqi cited before, Wang Dongfang might have sold them, but when he thought of those hundreds of yuan, Wang Dongfang was a little unwilling.
"Let's go, I'll take you to my master's place to see, if he gives the other party the same price, then it can only be like this."
After visiting so many places, Liu Guangqi felt that the heat was about the same, so he took Wang Dongfang to Lan Yigui, and as soon as he entered the door, Liu Guangqi gave Lan Yigui a gesture of adding one hundred.
"Eight hundred."
Waiting until Lan Yigui saw the thing, he was so happy that he gave a drink price, and when he heard this price, Wang Dongfang's brows finally relaxed, although he did not meet his expectations, but it was much better than the previous stores.
"Master Lan, can you add more?"
Wang Dongfang pursed his lips and asked expectantly.
"This, I'm afraid it can't, now that this store has been jointly operated, the price I offer can be a little higher than that of my peers, but it can't be too high, if it's too high, I can't explain it to the public manager."
Lan Yigui leaned on the chair and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, if it weren't for Liu Guangqi's gesture of entering the door, he would have offered a price of seven hundred for this thing at most, which is basically the price of the top price.
"Actually, if you want to sell at a high price, you can't do it, but you have to take some risks."
Perhaps seeing Wang Dongfang's unwillingness, Lan Yigui gave Wang Dongfang an idea.
"You're not talking about pigeon market, are you?"
The pigeon market is also known as the ghost market and the black market, and the history of old BJ raising pigeons can be described as very long, with a history of hundreds of years.
After the Manchurian bannermen entered the customs, because the imperial court stipulated that the bannermen did not do anything to produce, those bannermen were eagles and birds all day long in order to kill time. What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom.
Gradually, the common people at the bottom have learned the same, and then learned, but the price of precious birds is often dozens of hundreds of taels, how can ordinary people have those spare money, so they can only find objects in ordinary birds, and soon the old BJ people found that the pigeon is a bird, through human nature, easy to train. So one passed ten, ten spread hundreds, and gradually they all raised.
Some people buy, some people sell, and gradually it developed into a kind of small market, specializing in selling bird things. In the past, these pigeon markets were open in the morning and ended at 10 o'clock, similar to the dog market in the future.
However, with the development of the planned economy and the unified purchase and marketing, the pigeon market and the flea market were abolished, and this kind of market turned to the bottom, usually between 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning. And because it is open in the early morning, there will be a small lamp on the stalls on both sides of the pigeon market, and it looks like a ghost fire from a distance, so it is also called a ghost market.
"That's right, it's pigeon market, why have you been there."
"I haven't been there, but I've heard of it."
Cai Quanwu was arrested for reselling grain in the pigeon market, so Liu Guangqi is no stranger to the pigeon market, but he has never been there, so he can't say that he knows about it.
"To tell you the truth, this thing can only be sold for seven hundred at most on our street, and I will give you eight hundred for the sake of Guangqi's face, but if you want to sell it for a high price, then you can go to the pigeon market and give it a try. At that point, it can sell for at least a thousand. However, correspondingly, the higher the profit, the greater the risk, and if you don't meet the police, this thing will be confiscated. It's up to you whether you sell it with me or go to the pigeon market. ”
Lan Yigui gestured a finger at Wang Dongfang. Then he told Wang Dongfang about the risks of the pigeon market.
Hearing Lan Yigui's story, Wang Dongfang's brows furrowed, and his heart began to fight fiercely.
"Master Lan, I bought you this thing for seven hundred yuan."
After thinking for a moment, Wang Dongfang made his own decision. Although the price of the pigeon market is indeed very attractive, it is too risky, and this is the hope of the whole family. If you meet the police, it's all over. Or honestly sell to Lan Yigui insurance points, after all, the channels are regular, and the money in hand is not hot. After Lan Yigui said this, he also understood why the price offered by Lan Yigui was so much higher than that of other places, so he directly waived the hundred yuan.
"No, eight hundred is eight hundred. I still have to give it to Guangqi's face. I heard Guangqi say that your hometown is Luoyang, if there are any good things to sell in the future, with Guangqi here, I promise to give you the most fair price. ”
Lan Yigui waved his hand and rejected Wang Dongfang's proposal, then took out a wad of banknotes from the drawer and handed it to Wang Dongfang.
"How embarrassing it is."
Wang Dongfang looked at the money in his hand and then looked at Liu Guangqi.
"Take it, if this is as before, my master will have to return you a profit."
Under Liu Guangqi's nod, Wang Dongfang accepted the money.
After the transaction was completed, Wang Dongfang suddenly became relaxed.
"You still have Qi Baishi's painting here."
Just when Liu Guangqi was about to take Wang Dongfang to the bank to deposit the money, he suddenly found a pair of Qi Baishi's shrimp on Lan Yigui's wall. This is a good thing, although the value is not high now, but in the future it is more expensive than some ancient paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a proper investment weapon.
"I just received it yesterday, why are you interested, if you are interested, just take it for fifteen yuan."
"Then you're welcome."
Seriously, this price is really not cheap, Huang Binhong's paintings are only one piece, Liu Guangqi asked for a total of eleven paintings, plus a pair of Zhang's two paintings is only more than 20 yuan,
But Liu Guangqi didn't talk nonsense, Liu Guangqi directly took out fifteen yuan and took the painting. Before leaving, Liu Guangqi also specially told him that if there was Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi's words and paintings directly told him, no matter how many there were, he wanted it.