Soon the shopkeeper Xu asked the guy to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote the contract, in fact, the content is very simple, that is, he bought 970 boxes of ceramics in Xu's Ceramics, what varieties are there,

Then agree on what time to pick up the goods tomorrow, and Liu Zheng needs to pay a deposit of 500 yuan.

If both parties breach the contract, they must compensate the other party for double the payment for the goods.

After signing the contract, one for each of them, the shopkeeper Xu followed Liu Zheng back to his residence and took away the deposit of 500 yuan in a carriage.

Liu Zheng looked at the shopkeeper Xu who left, and was very excited in his heart, this set of going to Tubo, he estimated that he could earn at least seventy or eighty thousand yuan.

The price of ceramics in Fanbang is more than ten times more expensive than that of Datang, and if it is high-quality porcelain, it may be more than 100 times.

Early the next morning, Liu Zheng came to the warehouse at Weishui Wharf with hundreds of carriages, and the shopkeeper Xu had been waiting for a long time.

"Shopkeeper Liu, the goods are here, open the box for you to see." After the shopkeeper Xu finished speaking, he came to the front of a box and opened it at will, and the plates of the box were mated with wheat straw, and then the shopkeeper Xu reached out and flipped it down, revealing that the bottom was also.

Look at the boxes one by one, but it is impossible to take them out one by one, and I can't finish checking them in those days.

Shopkeeper Liu just opened it to look at the top, and then touched the bottom with his hand, and let people carry it to the carriage.

But the more he went to the back, the less careful Liu Zheng became, and after three hundred boxes, he simply let a guy check it, and he chatted with the shopkeeper Xu.

Liu Zheng thinks that first, this shopkeeper Xu seems to be more sincere through contact. Second, he has a contract in his hand, and even if there is an omission, he can report to the official according to the contract.

Because it is a porcelain, it was handled with great care, and it took half a day to install it.

After the shopkeeper Xu warmly greeted Liu Zheng for a meal, Liu Zheng chose to say goodbye, he wanted to go back to pack his bags, and then prepare to leave for Tibet tomorrow.

"Shopkeeper, it's not good." Early the next morning, Liu Zheng packed his bags and was about to set off when one of his stewards ran in in a panic.

"What's the matter?" Liu Zheng asked

"Shopkeeper, just now there was news from the warehouse that a guy accidentally pulled a box down in the morning when he was checking whether the rope on the car was firm." The steward said

"How many were broken, why were you so careless." Before the steward finished speaking, Liu Zheng interjected, but Liu Zheng was not very distressed, after all, he had been in business for so many years, and he had experienced this kind of thing a lot.

"Shopkeeper, this is not the point, the point is that there are not only ceramic pieces in the box, but also inferior clay pottery at the bottom, and most of them should be."

"What?" Now he is not calm. How much is clay pottery, and there are only dozens of expensive ones.

Liu Zheng hurried to the warehouse. His warehouse was outside the city, and there was no way, and his house could not stop with hundreds of carriages.

When he arrived at the warehouse, he finally saw the box that had fallen, and some of the ceramics had been broken.

It's just that Liu Zheng's eyes have never left the mud-yellow utensils below, which are fired from clay pottery, and the color and style are inferior.

"Bang, bang." Liu Zheng slammed a clay vessel to the ground and shattered it. Said angrily:

"How can this be reasonable, how can there be such a reason, to deceive me, it is really bold, bold."

Liu Zheng carefully inspected each box of goods and found that only more than 300 boxes were two-layer good goods, and only the upper layer was good goods, and the others were all clay pottery.

After Liu Zheng finished the inspection, he felt that the world was spinning and he almost fell, so he could be supported by the steward next to him in time.

"Shopkeeper, it's okay," the steward helped Liu Zheng into the hall and sat down, and made Liu Zheng a bowl of herbal tea.

It will take a while for Liu Zheng to get better.

"It's so hateful, let's go find him." Liu Zheng felt really ashamed. It's the first time in so many years that I've been deceived by such a clumsy trick.

Liu Zheng took people to drive two truckloads of goods to Xujia ceramics,

"What about your shopkeeper Xu? Hurry up and let him out. Liu Zheng is angry. When I entered the store, I started yelling.

"Yo~~ Isn't this the shopkeeper Liu, didn't you say that you are going to leave today, why are you still in Chang'an?" Shopkeeper Xu asked with a smile.

"Shopkeeper Xu, the goods you sold me are different from what you said. You see, it's all clay pottery down there. Are you lying to me? Liu Zheng saw the shopkeeper Xu and stepped forward to theorize

"I'll take a look," said Shopkeeper Xu, who opened the box and looked at it carefully, "It's ceramic, is there something wrong?" ”

"Shopkeeper Xu, this is clay pottery, the lowest price clay pottery! I want good pottery. The price I give you is also based on the best pottery. Liu Zheng immediately roared when he heard what Shopkeeper Xu said.

"Shopkeeper Liu, what you want is pottery, and what I gave you is also pottery, and clay pottery is also pottery.

And we don't sell by the piece, we sell by the box. If you have porcelain, three-color, and white porcelain in the box, then you still make money.

Now the ceramics you buy, I give you ceramics too. If you ask me for porcelain, then I will not pay for death. ”

Shopkeeper Xu dug out the ear that was shaken with his fingers, and said lightly.

"You.... We have a contract. As he spoke, he took out the contract,

"So what, anyway, I'm giving you ceramics, and the money and goods are cleared. It's useless for you to look for me now. ”

Liu Zheng looked at this shopkeeper Xu, who looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and said in an atmospheric manner: "Okay! You wait, I'll go to the county government to tell you to go. ”

As he spoke, he walked out, but Shopkeeper Xu didn't chase after him, but just stretched his neck and shouted: "Shopkeeper Liu walks slowly." Remember to come to us next time you want to buy something. ”

Soon Liu Zheng sued the Xu family ceramics, and the shopkeeper Xu was summoned by the government officials to the county government Datang.

In just half a day, many people in Dongshi got the news and went to the county office. I want to see how this case, which involves nearly 10,000 yuan, develops

"The shopkeeper of the Xu family, the businessman Liu Zheng sued you for fraud and sold him fakes. You can plead guilty. "The newly appointed Wannian County Commander is a poor disciple arranged by Li Shimin. I used to be with the prince to assist.

"The Ming Mansion is above, the villain has not deceived the shopkeeper Liu, and please ask the Ming Mansion to investigate." Shopkeeper Xu was calm.

"You are talking nonsense, what we traded was obviously the best pottery, but you used clay pottery to be shoddy, and only gave me three percent of the genuine goods. You're not cheating on me, what is it? Liu Zheng heard the denial of the shopkeeper Xu and immediately came out to refute it.

"The shopkeeper of the Xu family, what Liu Zheng said is the truth." The prefectural magistrate asked.

"Back in the Ming Mansion, I talked to Shopkeeper Liu about the price of a whole box of ceramics, not what he said about high-quality ceramics.

Otherwise, it should be calculated by quantity. It's just that there are good and bad things in the whole box. "Shopkeeper Xu just insisted that he didn't talk about high-grade pottery.