Chapter 18 No rules
PS: There will be several antique leakage plots in this book, and there is not much space, so I ask for another collection and recommendation.
This dragon's head-shaped hook head with hook is decorated with three animal heads on the front of the hook body, inlaid with three elaborate glazed pieces. The whole body with hook is embossed, with a strong three-dimensional sense, its casting precision workmanship, inlay technology is superb, very rare.
After some observation, Cheng Ming was basically sure that it was a glass belt hook from the Warring States Period, although it looked inconspicuous, but the price was actually quite expensive, and he estimated that it could be worth seventy or eighty thousand.
However, the value of this thing is not low, but it is only placed in a corner of the stall, and it is placed together with some miscellaneous things, which is obviously missed by the stall owner, which brings Cheng Ming an opportunity.
Because he suffered a loss when he asked the price before, now Cheng Ming has also learned well, and he did not immediately ask the price of this hook, but first carefully looked at a jade horse pendant on the other side, and there was a little joy in his eyes from time to time during the period.
"Boss, how much does this hook cost?" consciously made sufficient preparations, Cheng Ming began to ask the stall owner for a price.
"Your five hundred. The stall owner replied with a smile.
Cheng Ming was overjoyed, and pretended to be angry on the surface and said: "What! Five hundred yuan, just such a hook actually costs 500 yuan? Do you look at this appearance, it looks like it is worth 500 yuan? Besides, if it is really worth 500 yuan, you put it in this pile of garbage, and I am really a mallet?"
The stall owner said with a smile on his face: "It seems that the boss is also knowledgeable, I think you didn't like this hook, but you fell in love with this jade horse pendant, right?"
Cheng Ming heard the stall owner say this, and his heart was happy, he really wanted to fall asleep and came to the pillow, he didn't have much experience in this area, and he didn't know what to say.
Happy in his heart, Cheng Ming pretended to blush slightly, then picked up the jade horse pendant, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "How much is this pendant?"
"One thousand eight. The stall owner held out his finger and gestured.
"One thousand eight, this price is too expensive, you look at the carving and the quality, how is it worth so much money? I will give you five hundred at most." ”
"Although this carving is not top-notch, it is not bad, and this jade material is good, it is the best Khotanese jade, and there are two or three hundred years old, one thousand eight is really not much. Otherwise, I'll add this hook, okay?"
Cheng Ming heard that there was such a good thing as buying sesame seeds and giving watermelon, and he was pleasantly surprised, and when he was about to agree immediately, he thought of the previous lesson, so he pretended to hesitate.
"Boss, these two things are one thousand eight, I want them!"
At this time, a voice suddenly appeared behind Cheng Ming, which made him stunned, even if he had not been in contact with the antique industry before, but with the current Internet and TV are so developed, he also knows that the owner of the sound has committed the taboo of the antique industry.
What's more, the other party is completely stealing food by doing this, which made Cheng Ming angry enough, and when he looked back, the owner of the voice turned out to be a middle-aged man who was nearly fifty years old, bald, bull's eyes, and rosacea.
"I said that you are so old, why don't you understand the rules at all?" Cheng Ming said angrily.
The middle-aged man didn't look embarrassed, and said, "What are the rules, I just know that you haven't bought it yet, and I have the right to bid." Hehe, if you don't do it, I'll give you a hundred dollars, which is a hardship fee, what do you think?"
"Hey, I'll give two thousand!" Cheng Ming sneered and gave his answer directly.
"Okay, I'll give you two thousand three. ”
"Two Thousand and a Half ......"
In this way, the two of them were completely raised to the bar, and the price was quoted at three thousand six after a while.
At this time, Cheng Ming frowned, he didn't plan to give up in his heart, but if he didn't buy a mobile phone today, it would be impossible for him to bring a lot of cash, even so, he only brought four thousand.
"Made, four thousand, if you are higher than four thousand, I don't want it!"
After thinking about it, Cheng Ming still offered a price of 4,000, not to mention that he only has so much money now, with the quality of these two things, 4,000 yuan can't be higher, otherwise he is worried that it will arouse the suspicion of the stall owner.
"You said, I have an extra dollar. ”
The middle-aged man laughed, his smug look was extremely hateful in Cheng Ming's eyes, and this behavior was completely provoking him, how could he bear it?
Just as Cheng Ming was about to offer the price again, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought of a possibility, this could not be a game between the stall owner and this middle-aged man, right? The more he thought about it, the more likely it became, so he looked at them suspiciously.
The confrontation between Cheng Ming and the middle-aged man made the stall owner happy, but Cheng Ming's eyes immediately made him react, and now this situation is indeed very much like he and the middle-aged man are "burying mines" for Cheng Ming, although he has done this kind of thing before, but he doesn't want people to put on his head.
So, the stall owner looked at the middle-aged man and asked him to pay immediately if he wanted it.
"Yes, why not!"
The middle-aged man proudly touched his pocket, and then the whole person was stunned: "Lao Zhang, I don't have enough money, if you don't wait for me for a while, I'll go and withdraw the money immediately." ”
The stall owner frowned when he heard this: "Brother Qiang, it's not like you don't know that I have always paid with one hand and delivered with one hand here, and there have never been exceptions." ”
"Be accommodating, don't take it as an example!" the middle-aged man smiled and arched his hand, and then left quickly without waiting for the stall owner to agree.
In Cheng Ming's eyes, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a scam, but other scams would lose money, but this scam would allow him to make money.
But at this time, Cheng Ming's stubborn temper was committed, isn't it tens of thousands of yuan, with his current means, even if his luck is bad, it won't take long to earn it, and he won't be able to enter this game, and he wants to make this stall owner's bamboo basket empty.
Thinking so, Cheng Ming stood up and prepared to leave.
At this time, the stall owner suddenly spoke: "This boss, I will sell you this thing, do you want it?"
"Sell it to me?4,000?" Cheng Ming sneered, and said in his heart: "I know it's urgent, I don't want you to get your wish!"
I saw the stall owner smile bitterly: "I know what you think, and I admit that I am not a moral gentleman, but I really didn't mean to do this today." ”
"In that case, why are you selling me something?" Cheng Ming obviously didn't believe the stall owner's words.
The stall owner replied: "Let me tell you the truth, the person just now is also a well-known pit lover in the antique market, something like today, has happened a few times before, and he will not return it nine times out of ten, do you think I dare to do business with this kind of person?"
Cheng Ming was still a little suspicious: "Really?"
The stall owner swore an oath: "If you don't believe me, you can go around and ask if it's like what I said." ”
Cheng Ming thought for a while: "I can buy things, but I definitely can't get four thousand." ”
"Three thousand five, if he comes back, I'll lose it. ”
"It's too expensive, I'll pay a thousand eight at most. ”
"Three thousand!"
"Two Thousand ......"
The two sides bargained for a while, and finally closed for two thousand and a half.
After the transaction was completed, Cheng Ming took the things and left, he was going to find a place to sell the hook. After taking a few steps, he reacted again: "Hey, it won't be his way again, right?"
Thinking about it this way, Cheng Ming felt that it was really very likely to be the case, at least he didn't pay back the price, and said seven hundred more than before: "Hey, I'm still too tender, I have to learn today's lesson in the future, fortunately, I earned it, otherwise I will die of depression!"
After sorting out today's gains and losses, Cheng Ming found a larger antique shop and prepared to sell the hook, which went smoothly this time, and the hook was finally sold for 50,000 yuan.
A friend wants to ask, isn't the hook worth 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, why is it only sold for so little?
This is actually normal, if Cheng Ming buys it in an antique shop, it will indeed cost seventy or eighty thousand, but the key is that he is a seller now, and he is in a hurry to sell, it is definitely impossible to have as much as seventy or eighty thousand, and this is the result of Cheng Ming's arguments, otherwise he would not even think about fifty thousand.
............
Just as Cheng Ming was selling the belt hook, the middle-aged man came to the stall with the money excitedly.
"Old Fan, I have brought the money, give me something quickly!"
"Do you really want those two things?" the stall owner looked surprised, he didn't expect that the middle-aged man would really come back.
"Isn't this nonsense?"
The middle-aged man noticed the stall owner's expression, reacted, and said hurriedly: "You won't sell things, will you?"
"Just sold to that lad. The stall owner nodded distressedly.
The middle-aged man said angrily: "Hey! I said, why did you sell your things?
"Who are you scolding?" The stall owner suddenly became angry when he heard the other party scolding him, and said angrily: "Who told you not to bring enough money, and besides, you have been doing things inauthenticly, do you want to blame me?"
The stall owner's words made the middle-aged man unable to refute, and he also knew that he had indeed done a lot of things that he had done before and later regretted not wanting to, but some people "would rather be responsible for the world than the world", it doesn't matter if he does something sorry for others, but if someone else does something sorry for himself, then it will never work.
What's more, if he was not wrong about that thing, it could at least make him millions of dollars, but now that the boiled duck is flying, how can he give up?
"Fan Dahai, I see that you don't want to mix here, you wait for me!"
The middle-aged man put down a cruel sentence and left in a hurry, he had to find Cheng Ming as soon as possible and get the thing back.
"I'm afraid of you!"
The stall owner also yelled at the middle-aged man without admitting defeat, but immediately after, he began to pack up his things and prepare to run away: "Don't you just rely on your son to follow a big man? When my son comes out of the army, I will be afraid of you? But what is it that I missed......