"Yes! Come on, let's go take a look."

"Haha, I have a feeling that good things will come out of that warehouse."

Karen looked at Chen Rui with a smile and said, in her opinion, this is a guy with incredible luck.

There's always something good to buy!

The two came to the warehouse that Chen Rui originally bought for 30 dollars.

As soon as I opened it, a smell hit my face.

"pua!~What is in this warehouse? Is something dead in here?"

Karen covered her mouth and nose and cursed.

At this time, Chen Rui took out a mask from his pocket.

Although the epidemic in the United States has not been so severe recently, he has developed the habit of carrying a mask with him.

Karen was given one, and the two of them put on masks, but were in no hurry to enter the warehouse.

In fact, this warehouse is very simple, with just a few cardboard boxes, which can be seen at a glance when standing at the door.

It is precisely because there are so few things in this warehouse that no one was willing to bid when the auction was first started.

Chen Rui asked Karen for another pair of gloves and waited until the smell was almost gone before walking into the warehouse.

Karen was still standing at the door, watching him rummaging through the boxes inside.

Soon, Chen Rui moved a cardboard box to the door.

"I know why this warehouse smells so bad."

As he walked in, the stench became stronger and stronger, and Karen also knew that the stench came from this cardboard box.

"Why does it stink so much?"

Although her eyes were stung by the stink, she couldn't help but be curious and asked.

"It's because there are leaky canned herrings in here..."

Chen Rui placed the cardboard box on the ground, peeled off the clothes on it, and revealed several boxes of canned herrings underneath.

I don’t know whether it was intentional by the original owner of the warehouse or an accident, but two cans just happened to leak.

The soup in the can spilled out, which became the source of the stinky smell in the warehouse.

"Move quickly!"

Karen pinched her nose and waved her hand to Chen Rui.

Chen Rui ran with the box in his arms, arrived outside the warehouse, and threw it into a nearby trash can.

Back at the warehouse, Karen was still standing at the door of the warehouse, not daring to go in.

Chen Rui took out a bottle of air freshener that he had just sold at a convenience store outside and sprayed it into the warehouse.

The smell in the warehouse now smells much better.

The two of them then walked into the warehouse.

Chen Rui pretended to look through a few cardboard boxes. These cardboard boxes were filled with second-hand clothes and sundries.

Nothing of value.

"Ha!~ Ricky, I think you have almost used up your good luck today, wait a minute..."

Karen originally wanted to make a joke with Chen Rui.

But when she saw Chen Rui pull out a light yellow teddy bear from the last cardboard box, she suddenly shouted.

Chen Rui pretended to be confused and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

In fact, he had known for a long time that this box was the key to the warehouse.

Because as early as during the auction, he could tell that the box exuded the aura of jewels.

Originally, he thought that the box would contain some jewelry, ornaments and the like.

But when he opened the box and saw the teddy bear in this box, he couldn't help but feel disappointed.

But those jewels are exactly what these teddy bears exude.

Just now he had some doubts, could these teddy bears be antiques?

But when he saw, Karen carefully took the teddy bear, held it in her hand, and inspected it carefully.

Only then did he realize that these teddy bears were really treasures!

Karen looked carefully at the teddy bear in her hand. The fur of this teddy bear was light yellow.

He also wore a green and yellow plaid scarf around his neck, and two tulips on his ears.

On the bottom of one of the feet, besides the embroidery of laurel flowers, there are also the words 20/50!

Karen turned the little bear over. There was a playing card hanging on the back of the bear's neck.

Seeing this solitaire card, Karen breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Rui looked at Karen curiously and asked.

Karen pointed to the playing card: "This is its birth certificate. With it, this little bear has value."

"This is made in Hermann, Germany, and it's called the Messenger of Spring! It's a global limited edition of fifty pieces in total, and this is the twentieth."

Karen explained the origin of the bear to Chen Rui.

Only then did Chen Rui understand what the 20/50 he saw on the soles of the little bear's feet meant.

"Teddy bear? Isn't this thing made in America? Why is it also available in Germany?"

Chen Rui didn't know much about teddy bear toys. He only knew that this thing seemed to have originated in the United States.

Karen saw that he really didn't understand the origin of the teddy bear, so she explained it to him with a smile.

"The origin of this teddy bear is in the United States."

"President Theodore Roosevelt hunting in Mississippi in 1902."

"A group of the president's men, along with hunting dogs, cornered the bear."

"At that time, the president's men controlled the bear and then waited for the president to complete the final blow."

"But the president saw that the bear was badly bruised and thought it was unsportsmanlike to take action at this time."

"He just refused to take action and let his men deal with the bear."

"As a result, the incident was photographed by reporters at the time, and they wrote a press release praising the president for his kindness and generosity..."

After hearing Karen's explanation, Chen Rui couldn't help but be stunned.

Let me go, who on earth told me that Americans are not sociable and don't like to flatter others?

Look, dog-leg culture was already prevalent more than a hundred years ago!

I remember that before I came to the United States, I really believed these nonsense.

But after staying for a long time, you will realize that the world is the same!

"Later, Mr. and Mrs. Michim, who owned a grocery store, saw the photo in the newspaper."

"I had an idea and designed and made a little bear."

“President Roosevelt’s nickname was Teddy, so this bear was named, Teddy’s bea

!”

"That's the origin of the teddy bear."

Only then did Chen Rui realize: "It turns out that this is where the teddy bear came from!"

"That's right!"

Karen smiled and nodded, then continued.

"But it was the Germans who really promoted the teddy bear and made it a household name."

Chen Rui looked puzzled: "Why?"

"Because the handicrafts of Americans at that time were relatively rough, the level of toy production was not high."

"So the bears made at that time were very ugly and completely different from the teddy bears we have today."

"Although the Mitchums made their teddy bear, not many Americans were willing to pay for it."

"In 1903, there was a designer from the Stafford family in Germany."

"After watching bears in the zoo for a long time, I made a toy bear."

"And later, I took the bear to the Leipzig Toy Fair."

"When an American businessman saw this bear, he liked it very much. He bought 3,000 little bears in one go and introduced them to the United States for sale."

"And he put the teddy bear's name on the little bear's head."

"And this little bear is very popular among American people because of its cute and cute appearance."
Chapter completed!