Chapter 209 There is a cause and there is an effect
Although Mr. Zhou is also an authentic businessman. As the saying goes, a gentleman loves money and gets it well! I have worked with him for more than ten years and has always been very happy! Although his things are very expensive, there are no fake things, and they are all good things that cannot be seen on the market! Those things are mottled and smelly, and you can tell at a glance that they are just dug out of the soil! And he has a lot of things on this road, and often there are several large boxes. So I asked him, how do you sell the remaining things? It’s better to give them all to me, so that you can save you from the money again!
Mr. Zhou turned the two jade balls in his hand with a bang, and said with a smile: "The chickens don't pee and each has their own ideas. What do you want to do for these rags? I can still make a lot of money with him!" Although I know that he has several antique shops in Liulichang, although the things on the road are worth some money, they can never buy them at all! I was puzzled. Until one day shortly after, I was idle and wandered around Liulichang. I accidentally approached an antique shop called "Boguzhai". The antique shop is not big, and there are quite a lot of things in it! As soon as I stepped into the door, a young man came up to me. The young man bowed to me and said, "Sir, what do you want to see?"
I looked up and saw a bronze tripod from the Zhou Dynasty on the ancient shelf in the store. I was shocked! It was not because of the strangeness of this tripod, but it was too similar to the other Zhou tripod I bought from Mr. Zhou, as if it was cut out from a mold! My heart was so sank at that time, and I thought to myself, "It's broken, am I missing the eye? It's impossible? I've seen that Zhou tripod carefully, and it's impossible to make a mistake!" As I thought about this in my heart, I was perfunctory and said, "I'll take a look!"
The guy followed me and saw that I was staring at the Zhou Ding, he complimented me: "Sir, I have a good look. This tripod was purchased by our shopkeeper a few days ago, and no one else has taken it yet! Sir, I am so lucky!" I picked up the copper tripod and asked the guy, "Is this one in your store?"
The young man smiled and said, "Sir, I really asked. We Boguzhai, we have entered a lot of things with the tripod this time! If you are interested, you can come with me to take a look..." As he said that, the young man stretched out his hand and let me in! I put the tripod back on the Bogu rack. At this time, I had basically seen that the Zhou tripod in front of me was a fake job! The reason why I am so sure is because I hold a real thing that looks the same as it!
Compared with fake things, it is natural to be accurate, and there is no one running away! If I don’t have that real tripod at the bottom, I’m really confused by this big fake job! When I was secretly glad, I couldn’t help but feel suspicious. The real tripod has always been in my hands. How did this fake tripod come from? I was puzzled by the idea, so I followed the guy to the big cabinet next door!
Walking to the cabinet, the young man opened the cabinet door with a "squeak" and told me that the things inside were all the same as the cauldron just now. If you like it, pick up a few things to take them away! I bent down and looked at it carefully, and I was even more surprised! It turned out that the things in the cabinet were the things that I had seen from Mr. Zhou a few days ago! I sucked my teeth and asked the young man, "This is it."
Where did you get these...these things?"
The young man obviously had not been in this business for a long time. When he saw me asking this, he thought the cabinets and shelves were all fake jobs! His face changed and asked me, "Sir, what do you mean?" I saw that he was wrong, so I smiled and said, "Where is your shopkeeper?"
The young man said, "He is in the backyard, sir, please wait for a while, I'll call him now!"
I nodded and said, "Go and call the shopkeeper. I have a few words to ask him!"
The young man then opened the curtain and walked quickly to the backyard. Soon, he led a short and fat old man in his sixties and seventies to carry the curtain and walked in! As soon as the old man entered the door, he bowed to me and said, "This gentleman..." Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, I looked up and immediately recognized him. Isn't this fat old man the butler of Mr. Zhou's mansion Zhou Tuesday?
That Tuesday I was stunned when I saw me, laughed dryly, and said in surprise: "Isn't this Mr. Charlie? What wind blows you?"
I felt embarrassed when I saw that it was an old acquaintance. It was like the girl who was engaged in a flesh-and-skin business, who suddenly ran into an acquaintance! I smiled and said, "Isn't this Mr. Zhou? When did you become the shopkeeper of Boguzhai?"
On Tuesday, I saw that it was me and there was nothing to be a taboo, so I pulled me down and whispered to me that Boguzhai is the property of Mr. Zhou, and the shopkeeper was just a name! I asked him what happened to the things in the box? On Tuesday, I told me: "The things in the box were sent by the master a few days ago! Didn't the gentleman have passed all those things?"
I pretended to be nothing and deliberately changed the topic, but I knew what was going on in my heart! I have been working hard in this antique business for some years. I can't understand everything about the tricks in this business, but I know that I am almost certain! It is said that no one of the antique merchants is greedy for money. Every time I find a rare treasure, I wonder how to buy the treasure in my hand at a high price! After all, I finally came up with a detrimental idea! Think about it, if you only have one piece of money to buy, how can you quench your thirst? As the saying goes, it's hard to fill in desires. You know, this is easy to find shrimps, but if you find more babies, you can make a fortune. But since it's said that it's a treasure, how can you find it so easy to find? So there is only one thing left, and then make a fake job!
But it is not easy to make a fake job. There are so many things on the market that make people see the flaws. Only those things that have just been dug out from the ground and have not seen a stranger yet! These fake things are made like real things. As long as you don’t take out the real guy, no one can see the flaws! Although Charlie Cao knew that the real Zhou Ding he bought had copied the fake cauldron, what he didn’t know was how many fake cauldrons had been imitated this year? There is another thing he always can’t figure out. Since Mr. Zhou has copied the fake cauldron, why should he open the net to me? Is there anything else that is wrong with it?
I couldn't figure out the reason, so I could only ask Tuesday. I don't know if this Tuesday was really ignorant or deliberately pretending to be stupid with me. I spent the whole morning with him, and he was stunned.
I didn't even explain the truth to me! I looked at his wrinkled old face and really wanted to spit on his face!
This question did not bother me for too long. One day, Tuesday came to invite me with a big red post, saying that his master had just married a concubine and asked me to go to the mansion to have a drink! I think that Mr. Zhou is almost seventy years old and has such a colorful intestine. He is really strong! He was about to refuse, but he saw that he would not leave that Tuesday, so I asked him, "Butler Zhou, what else do you have?"
Butler Zhou smiled and said, "Mr. Charlie, my master said, I must invite you to come here today!" I shrugged my shoulders, spread my hands and said, "Did you see that I have something to do? I promise you that if I have time, I will definitely rush there!"
Butler Zhou nodded, but still stood there. I couldn't help but ask him strangely, "Why haven't you left yet?"
Butler Zhou bowed and said, "I'll finish the work!" I couldn't help but be surprised. I didn't expect that Tuesday would actually do this with me! He left me helpless, so I had to give up the work at hand for the time being and follow him to the Zhou Mansion!
The outside of Zhou’s mansion was quiet, without even a trace of festive atmosphere. I couldn’t help but feel strange and asked Zhou Tuesday what happened? Isn’t your master married? Why is it so deserted?" Zhou’s eyes were so irritated, and asked me to enter the mansion quickly and ask Mr. Zhou himself! So I followed Zhou Tuesday and walked to the flower hall in the backyard!
Two large Kangxi-shaped flower-shaped tanks were placed at the entrance of the flower hall, and several goldfish with lion-headed heads were raised in the tank. The goldfish swam leisurely in the water tank, occasionally pouting and spitting out a few bubbles! The walls of the tank were covered with moss, and even the water in the tank was dyed green! Mr. Zhou held a girl with one hand and grabbed a grass stick as soon as he walked, teasing the fish in the water. When he saw me in, he threw away the grass stick and greeted the door and said, "Brother Charlie, you have finally come, but it has made me wait so hard!"
I joked, "Mr. Zhou, I heard that you have married a new concubine? Are you always with your new wife? What are you waiting for me to do?"
Mr. Zhou laughed and said, "Do you think I want to see you? The situation is really urgent, I have to ask your brother for help!"
So I asked him what happened? Mr. Zhou took my hand and said, "We will mention these auspicious things later! I'll introduce them to you..." Mr. Zhou pointed to the girl beside him and said, "This is my newly married concubine. How can it still catch your brother's eye!"
I glanced at the girl and saw that she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she looked white and clean. When she saw me looking at her, she couldn't help but blush her cheeks and lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief! When I saw her shy, I didn't dare to look at her carefully. I quickly blew up with Mr. Zhou and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Zhou, congratulations to Mr. Zhou, I must disturb your wedding wine!"
Mr. Zhou stroked his beard and said proudly: "OK, yes! Brother Charlie, let's go into the house! I have something to discuss with you!"
Chapter completed!