"Many precious cultural relics collected by the trust store have been given to museums, and a small number of them have been collected by individuals. Therefore, there are no good items in the warehouse." Seeing Zhang Junping's extraordinary bearing and generous spending, the middle-aged clerk was very patient.
explained to him.
"It doesn't matter, just take a look. As I said, it's not whether the things I buy are precious or not, the key is the good eye contact." Zhang Junping took out a cigarette, handed one to the middle-aged clerk, and said with a smile.
"Your Huazi is extraordinary!" The middle-aged clerk took the Huazi, lit it and took a sip, and then said with a smile: "I thought you had an extraordinary bearing, but I didn't expect you to be a noble man!"
"Haha, I'm just an ordinary craftsman. I can do some carpentry and can write a few words, but I don't dare to think of myself as a noble person."
"I remembered what you said. I looked familiar to you before, but I just couldn't remember where I had seen him before.
You are Master Zhang Junping!" the middle-aged clerk said suddenly as he patted his forehead.
"You're welcome! I'm just a craftsman, but I can't be called a master!" Zhang Junping said modestly.
"You are so humble. You are a famous young art master in the country.
Your works are very popular in Hong Kong..."
After being polite, Zhang Junping followed the middle-aged clerk to the backyard warehouse and walked around. It was not that there were no good items.
At least there are a lot of ancient furniture made by Su from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the wood is all high-end wood.
If it were in BJ, Zhang Junping would definitely pocket it all without saying a word.
Unfortunately, this is Suzhou thousands of miles away. It would be too troublesome to buy these furniture and transport them back.
Just when Zhang Junping was about to buy the red star-branded rice paper in the warehouse for a dozen dollars and leave, he suddenly saw a pile of furniture parts stacked in a corner of the warehouse.
The trust store is not a material recycling company and cannot collect broken furniture.
Therefore, Zhang Junping walked over to take a look out of curiosity and found that these furniture parts should be from the same set of furniture.
Because both the furniture material and the production process are the same.
"Comrade, what's your surname? I don't know what to call you?" Zhang Junping turned to look at the middle-aged clerk who had been accompanying him.
"I don't dare, otherwise my surname is Zhen! You are the fourth eldest child in the family, so just call me Zhen Laosi!"
"I'd better call you Brother Zhen!" Zhang Junping asked with a smile: "Brother Zhen, what's going on with these furniture parts? I think these furniture parts should be from the same piece of furniture, and there is no damage. Why are they so different?"
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"You said this!
It’s a long story, but it’s a bed of great workmanship.
It has been more than ten years since this Qiangong Babu bed was put up.
It is the dowry of the eldest lady of the Wang family in Suzhou.
Before liberation, the Wang family was the richest man in Suzhou, and was known as the King of the City. Half of Suzhou City belonged to the Wang family.
The eldest daughter of the Wang family married the Shen family of Wu County. It is said that the Shen family is the descendant of Shen Wansan.
This is just a rumor and there is no evidence.
However, the Shen family was also very impressive back then, with businesses all over the country and even doing business with foreigners.
In the 1960s, descendants of the Shen family sold this Qiangong Babu bed to a trust store.
Because the Qiangong Babu bed is too big to transport, we thought of disassembling the Qiangong Babu bed and transporting it back, and then reassembling it.
I don't know what went wrong. It was easy to disassemble it, but it couldn't be assembled when it was assembled.
Finally, we invited a master from the Suzhou Hardwood Furniture Factory to help assemble it, and it was successfully assembled. However, because of some things, our old store manager had a conflict with the other party.
The master of the hardwood furniture factory directly disassembled the Qiangong Babu bed again, and warned that anyone who dared to help us assemble the Qiangong Babu bed would offend him.
In the end, these furniture parts were piled here for more than ten years..."
Gu Xuan
Although the story of Zhen Laosi is not very detailed, many things are not mentioned in it, such as why the conflict occurred.
However, these are not what Zhang Junping cares about. He only cares about whether the Qiangong Babu bed will be sold.
Others were afraid of offending the old carpenter Su Zuo, but he was not afraid.
Hainan Huanghuali's Qiangbub bed is rare to find.
If you encounter it, you can't miss it.
Zhang Junping also expressed his understanding that Qiangong Babu beds could not be disassembled and assembled and could only be scattered and stacked there for more than ten years.
As the name Qiangong Babu Bed implies, just making this bed requires a thousand processes.
Every process and every furniture component requires skilled carpenters to make.
It is difficult to make and not easy to assemble. Inexperienced carpenters really can't assemble it.
"Brother Zhen, are you selling this Qiangong Babu bed?"
"Sell it! But now they are all parts and components. Are you sure you want to buy it?"
"OK! I want to transport it to bj. It has to be disassembled for transportation.
Now they are all parts and components, which saves trouble." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
Qiangongbabu bed assembly is hard to accommodate others, but not him.
"Then wait a minute, I'll ask our leader for instructions." Zhen Laosi didn't dare to make the decision and sell it directly.
"By the way, if they are sold, I will also want these furniture!" Zhang Junping pointed to other furniture piled in the warehouse.
Originally, Zhang Junping didn't plan to buy it because transportation was inconvenient.
Now, whether one sheep is being herded or a group of sheep are being herded, it doesn't matter, we can just transport them back together.
Suzhou furniture is still very valuable for reference. Its workmanship is exquisite, especially in carvings. It has advantages that Jingzhou furniture and Guangzhou furniture cannot match.
"Wait a moment!" Zhen Laosi said politely and turned to report.
Zhen Laosi also didn't expect that he just saw that the other party had extraordinary bearing and happened to be free, so he patiently received him. Unexpectedly, he met a big customer.
I want all the old furniture, and the deal should cost at least six figures.
Although there is no sales commission in this era, if the turnover is high, you can get a lot more bonuses.
Soon, Zhen Laosi returned to the warehouse with a middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man is a typical southerner, not tall, only less than 1.6 meters tall, thin, wearing a pair of glasses, and looks very shrewd.
"Welcome, welcome! Welcome Master Zhang to our trust store!" The short, thin and shrewd middle-aged man from afar stretched out his hands to Zhang Junping and said enthusiastically.
This sentence also shows the attitude of a shrewd middle-aged man. People are targeting his identity as a young artist rather than the amount of business he brings.
"This is the manager of our Wuxian Trust Store, Manager Mei Jianqiangmei." Zhen Laosi introduced from the side.
"Hello, Manager Mei!" Zhang Junping stretched out his hands to hold Mei Jianqiang's hands.
After some courtesy, Zhang Junping proudly bought all the old furniture in the trust store.
Of course, this does not include furniture produced after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
It’s not that the furniture made after the founding of the People’s Republic of China is not good, it’s just that the furniture made after the founding of the People’s Republic of China was limited by materials and had changes in craftsmanship, so most of it has no collection value.