Zhu Huai put the cigarette pouch on the stall, took the shabby lunch box, and pulled the simple meal inside.
Jin Chan was quite pretty, but even though she was dressed in a very tacky way, Director Liu took a second look. That child was really Zhu Huai's child. He looked about four or five years old and was hiding timidly behind Jin Chan.
Dare not speak.
Director Liu judged that this should be a typical combination of old husband and young wife. Some places in the mountains are very poor, but the women are born tender and tender. Many people who have been running outside for half their lives will take a sum of money to find a wife in the mountains. In front of them.
This small family must be of this type. Judging from the timidity of the children, maybe this old man is a pretty widow who was abducted while going into the mountains to collect cultural relics.
Director Liu sighed in his heart. It was not easy for people in the mountains to make money. Most of them had to work in the coal mines. If something happened to the coal mines, the most pitiful people would be these widows. Their parents and brothers would get all the money. Women in the mountains had nothing to do with it.
How much status.
With this in mind, Director Liu picked up his cigarette bag.
He really has good eyesight. The jade cigarette holder Zhu Huai threw out was of good quality and worth at least ten thousand yuan. If he found the right customer, he could easily earn several thousand from it.
"Look at how pitiful the child is, let's do this. I'll pay 5,000 yuan." Director Liu started to shout out the price. He thought that it wasn't because the other party didn't want to sell, but because he hadn't found a suitable buyer.
Zhu Huai put down his lunch box and took the dry cigarette with his hands: "The day before yesterday, someone paid 50,000 yuan. It's not a matter of price. This is an ancestral thing. No matter how much the price is, it will not be sold and there is no negotiation. If you don't see it,
Please give me a few steps to look at the stuff on the stall. I still need to eat."
"Fifty thousand?! That's a lot of money. If it's an jade ring or pendant, fifty thousand is not expensive. The jade cigarette holder is already scorched by smoke. It's not certain whether the water color can be restored. Who can pay such a price?
crazy for money?"
"If you don't want to sell it, you won't sell it. I see you are a gentle man, so don't delay my meal." Zhu Huai finished eating and stuffed the pipe into his arms. Jin Chan took the lunch box, picked up the child and left.
Before leaving, the child held the silver coin in his hand. Zhu Huai snatched it from his hand and threw it in a conspicuous place.
What follows is a long tug-of-war process. Director Liu is very patient, and Zhu Huai is even more patient. The two of them kept talking to each other for two hours. In the end, Director Liu squatted next to Zhu Huai, and the two of them
Like a pair of good guys, Director Liu often helps greet customers. It's like sticking a plaster on them, showing that they won't retreat until the goal is achieved.
Using this trick, Director Liu has bought some nice gadgets at low prices many times. But it seemed to have failed today. Until the stall was about to close, the jade cigarette pouch was never taken out again. A pack in Director Liu’s pocket
However, Hongta Mountain was drained by two people.
Director Liu finally got angry, pointed at Zhu Huai and said: "I want everything in your stall, just give me the tobacco pouch. Eight thousand is already not low, and no one can give you more even if you wait till the end of time."
The price." He had looked at the silver coin many times, and his heart was shaking, but he could barely keep calm. He didn't stay up all afternoon just for the jade cigarette holder.
"Is this true?"
"I, Lao Liu, keep my word."
"As long as you have the ability to accept all these things, I will give you the tobacco pouch." Zhu Huai became more energetic, but Director Liu became more cautious. Thinking of the rare Taiping silver coins, he gritted his teeth and said, "Just tell me the price."
Zhu Huai stretched out five fingers, and Director Liu smiled and said: "Fifty thousand, are you crazy? These rags are worth at most two thousand."
A lot of stalls in the market have been closed. Several colleagues gathered around, and some who knew Director Liu started to cheer: "Everyone knows Old Liu's vision, and no one can try to steal his money."
Another one followed: "That's right, after all these years of living here, I've never seen that guy make any money from Lao Liu."
"Five hundred thousand." Zhu Huai slowly spit out three words, took back his fingers, took out the dry cigarette and lit it.
These three words made the surrounding area quiet. Everyone looked carefully at the items on the stall, trying to find out which treasure could be worth half a million.
Curator Liu knew that he had met an old player, so he didn't pick up the Taiping silver coin first. If there was anything worth more than half a million yuan, it was the only one.
The old guy came here not to sell cigarette holders, but to sell this silver coin. To be careful, he took out a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully against the sunset. Slowly, his hands trembled and his eyesightened.
"Taiping silver coin." knowledgeable people called out. Like Director Liu, they were shocked by this Taiping silver coin in good condition.
According to the custom of cultural relic shops, such things rarely appear in such places. The so-called wealth is not leaked, and today's society is so chaotic. When the seller is knowledgeable, for the sake of safety, all transactions are private.
"Shall we talk somewhere else?" Director Liu calmed down. He really wanted to accept this Taiping silver coin; but the price would definitely not be 500,000. The other party was asking for a high price, and he could not bargain in public.
Half an hour later, the two took two taxis and arrived at a village in the city not far from the antique city, where Zhu Huai and Jin Chan took a temporary residence.
Once the fish takes the bait, the rest becomes much simpler.
Curator Liu saw the simple life of Zhu Huai's family of three and the gadgets placed everywhere in the house, and he completely believed that this old man was a small cultural relic dealer who went to the ravines to search for caves.
After four hours of pestering, Director Liu finally bought the Taiping silver coin and the jade cigarette holder for 120,000 yuan; he was in his fifties after all. The acquisition war started at noon and ended at one o'clock in the middle of the night.
, the two agreed to trade here before noon tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Director Liu forced his son to accompany him to withdraw 120,000 yuan in cash from the bank, and arrived at Zhu Huai's residence before ten o'clock; he was afraid that the business would disappear. During this period, the value of coins continued to appreciate, and Liu
The curator has already thought about how to operate it. As long as this silver coin is measured in a professional magazine, he can make at least 50,000 yuan by changing hands.
When Director Liu saw Zhu Huai take three mouthfuls, he completely let go of what he had been holding on to. He carefully checked the Taiping silver coins and the jade cigarette holder, and felt that there was nothing wrong with them, so he quickly took out the money.
Zhu Huai asked Jin Chan to watch outside the door. He counted all the 120,000 yuan in a pile before a wry smile appeared on his face. He reluctantly handed over the Taiping silver coins and the jade cigarette holder: "This business is not profitable.
When I get the money, I wouldn’t be willing to part with it if it weren’t for the fact that my children are waiting for money to see a doctor.”
"Yes, yes, I understand; it's not easy to find a good thing in our line of work. It's really more intimate than a child." Director Liu smiled and patted Zhu Huai's shoulder, and asked casually: "What's wrong with the child?"
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"I don't understand what kind of leukemia it is. The hospital said it costs 100,000 yuan. Alas! If I didn't agree to see the child, she wouldn't have followed me. If I had known that the child had this disease..." Zhu Huai shook his head and sighed.
The curator sent him away.
After getting the treasure he wanted, Director Liu didn't go out for a day. He played with the Taiping silver coin repeatedly in his study. In the evening, he drank a few glasses of wine and recalled the process of getting this treasure. Suddenly he felt that there was something in the words of this old man.
There should be some other treasures!
So, early the next morning, Director Liu rushed to Zhu Huai's residence again; but the landlord said that they had moved out and were going to the hospital for medical treatment.
For the next whole day, Director Liu visited all the hospitals in Taiyuan. It was not until the evening of the third day that he saw Zhu Huai in the inpatient department of the People's Hospital. He was sitting at the end of the corridor, Jin Chan lowered his head.
Standing more than ten meters away.
"The doctors here said they couldn't cure it, so they sent me to Beijing and asked for a bone marrow transplant. Aren't they trying to cheat me? If they couldn't cure it, they charged a lot of money. It cost more than 30,000 yuan in just two days. The medicine for my child is more expensive than gold."
It is said that it will cost one million yuan to go to Beijing. If it is not cured, it will not be cured, and the robbery will not be so severe."
From a distance, Director Liu heard the old man shouting loudly, but the silent widow would only lower her head and cry.
Director Liu quickly stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Huai, so that he could talk to him and drag him to the tavern outside the hospital. After half a bottle of wine, the relationship between the two became like close friends, and Director Liu knew what happened.
the whole story.
It was similar to what he had judged. The old man ran away to make a living when he was young, and returned to his hometown to take care of himself when he was old. The woman was not a widow, she lived in a neighboring village. The man used to work as a transporter, but then he was disabled in a car accident and could only lie in bed waiting to die.
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One theory is that the house leaked and it rained continuously, and their only child was also sick. The rest of the situation was unclear as Zhu Huai pretended to drink too much. However, with Director Liu's shrewdness, he could probably guess that someone took advantage of the situation or took advantage of it.
A romantic story. Now, the carefree old bachelor probably didn’t expect that his child’s illness would cost so much money, and he regretted it.
In the following time, Director Liu used his strengths to give the old bachelor an ideological education on life and money, which made the old bachelor burst into tears.
"Brother, you are absolutely right. What's the use of money? We can't take it with us in life or death. Children are our hope. As long as we treat our children well, women will be considerate to us." After finishing a bottle of wine,
The old bachelor took Director Liu's hand and took out a bag of tips from his waist: "I collected this from Shandong. Someone offered me five million and I didn't even take any action. I know that my old brother is a good person, so please give it to me."
Find a new home, our family will not forget the kindness of my old brother."
Director Liu is already used to the old bachelor's bidding method. Since he dares to shout out five million, this thing must be worth at least one million, right?
However, after opening the bag, Director Liu only saw an unspectacular jade seal. Looking at the material, a jade seal of this size would cost more than 100,000 yuan even for top-grade plum blossom jade. If it were Tian Huang stone, it might still be possible.
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Director Liu was afraid of showing his timidity in front of experts again, so he carefully looked at the jade seal, and finally concluded that the old bachelor had drunk too much, and the value of this jade seal would not exceed 50,000.
In the spirit of humanitarianism and fraternity, Director Liu agreed to try to find a buyer for the old bachelor. As for the price, the two parties had to discuss the price in detail; as usual, Director Liu could charge a 10% commission.
Fast forward more than ten days, and the old bachelor took the pretty widow and the sick child to Beijing for medical treatment. Director Liu sent the photo of the jade seal to the editorial department of the antique magazine and kept in touch with the old bachelor at any time. Director Liu was in charge of the cultural center.
When taking pictures with a professional camera, the old bachelor only allowed him to take a side view; even if it was really an ancient seal from the Ming Dynasty, it would not cost more than 200,000.
After the magazine was released, the first person who called was Qu Laoyi, which made Director Liu very proud. In order to earn the commission, he used to call Qu Laoyi, and he heard the most
What he heard was a slightly mocking haha from the other party.
This time it was different. After listening carefully to Director Liu's introduction, Qu Laoyi immediately asked him to rush to Beijing and get in touch with the old bachelor as soon as possible.
Qu Laoyi said: "I want the thing, and the price will be as he said, five million."
After hanging up the phone, Director Liu was still dreaming; was this jade seal really worth five million? If I had known earlier, I should have paid one million to buy it. It was too late to regret it. If this transaction could be facilitated, the commission would be
That’s half a million!
Director Liu rushed to the station immediately and found an acquaintance to catch the fastest express train to Beijing. His heart was pounding. After being in this circle for half his life, this was the first time he had seen such a big deal. It turned out that,
The value of valuable things can only be realized when you meet someone who knows the goods. My eyesight is still very young.