Chapter 0535 – Antique Shop (II)

The last time Zhuang Rui see Zhao boss, remember he is still white and chubby, a face looks very blessed, but at the moment to see him again, but the whole changed a look.

Boss Zhao’s face is still quite white, but it is white, the body also thinned down, eye sockets deep, hair looks a little like the late eighties literary youth, do not know a few days did not wash, are almost knotted into a pigtail.

After Boss Zhao entered the house, he saw the inner room filled with people, he couldn’t help but freeze, and then a survey, these people don’t seem to recognize, he is not in the mood to bullshit with others now, he directly looked at that boss and said, “Old that, this New Year’s Eve, it’s really troublesome for you.”

“It’s fine, Old Zhao, this is the money from the consignment sale of your dining set. It’s a total of eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars, you count it!”

I don’t know if it was because Zhuang Rui and the others were present, but that boss actually didn’t charge the consignment fee, but gave all the money to Old Zhao, making the few people in the room have a little more respect in their hearts for that boss.

This person ah! Icing on the cake more, snow in the charcoal is too little, and even some people, specifically like to fall on the well, that boss can do this degree, is considered a very generous person.

“There’s no need to order, old that, this money is considered as the child’s New Year’s money!”

This amount of money is just a drop in the bucket for Boss Zhao, it won’t solve his problem, I guess this person is also a person who can’t fall down, he casually separated the money into a small stack and handed it to that boss.

“No way, old that, we more than ten years of friendship, come here to open the store is also I introduced you to come, this money you keep your own use it!”

The boss paused for a moment, and then said, “If I say so, old brother, you’d better give this store out cheaply! Remove the money to pay off the debt can also be left hundreds of thousands of dollars, there is still a chance to rise again.”

This Zhao boss brain quite live, these years, also accumulated four or five million of the family, but this time to look away, lost a bottom off, outside also owed more than two million, visible not only gambling stone a knife heaven a knife hell, play antiques, that is also as if walking on a fine steel wire in general, a foot is not prudent, that is the 10,000-foot cliffs of the situation of the bones.

“That old brother, not I do not want to disk out, just those objects in the store, is also worth hundreds of eighty million, I have no store, those things let me how to sell ah? If I don’t transfer them out, what am I going to do with them?”

After hearing the boss’s words, Lao Zhao shook his head helplessly, and then said, “I’ve been unlucky for a while, so I won’t give you any more trouble. You few are busy, I’ll take my leave first.”

Although the man had fallen on hard times, his etiquette had not yet been lost, Old Zhao arched his hand to the surroundings and turned around to go out.

“Hey, Boss Zhao, please stay ……” Zhuang Rui, since he had moved his mind, he wanted to ask for a little more detail, and opened his mouth to call out to Old Zhao.

“You are ……”

Zhao boss looked back, seems a little familiar, not to him this time anxious, plus every day in the store to see so many people, but also really can not remember who Zhuang Rui is.

“Oh, you expensive people forget a lot of things, I once bought a set of literary utensils in your store.”

“Oh …… Oh, so it’s you!”

Old Zhao also remembered such a thing, but could not remember Zhuang Rui’s name, and then said, “What else is going on, old brother? If you still want to buy those things, I will open the store door, you can pick ……”.

Zhao boss also do not want to close the door, this open a day door can also earn a day’s money, just want to debt is too much, if he dares to open the door, immediately store threshold can be trampled off.

“Zhao old brother, sit down and say, Zhuang boss is interesting to want to take over your store …….”

That boss pulled old Zhao back, let to the chair after, gave him a cup of tea.

“Hm? Boss Zhuang wants to take over my store?” Old Zhao looked at Zhuang Rui doubtfully.

Zhuang Rui waved his hand and said, “It’s a bit of an idea. Let’s not talk about the price, Boss Zhao and that boss are both seniors in Panjiayuan, can you introduce me to the business of the store in Panjiayuan?”

“That depends on what objects you operate, like I used to sell the stationery, or more favored by foreigners, a year in the foreigners, can also earn a few hundred thousand ……”

Old Zhao said here paused for a moment, looked at the boss, the boss waved his hand, signaling him to continue, which then went on to say: “That old brother of this store, do more familiar customers, there will also be some foreigners to patronize, as for how much you can earn, this is going to ask that old brother.”

“Oh, my porcelain to the workshop are generally familiar customers, thanks to Professor Meng these guests to help, which accounted for sixty percent of my turnover, as for the remaining forty percent, most of them are some casual customers and foreigners, not to hide a few, sold to them those objects, is really not to spend a few of the money.”

The boss said Zhuang Rui and other people laughed out loud, this so-called spend not a few money, that is to say that the sale of fake things, due to Panjiayuan’s traffic is too huge, those casual customers can bring turnover of fourteen percent of the business, is not too small.

After hearing the words of the two, Zhuang Rui heart moved a bit, the “book Ya Zhai” to take over, it is nothing, the four treasures and porcelain is different, foreign porcelain. But Wen Fang utensils, but China’s only unique culture, in this Panjiayuan, but also to attract foreigners a point of view.

“Boss Zhao, can I take the liberty of asking, this file of yours, how in the world did it come out?”

After everyone had laughed, Zhuang Rui suddenly opened his mouth and asked.

A bitter smile appeared on Old Zhao’s face, and after thinking about it, he said, “Alas, to tell you the truth! This is someone else under a set, and in order to this set, that gang of people to prepare for two years long, counting me to recognize people are not allowed, planted in their hands, I have nothing to say ……”

It turns out that this Zhao boss has a lot of friends, often a gang of people together to drink tea and chat about business, on the occasion of two years ago, he met a friend, the compound name of Nangong, is to play the bronze statue of Buddha, although the business of the boss and Zhao is not very compatible, but we are all friends of the collector, over and over again also familiar with the.

Nangong then often come to the old Zhao store to chat and drink tea, and very coincidentally, once Nangong in the old Zhao store, someone with a piece of bronze candlestick to the old Zhao store for sale, the price is not very expensive, only 12,000, but the old Zhao is not proficient in this, and did not want to accept, and their own play is not all the way goods well!

Just that the Nangong had seen the bronze, force Lord Lao Zhao to pay to buy down, said this is a leak, Lao Zhao and Nangong then also know more than a year, think about a million buy down is nothing, then the money will be paid to buy down this candlestick.

After a month or two, the old Zhao took this bronze to an auction house identification, did not expect, this thing is really good, and then shot the price of two hundred thousand, so, the old Zhao is naturally grateful to Nangong, the relationship between the two people is also more and more close up.

This Panjiayuan antique store, is often encountered people with objects to sell at the door, Zhao boss is also accustomed to, but before he was in addition to stationery utensils, other things are never received.

And since recognizing the South Palace, and then someone door-to-door sale of bronzes, he will call the South Palace to help him palm eyes, actually picked up several times in a row, counted earned actually more than three hundred thousand, and the South Palace in the bronze on the attainments of the deep, there is no one time to hit the eye to buy fakes.

Two years of interaction down, the old Zhao has been just like the South Palace because of the confidant, and the South Palace in the bronze on the level of connoisseurship, but also admired.

In the last month, someone took an object to the old Zhao’s store, the old Zhao also know, is said to be a bit of a doorway, also sold him twice, and are true, so that the old Zhao made a small fortune, but this time to sell the object, the old Zhao heart is a little apprehensive, because this thing, it is really too expensive.

The man took a gilt Buddha of infinite life, very good quality, wearing a crown on the head, inlaid with a variety of precious stones, the form is sitting cross-legged, the following is a lotus pedestal, the whole item is very fine.

Things are good, but the person’s opening price is not low, open mouth is ten million yuan, and without discount.

Lao Zhao these two years with the South Palace together, also learned a bit of knowledge of bronze, then suspected that this object is from the palace, so call to urge the South Palace to come over to help him palm eyes.

After some identification of Namgung, determined that this object is indeed the Yongzheng years, the palace manufacturing office burned casting of the official-made Buddha.

Because the Yongzheng emperor once on behalf of his father monk, is a devout Buddhist, so he burned the casting of the Buddha, are meticulous workmanship, regardless of the cost of fine works, passed on to future generations of very few, can be said to be priceless.

Nangong after seeing, pulled Lao Zhao to the back room, said his own valuation, this thing if on the auction, at least in the 12 million or more.

Because and Nangong relationship for more than two years, and Nangong look at the bronze never hit the eye, Lao Zhao on his words are convinced, and this object, he himself earlier also saw like royal items, itself has a preconceived idea, which then heard the words of Nangong, Lao Zhao decided to buy it down.

However, the old Zhao on the price of the Buddha is still some doubts, and then gave a friend of the auction house made a phone call to ask about some of the value of the Qing Yongzheng years of the official statue of the Buddha, this question he is completely at ease, the market price, than the Namgung said that it is a little bit higher.

Something is true, the back to negotiate the price, the seller is asking for money, the old Zhao also did so many years of business, naturally, on the ground.

After some war of words, Lao Zhao in the “good friend” Nangong’s help, successfully lowered the purchase price to 8 million yuan.