Chapter 314

Chapter 314

"Nan Yi, it's you brat, why, I haven't shown up for several years, why do I remember seeing your grandpa today?"

The old Kantou's name was Kan Hongzhen. Nanyi estimated that this name was changed later, and his previous name was Xiaofuzi, Xiaoshunzi, etc., which was in line with his identity.

Before liberation, he was an apprentice in an antique shop. After the trust shop opened, he was lucky enough to become a clerk in the shop. He was in charge of evaluating prices in the purchase department, and he was also regarded as the eye of the eye.

"Old Kantou, don't take advantage of me."

"Why, I'm not old enough to be your grandfather?"

"You just owe it to me." Nanyi nodded to Kan Hongzhen and said, "Are you going to work here until you retire?"

"I'm in my fifties, and I haven't retired for many years. Why don't I do it until I retire. Tell me, why are you here today? Don't you want to go back to your old job? Impossible, now you can do it openly , you don’t need me anymore.”

"Don't tell me that I'm so ungrateful, I can't come to you to talk about the old days. You said it all, the wind direction has changed, and the things we did in the past are nothing to worry about. No, I'll come to see you. "

Kan Hongzhen smiled, "I knew you were reliable, otherwise I wouldn't have cooperated with you back then."

Nanyi really wants to say "fart". What Kan Hongzhen has to do in the antique circulation link is to help with appraisal, so that Nanyi knows what price to ask the buyer, and the other thing is to open the list and turn a blind eye here .

To entrust a consignment sale, the trust store needs to register and open a bill, the seller's information must also be recorded, and the food book must be presented. In the past few years, the food book can verify a person's identity better than the household registration book.

The purpose of registering the seller's information is to prevent it from being stolen. If there is something wrong with the item, the police station will find it, and it is easy to catch the person along the grain.

What Kan Hongzhen is going to do is not very risky. The antiques are not sold to the state-run antique store, but sold to Nanyi at the door. They have to hide the extra money, fearing that the news will leak out. Dare to play tricks, so the possibility of making a fuss about collecting stolen goods is very slim.

But the share is quite a lot, it can be said that the income is guaranteed in drought and flood, and he is cooperating with such a safe person as Nanyi, Kan Hongzhen is picking up a big piece of fat for nothing.

"Come on, you've picked up a big deal, what's the matter, won't you bury the money you got?"

"How could I do something that a rich man would do? No, I have two sons. In the past two years, I borrowed all my relatives, friends and neighbors, and bought two courtyard houses, one for my son.

Now that I receive my salary every month, I still have to pay back the money, and I can only open meat once a year during the Chinese New Year. "When Kan Hongzhen spoke, his face was full of slyness.

It's good to borrow money all over the place. Borrowing money makes a lot of noise, and borrowing money with your left hand and right hand is inconspicuous. Others will only say that Kan Hongzhen is very popular and has a wide range of people.

"Inner City?"

"If you don't buy it, where can you buy it? No matter what happens today, the houses in Forty-Nine City will definitely maintain their value. When the little devils came in, the houses in the outer city might not be taken away by others, but the houses in Forty-Nine City are expensive. Not much fell."

"Wisdom." Nan Yi said sincerely with a thumbs up.

As long as Kan Hongzhen's son is not a rebellious son, nor is he so self-motivated that he wants to sell the house to start a business, when his grandchildren are born, they will definitely live happily ever after.

Kan Hongzhen can be regarded as one person protecting three generations, worthy of his ancestors.

"Your boy came here just in time. Aren't you interested in antique watches? You just received a few antique watches. Take a look and take the ones you like."

"Heh, it's really easy for you to use characters." Nan Yi chuckled, and followed Old Kantou to his workbench.

Kan Hongzhen opened the drawer, took out a piece of red velvet cloth, put it on the table and opened it, revealing things wrapped in small pieces of red velvet cloth. From the shape, he knew that it must be a watch.

Kan Hongzhen first opened a red velvet cloth and showed a watch inside. Nanyi picked it up and looked at it, and said with a sneer: "Seagull made a special watch for the Air Force, numbered D304. This is a good watch, but it's only been twenty years. Can it be considered an antique?"

"Just twenty yuan, isn't it a good watch?"

"Okay, it is indeed a good watch." Nanyi changed his style of painting when he heard the price. The price is so good, can it be a bad product, "Can I just take it?"

"I can't take it. I'll show you why. The market economy has been reformed and opened up. The same is true for our trust stores. Everything is based on efficiency. You don't need to put it in the sales department and sell it. Everyone is happy."

"Success, then I will make a good opening for you today."

Nan Yi continued to look at the watch in his hand, and leaned to his ear to listen to the sound of the movement.

Then, Kan Hongzhen took out another watch without a strap, only two thick cowhide protruding from both sides of the dial as a handshake, "Do you know?"

"Don't test me. I really know a lot of watches, at least I know this one. I don't know what year the wallet watch Tavannes made for Hermès."

"It's from 1928." Kan Hongzhen said, took out another notebook, opened it, and used tweezers to pull out a piece of paper similar to an invoice receipt, "I don't know English, but I do know a few dates, you can see for yourself .”

Nan Yi went up to take a look, and immediately complained: "What English? money?"

"fifteen."

"The watch is broken?" Nan Yi asked in surprise.

He wondered why this watch should not be sold so cheaply.

"There is something wrong with the watch movement, you have to find someone to fix it."

"I don't need to repair it. This is a lady's watch. It's useless for me to leave it alone. Keep it and exchange it with someone else."

Unless you can find replacement parts of the same model in the same era, the value of the watch may drop sharply after it is repaired. Who let the historical heritage be lost.

Afterwards, Kan Hongzhen took out several watches like presenting treasures, and Nanyi picked three from the middle, a 1919 Cartier Tank watch, a 1908 Audemars Piguet pocket watch with large complications, and a 1920 Waltham Dépollier Military watch.

As the saying goes, poor people play with cars, and rich people play with watches. In his previous life, Nanyi was also considered a rich man. Antique watches are also his hobby, but he watches more and buys less.

Antique watches cost tens of thousands of dollars cheaper, and millions of expensive ones. With his nine zero RMB, he really can't buy a few dollars.

He can only buy a few cheap ones to satisfy his addiction, and the rest is to have a chance to see and touch it. If you ask him to spend millions of dollars on a watch, he is really reluctant.

Playing with the watch in his hand, Nan Yi asked Kan Hongzhen, "The one who came to sell the watch shouldn't be the original owner, right?"

"How could it be the original owner? They are all those bastards who smashed and looted everywhere in the past. They don't know the goods. If they fall into their hands, it would be a waste. Do you play antiques now? If you do, you can go find them , I guess I still have a lot of good things in my hand."

"Forget it, it's a waste if it falls into my hands. Apart from watches, I don't like other ancient objects. Old Kantou, if you like it, you can keep it yourself."

"Where did I get so much money? I've almost spent enough to buy a house, and I don't have much money left."

Nan Yi wrapped the watch and put it in his pocket, "If you are serious, I can pay you. We are also in an old relationship. Don't mention the old rule that the shopkeeper gets 15%, I will give you 20% directly. "

"Success, what's the rule?"

"Let's talk about the charter another day. You first figure out what you want to do, how to do it, and how much money you have to invest in it." Nanyi said, took out his wallet from his pocket, and took out a few foreign exchange certificates , "I'll give you the foreign exchange certificate, so you can explain it better."

"Bright." Kan Hongzhen gave a thumbs up.

"That's it. I'll go to the sales department to see what's good to buy. I'll come back to you in a few days. Let's find a place to have a few drinks."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your letter."

There is also an unspoken rule in trust stores - old is not new.

It means that second-hand goods cannot be sold cheaper than new goods. With this unspoken rule, there are cheap and easy to pick up here, so it also gave birth to some people who make a living by picking up leaks here.

There are trust stores in Xidan, Caishikou, Tianqiao, Xisi, Dongsi, Beixinqiao, and Xinjiekou. Many people get up early in the morning and go to the black market first. I'm done, so I'll have some breakfast to kill some time, and when the trust stores open at eight o'clock, I'll go to the trust stores one by one.

No need, and it is impossible to gain something every day. This is also an antique business.

Nanyi and Xiaohua walked into the sales department of the trust store, and his hands and head began to work, sometimes nodding at people, and sometimes bowing to others.

The circle is actually a very small thing. Those who are now eating and drinking, in fact, have not been idle for the past two years, and they actually know each other well.

In the past, even if we met, we didn't know each other. We all hid each other, but now it doesn't matter. Not to mention that Nanyi has withdrawn, just say, no one cares about it now, so we can do it openly, right?

After walking half a circle around the store, Nanyi's eyes were fixed on a phonograph. This object was in good condition. It was the first batch of Victor Victory Dog E-type hand-cranked loudspeaker phonographs at the beginning of the century.

Nanyi didn't study phonographs, but his grandma Fang Mengyin had one that was exactly the same. I heard from her that when the ocean was at its strongest, the machine sold for nearly a thousand oceans.

Let’s put it this way, when Lu Xun bought No. 11 Badaowan, Xizhimen Nei, it was a 32-room mansion. This mansion was not seen from the current perspective, but it was extremely luxurious back then. Tomson Yipin opened.

For such a house, he only spent 3,725 Dayang. This was the year he bought it, and Dayang's purchasing power had already declined.

A comparison can draw a conclusion that this phonograph was really not affordable for ordinary people.

Nanyi was watching, and a middle-aged man beside him was also watching, and it seemed that he was already tempted. Nan Yi saw that he couldn't do it, so he cupped his hands quickly, "My lord, I've taken a fancy to this item, and I'll take this one for my own use."

After hearing Nanyi's words, the middle-aged man's expression froze, he paused, and he cupped his hands and walked away.

This tells me to respect you one foot, next time you have to respect me one foot, next time if Nanyi meets this middle-aged man again, Nanyi will have to give in unconditionally, regardless of the object they are looking at at the same time, How much Nanyi wants it.

Of course, it’s okay not to give up, then you have to give compensation, see what the middle-aged people want, satisfy them, let them nod and give you things, otherwise, Nanyi broke the rules.

If this kind of rule is broken in a business, then you don't want to be in this business, the peers will unite to run on you.

Seeing face-to-face bidding for good things, passing knives to each other under the table, that was all later. These days, there are a lot of good things to see, and everyone can share enough, and they are more modest with each other.

I wanted to call the waiter over to ask the price, but after Nan Yi thought about it, it’s all in the country. Thinking of this, he quickly walked over to the waiter, "Comrade, how do you sell the phonograph?"

"forty five."

"Okay, then I'll buy it."

Nanyi hurriedly went to the cashier to pay for the ticket, and when she got the ticket, she asked the school belle to take it out first.

Put the things away first, lest something bloody happen in a while.

Nanyi has already seen two foreigners coming in from the entrance of the trust store. If foreigners take a fancy to his phonograph, if Nanyi doesn't lift the table, the phonograph will really be lost.

Nanyi continued to stroll around, and saw another pair of official hat chairs.

The official hat chair, as the name suggests, is named after the hat worn by ancient officials. Viewed from the side of the official hat chair, the armrest is similar to the front of the hat, and the back of the chair is similar to the back of the hat.

In terms of line processing, the chair surface, chair legs, and crosspieces are basically treated as straight lines. From the functional point of view, the back of the chair is slightly curved to change from rigid to flexible. The official hat chair is one of the representative works of Ming-style furniture, and it is the best in the chair category. It can be divided into the southern official hat chair and the early four official hat chair.

Nanyi stood in front of a pair of chairs, looked back and forth a few times, and finally confirmed that the pair of chairs should be Nanguan hat chairs with huanghuali inlaid with gall wood and Ruyi cloud pattern in the early Qing Dynasty. expensive.

He looked at the sign standing beside it: Official Hat Chair, ￥50.00.

Nan Yi did some calculations. If he was going to a ghost market or to dig out an old house, he would have to spend more than 50 on fuel and the school belle. Finding a pair of these chairs would cost more than 50.

It's not expensive, it can be taken, and there is a receipt, so it can be regarded as a clear source, and it can be sold at a higher price in the future.

These days, except for people in the antique business, ordinary people don’t pay much attention to old objects at all. What they pursue are the three big color TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, Yuan blue and white pickle jars, and Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup cat food bowls. It's not that I can't see you.

Thinking about it, I also know that if this kind of thing did not happen, how could those who planted landmines later deceive people.

Especially after those ten years passed, some people were implemented the policy, and some ancient objects were returned, but the knowledgeable family members had already left, leaving unworthy descendants who directly sold the gold as shit;

Many precious items were sold, and then leaked by other owners. After two years, they made a fortune relying on the leaked things.

Why are some insiders in the antique business accepting rules that are difficult for laymen to understand?

It's very simple, cheating, cheating, abducting, cheating, stealing, stealing, living [living pit, tomb robbery], people in the antique business have to be at least the same, some simply have all kinds of poisons, in order to whitewash themselves, but also to raise their standards, It is also understandable to package it with culture and rules.

In the final analysis, it is also a business, unlike other businesses where you are respectfully welcome to come back next time, in an antique shop that sells fakes to you, you can still spit and scold you with a stick.

You don’t even want to find a later account, you call it eye-catching, it’s called paying tuition fees, and you buy fakes just because your stomach is full of idiots. People cheat you, that’s called wisdom.

Nanyi has an idea to find a counterfeit ticket, no, it should be said that the masters of antiques will first smash the antique business into a mess in two years, and then slowly re-cultivate the market.

Reserve this idea first, and wait until you find a good partner.

Nanyi paid for the chair first, and then looked at other things. It was strange, some had price tags, but some didn't. He didn't see the price tags on the phonograph just now.

"I remember there were price tags in the past. Is it for the convenience of receiving foreign exchange certificates?" Nanyi muttered for a while, and was soon attracted by a stack of vinyl records.

I walked over and looked through them. They were all records from the period of the Republic of China. Yao Li, Bai Guang, Wu Yingyin, Bai Hong, Gong Qiuxia, Zhou Xuan, and Li Xianglan all had records. I missed everyone else's records one by one. Nan Yi only stared at Zhou Xuan's selection.

His grandma, Fang Mengyin, likes Zhou Xuan, and Nan Yi himself likes it too, and from the perspective of appreciation, only Zhou Xuan's records are more valuable, who knows that Zhou Xuan is no longer around, and the others are all birthday stars.

After a while, Nanyi picked out two Zhou Xuan's, then stopped when he saw a record, took out the record, looked at the two hand patterns on the record, and looked at the thickness of the record .

That's right, this is the "bone saucer" of the Soviet revisionists in the 1950s.

Nanyi looked at the paper sleeve of the record again. It should be a random sleeve, not the original one, so it is not clear what song is on the bone disc.

However, the most likely one to use bone discs should be Bill Harry's "Rock and Roll Day and Night".

In Soviet revisionism in the 1950s, pop music lovers tried their best to obtain the latest rock music. Some fanatical music fans invented the technology of using waste X-ray film to rip vinyl records. Since then, "bone disc" has become a special cultural symbol prevalent throughout the Soviet Union. During its short life, it recorded the life of a generation of young people Bitter and happy.

Nanyi guessed that this ossuary must have been left by the Soviet revisionist experts back then. Those who went to study in Soviet revisionism at that time could not bring back this kind of ossuary, and they would not be able to pass the customs inspection.

Even if they are experts in Soviet revisionism, it is not easy to bring them here. I did not expect that there are rock enthusiasts among them.

I heard that this ossuary will be scrapped after listening to it two or three times, and I don't know how many times it has been heard. Nan Yi raised the ossuary and looked at the degree of wear of the ossuary through the light.

It's pretty badly worn, probably scrapped.

But it's okay, there shouldn't be many of these things in the world, and they can all be regarded as Soviet revisionist antiques. Whether they are sold in the future or used to pretend to be aggressive, they will not be bad.

Nan Yi put the bone disc and Zhou Xuan's two records aside, and continued to rummage through the pile of records.

At this time, a middle-aged man and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl walked over intimately, and the girl's hand directly stretched out to the record that Nan Yi put aside.

"Sorry, I've already picked this." Nan Yi quickly reminded.

The girl said: "Comrade, can you give it to me, I like Zhou Xuan very much."

Nan Yi looked at the girl, and then at the man beside her, the girl, he just looked familiar; the man, he recognized who it was at a glance.

Shaw Brothers actor Luo Tang in Hong Kong plays the villain without makeup. Nan Yi has seen many Hong Kong films in which he has acted.

So, the girl next to her is Le Yun who would rather not play Wang Xifeng, but go to Xiangtang to pursue her career?

"Sorry, I like it too."

Luo Yuan glanced at the price tag on the side, and said to Nan Yi with a very polite look: "Sir, you give these two tickets to this lady, and I will pay for how many you want to buy. "

"Thank you for your kindness, but I really like it too."

As soon as Le Yun heard what Nan Yi said, he took La Luosun's hand and begged.

The old Luoyan tree was in bloom, and Le Yun Chuchu, who hadn't used it yet, was pitifully aroused so badly, so he shouted loudly: "Waiter, waiter."

There is no need to reveal his identity, as long as he speaks Hong Kong, no one knows that he is a Hong Kong counselor.

Nanyi can guess the direction of the next incident with his toes, it's really crazy, and you have to encounter such bloody things when you visit a trust store.

The Hong Kong counselor in 1983 was more difficult than Bai Pi.

Before the clerk came over, Nanyi immediately confessed, "Here you are, here you are."

"Thank you." Le Yun said.

Luo Tang gave you a knowing look.

Nanyi smiled wryly in his heart, and continued to rummage through the pile of records, hoping to find another Zhou Xuan's.

After the dog and the girl walked away, Xiaohua took the initiative to join Nanyi.

"The Shaw Brothers, Luo Tang, find out his wife and tell her that her husband is looking for a concubine in the Mainland."

"that's all?"

"Let's do that first, and talk about the rest later."

It's just that Nan Yi won't retaliate too hard for taking away his two records. Otherwise, whether it's a broken wire, real bullets fired from a prop gun, or a car bombing scene that really kills people, there are countless accidents that can be arranged.

"clear."

Nanyi searched for a while, but did not find Zhou Xuan's record, so he could only give up, first went to pay for the bone disc, and then continued to search for a few gadgets.

As soon as he walked out of the trust store, a wretched middle-aged man approached Nanyi, "Comrade, do you have a cloth ticket? I will charge a high price."

"You must be sick. You are being severely cracked down. Besides, you have to go to the vegetable market to receive the cloth ticket. Which one do you see has a man holding the receipt?"

"Yes, yes, I just did it, thank you." The scalper didn't mention the crackdown at all, thanked him, turned around and left.

Looking at this scalper, Nan Yi thought for a while, the cloth ticket has not been announced to be cancelled, these people have already received the wind?

Nan Yi saw the news about ticket distribution in the "Mouthpiece News", but the news article was not published. Are these scalpers gambling, or did someone provide information?

In 1981, due to the backlog of products, many cotton textile production enterprises began not to accept cloth tickets for promotion. At that time, cloth tickets became popular for a while, but they have stopped after two years. up.

Once the cloth ticket is cancelled, the cloth ticket in your hand becomes useless, but no one will exchange it with you for any compensation. These ticket dealers have channels to exchange for cloth in large quantities, accept cloth tickets at a low price, and post some money to exchange for cloth. It can also be poured out at a high price, earning a lot every time.

It's just that this kind of money is not something everyone can earn. Without huge energy in the second light game, it is impossible to play at all.

The next chapter is the chapter testimonials, but it is actually the main text of Chapter 313, which is to compensate book friends.