Lying Low to Scavenge in the Courtyard

Zhang Weiguo transmigrates to that era of scarcity, a time of lacking clothes and food.

He is a decorated veteran who has been transferred to a position as the head of the purchasing departme...

Chapter 166 Storyteller

Their experiences are so colorful.

You get to hear stories that you've never heard before.

Like some folk rumors and stories, and local customs and practices.

Zhang Weiguo was very willing to listen to them and also willing to treat them to a drink.

A glass of wine only cost a few cents, and Zhang Weiguo didn't care about this amount of money at all.

For a person worth one hundred thousand, this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket.

Even if they can drink a lot, it won't cost them a dollar.

The salary at that time was only a dozen yuan a month.

One dollar is a considerable expense for them.

To Zhang Weiguo, it means nothing.

Zhang Weiguo's salary is 150 yuan a month.

This is the annual salary of many people. Zhang Weiguo can spend his money however he wants and he can never spend it all.

Moreover, Zhang Weiguo could earn one thousand yuan each time by selling grain.

This income is more than the salary.

What we have now is just the beginning, and there will be more and more money in the future.

If the buying and selling of siheyuan houses were not banned now, Zhang Weiguo would have bought a lot of them.

The courtyard houses are not worth much nowadays. Rich people all live in tube-shaped buildings and are unwilling to live here.

They have no idea how expensive these houses will be in the future.

It is simply not something that ordinary people can afford. Just one set costs over 100 million yuan.

This is not a house, these are all gold bricks.

Zhang Weiguo still wanted to meet them very much, mainly to get information.

They know the local customs and habits of different places and are aware of all kinds of news.

In particular, they also know where ancient tombs have been excavated.

Zhang Weiguo likes this kind of news the most. Such news means that good things have been unearthed.

Zhang Weiguo tasted the sweetness last time and became very interested in these ancient tombs.

It’s not that Zhang Weiguo doesn’t know how to rob tombs. If Zhang Weiguo knew the knowledge of tomb robbing, he would go find the tomb himself.

These news are just excitement for others, but they are wealth for Zhang Weiguo.

Even if it was not the tomb that Zhang Weiguo explored, as long as some villagers picked up antiques, Zhang Weiguo would collect them. It didn't matter if he spent some money, as these things would appreciate hundreds of times in value in the future.

Zhang Weiguo had no intention of selling these things.

In the antique business, the key is to buy at a low price and sell at a high price.

Zhang Weiguo doesn't have this worry. Things are very cheap now and he doesn't spend a lot of money.

Nowadays, Zhang Weiguo focuses on finding bargains, which means buying things with very little money.

I won't spend all my wealth on one thing.

The value of this item may be very high, but if I use the money to buy other things, I can buy a hundred items.

Is the value of this one thing higher or is the value of a hundred things higher?

That must be a hundred pieces.

Something that is already expensive, no matter how much it appreciates, its appreciation is limited and it cannot grow indefinitely.

Cheap things are different. Cheap things have endless possibilities.

Their appreciation potential is huge.

Just because Zhang Weiguo has no intention of selling these things doesn’t mean they cannot be traded.

In the antique trade, there is another way of trading.

It is also the most primitive way of trading.

That is barter.

You like something and I like something, and the value of the two items is not much different, so let's exchange them.

You get what you want, I get what I want, and everyone is happy.

This is also a very common trading method in antiques.

It may also be that I have a car and you have a piece of porcelain, and I like this porcelain very much, so I will exchange my car with yours.

At this time, you also want to buy a car, so you agree to the exchange.

This is also a way of trading.

As for who made money and who lost money?

Different measurement methods will definitely lead to different results.

All I can say is that no one suffers any loss.

If you compare it ten years later, cars will definitely be less valuable, but porcelain will definitely be more valuable ten years later.

No one would make such a comparison.

Just because cars depreciate and become less valuable, will you stop buying cars?

You will definitely buy it, and it will be a good car.

This car depreciates even more.

A car worth one million dollars now will only be worth one hundred thousand dollars in ten years.

Even so, you are still willing to buy it.

The standards of measurement are different, and the results obtained will be different. Your thoughts will be different at different times.

You do it because you think it's worth it.

If it wasn't worth it, you wouldn't do it.

Zhang Weiguo did not buy or sell, but agreed to the exchange.

Being able to play with it in your hands for a period of time is enough, and changing it to a better owner is also a very good choice.

When Zhang Weiguo returned home, Ran Qiuye began to pick wine.

There were more than a dozen jars of wine and she didn't know which one was the best.

"Honey, which jar of wine do you think I should choose?"

"These wines are all the same. They were all made at the same time. It doesn't matter which jar you choose."

"Well, I'll just pick one."

Ran Qiuye searched among the wine jars and found one that caught his eye.

"I'll send it to Dad tomorrow so he doesn't have to worry about it."

"Okay, then I'll eat out tomorrow afternoon and won't come back to cook."

"Okay, I'll take the two little girls with me."

So you have to be careful when you ride your bike.

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