Chapter 76: Picking up 47,000 for free
"No, Mr. Gong, please think about it again."
"Don't think about it, this is it. I think this jar is beautiful, I want it, I want this one!"
"Hey, Boss Gong, please think about it again..."
"Don't think about it!"
Shi Yue and Gong Fa argued back and forth for a long time. Gong Fa stubbornly said that he wanted to buy the jar. As long as Shi Yue didn't sell it to him, he would beg him every day until Shi Yue agreed to sell it to him.
Shi Yue looked hesitant. He pretended to think for a while, then finally gritted his teeth and agreed, "Okay, I'll sell it to you. Since you like this jar so much, Boss Gong, I'll sell it to you."
He bought this jar with the intention of reselling it for profit. Now that a rich man wants to buy it, it would be strange if he doesn't sell it.
"Okay, okay!" Gong Fa laughed happily. He said anxiously, "I don't have that much cash on me. Chief Shi, please wait a moment. I'll go to the bank to withdraw some money."
Afraid that Shi Yue might change his mind and not sell it to him, Gong Fa took his bag and went out to get the money.
"Hey..." Before Shi Yue could say anything to stop him, Gong Fa had already walked out the door.
Yang Zhiqiang, who had also been left behind, patted Shi Yue and said, "Don't worry, Shi Yue. Old Gong is just such an impetuous person."
Shi Yue: "Haha, it's okay, it's okay."
Fifty thousand yuan is not a small amount of money. There are many procedures to go to the bank counter to withdraw such a large sum of money, and it is estimated that it will take a long time. Yang Zhiqiang and Shi Yue did not just wait for Gong Fa.
Yang Zhiqiang sat for a while and then went back to his house next door. Shi Yue opened the door and continued to wash up, because he hadn't washed up yet because of Gong Fa's arrival!
He brushed his teeth and washed his face quickly. After washing up, Shi Yue walked home while wiping his face. When he got home, he met Shi Qiu Shui's resentful eyes.
Shi Qiushui: "Dad! You promised to take me out for dinner!"
Shi Yue said embarrassedly: "Oh, my dear, I'm sorry, we can't go out for lunch today."
I don’t know how long it will take Gong Fa to come. If they go out to eat, it would be bad if Gong Fa comes back and finds that they are not at home.
He rubbed Shi Qiushui's head and said, "Xiaoqiu, look around and see if there are any biscuits or something at home. We can use them for now. When we're done, we can go out for dinner tonight. We can have a big dinner and barbecue. What do you think?"
Barbecue? That's fine!
Shi Qiushui swallowed a little and said, "Okay, let's put it this way."
Shi Yue: "Well, it's settled!"
Shi Qiu Shui was a girl who was very easy to please, and the barbecue meal that Shi Yue promised immediately alleviated all her dissatisfaction.
She smiled happily and asked, "Dad, is our family going to get rich?"
Just now, Shi Yue drove her into the house. With the door closed, she couldn't hear clearly what was said outside. She only vaguely heard a few men outside talking about selling jars.
Shi Yue nodded and said, "Well, your Uncle Yang's friend said he wanted to spend 50,000 yuan to buy the jar I brought back yesterday."
"Fifty thousand yuan?!" Shi Qiu Shui opened his mouth in shock.
She didn't forget that her father only spent three thousand yuan to sell the jar.
Just by changing hands, he made 47,000 yuan!
Shi Qiushui smacked his lips and sighed, "This money is too easy to make."
Who says it isn’t?
Shi Yue felt the same way in his heart.
To be honest, he didn't expect that the jar could be sold so easily. After all, last night he was still planning to ask Yang Zhiqiang if he knew any friends who liked these things and could help him sell the jar.
Besides, he made 47,000 yuan from this transaction. You should know that his current monthly salary is less than 300 yuan at most. It would take him more than ten years to earn enough just from his salary!
Shi Yue felt very happy. As expected, Panjiayuan was a place that he should visit more often. He had only been there a few times and had found bargains twice. It was really a good place to make a fortune!
Not only is Panjiayuan a good place, the 1990s was also a good era. Didn’t you see that his fortunes have improved a lot since he and his daughter came here in the 1990s?
Shi Yue fell into deep thought and chuckled. Shi Qiu Shui on the side gave him a strange look.
Her father is so weird, could he be so happy that he's stupid?
Shi Qiushui poked Shi Yue's waist with her little hand: "Dad?"
Shi Yue came back to his senses: "What happened to Xiaoqiu?"
Shi Qiu Shui breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, her father was not stupid.
She blinked her eyes and asked, "Dad, aren't you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
Shi Yue touched his stomach and nodded: "Eat, if you have anything to eat, bring me some."
Needless to say, he was actually a little hungry. After all, he hadn't eaten anything since last night.
“We have instant noodles!”
Shi Qiu Shui ran into the house and quickly came out with a small bag of instant noodles in green packaging. Without opening the bag, she broke the instant noodles into pieces through the bag with a few "crunch clicks". When she felt that the noodles inside were almost broken into pieces, she tore open the bag, took out the seasoning packet and sprinkled it in. After spreading, she shook the powder with a "clattering" sound to make it evenly distributed.
After shaking it evenly, she grabbed a handful of broken instant noodles and stuffed them into her mouth. Then she handed the bag to Shi Yue: "Dad, eat."
Shi Yue took the bag from his daughter's hand without hesitation, grabbed a handful and started chewing it.
Mm, seafood flavor, delicious.
A bag of instant noodles was only as big as an adult's palm. Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui finished it in just a few bites. Looking at the empty bag, Shi Qiu Shui pouted, feeling not full.
Shi Yue was not full either. He instructed, "Girl, go get another bag of instant noodles. I'm not full."
Shi Qiushui pouted: "Dad, there's no more! This is the last bag of instant noodles!"
Shi Yue: "Is there anything else to eat?"
Shi Qiushui: "No more, I ate all the peach cakes and biscuits."
Shi Yue scratched his head and took out ten yuan: "Here's the money. Take it to the small shop at the entrance of the alley and buy some food."
"Okay!" Shi Qiu Shui took the money and was about to go out to buy snacks when she saw Gong Fa walking in from the gate. She turned around and called out "Dad".
Shi Yue looked towards her: "Well, what's wrong?"
Shi Qiushui: "That uncle is back."
Um?
Shi Yue looked out the window and saw Gong Fa. He waved and said, "Since he's back, don't go buy snacks for now."
After finishing the deal with Gong Fa, he can take Shi Qiu Shui out for dinner, so why buy snacks?
"Okay." Shi Qiu Shui came back obediently. If she didn't go to buy snacks, could she just embezzle the ten dollars?
She raised her eyes and glanced at Shi Yue quietly. Seeing that Shi Yue didn't mention the ten yuan, she quietly put the money into her pocket.
Hehe, once it goes into her wallet, it’s her money.
Shi Yue noticed the little girl's actions, but didn't say anything because Gong Fa had already walked in.
Gong Fa walked in with a bulging bag. It was obvious that he came back in a hurry. He was still breathing heavily until he entered the house and sat down.
Shi Yue poured him a glass of water and said with a smile, "Boss Gong, take a break and have a drink of water."
Gong Fa wiped the sweat from his head: "Well, thank you, I am a little thirsty."
He calmed his rapid breathing and took a big gulp of water. After his mouth was no longer so dry, he took the cloth bag that had just been placed beside him and brought it in front of him.
The bag contained neatly arranged bundles of blue hundred-yuan bills. There were five bundles in total. Gong Fa took them out one by one, placed them on the coffee table, and said, "Chief Shi, here are the fifty thousand yuan. Would you like to count them?"
Shi Yue took a quick look and saw five bundles of money, each bundle was tied tightly with no signs of having been opened.
He chuckled and said, "No need, Boss Gong, I trust you, so I won't count."
He stood up, picked up the large blue and white porcelain jar in the corner and handed it to Gong Fa: "Okay, I'll take the money, and the item is yours."
Gong Fa carefully held the jar and said with a happy face, "Okay, okay."
Then, Shi Yue handed over the calligraphy that he had written long ago: "Then I wish you, Mr. Gong, as written on this calligraphy, a wealth of money."
Gong Fa: "Okay, okay, I wish you, Section Chief Shi, great financial success as well."
He smiled heartily. He was a businessman and bought this jar to build business relationships, so Shi Yue's words about making a lot of money really touched his heart.
Gong Fa had a very good impression of Shi Yue. Before leaving, he left a business card for Shi Yue with his name, address, phone number and pager number on it, so that Shi Yue could contact him if he had any questions.
Shi Yue carefully put Gong Fa's business card into his home phone book. He didn't think he would necessarily go to Gong Fa for something, but it was a relationship after all. Moreover, Gong Fa was a business owner with a lot of connections. It was not impossible that he would need to go to him for something one day.
After putting the business card away, he looked at the five bundles of banknotes in front of him and began to feel a headache.
He felt unsafe keeping such a large sum of money at home no matter how he kept it.
"Where should I put this money?" Shi Yue couldn't help but mutter.
Shi Qiushui: "Put it under the bed!"
She put her little treasury under the bed.
Shi Yue glanced at Shi Qiushui and said, "Nine out of ten people who hide money hide it under the bed. Do you think thieves would think the same?"
"Hmm..." Shi Qiu Shui frowned and couldn't speak.
After thinking for a while, she said, "Then hide on the beam!"
If you can’t hide it below, you can at least hide it above!
Shi Yue thought about it and shook his head: "That won't work either. Rats are likely to get in on the beams. What if a rat bites it?"
Qiu Shui was at a loss now. She wrinkled her face and said in great distress, "Where can I put it?"
Shi Yue thought for a while and said, "Deposit it in the bank."
"Huh?" Shi Qiushui looked up confusedly and asked, "Then why didn't you go to the bank with that uncle just now?"
Can't banks transfer money directly? Why do I need to withdraw and deposit money separately?
Shi Yue pursed his lips, not wanting to say that he had forgotten about it.
"Ahem." Shi Yue awkwardly changed the subject: "Well, Xiaoqiu, aren't you hungry? Let's go, let's go, have a meal first and then save money."
Shi Qiushui: "Eat first and save money later? Dad, aren't you afraid of losing the money?"
Shi Yue: “I’m not afraid.”
As he spoke, he took out a black plastic bag that came as a gift when he bought something, put the money into the bag, tied the bag, and then held it casually in his hand.
Shi Yue held the black plastic bag calmly, as if it were a bag of garbage, and said to Shi Qiushui, "Okay, let's go."
"Oh, all right."
Shi Qiu Shui took Shi Yue's hand and followed Shi Yue out. Shi Yue took Shi Qiu Shui out of the compound and walked straight to the nearest barbecue restaurant. He had picked up 47,000 yuan for free today, so he had to eat something good to celebrate!
Kaorouwan's business has always been good. Even though it was almost past dinner time, the store was still full of people. Shi Yue searched for a long time before he saw an empty seat in the corner.
He led Shi Qiu Shui to an empty table. When he sat down, he casually placed the black plastic bag containing 50,000 yuan on the empty seat next to him.
People were coming and going in the store, and people kept passing by the table where Shi Yue and his friends were sitting, but no one noticed the black plastic bag on the empty seat at all. After all, no one would have thought that such an ordinary black plastic bag would contain a huge sum of 50,000 yuan.
Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui were very hungry, so they ate a lot of barbecue at noon. The father and daughter, one big and one small, ate two kilograms of meat alone, not including the vegetables and staple foods.
At the end of the meal, Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui were so full that they couldn't even stand up from their stools. It was only because they were thinking about saving money that they struggled to get up.
After coming out of Kaorouwan, Shi Yue didn't take Shi Qiu Shui to take the bus. After all, the bank was not far away and they could walk there to help digest the food.
In this way, the father and daughter strolled to the bank. There were not many people in the bank at that time, so the deposit process was still very fast. Within a few minutes, Shi Yue came out with the deposit certificate.
Looking at the numbers on the deposit slip, Shi Yue raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.
This money is like he found it for free, how could he not be happy?
But Shi Yue didn't know that he still lost money even though he sold the jar for 50,000 yuan.
After Gong Fa left the Shi family, he turned around and went to find a knowledgeable friend to check whether the jar was from the Yuan Dynasty.
It's not that he didn't trust Shi Yue, he just wanted to be safer. After all, he was going to give this jar to a partner. What if the jar was fake and he still gave it to someone eagerly? Wouldn't that be bad?
The knowledgeable friend that Gong Fa was going to see was a professor of archaeology. When his friend saw Gong Fa coming to his door with a jar, he was surprised.
"Hey, when did you become interested in these things?"
Gong Fa: "Well, you don't know me yet. I'm just an ordinary person. How could I be interested in the things that cultured people play with? I bought this jar as a gift for someone."
"Giving gifts to people? No, Old Gong, if you wanted to give gifts to people, why didn't you ask me to help you with your advice?"
This friend has started to worry. Gong Fa, who knows nothing about this business, is going to collect things by himself. Could he be cheated?
Tsk, he glanced at the big jar that Gong Fa was holding and felt even more worried. With such a big jar, it looked more like he had been cheated.
The scammers in the antique business love to trick outsiders into buying big items, because people who don’t know much think that the bigger the item, the more valuable it is, but this is actually not the case at all.
Gong Fa could tell from his friend's expression what he was thinking. He waved his hand and said, "Well, it just happened. I hadn't originally intended to buy this thing, but the conversation just happened to get to this point, so I bought it."
His friend's expression grew even more worried.
The more I listen to this, the more I feel like I've been cheated!
Gong Fa placed the jar in his arms on the table next to him and said, "Well, let's not talk about anything else for now. Can you help me take a look at this jar? The person who sold it to me said it was from the Yuan Dynasty. Can you help me check and see if it is true?"
"Yuan Dynasty? How much did you pay for it? Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands?" Gong Fa's friend didn't rush to check the jar, but instead grabbed him and asked the price.
The friend thought that Gong Fa must have been cheated. Instead of confirming a known fact, it would be better to ask Gong Fa how much money he lost.
Gong Fa: "No, not hundreds of thousands. I only spent fifty thousand."
"Oh, big boss, you're really generous. Wake up, fifty thousand yuan is already a lot!"
Gong Fa: "Tsk, why are you being so sarcastic today? I know 50,000 yuan is a lot, but this is a jar from the Yuan Dynasty. It's from the Yuan Dynasty! It's been over 600 years since the Yuan Dynasty. 50,000 yuan for something over 600 years old isn't too much, right?"
My friend made a face and said sarcastically, "Fifty thousand yuan isn't expensive, is it? Oh, you're a big boss after all. Only a big boss can say that..."
Gong Fa: "That's enough, you're a rich second generation and you're telling me that. A night out in Juliana costs you guys more than 50,000, right?"
"Don't keep calling them that bunch of second generation. I'm not the same kind of person as those naughty kids. I find it disrespectful of you to say that."
Seeing that he was really unhappy, Gong Fa quickly shut up and said, "Okay, okay, okay, I won't say anything more. Well, seriously, can you help me check if this thing is real? Don't be afraid of me. Even if this thing is fake, I will accept it. But if you are sure it is fake, I will take it home and keep it. After all, fake things are not good to give away."
"What are you looking at? I don't even need to see it to know this thing is definitely not real. Who would really sell it to a layman like you?"
Gong Fa's friend grumbled to himself, but still took out a magnifying glass and carefully examined the large blue and white jar that was sent to him. He checked the shape, pattern, and glaze color of the jar from top to bottom, and said with a strange expression.
"Hey, where did you get this? It's a pretty good imitation, it looks just like the real thing."
Gong Fa: "What do you mean by 'seemingly real'? Can't it really be real?"
"Don't dream! How can I really sell it to you? And for such a low price? Fifty thousand! Do you know that a piece of Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain like this would cost at least a hundred or eighty thousand on the market now? And you bought it for fifty thousand, and you still think it's real?"
Although Gong Fa's friend said this, he actually began to examine the blue and white porcelain jar more carefully, because so far he had not found any obvious signs of forgery on the jar.
Could it be that this jar is really an antique from the Yuan Dynasty?!
No, he didn't believe it. He didn't think that Gong Fa, a layman, could be so lucky as to buy a real antique at such a low price.
He believed that he had not yet found any signs of fraud!
In this way, Gong Fa watched his friend use a magnifying glass to examine the large blue and white porcelain jar up and down, inside and out, carefully for two hours. Seeing that the sun was about to set outside, Gong Fa really lost his patience.
He yawned and asked, "Binzi, have you checked enough? It's been two hours!"
"Shut up! I haven't finished checking yet." Gong Fa's friend frowned and continued to hold the jar and observe.
"Oh, no, Binzi, you've been watching it for two hours. Why don't you tell me your conclusion? Is this thing real or fake?" Gong Fa stepped forward and tried to take back his jar.
"No, don't move!" But his friend refused to let go. "No, I have to take another look. I've been looking for a long time and I can't find any signs of forgery."
Gong Fa was amused: "There are no signs of forgery, doesn't that mean this thing is real?"
"No way could it be real? I must have failed to detect it! Well, Old Gong, leave this jar with me for now. I suspect the counterfeiter is too skilled. Wait for me to find someone to send it to an authentication agency for testing tomorrow."
Gong Fa nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's test it, let's test it."
Anyway, he is not in a hurry to send it to anyone, so it would be better to get a definite result.
Gong Fa's professor friend acted quickly and took the jar to have someone tested the next day. A few days after it was sent there, the testing agency quickly gave the results. They believed that this was real Yuan blue and white porcelain.
Because the chemical composition of this jar is consistent with that of the real Yuan blue and white porcelain.
After knowing this result, Gong Fa's professor friend was even more shocked than the owner of the jar, Gong Fa. He didn't expect that Gong Fa was so lucky to buy a real Yuan Dynasty antique at a cheap price.
After knowing the result, Gong Fa just felt that Shi Yue was a really good person. He probably gave him a discount because of his friendship with Yang Zhiqiang.
Hey, I told you there’s no need to do this. Forget it. Shi Yue has already sold everything to me. It’s too late for me to say this now. I can only find an opportunity to repay Shi Yue later.
Because of this, Gong Fa later helped Shi Yue introduce many antique buyers, allowing Shi Yue to make a lot of money. Of course, this is a story for later.
Back to Shi Yue and his daughter. Shi Yue didn't know that he had sold the large blue and white porcelain jar at a low price because he didn't understand the market price. He was still happy about the more than 40,000 yuan he had picked up for free.
Shi Yue, overjoyed, said with a flourish, "Xiao Qiu, our family is rich now, so I'll give you a raise. So, from now on, I'll give you two yuan a week."
Shi Qiushui's original pocket money was one dollar a week, but now it has doubled. Shi Qiushui was so happy that he danced with joy: "Wow wow wow!"
"Dad, you're so nice! You're simply the best dad in the world. I've never seen a dad as nice as you. If other kids knew how nice you are, they'd probably envy me to death..."
The happy little girl did not forget to praise her father.
She kept talking and the words she said were so sweet that passers-by were almost sick of them, but Shi Yue accepted it well.
He nodded without any shame: "Yes, I am indeed the best father in the world."
Shi Qiushui: "Hey, the best dad in the world, let's go home..."
"Okay, let's go home..."
The triumphant Shi Yue and the beaming Shi Qiu Shui went home happily, but as soon as they entered the yard, they ran into everyone in the compound who were all looking angry.
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