"Stop, stop, stop!"
"Stop right there!"
"Stop wasting your breath on these junk items in your own shop. Don't try to fool me with these modern handicrafts."
"Besides, I'm not really interested in these things."
"Let's take a look at your so-called treasures first."
"I hope it's not just another pile of scrap metal!"
The boss was speechless after hearing Zhang Long's words, and felt incredibly frustrated.
They had no choice but to take out one packet of silver dollars after another from a small box, totaling about a hundred dollars.
Zhang Long found it quite novel. CITIC Bank had given him a lot of silver dollars before, so he started fiddling with them, picking out any that were the same.
In the end, only a dozen or so slightly different ones remained, and then the few obviously fake silver dollars were picked out.
Is it really appropriate for such a small shop to mix in items that could be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars?
Seeing Zhang Long pick out all the "best" items, the boss felt a real pang of regret.
But that's how antiques are; if you misjudge something, you can't explain it anywhere, and you can only blame yourself.
In the end, Zhang Long picked out seven silver dollars from the pile. Some were real and some were fake, but he didn't care. He just considered it tuition.
After paying, Zhang Long pulled a crazy move.
"Boss, could you tell me which of these silver coins are real and which are fake?"
Seeing the boss's astonished expression, Zhang Long transferred another 1,000 yuan to him.
The boss only came to his senses when the notification sound of "1000 yuan received from Zhifubao" rang.
I gave him a thumbs up, and then picked out two of the seven silver dollars he had bought. Fortunately, only those two were fake.
After receiving the money, the boss actually did his job, analyzing the counterfeit goods for Zhang Long from a professional perspective.
Hey, you know what, these antique dealers have an absolutely amazing eye for things. Trying to find a bargain from them is harder than climbing to heaven!
In the end, he spent 500 yuan to take the box with him. The main reason was that Zhang Long's tuition fee of 1,000 yuan had left a very good impression on the boss.
That box was a modern jewelry box, but it was quite exquisite in design.
With the seven fruits of victory and a quest item jewelry box, he headed straight home.
To say that nine out of ten flea markets are fake and only one is genuine is an understatement.
If he goes in now, he'll probably only get ripped off, and he won't have a good ending.
When he got home, he put the real silver coins into a box specifically for storing silver coins, and kept the two fake ones with him to play with.
Then he began to examine the jewelry box. To be honest, without the system's task prompts, he really wouldn't have been able to see anything special about the jewelry box.
From the outside, this jewelry box looks like a small wooden box used by women in wealthy families to store their jewelry. The surface of the box is polished very smoothly, and the sides are carved with patterns of flowers, birds, and animals.
The jewelry box is very delicate and small, after all, it is for women, and it is usually placed on the dressing table or in the cabinet.
The box opens from the top, with two small drawers on each of the left, right, and bottom sides.
If we're talking about mechanisms, he immediately thought of a cleverly designed hidden compartment inside the box that could be opened by pressing or turning a small part.
He searched the entire box but found nothing; it was completely empty, and even the drawers could be taken out normally.
He took a ruler and measured around, trying to see if there were any hidden compartments or anything like that in the box.
The only slightly odd thing is that the two small drawers of this box are a bit off.
He felt something was off, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. He tried switching the drawer left and right, but found that it still wouldn't fit, so he gave up.
However, it wasn't without its rewards; he discovered two small card slots on the edges of the two small drawers below.
If he hadn't touched it with his hand, it would have been really hard to find this thing.
Zhang Long shoved the drawer back in, then pulled it out again based on his memory of the slot's location.
He fiddled with it for a long time, and finally heard a soft "click".
He thought he had the mechanism under control, but before he could even feel smug, reality slapped him in the face.
Nothing happened.
If it's not this mechanism, then how is this thing opened?
It seems he underestimated the skills of those craftsmen from the past.
Then he remembered the scenes from TV shows. Maybe there was a rotating part inside the box that could be turned in a special way to reveal different storage spaces or open a passage to other hidden areas.
Zhang Long put on gloves and thoroughly examined the entire jewelry box, even shining a powerful flashlight inside, but still found no valuable clues.
He spent the entire day arguing with this jewelry box, and Zhang Long's temper was rising rapidly.
He was on the verge of exploding, and he really wanted to grab a hammer and give that broken little box a good beating.
Take two deep breaths, reminding yourself to be patient; patience brings peace, and taking a step back...
"I can't help it!"
He went to the gym and vented his frustration by punching a sandbag.
Ten minutes later, Zhang Longcai, having regained his composure, returned to continue studying the box.
All he knows now is that the box definitely has a mechanism, and there are two latches on the drawer.
The experiment just now has confirmed this hypothesis.
But what exactly is the purpose of this clip?
He tapped the box with his hand, but there was no response.
This time he decided to try a different method. He picked up a doctor's stethoscope, wedged the drawer in a specific position, and gently pushed and pulled it, but nothing happened.
Next, Zhang Long fiddled with another drawer, then switched the two drawers and tried it again.
The drawers on both sides were also pulled out, but the boxes on both sides didn't seem to have any special mechanisms; they were just ordinary drawers.
Seeing that all four drawers had been pulled out and placed together, he suddenly couldn't resist sweeping all of them onto the floor.
He gets so angry just looking at this thing now that he wants to stomp on it a couple of times.
Annoyed, Zhang Long took out a cigarette, lit it, took two deep breaths, and finished the cigarette in a few seconds.
He stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray and was about to pick up a few drawers when he seemed to realize something was wrong.
He noticed a small detail.
As I mentioned before, he always felt that these two drawers looked a bit strange.
But when he turned the drawer over and compared the left drawer with the right compartment, hey, the pattern on the outside of the drawer actually matched the pattern on the box itself!
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