The saying goes, "One should be grateful for the favor given to him, and one should be grateful for the favor given to him." This applies to the doctors and nurses in the infectious disease department.
Look, Chen Xia took another leave today. With a new department director, he will definitely be so annoyed that he will pull out all his hair. He will also be despised and complained by his colleagues.
But everyone in the infectious department, from the director to the nurses, has been bribed, and no one will make things difficult for Chen Xia.
Chen Xia had to stay at home and keep an eye on it because it involved a business worth hundreds of millions.
People's hearts cannot stand the test. No matter how honest Old Man Ying is, if the master is not around and lets him choose alone, wouldn't that be a test of his determination?
In the morning, after Chen Qiu and Chen Dong went to school, Chen Xia respectfully welcomed Ying Yuanyue's arrival.
After a day of identification, and after repeated inspections by Ying Yuanyue, the two found 23 "heirloom" level antiques.
The most regrettable thing is that those calligraphy and paintings have basically been severely rotted and eaten by insects. Unless we find a cultural relic expert in the future, it will be difficult to restore them.
There are only a few paintings left in good condition, and after careful identification by Ying Yuanyue, they were preliminarily determined to be fakes.
Since ancient times, there have been too many forgeries of calligraphy and paintings, which also left a psychological shadow on Chen Xia.
In addition, Ying Yuanyue pointed out that there are a total of 55 antiques, which the collector can sell if he has the opportunity in the future. As for other general cultural relics, there are countless of them.
This time, "garbage collection" is really clever.
This laid the foundation for Chen Xia to become a "famous antiquities dealer" in the future, of course, this is a story for later.
It would take at least 20 years to realize the profits. For now, if Chen Xia wants to get rich, he still has to rely on selling medicine and rice and become a happy speculator.
After all the antiques were appraised, Chen Xia specially invited Ying Yuanyue to drink tea in the main hall. People from the old society were particularly fond of this set of false etiquette.
Ying Yuanyue, holding his teacup, slowly circled the living room tables and chairs, nodding secretly. This action confirmed Chen Xia's suspicion that the furniture in Li Changming's house indeed held a hidden secret.
"Brother Chen, do you know what the table and chairs we are sitting on are made of?"
"I only know it's rosewood, but I'm not sure what kind of rosewood it is. Please advise, Master Ying."
"These are all red sandalwood, the finest redwood. In the past, it was only available to the royal family and officials."
When Chen Xia heard this, he thought, well, another windfall.
He had also heard of this rosewood. Later, the wife of "Tang Monk" particularly liked this kind of furniture and called it the "Queen of Rosewood". It is said that this wood is quite expensive.
Chen Xia became interested, so he took Old Man Ying to the bedroom and study to take a look, and then he knew the final answer to the grand prize.
They are all made of rosewood, but judging from the styles, they belong to different styles, some are Qing Dynasty style and some are Ming Dynasty style. The ones in the living room and the room should not be a complete set.
I believe the owner of the plum garden must have put a lot of thought into buying these furniture and spent a lot of money on them.
Although Li Changming knew that these were all rosewood, he did not have a good prediction of the future value of rosewood, and as a result, all of them went to Chen Xia.
Ying Yuanyue also joked that these pieces of furniture could be considered heirlooms, and it would be quite difficult to collect so many pieces of rosewood furniture in the future.
One is that most of the experienced carpenters have died, and the second is that large pieces of red sandalwood have become difficult to obtain.
Before Ying Yuanyue left, Chen Xia gave him another 200 yuan reward.
This time he did not refuse, but promised that Chen Xia could come to him if he had any old items to appreciate in the future, and he solemnly promised that he would not tell anyone about what he saw in the plum garden in the past two days.
After Old Man Ying left, Chen Xia thought about how there were more and more precious antiques and curios in big cities like the capital and Shanghai, but he had no way to go and buy them. It felt like he had missed out on billions of dollars in one go.
This is truly a golden age for antiquities dealers.
It is better to become famous early and to get rich early.
A few days later, Chen Xia finally went to work honestly. Like in his previous life, he became a "salted fish" in the department. He had no diploma and no right to prescribe.
Theoretically, he is just an ordinary worker with a low salary of 28 yuan, and there is not much work he can do in the clinical field.
But there is one advantage of being a general worker: before obtaining a certificate of completion, you don’t have to work night shifts or visit the outpatient clinic alone.
In fact, going to work is like "going to school" for him. There are no specific clinical tasks. As long as his teaching teacher Ren Yuanfei has no objection, he will not interfere with anyone's interests.
There was no conflict of interest, and since he was a generous person who often treated his colleagues to meals, his colleagues in the department were happy to be nice people and were very tolerant of his occasional leave.
She is about to replace Gu Lin as the "darling" of the infectious disease department.
The influenza epidemic raged for more than a month and finally ended before the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
In the past month, Chen Xia earned a total of 10,000 yuan in cash and more than 5,000 kilograms of rice by selling "miracle drugs".
In exchange for "junk old items", the rice was almost all given to the canteens of various agencies.
The cash is actually more, and with the remaining money after buying the house, there is already more than 20,000 yuan. This amount is quite impressive.
Chen Xia suspected that there must be quite a few hidden millionaires like him.
For example, when the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was just established, the first commercial housing community was put on sale in 1981, with prices as high as 1,000 yuan per square meter. Although most of the owners were Hong Kong people and overseas Chinese, there were also some mainland Chinese buyers.
A house costs about 50,000 yuan. Even someone with a golden finger like Chen Xia can't make that much money. How do those buyers make it?
So, the pig farmer in Dongguan Province reported in the newspaper, the first 10,000 yuan household, was only a 10,000 yuan household in name only.
The truly wealthy are all giants hidden beneath the surface, unknown to outsiders. Moreover, it is certain that the source of their money is unclear and cannot withstand scrutiny.
Chen Xia did not feel complacent about having more than 20,000 yuan. Instead, he was a little worried.
Starting from 1981, prices were about to start soaring, and the prices reached their peak in 1988.
Saving money is a stupid idea, you have to find a way to invest it.
It is not a good time to set up a factory now, we have to wait a few more years.
In 1980, the restrictions on self-employed individuals were relaxed, but they were limited to small businesses such as car repair and shoe mending.
If you really want to set up a factory, there is only one way, and that is to register it under a collective name, which involves the big problem of unclear property rights in the future.
It would be fine if the factory eventually closed down, but if it grew bigger and stronger, who would own it? Many unspeakable tragedies would occur.
So in the early 1980s, Chen Xia just wanted to continue being a happy speculator.
Make money slowly, find a stable investment method, and then develop slowly.
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