Liu Zi was startled; it seemed so!
It looks like the one that she bought personally from Da Piao Liang in her past life.
Liu Zi tried a few other keys, and they were indeed very similar.
If it weren't for the different color, she would have thought it was the same one.
After a few seconds of hesitation, Liu Zi continued trying out the pianos until she had tried all of the Schweitzer pianos before stopping.
"Miss, how are you feeling?" the boss asked cautiously.
"Not bad!" Liu Zi nodded.
"What's the price of this Schweppes piano?"
The shop owner rubbed his hands together and explained, "This Schweitzer piano is an internationally renowned brand, a beautiful imported piece, so naturally it's much more expensive than our domestically produced or ordinary pianos."
"I know, just tell me the price!" Liu Zi didn't want to listen to her boss's nonsense; she knew about Shiwei's brand history herself.
"Due to the materials and the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, this instrument costs between 10,000 and several hundred thousand yuan," the shop owner said with a bitter smile.
He took over the store from a friend. The purchase of goods and the transfer of the store cost him a lot of money. He was originally full of ambition and ready to make a big splash.
But the first month brought him back to reality. Not only did he fail to sell a single piano, he also lost a lot of money on labor costs.
With only expenses and no income each month, the owner couldn't hold on any longer and had to lay off all the employees, keeping only himself to manage the store.
Fortunately, the security at Haifeng Shopping Mall is quite good; otherwise, with so many expensive pianos here, the owner would have to guard the place 24/7.
"What are the prices of this one, this one, and this one?" Liu Zi seemed to casually select three pianos, but the one she actually liked was among them.
"Miss Liu has excellent taste. These are all classic Schweppes models. The first one is the basic model, priced at 27,000 yuan; the second one is the flagship model, priced at 65,000 yuan; and the third one is the high-end model, priced at 134,000 yuan." After saying this, the shopkeeper seemed a little puzzled. How come he just happened to pick these three?
"Boss, can you make the second one cheaper? I won't go anywhere else." Liu Zi stopped beating around the bush and stated her purpose directly.
The boss was initially delighted, but then hesitated.
"Why don't you name a price, Miss? If I can sell it, I definitely will." The shop owner said through gritted teeth. These pianos were all valuable items, not edible or drinkable. His wife had been angry with him for months because he opened this shop.
Let's sell as many as we can!
"I'm not going to joke around with you anymore. 60,000 yuan. If you agree, I'll go home and raise the money right away."
The boss was heartbroken. This young lady was too ruthless. After deducting costs, he basically didn't make any money.
"Miss, you've cut too much. Could you add some more? I really can't sell any more!" the shopkeeper pleaded, pretending to cry.
Liu Zi looked at the shop owner suspiciously: "You were the one who told me to name a price, and now you're saying it can't be sold. Do you even want to sell it?"
"Of course I'd like to sell, but I really can't sell at this price! Why don't you look at some other ones?" The shop owner really didn't want to miss out on this deal.
Liu Zi chuckled. The price of this piano was not a small sum of money in this day and age; with a little more effort, it could buy a house in the suburbs of Beijing.
The owner owns such a large, high-end piano store, so he must be quite wealthy. But now he has to run the store himself, which means business here is really not good.
"Sixty-one thousand yuan, that's all I have. Sell it or leave." After saying that, Liu Zi made a move to leave.
The boss quickly called out to stop the person. Haifeng Shopping Mall did have a large flow of people, but the competition was also fierce. Once he let the person out, he knew they would never come back.
He rubbed his face twice, then nodded in agreement with a dejected expression.
Liu Zi paid a deposit, and the two signed a purchase contract, agreeing to deliver the goods two days later and pay upon delivery.
She then went down to the second floor, found a relatively large guitar shop, and bought a guitar that was fairly suitable for her for eight hundred yuan. She didn't care much about the price.
After leaving, Liu Zi headed towards the West District. In her previous life, she had heard some friends who played folk musical instruments say that they had found some good second-hand musical instruments in the West District of Haifeng in the 1990s. This time, Liu Zi was not only going to buy, but also to hunt for good deals.
Some masterpieces were lost to the world in their early years due to special circumstances. Some of them are genuine, but there are even more fakes. Whether you can find something good depends entirely on your discerning eye.
Liu Zi glanced at her watch; there was still time, so she decided to start browsing from the third floor, one shop at a time.
To be honest, Liu Zi felt quite ashamed. She didn't know much about traditional Chinese music before. When she was a child, it was popular to learn piano and violin.
As for traditional Chinese instruments such as the guzheng, erhu, and dizi, not many people pay attention to them, as everyone thinks learning them is outdated.
But it wasn't until twenty years later that you realized that only traditional Chinese musical instruments could produce our own sounds.
Liu Zi sought out a teacher specifically to learn the erhu in order to portray a master of folk music. After that, she became so engrossed in it that she also explored other instruments such as the flute and guzheng.
However, after browsing through the entire third floor without finding a piano that interested her, Liu Zi began to doubt what her friend had told her. Could it be that the guy had lied to her back then?
Knowing there was another floor upstairs, Liu Zi decided to give it a try and went up. She had already planned that if she didn't find anything good, she would go back downstairs and buy the few things that she had just thought looked decent.
Just as she reached the top of the stairs, she suddenly heard a commotion coming from upstairs.
Is someone fighting?
Liu Zi noticed that all the merchants on the fourth floor, who had no business, were peeking out to watch the commotion; it seemed everyone was quite bored.
Instead of continuing forward, she approached a shop next door and asked a woman what was going on.
The eldest sister was also a gossip, and when Liu Zi asked her about it, she excitedly recounted the whole story.
It turns out that some unfilial descendants took out musical instruments that their elderly parents had kept for many years and put them up for sale. The old man came to the shop owner hoping that the shop owner could return them to him.
But the boss originally bought the old man out of stock for 1,000, and then sold him to the old man for 20,000. The old man couldn't afford it and could only come back to beg the boss again and again.
Liu Zi frowned. Why did she feel like she had heard someone mention this before?
It's that unreliable friend of hers!
Liu Zi always felt that she had forgotten something important.
Just then, gasps of surprise erupted from the crowd.
Immediately someone shouted for an ambulance.
Liu Zi felt a 'buzz' in her mind, and she remembered.
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