Chapter 456: Too Much Money to Spend
The goods in the car belonged to Fan Chengyao, and Gao Mingcheng also brought antiques to sell to Fan Chengyao, so he parked the car in Fan Chengyao's warehouse as if he was familiar with the place.
When Fan Chengyao arrived, Gao Mingcheng immediately took Fan Chengyao to see the treasure he had received.
Fan Chengyao looked at them one by one and was generally satisfied. Because Gao Mingcheng said he was not sure whether the bunk bed was from the Qing Dynasty, Fan Chengyao took a few more glances at it.
Finally, he said, "It should be from the late Qing Dynasty. The wood is old red wood, but the material is not the best. However, the workmanship is still that of the late Qing Dynasty. Once it is assembled and repaired, it will be much more beautiful. Some private museums will also collect this, but there is no rush to sell it. Wait for the price first and wait for the right time to make a move!"
The antiques brought by Gao Mingcheng are all of relatively recent vintage, with the exception of an inkstone collected from Wangjia Village, which is from the Ming Dynasty and is a relatively famous Jiangxi She inkstone.
The best She inkstone is the Longwei inkstone produced in Wuyuan. Its materials are taken from the streams around Longwei Mountain in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, so it is also called Longwei inkstone.
Fan Chengyao looked at the She inkstone from left to right, looking very fond of it. He first struck it with his fingers, and the inkstone immediately made a clear metallic sound. Then he blew air on it, and water vapor immediately came out of the moist inkstone. It is said that the She inkstone can be used to grind ink by blowing on it, and the ink is as good as oil, so it is of very good quality.
"This is a good thing! It has been a famous inkstone since the Tang Dynasty! Mingcheng, if you can still get a She inkstone, I will buy it at a high price!" Although Fan Chengyao has been a soldier, he is not a rough man. He has practiced calligraphy and painting since he was a child. After all, his family runs a kiln, and everyone in the family knows these basic skills.
Seeing how much Gao Mingcheng liked the She inkstone, a mysterious smile immediately appeared on his face.
Before coming, he had already left some good stuff.
Of course you should keep the top-quality goods for yourself. After ten years or so, the price can increase tens of thousands of times!
He received a total of three pieces of this kind of She inkstone. The two pieces he kept were of better stone than this one, and were finely carved, simple and elegant.
Gao Mingcheng planned to take out the ink to grind for Xiao Xuxu to practice calligraphy when he grew up!
Think about it, other children use purchased ink to practice calligraphy, while your own children use She inkstone to practice calligraphy. Isn’t this a higher level?
Gao Mingcheng and Fan Chengyao are old friends. Besides, before Gao Mingcheng collected the old items, Sai Yanfei gave him a rough price list.
Now Fan Chengyao gave corresponding prices one by one according to the quality of these goods, and it came to just over 40,000 yuan!
This profit!
However, the price given by Fan Chengyao was relatively high. If it were sold to someone else, they would lower the price by at least a thousand yuan.
After negotiating such a big deal, Fan Chengyao played with the She inkstone with a relaxed expression, preparing to call Gao Mingcheng home for dinner.
But Gao Mingcheng smiled and said, "Boss Fan, I have another good thing. It depends on whether you want it or not."
Fan Chengyao's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "What good stuff? Take it out quickly!"
Gao Mingcheng opened the luggage bag he was carrying and carefully took out the bezoar from it.
In order to prevent the bezoar from breaking, he wrapped it thickly.
Now he opened the largest piece of bezoar and found that it was not broken and was still in its complete shape.
In fact, it’s okay if the bezoar is crushed, as it is used as medicine anyway, but it will look more beautiful if it keeps its intact shape, especially if it is large in size, which has a shocking effect.
“This is…” Fan Chengyao was a little dumbfounded. He thought Gao Mingcheng was hiding some treasure, but it turned out to be a yellow stone?
It's obvious that the stone is very brittle and is not a famous stone!
Well, when Gao Mingcheng saw Fan Chengyao like this, he knew that Fan Chengyao did not recognize the bezoar.
He immediately rewrapped the bezoar. If he didn't know the value of it, he wouldn't be able to sell it at a high price!
Fan Chengyao was anxious. He did not recognize the bezoar, but seeing Gao Mingcheng's action, he guessed that it must be a treasure, so he immediately said: "Hey, don't put it away, what do you think this is?"
"Bezoar! Even if you haven't seen it, you must have heard of it, right?" Gao Mingcheng had just finished speaking when he saw the look of surprise on Fan Chengyao's face with satisfaction.
"Bezoar? I've never seen it before. Where did you get it from? It's more valuable than gold!"
Naturally, many people know the name of bezoar, but not everyone has seen its true appearance.
Although Fan Chengyao has a big business, he does not do many things personally. Most of the time, he is just a transit station, and the real sales terminal of the goods is controlled by Sai Yanfei.
Gao Mingcheng briefly explained the origin of bezoar, and then said: "Do you know anyone who wants it? Otherwise, I can only sell it to a random hospital in my hometown."
Fan Chengyao immediately said, "Don't sell it to others! Although I don't know anything about bezoar, I know someone who does! If your bezoar is good, I will pay a high price for it. I dare say that at least in Yangcheng, the price I offer is the highest!"
So Fan Chengyao immediately took out his mobile phone and made a phone call.
While waiting for someone, the two came to Fan Chengyao's home. After the nanny served them tea, she went back to the kitchen to busy herself.
Gao Mingcheng glanced around and found that there was a new screen in his living room on the second floor.
The screen is obviously an antique. It is a gold-painted screen. The overall color is bright and brilliant like brocade.
It’s a pity that Fan Chengyao’s decoration is more Western style, so this screen looks a bit out of place here.
Seeing Gao Mingcheng staring at the screen, Fan Chengyao said proudly: "This is a good thing I received not long ago! I plan to put it at home for a while!"
"Oh." Gao Mingcheng responded calmly. He did not ask more about the screen, but asked, "Where is Licheng? Haven't they returned from the capital yet?"
Fan Chengyao said, "They plan to come back the day after tomorrow. The house has already been bought, and Yan Fei even took him around most of the capital."
Fan Chengyao looked at Gao Mingcheng again and asked, "Mingcheng, have you ever been to the capital?"
Gao Mingcheng must have been there in his previous life, but he hadn't been there in this life, so he shook his head.
Fan Chengyao immediately said, "Then you should find an opportunity to go there. How can you not visit the Forbidden City and climb the Great Wall? But when I go there, the first thing I will do is to watch the flag-raising ceremony. Without the efforts of our ancestors and the strength of our country, we would not have the good life we have now."
Gao Mingcheng was filled with awe and said immediately, "I plan to go to the capital once I have some money."
Gao Mingcheng plans to buy a house in the capital before the housing prices rise, preferably two!
In addition, it is also possible to go to the capital during this period to buy some paintings by Lao Qi, Lao Zhang and Lao Xu. Their paintings are large in quantity and authentic, and their value is rising very quickly.
While the two were chatting, a man ran up from downstairs in a hurry.
He was a middle-aged man with a white face and no beard, and he was holding a small box in his hand.
"Boss Fan."
"Doctor Liu, come and sit here! My brother got some bezoars, please come and see their quality." Fan Chengyao stood up and motioned for Doctor Liu to take a seat.
Gao Mingcheng had already placed the bezoar on the coffee table and motioned for Dr. Liu to take a look at it.
Doctor Liu nodded to Gao Mingcheng as a greeting.
Then he opened the small box he carried with him, which contained a bag of silver needles and some bottles and jars. It could be considered a medical box.
Doctor Liu first uncovered the cotton wrapping the bezoar, looked at its shape, then smelled its odor, and finally picked up a silver needle and gently scraped off a little powder from the oval bezoar for tasting.
After tasting it, he rubbed the remaining bezoar powder back and forth on his nails for a while, then put his fingers into the water cup. After a while, he took his fingers out and rubbed them again, but found that the yellow color on his nails remained the same.
Then he picked up the water glass and shook it. A hint of light yellow slowly spread in the glass, and there was no residue at the bottom of the glass.
From then on, the identification was over.
Doctor Liu said: "This is pure bezoar, the quality is pretty good, it is first-class goods."
He also told them that he had just used the traditional Chinese medicine method, which was called "hanging armor". However, there are more standardized identification methods in modern Western medicine hospitals.
Because not all bezoars have medicinal value, the bilirubin level must meet the standard. Those with high bilirubin are called first-class goods, and the price will naturally be higher.
Gao Mingcheng was not interested in these identification methods, he was only interested in the price.
Bezoar, like gold, is priced by gram!
There has always been a saying that one ounce of bezoar is worth two ounces of gold.
Doctor Liu said fairly: "The Chinese medicine hospital charges 150 yuan per gram now. If you sell it to our clinic, we will charge you 155 yuan per gram! Your bezoar weighs at least one pound, which is a rare large bezoar."
Before Gao Mingcheng could say anything, Fan Chengyao had already spoken out to stop him.
"Doctor Liu! Sorry for the hassle. I'll send someone to deliver the appraisal fee to your store later. It's getting late, so I won't keep you here any longer."
As Fan Chengyao said this, he actually wanted to drive Dr. Liu away.
Doctor Liu was unwilling to leave, but he also knew that he could not win the competition with Fan Chengyao, so he looked at Gao Mingcheng and said, "Bezoar is hard to come by. I finally found it today. You can't let me go empty-handed. I won't fight with Boss Fan for the big ones. Can you sell these small ones to me?"
His tone was urgent and his eyes were sincere, which made it difficult for Gao Mingcheng to refuse immediately.
Nowadays, the price of gold is only 85 yuan per gram, but bezoar can be sold for 155 yuan per gram!
This is the purchase price. If you buy it at a hospital or clinic, the price will be higher.
Fan Chengyao wanted to chase the people away, and he had already taken the initiative to pack up Dr. Liu's medical box, and took Dr. Liu's hand to let him go.
Doctor Liu was still looking at the owner of the goods, Gao Mingcheng.
"Hey... Boss Fan, let's let Dr. Liu sit down and talk!" Gao Mingcheng said. He knew that after Fan Chengyao drove Dr. Liu away, he would definitely raise his price.
But he could see from Dr. Liu's eyes a doctor's desire for precious Chinese medicine.
Gao Mingcheng spoke up, and Fan Chengyao had to give him this face.
But he still complained: "If I didn't know how to identify bezoar, would I have called you? Giving you the appraisal fee is not enough, and you still want to snatch the good stuff from me!"
Doctor Liu said with a smile: "Then we don't need to pay for the appraisal fee!"
Fan Chengyao snorted a few words. If he paid the appraisal fee, he would be at a huge loss!
Doctor Liu didn't care about Fan Chengyao's attitude. He quickly opened his medical box and took out a medicine scale.
A medicine scale is a scale used by traditional Chinese medicine to weigh medicinal materials, and it can accurately weigh grams.
Doctor Liu did not touch the large piece of bezoar, but took out all the small ones and weighed them on the medicine scale.
These small calf gallstones are not heavy to begin with, and they become even lighter after being air-dried. The weight is not noticeable when held in the hand, but when weighed on a scale, it weighs 43 grams.
Doctor Liu reported the number and motioned Gao Mingcheng to come and take a look.
After confirming that everything was correct, he took out a wallet and counted out 6,665 yuan from it.
He laughed and said, “After receiving a call from Boss Fan, I brought the cash here specially!”
His tone was quite smug, and it was obvious that he had been planning to intercept from the very beginning.
Fan Chengyao hummed twice to show his dissatisfaction.
Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to take the money, but asked: "Doctor Liu, do you have Angong Niuhuang Pills for sale in your clinic?"
Gao Mingcheng was willing to sell bezoar to Dr. Liu at a low price, not out of pure charity, but because he wanted to buy Angong Niuhuang Pills from Dr. Liu.
Angong Niuhuang Pills are very famous and are known as a panacea. The Angong Niuhuang Pills made 93 years ago are the most precious because the current Angong Niuhuang Pills contain rhinoceros horns. However, after 1993, the trade and use of rhinoceros horns were banned worldwide, so the Angong Niuhuang Pills made after 1993 use buffalo horn concentrated powder.
What’s interesting is that the pills produced before 93 years ago did not have a shelf life indicated. Even if you buy these pills as a backup and don’t use them up, there is no need to worry, because in the future, someone will buy them back at a high price.
In later generations, the newly produced Angong Niuhuang Pills only cost 860 yuan per pill, but the recycling price of old Angong Niuhuang Pills is as high as 2,000 yuan per pill!
If it is auctioned, or someone offers to buy it at a high price, the price can even reach ten thousand yuan per pill.
It is said that it was for the rhinoceros horns in Lao'an Palace.
Gao Mingcheng was not sure about the details, but he knew that buying some Angong Niuhuang Pills now would be a sure win.
Doctor Liu smiled and said, "I didn't have it before, but now I have it! What's your friend's name?"
Gao Mingcheng said: "My last name is Gao, Doctor Liu can just call me Mingcheng."
"Brother Mingcheng, you want Angong Niuhuang Pills, right? How many pills do you want?" asked Doctor Liu.
Angong Niuhuang Pills are most famous for being produced by Tong Ren Tang in the capital, but this does not mean that the formula is exclusive to Tong Ren Tang.
Dr. Liu is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. He learned Chinese medicine from a master. His lineage also has the recipe for Angong Niuhuang Pills. The main ingredients of the pills are bezoar, rhinoceros horn, musk, pearl, cinnabar, realgar, coptis chinensis, scutellaria baicalensis, gardenia, curcuma, and borneol.
Other medicinal materials are common, but the three main ones are difficult to gather. However, at this time, rhino horns can be traded freely, and natural musk can also be obtained through hunting. Only bezoar is hard to come by!
Gao Mingcheng said generously: "Ten pills first!"
He decided to collect ten pills here, and then buy ten pills from Tong Ren Tang when he returned to the capital, and then see if there was any difference between the two.
Doctor Liu said, "This medicine weighs three grams per pill, and costs one hundred yuan. This price is for friends only!"
Gao Mingcheng had no intention of bargaining and agreed generously.
So Dr. Liu took back another thousand yuan and handed the remaining five thousand yuan to Gao Mingcheng.
"It will take some time to make the pills. Once they are made, I will leave them with Boss Fan. Is that okay with you?"
"Okay!" Gao Mingcheng nodded.
After the summer vacation is over, he will have to go to Yangcheng again to pick up Fan Licheng and take him back to his hometown.
After settling the matter, Dr. Liu left happily, taking the bezoar he had just obtained.
Next, Fan Chengyao and Gao Mingcheng discussed business.
Since Fan Chengyao didn't allow Dr. Liu to buy it, the price he offered would naturally be higher than Dr. Liu's.
Fan Chengyao added another five yuan to the price charged by Doctor Liu. He had asked Doctor Liu to weigh the largest piece of bezoar. After air-drying, it was just over one pound, or 503 grams.
Gao Mingcheng's brain was calculating frantically. Although his knowledge was not very good, his ability in accounting was beyond doubt. Soon, he calculated the final price.
80,480 yuan!
Adding the calf gallbladders sold to Dr. Liu, the total was 87,145 yuan, and he bought the old ox for 800 yuan. This round trip meant a hundred times profit!
Even Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but be overjoyed!
When counting the money, he felt happy as if the money in his hands was too much and too thick for his big hands to hold.
Seeing how happy he was, Fan Chengyao couldn't help but say, "Last time we met, you were crying poor, but this time you're finally not poor anymore!"
"I'm not poor anymore! The God of Wealth has finally favored me!" Gao Mingcheng counted the money while thinking about how to spend it.
You can’t spend it all, you can’t spend it all!
I started writing at 9:30 in the morning, but I have only just finished writing a single word... Procrastination and lack of self-discipline have seriously hindered my ability to become a god! !
(End of this chapter)
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