Chapter 69: I built the Forbidden City
The tour guide was still a little worried about Xu Youyou, so he took the toothbrush and started brushing the bronze object according to her instructions.
"It's quite difficult to brush, there's a lot of resistance." the tour guide complained.
Xu Youyou said: "This is an old thing. It must have been there for a long time, so it is so difficult to brush."
When the tour guide heard her personally confirm that it was an old thing, he was delighted and stopped complaining.
After the tour guide had been brushing for five minutes, Xu Youyou finally said, "It's OK."
The tour guide held the toothbrush soaked in water and turned around to look at Xu Youyou curiously: "Miss Xu, do you see anything?"
Xu Youyou: "Breathe into it."
The tour guide honestly came over and exhaled.
"It turns red when you breathe out." This was the only sentence Xu Youyou said.
The tour guide still looked confused, his eyes full of anxiety: "Does a red breath mean it's especially valuable?"
Xu Youyou did not answer immediately, but said: "Let me see how many inscriptions there are."
The guide turned the thing around and said, "Four inscriptions."
Xu Youyou was shocked: "The four inscriptions are the same as those in the Forbidden City."
She deliberately lowered her voice, and the tour guide didn't hear her clearly, so he asked her to confirm: "Same as who? Forbidden City? Are you talking about the Forbidden City?"
The tour guide could guess the value of the antiques placed in the Forbidden City without Xu Youyou telling him, so he paid special attention to this.
Xu Youyou nodded casually, and then looked at it for a long time before saying, "The Taotie pattern should be an old item from the Western Zhou Dynasty."
The tour guide's face was even more delighted: "It's something from the Western Zhou Dynasty. It's so old now, it should be quite valuable?"
Xu Youyou did not answer on the spot, but said: "Judging from the number of inscriptions, it should be a burial object of a minor prince."
"I've heard that in the antique business, the higher the status of the owner, the higher the price he can sell it for," the tour guide said anxiously.
Xu Youyou nodded: "Indeed."
"How much is it worth?" The tour guide was very concerned about this question and had asked it several times.
Xu Youyou: "Five... No, ten million, I want it."
The tour guide was ecstatic, but he soon realized something was wrong, because after citing the price, Xu Youyou seemed even happier than him.
"You just said there is a similar thing in the Forbidden City?" The tour guide brought up the matter again.
Xu Youyou frowned slightly and said, "The one in the Forbidden City doesn't have a lid, and there's no clear valuation. Yours doesn't have a lid either, and it's an incomplete bronze tripod. The price I gave you is already very affordable."
The tour guide immediately said: "Who said I don't have a lid? I have a lid. The Forbidden City doesn't have a lid, but I do!"
His brother had been waiting by the side and immediately took out a bronze lid from somewhere.
Xu Youyou's eyes narrowed, and then he said, "Since you have the lid, it's a complete set. I can pay a little more, 20 million."
When the tour guide's brother heard this, he wanted to agree immediately, but the tour guide held his good brother down.
"Boss, this price is too low. This is a treasure passed down from my brother's ancestors. Please give me a realistic price."
His good brother was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he reacted and nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, this is passed down from my ancestors."
Xu Youyou glanced at the two of them, but didn't expose them. Instead, she said, "Then I'll give you 30 million. With this money, you won't have to work so hard in the future."
The tour guide's brother tugged at the guide's sleeve and whispered, "Brother, I think thirty million is not a small amount."
The tour guide glared at my brother. He rolled his eyes and said with a hard heart, "No, 30 million is too little. At least 500 million... No, I want 100 million!"
He originally felt that he was asking for too much.
But surprisingly, Xu Youyou didn't even blink: "One hundred million is fine, just consider it fate."
The tour guide instantly felt that he had suffered a loss.
Xu Youyou added: "It's just that I don't have that much money in my account right now. I have to wait for half a month before I can pay you after the funds are recovered."
The tour guide looked alert and said, "You have to pay with one hand and get the goods with the other. If the money is not received, I can't give you the goods!"
Xu Youyou's face was full of pity, and she said, "I know the rules, don't worry, I will definitely give you what you deserve, but you are not allowed to find another buyer!"
The tour guide's eyes flickered, but he kept agreeing.
Xu Youyou rejected their invitation to stay for dinner and said, "I paid you to take me on a trip, and I haven't had enough fun yet. Just call the company to raise the money, don't worry."
The tour guide quickly agreed: "Okay, don't worry, I'm a professional tour guide and I won't abandon guests halfway. But there's nothing fun to see here. You've seen everything you should see in the past two days. There's sand everywhere."
His mind was already wandering off to who knows where. On the short few hundred meters out of the village, he would have bumped into trees countless times if Xu Youyou's bodyguard hadn't held him up in time.
After a lot of effort, they arrived at the entrance of the village. Two luxury cars were waiting on the roadside. Xu Youyou got on one of them. The tour guide wanted to follow them. He had been sitting in the passenger seat of this car and explaining the local customs and practices along the way to Xu Youyou.
Xu Youyou said, "You take the car behind. My clothes are a little dusty and I want to change my clothes."
When the tour guide saw the black spots on Xu Youyou's white trouser legs, he didn't doubt it at all and just muttered in his heart that rich people have many problems.
After getting in the car, Xu Fang was about to press the baffle between the front and rear seats, but Xu Youyou shook her head: "No, drive your car along the designated route for ten minutes and stop."
Xu Fang didn't understand, but didn't ask any more questions.
In the car behind, the tour guide wanted to sit in the passenger seat, but was pulled to the back seat by a bodyguard, who said that the tour guide was thin and it would not be crowded for three people to sit in the back seat.
Ten minutes after the car drove out, Xu Youyou's car in front stopped, and the cars behind also stopped.
The tour guide craned his neck to look forward and asked, "Why did the car stop working properly? Did it stall? It looks like the car is not performing well. I will definitely not buy it if I have money later."
During the ten minutes on the journey, the tour guide had thought carefully about how he would spend the money after getting it, and did not notice that the crisis was quietly approaching. He even thought that if a buyer richer than Xu Youyou appeared, he would immediately change people.
The two bodyguards held the tour guide down on the left and right, and their cell phones were taken out and put aside.
"What are you doing? What are you going to do? Are you going to rob us?" the tour guide shouted.
Xu Youyou got out of the car in front and looked at the exasperated tour guide through the car window: "You are an average tour guide, but you are very professional in other things."
(End of this chapter)
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