"Monkey, find a middleman and buy those two bronze knights, but the price should be lower, as low as 50,000 each..."
Zhuang Rui sat in the "Xuan Ruizhai" compartment of Panjiayuan and called in the monkey who was busy outside.
Yesterday, I had an agreement with Miao Feifei to pay for the two cultural relics first. If the police can do their job well and Yu Zhenping comes back to me to sell the antiques, then everything will go according to plan.
But if the police messed up and failed to make Yu Zhenping lose all his money, then these two bronze pieces will belong to Zhuang Rui. They cannot be regarded as buying stolen goods. This is what Zhuang Rui spent all his time to give to himself yesterday.
A little benefit gained.
"Brother Zhuang, didn't you say you don't want to buy it?"
The monkey was a little puzzled. Zhuang Rui himself said the consequences were so serious yesterday. Why did he decide to buy it after one night?
"Go ahead and buy it if you are told. Why are you asking so many questions? As long as I can negotiate 50,000 for one, I will buy it. He will probably ask for cash. You need to find someone you can trust..."
The biggest headache for Zhuang Rui in the plan is the middleman. Zhuang Rui can't find him. People like Fatty Jin can do it. They have also bought and sold black market antiques, but this matter has a certain degree of danger, and he has to hide it beforehand.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhuang Rui decided to let the monkey find the others.
As the saying goes, every time a righteous man kills dogs, monkeys hang out in Panjiayuan all day long. In addition, people are smart and generous, so they make many buddies. Of course, whether they are fair-weather friends or brothers who can stand up for each other is another matter.
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Monkey slapped his small chest full of ribs loudly, and said: "Brother Zhuang, don't worry, Monkey is also well-known in Panjiayuan now. There is absolutely no problem in finding someone to do this, but I
I’m afraid… I can’t negotiate the price…”
"How do you know it doesn't work if you haven't tried it?"
Zhuang Rui waved his hand and said: "Two bronze knights, one hundred thousand yuan, tell that person if you want to sell them, they can trade them immediately. If you don't want to sell them, ask him to choose someone else. But there is one thing you can explain. If there are still heavy weapons,
, I will pay a big price to buy it, and we can discuss it in detail then..."
Not selling? If not, the two Bronze Lords in this area of Beijing city will not be sold. Just last night after Zhuang Rui agreed to cooperate with the police, all the buyers who had contacted Yu Zhenping were arrested by the police.
Visited them one by one.
Of course, they didn't ask them to refuse Yu Zhenping, which would alert the snake. If seven or eight people refused at the same time, Yu Zhenping would definitely be suspicious. The police just asked these people to lower the price to less than 50,000. This was to force Yu Zhenping to sell
Zhuang Rui.
"By the way, after that, give the middleman 10,000 yuan..."
Zhuang Rui thought for a moment and then explained: "There must be no problems with the middleman. The money must be handed over to the other party. After the matter is settled, you come to me and I will give you the bank card..."
"Okay, Brother Zhuang, just relax. If I, the monkey, can't even handle this, I won't have the shame to follow you..."
After arriving in Beijing, Daxiong became more and more stable, and his position in the store gradually became more important, while Monkey became a dispensable character. By the way, those antique jewelry all have prices marked on them, so who can't be sold to them?
Therefore, Monkey's psychological pressure is relatively high during this period. With such a high monthly salary, if he doesn't do something for Zhuang Rui, he will be embarrassed to stay.
"Okay, you kid, don't just practice talking, finish this matter, there will be many things for you to do in the future..."
Zhuang Rui smiled and patted Monkey on the shoulder. The museum was about to open. He didn't have any manpower at all. Monkey was a good talker. He could be a commentator in the museum by then, but he didn't know if he would be willing.
Zhuang Rui was really busy during this period. He originally wanted to go to the construction site to see the museum site when he returned home, but he was distracted by this matter, and the museum's security team hadn't found him yet. Zhuang Rui just ordered Hao Long this morning.
, and asked him to find some retired comrades to come and help.
As for Peng Fei, Zhuang Rui didn't ask him at all. In his army, the lowest rank was second lieutenant, and basically no one retired. Even if he was older, he would serve as an instructor in the ordinary army. It was impossible to go anywhere.
I worked in a previous museum.
Panjiayuan, located near the East Third Ring Road, is always so lively, and the surrounding areas are also prosperous. The location itself is good, and with the help of the Panjiayuan Antique Market, the consumption is not much worse than in the central area.
Not far from Panjiayuan, there is a community. Unlike the residential buildings surrounded by skyscrapers, this community is all seven-story buildings without elevators. Most of the people who live here are old people.
Beijing.
Most of the people living in this community are the demolished households of the former quadrangles. However, some people were divided into several houses after the demolition. They did not sell them. They renovated them slightly and rented them out, and the rent was not low, usually two or two.
The rent for a house with one bedroom and one living room is several thousand yuan.
Most of the people who can afford to rent these houses are white-collar workers. Every morning and evening when they get off work, fashionable women and men in suits and ties are busy walking in and out of the community.
But many people don't know that there is another level of people living in this community, and there are more people than those white-collar workers. This is the basement crowd in Beijing.
Since the 1980s, Beijing has built a large number of underground civil defense projects in conjunction with above-ground construction. Some have been converted into storage rooms, but many more are idle.
Due to the lack of special funds for maintenance and the lack of dedicated management, many underground civil air defense projects are piled up with garbage and are becoming dilapidated.
In order to change the messy and messy situation of underground civil air defense projects, in the 1990s, the Beijing government proposed the policy of "promoting management through use and nourishing holes through holes" to encourage everyone to use civil air defense projects and charge a certain usage fee.
After the policy was adopted, the lessees at that time began to use civil air defense projects to open underground hotels, but the number was not large.
However, by the late 1990s, with the influx of a large number of immigrants, this situation became very different. By 2004, Beijing had reached a peak in the rental of civil air defense projects. According to statistics, the number of people living in basements in Beijing was
It has reached nearly one million.
This kind of basement is completely different from the basement where Wang Qiming, played by Jiang Wen, lived in the TV series "Beijing Man in New York" when he first went to New York. Generally, it is only three to five square meters in size. After putting down a bed, it becomes difficult to even turn around.
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The monthly rent for a basement like this is about three to four hundred. Most of the people living here are migrant workers. They work for a living during the day, doing the most menial jobs for the meager wages, and return to the ground at night.
Below, in a space as big as a matchbox, I curled up and waited for dawn.
Due to the low housing prices, the management can't keep up. It's not like a hotel. You have to show your ID card to stay. As long as you can afford the rent, the landlord doesn't care. So it's a mixed bag, and it's extremely chaotic.
The quality of the people who lived here was relatively high in their early years. Many celebrities such as Sun Nan and Xu Wei came from the basement when they moved to the north. However, in recent years, the reputation of the basement has not been very good.
You can often see in the news that a naked girl died in a basement. No need to ask, it must be the lady who took the client home to do some business, or the prostitute didn't agree on the money, or she met the guy who ate the chicken and tried to steal it.
Yes, in short, the basement has slowly become a place for crime.
If most people come to these basements, they will definitely experience dampness, decay, smallness, dullness and darkness. However, for Yu Zhenping, it made him relax a lot after he had been depressed for most of half a year.
Compared with the sunshine outside, Yu Zhenping is more accustomed to staying in such a place, which is damp and corrosive, small, dull and dark.
, isn’t it similar to a tomb?
Yu Zhenping, who has lived for thirty-two years and spent half of his time underground, is very adaptable to such an environment. If possible, Yu Zhenping is willing to live in such a place for the rest of his life. The darkness makes him feel safe.
However, I am now in a very bad mood, for no other reason. During this period, several people who play antiques I found said they wanted his two objects, but the prices were very low. One of them even
I am only willing to pay 5,000 yuan for one, and 10,000 yuan for two.
Yu Zhenping knew that these people saw that his items came from shady sources, so they lowered the prices. Yu Zhenping was angry about this, but also helpless, because now he was almost at the end of his rope.
After escaping from Shaanxi, Yu Zhenping was penniless and his bank account was all in the hands of Boss Yu. He did not dare to go home or go to crowded places.
Yu Zhenping walked along the railway for four days. When he was hungry, he went to the rag-picking house next to the railway to steal something to eat. When he was thirsty, he drank water from the maintenance valve. Finally, he came to Zhengzhou, Henan, where Boss Yu had arranged three
The foothold.
The cultural relics they had stolen but not sold over the years were all hidden in these three places. However, what made Yu Zhenping despair was that he only found 600 yuan from the three places.
Although Yu Zhenping is small, what can 600 yuan be used for? So Yu Zhenping took a bronze candlestick, used the 600 yuan for travel expenses, ran to Hebei, and sold the bronze candlestick for 20,000 yuan, but
While trading, I was spotted by the police.
Yu Zhenping threw down the candlestick and grabbed the money. He escaped in a thrilling way because he was small and could easily hide.
But what made Yu Zhenping so angry that he almost vomited blood was that the 20,000 yuan he had worked so hard to get back was actually a fucking 15,000 yuan, and it was all fake money.
