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Chapter 515: A visit
...Early the next morning, when Liu Dong had finished practicing and was having breakfast, there was a knock on the door!
"Hello, Mr. Liu!" When Liu Dong opened the door, two young men six or seven years older than him, but respectful to him, appeared in front of him!
"Come in!" Looking at these two people, Liu Dong knew that the other party was from the Sihai Gang!
"No, no, Mr. Liu, this is the information that the gang leader asked us to give you!" As he said that, the young man in the lead quickly took out a stack of documents from his black leather bag and handed it to Liu Dong.
After taking it and taking a look, Liu Dong's face flashed with joy.
"Go back and say thank you to your Gang Leader Wei for me!"
"Yes, we remember!... Mr. Liu, if you have no other instructions, we will leave first!" The young man said quickly with a hint of fear in his eyes.
"Um!"
Seeing Liu Dong nodding, the young man who spoke hurriedly bowed and turned around and left in a hurry with his companions behind him. It wasn't until he walked out of the hotel where Liu Dong was that the young man breathed a sigh of relief and kept tight.
The tense face also relaxed!
"Brother Dou, who was that person just now? Why are you so afraid of him? I never see you like this when you face the gang leader?" the companion behind him said in surprise with a hint of ridicule.
"Pa!" Dou Mingliang suddenly turned around and slapped his younger brother on the back of the head, and said angrily: "You know nothing, do you know who that person was just now?"
"Brother Dou. Then he is...?"
"He is...!" Dou Mingliang was about to say it. He suddenly stopped talking when he remembered the gang leader's explanation. What happened in the outskirts of Qingdao four months ago was something that could not even be told to death. "Who is he? It's not you.
To know, you just need to remember that when you see this person in the future, get away as far as possible from me, otherwise you will lose your life. Don’t blame me for not reminding you! Let’s go. Go back to the gang, the gang leader is still waiting.
Waiting for us to recover!"
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It wasn't until the two of them left in the car that Liu Dong, who had been observing them with the relic Yuanguang just now, also understood who Dou Mingliang was with the fearful look in his eyes!
I think he was the one who made things difficult for Ma Chao in the first place, and then followed him and monitored him and Aida Kazuya that night!
However, this person was just a minor character and posed no threat to him at all, so Liu Dong just remembered him and ignored him. What was more important to him now was the document in his hand.
The content in the document is the list of people in the Qingdao antique industry who once served as antique shop owners and later quit due to various reasons!
Last night, he also had an idea and thought of using the identity of the Sihai Gang's local snake in Qingdao City. It would be infinitely better to check this information than if he were to do it alone and not be familiar with the place! So he mentioned it to Wei Fei.
!
Now it seems that the decision made at that time was correct. In just one night, this document, which was more than twenty pages thick and recorded detailed life information of each person, was already handed into his hands!
If Liu Dong was only allowed to investigate on his own, I am afraid that even if he had a month, he would not be able to find such detailed information!
"This saves a lot of trouble!"
After Liu Dong spent more than an hour reading all the information, he basically had a suitable candidate for Chenxiangge Island City Branch, and there were more than one! However, Liu Dong first selected the one with the highest qualifications and longest working experience.
The longest one to start with, Liu Dong even planned to win over a few more of these people! After all, what is most lacking in opening an antique store is such qualified and suitable shopkeepers!
Especially when Liu Dong plans to develop Chenxiang Pavilion into a chain antique store!
With a decision made in his heart, Liu Dong couldn't stay in the hotel anymore, and the Chinese New Year was coming in more than half a month. Liu Dong had to finish the things in the island city before the Chinese New Year, otherwise he would wait until he came back from Myanmar.
, I’m afraid it will be April. This is obviously not what Liu Dong wants. Time is money. Now Liu Dong understands this sentence very deeply.
After asking Ma Liang and Zhao Yanfang to continue recruiting people, Liu Dong drove there by himself according to the address provided in the information!
The history of Qingdao is not very long. It really developed after it became a German leased area in 1897! So there are no very old buildings in this relatively young city! Instead, because of its special geographical location, like
Like Badaguan, there are so many unique buildings full of different styles from different countries! But these are obviously not something that ordinary people can have!
The high-rise apartment in front of Liu Dong is a residence that ordinary families can enjoy!
After taking the elevator to the eighth floor, Liu Dong knocked on the door of the house number 803!
"Who are you looking for?" Within half a minute, an old lady of nearly sixty years old opened the door, looked Liu Dong up and down and asked.
"Hello, aunt, is this Mr. Tang Guochun's home?" Liu Dong said quickly.
"Yes, who are you?"
"Old lady, who's here?" An old voice came from the back room.
"I don't know him, he's here to find you!"
"Looking for me?" Accompanied by slightly heavy footsteps, an ordinary old man at home wearing a thick khaki fur vest, black cotton pants on his legs, a slightly fat face, and old-fashioned black-rimmed eyes appeared in Liu Dong
In front of you!
"Who are you? I've never seen you before?" Seeing Liu Dong, the old man was obviously stunned for a moment. The young man in front of him was too strange to him!
"Hello Mr. Tang, I am the shopkeeper of Chenxiang Pavilion, my name is Liu Dong!"
"Agarwood Pavilion? Why is this name so familiar?" After thinking hard for a while, the old man slapped his thigh and said, "Is it the Agarwood Pavilion in Quancheng?"
"Yes, old man, you really have a good memory!" Liu Dong said with a smile.
"By the way, are you okay, Brother Li?" After remembering the origin of Chenxiang Pavilion, Mr. Tang suddenly became a little closer to Liu Dong!
Originally, Liu Dong simply thought that the other party was an antique dealer and had only heard of Quancheng Agarwood Pavilion. Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to know Mr. Li. This not only surprised Liu Dong! But this result also suddenly made Liu Dong feel more convinced.
The opponent’s confidence!
"Mr. Li is in good health. But can you let me in?" Liu Dong said with a wry smile, and looked at the still closed security door!
"Haha, you're neglecting me! Old lady, open the door quickly!"
After some busy work, the host served hot tea and the two sat down on the sofa in the living room!
"In the blink of an eye, Brother Li and I haven't seen each other for nearly twelve years! Now he has passed the Chenxiang Pavilion to you?"
"Yes, Mr. Li returned to the capital half a year ago and asked me to inherit Chenxiang Pavilion!" After understanding that Mr. Tang and Mr. Li were old acquaintances, Liu Dong also had more respect for the old man in front of him!
"I admire Brother Li's vision. Since he can pass on the foundation he has worked so hard to create to you, I guess you also have real talents and learning! It's just that you are still so young now. As expected, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and each wave changes the situation.
It’s better than Yilang, I can’t do it if I don’t accept it!”
"Thank you, Mr. Tang!" Liu Dong said humbly.
"By the way, why did you find yourself at my door! It couldn't have been Brother Li who asked you to come, right? He doesn't know I live here!" Mr. Tang, who was secretly satisfied with Liu Dong's humility and courtesy, smiled.
Hearing this, Liu Dong smiled and said directly without any detours: "Mr. Tang, I found you through my friends in Daocheng. This visit is to ask you to come out again and serve as our Chenxiang Pavilion Qingdao branch.
The shopkeeper!"
"Agarwood Pavilion Qingdao Branch? Shopkeeper?" Mr. Tang said in surprise.
"Yes, I hope Mr. Tang will agree!" Liu Dong said quickly.
According to the information Wei Fei provided him, this Mr. Tang was well-known in the antique industry in the island city. He was good at appraising bronze miscellaneous items and porcelain. The Jingyun Pavilion he ran back then was also prospering, but it was a pity that something unexpected happened.
In the wind and cloud, old horses sometimes stumble. A 'Cheng imitation' Ming Dynasty Yongle blue and white plum vase with broken branches and fruits gave Mr. Tang a slap in the face!
To know the real Ming Dynasty Yongle official kiln wares, the auction price of Christie's and Sotheby's in the early 1990s has reached more than one million, and the price of the Yongle official kiln plum vase with a height of 40 centimeters is nearly ten million! Of course!
This is the auction price, and the market price is certainly not that high.
But at that time, Mr. Tang spent every bottle of his own money to get this piece. He even used his own antiques to borrow more than one million from his colleagues. Finally, he bought this piece from the other party for a high price of four million.
The plum bottle was collected!
Mr. Tang was naturally very happy to get this treasure. However, in the early 1990s, it was the period when "Zhu imitation" was ravaging the antique industry at its worst. All porcelain collectors were in danger, which affected the healthy development of the antique shop.
, eventually led to several of the top ceramic appraisal masters in the country at the time to join forces to crack down on counterfeiting.
Unfortunately, Mr. Tang’s Ming Dynasty Yongle official kiln plum vase was also found to be a fake!
Needless to say, the result was that the price of official kiln wares worth four million plummeted, turning them into almost worthless imitations. This blow completely shattered Mr. Tang's self-confidence!
After selling his collection to pay off his debts, Mr. Tang also sold the antique shop he had been running for half his life, and sadly withdrew from the island city's antique industry.
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