Wang Xu was already very satisfied with the price given by Shopkeeper Zhou.
It's just a business deal, and judging from Shopkeeper Zhou's attitude, this price shouldn't be the bottom line.
After thinking for a moment, Wang Xu stretched out two fingers and said: "Two small yellow croakers and a watch will do. If not, I will find another one."
"Two!" Shopkeeper Zhou frowned slightly and walked around the room with a bit of embarrassment on his face.
Watches are new products and are shipped from abroad. The purchase price of a watch is generally around 40 yuan, and the selling price is 50 yuan.
Wang Xu's watches are more high-end than those. He only paid 50 yuan for the purchase price. If it were more expensive, it seemed a bit unworthy.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, my watch is not an ordinary watch. Look at the luster and the craftsmanship. It is a first-class choice. People who have money to buy a watch don't care if it is a little more expensive. This grade has
Are you still worried about having no business?" Wang Xu purchased goods cheaply, but that was compared to the 21st century. In 1940, these watches were enough to lead the trend.
These days, the rich are really rich, and the poor are starving to death on the streets.
People who can spend 40 yuan to buy a watch don't care whether the price of the watch is more expensive.
What they pursue is class, trend, and taste. Wang Xu is very confident in his coated watches. His business with Shopkeeper Zhou is a win-win situation.
"Okay, just two small yellow croakers, but I have a condition. Next time there are new goods, you have to continue to take care of me!" Shopkeeper Zhou's business is big. After agreeing on the price, twenty-four small yellow croakers were quickly sold.
was taken out.
Wang Xu was not very familiar with gold, so he just scratched the gold bar twice in a stupid way.
Gold is relatively soft. Real gold bars can leave clear scratches when scratched with a hard object. Fake gold bars do not have this ability.
Looking at the clear marks on the gold bars, Wang Xu smiled even more satisfied, and kept saying that we would continue to cooperate next time.
"Twenty-four small yellow croakers add up to two and a half kilograms, which is not a small amount in modern times. However, it seems a bit silly to just take the gold bars back. The best way is to use the gold bars to buy some antiques. That's it.
A huge profit!"
Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, this is the eternal truth.
In China in 1940, antiques were worthless because they were devalued due to war.
On the other hand, the reality is different. People are rich, the world is stable, and the price of antiques is like bamboo blossoms, with each section higher than the next.
Moreover, the difference in time and space between the two sides is only seventy years.
In the antique industry, even with the use of scientific and technological appraisal, the difference over decades is very subtle, and no one dares to say it is a fake.
Wang Xu secretly thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this way was feasible and more effective than simply returning with gold.
My only concern is that I don’t know much about antiques. If I buy a fake and take it back, it would be embarrassing, but I would just leave it at my grandma’s house.
"I'm not familiar with the place here. It's inevitable that I'll be cheated when buying antiques. It would be great if someone could help me. Before, I thought Shopkeeper Zhou was a good person. Should I go back and ask him for help? No, I don't know Shopkeeper Zhou either.
I’m not familiar with it. In my situation, it’s best to just shoot and change places. It would be troublesome to be targeted by someone with intentions, so it’s better to be cautious.”
Wang Xu is not an agent, but he is still instinctively wary and cherishes his own life.
But thinking about it this way, he was a little embarrassed. If he didn't ask shopkeeper Zhou for help, where would he go to buy real antiques?
“Lotus leaf chicken, freshly baked lotus leaf chicken, a traditional craft, no charge if it’s not delicious!”
Wandering aimlessly on the street, Wang Xu was brought back to reality until a burst of shouts from someone selling lotus leaf chicken.
Wang Xu smelled the fragrance and felt really hungry. He looked up and looked into the store and was stunned for a moment: "Hey, it's Sun Honglei again!"
Sun Honglei, no, it should be Yu Zecheng, who is walking into the store at the moment.
Wang Xu suddenly thought that he could ask Yu Zecheng for help in this matter. Yu Zecheng in the TV series looks very warm-hearted. He is a member of the military commander on the surface, but secretly he is an underground party. He will never slander himself.
Gold.
I remember that in one episode, Yu Zecheng saw a little beggar who couldn’t eat enough, and gave the meat buns he ordered to the little beggar. From this point of view, this person is definitely not a bad person, he is just a double agent.
Let him always keep his distance from others.
However, others are afraid of Yu Zecheng's identity, but Wang Xu is not.
He is a modern person. After getting the antique and returning to modern times, it doesn't matter whether he is the military commander or the central commander.
"Remain..."
Just as Wang Xu was about to step forward to talk, he heard Yu Zecheng, who was walking in front, smiling and saying to the waiter: "You lotus leaf chicken, it's not delicious and you don't need to pay for it. Give me a piece of something that's not delicious. I just didn't bring it today."
money."
"Hey, look what you said, you are a regular customer. Even if you don't bring money, I can't let you in!" The waiter had a smile on his face and couldn't help but pull Yu Zecheng inside.
The customers in the store obviously knew Yu Zecheng and responded with smiles.
But Wang Xu noticed that after Yu Zecheng had such a conversation with the boy, a porter pulling a rickshaw at the door, as if he had heard the order, got up from the car sleepily, pulled the car and ran away.
"Is this a connector?" Wang Xu wasn't sure, but he thought it might be the case.
Before, he clearly saw the porter sleeping in the rickshaw, and there were no guests around, so there was no reason for him to wake up and run away with the rickshaw.
When thinking about Yu Zecheng's true identity, Wang Xu felt that it was doubtful. After all, others didn't know it, but he knew that Yu Zecheng had already joined the underground party.
"Brother, let's get some lotus leaf chicken!" Wang Xu walked in and found a seat to sit down.
After a while, the chicken with lotus leaves arrived. While eating, he looked out to see who was meeting Yu Zecheng.
As a result, the contact person did not see it. Within a few minutes, Yu Zecheng appeared in front of him.
"Friend, we meet again, what a coincidence!" Yu Zecheng still had that silly smile, which made him feel very friendly.
But whether it was due to a guilty conscience or some other reason, Wang Xu always felt that the air around him was a bit cold.
"Yes, what a coincidence." When Wang Xu saw Yu Zecheng, he knew that the person he wanted to contact would definitely not show up.
He didn't know how he was discovered, but judging from Yu Zecheng's intentions, it was obvious that he was directed at him, and his eyes were full of scrutiny.
"Mr. Yu, I have no ill intentions towards you. I am quite curious, and I plan to ask you for help." Wang Xu is not afraid of being discovered by Yu Zecheng, nor is he afraid of his own purpose being exposed, because the style of the underground party is different from that of the military, but there is no
A policy of preferring to kill the wrong person rather than letting go.
Yu Zecheng was apparently a military commander, but in reality he was an underground party member, and his methods of doing things had also changed.
If Yu Zecheng had not joined the underground party, he believed that as long as he had the slightest suspicion, he would be taken away and thrown directly into the interrogation room.
But now, Yu Zecheng is more like testing his identity and pondering his intentions, and has no intention of falling out.
"Help, don't we know each other?" Yu Zecheng was a little confused when he heard the word help.
What made him even more confused was that Wang Xu took out his bag, pushed it forward, and said, "I know you, but you don't know me. It's quite complicated. I really beg you to help me. Here are 24 gold bars."
, I want to exchange 20 gold bars for antiques, and the rest is your labor fee."
"My friend was joking, I don't understand what you are talking about." Yu Zecheng's hand touched the bag, and he quickly took it away as if he had touched a landmine.
Wang Xu believed that he had found out what was in the bag, and said sincerely: "I really want your help. As long as I buy the things, the four gold bars will be yours, and you will decide the transaction location. I won't even ask."
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"More than twenty gold bars, do you trust me so much?" Although Yu Zecheng is very wise, he is not a monster. No matter how he looks at Wang Xu, it is a bit difficult to understand.
Wang Xu didn't think so. He nodded slightly and said: "In Tianjin City, if I don't believe you, who else can I believe? You have to help me with this matter! Besides, with prices so high now, life at home is not easy, right?"
If a gold bar is used well, it will be of great use."
"Haha, you must be a lunatic. I still don't understand. I'm leaving." Yu Zecheng turned around and left. No matter how much Wang Xu shouted, he never looked back.
Wang Xu himself was puzzled. The underground party's task was to buy supplies. Why didn't Yu Zecheng not want the money that was delivered to his door?
Could it be that it's too little? It shouldn't be. The labor fee of four gold bars is really not low. If he hadn't known Yu Zecheng's character, he wouldn't have dared to give him this money.
After thinking about it, Wang Xu understood a little bit. He knew Yu Zecheng's identity, but Yu Zecheng didn't know his.
Due to the information asymmetry, Yu Zecheng would not have mistaken his identity as an agent of another department and had wild imaginations.