The thirty-seventh chapter is soft around the fingers
He has known "Old Mao'er" for almost twenty years. Basically, anything sent by "Old Mao'er" has caught his eye, and he is willing to accept it and give "Old Mao'er" a good purchase price.
The reason why Sun Chunjing attaches so much importance to "Old Mao'er" and regards him as a good friend is also due to an interesting experience when the two first met, and the two people have cherished each other since then.
Sun Chunjing still clearly remembers the day when she met "Old Mao'er". From time to time, she would tell it to "Old Mao'er" while drinking, which made the two of them burst into laughter and added a bit of fun.
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It was a summer afternoon twenty years ago. It had just rained, but it did not rain thoroughly, so the temperature did not drop. Instead, the entire air was filled with water vapor, making people feel even more stuffy.
Jinan is surrounded by mountains to the east, west and south, and faces the Yellow River to the north, forming a bowl-shaped terrain.
Therefore, Jinan's climate is unbearably hot in summer, bone-chillingly cold in winter, windy and dry in autumn, and still as cold as early winter in spring.
In these dog days of summer, with the continuous high temperature, it is not an exaggeration to call Jinan a "furnace".
At that time, Sun Chunjing was in her prime, her wife was not sick yet, and her only son was still young. Although the life of the family of three was unremarkable, it was sweet and happy.
Because half a year ago, "Sun's Antiques", which specializes in calligraphy, painting, paintings and miscellaneous porcelain, sold ten pieces of Song Dynasty porcelain, complete with bottles, plates, bowls and dishes. No matter in terms of appearance or kiln mouth, they are all top-notch works.
, was unrivaled in the market at the time, making Sun Chunjing an "explosion" in the industry and gaining popularity.
From then on, everyone knew that in Jinan’s antique world, there was a shop that produced masterpieces and attracted a lot of people’s attention.
For a time, anyone who wants to find good things will come here, and there will be a lot of gains in "Sun's Antiques".
Sun Chunjing's reputation has grown, and her business has also prospered. She has many regular customers, and her family has no worries about food and clothing.
Because it was too hot, Sun Chunjing asked her daughter-in-law to cut the watermelon that had been soaked in the well water early in the morning. She held the cut half of the watermelon in a porcelain basin and sat alone on the chair behind the counter, eating and cutting the watermelon.
In the hot weather, I was guarding my little shop.
This shop and the yard behind it belong to his own family. Although it is not very big, it was purchased by Sun Chunjing's grandfather who has been a blacksmith for two generations. They hammered and shaped the iron tools piece by piece, worked hard to sell them, and accumulated money over the years.
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Although Sun Chunjing did not inherit the blacksmithing skills of her grandfather and father, the "Sun's Iron Shop" is still open today.
It's just that the current main operator is Sun Chunjing's father's eldest apprentice. Sun Chunjing is just the boss and doesn't usually interfere with specific affairs.
Although she does not manage this business, Sun Chunjing has been running around in the iron shop since she was a child. She has long been accustomed to every detail there, and she naturally has a feeling of being reluctant to leave it.
Whenever he went to the iron shop, he would always recall the scene of his grandfather and father shirtless, sweating profusely, and hammering iron, and he felt very warm and friendly.
He insisted on keeping the "Sun Family Iron Shop" open in order to commemorate his grandfather and father, hoping that they who were no longer alive could always be by his side.
His mother died when he was young, and he was raised by his grandfather, grandmother and father.
His father, who loved him so much, wanted to allow the young Sun Chunjing to grow up stably, so he never remarried and ended up alone.
Therefore, Sun Chunjing had a very deep relationship with her father. In order to reduce the pressure on her grandfather and father, when she was fourteen years old, she took the initiative to ask her grandfather and father not to go to school and to become an apprentice, so that she could make money earlier to support the family.
The grandfather, who had been working hard all his life, firmly disagreed with Sun Chunjing's request to drop out of school. He wanted his grandson to study hard and become a learned person in the future.
In the old man's mind, his grandson has become a cultural person, which can be regarded as a matter of honoring his ancestors.
At first, his father did not agree with Sun Chunjing's idea, but after Sun Chunjing expressed his plan, his father looked at his half-grown son and agreed to his plan to become an apprentice in an antique shop.
Being an apprentice in an antique shop is also a good livelihood option. Not only can you gain knowledge and experience, but you can also see many treasures. According to Sun Chunjing's father, this is also very promising.
After the two fathers took turns persuading, Sun Chunjing's grandfather reluctantly agreed to let his grandson work as an apprentice in an antique shop.
But in exchange for agreeing to his grandson's idea, the only request his grandfather made to Sun Chunjing was that he must open his own antique shop in the future.
My grandfather’s philosophy is that a person must have the confidence to be able to run a business and be a boss, and must have the backbone to “rather be the head of a crest than the tail of a tiger.”
And no matter how big or small the business is, if you can do it on your own, don’t partner with others to avoid creating extraneous problems and causing more chaos.
Especially in the antique business, the waters are unpredictable and people's hearts are even more difficult to fathom. If you want to open a store, it must be entirely your own.
After my grandfather said this, he emphasized that although making money is important, being kind to others is always fundamental.
As a human being, you should never have any intention of harming others, but you should also protect yourself from being harmed by others.
Our Sun family does not seek to be rich and powerful, but we seek to have a safe family and do things with a clear conscience.
In order to stimulate Sun Chunjing's ambition to make progress, her grandfather even put down harsh words. If Sun Chunjing didn't have the ambition to be her own boss, then she shouldn't think about becoming an apprentice. She should just study in school and pursue learning.
Unexpectedly, Sun Chunjing really had the idea of opening her own antique shop after learning a skill, as her grandfather said.
After listening to his grandfather's words, he was so happy that he immediately promised his grandfather that he would definitely open a Sun antique shop in the future and become famous in the antique shop.
At this point, the family members supported Sun Chunjing in giving up her studies and becoming an apprentice in an antique shop.
After asking for a recommendation and establishing a guarantee, Sun Chunjing became an apprentice at the famous antique store "Lu Baozhai" in Jinan, and began her ten-year study of the antiques industry.
To be honest, after hearing Sun Chunjing's explanation of why she wanted to be an apprentice in an antique shop and enter the antique business, Sun Chunjing's father didn't object to his son's opinion much.
The reason given by Sun Chunjing was a simple sentence, "I want to do antique business and make a lot of money in the future. In the future, you and grandpa will not have to be so burdened."
As a father, who wouldn’t be delighted and moved after hearing such sensible words from his own child?