Early in the morning, Lao Zhangtou personally delivered the Huanghuali Drum Stool and the Red Rosewood Eight Immortals Table to him, as if he were just going out to celebrate the occasion.
Yesterday it was just a verbal agreement with Lao Zhangtou. There were no parties involved and no written evidence. If Lao Zhangtou regretted it, there was nothing he could do.
You must know that the total value of these three pieces of furniture will never be less than two million.
This also made Lu Fei respect Lao Zhangtou's integrity.
When Lao Zhangtou left, he asked Lu Fei to have dinner at home in the evening. Of course Lu Fei would not refuse this request.
After seeing off Lao Zhangtou, Lu Fei changed his clothes and went to Zhongzhou Bank, rented a safe and put the enamel plum vase and lightning strike wood in it.
The enamel plum vase is a unique item. If you have time to repair it, it will be your first official collection. There must be no mistakes.
As for the Zigang brand, Lu Fei wore it close to his body.
The seven-kilometer-long Lingbao Street has been the largest medicinal wholesale market in Zhongzhou since the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. Looking at the entire North China, its scale is second only to Anguo.
This old street with a history of more than 400 years still maintains its ancient style today.
The roads are paved with blue bricks, there are many signs and banners, and the sounds of buying and selling are endless. When people come here, they will have the illusion of traveling through time.
Lu Fei walked around the retail area for a while carrying a big bag, feeling a little disappointed.
Most of the medicinal materials in retail areas are artificially cultivated, and occasionally wild ones are rarely found.
Abandoning retail investors, Lu Fei plunged into a century-old store.
I visited several stores in succession and still couldn't meet my requirements at all.
In particular, the century-old wild ginseng, which is the most important ingredient for improving the body, is simply not available.
Not only are there no ones that are a hundred years old, you can't even see those that are thirty or fifty years old.
In an old shop called Liuji, the shopkeeper, Shivering, brought out a red cloth bag as if he were offering an ancestor's memorial tablet. After opening it, there was half a ten-year-old wild ginseng that was not much thicker than a toothpick. The euphemistically called it, it was already theirs.
It’s the treasure of the store.
I spent more than 30,000 yuan to buy toad clothes, plateau wild Ganoderma lucidum, bezoar and other medicinal herbs at Liuji.
Shopkeeper Liu's old face turned into a smile when he saw Qian, and he arm-in-arms provided Lu Fei with a piece of information.
Following Shopkeeper Liu's prompts, Lu Fei found Huang Ji's old store.
The geographical location of this old store is extremely advantageous. It is at the only crossroads of Lingbao Street, facing the north and south and embracing the sea and rivers.
Moreover, the store is much larger than other stores. The average store is more than 100 square meters and less than 200 square meters at most, while Huangji is a full 300 square meters, with two floors.
The red lanterns were hung high, and the red cloth covers were flying in the wind. Especially the high-hanging red Chinese chrysanthemum plaque, the two vigorous and powerful imitation Song Dynasty gold characters and the seal "Huang Ji" made Lu Fei look at it for five seconds.
The interior decoration of the store is also antique, with four oversized red lacquer medicine cabinets standing side by side, containing hundreds of kinds of medicinal herbs.
The solid wood counter is fully stocked with kraft paper, scales, pestles, etc.
Seeing Lu Fei come in, the waiter greeted him with a smile.
"Hello sir, what do you need?"
Lu Fei nodded slightly.
"Is there any wild ginseng? The older the year, the better."
When he heard Lu Fei asked for wild ginseng, the person sitting at the counter who was about to settle his accounts stopped and walked out.
When he saw Luffy, he looked up and down first, sent the guy away, and then said with a smile.
"Hello, distinguished guest, I, Huang Ji, sit at the counter and Wu Qingchun, would you like to buy wild ginseng?"
Lu Fei frowned when he saw this guy sitting at the counter. This guy was about forty years old and even thinner than himself.
The nose is flat, the mouth is sharp, the cheeks are thin, and the lips are thin, and a pair of little mouse eyes are chattering around.
In terms of appearance, this guy is a typical smiling and treacherous villain.
But this kind of person doesn't have the slightest bit of discrimination towards his shabby outfit.
The more this happened, the more unscientific it became. Unknowingly, Lu Fei had become more cautious about Wu Qingchun.
"Not bad, I wonder if you have any."
Wu Qingchun reached out and invited Lu Fei to the counter and said with a smile.
"Your distinguished guest is welcome."
"To tell you the truth, in the entire Lingbao Street, apart from our Huang Ji, no one else can afford it."
Lu Fei was overjoyed.
"oh?"
"Then please, Shopkeeper Wu, could you please take it out and let me take a look?"
"Okay, please wait a moment."
Wu Qingchun entered the counter, squatted in front of the safe and tinkered with it for a while, then opened it and took out a mahogany box with both hands and placed it on the counter.
When I opened the box, a strong medicinal fragrance hit my face.
Looking inside again, there is a red cotton cloth base, with more than a dozen yellow-brown ginseng slices and two half-foot-long ginseng whiskers wrapped inside.
Lu Fei didn't get started. He looked at the texture of the slices and smelled the aroma of the medicine, and felt a little disappointed.
"Shopkeeper Wu, these are fifty years old at most, are there any with a higher vintage?"
"His!"
Wu Qingchun took a breath. He didn't expect that this unattractive young man was an expert. He just glanced at it and directly reported the exact year.
With such eyesight, even I, who have been immersed in this industry for more than 20 years, feel inferior!
"Haha, you have good eyesight. This is indeed a 50-year-old Changbai Mountain wild ginseng."
“But this is already the highest we’ve ever seen in our store.”
"To tell you the truth, we have kept these last twenty grams for seven or eight years just to prepare for emergencies."
"If our store hadn't been transferred soon, we wouldn't have sold it no matter how much money you gave us."
"oh?"
"Huang Ji plans to transfer?" Lu Fei asked in surprise.
"That's right, our boss wants to immigrate to Australia, so this store has no choice but to change hands."
Speaking of this, Wu Qingchun looked regretful.
However, Lu Fei was very excited when he heard the news.
I looked at the sliced ginseng in front of me. Although it wasn’t old enough, it was okay. It was better than nothing.
"Shopkeeper Wu, what is the price of this ginseng? If the price is fair, I will buy it."
Wu Qingchun's eyes lit up when he heard Lu Fei said he wanted to buy it.
"Dear guest, please be open to the public. We offer you a sincere discount of 6,010 grams."
"There's a total of twenty grams and four coins here. I'll give you a small change on behalf of my boss. You can take it for 120,000 yuan."
The price of 6,001 grams is really not expensive. Just now Liu Ji’s treasure, a piece of junk that’s not much thicker than a toothpick, costs 4,01 grams.
In comparison, this price is simply a hemorrhaging sale.
"In that case, I'd like to thank shopkeeper Wu, wrap it up for me and I'll take it all."
"Okay, dear guest, please wait a moment, I will pack it for you right now."
Wu Qingchun smiled brightly, gave the boy next to him an imperceptible look, and walked to the other side of the counter to pack Lu Fei's food.
The little boy came forward with a smile.
"Excuse me, dear guest, do you want to pay by cash or by card?"
As he spoke, the young man stood up straight in front of Lu Fei. He was half a head taller than Lu Fei and perfectly blocked Lu Fei's sight.
"Oh, a blinding trick!"
Lu Fei felt funny in his heart, he had been wary of Wu Qingchun for a long time.
He could see clearly the eye contact between Wu Qingchun and the boy just now, and Lu Fei had already concluded that there must be something fishy in it.
This guy is blocking his view, so Wu Qingchun will definitely make some moves.
Lu Fei didn't even need to look at it. It was either a mistake or something was missing.
It's a pity that these two bastards seem to have the same idea for themselves, which can only mean that these two bastards are having a bad time.