Speaking of the imperial capital, apart from the famous towering Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City, Panjiayuan is also a place name that appears very frequently in novels and TV shows.
In recent years, there has been a national collection craze. There are a group of experts on TV all day long adding fuel to the flames. Panjiayuan, located in the southeast corner of the third ring road of the imperial capital, used to be the largest flea market in the country. The outsiders of the idea can't get it out—of course, if they pick up the leaks, they usually get them.
But few people know that Panjiayuan also has stone gambling.
In some antique jade stores, the boss will drag a few rough jadeite stones and pile them in front of the store to increase popularity.
This morning, not long after the opening of the Dongjia Jade Store, Xiao Wang, a clerk who just graduated this year, was still wiping the counter with a rag, when he found a female customer at the door of the store looking at the rough stones placed on the ground.
"Customer, do you want to buy jade? Please come inside!" Every time a piece of jade is sold, Xiao Wang will receive a commission, which makes this young man who has just started work full of enthusiasm for sales, and is full of energy every day at work .
The female customer in the windbreaker raised her head when she heard the words, and smiled kindly at him. The rag in Xiao Wang's hand fell on the counter unknowingly—the ancestor of the Sanqing Dao, Xiao Wang dares to swear by the ancestors of the Wang family that he has been in vain all his life. After living for 23 years, the imperial capital is so prosperous, he has never seen such a beautiful woman.
Seeing the female customer smile at him, Xiao Wang suddenly felt that the two persistent pimples on his face must be an eyesore. He was a little ashamed and didn't know how to greet her.
The female customer smiled, pointed to the pile of stones on the ground and asked, "Are these for sale?" The sound was like the rustling of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest, which made people feel peaceful and distant, and felt that the bamboo leaves were like naughty little hands. scratch people's hearts.
"Sell! Two thousand one!" Xiao Wang came back to his senses and nodded like a chicken eating rice.
The female customer did not counter the price, she seemed to pick two at random, and asked Xiao Wang to pay the bill.
Xiao Wang should be happy that the things are expensive, but today he seemed to be fascinated by a ghost, scratched his head and said, "That's a price that is waiting for customers to bargain. If you are so straightforward, let's count it as one thousand and five." He said this After saying that, I also felt that my appearance was too revealing, so I added a sentence, "Your preferential price, I will come to the store more to take care of business in the future."
The female customer didn't seem to understand Xiao Wang's guilty conscience when he added the following words, and she paid the price of 3,000 yuan according to the price he said.
Xiao Wang took the stack of banknotes and felt that there was a slight fragrance on it—is it the smell of perfume? It is too wronged her.
The female customer bought the rough stone, but didn't move it away immediately. After thinking about it, she walked into the store and looked at the jade wares placed in the glass counter.
The Dongjia Jade Ware Shop is small, except for a few "treasures of the town shop", everything else is cheap old jade brought back by the boss from the countryside, and there are also a lot of old ones made by himself, or they are simply from the jade processing factory. Cheap wholesale assembly line jade pendants and so on—Xiao Wang knows that the boss's most favorite customers are some ignorant nouveau riche, and those are the fat sheep to be slaughtered.
"This, this, and this, all wrapped up for me." The female customer's slender and slender fingers slid across the glass table, and selected three simple jade pendants like a general.
Xiao Wang took a closer look, and his drowsy heart was suddenly half awake—although the jade was not very good, and the price it received was not that expensive, but the three jade pendants selected by the female customer were They are all genuine products collected by Boss Dong himself.
In other words, regardless of the quality of the jade, it is a real antique!
Xiao Wang felt that he was starting to sweat on his forehead. Not only did he not get a commission for the sale of these three items, he probably didn't have to collect the bonuses for the past few months. However, how to tell this female guest such a dirty thing
As if sensing Xiao Wang's nervousness, the female customer suddenly laughed lightly: "All the things I pick are real, you're going to be hanged by the boss, right?"
So, didn't she choose by luck
Xiao Wang was still thinking about how to answer, the female customer pointed to two rings again: "Wrap these two together, and you have done nothing."
Those two jade rings were wholesaled by the boss in the processing factory. They were machine-processed from worthless leftover materials, and the wholesale price was even less valuable. If they were sold at the listed price of the rings, they would make a lot of money.
Xiao Wang was a little embarrassed, but the female customer seemed to see through his thoughts, "You are also a part-time worker, so I can't make it too difficult for you, let's wrap everything up."
In a word, Xiao Wang from Bei Piao felt a little warm in his heart, but the man bleeds but not tears. He only showed gratitude in his actions, wrapping all five pieces of jade in the most high-end gift boxes in the store with deft hands and feet.
"The total of the five pieces of jade is 26,180 yuan. Thanks to your patronage, it is 26,000 yuan after deducting the change." Xiao Wang took the card handed over by the female customer and quickly completed the payment procedures.
"Guest, would you like to call a car for you?" Seeing that the female guest who couldn't take his eyes off didn't seem to be driving, Xiao Wang was a little worried that the two rough stones she bought were of some value. How can I ask her to move back alone.
Xiao Wang didn't notice that he was very considerate today, and he was thinking of planning for this female customer, but from the perspective of instinctive appreciation, he felt that she was not suitable for such a heavy work.
The female customer only thought about it for a while, and then agreed to Xiao Wang's proposal—it was someone else's good intentions, so it would be impolite to refuse.
Xiao Wang ran to call a taxi, and the female customer consciously moved to the door of the store. There was no one in the store, so it is good to avoid suspicion.
There was an old lady with a stooped back wandering the street, seeing a female customer standing in front of the shop who was dressed in a sleek and beautiful dress, she immediately set her sights on her.
"Girl, can you take a look at this thing?" The old woman tremblingly took out a cloth bag from her arms, and opened it layer by layer in front of the female customer with her skinny hands.
The female customer originally wanted to wave her hand and say no, but when she saw that the old woman's hair was all white, she was still wearing jackets in such a cold day, her waist was not straight, and her lips were black and purple from the cold, so her refusal was choked in her throat. .
Looking down into the cloth bag, it turned out to be a phoenix hairpin worn with beads. The pearl still emits a bright water color. The white body of the hairpin seems to be made of silver. Head...but what's wrong
As soon as the female customer thought this way, the old woman wiped her tears and said: "This is an ancestral item from the old woman's family... If the old man in the family didn't need money for surgery, I wouldn't have thought of selling this..."
Anyone with a little common sense knows that in Panjiayuan, the most unheard of stories are stories—you are miserable and I am miserable, each has its own misfortune, and in the end your pocket is unlucky, and you bring back a bunch of "antiques" produced last year. That's the worst.
This phoenix hairpin looks weird at first glance, because it feels too new—it looks like something that has just been produced.
The old woman looked at the female customer quite nervously, and unconsciously tightened Fengchai's hand. She ran to several stores early in the morning, and everyone who was polite said "not sure", and whoever was rude scolded her It's really bad luck to sell such obvious fake products early in the morning.
What happened to Fengchai, the old lady naturally knew about it, but she didn't understand, it was obviously a thing handed down from the ancestors, why did everyone say it was a fake? If it weren't for the thought of his wife who was seriously ill at home, the old man really wouldn't have the courage to continue selling to others.
Will this beautiful looking girl buy it
The female guest looked at Fengchai carefully, and seemed a little tempted. At this time, Xiao Wang ordered the car and came back sweating—he was in a daze today, and when he called the car, he realized that there was no one guarding the store, so he ran back in a hurry.
Seeing the female guest standing outside the door, Xiao Wang heaved a sigh of relief, but then felt that his thoughts were too gloomy, how could such a person do such a thing as stealing a sheep.
Seeing an old lady dressed in rags at the door, and after asking a few words, Xiao Wang instinctively frowned. During the past few months of working in Panjiayuan, what hadn't he seen? He has heard the story of waiting for a kidney and heart replacement dozens of times, and this level is really pediatrics.
But the rule in the antique world is that even if you see the truth, you can't point it out when others are doing business. This is the rule.
It was hard for Xiao Wang to speak out, so he said to the female guest, "Guest, your car has been called." He did this as a half reminder. He thought the old woman would be unhappy, but the old man didn't seem to hear his secret Pointing, just looked at the female guest who was still thinking about it with full expectation.
"Old man, how much are you going to sell for this phoenix hairpin?" Under the expectant eyes of the old man, the female guest finally asked the price.
The sound is still the same, like the sound of wind passing through the bamboo forest, the rustling is very pleasant. But Xiao Wang was secretly worried, as long as you asked the price, the scammers would always get you in, and finally bought these so-called antiques for no apparent reason.
The old man was frightened by those shopkeepers. He didn't know how to quote the price before the girl in front of him would buy it, and his face turned red.
The female guest seemed to be aware of the embarrassment of the old woman, and asked with a smile: "Well, how much does the old man need for the operation?"
Xiao Wang was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped. The old lady didn't understand for a while, but when the female guest said it again, she was surprised, happy and worried.
"It's... 50,000." After she finished speaking, she felt a little regretful. If this price scares away the only buyer, what will happen to the wife's surgery fee
The female guest had no objection to the price, and quickly took 50,000 yuan to buy Fengchai. Fearing that the old man would be targeted by someone who wanted to, she called a rental for her.
This process was swift and resolute, leaving Xiao Wang on the side in a daze.
Xiao Wang didn't wake up until the female guest took the original stone into the car and left. That female guest has such good eyesight that she can pick out the real jade from a pile of fake jade, so how could she fail to recognize the phoenix hairpin
I don't know if the Fengchai is real or not, and no matter what the result is, it can't erase her kindness—if it's fake, the female guest is sympathizing with the old man; if it's real, she paid 50,000 The high price is just a pearl hairpin, even if it is real, it may not be worth the price.
Thinking of her being able to tell the authenticity at a glance before, Xiao Wang felt her nose itch so much that she had to buy two rings at the same time—there are such good people these days, so the world is not too bad, right