Pick up bargains in Chinatown and make 10,000 times the profit at the beginning

Chapter 24 The Frustrated Stall Owner

The audience in the live broadcast room were still discussing the beating of Ba Zi.

Some people say that Lin Yuan and his people are not genuine, and that Lin Yuan is cheating people and affecting the friendly international image of the Chinese.

Most of the audience still enjoyed the show.

This is the kind of plot that only appears in cool novels!

Many people on the Internet disliked the Koreans and had long wanted to teach them a lesson. Now Lin Yuan satisfied their spiritual needs, making them feel as comfortable as eating iced watermelon in June.

The audience, who were originally passers-by, became fans after what happened just now.

As for the small group of people who accused Lin Yuan, it was not Lin Yuan's turn to take action. Other people in the live broadcast room criticized those people so badly that they were completely powerless to fight back.

When my uncle heard that it was Tianhuang stone, he immediately smiled.

Although he did not know how to identify it, he knew that Tianhuang stone was valuable. With Tianhuang stone of this quality, it should not be a problem for him to make a small fortune, if not a huge sum of money.

Henry: “Is this supposed to be a cricket jar?”

My uncle was a little surprised. This foreigner actually knew about cricket jars?
Good boy! What did you study in China? Archaeology?
"Yes! This is the cricket jar. By the way, Henry, how do you know about the cricket jar?" asked the uncle a little curiously.

Henry chuckled, "When I was studying in China, I saw similar jars several times in antique markets. The shopkeepers said they were cricket jars. However, the ones I saw at the time were white porcelain.

This should be pottery, right? Is pottery valuable? "

"Then you only know one side of the story."

My uncle explained to Henry that the cricket jars used by the ancients to store autumn insects were mostly made of porcelain, pottery, jade, stone, lacquerware and other materials. From a collection perspective, porcelain cricket jars are probably the most valuable and are classified as miscellaneous collectibles.

After Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the patterns and varieties of cricket jars became more diverse, and the makers' names were also made in the form of seals on the bottom of the jars. The fine cricket jars made by these famous craftsmen are extremely rare today, and have become treasures that collectors are competing to pursue.

"The most valuable are porcelain and pottery. I've heard that a pottery cricket jar was sold for more than three million yuan," said my uncle.

Lin Yuan nodded: "It should be made of clay pottery, right?"

The so-called clarified mud is a special fine mud that has been clarified and washed many times, and the utensils are made from the clarified mud.

They have a delicate, dense and moist texture, just like baby skin. They will not deform or crack despite heat, cold, wind or rain, and are resistant to corrosion by acids, alkalis and salts.

Objects made of chengni have a common characteristic: at first glance they appear to be decorated with glaze, but upon closer inspection it is not glaze; their texture is unusual, like pottery but not pottery, like porcelain but not porcelain, like stone but not stone, but as hard as rock, obviously they were fired at a very high temperature; their specific gravity is comparable to the Han Dynasty carved bricks and various porcelain inkstones from Qiong kiln; the surfaces of the objects are all smooth and silky.

Generally speaking, things made from clay are not cheap.

As they were talking, Paul caught up with them.

"Come on! I'll take you over there." Paul pointed in a direction.

Lin Yuan and the others didn't waste any time and hurried to follow. Because they understood that Paul, as a market manager, must have a better understanding of the market than them, and it would be right to follow him.

Not long after walking, Lin Yuan suddenly stopped.

The stall next to it was very simple, with just a piece of rag on which a few messy things were placed.

The stall owner was a big fat man, holding a hamburger in one hand and a Coke in the other, and was eating happily.

Lin Yuan exclaimed, "Wow, it's all junk food." If he continued to eat like this, how much would it weigh?
His eyes fell on a carving, made of wood.

As my uncle and his friends were walking, they suddenly realized something was wrong. They turned around and saw Lin Yuan standing motionless in front of a stall. So they stepped back and stood beside Lin Yuan.

Several people tacitly kept silent.

Lin Yuan squatted down, picked up the wood carving and began to look at it.

This is the treasure that the treasure-hunting ritual refers to.

Lin Yuan asked in English: "How much?"

The stall owner stopped eating and swallowed the food in his mouth: "1000 dollars." He saw that Lin Yuan was a Chinese, stupid and rich, so he habitually raised the price. Originally, he was going to sell this thing for 100 dollars.

This is not surprising. It seems that there are such vendors in every country who rip off foreign customers.

Before Lin Yuan even got a chance to speak, Paul sneered, "Are you kidding me? This thing costs $1000? Are you sure?"

As he spoke, he showed his work ID card on his chest.

The stall owner looked at it and his expression changed. He shrank his neck and smiled awkwardly: "Then how much do you say?"

He knew he had hit a wall.

It's obvious that they are in the same gang. If he dares to ask for a high price, won't the market be in trouble?

My uncle was amused when he saw this. He had also set up stalls before. When faced with such a situation, let alone bargaining, he had to give it to the seller even if they didn’t want money, otherwise he knew the consequences.

He said, "100."

The stall owner said helplessly: "Take it away!"

Lin Yuan took out a hundred dollars and handed it over, then took the wood sculpture away.

The audience in the live broadcast room also laughed when they saw the stall owner's frustrated expression. The stall owner obviously wanted to rip off the Chinese customers, but unfortunately he didn't expect that there were people in Linyuan Market.

Not long after they walked, Paul asked, "Lin, what treasure is this?"

Lin Yuan first thanked Paul, and then told him that it was carved from boxwood.

"What kind of wood is boxwood? Is it very precious?" Paul continued to ask.

He is a foreigner and an outsider, so it is normal that he doesn't know boxwood.

My uncle explained to Paul that boxwood is an evergreen shrub that grows very slowly, usually taking 40 to 50 years to grow to 3 to 5 meters in height, and less than 10 centimeters in diameter. Because it is difficult to grow, there are no large pieces, so it is suitable for carving small figures for desk appreciation, or making wooden combs and for engraving.

“In Chinese folk culture, boxwood products have long been regarded as top-quality products that are immune to all poisons, can ward off evil and bring peace and prosperity.

There are also wood carvings like this that cost millions.”

When Paul heard this, he took a deep breath. Is this wooden thing worth that much?

Henry was not surprised. He had studied in China and had seen very expensive wood carvings, some worth tens of millions, which was difficult for foreigners to understand.

"What a fuss! You've never seen a wood carving worth tens of millions, have you?"

Paul was shocked: "What? Ten million?"

He simply couldn't imagine what ten million meant and how many years he would have to work for with his current salary.

lifetime?

"Then this wood carving..."

Lin Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What was he thinking?

He "looked" at the treasure-hunting instrument, and the light spot emitted a green light, knowing that the value must be within one hundred thousand US dollars.

"It's not that expensive. Wood that costs tens of millions is usually top-grade wood, such as rosewood. This is far inferior, probably only tens of thousands of dollars."

Paul breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Not a small amount."

For him, tens of thousands of dollars is not a small amount. You know, his annual income is not much more than this.

As they talked and walked, they soon arrived at the area Paul mentioned.

(End of this chapter)