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

Chapter 94: Single Board Case

When Lin Yuan and the others weren't paying attention, the fat black guy intercepted someone else's container again, which made Jim very angry.

What surprised Lin Yuan was that there were indeed treasures in the container, and they were quite valuable. The treasure hunting instrument showed a rare red light.

In other words, there are treasures worth more than a million dollars in the container.

Just as Lin Yuan was thinking about how to get the container, Boss Lei's phone rang. He said sorry and went to a less noisy place to answer the phone.

"Will he make a lot of money this time?" Henry worried.

Yes! They don’t want that guy to get rich, they would rather lose everything.

"There may not be good things in the safe, right?" Paul said.

That being said, he knew in his heart that the possibility was relatively small. One look at the safe showed that it had been used, and it did not look high-end.

Why would you ship an empty safe here? It wouldn't cost too much to just buy a new one locally, right?

Therefore, there is a high probability that there are some important things in the safe.

The fat black man began to rummage through the drawers.

He had a hunch that the containers he intercepted this time would allow him to make up for the money he was cheated out of previously, and he might even make some money.

Just because a safe appeared inside the container.

The fat black man first asked someone to move the safe out.

There are special "odd jobs" on the scene. They charge $100 for each job. They will do anything, whether it's helping to move things or cleaning up garbage.

The safe was a bit heavy, and it took three people to get it out.

Just when the fat black man was about to hire someone to violently dismantle the safe, the safe door opened by itself.

The people watching at the scene looked at each other in bewilderment.

The fat black man was stunned for a few seconds and had a bad feeling in his heart.

The safe doesn't have a lock, so what valuables could be inside?

"Hehe! That's what I told you!" Paul laughed gloatingly.

However, don't laugh too loudly, lest people think you are looking for trouble.

The fat black man quickly reached into the safe and took out stacks of account books and the like. His dark face was pale.

Ruined.

This thing may be important to the original owner of the account book, but to outsiders, it is garbage. It is too slippery and too hard to wipe your butt with.

Everyone at the scene was very satisfied with this result, except the fat black man himself.

Especially Jim, who almost succeeded in taking the photo, breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, fortunately, someone stepped on the landmine for him.

The fat black guy even wondered if he had stepped on dog shit today. He was so unlucky.

He stopped flipping the ones behind, trying to get some money back by reselling them. If he continued to flip them, there would really be no one to take over.

Even now, there are still people interested.

"Friends, this container costs ten thousand dollars, who wants it?" the fat black man began to shout.

He spent $16000 to buy it, and now it's $6000 cheaper.

Someone mocked, "The most valuable thing about your container is the safe. Now that the safe has been opened, you still want $10,000. Who gave you the courage?"

"That's right! We don't even want $6000."

"If it's three digits, it's not impossible to consider it."

……

If it's just a few hundred dollars, people will still be interested. Even if you lose, it's not a big deal, a little gambling is fun!
"9000 USD!"

"Do you want 8000?"

“The lowest is $7000.”

……

The fat black man lowered the price little by little.

"1500 US dollars. If it goes any lower, I will continue to turn it over myself." The fat black man finally revealed his bottom line.

A few hundred dollars is impossible. I have lost so much anyway, so I don’t care about a few hundred dollars.

While the others were still silent, Lin Yuan said, "Okay, I'll buy it for fun."

After saying that, he immediately paid the fat black man $1500 and took over the container.

Seeing Lin Yuan take over, some people felt a little regretful, and they always felt that there was still a chance of turning around. The main reason was that one or two thousand dollars was not expensive, and if they really lost money, no one would laugh at Lin Yuan.

"Let's see if he can still laugh later." Henry couldn't help but complain when he saw the fat black man laughing.

Others don’t understand Lin Yuan, so how could they not understand him?

Since Lin Yuan took action, it means that there are treasures among the remaining things, which is not simple.

You are smiling now, but you won’t be smiling later.

In the live broadcast room, some people started betting on how much Lin Yuan could earn this time.

It seems that everyone agrees that Lin Yuan makes money, but no one knows how much he can make.

Qiao Yufan and the others started to look inside. At first, they found only worthless junk, and the smile on the fat black man's face grew thicker and thicker.

Just when everyone thought Lin Yuan was going to fail, the uncle said in surprise: "There is an old piece of furniture."

The two men, Qiao Yufan and Liu Xin, hurried over to help.

When they took out the "old furniture" that the uncle mentioned, everyone found out that it was a table.

"A single-board table with a raised top?" Boss Lei stood outside, staring in amazement at the table that his uncle and the others had moved out.

How long has he been gone?

Not to mention missing out on 100 million, but certainly missing out on tens of millions of RMB.

This made him very uncomfortable. Why did he walk so far to answer the phone? For a moment, Boss Lei also had some complaints about the guy who called him.

Why did you call at such a critical moment instead of earlier?

Doesn't this prevent him from getting rich?

"What is a single-board table? Is it this table?" Qiao Yufan and the others didn't understand. But this kind of table looked familiar, as if they had seen it in a costume TV series.

Boss Lei took a deep breath and explained to everyone that a Qiaotouan is an ancient Chinese furniture with raised corners at both ends of the table top, hence the name Qiaotouan. It was mainly used for displaying items in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Most of the tables are equipped with baffles and exquisite carvings. Because the baffles are made of thicker materials than other furniture, they are often hollowed out, so many carvings are excellent representatives of Chinese Ming Dynasty furniture wood carvings.

"A table is a rectangular, supporting piece of furniture with legs underneath. Some people often confuse a table with a case. Let me emphasize here that generally speaking, the four legs of a table are at the four corners of the table top and form right angles, while the four legs of a case are not at the four corners, but are indented into the table surface at both ends." Boss Lei told everyone.

In addition, grooves are cut on the inner side of the legs to cover the tooth heads, and the tooth bar manufacturing process is quite unique. The front of the tooth bar on the long side is mortise and tenon jointed, and the back is half-lapped. Silver ingot tenons are cut on the legs to cover the crosspieces, and the entire tooth bar surrounds the whole board to form a frame to support the entire table.

The upper part of the carved panel has a square stretcher connected with silver ingot mortise and tenon joints, and a second stretcher forming a frame.

Boss Lei walked forward and admired the single-board table while touching it.

"This case has a magnificent and elegant shape, with the two ends tilted upward, lifting the heavy case top, making it majestic yet agile. The baffle with auspicious cloud pattern is installed between the legs of the case, which is also carved out of large materials. This kind of decorative style of case is often seen in Ming Dynasty prints.

Good stuff, great treasure!

Xiaolin, are you ready to make a move?" Boss Lei asked without hesitation.

It can be seen that he really likes this single-board desk.

At this time, the fat black man could no longer laugh, and he looked as ugly as if he had eaten a piece of shit.

Among the onlookers, many did not know much about this kind of ancient Chinese furniture, so they kept asking others how much the table was worth and so on.

Lin Yuan did not answer Boss Lei immediately, but asked: "Is this made of Huanghuali wood?"

Boss Lei did not hide it and nodded, "Yes! It is Huanghuali wood, a typical Ming-style furniture."

Lacquerware furniture was popular in the Ming Dynasty court, and white wood furniture was widely used by the people. It was only during the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the lifting of the maritime ban and the import of large amounts of rosewood and red sandalwood raw materials from overseas, that Ming Dynasty hardwood furniture designed by Ming Dynasty literati, calligraphers and painters appeared.

After the Ming Dynasty, the style of hardwood furniture was copied by craftsmen in large quantities, and the concept of "Ming style furniture" came into being and has been popular to this day.

Strictly speaking: Ming Dynasty Huanghuali furniture, with its hard texture, fine wood grain, elegant color and clear patterns, is the representative of Ming-style hardwood furniture and the essence of literati furniture in the late Ming Dynasty. It laid the tone of harmonious and symmetrical display for the furniture display mode, and made it the highest aesthetic realm pursued by literati painters in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in furniture appreciation.

"Is this Ming-style furniture? It looks very simple and exudes elegance," said Liu Xin.

Although his appreciation was not professional, the feeling was not wrong.

Boss Lei smiled and said, "This is the characteristic of Ming-style furniture. From a scientific point of view, the structure of Ming-style furniture is the most reasonable. It is simple and elegant, with smooth and ever-changing lines. The proportions are coordinated, practical and exquisite, achieving unparalleled harmony."

The shape is not complicated, nor is it excessively decorated. Carving is occasionally applied, but it is limited to lines, or small areas of exquisite relief or hollow carving, round carving and line engraving are used to increase its decorativeness.

Through natural textures, with different widths, thicknesses, lengths, depths, bumps, and planes of footlines, and the clever combination of lines and surfaces, the solemnity, agility, comfort, and firmness of the furniture are highlighted.

"Ming-style furniture has the addition of literati, and we don't need to question the aesthetics of ancient literati."

The more precious cultural relics handed down from ancient times are basically related to literati.

Boss Lei said that in the late Ming Dynasty, due to political corruption, the so-called literati class lost confidence in politics and instead focused their energy on the enjoyment of life, or on the relaxation of their own feelings.

On the other hand, the emergence of commodity economy gave literati the opportunity to spend a lot of effort on the furniture they used in daily life, and to turn their aesthetic tastes into guidelines to convey to the construction craftsmen. Due to market competition and their own survival issues, the craftsmen absorbed more of these ideas, which led to the overall literati tendency of Huanghuali furniture.

This tendency is reflected in furniture in the form of simple style, comfortable and practical functions, and elegant taste. These characteristics are still recognized by art historians today, and this is the underlying reason why furniture collectors are so keen on collecting them.

"Ming-style furniture that has been preserved to this day is generally not cheap, no matter what material it is made of." Boss Lei said to Lin Yuan.

In the collection of Ming Dynasty or Ming-style furniture, Ming-style hardwood furniture has been hyped up to sky-high prices.

Of course, rosewood is indeed more precious and even hard to come by.

Huanghuali wood has a yellowish color, fine texture, soft grain and a pleasant fragrance.

"There is also a ghost face in this case of tilted head." Lin Yuan added.

Boss Lei smiled bitterly. Originally, he thought Lin Yuan didn't know about "ghost face", so he deliberately didn't mention it. But now that he mentioned it, it means he knows about "ghost face".

The "ghost face" of Huanghuali is well known to all those who love Huanghuali. It seems to have become the classic sign of Huanghuali.

In fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, people had a certain understanding of the "ghost face" of Hainan Huanghuali.

Regarding the ghost face, the ancients once said: "A face is worth ten thousand pieces of gold", which shows how popular it is. Throughout history, countless literati and poets have spent thousands of gold and traveled thousands of miles to obtain "a face". It can be said that it is the dream of all and the blessing of getting it.

The so-called "ghost face" is actually a special wood grain of rosewood. It is a very unique and interesting natural art masterpiece drawn by nature in the texture of rosewood, full of mysterious charm.

To put it simply, a branch on the Huanghuali tree forms a scar when it is reflected on the trunk, and this scar is called a ghost face. This lovely ghost face is a pursuit of literati, and it has influenced later generations for hundreds of years.

"How about 190 million US dollars?" Boss Lei continued to negotiate the price with Lin Yuan.

This price is not low.

The people around widened their eyes when they heard this.

Another million-dollar treasure.

The fat black man couldn't bear the blow, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Lin Yuan: "Boss Lei, let's round it up! How about two million dollars?"

Boss Lei thought about it and finally nodded in agreement.

He didn't expect that these treasures could appear in containers. It seems he has to pay attention to it in the future and come and see it when he has time.

In this way, Lin Yuan and his friends played for the whole day and finally got a little bored.

In fact, it was mainly because Lin Yuan was a little bored. Others were fine, after all, this was a way to make money for them, so how could they be bored?
Boss Lei’s free time is also limited, so after having a meal together, he said goodbye to everyone and returned to San Francisco.

Lin Yuan and his friends spent two days in Los Angeles, during which time they found some treasures that were not too valuable. They asked Li Qiu Shui and the others to divide them equally, but Lin Yuan was a little disdainful of them.

In the past two days, they witnessed another shooting incident in which three people died in Fopoledu. Although the scene was not as exciting as a Hollywood blockbuster, it was exciting enough for someone like Lin Yuan who had just come out of the country.

After returning to San Francisco, Lin Yuan kept quiet for a few days.

Henry and his friends were digesting the gains they had made previously.

Paul enrolled in a Chinese class and started learning Chinese.

As for his job, he had already quit it. He felt that there was no point in hanging on there. Following Lin Yuan, even if it was just to get a bite of soup, was many times better than being there.

Although learning Chinese was painful, Paul gritted his teeth and persevered.

Usually, communicate with Henry in Chinese more often to practice listening and speaking.

"Let's go practice shooting today." Uncle said to Lin Yuan.

In this country, how can you not know how to shoot a gun? Especially now that we are rich, families without guns are easily bullied and more dangerous.

Lin Yuan put down the book. These days, he has been catching up on his knowledge all the time.

Now, he is not extremely strong, but he can basically get a say in common antique appraisals. With the help of the golden finger, he can be considered an expert!

(End of this chapter)