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"What? Do you have any advice for me, boss?" Xiao Shan asked with a smile as he looked at the stall owner who had called out to him.

The stall owner said he had even better pieces than these porcelains and asked Xiaoshan if he would like to come with him to take a look.

Hearing the stall owner say this, Xiao Shan nodded with great interest.

Anyway, with my own strength, I'm not afraid of the stall owner cheating me.

Seeing Xiao Shan's decisive agreement, the stall owner hesitated.

However, the thought that he could make a fortune if he could sell what he had made him reaffirmed his resolve.

After tidying up his stall, the stall owner led Xiao Shan towards his temporary residence.

On the way, Xiao Shan had a brief conversation with the stall owner and learned that the stall owner's name was Zhou Caiwang and that his family had run pawnshops in Beijing for three generations.

Thanks to the connections accumulated by his ancestors, he knew many of the former high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Beijing.

Even though these people are now down on their luck, they still have a lot of good things hidden in their homes.

But now that things are getting tense, these things in these people's homes are like hot potatoes, and people keep trying to sell them.

So they found Zhou Caiwang, handed the items to him, and asked him to help them sell them.

Of course, in order to get Zhou Caiwang to help, they also agreed to pay a considerable handling fee.

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Zhou Caiwang was willing to risk bringing Xiao Shan to his temporary residence in order to sell his goods as soon as possible and collect the commission.

After all, things can go wrong if you wait too long and try to make a move slowly in the pigeon market every day. You could easily get caught when the government cracks down on pigeon markets.

It's better to take a risk and earn more at once.

Xiao Shan followed Zhou Caiwang all the way to a dilapidated house in the north of the city.

This place is usually deserted, and there is a row of abandoned thatched huts.

Zhou Caiwang designated this place as his temporary residence, and it was also relatively safe to hide his belongings here.

After all, who would have thought that such a dilapidated thatched hut would contain a bunch of valuable antiques?

Zhou Caiwang led Xiao Shan into the house, then lifted up a large square floor tile, revealing a large hole underneath.

The cave was filled with many brocade boxes of various sizes. Zhou Caiwang took them out one by one and placed them on the ground. Then he introduced them to Xiao Shan: "Most of these are paintings and jewelry. If you want any larger items, you'll have to tell me in advance! After all, large items are too eye-catching, and it takes me a lot of effort to get them here."

Xiao Shan nodded and began to look through the contents of the brocade box.

Most of the jewelry here is jade; after all, no one would be foolish enough to take out gold jewelry to exchange for money.

As for paintings, they are mostly works by relatively unknown ancient people.

However, Xiao Shan could tell at a glance that the age of these scrolls was not a problem.

Therefore, Xiao Shan felt that as long as the price was right, he would have no problem acquiring all of these jewelry and paintings.

“These pieces of jewelry are all antiques from the Ming and Qing dynasties,” Zhou Caiwang said in a low voice to Xiao Shan, who was examining the jewelry. “But the owners are all eager to sell. Have you seen any that you like?”

Zhou Caiwang noticed that Xiao Shan was looking through the jewelry without showing any expression, so he assumed that Xiao Shan wasn't particularly interested in buying it.

So they laid out the bottom line directly, hoping Xiaoshan could ask about the price.

Sure enough, after hearing Zhou Caiwang's words, Xiao Shan casually picked up a bracelet and asked, "How much is this?"

Zhou Caiwang glanced at the bracelet in Xiao Shan's hand, thought for a moment, and then said, "I won't name a price, 240 yuan!"

The jade bracelet that Xiaoshan picked up is made of seed jade. If it costs 240 yuan, it is definitely worth the price.

Even if they were taken to Hong Kong or overseas, they could fetch a considerable price, without having to wait decades.

Although he thought the price was good, Xiao Shan frowned, looking troubled: "Can you make it cheaper?"

Seeing Xiao Shan's reaction, Zhou Caiwang was overjoyed. It seemed that he could open for business today!

So he said to Xiao Shan, "Comrade, there are risks involved in what we're doing now. I want to close the deal as soon as possible, so I can't ask you for a high price!"

"How about this, if you can buy more, I'll talk to the owner and see if I can give you a discount?"

When Xiao Shan heard Zhou Caiwang say this, he pretended to think for a long time with his head down, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll pick more!"

As he spoke, Xiao Shan picked out three bracelets and four jade pendants, and said to Zhou Caiwang, "I'll buy all of these. How much of a discount can you give me?"

Zhou Caiwang gasped inwardly; he had found a big customer today!

He quickly did the math and gave Xiao Shan a quote: "If you buy all of these, I'll give you the last jade pendant for free. It'll be 1200 yuan in total!"

Xiao Shan nodded to Zhou Caiwang: "Okay! But I don't have that much money on me right now. I'll come back with the money tomorrow at this time."

"Sure, no problem, I'll be waiting for you here!" Zhou Caiwang nodded quickly. "Comrade, would you like to pick out a few more things?"

Xiao Shan shook his head: "I'll take these for now!"

Upon hearing Xiao Shan's words, Zhou Caiwang's eyes lit up.

If I can maintain good relationships with this big customer, it will be much easier for me to ship my goods!

The next day, Xiao Shan, who had also changed his appearance, arrived at Zhou Caiwang's temporary residence.

Zhou Caiwang was already waiting here.

Although Zhou Caiwang was alone here, he discovered that many people were secretly observing him on his way from Xiaoshan.

It's highly likely that Zhou Caiwang was worried that he was a government agent, so he planted spies on the road to prevent him from being brought over and captured.

When Zhou Caiwang saw that Xiao Shan had come alone, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went up to greet him.

After exchanging greetings, Xiao Shan took out a thick wad of cash from his briefcase and handed it to Zhou Caiwang: "Here's 1200 yuan, please count it!"

Zhou Caiwang excitedly took the money Xiao Shan handed over and started counting it.

Zhou Caiwang quickly finished counting the large sums of money in his hand and nodded to Xiao Shan: "That's right, it's 1200 yuan!"

After saying that, Zhou Caiwang packed up the jewelry pieces that Xiao Shan had taken a liking to yesterday in front of Xiao Shan and handed them to him.

Taking the jewelry from Zhou Caiwang, Xiao Shan looked at Zhou Caiwang and said slowly, "It's like this, I have a friend who also likes to collect antiques and paintings. Could you take me inside to see the goods?"

Although Xiao Shan wasn't worried about Zhou Caiwang doing anything to him, he still fabricated a wealthy friend out of thin air to avoid trouble.

Then, I used this friend's name to buy antiques and calligraphy.

“No problem!” Zhou Caiwang readily agreed.

After all, Xiao Shan had just bought so much jewelry with him, so his friend's purchasing power was naturally not weak either.

After Xiao Shan followed Zhou Caiwang into the house, he opened the window.

He first picked out several emerald bracelets, choosing only the finest pieces without any flaws or cracks.

He wouldn't accept anything with even the slightest flaw.

After all, jade has always been something that wealthy people play with.

And what these people who are not short of money cannot accept the most is flaws!

Therefore, even if other bracelets offer better value for money, Xiaoshan would not choose them.

After choosing the bracelet, Xiao Shan also picked out a few ancient paintings that were from a relatively distant era.

Xiao Shan handed these things over to Zhou Caiwang, saying he would go back and tell his friends to ask Zhou Caiwang to keep them for three days.

If he doesn't come within three days, it means his friend doesn't want to buy these items, and Zhou Caiwang can continue selling them.

Zhou Caiwang naturally said there was no problem with that.

Anyway, these things have been in his possession for a while now, and he hasn't been able to sell them.

Now that there's an opportunity to sell it, helping to store it for a few days is certainly not a problem.

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In the days that followed, Zhou Caiwang waited for Xiao Shan to appear.

They didn't even set up a stall at the pigeon market.

Unfortunately, Zhou Caiwang did not see Xiao Shan for two whole days.

"Could it be that his friend isn't a big customer like him?" Zhou Caiwang wondered to himself as he waited anxiously for Xiao Shan.

Just as Zhou Caiwang was about to give up hope on the third night, Xiao Shan appeared.

Looking at Xiao Shan standing in front of him, Zhou Caiwang felt tears welling up in his eyes!

The reason Xiao Shan didn't show up until the third day was mainly because he had been busy playing with his son for the first two days and didn't have time to come and meet Zhou Caiwang.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Xiao Shan handed the money to Zhou Caiwang for him to count.

After confirming that there was no problem with the money, Zhou Caiwang even excitedly gave Xiao Shan a jade pendant.

I am grateful to Xiaoshan for bringing me such a big client as his friend.

After the money and goods were exchanged, Xiao Shan looked at Zhou Caiwang and said with a smile, "Comrade Zhou, if you have any good goods in the future, remember to let me know. My friend and I are not short of money!"

Xiao Shan smiled and gave instructions to Zhou Caiwang.

"Don't worry!" Zhou Caiwang patted his chest and assured him, "Here's what we'll do: if we come across any good goods, I'll hang a red cloth strip on that big tree on the street next to Pigeon Market."

"If you see a signal, just come over! If you have any friends you want to buy, you can bring them over too."

"You're a regular customer of mine, so I won't charge you extra for anyone you bring."

Xiao Shan nodded: "Okay, then it's settled."

"Hey, take care!" Zhou Caiwang happily saw Xiao Shan off.

Xiao Shan hadn't walked far before he put the contents of his briefcase into his backpack.

Xiaoshan acquired these antiques not only to collect them, but also because he didn't want them to be smashed or burned during this special era.

That would be such a waste!

As for exchanging these antiques for money in Hong Kong and abroad, Xiaoshan really has no such idea.

With his current capabilities, wouldn't it be easy for him to make money in Hong Kong and abroad if he really wanted to?

Why bother with selling antiques?

When he develops his career in Hong Kong or abroad in the future, he will buy back those antiques that have been scattered overseas!

Back home, Ding Qiunan told Xiao Shan that Allen had called him.

Because Ding Qiunan only knew a few simple words and sentence structures in English, and even that was only after Xiao Shan had taught her with great difficulty, she had no idea what Allen wanted to say on the phone.

Xiao Shan returned to his bedroom and dialed Allen's number.

Allen told Xiao Shan over the phone that he had already bought land for Xiao Shan in Hong Kong!

The land ownership certificate will be delivered along with the next batch of machine tools arriving in Qingdao. We hope Xiaoshan will pick it up then.

Xiaoshan naturally said there was no problem with this.

After all, Allen only recognizes Xiao Shan now, so Xiao Shan has to be in charge of the machine tool docking.

In early October, Xiao Shan followed the factory's transport fleet to Qingdao Port.

Besides obtaining the property ownership certificate, Xiaoshan also plans to bring back some seafood on this trip.

The temperature in Beijing has dropped now, so seafood bought in the city keeps longer than before.

When Xiao Shan and his group arrived at Qingdao Port, it was already past midnight, and John Bull's ship had not yet docked.

So Xiaoshan took the drivers from the transportation department to the guesthouse to rest for a few hours.

The guesthouse was already full of people, all of whom had come to pick up machine tools.

It can be said that this new machine tool has made the economy of Qingdao Port more active.

On days when ships from the UK dock, restaurants and guesthouses in Qingdao Port are always packed with guests.

These guests are here to connect with machine tools.

In the past, Qingdao Port was never this bustling.

While the drivers were resting at the guesthouse, Xiao Shan decided to go out for a stroll by himself.

Xiao Shan came to the market at Qingdao Port alone and selected some particularly rare sea fish to buy.