Siheyuan: a hole in the sky

Chapter 449 Confrontation (Second update, please subscribe!)
"Hey, let me teach you a good lesson!" The boss was very happy, and he was going to teach Zhou Jianguo a lesson and asked him to pay an entry fee.

The boss is indeed a veteran. After hearing Zhou Jianguo's price inquiry, he pretended to think about it for a while before replying: "My friend, you have a good eye. This is not ordinary porcelain. This is blue and white porcelain. It is inside the porcelain. The top-notch, and this is a large vessel, which is even more rare. When you look at the painting on it, it is definitely everyone's handwriting, and then look at the decorations on it, isn't it beautiful? This is the top blue-and-white porcelain!"

The boss tried his best to describe this piece of blue and white porcelain as a unique model in the world, in order to pave the way for the future price.

He was ready to teach Zhou Jianguo a lesson. This time he didn't pay a sky-high price. I'm really sorry that he has set up a stall here for more than ten years.

"So good?" Zhou Jianguo looked at the boss with a look of disbelief.

"It's really so good, this is blue and white porcelain, Yuan blue and white?" The boss said loudly.

"If there is such a good thing, why do you put it on the outermost? If you put it on the outermost, you are not afraid of being broken by someone. If it were me, it would definitely be placed on the innermost one, just like the boss next to you." It's the same as those pieces of porcelain."

Zhou Jianguo pointed to the porcelain wares next to the stall owner and said, the expression on his face was still immature, but what he said made the boss speechless for a while.

The boss's mind was spinning rapidly, trying to find a reasonable explanation, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of any suitable explanation.

There is no way, the question Zhou Jianguo asked is too terrible, and he is really not very easy to answer.

Just like what Zhou Jianguo said just now, if this piece of porcelain is really a precious Yuan blue and white, then why is it placed in such a dangerous place by the roadside.

There are people coming and going here on the side of the road. There are not tens of thousands of people passing here every day, but only a few thousand. With so many people passing here, it is inevitable that someone will accidentally bump into them. Therefore, in general, things placed on the side of the road , are nothing valuable.

This is common sense, and the stall owner really doesn't know how to explain it now.

"Boss, can you tell me a price?" Zhou Jianguo looked at the boss with a smile and said, he didn't pretend anymore at this time, some things were too much, and with the previous words, I believe the stall owner will be much more honest.

"You boy, there is something!" The stall owner shook his head, feeling that he was "playing eagles all his life, but his eyes were pecked by eagles". The kid in front of him looked like a novice, but in fact he was a cunning Little Fox.

"Hey, boss, to be honest, I am indeed a novice in antiques, but I am not a novice in other aspects." Zhou Jianguo said with a smile.

He wasn't lying. Zhou Jianguo was indeed a novice when it came to antiques.

"I can see it!" The stall owner nodded, as he could see it.

If Zhou Jianguo was really a veteran, he wouldn't use those words just now to lower the price.

A veteran of antiques used the phrase 'the more things are placed on the street, the less valuable they are' to bargain. If this matter spreads, it will be laughed at by other antiques.

Generally speaking, veterans like antiques will point out the shortcomings of antiques as much as possible when bargaining. The more shortcomings of an antique, the lower the price, and then buy it at a very low price.

Take this Yuan blue and white painting vat as an example. If it is an antique master, he will use the excuse that the surface of this Yuan blue and white painting is too new to bargain at this time. After hearing this sentence, the stall owner knows that he cannot fool others. Therefore, when you open your mouth to negotiate the price, you will congenitally lower a few grades.

Originally, he would start with [-], but now, he starts with [-] at most, which makes it easier to bargain later.

This is the bargaining method of an antique veteran, using his professional knowledge to complete the bargaining.

But Zhou Jianguo did not do this, so the stall owner knew that Zhou Jianguo was indeed a novice in antiques, but he was definitely a little fox in other aspects. He wanted to make a fortune from Zhou Jianguo. Impossible.

Here I want to talk about the stall owners on this street. They are all honest people, or they all have the dignity of warriors. They will not be like the stall owners outside. Once they are exposed, they will be killed immediately They will turn their faces, and those who have a bad temper will come up and beat people directly.

Although the stall owner was told the truth by Zhou Jianguo, he didn't get angry. He just smiled and said "little fox", and then the next round of confrontation between the two sides began.

"Well, for the sake of everyone being warriors, this blue and white porcelain painting jar costs me [-] yuan!" The stall owner offered a price of [-] yuan.

If Zhou Jianguo hadn't been in front, the stall owner would have at least added a zero to the price when he asked for it.

Hearing the price of [-] yuan offered by the stall owner, Zhou Jianguo was overjoyed and almost agreed.

A piece of authentic Yuan blue and white, or such a large-scale Yuan blue and white, only costs [-] yuan, which is really too low.

Yuan blue and white flowers of such a large scale are at least [-] to [-] in the market.

Thirty to fifty thousand yuan is definitely a sky-high price in the 60s, when the average monthly salary was only around [-]. However, don’t think that this price is too high. In fact, this price is still a bit low.

Even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, blue and white flowers from the Yuan Dynasty were extremely precious antiques, usually costing several thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver, but now they can be bought for only three to fifty thousand taels, which is really not a high price. (The Yuan blue and white here are all high-quality goods)
Haste makes waste, Zhou Jianguo is very clear about the truth of this, if he agrees directly without haggling the price, the stall owner may not sell it.

Therefore, although the [-] yuan offered by the stall owner was very low, very low price, Zhou Jianguo still held back, and then began to bargain with the stall owner.

"Five hundred yuan, it's too expensive! My monthly salary is only fifty-six or eighty cents, five hundred yuan, I have to save it for at least two years, it's too expensive, too expensive, I think The price of fifty yuan is more reasonable."

Zhou Jianguo bargained very hard, and he got a [-]% discount, fifty yuan.

The stall owner was actually a little happy. He originally thought that Zhou Jianguo would pay around five or ten yuan, and then the two parties would settle the deal at a price between thirty and fifty. If the transaction is made at this price, the stall owner is also willing.

At best, he would make less money, anyway, he only paid three yuan for this painting jar and received it.

If he sold it for thirty yuan, he would have made a full eight or nine times, which is fine. (Also exclude labor costs)

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhou Jianguo's first counter-offer was fifty times the price, which was ten times higher. In this way, the stall owner was confident that he could raise the price to more than one hundred.

The things collected for three yuan, even if the labor costs are added, can be regarded as five yuan at most. If they are sold for one hundred yuan, the net profit will be more than [-] times, and the stall owner will be very happy.

Although he was very happy in his heart, the stall owner still showed a somewhat disappointed expression on his face, shook his head and said, "No, fifty yuan is too low, and the price I charged was forty-five yuan. Including the handling fee and other expenses, the cost will be fifty or sixty, fifty yuan, it really can’t be sold.”

"Then sixty yuan. This price is really fair. You bought it for forty-five yuan, and there are other expenses in the middle, which is fifty yuan. Now sell it for sixty yuan. Me, you still earned ten dollars."

Zhou Jianguo knew that the owner of the stall was pretending, so he immediately set a new price: [-] yuan!

The stall owner is quite good at pretending. He pretended to think for a while, and finally shook his head and refused, saying: "Yes, according to what you said, if I buy it for you for [-] yuan, you can indeed earn [-] yuan. But you also know that if the business of antiques is just to earn ten yuan, I would use it to sell antiques here, if it were you, would you agree?"

This sentence from the stall owner is indeed a big truth. There is a popular saying in the antique business: if you don’t open for three years, you can eat for three years after opening!

This sentence clearly shows that the profit rate of the antique business is half, double, or two or three times that of other industries. If the profit rate is several times, thousands of times, then you should stop opening this antique business.

Therefore, the stall owner's words were quite sincere, and even Zhou Jianguo was not very good at defending them.

If it were him, he would not sell it either.

A profit of ten dollars, for these curio connoisseurs, this is not a profit, but an insult.

"In this way, I will offer eighty yuan, boss, this is the upper limit I can offer. If you accept, then I will pay for this blue and white porcelain painting jar. If you still do not agree, then I can only express regret Yes. After all, if I go to the store, I can buy a blue and white porcelain painting jar like this, and it will only cost five or six yuan at most."

Zhou Jianguo pretended to be in pain, said his final quotation, and reminded the stall owner that such a blue and white porcelain painting jar only sold for five or six yuan in the store, and he offered eighty yuan, which was enough. It's ok.

The stall owner was once again in deep thought. He was thinking whether the price Zhou Jianguo offered was acceptable, whether what Zhou Jianguo just said was true, and how much he could raise.
After nearly half a minute, the stall owner finally offered his final price, and he said to Zhou Jianguo, "One hundred yuan, if you agree, we will make a deal now!"

During this half minute, the stall owner was really thinking. He was secretly observing Zhou Jianguo's expression. He wanted to see if Zhou Jianguo would really stop bargaining as he said.

In the end, he only saw calmness, without the slightest bit of anxiety. Obviously, the price was indeed close to the bottom line of this person. If he wanted to bargain up the price again, maybe this deal would really be scrapped.

Thinking of this, the stall owner immediately made a final decision, one hundred yuan.

Zhou Jianguo didn't directly agree, he frowned and thought about it, and the stall owner felt lucky when he saw Zhou Jianguo like this, and he was glad that he didn't keep talking like a lion just now, otherwise, the deal would really be ruined.

"Boss, I can agree to one hundred yuan, but you have to add those jade pendants as compensation." Zhou Jianguo said, pointing to a few relatively new jade pendants.

Zhou Jianguo had seen these jade pendants before, and originally wanted to buy them, but since the boss is so 'greedy', Zhou Jianguo was going to teach him another lesson, letting him know that greed has a price to pay.

"Deal, these few pieces of jade pendants will be regarded as my gift to you." The stall owner readily concluded the transaction.

These few jade pendants are not antiques, but he bought them for meditation.

His previous surname was a bit impatient, so after he cultivated to the bright energy, he could not break through the dark energy for a long time. At this time, his master asked him to carve jade pendants. When he can calm down, he can break through to the dark energy .

In this way, he carved the jade pendant for three full years before he truly calmed down, and then spent another two years breaking through the dark energy.

Some people here may say, why does this matter of this person sound like a protagonist.

Protagonist, in your world, you are the only protagonist, so if you insist on being the protagonist, you won't comment.

Oh, you said that this person has engraved jade pendants for three years, so his jade pendants should have some value. How could this man give the jade pendants to Zhou Jianguo so easily.

Hehe, you still think highly of him. Although he has carved jade pendants for three years, you also know that he was an extremely irritable person before. Do you think such a person has good carving skills?
In fact, this person's carving skills. How should I say, it feels like a Q version, which is quite illusory. So, when he heard that Zhou Jianguo wanted a very fast jade pendant as a headpiece, the stall owner agreed without even thinking about it, and even offered to give more A few pieces.

The stall owner never imagined that he had lost a lot of money.

Although the value of the jade pendants in his hands did not increase because of his magical engraving, but instead dropped a bit, the price of the jade pendants would soar sharply in a short time, that is, after the Demon Trapping Talisman appeared.

Now these jade pendants are worthless, but it won't be long before the price of each piece of these jade pendants will exceed five hundred, and the stall owner gave Zhou Jianguo ten jade pendants this time.

That is to say, in this transaction, the stall owner took the initiative to give away [-] yuan for a mere [-] yuan, and the [-] yuan is still rising!
It is said that since then, the stall owners have been quite hostile to those young people. There is no way, Zhou Jianguo slapped him, and he couldn't help it.

Thirty years later, after Zhou Jianguo took out this blue and white porcelain painting urn and proved that it was the real blue and white porcelain of Yuan Dynasty, it is said that the stall owner left the antique business directly. He was severely beaten by Zhou Jianguo, and it was twice, who can bear it.

"Here, this is one hundred yuan!" Zhou Jianguo suppressed the joy in his heart, and handed ten big old blacks to the stall owner.

The stall owner took it excitedly, and the deal between the two parties was concluded.

After the deal was concluded, Zhou Jianguo did not take away the blue and white porcelain painting jar right now, he said to the stall owner: "Boss, I have to go shopping here again to see if there are other good things, so this blue and white porcelain painting jar, And these jade pendants, I will put them with you for the time being, and I will take them away after I finish shopping later, do you think it is okay?"

"Okay, you can put it here at ease, but I have to leave for an hour at noon, don't get me wrong, I'm going to eat, in the afternoon, if you come to take it before four o'clock, I will close the stall at four o'clock. " said the stall owner.

"thank you boss!"

Zhou Jianguo thanked the stall owner. In return, Zhou Jianguo also bought all the jades from the stall owner, no matter the age, new or old, as long as they were jade, Zhou Jianguo bought them all, and told the stall owner that he could go to collect jade. Before he came back, he could buy as many jade wares as he could raise.

Such a generous gesture almost made the stall owner jump up for joy.

It's just that what he doesn't know is that if he is happy today, he will be sad soon.

Before the Demon Trapping Talisman came out, jade was the price of cabbage, but after the Talisman of Trapping the Demon came out, jade became the price of gold and diamonds.

Amid the voice of thanks from the stall owner, Zhou Jianguo left and walked towards the next stall.

The stall owner, on the other hand, sent Zhou Jianguo away with a smile on his face, and carefully put the blue and white porcelain painting jars, and those jade wares in a box. After doing all this, the stall owner immediately contacted other people to buy jade in large quantities. .

The stall owner is quite "cunning". He plans to collect a large amount of jade and sell it to Zhou Jianguo to make a fortune.

As for whether Zhou Jianghui would renege on his debt, the stall owner wasn't worried at all.

This is not an ordinary store like those outside. This is a trading place for warriors. The people who can come in are all warriors. If you dare to renege on your debts, the consequences will be quite serious.

In the world of warriors, there is absolutely no old man. If you dare to renege, there are plenty of people who will deal with you.

In the world of warriors, force is the most important thing. Some old-fashioned behaviors in the ordinary world will not work here!
In the world of ordinary people, laziness can avoid debts through a series of shameless behaviors, but in the world of cultivation, if you dare to do this, if one is not good, not only you will be killed, but your family members will also be killed. will also be killed.

Moreover, the terrible thing is that no one will pursue this matter at all, but there will be countless warriors saying that it is good to kill. Therefore, in the cultivation world, there are no old people.

Zhou Jianguo ignored the "cunning" of the stall owner. After he left the stall, he planned to continue sweeping the stall. He just visited seven or eight shops in a row, but he didn't gain much. He just bought some jade.

Zhou Jianguo would never have too much jade. If he didn't want to cause other troubles, Zhou Jianguo really wanted to open a stall here to buy jade. This is definitely a hundred times better than his current behavior of sweeping goods.

In addition to jade, Zhou Jianguo is also paying attention to other things that contain aura.

This is indeed the world of the cultivation world, and there are indeed many things that contain spiritual energy.

Such as lightning strike wood, or thunder stone, and some meteorites, these things all contain a certain amount of aura, but most of these things cannot be used by others, so these things are now cheaper than Zhou Jianguo.

Of course, the most important thing is that the prices of these things are not low.

For example, the price of lightning strike wood with the lowest price is calculated by several square meters. The price of one side of the lowest grade lightning strike wood is about [-] yuan.

One thousand dollars is nothing after 60 or [-] years, but in the [-]s, it was really not a small amount of money. Families above the ninth floor couldn’t afford it, even warriors, or even warriors couldn’t afford so much money. Come.

Those who are rich in martial arts and poor in literature are not talking nonsense. The cost of learning martial arts is really high, and ordinary families can't afford it.

Let's use Ming Jin to calculate it. If you want to cultivate Ming Jin, you need to spend at least two to three thousand yuan. How many families can spend this money?

Moreover, the so-called two to three thousand yuan is for those whose cultivation aptitude is above the pass line. If your cultivation aptitude is below the pass line, hehe, you will have to spend at least ten times more money to have It may be cultivated to Ming Jin.

He Yuzhu's cultivation aptitude is not bad, but he still spent more than [-] yuan in the nearly [-] years of cultivation (He Daqing's money was spent in the early stage, and his own money in the later stage), so it is true that martial arts training A very expensive thing.

This is only the state of Mingjin. When you reach Darkjin, your expenses will double. Therefore, if you don’t have a mine in your home, you’d better give up on martial arts.

Oh, you ask why they don't need these costs?
This is very simple, Zhou Jianguo has borne all these expenses.

Why does martial artist training cost a lot of money?The most important thing is that they have to buy a large amount of elixir to make up for the huge consumption of martial arts on the body.

To put it in a simpler way, practicing martial arts requires a lot of energy, and your body itself does not have so much energy, so if you want to continue practicing, you have to replenish a lot of energy to your body, otherwise, you will not only practice If you don't go on, and the body will also collapse due to excessive energy consumption.

This energy, in the cultivation world, is spiritual material, or elixir. Without these things, you can't practice at all.

As for the stick stems, Zhou Jianguo provided them with milk full of life spirit fluid, as well as some vegetables and meat, so their bodies had sufficient energy to ensure their daily practice.

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