Ordinary life starting from a courtyard

Chapter 354 Chapter 355: Silly Pillar: Can’t help myself
An antique small building with red pillars and beams, carved tile ridges, and a mahogany and golden plaque with the inscription: Wen Yuxuan.

The front hall is decorated in a simple and elegant way. There are several mahogany shelves against the left and right walls, an armchair and table in the middle, and a one and a half meter screen partition.

After making tea and sitting for a day, Zhou Wenliang clicked his tongue and looked out of boredom. There were a lot of people in the street. There were many stalls selling everything. Most of them were antiques, the kind with carpets and various small items on them. There are all kinds of objects, old porcelain, jade and so on.

Antiques can now be said to be nine true and one false, because there are many genuine things, and any one you take out at random is the real one, and the cost of counterfeiting may be higher than that of the genuine article. In addition, the buyer cannot pay a big price, so it is like that.

Zhou Wenliang was bored here and opened a shop to pass the time. His real estate company also moved here, and there was no room for them in the Jiaodaokou Restaurant.

Now their task is to collect the houses and at the same time rent them out and take good care of them. They do whatever they need to do to collect the rent.

Zhou Wenliang sits in the store and can deal with anything in time.

"Boss, boss, this green vase is the Huanxin vase, right?"

A customer asked in surprise, pointing to the blue bottle on the shelf.

Zhou Wenliang stood up, smiled and nodded: "Yes, the heart-turning vase from the Qianlong period came out of the palace."

The old man, who was in his 50s and nearly 60 years old, suppressed his excitement and said: "This kind of bottle was not used outside at that time. It was only available in the royal court. Boss, can you please control it?"

Zhou Wenliang took the bottle off the cabinet shelf and placed it on the table. The old man looked at it carefully.

The rotating bottle consists of two parts: an inner bottle and an outer bottle.The inner bottle is often painted with baby playing patterns in pastels. After the outer bottle is turned, the outer bottle is hollowed out at the position corresponding to the pattern on the inner bottle. When the inner bottle is turned, different scenes of the inner bottle can be seen through the hollow part of the outer bottle, like a "revolving lantern" .

The revolving bottle can be regarded as the representative of porcelain craftsmanship at that time. The production process was complex, reflecting the superb technical level of the time.

The old man liked it very much and looked like he couldn't put it down. He looked at it for a long time, raised his head and said, "Boss, give me a price."

As he spoke, the other person's left hand retracted into his sleeve and stretched out.

His appearance was to "hold hands and negotiate the price," which means the buyer and seller gestured with their hands in their sleeves and negotiated the price with their hands.

This method of price negotiation was very popular in ancient times, but now it is only available in the antiques industry.

Zhou Wenliang smiled and waved his hand: "This bottle is not for sale."

The old man was stunned for a moment and looked at him without knowing why.

Zhou Wenliang smiled faintly: "Old man, let's put it bluntly, if you don't pay for the things, I can't possibly sell them at the current market price."

Although this bottle is the newest one out there, the market price is only a few hundred yuan. To be honest, I really don’t like it for this little money.

Zhou Wenliang is not short of this amount of money.

The value will only be higher if you keep it in the future.

"What a pity." The old man shook his head and was reluctant to put the bottle down. He looked around in the store again, and the more he looked, the more surprised he became. The store was filled with antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even the teapot for drinking water was from the Jiaqing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of period, the table is from the late Ming Dynasty and the chair is from the mid-Qing Dynasty.

The old man gradually became numb, and he counted these items one by one, and praised: "Boss, I just checked my eyes, but I didn't see the real God. It turns out it's everyone."

"Let me introduce you to the owner of Yuxizhai next door. My name is Kong Mingde."

When Zhou Wenliang heard this, he remembered that Yuxi Zhai was a jade shop not far away.

"Hello, hello, it turns out that it's Boss Kong who is visiting the store. Thank you for meeting me."

Zhou Wenliang greeted him with a few polite words, and Kong Mingde smiled and said: "You are a small shop here, and I am just a stall on the ground."

"Haha, it's my first time to open a store. Boss Sun is just kidding..."

The two exchanged a few words, and Zhou Wenliang invited him into the back hall to drink tea. Sun Mingde was the local leader here, and you can learn many rules from him.

Through getting to know him, Sun Mingde gradually fell in love with Zhou Wenliang, especially his firm ability in antique jade, which impressed him even more.For example, Sun Mingde, who has been playing jade carving and appraisal all his life, is a technical job, and the older he gets, the better he becomes.

Sun Mingde took out the jade pendant he carried with him. Zhou Wenliang could see the calendar at a glance, which impressed him very much.

Zhou Wenliang smiled, because the jade pendant the other party took out was from Zigang, also known as Lu Zigang, a master of jade in the Ming Dynasty, and he happened to have several pieces.

There is another piece of jade on the shelf in the store. Can you recognize it?

The ones that can be displayed in the store are all Zhou Wenliang's most inferior ones from his collection. Of course, this inferiority is also relative.

There are countless national treasures in Zhou Wenliang's space, many of which he looks down upon and has a very high vision.

The advantage of opening a store in Panjiayuan is that it really complies with the saying, if it does not open for three years, it will last for three years after opening.

Someone bought a roll of cold food posters from him. Of course it was a fake. It was faked during the Ming Dynasty and made to look like the real thing. He was reluctant to sell it because it was a treasure.

Even though it is a fake, it is exactly the same as the real one. If Zhou Wenliang had not owned the original work of Su Shi, he might have taken this fake as real.

At that time, the steel rolling mill went out and recovered a lot of ancient calligraphy and paintings, some of which were fake and some of which were real. Among them were fake Han Shi Tie.

Silly Zhu and He Yuyu wanted to jointly open a restaurant and came to discuss it with Zhou Wenliang. Zhou Wenliang thought for a while and made a request: "It's okay to jointly open a hotel, but you can't interfere in the management. How much money do you have?"

Silly Zhu Siliu didn't understand, so he asked him to manage the hotel, and his pants were worn out.

Silly Zhu scratched his head: "It's not much money, more than 2000 yuan, and I don't know how to run the hotel, can I let Haitang do it?"

He knew Yu Haitang's ambition, and he would have been itching to see how much money he made. If Zhou Wenliang didn't agree, he might go it alone.

"Actually, it's more than 2000 yuan. There's no need to partner with us. You can find a shop by yourself, rent it and decorate it, and then go it alone?"

"Which, this..." Silly Zhu was speechless.

Zhou Wenliang glanced at it and reacted.

Silly Zhu and Yu Haitang probably didn't have the confidence to do well. They wanted to make money but were afraid of losing money. They were also inexperienced and wanted to win over them. Even if they lost, they would lose less.

"Okay." Zhou Wenliang didn't have a good candidate to manage the hotel, and if they invested some money in the hotel, they would only get dividends and check the accounts regularly. If something went wrong, they would be responsible for it themselves.

Even if you don't invest in them, Silly Zhu and Yu Haitang will come out on their own, so it's better to invest some money and get the dividends.

There are also stores that renovate houses, and the store costs + 2000 yuan, and you get 60% dividends.

Silly Pillar's technical fee is 2000 yuan, and he gets 40%.

Yu Haitang was overjoyed when she heard that Zhou Wenliang only invested money and did not participate in the management. Although he wanted a lot of shares, we could discuss this later, as long as he agreed to form a partnership.

Yu Haitang said happily that he would reward Silly Zhu in the evening.

After hearing this, Silly Zhu's face turned green. The pain in his back and back was not over yet, and it happened again!
"What, are you unhappy?" Yu Haitang looked at him coldly.

The room was suddenly filled with murderous aura. Silly Zhu shivered, licked his face, and said with a smile: "No, no, I just thought about it. You don't know how I have spent the past two months. I have already given up thinking about it."

Yu Haitang smiled with satisfaction and licked his lips at Silly Zhu.

Silly pillars are shaking, and the heart is extremely bitter. When people reach middle age, they can't help themselves. They are already weak.

The next day, when Zhou Wenliang saw Si Zhu again, he saw that his eyes were dull, his face was pale, and his legs were shaking slightly when he walked.

"Tsk tsk, that's too ruthless!"

(End of this chapter)