China Entertainment: Gao Yanei wants to be the best actor

Chapter 226 Investing in ghosts [13]

Let's not mention the old things about Lao Guo and a certain association for the time being.

After returning from Guo's restaurant, Gao Fei nestled in the No. 9 courtyard of Osmanthus Hutong in Houhai, and began to ponder the script of "Painted Skin" silently.

After all, the movie will start after a while. Although Gao Fei claims to be a capable faction, he has to prepare in advance, right?

What surprised him was that Ma Weidu suddenly came to him.

……

"Yo ~ Uncle Ma, you are a rare visitor!"

After Gao Fei welcomed Ma Weidu in, before he could ask why he came, he saw Ma Weidu looking back and forth in the room with bright eyes.

That appearance is the same as the usual posture of sweeping old houses and Taobao.

Seeing this situation, Gao Fei suddenly looked at him dumbfounded and said:

"Uncle Ma, don't do this, I'm really flustered!"

"With your posture, I didn't know that you thought you were here to raid the house!"

As soon as this remark came out, Ma Weidu couldn't help but shook his head with a laugh.

Immediately after taking his seat, he just patted the armrest beside him, and said with emotion with a smile:
"Don't even mention it, I really want to take back all the tables, chairs, doors and windows in your room!"

Hearing this, Gao Fei was speechless, and Ma Weidu laughed happily when he saw this.

But after the joke, Gao Fei became more and more curious about Ma Weidu's intentions.

After all, although Lao Ma liked his garden before, it was not as abnormal as it is today.

Looking at Gao Fei's puzzled eyes, Ma Weidu took out a newspaper from his coat pocket and threw it to Gao Fei.

Goofy: (⊙o⊙)...

This action immediately made Gao Fei a little puzzled.

What, he was hacked again?

Seeing this situation, the old horse immediately looked at Gao Fei with envy and said:
"Your luck... is so good that it makes people envious!"

This is already the second time Ma Weidu said this to Gao Fei.

When he bought the lotus-patterned bowl of Ding Kiln "Shangshiju" from Gao Fei in the Song Dynasty, he also felt this way.

Seeing what he said, Gao Fei immediately felt relieved.

So he immediately unfolded the newspaper and looked at it curiously.

Soon, Gao Fei discovered the clue.

I saw that on the back of the newspaper, the headline "Gold for wood" was printed in capital letters.

Gao Fei took a closer look and found that it turned out that a company engaged in the mahogany furniture trade publicly offered a reward to solicit Hainan huanghuali wood furniture.

They declare that rolling pins, old pot lids, lame stools, and the like can be turned into treasures.

It can be exchanged for equivalent gold bars according to the ratio of "1 kg of huanghuali wood for 40 grams of gold".

For this reason, the company also placed gold bars worth one million yuan in the "Redwood Grand View Building" in the capital, saying that it originally collected Hainan huanghuali wood from the people in the whole capital.

Seeing this, Gao Fei immediately raised his head in confusion, looked at Ma Weidu beside him and said:

"Uncle Ma, is that why?"

Although according to the ratio announced in the newspaper, the sea yellow logs in Gao Fei's hand could bankrupt the organizer, but there was no smile on Gao Fei's face.

It's not that Gao Fei regards gold as dung, but that he can see the tricks in such activities at a glance.

This "gold for wood" activity is obviously just a hype plan planned by this mahogany furniture company.

Just rely on the last sentence of the article "The final interpretation right of this event belongs to the sponsor".

Gao Fei can conclude that even if this activity expires, the people in the capital probably won't be able to exchange a single gold bar.

It's just that it's impossible for Ma Wei not to see such a method.

And that's exactly what it is.

"Xiao Gao, this matter is not as simple as you think."

Seeing what Gao Fei said, Ma Weidu immediately said softly with slightly condensed eyes:
"I've inquired about it. Yuanheng Mahogany Furniture was supposed to be entrusted to an advertising company for this hype. But no advertising company was willing to accept it, so they did it themselves."

Having said that, the old horse looked at Gao Fei with a smile on his face and said:
"Many circles now know that this 'gold for wood' event is purely a hype, but no one has exposed it. Instead, they all help to beat the drums."

"Do you know why?"

Seeing Ma Wei asking such a question, Gao Fei immediately replied thoughtfully:

"Those people have sea yellow in their hands?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Gao Fei said this, Ma Wei immediately gave him a blank look and said:

"Do you think everyone is the same as you, hoarding wood for fun?"

After being teased by the old horse, Gao Fei also found that his statement seemed a bit untenable, so he couldn't help but smiled awkwardly.

Fortunately, the old horse did not continue to molest him.

Seeing Ma Weidu sighed with complicated eyes:
"Actually, when I went to the countryside in the early years, I once stayed in Hainan for a while."

"At that time, Hainan huanghuali was not as expensive as it is now."

"Most sea yellows are either crushed and made into spices for export in exchange for foreign exchange, or are made into farm tools, furniture or children's toys by local factories in Hainan."

"Even during the period of large-scale steelmaking, a lot of sea yellow was used in steelmaking, because huanghuali is very fire-resistant."

"So even after the turmoil of the big steelmaking has passed, many people in the countryside still directly use sea yellow wood for cooking."

Speaking of this, Ma Wei couldn't help laughing and said with emotion:
"I remember that only families with poor conditions in Hainan used sea yellow to build houses. Because the material of huanghuali is small, the color is not uniform, and there are many textures."

"Most people with good economic conditions use pineapple grids to build houses, because the pineapple grids are large and the colors are very uniform."

"So at that time in the countryside of Hainan, as long as you saw whose house was built with huanghuali, you would know that his family was relatively poor."

Hearing this, even though Gao Fei had prepared himself, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded and said:
"I'll go! Why is it so casual? Then how cheap was Haihuang back then!"

Not wanting to see Gao Fei say that, Ma Wei immediately smiled and said:

"How cheap? Hehe, 8 cents per catty!"

"If you pay 100 yuan, you can choose 1000 catties of sea yellow high-quality aniseed ingredients at that time!"

As soon as this remark came out, Gao Fei was speechless.

And this is why, since 2002, even though the price of sea yellow logs has been rising all the way, Ma Weidu has been unmoved.

Because in his opinion, although the material of Haihuang is good, it cannot be sold at such a price.

But this time and that time.

After the hype of Yuanheng Furniture this time, the collection of mahogany furniture has become popular all over the country, which made Ma Weidu realize that he missed something.

As an old fox, he quickly discovered a clue from the slogan "Gold has a price and mahogany is priceless".

Because no matter how he looks at it, he feels that this is a bit similar to the phrase "Diamonds are forever, and one piece will last forever" from De Beers.

As the existing Hainan huanghuali is getting less and less, coupled with the long growth cycle of wood, the scarcity of sea yellow is much more real than that of diamonds.

Of course, the most important thing is that Lao Ma has discovered that there are more and more rich people in the country.

Most of these rich local tyrants did not have many investment channels.

So when this hot money met this wave of mahogany furniture collection, the Haihuang market, which was still a bit vain, was completely implemented immediately.

And these are also what Lao Ma figured out from the abnormal situation that mahogany furniture collections have exploded all over the country recently.

So facing Gao Fei, Lao Ma also cut straight to the point:

"Xiao Gao, I won't hide it from you. I'm personally very optimistic about Haihuang's future market."

"However, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, so it's up to you whether you sell it or not. Our brothers will settle accounts clearly, so you don't have to look at me."

But as soon as he said this, Gao Fei smiled and shook his head immediately:
"Uncle Ma, look at what you said, I don't know what kind of person you are!"

Although as an antique collector, Lao Ma is often addicted to picking up leaks and cannot extricate himself, but he still believes in his high character.

At least Gao Fei has dealt with him so far, and he has never heard of him calling the real thing a fake and then cheating it from the seller.

Moreover, although most of the antiques that flowed out of his hands were not cheap, there was never a single fake.

Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Gao Fei said decisively:

"Okay, there are still 23 tons of the materials I bought before."

"Uncle Ma, if you want to buy it, just take it all."

Anyway, Gao Fei didn't plan to fry the wood at the beginning, and now someone is willing to take over the batch of wood, he couldn't wish for it, and the warehouse just happened to be freed up for him to store other things.

only……

As soon as Gao Fei said this, the room fell into a strange dead silence.

Ma Weidu looked at Gao Fei in disbelief.

Although he knew that Gao Fei still had a lot of sea yellow left when he renovated it.

But he never thought that the "many" in Gao Fei's mouth actually meant this!
Who are these people?Could it be that he is going to use sea yellow as firewood? How come the leftovers are enough to decorate several houses?

The most important thing is that he really doesn't have enough money on this scale.

So Ma Weidu, who came back to his senses, immediately looked at Gao Fei with admiration, shook his head and said:

"You're a fucking talent! Xiao Gao, I'm convinced today!"

"Can't afford it, really can't afford it!"

Hearing this, Gao Fei couldn't help but look at Ma Weidu in surprise.

He knows how rich Lao Ma is. In the early years, Lao Ma had a net worth of over [-] million, but he has always been relatively low-key.

Not to mention anything else, just a "Guanfu Museum" is enough to explain everything.

(End of this chapter)