Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 556: Don’t tell others that I bought the wine from you.

Time passed day by day, and on the morning of March 3, he was playing in Tai'an Antique City, visiting the stalls looking for items that he liked and thought were valuable.

Mr. Gong, a recycling businessman who lives near the winery in X City District, called and said he had found some wine and other things and asked him to come over and take a look.

There was some demolition going on there recently, reportedly for some related projects. It is one of the few demolition areas in the entire city.

After hanging up the phone, he took the items he bought here and drove directly to the demolition area over there.

I came here in the morning and have walked around a few times. I didn't gain much, but it's always good to come here.

He bought a set of small porcelain figurines of the "Four Masters and Apprentices from Journey to the West" from the 1980s and 1990s. He had seen this before in a demolition area, but he was short of money at that time, so he bought them and then sold them all.

The current market conditions are not as good as before, and everything is being discounted. This set of four only costs 150 yuan after bargaining.

I also bought two old account books for selling lumber and timber from the 2s and a painting.

The painting doesn't look very recent, probably from the 1990s, but it's very special, it's a portrait of "Dharma".

The special thing is that it is not a complete portrait, only the part above the thigh.

The "Dharma Master" in the painting has his hands raised upwards, and he is not looking up at the sky, but with his eyes tightly closed. There is a white dove on the sleeve of his left arm.

The painting was not very good, but it was not bad either. It only cost 50 yuan to frame it. Because it was special, he bought it.

"Boss Wu, you're here pretty quickly!"

Wu Yuansheng parked the car near a somewhat remote alley. The two men met and Boss Gong greeted him.

After all these years, he is still doing recycling in the demolition area, but he has made money. I heard him say before that he bought a house near the "International Commercial Capital".

"Driving? It must be fast. Didn't you say you had some wine? Let me see the wine."

Tai'an Antique City is only about ten miles away from here. It is basically the main road, a straight line, and very easy to walk on.

Having said this, Boss Gong revealed the items in the trunk of his tricycle which was covered with old curtain cloth.

There seemed to be a lot of wine, six boxes in total.

The box was an old wooden box that looked very old and was covered with dust.

He looked through the boxes of wine one by one. Four of them were "Xiangjiang Special Liquor" from the 1990s, and two were "Longzhong Ye" from the 1980s.

"Xiangjiang Special Liquor" and "Longzhong Liquid" are both produced by the same winery. They are "premium versions". The bottles are rectangular in style and are made of white porcelain, not the ordinary transparent glass bottles that cost a dozen yuan a bottle.

The wines are all local famous wines, and they are also good wines.

"Boss Gong, how are you going to sell these bottles of wine?"

After checking the wine, he found that it was unopened and not fake, so he asked the price.

"You can see the prices online now, right? I'll give you a better deal based on the online prices. What do you think?"

Currently, many people who engage in recycling also know how to use their mobile phones to search for information and selling prices of various commodities online.

This is normal. In this technological age, everyone has a smartphone.

"Okay, let's take a look at the prices online first."

Soon, they used their mobile phones to find relevant information about the two types of wine.

"Longzhong Liquid" costs about 1200 yuan a bottle.

"Xiangjiang Special Liquor" costs 800 yuan a bottle.

After counting the number, there were 56 bottles of "Longzhong Liquid" and 96 bottles of "Xiangjiang Special Liquor".

"Boss Wu, Longzhongye is 1000 yuan a bottle, and Xiangjiangtequ is 600 yuan a bottle, how about that?"

After understanding the price, Boss Gong said.

He would definitely not accept such a price.

"Boss Gong, the prices on the Internet are only for reference. Few people actually buy them. We are all businessmen. When we do business and buy and sell things, we can only pay half of the wholesale price. For example, when supermarkets hold promotions to sell wine, there are many cases of half-price sales and buy one get one free.

Nowadays, many companies do not allow drinking or large banquets, and with the young people today, fewer and fewer people drink.

If you go to the supermarket and ask around, you will find that as fewer and fewer people drink alcohol, the price of alcohol will definitely drop in the future!
After all, this wine is not Moutai. Even if it is Moutai, the price will probably drop a lot in two years, and it will become increasingly difficult for everyone to make money.

If you really want to sell it, I won’t bargain too much. ‘Longzhongye’ is 600, ‘Xiangjiangtequ’ is 400, and I’ll just go with the supermarket’s half-price promotion. If I can sell it, I’ll buy it. If not, you can ask other people.”

When it comes to buying old wine, things change over time, and he is no longer as enthusiastic as before.

The golden age and peak period of collectibles have passed. This is just like housing prices and stocks. Once they reach a certain level, they will inevitably fall.

The number of people who buy this kind of wine, even if it is old, is not as large as it was a few years ago.

Wu Yuansheng felt that the price he was offering now, even if it was only half the price sold online, was already not low.

Even if Boss Gong calls other people and sells it to them, the price they offer higher than his is unlikely to be much.

After all, if business, especially the wine business, doesn’t make money, people won’t do it.

No one would actually negotiate with him based on the price listed online.

Unless people only buy one or two bottles.

There were quite a lot of these wines. He calculated in his mind that even if he paid half the price online, it would cost more than 7 yuan.

After hearing what he said, Boss Gong thought for a moment, took out his mobile phone, and calculated the price according to what he said, a total of 72000 yuan.

"Boss Wu, if you add another 1000 yuan, it will be 73000 yuan. You can take all these wines. You will definitely make money. How much money you make is up to you. What do you think?"

"Okay! Just as you said, I'll give you another 1000."

Since it came to this, he agreed.

He checked each of the wine bottles in the six old boxes one by one, and found no signs of leakage or the bottle caps being tampered with, so he asked Boss Gong to move the boxes into the van.

Then he took out his mobile phone, scanned the code and paid for the wine.

These wines, if sold, would certainly make money.

With his own network of connections, this little bit of wine could be easily "sold" by treating people to a meal and exchanging some favors.

After all, the newly released wines bought in the supermarket are definitely not as distinctive as the old wines that have been discontinued.

"Boss Wu, don't tell others that you bought the wine from me. The money and goods have been paid. Even if you say you bought it from me now, I won't admit it."

After paying the money, Boss Gong seemed to remember something and said to him.

Having said that, he feels that the wine he sells is most likely made at no cost, and is most likely produced from small shanties or small warehouses of a few square meters or a dozen square meters in the demolition areas.

Due to the demolition, many items in some old warehouses that had not been moved for many years were taken out and saw the light of day again.

But he certainly won't care about that.

Nowadays, whoever has the ability and the means to get something and exchange it for something is the bottom line.

"I definitely won't tell anyone else that I bought it from you. It won't do me any good if I tell anyone else!"

He felt that he was overthinking.

Even if it is some gold bars, if the older generation of someone else's family passed away and forgot about them, then whoever finds them will own them.

No one is stupid enough to return the property to its original owner.

If I return it and still get bitten and accused of stealing it, I'll be making things awkward for myself.

"That's good! Let's look at other things!"

After he finished speaking, the two of them walked back to the tricycle.

(End of this chapter)