Repairer

  Chapter 58 Partnership (Part 1)

   "Teacher Meng, please don't call me teacher, Xiao Su, just call me Xiao Su, I haven't graduated yet."

  Su Xiaofan quickly said modestly, the two experts on the table are both from the Xingong Museum.

   Both of them are masters in appraising miscellaneous items, and they are quite famous in the antique industry. They are worthy of the name, and they are not experts in wild ways.

  The two teachers are both in their 40s and 50s, and Su Xiaofan felt uncomfortable when they called him Teacher Su.

   "Xiao Su, do you also like playing Wenwan?"

  Another expert surnamed Gu saw the Vajra Bodhi on Su Xiaofan's wrist, and couldn't help laughing: "Literature games have become very popular in recent years. I think many ordinary people would wear such a string."

   Wenwan has a very low barrier to entry.

  Buying a bunch of Wuban King Kong, which is in excellent condition, costs only a few hundred dollars.

  Wear it on your wrist and keep it for three to five years. If you play well, you can sell it for two to three thousand.

  So many ordinary people will buy a string to wear, firstly to follow the trend, and secondly, to wear it for a few years to increase the value.

  So now you can often see some young people, either with a string of stars and moons around their necks, or wearing a King Kong on their wrists.

   "This thing takes effort."

  Mr. Meng took a look at Su Xiaofan's Vajra Bodhi, "Xiao Su's one is pretty good, you should work **** it in the past two years, it looks like it's four or five years old."

   Teacher Meng is a master of miscellaneous games, so he naturally knows how to play Wenwan.

  Bodhi of Xingyue and water hyacinth usually only needs to be finished with clean hands, and it will naturally be colored and covered.

   But Rudraksha Bodhi is different. Because there are many saw teeth, the dust and other dirt in the gaps must be brushed out with a brush every day.

  After years of brushing, the serrated teeth of Rudraksha Bodhi will be gradually smoothed.

   Just like the string in Su Xiaofan's hand, all the edges and corners on the surface have been smoothed, making it look unusually round and shiny.

   "Mr. Meng, I didn't arrange this myself."

  Su Xiaofan said with a smile: "I was wandering around in Panyuan when I was free yesterday. It cost 1800 yuan to collect it, but the boss should have paid for it for three or five years."

   "One thousand and eight, it's worth it." Teacher Meng nodded.

  After being cultivated in the cultivation pool, this string of diamonds has become a low-level magic weapon. The original layer of moistness reveals a precious light when you look closely. It is obviously not an ordinary Wenwan bracelet.

   "Huh? Xiaofan, take it down and show me."

  Jing Shizhen originally didn't pay much attention to the Vajra Bodhi in Su Xiaofan's hand.

  Hearing what a few people said, his attention was immediately on Su Xiaofan's wrist, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw it.

   "Uncle Jing, here you are." Su Xiaofan took off the bracelet and handed it to Jing Shizhen.

  Jing Shizhen took the bracelet, twisted it with her thumb and index finger one by one, then closed her eyes again, as if she was savoring something.

   "This...really bought for 1800?"

   After five or six minutes, there was a bit of silence during the dinner, Jing Shizhen opened his eyes and looked at Su Xiaofan.

   "Yes, the boss offered 2,000 yuan, and I will return 200 yuan."

  Su Xiaofan's heart moved, and he nodded seriously. He knew that Uncle Jing should recognize this magic weapon.

  However, what Su Xiaofan is very puzzled about is that from the appearance point of view, there is basically no difference between magical artifacts and ordinary utensils.

  I have a restoration system, know that this is a magic weapon, how did Uncle Jing recognize it.

   "This object..."

  Jing Shizhen stopped after uttering a few words, shook her head and returned the Vajra Bodhi bracelet to Su Xiaofan.

   "Uncle Jing, the three teachers, you have worked hard today, I would like to offer you a toast."

  The director of the program group entered the private room. He was at the staff's table just now, and now he came in to toast.

  The director of the program group was dealing with people all day long, and as soon as he said a few words, the table immediately became lively, and no one paid any attention to Su Xiaofan's bracelet.

   It was after eight o'clock in the evening that the banquet was over, and the car of the program team was already waiting outside the hotel.

   "Teacher Meng, Teacher Gu, let's come later tomorrow."

  Standing at the door of the restaurant, Jing Shizhen said: "Xiao Su and I have something to do, we will be here a little late, you two should be more patient..."

   "Oh, Uncle Jing, don't dare to take it seriously, you are busy with your work, we will call you if there is anything to do."

  Mr. Meng and Mr. Gu dare not take big names. Even though they are official experts, their status in the antique shop is still far inferior to that of Jing Shizhen.

   "Uncle Jing, why are we going tomorrow?"

   Sitting in the car that had already started, Su Xiaofan guessed something in his heart.

   "Go to Panyuan, tomorrow at eight o'clock, I'll pick you up at the hotel!" Uncle Jing's words confirmed Su Xiaofan's guess.

   "This is just a low-level magic weapon, and there is a middle-level one in the cultivation pool."

  Su Xiaofan complained a lot in his heart, he didn't quite understand why Uncle Jing valued magic weapons so much.

  The dragon-shaped jade pendant around his neck has been worn all the time, Su Xiaofan didn't feel any difference in his life, he didn't even win a fifth prize when buying lottery tickets.

  The car first sent Jing Shizhen to Jingxintang, and then sent Su Xiaofan to the hotel, Jing Shizhen didn't say anything more in the car.

  Back to the hotel to rest for a while, Su Xiaofan sent the photos taken today to his sister and Zheng Dagang respectively.

  There are activity banners in the photos, promotional photos of our own experts, and some signs and videos of on-site treasure appraisal taken by the staff.

   "Su Xiaofan, are you really going to be on TV?"

  Su Xiaoxiao replied almost instantly, Su Xiaofan found out that since she bid farewell to high school, her younger sister has become an Internet addicted girl, almost never leaving her mobile phone.

   "Hey, how about you going to college and your brother becoming a big star?"

  Su Xiaofan returned very quickly.

  To tell the truth, Su Xiaofan is a little proud after what happened today, anyway, he is just a boy in his early twenties.

   "It's not to make a movie, to stay away from the stars."

  Su Xiaoxiao doesn't give her brother face much, "Hey, let's not talk about it, we still have classes in the evening, Yaoyao called me."

  Su Xiaoxiao didn't know what she was busy with, so she hurriedly chatted with Su Xiaofan for a few words and then hung up.

"soy Mujer!"

   Originally wanted to find someone to show off, but who knew that Su Xiaoxiao didn't show off, and held back Su Xiaofan's anger.

   Fortunately, Brother Gang never disappoints, and soon returned the message.

   "Okay, Xiaofan, when you return to the antique market in the future, you will be a big star." Zheng Dagang sent a smiling face over, making Su Xiaofan's heart warm immediately.

  Su Xiaofan knows that Zheng Dagang belongs to the kind of cunning of petty bourgeois, but he is absolutely sincere to his friends.

   "Brother Gang, I want to open an antique shop when I go back. Let's do it together."

  Su Xiaofan has been thinking about this matter in his heart since yesterday.

  Starting from safety, in fact Su Xiaofan's antique shop is the most suitable for him to do it alone.

  That way Su Xiaofan doesn't have to have any scruples, and he doesn't need to explain the source of the antiques to others.

  But the business of antiques is not just about buying and not selling, it is called buying and selling.

  Su Xiaofan can pick up leaks and restore antiques with repair value, but he is far behind when it comes to shipping channels.

  On the contrary, Zheng Dagang, a local householder, has only been working for two years, and he resigned before he was 20 years old to start a stall in the antique market. It has been more than ten years now.

   In Luochuan's antique shop, Zheng Dagang is quite well-known. In addition, he is straightforward and loyal, and has a wide range of friends and connections.

  If Zheng Dagang joins his antique shop, Su Xiaofan will definitely not have to worry about the shipment. He dare not say that he will sell one piece, but he will definitely ship it faster than Su Xiaofan himself.

   "Open a store? Let's talk about it in video."

  Zheng Dagang typed a few words to get through Su Xiaofan's video.

   "Xiaofan, why did you remember to open a shop?"

   Zheng Dagang's bald head appeared on the screen, "Brother, you know brother, I don't like sitting in the shop the most, otherwise I would have promised Uncle Jing before."

   Zheng Dagang is the kind of character who can't stand loneliness.

  In the market stall outside, he can brag with others, but if Zheng Dagang stays in the shop, he can't bear it.

   "Brother Gang, Uncle Jing said he wanted to take me in as an apprentice, but you said that I would still practice stalls outside, Uncle Jing would lose face."

  Su Xiaofan found a reason.

   "Hey, this is a good thing."

   Zheng Dagang was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then laughed, "Uncle Jing wanted to teach me before, but I couldn't learn it, Xiaofan, you can definitely."

   Zheng Dagang is also a weirdo in their family. His parents are both senior intellectuals, but he doesn't like to study.

  Later, Zheng Dagang went to the antique market to practice stalls. Zheng's father thought it was not bad, so he asked Jing Shizhen to take care of him.

   Who knew that Zheng Dagang would not be able to support the wall with mud, he would rather set up a stall in the market than follow Jing Shizhen to learn the knowledge of antique appraisal systematically.

  So until now, when Jing Shizhen saw Zheng Dagang, his nose was not his nose and his eyes were not. Zheng Dagang avoided him even if he was fine.

  However, Zheng Dagang still admires Su Xiaofan's learning ability. He went from a high school student who didn't understand anything to hanging out in the antique market.

   Now it is only two or three years, Su Xiaofan's business ability is much stronger than him, Su Xiaofan can tell one, two, three things that Zheng Dagang can't understand.

   "Brother Gang, I found a channel to collect antiques."

  Su Xiaofan said: "But brother Gang, you also know that I have no foundation in Luochuan, so I can't do the shipping. Let's cooperate. I will collect antiques, and you will be in charge of selling them. What do you think?"

   "Isn't this the same as our magic weapon business? Why do you have to open a shop?"

   Zheng Dagang rejects opening a store from the bottom of his heart.

  In his words, he was only thirty, and he was going to sit in the store like an old man and wait to die, so he would not do it.

   "Brother Gang, what we sell are antiques, not your fake magic weapon, it's purely based on fooling around."

  Su Xiaofan smiled wryly, "Brother Gang, do you think it's appropriate for us to sell an antique worth more than 100,000 yuan or more at the street stall?"

   "That's true, no one believes in street stalls."

   Zheng Dagang nodded approvingly.

   "If our things are going to be auctioned, wouldn't it be easier to talk to the auction house in the name of an antique shop?" Su Xiaofan continued.

   "That's for sure, the commission can be much less."

  Zheng Dagang has been in the antique market for so many years, and he has actually done big business.

  It was seven or eight years ago when Zheng Dagang found out that there was something in the cellar of an old house in Luochuan.

   Looking for two friends, Zheng Dagang wrapped up the things in the old house. At that time, it cost a total of 300,000 yuan, and the brothers each took 100,000 yuan.

  300,000 won’t buy many things, a set of old mahogany furniture, a painting from the period of the Republic of China, a jar of Yuan Datou, and other worthless odds and ends.

  Old mahogany furniture and Yuan Datou sold a total of 120,000 yuan. Zheng Dagang originally thought that this transaction was going to lose money.

  But what Zheng Dagang didn't expect was that there were actually three fans hidden in the painting of the Republic of China.

  At that time, Zheng Dagang had also been in the antique shop for several years, and he knew that the paintings hidden in the paintings must not be simple.

  At that time, Zheng Dagang was hiding from Jing Shizhen, so he didn't dare to ask him for an appraisal, so the third brother went directly to an auction house in the capital.

  That auction house is quite formal, and the appraisal results it gave are also good. These three fans are the works of Lu Zhi, a painter of the Ming Wu School.

  The third brother didn't have any channels to cash in, so he entrusted the fan to that auction house for the autumn auction, and signed an agreement.

  The agreement stated that in addition to the commission being 15% of the auction proceeds, the auction house's promotional expenses in the early stage would also account for 10% of the auction proceeds.

   This adds up to 25%. The last three fans were sold for a total of 3.2 million yuan, and the auction house alone took away 800,000 yuan.

  Taking out the taxes and fees of the auction, when I count the three cents, each person gets about 700,000 yuan, which is not as much as the auction house.

  Later, Uncle Jing found out about this, and asked Zheng Dagang to scold him.

  At that time, Zheng Da just learned that if the auction is entrusted in the name of the company, the commission is usually about 5% at most.

  Even if taxes and publicity fees are added, the money given to the auction house can be controlled at 10%.

  If Jing Shizhen is entrusted with the auction, the fee will be even lower, and the auction house will slaughter those individual commissioners who don't know how to do it.

  Although Zheng Dagang gained a lot of wisdom from a fall in the pit, he didn't miss out later, and naturally he never dealt with the auction house again.

  (end of this chapter)