Repairer - #2 - Chapter 2: Boy, are you **** me off?

  Chapter 2 Kid, are you cheating on me?

   “What? Four weeks!” Hearing Zheng Dagang’s words, the middle-aged man looked at the receipt in his hand in disbelief, but the words “handicraft, age four weeks” were clearly written on it.

“Boy, you… you’re bullshitting me!” The middle-aged man’s complexion became very ugly, and he looked carefully at the receipt in his hand, and he could see that there was a shallow horizontal mark on the top of the four, plus the “four” The two strokes in the middle of the character are a bit over the top, if you don’t pay attention to it, it is clearly a Western character.

   “Brother, this is your fault.”

Now that he took advantage of the reason, Zheng Dagang’s speech was not so pleasant, and his voice became louder, “In our business, what matters is the eyesight. You didn’t see it at the time, but now it’s a bit bad manners , if you continue to make trouble, you won’t get any benefits.”

   “Brother Gang, Xiaofan, what’s going on?”

Su Xiaofan’s booth was surrounded by four or five strong men, which already attracted the attention of the stall owners next to him. Zheng Dagang raised his voice, and a few people came over immediately. They were doing business in the antique market, and they met those who were unwilling to buy It is also a common thing to find counterfeit goods, which requires the help of big guys. In the blink of an eye, those four or five people were surrounded in the middle.

   “Okay, brother, I admit it.” The middle-aged man looked around and said, “I was wrong, no wonder others, I was wrong about this matter today, you all pretend that I have never been here before.”

As he spoke, the middle-aged man raised his hand and squeezed out with a few people around him. The people who surrounded him saw that the matter was resolved, but they didn’t make it difficult for them. After a while, the few people disappeared in the bustling antique street. among the crowd.

   “Brothers, thank you.” Seeing those people leaving, Su Xiaofan also heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly raised his hands around.

   “Hey, what’s the matter? I’ve misjudged myself, and I have the face to come here to find trouble.”

   “That’s right, Xiaofan, if you have something to do, let me know, and the brothers will come over right away.”

  The crowd around laughed and chatted and dispersed one after another. After all, every family has stalls to look at. Although the things are not expensive, it would be annoying if someone walks away.

“Xiaofan, it’s true that you broke the rules.” After the crowd dispersed, Zheng Dagang pulled Su Xiaofan back and said in a low voice, “You can sell a bronze ware for a thousand yuan, but you can still say it. It was sold for 8,000 yuan, and the slaughter was a bit ruthless, so don’t blame those people for coming to find trouble.”

The business in the antique city, especially on the street stalls, is basically selling small gadgets. A daily turnover of three to five hundred is regarded as a good business. Su Xiaofan sells a counterfeit for eight thousand, which can sometimes be as high as one of the other stalls. The turnover of the month is over. In the jargon, this wool is a bit ruthless.

   What’s more, Zheng Dagang saw clearly just now, when Su Xiaofan was writing the receipt, he also moved his mind, although the horizontal print of the word above the four characters is shallow, but it can still be distinguished if you look carefully, so Zheng Dagang said that Su Xiaofan broke the rules.

“Brother Gang, it’s actually quite complicated to make, so it’s not too much to charge him eight thousand.” Su Xiaofan smiled wryly, and said, “The bronze ware I made was imitated by Hoopoe, and it’s a combined object. It’s rare, I thought he was a knowledgeable person at the time, knowing that this thing is not easy to make, who would have thought that he would really take it as the real thing.”

   “Hoopoe? What’s that?” Hearing Su Xiaofan’s words, Zheng Dagang was stunned for a moment. He didn’t know much about bronze wares, and he had never heard of such a strange name.

   “That thing is a kind of hair ornament of ancient women. I saw it from the rubbings of the bronze wares of my grandfather.” Su Xiaofan explained to Zheng Dagang.

The so-called hoopoe is actually composed of three parts, two clips and a connecting rod. In the portraits of the Han Dynasty in Wu’s Temple, we can see the engraved pattern of “Yusheng”. The two symmetrical victories are connected by a “stick”. “.

  In the Western Han Dynasty, the Queen Mother of the West was admired by the ruling class, so the “Sheng” worn on her head was also welcomed by the ancients, and people began to wear different styles of “Hopoe”. As “Hopoe” becomes more and more popular, there are various kinds of Hoopoe made of different materials, such as bronze, amber, and jade. In addition to admiring the Queen Mother of the West, “Hopoe” becomes popular and wins in practicality.

However, with the change of dynasties, people’s requirements for accessories are getting higher and higher. When hairpins that are more convenient to wear appear, the troublesome “hoopoe” gradually withdraws from the stage of history, because this thing is composed of several parts. , When it is unearthed, it is often incomplete, so even many archaeologists or cultural relics experts do not know the object of Hoopoe.

“It took me a whole month to make this object. Brother Gang, do you think it is expensive if you sell it for 8,000?” Su Xiaofan was also a little depressed at the moment. Isn’t that the case with bronze wares? If they are not old, there is no sense of age. Who would spend money to buy them?

   “According to you, eight thousand is really not expensive.”

Zheng Dagang has been in the antique market for so many years, he is a knowledgeable person, he nodded immediately, looked in the direction where those people left, and said: “But Xiaofan, these people don’t look like good people, today Don’t collect the stalls at home, I’ll find a place for you to store them, be careful when you go home, and don’t let them follow you.”

The antique market is mixed with dragons and snakes. Zheng Dagang knows that there are many ruthless people who come to Luochuan to do antique business, especially those who have fallen to the ground with rats. Many of them have lives on their hands. Su Xiaofan can smell those people. Naturally, Zheng Dagang could tell the smell, these people most likely went to the ground to eat their ancestors’ food.

“I know, Brother Gang, I will be careful.” Su Xiaofan smiled wryly. He has been in this antique market for two years. He used to sell exquisitely crafted bronze crafts. The only one is old. Something happened to the object, it seems that Grandpa’s exhortation is still reasonable, this person can’t make a fortune.

  But Su Xiaofan has no choice. His mother died when he was seven years old. Because his father didn’t want to inherit the family’s craftsmanship of making bronze ware, after a quarrel with his grandfather, he ran out to become a seaman.

In the past ten years, Su Xiaofan, brother and sister, have seen their father very few times. Although Su Xiaofan’s grandfather passed away when he was in the first year of high school, fortunately, his father’s income is not bad, he has already worked as a captain of an ocean-going ship at sea, but these In the past year, there was no shortage of food and clothing for the siblings.

  Su Xiaofan was quite unlucky to say the least, he had a car accident the year before last when he was in his third year of high school, and it was caused by him crossing the road. He had multiple fractures on his body, and he spent half a year recuperating from his injuries, which delayed his college entrance examination.

Originally, with Su Xiaofan’s grades, it would be no problem for him to repeat his studies for another year to get into university. It just so happened that his father didn’t come back that year for some unknown reason, and Su Xiaofan, who had spent all the savings his father had given him in a car accident, because his younger sister was also going to high school, simply didn’t Re-reading, relying on the craftsmanship of making bronzes that I learned from my grandfather, I rented a house and set up a street stall in the antique market not far from my sister’s school.

With a pretty face, a lively mouth, and good English, Su Xiaofan’s business has always been very good, just fooling around with those foreigners who travel, he can make a net profit of several thousand in a month, So after his father returned home last year, he wanted him to go back to university, but Su Xiaofan also rejected him. Su Xiaofan, who lived with his younger sister and grandfather since childhood, actually had the same temper as his father.

It stands to reason that if he continues to work step by step like this, Su Xiaofan can also rent a booth in the Antique City for a few more years, and he can’t be said to be rich, but he definitely doesn’t have to worry about eating and drinking, but there are always accidents in life. My younger sister Su Xiaoxiao, who is now in her third year of high school, came home some time ago and told Su Xiaofan that there is a national research institute in Yanjing, and they went to their school for special recruitment exams, and Su Xiaoxiao actually passed the exam.

According to Su Xiaoxiao, if you are admitted to this research institute, you will start as a master’s degree student. You can follow national experts and professors to conduct scientific research projects. After graduation, you can even stay in the research institute to work, but the tuition is also very expensive. It costs 100,000 yuan a year.

Hearing Su Xiaoxiao’s words at the beginning, Su Xiaofan’s first reaction was that the school encountered a scammer. Firstly, the research institute is an employer and not a school, so the recruitment will only be done in the university, and it is impossible and not qualified to issue diplomas. Secondly, how can it be so expensive to study in a domestic university? Even the best Huada University in China has a yearly tuition fee of only 10,000 yuan. The tuition fee of this research institute is ten times that of Huada University.

Su Xiaofan, who has been hanging out in the antique market for several years and has seen many intrigues and scams, naturally does not believe it. As a parent, he went to the school to inquire about it, and found that the recruitment was actually true. It is under the name of Beijing University, and it is a special enrollment. You don’t need to take the college entrance examination, and you have to report to Yenching University during the summer vacation.

Su Xiaofan, who was careful, called the Admissions Office of Yenching University. After some consultation, he found out that this research institute was newly opened this year, and the research topic is unknown, because although the research institute is under the name of Yenching University , but it is affiliated to the National Academy of Natural Sciences, and the charging standards are also set there. Yenching University has no right to speak, but the enrollment is indeed true, and Su Xiaofan is not the only one calling for consultation recently.

Su Xiaofan, who got the conclusive news, is naturally very happy. Although his sister’s academic performance is good, there is still a certain distance from a top university like Huada. Now that he has the opportunity to study there, Su Xiaofan will naturally support it. Now he took stock of his belongings, Su Xiaofan was a little dumbfounded by this calculation.

Su Xiaofan has made some money from practicing stalls in the past two years, but after deducting the rent, food and clothing, and the pocket money for his younger sister, Su Xiaofan only has more than 20,000 in savings, even including the 50,000 that his father gave him during the Spring Festival last year. , and the total is less than 80,000 yuan, which is more than 20,000 yuan away from 100,000 yuan.

Seeing that his sister was going to report to Yanjing for more than a month, Su Xiaofan, who couldn’t get in touch with his father who didn’t know which ocean was floating in the middle of the day, was also a little impatient. When he hinted whether he had any old objects before, he took off the bronze “hoopoe” that he had made.

  (end of this chapter)