Chapter 3068: The Birth of a Drama Queen

At 6:30 in the afternoon, the sky was getting dark.

A hurried figure ran all the way into the antique street.

This person went straight to Jiqing Hall, which was located at the core of the antique street.

At this time, Chen Yufei, the manager of Jiqing Hall, was watching the shop with several clerks. There were a few casual customers strolling in the shop. Chen Yufei handed them over to other clerks to deal with, while he waited anxiously for the subordinate sent by Zhang Ermao.

A few minutes later, a figure rushed in. As soon as he entered the door, he asked impatiently, "Is the boss here? Does our shop collect antiques?"

"Yes, collect, collect, collect!" Chen Yufei immediately greeted him enthusiastically and asked, "I don't know what you plan to sell?"

The man looked around, then took out something wrapped in red silk from his arms, then carefully lifted one corner, revealing a gap, letting Chen Yufei see a small part of it, then hurriedly covered it again, and whispered, "This is top-notch stuff, I just don't know if you have the strength to take it down."

Chen Yufei smiled and said, "Look at what you said, in the whole Jin Ling, if there is still something that our Jiqing Hall cannot take down, then no one can take down your stuff."

As he spoke, he said with a profound look, "The things you just showed me, I only saw a little bit, it seems to be a base. If I didn't see it wrong, judging from my personal experience, it should be something from the Ming Dynasty. Let's do this, please move to the VIP room, let's talk in detail there, so you can let me take a closer look at the things, and give you a real price."

The man hurriedly said, "Okay! Hurry up!"

Chen Yufei invited him to the VIP room in the back, and then closed the door, leaving only the two of them inside.

Originally, there was no monitoring in this VIP room. Since Xiao Changkun smashed the jade spring bottle, Song Wanting had someone install monitoring in an obvious position.

The man came in and saw that there was a monitoring camera in the room, so he hurriedly asked, "Why are you still recording here? My coming here cannot be known by people outside."

Chen Yufei knew very well that these dialogues were actually arranged scripts, so he smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this. This is our internal security camera, mainly in case everyone has any disputes or objections to the things, there is monitoring to keep a piece of evidence. We have to be careful in this line of work. What if you take a porcelain with flaws, deliberately drop it here and say we broke it, and want us to compensate according to the normal market price? If there is no monitoring, we have nowhere to reason, right?"

The man was helpless, waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I'm here to sell things, not to pit people. You look at the things first. If it works, give me a price as soon as possible."

After speaking, he handed the red silk-wrapped thing to Chen Yufei.

Chen Yufei took the thing, carefully looked at the Buddha statue itself and the matching base, then smiled and said to the man, "Brother, are you in a hurry to sell this?"

"Yes." The man nodded and said, "As long as the price is appropriate, I can sell it now."

Chen Yufei smiled profoundly and asked him, "What price do you plan to report for this thing?"

The man stretched out five fingers: "Fifty thousand!"

"Fifty thousand?" Chen Yufei hummed and laughed, "Looking at this thing, it seems to be a copper Buddha from the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty. The craftsmanship and shape are very good. If it goes to an auction, it can sell for at least one or two million. Finding an antique shop with strength like Jiqing Hall to consign it can sell for at least about one million. Why do you want to sell it for fifty thousand?"

The man sighed, "To tell you the truth, this thing is my father's. My father just passed away this afternoon. He left all the antiques in the family to my eldest brother in his will. I thought that since my father was so biased, I had to fight for something for myself, so I took it out secretly, wanting to sell it and cash it out quickly. You don't have to tell me whether it is worth one million or two million, or even three million or five million. I am not greedy either. You give me fifty thousand, and this thing is yours."

Chen Yufei asked back, "Since your father has already listed a will and left the things to your eldest brother, you took it out secretly, this is theft. Then this thing is stolen goods. Do you think I dare to collect it?"

The man immediately said, "My father has many things, this is just one of them. And my eldest brother doesn't understand antiques at all. He doesn't know there is such a thing, nor does he know how much it is worth. Besides, if this thing was aboveboard, I couldn't only want fifty thousand. You know many rich people in this line of work. If you can find a rich person to collect it for more than one million, then wouldn't you earn hundreds of thousands or even a million?"

After speaking, he said with a painful face, "I have explained the situation to you very clearly, so I won't grind with you. I'll lower it by another ten thousand, forty thousand, if you can take it, take it away. If you can't take it, I'll find someone else to see!"

Chen Yufei sneered disdainfully and said, "Oh my brother, your acting is indeed good, and the story is also made up quite well, but you chose the wrong object! Do you think I, Chen, can be the general manager of Jiqing Hall and not see through your little tricks?"

A trace of panic flashed across the man's expression, and he hurriedly said, "What tricks? I am sincere in selling things, what tricks can I have? If you want it, you take it. If you don't want it, give it back to me. At worst, I won't sell it to you."

Chen Yufei smiled contemptuously, "Your Buddha statue is indeed good, the shape and workmanship are very good, but this patina looks like artificial aging at a glance. In my opinion, although this thing is not a modern craft, it is not too old. At the earliest, it is the late Qing Dynasty. Maybe it is something from the early Republic of China;"

"However, to be fair, your base is indeed a genuine old item from the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty. It's just a pity that it's just a base. Without the original body, this base is not worth much. A few tens of thousands of yuan is about the same. So I think this thing is worth at most seventy or eighty thousand. You come to sell it to me for fifty thousand, and make it look like you have left a big leak for me. Isn't this treating me as a fool?"

The man was suddenly panicked and hurriedly said, "This... this... you... how did you see this?"

"Joke." Chen Yufei said arrogantly, "I have been struggling and mixing in this for so many years. If I couldn't even see through your little tricks, wouldn't I have mixed in vain for so many years?"

As he spoke, he threw the thing back to the other party and said coldly, "Brother, if you want to pit me, you are still too tender. Go back and practice for a few more years!"

The man took the thing and said nervously and fearfully, "I'm sorry, boss, it's the little one who doesn't know Mount Tai, and showed off in front of you. Please don't be as knowledgeable as a punk like me who is just making a living..."

Chen Yufei waved his hand with disgust, "Okay, take your things and get out."

"Eh, eh!" The man hurriedly stuffed the things into his arms and fled without looking back.

Chen Yufei turned his back to the camera, full of dark pleasure, and sighed in his heart: "Damn, it turns out this is the feeling of pretending to be cool with technology. Although I know it's acting, it's really cool!"

Thinking of this, he became a drama queen, looked at the direction the man fled, and sneered: "The antique swindler smarter than me, Chen Yufei, hasn't been born yet!"

After speaking, he directly closed the door of the VIP room and returned to the hall.

And after that man "hit a wall" and fled from Jiqing Hall, he wandered around the antique street with the things.

At this time, Zhou Liangyun was just about to close the shop and go to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities, and tidy up the second floor he used for living. That man also happened to come to his shop door sneakily, looked up and saw Zhou Liangyun. Their eyes met, he lowered his voice and asked mysteriously, "Boss, do you collect things here?" ===== CHAPTER 3069 =====