Chapter 10: Simply Expensive
"Do something big" or "a small goal"?
Looking at the excited Liu Qianghua in front of him, Zhang Yang turned around and glanced at the police station.

I thought to myself, could it be that this guy is addicted to being in jail?

"No thanks." Zhang Yang politely refused. "I am a person who is content with a small fortune. I always feel that if I have too much money, my life will be prone to problems."

These were the heartfelt words of the master who had already been sentenced when Zhang Yang visited him in prison.

The master said that if you are too rich in the business of high-end imitation cultural relics, even if you are doing the right thing, it is easy for people to find problems with you under a magnifying glass.

So it is best to be content with a small fortune.

"Fuck, Brother Guoqiang, are you so enlightened?"

Liu Qianghua looked at Zhang Yang in disbelief.

"You should be in your early twenties, why do you speak the same way as my father?"

"It's not that exaggerated. This is the awareness we should have in our line of work." Zhang Yang replied calmly.

Seeing Zhang Yang's firm attitude, Liu Qianghua did not mention the cooperation again.

He just insisted on sending Zhang Yang home with his younger brother.

Zhang Yang knew that saying he was being given a gift was just an excuse, and the other party's real purpose was to find out where he lived.

He wanted to refuse.

But when Zhang Yang heard that Liu Qianghua's father was the boss of a taxi company in the city, he gave up struggling instantly.

Because his own workshop was not a secret, the master was well-known in the village before, and with the taxi driver's connections, it was not difficult for him to find his home.

Forget it, let’s just get a ride.

On the way home, Liu Qianghua kept asking about Zhang Yang's personal situation. His purpose was the same:
He hoped that Zhang Yang could sell him a bronze artifact that could deceive the treasure appraisal host.

Of course Zhang Yang didn't want to.

Who knows what this guy is going to do with his work?
Zhang Yang could only make the excuse that the previous item was confiscated by the police and it would take time to make a new one.

"It's okay, I can wait." Liu Qianghua said very sincerely.

"Then just wait."

Zhang Yang smiled, opened the car door and got out.

Wu Laoer from next door was playing cards with a few neighbors at the door. When he saw Zhang Yang getting out of the car, he quickly stood up and greeted him:

"Is Xiao Yangzi back?"

"Haha." Zhang Yang smiled perfunctorily.

He couldn't show any good face to this kind of "traitor".

Wu Laoer knew that he was in the wrong, so he put on an embarrassed smile and prepared to sit down awkwardly.

But before he could sit still, he saw the next person getting off the taxi and immediately stood up again.

He didn't even touch the landlord's three cards, but just turned around and ran away.

"Who is that? Running so fast?"

Liu Qianghua got out of the car and asked while looking at Wu Laoer's embarrassed back.

"An old, shabby neighbor."

"Do you have any conflicts? I think he seems to be quite afraid of you."

"There is a conflict, but you shouldn't run away like a dog."

Zhang Yang also had doubts.

Could it be that this Wu Lao Er had done something to let me down?
Zhang Yang's question was immediately answered.

The younger brother who had just stepped down from the main driver's seat suddenly came over to Zhang Yang and said:
"Zhang Guoqiang, who did you call a dog just now?"

"Hmm? What are you talking about?"

"Didn't you just say that the old man was chased by a dog? Don't think I couldn't hear you. You are indirectly calling my boss a dog."

"Huh?" Zhang Yang and Liu Qianghua were both confused.

"Why don't you take him to have his brain checked out?" Zhang Yang said to Liu Qianghua.

The latter nodded solemnly.

Seeing this scene, I became anxious.

"Brother, why don't you understand yet?"

"The old man who just ran away is the swindler who sold the bronze ware to Mr. Liu."

"That old man must have seen you, so he ran away."

"This Zhang Guoqiang said that liars are chased by dogs. Isn't that a disguised way of calling you a dog?"

"Ah?" Liu Qianghua was shocked. "Are you serious? Are you really that liar?"

"It's more real than gold. I saw it clearly from the front." "Then what are you still standing there for? Chase after him!"

As soon as Liu Qianghua finished speaking, his little brother rushed out like an arrow, heading in the direction where Wu Laoer escaped.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yang didn't quite understand.

"It's a long story..."

Liu Qianghua sighed and told the story.

His father, Mr. Liu from the taxi company, has been a wealthy man for many years, so he has always had the habit of collecting antiques.

Liu Qianghua is a filial son and often buys antiques for his father.

One night, they saw an old man selling a bronze artifact covered in mud outside a construction site, saying that it was dug out from the construction site.

At Liu Qianghua's instigation, his father spent 50,000 yuan to buy the bronze ware.

As a result, when I asked someone the next day, I found out that the construction site had not even started and had just been fenced off. How could something be dug out?
Obviously got cheated.

Moreover, he is a very low-level scammer. Anyone who takes a look at the conditions at the construction site will not be fooled.

Because of this incident, Liu Qianghua and his father quickly became a big joke among their acquaintances...

When talking about this incident, Liu Qianghua kept gritting his teeth, and it was obvious that he hated Wu Laoer to death.

This made Zhang Yang a little hesitant to tell everyone what he had discovered.

Considering the time when the Liu father and son were deceived, Wu Laoer's bronze ware should have been bought from Zhang Yang's master.

The tricycle parked in front of Wu Laoer's house, as well as the refrigerator and air conditioner in his home, may have been purchased with Liu Qianghua's family's money.

By the way, I heard that Mr. Wu recently found a partner, and now it seems that the Liu family has also invested in the business.

Zhang Yang was afraid that Liu Qianghua would get cerebral congestion due to anger, so he didn't tell him these things and even invited him in for tea.

As soon as he entered the yard, Liu Qianghua's anger disappeared instantly.

"Fuck, Brother Guoqiang, why do you have so many bronze artifacts here?"

"What is that? It looks like a national treasure."

"National treasure? Are you talking about the Houmuwu Ding or the Four-Ram Square Zun?"

Zhang Yang really didn't know what Liu Qianghua was talking about.

There are so many imitations of national treasures in the yard.

At the beginning, the master copied the national treasures one by one according to the list issued by the Cultural Relics Bureau.

After imitating them, I found that there is no market for these things at all.

Because no matter how similar the details are, buyers will assume that the item is fake and cannot afford a high price.

If you sell it at market price, you may even lose money.

Zhang Yang’s master got so angry that he simply stopped selling.

It is said that they will be left in the yard until they are excavated by future generations thousands of years later, adding another national treasure to China.

"I'm talking about the Four-Ram Square Tripod."

"Brother, are you selling that thing?" Liu Qianghua asked tentatively.

"Of course I sell it."

This kind of imitation is so fake, it's totally fine for Zhang Yang to sell it at the price of handicrafts.

"how much is it?"

"Wait, let me calculate."

Zhang Yang opened his mobile phone and checked the latest copper prices.

"Electrolytic copper is now 70 yuan per kilogram. The total weight of the Four Sheep Square Tripod is 34.5 kilograms, which is 2415 yuan."

"On this basis, I will charge you another 5,000 yuan for processing fees. To make it a round number, you can give me 8,000 yuan and take it away."

"So cheap?" Liu Qianghua started taking out his cell phone.

"Is it cheap? You can buy it for 5,000 in the market outside." Zhang Yang told the other party the market price very honestly to avoid any disputes later.

"Really? Then what's so special about this thing of yours?"

"Not at all, it's just simply sold at a high price."

"..." Liu Qianghua was still not giving up and asked again, "Can you fool the treasure appraisal anchor?"

“It’s hard to say, but you can try.”

"Let's try? Yes." Liu Qianghua's eyes suddenly lit up, "I can totally connect with the anchor right now and ask them to help take a look!"

(End of this chapter)