Chapter 279: Encountering Master Niu and currying favor with him

Chapter 279: Encountering Master Niu and currying favor with him

Chapter 279: Encountering Master Niu and currying favor with him

However, if school really starts, my cousin will have to go back to Lijia Village. There is no way because her household registration is not here.

Of course, it depends on herself. If she wants to stay in the city to go to school, that's not impossible.

At least for Li Jiayi, it is not a difficult task.

There was no way before, but it is different now. My eldest cousin works in the city, so my cousin can stay here in the name of visiting relatives.

As for why we didn't stay here before under the name of visiting relatives, this was not allowed.

The only relatives you can live with are your parents, brothers and sisters. Uncles like Li Aimin are not eligible, let alone cousins ​​like Li Jiayi.

After breakfast, Li Jiayi and his elder sister went to school.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and today happens to be Sunday.

Since he had nothing to do today, Li Jiayi drove his tricycle around the streets.

Of course, he wasn't just wandering around aimlessly, it was mainly because he had some money and he wanted to spend it.

He came out to wander around to see which trust store had good stuff; he didn't go to the Qianmen main store today.

Because he just came here last week and he has already bought all the good things.

Before he knew it, Li Jiayi arrived at Zhengyangmen, where there was also a trust store and he had bought many good things here before.

So today, he came here again and decided to come in and take a look.

After parking and locking the tricycle outside, Li Jiayi came into the store. As soon as he entered, he met an old man.

Li Jiayi didn't care and went straight to the antique shelf. Li Jiayi was young and walked faster.

But he didn't expect that when he just arrived here and before he had time to greet the salesperson, the old man also came to the counter.

Seeing the old man, the salesperson immediately put Li Jiayi aside, walked up to the old man and shouted, "Uncle Niu, what brings you here?"

"Uncle Niu?" Li Jia was stunned for a moment.

I thought: Is it that Niu Ye? It should be! Otherwise, he wouldn’t be so big!
"What else could it be? The wind of hunger."

"Uh!" The salesperson didn't know how to respond.

"Call the shopkeeper over here, I have something for him to see." said the old man known as Lord Niu.

"Okay, Mr. Niu. Please wait a moment." The salesperson agreed and turned around to call someone.

"I'm sorry! The salesperson was ignorant and left you here." Uncle Niu turned around and said to Li Jiayi.

"It's okay. Besides, this has nothing to do with you." Li Jiayi said indifferently.

But it can also be seen from here that this Mr. Niu is a particular person.

Although this matter had nothing to do with him and was entirely the salesperson's personal behavior, he still apologized.

Niu Ye shook his head and said, "People nowadays are like this, fawning on the powerful, I've seen a lot of them."

"You're right. I've seen a lot of them." Li Jiayi nodded in agreement.

But he was not talking nonsense, he had really seen a lot.

At the beginning, people ignored him because he was young and asked him to go and entertain other people.

After he made many purchases, the sales clerks knew he was a big customer and treated him like a boss.

There are some trust stores that basically won't welcome anyone else once he walks in, and just wait for him to pass by.

So in this regard, Li Jiayi may have seen more than this Mr. Niu.

Soon the shopkeeper came over, but when he arrived, he did not go to Niu Ye first, but came to Li Jiayi first.

"Master Li, when did you come here?"

The shopkeeper knew Li Jiayi, and was very familiar with him.

Let me put it this way! Ninety percent of the good stuff here was bought by Li Jiayi.

So Li Jiayi is no longer an unknown person. Whenever he goes to any trust store, both the shopkeeper and the manager will respectfully address him as Master Li.

"I just arrived too. You should take a look at Mr. Niu's goods first! We'll talk later."

"Okay, Mr. Li, the clerk doesn't know you. Please forgive me for the poor service. I'll be right over."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." Li Jiayi said indifferently.

He has seen many such shop assistants who curry favor with the powerful and is no longer surprised.

"The shopkeeper's!"

"Master Niu, please give your orders."

"This..." Uncle Niu looked at Li Jiayi.

"Oh, you mean Master Li! Let me put it this way, Master Niu, the things you sent over were basically bought by Master Li."

"Ah! Really?"

"Of course!"

In the imperial capital, the title of "Ye" has nothing to do with age. The main thing is that you have to have the status, and Li Jiayi definitely has it.

"In fact, it's not just the things you sent over. Ninety percent of the good things we collected were bought by Master Li."

Hearing what the shopkeeper said, Niu Ye was shocked. Although he sent a lot of things here, compared with what the shopkeeper collected from the trust store, it was negligible.

"So it's Master Li in person. I'm so sorry for the disrespect." Master Niu said to Li Jiayi, clasping his fists.

"Uncle Niu, you're welcome." Li Jiayi also said with a fist salute.

After the two people finished greeting each other, the shopkeeper said, "Master Niu, please take out the things!"

"Ok!"

Then Uncle Niu took out a newspaper bag from his arms and placed it in front of the shopkeeper.

As for the salesman next to him, he was dumbfounded at this time. He didn't expect Li Jiayi to be so famous, and seemed to be more famous than Niu Ye. Fortunately, neither of them mentioned him, otherwise he might have been punished, and the most likely thing was to be transferred to the maintenance department in the back.

The shopkeeper opened the newspaper package that Niu Ye had brought out, revealing a pair of small bottles.

That’s right, it’s a pair of small bottles. The reason why they are small is that not only are the mouths of these bottles small, but even the bellies are not big.

The diameter of the bottle is about the same as that of an Arctic Ocean soda bottle, and it is not as tall as an Arctic Ocean soda bottle.

But Li Jiayi knew that this was definitely a good pair.

Didn't the shopkeeper say this before? This Mr. Niu has sent many things here.

For people like Niu Ye, they will definitely sell the worst products first, and then sell better and better products later on.

"Uncle Niu, are you sure you want to sell this pair of bottles?" the shopkeeper asked after looking at them with a magnifying glass.

Hearing the shopkeeper's question, Niu Ye smiled bitterly and said, "Sell it, definitely sell it."

"Okay! I'll take it in and get an estimate, and I'll tell you later."

"Yeah!" Uncle Niu nodded.

Don't think that when you come here to buy something, you just have to follow the shopkeeper's offer. That's not the case at all.

Every trust store has an appraisal room with several appraisers.

They not only identify the items, but also give a reasonable result.

"Master Li, I was disrespectful just now."

"No, no, has Master Niu encountered any difficulties?"

"Alas, it's all because of the food shortage. My whole family is waiting for food, why am I still guarding this thing?"

"I see."

Li Jiayi has seen a lot of this kind of thing. There are at least two hundred people who exchange food with Li Jiayi.

Like Uncle Niu, they all took out their family fortunes to trade, starting with large and small yellow croakers. After they had sold all of them, they started to trade antiques.

"At this time, you can still come up with so much money to buy these things. Master Li is doing a big thing!"

"No, no, just a small fight." Li Jiayi said modestly.

Whatever he said, Niu Ye also thought the same. He didn't believe that Li Jiayi was just making a small fuss.

To be able to buy more than 90% of the good stuff in the trust store over such a long period of time would be impossible without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It may even be necessary to have more.

The identification would take a while, but Li Jiayi was not in a hurry, because if the pair of bottles were identified as good things, there was a good chance that they would fall into his hands.

He doesn't have anything to do anyway, so just wait here.

He could also take this opportunity to look at other antiques.

When buying antiques in a trust store, Li Jiayi trusts nothing else but the price.

If the price is high, it must be a good thing. As for the low price, you don’t even have to think about it to know that it is just an ordinary antique.

You should know that not all antiques are valuable. Some antiques from the Qianlong period may be worth hundreds of yuan, while others may not even be worth a dollar.

Antiques not only need to look at the age, but also the origin. Can official kilns and folk kilns be the same? Definitely not!

Even if they are from official kilns, there are big differences. Li Jiayi doesn’t understand this, but the appraiser does!
Moreover, these things do not just pass through the hands of one appraiser, but the hands of all the appraisers in the price trust store before the price is finally determined.

After about ten minutes, the shopkeeper came back with the bottle, walked up to Mr. Niu and said, "The price is six hundred, take a look..."

"Okay, I'll sell it."

"Okay, I'll give you the invoice right away, and then you can go get the money."

"Yeah!" Uncle Niu nodded.

The shopkeeper wrote out the bill and handed it to Mr. Niu.

Uncle Niu took the bill and looked at it. He nodded to the shopkeeper first, then said to Li Jiayi, "Uncle Li, you go ahead and I'll go get the money."

"Ok."

After Mr. Niu left, Li Jiayi asked the shopkeeper, "Does Mr. Niu come here often to sell things?"

"There's nothing we can do. His family is large and none of them have jobs, so they can only live off their savings."

"I see." Li Jia nodded.

"Master Li, what are you going to buy today?"

"Pack up everything worth more than two hundred dollars."

"Okay, Master Li, then this pair of bottles..."

“Pack it up too!”

"Okay, I charged you 600 for this bottle. You have to pay 660 according to the 10% rate. I'll make the decision, and you pay 650."

"can."

For those who bring the items here for consignment, the trust store will charge a consignment fee of 3% to 10%. If the items are collected and then sold again, the situation will be different.

The price is set by the trust store itself, with a markup of at least 10%, and some may even increase it by 20% or 30%.

This is entirely up to the trust store to set the price, of course, this refers to antiques.

Other items, such as second-hand bicycles, sewing machines, watches and radios, have less high markups.

If these things are consigned, the handling fee will be 3% to 5% at most. If you collect them and then resell them, the maximum markup will not exceed 10%.

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(End of this chapter)