Chapter 25 [Revisiting Panjiayuan]
"Grandpa Ma?"
"Oh, it's you?" Grandpa Ma recognized me, and a smile appeared on the corner of his wrinkled mouth: "How did you find my house? Hey? There are guests in the yard? My wife, why is the house so lively today?" Yesterday, my pair of duck heads with a very similarity were given to Grandpa Ma.
Grandma Ma said worriedly: "They are all here to collect old furniture, only your two broken chairs, um, do you know each other?"
Grandpa Ma smiled and said, "I chatted in the park yesterday. Come and sit down."
Everyone sat in the shade of the tree in the yard and chatted. Grandpa Ma also understood what we were going to do. Seeing that Shen Zi'an was about to speak, Grandpa Ma waved his hand with a wry smile and interrupted him: "These two chairs were collected from an old neighbor who was about to move when I was young. At the beginning, there was a matching coffee table together, but in the first few years, my grandson was broken, so he broke it off and gave it to my son, and asked him to process the mahogany into more than a dozen grasshopper gourd mouths and hammer rods, keeping them, and giving them to others." Grandpa Ma looked at me: "This young man said he wanted to collect old furniture yesterday, so I remembered these two chairs, but I didn't plan to sell them, so naturally I didn't tell him, it wasn't that he was deliberately hiding them."
Grandma Ma curled her lips and said, "I heard it, I said I won't sell it, so I'll go back."
Shen Zian said unwillingly: "I will give you four thousand, so you can give it to me."
Once upon a time, Shen Zi'an could get a chair, perhaps because of his slap, but my temperament was obviously different from him. I was thin-skinned and could not speak, so I could only watch from the side, unable to insert it, and I didn't want to interrupt it. Since Grandpa Ma said he wouldn't sell it, I was so full of things that I probably wouldn't have much effect.
"My family is not short of money. I wouldn't sell it even if it is 4,000, not to mention 4,000, even 5,600," said Grandpa Ma. When he said this, he paused and said, "But I am a good person. I am not uncomfortable to bear the affection of others. My wife, I told you that the young man who gave me walnuts is him." Grandpa Ma looked at me, spread his palms flat, revealing two pointed duck-headed walnuts: "What a great duck-billed duck-billed, with no flaws, moderate size, and extremely similarity. Haha, such a good thing actually gave it to me because of the old man."
"Didn't you say it earlier!" Grandma Ma glared at him complainingly, then smiled gently at me: "Thank you so much. Last night, I said that my old horse is really not good at doing things. I took the walnuts in vain and didn't know how to invite them into the house for a cup of tea."
Grandpa Ma laughed and said, "Isn't this the opportunity to drink tea? Young man, two broken chairs, if you like it, just take them away. Don't be 4,500, but give one or two thousand."
Shen Zi'an's face changed slightly, but he didn't say anything again.
I refused: "How can that be done? They are all old people from the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention that they are not broken, they can be worth a thousand dollars."
Next, the bargaining scene was quite interesting. The buyer wanted to give more, and the seller wanted to ask for less. In the end, I gave Grandpa Ma 2,800 yuan. No matter how much I had, I really couldn't get it, and I had to leave two hundred to take a taxi. Outside the yard, Shen Zi'an congratulated me a few words in dissatisfaction, and then disappeared at the corner of the bungalow. I took a few bundles of scrap newspapers to Grandpa Ma, and after saying goodbye, I carefully carried two chairs to the street and reached out to stop the taxi.
One car...
Two cars...
Three cars...
Because the chairs are too big and the car doors cannot be stuffed in, many drivers are reluctant to pull them, so they simply don’t even stop the car.
A car finally stopped, but the driver and I opened the trunk for a long time but couldn't put the chair in place, so he drove away again.
What to do? There is no antique city nearby?
Time passed minute by minute, and seeing that the gambling stones were getting closer and closer, I had no choice but to open Jiang Yan's cell phone and told her my embarrassing situation at this moment. I knew Jiang Yan was a girl who valued friendship, but I didn't expect that she was so righteous. On the phone, Jiang Yan, who was still in Panjiayuan, responded without saying a word: "You find a shade to rest for a while, wait for me, and you will arrive soon!"
I even suspect that we have known each other for two days, but for two years.
I don't know how long it took, a black Audi braked in front of me.
"Okay, you!" Jiang Yan jumped out of the car, staring at the two mahogany chairs with her eyes tightly on: "In a blink of an eye, I got two old furniture. It's quite promising. Hurry up, load the car first. My dad has to use the car in the afternoon, so I can't let Uncle Liu go back." The middle-aged man surnamed Liu also came down to help me wrap the legs of the chair in old newspapers and tied them to the trunk.
On the way back.
I really felt that it was inappropriate, so I wanted to thank you again.
Suddenly, two hot disposable lunch boxes were handed to me. Jiang Yan opened the chopsticks and patted them in my hand: "You guessed you didn't eat. It's a little warm. Let's eat while it's hot. Oh, let's say it first. This is not what we packed with leftovers, but it's a dish specially ordered for you. I saw that yesterday, you loved chicken diced with Heishan Park, so I asked for the Daogong fried chicken diced. Hey, what's your look? If you don't like it, just make do with it!"
Who would have thought that she, who looks careless, has such a careful side?
At that moment, a trace of emotion arose in my heart, which was warm and lingering around my chest, very comfortable, "...thank you."
"Thank you again? Count how many times have you said it since just now?" Jiang Yan angrily wanted to hit me with her shoulder.
But I was just owing my body to eat a box lunch. When she hit her shoulders, she lost her shoulders, but instead her bulging breasts were scattered on my arms.
Jiang Yan's face turned red. She quickly glanced at Uncle Liu from the rearview mirror, then glared out the window with a shy look, hummingly pretending that nothing happened.
I coughed awkwardly, and didn't say anything.
At two o'clock five minutes, the Audi car stopped at the entrance of Panjiayuan fresh goods market.
Jiang Yan and I were holding a chair, and did not walk to the greenhouse in the street stall. Instead, we found the nearest shop and got in, "Boss, will we collect old furniture?"
I didn't even bother to look at it before, but I only saw it clearly after I came in that it was the shop where the owner of the family sold calligraphy and paintings.
"Let's take a look." The middle-aged boss took a magnifying glass, squatted in front of the chair and looked carefully, "How much do you want to sell?"
I said, "Ten thousand five."
"I can't give it." The boss said with a harsh sting: "There are many scars on the legs, and the chair surface is also cut through by sharp weapons. At most, I will give you four thousand."
In fact, I don’t know the market price of the Redwood South Official Chair, but 4,000 yuan is definitely not enough for me to bet on stones. "Let’s do this, everyone will take a step back, and the price is 9,000 yuan at a time. If it doesn’t work, I will go to another house." The bet on stones has almost started. If I hadn’t been in a hurry, I would have to compare and sell them again.
Chapter completed!