Chapter 24 Long Handle Bronze Hammer
"How did you know Liangzi? How many people in your gang have? Who are they? What are their names? What cases have they done? I dare to miss a little and let us find out in the future, and I will lock you up with the murderer who killed Liangzi!" Erga is quite threatening.
"Oh... Grandpa Police, that's not our gang, it's the gang of 'their'. I have nothing to do with them..." Liu Chang sometimes can't forget to wash himself out, "It's all for this, I'll lie to you no one dares to lie to you two!... Can you smoke Gen'er again..."
"The lazy donkey is on the grinding..." Erga handed over another cigarette impatiently.
"Since my great-grandfather, he was a carpenter. He was passed on to my generation and started selling furniture..." It seems that Liu Changyou said that he had done the woodwork business before...
According to Liu Changyou, he was somewhat a craftsman. His family had been a carpenter craft that had been passed down from three generations. Before he started trading, he had been working in a timber factory. In the early days of reform and opening up, he began to do business. Because he was good at wood, he began to mess with antique furniture, ranging from pen holders to screen wardrobes and everything was sold. He started to open a small door on the bridge road, and later moved to Shenyang Road. Because there were not many people doing this at that time, Liu Changyou was the only one, so he really made some money.
I know Liangzi, when Liu Changyou was doing the antique furniture business. Liu Changyou's shop was almost in the middle of Shenyang Road. The market road was narrow and there were many people. There were no cars at both ends. So the buyer had to hire three wheels after buying furniture. Because Liangzi's family had an accident every few days (either his father entered the bureau or his mother went in). He was basically in a state of urgent money every day, so the asking price was cheap, so he would get it when he was given money. This led to frequent contact between Liu Changyou and Liangzi (because of the price reduction, Liangzi was even beaten by other tricyclists, but after the hit, he still lost the price. You started with the same amount, and I would get it for 50 cents... But it was precisely because of the low asking price that he had put Liu Changyou's appetite...).
Later, many shop owners were jealous of Liu Changyou's money and began to mess with antique furniture. For a time, there were more than a dozen stores opened in the same store, and then they began to spend prices on each other. Liu Changyou's store's goods were not very outstanding. In addition, others spent the price, they couldn't bear it. They couldn't even make money back all day long. According to his own words, "The sandalwood purchase price is too high and I can't touch it, and I bought few, and the mixed wood is not profitable." In desperation, Liu Changyou began to change his career to sell jade, which was at this time Liangzi left Shenyang Road and never appeared again for about a year or two.
"How did you contact him again later?" Erga asked.
"It's a coincidence! It's so coincidental!" Liu Changyou said, "About this time last year... it's wrong... I have to go forward... I can't remember the specific days. That day, I went to Quanyechang to buy a pair of pants, and happened to meet him and was shopping with a little girl..."
According to Liu Changyou's analysis, Liangzi looked bad, had no education, no money, and had poor family conditions. She should be a bachelor. But at this time, Liangzi not only brought a beautiful little girl shopping, but she was dressed brightly, wearing a suit and tie, and also had a gold-edged sunglasses. She had a big gold ring with more than one or two pounds of heavy on her fingers, and an electronic watch on her wrist! Although it is difficult to determine whether the ring is true or not, this electronic watch made Liu Changyou envious. It costs more than a thousand yuan per dollar. Even if the ring is really gold, it is not as expensive as this one!
At first, Liu Changyou thought he had recognized the wrong person, so he didn't care, but he didn't expect that after a walk around, they met again. Liangzi took the initiative to say hello. This made Liu Changyou very angry. After working hard for so long, the transaction was worse and worse. How could this stinky tricycle pedal become a wealthy overnight? But even though he was angry, as Liu Changyou, he still wanted this emerging big man Panpandao to inquire about the tricks of getting rich, so he pretended to ask Liangzi to come to his house to drink. A few days later, Liangzi came to Liu Changyou's house as promised. What Liu Changyou didn't expect was that this guy who had been on the tricycle now changed his gun and drove a car. He hadn't seen him for a few days!? It's not that fast to make money by selling white flour...
"What car is he driving? Do you still remember the license number?" Liu Dongsheng asked.
"It's a Rada*! White!" Liu Changyou said, "The license plate is 44, 3, and finally it's zero. I forgot... I drove there that time, and then I took the bus. I guess he just wanted to show off with me and deliberately pulled me into the water, the policeman!" Liu Changyou still has not forgotten to wash himself.
"Hebei Car?" Liu Dongsheng frowned, "Remember it! Go back and communicate with Hebei, and transfer all Bai Lada with the beginning and ending of 3 to me!...Boss Liu, tell me yours...what later?"
"At first I didn't have the nerve to ask where his money came from. It seemed as if I envied him, but I didn't expect him to speak first..." Liu Chang's face was innocent...
When he saw Liu Changyou, Liangzi asked Liu Changyou how he was doing. Although Liu Changyou kept bragging about his face, the few pieces of broken furniture at home revealed their old background. Some of them were people who had sold furniture. They were just putting on the broken furniture at home?
At that time, Liangzi asked Liu Changyou if he was willing to do business with him. As long as he joined the gang, he didn't have to pay the capital. He had a guarantee of 5,000 yuan a month and a commission. There were dividends at the end of the year. He could make 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a day. Liu Changyou was so obsessed with it. 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a day! What was the concept of that era? Since he went into business, he has been working hard for so many years, and he has spent 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a month. He even put it in the capital. How can he let go of the transaction that earns 5,000 yuan a month without capital?
"What did he look for you?" Liu Dongsheng was puzzled when he heard this. If it was a tomb robber, everything should be a one-time deal. Why do you have the words "guaranteed" and dividends?
"Oh! It's all my fault for being too greedy at that time!" Liu Chang was helpless, "They sold all the underworld..."
After confirming the partnership, Liangzi sent things to Liu Changyou's house every few times, but they were not valuable items. Moreover, no matter whether the things were released or not, they would receive 5,000 yuan in cash on time every month. Over time, Liu Changyou himself wondered that he had been in Shenyang for a while. Although he had become a monk halfway, he knew a little bit. This mess was not worth 5,000 yuan in total. Didn't Liangzi make money by himself?
Just as Liu Changyou took the 5,000 yuan and became weaker, Liangzi's tail was exposed. One night, Liangzi took a paper tube for painting scrolls to find Liu Changyou. He asked him for the thickness of a wine bottle. When he opened the lid, Liu Changyou was also shocked. The box was stuffed with cotton, with a layer of copper patterns faintly exposed. After taking out the thing, Liu Changyou was completely stunned. He saw that the box contained a small bronze hammer, which was very strange in shape. The rod of the hammer was thin and long, obviously not like a hammer used to nail nails.
Although Liu Changyou was doing jade, he knew a little bit about antiques. Bronze things were not modern things. They have been talking about them for at least two thousand years. At that time, Liu Changyou was really a little scared. He knew that this thing was different from those small objects in the past. Maybe it was a matter of losing his head. But as the saying goes, people died for money. Under the temptation of Liangzi's huge profits, Liu Changyou still compromised.
"Boss Liu, didn't I tell you that a deal can make 70,000 or 80,000?" This was Liangzi's original words at that time, "The deal of 70,000 or 80,000 is here..."
"Bronze hammer? What's it like?" Liu Dongsheng didn't know much about history. At this moment, he didn't know what the bronze hammer said about Liu Changyou didn't know. It seems that he still has to ask Li Jiang for advice on this question... "Erga, give him paper and pen and let him draw it!"
Not to mention, Liu Changyou is worthy of being a carpenter. His paintings are quite vivid, and even the patterns are painted. "Okay, okay, just have a contour..." Liu Dongsheng took the paper and looked at it, folded it and put it in his pocket of his clothes, "Soon, let's talk, and then!"
"Although I don't know what that thing is, I don't think it's simple... It's all my uncle's fault! But it made me suffer!" Liu Chang said this, and Liu Dongsheng and Erga were also giving each other together, so why did a "uncle" suddenly pop up again?
"What is your uncle doing?" Liu Dongsheng said.
"My uncle is in the United States and sells porcelain. My grandma has six children. My mother is the eldest and my uncle is young. It is more than ten years apart. I didn't kiss her at all. After my mother died, I didn't have much contact!" Liu Chang looked aggrieved, "I wonder, how did that Liangzi know that I have an uncle in the United States!"
"He wants you to get in touch?" Liu Dongsheng asked.
"That's right!" Liu Changyou cried and said, "My uncle is a person who can't get up early without profit! He didn't show his face even when my grandma died! It is said that he was very glorious in the United States. Seeing that I made money here so hard, I didn't say I could do it..."
"You... are so embarrassed to say that others cannot get up early without profit..." Erga, as a criminal policeman who tried the case, shouldn't have been distracted, but at this moment he really couldn't help it...
At that time, Liu Changyou only promised to ask for help, and felt that his profit-oriented uncle would not come to China in person for a broken hammer. He just wrote a letter as Liangzi taught and sent it to the United States with a photo of the hammer. But what Liu Chang had expected was that not long after, his uncle, who guessed the riddle, actually came back from the United States...
"What is it written in your letter?" Liu Dongsheng asked...
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Lada: A car produced by the former Soviet Union's Lada Automobile Joint Factory (at that time, all cars in the factory were called "Lada" regardless of model). The factory was built in 1966 and headquartered in Tauriati, Russia. At that time, the Soviet car accounted for the majority of the so-called imported cars in China, Volga and Poronaz, followed by Lada, and most of them were buses and very few private cars.
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