The ancestor of the Chen family is already one hundred and five years old. He has been in poor health last year and has probably reached the end of his life. After Li Mo and Sirui finished talking on the phone, they called Chen Feng. It rang for a while before the call was answered.
"Senior sister, how is my ancestor's health?"
"It's okay for the time being, but his physical condition goes up and down. The hospital experts said that the ancestor is aging naturally, so we should stay with him more. The ancestor also left a will a few days ago, saying that he would not do anything until a hundred years later. Just perform any ritual and let him go quietly."
"The ancestors have already seen through birth, old age, illness and death."
"Junior brother, did you find anything good there?"
"Director Qin hasn't told you yet?"
"I happened to be back in Huizhou in the past two days, and I haven't communicated this matter to her yet. I hear you have a big leak in your tone?"
"A super big leak, a big leak like the Qianlong Nine Dragon Sword of the Qing Dynasty. Is my dad around?"
"Uncle Master pushed the ancestor out to bask in the sun. It's okay here. You should pay attention to safety over there in the United States."
The two chatted for another two minutes before ending the call.
Li Mo was lying on the sofa meditating for a while when he heard a knock on the door. He quickly got up and opened the door. Steven was followed by five waiters, all with takeaways in their hands.
"Mr. Qin, the authentic Chinese cuisine specially ordered for you."
This Steven was pretty good at things. Li Mo asked them to put the dishes on the table and opened them to see that they were steaming hot. There are fish head with double pepper, fish offal with pickled pepper, Mao Xue Wang, fried pork with pepper, braised lion head, and five cold dishes.
At this time, Gulishi also led three waiters to serve five more dishes, the taste was a bit bland.
"Let everyone come and eat together."
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When Li Mo and the others arrived in the town, they discovered that there were so many tourists here that it was difficult to even find a parking space. In addition to the main market in the center of the town, there were also many stalls on both sides of the avenue. The main items sold were second hand product.
"Stop farther away."
After finally finding a parking space, Li Mo got out of the car and followed the flow of people. As we were walking, a quarrel suddenly broke out in front of us. It seemed that there were quite a few people watching the excitement.
"It seems that we are not the only people who like to watch the excitement. I think it is also very popular in the United States."
Several people laughed.
"Hey, that seems to be Mr. Frank." Steven pointed to a tall and thin man, wearing a crisp suit and a meticulous hairstyle. Logically speaking, such a person should be a gentleman. But now he was arguing with the female stall owner, holding a porcelain bowl in his hand.
"who is he?"
"Mr. Qin, he is a relatively well-known treasure appraisal expert in the United States. He is still very good at appraising antiques. However, he has a very bad temper and often has disputes with his colleagues, so now he has a particularly bad reputation in the antique auction circle. Basically no one wants to cooperate with him anymore.”
Li Mo took a closer look at the bowl in his hand and asked, "What are they arguing about?"
"The stall owner said that the bowl was a Chinese antique and cost three thousand dollars. But Frank said that the bowl was not an antique and was worth twenty dollars at most. When the boss refused to sell it, he got angry. He also said that he would call the police. Get a lawyer and sue him for fraud.”
Li Mo swiped at Yitong, who was a few meters away, transmitting a gray halo, and then formed a halo and spread out layer by layer. It was a large Huangdi Baizi bowl from the late Qing Dynasty, and it was authentic.
"Steven, are you sure he is a treasure expert?"
"Of course, his level is beyond doubt." Steven said with certainty.
Li Mo knew in his heart that that guy was using his bad brains.
He squeezed his way through the crowd and looked down at the goods on the stall. They were all second-hand items, and the weird thing was that there was something like a whip. Li Mo glanced at the aggressive American aunt and felt a chill all over his body.
There were probably more and more people watching, so Frank had to put down the bowl in his hand and grunted at her to squeeze out of the crowd.
Li Mo picked up the big yellow bowl of Baizi and looked through the circle. He saw that it had the standard official kiln mark "Made in the Guangxu Year of the Qing Dynasty".
"How much?"
Li Mo asked while holding a bowl, while Steven translated.
"The price is four thousand dollars."
Li Mo looked at Steven in surprise: "Didn't I just bid three thousand dollars? Why did it turn into four thousand dollars when it came to me? This is trying to kill me in broad daylight."
Steven was also very angry and argued with the other party, but the obese aunt was also very powerful in fighting. Just after she had an argument with Frank, she started a head-on confrontation with Steven and refused to give in.
"Steven." Li Mo stopped him and said, "Ask her if she has any porcelain similar to this. If she does, I will take them all. Four thousand dollars a piece, no bargaining."
Steven conveyed Li Mo's words, and the frothing American aunt suddenly shut up, then looked at Li Mo and nodded.
"Mr. Qin, she said there are fifty or sixty pieces of porcelain like this at home. If you want to see it, she will go back and get it now. It's not far from here."
"I'll pay for this bowl first, and then you give her a contact information, and I'll contact you when she gets it."
Steven naturally took care of the payment. He took the bowl and walked out of the crowd, handed it to the security guard beside him and said: "The authentic Guangxu Huangdi Baizi bowl of the Qing Dynasty, put it away properly."
This thing is worth more than $60,000 if sold on the auction market.
Li Mo didn't want to waste time here. His most important target was the Ming Xuande cloisonné dragon pattern lid jar, so he didn't bargain with her and just paid and left.
The square market was very crowded. Li Mo walked over and took a look before he was relieved. The things were still there. Their candies are very popular, and customers gather around to buy them. He also saw that Franke had squeezed to the table and was looking down at the big jar carefully. Two minutes later, he took out a magnifying glass from his small bag, which was the ultimate weapon for identifying porcelain.
"That guy's eyes are quite mean."
Li Mo felt a tremble in his heart, and then whispered a few words to Gu Lishi beside him, who nodded repeatedly. The two hot girls who helped today were the same two hot girls from yesterday. They were dressed even hotter today. When they saw Li Mo, they turned around and reported something to a man in his fifties behind the stall.
"Mr. Qin, look at my performance."
Gulishi saw the man walking over with a surprised expression, took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over. After a few words, Li Mo was friendly invited to the back of the stall, where there were three leisure tables.
They talk and Li Mo just watches.
About ten minutes later, Gulishi walked up to him and whispered: "The matter is basically settled. As you expected, they don't have that much in stock. Even if they work overtime, it will take half a month."
"Okay, just tell him that we are in a hurry to return to China, so we can pay them 80% of the payment first. We don't want to sell any goods now, but pack them all up for me to take away. In addition, tell him again This information, I have more than 200 chain stores in my hand, if the sales market of these ten kinds of imported fructose is good, we can establish a long-term cooperative relationship."
"good."
Gu Lishi went over to communicate with him for a while, and the boss stood up excitedly and nodded to Li Mo to express his gratitude. This is an order of US$500,000, and if the sales are good, we can cooperate for a long time. As the owner of a small private workshop, the largest order before was only US$20,000.
An order of US$500,000, with an advance payment of US$400,000, how could I miss this business?
Soon there was a notice board in front of the stall stating that it was temporarily closed.
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Li Mo's mouth, but he seemed to be happy a little early. He saw Franke walking behind the stall with a smile on his face and politely greeted the boss.
"He said he wanted to buy all the candies left on the stall, including the jars, and asked the boss how much it would cost."
"The boss said that all the candies have been ordered by you, and the jars have been given to you as well. Mr. Qin, that Franke is here."
Gu Lishi translated quickly from the side.
"Hello, Mr. Qin, my name is Franke."
Franke actually spoke fluent Chinese, which did not surprise Li Mo. After all, he was also proficient in Chinese antique appraisal, and speaking Chinese was just a basic skill for getting started.
