I was there for seven years, getting a reduced sentence for good behavior.
The day I got my cell phone, I received several unknown calls.
They were all calls from bosses I had worked with before. They tried their best to get me to work with them, and some of them offered me salary.
100,000 per month, and 200,000 per month for car distribution.
Most of these calls come from two places.
Panjiayuan in Beijing, Shenyang Road in Tianjin.
After thinking about it at the time, I still rejected them all.
It was a mistake for me to join this industry in the first place. Even though I became rich overnight, I also paid a price. In seven years, I went from a fair-skinned young man to a fat man in his thirties now.
The girl I met back then is now a kid who knows how to act like soy sauce...
I was alone with no relatives and no reason, so I finally chose to go to Dali.
I bought a small shop on the shore of Erhai Lake and opened a small supermarket. Every day when there was no business, I would go to the beach for a walk and enjoy the sea breeze. My life was quite leisurely.
The address of the small supermarket is on Cangshan East Road, next to Lemart. If any friends want to come and play, I will treat them with tea.
Didn’t we discover the ancient Shu civilization some time ago? I also unearthed a golden mask that shocked the whole country. Actually, my path to wealth has something to do with these things.
Inseparable from two words.
Antiques, tomb robbing!
In the past few years, movies and TV series such as Ghost Blowing the Lamp, Tomb Raiders Notes, and Golden Eyes were hits. Now that I have some free time, I also write about things in this industry.
I have never seen the Yunding Tiangong or the Qinling Sacred Tree, and I don’t have golden eyes, but I entered the antique business at the age of sixteen and have indeed seen it with my own eyes.
There are many things that ordinary people cannot understand.
Let’s start from the beginning.
I was born in a small mountain village in the northeast of the motherland, close to Mohe. The winter is so cold that people can freeze to death.
My grandma raised me. I have never met my parents, and I don’t want to ask them what their names are.
As the old saying goes, we are only two generations apart. When I was a child, I was very naughty and would not listen to the teacher's discipline. My academic performance was very poor and I was always at the bottom of the class.
The national poverty alleviation policy is good. At that time, the village provided subsistence allowances, which seemed to be more than 80 yuan per month. There was also a special allowance for orphans, which was more than 100 yuan per month. My family was struggling to make ends meet.
At that time, CCTV’s treasure hunt program was on TV every day, and I was particularly fascinated by it. Those bottles and jars that people didn’t take seriously before, turned out to be sold for tens of thousands by experts. They were antiques and could be exchanged for houses or cars. !
I kept lying to my grandma, saying that the school asked me to buy study materials. Grandma gave me money, so I ran to the bookstore and bought all antique books.
The first book I remember reading was "Fifty Treasures of Ancient Spring", which was a very thick book.
Ancient springs are copper coins, which are called purple coins in our country. This book opened my eyes and made me crazy about antiques.
I rummaged through boxes and cabinets in our house and deceived my classmates. Without reading, I offered them a uniform price of 50 cents each.
If you steal copper coins from home, sell them to me, and I will buy them.
I lived frugally and never ordered food from the canteen. Later, I sold a bunch of textbooks for seven yuan. I was too poor at studying. The teacher just kept sighing and said that this child is screwed. If he doesn't study hard, he will only be able to It is a cancer on society.
I dismissed the teacher's words at that time. I had a dream in my heart of getting rich. Even if I became a cancer, I still wanted to be a rich cancer.
When I was 18 years old, my grandma had an accident while clearing snow in the yard and broke her leg. The medical and surgical expenses totaled more than 3,000 yuan.
Our family’s situation was that we couldn’t even afford 600 yuan at that time! I was deeply impressed. My grandma was lying on the kang, covered with a thick quilt, and would cry at night.
My aunt opened several farmhouses in Mohe, Xuexiang. Her business was doing well, so I went to my aunt’s house to borrow money to buy medicine for my grandma.
Although I didn't say anything on the surface, I secretly overheard it once. My eldest uncle said that I was a bad guy and that our family was in a bad state. He said that the loaned money would be pawned. We come and go.
That winter night, I sat alone on a stone for three hours. Although I was wearing thick clothes, it was of no use in the temperature of more than 30 degrees below zero in Mohe.
He was young and frivolous, and his relatives' words severely shattered a young man's self-esteem to pieces!
Holding the borrowed money tightly, I swore in my heart: "I! Xiang Yunfeng! I must get ahead!"
Later I dropped out of school. Strictly speaking, I didn’t even have a junior high school diploma. I was considered a primary school graduate.
Of the three thousand yuan, apart from the medicine for grandma’s surgery, there was still seven hundred and fifty-three yuan left. I kept this money secretly.
I used the more than 700 yuan not only to collect copper coins, but also to collect porcelain and silver dollars from other people's houses in neighboring villages.
Rural people only think that silver dollars are valuable, and most of them don't understand and don't care much about bottles, dishes, porcelain and the like.
I read books and treasure appraisal columns every day, and I gradually developed some basic eyesight.
I bought a pair of large navy blue chicken feather dusters from the late Qing Dynasty for 100 yuan, a few small salt shakers with pastel paintings of ladies from the Republic of China for less than 200 yuan, and three mid-Qing folk paintings for 180 yuan. Kiln blue and white bowls. Unfortunately, these three bowls have chicken claw marks. They were not well preserved and all of them were washed out.
I also saved a small bag of copper coins before, about two hundred of them. Most of the copper coins are Song coins and Qing coins. Among them, Daoguang, Guangxu, Qianlong, Huangsong, and Yuanfeng are the most common. These coins exist in large quantities, and I know they are not very valuable. Among them, the most satisfying ones for me are three Yongzheng pieces in good condition. I knew that Yongzheng Tongbao was worth some money, but I didn’t know how much it was worth at the time.
After buying these things, I spent a total of more than 500 yuan, and I still had 240 yuan left. The average monthly salary at that time was just over 300 yuan.
I had a good relationship with a female classmate at the time. She helped me and lent me two large 30-inch trolley cases.
There were a total of eleven pieces of porcelain and a small bag of copper coins. I carefully wrapped them in quilts to avoid breaking them, and stuffed them with a lot of foam.
Finally, two large trolley suitcases and a backpack were filled.
Grandma didn’t understand what I was doing. She said I was not doing my job properly and that she had raised me in vain.
My aunt also knew about this, and most of the people in the village were pointing fingers at me behind my back.
Suffering from contempt, humiliation and incomprehension, on the morning of the 17th day of the twelfth lunar month, I left Mohe with the things I collected.
At that time, I thought that Beijingers were the richest, so of course the antiques I collected would be sold to Beijingers, not to mention that I had longed for the legendary place Panjiayuan.
There is no direct train from Mohe to Beijing. You can only take a train to Siping first, and then from Siping to Beijing West.
The whole journey is more than 2,000 kilometers and takes more than fifty hours. In order to save money, I chose the cheapest hard seat.
I was carrying two large trolley cases and a large backpack behind me. My hair was very oily and my clothes were very dirty. Passengers in the station pointed at me and whispered to me from time to time.
I have never traveled far, this was my first time taking a train, and I was alone.
After buying the ticket, I had less than 100 yuan left with me. If I couldn't sell the things, I wouldn't even be able to afford a return ticket.
Not to mention eating.
The food on the train was very expensive, and I didn’t dare to spend money, so I kept drinking hot water from the cup I brought with me. I was really hungry, so I bought a bag of twists worth 2.5 yuan.
It was the first time for a country boy to come to Beijing. Everything he saw seemed new to me. It was the first time for me to see the security checkpoints at the station.
I was not old at that time, but I was not afraid of strangers and dared to talk to them.
I asked others how to get to Panjiayuan Antique Market. The ticket sales girl was very enthusiastic. She told me to take the subway and told me how to transfer.
Take Line 9 from Beijing West Railway Station, then get off at Liuliqiao and change to Line 10, then get off at Panjiayuan Station.
Fortunately, I have a good memory and didn’t make many mistakes. At that time, it was still two yuan to ride on the subway, and no one would care about you as long as you didn’t leave the station.
When I got off the subway station, there were anti-skid pits on the sidewalk. It was very difficult for me to walk with my bag on my back and dragging two large boxes.
After walking across Warwick Bridge, I finally saw the golden monument standing outside the north gate.
“Panjiayuan Flea Market.
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"finally reached..."
