"Master, are you really going to sell these three pairs?" Ye Xiaochai asked a little worriedly.
"What do you think, should I sell it or not?" Liang Chuan discussed selling the couplets with Ye Xiaochai in front of Fan Dongcheng, as if Fan Dongcheng didn't exist.
"Master, I don't think we should sell them. These three pairs are better than shouting on the street thousands of times. You see, even when we haven't started selling any items in our store, so many people come to look at them every day. Lively, what is the picture? These three pairs are not rare. If you sell them, our store will have nothing to sell in the future." Xiaochai said eagerly. Ye Xiaochai is one of the few women who is very knowledgeable about business. She can help Liang Chuan look after the store, so she naturally understands the truth behind it.
Liang Chuan smiled, but Xiaochai's analysis made some sense. He looked at Fan Dongcheng and said, "Well, even the maid who sweeps the floor in my house knows how valuable these three pairs are. It seems a bit unreasonable that you want to show off these couplets for a hundred taels of silver." One hundred taels of silver. If you want to buy my intellectual property rights, do you think this is sending a beggar away? Don’t you take scholars seriously enough?
Fan Dongcheng's own family is also engaged in business. How could he not know this truth? Even the rotten characters on a few pieces of wood used as firewood would be too much for illiterate people to use as firewood. Once it is placed in the room of elegance, it will immediately increase a lot of money. This is the value of these bad words, which is immeasurable.
Fan Dongcheng gritted his teeth and said, "Just tell me how much you are willing to sell it for. If there is more, you can keep it for yourself."
"Then I'd better keep it for myself." Liang Chuan was not in the mood to bargain with this kid here and make himself lose the price.
Fan Dongcheng was anxious when he heard this. If he couldn't get this couplet, how could he go back to please Yuan Ziling? In desperation, he could only relent and said: "Shopkeeper, I was joking with you just now. Everything has a price, so you have to let me negotiate the price. How about this? I'll give you a thousand guan. What do you think?"
Liang Chuan glanced at him sideways, took a sip of tea, and took a sip of the tea. These tea leaves were autumn tea roasted by his own novices given to him by the great monk Hongyi, and then he said with a bitter taste: "Looking at your sincerity, For my sake, let’s do this, if you give me this number, I will give you the second line.”
Liang Chuan stretched out five fingers, shook them towards Fan Dongcheng, and turned them over four times.
Fan Dongcheng was overjoyed: "Thank you, owner, for making it happen."
Liang Chuan was a little surprised: "Why are you thanking me?"
"Didn't the shopkeeper mean that five hundred guan would be enough?"
Liang Chuan gave him a sharp look and said, "I'm afraid you're not a fool. You just gave out a thousand guan yourself. I'm not a charity man. I still want to give you a half. I turned my hands four times." Times means two thousand strings, you can see for yourself."
Ye Xiaochai, who was standing aside, was frightened. Two thousand guan. At first, he only made a thousand guan by selling so many bamboo weavings in his shop. This pair can be sold for two thousand guan. The owner is indeed a rich man. black merchant. .
Fan Dongcheng's eyes went dark and he almost fainted. How much? I'm afraid he misunderstood the two thousand guan. This man is even more sinister than his father. A bad guy dares to ask for two thousand guan. .
"You!" Fan Dongcheng's heart tightened, and he was so painful that he couldn't speak.
"I only offered this friendship price because the young master is so sincere. The young master must know that the value of literary creation is difficult to estimate. If my friends on the road know that I have two thousand guan, they will definitely give this price for eternity. If I sell it, they will definitely poke me in the back..."
Ye Xiaochai couldn't stand it. This owner was not shrewd, he was too shrewd. If the couplet was to be sold, he would definitely make enough money before selling it. He would just eat carrots and worry about it.
Fan Dongcheng looked up at the couplet on the wall. It took two thousand guan to make one sentence of this bad couplet, which is worth a fortune. Then he lowered his head and thought about that bastard Yuan Ziling. He couldn't bear to let the child catch the wolf, and hesitated for a long time. He said cruelly: "Shopkeeper, I spent two thousand dollars to buy out your second couplet. You sold the second couplet to me today, but you can't sell it to others in the same way! Including yourself, you can't say anything about you when someone asks you in the future. I remembered this second line!"
Liang Chuan said sternly: "Of course, when doing business, it's about credibility. I sold this second line to you, how can I sell it to others? Don't worry, no one else in the world will do it except you." Say the same second line as you!"
Fan Dongcheng then said with satisfaction: "Okay, wait for me for a while, I will go home to get the money!"
After a while, Fan Dongcheng came back with a large bag of money: "You count it, the money is given to you, you have to give me the second line."
Liang Chuan asked Xiaochai to count the money. After Xiaochai counted it correctly, he leaned into Fan Dongcheng's ear and whispered to him the second line of the third line. As for the first two couplets, just treat them as gifts and tell him directly.
As soon as Fan Dongcheng left, Sun Houcai followed him in, also alone. After entering the store, he looked around as if he was preparing to steal something.
"What are you doing?" Liang Chuan was surprised. Why did these scholars come to him today if they didn't study hard? But I just made two thousand dollars, so I'm not in a good mood.
Sun Houcai glanced at the couplets on the wall a few times, and after confirming that they were correct, he said, "Did you come up with these couplets yourself?"
Liang Chuan laughed when he heard this: "If it's fake, I guarantee it." It was probably another person who came to deliver money.
Ye Xiaochai took a look and said, "You're a step too late..."
Sun Houcai felt bad. Could it be that someone else had preempted the second couplet?
Liang Chuan quickly stopped Ye Xiaochai, interrupted her, and then said: "You came a step too late, otherwise you would have tasted the best tea."
Sun Houcai rolled his eyes at him and said, "If I want to drink tea, I still need to come to you? Do you know that what I want is this couple?"
Ye Xiaochai had just heard Fan Dongcheng's request. The transaction of this couplet was subject to certain conditions. He could not tell anyone else about the second couplet. His boss would not turn his back on him in a blink of an eye. Although these people are just scholars, they can casually take out two thousand dollars, how can they be ordinary small households? If we go back to Mao Dun, we are just here now, and we will inevitably suffer a loss.
When thinking about this link, Xiaochai kept winking at Liang Chuan worriedly. Liang Chuan saw it, but didn't take it seriously. He greeted the later scholar, chatting and laughing, and he was very motivated to win the deal.
"What, what do you think of these pairs of mine?" Liang Chuan led Sun Houcai to comment on the pairs.
"How do I know what a pair is like, but no one in the academy can figure it out, which means that this pair is a good pair." Sun Houcai rubbed his hands and said a little excitedly: "You are a good pair. I also want to attract a few more people in the store and make two more sales, so that I can directly spend a sum of money to buy your pair, please think about it!"
Liang Chuan smiled and said: "There is nothing else to consider. As the saying goes, they are absolutely worthy of talents. This couple will get what they deserve when they meet a big customer like you, the young master. It's just the price..." Liang Chuan's face showed no greed. Revealed in a disguised manner.
Sun Houcai simply didn't expect that this businessman would be more straightforward: "I like your way of doing business very much. This is the way it is. Problems that money can solve are not problems. You set a price and I will become famous tomorrow!"
Liang Chuan deliberately said with a bit of embarrassment: "The price may be a bit high..."
Sun Houcai rolled his eyes at him: "I have a lot of money. No matter how much you offer, you still can't scare me."
Liang Chuan stretched out his five radish-like fingers again, shook them at Sun Houcai, and turned them over four times.
Sun Houcai was stunned when he saw it, and then pointed his index finger towards Liang Chuan: "You are also a profiteer in business. You dare to sell this pair for two thousand guan. How can you get such a high price? But you are lucky today. The person you met is me, and I don’t feel sorry for this small amount of money.”
Sun Houcai clapped his hands, and an old servant walked in from the door. The old servant was carrying a backpack, counted two thousand coins from it and handed it to Liang Chuan.
"I gave you the money, now it's time to give me the pair."
Liang Chuan leaned close to Sun Houcai's ear and told him the second line. Sun Houcai recited silently for a few times before writing down the second line.
"No third person knows about this second line."
Liang Chuan smiled and said: "When we open our doors for business, the most important thing is integrity. We would rather not do business than ruin the sign. How can we sell one pair to several people? Isn't that a lie? Besides, those who know If it’s too much, I’ll charge you another two thousand dollars, wouldn’t that be defrauding you?”
"That's true. If you let me know that there is a third person who knows the second line you just told me, I will find someone to smash your shabby store. You will never want to stay in Qingyuan in the future!"
Liang Chuan heard that his tone was quite serious. There must be a big tree behind the rich second generation ancestor. He didn't want to make too many enemies when his foundation was not stable at the beginning. A strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake.
"Don't worry, young master. No one knows. But if someone can figure out the second line by themselves, then this is beyond my control. After all, there are many talents in Guibao. There must not be many people like the young master, but there should still be some." Right..."
Sun Houcai didn't think much about the meaning of Liang Chuan's words. No one in the college would be okay with this anyway. Others would be okay with it. That was other personnel matters.
After Sun Houcai left, Ye Xiaochai walked to Liang Chuan nervously: "My boss, if you sold the couplet's second couplet to these two groups, nothing will happen in the future, right?"
Liang Chuan smiled and said, "What I sold to them is different. What will happen?"
"What? Are you different from what he said? Do you have two second lines?"
