I did it right away. I told Uncle Li about my idea. After listening to it, Uncle Li agreed with my idea of selling the jade beads. First, Zhang Bowen and Qi Nan really had no income for a long time. It was not a good idea to live off the mountain. Money disperses and people gather. Second, it was because the thing in my hand was a real ghost item that I just took out of the coffin! Ghost items, you can't prove that it is private, it is something passed down from your ancestors, so it's better to get rid of it as soon as you get it and give it to those rich people who like to collect this stuff. Those people are capable and dare to hold this thing in their hands. Otherwise, it will be a disaster sooner or later if you keep it in your own hands. If you are reported one day, you will have no place to cry!
This is also our industry rule, unwritten, but everyone knows how to do it.
My father had a way to deal with this thing before, but I didn't come into contact with it, so I had to ask Uncle Li for advice to see who can sell it at a good price.
After all, to be honest, antiques don't have a fixed price!
Wu Pangzi and I estimated the value of this thing to be 8-9 million, mainly based on the texture of the jade beads, the age background and the unearthed environment, but it's hard to say whether it can be sold at this price. If someone likes it, then it must be valuable, and it's hard to say if it can be sold for more than 10 million; if no one likes it, no matter how good your goods are, they will be useless and will rot in your hands in the end! So I have to ask Uncle Li to help me find a better buyer so that I can sell it at a similar price. After all, I'm really short of money now.
Uncle Li fell into silence for a long time after hearing what I said. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Look for Yu Laoer!!! I have seen your thing. The quality and color are definitely not bad. It is a jade specially used as tribute to the royal family in ancient times. Ordinary people can't afford it. The price of several million is not a joke. I guess only Yu Laoer can afford it!"
I have really seen this Yu Laoer before. He has a good relationship with my father. His original name is Yu Bo. Because he is the second child in the family, people call him Yu Laoer. This guy is very famous in the industry. He is the most powerful second-hand dealer. What is a second-hand dealer? He collects things from people like us and then sells them out. He is definitely a capable person and has a first-class reputation in the industry. The main reasons are two-rich! Courage!
Rich, needless to say, this guy is probably worth tens of billions. He is definitely a hidden rich man hidden in Taiyuan.
Courage, this is interesting. First, this person would take anything, not to mention a valuable piece of ancient jade. Even if you got a national treasure like the imperial seal, he would dare to take it. As long as he likes it and thinks it can be sold, there is nothing he dare not take. He is a famous bold man in the industry. Second, this person dares to make money from anything, especially from foreign museums. He is not ambiguous at all. This person has a rule that he will never sell good goods to foreigners, because he feels sorry for his ancestors, but he will sell bad goods and things that are not worth playing with to foreign countries. In his words, it is perfect to use things that archaeologists don't want to cheat foreigners, and he is not afraid of being retaliated by them. Let's talk about his most famous thing, which is that he took a piece of smelly foot binding cloth of an old lady in the Qing Dynasty and sold it to a foreigner for 10 million yuan. This 10 million yuan was for a beautiful woman!!! Is it cruel? The weird thing is that the stinking foot binding cloth that was pulled out from some Qing tomb was actually exhibited in a Western museum. The museum explained that the foot binding cloth was the underwear of a beautiful oriental woman from more than 200 years ago!
Needless to say, this must be what Yu Laoer said when he sold the foot binding cloth. She was really a very good and beautiful woman...
After more than 200 years of death, almost only a handful of bones were left when the museum opened. If buried in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the soil there is very acidic, and the bones of the dead buried for 200 years are brittle and corroded. If you put it in the coffin, who can recognize whether it is a beautiful woman?
It's even more shameful to wear silk under the skin. In ancient times, women bound their feet. It was terrible. When they were young, they broke their foot bones and then wrapped them with cloth. At the beginning, when they took off the cloth, pus filled the toes. The smell was worse than that of an outdoor public toilet. Even if the pus stopped flowing from the feet later, because the feet were completely twisted, there were many places on the feet that could not be washed. Do you think the smell would be good? Not to mention the cloth used to bind the feet. I don't know what kind of mentality Westerners would have when they knew that the "underwear" they thought was extremely fragrant was actually such a thing?
Yu Laoer's ability to deceive people can be seen from the above, but he has a very good relationship with my father, so I don't have to worry about him cheating me, so I agreed. Uncle Li took out his cell phone and called Yu Laoer. Yu Laoer happened to be at home, so Uncle Li took me to Yu Laoer's house. When we arrived, he was wearing a pair of big flowered shorts and a red vest, sitting on the sofa enjoying a massage from two beautiful girls. He didn't look like a billionaire at all. He was just a local rich man. No wonder people say that we lack everything in Shanxi except local rich people. It turns out that there are so many people like Yu Laoer.
Yu Laoer is very familiar with people. When he saw us coming, he immediately came up with a smile on his face. He put his arm around my shoulders and called me "Xiao Ge" on the left and "Xiao Tian" on the right, which gave me goose bumps all over my body. In fact, I have only met him twice in total. How can we be so familiar with each other?
But since he wanted to call me, I had no choice but to accept it. After being pulled by him to sit on the sofa and chatting for a long time, Yu Laoer finally got to the point: "Xiaotian, I heard that you have a good thing?"
I nodded and took out the jade bead and handed it to Yu Laoer.
"Butt plug?"
Yu Laoer took it and played with it for a few times before looking up and asking me.
Butt plugs are actually ancient jades that were inserted into the anus of the dead in ancient times. The ancients believed that this could prevent the essence of the corpse from leaking out and could preserve the corpse. Therefore, when the dead were buried, they would basically put something in their mouths and anus. The poor would put money in it, and the rich would put jade in it.
This bead of mine was picked out of Helian Shu's anus by Fatty. It was absolutely right to say that it was a butt plug, so I nodded.
"Not bad, good stuff!"
Yu Laoer played with it for a few times, then he stretched out his tongue and licked the butt plug twice, and immediately slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "Oh my god, yes, that's the smell!! Damn, it's so stinky that it has historical background!"
As he said that, Yu Laoer also lifted the butt plug to my nose and kept shouting: "Smell it, smell it, it's so authentic!"
I really couldn't stand him, so I quickly dodged, although I also knew that Yu Laoer could identify the authenticity of the butt plug. Lao Er's method is definitely the most direct and simple. In the past, someone in the south made fake fart plugs. They threw the fakes into the feces and urine pits to soak. After soaking, they looked like real fart plugs, but the smell was much more pungent than that of real fart plugs. Experts can lick it out with just one lick. I know it's one thing, but I can't do it if I really lick it a few times...
Then Yu Lao Er took out a magnifying glass and looked at the thing I brought over carefully. He wanted to buy it without saying anything. He gave me 8 million and directly transferred it to my card. This price is about the same as I expected. It is definitely a very fair price, so I have some good feelings for Yu Lao Er. I also promised him that I would take him first if he had any good things in the future. I can think of it as finding a fixed way to make money for myself.
After the deal was discussed, Yu Lao Er kept pulling me and said he would take me to take a bath. He also winked at me and told me to give me one of his little sisters. I felt a pain in my heart at that time. I knew that it must be the one in my family who got angry. This was a demonstration to me. How could I dare to agree at that time? She excused herself by saying that she had something to do in the afternoon and quickly slipped away.
In the afternoon, I asked Uncle Li and I to prepare the equipment we should bring. Black donkey hoof, black dog blood, and ink line are absolutely indispensable. Anyway, they were basically purchased according to the specifications of the last time we entered the Qinling Mountains. I even bought Luoyang shovels. Although I don't know if I can use them, it's better to be careful. Finally, to be on the safe side, I called Li Jiajia and asked her to help me secretly get a few red dragons from the women's bathroom. Anyway, she insisted on going with us this time, so she should help. I asked her to bring it to me in the evening after she got it done. Of course, I must have been scolded by Li Jiajia for this matter. I won't say what he scolded me for, but he must think I was perverted...
After preparing these things, I finally felt relieved. I waited for Zhang Bowen to come to Uncle Li's house, and then we set off for our destination together.