The reborn peasant girl has space for farming

Chapter 570 Goodbye Xu Yimao

Speaking of the person with the most connections in the capital, Xu Yimao can definitely be regarded as a top broker. If Bai Meixi wants to find Zhu Shamo, she naturally has to ask him first.

At six o'clock in the evening, Bai Meixi arrived at Beihai Park. It got dark very early in the cold winter, and the whole park became very quiet, with only a few lone lights shining whitely on the rockery.

Bai Meixi was a little worried. Today's weather was so cold that she couldn't even put her hands in her pockets. Even stamp collectors would not choose to go out to trade at this time. Here she met Xu Yimao. The likelihood may not be high.

But as soon as she reached the rockery, she realized that she had underestimated the perseverance of this group of people. The number of people coming to trade stamps not only did not decrease, but also increased.

These people are very experienced, and almost everyone brought a small charcoal stove. Three or five people gathered around it, and they didn't feel cold at all.

"Comrade Xiaobai, you are back. I haven't seen you for a long time." As soon as Xu Yimao saw Bai Meixi, he came over with his charcoal stove to say hello. Since Bai Meixi left the capital, he followed her footsteps to collect I bought a lot of things using the commissions I earned from her.

Now he sees her as a guiding light, knowing that big business is coming for him as soon as he sees her.

"I'll be back when I'm done. I want you to help me find something." Bai Meixi pulled Xu Yimao aside and whispered the words cinnabar ink.

Stamp collectors have reached the level of collecting, and are also involved in collections in other fields. Xu Yimao naturally knows what cinnabar ink is, and can guess who wants to use it.

"Teacher Li asked you to find it. He paid for it or you paid for it. That thing is not cheap." Xu Yimao knew that cinnabar ink was a royal offering in the palace and was also the favorite of all kinds of calligraphy and painting lovers.

This kind of thing was not valuable when the Qing Dynasty just fell. When the maids and eunuchs ran out, they took it with them. If they couldn't get the gold, silver and jewelry, they took some small things like inkstones and cinnabar. They sold them very casually. Some Sometimes a few steamed buns can be used.

But also because of this, this kind of good thing has been wasted a lot. Nowadays, there are not many people who have it, and the price has naturally become very expensive.

"I want to give it to Teacher Li. Of course I pay for it. Do you have a way to say that?" Bai Meixi naturally heard the meaning of Xu Yimao's words. She came back this time with strong financial resources and was not short of money. , as long as Xu Yimao can find a way, she is willing to pay any amount of money. After all, it means 30 billion for the future society, and the money paid now is less than a fraction.

"There is indeed a way, and this person asked me to do something some time ago, and he happens to have something he wants to sell. We can go over and take a look now."

Xu Yimao felt that Bai Meixi was very prosperous for him. When he agreed to this business some time ago, he could not find a buyer. Unexpectedly, Bai Meixi, a wealthy collector, came to him proactively without even asking the price. He directly agreed to the deal, making him seem to hear the sound of money falling into his pocket.

Xu Yimao took Bai Meixi through the alleys. The alleys in the capital were like a maze. Even if Bai Meixi deliberately recorded the directions, she still lost her direction halfway.

Half an hour later, Xu Yimao brought Bai Meixi to an antique courtyard house. Many people lived here, but everyone seemed to have reached some kind of agreement. No one built a building, leaving the whole courtyard untouched. It is very rare to maintain the most original appearance.

The person Xu Yimao was looking for was in the west wing of the courtyard. It was the smallest room in the entire courtyard and looked more like a concierge.However, this small house was kept very clean. There was no trace of snow at the door. Even the cotton curtain hanging at the door was washed clean, which was in sharp contrast to the greasy curtains around it. "Mr. Fu, are you here? Let me introduce you to a friend." Xu Yimao called at the door, and an old man in his 70s immediately walked out of the door. He opened the cotton curtain and said to Bai Meixi. A bow, the movement is full of humility, which looks very strange.

"Madam, please come in." Mr. Fu kept nodding and bowing. His back had already been bent. Even when he was standing normally, it felt like he was bowing his head and holding his chest.

Mr. Fu also deliberately bent down a little, and every movement seemed to be bowing.

"You don't have to be so polite, just call me Xiaobai."

Bai Meixi found that his face was pale and beardless, and his voice was high-pitched. Thinking of the word palace, she quickly concluded a possibility. However, if this possibility had not been mentioned by the person involved, others would never have dared to point it out. thing.

"Let's talk inside." Xu Yimao looked around and felt that there were many people here talking. Mr. Fu was indeed not an ordinary person, but the eunuch of the House of Internal Affairs in the palace in the past. This position was very popular in the palace before, even in When the Qing Dynasty was about to fall, the Ministry of Internal Affairs still had money to make in the palace.

He was one of the first people to sneak things out of the palace. Anyway, the Ministry of Internal Affairs had a lot of things, and the current situation was chaotic, so no one knew what was missing.

But since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, his life has been difficult. Now he is a sanitation worker, sweeping the streets outside every day before dawn. He often can't even get a bowl of hot rice. His body collapsed quickly and he is now covered in aches and pains. He could only survive by selling the things he had stolen before.

If he hadn't saved some money before, he would have starved to death now.

"Mr. Fu, please bring out your piece of cinnabar ink. Comrade Xiaobai wants to buy it." Xu Yimao skipped the politeness and went straight to the point, asking Mr. Fu to take out the piece of cinnabar ink for Bai Meixi to see. , if the stuff is right, you can get the money today.

"Comrade Xiaobai, you are really discerning. I am afraid that such good things are only available here." After hearing what Bai Meixi said, Mr. Fu praised her several times.

He did have a piece of cinnabar ink weighing half a kilogram in his hand. In addition to painting, the biggest use of this ink was to make ink for the emperor.He originally brought it out to calm down his shock, but he didn't expect that this kind of thing would become a best-seller. The piece he had was already the last one.

"How much does that piece of cinnabar ink cost? I bought it." Bai Meixi was determined to get it, so she asked Mr. Fu to bid as much as he could.

As expected, the old man came from the palace and was a good bargainer. He directly gave Bai Meixi an absolutely exorbitant price, "The minimum price is 80 yuan. If the price is acceptable to you, I will take you to see the goods."

Mr. Fu had a smile on his face, but he was thinking loudly in his heart. When he saw that Bai Meixi proposed the acquisition without even asking the price, he naturally wanted to make a good profit.

(End of this chapter)