How can I go back to the past?

Chapter 99 Semi-antique Yellow Croaker (3)

After coming outside, Li Le found a breakfast shop, had a quick meal, and then took a taxi to the furniture store.

Chengwaicheng Furniture City is located near the South Fourth Ring Road. Li Le took a taxi and arrived here quickly.

To be honest, this was Li Le’s first time coming to this place, and it was the taxi driver who told him about it.

According to Li Le, he could just find any furniture store. He didn't want to buy any random furniture, he just wanted a wine rack.

After entering the furniture store, Li Le felt like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, with all kinds of furniture everywhere.

Unfortunately, he didn’t see the wine rack that Li Le wanted. There was nothing he could do but ask someone.

"Hello! Where is the wine rack?"

Li Le asked a staff member, a young lady in her twenties.

"Go straight ahead from here and you'll see the wine rack."

"Thank you!"

Following the route pointed out by the young lady, Li Le quickly found the place.

Originally, Li Le just wanted to buy a wine rack, but when he got here, he found that there were so many varieties of wine racks.

The most common one is the one that Li Le wanted to buy before, with small compartments for wine on it.

Now seeing so many styles, Li Le certainly didn’t like that one, so he picked one with a wine cabinet.

The upper half is similar to an ordinary wine rack, also with small grids, but the lower part is a cabinet that can hold a lot of wine.

Li Le did not bargain and bought it for 27,000 yuan.

In fact, this is already very cheap because it is made of solid wood. Although it is not a good wood, it is still relatively strong.

This is already very cheap. If you ask a decoration company to make a wine rack like this, it will probably cost at least tens of thousands of dollars.

And the materials used may not be as good as this one.

Just like when Li Le rented a house in the suburbs, the faucet on the sink was broken, so Li Le bought a new faucet online for more than 30 yuan.

But he was charged 80 yuan for the installation, which was more than twice the cost of materials.

After paying the money, Li Le left because the furniture store would deliver the goods to his door.

But it will be delivered in the afternoon, which doesn’t matter since it’s almost noon anyway.

After returning home, Li Le went to the kitchen to cook. It was a hot day and there was actually not much to cook, so he prepared a few cold dishes, including beef, pig ears, cold vermicelli and smashed cucumber.

After finishing all this, Li Le took out a can of beer from the refrigerator and used it as a drink.

If there is someone to drink with him, it’s no problem to have a few glasses!

After dinner, Li Le went back to his room and took a nap. When he woke up, it was almost two o'clock.

Li Le took a look at his cell phone and saw no one was calling. This meant that the furniture store had not delivered the items to him yet. He could only wait.

A pot of tea and a small bag of Qia Qia melon seeds.

Li Le loves to eat melon seeds. To be honest, the Qia Qia melon seeds are really not that good, but there is no other way. Melon seeds get damp easily in summer, so he can only buy the packaged ones.

After he finished a bag of melon seeds and drank almost all of his tea, Li Le's cell phone rang. He quickly answered it and it was indeed the man delivering wine racks from the furniture store.

Li Le hurried out to pick someone up. When Li Le arrived at the gate, the car from the furniture store just arrived.

The furniture store provides installation services, so Li Le doesn’t need to do it himself.

An hour later, the wine rack was installed, and Li Le moved the wine out from the east wing and placed the bottles on the wine rack one by one.

He put all the leftovers into the wine cabinet below.

Looking at the wines on the wine rack, Li Le felt much more comfortable. Yes, he felt comfortable. He also put out two bottles of the Chinese Zodiac Moutai that Cheng's father gave him, but at the bottom. Compared with these old wines, the Chinese Zodiac Moutai was nothing.

After finishing all this, Li Le went back to the house, took a big yellow croaker, and then went out.

Before leaving, Li Le searched the Internet with his mobile phone and saw a piece of information that in 2012, a large yellow croaker was auctioned for 300,000 yuan.

You have to know that was 12 years ago! At that time, gold was only a few dollars per gram. Now more than ten years have passed, the price should be higher.

The main thing is that the yellow croaker is not sold by gram. If it is sold by gram, one yellow croaker weighs 312.5 grams, and at 400 yuan per gram, it would be more than 120,000 yuan.

It is said on the Internet that this yellow croaker is a semi-antique, so its price cannot be calculated according to the price of ordinary gold.

Li Le thought so too, so he wanted to ask how much a yellow croaker could sell for now.

If he wants to sell it as an antique, of course he can't go to a gold shop or a place that specializes in gold. He has to go to an antique shop.

The largest antique trading market in the imperial capital now is Panjiayuan, and this is where Li Le wants to go.

More than half an hour later, a taxi stopped in front of Panjiayuan Antique Market and Li Le got out of the car.

Li Le went in and took a look around first. After all, he was not familiar with the place, so he took a look around to see which store was bigger.

Zhenbaozhai is the store chosen by Li Le, not because of anything else, but because this store is big enough.

There are five rooms in total. You should know that houses here are very expensive. The rent of one room is an astronomical figure in a year.

This Zhenbaozhai actually has five rooms for running a store, which means it has the strength at least.

"Welcome to Zhenbaozhai. Are you buying or selling?" A clerk saw Li Le coming in and hurried over to ask.

"How do you say buy? How do you say sell?"

Li Le has a good habit of asking if he doesn't understand, after all, it is his first time here.

"If you want to buy, you can take a look at it first. If you want to sell, I will take you to find an appraiser."

"So that's how it is! Then let me take a look first!"

"Okay, take a look." The clerk made way and gestured for invitation.

Li Le didn't understand these things, so when he said he wanted to take a look, he really just wanted to take a look.

After looking around and not seeing anything special, he waved to the clerk who had just come over.

"Sir, how can I help you?" the clerk asked politely.

"Help me find an appraiser. I want to sell something."

"Okay, please follow me."

The clerk took Li Le to a reception room inside, asked Li Le to sit down, and poured him some tea.

"Sir, please have some tea first. I'll go get the appraiser."

"Well, you go ahead!"

In just a few minutes, the clerk came over with a man in his fifties.

"Hello, sir. This is Mr. Hu, the appraiser of our store." The clerk introduced him.

Mr. Hu sat opposite Li Le, looked at Li Le and asked, "Sir, what do you want to produce? Can you show it to me?"

"Yeah!" Li Le nodded and said, "My last name is Li." Then he took out the big yellow croaker and handed it over.

"Big yellow croaker!" Teacher Hu said in surprise.

"That's right! It's the big yellow croaker."

(End of this chapter)