Siheyuan: The romantic and suave Xu Damao

"Grandpa, please don't leave in a hurry. This small mirror is not expensive."

Seeing that the old man was generous, Xu Damao did not want to lose this important customer, so he shouted hurriedly.

"Come on, the gems behind your mirror are worth more than a hundred dollars. The things on your stall are all good stuff. I don't have that much money today, so I can't take it. I can't take it."

The old man walked away carrying a cloth bag containing silver dollars.

Seeing this, Xu Damao had to give up.

In fact, there were quite a few people who knew the goods and came to Xu Damao's stall to ask for prices, but they were all scared away by the high prices Xu Damao quoted.

The first reason for being scared off is that there is no way to get a bargain and make some money by reselling it.

Secondly, it was dark, and it would be difficult to see accurately just by relying on lanterns. If the buyer made a mistake and spent a high price on a fake product, even if he was rich, he would inevitably be depressed.

Only those customers who are sure that what Xu Damao sells are genuine products, who particularly like them and who have money in their pockets, will pay to buy the items Xu Damao displays.

Therefore, Xu Damao sold quite a few birds, and the buyers were all those who wanted to get a bargain.

As for the small mirror, bird cage, and the antique jade and porcelain I collected, I didn't sell many of them.

After being at the ghost market for nearly an hour, Xu Damao packed up his things and rode his bicycle to check out the brother who was selling bicycles.

"Brother! How's business lately?"

Arriving in front of the eldest brother's stall, Xu Damao greeted him warmly.

"It's OK. There are a lot of replacement parts, but no one wants these sundries."

The big brother who was oiling the chain of a bicycle also stopped his work, picked up the thermos and poured a cup of hot tea for Xu Damao.

Xu Damao looked at the various old books, porcelain bowls, and wooden gadgets piled together with bicycle accessories and parts, and couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.

"Brother, you have to separate these things. Look at these pedals and books put together. It's so dark. When you shine a lantern on them, you might think they are just a pile of bicycle parts!"

"I'm too lazy to do that. The price of these things is not even as high as my bicycle parts. Putting them together with my bicycle parts is unfair to my parts!"

"Brother, what do you want to do this time? You just bought a bike and haven't ridden it for many days. You don't need to replace parts, right?"

"How can that be possible? The car you sold me is very solid. If I need to replace parts for this car, I will have to wait for several years."

As Xu Damao spoke, he took out a pack of Daqianmen from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it over.

'So what do you want when you come here? Do you want those things again?'

As the eldest brother spoke, he glanced at the pile of debris, then came over and lit the cigarette in his mouth with Xu Damao's match.

"Let's look at those little things later. I asked you to come here today because I have a big business to do."

'What business?'

The eldest brother also became interested instantly.

"I just bought a bicycle from my elder brother. The manager of our courtyard saw it and thought it was very good, so he asked me where I bought it."

'As a result, when the manager heard that it was a ghost market, he waved his hands and said he didn't dare to come. He said that he believed in this thing and was afraid of it. He gave me some money and left the matter to me. Brother, you see...'

"Want to buy a bike? That's great. I just happened to see this bike. What do you think? It just arrived. It's 90% new. It's exactly the same as your previous bike. It's made of manganese steel. As you can see, I just oiled the chain and rollers."

"What about the price? You know, I bought this bike for the manager of our hospital. This bike is not as good as the one sold to me, so I can't ask for that high a price."

Xu Damao looked at the condition of the bike and felt that it was not as new as his own bicycle, so he started to bargain.

"Brother, you don't know, my bicycles are selling very well, especially recently, I can sell one every two days. Everyone who has some spare money at home wants one, so the price has gone up now."

"But since you are a repeat customer, I will make less money. How about a one-hundred-one-yuan price?"

"My car is newer than this one, and it only costs 120 yuan. You've reduced the price by 10 yuan..."

"Brother, let me be honest with you. If someone else comes, I will ask for a hundred and twenty, no more, no less, and I won't have any problem selling it."

If you don't believe me, come sit down and have some tea and wait a while to see if anyone comes to ask for the price, and then you can see if I am cheating you."

The brother selling bicycles took a sip of tea, slowly and calmly.

"Okay! One hundred and one is one hundred and one. Well, the manager only gave me one hundred, and I have to pay ten more."

Xu Damao complained with a worried look on his face.

"Why don't you go back and ask him to give it back? There's nothing to be embarrassed about."

"Okay, I'll ask him for the difference when I get back. Helping is helping, but I can't let myself suffer a loss. This is the most taboo in our business."

As Xu Damao spoke, he took out a stack of big unity bills from his pocket, counted them carefully twice in front of his elder brother, and then handed it to him.

"Brother, please click, it looks much less."

"What do you want to order? I'm watching you as you order. There's not a single order left. You're a straightforward person, bro!"

"How about this? I can't let you suffer any loss. Pick one of my miscellaneous items. If you see anything you like, just take it away."

The brother selling bicycles generously pointed to the pile of messy things on the ground behind him.

"Thank you very much, big brother. I really need to pick something useful, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable!"

"Anything you like. As long as it's not a bicycle part."

Xu Damao picked up the lantern from the stall owner and started picking out items from the pile of miscellaneous items.

"Brother, there's nothing interesting in here!"

After searching for a long time, all I found were some broken things. Even though some of them were old, most of them were damaged and looked very bad. Not only did they have no collection value, but even their selling prices were greatly reduced.

After searching through it, he found a jade belt hook that was almost covered with dry yellow mud. Holding it in his hand, it felt like a long ball of yellow mud.

"Brother, why did you choose such a thing?"

When the stall owner saw Xu Damao coming back with a lantern and saw what was in Xu Damao's hand, he was a little puzzled.

"You have a bunch of junk in there, how can I choose? I can only take one at random."

"Eh? That cup you have for drinking water is nice and pretty. Give it to me. My ceramic cup at home was broken yesterday."