Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

The next day, Lin Geng went to the Trust Store again and found the male salesperson who sold him the Qing bows. He stuffed a box of Daqianmen cigarettes into his pocket. The male salesperson immediately recognized him and enthusiastically took him to choose various old furniture.

With this box of gifts leading the way, the male salesperson was very enthusiastic and not at all secretive. He took him around the front and back warehouses of the store and introduced him to various types of furniture and the materials used in them.

Following his introduction, Lin Geng selected a batch of furniture, all of which were various mahogany furniture in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including rosewood and teak, and he also found two pieces of huanghuali furniture.

When the male salesperson saw that Lin Geng specifically picked these rosewood furniture, he knew at first glance that Lin Geng was a wealthy man. He couldn't guess his identity, but he became more enthusiastic and introduced various rosewood furniture to Lin Geng with saliva flying, and did not even take him to see ordinary wooden furniture.

Finally, Lin Geng selected a batch of furniture that was obviously well-made and made of various mahogany materials. He asked the male salesperson to pay for him, and the male salesperson casually took out two red tomatoes from his pocket and stuffed them into his pocket.

When the male salesperson saw the juicy and red tomatoes that looked like they had just been picked, his eyes almost fell to the ground. In this season, such juicy tomatoes are a rarity, and extremely rare. Unless you are a special person, it is impossible to taste them.

Moreover, this thing is basically priceless and out of market nowadays. Even if you have money, you have nowhere to get it. If you take it home, let alone eat it, even if you put it on display to show off to others, it will be a very face-saving thing.

So the salesperson immediately hid the two tomatoes carefully in his pocket, then ran to find the account book, compared the furniture selected by Lin Geng with the account book, found out the lowest selling price, and then settled with Lin Geng according to the lowest selling price.

Finally, a large pile of various mahogany furniture was charged more than 500 yuan to Lin Geng, and he also told Lin Geng that he would be responsible for calling a few carts and a few trucks to send them back to Lin Geng's home, and he would ensure that Lin Geng would not suffer any hardship!

Lin Gengliansheng thanked the male salesperson and was already very happy. Although these old-fashioned furniture may not be as convenient to use as the new furniture of later generations, they are the products of profound history, containing the furniture culture of the Dragon Kingdom and the extremely high aesthetic taste of the dragon clan.

The current prices of these Ming and Qing style mahogany furniture here are almost the same as those of junk found for free. However, after a few decades, any piece of these furniture will be snapped up at an auction by antique collectors of later generations, and the transaction prices will absolutely be jaw-dropping.

Therefore, Lin Geng spent the money without feeling any regret. He put it in his pocket first, and then secretly transferred it bit by bit to his own little world. He replaced the Ming and Qing mahogany furniture with some ordinary furniture. Even if the wind rose in a few years and someone wanted to harm him and destroyed the four olds in his house, they would not be able to find these things.

When Lin Geng returned to the courtyard with several carts and a few porters pulling a few carts of second-hand furniture, it caused a sensation among the residents of the courtyard.

Although Lin Geng bought some Ming and Qing style mahogany furniture, at that time, the residents of the courtyard were basically ordinary people, who knew what mahogany furniture was? They just thought these Ming and Qing style furniture were quite old and might be more beautiful.

I guess the only person who understands these furniture is the deaf old lady with bound feet in the backyard. That old lady has seen the world, and only she can recognize the extraordinary features of these furniture.

But even if Lin Geng did something in the Intermediate Courtyard at this moment, the deaf old lady would not come out to watch the fun. Ever since Lin Geng exposed on the spot that day that the deaf old lady was not a martyr's relative and had never sent any straw sandals to the Red Army, the deaf old lady had been socially dead.

This old woman was a person who cared a lot about her reputation. After she was released after being locked up for two days, she hid at home, like a turtle shell, and dared not show her head easily again. When Sha Zhu came out, she heard that Sha Zhu was beaten by Xu Damao, so she showed her head for Sha Zhu, but was almost fainted by Lin Geng again.

So the deaf old lady hid completely back in her home and didn't dare to show up in the past few days.

Moreover, when Lin Geng brought back these furnitures, most of the men in the yard had gone to work. Even Yan Bugui, who had some knowledge, was not at home. Therefore, the aunts and young wives who were left behind could not tell the quality of these furnitures.

On the contrary, when Aunt Yan saw Lin Geng buying a lot of old furniture, she complained to Lin Geng that he was spending money indiscriminately. Why didn't he make some new furniture himself, but instead spent money to buy such a bunch of junk? Isn't this a waste of money?

Lin Geng laughed and said that he just liked these old-style furniture, and he chose these broken pieces not because he was in a hurry. He would replace them in the future, so he just made do with them temporarily.

Then everyone in the yard expressed their understanding. The Yan brothers who were at home came out to help Lin Geng. Even Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, who heard the noise, ignored their injuries and ran out from the backyard to help Lin Geng unload the car. Naturally, Sha Zhu also rolled up his sleeves and came out to help.

A few janitors, cart pullers and a group of young men in the yard worked together and quickly unloaded all the old furniture into Lin Gengxin's tidied home, and put them in place according to Lin Gengxin's instructions.

Now Lin Geng’s home is complete and looks like a home.

However, Lin Geng's ostentatious moves of renovating the house, buying furniture, and even a new bicycle made the beasts from the Yi, Liu, and Jia families very angry. You have to know that all the money Lin Geng spent was theirs, and now he was building things as much as he could, which made them feel their hearts bleed and they wanted to kill Lin Geng to vent their anger.

But now, after getting to know Lin Geng again over the past few days, they all knew how powerful Lin Geng was. Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Jia Dongxu all became quieter, hiding at home every day, not daring to show their heads, for fear of running into Lin Geng, and staying at home to recuperate from their injuries.

Lin Geng looked at his newly renovated home filled with newly bought old-fashioned antique mahogany furniture and finally laughed with satisfaction. Now, apart from anything else, just these antique mahogany furniture he had bought would be enough to keep him from worrying about food and drink in the future.

After that, he would find opportunities to buy some antique paintings and calligraphy and hide them away, waiting for the reform and opening up, which would easily make him a billionaire.

He didn't have any great ideals, nor did he want to become the richest man in the future. He just wanted to have enough money to spend and leave some money for his children in the future. He could be a first-generation rich man and let his children become second-generation rich men. Leaving some money for them would be enough for them to live on in the future.

To put it bluntly, he is just a petty citizen. The original body of this body and his soul are also petty citizens from later generations. As long as he catches the spring breeze of reform and opening up and uses his understanding of the economic situation and industrial development after the reform and opening up, even if he is a pig, he can soar into the sky by standing on such a wind outlet.

So what he has to do now is to survive well, and survive until the reform and opening up, when he can fly up like a flying pig and use this time to make himself live as comfortably as possible, and earn more capital. It would be even better if he could hoard some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and make a fortune in the future.