Chapter 8 Yang Dianqi, the treasurer of Qiguanglai Foreign Goods Store

People are like bees, flying wherever flowers bloom. When you point high, a huge crowd surrounds you, and you can't tell them apart; but when you point low, you can see the real and the false, far and near, immediately.There is a saying in Tianjin Wei, which is called: Unlucky people recognize friends. In the past few months, the glass flowers that have fallen off the mold have tasted bad luck.No one paid attention to him, and no one was afraid of him.A person is a spirit.With a man like him, no one is afraid, and everything is over.He didn't have the guts to show up on Guyi Street. The prestige, cheapness, momentum, climate there, even the big and small shops behind Hou's house and the oil and water in the girls' team all called Cui Ba to die.He regretted that when he was at his strongest back then, he didn't use Si Cui to break his own eye and cripple him.It's okay to stare blankly and get angry now.Who asked me to be planted by a fool? To blame whom, blame the sky and the earth, it is better to blame yourself.Often the root cause of bad things is still oneself.

He didn't dare to ask anyone for help anymore, Dai Kuiyi, Wang Chantian, Liu Bangzi all lost their reputations.He counted on Suo Tianxiang to defeat Sha Er, who would have thought that the patriarch was actually a bluff.Suo Tianxiang suffered a braid and revealed his secrets. After returning home, his disciples almost ordered him to carry it.The prestige of the silly second "magic whip" became even louder.When people talk about "magic whip", they will naturally talk about glass flowers.It was he who made a fuss at the emperor's meeting that caused this "magic whip", or the fool is still selling fried tofu today, and it is buried! Therefore, whoever talks about the "magic whip" has to start from the day when he "stretched his feet in the sky" "Speaking of the big somersault.The more you want to talk about the magic whip as a god, the more you have to talk about him more miserable.Can he still be arrogant? Only if he is willing to be a puppy.

One day, he had no money to spend, so he came to Zhan's house near the Sanyi Temple in the northeast corner of the city, knocked on the back door, and asked Fei Laifeng to borrow money.Hu's mother came out and took a bag of broken silver, saying that it was given to him by the second grandma.He felt that this was a bit like sending a beggar, and then he thought that he might as well be a beggar right now, so he took the wallet and said to Hu's mother: "Tell your second grandma, come to her after the money is spent." He used The money has been mixed for twenty days, and after spending it all, he really came to knock on the back door again, and Hu's mother came out and told him: The eldest grandma locked up the second grandma.He didn't believe it, and thought that Fei Laifeng ignored him, so he threw bricks into the high wall that was ground to pieces, smashed the goldfish bowl in the yard, and attracted several male servants from Zhan's house to arrest him. He was so scared that he ran to the Haihe River and hid in the salt dump for a day and a night. When he was hungry, he would grab some salt powder and rub it on his mouth.The next morning, he crawled out, and just as he walked to the north of the palace, he suddenly heard someone call him "Third Lord".He was startled, because he hadn't heard anyone call him "Third Master" in the past few months.Turning around, it turned out to be Yang Dianqi, the shopkeeper of Guanglai Foreign Goods Store.

Yang Dianqi specializes in selling foreign goods, selling American twill, British linen, Japanese T-cloth and crepe.Porcelain, metalware, paper, cigarettes, needlework and other small commodities from various countries are also complete. In recent years, the number of people who like foreign goods has gradually increased. Make his business more and more profitable.He also took the lead in collecting local red dates, jute, camel hair, peanuts, silkworm cocoons, straw hat braids, cowhide wool, bone horns, etc., and sold them to foreigners to transport them to the sea, which made a lot of money.In those days, there was no such thing as import and export. In fact, he was responsible for all import and export, and he was doing business that made money back and forth.This man was tall and slender, with a fair face, sharp eyes, shrewdness, and a quick mind.He made acquaintance with many foreigners in the purple bamboo forest, and he could speak several foreign languages. The things used, placed, taken, and eaten at home were full of strange and interesting foreign gadgets, which made the fans of foreign goods covetous.Sometimes he would accompany foreigners with blue eyes, red beards, blond hair, and white gloves to wander around the city and look down on Chinese people even more than foreigners.At that time, it was an honor to climb the ranks of foreigners.Standing in the crowd of foreigners, I also feel that I am a bit taller than the Chinese.Although Glass Flower likes foreign goods, in Yang Dianqi's opinion, he is just a local turtle.However, when Yang Dian got up to ship goods, he had to deal with people like Glass Flower.Glass Flower also often buys some antique toys, and comes to exchange some fresh foreign goods with Yang Dianqi, so that if you go back and forth, you will be very familiar with it.

Yang Dianqi invited Glass Flower to the back room, served tea and snacks, and said "Third Master" every mouthful, but never talked about Glass Flower's current situation. Glass Flower thought to herself: "If you are not deaf, you can know about your own affairs. Most likely, this kid just came back from doing business outside and hasn't heard about your own affairs. , all look at the market, but if the surname Yang really doesn't know, you should bluff him. "Did the third master get something new recently?" Yang Dianqi asked. "There are always good things. Those bosses and shopkeepers on Guyi Street, which ones don't respect me when they get new things?" Glass Flower said.

A sneer appeared on Yang Dianqi's pale face before appearing and then disappearing.he continued. "Yes, take one and see." Glass Flower suddenly thought of the pocket watch that Fei Laifeng gave him, so she took it out and put it on the table, saying, "Look!" With an air, it seems that there are ten or eight dollars left. Yang Dianqi didn't reach out to touch it at all, just glanced at it with a disapproving look, got up and took out a small box with a heart-shaped foreign satin from the cabinet, and put it on the table: "Look at my piece, open--" The glass flower also wanted to pretend that it had been eaten and seen before, and would not move it, but it was itching in its heart, so it couldn't help opening the box. Inside was a large, shiny pocket watch with a novel style, which was large and elegant.With my watch next to him, it was like the unqualified Xiao Xiangjia standing next to someone else's Yipin Zhongtang.Yang Dianqi picked up the watch from the box, gently pushed the small gold handle on the case with his fingers, and there was actually a melodious sound better than that of a huqin.The glass flower saw that the flower's eyeballs gleamed.Yang Dianqi said to him:

"How is this compared to your piece of painted enamel? Third Master, don't be angry when you hear that, your piece is ordinary foreign goods, and mine is the best among foreign goods. This is called 'push the handle to ask'. See ! Engraved gold and black silver shell, dot and engrave without marking, four times an hour, once for each engraving. If you want to ask what time, don't look at it, just push this handle and ring a few times, it will be the time." As Yang Dianqi spoke, he pushed the little golden handle again, and it jingled eight times, and the hour hand of the wall clock on the wall was pointing at the character "Ⅷ".

"There seems to be someone inside." Glass Flower couldn't help crying. "It's more accurate than people's reports! People still have time to forget." Yang Dian laughed. "What price?" Glass Flower asked. Yang Dianqi said: "This is the treasure at the bottom of the box. How can I sell it?" He said and put the watch in the box.But the box was placed in front of the glass flower. Glass Flower couldn't help but always looked at it, and it felt like a little scratch in her heart.scratch his heart.He glanced at Yang Dianqi, and suddenly said:

"You don't want to come to this set, you don't want to sell it? You show me? Your box is definitely not just this watch, it is full of foreign goods!" Yang Dian laughed and didn't answer, as if he had acquiesced.Then move on to another matter: "Do you still have your two little brass stoves?" So the two fought.Yang Dianqi dismissed his copper furnace as the Xuande furnace, which was too young, while chasing after it.This copper stove was originally dedicated to him by a bucket of gold sung by Luoziguan in Beidaguan.He once took this stove and planned to exchange it with Yang Dian for a pair of tortoiseshell foreign tea mirrors, but they failed to make a deal. This time, they chewed their tongues for a long time, but they still couldn't reach an agreement.Yang Dianqi took out a foreign nail scissors and cut his nails rattling. It was the first time that Glass Flower saw this strange thing, and he was fascinated by it. The enamel watch, and a pocket watch with a "push handle and a question", plus these nail scissors.Yang Dianqi thought it was very suitable, but he still didn't say anything, insisting that Glass Flower take the copper furnace to have a closer look.

"My two stoves are in a little rascal's house. I'll pick them up tonight and bring them to you in the morning." "That's good. I want you to come with me tomorrow morning." Yang Dianqi said. "where?" "Purple Bamboo Forest." "Why go?" Glass Flower was taken aback.Zizhulin was a foreign concession, and at that time, most people were afraid to go to the concession. Yang Dian laughed. "Look at you, you like foreign goods, but you are afraid of foreigners. I won't tell you, but there must be benefits for you."

The glass flower neck crookedly said: "Who is the third master afraid of? Good or bad, we men don't care, you have to explain clearly, what's the matter?" "There is a foreigner who knows how to master the magic whip. Haven't you fought against him? Mr. Yang, please go and tell me, what unique skills does the boy with the magic whip have? It's not easy. You can still go around the foreign market as long as you are strong." When Glass Flower heard this, she realized that Yang Dianqi had known about her situation for a long time.He didn't roll his eyes at himself because it was useful to him.He must have found himself for the foreigners because the foreigners gave him some favors.Good boy! It’s not that cheap if you want to order people around for nothing!” He deliberately said that he couldn’t go tomorrow because he had something to do, and wanted to squeeze Yang Dianqi to take out his watch now. Yang Dianqi immediately understood the stupid idea of ​​the glass flower. He changed his lesson The tone of man says: "You understand people, why are you so stupid? This foreigner is an oriental samurai, and he wants to find a god to whip him. Think about it, our domestic products are not worth foreign ones, how can Chinese arts be better than foreign ones? This oriental samurai wants to beat the gods The whip is down, isn’t your third master alive again, and half of this matter is helping you! Don’t you plan to spend the rest of your life like this? Do things count? They are all external things. Besides, what else can I do? your?" Glass Flower shook her head, and immediately understood, she immediately agreed to go to Purple Bamboo Forest tomorrow.He swept all the snacks on the table into his stomach, got up and walked out of the foreign goods store. Taking advantage of the food in his stomach, he spent a day fooling around, and when it was dark, he went to the little gangster's house by the Admiralty Bridge to ask for a copper stove.He kicked open the door, took out a knife and cut his arm, bleeding straight.The little gangster thought that the glass flower was coming for revenge, so he kowtowed on the ground with a "plop", but he didn't expect that the glass flower asked for a copper stove.He immediately took out the copper stove, wrapped it in paper, and handed it to Glass Flower.Glass Flower saw a brand-new coral-top hat on the bed, but this little rascal got it somewhere, so he picked it up, put it on his head, and left.