Chapter 463 Finding a Buyer
"Master, we are all your juniors. If you have any questions, just give us your orders."
"That's it...you can tell the price, come to think of it. Is it possible to find a market?" Ci Xiang said: "If you can find a buyer for me, what do you think? At this price, I bought the small cup for me. The old monk added it to the temple, and I was impressed by the great virtue."
"That's it..." Zhou Zhi was still a little embarrassed. This thing will not be available for another ten years. A highly sought-after category, the auction price of a single cup is generally estimated to be around three million, and for a pair of cups, it is around seven to eight million. And you can often get double the estimated price.
For example, the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup has been highly sought after throughout history, and has fetched sky-high prices in modern times.
As for the three-piece set of Sanduo Horseshoe Cups, Zhou Zhi seemed to have never heard of them.
Zhou Zhi really never thought about picking up leaks at Fawang Temple, but the price of this thing now is what he said. Although it is taking advantage of the future, because the future is knowable, in a short time I can't help but feel a little hesitant and feel like I'm being bullied.
“Many places in Fawang Temple should be repaired.” Ci Xiang said: “Even if the beams and pillars are made of stone, there are still eaves and tile roofs, whitewashed wooden doors, Buddha’s golden body...everywhere. I need money.”
“I invited Uncle Qi Yao over this time just to see how the door of the main hall is being repaired. It was also from the Tongzhi period...” Seeing Zhou Zhi’s troubled expression, Cixiang tried to test it. Asked: "Or, we give you some handling fee?"
"Ahem, cough, cough..." Zhou Zhi choked Cixiang at this sentence: "That's not what I meant. I just said, There is still a lot of room for appreciation in the value of this thing in the future. In ten years...it won't be used in ten years. In five years, it will be worth tens or hundreds of millions. Master, if you can keep it, it's best to keep it. Let’s go.”
"But the Main Hall can't wait that long..." Ci Xiang said: "I only spent six yuan on these six cups back then, but now I can exchange them for more than ten thousand. I am already satisfied."
"More than ten thousand is enough to renovate the Buddhist hall, pavilions, and dining halls, and decorate the Buddha. It can also save some for next year's Maitreya meeting, and open a slope of tea garden..."
< br>"These six small cups are five I don’t care how much it will be worth ten years from now. If the opportunity of the present is cut off due to the consequences in the future, I am not afraid of regretting the present in the future, and I am even more afraid of being greedy for the future in the present.”
“Practice and practice. , To fix the future, you have to do it now."
Zhou Zhi was shocked. He never expected: "With more than ten thousand people in the countryside, we can do so many things."
"They are all basic wages." Uncle Yao said: "The masters of the past generations have saved a lot of wood. They are all good nanmu from Fawang Temple for many years."
"There are also stones, and the back mountain is not ready. "Little." Ci Xiang added: "Everything is ready, but there is still one problem..."
"What problem?"
"Now. We already know that these six small cups are worth more than 10,000 yuan. If we send people to look at them from time to time, will they disappear for no reason like the "Longzang Sutra"? This is not a treasure, but a burden. ..."
Zhou Zhi was impressed by the wisdom of Master Cixiang. Indeed, this thing is easy to hide and easy to carry. Once people know its value, they must guard against thieves for a thousand days.
In Buddhist terms, evil causes have been sown, and it is only a matter of time before the evil consequences are reaped.
"Then...Okay." Zhou Zhi also figured it out: "I asked my fourth cousin to find a buyer for the master."
After thinking for a while, he said: "Twelve thousand is just Appraisal, if you meet a buyer you like, you might be able to sell it for a higher price. ”
Cixiang was overjoyed: "This will be a troublesome thing. Stay with us tonight and eat black bean curd!"
Zhou Zhi took out a letter from his bag and said with a smile: " I guess it will bother the master for a while longer.”
Ci Xiang took the letter with some confusion, and when he opened it, he couldn't help being surprised and happy: "The people from the brigade said that some comrades from the county's Federation of Literary and Art Circles came back for a survey, and asked the monk to receive them well, but it turned out to be you?!" But he was still surprised: "You are younger than Qiao Mu. Qiao Mu just finished the college entrance examination, right?"
Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "The main reason is that my godfather has taught me well and has become a member of the National Writers Association."
This explanation made Ci Xiang think it was reasonable. The boss of the Wu family is the most popular person in the world. He was a famous literary star in his hometown and was admitted to university twice and three times. In those days, it was a big deal.
Although his official career did not seem to be smooth after that, at least he was the director of the county bureau. He found a wife and was also the deputy county chief. When he landed in Erli Township, he had a great future.
"Is that so?" Ci Xiang said, "Then it's not an outsider. I'm helping the monks sell cups, but it's troublesome for you."
"Oh, Master, don't say that." Zhou Zhi was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly: "You are a grown-up?" "Senior, don't be so polite to me."
"Actually, selling things is just a small matter, getting the money is the trouble." Zhou Zhi said: "The institutions that can cash checks are all in the county. The buyer trusts my vision and agrees If I want to give you the money for the transaction, I must first run twenty miles to the brigade to call my fourth cousin and ask him to remit the money to Erli Township through the post office. "
< br>"The postman will deliver the remittance slip to you, and then Then you have to take the money order and go down the mountain to Shuangxi Town to cash it out from the post office, which is quite troublesome."
"There is a telephone number at Fawang Temple. You can call us here. Call.”
"Eh? Fawang Temple is really...advancing with the times, huh?"
"Hi!" Ci Xiang said: "Our Fawang Temple also undertakes the glorious task of forest fire prevention. In order to report the situation in time, the Forestry Bureau They gave us a note agreeing to install a telephone, but the phone Xin thought it was too troublesome to get him through, so he didn’t want to, and the price would be higher. I went to the Religious Affairs Bureau a few times and asked your godmother for help before I got it done.”
Indeed, At present, the infrastructure has not been laid out in the countryside, and these are all troubles.
But it would be convenient to be able to make phone calls. Zhou Zhi said: "How about I call my fourth uncle and see if he accepts it?"
"Let's go."
The telephone was probably a very sacred thing in Ci Xiang's heart, and it was kept in a wooden box with a lock.
Opening the box, Zhou Zhi picked up the phone and dialed the fourth cousin's home phone number.
My fourth cousin also installed a telephone at home this year. My fourth cousin and my aunt are retired cadres who worked before liberation. They have already had the qualifications, but they just feel that they are not worthy.
Zhou Zhi is willing to pay, and they don’t shy away from it and are happy to enjoy it.
The phone was dialed, and the fourth cousin’s voice came from over there: “Hey, please tell me.”
"Fourth cousin, I have an elbow."
"Where has your kid gone? I called your home and told you that he went out for fieldwork again?" "Yes, because of the "Longzang Sutra" I Mr. Qiao and I have come to Fawang Temple now. It’s like this. Fawang Temple Ci Master Xiang needs to repair the main hall, and he has two sets of horseshoe cups with more than three patterns to sell, both of which are from Yongzheng Doucai. One set is from this year, and the other is from Chenghua..."
"... ...Hey, I saw it is indeed something with a big door opening, and the price is mentioned... ...16,000. Wasn't Dawen looking for good porcelain a few days ago? Aren't these two ready-made sets? Hey, hey, if the person trusts me, just ask him to send the money. The address is Shuangxi, Jiachuan County, SC. Fawang Temple in Erli Township, Zhenzhen. The payee is Zen Master Cixiang. Compassion, the appearance of the solemn Dharma. Well, well, I’ll wait for your good news... Hey, I’ll probably have to visit you for two weeks... I’ll come back to see you when I return to Jiachuan, so I’ll hang up now..."
< br>(End of this chapter)