"Take a look, take a look" "Boss, how much does this thing cost?"
”"One hundred baht.""
Savadika."
Bangkok, Chinatown.The two-kilometre block is dotted with thousands of shops with eye-catching signs in neutral Thai.The gold shops full of yellow and heavy gold ornaments and the grocery stores filled with all kinds of dried and fresh fruits are filled with a strong and quaint commercial atmosphere.Among the signboards, the most conspicuous of them is the gold shop.Less than two kilometres long, Yaowarat Road is home to hundreds of gold shops, large and small, with huge signboards at the entrances and glittering jewellery and gold products displayed at the counters.According to statistics, nearly seventy percent of all gold shops in Bangkok are in Chinatown.Piles of gold jewellery are stacked in the store like goods, giving the illusion of a different kind of thing, as if the store is not selling expensive gold jewellery, but toys.With your head bowed down the Chao Phraya River, through the dense crowds of Chinatown, the smell of lap-mei mixed with medicinal herbs emanates from the surrounding shops, and your ears are filled with a large number of Teochew dialects and a small amount of Thai.Carefully avoiding the surrounding crowd, passing through countless Chinatown shops, finally the man came to a grocery store and stopped, looked up at a few big characters on the signboard at the door of the store, vaguely recognized the two names of Qian Ji, the man breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked in.The grocery store occupies a small area, and there are some small objects at the door as signs, and when you walk into the store, you can see a tall thin man in his fifties and sixties with gray hair, who is holding a radio and squinting and humming and listening to the opera."
What is needed?"
Although she squinted, the old lady did not slack off, and soon noticed the man who entered the store: "Whether you buy something or give it away, you can have everything you want here." ”His eyes swept over the grocery store, there was nothing too special, but the man's sun-tanned face had a somewhat vigilant look, and he looked left and right before taking out a Buddhist card from his pocket, handing it to the old man, and asked in Thai: "Boss, I heard that you still collect things here?"
”"The prince wears a pen and tears are unbearable" Kaba looked at the Buddha card handed to him by the man, a trace of shrewdness flashed in the old man's eyes, and he casually pressed the radio in his hand, and stretched out his hand to beckon the man.Noticing the old man's movements, the man stepped forward cooperatively.The latter stretched out his thin fingers, took the amulet card from the other party's hand, picked up the reading glasses hanging around his neck, put them on his nose, and looked at them carefully.The Buddha card is carved with a figure of covering his face with both hands, this is the Buddha who covers his face, also known as the Buddha who beats the Buddha, is very famous in Thailand, and its function is to block the things and things that are not good for the wearer, so that they can not enter the body and affect people's minds.The workmanship of the whole Buddha card is very rough, it can be seen that it has not been polished too carefully, not in the material is gold and the material is very sufficient, it can be seen that the owner of this piece of Buddha card should have some financial resources, but I don't know why it fell into the hands of the man in front of him.That's right, from the moment the man took out the amulet card, the old man had already seen that the other party should not be the owner of this amulet.However, this does not prevent the old man from receiving this Buddha card, no matter who its original owner is now in his hands, there is naturally no reason to let go, after all, the price of gold is now in demand.Although, the heart has used the idea of accepting this Buddha card, but on the surface, the old man still looked at the Buddha card in his hand quietly, looked at it over and over, and muttered to himself: "This Buddha card, it looks a little bad, it should have been mixed with some other things when it was made, resulting in a low gold content, and look here, there is a scratch, I don't know if it has been blocked by the disaster, if it has been blocked, then it is even less valuable" The old man said this paragraph, deliberately said in Thai, In order to let the man in front of him hear the content of his words clearly.Sure enough, after hearing the old man's words, the expression on the man's face immediately became a little anxious."
Impossible, I deliberately looked at it when I got the Buddha card, its gold content is not low, if not" When he said this, the man seemed to think of something, and quickly closed his mouth, just looked at the old man in the shop, and said resolutely."
In short, if you don't give me a price of 10,000 baht, I won't sell the amulet to you, besides you, I know a lot of shops that accept amulet cards."
The man's threat did not make the expression on the old man's face change much, he still carefully looked at the Buddha card in his hand, especially touched the scratch on the belly of the Buddha, and said in a slow tone."
Since you found the old money, then I won't cheat you, I have been doing business in Chinatown for so many years, it is about integrity, although this piece of Buddha card is a little worse in terms of condition, but the year is not low, it should not be a recent product, if it is in good condition, 10,000 baht is not high, but it was suffered on this scratch.""
You should also know that the role of the Buddha card is to keep safe, especially the mask of the Buddha, the most can be used for the master to prevent disasters and avoid dangers, and the Buddha has this scratch, then it means that the Buddha has blocked a disaster for the master, and the Buddha card that has blocked the disaster is not so effective."
Pointing to the scratches on the Buddha card, the old man shook his head and showed a regretful expression."
So, I can only pay the price of 3,000 baht at most.""
What, three thousand baht?!"
Hearing that the Buddha card he had finally obtained was only worth 3,000 baht, the man naturally couldn't agree.He looked at the Buddha card in the old man's hand, especially the scratches on the body of the Buddha who covered his face, and his heart was a little loose, but on the surface, he still refused to retreat and said: "Impossible, three thousand baht is too little, at least nine thousand baht." ”Hearing the man's words, the old man knew that this business was fine.Of course, he still unceremoniously bargained: "I can give you up to 5,000 baht, this is already the limit, the Buddha card that does not work, ordinary people will not even accept it." ”"Eight thousand baht, as long as eight thousand baht, I will sell it to you.""
At most, five thousand five at most.""
Seven thousand five.""
Six thousand five."
In this way, they haggled back and forth in the grocery store, and finally the price of the two was set at 6,700 baht.After setting the price, the old man grinned and showed his few teeth, and said in a loss-stricken tone: "Okay, okay, six thousand seven is six thousand seven, just when I lose money to do business, buy a favor, I can't let you run for nothing." ”