Rebirth: Rising Hong Kong

CH 176 CH 0175

Mong Kok, Hong Kong.

There are many old flea shops in Mong Kok, most of which sell antiques.

These bosses all have club backgrounds, understand simple English, and even speak multiple languages. They sell some bottles and messy things in the store to ghosts and other tourists who come to Hong Kong for tourism.

Of course, there are also some prodigal sons who will secretly take their ancestral treasures to this kind of place for consignment.

The antique shop that Shi Zhijian is visiting at the moment is the most famous "Qi Bao Ge" in Mong Kok.

The boss, Da Jinya, was wearing a Tang shirt, rubbing snuff, and holding a gilded ivory origami fan in his left hand to help Shi Zhijian introduce the treasures he had accumulated in the store.

Looking around, there are nothing more than some authentic and fake porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, in addition to some large western wall clocks, telescopes used by pirates, music boxes, and antique books in foreign languages.

Shi Zhijian was not interested in these, and asked if there were any vinyl records and the like.

When Da Jinya heard this, he immediately gave a thumbs up: "It turns out that Mr. is a man of culture! Apart from these scraps of metal, clay tiles and tiles, I do have some old records here, but there are not many of them. You can choose whatever you want, if you like."

As he spoke, Da Jinya led Shi Zhijian to a shelf. Compared with the tall shelves with porcelain, this shelf was a bit shabby, and there were records and other things stuffed in a mess.

The records of this era have not yet become antiques, unless they are works of famous artists, otherwise they will not be sold at a high price.

Da Jinya saw that Shi Zhijian was dressed brightly, and thought that he could make a lot of money when he met a big client. Unexpectedly, Shi Zhijian was only interested in records, so he was not in the mood to introduce, so he took a feather duster to dust the porcelain Dust, stop occasionally to take a snuff, sip old tea, and enjoy yourself.

Without Big Gold Tooth making noise, Shi Zhijian could calm down and choose those records.

There are various types of records, not only Cantonese opera and Huangmei opera, which are currently popular in Hong Kong, but also British rock music, American jazz, and soprano Italian opera.

Shi Zhijian chose for a long time, chose an Elvis Presley record, and picked it up for a long time, his eyes lit up, but it was the first album "Please Please Me" by the most popular rock band The Beatles.

Five years ago the album set a record 30 consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Pop Albums Chart.

Just as Shi Zhijian was about to reach out for the vinyl record, a pair of jade hands beside him also went for the record at the same time.

The jade hand was obviously a step slower and caught Shi Zhijian's hand.

"I'm sorry, sir!" A clear female voice came from beside Shi Zhijian.

Shi Zhijian turned his head and saw that she was a girl in her twenties. She was not dressed in a foreign style, but was dressed in a simple way. Her jet-black hair was tied up behind her head. She was tall and tall like a young model in her previous life. She looks like a mixed race, with bright blue eyes, a straight nose, plump lips, smooth and delicate skin, but she is a real beauty.

"Oh, it's okay," Shi Zhijian realized that the other party was speaking Cantonese.

"That..." The mixed-race beauty expressed some hesitation, and finally couldn't help pointing to the vinyl record in Shi Zhijian's hand and said, "I'm sorry, I really like this record, can you give it to me?" I?"

Shi Zhijian looked down at the record, and looked up at the mixed-race beauty: "Sorry, I really like this record too, the Beatles' first album is hard to find!"

The light on the mixed-race beauty's face instantly dimmed, and I felt pity for her pretty appearance.

"Sir, you can make a condition. I will exchange this record with you with anything." The mixed-race beauty summoned up her courage again, as if she didn't want to miss this rare Beatles album.

Shi Zhijian knew that the beauty in front of him was a "die-hard fan" of the Beatles. Fans like this had signs of becoming obsessed in previous lives. Seeing how she gritted her teeth and made a decision, she was probably poisoned.

Shi Zhijian shook his head, and just about to refuse, he heard Big Gold Tooth shouting over there: "Miss Beretti, I have already found the antique book "The Edgar Allan Poe Tales" you asked for last time, if you don't want it ?”

The mixed-race beauty immediately turned her head and said to Da Jinya: "Of course I want it, thank you in advance! Please help me wrap it up!"

"Okay!" Da Jinya was very happy. This kind of foreign devil's books are hard to sell. There are a lot of backlogs in his store. Now he sells each book for a profit, and this Miss Boleti often bids a lot of money.

Boleti should have been very happy to have bought her beloved book, but what she liked more was the Beatles record in Shi Zhijian's hand, so she immediately looked back at Shi Zhijian, waiting for his reply.

Shi Zhijian was taken aback when Da Jinya called out the name "Polo Di", thinking that it couldn't be such a coincidence, and immediately made a decision.

"I'm sorry, Miss Belletti? I really can't transfer this record to you."

When Belletti heard this, she was immediately disheartened.

Shi Zhijian: "But I can buy it and give it to you! It's a gift from the first meeting!"

When things turned around, Boleti couldn't say how happy she was, and immediately said with a smile: "Thank you, sir! You are such a nice person!"

Shi Zhijian apologized in a very gentlemanly manner, and then began to ask Da Jinya to settle the bill.

Da Jinya could hear clearly from there, Shi Zhijian and this half-blood ghost girl were fighting for this record. Originally, he sold a record for ten yuan at most, but now there are people vying for it, so if the price doesn't go up a few times Just can't explain it.

So when Shi Zhijian took the record to check out, Da Jinya immediately acted like you found the baby, touched the Beatles record and couldn't put it down: "I didn't expect that the record I like was pulled out by you. This A record I didn't want to sell!"

Who is Shi Zhijian? When he saw the super exaggerated expression of Da Jinya baring his teeth, he knew that his acting skills were not good.

"Make a price!" Shi Zhijian was afraid that Da Jinya would say too little, and that the mixed-race beauty Boleti would feel less favored by her, so he deliberately reminded Da Jinya: "I know this one is about to be out of print. The Beatles album is difficult to buy overseas, but it is a commodity after all, and it should have its own price!"

Da Jinya knows the Beatles, but he does know about wearing sackcloth and mourning.

"Sir, when you say that, I'm too embarrassed to ask for a price. After all, you also said that this is a very precious record. Or five..."

Da Jinya stretched out a slap, and was about to ask for "fifty" when Shi Zhijian said first, "Okay! Five hundred is five hundred! We've made a deal!"

Da Jinya was dumbfounded, but he soon came to his senses and tried his best to put on a bitter face and said to Shi Zhijian, "Mr. is so shrewd, I am speechless!"

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