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Then, Sun Shaoping went to the Panjiayao Flea Market, planning to buy some supporting facilities for the restaurant.

Speaking of the Panjiayao Flea Market, it was later renamed Panjiayuan. It is very famous in the antique collection circle and has many descriptions in the Ghost Blows Out the Light series of books, but it had not yet formed a relatively large scale in 1981.

There is an old saying in Beijing: "You can't escape Panjiayuan, and you can't bypass Liulichang."

Some antique, worn-out tables, chairs and benches were piled up in a mess. "Sun Shaoping" (Liu Yuan) could see that there were chairs and benches made of Phoebe nanmu and huanghuali wood mixed in. So he pretended to be casual and asked the old man watching the stall next to him, "Do you want to dispose of these? We can take them back to the steel mill family compound to use as firewood."

The old man who was looking after the stall said, "We just collected it as scrap, and wanted to repair it to make a profit. If the price is right, we'll give it to you." The old man who was looking after the stall also said something clever, saying that he had just collected it for 2 yuan, "I'll give it to you for 5 yuan."

Sun Shaoping quickly said, "Okay, can you help me deliver them all to the steel mill's staff quarters? I'll pay an extra 2 yuan for shipping, okay?"

The uncle who was watching over the stall was very happy when he heard this. He bought a pile of scraps at 2 yuan and could make a profit of 3 yuan by reselling them. If he delivered them himself, he could earn another 2 yuan. You should know that an ordinary worker can only get less than 30 yuan a month in salary, which is less than 1 yuan a day on average.

And "Sun Shaoping", Liu Yuan from later generations was even happier, because he knew very well that the modern market price of huanghuali wood was 20-yuan per catty, that is, 24-1000 yuan per gram, and about million per ton, and it was called "plant gold".

It's really a good deal to buy so many precious woods for only 7 yuan. I only make 8 yuan a month as a private teacher in Shaanxi, and this pile of insignificant wood waste only cost 7 yuan. It's really hard to compare the prices! But now I'm really short of money!

It was just after noon when he escorted the miscellaneous wood bought with the huge sum of 7 yuan back to the courtyard. He first piled them in the small house he rented. When he unloaded the tables, chairs and benches, there was only Qin Huairu's mother-in-law, Jia Zhang, in the front yard. She looked at it a few more times out of boredom.

During the day, most of the residents of the courtyard have to work and go to their respective jobs. Most of the children are in school. He Yuzhu works in the steel mill canteen all day and does not come back for lunch.

Sun Shaoping did not even bother to eat. He ate a few bites of the remaining yellow corn cake, quickly selected a few pieces of huanghuali wood, golden nanmu and several other samples, and went straight to Liulichang.

Liulichang is located outside Hepingmen in Xicheng District, Beijing. It is the most famous cultural street in Beijing. It has become the "kyoto's elegant tourist destination" in the Qing Dynasty. After nearly three hundred years of inheritance, many famous old shops have been formed, such as "Rong Bao Zhai", "Huaiyin Shanfang", "Rugu Zhai", "Guyi Zhai", "Ruicheng Zhai" and so on.

Sun Shaoping went from house to house, took out samples of wood, showed them to the shopkeepers, and asked what the highest price was.

It was not until about three o'clock in the afternoon that Sun Shaoping took a break to drink fragrant tea in "Rong Bao Zhai", because the bid here was the highest, equivalent to one percent of the price in later generations, that is, 10 yuan per catty to purchase huanghuali. The other samples were determined to be golden nanmu, red sandalwood, agarwood, and ebony, all of which are very rare and valuable woods.

Perhaps they were the descendants of some impoverished prince, and the spendthrift treated these as scraps, allowing "Sun Shaoping" (Liu Yuan) who happened to be buying old furniture to pick them up.

After determining the highest price, Sun Shaoping took Wang, the shopkeeper of Rong Bao Zhai, and rushed to the courtyard. They counted and weighed tables, chairs and benches of various materials. There were only some old tables, chairs and benches left that were not particularly valuable.

When they were reloading the truck, Jia Zhang was still mumbling beside them, "Unloading now, then loading again, doesn't it cost money to go back and forth?"

Sun Shaoping whispered back, "You took the wrong one, you have to return it!"

Then Sun Shaoping and Manager Wang went to a nearby bank together, settled the price, and went through a series of procedures including opening a personal bank account in the name of "Sun Shaoping" and Manager Wang transferring the funds to Sun Shaoping's personal bank account.

Then Sun Shaoping's personal account showed a balance of RMB. This was in 1981. An ordinary worker with a monthly salary of 30 RMB would need years to earn the same income without eating or drinking. If there were 100 workers, it would take nearly 100 years without eating or drinking.

If this happened in later times, it would definitely be more than 3 million RMB.