Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Hey, Lawrence, how's it going? Did you make any big discoveries?"

Early the next morning, Liang En drove his car carrying yesterday's trophies to the entrance of the Emerald Thrift Store. As soon as he opened the door and entered, the store owner Pierce Murphy, who heard the doorbell ringing, came out of the door behind the counter. Walked out and met him.

Pierce is a tall, thin young man with dazzling red hair and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. Paired with the old plaid suit he was wearing, he looked like a scholar rather than a businessman.

"Thank you for your good wishes, I finally managed to transfer this time." Liang En said, putting a cardboard box on the counter, and then pointed to the car behind him.

"By the way, didn't you always say that the wooden floors in your house are broken in many places and you want to replace them? This time I found a broken oak cabinet and removed many boards, which was just enough to remove the broken wooden floors in your house. Replace the floor.”

"Ha, you are indeed my best friend." Pierce opened the door panel next to the counter and came out and hugged Liang En fiercely, then took the car keys from him and went out to move things.

This Pierce is a friend Liang En met in college before, and he is an Irish-British man.

Because my family owned an antique shop, I went to University College Cork in Ireland to study archeology, and ended up being assigned to the same dormitory as Liang En.

Later, after graduating from university, Liang En secretly sought career advice from friends because of a life exchange and the hope of opening a golden finger. As a result, he came to London after listening to Pierce's advice.

Thanks to Pierce's help, Liang En was able to have a job and a place to live in London, a place he was unfamiliar with.

After all, this type of cleanup work is not something anyone can do if they want to. If there are no reliable local people to help inquire about the information and provide guarantees, outsiders may not even be able to inquire about this information.

During the two months since he came to London, Liang En, in addition to self-study, the most important thing was to learn various skills in this area from Pierce.

Even the second-hand minivan outside was purchased directly from the previous owner at a low price through his method.

For Pierce, their family has always adhered to the habit of lending a helping hand if they have the ability to help. Not to mention to his friends, and these help were naturally reciprocated.

Although Liang En, a novice, has not found many valuable items recently due to lack of experience and bad luck, he is willing to provide some help to this small shop in his spare time to repay the favor.

Because of this incident, Pierce, who had just started taking over the family business, understood why his father taught him to be kind to others, even if sometimes it might take a little more effort.

"These wooden boards are great. Although there is paint on them, they can be fixed by scrubbing them with some simple chemical solvents." Soon, Pierce unloaded the bookcases that Liang En had dismantled into wooden boards from the storage position at the back of the van. .

"Okay, let me see what treasures you brought back this time." After stacking the thick oak boards with Liang En, Pierce said while opening the cardboard box he brought.

"Ha, hardcover books, and almost all of them are literature and history." After taking out the hardcover books wrapped in brown or black leather from the box and reading the titles clearly, Pierce looked a little excited.

“The traditional winter social season in London is coming soon, so wealthy people have recently been shopping around for things that can enhance their status, so these kinds of books have been selling well recently because wealthy people need them to fill their bookshelves. "

It is actually a global habit to use books to decorate the facade, especially compared to those science and engineering books that are too professional, literature and history books are more suitable for this type of occasion.

Therefore, in places like London, hardcover books that are in good condition and sell well are hard currencies that are easy to sell. Even if Pierce is not a second-hand book dealer, he can find someone to sell them.

"It's very good. It can be seen that the previous owner of these books has not read these books very much, so the books are almost not worn." After briefly flipping through it, Pierce closed the tome in his hand and said.

"I just recently had a customer ask me to look for this kind of stuff, so these goods of yours are just the thing for me to complete this business."

"Are these books valuable?" Liang En asked curiously, because he really didn't know much about this aspect. "I always thought this was the same as those cheap second-hand books we bought when we were in college."

"No, no, no, my friend." After listening to Liang En's words, Pierce immediately shook his head. "These books have been published for more than half a century, so they can be regarded as antiques, and antiques naturally cannot have the same price as those second-hand goods."

"So that's it!" Liang En nodded. Apparently, many memories from another world made him subconsciously think that these things that were forty or fifty years old were not antiques at all.

"By the way, how much can these books be sold for?" After Pierce read through all 12 books in the box, Liang En seriously discussed business with him. To the British, friends are friends, but business is business.

"These books of yours are at least 90% new, and they are all old books from decades ago, and two of them are relatively rare editions." Pierce pushed up his glasses, then looked at the books on the table and said .

"Based on the current market price, the cheapest of these books is over 30 pounds, while the most expensive can be sold for at least 150 pounds."

"Then how much are you willing to pay?"

"520 pounds, after all, I also want to make money."

"Okay, deal." After hearing Pierce's final quotation, Liang En immediately nodded to express his agreement with the price.

This price can be said to be a very honest price, although he also knew that Pierce should be able to sell these books for 900 pounds or even 1,100 pounds in the end.

But if you go to other buyers or sell it yourself, there is at least a 90% chance that it will not exceed 520 pounds.

After counting out 520 pounds in cash and giving it to Liang En and putting away the books, Pierce smiled again. "It seems that your business is finally open. By the way, did you find anything else?"

"Of course there is, or the next thing is the real treasure." Liang En said while reaching into the pocket of his windbreaker. "By the way, do you have a weapons sales license?"

Unlike the United Kingdom in another world, the United Kingdom in this world has much looser requirements for holding guns, and is closer to Canada. But even so, if you want to do this kind of business, you must go through a series of procedures.

"Of course, my dad got it back then. Unfortunately, he had to pay a sum of money for this certificate every year for more than ten years, but the total number of guns he handled in the store was less than ten."

Pierce said as he took out a certificate from the drawer and handed it to Liang En. "Did you actually find a gun this time?"

"Yes, I found this treasure from the mezzanine of the oak bookcase." Liang En said and put the two boxes on the table. "Today is my lucky day."