67: Chapter 67 Nose Snuff Bottle 67: Chapter 67 Nose Snuff Bottle Chen Hai carefully scrutinized the transfer agreement back and forth, examining it several times.
Even though he wasn’t the best student, his proficiency in Chinese was decent, and his comprehension skills were not bad either.
From his perspective, there didn’t seem to be any issues with the content of the agreement.
After obtaining the 10% shareholding in Huangxin Shoes, the rights he would enjoy were substantial.
As for the obligations he should fulfill, they were nowhere to be found in the agreement.
Brother Li was transferring these shares without compensation, mainly to curry favor with Chen Hai; he naturally wouldn’t complicate matters by adding unnecessary terms that might trouble Chen Hai.
Faced with such an agreement that was entirely to his own benefit, Chen Hai naturally would not hesitate any longer.
He picked up the fountain pen and the seal ink, which Brother Li had deliberately placed on the coffee table; with flamboyant strokes, he signed his name, and then with his thumb coated in the seal ink, he pressed his fingerprint directly onto the agreement.
“Boss Li, you’re giving me this benefit for nothing, so I won’t be polite!”
After doing all this, Chen Hai finally put down the document and looked towards Boss Li.
“Little brother, now that we’ve signed the document, we are partners!”
“And you’re still calling me Boss Li, that’s too distant.
How about I just call you Boss Chen?!”
Brother Li, who had been carefully examining a porcelain jar, now raised his head and teased Chen Hai with a smile.
Returning to his seat by the coffee table, Boss Li picked up the document to check it over.
Once he confirmed Chen Hai had signed and left his fingerprint, he signed his own name on the back of the document and after leaving a copy for Chen Hai, tucked his own copy back into his briefcase.
He had invested all of his assets into this new shoe factory and had even incurred a significant debt to the bank.
Although he had that large order from Ms.
Lin, he still had no complete confidence in whether his shoe factory could grow and become successful.
But now that Chen Hai had become a shareholder of Huangxin Shoes, he felt like he had taken a sedative; his entire demeanor became much more at ease.
When encountering metal, it indicates danger; when encountering wood, good fortune is presented.
This was a piece of advice Chen Hai gave him after performing divination.
It was because of that saying that he started to call everyone whose name contained the character for wood, one by one.
His wife had passed away several years ago, and it had been a long time since he last contacted Ms.
Only after making that one phone call did he finally learn that Ms.
Lin had been separated from her husband for many years.
And coincidentally, Ms.
Lin had just been promoted to the position of president for the Asia Pacific region at Adidas.
As Boss Li said himself, without Chen Hai’s guidance, he did not know if he would have gotten out of his business troubles, let alone have the emergence of Huangxin Shoes.
“Alright then, I won’t call you Boss Li, I’ll just call you Brother Li; that should be fine, right!”
Chen Hai replied with a chuckle.
Having signed the agreement, he didn’t know how much money he would receive in a year from his 10% shareholding of Huangxin Shoes, but the signing of the agreement was more than enough to put him in a great mood.
“I call you little brother, and you call me Brother Li; this is a nice way to address each other!”
After laughing heartily, Boss Li nodded in satisfaction.
After a brief pause, he pointed at the bottles and jars under the display cabinet nearby and said with a smile, “Little brother, snuff bottles from the Qing Dynasty are quite valuable.
Do you still enjoy collecting those?”
“What nose snuff bottle?
Aren’t they just a few porcelain vases?”
Chen Hai was taken aback, but once he realized what was being said, he quickly added, “I picked them up in a cave when I was wandering around aimlessly a few days ago!”
“I don’t understand these things, but by the sound of it, Brother Li, are my items quite valuable?”
Li Dajiang had a strange expression on his face and muttered, “Just wandering around and you happen to walk into a cave and find these things?”
He was clearly skeptical about Chen Hai’s explanation.
However, since the other party was not willing to tell the whole truth, it was not appropriate for him to keep questioning.
After a brief pause, he continued, “As for the value of these items, they should be quite decent!”
“I actually don’t know much about antiques, but an old friend of mine really enjoys collecting these kinds of things.”
“Nose snuff bottles from the Kangxi period are mainly made with copper or glass bodies.”
“Porcelain-bodied snuff bottles were mostly produced during the Qianlong era; among your items, there are four snuff bottles, and I just checked, they all have the ‘Qianlong Year’ mark on them.”
“My friend once bought a Qianlong-era snuff bottle for nearly two hundred thousand Yanhuang currency.”
“Among your snuff bottles, two are incomplete and their value should be limited.”
“The other two are intact; if you were to sell them in Tai Island, I reckon, one could go for a hundred or eighty thousand yuan without any problem!”
Since he intended to form a closer relationship with Chen Hai, Li Dajiang naturally gave him the honest truth without any intention of deceiving him.
At the moment, the economy inside Yanhuang Country had not yet developed, and the market for antiques had not really taken off either.
For Chen Hai to sell these items for a good price, he would need to take them abroad.
“Just one of those small bottles is equivalent to ten or eight millionaires?” Chen Hai’s eyes nearly popped out of his head after hearing Li Dajiang’s words.
He had considered the possibility that the bottles and jars he brought back from the cave might be somewhat valuable, but he never imagined they could be worth so much.
One should know, in the current times, buying a house in Liuyuan County and changing one’s household registration from rural to non-rural, having a few thousand or even ten thousand yuan would be more than sufficient.
His father, Chen Zhonghua, and mother, Jiang Meixian, always said there was no future in the countryside.
Aside from the annual collection of various taxes and duties, it even cost extra to educate their child—each semester they had to pay dozens of yuan more than city kids.
Their greatest hope was for their son, Chen Hai, to escape from the rural life, own a house in the city, and have a non-rural household registration.
But now, if he could actually sell one of the vases, wouldn’t that mean he could perfectly fulfill his parents’ expectations?
Taking a deep breath and despite having already made five thousand yuan, Chen Hai found it difficult to maintain his composure.
“Little brother, it’s quite troublesome to take these things out of the country!”
“If you really plan on selling, I can ask my friend the next time he’s in town to see if he’s interested in buying!”
“If he comes to the mainland to buy from you, then takes it to Tai Island, the procedures would surely be much simpler.”
Li Dajiang was quite shrewd, and from Chen Hai’s expression, he could roughly guess what was going through his mind right now.
“Brother Li, if you’re willing to help, that would be great!”
“However, I’m only willing to sell one or two pieces of these items at most.”
“The artifacts left by our Yanhuang Country, I don’t want to see them lost overseas.
Although Yanhuang and Tai Island share the same roots, after all, there is a sea that lies between!”
After wrestling with his thoughts for a while, Chen Hai finally nodded in response.