Chapter 1629: 1629. Cigars and Watches

The auction is over and this is the last warehouse.

After hearing Ollie's words, the young man in the leather jacket subconsciously asked, "What do you mean?"

Several children rushed to them and shouted to Li Du: "I will tell you." "Can you tell me?" "Let me tell you!"

Li Du nodded with a smile and said, "Don't rob, what do you want to say? You can say anything."

Victoria immediately said to the treasure hunters: "You are so stupid, you can't see that we are acting? It's the same thing with adults, so you are more stupid than children!"

"It's acting. There was a cigar box in the warehouse just now. Mr. Li asked me to cooperate with him in acting. I suddenly bid, and he said it was the reserve price to criticize me, so you think we really exceeded the reserve price to quote for this warehouse... "

"The last one is also the same. Teacher Li asked us to act together. How do you think we quoted? We competed for the quotation, and it was all arranged by Teacher Li!"

"Yes, if this is not the case, you will continue to bid with us. The things in this warehouse are very valuable, and you can see it, right?"

The treasure hunter's face was ugly. This is really an overturned boat in the gutter. A group of professional treasure hunters were fooled by a group of children!

The leather jacket tried to stay calm, and sneered, "Don't be complacent, you paid a lot of money to get this warehouse. Who told you that we will keep up with the price? We didn't intend to pay such a high price as 10,000 yuan !"

The children were stunned and looked at Li Du together.

Li Du smiled and said: "As long as there are some that can make a lot of money, remember, the purpose of participating in the storage auction is to make money. When you are not sure about the opponent's determination to bid, it is also a good idea to beat the opponent with a high price, as long as you can make money. "

"Can this warehouse make money?" Elena asked.

Brother Wolf also came to participate in this auction as a parent, he said with a smile: "The boss never fails, that's why he is respected as the king of treasure hunting!"

"What's in this warehouse?" The children were excited.

Li Du arranged for Bill to take a few children to pay the money, and then he went to open the cigar box warehouse first, and signaled Da Ao to move the cigar box out first.

The color of this cigar box is emerald green, as if covered with a layer of crystal turquoise. Of course, it's not really turquoise, it's just a kind of green glass.

The cigar box generally keeps the original wood color, so other treasure pickers saw that it was green outside, so they didn't associate it with cigars.

Li Du patted the box and said, "Little man, what's your name? Did you recognize its identity just now?"

Seeing that he was named, the blond boy was so happy that his freckles wrinkled up. He smiled and said, "My name is Vakoray. Yes, I have seen such a cigar box. My grandfather had one. I still remember him. Said that the cigars inside are called 5 ballots."

Li Du gave him a thumbs up, and he turned over the cigar box. There was a small copper plate on it, and the letters on the copper plate were its brand: 5-Election.

A treasure picker muttered from behind: "How about a cigar box? There may not be cigars in it, and some cigars will be broken."

Li Du glanced at him with a smile, and he opened the cigar box, revealing neat cigars inside.

Strangely, unlike the black and thick cigars that are common in the market today, these cigars are also thick, but the color is emerald green.

"Green cigars?" Many wondered.

Li Du smiled and nodded: "Yes, green cigars are rare now, but in the 1950s and 1960s, this kind of cigars were once popular in the market."

"Everyone knows that the fresher the ingredients, the better. Reflected on cigars, some people like this kind of green cigars, because they feel that the tobacco leaves are still fresh."

“Of course, the green color of the cigars is not due to the use of unripe tobacco leaves, but the way the wrappers are treated differently.”

The children were very curious and immediately asked, "Why is it different?"

Li Du thought for a while, and said slowly: "Manufacturing green cigars requires a lot of processes. Generally speaking, after the tobacco leaves are picked, they are first dried in the warehouse to age slowly."

"Because of the weather, farmers have to generate carbon or use propane heaters to remove excess moisture in the warehouse, so as not to rot the tobacco leaves. In this way, the temperature in the warehouse will increase, and the tobacco leaves will gradually turn green from the root..."

Another child asked curiously: "Why are there no such cigars now?"

Li Dudao: "Because of the complicated process, this kind of cigar is expensive, but the taste has no special change, so it is short-lived and soon lost the market."

“From the early 1970s, the light brown color of the Connecticut shade leaf became popular in the market. During the cigar renaissance of the 1990s, Americans chose darker and darker cigars, and green cigars were very popular. Rare."

Listening to Li Du's introduction, the children applauded one after another, and the teacher, the principal, and the parents who followed also nodded in admiration.

Finally, about the pricing of cigars, Li Du did not introduce too much. After all, children should not touch tobacco. He shifted the topic to the last warehouse.

"The things in this warehouse are amazing. Have you seen the watches inside? They have a lot of background, who can tell?" Li Du squinted at the men in jackets and his party.

These treasure hunters shrank their heads. They only knew that the items in the warehouse might be valuable, but they didn't know the identity of the items, let alone determine their value. That's why they didn't dare to set a bidding price.

The children guessed one after another, but none of them got it right.

Li Du opened a cabinet and took out the watch in it to show everyone. It looked nothing from a distance, but he could only find that the watch was old when he looked closely.

"A few students guessed its brand correctly." He smiled and said, "It's a Rolex."

Immediately, a child shouted proudly: "Look, I said it is a Rolex." "My dad also has a Rolex gold watch, which is very similar to this one." "Don't make noise, listen to Teacher Li's introduction."

Li Du turned over the watch and showed them the cover. There were four numbers on it: 3525.

"3525, this is the code name of this watch. But almost no one remembers this set of numbers. If you say the nickname of this watch, you may know it."

Li Du paused, looked at the children and smiled slightly: "They are the famous prisoner-of-war watches."

Most of the children looked at a loss, but the principal and some older parents showed a look of sudden realization, and those treasure hunters who questioned Li Du before had similar expressions.

Prisoner of war watches, this is a legendary watch in Europe and the United States, their value is enhanced by the stories they experience, and they are often seen in some old World War II movies and TV series.