Trading

Zhao Rui came to Pizza Bet Pawn Shop, stored his bike, and then started working as usual.

There weren't a lot of customers at the pawnshop today, so he was relatively free, and he could look at the scenery outside the store whenever he had time.

So he easily got to three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Rui was bored and admired the scenery outside the store through the glass door.

Suddenly, he saw that an old man was walking out of the casino with his head lowered and his waist slightly bowed.

Zhao Rui felt that this old man looked a bit familiar, so he fixed his eyes on him and realized that he was the old man Xiang that he met in the morning.

After leaving the casino, Old Man Xiang ran all the way to the pawnshop.

Zhao Rui didn't even have to think about it to know that the old man must have lost all his money in the casino, so he came over to pawn some valuable things, ready to go to the casino to get his money back.

Sure enough, that to the old man across the street, straight to the pawn window, through the barred window, said to Counselor Li: "I want to pawn things."

"Pawn what?" Boss Li asked.

Old man Xiang hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a handkerchief wrapped in something from his underwear pocket and put it down on the counter.

"How much can I bet on this ...?"

Shopkeeper Li flicked the handkerchief away, and inside was a brown leaf-shaped jade disk.

Jade dish center open round hole, hole edge decorated with protruding hook pattern cloud, the whole piece of jade dish surface, are densely covered with cloud pattern, compact rows, fine strokes, jade dish side like flying dragon sudden descent, the dragon's tail line is smooth, generous posture, artifacts modeling simple and elegant, carving is quite superb.

Shopkeeper Li picked up that fast jade dish, carefully appraised for a while, before saying: "You're good at this. There are years, it should be something from the Shang Zhou period, according to seventy percent pledge, give you three hundred thousand, what do you think?"

"Three hundred thousand?" When old man Xiang heard this, he immediately yelled, "Only this little? This is a treasure passed down from my ancestors, with a history of one or two thousand years, how can it be worth so little?"

Shopkeeper Li disgruntledly pushed the jade disk back to the old man and said, "I've been pawning for decades, and my pricing has always been fair, if you don't want it, then you can pawn it elsewhere."

Old man Xiang hesitated for a moment, the value of this item was definitely more than three hundred thousand dollars, even if he sold it to Wang Da Xian, it would still be far more than this price.

However, he didn't want to sell it, he just wanted to temporarily bet it out for a gambling capital.

As long as he could win it back at the casino, not only would he be able to pay back Brother Yong's debt, he would also be able to redeem the Dragon Tail Jade Disk.

So, he muttered, "Forget it, forget it, three hundred thousand dollars is three hundred thousand dollars. I'll redeem this treasure when I get my capital back anyway."

"Remember that it must be redeemed within two months. Otherwise, this thing will be at the disposal of our Pizza Bet." Boss Li admonished.

"Got it, got it." Old man Xiang waved his hand impatiently, took a large stack of money, turned around and left.

"Rotten gambler, no amount of money is enough for you to lose." Shopkeeper Li sneered and shook his head.

Boss Li had handled a lot of treasures, in his eyes, this Dragon Tail Jade Dish wasn't that valuable, so he didn't pay any special attention to it, and after collecting it, he directly put it in the safe under the counter.

However, Zhao Rui's attention was deeply attracted by the jade disk.

Because, on that jade disk, there was an unusually strong aura emanating from it!

Zhao Rui almost immediately concluded that not only was that jade disk a treasure, but it was also a rather rare treasure!

Zhao Rui became intensely interested in this jade disk in his heart.

Regardless of whether or not this jade disk was connected to the Book of Sealed Gods, he was determined to obtain this treasure.

With Zhao Rui's strength, it was actually as easy as a slap in the face to get his hands on this treasure, godless and unknowingly.

However, Zhao Rui was still prepared to have a good talk with Old Man Xiang, that old gambler, to see if he could buy this jade disk over.

After all, Old Man Xiang was the owner of the jade disk, Zhao Rui wasn't so bad as to rob an old man.

Of course, Zhao Rui also planned for the worst, if Old Man Xiang was really unwilling, then he could only use other methods.

Through the glass door, Zhao Rui watched as Old Man Xiang re-entered the Pooh Hotel, and didn't follow him himself.

Because he knew that it wouldn't be long before old man Xiang would come out of the casino penniless again.

The rules of the casino, always favorable to the dealer, can win money in the casino gamblers, just a very few.

Old man Xiang did not seem to be one of the lucky few.

As expected by Zhao Rui, near the end of the night, the old man walked out of the casino slowly with his head down, his face gray and listless.

Obviously, the casino had lost, and he had lost everything.

Zhao Rui then walked to the side of the old man, handed over a cigarette, smiled and said, "What? Lost all?"

Old man Xiang lost his money and was just upset, he rolled his eyelids, looked at Zhao Rui, and said without a good mood, "Who are you? I don't seem to recognize you."

"We've all met this morning." Zhao Rui laughed in disbelief, "I happened to see you when you were being forced into debt by Brother Yong."

When Old Man Xiang heard the word "Brother Yong", his face immediately changed.

Brother Yong had asked him to pay back 150,000 within three days, which was already an impossible task, but now he owed 300,000 from Pizza Bet!

These two huge sums of money together made it impossible for him to pay it back no matter what.

Old man Xiang took out a lighter from his pocket, shivered and lit it for himself, took a heavy drag, and then murmured with some disorientation, "Now I'm really going to be thrown into the sea and fed to the sharks."

"That's not necessarily true." Zhao Rui laughed, "If you're willing to transfer the Dragon Tail Jade Disk to me, I'm willing to pay off all of your outstanding debts, and additionally give you a sum of money for your retirement, what do you think?"

Old Man Xiang lifted his head and for the first time, he took a serious look at Zhao Rui.

After a while, he pulled a face and said, "So you also want to hit my ancestral treasure. Let me tell you, I won't sell that treasure! No matter how much money it costs, I won't sell it!"

"Not bad. I am indeed hitting on it." Zhao Rui nodded and admitted it with a big smile, "However, my offer is greatly beneficial to both of you. If you don't sell it to me, you won't have the money to pay off your debt, and you'll be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. What's the use of keeping the treasure when the person is dead? Besides, after the pawn period, the Dragon Tail Jade Saucer will belong to the pawn shop, and it won't belong to you in the end. Old man Xiang, you'd better think about it."

Old man Xiang fell silent, lowered his head and kept smoking, his heart seemed to be in a fierce struggle.

The green smoke lingered, the red light of the cigarette tip, flickering in the air.

The cigarette quickly burned out, and old man Xiang threw the cigarette butt to the ground, as if he had made some kind of difficult decision, "Okay, as long as you can afford the price, I'll sell it!"

"Oh? How much do you want?"

"One hundred million!" Old man Xiang spat out a figure from his mouth.

"One hundred million?"

Zhao Rui was taken aback, although he expected that he would definitely have to pay a considerable amount of money to the old man in order to give up his ancestral treasure.

However, the price offered to the old man was a little too high.

As a cultivator, Zhao Rui didn't place much importance on these extraneous things though.

However, he didn't have that much money right now.

At first, in order to ensure that Sun Xiaolan was financially free, he had quietly deposited a large portion of his 500 million or so funds into Sun Xiaolan's account, leaving only a few tens of millions for himself.

Together with the various expenses over the years, there wasn't much left in the account.

"You're asking for a lion's share!" Zhao Rui began to cut the price, "Although the Dragon Tail Jade Disk is rare, selling it for a hundred million is too much. You only pressed it to the pawnshop for three hundred thousand dollars!"

"That's because the shopkeeper doesn't know the goods! Besides, pawning and selling are two completely different concepts. Pawning can be redeemed, but selling won't bring it back. I'm not just shouting about it." To the old man said in a serious manner, "To be honest with you, if this thing is sold as an antique, naturally it is not worth so much, but this jade disk has a great origin, it is said that it was once used by the heavenly immortals and gods, recorded the immortal's law.

If you can unearth the Immortal's Law, you can obtain boundless magic power. At that time, not to mention one hundred million, even one billion, there would be people who would rush for it!"

Zhao Rui said, "This is all empty talk, and when you say it, absolutely no one will believe it. Who can prove that the Dragon Tail Jade Disk, hides Immortal Spells? Even you yourself have no way to prove it! Besides, the Dragon Tail Jade Disk has now been pledged to a pawn shop and is no longer in your hands, you simply do not have the ability to redeem it."

Old Man Xiang narrowed his eyes, sizing up Zhao Rui for a while, and suddenly smiled rather profoundly, smiling almost like a thousand year old fox, "I really can't prove it. Even our Xiang Family's ancestors couldn't dig out the true function of the jade disk. But ... you can. If you weren't sure, you wouldn't have suddenly looked for me and bought this treasure. Isn't it?"

Zhao Rui glanced at the old man with some astonishment and suddenly felt that he had perhaps underestimated this old man.

Although this old man was a lousy gambler, he was still quite shrewd.

Old man Xiang continued, "It's true that I don't have the ability to redeem the Dragon Tail Jade Disk. However, I can take my deposit and re-sell it to someone else who will redeem it. If you can't afford the price, then I will find someone else.

Wang Da Xian has always been very interested in my Dragon Tail Jade Disk, and has offered, more than once, to buy this treasure of mine, and even said that he would let me just let me make a price for it! It's just that I hate that guy so much that I don't want to sell it to him. But now that I'm desperate, I don't care that much."

After speaking to the old man, he made a move to leave.

Zhao Rui had to admit that the old man did have a bit of a point, and with the value of the Dragon Tail Jade Disk, asking for 100 million wasn't outrageous.

In fact, if other cultivators met it, even if they doubled the price, they would have no hesitation in buying it.

Thus, he pulled towards the old man and said, "Fifty million dollars. That's all I have."

"I can't tell, you kid is really rich." Old Man Xiang sized up Zhao Rui a few more times before waving his hand, "Forget it, forget it. I'll take a loss and sell you for fifty million dollars."

Seeing that old man Xiang agreed, Zhao Rui couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurriedly pulled old man Xiang to go through the transfer procedures.

After old man Xiang got the money, he immediately ransomed the Dragon Tail Jade Disk from Bespoke.

"This treasure will be yours from now on."

Old man Xiang stuffed the Dragon Tail Jade Disk into Zhao Rui's arms, then twisted a large bag of banknotes and headed to the casino without looking back to continue gambling.

Although he felt a little ashamed of his ancestors for selling his ancestral treasure like this, but being able to sell it for fifty million dollars was not bad at all.

Zhao Rui shook his head at the old man's back.

Fifty million dollars is not a small amount of money, but with the old man's gambling addiction, how long it can be supported, it is hard to say.

However, Zhao Rui thought that he wasn't a Bodhisattva who saved people from suffering, he gave enough money and did what he needed to do, so what would happen to the old man in the future had nothing to do with him.