Chapter 7 Lingnan Antique City
With all his 2,000 dollars in his WeChat wallet.
Ye Chen didn't leave for the Sports Center right away.
The concert didn't start until 8 pm.
It was after 8 o'clock that those fanatical fans in the last life spent a lot of money on the sky-high tickets.
So he didn't have to go over there now.
Ye Chen didn't go to the Sports Center.
He went to Lingnan Antique Marketinstead.
This antique city was like Panjiayuan in Jin Cheng.
They were similar places, filled with all kinds of antiques.
People call them antiques, but they were more of counterfeits made by modern processing to fool some guys who want to make a fortune overnight.
However, the reason why Antique City survived for decades was obviously not because of all the counterfeits, but some treasures were ignored. A few people had bought some treasure with great value from time to time!
Ye Chen in his last life had been to the Antique City many times. Every time he was there, he was thinking about getting rich overnight.
Unfortunately, instead of getting rich, he lost his money for the counterfeits again and again.
But it was different this time!
With sixty years of very detailed memory from his last life.
He remembered that someone in his last life spent 30,000 dollars on something actually worth 16 times the price. He remembered the lucky dog was the one he knew while gambling together!
Although that gambler was in the same situation as him in the beginning, he was also paying the gambling debt and living a precarious life for fear of the enormous debt burden. However, unlike Ye Chen, he got a few million dollars for housing demolition. He was just as lucky as that. Not only did he pay off his gambling debts, but he also got an antique worth 480,000 dollars when he was wandering around the antique city, which only cost him 30,000 dollars!
It was said that when he was paying for that antique, people around him were looking at him as if he was making a big mistake. After he paid and took it with him, he immediately saw the sellers in other stalls shaking their heads and whispering. They were laughing and calling him stupid!
At that time, he realized that the seller fooled him and he made a mistake, but they don't accept returns.
He left the Antique City in anger. When he was thinking about throwing away the Buddha beads bracelet, a middle-aged man who was about to enter the Antique City stopped him, wanting to see the Buddha beads bracelet in his hand. In the end, the man actually bought it from him for 480,000 dollars!
That gambler had always liked to brag, but things were different then. He had gotten millions from the housing demolition, so Ye Chen believed that he would not brag about the Buddha beads bracelet.
For this reason, Ye Chen, who was under debt pressure at that time, believed it deeply, and even secretly thought that it was unfair. Why didn't he get this lucky just for once?
Ye Chen, who envied him, asked him what kind of beads it was out of curiosity. Though he didn't explain it very clearly, he provided very important information, that is, there were 18 beads in the bracelet, each bead was engraved with an Arhat, and the eighteen beads corresponded to the eighteen Arhats!
Now that he was reborn and returned to the past, Ye Chen felt that this was a great opportunity!
If he seized this opportunity, he could pay off the 270,000 dollars debt immediately!
The thing was that he didn't know which day the gambler in the last life got the bracelet.
Ye Chen did the math, and it shouldn't be so soon,After all, it was three days later that the gambler shared the news that he made a big fortune in Antique City.
Ye Chen knew the gambler very well, and he would not keep something this big to himself for long!
So it had to happen these days.
The only problem now was that the gambler spent 30,000 dollars on it at that time.
Now he only got less than 3,000 dollars, and he couldn't buy the bracelet with this money.
It was just that he needed to find where the beads bracelet was first, he didn't have to buy it right away. As long as he could find the stall, he would know where to get the beads bracelet when the time came. Tonight, he would earn enough money from the concert tickets for him to buy this beads bracelet!
Otherwise, if he waited until tomorrow to look for the bracelet, it might be too late!
It was because that there was a great chance that the gambler would buy it tomorrow!
Boss, Tong Bao from the Qianlong era in Qing Dynasty, take a look at it?
Dude, a the vase from the palace of the princes of the Qing Dynasty interested? We can talk about the price!
"Hey, handsome! Take a look at the stuff in my stall. They are all good stuff. Come and see if you are interested!"
Bro, it's early in the morning. We don't want to make a lot of money, and we just want to make a deal. This Pixiu, a mythical wild animal,was consecrated by an eminent monk during the Republic of China era. Putting it home brings a prosperous fortune. It only costs 3,000 dollars, wanna see it?"
Since it was early in the morning, there were not many people coming to the Antique City to seek something valuable.
Therefore, as soon as Ye Chen got in, the sellers were all calling out their wares.
They were not selling goods in stores, but one stall by another.
Even though there were still many stalls vacant at this time, all the sudden shouts made the Antique City alive.
However, Ye Chen scoffed at the so-called Tongbao in the Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty, the vase from the palace of the princes of the Qing Dynasty Pixiu, a mythical wild animal,consecrated by an eminent monk during the Republic of China era that would bring a prosperous wealth.
With these treasures, do they still need to shout and sell them here?
Not to mention a super tycoon who accumulated 400 billion dollars personal wealth at the end of his last life.
Even Ye Chen, the bastard who did all the bad things in the early days of his last life, didn't believe it.
He had been fooled many times, and now he got some experience!
Well, even if there was something valuable in the Antique City, it would definitely not be the kind of object that sellers calimed to be from a certain dynasty or from the palace of a certain prince. As for the objects that could bring a prosperous fortune, it was nonsense.
Some newbies who knew less about this business and had not been fooled enough might buy it!
Ye Chen stopped in front of every stall, and scan the items on it without saying a word.
If he didn't see the beads bracelet he was looking for, he would move on to the next stall!
As for the sellers, their enthusiasm gradually faded away, and they got tired of him. They tried so hard not to get him out of here!
After checking over 20 stalls in a row, Ye Chen still hadn't found the Buddha beads bracelet engraved with the eighteen Arhats.
But he didn't get upset about it.
He got nothing in the entire morning.
Running outside the Antique City to grab something to eat, he found some cheap and simple lunch, and he returned to the Antique City after that.
What the hell, that idiot is back!
Wow, looking at him, we can see "I want to make a fortune here" on his face!
With such a sneaky look, he still wants to make a fortune?Some kind of an expert? The dream of making a fortune is easier to come true by going to sleep!
"This kind of idiot is the most fucking annoying person. If there are fewer idiots like him in Antique City, our business will be better!"
"But don't say that, he is making the Antique City alive, and our stalls look popular, huh?"
Seeing Ye Chen coming back in the noon.
People were whispering about him.
Even Ye Chen heard them.
However, he didn't care to argue with them.
He continued to look for that beads braceletwith eighteen Arhats!
He didn't even realize a few hours had passed.
The setting sun was like blood, and the shadow of the sun went down west.
There was a rare cool evening breeze in the hot summer evening.
Ye Chen almost walked around the whole Antique City in one day, but he still couldn't see any Buddha beads bracelet!
Could it be that the guy in the last life was bragging?
Ye Chen stopped at sunset.
He muttered.
Immediately he shook his head. The look on the guy's face when he was describing it seemed that he was telling a truth. Besides, he told the details of the Eighteen Arhats, so it didn't sound like nonsense!
While talking to himself,Ye Chen couldn't help recalling the expression of the guy and the look in his eyes in the last life when he told about the bracelet. Ye Chen tried to make clear whether the guy made it up.
At this very moment.
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw that the stall owner patted his head.
Shit, I forgot about that one!
Right after the stall owner finished talking.
At the next moment.
He unfolded the gunny bag on his side.
He took out a string of bronze-colored antique Buddha beads from it!
Swish-!
In an instant, Ye Chen, who just caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye, felt a bit nervous!
He stood a few feet apart, although he couldn't see whether the eighteen Arhats were carved on the beads.
It was enough to make Ye Chen excited!