early morning.
Jiang Ning put on a bag and put a few golden beans in it.
Xue Yuantong sat at the doorstep playing with his cell phone, laughing out loud from time to time, like a fool.
"What are you looking at?" Jiang Ning asked.
"Browsing the forum, hahaha, so funny. The poster hopes that everyone will photoshop his image to look more elegant, and then netizens posted all kinds of spoof pictures." Xue Yuantong almost laughed himself silly.
After hearing what she said, Jiang Ning finally understood. He had seen this kind of post on Tieba before, and it was indeed very funny.
During this period in 2013, Tieba was still the most popular community, showing no signs of decline. Diba went out to conquer the world, leaving no grass behind wherever it went.
There are also a series of bars that are leading in various fields, such as the one where fishing people gather.
Countless fields coexist, creating absurd, funny, and magical chaos.
Unfortunately, due to a series of operational problems, the talents of Tieba left one after another and went to various major websites, and it never regained its former glory.
Now when he suddenly heard the name of the forum, Jiang Ning actually felt a little melancholy and nostalgic.
"I'm planning to go to the city. Do you want to take anything with you?" Jiang Ning was pushing his mountain bike, preparing to exchange some gold.
"No, you go ahead." Xue Yuantong wanted to buy some snacks, but she had spent all her pocket money.
Jiang Ning rode along the dam towards the city. The origin of his gold was not worth considering, so the best way to cash it out was to find a way like pawning it.
It just so happened that Jiang Ning knew a pawn shop.
In his previous life, when he was a senior in college, he came to Yuzhou to work. A colleague picked up an ancient coin and searched online, and found that it was worth more than 600,000 yuan.
Then we went to the pawn shop. The owner was a woman in her thirties or thirty-five. After seeing the ancient coins, she took a look at them and told her colleagues that they were not valuable.
The colleague didn't believe it at all at the time, and opened her phone to show her the online auction information. The most expensive one was sold for more than 800,000 yuan.
The ancient coin was exactly the same as the one in his hand.
The proprietress smiled and told him some inside information, saying that these auction houses are all scams. If you really take coins to auction, they will first charge you an appraisal fee, which is about several thousand yuan, and then there will be a fee similar to mailing the auctioneer. After you pay the fee and sign the contract, the auction will begin. If the item fails to sell, the ancient coin will be returned to you, but the fees you paid previously will not be refunded.
Many auction houses use this trick to deceive people. My colleague still didn't believe it after hearing it. Later, he actually went to find the auction houses. It turned out that the performance of those auction houses was almost exactly the same as what the boss lady said. Only then did he believe it.
So the colleague told this matter as a joke in the office, and while telling it, he also showed the ancient coins to everyone, and jokingly said that if it weren't for the boss's wife, he would probably really be overwhelmed by the wealth of 700,000 or 800,000 yuan, and then he would have cheated the auction house. For this, he later went to thank the boss's wife.
After hearing this, Jiang Ning took it to heart. He still remembers the name of the auction house.
The proprietress uses her own shop, which she opened many years ago.
According to Jiang Ning's guess, this time point may have already existed.
From what my colleagues told me, I can see that the boss lady is not a bad person, otherwise she might have cheated my colleagues.
But Jiang Ning was not too worried. He was a cultivator and possessed abilities far beyond those of ordinary people. Even with his current means, if he was willing to trample on the rules, it would be easy for him to make hundreds of millions.
It's just that he cherishes his current life and doesn't want to destroy it.
But if someone cheated him, with Jiang Ning's means, revenge would be a piece of cake.
Therefore, Jiang Ning did not hesitate. If there were any villains who played tricks in secret, Jiang Ning would make sure to let them know what a cultivator was.
Jiang Ning rode his bike all the way to the pawn shop. The sign of the pawn shop was not very conspicuous, but Jiang Ning had amazing eyesight and found it at a glance.
The pawn shop is not big, with only one storefront. The sign reads Real Estate, Cars, Watches, Jewelry, and Mortgage, followed by a phone number.
Jiang Ning parked his mountain bike at the door and locked it. Then he put on his bag and opened the glass door. A cool breeze blew in and the air conditioner was on inside.
He pushed aside the translucent plastic door curtain and saw a woman in her twenties or twenty-seven sitting at the table. She was wearing a black work suit, her lips were painted with lipstick, and she was holding a mouse in one hand, looking over here.
"Excuse me, do you have anything to do for me?" Shao Shuangshuang looked at the little boy in front of her and asked.
Jiang Ning casually pinched the golden beans:
"Gold?"
Shao Shuangshuang noticed the gold in Jiang Ning's hand and became serious:
"Yes, please sit here."
She pointed at the bench next to her, stood up and went to the water dispenser to pour a glass of water for Jiang Ning, then sat on the bench opposite Jiang Ning across the coffee table, with an elegant posture and a hint of mature charm.
"My last name is Shao, you can just call me Sister Shao. What's your last name?"
"Jiang Ning." Jiang Ning disdained to hide anything. Besides, in modern society, unless one completely changed his appearance, it would be difficult to hide his identity when there were cameras everywhere.
As soon as he stepped into the room, he scanned the room with his spiritual sense and noticed the camera in the upper right corner. In addition, there was a pinhole camera hidden in the air-conditioning socket.
"Take a look first." Jiang Ning put down the golden bean.
Shao Shuangshuang opened the drawer under the coffee table, took out a work box, put on gloves, looked at the golden beans, and pinched them with her fingers. After confirming the texture, she said:
"It's gold. Do you have an invoice and ID?"
Jiang Ning shook his head.
Shao Shuangshuang understood, and then said:
"I understand what you mean. If we don't go through the procedures, the price will be slightly lower than the market price, and the purity of the gold is not very high."
"How much is it?" Jiang Ning didn't want to waste time.
"The international gold price is 310, yours is tentatively 270, cash." Shao Shuangshuang added:
"I need to test the specific purity, is that okay?"
270… Jiang Ning didn’t know much about this industry. Different trades are like different worlds. He couldn’t figure out the specific tricks. In fact, he was quite satisfied, which was slightly better than he expected.
"Let's test them together." He took out six gold beans and placed them on the coffee table one by one.
Shao Shuangshuang glanced at Jiang Ning, and Jiang Ning's expression remained unchanged. He obtained the gold by himself. He did not steal or rob it, but dug it out. If the house was rebuilt many years later, there would be looting and bloodshed due to the discovery of gold. Now he took it and used it, which, to some extent, was a good deed.
Next, Jiang Ning saw Shao Shuangshuang use several testing methods, such as measuring volume and weighing, and also used a pair of delicate scissors to split the gold beans in half to make sure there was no filling material inside.
After a long while, Shao Shuangshuang pointed at the number on the scale:
"Seven gold beans, weighing 152g in total, at the price of 270, the total is 41,040. I'll make it an even number for you, 41,100."
"Is everything all right?"
"Okay." Jiang Ning nodded.
Shao Shuangshuang put away the gold, placed it in front of Jiang Ning, and said, "Wait a moment."
She twisted her slender waist and went to the compartment at the back. When she came out, she was holding a black bag in her hand and checked it with the machine in front of Jiang Ning.
After the transaction was confirmed, Jiang Ning put all the cash into his schoolbag.
Mobile payment is not popular nowadays, and cash is the main payment method. Although the amount is not small, he is not afraid of losing it, and no pickpocket has been able to avoid his spiritual sense and steal his money.
"It's a pleasure to work with you." Shao Shuangshuang smiled. Having run the pawn shop for several years, she had come into contact with all kinds of monsters. Jiang Ning looked very young, but he had an indescribable calmness that most adults did not have.
This is also the reason why she is willing to do this business.
Jiang Ning waved his hand, pushed the door and left. He was going to go do some shopping.