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Zhao Rui came to Bisheng Pawnshop, stored his bicycle, and then started to work as usual.
There are not many customers in the pawn shop today, so he is relatively leisurely, and he can look outside the shop whenever he has time.
In this way, it was three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhao Rui was bored, admiring the scenery outside the store through the glass door.
Suddenly, he saw an old man walking out of the casino with his head lowered and his waist slightly bowed.
Zhao Rui felt that the old man looked familiar, so he took a closer look and found that he was the old man Xiang he met in the morning.
After leaving the casino, the old man trotted all the way to the pawn shop.
Zhao Rui knew without even thinking about it, the old man must have lost everything in the casino, so he came here to pawn some valuables and prepared to go to the casino to pay back his money.
Sure enough, the old man Xiang crossed the road, went straight to the pawn window, and said to shopkeeper Li through the iron window, "I want to pawn something."
"What are you doing?" Shopkeeper Li asked.
The old man hesitated for a moment, then took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his underwear pocket, and put it down on the counter.
"This...how much money can I bet?"
Shopkeeper Li pushed aside his handkerchief, and inside was a brown leaf-shaped jade dish.
There is a round hole in the middle of the jade plate, and the edge of the hole is decorated with protruding hook patterns. The surface of the entire jade plate is densely covered with cloud patterns, which are compactly arranged and finely stroked. The shape is simple and elegant, and the carving is quite exquisite.
Shopkeeper Li picked up the quick jade plate, appraised it carefully for a while, and then said: "Your thing is not bad. It is old, and it should be from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It is mortgaged at 70%. You have three hundred thousand, what do you think?"
"Three hundred thousand?" The old man yelled immediately after hearing this, "That's only a little? This is a treasure handed down by my ancestors. It has a history of one or two thousand years. How can it be worth such a little money?"
Shopkeeper Li pushed the jade dish back to the old man in dissatisfaction and said, "I have been pawning for decades, and the pricing has always been fair. If you don't want to, then you can go to another pawn."
The old man hesitated for a moment, the value of this thing is definitely more than 300,000 yuan, even if it is sold to Wang Daxian, it will far exceed this price.
However, he didn't want to sell it, he just wanted to bet it temporarily in exchange for a bet.
As long as he can win back at the casino, he can not only repay Brother Yong's debt, but also redeem the Dragon Tail Jade Plate.
So, he muttered: "Forget it, forget it, three hundred thousand is three hundred thousand. Anyway, when I get the book back, I will redeem this treasure."
"Remember that it must be redeemed within two months. Otherwise, this thing will be left to us to deal with." Shopkeeper Li warned.
"I know, I know." He waved impatiently to the old man, took a large stack of money, turned and left.
"Bad gambler, no amount of money is enough for you to lose." Shopkeeper Li sneered and shook his head.
Shopkeeper Li had a lot of treasures in his hands. In his eyes, this dragon tail jade dish was not very valuable, so he didn't pay special attention to it. After collecting it, he put it directly in the safe under the counter.
However, Zhao Rui's attention was deeply attracted by the jade plate.
Because, on that jade plate, there was an unusually strong spiritual energy!
Zhao Rui concluded almost immediately that the jade plate was not only a treasure, but also a very rare treasure!
Zhao Rui became very interested in this jade dish.
Regardless of whether this jade plate is related to the Book of Conferred Gods or not, he is determined to obtain this treasure.
With Zhao Rui's strength, it is actually easy to get this treasure without anyone noticing it.
However, Zhao Rui is still going to have a good talk with the old man Xiang, that old gambler, to see if he can buy this jade plate.
After all, old man Xiang is the owner of the jade plate, and Zhao Rui is not going to snatch something from an old man.
Of course, Zhao Rui also made the worst plan, if the old man really didn't want to, then he had to use other methods.
Through the glass door, Zhao Rui watched the old man re-enter the Pooh Hotel, but he did not follow.
Because he knew that it wouldn't be long before the old man would come out of the casino penniless again.
The rules of the casino are always in favor of the banker, and there are only a very small number of gamblers who can win money in the casino.
As for the old man, it seems that he does not belong to the very few lucky ones.
As Zhao Rui expected, towards night, he bowed his head to the old man and slowly walked out of the casino, his face pale and listless.
Obviously the casino lost, and it was all lost.
Zhao Rui walked up to the old man, handed him a cigarette, and said with a smile, "What? Lost everything?"
After losing money to the old man, he was upset. He rolled his eyelids, glanced at Zhao Rui, and said angrily, "Who are you? I don't seem to know you."
"We've seen each other this morning." Zhao Rui smiled nonchalantly, "I happened to see it when you were forced to pay by Brother Yong."
When the old man heard the word "Brother Yong", his face immediately changed.
Brother Yong asked him to pay off the 150,000 yuan within three days, which was already an impossible task, but now he owed the 300,000 yuan that must be won!
With these two huge sums of money added together, it is impossible for him to pay it off anyway.
The old man took out the lighter from his pocket, lit it for himself tremblingly, took a deep breath, and then murmured in a daze, "Now I'm really going to be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks."
"That's not necessarily the case." Zhao Rui smiled, "If you are willing to transfer the Dragon Tail Jade Plate to me, I am willing to pay off all your debts and give you a sum of money for retirement. What do you think?"
The old man raised his head and looked at Zhao Rui seriously for the first time.
After a while, he pulled his face and said: "It turns out that you also want to have an idea of my ancestral treasure. I tell you, I will not sell that treasure! I will not sell it for any amount!"
"That's right. I'm really thinking about it." Zhao Rui nodded and admitted generously, "However, my proposal is of great benefit to you. If you don't sell it to me, you won't have the money to pay off the debt. It will be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. When a person dies, what's the use of keeping the treasure? Besides, after the pawn period, the dragon tail jade dish will belong to the pawn shop, and it will not belong to you in the end. Mr. Xiang, you should think about it carefully. Think about it."
The old man fell silent, lowered his head and kept smoking, as if he was fighting fiercely in his heart.
Green smoke lingers, and the red light of the cigarette butt flickers in the air.
The cigarette burned out quickly, and he threw the cigarette butt to the old man, as if he had made some kind of difficult decision: "Okay, as long as you can afford it, I'll sell it!"
"Oh? How much do you want?"
"One hundred million!" The old man spit out a number from his mouth.
"One hundred million?"
Zhao Rui was taken aback. Although he expected that he would have to pay a lot of money to give up the ancestral treasure to the old man.
However, the price offered to the old man was a bit too high.
As a cultivator, Zhao Rui didn't pay much attention to these extraneous things.
However, he doesn't have so much money now.
At the beginning, in order to ensure that Sun Xiaolan had no financial worries, he quietly deposited more than half of his more than 500 million funds, and in Sun Xiaolan's account, he only kept tens of millions.
In addition to the various expenses over the years, there is not much left in the account.
"You are a lion!" Zhao Rui began to bargain. "Although dragon tail jade plates are rare, selling them for 100 million is too much. You only paid 300,000 to the pawn shop!"
"That's because the shopkeeper doesn't know the goods! Besides, pawning and selling are two completely different concepts. The pawn can be redeemed, but you can't get it back after selling it. I'm not asking the price." Said the old man solemnly "To tell you the truth, if this thing is sold as an antique, it is naturally not worth so much, but this jade plate has a lot of history. It is said that it was once used by the gods in the sky. Law.
If you can unearth the law of the fairy family, you can get boundless mana. At that time, let alone 100 million, even 1 billion, there will be people rushing to ask for it! "
Zhao Ruidao: "This is all empty talk. No one will believe it if you tell it. Who can prove that the dragon tail jade dish hides the magic of the fairy family? Even you can't prove it yourself! Besides, the dragon tail jade dish is now a classic It was pledged to the pawn shop, and it is no longer in your hands, and you have no ability to redeem it at all."
The old man squinted his eyes, looked at Zhao Rui for a long time, and suddenly smiled meaningfully, like a thousand-year-old fox: "I really can't prove it. Even our ancestors of the Xiang family couldn't dig out the jade for generations. The real function of the disc. But... you can. If you are not sure, you won't suddenly come to me and buy this treasure. Isn't it?"
Zhao Rui looked at the old man in surprise, and suddenly felt that he might have underestimated the old man.
Although this old man is bad at gambling, he is still quite shrewd.
The old man went on to say: "I really can't redeem the dragon tail jade dish. But I can sell my bet to someone else to redeem it. If you can't afford the price, then I will find someone else .
Wang Daxian has always been very interested in my Dragon Tail Jade Plate, and he has proposed more than once that he wants to buy this treasure from me, and he even asked me to ask for a price! It's just that I hate that guy so much that I don't want to sell him. But now I have nowhere to go, and I can't manage so much. "
After speaking to the old man, he made a gesture to leave.
Zhao Rui had to admit that what the old man said was indeed reasonable. With the value of the dragon tail jade dish, asking for a price of 100 million is not outrageous.
In fact, if other cultivators encounter it, even if the price is doubled, they will buy it without hesitation.
So, he pulled the old man and said, "Fifty million. That's all I have."
"I can't tell, you're really rich." The old man sized Zhao Rui up a few more times, then waved his hand, "Forget it, forget it. I'm at a disadvantage, I'll sell you for 50 million."
Zhao Rui couldn't help being overjoyed when he agreed to the old man, and hurriedly dragged the old man to go through the transfer procedures.
After getting the money from the old man, he immediately redeemed the Dragon Tail Jade Plate from Bisheng Pledge.
"This treasure will belong to you from now on."
Old man Xiang stuffed the dragon tail jade plate into Zhao Rui's arms, twisted a large bag of banknotes, went to the casino without looking back, and continued to gamble.
Although it feels a bit ashamed to sell the ancestral treasure like this, but it can be sold for a price of 50 million, which is not bad in general.
Zhao Rui shook his head towards the old man's back.
Fifty million is indeed not a small sum, but with the old man's gambling addiction, how long it can last is hard to say.
However, Zhao Rui didn't think he was a bodhisattva who rescued the suffering. He had enough money and did what he needed to do. What the old man would become in the future had nothing to do with him.