Zhou Xuan scratched his head and said, "I found it in the sea while swimming at the amusement park beach."
The man sighed and said, "Young man, you're really lucky to have encountered something like this. This coin must have been lost by a foreign tourist, which is a huge misfortune. You know, this coin was minted by King Cornwallis, one of the seven kingdoms of England during the Middle Ages, and only one such coin is known to exist today, making it especially precious. In addition, the British have a special sense of protection for their ancient culture. The only known coin was purchased by the British Museum for £350,000 and is considered a national treasure by the British Museum."
At this point, the man held the coin up to the light again, pointing to the bust on one side and saying, "This bust is of King Comewulf, and the other side has his English name, Comewulf, and below that is the inscription 'De Vico Lvndoniae,' which means 'from the London trading district.' I can say with certainty that this is exactly the same coin that the British Museum acquired. Hehe, young man, you're in luck!"
Zhou Xuan was stunned. After listening to him for a long time, he only remembered the figure of 350,000 pounds, but he didn't know how much pounds were worth. Could it be worth hundreds of thousands?
Mr. Wei took the gold coin from the man, looked at it for a while, and said, "Young man, are you interested in selling it? Hehe, I'd like to buy it to play with."
Zhou Xuan coughed and said, "Well... I'd be willing to sell to you... cough cough... but I don't know how much you're willing to pay!"
Chen San frowned. What kind of talk is this Zhou Xuan? He's such a novice. But he couldn't help but admire his luck. He casually picked up Yuan Mei's manuscript, and while swimming, he even found an even more incredible ancient British gold coin. His luck is just too good!
Mr. Wei smiled and said, "As Mr. Yang just said, this coin is a national treasure of the British Museum. Just think about how smug those foreign devils were when they looted our national treasures back then. I'm determined to have this. No matter how much it costs, I'm going to buy it and make the British suffer. No matter how much money they offer, I won't sell it to them. Hehe, young man, name your price!"
When Mr. Wei said that, Zhou Xuan hesitated. The fact that Mr. Wei said that he was not afraid of being overcharged and would buy it no matter how high the price was made meant that he was really rich. Most people would pretend not to want something when they bought it, making it seem worthless, but in reality they would buy it without hesitation. But it was rare to see someone like Mr. Wei who said he would buy it no matter the price and was not worried about others asking for a high price.
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Xuan honestly said, "Mr. Wei, I obtained this by chance. It's enough to have received this windfall. Since Mr. Wei is going to challenge the foreigners, I can't help you with anything else, but I can't argue with you either. Just tell me, any price is fine!"
"Oh!" Mr. Wei was surprised that Zhou Xuan was so straightforward at such a young age. He beckoned to his assassin-like subordinate, who immediately took out a notebook and a pen from his briefcase.
Mr. Wei quickly wrote, then tore off the paper with the writing and said to Zhou Xuan, "Young man, I like your personality. How about this, I can't cheat you. The British Museum bought that one for 350,000 pounds, so I'll buy yours for the same price. Hehe, okay?"
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Volume One: The First Budding Buds, Chapter Fourteen: The Legendary Luminous Pearl (Part Three)
Thirty-five thousand is fine, it's almost half more than Yuan Mei's manuscript. In an instant, his net worth has increased to more than five hundred thousand. This joy really excited Zhou Xuan. He thought to himself that it was all thanks to Chen Sanyan. Damn it, even if the pangolin is expensive, he would still spend more than ten thousand to invite him again. If it weren't for him, where would he have gotten these two incomes?
Zhou Xuan took the check from Mr. Wei with a smile, and slowly looked at it. It said thirty-five, followed by many zeros. He counted them with his fingers, then suddenly realized something was wrong. He counted them carefully again, and this time he understood. He quickly returned the check to Mr. Wei and said, "Mr. Wei, you've made a mistake!"
Mr. Wei was surprised and said, "Where is the mistake? Is something missing? I'll add it back. weNxU"
Zhou Xuan shook his head and said, "It's not that it's less, it's that it has an extra zero. You agreed on 350,000, but it says 3.5 million here, that's ten times more! I can't accept it!"
Mr. Wei was taken aback, then chuckled, and everyone in the hall laughed.
Chen Sanyan shook his head. This blockhead, how did he even recognize the flaw in Old Wu's Shoushan rooster stone that even the experts couldn't see? He's clearly an even more idiotic country boy than a novice.
Mr. Wei couldn't help but laugh and said, "Young man, you are so honest, I like that very much. Hehe, I didn't make a mistake, 350,000 is pounds sterling. The exchange rate of pounds sterling to yuan is about 1 to 12. Some. So 350,000 pounds sterling is about 4 million yuan. In the end, I still lost you a little!"
Zhou Xuan then realized he had made a fool of himself again. He blushed, stepped back, and sat down next to Chen Sanyan.
At this moment, Wang Qiang's younger brother, Wang Sheng, placed a half-foot-tall wooden doll on the table and said, "This is the last one. Hehe, it's been appraised. It's not a treasure, but it's from a tomb within a tomb, from a Han Dynasty tomb. Everything else is a treasure, but I don't know why they put such a worthless thing in the tomb. But we have a rule that we have to sell the stuff we get. This wooden carving is made of red steel wood, and the technique is terrible. The wood itself isn't worth much either. Let's just ask for a thousand, as a plaything or decoration."
When Wang Sheng said this, several old men went up to take a look for a while, and they all shook their heads. It was a worthless thing. If it's worthless, no one would want it even if it cost a thousand. For people like them, a thousand dollars is nothing, but they are unwilling to spend money that isn't worth it.
Nobody wanted it, but Zhou Xuan suddenly thought, "Damn it, everyone comes here to buy and sell, so I should at least buy something to take back to show that I've entered this business, as a good omen, and something I can brag about to everyone." With that thought, he immediately raised his hand and said, "One thousand yuan, I'll take it!"
Wang Sheng didn't seem to mind and handed the wood carving to Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan touched his pockets and blushed a little. He only had seven hundred yuan on him. He said somewhat embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I only have seven hundred yuan in cash and this check. Why don't you come out with me later and I'll get three hundred yuan for you?"
The crowd in the hall burst into laughter again. Chen Sanyan shook his head and said, "Little Zhou, stop showing off. Here's three hundred for you."
Zhou Xuan blushed as he took the three hundred yuan from Chen Sanyan and handed it to Wang Sheng. Wang Sheng didn't care about such a small amount of money. But people like them who go into tombs pay special attention to omens. Business is business. If they give too little money, they feel it's bad luck. But when it comes to treating people to food, drinks and entertainment in private, they don't even blink an eye. So he still accepted the three hundred yuan with a smile.
Zhou Xuan returned to his seat sheepishly and looked at the half-foot-tall wooden lump in his hand. It was a wooden doll carving, but the carving was obviously very crude. The doll's expression was dull, and apart from the head and eyes, the other facial features were very small. It had a large head, but the two eyeballs were as big as eggs. The two eyeballs were pale yellow and looked no different from river pebbles. Obviously, they were just two relatively smooth stones inlaid as eyeballs.
Never mind, I still made a profit from this trip. Three and a half million! It's like a thunderbolt, and I still can't calm down. I originally thought that if I could earn twenty or thirty thousand a month by following Chen Sanyan in this line of work, that would be my ultimate goal. I never expected that this gold coin I found at the bottom of the sea would make me a fortune!
Zhou Xuan never dreamed that he would one day have a fortune of several million. A few days ago, he thought that finding Yuan Mei's manuscript was already a blessing from his ancestors. But his luck was just too good. He had lived for twenty-six years and had always been unlucky. He had never made more than a hundred yuan. Now, God had opened His eyes and gave him hundreds of thousands. If He opened His eyes again, He would give him several million. If He opened His eyes again, how much more would He get?
Zhou Xuan was lost in his own thoughts, oblivious to what others were doing. Inadvertently, he touched the wooden doll's eyes with his left hand, and his left hand trembled, causing the icy aura to stir again.
Zhou Xuan's heart skipped a beat. Could this wooden doll be something good? He quickly channeled a wisp of icy energy into the wooden doll's eyes.
A wisp of air swirled in Zhou Xuan's eyes, and a strange phrase appeared in his mind: "Six-sided diamond!"
What is a hexagonal diamond? I don't know if it's a diamond, but the diamonds I see in jewelry stores are different from these two large round stones.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan secretly asked Chen Sanyan, "Boss Chen, what is a hexagonal diamond?"
Chen Sanyan paused for a moment, then said, "Six-sided diamond? I've never heard of that, but I know what a diamond is. The diamond we usually talk about is a diamond!"
Mr. Zhou, who was standing next to Mr. Wei and had previously explained Zhou Xuan's Cohen-Wolf gold coin, suddenly came over upon hearing Chen Sanyan's words and asked in surprise, "Mr. Chen, what did you just say? A hexagonal diamond?"
Chen Sanyan shook his head and said, "It wasn't me who said it, it was Xiao Zhou who said it."
Mr. Zhou said "Oh," and asked Zhou Xuan, "Young man, what do you mean by the hexagonal diamond?"
“I don’t know what it means either,” Zhou Xuan said, holding up the wooden carving in his hands. “But I do know that the eyes on this wooden carving are made of hexagonal diamonds.”
Mr. Zhou was startled. They had already seen the wood carving, including the stone used for the eyeballs, and there was nothing strange about it. Why did Zhou Xuan say it was a hexagonal diamond?
Mr. Zhou looked at Zhou Xuan and said, "Young man, could I borrow the wooden doll again to take a look?"
Zhou Xuan smiled and handed it over, saying, "Just look, just look!" Having just received an unimaginable sum of 3.5 million, this 1,000 yuan item is nothing. He bought this thing just to indulge himself, and it can be considered his first purchase in this industry.
Mr. Zhou took the doll and carefully examined its eyes. He frowned and looked at them for a long time. They were still no different from ordinary fine yellow sand and gravel, with a few fine grains of sand on the surface. He looked at the wooden doll again and pondered for a while before saying, "These eyes are very ordinary. You can't tell from the surface. However, this doll is made of red steel mixed wood. There is a gap in the middle. It should be two pieces joined together. It must be connected with glue or wooden shavings. If you open it up, it might be more obvious."
"Oh!" Zhou Xuan responded, took the wooden doll and threw it hard to the ground, where it cracked in two with a "smack".
Mr. Zhou exclaimed, "Oh dear... Little Zhou, I only said it would be easier to study if we separated them, but I didn't tell you to break it!"
Zhou Xuan smiled sheepishly and said, "Didn't you say it would look better if it were broken? Anyway, it's not expensive, so it's fine if it breaks!" He was surprised that he said it so naturally. Before, wouldn't something worth a thousand yuan be considered expensive to him? It would be considered extremely expensive!
Zhou Xuan picked up the two broken pieces of the wooden carving from the ground. The center of the carving was hollow, and there were two holes in the head. One side was inlaid with half a stone.
Zhou Xuan took out the two halves of the stone and looked at them. They were indeed two eyeballs. It seemed that a round stone had been split in two, with one half set in as an eyeball.