Chapter 140: Profligate Merchant (3rd Update)

(The third update, please give me flowers)

When Zhao Tiezhu was a child, his family also had such a domino. At that time, Zhao Tiezhu's father always wore it around his neck. No matter what he did, he would never leave the domino. Zhao Tiezhu was curious when he was a child, so he wanted to play with it. However, his father, who always obeyed Zhao Tiezhu's requests, was surprisingly firm on this matter and would never let Zhao Tiezhu play with it. Zhao Tiezhu cried several times for this.

The two dominoes in front of him were very similar to the one his father had at the beginning. The dominoes were a little yellow, and it could be seen that these two dominoes were quite old.

Zhao Tiezhu picked up the dominoes, and felt a little cool in his hand. He put the dominoes in front of him and looked at them carefully. Zhao Tiezhu found that the two dominoes were not exactly the same. One of them was engraved with a circling snake, and the other was engraved with a leaping rabbit.

"Young man, you have a good eye." The old man raised his head, his eyes were already full of chaos. The passage of time has made the old man's skin full of wrinkles, but the minority costumes also make the old man more mysterious.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Tiezhu directly pulled a wooden chair and sat next to the old man.

"I found these two bone tablets when I was young, in a forest. I have been doing bone carving for so many years, but this is the first time I have encountered bones that I have never seen before. These bones are not human bones, nor are they the bones of existing animals. I guess they are the bones of a certain creature in ancient times." The old man took the bone tablet from Zhao Tiezhu's hand and continued, "Look at the lines on this bone. Although there is a rabbit painted on this bone, have you noticed that this rabbit is different from the rabbits now?"

Zhao Tiezhu looked at it carefully and really found the difference. The body of this rabbit is much longer than the rabbits now, but this can also be understood as the craftsmanship of the carver is not good, so it is painted like this. Zhao Tiezhu was a little confused again.

"Just look at the carving skills of this bone. I have been engaged in bone carving for decades, but I don't think I have reached such a state of immersion." The old man's words contained a sigh and admiration.

Zhao Tiezhu nodded, and then thought back to the bone plaque of his father. He always felt that there must be some connection between these bone plaques, so he asked, "How much is this?"

"20,000." The old man pondered for a moment and said.

"So expensive?" Zhao Tiezhu frowned.

"First of all, its material is worth so much money. The animal bones of ancient times may be older than the oracle bones of oracle bone inscriptions. It has not become fossils and can be preserved to this day. It is rare." The old man looked serious.

Zhao Tiezhu played with the bone plaques in his hand, and there seemed to be a voice in his heart, which kept asking him to buy it, buy it. Zhao Tiezhu hardened his heart. It's not just 20,000, two pieces are only 40,000. Brother is a rich man, will he care about such a small amount of money? Zhao Tiezhu took out his bank card and went to withdraw money directly.

"We can use credit cards here." The old man suddenly smiled and took out a credit card machine.

Zhao Tiezhu looked at the credit card machine, then at the old man's smiling face. Suddenly, he felt that the old man seemed to be laughing, but when he looked closely, the old man's eyes were full of confusion.

Zhao Tiezhu didn't think much about it. He swiped the card directly, entered the password, put the two dominoes in his pocket, and left the store.

Not long after Zhao Tiezhu left, a young man walked into the store. Seeing the old man's smiling face, he frowned and said, "Are you cheating again?"

The old man's expression was serious, "No way, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten."

"What did you cheat this time?" The young man sighed and asked.

"It's just those two dominoes of unknown origin. I didn't cheat him. I said the truth. It's just that I don't know whether the bones of the two dominoes are ancient, but I have never seen such bones. This is not cheating." The confusion in the old man's eyes had long disappeared, replaced by a shrewd face.

"How much did you sell it for?" The young man asked.

"40,000 in total. Haha, there are still fools who spend this kind of money these days." The old man laughed.

The young man shook his head helplessly.

Zhao Tiezhu looked very pleased at this time. "Fooling my brother? You are still a little naive." Zhao Tiezhu played with the dominoes in his hand. When the old man said how long the history of these dominoes was, Zhao Tiezhu had a hunch that the old man was fooling him. Later, he saw the old man's shrewdness for a moment, and Zhao Tiezhu understood it even more. Although these two dominoes may not be what the old man said, they must have some kind of relationship with the dominoes his father had. In order to prevent the old man from seeing through his plan, Zhao Tiezhu deliberately pretended to be a fool and spent 40,000 to buy these dominoes. If the old man knew that he had seen through him and still wanted to buy these dominoes, he would be ripped off as he wanted.

Zhao Tiezhu walked around for a while and passed by a jade shop. He thought about buying some jade for the two women. As the saying goes, jade can nourish people, and people can also nourish jade. If the two women and jade nourish each other, they will be miserable in the future.

The owner of the jade shop was a bloated woman wearing a loose dress. When she walked, there were two lumps of flesh on her chest that swayed up and down, but Zhao Tiezhu felt disgusted no matter how he looked at it.

Zhao Tiezhu took a fancy to a necklace. The boss directly offered 2,800. Zhao Tiezhu remained silent. The boss gritted his teeth and said, "You are young and you must have just started working. I will give you 2,600." Zhao Tiezhu continued without saying a word. The boss said, "Okay, okay, one mouthful." The price is 2,500." Zhao Tiezhu remained silent. "2300, it can't go any lower!!!" "2000," this can only protect capital! ! ! "1800, a loss, a loss." "

In the end, Zhao Tiezhu didn't say a word and just bought two for 600 yuan each. He had seen it online before coming here. At KM, you can get 40% off on specialty items. Zhao Tiezhu whistled all the way back with a sense of accomplishment. When passing by another jade shop, Zhao Tiezhu saw two necklaces that were exactly the same as the ones he just bought. The price column said 400, buy two. Get one for free! ! ! What a scam! !

Feeling extremely depressed, she came to the place where Su Yanni and Lucy were resting. Su Yanni looked at Zhao Tiezhu doubtfully and said, "Why did you go so long? Didn't you go to pick up girls?"

"Tch, I told you, it's always been Niupao brother's." Zhao Tiezhu said, took out two pieces of jade from his pocket, handed them to the two women and said, "This is what I gave to you from my landlord brother. I hope you can I can carry it well!”

Su Yanni took the necklace with surprise on her face, while Lucy was a little curious. In their country, jade was not as popular as in China, so she rarely saw this jade necklace.

"Hey, isn't this the necklace we saw today?" Su Yanni took a look at the necklace and said to Lucy.

Lucy also nodded, "It's the same."

Zhao Tiezhu said, "Then why didn't I see it when I was with you today?"

Su Yanni glanced at Zhao Tiezhu with disdain, "You were either looking at beauties or wandering around in your mind along the way. How could you see that?

"Okay." Zhao Tiezhu said, "If you don't want it, I will take it and return it."

"Yes, you are such an ungentleman! You want to take back the things you gave away. Although this thing is not expensive, it still costs hundreds of dollars." Su Yanni grabbed the necklace happily and said.

"Hundreds of dollars? When you looked at it today, how much was it?" Zhao Tiezhu asked doubtfully.

"It's 130 a piece. If you buy two, you'll get a ring for free."

"I'll do it. Why did we encounter annihilation merchants today!" Zhao Tiezhu wailed, helpless.