Chapter 58: Cheating People

  Wang Ke sneered inwardly, deliberately revealing an angry expression on his face. His eyes, which seemed capable of killing, stared fixedly at Xu Jingkai as he bellowed: "Nonsense! This was the first time I laid eyes on this artifact, and you weren't even here when I arrived. How could you have observed it beforehand? You're just spouting nonsense. And didn't you say your family also deals in antiques and artifacts? Don't you know the rules of the antique and artifact world? Or are you trying to provoke me?"

  Xu Jingkai looked at Wang Ke's angry appearance, and his heart was extremely pleased. The feeling was like drinking a glass of cold beer with ice on a hot summer day, refreshing him from head to toe.

  With a disdainful expression on his face, Xu Jingkai said complacently: "Of course I understand the rules of the antique and artifact circles, but how can you prove that this thing was what you had your eyes on first? Have you discussed prices with this boss? Did you get to hold this artifact first? Look at it now, who got their hands on it first? Who looks like they're discussing prices and making a deal? I know you're skilled in combat and formidable, but even if your martial arts skills are impressive, can't use them to manipulate things unfairly?"

  He chuckled twice, then turned his head to look at the stall owner and said loudly: "Boss, don't be hesitant. I've taken a liking to your item, it's your good fortune. Quickly give me a price, and don't think that someone else wants to buy this thing, so you can take advantage of me as a fool. Give me an honest price, otherwise I'll make your reputation in this antique market stink, and you won't have a foothold here."

  This stall owner was also a seasoned businessman, and he didn't care about Xu Jingkai's threats at all. Of course, his face still had a bright smile on it. He glanced at the antique in Xu Jingkai's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then said loudly: "Since you've said so much, if I don't sell it to you, I'd be too ungrateful. You see, this is the only magic weapon on my stall, and it's also my treasure. So, one price, 150,000 yuan. If you're not satisfied, then I won't trade with you. I think your little brother next to you will definitely like this magic weapon very much."

  One hundred and fifty thousand?

  Xu Jingkai silently calculated in his heart, with his understanding of the artifact, 150,000 wasn't expensive. Of course, this artifact in his hand might not be worth 150,000, but even if it was less than that, he would still lose a few tens of thousands, which didn't bother him. Being able to deal a blow to Wang Ke, made him feel extremely pleased!

  Of course, the price of this artifact may exceed 1.5 million, and it's even possible to buy it for 2 million. Although this isn't considered a huge profit, it's still not bad.

  "Alright, since you're offering such a reasonable price, boss, if I were to haggle any further, that would be my fault. Fifteen hundred thousand is fifteen hundred thousand, just wait, I'll immediately call the staff at our store to bring the money over." Xu Jingkai said with a loud laugh. After finishing speaking, he also gave Wang Ke a glance with a scornful gaze, looking extremely arrogant.

  Wang Ke burst out laughing in his heart. This idiot actually wanted to spend 150,000 yuan on this broken antique just because he was competing with him. The price of this antique should be at most a few hundred yuan, or maybe even tens of yuan could buy it.

  "How scary it is to be ignorant!"

  Wang Ke secretly sighed in his heart, and at the same time made up his mind to follow Zhao Menfeng to learn about antiques and artifacts, so that even if his heterochromatic eyes suddenly disappeared in the future, he could still rely on his true skills and not be taken advantage of by others.

  King Ke deliberately put on an angry face, glared at Xu Jingkai with a fierce gaze, and as if he was being defiant, grabbed five or six pieces of antiques from the stall. Without even looking at them carefully, he shouted at the stall owner in a fit of rage: "Boss, I want all these things! Give me an estimate of the price! I don't believe it, I can still find a piece of a law enforcement artifact!"

  The stall owner was overjoyed at this moment, he was filled with gratitude towards Wang Ke, if it wasn't for this young man, he wouldn't have even known that his stall had such a treasure!

  150,000, it's as if it suddenly fell from the sky for no reason at all.

  With a joyful heart, he didn't plan to make too much money from Wang Ke, after all, the other had brought him great good fortune. Moreover, he also found that when Wang Ke picked up the items on his stall, he didn't even look at them carefully, and just grabbed everything, which was enough to show that what he took wasn't anything valuable.

  After a moment's thought, the stall owner smiled and said: "This little brother, I'm really sorry just now. Since you asked me to quote a price, I'll give you a real price. You took six antiques, each one is 500 yuan, six pieces are 3000 yuan in total."

  Wang Ke was quite satisfied with the boss's offer, after all, among the six antiques he picked up, there was that rusty bronze ritual vessel he had been eyeing.

  "Alright, today I'm in a bad mood and I must find something that suits me. Boss, you said 3,000 yuan, so it's 3,000 yuan. Here's the money!" After finishing speaking, Wang Ke quickly took out 3,000 yuan in cash from his wallet and paid the stall owner on the spot.

  The stall owner was overjoyed to see Wang Ke pay so readily, and with the idea that not making money is foolish, he smiled even more brightly and personally helped Wang Ke pack up the six items. Only after watching Wang Ke storm off in anger did he loudly call out things like "Come back often to patronize my business".

  Successfully picked up the bargain and also fooled Xu Jingkai, Wang Ke is also very pleased.

  Carrying six black bags, he then found a stall on the adjacent street and sold other items for 500 yuan. With a smile, he considered to whom he should sell this piece of equipment in his hand.

  He had already thought of a good candidate in his heart, that is Zhao Menfeng Zhao Lao from Zixingju. However, since he started frequenting Zhao Lao's shop, he had never seen him sell even one piece of magical equipment. This made him very hesitant, and eventually he decided not to sell the magical equipment to Zhao Lao after all. If he were to sell it to him, that would just add to his burden, considering he hadn't sold a single piece in such a long time.

  As he strolled along Antique Street, Wang Ke suddenly furrowed his brow because his keen senses told him that someone seemed to be following him.

  Without leaving any trace, he quickly swept back to the road he came from at a street corner, and easily found that the person sneaking behind him was Xujingkai, who had just been tricked by him.

  "This damned fly, if I get another chance, I must give him a lesson." Wang Ke thought to himself with hatred.

  A few minutes later, Wang Ke's footsteps stopped in front of a store called "Fu Xuan Tang" on Antique Street. The geographical location of this store is very good, and the facade decoration is very grand, and the interior is even more luxurious and majestic, obviously a relatively large store.

  He walked towards the Fuxuan Hall, and when he entered the grand hall, a beautiful woman with a smile on her face came up to greet him, with a hint of respect. The beautiful woman smiled and said: "Hello, I am an employee of this store. Are you here to sell antiques or artifacts, or just browsing?"

  Wang Kai waved the black bag in his hand and smiled: "I have a pen to sell, I want to talk to the person in charge of your store, can you please ask the boss or the person in charge to come out and see me?"

  The beautiful woman looked surprised, sizing up Wang Ke from head to toe. Although Wang Ke was dressed casually and his clothes were cheap, she felt a special aura about him. Maintaining her smile, the beautiful woman nodded and said: "I don't know how to address you, sir?"

  "My surname is Wang."

  The beautiful woman nodded and said: "Mr. Wang, please wait for a moment, I'll go ask."

  Wang Ke nodded slightly, his gaze following the beautiful woman's swaying back for a few seconds before shifting to other places. As soon as he entered this Fuxuan Hall, he felt that the shop was filled with an intense heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, its concentration absolutely ten times stronger than what he had sensed in Zixing Residence.

  That is to say, the number of Dharma instruments in Fuxuantang also absolutely exceeds more than ten times the number of Dharma instruments in the Zixingju store.

  "It's indeed a big store! The family business is really prosperous." Wang Ke secretly praised in his heart.

  He turned his head to look outside the Fuxuan Hall and found that Xu Jingkai was actually carrying a black bag, wandering around outside. He felt amused in his heart, and even had an evil thought, if at this time Xu Jingkai followed him in, then shouted together with him wanting to sell the law instrument, how good would it be?

  He's probably going to lose face all the way back to his ancestors' home if he tries to sell fake goods.

  Two minutes later, a young man with a height of about 1.8 meters, good physique and handsome appearance, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, walked down the stairs from the second floor with big strides. Before he reached the ground floor of the lobby, he looked at Wang Ke with a big smile and said: "You must be Mr. Wang, right? Welcome, welcome!"

  As he spoke, his pace quickened by a few steps, and he strode right up to Wang Ke, only then continuing with a smile: "My name is Bai Ruochen. I can still hold a conversation in this antique shop. Just now, the staff here told me that Mr. Wang was here on business, but I don't know if it's true?"

  Wang Ke had a good impression of this young man in his mid-twenties, which came from the quickening of his footsteps after he went downstairs and his bright laughter.

  "Hello Mr. Bai, I'm actually here to discuss a business deal with Fuxuantang. As luck would have it, I recently acquired an authentic French artifact and thought of selling it here."

  Bai Ruo's eyes widened in surprise, and she looked at Wang Ke several times before smiling and saying: "Alright, alright, Mr. Wang, the thing you're holding in your hand is that artifact you were talking about, right? May I take a look?"

  Wang Ke took out the rusty copper bell and handed it to Bai Ruochen, saying: "Mr. Bai, we are all sensible people, I hope you can take a good look at it, and also hope that you can be more realistic about the price."

  Bai Ruo Chen did not hastily respond to Wang Ke's words, but instead carefully examined the copper bell instrument in his hand.

  After a few minutes, he slowly raised his head and smiled at Wang Ke: "Not bad, this is indeed a magical artifact. Mr. Wang has good eyesight! If this bronze bell artifact were placed on an outside stall, if one didn't pick it up to carefully identify it, or if one lacked rich experience and knowledge, it would be very difficult to discover that it's a magical artifact! I see that Mr. Wang is not old, yet he's so formidable."

  Wang Ke smiled humbly and said, "I don't dare to accept your praise, I just got lucky and coincidental. Besides, I'm still a newcomer in the antique industry, learning from a senior, so please don't flatter me."