Chapter 5 Antique Market

  It was a small jade store, the owner was a middle-aged man with slightly thinning hair, who was fully focused on fighting a popular game against the computer screen.

  Ye Feng walked up to the stall, he raised his eyelids slightly, just took a brief glance, and then continued to focus on the computer screen. In his opinion, this young man was unlikely to bring him big business, and it was more likely that he was just wandering around casually.

  Ye Feng walked up to a counter, his expression somewhat strange as he stared at the two pieces of jade in the glass cabinet. The size, shape and color of these two pieces of jade were almost identical to the other jade stones in the cabinet. But what made Ye Feng feel incredulous was that the surface of these two pieces of jade actually had a faint layer of yellow light floating on them. Although this yellow light wasn't very obvious, within the entire cabinet, these two pieces of jade showed such an unusual phenomenon that anyone with normal vision could detect it from twenty meters away. However, many people came and went, but not one of them stopped to take notice.

  "Can't they see this yellow glow?" Ye Feng looked at the old boss of the small shop with some doubt, pointing to the cabinet and asked, "Boss, how do you sell jade here?"

  "Isn't there a label on it?" The boss didn't even lift his head, apparently dealing with this kind of thing wasn't something new.

  "But the label says 39,800... " Ye Feng's voice grew smaller and smaller, "This price... can it..."

  "This classmate, 39,800, is almost the lowest price for this quality. Jade itself is a luxury item, not a cabbage in the vegetable market that can be casually discounted. Moreover, now even cabbages are rising in price, let alone this thing." The boss finally stood up and walked to the cabinet where Ye Feng was standing, "Also, jade at this price is actually not for wearing, but for giving as a gift. I think you're still young, probably still studying. If you want to buy it for yourself, I suggest looking at those over there, they're all under 1,000 yuan. If it's for a friend, there's no need to give something so expensive, consider the 1,000 to 3,000 price range."

  "Can't this price be any cheaper?" Ye Feng smiled wryly, but he still refused to give up.

  "If you really want to buy it, I can only give it to you for 38,000 at the lowest. At this price, I can say that I'm hardly making any profit." The boss smiled all over his face.

  "Oh......" Ye Feng smiled somewhat awkwardly, "Then... I'll take another look..."

  Yue Feng glanced around at the other jade stones in the small shop and left with some disappointment.

  "If this store has two pieces of jade in this situation, will other jade stores have such a situation?" Ye Feng thought about it and his original intention to leave the antique market instantly disappeared. He decided to stroll around again to see if there were any jade stones within his budget.

  One morning, Ye Feng visited nearly ten shops in the antique market that specialized in jade stones. Except for the first shop he went to, only two other shops had the kind of jade stone with a yellow glow on its surface. In the entire antique market, these three shops only had four pieces of this type of jade in total. The most expensive one was priced at 310,000 yuan, while the cheapest one was 29,000 yuan. Neither price was acceptable to Ye Feng.

  After wandering around the antique market for a long time, until the sun was high in the sky and his stomach started to rumble, Ye Feng reluctantly left the antique market.

  "Whatever, I don't know what that yellow light is, but the price of those jade pieces is just too outrageous. Spending tens of thousands of yuan to buy them back and not even knowing what they can be used for... it's better to just eat lunch here and head back to school." Yefeng smiled self-deprecatingly and looked around, wanting to find a small restaurant to grab something to eat.

  Outside of the antique market, there are also many people setting up stalls on the ground, but they sell only some small trinkets, although cheap, but really good things are not many.

  Ye Feng didn't pay much attention to the stalls on both sides of the road, and walked straight towards a small restaurant that was within his line of sight.

  At this moment, he inadvertently glanced at a jade stone stall by the road, and with that one glance, his gaze was somewhat difficult to move away, and his heart was even more surprised.

  Among that pile of seemingly ordinary jade stones, there was actually a very ugly stone that emitted a faint yellow glow on its surface.

  Ye Feng walked quietly towards the street stall, pointing to a piece of jade next to the stone and asked, "Boss, how much is this jade sold for?"

  "This is eighty!" The boss took a sneak peek at Ye Feng and saw that he was young, so his voice suddenly gained some confidence.

  "Is it that expensive?" Ye Feng shook his head.

  "This price is already very cheap, look at the color of this jade, there's not a single impurity!" The stall owner was clearly trying to rip him off.

  "So you mean it will be cheaper?" Ye Feng pointed at the ugly-looking stone he wanted.

  The street stall owner was suddenly at a loss for words.

  "There doesn't seem to be any impurities in this one, it's probably the only one like that. Take a look at the others, they all have some color. Especially this piece, with so many colors on its surface, it's worth no more than ten bucks." Ye Feng still pointed to that ugly-looking stone.

  "Ten yuan is definitely not enough, this one may look like nothing but it's a piece of jade after all, at least twenty yuan to sell!" The boss shook his head, obviously still wanting to make more money.

  "How much?" Ye Feng pretended to look surprised.

  "Twenty, not a penny less!" The boss said resolutely, thinking to himself that if he gave in on this one, the kid would probably try to haggle further.

  "Alright, I'll take it!" Ye Feng said, taking out 20 yuan from his wallet. He then took the stone, which was about the same size as an MP3 player, and walked away with a swagger, leaving behind the street vendor who was filled with regret.

  Watching Ye Feng leave, the street vendor boss patted his own forehead, "Stupid to death, I knew he wanted this, I should have called out a higher price!"

  Yefeng spent only twenty yuan to buy what he wanted, and his mood suddenly cleared up the previous gloom. After wandering around the stalls for a while, he walked towards the small restaurant.

  "It seems that this kind of thing is not common, if it wasn't for good luck today, I probably wouldn't have gotten this jade." Ye Feng was still quite satisfied, after strolling around other stalls and getting nothing, although it was already within his expectations, he didn't feel too disappointed.

  Yefeng, who was in a great mood, finished his lunch at the small restaurant and then calmly boarded the bus back to school.

  After Ye Feng got on the bus, a young man in his late 20s appeared at a corner not far away, watching the bus that Ye Feng was taking leave.

  The man picked up the black mobile phone in his hand and dialed a number, "He has returned to school!"

  "What has he been doing in the antique market? Is there anything unusual?" A female voice came from the other end of the phone.

  "He first looked at all the coins in different shops, but didn't say a word to those bosses, not even asking any questions. Later, after looking at the coins, he entered a jade store and then strolled through the jade store again, asking about the prices of some jade stones. Then he came out without buying anything. Just before eating, he also bought a stone from a street vendor outside the antique market." The man reported Ye Feng's entire itinerary to his superiors.

  "Could he possibly understand antiques?" The woman's voice across from him seemed to be muttering to herself.

  "Qīng láng, nà kuài shí tou, tā yòng le duō shǎo qián mǎi de?" the woman's voice suddenly asked.

  "I just went to ask the seller, he said twenty bucks." The man nicknamed Qing Lang obviously found the seller after Ye Feng bought that piece of stone.

  "Is there a photo of that piece of stone? If so, fax it to me later and I'll have someone who understands take a look." The woman gave another order.

  "Alright!" The green wolf nodded.

  "You continue to secretly monitor him, and notify me in time if anything happens. Don't take action against him for now. I want to see what Dragon Brother sees in him." The woman gave instructions on the next step of work.

  "Yes!" The green wolf still expressionless nodded slightly.

  Back in the dormitory, it was already around one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no one in the room.

  Ye Feng closed the dormitory door, pulled up the curtains, and then took out the stone covered with yellow light on its surface. He played with it in his right hand, "What is this yellow light?"

  At this time, a line of clear small characters suddenly appeared in front of Ye Feng's eyes: "Second-order item, can be exchanged for second-order domain value 0.2, do you want to exchange..."

  (After such a long period of preparation, the story finally unfolds! I hope everyone will like Nuclear Head's new book! Thank you!)