Chapter 28 Su Wen's Masterstroke

  Residence.

  Su Wen went back and found no one there.

  Yi Xue and Chu Fei were both absent.

  "Hmmph!"

  His stomach protested, but he now had only 0.5 vitality, and the whole person looked weak and powerless, cooking seemed a bit unrealistic.

  He took a look at the big package in his room, which his mother had brought back for him with some local specialties, and found that there were still some things that could be eaten directly.

  Soon, he found quite a few sausages.

  "We'll just have to eat this for dinner." Su Wen said silently, "I'm considered a rich person, with tens of thousands of dollars in cash on me, but now I have to gnaw on sausage. It's really tragic. If only I had eaten something outside before coming back."

  Only half of the sausage had been eaten when the door opened.

  "Su Wen, what's going on..." Chu Fei stared at Su Wen with a dumbfounded expression.

  "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone eating sausage before?" As soon as Su Wen finished speaking, she felt that her words sounded a bit awkward.

  "Hmph, this is what your elder sister packed for you, eat up!" Chu Fei's face was bright red as she hastily threw over two lunchboxes.

  Su Wen hastily caught it, and his heart was deeply moved.

  He opened the lunchbox and found one box was braised pork ribs with small green vegetables, and another box was plain rice.

  "It's actually pretty good."

  Su Wen muttered to himself while eating: "This woman is suitable for being a wife."

  By 10 o'clock in the evening, his vitality had recovered to 0.8.

  In the courtyard, Yuxue began practicing sword again.

  Su Wen pushed open the door and looked at Yuxue: "Thank you for bringing me lunch."

  Yi Xue didn't turn around, and a voice came: "I'm going out to eat with Feier, and I've packed a portion for you, no need to thank me specially."

  Su Wen did not respond, he just quietly put this gratitude in his heart.

  Go out of the small door.

  He went into the bamboo forest again.

  Although it was already 10 o'clock at night, with the lights of Jiangning University shining on, the bamboo forest didn't seem particularly dark.

  He continued to practice his body technique, still the fifth move.

  An hour later, his vitality recovered to 1, and he began practicing Tai Chi Fist and Separating Tendons and Bones Hand.

  At half past eleven, he walked back with a big sweat.

  Yi Xue was no longer practicing swordplay, and the courtyard was quiet.

  Su Wen took a bath and then lay down on the bed.

  The bag of diamonds he had retrieved today was taken out by him, and he poured it into his hand, finding that there were more than thirty, among which one was particularly dazzling. At the same time, in those thirty or so diamonds, he also found an alternative, a high-tech locator.

  "It's really like that." Su Wen found it amusing.

  He crushed the locator with one foot and went to sleep.

  The next morning.

  Su Wen arrived at Jibao Inn carrying a large package.

  "Chu Lao, this is a source of goods I've arranged for Ju Bao Zhai." Su Wen shouted.

  He finished speaking and poured out a bunch of old coins onto the ground, all of which were from before the 1990s, with some dating back even further. There were over a thousand coins in total, and they looked incredibly valuable.

  "Wu's mother stared at Su Wen in shock: 'You robbed a bank?'"

  Su Wen said with a tongue-in-cheek tone: "Banks don't have these things."

  Wu's mother thought so too, she casually picked up a handful of old coins and said: "These old coins were used when I was young, like this one fen coin, at that time it could buy one catty of meat."

  Su Wen thought for a moment, and indeed it was the case. Twenty years ago, having ten thousand yuan was a big deal, let alone forty or fifty years ago. Looking at Wu Ma's age, she must be around sixty years old too.

  "Wu Ma, this one mao is enough for you to cut several hundred catties of meat." Su Wen laughed.

  "I knew that, the other day, Jibaozhai sold a few of them at a price that scared me. I really regret not keeping some of these old things earlier, now I know how valuable they are." Wu Ma sighed.

  Su Wen was about to say something else when a soft cough came from the doorway.

  "Mr. Chu, you've arrived?"

  Chu Lao looked at Su Wen and then at the coins on the ground: "Did you pick these up?"

  This tone is clearly distrustful!

  "It's not like I'm collecting them, did they fall from the sky?" Su Wen was speechless. "Old Chu, why don't you take a look and settle the money with me? So many old coins, just go by market price. How about it?"

  "You're really willing to let go?" Chu Lao smiled as he looked at Su Wen.

  The price of goods for such a big customer is usually much higher than the market price.

  "Alright, it doesn't matter if you've figured it out or not. This old coin is indeed mine. Since I said we'd go by market price, then that's what we'll do. From now on, it'll be the same: I'll give you the goods first, and then you pay me. We can settle accounts clearly." Su Wen directly expressed his thoughts.

  Chu Lao fell silent for a moment: "I don't know where you old coins came from, but it doesn't matter. People in our line of work never ask about the origin of things. It will be the same in the future, no matter what you bring, I won't ask."

  Su Wen smiled slightly: "That's for the best!"

  Of course it's best for him to take back what he brought and explain how he came by it.

  Although he could make up some excuses, he didn't want to deliberately deceive anyone either.

  "I now somewhat understand what you mean by cooperation." Chu Lao let out a long sigh.

  Su Wen smiled awkwardly: "Old Chu, you will approve of this employee."

  "You little scamp... never mind." Chu Lao didn't dwell on it, "In the future, how Treasure Pavilion develops will largely depend on you. What I said still stands, if you can make Treasure Pavilion a place where everyone clamors to get in, then I'll really give it to you."

  Su Wen was shocked.

  "Maybe one day, the pawnshop can regain its former glory." Chu Lao's eyes gleamed with a hint of nostalgia.

  Behind Chu Lao, Zhao You and Ma Cheng had arrived at some point. The two of them looked at the pile of old coins in front of them, their faces full of surprise. They knew that as long as they were handled well, these old coins could make Jibao Zhai a sensation.

  "Don't look anymore, just count the number." Chu Lao glanced at the two people behind him, "According to Su Wen's words, settle with market price."

  "Understood, Lord Chu." The two replied in unison.

  Watching the two of them hastily counting the old coins, Su Wen and Chu Lao went to one side.

  About an hour has passed.

  Zhao You walked over: "Old Chu, I've counted them. The total number of old coins is 1365, and at market price, it's probably around 1 million yuan."

  Chu Lao looked at Su Wen and asked: "What do you think?"

  Su Wen nodded, which was roughly what he had expected: "Then it's 1 million! Later I'll give you an account number, just let people transfer the money directly. There are no other problems now, and we can consider how to operate these old coins."

  "That's right, this is the key." Chu Lao slapped his forehead heavily.

  "Hey, Chu Lao, I've got a great idea," Ma Cheng said. "As far as I know, Jiangning has quite a few coin enthusiasts, we can invite them to hold an old coin appraisal meeting, and then sell these old coins to them at the right time, I'm sure they'll fetch a good price."

  "Not only that, I just took a look at the old coins brought by Su Wen, many of them are from the same year, we can even make a coin collection, for example, a complete set of 61-year-old coins, a complete set of 70's coins and so on." Zhao You suggested.

  "Su Wen, what do you think?" asked Chu Lao.

  "What about this?" Su Wen thought for a moment, "I think they're all okay, our main goal now is to make a name for ourselves, and this is undoubtedly the fastest way. However, if we say that we'll sell out these old coins immediately, I think it's better to tease others' appetites on purpose, such as setting rules like selling a certain amount per day, limited purchases, etc. This way, the heat of our Treasure Pavilion can be maintained for a longer period of time, what do you guys think?"

  Zhao You and Ma Cheng looked at each other and nodded in unison.

  Chu Lao thought for a moment, then clapped his hands: "Alright, it's settled then. Fortunately, my old face still has some use, I'll have someone send out invitations in my name to those with coin collecting hobbies, inviting them to come to the聚宝斋 two days later to appraise the old coins."

  Then, Juba Zhai started to get busy.

  Su Wen became even more idle.

  After finishing work in the morning, he walked towards Tang Long's home.

  This isn't about going for a free meal, but rather he wants to hand that bag of diamonds over to Tang Long.