The King of Global Scrap Collection

30: Chapter 27: 10,000 Gold Coins 30: Chapter 27: 10,000 Gold Coins What’s the next move?

An idea struck and he decided to go to the Antique Market and see if he could make some extra money there.

Even though he hadn’t often visited the downtown area, he still knew where the Antique Market was located.

As a tourist city with a rich history and culture, Nangang’s antique collection business was quite booming.

He often heard rumors about someone finding a big leak in Antique Street and becoming rich overnight.

Heading straight for the destination.

Antique Street was located in the LC district, on one side of the Nangang Tropical Botanical Park, and the environment was quiet and elegant.

As soon as Li Zhongnan got out of the car, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the fresh air, feeling a sense of pleasure in his body and mind.

A row of old-style buildings, a fusion of Chinese and French wooden houses, and small shops with classical styles on both sides of the street.

There were also street vendors selling souvenirs or collectibles.

The whole street was filled with a vintage ambiance.

Walking along the street, glancing left and right.

Casually stopping in front of a stall where old drawings and broken porcelain pieces were displayed on the ground, looking like they had some history to them.

An old man with a white beard was introducing to the crowd, “This painting, called ‘Beauty of the World’, is a work by Tang Bohu, unfortunately it’s unfinished and a corner is broken.

But it has more collection value.

It won’t sell for less than a hundred million or one million, it’s only at ninety-nine thousand, do not miss it.

This urine pot used to belong to Empress Dowager Cixi…”

Li Zhongnan was taken aback, but deep down he was overjoyed.

A painting by Tang Bohu only costs ninety-nine thousand?

A small defect is no big deal, the system could fix it in no time!

“How many gold coins is it to repair ‘Beauty of the World’?”

“Ding: 0.001 gold coins!”

Damn!

It’s a painting by Tang Bohu, probably worth only two dollars.

Hearing the system’s reminder, Li Zhongnan cursed silently and called it shameless.

The old man with white beard, however, still maintained a composed demeanor as he introduced other items.

Well, Li Zhongnan was no match for him.

After browsing for half an hour, he found that most of the stall owners were just tricking people.

Of course, he also encountered some valuable items, making it possible to look for good deals.

But now that his card had several million yuan in it, he couldn’t be bothered with a few hundred or a few thousand yuan.

It was like having ten thousand in your pocket and naturally not wanting to pick up a dollar on the street.

It was beneath him.

Well, there’s even someone selling stones.

While walking along, he came to a stall where a middle-aged man was guarding a few green stones for sale.

He was speechless.

He completely lost interest in Antique Street and turned to leave.

Just then, a mechanical voice sounded in his mind: “Ding: A friendly reminder, three Tianyuan Stones have been discovered.

The system can buy them at a high price, 1kg for one gold coin…”

Tianyuan Stone?

Never heard of it!

However, he was so excited inside.

If 1kg could sell for one gold coin, it would be much more valuable than recycling paper and books.

A hundred times more!

Li Zhongnan suppressed his excitement, pretended to stroll leisurely, came to the stall intentionally or unintentionally, crouched down to pick up a few stones and knocked them together, then casually asked, “Brother, these stones are pretty hard, huh?”

The middle-aged man replied, “Absolutely!

But they’re not worth much.

There are not enough stones to build a house.

I brought them along when I came here.

Now that everything else has been sold, you can have them if you want!”

“That would be too kind!”

Li Zhongnan grinned knowingly, and then continued, “But, I do need them.

The cattle shed in my hometown was just knocked down by a typhoon, and I was planning on building a new one.

But these stones are a bit few, I wonder if your house has more of these rocks…”

Seeing him as an honest-looking man, the middle-aged man felt a bit sorry, “I do have some more, but…

I can’t give them all to you; I need to keep some for a chicken duck nest or something.”

Li Zhongnan suggested, “How about this, one yuan per jin, bring me everything you have!”

Hearing this, the bulky man advised, “Young man, you want to find valuable things in these stones, right?

But many experts have appraised these stones and they are no different from ordinary stones, they do not have any other value!”

“Oh?”

Li Zhongnan took an interest and asked, “So these stones have some history?

Where did you get them?” Getting a handle on the source of these stones was the most important thing.

The bulky man honestly shared, “A distant cousin brought these back.

He said they were discovered on a small island in Nanyang.

He thought these stones were quite hard and had a rare color, so he brought them back to see if he could extract some precious metals from them.

But it turned out to be an ordinary rock, and he left them at home.

As for the exact location, I don’t know so clearly.”

Li Zhongnan asked, “Is your cousin home now?”

The bulky man shook his head.

When Li Zhongnan asked where he went, the hefty man further shared, “He went to a pastry-making country, hasn’t been heard from in over a decade.

I heard he lost his fortune there and got addicted to drugs.”

Hearing this, Li Zhongnan felt a sense of disappointment.

The pastry place was very chaotic, rife with drugs and gambling.

After losing a fortune and becoming a drug addict, and considering that happened more than a decade ago, he might be dead by now.

Even if he was still alive, Li Zhongnan didn’t have the resources to find him now.

Forget it, he’d deal with it later.

Li Zhongnan smiled and said, “Brother, to tell you the truth, I do business outside and I have enough money, but I care about my home.

Typhoons come several times a year, and a weak cowshed just wouldn’t hold up.

My dad is getting old, and I can’t let him fret about a single cow all day long, isn’t that right?”

The bulky man nodded and laughed, “That’s right!

In this case, let’s forget about one yuan per jin.

Just give me a few thousand yuan and you can take the stones.”

Then, they packed up.

Li Zhongnan got on the bulky man’s tricycle and arrived at a grove of red trees in a suburb not far from Antique Street.

Dozens of green stones appeared before his eyes.

Li Zhongnan forcefully gave the hefty man ten thousand yuan, asking him to leave.

After looking around, there was no one in sight.

He made a gesture, and the pile of stones in front of him disappeared in an instant, leaving only a little bit behind for future explorations, the rest, he sold all to the system.

“Sell!”

“Ding: You have a total of 11,300 kg of Tianyuan stones, do you want to sell all?”

“Yes!”

“Received!

Trading is in progress…

Trade completed…

You have earned a total of 11,300 gold coins, leaving 15,000 gold coins in total in the system!”

Over ten thousand gold coins!

Li Zhongnan couldn’t help feeling overjoyed, laughing heartily.

Not long ago, he spent hundreds of thousands to millions and exerted a lot of effort, even had a fight with One-eyed Wolf, just to get a few thousand gold coins.

But now, he spent only ten thousand yuan, bought so many small stones, and suddenly gained more than ten thousand gold coins!

Thrilling, it was really thrilling!

At this moment, the system’s voice continued to ring:

“Congratulations, host, for reaching the trading volume of over ten thousand, the system will reward…”