Chapter 1004
Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1004
‘Something’s definitely wrong with that iron que…’ Gerald thought to himself.
“Come on, Gerald. Let’s go. Is there something wrong?” asked Misty, wondering why he was still
standing in ce.
“…Ah, um, why don’t you guys go on ahead first? I’d like to have a look around on my own!” replied
Gerald with a smile before continuing to look at the direction that the old man had left in.
“Well… Fine! But I’ll call you out again when it’s near noon so that we can have lunch together!” said
Misty who had also noticed by now that her friends had constantly been giving Gerald the cold
shoulder.
After agreeing with the n, Gerald immediately went after the old man.
The moment he was gone, women from Misty’s group instantly began bad-mouthing him.
“Humph! Why did you have to get acquainted with such a person, Misty? He’s so humiliating to be
around with!”
“I know, right? What a loser! It’s hard to even have any fun when he’s around!”
“Yeah! Please don’t bring him along with us for lunchter! I mean, justpare what we’re wearing to
what he wore! Since he helped you, surely you wouldn’t want him to feel inferior in front of us, right?”
Hearing that, Misty could only reply in a saddened tone, “That’s quite enough. Though I’ve only been
acquainted with him for a short while, allow me to remind you that he’s a nice person! I’ll still call him
over for lunchter but please be a little nicer to himter, alright?”
“Fine…” replied the others, forced to agree.
Meanwhile, Gerald finally caught up to the dejected-looking old man who had just set his stall up again
in a rather secluded area.
Shaking his head, the old man knew that though the new spot was rather deserted, at the very least,
nobody would attempt to ostracize a viger like him here.
Rushing over to the old man’s store, Gerald smiled at him before saying, “Is this the only item you have
for sale, sir?”
“Indeed it is. You know, I didn’t really want toe here today… Whether you choose to believe me or
not, it was actually the event’s organizer who invited me over! After we talked for a bit, they told me that
the iron que would sell for a high price so I should definitely attend the event! Yet look at what
happened! To think that I was shunned away before I could even set up my store there earlier! Humph!
Do you have any cigarettes to spare, young man? If you do, I’m leaving once I’ve had a smoke! I need
to cook lunch for my granddaughter anyway!” replied the old man with a sigh.
“I do, indeed! Just to confirm, the event’s organizer invited you over the moment they found out that
you owned the que, correct?” said Gerald as he looked at the iron que while handing the old man
a cigarette.
The que itself didn’t look particrly special. At most, Gerald could say that it had a simple but
ancient aura surrounding it, not unlike an antique item.
“Yeah, the event’s organizer found out that I owned it through a TV show, quite honestly. You know that
show where they talk about selling antiques? Well, I was on one of that show’s episodes since this
que here definitely deserves to be an antique. It was handed down from my ancestors, you know?
Even so, while the experts from that show definitely agreed that my antique wasn’t bad, they also
added that it didn’t have much artistic or archaeological value! The nerve!”
“Regardless, the event’s organizer soon met up with me. They told me that the item could be sold to
foreigners at a high price, which led them to invite me over to this treasure exchange event.”
“Back then, the organizer had told me to look for them the moment I arrived at the event venue. I was
also told to hand the que over to them once we met up. I didn’t really understand the request at the
time—and I still don’t—but since I heard I could gain a lot of money by selling it, I arrived first thing in
the morning today. Even after wandering for quite a bit, however, I still couldn’t find them. That was the
reason why I attempted to set up my own stall in the inner area earlier.”
“What more, businessmen like them can be quite untrustworthy, you know, young man? It wouldn’t be
out of the question for a scenario where I get paid half of what the businessmen earn from selling the
antique to happen. With that in mind, it only gave me more reason to try selling the que on my own,”
detailed the old man as he finally finished his cigarette.
Seeing that, Gerald quickly handed him another cigarette before carefully lifting the iron que and
weighing it. After a brief moment of consideration, a thought came to him.
Smiling, Gerald then turned to look at the old man before saying, “I’m interested in buying the iron
que from you, sir. You can name any price you want!”
“Young man, I’ll say it right now that this thing barely has any archaeological or artistic value to it… It’s
just a simple iron que used to fool foreigners!” replied the old man in a rather embarrassed tone—
who must have felt bad after smoking two of Gerald’s cigarettes—as he quickly dissuaded Gerald
against it.
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“I’m fine with that. This object will be useful to me, so don’t worry!”
“…Are you really sure?”
“There’s no reason for me to lie!”
“I’ll be using the same price that I set for the foreigners, you know?”
“Just tell me the price already…”
“…Fine. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… I’m selling it for seventy-seven thousand dors!” replied the old
man as he blushed slightly. The only reason he had set the price so high was because he had heard
that foreigners would pay literally anything for antique items.
Hearing that, Gerald simply smiled wryly before saying, “Forget seventy-seven thousand dors… I’ll
pay you seven hundred and seventy thousand dors instead! Once you receive the money, you’ll be
able to live afortable life! So how about it? It’s not like you’ll have any use for the que if you
decide not to sell it anyway, plus-”
However, Gerald held his tongue just in time to prevent himself from saying something truly horrifying.
Instead, he continued the sentence in his mind.
‘…If you’re truly unwilling to hand it over, you may just have to face the cmity of your total family’s
extermination…’