Chapter 180
Shark found it almost incredible!
After drinking for a long time, it was quite lively here, with customsing and going. And there was
nothing special to do.
In his past experiences, during suchte hours, there would often be gunfights breaking out.
After finishing their drinks andte-night snacks, Oliver and the others walked back to enjoy the cool
breeze in the evening.
When they passed by an antique shop, Shark nced at it. Oliver asked casually, “Shark, do you want
to go inside and take a look?”
“OK!” Shark replied.
Without hesitation, Shark walked into the shop.
Inside the shop, the majority of items consisted of bracelets and beads, each with a price tag and a
name, such as gold-threaded mahogany bead bracelets, sandalwood bracelets, yellow rosewood
bracelets, and so
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The price ranges from hundreds to thousands of dors, or even tens of thousands of dors.
In fact, most people couldn’t tell any difference, and among this group, only Oliver could discern them.
With a single nce, all the details of the items were disyed in his mind.
The owner of this shop was a bit shrewd. The items priced at thousands of dors were only worth
hundreds of dors. Among the rest, the most valuable items were only worth a few hundred dors.
Besides, those iming to be made of “gold-threaded mahogany” were all fake.
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Upon seeing so many customers entering the shop, the owner immediately weed them warmly.
There was also a young girl in the shop who promptly greeted the customers.
“Both of them were eloquent, and they each spoke highly of the rare and exceptional items in the shop.
Oliver nced to the right and noticed that there was even a bead engraved with unique symbols
inside the disy case, priced at 176,000 dors.
As soon as the shop owner saw Oliver nce at that, he smiled and introduced, “Young man, you’ve
got a sharp eye. I spent a lot of effort getting that from the west. It cost me more than 140,000 dors. It
was blessed by a famous priest… It’s basically something that can’t be bought even if you’re wealthy!”
Oliver inspected it carefully and couldn’t help but smile. The item might be blessed, but its actual value
was only around 50 dors.
The price was absurd. Anyone who bought it at that price would be a fool.
Noticing that Oliver was focusing on the bead, the owner smiled and said, “Young man, this is the most
valuable item in my shop. Since a famous priest blessed it, it can ward off evil and protect you.
Moreover, it can bring wealth. The other items in my shop are ordinary, but this one…”
Oliver asked him with a smile, “How much is this?”
Hearing this, the owner perked up. He hurriedly put on a mysterious face and said to Oliver, “Young
man, I really hate to part with this treasure, but if you really want it, I will bear the pain and give you a
discount of 2,000 dors. You can have it for 174,000 dors!”
As he spoke, he maintained an expression of reluctance to part with the bead.
Oliver smiled and shook his head.
The owner stared at Oliver and wondered if he was a rich man. In his opinion, if this young man was
just an ordinary person, what he had done would be in vain.
But if this young man was indeed rich, he might make a lot of money. After mentioning the price, the
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owner watched Oliver and tried to understand his expression.
Oliver neither confirmed nor rejected the offer, maintaining a slight smile.
The shop owner cautiously whispered to him, “Young man, how much… do you think you can offer for
it?”
Oliver stretched out four fingers and made a gesture.
“Six… 60,000 dors?” The owner’s heart skipped a beat, thinking he might have just met an expert.
Oliver smiled and shook his head. He said, “No, 60 dors!”
“60 dors?”
The owner was stunned, his mouth hanging open in disbelief!
He understood that there were only two possibilities for offering such a price. One was that the young
man recognized it as not valuable, and the other was that he didn’t know the value but didn’t like it as
well.
The owner’s heart skipped a beat, and he felt disappointment. It was estimated that he could hardly
make arge sum of money today.
He thought, “Since the young man dares to offer such a low price, even if I say he can have it for
174,000 dors, it’s quite possible that he’s an expert!”
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He chuckled, but Oliver didn’t talk to him. Oliver looked at the walnuts on the other side and asked,
“How much are those walnuts?”
Seeing that Oliver stopped paying attention to the bead at all, he knew he couldn’t gain therge sum
of money. So, he said with ack of enthusiasm, “The price varies. All of the walnuts are like lion’s
heads. The cheapest is over 200 dors. The best ones with a ne surface, Kylin pattern, or thick
pattern are over 20,000 dors. And the ones with the best quality are over 60,000 dors.”
At this point, the shop owner began to think that this customer was so young and that everyone
interested in antique collectibles usually had years of experience.
Young people didn’t usually engage in this hobby!
The owner thought that Oliver was just asking for the price for fun, and that he couldn’t make from him.
money
Indeed, Oliver wasn’t interested in those items. He nced at the baskets of walnuts with green peels
next to him and asked, “Are these unpeeled ones also that expensive?”
“They are for gambling. I have sorted out the three baskets of walnuts. Beginning from the right,
walnuts in the first basket cost 100 dors for a pair, those in the second basket cost 60 dors for a
pair, and those in the third basket cost 20 dors for a pair. You can just give it a try. If you get good
ones, it’s worth trying. But if you don’t get good ones, maybe it’s not worth it. But since the prices are
low, how much can you really lose?”
Oliver suddenly realized, “Oh, I see. It’s just like stone gambling and wood gambling. You don’t know
what’s in it. You can just have a try!”
The owner nodded and said, “That’s what I mean.”
He thought that he couldn’t make a big sum of money from Oliver, so he didn’t show much enthusiasm.
Unexpectedly, Oliver said with interest, “Let me have a try.”
The owner was stunned. He asked, “You want to give it a try? Do you want the ones for 100 dors, 60
dors, or 20 dors?”
Oliver said, as if he didn’t care about the cost, “I’ll try them all. Let me choose from all the baskets.” The
owner was a veteran in this field. In the viges where walnuts were grown, they would usually
purchase entire trees of walnuts, costing a few thousand dors, and then bring them back to sort out
the walnuts based on their external quality.
Usually, they didn’t gamble themselves. A tree costs about 12,000 to 20,000 dors, and there would
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around 1,000 pairs of walnuts.
With an average selling price of 60 dors per pair, the total value would be about 60,000 dors. As
long as they didn’t gamble, it would be an essentially safe and profitable endeavor.
Making a profit of 40,000 dors from walnuts worth 40,000 dors would be considered a high.
return.
Seeing that Oliver really wanted to give it a try, the owner became serious and asked, “How many pairs
do you want to buy?”
He guessed this young man was just having fun.
Betting on walnuts was generally a guaranteed loss, but the initial investment was rtively small,
unlike stone gambling, which could be much riskier.
Oliver squatted down and searched through the baskets for a while.
After about 15 minutes, he picked out 12 pairs from the 100-dor basket, nine pairs from the 60-dor
basket, and 22 pairs from the 20-dor basket.
“That’s all. How much?” Oliver didn’t bargain.
The owner was stunned and thought, “This young man is really weird. He wasn’t interested in that
bead, and he even bargained sharply. I thought he would bargain for these walnuts, and I even
prepared to offer my discount, but he doesn’t bargain at all!”
“12 pairs from the 100-dor basket. That’s 1,200 dors. Nine pairs from the 60-dor basket. That’s
540 dors. 22 pairs from the 20-dor basket. That’s 440 dors… In total, it’s 2,180 dors…”