After eating the midnight snack, Su Xiaofan went back to his room to rest.

It is said to be resting, but it is actually meditating and practicing. Cultivation is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat.

Although Su Xiaofan systematically cheats, he still takes some time every day to exercise Qigong and clear his meridians.

However, practicing in the Aodao Hotel is obviously not a good place.

As soon as Su Xiaofan was ready to meditate, all kinds of gasping sounds swarmed into his ears, almost making Su Xiaofan go crazy.

After completely closing the six senses, Su Xiaofan was able to calm down, but the time for trance was much longer today.

Early the next morning, at the appointed time, Aguang called Su Xiaofan. He had arranged breakfast downstairs.

Su Xiaofan knew that Brother Guang went out in the middle of the night after returning to the hotel room yesterday. He was sleeping soundly now, so he didn't bother to call him and went downstairs carrying the bag containing more than one million Hong Kong dollars.

After breakfast, Aguang took Su Xiaofan to the door of the hotel and took a bus to the main island of Ao Island.

I don’t know if it was because of the money I made yesterday, but the original business car turned into a Rolls-Royce, and it also had a dedicated driver.

The place where Ao Island first developed was on the main island, which was not large in area. This is the most central place on Ao Island.

Due to its geographical size, the development of Ao Island has always been troubled. Later, reclamation and island building began, and Taipa Island came from this.

However, due to the short development time, the most popular businesses on Taipa Island are hotels and casinos, while the rest of the businesses are far inferior to those on the main island.

Just like pawn shops, they are basically concentrated on the main island. This is where Su Xiaofan is going today.

The most popular time for pawn shops was probably at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. There were countless pawn shops in just one Shili foreign market.

The pawn shops at that time collected the most antiques, calligraphy and paintings. It can be said that every pawn shop owner is an expert in appraising antiques.

However, due to various reasons, pawn shops disappeared for a while in China.

Although there are some now, most of them only accept the pledge of some real estate securities, gold and jewelry. Antiques and other items are rarely seen in pawn shops.

When Uncle Jing learned that Su Xiaofan was coming to Ao Island, he specially told him to go to the pawn shops on Ao Island and maybe he would gain something.

Because the pawn shops on Ao Island are opened for gamblers.

Those gamblers who are so obsessed with gambling can even give away their wives, let alone the belongings they carry with them. They wish they could leave only their underwear on them and pawn everything else for money before returning.

Casino copy.

There are also some gamblers from the mainland who have lost a lot of money and have some good things at home, but they are not easy to cash out, so they took them to the island to pawn.

As a result, with the rise of the gambling industry, pawn shops on Ao Island are springing up everywhere.

The streets surrounding the Pujing Hotel are almost all densely packed with pawn shops, at least a thousand of them.

Aguang asked the driver to park the car on a street behind the Pujing Hotel, and got out of the car with Su Xiaofan.

"Brother Su, there are all pawn shops here. We can't finish them all in one day."

A Guang said with a smile: "I don't know what you want to buy, Brother Su. The most popular thing in the pawn shop here is watches. There are many famous watches such as Patek Philippe and Rolex, and the prices are very low."

“In the past, those young and Dangerous people in Xiangjiang liked to come here to buy and sell gold watches.”

"When those young and Dangerous guys make money, they will come here to buy a second-hand gold watch, and they can sell it for travel expenses when they run away."

"These tourists will stop playing if they lose, so they won't come to pawn their things, right?" Su Xiaofan asked casually.

"It has nothing to do with tourists, casinos don't care about them at all."

Aguang curled his lips, let alone casinos, they junkie operators don't like tourists.

In fact, when casinos make money, tourists only account for a very small proportion, which is almost negligible.

Those who really make money are the rich high rollers, that is, the people who play in VIP rooms. Those people really spend a lot of money when they play.

But as long as the rich fall into the "gentle trap" of the casino, it is estimated that nine out of ten will end up bankrupt.

Therefore, many of their luxury watches, jewelry, and even brand-name suits were pledged to pawn shops.

Pawn shops are divided into dead pawns and live pawns. Dead pawns will give you more money, while live pawns will give you less money because they can be redeemed, and the pawn shop will charge some interest from it.

However, no matter whether it is pawned dead or alive, only one item that can be redeemed in the end will basically end up in the pawn shop.

"I don't want a watch. Are there any antiques that I can catch my eye on?"

Su Xiaofan stood on the street and looked around. Sure enough, the shops on both sides of the street were densely packed with various pawn shops, and they had all kinds of different names.

Walking into a pawn shop, you will see in the glass cabinets all kinds of watches. There are also many gold jewelry, including several chains as thick as your little finger.

"Boss, what do you want?"

Seeing the two people coming in, a middle-aged man sitting behind the counter stood up. There are so many pawn shops, and their current business is not easy.

People who open pawn shops in Ao Island are usually locals. Boss means the boss, and what do you want means what do you want?

"I want to buy some antiques, do you have any in your store?"

Su Xiaofan said straight to the point, there are so many pawn shops here, how can he have time to talk to the boss.

"Antiques, yes, please wait."

Upon hearing Su Xiaofan speak Mandarin, the boss immediately switched from vernacular to spoken Mandarin, turned around and entered the room in front of the door.

In just ten seconds, the middle-aged boss came out with a statue that was forty to fifty centimeters tall and covered in golden light.

"Boss, this is the portrait of Mr. Guan, sent by a street boy.

It is said that it has been placed in his house for seventy or eighty years, ever since his grandfather's generation. I asked someone to look at it, and it's still gold-plated on the outside."

The middle-aged boss strongly recommended Guan Erye to Su Xiaofan.

In Ao Island, gold-plated gold watches are easy to sell, but not many people buy this kind of statue of Guan Er Ye, because very few people will buy Guan Er Ye from a pawn shop.

"Boss, this thing has nothing to do with antiques. If you don't have it, forget it."

Su Xiaofan shook his head dumbfounded. He used to watch TV and often saw shops in Xiangjiang offering sacrifices to Mr. Guan. He never thought that there really was such a thing. There was also a niche on the wall of this shop, in which Mr. Guan was worshipped.

Statue of Ye.

"Does jade count?" the middle-aged boss asked reluctantly.

"The jade is okay, take it out and have a look." Su Xiaofan nodded.

"Look, they're all here."

The store owner bent down and pulled out a drawer from below, and placed the drawer and the drawer on the glass cabinet.

In the drawer, there are more than ten pieces of finished jade. It is obvious that the shop owner does not pay much attention to these items. Even if they are placed in it very casually, he is not afraid of them colliding with each other.

"How much does this jade cicada cost?"

Su Xiaofan asked, pointing to a white jade cicada with a bit of red skin.

"This one costs two thousand yuan."

The middle-aged boss thought about it and offered a price that he thought was very expensive.

Jade is different from gold watches. In addition to the fact that jade can be sold more expensively, it is difficult for these shop owners to give an appraisal of Hetian jade.

So usually when someone pawns jade, they will give a very low price, sometimes even thirty or fifty or one or two hundred.

At some gambling tables in Aodao Casino, the minimum bet amount is one or two hundred. Some gamblers who are red-eyed at losing are willing to buy the jade for even one or two hundred, regardless of the original price.

As a result, many pawn shops have accumulated a lot of jade. The middle-aged boss offered two thousand, which is already a sky-high price.

"Five hundred, I'll take it."

Su Xiaofan said.

"That's impossible. It's at least a thousand and eighty."

The shop owner shook his head repeatedly, "It cost me one thousand and fifty to collect it."

"Three hundred, I'll take it if you sell it."

Su Xiaofan turned around and walked out, then turned around and said, "Do you know what this is? This is the jade plug that used to block the body's orifices after death."

"You dare to keep such an evil thing. You're lucky if you don't go bankrupt!"

Su Xiaofan's last sentence seemed to be talking to himself, and his body had already left the pawn shop.

"Hey, wait...wait!"

Hearing Su Xiaofan's words, the middle-aged boss rushed out and grabbed Su Xiaofan, his voice trembling a little, "Boss, are you telling the truth?"

People in Xiangjiang and Ao Island all believe in Feng Shui and numerology, and are especially taboo about these sinister things. When he heard that the jade cicada came from a dead person, the middle-aged boss was so frightened that his legs became weak.

"I have nothing to do with lying to you."

Su Xiaofan said with a smile: "You can go to Pearl River after leaving the customs and ask anyone who knows some archaeological knowledge. You will know."

"Then...is this thing valuable?"

The middle-aged boss asked reluctantly, if it is a truly valuable object, even if it is an evil thing, it cannot be sold cheaply.

"That's what I want. You can't sell it to others."

Su Xiaofan said: "I'll tell you the truth, I bought this thing with the intention of destroying it to prevent it from harming anyone!"

"Destroyed?" The middle-aged boss was stunned when he heard this.
To be continued...