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.
Su Xiaofan nodded and said, "Well, have you felt sleepy and drowsy all day recently?"
"how do you know?"
The middle-aged boss was shocked. He had really had the symptoms Su Xiaofan mentioned recently, "Is it the cause of this?"
Thinking that this jade cicada had been thrown into the warehouse before and had only recently been brought to the store, the middle-aged boss couldn't help but believe Su Xiaofan's words.
"Three hundred, do you want to sell it?"
Su Xiaofan counted out three hundred yuan banknotes from his bag and placed them on the glass cabinet.
"Sell, sell, take it yourself."
Hearing Su Xiaofan say that the jade cicada was an object from a dead person, the middle-aged boss didn't even want to touch it.
"Leave the money there, keep it."
Su Xiaofan reached out and picked up the jade cicada.
[Qinxue Jade Cicada can be absorbed, is it absorbed? 】
Su Xiaofan looked at the information in his mind with a satisfied smile on his face. He didn't expect that the first pawn shop he entered today would give him a surprise.
In Su Xiaofan's perception, this jade cicada exuded a trace of evil aura, which was somewhat similar to the Yin Stone he had absorbed.
As soon as Su Xiaofan entered the door and didn't see Yu Chan, he felt the evil spirit. He didn't expect to be able to absorb it after seeing it. That was an unexpected surprise.
"Boss, I won't lie to you. It's better to destroy this thing."
Su Xiaofan placed the jade cicada in the palm of his hand and seemed to squeeze it hard, but in fact he gave the instruction to absorb it in his mind.
[Repair value: 87 points!]
"Increased the repair value by two points? Not bad!"
Although it only adds two points of repair value, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still a piece of meat, not to mention that it only cost Su Xiaofan 300 yuan of Hong Kong paper, so the price-performance ratio should not be too high, okay?
After Su Xiaofan released his palm, the jade cicada had turned into a small amount of powder and fell from Su Xiaofan's palm.
"Oh My God!!"
The middle-aged boss's eyes widened and he couldn't help but say something in English. He didn't expect that the destruction mentioned by the other party was actually used in this way.
Although jade is not as hard as stone and will be damaged if dropped on the ground, it does not mean that you can rub it into powder with your hands. How strong your hands are.
"Master, I'm sorry, you'd better take this...this money back."
He is definitely an expert at rubbing stone into powder, and it is beyond the imagination of the middle-aged boss.
How dare the middle-aged boss ask for Su Xiaofan's money at this moment? He wished he could give Su Xiaofan more money and ask him to take a good look at the store to see if there were any evil objects.
"How can you buy something without paying for it?"
Su Xiaofan waved his hand and walked out of the pawn shop. Apart from the Qinxue Jade Cicada, there was nothing in this shop worth his while.
"Brother Su, what kind of skill are you doing?"
A Guang, who had been following Su Xiaofan as a transparent person, looked straight at him and didn't react until he followed Su Xiaofan out of the pawn shop.
"Where is the Kung Fu?"
Su Xiaofan said with a smile: "When I was a kid, my parents told me to pinch walnuts to play with. Only when they were opened could they be eaten. The more you pinched, the stronger your hand would be. It doesn't take much effort."
Su Xiaofan started boasting nonsense, but there was some basis for what he said.
I have often pinched walnuts since I was a child to practice my finger skills. Although I cannot crush them into powder, when shaking hands with others, it is easy to crush the other person's fingers.
In Sujia Village, where Su Xiaofan lives, there are people who practice this kind of kung fu. When drinking beer in summer, they never need a screwdriver and the bottle cap will fly off with just a push of their finger.
"You can't afford to offend this man."
Originally, Aguang was a little afraid of Su Xiaofan when he saw his expression while playing cards yesterday, but now he is even more convinced that this is definitely someone he cannot afford to offend, not even his brother-in-law.
"Let's go, there are so many pawn shops, check out some of them."
Su Xiaofan sensed A Guang's timidity towards him and didn't say much. Nowadays when you are out and about, it is better for others to be afraid of you than to plot against you.
Walking into the second pawn shop, Su Xiaofan still opened his mouth to buy antiques. Like the last one, there were no antiques in the shop, but there were a few pieces of jade.
There was no jade in this shop that Su Xiaofan needed. As soon as there was no ancient jade, and there was no jade that could bring blood, Su Xiaofan turned around and left the pawn shop.
But when Su Xiaofan entered the third pawn shop, he was treated as a distinguished guest by the boss. Not only was he offered a cup of tea, but he also took out a cigar for Su Xiaofan to taste.
As soon as he said a few words, Su Xiaofan suddenly felt dumbfounded.
It turned out that the owner of the first pawn shop told their group about the master Su Xiaofan, and he recognized him as soon as he walked in.
"Master, please help me see if there are any evil things in my store?"
The people of Ao Island are very taboo about these things, but they usually can't invite the master from Xiangjiang. Although the current one is young, the photo of jade powder taken by the group shows that this master is still capable.
"Master, as long as you look at it for me, you can take three pieces of these jade stones, but I won't charge you a penny."
The pawn shop owner was also very proactive. He took out more than ten pieces of jade from the counter and placed them in front of Su Xiaofan.
"A lot of these unearthed things have been pawned."
Su Xiaofan saw a piece of blood jade at a glance, and absorbed information came to his mind.
"This thing is not right. If it is kept in the store for a long time, it will affect the business."
Su Xiaofan picked up the jade ring with blood on it and rubbed it in the palm of his hand. The hard jade stone suddenly turned into a piece of powder and fell down.
[Repair value: 88 points!]
This blood jade ring only added a little repair value to Su Xiaofan, but Su Xiaofan was already very satisfied. He could earn repair value without spending a penny. How could such a good thing happen?
Su Xiaofan decided that if he couldn't finish visiting these pawn shops today, he would stay there for one more day and find a hotel nearby to stay and continue shopping tomorrow.
As for the Qinxue jade's ability to increase the repair value, Su Xiaofan guessed that it was caused by the Yin evil spirit. However, compared with the Yin stone, the Yin evil spirit contained in the jade was too little, so the increased repair value was far less than that of the Yin stone.
"Oh, I feel like something is wrong during this period. Thank you, master. Thank you, master!"
After Su Xiaofan "crushed" the jade ring, the pawn shop owner suddenly felt light on his body, as if something bad had left him.
The shop owner, who was a little doubtful at first whether this was a real master, now realized that he was sure. He quickly pushed the more than ten jade stones in front of Su Xiaofan's eyes and said, "Master, I've given them all to you. You can have them all."
Take it away!”
"What do I need these things for? They're all rubbish."
Su Xiaofan shook his head, and when he was about to turn around and leave, his eyes suddenly stared at a small stone that was completely brown and stained with some soil.
"Is this also jade?" Su Xiaofan picked up the small stone.
"Something unearthed."
The shop owner said with some disgust: "A friend introduced me to bring it to pawn. This batch of jade belongs to that person. You can take it all if you like."
What the shop owner didn't say was that he only paid a total of HK800 paper for these more than ten pieces of jade. Two of them were sold last year for a total of HKD4,800. Now he has recovered his capital and made a profit.
"I want this, keep the rest for yourself." Su Xiaofan took the small curved stone, looked at it, and put it in the bag.
【Late Shang Dynasty: Jade Dragon!】
When Su Xiaofan walked out of the door, he looked at the information in his mind and couldn't help but curl up his lips. This object, which was only three to four centimeters in size, was actually a jade from the late Shang Dynasty.
When Su Xiaofan was hanging out in the Luochuan antique market, he had quite a lot of research on jade. Such jade was definitely qualified to be auctioned, but he didn't know why it was left out in this pawn shop.
In fact, what Su Xiaofan didn't know was that usually when pawn shops receive pawns that they are unsure about, they will find specialized appraisal experts to help appraise them.
But there is a fee for asking an expert to appraise it. They will charge two to three hundred yuan for an appraisal of a jade article. Regardless of whether it is genuine or fake, the pawn shop will pay for it.
Since valuable jade is rare, usually a pawn shop cannot even earn back the appraisal fee after the appraisal is completed.
After going back and forth, the pawn shop received only jadeite and jadeite that seemed to be of average quality, but did not take it for appraisal. They just put it in the store and sold it at random prices.
Therefore, in most pawn shops, there are almost always some jade or other objects that have not been authenticated.
There are many tourists who come here to travel. They always feel that the things sold in pawn shops are all good. They come to search for treasures excitedly, and a large part of the jade is digested from them.
"What kind of master have I really become?"
When Su Xiaofan walked into the fourth store, the boss was already sweeping the couch to greet him, calling him "Master" in a very friendly manner.
Not only that, Su Xiaofan discovered that the owner of the fifth store was actually standing in front of his store, looking up, wishing that Su Xiaofan would go to their pawn shop right now.
