123: You didn't manage to find something hidden in the fan, did you?
Chen Kai froze, noting the height of the Counter. The reason he hadn't noticed it earlier was that the bottom part was obscured by the Counter!
The light emitted from the base placed on the floor was completely blocked by this Counter; he couldn't see the glow at all. If he hadn't looked from the back, he really wouldn't have seen it!
At this moment, the boss, who had been playing Honor of Kings, sat back at the Counter, feeling a bit annoyed. He looked up, saw that Chen Kai hadn't left yet, and asked with a displeased tone.
"If you haven't taken a liking to any of the hundreds of fans in the warehouse, then I really have no solution. You should go ask somewhere else."
He was the owner of the largest fan shop in the entire second-hand market. Buying a fan wasn't like taking a wife; not liking a single one out of hundreds was just too damn picky.
Chen Kai smiled awkwardly. "Boss, I quite like this fan you're using at the Counter. How much to sell it?"
He rubbed the tip of his nose and said with a calm expression.
"My wife has OCD and must buy things according to what she likes. The fan's color has to match the decor at home. This is the only one that fits. Could you bear to part with it?"
Chen Kai could now lie off the cuff. The reason was simple: practice makes perfect!
If one could earn a million a month just by Score a Bargain every day, even a stutterer could be trained into a debate champion.
"Hiss..."
The boss gasped, having just finished his game. He slowly put down his phone, and after hearing this, he felt a bit of sympathy for him.
"Brother, I can understand your wife's OCD, but... I can't sell this fan."
Chen Kai froze and gave an awkward smile. "Boss, name your price?"
Could it be that this boss was angry just now? That shouldn't be the case.
The round-faced boss pushed up his glasses and revealed a bitter smile.
"Brother, I sympathize with you, but I really can't sell this fan. Do you think I don't want to earn your money? It's that I can't; someone else left this fan here for storage."
"I saw it was a new model fan, and the style and condition were both quite good, very popular. I was afraid someone would buy it as merchandise, so I used it myself. Even when others offered fifty, I didn't sell it."
Chen Kai froze. Fans can be stored? He seemed to have figured out what was going on. The old man put the snuff bottle at the bottom.
Family members didn't let him smoke, so he was lying low and stored the fan, fearing it would get lost?
"Boss, I'll offer one hundred. I've been out looking for a fan for two days and really haven't found a style my wife likes. It was hard enough to find this one today, sigh..."
The boss still looked helpless and shook his head firmly.
"No, really, I can't. Brother, it's not that I don't want to make money. When he came to store it, he even gave me a storage fee, and we're old acquaintances. How could I agree to keep it and then turn around and sell his fan?"
"We've known each other for so long; if I suddenly sold the item he stored, wouldn't he come looking for trouble with me?"
The boss gave a bitter smile, his eyes full of helplessness.
When the old man stored it with him, he gave him fifty yuan. If Chen Kai paid one hundred, he wouldn't make a single penny. It had been agreed beforehand that if he accidentally lost it, he would have to pay fifty in compensation.
Chen Kai felt a bit helpless and sighed deeply. This was getting tricky.
Since it was stored, the boss was afraid of trouble and wouldn't sell. And he couldn't offer a high price either; who spends one thousand yuan on an electric fan?
"Hiss... I really like this style, and it's not for sale online yet. How about this: I'll offer three hundred. Do you think you can sell it?"
When the boss heard this, he immediately stood up from his chair. "Deal!"
Chen Kai froze. Damn! He offered too much!
He asked half-believingly, "Are you really selling it?"
"Really selling it! You can pack it up and take it away right now!"
"Aren't you afraid the person who stored it will come looking for trouble?"
"Let them come. At worst, I'll just pay him one hundred yuan. If he wants to give me trouble, I'll take the heat for you! You can take the fan with peace of mind!"
Chen Kai was delighted when he heard that and immediately took out his phone to scan the code and send two hundred and eighty.
【WeChat received 280 yuan.】
The round-faced boss's mouth nearly split from smiling when he heard the payment notification. He immediately unplugged the electric fan. "Do you need me to help you take it apart? It'll be easier for you to carry."
"Especially this base; it's hard to take back. Let me take it apart for you!"
Chen Kai shook his head quickly upon hearing this and reached out to grab the support frame of the pedestal fan.
"No need. I drove here, so I won't trouble you to take it apart."
"Alright then."
The boss reluctantly let go. If he didn't help take it apart, earning this one hundred and eighty didn't feel quite right! He had never done a business where he paid one hundred to earn one hundred and eighty before.
Chen Kai smiled and said goodbye, then quickly left with the fan. He walked briskly to his car, opened the trunk, and shoved the electric fan inside.
He entered the navigation destination and drove straight toward Yunshang Pavilion.
The snuff bottle was forty-five thousand, and that Qing Dynasty porcelain basin was fifty-one thousand. Selling them together for one hundred thousand definitely wouldn't be a problem.
Chen Kai thought, rubbing his hands in excitement. Then he would only be three or four hundred thousand away from upgrading the system.
The progress was more than halfway complete!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but press the accelerator deeper.
...
In less than twenty minutes, Chen Kai parked the car in front of Yunshang Pavilion.
As soon as he pushed the door and got out, he found Zheng Liu Chang huddled in front of the Counter, staring wide-eyed at his mercedes-benz gle.
Seeing it was Chen Kai getting out of the car, he was instantly stunned, his mouth hanging open uncontrollably.
What the hell??! His good brother was driving a Mercedes-Benz?!
This was more painful than killing him!!!
You can live well, but you can't live too well! How could he be driving a Mercedes-Benz already!
Zheng Liu Chang immediately ran out from the Counter, pushed open the door of Yunshang Pavilion, walked around Chen Kai, and sized up the mercedes-benz gle with an expression of disbelief.
"Holy shit! You really are driving a Mercedes-Benz!"
"Sell it! Sell it!"
Zheng Liu Chang looked devastated. His good brother buying a car—wasn't that killing him?
"How is it? GLE! Isn't it cool?"
Chen Kai curled his lips, already able to guess what Zheng Liu Chang would say next.
"Damn it, you deserve to drive a mercedes-benz gle? Sell it, I'm begging you!"
Zheng Liu Chang's sorrow was overflowing; the sky had collapsed.
He had just wanted to show off that his live stream room could now receive five hundred in gift money a day.
That was fifteen thousand a month, plus his basic salary from the Pawnshop, which was over twenty thousand.
Moreover, after Liu Yunshang found out he was friends with Chen Kai, she even gave him a raise.
But his friend's failure made him heart-wrenched, and his friend's success made him even more miserable.
"Go, go, go, move aside. You go to the trunk and take out the electric fan. There's also a basin in the passenger seat; it's a porcelain basin from the early Qing Dynasty."
Chen Kai smiled and took the initiative to push the door and walk into the room.
"Holy shit?? You Scored a Bargain again? Last time you Scored a Bargain inside an air conditioner, this time you wouldn't have managed to Score a Bargain inside a fan too, would you?"
(PS: Seeking everyone's opinion: should future updates be two chapters at 12:00 AM sharp, or one chapter in the morning and one in the afternoon? Vote below)
1. Two chapters at 12:00 AM
2. One chapter in the morning, one in the afternoon