101: Revenge must be taken on the spot

"Two thousand six hundred!"

After calling out the price, the man still glared at Ye Su with hatred.

"Three thousand."

After casually calling out the price, Ye Su gave the man a faint glance, his face devoid of expression, as if he didn't think much of him at all.

The surrounding buyers had long since been deterred by the price, and now they had all turned into spectators, watching the two, whose ages differed by a factor of two, clash once again.

Everyone had seen the man's reckless bidding earlier, which had caused Ye Su to spend an extra one thousand two hundred.

What normal buyers hated most was precisely this kind of jerk who harmed others without benefiting himself.

Now, seeing him get intercepted by Ye Su in return, while everyone enjoyed the spectacle, they also felt that he deserved it.

As for who was happiest, it was surely the two burly men conducting the auction.

The two of them bickering back and forth like this had earned them an extra two thousand for no reason at all.

"Three thousand five hundred!"

Ye Su's earlier look had deeply stung the useless pride of this man who fancied himself a [Senior].

Coupled with the gaze of others, the middle-aged man lost his head for a moment and raised the price by five hundred directly.

After calling out the price, the man continued to stare at Ye Su provocatively.

Ye Su, however, just smiled. Knowing when to stop, he didn't continue bidding.

Seeing the smile on Ye Su's face, how could the man not know that he had just received his comeuppance, having been played by Ye Su in return?

"Damn it!"

The man cursed under his breath, but didn't dare to make any real moves. He could only obediently pay the money, while secretly resolving that if Ye Su took a liking to anything later, he would definitely interfere.

Unfortunately, the man would not have that opportunity.

After making the man pay an extra one thousand two hundred, which pained him, Ye Su stopped paying attention to him and began to greet the middle-aged man next to him:

"Big Brother."

"What is it?"

"When you buy these suitcases, you probably just treat the items inside as second-hand goods to resell, right?"

"Of course. We can't just buy them back to use ourselves."

"Then do you have any local second-hand trading groups that you could pull me into?"

Things worth tens of thousands were easy; he could just find Wan Yuanliang to handle them.

But if it were something worth a few thousand, going to Wan Yuanliang again would seem a bit beneath him.

Hanging them on second-hand platforms was too much trouble, so Ye Su wanted to join a few reliable second-hand trading groups to facilitate handling some cheaper goods later.

Ye Su estimated that this group of buyers participating in the suitcase auction would definitely have resources in this area.

Sure enough, after hearing Ye Su's words, the man nodded: "Yes, there definitely are."

The man didn't continue, but Ye Su understood what he meant.

They weren't related, so why should the man help him?

Naturally, by the power of money.

"I certainly wouldn't dare to ask you to help for nothing, Big Brother." Ye Su pulled a few hundred-yuan bills from his pocket: "I want to find a few active groups. As long as they have a few hundred members, for every group you add me to, I'll give you a one-hundred-yuan thank-you fee."

Looking at the bright, shiny banknotes in Ye Su's hand, the man's eyes lit up instantly.

Earning one hundred yuan for adding to one group—only a fool wouldn't take this money.

"No problem. Let's add each other as friends, and I'll pull you in."

"OK."

After adding him as a friend, the next suitcase was already opened. Ye Su didn't rush, waiting until the man had finished looking at the contents of the suitcase before he got him to pull him into the groups.

There were five groups in total: four with several hundred people, and one with just over a hundred.

The man was quite decent; buy four get one free, only charging Ye Su four hundred yuan.

Ye Su paid readily, so the man offered an extra piece of advice: "The news in the groups is a mix of truth and lies. Be careful when vetting items, and don't easily believe what those people say."

"Understood, thank you, Big Brother."

With the old-fashioned clock in hand, and the unexpected gain of five WeChat groups, Ye Su didn't continue wasting time there, pulling the suitcase out of the construction site.

The burly man sitting at the entrance saw Ye Su leaving early but didn't react, clearly already accustomed to it.

Dragging the suitcase for a few hundred meters, Ye Su finally reached the road and called a car to return to his rental.

He didn't know for what reason the original owner had put the table clock into the suitcase to transport it, nor what had happened that caused the suitcase to eventually go unclaimed and be taken out for auction.

But thanks to the original owner taking sufficient protective measures when packing the table clock into the suitcase, the solid wood clock hadn't suffered any damage despite the bumpy journey.

"So annoying!"

Just as he wanted to squat down, the remaining forty-thousand-plus in cash in his pants pocket made Ye Su feel uncomfortable, forcing him to take all the money out first and press it down on the coffee table with something, while also placing the table clock on the coffee table to start studying where the ruby was hidden.

The solid wood mechanical table clock he had won was only slightly larger than a men's shoebox. Ye Su searched for it on his phone and discovered that it was a [Kieninger] table clock.

Following the disassembly tutorial searched by brand, Ye Su successfully opened the front glass door cover and the rear solid wood panel, but couldn't see anywhere a ruby could be hidden.

He wound the table clock and found that the gears inside were all operating normally, so Ye Su ruled out the possibility of the ruby being hidden inside the movement.

With no results from checking the inside of the clock, Ye Su turned his target to the top of the clock, a semi-circular copper decoration that looked similar to the top of a round tower.

Ye Su first used a cloth to grip the tower body below, then tentatively twisted the top of the tower, and the decoration actually twisted a little for Ye Su.

This is it!

Ye Su increased his force and twisted the entire tower top off, and sure enough, inside he saw an object wrapped in yellow cloth, stuck in a groove.

Opening the yellow cloth, inside was surprisingly a crystal-clear ruby the size of a pinky fingernail!

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to the Host for successfully obtaining the target item [Ruby], and receiving a reward of two points of [Physique]. Do you wish to claim it?]

"Yes!"

[Claim successful!]

Just like the feeling last time at the new flower, bird, fish, and insect market, a warm current swept through his whole body. Ye Su felt as if he were soaking in a hot spring in winter, a kind of unspeakable, tingling pleasure throughout his body.

Moreover, this time he had claimed two points of [Physique], making Ye Su's tingling pleasure even more intense than last time.

It was a pity that this feeling came fast and went fast.

Ye Su had just wanted to moan in comfort, but the tingling pleasure all over his body had already disappeared without a trace.

This gave Ye Su a feeling like a bullet about to be fired, but the movie had just finished playing—a sense of being jammed.

Never mind.

"Ah—"

Ye Su leaned his upper body slightly backward, raised his hands high above his head, and stretched vigorously.

The sound of his bones cracking inside his body made Ye Su let out a soul-stirring moan.

It wasn't an illusion.

Ye Su really felt now that he had inexhaustible energy throughout his whole body, and even wanted to let Chen Xinyi know immediately what [a different price] meant.

After a small bit of mischievous fun, planning to give Chen Xinyi a good time tonight, Ye Su began to fiddle with the ruby in his hand.

"Who should I sell this to?"

Ye Su now had two choices: either sell it to Wan Yuanliang or sell it to Li Mengyao.

Judging from the businesses the two did, it was obviously more suitable to sell it to Li Mengyao.