241: Gambling and drugs are harmful to people

Vintage clocks, nostalgic records, CCD cameras, audio appliances, and even gramophones and vinyl records...

Led by Feng Zhiquan, Ye Su walked through the shop and discovered that the items sold at Echo Antiques were mainly focused on the "nostalgic" aspect.

Furthermore, just like Ye Su's requirements, it followed the boutique vintage route, not a typical second-hand junk shop.

It was likely that these items were all collected by Feng Zhiquan from various places.

Although the shop had an area of over a hundred and some square meters, with Ye Su intentionally speeding up, he managed to roughly inventory the items in the shop in just twenty minutes.

Seeing Ye Su inventorying the items so quickly, Feng Zhiquan, who held the cargo list in his hand, felt the last bit of his heart turn cold.

"Mr. Ye, that's roughly the situation in the shop." Returning to the entrance, Feng Zhiquan, adopting the attitude of seeing a guest off, gave his final introduction to Ye Su:

"I've operated this shop for several years, and it has a bit of a reputation in the circle. The number of customers buying and selling each month is quite stable.

All the paperwork is in order. Basically, as long as you take it over, you can open for business at any time. Do you have any interest in taking it over?"

"Sure."

"Then..." Feng Zhiquan was about to start his prepared speech to see the guest off, but the next second he realized what was said, staring at Ye Su with wide eyes:

"You mean, you can take over the shop!"

"Yes." Under Feng Zhiquan's ecstatic gaze, Ye Su nodded: "What is the transfer fee?"

The development of events was beyond Feng Zhiquan's expectations.

After hesitating about the price for a while, Feng Zhiquan finally made an offer to Ye Su:

"Including the goods in the shop, the business license, the lease contract, and everything else, it's a total of 350,000. Does that work for you?"

"350,000?"

The intel indicated that Feng Zhiquan's target price was 300,000, so naturally, Ye Su was very dissatisfied with the 350,000 price.

Seeing hesitation on Ye Su's face, Feng Zhiquan grew nervous, fearing that his momentary greed in quoting a few tens of thousands extra might scare the other party away.

"I took a look around just now. Even if everything were sold, it would probably only be worth around 300,000 to 400,000. And that's not even counting the time cost required to sell the items."

After whetting Feng Zhiquan's appetite and seeing the growing anxiety in his eyes, Ye Su began to haggle:

"I offer 250,000. If that's acceptable, we can sign the contract right now."

"250,000 is too little!" Feng Zhiquan didn't expect that despite the other party being so young, his bargaining blade was so ruthless, cutting straight to his carotid artery:

"The items in my shop could sell for at least 400,000 if sold off. Plus, there's the brand I've operated for several years. How could it only be worth 250,000!"

Ye Su's offer really put Feng Zhiquan in a difficult position.

It didn't make the price so ridiculously low that he could just kick the person out, yet he truly couldn't agree to this price.

"As you said, you'd need to sell everything to get 400,000 in revenue, but you know better than I do how long that would take. So, 250,000 is really quite a lot."

"300,000!"

Feng Zhiquan also knew that what Ye Su said was fair, not just to drive down the price.

But he truly couldn't accept the 250,000 price, so in the end, he could only state his target price.

"How about this, 260,000. Let's both take a step back. What do you think?"

300,000 was Feng Zhiquan's target price, not his own.

If he could haggle, Ye Su would naturally want to cut a bit more.

"260,000 is still too low. Add a bit more."

It was rare to have a buyer, let alone one who was willing to take over the shop after looking around.

Feng Zhiquan naturally didn't want to give up this opportunity, so he could only lower his bottom line once more:

"288,000. We're in business; let's make it a lucky number. How about that?"

"Isn't 268,000 also a lucky number? Let's just do 268,000. I can sign the contract on the spot and transfer a 30% deposit to you. I'll pay the rest of the transfer fee in one lump sum after the licenses are changed."

Ye Su made a gesture as if to turn and leave: "This is the highest price I can accept. If you don't agree, there's nothing I can do."

Facts proved that a person's bottom line could always be lowered further.

Being anxious to transfer the shop and having no one else willing to take it over already put Feng Zhiquan at an absolute disadvantage in this transaction.

Seeing that Ye Su said he could pay in cash, Feng Zhiquan, out of desperation, could only grit his teeth and nod:

"Fine, 268,000 it is. Let's sign the contract..."

He asked for 350,000, but it ended up closing at 268,000.

If it weren't for the intel, Ye Su would have thought he was being set up by Feng Zhiquan and had taken over the shop at a loss.

"Alright, let's sign the contract."

Having saved tens of thousands more through haggling, Ye Su felt a small sense of accomplishment.

After confirming that the "Shop Transfer Agreement" and "Cargo Inventory" prepared by Feng Zhiquan were in order, they both signed and fingerprinted them.

As Feng Zhiquan pressed his final fingerprint, watching the hard work of the past few years become someone else's property, he could only sigh in his heart:

"Gambling and drugs are truly destructive..."

A perfectly fine family, just because of the word "gambling," had now fallen to the point of having to sell the shop...

"Let's first submit the transfer application for the business license and permits on the computer."

In addition to the "Business License," Feng Zhiquan had also obtained a "Special Industry Permit" for the shop, which allowed for the legal trading of luxury goods, cultural relics, and other valuables.

Transferring it together also saved Ye Su the trouble of applying for the permits.

"Sure."

Ye Su and Feng Zhiquan logged onto the government website, followed the instructions to complete the license change procedures, and then Ye Su transferred an 80,000 deposit to Feng Zhiquan on the spot.

As for the remaining transfer fee, Ye Su would pay it to Feng Zhiquan after the license changes were approved and the sublease contract was signed with the warehouse owner.

After taking the keys, Ye Su shook hands with Feng Zhiquan: "Pleasure doing business with you."

"Pleasure doing business..." Feng Zhiquan replied listlessly.

"These are the keys, so I'll be going now."

"Alright."

Although the transaction wasn't fully completed, the contract had been signed, and everything in the shop now belonged to Ye Su.

After handing the front door keys to Ye Su, Feng Zhiquan left the shop first.

After closing the door, Ye Su walked quickly to the spot where the gold bars were sealed and began to fret:

"The items are sealed inside a concrete pillar. How am I supposed to get them out?"

[Ding!]

Just as Ye Su was hesitating about whether he should wait until the shop was fully transferred before taking action himself to smash open the concrete pillar, the system interface popped up.

[Detected that the Host has encountered a difficulty and cannot retrieve the gold bars from inside the concrete pillar. Specifically providing the Host with one use of the [Pluck things from thin air] skill.

The Host only needs to spend 8,888 yuan to activate the skill, move the gold bars out of the concrete pillar, and automatically repair the hole.]

[Note: There is surveillance in the shop. It is recommended that the Host first find a container that will not change in appearance after the gold bars are retrieved, and then activate the skill.]

"Damn it! Over 8,000 for one use of a skill? You're really ripping me off!"