337: Where did this big villain come from?

"One, two... five, six."

After airing out the musty smell, Ye Su counted and found six tea cakes inside.

Not wanting to touch the moldy tea cakes, Ye Su directly opened the system:

"Use 'Item Appraisal' to appraise the six tea cakes in the box."

【Item Name: Bingdao Laozhai Tea Cake】

【Tea Type: Pu'er Tea】

【Year: 2014】

【Relevant Financial Tea Background: At its peak in 2015, a single cake was priced at 300,000 yuan. Later, due to the collapse of the financial bubble, a single cake is now only worth about 10,000 yuan.】

【Note: These six tea cakes appraised by the host only have commemorative value due to preservation issues.】

"High EQ: They only have commemorative value."

"Low EQ: These tea cakes are worthless now, aren't they?"

Fortunately, although these tea cakes were valuable before, they have already crashed now. Even if they hadn't gone bad, they would only sell for about 60,000 yuan.

Losing only 60,000 yuan in profit was something Ye Su could accept.

"The person who buried this safe was truly a big sucker. Of all things to hide, he had to hide these tea cakes, making them worthless now. What a waste of money!"

"With over a million yuan to buy tea, he might as well have buried over a million yuan in gold bars directly. If I dug them up now, the price would have tripled or quadrupled!"

Regretfully, Ye Su placed the large box aside and took out the last small box from the safe.

"Such a small box, even a jade pendant or something would be fine."

Praying devoutly, Ye Su skillfully tore off the cling film and opened the lid of the wooden box.

"Uh..."

Recognizing the item inside the box at a glance, Ye Su felt speechless and secretly cursed the safe's original owner again: "This is truly a pure-blooded big sucker!"

Lying in the wooden box in Ye Su's hand was a Dzi bead.

One doesn't even need to understand antiques; as long as one has been online frequently in the past two years, one would have seen how much the Dzi bead market has plummeted.

Picking up the Dzi bead from the box and counting, Ye Su found that it was a 'Six-Eyed Dzi Bead'.

At its peak price, it could probably have been exchanged for a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

But now, Ye Su didn't even know if it could be exchanged for a Wuling Hongguang.

"Use the 'Item Appraisal' function to appraise this Six-Eyed Dzi Bead."

【Item Name: Pure Six-Eyed Dzi Bead】

【Period: Mid-Ming Dynasty】

【Relevant Background: During the most prosperous period of the Dzi bead market in 2018, similar Six-Eyed Dzi Beads were auctioned for approximately 6 million to 8 million yuan.

In the following two years, due to the cultural hype concept of 'Six Six Auspiciousness', Six-Eyed Dzi Beads generally had a premium of about 30%.

Currently, the Dzi bead market has collapsed. Similar Dzi beads in judicial auction markets have a failure rate of basically over 30%. For example, a Mid-Ming Dynasty Six-Eyed Vajra Pestle Dzi Bead currently has a starting bid of only 80,000 yuan at auction.

The 'Mid-Ming Dynasty Pure Six-Eyed Dzi Bead' in the host's hand has a buyback price of only between 100,000 and 150,000 yuan.】

"A huge loss!"

After reading the appraisal results, Ye Su smacked his thigh, his heart aching:

"Something worth seven or eight million is now only worth a little over a hundred thousand!"

The six Bingdao Laozhai Tea Cakes and one Six-Eyed Dzi Bead, at their peak, would have been worth nearly ten million combined.

If the original owner of the safe had converted all of it into gold at that time, it would be worth tens of millions now!

Thinking of this, Ye Su felt a sharp pain in his heart, a very sharp pain, as if he had lost ten million himself.

After a long while, Ye Su finally recovered:

"Judging from the plummeting prices of these items and the fact that the tea cakes were left to mold, this safe must have been buried at least before 2018.

It's likely the original owner encountered some trouble, forcing him to bury the safe in the abandoned amusement park, hoping that one day in the future, he could return to dig it up, and the items inside would continue to appreciate in value.

Who would have thought that by the time the two items inside became worthless, he still wouldn't be able to return to the amusement park to dig up the safe."

After so many years, the original owner hasn't returned to dig up this safe, so there are most likely only two scenarios.

Either he has already been brought to justice, or he has absconded.

Regardless of the reason, Ye Su didn't have to worry about these items being reclaimed.

"I wonder if Bowen Antique Shop will accept these items."

To avoid a wasted trip, Ye Su took photos of the silver ingot and the Dzi bead and sent them to Wan Yuanliang.

【Do you buy these two items?】

Wan Yuanliang's reply was as swift as ever.

【Wan Yuanliang: A fifty-tael silver ingot from the Likin Bureau, Guangxu twenty-fifth year. The patina looks good too. I'll definitely buy such a rare fine piece.】

【Wan Yuanliang: However, regarding that Dzi bead, you know the current market. Although I do buy them, the price certainly won't be too high.】

【I understand.】

【Shall I bring everything over now?】

【Wan Yuanliang: Okay, I'm at the shop now.】

【Alright.】

After replying to the message, Ye Su looked at the slightly messy living room:

"This safe, the tea cakes, and the wooden box all need to be disposed of somewhere."

To be safe, Ye Su first used the 'Item Appraisal' function to confirm that the wooden box used to hold the items was indeed worthless.

Just as Ye Su was troubled about where to move the safe, the system screen suddenly popped up.

【Detecting that the host is troubled by cleaning up garbage, this service 'Garbage Disposal' can be provided. For only 666 yuan, the garbage in the living room can be removed.】

"Oh, there's even a one-stop service, that's pretty good."

Since it could save him trouble, Ye Su certainly wouldn't be stingy with these six hundred yuan:

"Spend 666 yuan to use the 'Garbage Disposal' service."

【Deduction successful!】

With a flash of light, the safe, tea cakes, and large wooden box on the ground all disappeared from their original spot.

【Garbage has been transferred to three hundred meters underground.】

"Buried so deep, are they worried about someone digging it up?"

Ye Su didn't care where the system dumped the garbage. After cleaning up the cling film that the system hadn't removed, he took the silver ingot and the Dzi bead and left.

Driving at full speed, about twenty minutes later, Ye Su appeared at the entrance of Bowen Antique Shop.

As he pushed the door, Wan Yuanliang had already looked at Ye Su.

"You're something else, you really got a Lamborghini!"

In the morning, when chatting with Chen Qi, Wan Yuanliang had already heard him say that Ye Su had sold his Audi because he bought a Lamborghini.

Normally, a customer buying a Lamborghini wouldn't surprise Wan Yuanliang so much.

After all, among the customer base of Bowen Antique Shop, there were some people who could afford cars worth several million.

However, unlike young customers like Li Mengyao, whose families were already wealthy, Ye Su was someone he had watched build his business step by step.

Recalling more than three months ago, when Ye Su came to the shop introduced by Chen Xinyi, he was only there to sell a stamp worth over ten thousand yuan.

More than three months later, Ye Su's business grew larger and larger, the items he traded became more and more valuable, and now he even drives a Lamborghini.

Whenever Wan Yuanliang thought of this speed of doing business, he felt like smashing his head against a block of tofu and dying.