444: Worth investing

"Hmm." Ye Su nodded, responding to Wan Yuanliang's shock: "I plan to sell this natural bezoar for 1.65 million."

"1.65 million?!"

Even though he had handled so many valuable antiques, Wan Yuanliang was still startled by the price of the natural bezoar in his hands.

"You really are the type who doesn't open shop for three years, but eats for three years once you do. You haven't been here for two weeks, and the moment you show up, you bring out such heavyweight items!"

"I'm just earning some hard-earned money." Ye Su didn't dwell on this topic: "So, how about it? Will you buy this?"

Wan Yuanliang thought for a moment, then shook his head and said:

"It's not that I don't trust you, dude, it's just that I've never dealt with this item before, and I can't tell what the quality is like, so it's really hard for me to buy."

"Sigh..." Ye Su sighed regretfully: "Alright then."

Ye Su understood Wan Yuanliang's perspective.

In the antique industry, if you want to last, you must avoid acting like a gambler—thinking of taking a risk when you don't understand the item.

Admittedly, Wan Yuanliang trusted Ye Su immensely and believed he wouldn't try to scam him with a fake item.

However, he couldn't judge the natural bezoar, and he couldn't rule out the possibility that Ye Su himself had misjudged it and was selling a fake item to him as a genuine one.

If that were to happen, after Wan Yuanliang bought the fake natural bezoar at a high price, he would then have to search the world for a buyer, only to have the item's flaws discovered later.

Not only would he lose money, but it would also ruin the reputation of Bowen Antique Shop.

Although Bowen Antique Shop wasn't a massive conglomerate, by diligently guarding this family business, they could still live a prosperous life.

There was no need for Wan Yuanliang to take such a huge risk for just a little profit.

Just as Ye Su was about to take the natural bezoar back and figure out where else to find a buyer, Wan Yuanliang suddenly changed his tone:

"However, I have a friend I know on Pingqing Road. If you want to sell this natural bezoar, I can help you contact him to see if his shop is buying."

"Having an introduction from an acquaintance is certainly the best." Ye Su flattered him: "It really has to be you, Boss Wan, having acquaintances in every trade."

Ye Su had heard of the "Pingqing Road" that Wan Yuanliang mentioned. It was also in the Li District, not too far from the antique street.

That place, much like Changlin Road which specialized in jade business, was a professional market specifically for traditional Chinese medicinal materials, with a history spanning nearly fifty years to date.

Furthermore, the Pingqing Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Professional Market was one of the 17 national professional markets for medicinal materials approved by the state, and it was also the only legal professional market for medicinal materials in Guangzhou.

The entire market's architecture covered an area of over 50,000 square meters, housing more than 1,700 merchants.

Normally, as long as you knew your stuff, you could basically buy any traditional Chinese medicinal material on the market at the Pingqing Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Professional Market.

Ye Su had just been thinking that if Wan Yuanliang didn't buy this natural bezoar, he would take it over there to try his luck.

Now that Wan Yuanliang said he could find an acquaintance to help him ask if the other party was buying, it saved Ye Su a lot of effort.

However, there was a downside to having Wan Yuanliang introduce an acquaintance: he would have to pay a commission fee.

Business is business, and Ye Su didn't shy away from such topics, asking directly:

"So, how is the commission fee calculated?"

If it were just a few tens of thousands, Ye Su would pay it.

If Wan Yuanliang asked for five percent, which would amount to eighty thousand, Ye Su would have no choice but to go to Pingqing Street himself and ask shop by shop if anyone was buying such a large piece of natural bezoar.

He had money now, but he wasn't so rich that he could ignore eighty or a hundred thousand.

"No need." To Ye Su's surprise, Wan Yuanliang waved his hand dismissively:

"I'm just helping you two build a bridge. Whether the business succeeds or not is up to you two; forget about the commission fee."

Although he opened his doors to do business, Wan Yuanliang still knew a thing or two about propriety and understood when to talk business and when to talk about relationships.

If he were to settle accounts clearly with Ye Su every single time, wanting to charge a commission fee just for making a phone call, then over time, there would only be a purely transactional relationship left between them, and the relationship they had cultivated would go down the drain.

Who knows when, if the other party found another partner, they would cut ties with Bowen Antique Shop.

Whether to have one full meal or be fed for a lifetime, Wan Yuanliang could still figure that out.

Understanding Wan Yuanliang's generous intention, Ye Su didn't stand on ceremony with him: "Then I thank you, Boss Wan."

"Alright, don't give me that."

After saying that, Wan Yuanliang picked up his phone, took several photos of the natural bezoar, and then found a contact among his friends to send the photos to.

Less than a minute had passed when Wan Yuanliang raised his head again:

"He said he couldn't see it very clearly on his phone, so he's coming to the shop to inspect the goods now. He should be here in about ten minutes."

"No problem."

The residential complex where Su Yingxuan and the other two lived was also in the Li District, so it would only take about ten minutes to drive there from Bowen Antique Shop.

The time he had agreed upon with her to trade the tablets was at four o'clock in the afternoon. Since there was still plenty of time, Ye Su wasn't in a hurry and stayed in the shop drinking tea and chatting with Wan Yuanliang, waiting for the buyer of the natural bezoar to arrive.

"I heard from Chen Qi that you went to pick up a porsche cayenne last week, only to end up getting a car that had been in an accident?"

Chen Qi was the one Wan Yuanliang had introduced to him, so Ye Su didn't find it abrupt that the two of them would talk about this matter.

"Yeah, that 4S dealership looked like repeat offenders. After I brought the evidence to them, they didn't even question the authenticity of the inspection report; they just tried to find ways to brush it off."

Wan Yuanliang asked curiously while drafting a contract: "So what about now? How far has the issue been resolved?"

"It's been resolved."

"So fast?" Wan Yuanliang was somewhat surprised.

He knew that for these kinds of disputes, it was normal for car owners to spend a year or two fighting for their rights.

For someone like Ye Su, where the 4S dealership was willing to resolve the issue right after he discovered the problem, it could be said to be quite rare.

Unless Ye Su was willing to back down and accept whatever meager compensation the 4S dealership offered.

But no matter how Wan Yuanliang looked at it, he didn't think Ye Su was the type of person who would be so easygoing after being ripped off by a 4S dealership.

"The problem is resolved, so what about the car? How did you end up handling it?"

"Naturally, I returned it for a refund plus three times the compensation and gave it back to the 4S dealership."

"Refund plus three times the compensation!"

Wan Yuanliang was truly shocked this time.

He had heard from Chen Qi that the model Ye Su bought cost over a million on the road.

A refund plus three times the compensation meant that, in addition to the refund of the car purchase price, the 4S dealership had to pay over four million in compensation!

To be able to open a 4S dealership of such scale in Guangzhou, the boss behind it certainly wasn't simple.

To be able to make the 4S dealership admit defeat and pay up within just a few days could only prove that the connections behind Ye Su were even less simple!

Thinking of this, Wan Yuanliang held Ye Su in even higher regard, and at the same time, felt fortunate for his decision to maintain his friendship with Ye Su rather than treating him solely as a customer.