Power and Wealth - Chapter 43

Chapter 43
Along the streets .





Dong Xuebing was thinking of how to make money with BACK at the Antique City while walking down the underpass back to the hospital . The underpass was damp and reek of urine smell . There were two rows of small stalls in the underpass selling handphone accessories, mini fans, small kitchen tools, etc . Nearer to the stairs, there was a stall selling fruits like pineapples and ice cream . It was bustling with life .

“Ice cream, 1 RMB for 1 . 2 for 1 . 50!”

“Come and take a look! This is the newest peeler . 10 RMB for 1!”

Dong Xuebing sidestepped to avoid stepping on the radish peels on the floor . When he was about to go to the handphone accessories stall, he saw a familiar back view . It was that middle-aged man who had knocked into him earlier . He was the antique coins and notes authenticator expert, Teacher Cheng . He was walking towards a coin vendor . He bent over and examined the pile of rusty coins at the stall carefully .

Dong Xuebing could feel his anger rising when he saw him .

Dong Xuebing was standing not far away from Teacher Cheng and could hear him asking . “How much for these coins?”

The vendor was a young man in his 20s . He was smoking and replied listlessly: “5 RMB for 1 coin . ”

Teacher Cheng replied: “It is too expensive . ”

The young man did not reply and snubbed his cigarette .

Dong Xuebing frowned . When he was working part-time at the Antique City, he had followed his boss to stock up on antiques at the suppliers . The ancient coins were sold by weight . On average, it was a few cents per piece, and almost all the coins were not valuable . This roadside stall’s supplier should be worst than the one Dong Xuebing been to . Those suppliers were cunning and will surely not sell anything good to their customers .

What expert is he? Coming to a roadside stall to pick coins?





Do you know what you are doing?

Dong Xuebing was still thinking about this when he saw Teacher Cheng paused for a while . Huh? What was he doing?

That Teacher Cheng quickly picked 8 to 9 rusty copper coins from the pile and sift through them . He held it tightly in his hand and did not put them back into the pile . He continued to search through the pile of over a thousand coins . After searching for a while, he told the stall owner: “I will take these 9 coins . 45 RMB? Take the money . ”

The young man looked up and saw him . “Right . 4… . . . Eh? You are… . . . ” The young man was stunned for a second . “I have seen you before . You are that expert that appeared on TV . You are an Antique Coins authenticator . ” The young man looked at the coins in Teacher Cheng’s hands and immediately said: “Sorry, the 5 RMB per coins I said was referring to that pile . The coins you are holding is…… 500 RMB per piece . ”

Teacher Cheng’s face changed: “What is the meaning of this?”

The young man did not reply to him . He knew that the coins picked by the expert should be valuable . Maybe those coins were worth much more .


Dong Xuebing was gloating in his heart .

But the next moment surprised Dong Xuebing .

Teacher Cheng sneered and nodded: “500 RMB? You are too much . ”

The young man smiled and reach out to take back the coins in Teacher Cheng’s hand: “You can choose not to buy it . ”





“Wait . ” Teacher Cheng frowned and kept the coins in his pocket . He took out 4,500 RMB from his wallet and pass it to the young man . “Is this enough?”

Dong Xuebing, the young man and the rest of the onlookers were stunned .

No one expects Teacher Cheng to really buy those coins .

Those that knew antiques will know that there was a large number of ancient coins in the market . Most of them were worthless . At most, the coins were worth a few RMB to 20 RMB . But Teacher Cheng was willing to fork out 4,500 RMB for those few coins? He was an expert in ancient coins and should not make this foolish mistake .

Let that expert get this bargain?

What luck does that Teacher Cheng have? Getting a steal from a roadside stall?

Dong Xuebing was pissed . But he suddenly realized something . BACK! BACK! BACK!

……

The scenes changed in front of Dong Xuebing .

“How much for these coins?” Teacher Cheng asked while squatting by the roadside stall .

The young man was smoking replied without looking up . “:5 RMB for 1 coin . ”





Teacher Cheng replied: “It is too expensive . ”

The young man did not reply and snubbed his cigarette .

Dong Xuebing knew this was the chance to make money . He quickly moves forward . He remembered that Teacher Cheng had picked those few coins from the left corner . Eh, no… it should be at the bottom of the pile . Huh? That’s not right either . He was moving the coins about, and the position of the coins were all messed up . Dong Xuebing was standing from a distance and could not see the wordings on the coins clearly . Picking those coins from the whole pile was impossible . What should he do? He will be wasting this opportunity?

Dong Xuebing suddenly got an idea . He ran to the stall: “Boss . ”

The young man got a shock . “What do you want? Buy coins?”

Teacher Cheng turned at looked at Dong Xuebing before turning back to the pile of coins .

Dong Xuebing saw he could not distract Teacher Cheng and he quickly squats down and pushes Teacher Cheng aside . He grabbed the cloth under the coins and carried up the whole pile of coins . “Boss, how many coins do you have here? Over 1,000? Let me estimate the weight . ” The bundle of coins was quite heavy .

Teacher Cheng was pissed . “What is wrong with you? I am still picking the coins . ”

Dong Xuebing scoffed . “So what? Have you paid for the coins?”

The young man asked puzzledly: “Why are you estimating the weight? There are about 1,300 to 1,400 coins . Put the coins down . The other customer still has not finished picking . ”

Dong Xuebing replied to that young man . “How about this? I am lazy to count the exact number of coins . I will buy all the coins in this bundle . How much?”

The young man and Teacher Cheng looked at Dong Xuebing in shock . “Al the coins?”

Dong Xuebing nodded . “That’s right . Name a price . ”

The young man was overjoyed: “If you are getting everything, I will give you a discount . 5 RMB per coin and 1,300 coins cost 6,500 RMB . I will sell everything to you for 6,000 RMB?”

Dong Xuebing held the bundle of coins tightly: “6,000 RMB is too expensive . How about 4,000 RMB?”

The young man replied: “My cost is also very high . I can’t sell it to you any cheaper . Errr…… Fine…… let’s meet in the middle . 5,000 RMB? I will just earn lesser . ”

“Fine……”

The young man was ecstatic . He had set up this stall for more than a year, and he finally met a sucker .

Teacher Cheng scoffed at Dong Xuebing and walked away . He was thinking in his heart that Dong Xuebing was a novice in antiques . Dong Xuebing had not even looked at the coins and bought all the coins . Was he crazy?

Dong Xuebing did not have so much cash with him . The young man followed him with the bundle of coins to a nearby ICBC ATM . Dong Xuebing withdrew 5,000 RMB and passed it to the young man . He looked at his bank account balance . There was only a few hundred left . But Dong Xuebing was still feeling great . He carried the big bundle of coins back to the hospital .

Hahaha…… .

So, BACK can be used like this……