Female Novel
Chapter 206
Chapter 206 Choosing Antiques On Portabello Street
He knew if Jessica revealed his identity as the chairman of Four Seas Corporation, the whole birthdaydinner would be ruined as everyone’s attention would be on him.
He didn’t want to steal the old lady’s thunder at her own birthday dinner.
“Then how should I address you?” Jessica asked after a brief pause..
“My name. What else?” Alex was amused.
“Okay,” Jessica responded.
“Let’s go find your gift,” Alex urged.
“Alright,” Jessica nodded her head and followed Alex around to look at the street stalls.
“That stall has a lot of stuff. Why don’t we go there?” Suddenly, Jessica pointed at a stall andsuggested. That particular stall wasn’t even a stall. It was just antiques spread all over a plastic sheeton the ground. There were silverware, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, and pottery on that plastic sheet.
Alex glanced over the stuff and immediately determined that they were all fakes.
The stall owner was a tanned and skinny man dressed in dirty denim jeans. His hair was disheveledand greasy, as if he hadn’t washed it in days. At first glance, he looked like a man trying to make anhonest living.
But Alex knew that was all just appearances. The stall owner was, in fact, terribly cunning.
There were many customers at his stall, so he was getting a lot of business.
“Okay,” Alex nodded and headed to that stall.
“How much is this?” Alex asked the stall owner as he knelt and picked up a gold bracelet.
The stall owner stared at the gold bracelet with his bulging eyes as he replied, “My grandma left thisbracelet for me, and it is our family heirloom. I’ll sell it to you for a hundred grand. No negotiatingallowed.”
A hundred grand?
The other customers glanced at the gold bracelet in Alex’s hand and started talking about it because itseemed like an authentic antique.
“A hundred grand? That expensive?” Jessica gasped in shock.
“Yes, it’s our family heirloom. Of course it’s expensive,” the owner responded matter–of–factly.
Alex grinned and put the bracelet back. He picked up a horse ornament and inquired, “What aboutthis?”
The owner looked at it and said, “This is a treasure my great–grandfather found in an ancient tomb.Eighty grand for this.”
Alex chuckled. “Looks like your ancestors are rich, huh? If you have so many family heirlooms, whyWould you sell them at a street stall?”
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Everything here was fake and mass–produced. The total cost was only around a few hundred, so Alexcouldn’t help but laugh when the owner kept claiming that the items were his family heirlooms.
The crowd immediately understood Alex’s hint that most of the items here were fakes.
His words made sense. The owner wouldn’t dare to sell expensive antiques at a street stall, would he?
“Young man, if you like this horse ornament, I can sell it to you at a cheaper price.” The owner hurriedlyoffered when he saw Alex stand up to leave.novelbin
“How much?” Alex asked.
“How much are you willing to pay?” The owner responded with another question.
“One hundred,” Alex answered with a grin.
“One hundred?” The owner’s eyes widened in surprise. “Young man, is that a joke? This is-”
But before he could finish his sentence, Alex had already turned to leave.
The owner yelled desperately, “At least one thousand, then!”
Alex swiveled around and laughed. “I see there are other antiques in that sack of yours. Why don’t youshow them to me?”
“Sure, but you have to agree to buy this horse ornament first,” the owner replied.
“I don’t want the horse ornament, but I might buy the other stuff.” Alex grinned.
After a brief hesitation, the owner emptied his sack on the sheet.
Suddenly, a white pebble caught Alex’s attention.