Section IX

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Hearing someone coming in, the old gentleman looked up. Seeing Liu Yang and Xu Yan, he put down the book unhurriedly and got up, smiled gently, and his voice was very pure and peaceful: "Two juniors, welcome to come in and have a look." Want something?"

Liu Yang coughed dryly: "Boss, hello! That, we want to ask, do you recycle gold here?"

Hearing that the two young men were not here to buy something, the boss raised his eyebrows slightly, but he didn't seem surprised. He nodded, "Of course, our store also recycles gold and silver." Do you have any gold jewelry to sell, young man?"

"Boss, we want to ask, how much money is your gold recycled?"

The old gentleman said gently: "Two hundred and sixty yuan a gram, but it depends on the quality of the gold." ”

Xu Yan and Liu Yang glanced at each other, and they both saw that the other party was nodding slightly: they asked for the price all the way, and the gold shops along the way were only willing to pay two hundred and five or two hundred and forty-one grams, and this old gentleman's offer was already the highest, and Liu Yang showed a smug look in his eyes, because he looked at people with a smart and proud eye.

Xu Yan carefully took out the gold ingots from his trouser pocket: "In this way, please ask the boss to identify it." ”

Seeing the gold ingot, the boss said "Huh", and his face showed surprise: "It's a gold ingot? This style of gold is really rare now." Where did you get that?"

"A friend sent it, and the boss helped us see if it was genuine?"

The boss took a white handkerchief and carefully took the gold ingots and placed them on the counter. Then he took out a wooden box from under the counter, and took out a lot of various gadgets: tweezers, pokes, scales, lighters, magnifying glasses, spotlights...... Next, what this boss did, Xu Yan couldn't understand. I saw that he first approached it with a magnifying glass, then poked it with tweezers, then burned it with a lighter, and weighed it with a weight scale......

After tossing and turning like this for more than ten minutes, the boss finally put down the ingots and wiped his hands with a towel without hurrying. Under the anxious gaze of the two, he spoke calmly: "No problem, this is the real thing, the real thing with a high solid color." Are you two going to make a move?"

Hearing this, Xu Yan and Liu Yang were also relieved - they could finally turn money into money!

"That's right, boss, we're going to sell it, can you recycle it?"

"It's no problem to have a solid color of gold, but we Qin Ji are from a century-old shop, and we have always abided by the law, and we don't touch those things of unknown origin - this, do you have proof of the legal origin of gold? Invoices, receipts or something?"

As he spoke, the old gentleman looked at the two of them, his eyes were unexpectedly sharp, as if the police were staring at the thief, Xu Yan and Liu Yang both had a feeling that they couldn't look at each other, and they actually lowered their heads involuntarily - under that stern gaze, at that moment, for some reason, both of them felt weak in their hearts, as if gold was really stolen.

Xu Yan snorted and said, "The gold was given by a friend, and we don't have any proof......

The old gentleman shook his head regretfully: "Without legal proof, there is no way." Take this thing back. ”

He sighed, handed the gold back to Xu Yan, and said earnestly: "Young man, forgive my old man for saying a word to you: you are still young and have taken the wrong path for a while, as long as you change it, there is still a chance, but you can't make mistakes again and again." Those crooked ways are quick to get money, but if you continue like this, you will waste your youth, and your life will be ruined. ”

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and then came to his senses: Listening to the old gentleman's earnest tone, he really regarded himself as a thief and sold the stolen goods, Xu Yan was angry and funny, and he was still a little faintly moved in his heart -- how long has he not heard such honest and caring words? In this era when the world is declining and people's hearts are not ancient, there is still such an upright old gentleman who can uphold the traditional moral standards and teach and save two young people who he thinks are going astray, this is really rare.

It can be seen that this boss is really a rare loyal elder, and he can rest assured when dealing with him.

Xu Yan was thinking about how to convince the other party, and the fat man Liu Yang had already spoken: "This boss, you don't have to worry. Although there is no invoice for the gold ingot, we guarantee that it is definitely something of innocence. Because this is an antique handed down by our friend's ancestors, he dug it out of the ground when he recently rebuilt the old house, and he gave it to us, and it is definitely not something that was stolen and robbed.

You look at this, there are a few words under the ingots: 'Da Ming Household Department Specially Cast', do you see it? This is the evidence! This is obviously an antiquity, how can there be any invoice receipt?"

The boss frowned, picked up a magnifying glass and took a closer look at the bottom of the ingot, and nodded slightly: "Hou Sheng, the few words you said are really there, and the Ming Household Department is specially casting-hehe, is this really an antiquity?"

The boss raised his head, with a slight color in his eyes: "Where did you find this thing?"

"Yes, old sir, don't worry, we will never do anything that violates the law-old sir, look, we look like bad people, aren't we?"

The boss said "hey", he shook the paper fan and smiled: "This, I can't see the old man." But little fat man, I think you look like a bad guy. ”

Liu Yang: "......"

"Just kidding, looking at the temperament of the two, it is indeed not like those who are not careful, but like the offspring of reading......"

Liu Yang gave a thumbs up: "The old gentleman has a good eye, we are both students of Shudu University!"

Shudu University is in Shudu Province, it is a leading famous school, and those who can go to this school are all students who have more than a key line score, and they still have a bit of a reputation in Jincheng, and this old gentleman obviously knows it. He showed a clear expression: "It turned out to be a student of Shudu University, no wonder." In this way, two young men, you came to my store today, and it is fate, and you are college students, so you should not be some bad people--I will take a risk in this matter, and make an exception to help you once. I'm willing to accept this ingot, but because you don't have an invoice formalities, it can only be two hundred and thirty-one grams, and if you want to sell it, you can discuss it yourself-"

"Is it two hundred and three, thirty yuan less?" The two looked at each other: "Old man, this price is too hard, right?"

Looking at the elongated faces of the two, the owner of the gold shop smiled and shook his head: "Young man, like this kind of gold of unknown origin, I have to take a risk to accept it, I don't believe you look at it, walk all over Chang'an Avenue, see which shop dares to accept this? And I don't just accept it, I also have to register your documents, otherwise I will be inspected by the public security for this thing, and I can't explain the history, and I am also very troublesome." ”

Xu Yan and Liu Yang lowered their heads and muttered and discussed for a while, and finally agreed: although there were thirty less, this gold shop gave them a very relieved feeling, and they really didn't have the energy to repeat this bargaining process with the second gold shop.

The price is negotiated, then the next thing is simple, the owner of the gold shop registered the ID cards and student IDs of Xu Yan and Liu Yang, and weighed the gold, a total of 203 grams, and the total price is more than 46,000 yuan. He asked Xu Yan, "Do you want cash, a check or a transfer?"

Xu Yan touched his head: "This, I still want cash." ”

"Hehe, you young man, you're not afraid of trouble. Wait, there's not so much cash in the store, I'll call someone to bring it. ”

The boss went out on the phone, and about five or six minutes later, a dark-faced man in a T-shirt came in with a paper bag in his hand. The boss dragged the man to the back hall, muttered to him a few times, and then came out again.

The man beckoned: "Uncle Qin, the things have been delivered, then I'll go!" Before going out, he glanced back at Xu Yan and Liu Yang again, and when Xu Yan looked back, the man avoided his gaze - for some reason, the man's eyes made Xu Yan feel very uncomfortable.

"Here, young man, take it and order it in person. The boss handed over a paper bag with a smile, Xu Yan opened it and saw that there were a few bundles of red banknotes inside. He thanked him, counted it with Liu Yang, and soon finished the count, it was 46,900 yuan, and the boss took the initiative to take the money detector out again, and asked them to go through it again, and the amount was accurate.

The boss smiled: "In this case, who can give me a receipt?"

Xu Yan wrote the receipt and took the paper bag containing the money. Thinking that Zhu Youxiang had entrusted himself to help her exchange the gold, he asked: "Old man, I want to ask something, if I still have the same gold ingots as this one, and I sell them from you, can you still accept them?"

"Oh?" the boss pushed down his glasses, a strange color flashing across his eyes. He said slowly, "Young man, how many more do you have?"

"I can't say this, I'm afraid there will always be a dozen or twenty. ”

The boss looked Xu Yan up and down for a while, and said with a smile: "We open the door to do business, there are goods delivered to the door, as long as the price is right, how can we not accept things? If it is really a large number of goods and good condition, the price can be negotiable. ”

He handed Xu Yan and Liu Yang a business card: "This is my business card, the two of you have good things, you can contact me at any time, the price is negotiable." ”

Xu Yan and Liu Yang took the business card and looked at it, it turned out that the old gentleman was surnamed Qin Mingyue, but the business card was not a simple name, but also a large number of company names densely arranged, such as "Chairman of Guangya Trading Company", "Chairman of Zhonglong International Trade Group", "Chairman of Southeast Asia Economic and Trade Liaison Chamber of Commerce" and the like, there were more than 20 companies, and the two unsocial college students were amazed, and it was hard to imagine that the skin in front of them could be wrapped in so many titles.

Looking at the surprised expressions of the two, Qin Yue smiled and said, "Smile generously, smile generously, don't laugh at each other." No way, this is the way it is now, and I am not exempt from vulgarity. In order to support his family, he had to make some gimmicks, and the two of them should not take it seriously. ”

"Hehe, Chairman Qin......"

"Hey, don't take those titles seriously, if you don't dislike them, you can call me Uncle Qin. Anyway, if there's anything good, you can just contact me. ”

Xu Yan and Liu Yang took the money, they were full of joy, nodded again and again, and went out happily.

Looking at the backs of the two of them, Qin Yue looked at the gold ingots in his hand, but a sneer appeared on his face: The two college students kept saying that the gold ingots were dug out of the ground when they were renovating the ancestral house, this kind of crude lie, Qin Yue wouldn't even believe half a word.

The two young little hairy heads, out of nowhere, got millions worth of gold ingots, and sneakily stole one of them out and sold it - this is what Qin Yue thinks.

"Looking at the panicked appearance of those two boys, most of this batch of gold is not visible, and the two college students look very young, and they don't look like they have any backstage and background......"

In the eyes of Qin Yue, who is one of the most important bosses in Xinjiang District, Jincheng, this kind of lucrative opportunity to eat black is simply a pie that has fallen from the world, and it is simply unreasonable for him to let it go!

There was only one thing that made Qin Yue puzzled: where did the gold that the two little hairy heads brought come from?

"I haven't heard of any major gold robberies lately, and I haven't heard of any gold shops or banks being robbed...... Or maybe they stole the vaults of some gold shop, and they don't know what to do?

No, the gold in the bank and the gold shop are all gold bars and gold bricks, and there is no gold shop that casts gold in the shape of such ingots...... Or is this a special handicraft made by a gold shop? But why is there a word cast by the Ming Dynasty?"

Could it be that they have lost their eyes? Is it really that those two boys were lucky enough to dig up an ancient tomb or treasure?

But it's not right, the old ingots and newly minted gold that have been stored for hundreds of years are put in their own eyes, which is simply bigger than the gap between men and women, how can they admit their mistakes?

The fineness of this gold is very new, it has not even been cast for a year, it has not even been removed, it has not been stubble to the touch, there is no oxidation and blackening, and there is no earthy smell, how can it be gold buried in the ground?

This matter seems very simple on the surface, but in the eyes of Qin Yue, who is experienced in the rivers and lakes, there are many things in it that he can't figure out, and the more he thinks about it, the more strange he feels.

However, this did not shake Qin Yue's determination: "The two little hairy children are very young, ignorant, and don't understand anything. For tens of thousands of dollars to be happy like this, these two people will not look at it with any origin - however, this matter is too strange, for the sake of safety, let's touch their bottom first. ”

Qin Yue took out his mobile phone from the drawer at the counter and dialed a number: "Thin dog, they are gone, you let people go to the bottom of them and see what the origin is...... Yes, both of them are students of Shudu University, one is named Liu Yang, and the other is Xu Yan, okay, you inquire first, and there is news to tell me. (The novel "The Guardian" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!)