Zhou Lin glanced at Xu Dong in front of him, lowered his eyes and stared at a pair of colorful nails that he had just spent three hundred yuan, and said lightly: "Do you want to borrow money again?" Don't talk about it, it's enough for you to eat and drink in our house for nothing, and your so-called borrowing money is not the same as a meat bun beating a dog? ”

After saying this, Zhou Lin was still not satisfied, and raised his eyebrows and added a few words: "Although the meat bun beats the dog and there is no return, the dog will still wag its tail a few times and make two sounds, right?" ”

Xu Dong's heart tingled!

If it weren't for the last resort, and there was really no way, how could he borrow money from this cousin?

Two years ago, his parents died in a car accident, Xu Dong was still in his first year of high school, and as a minor who needed a legal "guardian", Xu Dong "lived" in his aunt Huang Shuyu's house.

Huang Shuyu is the only sister of Xu Dong's mother Huang Shuying, Huang Shuyu's family of three, husband Zhou Tianqi, daughter Zhou Lin is five years older than Xu Dong, after graduating from university, she worked in a branch of the city's CCB, although she is only a small clerk, but in Huang Xu's family, Zhou Lin is considered "promising".

The car accident is Xu Dong's father's full responsibility, even if the person dies, he has to be responsible, and he lost a lot of money to go out, Xu Dong is an only son, his father is also an only son, and the only relatives who can rely on him are the aunt, and then the aunt and the uncle dealt with their Xu family's house and property and began to "guardian" Xu Dong.

It is precisely because there is still an industrial disposal fund of three or four hundred thousand yuan, otherwise how could Huang Shuyu and Zhou Tianqi be willing to be this guardian?

It's only been more than two years, and the aunt and uncle and husband and wife have gradually become more talkative, and there is nothing left in front of Xu Dong, Xu Dong's expenses are large, and if he is admitted to university, he will not have enough money to study.

To tell the truth, Xu Dong's grades in the third year of high school in the city are top-notch, and it is estimated that there will be no surprise when he is admitted to a first-class university, but the better his grades are, the more unhappy Huang Shuyu and Zhou Tianqi are, and if they are not a family, they will not enter the door, and Zhou Lin, the cousin of the aunt's family, is usually sneering at Xu Dong.

What kind of study expenses does Xu Dong usually want, it is rare for the aunt and his wife to get money, and after calculation, I think it is better to talk to my cousin Zhou Lin, and this time in order to sprint for the college entrance examination, it costs 200 yuan to buy a set of materials, Xu Dong opened his mouth to Zhou Lin, but in the end, he was ridiculed and ridiculed by Zhou Lin, and the money was naturally not borrowed.

Xu Dong was so sad that he couldn't describe it, he simply went out and walked around on the road blankly, tears welling up in his eyes, when his parents were alive, he was the "treasure" of the family, and the willful pampering at that time is really a waste of happiness in retrospect, and children who are not loved by their parents are really not as good as grass!

For more than two years, after the sale of the family property, it was all under the management of the aunt and the eldest uncle, and Xu Dong didn't know how to use it, and the more Xu Dong suffered, the more angry he became, but he felt that this kind of day was almost to the limit of his patience.

There was a drizzle in the sky, the rain dripped from the hair, the eyes were hazy, the face was cold, Xu Dong's heart was also cold, people, it was really difficult to live!

However, if he wants to get rid of such a miserable life and live the life he wants, he has to rely on his own efforts, and studying well may be his best way out.

It is said in the books that a penny is difficult to defeat a hero, not to mention that he is not a "hero"!

Xu Dong wiped the rain on his face, although he was confused, he straightened his chest, and wanted to break out of his own sky, he was about to turn eighteen years old, and if he was good, he could find a short-term odd job to earn some money.

However, the current need for information is too urgent, or you can also wear the Patek Philippe watch on his wrist, which was a gift from his father on his fifteenth birthday, and he was reluctant to give it out when he had no money many times, just because it was a gift from his father!

The Xu family has been engaged in the antique pawn industry since the old generation, Tongcheng is an old ancient city with a long history, naturally there is no shortage of "players", there is a "street" specializing in this line, to modern times, this old street with red bricks and blue tiles still exists, and it seems eclectic in the modern city with high-rise buildings.

Xu Dong's father has a small pawn shop, after the car accident, the pawnshop assets were sold by the eldest uncle to pay compensation, part of Xu Dong's living needs, the pawnshop was also taken over by him, but limited by technical vision, the eldest uncle's business is only average, neither particularly popular, nor loss-making.

Xu Dong wants to take time to make a little money, and he only thinks about going to these pawn shops or antique shops, after all, he still understands something from a young age, and he also wants to use that watch as a trip to deal with emergencies.

There are only two things left by his parents on Xu Dong, one is the Patek Philippe watch that was originally worth more than 10,000 yuan, and the other is a small two-inch-long cylindrical black stone worn around his neck.

That thing was bought by Xu Dong's father, and it is estimated that it is not worth much, because it has been tested, it is not jade, but it is very warm and comfortable to wear on the body, and it is not good for children to wear valuables such as gold, silver and jade, and they are afraid of robbing, and this small round stone is neither valuable nor small, so Xu Dong's father put it on Xu Dong's neck.

Not far from the pawn shop, Xu Dong can find a shortcut through the small alley with his eyes closed, but he doesn't go to the pawn shop that he is familiar with his father. I was afraid that it would be the same as borrowing money from my cousin, and I would be ridiculed in vain.

Xu Dong glanced a few times on the street, it was drizzling, and the pedestrians on the road were all holding umbrellas, and no one paid attention to him, so he found a newly opened "Brother Niu Pawn Shop" to enter.

This pawn shop is not large, and the store is very different from the regular pawn shop, like the display cabinet of a gold store, and the twenty square meters of the store are full of glass counters, and the objects in the counter are also clearly illuminated by the bright lights.

Xu Dong took a few looks, and there were mostly mobile phones, cameras, gold and silver jewelry, etc. in the cabinet, but they didn't have anything to do with antiques.

There was only one person in the store, a middle-aged man in his thirties, a little fat, with a shiny head on his head, his hair was smeared with oil, and he was combed to the back of his head and pierced a small discernment, which looked very individual.

"Hello, something?"

The middle-aged fat man was fiddling with an Apple mobile phone in his hand, looked up at Xu Dong and asked him directly if he had something, and he didn't ask him if he was here to buy anything.

It seems that there is a vision, Xu Dong himself knows that he doesn't look like he has money to buy anything, the fat man is experienced, so he can naturally see it, and there is only this fat man in the store, there are no other clerks and other customers, but he doesn't have to worry about being ridiculed and ridiculed by others.

Xu Dong didn't say much, he directly took off the watch on his wrist and handed it to the middle-aged fat man: "Boss, I have a Patek Philippe watch, I have been wearing it for two years, and I want to be it!" ”

The fat man took the watch, carefully observed the shape and workmanship of the watch, then listened to the sound in his ear sideways, and shook it gently twice.

In terms of workmanship, this thing is genuine, at least the shell is real, but there are too many fake things inside the gold and jade, but even if you don't open the shell to detect the inside, the fat man is not easy to be deceived, Patek Philippe's watch, you can identify the quality by listening to the sound, and if it is an imitation, it will not be possible to do Patek Philippe's Cheng dù inside, shake it or not, you know, just these few tests, the fat man knows that Xu Dong's watch is genuine.

Xu Dong didn't say anything about how good his things were, or how valuable they were, his family is a pawn, he knows this set very well, no matter how much you say, it's useless, the value of any item has to be evaluated by the inspector in the pawnshop after a comprehensive evaluation.

Besides, a Patek Philippe watch is also a luxury item, and the selling price in China is already a strict value, but in fact, it is not worth that price.

After checking for a while, the fat man looked at Xu Dong again, and then slowly said, "Little brother, your watch...... It's true, but since you're here to do this, you know it......"

"Boss, how much money can you just say?" Xu Dong saw that the fat man was not as "scared" as some pawn shop owners, and he said it directly.

Some bosses will engage in psychological warfare in order to lower the price, such as suggesting that your thing is not coming from the right way, it was stolen or robbed, and you can only accept the low price if you want to sell it.

The fat man groaned, and after a while, he said: "You are a style from two years ago, and now it has been discontinued, but the value is still there, according to its own value, it can't be compared with the price you bought at retail, one-third is about three thousand, and if you get the pawn shop, I can only give you thirty percent of this price, do you understand?" ”

"Understood!" Xu Dong nodded, generally pawn shops will only bid, and they will not tell a customer in such detail how the price of the pawn is converted, the fat man told him so much, and it seems that he didn't regard him as a thief, it was a real bid.

"Are you dead or alive?" The fat man hummed and asked Xu Dong again.

This is similar to a mortgage loan from a bank, except that the interest will be much higher, and the pawn shop will give a deadline, within which the customer can redeem the pawn as long as he pays the principal and "interest" of the pawn, and then he can get the pawned item back.

Xu Dong sighed, shook his head and said: "Boss, I'm short of money now, and I don't know when I'll be able to earn money, at least in the time I think it's worth it, there's no way to redeem this watch, so let's die!" ”

The fat man glanced at Xu Dong again: "Listen to your tone...... I seem to be familiar with the pawn industry......"

Xu Dong smiled bitterly, when it came to family matters, he didn't want to say more, after thinking about it, he took off the small black cylindrical stone he was wearing around his neck and handed it to the fat man: "Boss, look at how much this thing can be worth of me?" ”

The fat man smiled and took it, but he had a good impression of Xu Dong, and when he took the small round stone to check, he waved his hand and ordered Xu Dong: "Sit down, it's very tiring to stand." ”