Chapter 401 - Chapter 401: Chapter 401: Brass Cat (2/2)
“Such a treasure being treated as junk, it’s really a pity.”
It was as though they had heard the biggest joke in the world as they burst into roaring laughter, in their eyes, Chen Yu was nothing more than a bumpkin.
“Brother, what kind of eyes do you have? Can’t you see this is just a little copper cat?”
Chen Yu didn’t pay them any mind and picked up the brass cat to inspect it thoroughly.
“Old man, how much do you want to sell this for?”
The old man’s eyes lit up, “One hundred taels of Gold will suffice.”
Chen Yu immediately faced a dilemma, he was unclear about the monetary system of the Dongming Canyon and didn’t know the purchasing power of one hundred taels of Gold.
“Fellow shop owners, how much do you plan to offer?”
At those words, the stallholders laughed even harder.
“Kid, I advise you to just leave. It’s nothing but a pile of scrap copper, useless to buy. We are only willing to offer at most sixty taels of Gold just because of the pair of Cat’s Eye Gemstones!”
Chen Yu had a figure in mind and immediately took out a banknote worth fifty thousand taels of Gold.
“I’ll offer five hundred taels of Gold, but this banknote I have on me is far too large a denomination, I wonder who could help me break it down.”
The stallholders present suddenly widened their eyes, a banknote of such a large denomination itself was worth over fifty thousand taels of Gold.
“I can!”
One of the stallholders dashed over, holding an iron box in his hands.
As soon as he opened it, the box full of Gold shone a dazzling light.
“I have four banknotes each worth ten thousand taels of Gold here, and the rest are assorted small pieces of Gold and smaller banknotes, I wonder if that would be acceptable to you?”
Chen Yu didn’t bother to check in detail and swiftly counted the amount of Gold before handing over his banknote.
He then took out five hundred taels of Gold from the iron box and gave it to the old man.
Upon receiving the Gold, the old man was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly before finally leaving.
The crowd watching began to mock and sneer, in their view, Chen Yu had just suffered a big loss.
With five hundred taels of Gold, one could melt and cast a golden cat’s size bigger than that of the brass one.
Amidst the crowd’s laughter, Chen Yu suddenly slammed the brass cat onto the ground.
Before they could react, the brass cat shattered into pieces.
Encased within its body of pure Gold were scattered over a dozen true odd gemstones of various colors.
The onlookers became unsettled, especially the previous stall owners who crowded around.
“My heavens, the brass was merely a facade, inside was a completely different world.”
“All these items together are worth at least twenty thousand taels of Gold.”
“This brother is impressive, turning five hundred taels of Gold into twenty thousand in an instant.”
Everyone became excessively excited, with some even grabbing hold of Chen Yu’s hand, wanting to purchase the gemstones on the spot.
Chen Yu remained silent and busied himself with gathering the items.
Here, all these items together might fetch twenty thousand taels of Gold, but outside, their value would be far beyond this amount.
Just one of the purple gemstones alone, could sell for over a billion at any auction house out there.
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