Chapter 123 - Chapter 123: Chapter 120: Mr. Lin Takes Action, This is the Real Scam! (Please Subscribe)_2 (1/2)
Chapter 123: Chapter 120: Mr. Lin Takes Action, This is the Real Scam! (Please Subscribe)_2
Lin Chuan turned his head to the side.
Here it comes.
Liu Qing had laid the groundwork for so long, just for this moment.
The Little Landlady pursed her lips, a hint of guilt in her voice as she said, “Aunt Liu, that bracelet was bought by a friend of mine.”
Old Zhang’s face changed, and he couldn’t help but say, “Zhang, how could you sell the bracelet your Aunt Liu gave you…”
“Old Zhang, it’s just a bracelet. I’ll give Zhang another one later,” Liu Qing said with a smile, stopping Old Zhang, “How much did you sell that bracelet for? We can’t let people swindle us in the antiques circle.”
“One… one hundred and twenty thousand.” The Little Landlady said.
“I got it a few years ago for seventy thousand, and you just made fifty thousand with one sale,” Liu Qing said, her eyes lighting up as she complimented the Little Landlady to Old Zhang, “Look at Zhang, she’s naturally suited for the antiques business. There won’t be any problems with putting her in charge of the antique shop.”
“This Zhang…”
Old Zhang muttered something and then said with a smile, “I will discuss the antique shop business with Zhang.”
“Take your time to think it over, no rush,” Liu Qing said with a smile, “Zhang, let’s go choose another bracelet!”
Liu Qing took Zhang by the hand, and off they went to look at bracelets again.
Old Zhang watched them in harmony, chuckling happily, but then his good mood faltered as he caught a glimpse of Lin Chuan from the corner of his eye.
Ah… his precious daughter was bewitched by this lad!
Such a goddamn mess!
However, Old Zhang knew that his daughter had her heart set on Lin Chuan. After a moment of thought, he reminded, “Lin Chuan, later on you should learn something from your Aunt Liu, you’ll have to deal with these things in the future.”
“Old Zhang, are you sure you want to enter into the antiques circle?”
Lin Chuan was slightly taken aback.
Old Zhang nodded, “Always collecting rent isn’t interesting. While your Aunt Liu is building up the antique market, I plan to invest in opening an antique shop. It’s just a matter of a million or two. Stop writing novels, you won’t earn much from that. In the future, you’ll help me and Zhang manage it.”
Lin Chuan’s brow furrowed slightly, “Investing in an antique shop, where will you get the goods?”
Old Zhang held his head high, looking towards Liu Qing, “Your Aunt Liu will soon be family, and as an expert in antiques, getting goods from her will be no problem. You just need to learn well.”
“Mhm, learn well.”
Lin Chuan responded nonchalantly, fairly certain of Liu Qing’s strategy.
This was a common yet highly effective Antique Scam.
Lin Chuan could anticipate Liu Qing’s next move would be to supply goods to Old Zhang, then send in ‘shills’ to the shop to buy a few items at high prices, letting Old Zhang get an initial taste of success.
Gradually, they would lure Old Zhang deeper in, the prices of the goods escalating, until ultimately all of Old Zhang’s assets would be tightly locked in, with no escape.
It operated on similar principles to a pig-butchering scam, exploiting human curiosity, greed, discontent, and the desire to gamble, until one’s wealth was annihilated.
By the time the victim realized it was a scam, it was already too late.
Having experienced ‘swindler’ ‘fraud’ ‘Antique Forgery’, Lin Chuan was intimately familiar with the techniques of the Cheating Sect and their Eight Generals.
If he wanted, with just a step into the gray area, money would flow like it was being printed.
But his conscience was nagging at him.