Chapter: 3976

Ye Chen smiled calmly. "Zhang Eirong, take it if you want. There's no need to be polite with me."

Zhang Eirong blurted out: "Master Ye, if you really want to give it to me, then please also help me donate something!"

Ye Chen looked at Zhang Ermiao with some surprise, smiled and said, "Zhang Ermiao, you'd better think carefully about this, it's not two hundred yuan, it's two million!"

Zhang Ermiao said firmly, "Yes, Ye Master, I've thought it over. You've donated twenty billion, so what are two million to me?"

Ye Chen nodded in agreement and said, "Alright, I didn't expect you, Zhang Ermiao, would have such a perspicacious mind. Don't worry, I'll personally donate another two million on your behalf."

Zhang Ermiao exclaimed enthusiastically, "That's too much gratitude from Ye Master!"

Ye Chen thought back to Zhang Ermiao's previous nonsense and realized that he actually had some level of reasoning, so he asked him, "Zhang Ermiao, you were swindling people in the antique market, how much money did you make per year?"

Zhang Ermiao looked embarrassed and said, "To be frank with Ye Master, my income is very unstable. Sometimes I can't even sell one piece a month, but sometimes I'll get a big deal that won't require me to work for several months."

As he spoke, Zhang Ermiao added, "The Mona Lisa version of the painting I saw earlier was done by art students from the Fine Arts Academy, and I paid them 500 yuan per piece. Generally speaking, my prices in the antique market start at around 80,000 yuan. If I sell something like that, I usually don't need to work for two months, mainly because I'm afraid people will come to my doorstep."

Ye Chen asked him, "If someone comes to your doorstep, how do you usually handle it?"

Zhang Ermiao chuckled twice and explained, "If they find me, it's definitely going to be someone wanting a refund. I just take out the dishes and try to placate them until the issue is resolved. The basic principle of my business in the antique market is that I never return money."

Ye Chen asked again, "What if you can't satisfy them?"

Zhang Ermiao scratched his head and said, "If I encounter someone who won't back down, my first choice would usually be to run away. If I can run away successfully, everything will be fine, but if I can't, then I'll just apologize and settle the matter."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "So you're not always able to get a good deal every time, taking into account various circumstances, how much can you make in a year?"

Zhang Ermiao thought for a moment and said with a smile, "If we consider all sorts of situations, I usually manage to make around four or five hundred thousand yuan per year."

Ye Chen nodded and opened his mouth to say, "Alright, Zhang Ermiao, I'll give you an annual salary of eighty thousand yuan. From now on, don't go causing trouble in antique shops anymore and follow Hong Wu from now on, doing whatever he says."

Zhang Ermiao was taken aback when he heard these words and his eyes widened in surprise.

He had never thought that Ye Chen would actually want him to stay by Hong Wu's side and do something for him.

Stunned as he was, he couldn't help but ask, "Ye Master... I'm just a nobody, why would you think of letting me follow Five Uncle and work for him?"

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Hong Wu is brave and has excess energy, but his judgment is still lacking. If he had someone like you by his side, doing his thinking for him, it would be a great thing for him."

Ye Chen truly appreciated the advantages Zhang Ermiao possessed, this person may have been low-born, but they were absolutely eligible to be counted as having seen many things and being quick-witted, with an ability to respond quickly in unexpected situations.

A person like that would waste their talents if placed in an antique shop.

So, he looked at Zhang Ermiao and asked, "Do you want to consider it? After considering, give me a clear answer."

"Don't need to think!" Zhang Ermiao said hastily. "Master Ye, I'm willing to follow behind you and Hong Wu-ge and work like a horse and dog!"

For Zhang Ermiao, living in the antique street is actually not easy. JrNovels.com