Chapter: 6342

The next day, Xiaolu and Ma Er went out of bed at 6:00 am.

They both changed into their best clothes, tidied themselves up, and then brought out suitcases to the first floor to prepare for an early breakfast before rushing off to the airport.

Lei Chen and Xiao Lu also got up early, prepared for a meal, and planned to send them off.

Meanwhile, on Antiques Street, it was still too early to open the doors.

Zhou Liangyun had stayed at a hotel last night instead of staying at his store, and before leaving, he put up a notice at his shop entrance that read, "Opening at 9:00 am. Please form a queue and wait for a number."

Below this notice, paper was cut into ten strips, with big characters written in Chinese on each strip, ranging from one to ten.

The earliest merchant to spread the news to Chen Yu, after seeing this notice, took out his phone to record a video to post it to Antiques Street, laughing and saying, "Hey, look at this! Zhou Liangyun must think he's going to become famous overnight and have many people come to his store to buy and sell. What a joke!"

Someone agreed, saying, "I bet they know that there will be many people coming early in the morning, so they put up this notice."

The merchant chuckled, "And I'm really curious about asking him directly what it's like to be scammed out of thirty thousand yuan."

Some members of the group started to gossip and say, "You're still not quick enough to take a number! You don't see that there are only one to ten numbers? I bet they will let people participate in the viewing of the big scoundrel from these ten numbers today."

The merchant shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm not interested in participating in any big scam. I need to hurry up and set up my stall. If anyone is interested, please remember to come take a number quickly, haha!"

As soon as the message was sent out, three people rushed to Zhou Liangyun's store doorsteps, only to find that the store hadn't opened yet. They asked the merchant, "Hello, can I consult you? Is this the Dianbao Courtyard? Does the owner surnamed Zhou?"

The merchant was startled and asked, "Are you looking for Zhou Liangyun?"

The person hurriedly said, "We don't know what the store owner is called. We only know that his surname is Zhou and his online nickname is Old Zhou of Dianbao Courtyard."

The merchant laughed and said, "That's probably him. This is his store, and the sign is still handwritten."

After saying that, he curiously asked, "Are you here to see the scoundrel?"

Although the person was curious, they didn't want to reveal their true intentions, as they were all coming to snatch a deal. So, they tried to downplay it by saying, "We're just dropping by to chat with the store owner."

"Oh..." The merchant looked at the gate of Dianbao Courtyard and saw that it was locked from outside, so he knew Zhou Liangyun must not be in the store. He then asked the three people, "Are you here to buy or sell something? If you're buying, I advise you to be cautious. This old fellow has a poor eye for goods, and whatever he sells is probably of no great value."

These three people had driven all night from Yanjing to get here, with one being a collector worth nearly 10 billion yuan, another being his driver, and the third being an expert specially hired from Yanjing. They drove all night just to be the first in line to buy Zhou Liangyun's bronze Buddha from the Northern Song dynasty.

On the way, the expert had carefully studied the data sent by Zhou Liangyun and initially determined that this item was probably fine and would not deviate much from what the seller described. However, for safety reasons, it would be best to examine it personally and feel it out if everything seemed okay. If so, a price of 20 million yuan would be a snatching deal.

So, this collector was also worried about leakage, so when he heard the merchant's criticism of Zhou Liangyun, he just smiled and said, "Thank you for your warning. We will increase our vigilance."

When he finished speaking, he quickly approached and tore off the paper strip with a number written below.

At this time, two people came running up to him, one of whom was using a southern accent saying, "It looks like they're inside! Hurry, take a number first!"

The two people said as they approached and tore off the paper strip with a number, then looked at the three people and one of them holding a paper strip with a number on it, suddenly looking lost and shouting, "Friend of treasure, how did you get here so early?"

The collector smiled politely but with some caution and said, "We drove all night to get here." JrNovels.com