"Could you please let me see this Buddhist bead bracelet!"
Just as the stall owner was placing the Buddhist bead bracelet on the stall.
Ye Chen had already appeared in front of him and said.
"Hmm?"
Upon hearing someone ask about the goods, the stall owner was initially happy, thinking a potential customer had arrived.
But when he looked up and saw it was Ye Chen, who had been wandering around from morning till afternoon, just looking and not buying, earning silent curses from the surrounding stall owners.
The stall owner's happiness clearly vanished instantly!
"This isn't an ordinary item. If you don't plan on buying it, you'd better not look, lest you accidentally bump it and then claim I'm extorting you!" the stall owner said impatiently.
"Whether I plan to buy it or not, don't I have to see the item first?" Ye Chen didn't take the other person's words to heart and said with a faint smile.
The stall owner was immediately speechless and dumbfounded, "Alright, then you look!"
Even though he was a million times unwilling in his heart, he had to hand over the string of Buddhist beads.
Taking the bracelet.
Ye Chen carefully fingered each bead, examining them.
Sure enough, it was exactly as he thought!
That gambling friend from his previous life really didn't lie or brag!
There were exactly eighteen beads on this bracelet, no more, no less, and each one was carved with an Arhat. Eighteen beads, exactly eighteen Arhats!
Although he didn't know the origin of this Buddhist bead bracelet, the heavy feeling upon holding it clearly indicated that it was definitely not some worthless fake!
In his later life, he was a tycoon with a personal fortune of 400 billion. Ye Chen had acquired countless valuable items. While this string of Buddhist beads was still far, far from those extraordinary items he had encountered, in this mixed-up Guwan City, it was definitely a significant find!
"Are you done looking? Are you buying? If not, give it back to me!"
Watching Ye Chen finger each bead on the string.
The stall owner grew increasingly impatient and shouted.
Ye Chen asked, "How much?"
The stall owner was a bit surprised that Ye Chen would ask for the price, but he still didn't take it seriously, not thinking the other party would buy, and blurted out, "Fifty thousand!"
Ye Chen thought for a moment.
Finally, he tested the waters, "Five hundred, will you sell!"
It wasn't that he wanted to haggle, but in this Guwan City, it was all about asking sky-high prices and paying rock-bottom ones!
There were many items that were priced at tens of thousands but were ultimately bought for one or two hundred!
At least in his previous life, there were several times when he bought items priced at tens of thousands for two or three hundred.
However, the stall owner snatched the Buddhist bead bracelet back from his hand.
"Get lost!"
Ye Chen gave an awkward dry laugh, not getting angry or surprised.
After all, this Buddhist bead bracelet was bought by that gambling friend for thirty thousand in his previous life.
It was indeed unrealistic for him to want to buy it for five hundred, even though that gambling friend was definitely treated as a gullible customer by this stall owner at the time.
Amidst the stall owner's low curses.
Having located the Buddhist bead bracelet, Ye Chen no longer lingered.
After wandering for most of the day, he leisurely left Guwan City.
After buying a few loaves of bread and a bottle of mineral water to make do with for dinner.
Seven-thirty.
Ye Chen, full and satisfied, appeared at the entrance of the Sports Center.
At this time, the Sports Center was already packed with people!
Posters of a certain young idol were everywhere.
Countless fans were checking in and entering the venue in groups.
In his previous life, although Ye Chen knew that those few fanatical female fans had bought tickets with a face value of 560 for a price of 10,000 per ticket.
But he didn't know from which scalper they bought them.
However, this didn't affect his ability to identify his targets, as scalpers were simply too obvious.
After the peak period of fans entering the venue had passed.
As the concert inside entered the warm-up phase.
Ye Chen walked back and forth around the ticket gates.
Time quickly approached eight o'clock.
Ye Chen was also clearly getting anxious.
At this moment.
In his line of sight.
A man appeared even more anxious than him!
"Need tickets? I have some!"
"Zone 7 seating, good view, high cost-performance ratio, want them?"
"Beautiful lady, need tickets?"
"Beautiful lady…"
"Handsome guy…"
The man was seen asking everyone he could, with an anxious look on his face.
But he couldn't help but be anxious!
He had heard before that being a scalper was profitable, so he gritted his teeth, took out a month's salary, staked out a spot in front of his computer, and rushed to grab six connected tickets when the tickets went on sale.
Since this was his first time being a scalper, he wasn't very precise with his techniques. He was fooled by a fellow scalper he just met, who said that tickets for this concert were hard to come by and the price would get higher the closer it got to the start. So, when someone offered double the price before, he refused to sell, determined to at least triple or quadruple the price!
Little did he know that while he was waiting, other scalpers had already happily finished their business, while he was still holding onto those six tickets. If he couldn't sell them, not only would all his efforts be in vain, but he would also lose a month's salary!
"Damn it, I was fooled by those bastards, what should I do!"
He took out his phone to check the time. The concert was about to officially start, but he still hadn't sold the six tickets in his hand.
The man, who was a novice scalper and had been tricked, was pacing back and forth anxiously.
"The tickets you have, are you selling them?"
At this moment, a voice sounded by his ear.
The novice scalper was so excited he almost cried.
"Selling, selling!"
However, when he turned around and saw that there was only one person.
The excitement on his face immediately collapsed again!
Just one person?
Then he could only sell one ticket, and the other five would still be stuck in his hand!
"Brother, how many do you want?"
Although his excitement had collapsed, the novice scalper still fantasized about meeting a benefactor.
"Uh, you still have six, right? I'll take all of them, how much?" Ye Chen looked down at the tickets in the other person's hand and said.
Upon hearing Ye Chen say he would take all of them.
The scalper was first in disbelief.
Then he quickly and excitedly exclaimed.
He didn't dare to think about raising the price anymore, not even breaking even. He immediately offered them for sixty less than the original price, afraid of missing this opportunity.
"The ticket price above is five hundred sixty. If you take all of them, I'll give them to you for five hundred, just five hundred!"
"Two thousand eight hundred!" Ye Chen said.
"Brother, you…" The scalper became anxious.
He was already losing sixty yuan per ticket, and if it was two thousand eight hundred, he would be losing the price of one ticket for nothing.
"If you're selling, I'll take all of them. If not, never mind!"
It wasn't that Ye Chen wanted to push the price down, but this was all the money he had on him now.
Of the three thousand yuan he earned selling flowers, after deducting his expenses for food and taxis, plus buying McDonald's for Youyou and ingredients to cook breakfast noodles for Yinuo, he now had just over two thousand eight hundred left.
"Alright, I'll sell!"
After a moment of thought, the scalper gritted his teeth and said.
Losing one ticket is better than having all six stuck in his hand.
"Okay, I'll WeChat you!"
Without even checking if the tickets were real or fake, Ye Chen took the tickets from the other person's hand and directly transferred two thousand eight hundred.
At that moment.
The concert countdown was already roaring inside the Sports Center.
As soon as the scalper left.
Several students, both male and female, appeared right after.
Seeing that Ye Chen had tickets in his hand, they immediately asked anxiously, "Handsome guy, are you selling tickets?"
"Not selling!"
Ye Chen said without thinking.
If he wasn't mistaken, these should be the people who bought tickets from the scalper in his previous life.
As the other party mumbled and tried to find the next scalper.
In front of Ye Chen's line of sight.
Six young women, who exuded an air of wealth, were complaining to each other with anxious faces.