The waiter was awakened instantly. He looked around angrily, but saw no one.
He touched his head and said puzzledly, "I was clearly woken up by someone, why can't I see anyone?"
At this time, Su Ziyan's voice came from under the counter, "Brother, I'm here to pawn something."
The waiter was startled again when he heard the sound.
He then leaned over the counter and looked down, only to find a child wearing tattered clothes. He instantly lost interest and even showed an expression of disgust.
In fact, he also knew Su Ziyan. After all, he had seen Su Ziyan when he was begging here.
He impatiently drove Su Ziyan away and said, "Get out of here, don't interfere with my business. If you want to beg, go somewhere else. If you stay here, the stench on your body will drive away my customers."
Su Ziyan did not leave, and did not care about the waiter's attitude. "I am here to pawn something, not to beg. You can take a look at what I want to pawn."
The waiter sneered and looked at Su Ziyan with a mocking tone, "What else can a little beggar like you have to pawn? Do you want to pawn your clothes or your broken bowl? Of course, if you want to make trouble here, don't blame me for being rude. Get out of here now."
Su Ziyan didn't care what the waiter said. He slowly took out a low-grade spirit stone from his arms and shook it in front of the waiter. "This is what I want to pawn. I wonder if it's okay?"
In fact, he didn't want to pawn the spirit stones. Although there were a lot of things in his storage bag, the only thing suitable for pawning was the spirit stones, so he chose the low-grade spirit stones that he had used before to pawn.
After all, spirit stones looked similar to jade, so he thought they could be pawned, and the silver he could get from them should not be small.
When the waiter saw Su Ziyan take out a piece of jade, his heart moved. He stared at the spirit stone and stretched out his hand to take it from Su Ziyan's hand.
But Su Ziyan quickly withdrew his hand, and the waiter's hands were empty.
The waiter froze with his hands, but he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and looked at Su Ziyan, "My dear guest, could you please take out the jade and let me have a look at it so that I can give you an estimate of its price?"
Su Ziyan thought for a moment and said, "I don't need you to look at it. I think you should ask your shopkeeper to come out. I don't quite believe what you said."
When the waiter heard this, he couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, but also a little helpless. It was because he had spoken so harshly to Su Ziyan just now. He could only go into the small courtyard in the inner room to find the shopkeeper.
Su Ziyan was walking around in the store, because it was his first time in a pawn shop and he found it a bit novel.
He looked here and there, and used his spiritual sense to scan the things on the counter. In the end, he felt that there was nothing interesting, so he found a place to sit down and waited for the shopkeeper to come out.
When the waiter arrived at the backyard, he saw the shopkeeper lying on a rocking chair in the middle of the yard.
The shopkeeper's voluptuous figure almost filled the entire rocking chair. The clothes he wore wrapped around his body pathetically, and were stretched so tightly that they seemed like they would break at any time.
In his right hand he held a brown purple clay teapot with gold stripes on it, and he sipped the tea with his eyes closed.
The waiter walked straight to the shopkeeper's recliner, bent over and lowered his chest, smiled and said to the shopkeeper who was basking in the sun, "Shopkeeper, there's a beggar outside, the little beggar who used to beg outside before. He said he has a jade to pawn."
When the wealthy shopkeeper heard what the waiter said, he opened his eyes and looked at the waiter in confusion. "You said that the little beggar who used to beg outside wants to pawn jade? You are not kidding me, what kind of jade can he pawn?"
The waiter also found it strange, but when he thought about Su Ziyan really taking out a piece of jade, he had to believe it.
"I'm not sure about this, but he did bring a piece of jade. I took a look at it and found that this piece of jade might be of high-quality jade."
When the shopkeeper heard the waiter say this, he was a little skeptical. "Oh? Are you telling the truth?"
The waiter nodded affirmatively and said, "It is indeed a piece of jade, and it seems to be of good quality. You can go and have a look."
The fat shopkeeper slowly stood up, looked towards the shop with disdain and said, "Then I'd like to take a look at this high-quality jade."
After saying that, the fat shopkeeper walked out first.
Su Ziyan was getting bored waiting when he saw a fat man coming out.
The fat shopkeeper looked at him with his small eyes, sizing up Su Ziyan carefully.
Su Ziyan felt a little uncomfortable being looked at in such a way, and the waiter from before followed behind him.
The shopkeeper didn't know what Su Ziyan was thinking, so he walked towards him with a smile and said, "Little brother, are you the one who came here to pawn the jade?"
Su Ziyan nodded, confirming that this was the shopkeeper, and took out the spirit stone and handed it to the shopkeeper. Although he had never seen this pawnshop owner, it was not difficult to guess.
"This is it, can you give me an estimate of the price?"
The shopkeeper took the spirit stone handed over by Su Ziyan, and stared at it with his two little eyes, turning it left and right.
Su Ziyan was not afraid that the shopkeeper would snatch his spirit stones because he was no longer the same person he used to be.
If he really dared to rob openly, then he would not be polite, and if someone saw him, then he would have no need to open his pawn shop.
After the shopkeeper saw the spiritual stone, his heart moved, but he looked at Su Ziyan with a bit of indifference, "Where did you get it from? This piece of jade is really good, but it has not been carved, so the price may be lowered."
After a pause, he looked at Su Ziyan and said, "How about one hundred taels of silver?"
Su Ziyan stared at him without saying anything. After a while, the shopkeeper became a little unsure and stopped asking where he got it.
Then, looking at Su Ziyan's expression, he took the initiative to add another two hundred taels.
Su Ziyan looked at the shopkeeper calmly and said, "Shopkeeper, since you are not sincere in doing business with me, then I will not look for you. After all, there are still people in this Baishi Town who can offer a price that satisfies me."
When the shopkeeper heard Su Ziyan say this, he looked at Su Ziyan and found that the expression on his face did not seem fake.
"Since little brother feels that three hundred taels is still too little, how about five hundred taels? If you are still not satisfied, then you should go find someone else to trade with." He put his hands behind his back and didn't look at Su Ziyan.
Su Ziyan looked at the shopkeeper and saw his serious expression. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, that's fine."
For Su Ziyan, he no longer needs worldly money because he no longer needs to eat grains, so he doesn't need too much money.
He learned from the classics that in the world of cultivation, their trading currency is spirit stones. Things like silver are completely useless in the world of cultivation, so he doesn't need to care too much about it.
However, he looked at the shopkeeper who thought he was a deceitful person and wanted to deceive him so much, so he would not be a lamb to be slaughtered.
The shopkeeper asked the waiter to go to the counter and get five hundred taels of silver, and finally gave it to Su Ziyan.
After getting the silver, Su Ziyan left the pawn shop directly and started buying what he needed on the street.
But he didn't know that as soon as he left the pawn shop, the waiter said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, why don't you ask that guy if he has any more of this kind of jade? If he does, we can buy more."
"Hmph, is it necessary to go to so much trouble? I'm afraid he won't tell me even if I ask him. A little brat took five hundred taels from me and wanted to leave. He's thinking too simply. If I wasn't afraid of being seen, how could I let him leave here so easily? Go find someone later to cripple that little brat for me," the shopkeeper said in a deep voice.
The waiter responded and went out to look for someone. Not long after, the waiter brought two young men who looked like gangsters into the pawnshop.
"Shopkeeper, I have brought the person to you."
The shopkeeper hummed and said to the two young men, "You know why I called you here, right?"
The two young men nodded, and one of them said, "I know. The second brother has already told us on the way here. Besides, this is not the first time we have cooperated, so just tell us what kind of result you want."
"Just kill the boy and take him to the woods we often go to by the river outside the town. We will wait for you there."
The two young men went out after knowing this. Su Ziyan didn't know this, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care. Although he was only a cultivator of the lowest level now, even so, he was not someone an ordinary person could contend with.
He was still shopping at this time, and the two young men hid in a small forest where Su Ziyan often passed by.
They often saw Su Ziyan begging in the town, and they came through this road when they finally came out, so they also knew where Su Ziyan often went, and it would be best to hide and attack here.
It's not that Su Ziyan is difficult to deal with, but they are afraid that Su Ziyan will run away as soon as he sees them. They have had contact with Su Ziyan before and know that Su Ziyan runs very fast and it is very difficult to catch up with him, so they can only adopt this method.
Half a day later, they finally saw Su Ziyan walking slowly back on the road, but they were a little confused when they saw that Su Ziyan had empty hands and didn't seem to be holding anything.
But this did not prevent them from dealing with him. Once they caught Su Ziyan and asked him, they would know everything.
Su Ziyan walked to a place that was still a little distance away from the two people and suddenly stopped.
Although his spiritual sense could not extend too far, it still allowed him to see that something was wrong. He felt like someone was staring at him. It was a very strange feeling that he could not explain, but he also knew that it was the instinct of a cultivator.
He looked at the woods on both sides and tried to shout, "Come out, no need to hide, I know you are hiding."
The two young men were stunned when they heard this. Could it be that they didn't hide well enough and were discovered by him? However, they did not come out. They still held on to hope for a lucky break and continued to hide.
Seeing that no one had come out yet, Su Ziyan continued, "Since you guys are not coming out, I have to leave now."
When the two young men saw Su Ziyan turn around and leave after he finished speaking, they knew that Su Ziyan was not lying, so they crawled out from the bushes in the woods.