Chapter 29 Scam
Whether Tang Zhen agrees or disagrees, Su Chen's departure to the Crimson Mountains has been a foregone conclusion, and he can only accept it.
The only thing Tang Zhen could do was to teach Su Chen all kinds of knowledge he knew as much as possible.
In order to prevent others from knowing Su Chen and Fuming, Tang Zhen personally went up and down Yuzhen Pavilion to bring various herbs collected for Su Chen, teaching him to identify and appreciate, and tell him the differences between true and false and how to use them.
The shopkeeper taught everything he knew without reservation. For him, every time Su Chen knew a little more, he would improve his chances of survival.
One teaches seriously and the other learns hard, time is fast, and the day passes quickly.
The eight-treasure cloud pattern gilded clock in the attic rings with a dong-dong sound, which means that the busy day is about to end.
Tang Zhen said: "Okay, let's go here today, come here early tomorrow, continue to study. You can stay and review what I teach you a few more times, and I'll go back first."
Tang Zhen has always been on time for work and rest, and as the shopkeeper, he can indeed go back earlier than others.
After going downstairs and explaining to the guys, Tang Zhen left by himself.
Su Chen was alone upstairs, looking at the treasured interior.
This is the homework that Tang Zhen left to him.
While I was looking at it, I suddenly heard a friend outside say, "Young Master, there is a business downstairs. The third shopkeeper asks you to go down and give me some ideas."
"What business? The third shopkeeper can't make the decision. I want me to make the decision? Where is the second shopkeeper?" Su Chen was slightly surprised.
"It's a veterinary drug. The other party asked for a price a bit high. The second shopkeeper was not there to buy the goods, and the eldest shopkeeper had just left. The third shopkeeper couldn't make the decision alone, so he could only ask the young master what he meant." The guy replied.
Veterinary repellent?
Su Chen was shocked.
This is a good thing.
The anti-veterinary potion is a very rare and precious potion that can emit a special smell. This smell will smell light, but the ferocious beast will only feel extremely odor, even nausea and vomiting, so as to avoid it. As long as this medicine is applied to the body, no ferocious beast will be willing to treat this person within three days.
Although Su Chen entered the Deep Red Mountains to hunt ferocious beasts, he was not to die after all. If this thing is applied in dangerous moments, as long as it is not a deep hatred, even the ferocious beast that is chasing him will give up Su Chen, which can be called a magical medicine to save lives.
However, it is extremely difficult to make veterinary detoxification agents. Ordinary pharmacists cannot make them. Only special source pharmacists can refine them. Even so, it requires a lot of resources and time, and not even everyone can do it, so the price is extremely high, and there is still no market price.
I didn't expect that someone would sell it today.
Su Chen naturally became interested and said, "Please come up."
Veterinary repellent is a precious item, so naturally I will not talk about it downstairs, but will go straight to the third floor Accord.
Su Chen was waiting in the Accord, and after a moment he heard footsteps sound. Lou Yi was the first to enter, followed by a thin middle-aged man with a smooth gaze. As soon as he entered the Accord, he looked around.
Su Chen was displeased, and he remained calm on his face and smiled: "But the shopkeeper and the guest are here, please sit down. Su Chen is blind and does not want to treat guests. Please forgive the rudeness. Xiangsui, serve tea."
Lou Yiyi said: "Young Master, don't have to worry, I'll take care of you here."
Just as the maid named Xiangsui came over with tea, Lou Yi took it and waved his hand to let the maid leave. Only Su Chen, Lou Yi and the thin man were left in the accord.
Lou Yi sat down with the thin man here. When the man sat down, he was curious to wave his hand in front of Su Chen's eyes, as if he was testing whether he could see it, but Lou Yi pushed him hard, then glared at him fiercely, obviously scolding him for being rude to the young master, but the man shrugged his shoulders indifferently, his lips twitched for a few times, without making a sound, but he could see that he was dissatisfied.
The actions between the two immediately aroused Su Chen's suspicion.
Lou Yi and this person seem to have known each other for a long time?
The man here sat down and said to Su Chen: "This is Young Master Su, right? My name is Zhao Si, and I sell the animal-removing potion. I like to be straightforward and take it away with 800 taels of red gold. In addition, I have a picture of Li Chunyuan's bamboo forest idle people, a glass bowl from the period of the Glorious Divine Dynasty, and take action together."
As he said that, he had taken out a picture from the package he carried with him, and put it on the table.
Maybe I knew that Su Chen couldn't see it, so I was too lazy to even expand it in front of Su Chen.
"Three shopkeepers, what do you think?" Su Chen looked at Lou Yi.
I saw Lou Yi answered: "I have seen it downstairs just now. The bamboo forest idle people pictures and glass bowls are both genuine products. The veterinary drug has not been tested yet. The authenticity is unknown. However, this guest has agreed to the test, so there will be no fakes. The amount required is a bit high. The three items are combined and require two thousand taels of red gold, and it is not only sold."
Zhao Siyi smiled and said, "It's not easy to try. Now the weather is getting hotter and there are more mosquitoes. Let's see the power of this anti-veterinary potion."
As he said that, he had opened the potion bottle and saw the mosquitoes and flies that were originally flying in the Accord suddenly scattered, and a mosquito was instantly gone in the room.
Zhao Siyang said proudly: "Although Young Master Su can't see it, you can always hear the buzzing sound of mosquitoes and flies. Master Su, do you still hear the sound of mosquitoes and flies now?"
"It's really gone." Su Chen replied with a smile on his face, but his heart sank slightly.
He didn't understand antiquities. Although he had learned it from Tang Zhen for a while, he still couldn't tell the truth or the false. So he didn't know whether the bamboo forest idle people pictures and the glass bowl were true or not, but Lou Yi's previous words were obviously pretending not to know the seller.
As for the anti-veterinary potion, it seems that it has an effect, but Su Chen is very clear that there is another medicine in this world called mosquito repellent, which can also achieve the effect just now, but the price is a hundred times cheaper. But the most important thing is that the potion that the man opened just now was not the bottle he held in his hand before.
In other words, he planned to sell it to Su Chen, not even mosquito repellent.
A scam!
Su Chen understood immediately.
To be honest, this scam is not clever. It just uses some fakes to deceive the store. In which year does not have to encounter any three or five times when opening a treasure store? However, colluding with people in the store to sell fakes, the nature is completely different.
However, because they only thought Su Chen was still blind, they were too lazy to even do a lot of facial skills, so this scam failed to deceive Su Chen for a second, and was seen through by Su Chen.
As expected, being a blind man can see more.
Su Chen sneered in his heart and said, "It's indeed a veterinary drug, which is really great. As for those two antiques, I can naturally believe them with the shopkeeper of the building. It's just about this price..."
Su Chen hesitated deliberately.
Zhao Si said, "I think the Fourth Young Master is also a cheerful person. If you want it, you will have one thousand eight hundred taels of red gold."
Su Chen shook his head: "I do like it very much, but there is not so much money in Yuzhen Pavilion. I think you might as well come back tomorrow. I will prepare red gold and buy it."
Zhao Si immediately shook his head: "No, I have something urgent to do, so I'm rushing to use the money, otherwise I wouldn't have taken out the treasures passed down from this family to sell. I can't wait for tomorrow."
Is it true that he is unwilling to wait? The other party deliberately chose this time, the eldest shopkeeper had already returned, the second shopkeeper was not there, and the third shopkeeper made the decision alone, and then sent the servants to deceive himself.
That is to say, this matter has nothing to do with everyone else, is Lou Yi the only one involved?
That's good.
Su Chen felt relieved and continued, "But the building can't afford so much money now. Can I just buy the same one?"
"No, if you want to buy three items, buy them together. If you can't afford so much money, you can use some resources instead. Anyway, I want money to buy some cultivation resources." The middle-aged man replied.
After thinking about everything, use resources to pay for it if you don’t have enough money, and also use veterinary detoxification agents as bait.
To get the veterinary repellent, you must buy two other fakes, causing greater losses.
Yes, this must be what Yan Wushuang did. During the day, he knew that he was going to the Crimson Mountains, so he took out fake veterinary detoxification potion at night, hoping to use his life-saving mentality, and the boss's inside and outside cooperation to complete the scam.
To be honest, this has met the two basic characteristics that a successful scam requires. First, identify the user needs. Second, have internal help.
The only thing they failed was major execution mistakes, because they didn't know that Su Chen was clear about it, which led to the scam being easily exposed.
Thinking of this, Su Chen sighed: "Lou Yi, you were promoted by the shopkeeper himself. I believe that the shopkeeper's vision should not be like this with your personality. But you still did it... It was your unsatisfactory son, why did you cause you another trouble?"
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Being a supporter, letting us believe that we are right and keep going.
This book has just begun, and the exciting things are still coming. Fate will do its best to write a good book and face life with a smile, including praise, accusation, and criticism.
Finally, everyone can speak more about the plot. As long as they speak well, fate will seriously absorb opinions from all parties.
Chapter completed!