Watching as Boss Ma rushed back into the store in a fluster, Shen Qiang helplessly glanced at Bianyi. In fact, Bianyi not only knew Boss Ma but was also well aware of the decent relationship between Boss Ma and Shen Qiang. At the same time, he knew Sun Kaiping. After all, it was Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping who had accompanied Shen Qiang in Shanghai to acquire the Fencai Bat Peach Pattern Olive Bottle.

So this comparison was clearly a deliberate move to take the money from Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping, which made Shen Qiang somewhat uncomfortable. After all, Boss Ma and Sun Kaiping were guests specially invited by Shen Qiang. Now they had been fleeced by him, paying 752 yuan in just one hour. From morning until now, the two must have been taken for several thousand by him.

Yet, at the same time, Shen Qiang found himself wanting to laugh, suddenly feeling that Bianyi was really quite impressive, especially when it came to amassing wealth. He seemed to have an innate acuity for it. For example, Shen Qiang had just taken a preliminary look at the situation inside the store.

The store was now very crowded, with at least a hundred people inside, and even more were lining up outside.

Going by a hundred people, at 188 yuan for fifteen minutes, that's 100x188x4 in an hour. That means, without selling any merchandise, the shop's net income per hour would be 75,200 yuan.

If they were to operate for 8 hours a day, that income would come to 601,600!

And today, for the entire day, Xiduobao would only sell one item, an antique worth a hundred thousand, for the price of one yuan.

That is to say, if they could maintain this momentum, Xiduobao's profit on opening day was absolutely guaranteed, and one must not underestimate the profit of five hundred thousand. If Xiduobao could consistently bring in five hundred thousand a day, that would be fifteen million a month, and over the course of a year, that would be a total of 1.8 billion.

The Dinghao Hotel and Datong River Restaurant together wouldn't necessarily make this much in profit over an entire year.

Of course, such a popular fee-paying visit wouldn't last long, but next, Xiduobao could deal in antiques, so who knows, this Xiduobao might really create a miracle.

Originally, before this, Shen Qiang had thought that Bianyi's arrangements for the opening would be very clichéd, probably just a band, a ribbon-cutting, releasing some balloons, that kind of thing.

But none of that happened.

Any passersby could just pick up a number, and then, at the end of the opening ceremony, there would be a lottery draw. The winners would be able to purchase, for the price of one yuan, an antique appraised by experts and valued at over a hundred thousand yuan, displayed in front of the Xiduobao store.

Besides, the most attractive thing was Xiduobao's slogan, which was "Thirty-six treasures, valued at a hundred billion yuan, that stand as the store's pride."

Shen Qiang felt that Bianyi's slogan must have been inflated.

Thirty-six antiques, valued at a hundred billion—that would mean that the average value of each would have to be around three hundred million to add up.

But obviously, the Fencai Bat Peach Pattern Olive Bottle that Shen Qiang had previously gotten in Shanghai was worth only seventy to eighty million in the market.

Combined with the Candle Wax Buddha Beads that he overheard two young men mention as they left the store, valued at 108 million.

In that case, if the thirty-six store treasures could reach a value of fifty billion, Shen Qiang would already consider it quite remarkable.

So this hundred-billion slogan seemed a bit far-fetched.

But it cannot be denied that such a slogan has super attractive power on Antique Street.

Rich investors and various antique shop owners, if there really were a hundred billion worth of antiques, wouldn't care at all about spending a few hundred or a few thousand yuan to have a look. Not to mention 188 yuan for fifteen minutes—even if it were 1,888 yuan for fifteen minutes, it wouldn't be a problem for them.

Right now, the entrance was crowded and noisy, with the mugginess of late September mixed with the smell of sweat and various perfumes.

Shen Qiang felt somewhat uncomfortable and as the boss, he had intended to come with Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing to show support and boost the atmosphere. But with the current situation, there was simply no need for that, Bianyi alone was already enough.

So, Shen Qiang turned around and entered the store with Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing.

Upon entering the store, the outside noise instantly diminished.

Standing by the door was a tall, slightly rotund middle-aged man in a black suit who respectfully bowed to Shen Qiang and said, "Good day, boss. I am the security supervisor for Xiduobao, my name is Kong Richeng.

At the same time, Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing transmitted her voice to Shen Qiang, "He has cultivation in the Yang God Realm, a quite impressive individual."

Shen Qiang's eyes lit up. If he was not mistaken, this middle-aged man should be the person Bianyi had hired for 5.5 million every three years. This was good; a master of the Yang God Realm, although still a bit short of the Mixed Element Realm, was already quite deterrent against ordinary cultivators.

Hence, Shen Qiang nodded and smiled, saying, "Very good, I like what I see in you."

Almost simultaneously, Shen Qiang also realized that the noisy commotion outside, which didn't affect the people inside the store, probably had something to do with this Kong Richeng.

He released a thin layer of True Yuan, like a wall blocking out the noise. As the store's door closed, the inside, despite being crowded, became significantly quieter, and the temperature control of the air conditioning was very comfortable. Plus with no one smoking, the overall atmosphere was pleasant.

And that wasn't all.

To Shen Qiang's surprise, not only were Xu Nan and Bai Jiao there, but appraisers from Cheng Xinyi and Wanxin Hesheng were present as well.

But after exchanging brief greetings with Shen Qiang, they started whispering among themselves about the store treasures.

And so did others; some merely greeted him simply, while others just nodded to Shen Qiang from a distance. There were even some acquaintances who didn't seem to realize Shen Qiang had arrived.

All their attention was focused on the thirty-six antiques on the first floor.

"Exquisite! I feel like my heart is trembling. Labeling it as priceless at 3.9 billion feels like an insult to its true value," said one of them.

Shen Qiang looked over in mild surprise at the old man who seemed like a learned scholar.

At that moment, an appraiser from Wanxin Hesheng spoke up in a dry voice, "It's not just genuine, but also flawlessly preserved. The estimate of 9.7 billion, in my opinion, could be increased by another thirty percent."

Xu Nan's beautiful eyes were bright and clear.

At the same time, Bai Jiao was listening to an appraiser from Cheng Xinyi say, "I haven't seen an item of such superb quality in at least a decade. The appraisers at Xiduobao are too conservative. According to the market trends, this Qing Dynasty doucai porcelain vase with coiling branch patterns, which boasts not only red, yellow, green but also the highly prized carmine red, making the depicted flowers appear even more sumptuous."

"Given the current market conditions, a price tag of 10 billion would cause a frenzy, but it seems like the appraisers at Xiduobao have lost their minds, valuing it at only 7.5 billion."

Bai Jiao's eyes were bright as she quietly asked, "Does that mean that these thirty-six store treasures of Xiduobao are actually worth over 10 billion in the market?"

The appraiser took a deep breath, then looking at Bai Jiao, he spoke solemnly, "Even more than that."

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