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Chapter 379 Grocery Store

"Look, take a look~"

"Boss, how much is this thing?"

"One hundred baht."

"Sawadika."

Bangkok, Chinatown.

The two-kilometer block is dotted with thousands of businesses of all kinds, with eye-catching Chinese and Thai signboards.The gold shops full of golden and heavy gold ornaments and the grocery stores full of various dried and fresh fruits are filled with a strong and simple commercial atmosphere.

Among the shops with many signs, the most conspicuous one is the gold shop.On Yaowarat Road, which is less than two kilometers long, there are hundreds of gold shops, large and small, with huge signboards erected at the door, and glittering jewelry and gold products on display at the counters.According to statistics, nearly [-]% of gold shops in Bangkok are located in Chinatown.

Piles of gold ornaments are piled up in the store like goods, giving people a different illusion, as if the store is not selling expensive gold ornaments, but toys.

Head down along the Chao Phraya River, passing through the dense crowds in Chinatown, the smell of cured meat mixed with medicinal herbs came from the surrounding shops, and a lot of Teochew dialect and a small amount of Thai language filled my ears.

Cautiously avoiding the crowd around him, he passed countless shops in Chinatown, and finally stopped in front of a grocery store. He looked up at the big characters on the signboard at the door of the store, and vaguely recognized "Qian Ji" Two names, the man breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked in.

The grocery store occupies a small area, and some small objects are placed at the door as signs. When you walk into the store, you can see a tall, thin old man with gray hair in his 60s and [-]s, holding a radio in his hand, squinting his eyes and humming, listening to opera.

"What do you need?" Although she squinted her eyes, the old lady did not neglect, and quickly noticed the man entering the store: "Whether it's shopping or gifting, everything you want is here."

His eyes swept across the grocery store, and there was nothing special about it. However, the man's sun-tanned face had a vigilant expression. He looked left and right before taking out an amulet from his pocket and handing it to In front of the old man, he asked in Thai, "Boss, I heard you still accept things here?"

"Prince Clothes~It's hard to bear the tears~~"

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Looking at the amulet handed to him by the man, a shrewdness flashed in the old man's eyes, he pressed the radio in his hand casually, and stretched out his hand to make a move at the man.

Noticing the old man's movements, the man stepped forward cooperatively.

The latter stretched out his thin fingers, took the amulet in the opponent's hand, picked up the reading glasses hanging around his neck, put it on his nose, and looked at it carefully.

There is a figure covering the face with both hands engraved on the amulet. This is the face-covering Buddha, also known as Paipida Buddha. In Thailand, Paipida Buddha is very famous. Its function is to block things and things that are not good for the wearer. In vitro, so that it cannot enter the body and affect people's minds.

The workmanship of the entire amulet is very rough. It can be seen that it has not been polished too carefully. It is not because the material is gold and the materials are sufficient. It can be seen that the owner who asked for this amulet should have some financial resources. I don't know why it fell into the hands of the man in front of me.

That's right, from the moment the man took out the amulet, the old man had already seen that the other party should not be the owner of this amulet.

However, this does not prevent the old man from accepting this amulet. No matter who its original owner is now in his hands, there is no reason to let it go, after all, the price of gold is tight now.

Although, he has already used the idea of ​​accepting this amulet in his heart, but on the surface, the old man still looked at the amulet in his hand calmly, looked over and over again, and muttered to himself: "This amulet , it seems that the quality is a bit poor, and some other things should have been mixed in when it was made, so the gold content is not high. Disaster, then it is worthless..."

The old man deliberately said this in Thai, in order to let the man in front of him hear what he said clearly.

Sure enough, after hearing these words from the old man's mouth, the expression on the man's face immediately became a little anxious.

"Impossible. When I got the amulet, I looked at it deliberately. It contains a lot of gold. If it wasn't for..."

Speaking of ordinary things, the man seemed to have thought of something, quickly closed his mouth, just looked at the old man in the shop, and said firmly.

"In short, if you don't give me the price of [-] baht, I won't sell you the amulet. Besides you, I know many shops that accept amulets."

The man's 'threat' did not change the expression on the old man's face too much. He still looked carefully at the amulet in his hand, especially the scratch on the belly of the masked Buddha. said in a tone.

"Since you found the old money, then I won't cheat you. I have been doing business in Chinatown for so many years, and what I talk about is integrity. Although the quality of this amulet is a little bit worse, it is not young, so it should not be the latest one. If the product is in good condition, [-] baht is not too high, but it suffered from this scratch.”

"You should also know that the function of the amulet is to keep you safe, especially the authentic amulet like the masked Buddha, which can be used to protect the owner from disasters and avoid danger, and this scratch on the Buddha means that it is a symbol of protection. The body Buddha has already warded off a disaster for the master, but the amulet that has warded off the disaster is not so effective."

Pointing to the scratches on the amulet, the old man shook his head with a 'regretful' expression.

"So, I can only offer a price of three thousand baht at most."

"What, three thousand baht?!"

Hearing that the amulet he finally obtained was only worth [-] baht, the man naturally couldn't agree.

Looking at the amulet in the old man's hand, especially the scratches on the face-covering Buddha, he felt a little loose in his heart, but on the surface he still refused to retreat and said: "Impossible, three thousand baht is too little, at least I can It will cost nine thousand baht."

Hearing what the man said, the old man knew the deal was done.

Of course, he still bargained unceremoniously: "I can give you up to [-] baht, which is already the limit. Most people won't even accept amulets that don't work."

"Eight thousand baht, I'll sell it to you as long as eight thousand baht."

"At most, at most five thousand five."

"Seven thousand five."

"Six thousand five."

In this way, they bargained back and forth in the grocery store, and finally the price of the two was set at more than [-] baht.

After setting the price, the old man grinned and showed his few teeth, and still said in a disadvantaged tone: "Okay, okay, six thousand seven is six thousand seven, just treat it as if I'm losing money in business, and buy a favor. I can't let you go in vain."

　Thanks to Tan Hao for the reward of 1500 starting coins, and book friend 20210301106467751386 for the reward of 100 starting coins.

　　
　
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