Chen Bin almost jumped up. He felt like he wanted Li Se to hug him and kiss him fiercely. After all, his family had been opening jewelry stores for so many years, but they had never obtained imperial green jade. The main reason was the rarity of such jade. Even if it existed, the price was too exorbitant. If they were to purchase it, it would cost close to a hundred million!
"Li Se, I'll take all these jade stones!" Chen Bin was so excited. His jewelry store finally had a treasure to flaunt.
"I'll pay fifty million for all of them!" someone wanted to buy.
"I'll pay sixty million!"
"I'll pay sixty-five million..."
There were quite a few people competing.
Hong Zhixue's face was extremely unpleasant, but at this moment, he could only glare ineffectively.
Li Se refused all of them and said to Chen Bin, "Chen Bin, fifty million, and take them all."
Chen Bin gasped. Someone had already offered seventy million, yet Li Se was selling them to him for fifty million. That was a loss of a full twenty million!
If it were twenty thousand, or even two hundred thousand, he could understand, but this was twenty million!
"Good brother!" Chen Bin smiled. "I'll pay seventy million, and then I can have you make a few small items from this imperial green jade."
Li Se was about to say something when Chen Bin quickly continued, "Don't lower the price. I'll still rely on you to get more jade in the future."
"Alright," Li Se nodded. "Make two small jade Guanyin statues for me."
"Great!" Chen Bin laughed heartily. "I've really struck it rich! I never thought you were a master of gambling on stones."
After leaving the raw jade market, Chen Bin was eager to take the jade back. Li Se didn't ask him to drive him, planning to take a taxi back himself.
However, at this moment, a group of people surrounded him, holding wooden sticks.
"Did Hong Zhixue send you?" Li Se narrowed his eyes.
"It doesn't matter who sent us. What's important is that we're going to break your legs!" the thugs rushed forward.
Li Se punched one of the wooden sticks. His hand felt slightly painful, but the wooden stick was already knocked out of the thug's hand. Immediately, the thug was sent flying backward.
Seeing the other wooden sticks swinging down, Li Se lightning-fastly grabbed one of them, forcefully snatching it away. He used the thug's body to block the attacks from the other wooden sticks, and once the stick was in his hand, he showed no mercy, knocking down all the remaining people in an instant.
Li Se threw the wooden stick to the ground and clapped his hands. This was the second time Hong Zhixue had come after him. It seemed it was really time to teach this guy a bloody lesson.
At this moment, not far away, Hong Zhixue was watching this scene. His pupils contracted. Li Se's martial arts skills were too unbelievably good. After taking a deep breath, he said, "Let's go!"
Bang!
The driver was about to start the car when the car window was shattered by a punch. Li Se had appeared beside him at some unknown time. As the glass shattered, he grabbed Hong Zhixue out of the car. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
"I told you, if you dare to provoke me again, I'll break your legs!" Li Se slapped Hong Zhixue across the face twice. He didn't break the man's legs but pressed a point on his chest before throwing him back into the car and turning to leave.
"Ah..." Hong Zhixue screamed. He felt extremely cold, even though it was summer. "Quick, take me to the hospital!"
The driver immediately stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away.
Li Se had just injected a surge of cold energy into Hong Zhixue's body. This cold energy would torment Hong Zhixue continuously but without posing a life-threatening danger.
This trip to the jade raw material market had earned him seventy million in one go. Combined with the money he had earned earlier, he now had a hundred million.
In other words, Li Se was now a millionaire.
He found it hard to believe that in just a few days, he had gone from being unable to afford his mother's medical expenses to being a millionaire. Li Se smiled. Perhaps no one else made money faster than him.
Having money felt different. Li Se decided to have a grand meal. He went to a restaurant owned by Shen Long's company. The restaurant was very high-end, but most of the diners came in groups or as couples; it was rare to see someone dining alone.
"Sir, do you have a reservation?" a hostess at the entrance asked respectfully.
"No," Li Se replied, shaking his head.
"Without a reservation, you might have to wait a while," the hostess's voice was very sweet and pleasant to hear.
"It's okay," Li Se smiled, not really minding.
"Please come in." Although Li Se didn't have a reservation, the hostess politely led him to the waiting area, where several other people were already waiting.
Li Se found a seat and sat down. The hostess even brought him a glass of water. It had to be said, the service at this restaurant was quite good.
"I'm so sorry, I really didn't do it on purpose!"
At this moment, a flustered voice rang out.
Li Se heard the voice and was surprised because he felt it was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't recall it for a moment.
"You didn't do it on purpose?" another man's voice sounded, his tone carrying a hint of coldness. "Do you know how expensive this suit is? A simple 'I didn't do it on purpose' is not enough? Since you're a server, I won't make things difficult for you. How about this, pay ten thousand yuan, and this matter will be settled."
Not far away, a server had bumped into a man in a suit. When Li Se saw the server, his pupils contracted. It was his university classmate, the former class beauty, Jiang Ranran.
"Why is she here?" Li Se was puzzled. However, since he saw a classmate in trouble, he naturally wouldn't stand by. Besides, he and this Jiang Ranran had a good relationship back then; they just hadn't been in touch much after graduation.
Jiang Ranran's face turned pale. "I... I don't have ten thousand yuan."
"You don't have it?" the man in the suit sized up Jiang Ranran and chuckled. "If you can't pay, you can accompany me for the night."
"I didn't do it on purpose. I'll give you all the money I have, is that okay?" Jiang Ranran took out all the money from her pockets, but it was only one or two thousand yuan.
Slap!
The man in the suit fiercely slapped the money away. "I want ten thousand. This suit cost me over a hundred thousand to buy. You're trying to bribe a beggar with this little money?"
The manager of the restaurant also hurried over. Upon seeing the man in the suit, his expression changed instantly. "Mr. Wu, she's just a server and doesn't have that much money. How about this, we give you a twenty percent discount?"
"No deal!" Mr. Wu snorted coldly. "Either you pay up, or she comes with me!"
The manager didn't know what to do. He sighed. The other party was a wealthy individual whom they couldn't afford to offend. He could only say to Jiang Ranran, "Alas, just do as he says."
Jiang Ranran's face turned ashen. She never imagined that spilling a cup of drink on someone's suit would require a ten-thousand-yuan compensation. She couldn't comprehend it but felt extremely helpless.
"I'll pay the money!"
Just then, a voice rang out.
It was a very, very familiar voice. Jiang Ranran couldn't help but turn towards the source of the sound. "Li Se?"