"Li Yang, what do you mean? Are you going back on your word?"
Seeing Li Yang's expression turn cold, the old man immediately sensed trouble and asked in a panic.
"Don't worry, you don't deserve to die. You wanted to extort one hundred million from me today, so why don't you compensate me with one hundred million, and we'll let this matter go," Li Yang said, stroking his chin.
"One hundred million? That's too much. I'm just a small fry by Shen Yunfeng's side; I don't have that much money," the old man said, his eyes darting around as he feigned poverty.
"Are you sure you have no money? I advise you to be honest, or you won't have any reputation left today, and leaving won't just be a matter of paying money," Li Yang threatened coldly.
Li Yang could see through the old man's strength at a glance. The jade pendant on his body alone was worth a fortune. If he said he had no money, even a ghost wouldn't believe him.
"This..."
The old man's heart trembled. He thought to himself, this kid seems determined to hold me accountable. If I really can't leave and my identity is exposed, I'm finished.
"Li Yang, give me one day. I'll personally come to deliver the money to you at this time tomorrow. I'll raise this one hundred million as quickly as possible," the old man said after regaining his composure.
"That's acceptable, but you'd better not play any tricks. If you dare to scheme against me, I'll ruin your reputation," Li Yang agreed after thinking about it.
It's possible this old fellow doesn't actually have one hundred million on him. After all, he's just an appraiser, and his entire net worth might only be a few hundred million. It's understandable if what he has on him now isn't even worth a hundred million.
"Thank you, I will definitely come to deliver the money on time."
After saying that, the old man turned and left.
The audience, feeling there was no more excitement to be had, also dispersed.
Da Er Dong let out a long sigh and walked up to Li Yang, smiling, "Boss, thank you so much today. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to afford this one hundred million compensation."
"You are part of my shop. Even if you made a mistake, I will bear the loss. It has nothing to do with you," Li Yang said, patting his shoulder and telling him to work with peace of mind.
Da Er Dong was extremely grateful. He felt that finding such a good boss was a blessing from his past life.
After exchanging pleasantries with Li Yang, he suddenly remembered some matters concerning the shop and said to Li Yang, "By the way, Boss, the antiques in our shop have had a very high turnover recently, and we're a bit short of stock, with severe shortages. When do you think you can replenish the stock?"
"I know. I'll go to the antique market soon and find a batch of goods to replenish. You can sell the current stock for now," Li Yang said with a smile.
He hadn't expected the shop's business to be so good. Previously, he only needed to restock about once a month, and combined with the antiques he collected regularly, it was almost enough to sell. Now, there was such a severe shortage.
This was actually due to the reputation he had gained from participating in events recently. People heard about Li Yang's deeds and came to him proactively.
Good business and making money were naturally good things, and Li Yang welcomed everyone's patronage.
After asking Da Er Dong to attend to business matters, he suddenly remembered that he had to help Shui Xiang in the afternoon. Her gemstone gambling shop had recently received goods from the Huang family and urgently needed to ship them to customers. She couldn't handle it alone.
He planned to deal with restocking after helping Shui Xiang, so he left and headed towards the Fuhao Gemstone Gambling Field.
When he arrived at the shop, he saw Shui Xiang personally directing the shipments in the gemstone gambling hall. Almost all the warehouse workers were deployed, and everyone was busy in the shop.
"You guys, hurry up. Boss Wang is urgently waiting for the goods."
"And you guys, you're dawdling even when unloading goods. Speed it up."
Shui Xiang couldn't help but urge those who were working slowly, while also constantly checking the time.
If the cooperative orders were delayed, she would be the one to suffer the loss.
"Sister Shui, you're so busy. Is everything going smoothly?" Li Yang asked after walking in and approaching Shui Xiang.
"Sigh, don't even mention it. Although business is better now, I've been working hard because of these orders. Li Yang, you've come at the right time. Hurry up and rub my shoulders; my shoulders are almost numb."
Shui Xiang massaged her shoulders and turned her back to him.
"Here? Isn't that inappropriate!" Li Yang was stunned. Seeing that there were people all around, Shui Xiang actually asked him to massage her shoulders in public.
"What's the big deal? Which of the people in the shop would dare to say anything? I'd fire them on the spot. Besides, I'm just asking you to rub my shoulders, not to do anything improper. Look how nervous you are, as if you've never done anything before."
Shui Xiang gave him a mischievous look and deliberately lowered her chest slightly. This posture made Li Yang unable to stand up straight.
"Sister Shui, stop joking. If you want it, we can go to your office later, and I'll satisfy you properly," Li Yang said with a playful smile.
"Tsk, I knew you were a coward. Some of my friends are into partner swapping. If this were given to you, you definitely wouldn't dare to look at other women."
Sister Shui burst out laughing!
Li Yang couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect Sister Shui to know about partner swapping, and that people around her even did such things.
Li Yang had only seen that kind of game in movies, and he had never actually seen it in reality.
Seeing Li Yang's dazed expression, Sister Shui couldn't help but ask, "Hey, what are you spacing out about? Don't tell me you actually want to play the partner swapping game? Do you want me to introduce you to a group? You can go and vent your frustrations there."
"Sister Shui, I am loyal and devoted to you. I would never give you away to someone else," Li Yang replied with a smile after coming to his senses.
"Tsk, what are you thinking? Who said I was giving myself away? There are quite a few single men in that group, renting women to play the partner swapping game. But whether you can find a real couple, a boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife, depends on luck."
"What if the other party is also a rented woman? If that's the case, it's just a group game, not partner swapping at all," Shui Xiang explained to Li Yang.
Li Yang was shocked. Seeing Shui Xiang explain it so clearly, he couldn't help but suspect that she had participated in it.
A few seconds later, Li Yang asked curiously, "Sister Shui, where did you get these channels? You know so much about the inside story of this game. You wouldn't..."
"Get lost, don't you guess wildly. People haven't eaten pork, but they've seen pigs run. This group was added by a girlfriend of mine. She likes to play these games and recommended me to play, but I never did."
"The content discussed in this group every day is very explicit. I just look at it every day, and after looking a lot, I know everything," Shui Xiang explained seriously.
"So that's how it is. I didn't expect you to have such a girlfriend. From the sound of it, she's not a good person!" Li Yang shook his head and sighed.
"Who are you calling not a good person!"
Sister Shui immediately became unhappy when she heard Li Yang badmouthing her!