Traveling through 70's wine

Wen Qing saw several currency exchange shops with the same name along the way. She thought that the owners behind them must be very powerful. The one she chose was the largest and the most luxuriously decorated.

The owner of the currency exchange shop led Wen Qing into a small office and asked, "Did you come from that side?" He pointed to the north.

Wen Qing didn't say anything. She picked up the paper cutter on the desk and folded it in half with two fingers. The boss said in embarrassment, "It's hard to get an ID card, boss."

Wen Qing placed two gold ingots on the table, took out three more and placed them aside, and said in a deep voice: "It will surely be easier with these."

The boss reached out to take it, and Wen Qing quickly took the three gold ingots and said, "I'll give it to you when it's done."

He added, "Don't play tricks. When can I get it?" and folded the folded paper cutter in half again.

The boss said, "I am a man of my word. Come pick it up at this time tomorrow."

Wen Qing stood up and said, "I want to exchange some gold. How much is it?"

The boss took Wen Qing outside and exchanged three gold ingots for 3 Hong Kong dollars.

Wen Qing found a hotel on Jiuying Street and stayed there. Looking at the shower, flush toilet and Simmons mattress in the hotel, she finally found some traces of her previous life.

She took a shower and went to sleep first.

At noon, Wen Qing went to a nearby snack bar that sold seafood. She ordered grilled oysters, spicy fried clams, and seafood noodles. Although it was a small shop, the food tasted good.

I strolled around Jiuying Street in the afternoon. The street is very narrow and the shops on both sides are not big.

There were shops selling groceries, medicines, second-hand goods, and clothes. Wen Qing didn't have much money, so she bought a few pieces of clothing. She passed by a Chinese medicine store and saw bezoar, rhino horn, and tiger bone for sale, so she bought some of those as well. In a used bookstore, she found Chinese and English books on mechanics and automobiles, and bought a few of them as well.

In the evening, she changed to a different restaurant and ordered a roast goose and a hot pot. The dishes were large in size and delicious, and she was very satisfied with the meal.

When I got back to the hotel, there was still early, so I entered the space and took out the two raw stones that I had not solved last time. One was an icy dark green jadeite, weighing 5 kilograms, and the other was a glutinous icy emerald green jadeite, weighing more than 10 kilograms.

The next day, Wen Qing slept until she woke up naturally. After dinner, she found the currency exchange shop. The woman was still in the shop. When she saw her come in, she picked up the phone and made a call. She said to Wen Qing, "Sir, please wait a moment. The boss will be here soon."

Wen Qing sat on the sofa and waited for a while. The boss hurried over and invited Wen Qing to his office. He took out a piece of paper and a card and handed them to Wen Qing. It read: Li Wen, male, 51 years old, address: No. 25, Weikan Road, Jiuying Street.

Wen Qing asked: "Is this true?"

The boss patted his chest and said, "Brother, this is absolutely true. It all came from the government."

Wen Qing took out three gold ingots from her bag and handed them to him, "It'd better be real."

The boss kept saying, "Don't worry, it's absolutely true."

Wen Qing put the piece of paper into her bag and the card into her wallet.

After leaving the store, he said, "Thank you, boss. Goodbye." and turned around and walked into the crowd.

Back at the hotel, Wen Qing changed into the suit she had bought yesterday. She was 172 cm tall, which was considered tall among girls but not short among southern men. She had short hair combed back, revealing her forehead, and looked very heroic.

After checking out, Wen Qing took a taxi to Hong Kong Island, first went to the Mandarin Hotel near the harbor to check in a room, and then went out carrying a large briefcase.

She walked leisurely along the bustling street and came to the door of Huihuang Jewelry, a famous jewelry store in Hong Kong. Seeing that the store was brightly lit, Wen Qing pushed the door and walked in.

"Hello sir, how can I help you?"

Wen Qing looked around and saw a woman wearing a name tag with the words "Lobby Manager" on her chest, so she walked over.

Asked: "Do you buy gemstones?"

The woman asked back, "What gem?"

"Emerald."

"Please wait a moment. I will go call the manager."

The woman stood at the counter and dialed a number. She said a few words and put down the phone. She turned to Wen Qing and said, "Sir, please wait a moment. Our manager will be here soon."

After a while, a tall man in his 30s came down from upstairs.

"Sir, you want to sell jade?"

Wen Qing said calmly, "Yes."

The manager invited Wen Qing to the reception room upstairs and asked, "Sir, what is your name?"

Wen Qing sat down and replied, "My surname is Li."

The manager handed over a business card with "Ye Yijie, Manager" printed on it.

Wen Qing took out a fist-sized piece of emerald green jade and asked, "Manager Ye, how much is this jade worth?"

Manager Ye took the jade and said, "This piece of jade is emerald green and quite delicate, but if you look closely you can still see some cotton inside. It should be glutinous ice type, with good water head and good color. Let me weigh it first."

After ringing the bell, a female employee walked in and asked, "Manager Ye, what do you want?"

"Go and bring in the scales."

The female employee brought in a scale and Manager Ye weighed it and it was 720 grams.

Manager Ye said: "This piece of jade is quite valuable. We need someone from the company's purchasing department to appraise its value."

He took out his camera and took a few photos of the jadeite. "Mr. Li, we will give you an answer tomorrow."

Wen Qing said, "Okay, call me when you have made a decision." She left the Mandarin Hotel's phone number and room number and left.

After leaving Huihuang Jewelry, Wen Qing went to other jewelry stores to learn about the market prices of jade jewelry.

The Mandarin Hotel is much better than the previous Jiuying Street Hotel. All the people coming in and out are well-dressed men and women, which is completely different from domestic hotels.

After Wen Qing had dinner at the hotel, she stayed in the room watching TV. Televisions were not yet popular in China at that time and the programs were very monotonous. As she watched the financial program, she suddenly thought of something and decided to do it tomorrow.

The next day, Wen Qing went to HSBC to open an account. It was already noon when she returned to the hotel. She received a call from Huihuang Jewelry. They decided to purchase her jadeite for 100 million Hong Kong dollars. This price was not much different from her previous estimate, so she agreed to sign a contract with them.

"I still have two pieces of jade, do you want them?" Wen Qing asked.

"If the quality is good and the price is right, we will also take it. Bring it over in the afternoon and we can talk face to face." Ye Yiji suppressed his joy.

Yesterday, he showed the photo of the jadeite to his boss, who was very satisfied with the jadeite and asked him to buy it.

In the afternoon, in the reception room of Huihuang Jewelry, besides Ye Yiji, there was also a middle-aged man. Ye Yiji introduced himself as the company's appraiser. After the two sides met and exchanged greetings, Wen Qing signed a contract with Ye Yiji to sell the piece of glutinous ice-type Yang Green Jadeite to them.

Wen Qing took out a 3-kilogram piece of icy blue jadeite and a 20-pound piece of red jadeite. The appraiser from Brilliant Jewelry couldn't help but step forward, took them and looked at them carefully. After various inspections, he motioned to Wen Qing to wait, and the two of them went out together.

Half an hour later, the two men came in again and told Wen Qing that they, Brilliant Jewelry, wanted to buy both pieces of jade. Wen Qing earned a total of 2600 million Hong Kong dollars.

Wen Qing asked them to transfer the money into her account at HSBC.

Afterwards, Wen Qing went to a car sales company and bought two cars at once, one was a jeep from the United States and the other was a pickup truck from Japan.

After completing the formalities, she told the car sales company that she would drive away the pickup truck first and the jeep would come back later to take it away.

Wen Qing drove to the gas station, filled up the pickup truck with gas, and bought two oil barrels at the gas station, filled them with 200 liters of gasoline and 200 liters of diesel, which she towed away with the pickup truck. When she reached a deserted place, she put them into a space, then returned to the car company and drove the jeep away.

It cost a total of HK$40 to buy the two cars, and even the money from the first piece of jade was not spent.