Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time! - Chapter 033

Getting Rich is Hard? My Supermarket Connects Time!
Chapter 033 – Buying the case and discarding the pearls (1)

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Editor : Chu
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Xiaomei couldn’t figure it out: where did she get all those good things?!
Her doubts made her stop in her tracks just as she was about to leave. After some thought, she went into a milk tea shop diagonally across from the pawnshop, ordered a cup of milk tea, and waited.

When Xiao Yingchun knocked and entered, Dai Hengxin was boiling water to make tea.

The moment he saw Xiao Yingchun come in, he immediately stood up to greet her. “You’re here?”

Xiao Yingchun smiled and nodded. “No need to be so polite.”

After all, since they had shared a meal before, things were already much closer than before.

Xiao Yingchun sat down, and Dai Hengxin went to lock the pawnshop door, explaining as he did,
“You’re my only distinguished guest this morning. I’ll lock the door first to avoid interruptions.”

Xiao Yingchun glanced at the transparent glass door and nodded in understanding.

By the time Dai Hengxin sat down again, Xiao Yingchun had already taken out the box decorated with gold and silver patterns, and pearls.

The moment Dai Hengxin saw the box, his eyes froze!

First, he pulled down the curtains over the street-facing window, then switched on all the lights.

After fussing about, he sat down again, pursed his lips, carefully put on gloves, and reached out to lift the box.

Xiao Yingchun was startled by how solemn and meticulous he was. “What’s wrong? Is this box very valuable?”

The moment Dai Hengxin lifted the box, he realized something.
“There are things inside this box?”

Xiao Yingchun nodded. “Yes…”

Dai Hengxin became agitated. “How can you keep things inside this box? If the box gets scratched, its value will drop drastically…”

Saying this, he quickly put the box back down, carefully opened it, and prepared to take out what was inside.

But once the box was opened, he was stunned—inside was a jewelry case packed full of jewels and ornaments!

Dai Hengxin’s heart pounded wildly, as if it were fitted with a motor, thumping so hard it almost leapt out of his throat.  

“You have all these…”

Xiao Yingchun nodded. “I just wanted you to take a look and tell me whether they’re actually worth anything, and if so, how much…”

Who could’ve guessed that the moment you saw that jewelry box, you nearly lost your mind.

Dai Hengxin sat frozen for a while, then shook his head to clear it before pulling out a large velvet-lined tray from under the table.

He carefully lifted each piece of jewelry out of the box, one by one, and laid them neatly on the tray.

When the tray was full, he silently went to fetch a second one.

A moment later, staring at the empty jewelry box and two trays brimming with ornaments, Dai Hengxin looked like he wanted to speak but hesitated.

After restraining himself for a bit, he couldn’t hold back any longer. “Miss Xiao, may I make a suggestion?”

“Go ahead.” Xiao Yingchun gestured with her hand.

“Next time, could you treat things like these with a bit more care? Keep them sorted properly in separate cases. Tossing them all together like this really isn’t good for such treasures…”

Not just “not good”—it was downright ruinous!

He’d just spotted a fresh scratch on one of the gold hairpins, and it made his heart bleed.

Xiao Yingchun belatedly nodded. “I’ll definitely be more careful next time.”

Dai Hengxin gave her another look, then another: forget it, she probably wasn’t taking it to heart anyway.

He pushed the two trays to the side, then picked up the jewelry box, sniffing it, touching it, studying it through a magnifying glass. After a long examination, his face grew solemn.

“Do you have any idea what this is?”

Xiao Yingchun answered cautiously, “A jewelry box?”

Dai Hengxin nodded heavily. “Yes, it’s a jewelry box—but the craftsmanship and materials are top-tier!”

“It’s made of agarwood, with mother-of-pearl inlay, and set with gold and silver filigree. The one Christie’s auctioned before wasn’t nearly this exquisite or this large, yet it still sold for twenty million.”

-mother of pearl

-gold filigree

-silver filigree

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