After Marrying the Officer

Xia Chuyi thought to herself, "Well, after hearing them talk about it, I'm quite curious to meet this person too..."

Unfortunately, as the owner of the jade, she had been left outside!

"Housekeeper Wang, does coming out now mean you are withdrawing from the competition?" someone asked Housekeeper Wang.

Housekeeper Wang replied, "What else can I do? Since Mr. Cheng has made his move, I can only withdraw."

Someone else asked, "What about the Li family? Why haven't they come out? Are they going to compete against Mr. Cheng?"

The crowd, always thrilled with excitement and curiosity, lit up when they heard such questions.

Housekeeper Wang continued, "The Li family has money, so they want to compete financially with Mr. Cheng."

This meant that the Li family was not willing to back down.

"So, Housekeeper Wang, the seller must be someone influential, right?" someone asked.

Otherwise, where would the Li family get the confidence to use money to compete?

Housekeeper Wang smiled, shook his head, glanced cautiously at the 'watchdog' left by Mr. Cheng, and said, "I'm not really at liberty to say, but it seems I'm fated not to win this jade today, so I shall take my leave now."

After Housekeeper Wang left, the crowd, behind the back of Mr. Cheng's 'watchdog,' began whispering again, "The Li family sure are bold. Even if they do buy the jade by spending a lot, can they really keep it safe?"

"Sooner or later Mr. Cheng will take action against them!"

Someone noted, "From what Housekeeper Wang implied, the seller must be someone with solid backing. Do you think the seller might help the Li family?"

"You're overthinking it," someone immediately countered. "Once the item is sold and the money exchanged, who cares what happens?"

"Besides, the most important thing is, does the seller know about Mr. Cheng's influence?"

"True, seeing that the owner of the jade chose to gamble on stones today and not at the Jade Gathering, he must be a novice," someone sighed.

"Jade Gathering?" Xia Chuyi asked with curiosity when she heard this.

Hearing Xia Chuyi's question, the person looked at her and said, "Young comrade, surely you don't know about this?"

Shaking his head, the person lamented that increasingly more novices were coming to the antique market, no wonder there were more and more being conned.

Seeing that Xia Chuyi looked kind and cute, the person briefly explained to her.

It turned out that although the antique market was flourishing, there were traditional dates when everyone would bring together specific types of antiques for sale, creating a marketplace as a form of promotion.

Typically, real experts would choose to partake in these events to buy or sell their antiques, which was much more convenient.

Xia Chuyi nodded in understanding.

It seemed that Fan San hadn't mentioned this information to her because she had initially expressed to Brother Ou that she wanted to keep a low profile.

Therefore, Fan San was helping her appraise the stone today.

Consequently, because a fine piece of jade had been found, rumors had spread, drawing in prospective buyers prematurely.

Of course, Xia Chuyi's original intention had been to sell the jade, so she didn't mind much.

But listening to the discussions just now and the behavior of so-called "Mr. Cheng," Xia Chuyi was somewhat reluctant to sell the jade to him from the bottom of her heart.

Moreover, hadn't Housekeeper Wang just said it?

The Li family wanted to use money to compete for the jade — as someone who was initially motivated by money, she greatly appreciated the Li family's "business perspective!"

As Xia Chuyi was pondering in her mind.

Someone else came out from the inside, it was Ou Jun; seeing that she hadn't returned for a long time, he sent someone to look for her.

Upon seeing her, the person's eyes lit up and exclaimed, "Mr. Xia!"