Chapter 12: What? Someone Intercepted It?
Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling!
The next morning at six-thirty, Jiang Tao was woken up by the alarm on his mobile phone.
Just as he was about to turn off the alarm and sleep a little longer, he suddenly remembered the intelligence he had refreshed last night.
Swish!
Jiang Tao sat up in bed in an instant and nimbly began to put on his clothes and shoes.
That’s how powerful money is!
Laziness is no match for it!
Dressed and ready in three minutes, Jiang Tao went downstairs.
It was still early, and the Hongxing Second-hand Furniture Market hadn’t opened yet, so there was no need to rush.
Thinking that he would earn 29,800 yuan again today.
Jiang Tao couldn’t help but think about eating something good to treat himself and reward himself first.
When he reached the entrance of Old Gu’s Lamb Soup shop, Jiang Tao turned directly inside.
He ordered a large bowl of lamb offal soup and half a baked flatbread, which cost only 23 yuan in total.
After eating his fill and warming up, Jiang Tao left and headed towards the village entrance.
“Xiao Jiang, you’re living quite a good life, even drinking lamb soup.”
After walking only a few steps, Wang Lianming, an older brother from his hometown, caught up to Jiang Tao from behind, hands clasped, and teased him with a smile.
Jiang Tao replied with a smile, “I can’t be bothered to make it myself, just eating something quick. Have you eaten, Brother Wang?”
“Your sister-in-law boils millet pumpkin porridge every morning, saying it’s nutritious and healthy.”
“No matter how nutritious or healthy, you can’t eat it every day. My mouth is practically bored to death!”
“Brother truly envies you. You’re far away, no one to control you, you do as you please, eat what you like.”
“In our family, your sister-in-law decides what we eat. Noodles and baked flatbread, which I like, are considered ‘calorie bombs’ in her eyes.”
“Eating a bowl of noodles is like committing a major crime!”
Jiang Tao laughed, “I envy you and your sister-in-law being together every day. My wife and I are separated for two or three months at a time without seeing each other.”
Life is sometimes like this; you always feel like others have it easier and envy them.
Little do you know, you are also being envied by others.
“How about we switch?”
“Hahaha, Brother Wang, you can’t joke like that. If your sister-in-law hears about it, you’ll be kneeling on a washboard when you get home!”
“Kneeling on a washboard? What washboard do we big men kneel on? It’s not a brag, brother…”
As they chatted and laughed, they arrived at the village entrance and each got into their own truck, heading towards the Hongxing Second-hand Furniture Market to start their day’s work.
At 7:30 in the morning, the market opened, and merchants inside started entering one after another.
“Let’s get started!”
Jiang Tao pushed open the truck door, jumped out of the driver’s seat onto the ground, closed the door, and entered the market with the other merchants.
“Area B, Stall No. 25, this is it…”
Jiang Tao had been working in this market for five or six years and was very familiar with its layout, so he quickly found the entrance to Stall B25.
This was a second-hand sofa stall, with a business area of three to four hundred square meters, and the interior space looked very spacious.
“It’s almost 8 o’clock, and they’re not open yet.”
Jiang Tao took out his mobile phone and checked the time, then looked again at the locked room door of Stall B25, feeling a bit anxious.
“Calm down, calm down. It’s just a broken sofa, no one’s going to snatch it from us, no need to act too interested.”
Jiang Tao comforted himself mentally, then took out a cigarette from his cigarette case and lit it to relieve his nervousness.
As he was halfway through smoking the cigarette, a plump woman wearing a long, dark red down jacket and a head of curly hair stopped at the door of Stall B25.
The woman held a jianbing guozi in one hand, taking bites from it occasionally, and with the other hand, she took out keys from a black crossbody bag she was wearing to open the door.
“They’re here!”
Seeing the woman’s action of opening the door, Jiang Tao’s face lit up with joy. I’ve been waiting for you for a while!
After unlocking the chain lock, the curly-haired woman pushed open the main door, officially starting the day’s business.
Jiang Tao quickly extinguished the cigarette butt on the trash can next to him and strode towards the entrance of Stall B25.
“Handsome guy, are you buying a sofa? What kind are you looking for? I’ll introduce you.”
As soon as Li Guiying stepped inside, she turned around and saw Jiang Tao entering. She quickly put down the jianbing guozi in her hand and greeted him with a smile.
“Elder Sister, you haven’t finished breakfast yet. Please continue eating. I’ll just look around myself and see if there’s anything I like.”
Jiang Tao said with a smile and looked towards an area in the northwest corner of the warehouse.
In that area in the northwest corner of the warehouse, in Jiang Tao’s line of sight, there was a beam of light extending from the floor to the ceiling.
Based on his experience of buying alcohol yesterday, the glowing object was likely the sofa containing someone’s private money!
“Alright, then you look around by yourself. If you see anything you like, tell me, Elder Sister. You’re the first customer today, so I’ll give you a good price.”
“Okay! Then Elder Sister, you eat. I’ll go take a look.”
Jiang Tao said with a smile to Li Guiying and then began a cursory inspection.
To avoid revealing his true intentions, he didn’t head straight for the area with the light beam today but feigned looking around other areas for five or six minutes to create a diversion.
As he was looking around, he casually turned towards the sofa enveloped by the beam of light.
It was a pink, girlish-looking double sofa, about seven to eight-tenths new.
“Oh wow, this color…”
Jiang Tao, a man, felt a wave of awkwardness seeing the girlish pink color.
But for the private money inside the sofa, this little bit of awkwardness was nothing.
As long as I’m not embarrassed, the embarrassment is on others!
“Ahem, Elder Sister, could you come over here for a moment?”
Jiang Tao called out to Li Guiying, who was eating a jianbing guozi inside a temporary office at the entrance.
Li Guiying finished the last bite of her jianbing guozi, waddled over to Jiang Tao with her short legs, and asked with a smile:
“Which one have you taken a liking to, handsome guy?”
“Elder Sister, how much is this sofa?”
Jiang Tao pointed to the pink, girlish sofa and asked for the price with a slight hint of embarrassment.
“Huh? You want this one?”
Seeing the sofa Jiang Tao was pointing at, Li Guiying immediately mistook him for someone with a particular preference.
This guy looks quite masculine!
But his taste…
Jiang Tao gave an embarrassed smile and explained, “Ahem, my wife likes this color. How much is this sofa?”
“Wait a moment, handsome brother. I think I have some impression of this sofa…”
“Oh, right! I remembered, I already sold this sofa in the live stream yesterday. The buyer said they’d come to pick it up this morning.”
“Brother, you should look at something else.”
Li Guiying said, patting her head, feeling that her memory seemed to be deteriorating in winter.
“What? It’s sold?”
Jiang Tao was stunned when he heard Li Guiying’s words.
He came so early, only to have it snatched away by someone else?
Please collect, please follow!
