Chapter 10: Selling Gold Made Her a Petite Rich Lady

"You! You ill-mannered thing, I..."

Lin Meng didn't give the other party a chance, and immediately continued:

"It's obvious who lacks manners! Your words and actions just now have seriously offended me; I have the right to sue you for slander!"

Xiao Sun the clerk, seeing the two about to argue, hurriedly stepped forward to help Lin Meng.

"You with the surname Wu, get lost back to your shop; if you harass my customers again, I'll call the police!"

The other staff in the shop gathered around, and even the shop boss came out from the back office; seeing it was that annoying Wu from the rival shop, the boss's face darkened.

"What's going on? Who let a mad dog in?"

Wu Zhongdeng, seeing many people against him, felt even more furious inside, but he forced himself to shrink into a corner, glaring viciously at Lin Meng.

"Fine, fine, I'll shut up."

He wanted to see how many grams of gold jewelry this lowly thing could produce.

For a pretty girl dressed like her, at most she'd be a one‑time deal with a wealthy patron, and the gold jewelry she gave as a gift would certainly not be high quality—maybe even fake.

Although the other party didn't speak further, Lin Meng could see from his eyes a fullness of malice, which she utterly despised.

Today she went out without checking the almanac, and ended up running into that disgusting thing.

But it's fine—later he'll be the one crying!

"Hello, miss, if you're here to recycle gold jewelry, please come this way; our shop's gold buyback price is 869 per gram."

After Xiao Sun finished speaking, the shop boss thought for a moment and said:

"Let's make it nine hundred per gram, sorry miss—letting a mad dog run loose and bite was our store's management mistake, affecting you, so I'll give you the nine hundred per gram buyback price."

The boss was a straightforward person and also wanted to spite that Wu, so he made an exception and let Lin Meng enjoy the highest gold buyback price.

Wu Zhongdeng snorted from his nostrils, looking disdainful.

"It's just a difference of a few dozen yuan; at most it's over a hundred bucks—what's the big deal?"

Lin Meng just smiled without speaking, went to the side, opened her suitcase, and pulled out a package from one side.

A wrinkled, crumpled red plastic bag, which made Lin Meng seem even more like she came from a backwater place.

But Lin Meng couldn't help it—she didn't have a habit of collecting bags, and at home only this kind of plastic bag could hold all her stuff.

Wu Zhongdeng took one look at that shabby packaging and immediately sneered.

But the shop boss suddenly froze, thinking, "What a huge package."

Lin Meng had wanted to keep a low profile, but now she dropped the act and laid her cards on the table.

"Boss, I want to sell all of these; please inspect the goods and weigh them."

Lin Meng set the bag on the counter with a clang; it sounded very heavy.

At this point Wu Zhongdeng finally realized what was going on, his eyes widening instantly, but he still looked down on Lin Meng in his heart, convinced it must be fake—he had never misjudged a person before, and perhaps this woman simply didn't know real gold, taking a fake for a treasure.

She doesn't look like a rich person either—how could she possibly produce such a large package of gold jewelry all at once?

Until the shop boss opened the plastic bag, peeled back layer after layer of old newspaper, and revealed the gleaming gold inside—Wu Zhongdeng could no longer stay on his feet; it felt like a thunderbolt striking his head.

Although he usually judged people poorly, his years in this line of work had given him good eyesight—these gold pieces were genuine at a glance!

"Good heavens, there's this much—are you selling it all?"

Xiao Sun the clerk exclaimed in surprise, and his gaze toward Lin Meng shifted from a professional smile to respect.

No matter what, this person is today's big customer for the shop—among walk‑in clients, she's already top‑tier.

The shop boss's expression turned solemn as he began to inspect the goods.

Ten minutes later, he stared at the electronic scale showing a total of nearly one kilogram, and his tone grew grave.

"Miss, although we shouldn't pry into customers' privacy, I still want to ask: are you sure you want to dispose of all this gold jewelry? Could you tell me where it came from?"

A kilogram of gold jewelry is something they might encounter only a few times a year in a shop like theirs.

Even if gold prices weren't that high back then, the young lady before them was probably still a student, and few students think about investing in gold.

Lin Meng had prepared early; she pulled out a few yellowed certificates from her pocket and made up a story.

"These were bought by my elders long ago; many certificates and purchase invoices are lost—it's not that I'm in trouble now, I just need cash urgently."

The boss glanced at those old certificates; though not fake, they were so aged he couldn't make them out, so he didn't ask further.

"All right, then I'll calculate it as a full kilogram—ninety thousand yuan for the deal. What do you think?"

Lin Meng nodded calmly, but in fact her heart was pounding with excitement.

Before coming, she had worried that gold of unclear origin would raise suspicion; fortunately, Ye Heng had slipped some old certificates into her backpack as well, the handwriting on them long illegible, but they still served to make up the numbers.

It all depended on whether the boss wanted to make money.

Moreover, thanks to the boss not treating her as a bad person, the ninety thousand yuan was quickly transferred to Lin Meng's account.

Now Wu Zhongdeng was completely dumbfounded.

He had inadvertently missed out on a big order!

Lin Meng caught sight of Wu Zhongdeng silently slipping away, tail between his legs, and she didn't stop him.

For such a petty clown, she still had no desire to waste time on him.

Thinking there were still plenty of valuables in her suitcase waiting to be shipped, Lin Meng quickly left the place.

She hawked her goods around Yun Cheng; the gold buyback price was fixed by regulation, so she wouldn't be cheated, but the depths of the jewelry market were uncertain, and after thinking she decided to hold off for now.

Even so, those gold ornaments alone added two million yuan to her card.

Carrying a huge sum, Lin Meng felt as if she were floating.

It had been a year since she graduated from college; in Magic City she hadn't saved a penny, and even the money her parents had left her was mostly spent, leaving her still in debt.

Before this, she had indeed been dirt poor, to the point of almost not having enough to eat.

Who would have thought that in just two or three days she'd become a millionaire petite rich lady?

Seeing that it was getting late and she had barely eaten all day, Lin Meng immediately turned into a tea restaurant.

The matter of repaying debts can wait until after she's full; she also wants to properly thank Ye Heng, so she goes to the tea restaurant to buy some food for him.

Without him, she couldn't even make twenty thousand, let alone two hundred thousand.

But the one she should thank most is still her grandfather underground.

That old man somehow got hold of a space bracelet—it's simply amazing.

Lin Meng paid for a private room so she wouldn't be disturbed.

She ordered everything on the menu, eating while contacting Ye Heng.

"Are you there? I've sold off a lot of the gold, silver, and jewelry you gave me, made quite a bit of money. Tonight I'm having a big meal at the tea restaurant—do you have any dietary restrictions? I'll pack some for you."

Ye Heng was resting when he heard Lin Meng's call, and he instinctively felt a surge of excitement.

He didn't know what a tea restaurant was, but he understood the three words "big meal".

Ye Heng couldn't help licking his lips, but having nothing to eat, he thought for a moment and said:

"Miss Lin, I don't need the big meal; if possible, I'd like to purchase some medicine. The women and children in the camp have weak constitutions, often falling ill and getting infected, and there are even a few pregnant women about to give birth."

Upon hearing that, Lin Meng immediately took it to heart.

Lin Meng was only thinking about the food, forgetting that in the apocalypse medicine is also a luxury.