"Thirty thousand? Are you kidding? I'll give you 50 thousand, young girl."
"Sixty thousand," another man bid.
"Seventy thousand."
"Eighty thousand."
…
"One hundred and twenty thousand!"
Everyone was shocked again. One hundred and twenty thousand for a blue and white porcelain bracelet from Ming and Qing Dynasty was way too much.
Gu Ning was shocked as well. This was her first time to sell an antique. She knew antiques were expensive, but the price was still a great surprise to her.
She thought forty thousand would be high enough, because the power of this bracelet wasn't strong. It wasn't worth too much because it had a short history.
One hundred and twenty thousand meant nothing for Gu Ning in her last lifetime, but for now, it was a huge amount of money.
In the end, Gu Ning sold the bracelet for 120 thousand yuan.
Although everyone felt surprised by the high price, only experts knew this bracelet was worth much more than that in the market.
A bracelet made of blue and white porcelain from Ming and Qing Dynasty, even from a broken one, was expensive.
Nowadays, a blue and white porcelain plate from Ming and Qing Dynasty was worth millions of yuan. The price of this bracelet wouldn't be lower than 200 thousand in the market.
Though Gu Ning wasn't experienced, and had no idea how much exactly this bracelet was worth, she wouldn't regret.
She needed money right now, and had no time to wait for a more generous buyer.
Besides, she didn't know how to put this bracelet into the market.
There was a designated bank in the antique market. One needed to go to the bank for the money.
Gu Ning didn't have a bank card, but her ID card, so she had one bank card on-site.
When she had received the money, she gave the bracelet to the buyer, and the service fee was transferred to the appraiser afterwards.
The service fee ranged from hundreds to thousands. It depended on the seller.
What Gu Ning had earned wasn't much in the antique industry, so she only needed to pay two thousand yuan.
But Gu Ning was generous, who directly paid the appraiser 10 thousand.
When she had left the bank, Gu Ning felt she was targeted.
The antique street wasn't a safe place with all kinds of people around. It was quite normal that she had become someone's target as soon as she had earn a large amount of money.
Gu Ning calmed down. She left the antique street without any delay.
The minute Gu Ning had left the street, several men, who had been stalking her rushed ahead to stop her.
Four hoodlums around 20 years old surrounded Gu Ning.
The others all ran away in fear, and no one was willing to help.
"Give us all your money, or I'll teach you a lesson." The head of those hoodlums, who has yellow hair threatened Gu Ning.
"Oh, how?" Gu Ning squinted, like she couldn't care less.
And the onlookers were surprised by Gu Ning being so calm.
Wasn't she scared? Was she pretending? Or, did she think anyone would help?
Those hoodlums were notorious around this area, and no one dared to be involved.
"Don't ever hope that someone would help you. Let me tell you, no one dare to. Just give me your money!" The man in yellow hair threatened once more.
Gu Ning knew no one would help her, because everyone had run away. However, she was confident she could easily beat those bad guys.
"Take it by yourself if you want." Gu Ning challenged him.
"You…" Those hoodlums was irritated at once.
"Great. Beat her!" The man with yellow hair ordered.
Then, two hoodlums ran to Gu Ning, trying to catch her.
But before they could come near her, Gu Ning kicked one man in the stomach. The man fell down on the ground in pain immediately.
Then, Gu Ning turned to another one, and punched him directly. The latter suffered at once.
The other two hoodlums were in shock now. It was beyond their imagination that a teenage girl could be so violent.
All of a sudden, a boy who rushed out nearby attacked the man in yellow hair. The man fell down instantly.
The only one, who was left alone standing there, escaped right away. Unfortunately, he ran too fast to recognize the direction, and hit a pole, then bounced back to the ground.
Gu Ning laughed out loud by this funny scene.
Right at this moment, the boy who had attacked the hoodlum in yellow hair ran to Gu Ning. He said in excitement, "Gu Ning, it is really you! I thought I was wrong. Wow, you're so good and beat down two men easily."
Gu Ning knew this boy. He was a senior from the top class in their high school. His name was Mu Ke.
Mu Ke was nearly 5'11'' tall. He was a handsome and good-looking boy.
Gu Ning and Mu Ke were from different classes. She knew Mu Ke was Qin Zheng's classmate and they were good friends. Mu Ke also knew the truth behind she and Qin Zheng's relationship.
But Mu Ke was different from his friends. He was a good upright boy, and even told her secretly that Qin Zheng wasn't her Mr. Right.
But back then, Gu Ning had loved Qin Zheng so much. She wouldn't listen to anyone else.
Thinking of that, Gu Ning actually held a great opinion of Mu Ke.
"Thank you so much, Mu Ke." Gu Ning smiled to Mu Ke, and thanked him sincerely.
Though she was able to deal with it all on her own, Mu Ke had helped her indeed. She ought to thank him for that.
Gu Ning was a beautiful girl. She seemed ordinary only because she spent less time on appearance.
Gu Ning's smile had made Mu Ke flush.
"You're welcome. And I think even though I didn't helped you, they couldn't hurt you at all." Mu Ke was a little shy before Gu Ning.
"Anyway, thank you so much for helping me." Gu Ning said.
Suddenly, Mu Ke remembered something important. He looked at Gu Ning with astonishment, "Oh, I've heard Qin Zheng has broken up with you on Friday, and then you've caught by a car accident. How are you right now?"
Mu Ke had no intention to hurt Gu Ning's feelings. He really cared about her.
But he hadn't been there in person, so he had only heard of it.
He believed it was Qin Zheng's fault, but he had no right to get involved in his friend's personal relations.
Gu Ning's face changed a little, but not because of Mu Ke. She knew Mu Ke cared about her.
Thus Gu Ning asked him back for fun, "Do I look like I'm in a bad condition?"
Um.
Mu Ke was struck dumb. Gu Ning was absolutely fine and well. She seemed like nothing had happened at all. Or, she wouldn't have been able to knock down two grown-ups.
"That's great, and now you know what kind of a person he is. So…" Mu Ke intended to tell Gu Ning to give up any illusion on Qin Zheng, but he thought it wasn't his business after all.
"It'll never happen again. I've already given up on Qin Zheng." Gu Ning knew exactly what was on Mu Ke's mind. She didn't care at all.
"Great to hear that," Mu Ke felt relieved.
Mu Ke wasn't in love with Gu Ning actually. He just hated to see an innocent girl be bullied.
"It's late now. I have to go home," Gu Ning said.
"Sure, bye-bye," Mu Ke replied.
Since Gu Ning had made a lot of money today, so she took a taxi to go home.
Gu Ning wanted to buy a smartphone at first, but it was too late for that. She didn't want Gu Man to be worried, so she got home directly.
Indeed, Gu Man called her once when she was halfway, while it took Gu Ning another 20 minutes to be home.
The taxi line was shorter and faster than a bus, so Gu Ning had spent only 40 minutes on her way home.
A half less time than the bus.
When Gu Ning had arrived at her home, it was almost six pm. Gu Man had already prepared the dinner.
Gu Qing's family were here today too. They came to visit Gu Ning because she had just left the hospital.
Gu Ning's uncle named Jiang Xu, and her cousin called Jiang Xinyue.
"Ningning's home."
The minute Gu Ning walked in, Jiang Xu and Gu Qing welcomed her.
"Aunt, uncle and Xinyue, nice to meet you all," Gu Ning greeted them.
"Sister, nice to meet you too," Jiang Xinyue greeted Gu Ning. She was a shy girl.
Jiang Xinyue was 15 years old now. She was a third grade student in middle school, and a quiet girl of few words. Luckily, she wasn't as self-abased as the old Gu Ning. She was academic and had lots of friends.
Among the young generation in the Gu family, Jiang Xinyue only liked Gu Ning. For the rest, she had seen them through.
Jiang Xu was two years Gu Qing's senior, 45 years old, but looked older than his real age. He worked as a truck driver in a construction site. It was a labor work.
Jiang Xu earned thousands of yuan every month. With Gu Qing's salary, they lived a better life than Gu Ning and her mother.
However, the family of Gu Qing still lived on a tight budget. They were not able to buy a house, but lived in a rental one.
Though City F was a third-tier city, the house price wasn't low, especially in the downtown.
Even in the suburb, it cost at least hundreds of thousand yuan to buy a house for the whole family to live.
Jiang Xu's parents had passed away for a long time, so he didn't need to support his parents, but it was still very hard for him to save enough money because of expenditure on renting and tuition.
So it was a sky-high price for them.
As long as they had food to eat, clothes to wear, and their child could go to school, they felt happy.
Although the family of Gu Qing lived on a tight budget, they would help Gu Ning and Gu Man whenever they could.
When Gu Ning had been in hospital, the rest of the Gu family had ignored. Even when Gu Man had called them to borrow money, they all had rejected.
Only Gu Qing and Jiang Xu had visited Gu Ning. Moreover, they had given Gu Man all of their savings to help Gu Ning with the surgery.
Fortunately, Gu Ning had recovered at the end.
Gu Ning didn't want to tell Gu Man that she had earn a lot of money. She wanted to wait till she could afford a house.
And she surely would never forget the family of Gu Qing. She would also help them to live a good life when she became rich in the future.
Thinking of that, Gu Ning opened her mouth suddenly, "Mom, aunt, and uncle. I promise I'll let you live a good life when I become successful in the future."
Everyone was surprised by Gu Ning.
No matter if it was going to be true or not, they felt happy that Gu Ning cared about them.
And Gu Ning had just grown up, her future was still unpredictable.
"Great. We'll wait till the day come. Ningning, we believe you can be successful."
"Exactly, we all believe you."
Gu Qing and Jiang Xu was moved, and encouraged Gu Ning at the same time.
Gu Man then found out Gu Ning had changed. She was more outgoing now than before.
Because they really loved each other as family, they had a good time that day.
Lying on the bed before falling asleep, Gu Ning took out her notebooks to read.
Though Gu Ning was a good student in her previous incarnation, but not excellent enough. It was harder for Gu Ning in this incarnation to get into college. So, Gu Ning had to spend more time and energy on studying.
She opened her notebooks, reading them ten lines at one sight. The content had all deeply borne in her mind.
The Jade Eyes was really extraordinary.
…
The second day was Monday.
Gu Man had already call Gu Ning's head teacher for a few days leave due to her accident. Though Gu Ning was fine now, Gu Man still wanted her to stay at home.
But Gu Ning believed otherwise, she wanted to go the school.
Gu Man agreed at the end.
Gu Ning had encountered Shao Feifei yesterday. She didn't want her head teacher to know that she had recovered but wasn't willing to attend the classes.
Gu Ning didn't care about the difficulties. She just didn't want to get into any more trouble.
The first class was at 6:50 am. It took Gu Ning around 20 minutes to get to her school by bus. Normally, Gu Ning would get up at six o'clock in the morning.
Gu Man went to work at half past eight, because the factory wasn't far away. It took Gu Man half an hour on her way to work, so she left home at 7:40 am.
Thus, to let Gu Man have more sleep, Gu Ning never eat breakfast at home, but would have all her three meals at her school. She only went back home when the last class had been finished.
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