Chapter 206 Choosing Antiques On Portabello Street

He knew if Jessica revealed his identity as the chairman of Four Seas Corporation, the whole birthday dinner would be ruined as everyone’s attention would be on him.

He didn’t want to steal the old lady’s thunder at her own birthday dinner.

“Then how should I address you?” Jessica asked after a brief pause..

“My name. What else?” Alex was amused.

“Okay,” Jessica responded.

“Let’s go find your gift,” Alex urged.

“Alright,” Jessica nodded her head and followed Alex around to look at the street stalls.

“That stall has a lot of stuff. Why don’t we go there?” Suddenly, Jessica pointed at a stall and suggested. That particular stall wasn’t even a stall. It was just antiques spread all over a plastic sheet on the ground. There were silverware, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, and pottery on that plastic sheet.

Alex glanced over the stuff and immediately determined that they were all fakes.

The stall owner was a tanned and skinny man dressed in dirty denim jeans. His hair was disheveled and greasy, as if he hadn’t washed it in days. At first glance, he looked like a man trying to make an honest living.

The stall owner was, in

at his stall, so he was getting a

Alex nodded and headed to that

is this?” Alex asked the stall owner as

stall owner stared at the gold bracelet with his bulging eyes as he replied, “My grandma left this bracelet for me, and it is our family heirloom. I’ll sell it to you for

A hundred grand?

customers glanced at the gold bracelet in Alex’s hand and started talking about it because it seemed like an authentic

grand? That expensive?” Jessica gasped

family heirloom. Of course it’s expensive,” the owner responded matter–of–factly.

He picked up

and said, “This is a treasure my great–grandfather

like your ancestors are rich, huh? If you have so many family heirlooms, why Would you sell them at a street

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hundred, so Alex couldn’t help but laugh when the owner kept claiming

crowd immediately understood Alex’s hint that most

words made sense. The owner wouldn’t dare to sell expensive antiques at a street

you at a cheaper price.” The owner hurriedly offered when he

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