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 fact, terribly cunning.

customers at his stall, so he was getting a lot of business.

headed

the stall owner as he knelt

bracelet for me, and it is our family heirloom. I’ll sell it to

A hundred grand?

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

That expensive?” Jessica gasped in

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

up a horse ornament and

at it and said, “This is a treasure my great–grandfather found in an ancient

If you have so many

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a few hundred, so Alex couldn’t help

Alex’s hint that most of the items here were

dare to sell expensive antiques

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

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