Chapter 139

He glanced at his daughter, who was crouched on the floor sobbing, then turned to the woman and asked through gritted teeth, "How much?"

The woman smiled, as though she found the whole thing amusing—or knew she had already won.

In the end, Gu Jinshui had to fork over a whopping thirty dollars to bring that "ordinary" little tea saucer home.

He handed the saucer to Gu Yousi. She stopped crying at once, hugged it to her chest, and got smoothly to her feet. There wasn't a trace of tears on her fair little face.

Joseph opened his mouth, pointed at Gu Jinshui, then looked at Gu Yousi. "What happened?"

An Yi bumped his shoulder and murmured, "We'll talk outside."

Joseph seemed to catch on. He nodded quickly, led Gu Jinshui and the others out, and got into the car.

Joseph couldn't contain himself any longer. "Is there something special about that saucer?"

Gu Yousi handed the little dish to Gu Jinshui.

Gu Jinshui took it. Even with all he had seen, the sight of such a treasure made him reluctant to part with it. "This was made for an emperor of the Ming Dynasty over a thousand years ago. Even back then, this little dish alone was worth tens of thousands of taels of silver."

Joseph's head buzzed.

He stared at the tiny dish, mouth hanging open. "Just... this little thing?"

"You can't measure an antique's value by its size."

Gu Jinshui smiled and pointed to a crack in the dish. "Even with this crack, the little thing would fetch at least several hundred thousand yuan at auction!"

Joseph's eyes nearly popped out.

"Let's not go home yet," Gu Jinshui said. "Let's try Jelene. If we can get in touch with Mr. Wu soon, it'll save us a lot