Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets Chapter 42 - 42 42 High-Priced Auction An extra

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: High-Priced Auction! (An extra chapter dedicated to my book club leader, there’ll be another one tonight) Chapter 42: Chapter 42: High-Priced Auction! (An extra chapter dedicated to my book club leader, there’ll be another one tonight) “If this is all wire sh, it should be worth a few thousand dollars.” Soone guessed.

“I bet there’s sothing else in there…”

“Who knows? If you want to make big money, you have to take risks!”

“If it’s less than two thousand, I’ll take it!”

“Actually, considering all these containers, this one is pretty good…”

Everyone was voicing their opinions.

So people really thought so, Sean Knight figured so were just trying to mislead others.

Madden’s octuple telescope caught people’s attention and soone asked him:

“Mr. Madden, what do you see?”

“Not sure, seems there’s a tractor or sothing in there. Definitely sothing!”

Before people could get excited, Mr. Madden added another line:

“But whether the stuff inside is good or bad, who knows.”

Okay, that was like a cold shower.

Seeing that everyone had more or less finished inspecting, the auctioneer imdiately started the auction:

“Starting price eight hundred dollars, each bid must be at least fifty dollars more, starting the auction now who will bid first will it be who will it be great, great, great, the young man from China Sean is the first to bid his offer is eight hundred and fifty dollars…”

The auctioneer once again demonstrated his unique intonation.

Before Sean’s hand even dropped, Mr. Madden raised his and bid:

“One thousand dollars!”

Soon, the price soared to three thousand dollars, and then the frequency of bids started to decrease.

By the ti the bid reached five thousand five hundred dollars, only three people remained.

Mr. Madden suddenly raised the price to eight thousand dollars!

Sean was taken aback, Mr. Madden was ruthless!

But he also knew he must have this container this ti!

“Nine thousand dollars!” Sean raised his bid by thousand dollars.

Another big-beard guy also continued his bid:

“Eleven thousand dollars!”

Mr. Madden made another high bid:

“Fifteen thousand dollars!”

Sean wondered if he’d guessed what was inside, but he wasn’t going to give in easily this ti:

“Twenty thousand dollars!”

This bid scared off both the big-beard guy and Mr. Madden!

Mr. Madden looked at Sean seriously and shook his head, saying:

“You win, it’s yours!”

Sean smiled.

He knew Mr. Madden had understood his determination.

The old treasure hunter didn’t want to get into a destructive bidding war with Sean.

After the auctioneer announced the bid three tis, he congratulated Sean on winning the auction.

Sean paid the money and started clearing up the stuff.

Jason Caldwell imdiately ca to help.

As he moved the stuff, he asked Sean:

“Sean, can we break even with these?”

Sean was still thinking about the other container with the sports car, so he casually answered:

“It depends on what we’ll unpack from here. Auctioning containers is basically gambling … ”

“Then why were you adamant about bidding on this container?”

Sean already knew the answer, so it was easy to deduce from the known to the unknown.

He pointed at these shelves and those wire shes and asked Jason:

“What do you think these things are for?”

Jason paused his work, scratched his head, and said uncertainly:

“If I’m not mistaken, these should be… for a ranch? The wire sh is probably for fencing livestock, and these iron fras should be for fixing wire shes?”

“Exactly right!” Sean gave him a thumbs up, “Think about it, if all the back is filled with wire sh, there must be at least five or six hundred rolls.

These wire shes are all new, and on online, new ones cost fifty dollars a roll. Even if I calculate them as second-hand commodities at ninety percent of a new one, forty-five dollars per roll, isn’t it at least more than twenty thousand dollars?”

Jason Caldwell nodded, admiration evident on his expression.

Following Sean Knight was surely the right choice; he learned a new trick!

“Also, I don’t think it’s all iron wire sh in here,” Sean Knight said as he moved stuff around inside the container. “Usually, they put sothing significant in these containers. Let see…”

He climbed onto the sh and peered inside, imdiately feigning a look of utter astonishnt.

“My God! Guess what I see? Good heavens!”

Jason, completely unprepared for Sean’s reaction, couldn’t resist climbing onto the sh himself. After moving a couple of bundles aside, he saw what was inside.

“Wow! Oh, my God!”

Jason also let out a gasp of surprise.

His exclamations drew the attention of several people in the auction.

Soone yelled:

“Hey, what’s the deal, poor Jason? What did you see?”

Jason was unfazed by the na-calling and chuckled, “You’ll never guess in a million years!”

“Spit it out, don’t make climb up there and kick your ass!” a man from the crowd yelled impatiently.

“It’s a helicopter!” Jason roared with laughter, “Sean’s hit the jackpot this ti!”

Indeed, it was a small, single-person helicopter.

The reason Sean Knight bid for this container was because he saw this big machine!

Although Sean wasn’t all that certain about the price of helicopters, and this was clearly a very simple, small-scale, single-person model.

But still, it was a helicopter!

Even if it were cheap, it should cost more than a car, right?

This was why Sean Knight was insistently bidding on this container!

When the others discovered it was a helicopter inside, they were all flabbergasted.

“I’ve stopped envying Sean’s good luck,” shrugged Madden. “It’s just pointless!

Smiling, Sean Knight retorted, “Actually, I think you’re the lucky one. All you see is my wins. But what about the days I didn’t make a di? I didn’t hear you say anything.”

“Alright, alright, you Chinese are all like this,” old Madden shook his head. “So, you plan on competing with for the next container?”

“Depends on if there is anything good inside,” Sean’s reply was noncommittal.

He would not pass up an opportunity to make money willingly.

He made a phone call to Mr. John, who was thoroughly surprised. When he learned that Sean had spent 20,000 dollars to seal the deal, he burst into laughter, saying:

“Sean, you’re the best investnt I’ve made in my lifeti! Okay, I’ll find a buyer for you. It’s ranch stuff; a lot of people want it!”

Sean Knight decided not to sort through the items and wait for the appraiser to give a quote.

He left Jason Caldwell to watch over the items and strolled over to continue his auctioning.

After bidding up the prices in two or three other containers to over 8,000 dollars and then giving up, it seed to the others like Sean truly intended to bid on another one.

When the car concealed under a car cover appeared, Sean continued bidding so it wouldn’t look too conspicuous.

When the car finally erged from the container, all eyes were on it!

“A sports car! Oh, my God!” Diana Smith identified the car type in a single glance, even though it was under a car cover.

“No idea what brand it is…” soone said, tiling their head to get a better look, but the cover bore no logo.

There was only the car, no toolboxes or parts boxes on either side.

If there had been a toolbox or a parts box, they may have been able to make so guesses.

Now, it was all up to luck.

“Could be a Toyota…” soone mumbled.

“Look at all the dust on that car cover; I don’t think it’s a luxury car…” another proposed.

“I think it will be a good car!” Sean Knight suddenly said, “it should at least be worth so money, right?”

Hearing Sean’s words, soone imdiately speculated:

“How do you know?”

“Just a guess.” Sean Knight responded with a wide grin.

“Shh——!”

Obviously, not many people believed in Sean’s prediction.

The auction began!

(Thank you, dear reader, for the reward of 5,000!)