"Brother Dong, I found what you were looking for!" Hua Zi said excitedly as soon as the call connected.
Chen Dong asked with considerable surprise, "Oh, what did you find?"
"It's the ambergris you've been asking me to find!"
"Really? You really found it?"
"Of course it's true, it weighs over 300 kilograms!" Hua Zi said loudly.
"How is that possible?" Chen Dong was incredulous.
It's no wonder Chen Dong reacted that way.
Ambergris is one of the four famous fragrances and is especially precious.
As early as the Han Dynasty, fishermen discovered ambergris in the sea. Some local officials presented it to the emperor as a treasure, and the emperor used it as a spice or medicine in the palace. In the Song Dynasty of my country, it was the most precious spice of the time.
In the West, ambergris is also known as "grey amber" because of its unique and long-lasting fragrance. It is used as a fixative in perfumes and is highly valued.
Because it was found at sea, it is called "floating gold at sea".
It's sold by the gram, and each gram can fetch an astronomical price.
Historically, however, ambergris production has been extremely limited in various countries around the world, and it was generally reserved for royal consumption.
In modern times, people have synthesized artificial ambergris using chemical methods. However, natural ambergris is still extremely valuable.
Chen Dong recalled that at the Fuji Auction in 2010, an 800-gram piece of ambergris appeared, which sold for a full HK$1 million.
After 2020, few people heard of ambergris being sold, and its price rose to several thousand yuan per gram.
To Chen Dong's surprise, Hua Zi had managed to obtain over 300 kilograms of the substance.
"Could you have been scammed?" Mr. Chen asked incredulously.
"How could that be? I'm not that easily fooled! Brother Dong, do you think I'm stupid?" Hua Zi said, somewhat annoyed.
"Of course he's stupid!" Chen Dong thought to himself. At least in his opinion, Hua Zi wasn't the particularly smart type.
"Hehe, you're not stupid! But, three hundred kilograms of ambergris, it doesn't sound real..." Chen Dong continued to express his doubts.
Hua Zi still insists on his opinion:
"I judged it the way you told me. It looks like a stone, smells incredibly foul, but feels very light in your hand, right?"
"Yes, I did tell you that, that's right! But how can you be so sure that it wasn't a setup specifically targeting you?"
"No, that's not true at all. The other party never intended to sell this kind of thing. I just happened to see it when I was passing by! So I insisted on buying it. The other party was in a hurry to get on their way and was going to take these things away and dump them. I had to persuade them and give them five thousand yuan before I bought it!"
"What? It cost five thousand yuan?" Chen Dong was even more surprised now.
Five thousand? You can't even buy three grams, let alone three hundred kilograms.
At the same time, this further piqued Chen Dong's curiosity, wondering what Hua Zi had bought.
"Where are you now? I'm coming right away!" Chen Dong decided to go and see for himself to satisfy his curiosity.
At the same time, he also had a faint hope in his heart, what if it was true?
But he also felt that the chances of this expectation coming true were very, very small.
In short, it's too exaggerated that Hua Zi could say that ambergris, such a precious substance, weighs more than 300 kilograms!
However, Chen Dong thought this was unreliable.
He estimated that Hua Zi had most likely been scammed.
Of course, five thousand yuan is not a small amount for others, but for people like him and Hua Zi, it is really not much.
Consider it a lesson learned.
After experiencing a series of events, Chen Dong's thoughts are no longer the same as before.
He now clearly realizes that five thousand yuan is nothing to him, but for an ordinary family, it represents several years' worth of wages.
Yes, some people only earn a couple hundred yuan a month, and a family's annual savings might only be a few hundred yuan.
Five thousand yuan is a lot of money.
If a scammer can swindle 5,000 yuan in one go, that's quite a lot.
I'm going to go and see for myself now, just to confirm what exactly Hua Zi bought.
Chen Dong grabbed the car keys from the table and went downstairs while making a phone call.
Following Hua Zi's directions, Chen Dong set off in his car. Of course, bodyguards were essential.
Now, Chen Dong is accompanied by bodyguards wherever he goes for his safety.
It took Chen Dong about forty minutes to find Hua Zi in a warehouse area at a dock by the sea.
Seeing that Chen Dong had arrived so quickly, Hua Zi was puzzled: "Isn't it just a pile of broken rocks? Is it worth Brother Dong traveling so far in the middle of summer?"
However, he still quickly came forward to greet him, "Brother Dong, why did you come in person?"
"Hehe, of course I came! I wanted to see what you bought! Maybe you got a priceless treasure for the lowest price!"
Hearing Chen Dong say that, Hua Zi felt uneasy.
Indeed, what good stuff could I buy with just five thousand yuan?
However, he still led Chen Dong to a corner of the warehouse, where many boxes were piled up, filled with ugly-looking, smelly stone-like things.
The way they were piled up made it seem like these things weren't good or valuable.
Before even arriving in that area, Chen Dong could smell a strong stench.
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