"Of course."
The manager came over and sat down again. At this time, the female employee knocked on the door and came in, serving tea to Chen Fan and the manager. Then she lowered her head and left quickly.
The manager glanced at the teacup in front of him and pondered.
"Let's start with the origin of the pawnshop."
"Back then, the old man of the Bai family secretly established a pawn shop, with the purpose of searching for strange people and various supernatural events all over the country."
"In addition to searching for these talents, the pawnshop also needs to sort out and summarize all the supernatural and strange events discovered by the people, and then analyze and answer them..."
“Try to use scientific methods to explain these paranormal events.”
"At first, everyone in the pawnshop didn't know why they were doing this. What was the purpose of doing this?"
"Later, as the old man of the Bai family grew older, everyone gradually figured out the tricks."
"The old man seems to be looking for someone. But he is not interested in finding people with special abilities in the pawn shop."
"He is most interested in news or legends related to Buddhist Tantra, Taoist Tantra, initiation, souls, or enlightenment."
"At first everyone thought that the old man didn't want to die and wanted to find a way to achieve immortality."
"But gradually everyone finally guessed some secrets. That is, the old man seemed to want to find someone as smart as him, who could perfectly take over his job and lead the Bai family to continue to prosper."
"The entire search process lasted for decades, and all kinds of information filled up an archive. But the old man of the Bai family still didn't find the answer he wanted."
"Finally, he seemed disappointed and gave up. So he passed the pawnshop to Second Master."
"After the Second Master took over the pawnshop, he didn't do much for the Old Master. He only left a part of the force, which were the largest shops, to continue the work that the Old Master did. The rest of the shops were transformed into intelligence gathering departments after the Second Master's reform."
"On the surface, we are a pawn shop, but secretly we are responsible for remotely controlling people from all over the place to collect various data on the enemies of the Bai family. Second Master uses this data to attack the opponents..."
Chen Fan nodded slowly. The other party's introduction basically matched his previous guess.
It's just that the pawnshop managers who have management rights did not understand from the beginning to the end what the old man of the Bai family was really looking for.
As for Erye, compared with him, Chen Fan's Weibo is simply childish.
Because Erye Li's pawnshop has information about his opponents, which is definitely fatal black material.
"You are now the third owner of the pawnshop. From now on, everyone in the pawnshop will follow your lead."
Chen Fan played with the jade pendant in his hand and asked casually with a smile.
"You are from the Bai family. Now I ask you to obey my orders. Isn't this too much of a joke?"
The manager quickly said respectfully: "Your Excellency is wrong."
"The pawnshop never belonged to the Bai family. It was founded by the old man of the Bai family."
"We only obey the orders of the old man of the Yubai family."
"Later, when the old master passed the pawnshop to the second master, he once said that the future owner of the pawnshop, whether from the Bai family or an outsider, would only recognize the jade pendant and not the person."
Chen Fan nodded.
"Understood."
"Your name is Bian Pao?"
"right."
"This name..."
The manager smiled and said, "Don't misunderstand me, sir. My real name is Wang Shuang, but no one in the pawnshop uses their real name. Everyone has a nickname to make it easier to get around. And everyone's nickname is named after the chess pieces."
Chen Fan nodded to show that he understood.
“How many pawnshops are there at present?”
Bian Pao said without hesitation: "There are more than 50 big and 14 small shops in major cities across the country."
"There are twelve overseas in Europe and nine in America."
Chen Fan secretly clicked his tongue when he heard this.
"so much?"
"Sir, the more accounts you open, the easier it will be to find the information you want."
Chen Fan couldn't help but ask, "Are all the stores like the one you manage small?"
"right."
Chen Fan couldn't help but sigh.
"Calculated this way, the market value of the pawnshop alone is probably a terrifying number, right?"
Bian Pao smiled and shook his head, explaining: "Your Excellency doesn't know. All the operations of the pawnshop are at their own expense, and the old man of the Bai family will not move this money."
"If you want to get enough information, you have to keep a lot of people asking questions. They all need to eat."
"All the profits from the pawnshop, except for the money used to pay for the employees and the employees to eat, were invested elsewhere by the old man of the Bai family."
Chen Fan couldn't help but be curious: "Can I ask where they all went?"
Bian Pao did not hide anything and gave the answer directly.
"Buddhist temples, seminaries, paranormal investigation agencies, supernatural research institutes, and even soul research organizations all over the world..."
"It can be said that almost all the investigative organizations in the world that investigate supernatural phenomena or paranormal events are sponsored by the old man of the Bai family."
Chen Fan was stunned.
This old man is really generous.
Why do I always feel that the old man is not just looking for a fellow human being. It seems that he also wants to find out the truth about his own time travel?
Is he planning to travel back again?
Thinking of this, Chen Fan was suddenly stunned.
Yes! Since I can travel back to the year 2000, is it possible for me to travel back again?
But then Chen Fan dismissed this idea.
Why travel back in time?
In my previous life, I was lying in bed waiting to die.
Mr. Bai didn't hand over such an important organization to anyone in the Bai family, but instead handed it over to himself.
Chen Fan understood Mr. Bai's thoughts.
First, he thought that Chen Fan and the old man of the Bai family were the same type of people, and handing the pawnshop over to him would allow him to make better use of it.
Second, Mr. Bai spent a fortune to buy horse bones.
Just like the last time he sent Chen Fan to the investment company, he wanted to remind Chen Fan again to remember his promise.
It has to be said that he did everything he could for the Bai family's eldest wife.
Chen Fan took a deep breath, stared at the manager in front of him and asked.
"Mr. Bai... is he really dead?"
Bian Pao nodded: "After the incident that night, the pawnbrokers in Yangcheng immediately followed the pursuit route and rushed over. Finally, they chased them to the beach and found that many secret guards and bodyguards were dead at the scene."
"All these people sacrificed themselves to protect the Second Master's escape."
"And the second master's car has fallen into the sea. Judging from the situation at the scene, the chances of survival are slim."
Having said that, Bian Pao did not forget to remind Chen Fan.
"Sir, whether the Second Master is dead or not depends on the reaction of the Bai family."
“That makes sense.”
Chen Fan nodded, then sighed again.
“What a pity.”
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