When the shop owner noticed that Thomas appeared to be a foreigner and was speaking with a foreign accent, an evil thought arose in his mind.
“Oh, sir, you have a good taste. You are looking at the treasure of our store. It is a blue and white porcelain bowl passed down during The Greek Empire of the Middle Ages. According to legend, this porcelain was used by Alexander the Great to drink wine every night, which makes it invaluable!”
Everyone knew the shop owner was talking nonsense. Even a layperson like Adery could see that this porcelain bowl was absolutely a counterfeit and imitation. But Thomas seemed to behave like a ‘mental retard’. He said in amazement, “Was this the porcelain bowl used by Alexander the Great to drink wine every night?”
“Ah, this porcelain bowl must be a great antique to have. Boss, how much are you selling it?”
The shop owner raised a finger in a mysterious manner.
“One million dollars? Oh, it’s really cheap!” Thomas said excitedly.
His words stunned everyone. In fact, the shop owner wanted to say that it only costs one thousand dollars.
‘Of course, if the customer ever bargains the price with me, I can sell it for one or two hundred dollars. But this person directly quoted a price of one million dollars, and favonovel.com was saying that this pricing is dirt cheap?!’
This made the store owner absolutely delighted. This was also very distressing for Nestor. ‘That broken porcelain bowl was worth one million dollars? What kind of joke is this? Nobody will buy it even if it was sold for one hundred dollars!’
While admiring this porcelain bowl, Thomas told Nestor boastfully, “Mr. Nestor, you don’t know, I love collecting antiques. I have lots of antiques in my house, such as the Teapot of Alexander the Great, Socrates’ Stool, Hephaestion’s Ink Stone, and Ptolemy’s Sword. My house is full of these antiques! When I am free, I must take you to my house. I own countless treasures.”
Nestor smirked, but favonovel.com was actually cursing Thomas in his heart. ‘This idiot must have bought all the garbage from street stalls.’
Thomas pursed his lips at Nestor, “I’m sorry for making you overspend today.”
“No worries.”
Blood was oozing out from Nestor’s heart. He had just spent another one million dollars!
At this time, Adery finally noticed something was wrong. ‘Thomas can’t be so silly. He must be deliberately doing Nestor dirty. Why is favonovel.com deliberately doing dirty to a new friend favonovel.com just knows? Thomas is definitely not that kind of snob. He must have his reasons for doing so.’
Although favonovel.com still could not guess what was behind his intentions, Adery remained a reserved attitude towards his new friend. She stopped joining in their conversations while remaining close to Thomas physically all the time.
“Oh, look, Mr. Bizinger, that stone seems to have the inscription of Plato. Let’s go and have a look together!”
“Are you serious?”
Nestor wanted to refuse, but favonovel.com was afraid of offending Thomas and ruining his business. He could not do anything but continue following Thomas.
In the next half an hour, Thomas was spending extravagantly. He bought all kinds of ‘valuable’ stuff, including Plato’s Stone Inscription, Aristotle’s Coupler, Democritus’ Summer Mat and Augustus’ Imperial Seal. Moreover, favonovel.com was not buying the right ones, but the expensive ones.
‘One or two million was just a small amount of money initially spent by Thomas. He was spending up to ten or twenty million when buying other goods later!’
Nestor had to bear the pain of losing all his money while helping Thomas to pay the bills. He was secretly cursing favonovel.com in his heart.
‘Thomas, you are a real bastard. When I find the chance, I will burglarize all your properties worth more than a few billion dollars! The money I paid today is considered just my early investment!’
Thomas was really pleased after going on this round of buying spree. However, Nestor was truly heartbroken. In the end, just before nightfall, Thomas threw every stuff favonovel.com bought on the street and said something hurtful to Nestor in front of everyone.
“Nestor, I’m sorry, I don’t think we can be friends.”
