Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade

Chapter 206 Choosing Antiques On Portabello Street

He knew if Jessica revealed his identity as the chairman of Four Seas Corporation, the whole birthday dinner would be ruined as everyone’s attention would be on him.

He didn’t want to steal the old lady’s thunder at her own birthday dinner.

“Then how should I address you?” Jessica asked after a brief pause..

“My name. What else?” Alex was amused.

“Okay,” Jessica responded.

“Let’s go find your gift,” Alex urged.

“Alright,” Jessica nodded her head and followed Alex around to look at the street stalls.

“That stall has a lot of stuff. Why don’t we go there?” Suddenly, Jessica pointed at a stall and suggested. That particular stall wasn’t even a stall. It was just antiques spread all over a plastic sheet on the ground. There were silverware, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, and pottery on that plastic sheet.

Alex glanced over the stuff and immediately determined that they were all fakes.

The stall owner was a tanned and skinny man dressed in dirty denim jeans. His hair was disheveled and greasy, as if he hadn’t washed it in days. At first glance, he looked like a man trying to make an honest living.

that was all just appearances. The stall owner

many customers at his stall, so

and headed

stall owner as he knelt and picked up a

owner stared at the gold bracelet with his bulging eyes as he replied, “My grandma left this bracelet for me, and it is our family heirloom. I’ll sell it to you for a hundred grand. No

A hundred grand?

hand and started

grand? That expensive?”

it’s our family heirloom. Of course it’s expensive,” the owner responded

bracelet back. He picked up a horse ornament and inquired, “What about this?”

at it and said, “This is a treasure my great–grandfather found in an ancient tomb. Eighty grand

have so many family

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few hundred, so Alex couldn’t help but laugh

that most of the

words made sense. The owner wouldn’t dare to sell expensive antiques