Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets-Chapter 31 - Homesick

“You must be Linda? I’m Sean Knight, your mom’s tenant. These are the dishes I cooked; please try them.”

Linda had naturally heard of Sean before, but after looking at him, her attention focused entirely on the fragrant dishes, and she asked in astonishment:

“Did you make these?”

“Yes.”

Sean was already hungry and didn’t feel like chatting further, so he handed over the dishes and turned to leave.

“How is it? I told you Sean was great, right?” Aunt Susan was proud, “Being able to cook such delicious food, he must be a good person!”

Linda couldn’t help but laugh.

Her mother’s theory was really strange.

However, the taste of the food was excellent!

As the mother and daughter carefully tasted the dishes, they marveled at Sean’s cooking skills.

Sean, on the other hand, was video chatting with Joanna Davis while eating.

When Joanna learned that Sean had sent a portion of the food to his landlord and that there was also a daughter in the landlord’s family, she instantly became unhappy:

“When I come over tomorrow or the day after, you have to make a portion for me! Exactly the same!”

Sean chuckled; girls all over the world seem to act the same when jealous.

He nodded vigorously, pretending to be serious:

“No problem, I’ll make you a double portion and even add an extra dish!”

“Good, that’s settled!” Joanna’s mood improved just by hearing about the additional dish.

After chatting for a while, Joanna reluctantly ended the video call because her mother had called her.

Sean put down his mobile phone and just had a few bites when the phone rang again. It was a call from Monica Brown.

Sean was puzzled; why was she calling?

Upon answering, Monica politely greeted him before saying:

“The day after tomorrow, there will be a jadeite raw stone auction in the Chinese District. Do you want to join?”

Sean was ecstatic at first – he definitely wanted to join something like that!

However, he immediately sensed something was off and asked Monica:

“Isn’t jadeite popular only among Chinese people? Americans don’t appreciate it, so who is so… arrogant to bring raw stones over here to auction?”

Monica replied:

“The person who commissioned me to find potential clients is a friend of my father. He is from Taiwan.

You know that there are two famous Chinese women most fond of jadeite…”

“I know.” Sean naturally knew the story and chuckled, “One is from the Late Qing era, and the other is Madame Chiang Kai-shek!”

Hearing Sean say “Chiang Kai-shek,” Monica, who knew the reference, couldn’t help but laugh before continuing:

“Madame Chiang lived here in her later years, so my father’s friend thought that some Chinese women here should like jadeite.

So he brought a batch over and even opened a shop here. But after several years, none of the jadeite sold.

With the economic downturn in recent years, his funds were running low, so he decided to auction off a batch of raw stones to retrieve his investment and then return home.”

Upon knowing the whole story, Sean asked for the time and location and readily agreed to attend.

Monica felt awkward just hanging up, so she asked Sean what he was doing. Sean laughed and said that he had finally found some free time to cook a hometown meal and was in the process of enjoying it.

Monica Brown couldn’t help but hang up the phone, feeling embarrassed.

She was curious, though. Sean Knight could cook Chinese food?

It had been so long since she had a proper, home-cooked meal!

Thinking about the dishes her family used to prepare, Monica couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.

She and Emily Taylor never cook at home because they don’t know how!

Seeing that Monica had hung up and wasn’t speaking, Emily asked:

“What happened? He didn’t agree? Is he afraid of being exposed and not daring to come?”

Monica came to her senses, shook her head, and said:

“He agreed.”

“Then you…”

Monica’s voice was a bit low:

“I…I miss home, I want to eat the dishes my mom used to make…”

Emily was stunned for a moment and gently hugged Monica, saying:

“Let’s go to the Chinese District tomorrow. I remember there’s a Howard’s Restaurant that’s pretty authentic. I’ll treat you.”

Monica shook her head and didn’t say anything.

Sean didn’t know that his casual comment had touched Monica deeply. At the moment, he was full and suddenly didn’t feel like moving.

How satisfying!

Mr. John called:

“There’s a warehouse auction nearby tomorrow, are you going? There are also some containers to be auctioned off, though it’s just two small freight yards.”

Sean thought about it and said:

“I’ll go to the warehouse auction.”

Mr. John sent the address of the warehouse auction, and Sean noted it down.

He had originally planned to ask the mysterious Robert about it, but he decided not to.

Everyone has their secrets, and professional fields need confidentiality. It’s better not to ask.

It would be troublesome if they had to eliminate the source of a leak.

Soon, Linda Jenkins came in, bringing Sean some fruit.

Putting down the fruit, Linda didn’t leave, but instead asked curiously:

“I heard from my mom that you’re a treasure hunter?”

Updat𝒆d fr𝒐m freewebnσvel.cøm.

“Yes.” Sean said while twirling his pen: “I’ve just started in the field.”

“Is it exciting?” Linda asked again, “I heard that people find valuable things in containers every day.”

Sean thought about it and shook his head:

“Actually, it’s not what you’d imagine. After all, many warehouses are abandoned because the owners can’t afford the rent.

If there were a lot of valuable things inside, why would the owner abandon it?

It’s only a small number of owners who disappear, go bankrupt, or have an accident and cannot claim the container that you get the chance to find a bargain.”

Only a small amount of information is deliberately hidden by people who get rich overnight, and they only spread the parts they want to be heard or what others are willing to listen to.

Just like gambling on stones, there are far fewer stones that increase in value compared to those that decrease in value. But why are the stories of people getting rich from gambling on stones so much more common?

Linda didn’t expect Sean to say this, and she was a little surprised.

Young people, especially treasure hunters, usually brag about their achievements when asked about them by beautiful girls, right?

This Sean was quite special!

Looking at Sean twirling his pen, Linda curiously asked:

“Is this a talent of you Chinese people? There are Chinese international students in our school who can do this too, it’s cool.”

Sean chuckled.

He shook his head and said:

“This is just a game to pass time and exercise our fingers when we’re bored, nothing more.”