Chapter 22 Hydra comes to the door
"Boss Li, business is booming and money is flowing in!"
"Joy and rejoice together!"
New York, Manhattan, Chinatown!
Today, a new antique shop opened in Chinatown, so firecrackers were going off early in the morning, and dragon and lion dances were very lively.
Standing at the door and constantly accepting congratulations from others, Li Qingyuan felt that his smile was about to freeze.
As an Italian who immigrated to New York, if he wants to live legally and reasonably in New York, he must have a clear identity here.
Naturally, it is impossible to work for others. After finally traveling through time, you have to be your own boss after all!
If we follow the general plot setting, he should now go to a place like Hell's Kitchen to open a grocery store or an exorcism clinic, so that it fits the main storyline of Marvel.
But after considering half the salary, he felt that that kind of lifestyle was definitely not suitable for him.
That shitty place in Hell's Kitchen, where there were constant gun battles for three days and gangsters from all walks of life competing for territory. How desperate could I be that I would go to that kind of place to make a living?
It’s better to stay in Sokovia!
Besides, Wanda is still a cute little loli now and has no means of protecting herself at all. If something happens accidentally, it will be too late for her to regret it!
So after thinking over and over again, he decided that it would be better to be more stable. He directly gave up the two new birthplaces of Hell's Kitchen and Queens, and instead chose a relatively peaceful and safe area like Chinatown.
Geographically speaking, Chinatown is right in the middle of Hell's Kitchen and Queens. If there's no traffic jam, it's only 20 to 30 minutes away. If you really want to refresh your character, you can take the subway and get there in just a few minutes.
When he had nothing to do, he just went to fight monsters to improve his skills. He had no intention of settling in a monster den.
It is really impossible to live a life like this if you have to worry about being shot suddenly every day when you go out, and if you don't go to bed at night and you might be shot straight into the sky by a rocket launcher.
As for why you want to open an antique store in Chinatown?
Anyway, he is not planning to make money from this store. He just opens a store mainly to have a legal identity!
Besides, with an antique shop in hand, it will be much more logical to deal with the antiques and other things that I brought out from the mission world.
Wanda happily clapped her little hands and jumped around. It was the first time for her to see lion dance, and she found it very interesting.
Pietro, on the other hand, doesn't know where his madness is. Anyway, he is such an adult, so he is not afraid of losing him!
After greeting the neighbors warmly, the busy shop gradually became deserted.
After all, antique shops cannot always attract as many customers as restaurants. Basically, they only stay open for three years after being closed for three years.
What's more, all the antiques in his store are fakes just bought from the small commodity wholesale market, and the labels have not even been removed. It would be ridiculous if any fools were fooled.
He handed the opening red envelope to the foreman of the lion dance team and looked at the time. It was almost twelve o'clock. Li Qingyuan thought about closing the door and taking Wanda to eat hot pot.
As for Pietro?
That guy will definitely show up right away when it’s time to eat, so don’t worry about him at all!
But just as he was about to close the door, he saw a customer appear in the store.
The other party was studying the cockscomb cup with the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty printed on the bottom of the bowl, as if that thing was really an antique that had been passed down for hundreds of years, rather than something he bought from the market yesterday.
"Are the guests here to buy something?"
Li Qingyuan slightly raised his head and looked at the young white man standing in his shop, and asked somewhat depressedly.
Originally, with his height of 1.8 meters, he was considered very good among Chinese people, but the guy in front of him was actually half a head taller than himself, which really made people feel the deep malice from the world.
Moreover, this boy is quite handsome. Even from a man's point of view, the other person's appearance can definitely be regarded as handsome and upright. Overall, he is only one or two points worse than himself.
"If I want to buy something, I should buy that painting!" The young man put down the fake cockscomb cup in his hand and pointed to the Picasso work hanging on the side wall.
Originally, Li Qingyuan was planning to send the painting directly to the auction house for sale, but considering that the origin was not easy to explain and he still had a lot of savings on hand, he put the matter behind him and prepared.
Let’s talk about it some time later.
Because no one could really understand Picasso's works except for those brick-and-mortar painters, so he just hung them on the wall. Anyway, so many people were wandering around his shop in the morning, and no one noticed the painting.
It's actually still true.
But the guy in front of me could find the most valuable items in his store at a glance. Not to mention other things, his eyesight alone was very impressive.
More importantly, why does he always feel that the other person looks familiar!
While Li Qingyuan was sizing up the other party, the other party was also constantly sizing him up.
Grant Ward is a fifth-level senior agent of SHIELD, a covert operations expert, and a master of combat skills, ranking among the top thirty in SHIELD.
Even though the top thirty might seem like just a minor title, in fact, considering the probability that SHIELD agents are all over the world, Grant Ward can definitely be regarded as one of the world's top soldiers.
In fact, he has completed many tasks on his own that may seem unbelievable to others. For example, he just flew back from Eastern Europe, and his last task was to assassinate the governor of a small country.
Logically speaking, he and Li Qingyuan would not have an intersection so soon, but who told Ward to drive his motorboat diagonally across the Mediterranean Sea after completing the mission and happened to encounter an explosion!
The entire stowaway boat suddenly disintegrated before his eyes, and the employees on the boat didn't even have time to react before they turned into dust in the Mediterranean Sea. This made Agent Ward feel chills in his heart.
Fortunately, I was a little slower, otherwise, wouldn't I have been directly injured by accident?
Generally speaking, action masters like him will have an instinctive protective reaction before encountering danger, which is the legendary sixth sense.
No one could explain what it was, but Ward knew that if he hadn't triggered that feeling, he would have died countless times.
But this time, my sixth sense didn't even have time to warn, which shows that the person who set up the explosives has reached the level of proficiency.
There are probably only a few such masters even within SHIELD!
Chapter completed!