When Bai Xiaoyu saw that there were stones inside, she became competitive. She took out the piece Xu Huaigu gave her, handed it over, and asked the shop owner: "How about you help me take a look at this stone?"
The boss was a young man, wearing a Confucian shirt, and he was reading a book. He looked up when he heard someone asking questions, and saw that he was asking about a stone. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately took the bright red stone and put it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.
As if he thought the light was not very good, he walked outside again, pointed the stone at the sun, and carefully examined the texture and impurities inside.
The stone becomes brighter under the sunlight, and the texture inside is extremely exquisite, with golden lines running through it, and they follow the order of the chapter, just right. The stone is very heavy and very solid, and you can see bits and pieces of particles reflecting light in the sun, making it extremely gorgeous.
It’s a fine piece!
The man comes from a scholarly family, and his ancestors have always made a living by selling strange stones from all over the mountains. He has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he loves stones very much. And although this stone is not the best stone he has ever seen, it can still be ranked among the top five. He is determined to get this stone!
After watching it for a while, he finally put it down with excitement.
The man knows that the more he wants, the less he can reveal his thoughts. He pretended to return the stone to Bai Xiaoyu casually, took a sip of tea slowly, and asked her: "Is the girl also a stone lover?"
Bai Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "My friend gave it to me. I don't know what this stone is like, so I came to ask you for advice."
The man smiled and said, "So that's it. Although this stone is beautiful, unfortunately, it contains a carp whisker that our industry talks about, which is a big taboo for stone appreciation. With this whisker, it is considered a stone. No matter how beautiful it is, the material can only be considered inferior."
"Girl, please look." He raised the stone and pointed it at the sun. The sunlight illuminated a long golden line in the stone. "This is the carp whisker, which runs across the entire stone. If you buy a stone in the future, girl, remember to be careful and don't be fooled by others." Cheated."
In fact, the long golden thread is just the man placing the stone in a special position, and the golden thread overlaps to make it look like that. In fact, it is not carp whiskers, but the rare beauty silk in the stone, which is very valuable.
Bai Xiaoyu took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed and prepared to put the stone away.
The man took another sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said to her: "Girl, do you want to consider selling this stone? Although it has flaws, it is quite valuable. How about I pay ten taels of silver?"
Bai Xiaoyu raised his chin, frowned and thought for a moment, then asked him a little doubtfully: "I don't know how much ten taels of silver is."
The man's eyelids twitched. There are still people in this world who don’t even know how much money is worth. Could it be that they came from some old mountain forest?
He said: "Girl, you don't know about silver, but you should know about copper coins. Ten taels of silver can be worth a thousand copper coins."
Bai Xiaoyu found that he had no idea about money in the real world, and didn't even know how much copper coins were worth, so he didn't bother with this issue. She firmly refused and said, "I won't sell it. This was given to me by someone else."
The man was a little distressed. Since the stone was given by someone else, regardless of the value, the meaning was different. He could only raise the price, hoping that the price would seduce the girl.
"What does that girl think of thirty taels of silver?"
Bai Xiaoyu put away the stone, shook her head proudly and said, "I won't sell it for any money."
She suddenly turned towards Li Zi and asked her: "Didn't Xu Huaigu also give you a stone? You can also take it out and let this gentleman estimate the value."
Li Zi was embarrassed for a moment before taking out the half emerald green and half fiery red stone from a small kit bag.
The shop owner was shocked after just one glance. He was dumbfounded and kept saying: "This stone... is definitely the best among the best! Just based on its color, it is worth at least fifty taels of silver!"
He was a person who loved stones after all. He was very excited and wanted to reach out and touch it. Li Zi was startled by his sudden movement and quickly put the stone away, looking at the man with a wary expression.
The man also realized that he had lost his temper and quickly apologized seriously: "I'm really sorry. I was too excited just now, so I was disrespectful to the little girl. Please forgive me."
Bai Xiaoyu stood in front of Li Zi. Seeing that his apology was sincere, he said, "For the sake of your sincerity, I won't care about it. Let's go." After that, he pulled Li Zi to leave.
"Wait!" the man yelled, begging, "Can you touch that stone for me? Just touch it. I'm willing to give you a stone in the store."
Bai Xiaoyu looked down at Li Zi and asked for her opinion.
Li Zi shook his head firmly. Only Xu Huaigu and her have touched this stone so far, but they cannot give it to others.
Bai Xiaoyu said: "See, the little girl is unwilling, which means you have no fate with this stone. No need to say more, just say goodbye."
The group of people followed and left, leaving the shop owner frowning and patting the table helplessly. The teapot lid jingled as he patted it.
It's really a pity in life to finally see a rare treasure slip away under your nose.
Before the man could finish feeling sad, a man in black immediately walked into the shop, but without looking at the stone, he quickly walked up to the man.
The black hat covered the visitor's face, making it impossible to see his appearance and expression.
The man first looked at the man in black in surprise, and suddenly felt a chill. He knew it was not a good thing, so he subconsciously ran away. Before he could make any move, the man in black's short knife had already reached his neck.
He was so frightened that he dared not speak out. Looking at the shining blade on his neck, the fear of death filled his whole body.
The man in black had a hoarse voice: "Tell me what you just did, and every word you said, without omitting anything. Otherwise..." The blade came closer, "You will have no choice but to go to hell."
The man cowered and told them everything about his conversation.
At the same time, in a luxurious restaurant in Binxi, four people were eating with their mouths full of oil and enjoying themselves.
Xu Huaigu's mouth was full of chicken and he couldn't speak clearly: "Little Yang, this is too good. Are all the dishes outside so good?"
Xiaoyang is the name of the Taoist priest. Xu Huaigu felt that Xiaoyang Mountain Man's name was too long and always sounded weird, so he simply called him Xiaoyang. The Taoist priest didn't care anyway.
The Taoist priest was trying hard to deal with a grilled lamb chop in front of him, carefully picking the meat on the bones with his teeth. The taste was extremely ugly, so he ignored him at all, but Xu Huaigu had no intention of asking for an answer.
Li Zi was also eating like crazy. After walking in the mountains for several days, his face turned green after eating dry food. Of course, he had to eat to his heart's content with such a big meal.
Bai Xiaoyu looked at the group of hungry ghosts on the table speechlessly. Forget about two children, why do you, a Taoist priest from Taihua Mountain, eat in such a vulgar way? Your nose is covered in oil... Wow, you're wiping your mouth with your sleeve?
Eh...that's disgusting.
She started to roll her eyes at the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest pretended not to see it, so she rolled her eyes again. The Taoist priest still didn't look at her, and his eyes almost reached the sky. The Taoist priest continued to eat the mutton chops and ignored her.
She was very angry, but she still ate in small bites. Humans are shameless, but our little snake demon still needs to be image-worthy. At least in this regard, we are already better than them.
Everyone was enjoying their meal when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps at the door of the restaurant. A young man rushed in with an arrogant expression. He threw the sword on his waist directly onto an empty table and shouted: "Waiter, serve the wine!"
Suddenly everyone in the restaurant looked over.
This charlatan swordsman didn't care about the eyes of everyone at all. He thought he was very proud. He took out a chair and sat down, crossed his legs, and told the waiter who nodded and bowed: "Bring two ounces of cooked beef and two jars of wine. The wine must be the most." OK!"
The waiter got the order and turned around to prepare. He kept muttering in his heart: "Here comes another poor swordsman, and he insists on pretending to be heroic. I really don't know why." He thought like this in his heart, but he still respected the swordsman.
There are many such swordsmen in the world, and he often entertains them, wandering around in the world with passion. When you are rich, you spend a lot of money, eat and drink in restaurants, just to have fun. When I had no money, I ate two sesame cakes on the roadside, which I could swallow even with the river water.
The waiter once had the idea of wandering around the world, but reality flattened him out and he turned into an ordinary person.
Which young man has never had a dream of swords and wine, beauties and rivers and lakes in his heart?
The swordsman stood tall and straight, holding the scabbard in his hand, with a stern face. He looked around, and his eyes finally landed on the people at Xu Huaigu's table.
The Taoist priest saw through the swordsman's cultivation at a glance. A warrior in the third realm, holding a sword in his hand and treating himself as a sword cultivator? Taoist priests have always looked down upon such people. Just find a place and shout that there are monsters, and a dozen such swordsmen will immediately come to kill the monsters.
The swordsman was staring closely at the people at their table, his brows knitted into a knot, and his eyes finally fell on Bai Xiaoyu and stopped moving.
Bai Xiaoyu was so frightened by him that he didn't know how to position his hands and feet, so he stopped using his chopsticks and took a sip of tea to relieve his embarrassment.
The swordsman suddenly attacked: "In broad daylight, there are monsters drinking and eating in public in a restaurant. Are there any rules in the world?"
The word "monster" immediately caused an uproar in the restaurant. Everyone followed his eyes and looked at the people at Xu Huaigu's table, with both fear and curiosity.
The swordsman seemed to enjoy being in the spotlight. He raised his sword across his chest and said with great force, "Bold monster! In the past, it was okay for you to do evil. But today, if you meet someone like me, Mr. Wei, I will punish you on the spot!"
Bai Xiaoyu felt very uncomfortable. It felt bad to be framed. He had never done anything harmful to nature, but to be yelled at in public, it felt so wrong.
The swordsman didn't care about that. He stepped on the table, pointed the tip of his sword at Bai Xiaoyu, and said boldly: "Suffer death!"
After saying that, he jumped into the air, pointed the tip of the sword directly at Bai Xiaoyu, and stabbed out with the sword.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Xiaoyu wanted to dodge, but suddenly remembered that the Taoist priest was beside him, and suddenly had a bad idea to see what he would do, so he simply stopped hiding.
The swordsman saw her motionless and was confused in his heart, but the sword had already been thrust out and there was no reason to turn back, the sword edge was still moving forward.
The Taoist priest sighed helplessly, picked up a bowl on the table, threw it out with the tea, and smashed it on the blade of the sword. The tip of the sword deflected, just passing along Bai Xiaoyu's forearm, and stabbed on the floor.
The ceramic bowl fell to the ground and clinked into pieces. A large bowl of tea was spilled on the table, making a mess.
The swordsman turned his head and looked at the Taoist priest fiercely.
This bridge is finally settled.
