The woman was stunned when she heard the man's words. She really didn't expect that the man in front of her would say such words.
When the man saw that the woman was silent, he opened his mouth and continued, "What? You don't want to continue talking?"
The woman shook her head and said, "That's not true... I just didn't expect you to be so interesting!"
The man did not answer the woman's words immediately. Instead, he lit another cigarette, took a puff and said, "No matter how interesting I am, I guess in your eyes I'm not as interesting as what's under the red cloth..."
The woman nodded and said: "That's right... all men in the world have the same virtue. In my opinion, they should all be covered by this red cloth..."
As soon as the woman's words came out, the face of the man in front of her changed instantly, becoming extremely gloomy, and his two eyes stared at the woman's face like two sharp knives.
The woman was not afraid, she just smiled slightly, but just when she was about to speak, she suddenly remembered a voice behind her.
"You can't just put this thing on someone's head..."
This is a man's voice, and it is also a very magnetic voice. Although it is not as standard and well-spoken as the announcer on TV, anyone who hears this voice has to admit that it sounds good.
When the men and women heard this voice, they couldn't help but look at the person coming.
They saw a middle-aged man in a light gray Tang suit, between fifty and sixty years old, slowly walking towards them.
This man is very particular. His gray hair is combed into a retro oily hairstyle, and he has a short beard under his forehead, which is also neatly trimmed. Although his face is full of wrinkles, it not only makes people look like he is not very old. , on the contrary, it has a little more sense of vicissitudes and story.
In addition, this middle-aged man's light gray Tang suit is made of silk fabric. Both the embroidery and tailoring are extremely fine. Even an inexperienced person can tell at a glance that this suit of clothes is of great value.
And these are all secondary. The most eye-catching thing about this middle-aged man is the crutch he holds in his hand.
This is a python-headed crutch. The snake's head is made of pure gold. The two eyes are inlaid with two rubies. The place where the snake's head and the body are connected is a piece of old jade.
Although the jade is not of the highest quality, it has a faint yellowish-white color due to its age.
The body of this python head crutch is made of mahogany. Mahogany can actually be subdivided into rosewood, red rosewood and black rosewood.
Among them, red rosewood is the most common and is also the main source of mahogany furniture on the market.
Needless to say, rosewood is a treasure for collectors of art and toys.
The most unknown thing here is that the black rosewood is often called ebony.
Due to the extremely slow growth rate of ebony, the number of mature ebony trees is very small so far. The surface of the finished product will appear purple-brown, dark brown, and tan, accompanied by a light fragrance.
Ebony has fine texture and solid wood. It was often used to build palaces and royal tombs in ancient times. However, due to the extremely rare wood, ebony has been almost invisible since the Tang Dynasty.
Both the woman and the man selling the statue were unscrupulous people. They saw the value of this and the python-headed crutches at a glance. Not only that, the man selling the statue even said: "What's the matter... The people from Yiyuanzhai are also right." Are you interested in this thing?"
Hearing the words "Yi Yuan Zhai", the woman immediately frowned and said, "Yi Yuan Zhai? Are you saying that the old guy is from Yi Yuan Zhai?"
The man selling the statue sneered: "You don't even know Mr. Xu Yingzhi from Yiyuanzhai, how can you get along with the lower eight sects in the capital?"
The woman was even more surprised when she heard this and said, "What? You said the old guy was... Xu Yingzhi?"
Second Master Xu nodded slightly, smiled at the woman and said, "That's right! It's me, Second Master!"
Although Mr. Xu's words were gentle, every word inside and outside his words was very harsh.
The woman looked at Mr. Xu angrily and asked, "Didn't I hear that you are dead?"
Mr. Xu smiled when he heard this and said, "I have also heard of what you said..."
The woman gritted her teeth and said, "But you are not dead!"
Mr. Xu smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong with it in broad daylight..."
The woman asked again: "What do you want to do here?"
Mr. Xu was also a long-time smoker. He did not answer the woman's words immediately, but took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
It was a box made of jade, with cigarettes rolled inside. Mr. Xu took one and smelled it under his nose, then asked the man selling the statue: "Brother Wu, do you want it?" Brother, I rolled the tobacco leaves myself and asked a friend to bring them back from Fujian... I think they are pretty good, do you want to use them more often?"
The man who bought the statue frowned slightly when he heard Mr. Xu call out his last name without thinking, but soon he regained his composure. He looked at Mr. Xu with a pair of small eyes and said calmly: "Second Master Xu's cigarette." You can’t go wrong, try it...of course you have to try it..."
"Here!" Mr. Xu threw the cigarette in his hand to the man selling the statue before he finished speaking.
The man who bought the statue took the cigarette thrown by Mr. Xu and threw away the half-smoked cigarette in his hand. He lit Mr. Xu's cigarette with a "pop" and took a big puff. He squinted his eyes and said: "Good smoke! It is indeed a good smoke...the tip of the finest tobacco leaves...I will still smoke it once in my life..."
Seeing the two men talking about cigarettes and ignoring her words, the woman suddenly lost her temper.
She stood up suddenly and yelled at Mr. Xu: "Xu, please don't stay in your Yiyuanzhai. Why don't you come here and disturb me? What do you mean?"
"Hahaha, that's wrong..." Mr. Xu turned to look at the woman and said, "This is the street, you can come, why can't I come? Brother Wu is selling things here, you can buy them, Why can’t I buy it?”
The woman looked at Mr. Xu, gritted her molar teeth and said, "You have to be first-come, first-served when shopping, right?"
Mr. Xu smiled and said: "That's true! It's true that you came first, so you continue... I'm watching... No, I'm lining up here..."
"Hmph!" The woman saw what Mr. Xu said and refused to leave, so she snorted coldly, turned to the man selling the statue, and said: "I said my surname is Wu, it has been inked for so long... Should we continue? Already?"
The man selling the statue said: "Okay! Let's continue... What is the answer to the second question?"
The woman looked at the man in front of her, then turned to look at Mr. Xu, and then she seemed to have made a big decision before saying word by word: "The reason I know this thing is called a line of red is because my grandfather used to use it. its……"
