The two of them walked into the watch shop hand in hand. The bright hall was filled with a dazzling array of clocks, ranging from large table clocks to small wall clocks and alarm clocks, gold, silver, iron, and plastic. They could be heard ticking all the time.
A gray-haired watchmaker was carefully observing the internal structure of a small alarm clock with a magnifying glass. He seriously didn't even notice anyone coming in.
"Old Charlie."
Vina interrupted the clockmaker's work, and her appearance caused the old Charlie's expression to instantly change from anger to respect.
"Miss Wei Na, this month's labor fee has been paid."
Gangs call protection fees uniformly as labor fees. It is worth mentioning that all shops have accepted this setting calmly.
Wei Na shook her head and moved her arms uncomfortably. Zhou Jinru's hug was a little too tight, and she felt slightly uncomfortable because few people usually made such intimate movements with her.
Old Charlie turned a blind eye to this, as if the pretty boy next to Wei Na didn't exist.
But Zhou Jinru then spoke: "Dear, I heard that this is the best watch shop in Saint Martin?"
Wei Na felt a chill in her heart, but she still pointed at old Charlie and said: "Old Charlie is the oldest watchmaker here. He is so old that he has been working here before you were born. In this business, the older you are, the more noble you are."
Old Charlie smiled and said that Wei Na's description was too exaggerated: "Miss Wei Na is too exaggerated. I am just an apprentice."
"He's just an apprentice. Let's go. He will definitely damage my baby. Let's go to the Rose District and have a look. Maybe we can find a solution."
Zhou Jinru was disappointed and prepared to leave, but Wei Na did not move. She raised her chin: "Maybe old Charlie can do something? Why don't you show him the thing first? If he dares to break it, my hammer will not grow long." Eye."
Old Charlie's expression froze, and he stared at Zhou Jinru warily, as if facing a formidable enemy.
No matter what he was thinking, Zhou Jinru reached out and grabbed it in his clothes. There was a pocket watch lying in his palm: "Let's take a look."
It was the pocket watch in the Penguin Logistics Express that he snatched from Longmen.
Old Charlie frowned slightly, his eyebrows furrowed into a frown, but he did not reach out to pick it up. Instead, he turned and walked to the counter, put on a pair of white silk gloves, and carefully held the pocket watch on a tray.
Before checking it, Old Charlie said solemnly: "Miss Wei Na, do you intend to sell this pocket watch?"
"It is a family heirloom of my friend and is not for sale."
"I see. I'm sorry for what I just said. I hope I didn't offend you and your friends."
This is just a courtesy.
Old Charlie used tweezers to open the casing of the pocket watch and observed it carefully. When he saw the double-headed eagle mark on the back, he couldn't help but trembled. He glanced at Zhou Jinru inadvertently, closed the casing fearfully, and held the tray in both hands. Offer.
He said solemnly: "I can't do anything. This pocket watch is extremely precious. Please think of other solutions."
"It's interesting, Vina, he actually called me noble."
Zhou Jinru smiled frivolously and said with interest: "You tell me, I'll listen."
Whose rich family is this?
Old Charlie said bitterly: "The white jade porcelain plate, the yellow movement, the blue steel needle, and the outer casing are made of silver-nickel-copper alloy. They are very heavy and the distribution structure is very different from today's pocket watches. It can be traced back to forty years ago. Usa Only the early military watches of the Ursus Empire had such a configuration. The rare varieties of pocket watches are now only owned by a very small number of extremely prominent Ursus nobles."
"The eyes are not bad."
Zhou Jinru picked up his pocket watch, threw a stack of banknotes from his wallet on the tray, which contained almost seven or eight hundred Longmen coins. He and Wei Na turned around and left the watch shop, leaving old Charlie alone to watch them go away.
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The two of them walked out for a while, leaning on each other. Wei Na couldn't help but be curious: "Why do you have such an antique thing?"
Zhou Jinru smiled slightly, and waited for Wei Na to speak, pretending to be mysterious: "What are you doing in exchange for your secret! Hiss! It hurts!"
The rigid shield fell suddenly, and Zhou Jinru grinned in pain as the King of Propulsion's elbow gently hit his side.
"Are you going to say it or not?!"
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you slowly."
Zhou Jinru narrated the story of how he grabbed the pocket watch. Of course, the process was slightly edited because some things could not be explained clearly.
"I didn't expect this thing to be so big. Thirty or forty years ago, it was the beginning of several wars in Ursus. That old Charlie had obviously misunderstood my identity. He would turn into a seed and spread rumors. Seed, in less than two hours, the heads and heads of the Tulip Block will know that there is a mysterious nobleman beside the king of advancement, Vina."
"Is this the result you want?"
Zhou Jinru murmured: "Yes, but I didn't think so at the beginning. Now the good results are a bit too much."
When he looked at the account book in the morning, he immediately noticed the only watch shop in the entire block. It was submerged in other shops with more dazzling performance, but it was extremely conspicuous in his eyes.
What kind of country is Colombia?
Young, rich, and extremely ambitious, its citizens talk about dreams, as if they can conquer everything if they have dreams. Colombia is omnipotent, and it is a matter of course that it is destiny.
This is reflected in all aspects of Saint Martin. The infectious posters have attracted countless infected people to come to search for their dreams. Looking up, even the buses on the street are marked with passionate sentences.
Dreams, future, money, happiness, there are people everywhere who stay excited.
"Time is money, my friend."
This popular saying comes from Colombia. It also proves that a country that is in a hurry no matter what it does, is destined to attach great importance to every minute and every second.
People pay more attention to time than ever before. Everyone has a mobile phone, but the mobile phone cannot replace the clock. The symbolic meaning of the latter is far better than the former, although in Zhou Jinru's world there is a saying that "the mobile phone is a man's second business card" Unscrupulous advertising, but this does not work in the world of Terra, especially in San Martin, a long-standing watch shop, which speaks for itself!
The customers of this store are by no means just ordinary people. It must have many close customers to maintain its smooth operation.
Old Charlie can tell the origin of this watch, which means that he has seen it before, but now how can the Ursus nobles specially find a watchmaker and go deep into the hinterland of Colombia?
Zhou Jinru's purpose before coming here was to expose himself. Asking about the origin of the pocket watch was another matter. He never thought that thanks to this pocket watch, his own exposure would increase several times.
