Liangcheng, Jade Street.

An old Taoist priest wearing a yellow tattered Taoist robe, gray hair, and a beard that had been left to his chest held a floating dust in his hand, touched his gray and long beard, and slowly walked to the door of Lin Xiaozhide's antique shop.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable. The old Taoist priest looked up at the plaque of the Yaobao Pavilion, and then carefully calculated it with his hand, a smile appeared on his face, and he shook off the floating dust. Walked into the Yaobao Pavilion.

"Good man, the poor road passes through here, and the mouth is really a little thirsty, can you reward the poor road with a sip of water to moisten your throat?" the old Taoist priest asked politely when he walked into the door of the store.

The clerk glanced at Lao Dao and didn't pay attention to him, at this time Quan Wushan came over, frowning unhappily: "Go, go, where is the old way, I'm newly opened here, go elsewhere to ask for water to drink, bad luck." ”

Lin Xiaozhi was standing next to a booth and heard the quarrel coming from the door of the store, put down the antique vase in his hand and walked out.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xiaozhi looked at the old way at the door, and then looked at Quan Wushan on the side and asked.

"Xiao Zhi, this old man wants to beg for a glass of water to drink, it's okay, you don't have to worry about it. I'm going to kick him out," he waved his hand at Lao Dao in displeasure and motioned for him to leave.

"Wait, wait a minute. Lin Xiaozhi said politely to the old man at the door.

After finishing speaking, he turned around and took a cup of hot water from the water dispenser not far away, took a piece of jade from the jade stall, and walked back to Lao Dao's side.

"Uncle," said Lin Xiaozhi handed the hot water to Lao Dao's hand, and put the jade in Lao Dao's other hand: "This jade is for you." ”

Seeing that Lin Xiaozhi gave the jade to Lao Dao, everyone behind him was surprised that Lin Xiaozhi was too generous.

"Xiao Zhi ......," Quan Wushan stretched out his hand to stop him.

Lin Xiaozhi shook his head: "It's okay," After finishing speaking, he turned back to the customers in the store and said: "Thank you for visiting the shop, all the guests who come to the store today can get a piece of jade." ”

Soon the news spread ten, ten, hundreds, word of mouth, and the number of people in the store suddenly skyrocketed.

"Thank you, little brother. Lao Dao took a sip of the water in the cup and thanked Lin Xiaozhi.

"You're welcome. Lin Xiaozhi said with a smile.

The Taoist priest pulled the corner of Lin Xiaozhi's clothes, and Lin Xiaozhi followed the Taoist priest to the side suspiciously.

"Little brother, if you can reward me with a sip of water to drink, it means that you don't judge people by their appearance, and you can send a jade to each of the people who came to the store today, which shows that you are generous, and there are not many young people like you who don't judge people by their appearance and are generous. Saying that, he raised his finger in praise of the old way: "Young man, it's not ordinary, it's not ordinary." ”

"Hehe," Lin Xiaozhi blushed a little when he was praised by the old way, and smiled embarrassedly: "You have won the prize." I'm still busy in this shop, so I'll quit first. ”

Lin Xiaozhi is used to seeing old Taoist priests who swagger and deceive, but it is the first time that a Taoist priest who has slapped himself madly because of a glass of water and a piece of jade.

"Hehe, it's not ordinary. The old Taoist priest looked at Lin Xiaozhi's back and smiled: "Then little brother, you go to get busy first, Poor Dao will leave first, Poor Dao wants to send two sentences to the little brother before leaving, the chest shines on the tiger stripes, the back picks the phoenix body, ordinary and not self-satisfied, one body and two things!"

After hearing the old Taoist priest's words, Lin Xiaozhi trembled twice.

How did he know that he had a tiger tattoo on his chest and phoenix wings on his back?

Lin Xiaozhi stopped in surprise, turned his head and wanted to ask the old Taoist priest clearly, and found that the old Taoist priest had long since disappeared.

Lin Xiaozhi came out of the store and chased a long way, but found that the old Taoist priest had disappeared, and there was no trace of him.

Lin Xiaozhi frowned and walked into the store, just as he bumped into Quan Wushan who was walking towards him.

Quan Wushan looked at Lin Xiaozhi, who was frowning, and said with concern: "What's the matter?" Xiaozhi, with an unhappy and regretful face?"

"It's fine. Lin Xiaozhi shook his head, but he didn't tell the two words that Lao Dao said to him.

"That'll do. Seeing that Lin Xiaozhi refused to say anything, Quan Wushan didn't continue to ask, and pulled Lin Xiaozhi to the store: "Let's go, there are a lot of antiques from Liangcheng in your store today, jade merchants and insiders, I'll give you a good introduction." ”

"Come on, come on, this is our shopkeeper, Lin Xiaozhi. Quan Wushan pulled Lin Xiaozhi around a group of people and introduced with a smile.

"Hello, I'm Lin Xiaozhi. Lin Xiaozhi smiled and nodded politely.

"This is our largest jade manufacturer in Liangcheng, Tian Yuan, Mr. Tian. Quan Wushan pointed to a middle-aged man with a big belly and glasses and introduced Lin Xiaozhi: "Mr. Tian has been trading jade in this Liangcheng for many years, and there are hundreds of jade shops under his name. and dozens of jade mines. ”

Lin Xiaozhi nodded.

“......”

Next, Quan Wushan introduced several well-known characters in Liangcheng to Lin Xiaozhi.

Lin Xiaozhi just listened and agreed perfunctorily.

......

Cao Yan's parents walked around the store and came to Cao Yan's side.

"Yanyan, your boss is really amazing, Dad just looked around and found that most of the jade in this store is of the highest grade, as for those antiques, although Dad doesn't know much about it, he can probably see that they are all treasures. Father Cao said excitedly.

"That's right, Yanyan, it's good now, you don't have to leave Liangcheng to do jade appraisal work, it's great, so that your dad and I can come to see you often in the future." Cao's mother laughed happily.

"Good what good, nothing good here. Cao Yan whispered unhappily.

"Oh no, what did you just say? Mom didn't hear me. Cao Mu asked with a smile.

"Huh. Cao Yan squeezed out a stiff smile and said word by word: "I said, it's great to be able to stay and work in Liangcheng." ”

It's not good at all, and it will be difficult to see Lin Xiaozhi again in the future. Alas, Lin Xiaozhi didn't know what to think, and suddenly gave himself such a surprise, which was not so much a surprise as a fright.

......

Seeing that the time for the start of the auction in Hailan Kingdom was getting closer and closer, Lin Xiaozhi stayed in Liangcheng for two more days like Cao Yan saying goodbye and hurried back to Huadu.

Jin Zhan waited for a long time in Lin Xiaozhide's antique shop, and finally saw Lin Xiaozhi walking in from outside.

"Xiao Zhi, what did you do when you fell to the ground, why did you come back?" Jin Zhan asked Lin Xiaozhi with a puzzled face.

"Hehe," Lin Xiaozhi smiled happily: "Go to Liangcheng to do a big thing." ”

"What's the big deal? You've been gone for days, and I thought you weren't going to go with me to the royal auction in the Hailan Kingdom. Jin Zhan complained.