Chapter 149: Xiquan Pavilion
That night, Ji Tianci and the four of them stayed in a suite in a five-star hotel not far from the cultural relics market. The driver went to open the house, and these people didn't dare to use their ID cards to open the house.
Ye Xiangdong was sleeping on the bed, and Li Fanzhi wanted to invite Ji Tianci to go to the bar to play together, but Ji Tianci refused.
Li Fanzhi found another deck of playing cards, and the three of them actually fought all night to "fight the landlord".
Ji Tianci chatted with the two of them while playing cards, and later knew that the driver was also a transcendent, and his surname was Li, named Li Fang.
Both Li Fanzhi and Li Fang were born with the ability to manipulate water. The reason why Li Fanzhi was able to control Professor Ye's body was because sixty or seventy percent of the weight in the human body was water.
Li Fang was originally a member of the "Sword of the Nine Shadows", a C-level transcendent, and later offended the blood clan of the Dark Council during a mission in Europe. The Dark Council looked for someone from the Sword of the Nine Shadows, and the Sword of the Nine Shadows asked him to retire early and stay in the country to "retire" in order to protect Li Fang.
Li couldn't stay idle, so he found his "cousin" Li Fanzhi and "went along with him".
The surname "Li" is a big surname in Jiuyou, and in the transcendent realm of Jiuyou, people with the same surname are recognized as relatives. Like Li Xi, he is not Li Fanzhi's uncle, but where is the seniority, everyone is used to being commensurate with the seniority.
Li Xi is a generation of "good", Li Fanzhi and Li Fang are both "learning" generations, and the "good" generation in the Li family is one generation higher than the "learning" generation, and Li Xi is also nearly 100 years old, so Li Fanzhi calls him uncle.
Li Fanzhi said that in Jiuyou, people with the same surname are a family, and everyone is a relative. And the hundred family names come from the names of various tribes in ancient times, and each tribe is also the same people. Therefore, Jiuyou is a big family, but after the population increases, many small families have been divided.
Li Fang didn't talk too much about the Sword of the Nine Shadows, and Li Fanzhi deliberately avoided talking about this topic. It is only mentioned that the "blood clans" in Europe are vampires, which are similar to the vampires described in mythological stories, living on blood.
Low-level vampires are afraid of ultraviolet rays, but once they reach the threshold of transcendence, they are no longer afraid of ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet rays only make them feel weak and don't kill them.
Among the Bloodline, there are more vampires like mortals, who are afraid of sunlight but live longer. Many dying European billionaires will spend a lot of money to turn themselves into vampires and become members of the blood family.
Therefore, the Bloods are the largest nobles in Europe, and they also control part of the European economy. And it is not for nothing that civilians call capitalists "vampires".
Li Fang encountered several low-level bloodlines when he was on a mission, but these vampires still had some status in Europe. Li Fang directly controlled the blood in their bodies to seep out of their bodies, causing them to "wither" and die. Later, Li Fang was also wanted by the European Extraordinary Organization, and it was not very convenient to go abroad.
As for the female driver before Li Fanzhi, she was just an ordinary "insider", and she was also used by Li Fanzhi to confuse others.
Li Fanzhi also said that the female vampires above the duke in the blood clan are very beautiful, and he has always wanted to find a blood girlfriend to fall in love......
The Bloodline still follows the title system, from the highest to the lowest are the prince, the duke, the marquis, the earl, the viscount, and the baron, corresponding to the extraordinary A-F ranks.
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The three of them chatted while playing cards. The sky lit up again, Professor Ye also got up, and the four of them came to the cultural relics market again with excitement.
Ji Tianci somewhat understood why these people were keen on treasure hunting, and even he himself was excited, thinking that he was about to see the legendary weapon, his breathing became a little short.
At eight o'clock in the morning, this "ancient street" is bustling, in addition to the shops on both sides of the street, there are also many stalls on the ground of the street, and people are shouting about the antique collections on their stalls.
There are many kinds of collections, such as porcelain, jade, calligraphy and paintings, icons, books, ancient coins, etc., and there are special stores, and old books and comic books are also rich.
In these shops, almost every one sells ancient pottery, bronze, jade, Tang Sancai, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, old furniture and even calligraphy and painting collections. Everything you need, as long as you want, the antique dealer in each store may bring it out for you.
As soon as the four of them walked into the street, the small sword on the steel plate seemed to be attracted by a magnet, and pointed directly at a shop.
The name of this shop is "Xiquan Pavilion", and when he walked to the front of the store, Li Fanzhi explained to Ji Tianci, "Don't talk after you enter, let's see what the situation is first." ”
The store is not big, but there are all kinds of antique calligraphy and paintings everywhere in the store, which are dazzling, and Ji Tianci is afraid that he will accidentally damage some antique cultural relics.
After the four of them entered the door, they looked around and were attracted by a steel sword hanging on the wall on the right hand side. The sword was "slender", more than five feet long and less than two inches wide.
This sword has no scabbard and no grid. The hilt of the sword is rounded, as if it is connected to the blade of the sword, and it is also pure steel, with several loops of hemp rope wrapped around it, presumably to make it easy to hold.
The sword is carved with a simple pattern, and it looks very charming at a glance, as if it was originally grown on the sword, even if it is a modern handicraft, it can be sold for some money if it looks like this.
As soon as Ji Tianci stepped into the door, he felt that the steel plate in his hand kept trembling, and the sword hanging on the wall actually began to tremble.
Li Fanzhi hurriedly grabbed the steel plate and put it in a bag that Li Fang was carrying. He coughed, and everyone looked away again, looking around, only Ji Tianci was still staring at the sword.
Behind the counter in the store sat a man in his thirties, presumably the owner.
The boss was holding his mobile phone and reading martial arts novels, and only after hearing Li Fanzhi's cough did he know that there were customers in the store. He hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Bosses, what do you want to buy?" ”
The four of them didn't speak, and Ji Tianci also looked around like everyone else.
Ye Xiangdong glanced left and right, and then slowly spoke: "Why are you selling some fakes here." Look at this 'Tang Sancai camel', the belly deglazed is like artificial corrosion. ”
Ye Xiangdong immediately took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and looked carefully at the 50-centimeter-high "camel".
"Well, there is no five-color rainbow light under the glaze, there is no doubt that it is a fake. ”
After that, Ye Xiangdong looked at a calligraphy and painting next to him, "Hmm...... This is also a fake, there was this kind of paper in the Qing Dynasty, you look at the side of this paper, you can see the interlayer under the magnifying glass, where is this kind of technology in the Qing Dynasty?"
The boss was shocked when he listened, and knew that he had met a master, so he hurriedly haha: "Old man, you are a master at a glance." A lot of my collection here is also collected outside, and I don't know the authenticity. However, there are also a lot of family heirlooms in the store, you see this bronze tripod incense burner, it is my ancestors have been handed down. ”
Ye Xiangdong turned his head to look at a bronze vessel the size of a teapot on the counter, after he looked at it carefully for a while, he also knew that this thing was a real antiquity, even from the Western Zhou Dynasty, if it wasn't a little broken, it would definitely be able to sell for a high price.
"This thing is a real thing, but it's a pity that this incense burner is broken, do you have any other 'family heirlooms' here?"
The boss also understood that the "family heirlooms" that Ye Xiangdong said meant real antiques, and he smiled awkwardly, "There used to be a lot of them, but most of them were sold......
The people understood that the implication was that there was no more.
Ye Xiangdong looked at the steel sword on the wall again, he walked over and looked at it carefully, "Your steel sword is beautiful, but how could you think of collecting this kind of steel fake? The shape of this sword can't be seen from that dynasty, how can it be sold here?"
When the boss heard this, he was immediately unhappy, he blushed and replied: "This sword was passed to me by my grandfather, it is a divine sword, it is still like this after hundreds of years, everyone doesn't know the goods." ”
Ye Xiangdong sneered, "Hundreds of years, why don't you say it's thousands of years?"