Chapter 181: Uninvited
Jiang Yao couldn't help but be stunned by the sudden accosting, and when he turned his head, he found a man in a suit with two mustaches and shiny hair standing behind him, looking at them with a smile.
I saw that although the man was not tall, he was meticulously dressed in a vertical striped suit, but perhaps because of his slightly hunched back, coupled with the pair of small eyes that were shining, his image was a little obscene. At this time, the eyes of this pair of obscene little eyes were focused on Jiang Yao and Lu Xingyue, looking up and down.
"Listening to the accents of the two of you, you shouldn't be locals, right?"
The man in the suit sneered, glanced at Jiang Yao's neckline intentionally or unintentionally, and then fell on Jiang Yao's face.
"Those who will pick the Qingming Festival to come to this 'ghost town' are probably not ordinary tourists, I don't know if the contemptible people guessed wrong?"
"Are you ......?" Jiang Yao looked at the man in front of him quietly, although the man in the suit looked smiling, he always felt that there seemed to be a trace of ill will in the man's smile.
"Ah, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. The man in the suit raised his eyebrows, looked like he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out a business card from his arms and handed it to Jiang Yao with a smile.
"The surname is Liu, Wendao Liu, and the single name is a 'Mang' word, this is a contemptible business card, please smile. ”
"Liu ...... 'hooligan'?" Lu Xingyue almost couldn't hold back her laughter when she heard it, but Jiang Yao noticed the head on the business card, and her heart moved slightly.
"'Liu's Pharmacy'?" Jiang Yao whispered the name of the company on the business card and looked up at the man in a suit in front of him. "It's the ...... that just went public recently."
"Hehe, that's right. 'There is the Chen family in the south, and the Liu family in the north', although our Liu family medicine store is as famous as the Chen family in the medicinal material industry, but the listing process of our company is slightly faster than the Chen family. The man in the suit stretched out his hand and twisted his mustache, and his expression seemed to reveal a bit of pride. "And the contemptible person is the executive manager of the Liu family's medicine store, Liu Mang. ”
Liu's medicine store, even if Jiang Yao is not a person in the medicinal materials industry, he has heard a little about the name of this company. There is no other reason for this, because this company is always in the news every now and then, and it is also an entertainment version.
It is said that the boss of the Liu family medicine store used to be a partner of the Chen family medicine store in the early years, and later came out of his own door, which made the Liu family medicine store develop rapidly in less than ten years, and even became as famous as the Chen family medicine store with a history of 100 years.
On the other hand, the popularity of Liu's medicine store can be so rapidly improved, which is not unrelated to their strong marketing acumen of Boss Liu. This Boss Liu not only married a beautiful Internet celebrity who was almost 20 years younger than him, but also often invested in the film and television industry, and various lace scandals with female stars were endless, and it was common to be on the news. Compared with the Chen Family Pharmacy, which has a formal corporate style, the style of the Liu Family Pharmacy can be described as "unusual".
However, Liu's medicine store has a great reputation in the outside world, but its reputation in the medicinal materials industry is not very good. It is said that it was once exposed that a large number of medicinal materials were shoddy, and the negative news of counterfeiting and selling counterfeits was always suppressed by the Liu family's strong public relations ability, which made the Chen family medicine store very disdainful. In addition, because of the previous origin of the boss of the Liu family and the current competitive relationship between the Chen and Liu families, although the two families are harmonious on the surface, they have already reached the point of incompatibility behind the scenes.
Liu ...... Stewardship...... With a figure as big as you, civilians like us can't afford to make friends. Jiang Yao smiled and snorted vaguely. "My brother and I are here to travel, and I heard that there will be a folk parade during the Qingming Festival, so I came here to take a look. ”
Jiang Yao said, politely handed the business card back to the man in the suit, after all, with Chen Siyi's relationship, it is not good to casually contact the rival of the Chen family's medicine store.
"Hehe, little brother, you don't have to be nervous, there is no malice in despicable people. Liu Mang smiled wryly, and put the business card back in the business card holder. "It's just that it's rare to meet peers here, so I just want to talk more. ”
"Peers?" Jiang Yao looked at the other party suspiciously and said. "I think you're mistaken, I'm not ......"
"With all due respect, the lavalier you wear on your collar should be made of precious 'green stone', right?" Before Jiang Yao could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Mang's voice.
"'Green Jewel'?" Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked down at the neckline, only to see that the gem lavalier that Chen Siyi gave him to cover up the attributes of demonic power was emitting a faint green light.
"This 'green stone' is not an ordinary natural gemstone, but is made of the essence of the tears of the mermaids of the South China Sea, which is rare and extremely precious. Now the price of just one carat on the market has been speculated to millions. Liu Mang twisted his mustache and looked at Jiang Yao and said meaningfully.
"Count, millions!?" Jiang Yao's face changed suddenly when he heard this. He originally thought that this thing was just a commonly used item in the world of supernatural beings, so he accepted Chen Siyi's gift, if he knew that this thing was so valuable, he wouldn't dare to ask for it.
"That...... Are you mistaken? This lavalier is just bought for ten dollars on the stall, where can it be so valuable? Although he was shocked in his heart, Jiang Yao quickly calmed down on the surface and continued to choose to play stupid.
"Hehe, little brother, you are laughing. To tell the truth, Mr. Liu, who used to be in our company, also took a fancy to this 'green stone' collar clip, but it was a pity that Miss Chen snatched his love from the auction, and our Mr. Liu is still talking about it until now. ”
Liu Mang stared at Jiang Yao's face with a smile, and his small eyes shone with a cunning light.
"Little brother, since you can get such a valuable thing from Miss Chen, you must be ...... It's not a shallow relationship with the Chen family, right?
"I said, what are you talking to him about? Since he recognized the wrong person, let's just ignore him. ”
Seeing that Jiang Yao seemed to be entangled by that person, Lu Xingyue immediately pulled Jiang Yao and prepared to leave, but just a few steps away, he heard Liu Mang's yin and yang strange voice floating over from behind the two of them again:
"I would like to remind you that the 'special challenge' of this 'ghost market' may have already begun, and since the organizers have specially arranged such an 'exam', there must be an examiner present, so you should be careful with your every move. ”
"......" Jiang Yao's footsteps paused slightly, don't look over his head at Liu Mang, and the latter stopped talking, pretended to salute, and then turned to leave.
"This guy makes me feel very uncomfortable. Lu Xingyue looked at Liu Mang's distant figure and whispered in Jiang Yao's ear. "We better be careful, there's everyone here. ”
"I know...... However, what he said just now is not impossible. Jiang Yao retracted his gaze, looked at Lu Xingyue again and said. "I've guessed before that maybe this 'challenge' started earlier than we thought, and maybe even started in the 'get a ghost market invitation'. ”
"Even if that's the case, so what? We've got the invitation anyway. Lu Xingyue asked.
"The problem is not whether you get the invitation letter or not, but the 'examiner'. Jiang Yao said. "As that person said, it is impossible for the organizer not to have supervision in the process of 'challenge', and if 'getting a ghost market invitation' is also a challenge level, then who is the 'examiner' of this level?"
"The 'Ghost City Invitation' was issued by the organizer, how could there be an 'examiner'?
"Really...... Now that I think about it, although it doesn't seem like there is a requirement for identity verification on this invitation, would the organizers really do nothing and just let the invitations circulate freely?"
Jiang Yao stroked the black card in his arms, remembering the faint magic aura lingering on the card, and suddenly felt a little apprehensive in his heart. "If there is actually a means of identity verification on this card, then can people like us who use the invitation letter obtained from the side door to participate in the 'ghost market' really use this invitation?"
"This ......" Hearing Jiang Yao say this, Lu Xingyue's face also showed a slightly hesitant expression. After a moment of silence, the two sighed, the matter has come to this, and they can only be dead horses as live horse doctors.
"All in all, since we have arrived in Xudu, we may not be like what the 'hooligan' said, there will be people from the organizer to watch, so let's be careful. Lu Xingyue said and patted Jiang Yao's shoulder.
"That's right......," Jiang Yao muttered, looked down at the collar clip on the neckline, and then carefully removed it and put it in his arms. For such a precious item, it is easy for people to be exposed so brightly, and he has also decided to return this treasure to Chen Siyi personally after this trip to the "ghost market", so he has to take care of it.
"By the way, then again......" Jiang Yao suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly turned around to look ahead. I didn't pay attention to it for a while because I was entangled by that Liu Mang, but now Jiang Yao found that the three-legged black and gluttonous food that were still arguing in front of him had disappeared without a trace at this time.
"Wait, what about the two of them!?" Seeing that the two "great gods" were nowhere to be found, Jiang Yao suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. "Oh no, if there is really an 'examiner' from the organizer here, then they will be discovered immediately if they make trouble!"
"Tsk, are those two guys elementary school students!? There is also a quarrel about this matter......" Seeing this, Lu Xingyue suddenly had a big head. "I think I heard them go to the place where the crowd gathers, so it's over, right??"
Jiang Yao, who was anxious, looked up in the direction of the entrance of the "ghost town", and found that there were more and more people gathered there, and the two people could not be found at a glance.
"Let's go over there. Jiang Yao said, and then hurriedly pulled up the road Xingyue and hurried in the direction of the "ghost town......
"Click...... Click......
Not long after the two left, an obscene figure quietly appeared in the shade of a tree not far away, and I saw Liu Mang holding his mobile phone, looking at the backs of Jiang Yao and Lu Xingyue, and a sneer rose at the corner of his mouth.
"Those two are going to your place, keep an eye on me. ”
After giving instructions on the other end of the phone, Liu Mang hung up the phone, turned around and disappeared into the shadows.