Chapter Eighty-Nine: A New Mission

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"Guest, what do you want? The things of our Xuanmiaotang are well-known in this Pan homeland, and they are 100% serious antiques!"

"Antiques, too?"

Wang Zheng raised his hand and gestured to the ivory pen holder he was holding. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nowadays, anyone on the street knows that ivory is illegal, and antiques made of real ivory are expensive, and they will never be casually placed on the Bogu shelf at the door and crowded with other 'antique companions' to sell them at will.

"Hehe, of course this is an antique! However, this is not ivory, but carved from plant ivory!"

"Plant ivory?"

Wang Zheng, who heard this name for the first time, was a little surprised.

"Yes, plant ivory, which is an imitation ivory material made from the fruit of the ivory palm and the Doum palm, plant ivory is very close to real ivory, and it is a natural product unlike cheap plastic imitations, so it will be a very good substitute for ivory in today's situation where animals are protected and the use of ivory is prohibited. ”

"It's so fresh!"

Wang Zheng, who heard about it for the first time, fiddled with the pen holder in his hand with great interest. But what made him even more strange was that this guy from Xuanmiaotang didn't look like a qualified antique practitioner.

I remember that Wang Zheng has read a lot of jokes on the Internet before, and a successful antique insider must have the ability to 'refer to a deer as a horse'.

Any jar should be associated with such and such a celebrity, and then push back the time by a few hundred years.

But now the routine seems to have changed.

"Then how much does this pen holder cost?" asked Wang Zheng tentatively.

"Hehe, because it's not real ivory, it's not expensive, it's just 2000!"

"Two thousand isn't expensive?"

"Of course, although this ivory pen holder is carved from plant ivory, but the work is a serious old handicraft of the southern school, in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the country made to export to earn foreign exchange, excellent workmanship, very collectible!

Listening to the sworn words of the shop guys, Wang Zheng really believed it a little bit in his heart.

Reason, though, told him it wasn't real. No one puts thousands worth of things on the shelves as crowded as ordinary goods in a supermarket.

"I'll take a look at the others before I decide whether to buy them or not!"

As he spoke, Wang Zheng put the pen holder back on the shelf.

"Okay, then you can take a look, we have all kinds of antiques here, you can choose whatever you want!"

Wang Zheng, who nodded, walked around the store, and then when he returned to the door, he took a decisive step and flashed.

"Hey, don't you want your pen holder?"

The shopkeeper said loudly.

"Don't want it, leave it to other people who know the goods!"

"Alas, in addition to foreign devils, it's better to deceive these days, and these domestic things have become good one by one! Business is not easy to do!" sighed lowly, and after the corner of the shopkeeper's eyes swept Wang Zheng's back farther and farther away, he turned around and went back to the store.

The popularization of the Internet and the explosion of information have made the mysterious antique shops in the past more and more recognized by the general public. Gone are the days when broken jars were blown into toilets used by the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Coming out of Xuanmiaotang, Wang Zheng walked a few more shops. However, the similarity is that whether it is a shopkeeper or a young man, the rhetoric of fooling people is basically not much different.

Very few people say that their objects were used by a certain emperor and minister, or that they were old objects from the Qing Dynasty or something. Now at most, when it comes to the Republic of China, most of them are handicrafts made after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Of course, it has been fifty or sixty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Therefore, the price of these things after the founding of the People's Republic of China is definitely not low, not six or seven hundred, or one or two thousand, and there is no cheap.

The reality is different from what Wang Zheng saw in the treasure digging novels, and it is obvious that the rhetoric of the cultural relics dealers has also kept pace with the times.

After shopping in a few antique shops, Wang Zheng came to the greenhouse area.

There are still stalls next to each other, and the stalls are much more abundant than those in the antique shops. All kinds of things you can think of, even you can't think of are sold here.

From ceramics and antique paintings to newspapers and cigarette cases, anything that can become an antique can be found here.

But this time is different from last time, the last time I came here, Wang Zheng still had the help of the Shennong system, so he will definitely make a fortune. But this time, although the Shennong system is still there, this tsundere guy, you don't want to get any benefits from it if you don't complete the tasks it released.

Therefore, Wang Zheng, who is completely on his own, knows very well how many catties and taels he has, and if he chooses Taobao, he will be almost 100% deceived.

Therefore, taking a few turns like a horse, enriching his horizons, and passing the time by the way has become Wang Zheng's biggest purpose.

"Hey, Pan Jiayuan still sells this?"

Just when Wang Zheng was in little interest and was about to leave, he occasionally found a more interesting stall in the corner.

The owner of the stall is an old man over half a hundred years old, with gray hair, wearing a black coat, and a relatively thin face.

In front of him, the stall that is not too large is not an antique in the traditional sense, but a transparent and heavy glass jar.

These glass jars range from large to small, with the largest being more than 30 centimeters in diameter and 40 centimeters in height. The small one is about the same as a beer bottle. The position of the mouth was sealed with a red cloth, and Wang Zheng couldn't see whether it was a wooden cork or a plastic bottle cap for the time being. But that's not the point, it's the clear glass that you can see very clearly.

Poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, spiders, plus the amber liquid inside, as long as a person who knows something about Chinese culture can instantly understand that this is the famous 'five poisonous wine'!

Of course, different regions may have different types of five poisons. However, the wine brewed by mixing many poisons such as snakes, centipedes, and scorpions is usually called 'five poisonous wines'.

Wang Zheng had heard the name of this wine more than once, but in reality it was the first time he had seen it.

In the stall in front of me, there were only two cans of Five Poison Wine in the largest glass jar. There is a half-large glass jar next to it, a 'snake wine' with a colorful viper, a 'centipede wine' with only centipedes, and a 'toad wine' and so on.

Although the Five Poisons Liquor is rumored to have various miraculous effects, the materials it soaked in it are really difficult for ordinary people to approach, so this time Wang Zheng just looked at it fresh, and he didn't plan to buy it. Of course, there were a few young melon eaters next to him, wandering around in front of the stall with the same purpose as him.

Maybe the stall owners also knew what they were thinking, so except for sitting on the pony in the back and shaking their heads and listening to the Peking Opera Shajiabang, they didn't mean to come up to say hello at all.

However, after looking around, Wang Zheng found that the large and small glass jars on this stall were not all five poisonous wines.

"Boss, what kind of wine is this?"

"Young man, my wine is not ordinary, don't move if you don't buy it!"

But as soon as the old man finished speaking, he found that the young man in front of him was stunned for a moment, and although he quickly eased up, there was obviously a trace of chagrin on his face!

"Boss, are you a ginseng wine?" Wang Zheng's tone was somewhat helpless.

"That's right, this is an ancestral recipe, and it's much more potent than the ginseng wine sold on the market!"

Listening to the old man's proud tone, Wang Zheng looked at the wine bottle in his hand, isn't it ginseng soaked in the pale yellow medicinal liquid! However, in the past, ginseng wine was soaked in whole ginseng, but this one cut the ginseng into slices, so that Wang Zheng didn't react at first.

Of course, these are not the point, the point is that after he came into contact with this bottle of ginseng wine, he touched the Shennong system!

"The host triggers the Super Mountain Resort side quest 'Ginseng Valley', the task completion conditions: 1 wild ginseng over 500 years, 3 wild ginseng over 300 years, 10 wild ginseng over 100 years, 30 wild ginseng over 50 years, 100 wild ginseng over 30 years, and 500 wild ginseng over 10 years! Task completion time: 5 years! Restrictions: Do not use any nutrient solution, replenishment solution and catalytic liquid produced by this system!"

"Note 1: After completing this task, the host can draw 6 rewards! Complete any 3 of these tasks to determine the reward 'Lifeform Gene Optimization Solution'. The 'Lifeform Genetic Optimization Solution' is the Empire's highest technology, which can break the genetic boundaries of any high-level lifeform and increase the lifespan by 50 years. This effect can be inherited for 100 years!"

"Note 2: The director of this task intends to complete one of the six conditions for completing this task and double the quantity. The host will be given a chance to increase the reward for a mission. If all six conditions are doubled, the host will receive a high-end reward: Mammoth Transport!"

"Note 3: This task is an active triggered task of the host, complete any one of the conditions, and the failure of this task will be exempt from punishment, and the time limit is 1 year!"

"Note 4: All six tasks of this mission failed, erase the enhancement effect of the host's 'Warrior Gene Optimization Liquid', and take back all the technological equipment obtained by the host!"

"Hey, hey, I said do you buy it or not? Really, it's young, it's okay to be in a daze!"

The old man was full of disgust, and coupled with the difficult tasks just released by the Shennong system, Wang Zheng at this moment completely lost his interest in continuing to stay here.

"How much is your bottle of ginseng wine?" Wang Zheng, who originally wanted to put down the wine and leave, asked more.

"100,000!"

"100,000?

It doesn't matter if what the old man said is true or not, and whether his bottle of wine is really worth 100,000 or not. At this moment, Wang Zheng didn't have the heart to buy it.

In addition to the distraught emotions brought about by the new task 'Ginseng Valley', another reason is that Wang Zheng doesn't have much money in his pocket.

This time, in addition to being invited by Guardian to auction, Wang Zheng also wanted to get the follow-up funds for the pair of enamel bowls he auctioned as soon as possible, so as to support the follow-up payment of Baixiangju's branch decoration.

Therefore, now for Wang Zheng, any non-essential expenditure of more than 100,000 yuan is not allowed.

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

Looking at Wang Zheng, whose footsteps suddenly became hurried, Wang Gan, who had been following him far away, hurriedly greeted him.

"Let's go, let's go back to the hotel!"

He needs time and space to calm down and think about how to complete the task of 'Ginseng Valley'!