Chapter XXVI. When a man takes a fancy to a man
No one cares, and no one cares.
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, no one still asked about Lin Yi's sketches, perhaps in the eyes of many people, he was a psychopath.
Lin Yi took a deep breath, got up, went to a nearby grocery store to buy a bottle of mineral water, and when he checked out, he thought about it and took another bottle.
"Here you go." Lin Yi walked to Huang Jiaotou's side and handed over the mineral water.
Huang Jiaotou didn't even look at it.
"On such a hot day, even if you don't eat, you have to drink a little water, you sweat too much and you will collapse." Lin Yi handed over the mineral water again.
Huang Jiaotou still didn't look at him.
Lin Yi said: "It's okay if you fall, but what about your family, who will take care of it?" β
Huang Jiaotou didn't say a word, took the mineral water, opened it, grunted, drank half of it in one go, and poured the rest on his head. Looking at the wet Huang Jiaotou on his head, Lin Yi smiled.
At five or six o'clock, the heat passed, and there were more people in the Temple of Caishen, Lin Yi still had a newspaper on it, on which was his one million auction advertisement, people just leaned over, looked at the contents, and then giggled, needless to say, laughing at him for being a big fool.
A little girl selling jade next to her had a good heart, she saw that Lin Yi looked white and clean, so she kindly walked over and told him not to do this again, everyone is laughing at you, let's go back.
Lin Yi nodded to her and said "thank you", but he didn't clean up the mess. When the girl saw that he did not listen to the advice, she sighed, and said to herself that he was a fool if he was not a madman, and that he could not listen to people at all.
The little girl returned to her stall and continued to sell her jade, Lin Yi continued to advertise her sketches, Huang Jiaotou continued to sell his pile of rags, and the entire Temple of Wealth began to become lively again, shouting, bargaining, and the sound continued.
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The next day, Lin Yi still came out of the stall very early, still the same as before, a broken newspaper with an advertisement asking for a million sketches.
Many people don't think it's weird, but they think he's really a fool.
Just ten minutes after Lin Yi set up his stall, Huang Jiaotou also came, it was still the same old place yesterday, spread out the canvas, filled it with miscellaneous things, and then turned into a stone statue, motionless.
The sun rises.
The air is still getting hotter.
Lin Yi bought water and handed it to him.
Huang Jiaotou was still silent, drank half a bottle, and poured the rest on his head.
After doing this, the two of them watched the other people's stalls bustling and lively, and their own side was deserted.
Lin Yi and Huang Jiaotou did not speak.
There wasn't even the slightest eye contact.
And just like that, another day passed.
On the third day, Lin Yi not only bought water for Huang Jiaotou, but also bought a large bowl of noodles.
Huang Jiaotou was still silent, like a dumb man, first picked up the water and drank it, and then glanced at the noodle bowl.
Egg noodles, golden scrambled eggs spread on the white thin noodles, fragrant.
Lin Yi obviously saw Huang Jiaotou's throat move, so he turned his head away from looking at him.
There was a sound of eating noodles behind him, and when Lin Yi turned around, there was only an empty bowl left on the ground.
Looking at Huang Jiaotou again, his appearance has not changed at all, as if he has not eaten that bowl of noodles from beginning to end.
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Day 4 -
At this time, the sacrificial ceremony of the God of Wealth Temple was not as lively as it began, but there were still a lot of people, and the customers were still very noisy, of course, the stalls of Lin Yi and Huang Jiaotou were still so deserted, and no one patronized.
After a long day, there is no gain at all.
No matter how good Lin Yi's mentality is, he can't help but feel a little depressed.
As soon as the man was depressed, he wanted to drink, although Lin Yi's alcohol consumption was very bad, but at this moment he really wanted to drink.
Lin Yi didn't have the habit of drinking alcohol, so he was going to find someone to accompany him, Dong Glasses, Wang Heizi's gang of people, it's not that Lin Yi looked down on them, but that these people were too busy with business and were in a hurry to sell old books, so how could they be in the mood to drink anything with him. As for that Liu Sanliang, he drank it almost every day, and it was not worse than his meal.
So Lin Yi is going to find someone who is pleasing to the eye and is as hard as himself, and there is no doubt that the head of the Huang sect who is setting up a stall next to him is the best target.
Looking at this guy who doesn't like to talk very much and likes to bask in the sun on hot days, Lin Yi always has a sense of superiority.
People are like this, when they see someone worse than themselves, they will always have compassion, and this sympathy contains a trace of self-comfort.
Lin Yi walked over and asked, "Drinking, are you going?" β
Huang Jiaotou's forehead was dripping with sweat, and he raised his eyes and looked at him, "Why?" β
"What, why?" Lin Yi asked rhetorically.
"Why did you invite me to drink?" Huang Jiaotou's eyes have obvious meaning, sympathize with me? Woo me? Or is there another purpose?
Lin Yi smiled, "Because you look like you can drink." "Simple, clear.
Huang Jiaotou's eyes were staring at Lin Yi tightly, Lin Yi's expression remained unchanged, and he still looked at him with a smile, looking kind and sincere.
Huang Jiaotou finally spoke: "What about wine? β
Lin Yi might as well ask him, so he looked around, and there happened to be a stall selling old wine not far away, so he walked over.
Nowadays, there are many tricks in the antique market, and buying and selling old wine is also a very fashionable business, specifically in many communities and near residential buildings, relying on an electric car, a rectangular plastic billboard is erected on the frame, which reads the words "recycle old wine", among which the old wine recovered in the eighties, the nineties is the most, and the liquor in the seventies can be received to sell, then pick up the treasure.
For example, Feitian Moutai in the 70s, a bottle is five or six thousand yuan, and the worst Wuliangye in the 70s is three or four thousand, especially in the first period of Moutai and Wuliangye speculation two years ago, the price of this old liquor is as high as nearly 10,000 yuan, and now the price of liquor has fallen, and these speculative liquor sellers have a backlog of old liquor.
Of course, Lin Yi can't afford to drink the old good wine, and besides, he doesn't understand this, so his eyes are just swirling around the common drinks on the stalls.
The stall was set up by a fashionably dressed young man, with a long stream of breath, at the moment he was shaking his legs with a cigarette, fighting the landlord with his two partners, seeing Lin Yi looking at him in front of the stall, he squinted his eyes and asked angrily: "Old watch, do you want it, which bottle do you want?" β
Lin Yi didn't mind, and asked with a smile: "How much money is that bottle of Red Star Erguotou?" β
"Four hundred and five!"
"It's so expensive."
"It's not expensive, this is eighty-two years, authentic Red Star Erguotou! Let's put four or five hundred here, if we put it in the capital Panjiayuan, Jinling Confucius Temple, it will be a few thousand things! Shunzi-" The young man threw the card, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Lin Yi's ignorance.
"What about this bottle of Wolong Jade Liquid?" Lin Yi pointed to a bottle of liquor with a big belly.
This is a kind of local liquor, local goods in Nandu, it used to be high-yielding, but now it is about to be out of stock, Lin Yi's brother-in-law works in the alcohol factory, and the factory also produces this low-alcohol liquor, but unfortunately the competitiveness is too poor, and it can't fight foreign wine, but now it has become a scarce commodity.
The young man took a puff of cigarette and said impatiently: "Someone wants this, put it here for the time being, you choose something else." β
"Oh," Lin Yi had no choice but to choose other liquor, and soon, he saw a bottle of liquor with a simple packaging that looked very subgrade, "What about this bottle of old liquor on credit, how much money?" β
"Damn, you're pretty picky. Ninety-three years old credit shop, 'credit store old wine for a long time', have you ever heard of it? That's when these wines were made...... At least one hundred and fifteen. β
"It's so expensive." Lin Yi hesitated.
The young man glanced at him, "Is this still expensive?" Because of this broken advertising slogan, the entire distillery almost went bankrupt...... People dare to spend 100 million to advertise, but you don't dare to drink 150 million, which is too hypocritical. β
The people next to him all giggled, as if they were laughing at Lin Yi's poor and sour appearance.
Lin Yi was still not angry, on the contrary, he still said with a smile: "That's right, how can you say that this liquor has been more than ten years, and even the pork has risen from two to ten...... But can there be less? β
The young man looked a little impatient, frowned and asked, "How many bottles do you buy?" β
Lin Yi glanced at the stall, "How many bottles do you have here?" β
The young man dropped the card, took out a box directly from the back of the stall, slapped it with his hand, and said in a very horizontal tone: "Not much, just a box." β
One box is six bottles, each bottle is one catty, a full six catties of liquor.
Lin Yi smiled and was not polite, "How much is a shot?" β
Hearing Lin Yi say everything, the young man's mouth pursed, his eyes seemed to be a little disbelieving, and he looked at Lin Yi, "As much as you can give, take it away if it is suitable, don't hinder me from playing cards." β
Lin Yi made a very classic eight-way gesture and said with a smile: "A bottle of eighty, how about it?" β
Cut directly in half.
Lin Yi waited for the other party to make a counteroffer, and planned to take it for up to 100 yuan.
Who knows-
"Here you go!" The lad was very cheerful.
Lin Yi: "......"
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After moving the whole box of 480 yuan of simple liquor, Lin Yi returned to Huang Jiaotou's side. Huang Jiaotou, who has always liked to pretend to be dumb, looked at him and asked, "How much money is this wine?" β
Lin Yi was cautious: "A bottle of eighty, isn't it expensive?" β
Huang Jiaotou looked at him like a fool and said, "Isn't it expensive...... Fifty at most, I've sold. β
Lin Yi: "......"
At this moment, he knew that there was a doorway in one line, and he might be very talented in old books, but he was too ...... in other aspects LOW. I originally thought that with one shot, I could take advantage of it and let the other party get a discount, but I didn't think that I was still blinded.
Of course, in front of a guy like Huang Jiaotou, Lin Yi would not admit that he was too stupid, so he smiled and said: "I know, but on this hot day, it is not easy for people to sell bottles ......of wine."
This time, Huang Jiaotou didn't speak, just looked at Lin Yi's dry stall, the meaning is obvious, you are almost like this, and you still have the kung fu to pity others.
Lin Yi coughed twice and hurriedly diverted the topic, "What do you want to eat?" I can't afford to ask for something expensiveβ"
"Dumplings." Huang Jiaotou is crisp and neat.
"Okay, dumplings are wine, the more you eat, the more you have." Lin Yi was very happy, he just thought that this treat would not cost much money, but he was wrong.