Chapter 17: The incense burner
There is no such thing as a small community, but most of the above-ground buildings are clustered together, and the billboards of each shop alone take up a large area on both sides of the street.
Some of them are like canned meat stacked on top of each other in a shopping mall, not neatly arranged, but also a little messy and beautiful.
At a height of more than ten meters, you can also see some aerial plank roads, which makes Zhu Jue involuntarily think of the scene seen everywhere in the ebony area of Yecheng, but the plank road here is not simple, but a rather European-style corridor built of bricks and tiles, if there is no outer steel frame, the style can be higher.
The elevator doors opened to both sides, Zhu Jue glanced at the positioning coordinates on his phone, and walked straight out.
Facing a small store on a floor, an old man with gray hair sat on a recliner in the window, and behind him was a half-grown child wearing VR glasses, turning his body from time to time, holding a colorful toy gun in his hand, which made a beeping sound from time to time.
"Hello, give me a random bottle of soda, I want it to be chilled. β
Standing in front of the window, Zhu Jue glanced at the situation in the corridor as he spoke.
Compared with the crampedness on the street just now, the situation in the building is similar to the shopping mall that Zhu Jue had seen in his previous life, with various shops on both sides.
"8 yuan. β
The soda handed over by the old man was in a coffee-colored glass bottle, and at first glance it was the more high-end soda in his store.
He's a businessman.
Zhu Jue swiped his mobile phone on the machine outside the counter, and his eyes inadvertently swept to the wooden frame behind the counter, and his gaze froze, it was a shotgun...... It's not like a fake.
I didn't ask too much, there are also gang problems in Dawning City, such as this kind of place where the underground is the black market, and these shops on the ground don't seem to have some weapons.
I drank a soda and walked to the right side of the floor, and I didn't walk long before I saw an antique shop at the end of the floor with a clear gap between the faΓ§ade decoration and the surrounding shops.
"Old time antique shop...... Good name. β
Looking at the signboard hanging outside the door, Zhu Jue pushed the door directly in.
Fragrant!
This was Zhu Jue's first reaction to the smell he smelled after entering the door.
This is a scent similar to lavender, but with a difference, Zhu Jue has not studied this aspect, just subconsciously looking for the source of the scent, and also observing the layout of the antique store.
I have to say, quite stylish.
The interior doesn't look like an antique shop in one of these lower-mid-rise commercial districts, from the elaborate knights' armor to the ceramics that fill the shelves, or the freehand Chinese ink paintings and abstract paintings on the walls.
Zhu Jue's eyes finally stayed on the incense burner on the counter on the left side of the antique shop in the old era, with blue porcelain as the base and brass peony pattern as the lid, and some white mist with a special fragrance still rose from it.
The only thing that is a little strange is that the counter of this antique shop is located on the left side of the room, instead of facing the door like other shops, and the right side is made of glass, completely made of the same layout as the cafΓ© Zhu Jue saw on the way here.
"Anyone?"
Zhu Jue looked at the position of the counter and shouted, and soon a middle-aged man came out from behind a door next to the counter.
His pale blonde hair, a pair of retro gold-rimmed glasses, and the brown plaid vest lined with a white shirt on his body all made him look less like a person of this era.
"I'm the store manager of the old days, how can I help you?"
The middle-aged man glanced at Zhu Jue's clothes and asked with a smile on his face.
"I have a few things that I want you to do for me. β
First, he took out three coins of different materials from his pocket, slapped them directly on the counter, and continued,
"Can you help me see what age these coins are?"
"Of course...... These three coins of yours are a little unusual. β
The store manager picked up the gold coin, first turned on the scanner on the workbench to detect, then turned on the computer next to him, and began to compare the data.
"What's the point?"
Zhu Jue didn't understand the role of those instruments, so he could only nod and ask.
"I've never seen these three coins in your hand before, and there are no similar matches on the Antiquities Data Network......"
Turning around again, this time the store manager also brought the table lamp on the workbench and introduced Zhu Jue through the light.
"Their workmanship is very rough, you see its edges, not only is it not rounded, but uneven, which is obviously a very inferior performance of model pressing technology, so I preliminarily conclude that it should be a product of the Middle Ages, and coins of that era are often printed with some portraits or various artifacts when they are made, so although there are no specimens of coins that can be compared on the antiquities network, I can still determine that they are coins from the Middle Ages, and if you want to sell them, I can buy them for 20,000 federal coins. β
"I'm not going to sell them. β
Zhu Jue, who came back from Yecheng, was not short of money, and these coins could be stored by the wild boar so much, maybe they would have some special effect, and it was naturally impossible to sell them here.
But when he reached out to take the coin back, he was pressed down by the antique store manager.
Zhu Jue frowned slightly, raised his eyes to look at the antique store manager, who just smiled back.
As the sun sets, Sunset doesn't know when it's stretched from behind the floor-to-ceiling windows to the front of the counter.
One person was in the afterglow, his face was calm, and his body seemed to be covered with a layer of orange-red light veil.
One person is behind the counter, and the chin to the forehead is reflected by the incandescent light in a strange layering.
"Sir, the price can be discussed again, you think that 20,000 federal coins is not enough, just quote another price, I believe you want to sell these coins, otherwise how can you let them be stained with oil and dust." β
Xu was aware that the atmosphere was beginning to become stiff and awkward, and the store manager let go of his hand first, with a relaxed smile on his face.
Almost all of the three coins specially selected by Zhu Jue were dirty, and he wanted to detect them through the equipment on the side of the antique store, but he was only suspicious before, but now he confirmed his guess through the words of the antique store manager.
Is it possible for a wild boar or rat to get oil and dust on these coins while doing something?
"Grease and dust...... I'd love to, do you have any comments?"
Zhu Jue said this quite politely, and put the three coins back into his pocket.
"Of course I don't have an opinion, just now you said that you want to do an appraisal of a few things, I don't know what else?"
The manager was not angry at the customer's refusal, and continued to smile and asked.
When Zhu Jue took out the prayer coupon, the store manager's expression was inevitably a little disappointed, he thought that this guest could come up with some good things, but he was still quite dedicated to put on a pair of mechanical glasses and check this coupon.
"With all due respect, it's not a valuable item, just an ordinary prayer ticket. β
This shoddy paper coupon obviously could not arouse the interest of the antique store manager, shrugged his shoulders and gave the answer.
"What's the use? I mean in its time. β
The prayer ticket that seems to be nothing special is actually Zhu Jue's most curious thing, and it is stored so preciously that it is meaningless to say that Zhu Jue does not believe it.
"As it says, the prayer ticket of the church of Usa, with which you can go to this church to pray, I mean the more in-depth prayer that allows you to have contact with the higher clergy. β
"Thanks, I see, and one last thing. β
Zhu Jue originally only planned to identify these two things, but seeing that the antique store manager seemed to know a lot of things, he thought about it and took out the silver kettle he was carrying in his arms.
It wasn't the two he got in another dimension, but the silver kettle in the starter pack that he had already drunk the liquor.
"Where did you get it?"
At the first glance of the silver kettle, the store manager's breath suddenly became a little heavy, and even the tone of inquiry changed.
"Does it matter?"
Zhu Jue, who was aware of this, did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.
"It's just curiosity, after all, this kind of silver kettle is rare. β
The store manager pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose a little embarrassed, rubbed his thumb against the silver kettle, and suddenly looked up at Zhu Jue and said,
"It may take some time to identify it, you can go to the other side and sit for a while, the view of the setting sun as it passes through the corner tower of the cross block in front is very good, and I have good tea here, so I'll make you a cup." β
At this time, the store manager somehow didn't rush to identify, and raised his hand to guide Zhu Jue to the other side of the window.
"No, I'm used to drinking cold soda, and it's a lot of fun. β
Zhu Jue seemed to be tired, raised the bottled soda in his hand, turned around with the store manager's movements, and walked to the window.
There was only a rattan chair here, facing the floor-to-ceiling window, as if it was placed to enjoy the scenery that the store manager had said, and Zhu Jue reached out to put it on the back of the chair only to find that it was fixed to the ground.
"It's kind of interesting......"
Sitting straight into the wicker chair, he placed the bottle on the table next to him, and slowly turned the angle.
By this time, most of the sunset had already set into the tall buildings in the distance, and only some of the remaining light fell below the store manager's nose.
A strange smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The left hand pressed the button behind the counter, and the right hand reached out to the base of the incense burner on the counter, and with just a slight touch, a small hole opened in the middle of the blue porcelain incense burner.
It happened to be opposite the position of the rattan chair.
Boom~ding~
Two rings.
The former is a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and the latter is a crisp collision sound.
The store manager's smile narrowed.
"Tut-tut...... Manager, I'm afraid your store is a little dark. β
Zhu Jue withdrew the glass bottle, looked at the steel needle that was pierced into most of the bottle, and the flickering water on it proved that it was obviously added, got up from the rattan chair and turned his head and asked,
"My hand is handsome or not?"
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