Emperor Jianxi took one last look at the furnishings, then quickly turned around and exited the temple, which was strange to him and chilling to him.

Outside the Cining Palace, all the palace people knelt on the ground, and people bowed their heads in the same posture and angle, as if they had heard nothing and seen nothing.

Emperor Jianxi left here at a speed close to racing, leaving the palace people and fallen leaves in vain.

Early the next morning, Bai Yi woke up.

When he walked out into the courtyard as usual and was about to fetch water and wash, Bai Ling was already standing there.

She looked up at the sky.

Bai Yi called her name, Bai Ling turned around, and pointed to the southwest corner of the sky with a complicated expression, "Look there." ”

Bai Yi looked up—to the southwest of them, a huge comet hung in the corner of the dome.

Even in daylight, the comet's light was still shining.

Bai Ling took a deep breath.

"It feels like we're going to witness a piece of history."

……

This morning, Bai Ling went alone to choose a gift for Bao Yuan.

If it were in ordinary times, this kind of red tape would probably only make her feel trivial and boring.

But in today's situation, she instead cheered up her spirit and prepared for this little thing seriously, as if this was the most important thing now.

With the concubine here, Bao Yuan will not be short of money, and she doesn't have to hold any dead things to show her status - think about how generously she gave all the gems that she had hidden for many years to herself, you know how much strength the concubine secretly worked on her.

Bai Ling was going to pick something chic, delicate, not necessarily expensive.

But all the way down, she didn't encounter even a single thing that matched her eyes.

Just such a street connected to a street, and finally Bai Ling walked to the old Liuli Lane, which sold calligraphy and painting antiques.

Although she doesn't know how to play, the way every shopkeeper comes up to greet her makes her feel a little weird.

She casually chatted with each of the shopkeepers, and everyone finally threw out a similar phrase - "I have a few private goods upstairs, girl, you have some vision, come up and take a look." ”

Bai Ling refused.

"How can I have vision, I don't understand it at all."

Bai Ling always said this as he withdrew and replaced the next one.

Until I walked to a store at the west entrance of Lao Liuli Lane, there was no one in this shop, and the only one who watched the store was a somewhat weak scholar. He stood in the corner by himself, his eyes glancing to Bai Ling's side from time to time, as if he wanted to talk, but he was embarrassed.

Thanks to this shyness, Bai Ling looked at the contents of the entire three shelves by herself, and in the innermost position, she suddenly saw a brown jade ball.

The jade ball was stacked in a pile of jade artifacts at the bottom, and Bai Ling picked it up and put it in her hand, and the weight seemed to be exactly what she wanted.

Just as she was about to get up, she suddenly noticed a scribbled note on the front of the pile of jade boxes.

Bai Ling looked at it with some concern.

Seeing that Bai Ling hadn't put down the artifact, the scholar finally mustered up his courage and slowly approached, "What did the girl fancy about?" ”

Bai Ling pointed to the note, "...... is written here?" ”

"Ah," the scholar replied, "it says 'overdue.'" ”

"Overdue?"

"There are some things that have paid a deposit but have not come to pay the balance on time, and others are things that someone asked us to look for according to the paper pattern, and we found things that we refused to accept." The scholar explained in a low voice, "Everything that can be sold at a good price has been put on other cabinets, these are all worthless things, girl?" ”

"How much does this ball cost?" Bai Ling asked, grabbing the brown jade ball.

The scholar said directly, "I'll charge you a hundred wen." ”

Bai Ling thought for a while, she tentatively pressed the share cut off by the waist, and stretched out her hand to the scholar, "Fifty Wen? Fifty wen, I'll pay for it and take it directly. ”

The scholar was not surprised, bargaining was already a common method on this street.

"If you really want to," he replied modestly, "seventy for you." ”

Boling didn't make any further counteroffers.

After settling the account, the scholar wrapped the brown jade ball with some waste paper. Bai Ling put away his things and turned to leave, but the scholar suddenly seemed to remember something, "Girl! We have good stuff upstairs, would you like to check it out? ”

Bai Ling stopped a little funny, this time she didn't refuse, "Why did everyone put good things upstairs?" What did you all put upstairs? ”

"Uh......" The scholar didn't know how to explain.

"Then I'll go upstairs and have a look." Bai Ling replied directly.

The scholar nodded again and again, and saw that Bai Ling had turned back and stepped on the steps upstairs, and he hurriedly turned out from behind the counter, only to open the partition between the counter and the front bunk, and a fat man in silk clothes with a fat head and big ears ran in outside.

"Are you...... Here's ...... Dude? The man gasped.

The voice was familiar to her, and she paused in the middle of the staircase, looking back curiously.

This look, Bai Lingle - the fat man is none other than Huang Yuzhang, who happened to meet in Yinfeng Garden last time.

I didn't meet it when I went to Yuzhang last time, and I didn't think about it, but I met here.

"...... are you?" The scholar looked at the guest who suddenly broke in with some embarrassment.

Huang Yuzhang took out a four-fold contract from his arms and pushed it to the scholar in front of the counter.

"I'll ...... Pick-up. He didn't care about wiping his sweat, "I was supposed to come the day before yesterday, but there was a delay at home, and I forgot about this stubble, is the thing still there?" ”

"I'll show you......" The scholar took his contract, and only after reading the first line, he let out a soft "ah".

Huang Yuzhang's heart sank, "Sold!?" ”

The scholar blinked, and turned to look at Bai Ling, who was standing on the stairs.

Huang Yuzhang immediately looked over.

"Boss Huang." Bai Ling took the initiative to say hello.

Huang Yuzhang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Bai Si Yao!" ”

“…… Or," the scholar pointed at Bai Ling, and then at Huang Yuzhang, "You two blend it up by yourself?" ”

……

Outside the old Liuli Alley, in an open-air tea shop, Bai Ling and Huang Yuzhang put a bowl of herbal tea in front of them.

According to Huang Yuzhang, the sweet rice cakes in this tea shop are extremely famous - he himself has to come here to eat a few bowls every time he comes to Lao Liuli Lane anyway.

After a while, Xiao Er brought four bowls of sweet rice cakes, one bowl was placed in front of Bai Ling, and the remaining three bowls were placed in Huang Yuzhang.

Huang Yuzhang picked up the spoon with one hand, and with the other hand, he skillfully opened a paper bag that came with the rice cake, which was breaded with fine-grained caster sugar.

Huang Yuzhang's fingertips shook lightly, and the sugar was evenly sprinkled on the sweet rice cake.

——The extravagant way to eat directly with sugar should be specially prepared by the store for Boss Huang.

Bai Ling lowered his head and took a bite—the rice cakes were already so sweet that even a sweet tooth like her felt a little tired.

But Huang Yuzhang even had to add sugar......

"I didn't expect Si Yao to play this too." Huang Yuzhang pointed to the cloth bag that Bai Ling had placed on the table.

"I don't play." Bai Ling shook his head and told the people in front of him the reason why he went out today.

Huang Yuzhang was originally smiling, and the more he listened, the more surprised he became.

"So how did you fall in love with this thing?"

"I just think it'...... Looks interesting. Bai Ling looked at the things in hand, "Does Boss Huang like it very much?" I heard from the guy in the store that this thing wasn't worth much. ”

"How can it not be worthless?" Huang Yuzhang's eyebrows squeezed into a figure-of-eight, "This is a carved scroll." ”