Chapter 63: Shopping,
Zhou Fatzi's words fell, holding "Selected Essays" in one hand and tea in the other, his hand was very steady, and he did not speak again.
When Jiang Cang saw it, he was also half-leaning on the bed, looking at a martial arts novel, his fingers touching the handwriting one by one, and reading it carefully.
It has been moving with the 'boom boom' train and the scenery receding.
When the train is about to stop in Kawashi.
Zhou Fatzi also happened to finish reading "Selected Essays", drank the tea, closed the book, and pushed it on the table.
"Brother Jiang, I'm ready to get out of the car. Take a trip home for a few days. β
Zhou Fatzi said, took out five finger-sized cyan square stones from his pocket, and put them on the table.
"And I'm walking around in the car today, in fact, I just want to see if Brother Jiang is there, and then I'll give you something interesting. That's it, these stones are the ones I got in the last world, they seem to be called 'whetstones'. β
When Zhou Fatzi said this, he pointed to the stone and then pointed to his head, "According to the prompts in my mind, as well as my general understanding, it should be used for polishing weapons, and if you need to complete a task, you can permanently enchant weapons and hurt ghosts." It's a pity that I don't use weapons, and this stone is wasted in my hand. But I remember that Brother Jiang used a knife, so I'm going to look for you today and give it to you. β
"I'm using a knife." Jiang Cang looked away from the book, glanced at the five cyan stones, and then looked at Zhou Fatzi, "The objects in my hands are all useful, and I don't have anything for you to change." But there are some 'meta-gold', do you need this object? β
"It turns out that this thing is called 'meta-thing'." Fat Zhou smiled, "I've learned again." β
Zhou Fatzi said, he didn't care about Jiang Cang's exchange conditions, but after hearing the sound of the train arriving at the station later, he seemed to be grateful and sighed,
"I read so many books on Brother Jiang in the car and learned so many things that I can survive in another world until now... Then I've got to show a little bit, right? Especially in the world of the 90s, it should be Brother Jiang who let me go, right? Otherwise I would have died a long time ago.. Where else are the stones? And if these stones can be, then I should pay back this life."
"You're taking your life at a risk." Jiang Cang reached out and took three whetstones, "You're done talking, it's time for you to get out of the car." I took the stuff. β
"I already owe Brother Jiang." Fat Zhou pointed to the remaining two again, "My life is too cheap, right?" β
"It's too expensive." Jiang Cang, "A few stones can't be reached." Let's read a book next time. I'll bring a few more new ones. β
"Good!" Zhou Fatzi smiled, put up the two stones, and when he walked to the door, he turned his head again and said, "I want to watch "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness". β
"Get out of the car." Jiang Cang picked up the books on the table, "It's not early." Go home early. β
"Yes, I need to go home early and spend more time with my parents." Zhou Fatzi thought of his parents and smiled again, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to come back next time, my dad usually can't find someone to practice." After all, he is cowardly and can only bully and bully his son. A murderous primordial man. β
"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness"" Jiang Cang looked at the fat man, "I'll bring it to you." β
"Thank you, Brother Jiang!" Zhou Fatzi clenched his fists and asked again: "Is it for the sake of the fat man's loyalty and filial piety?" β
"Let's go." Jiang Cang opened the book and didn't look at Fat Zhou anymore.
Zhou Fatzi hugged his fists again and got off the car with his luggage.
With the 'boom boom' train starting again.
Jiang Cang looked at the book and didn't pay any attention to the passengers who came up later.
And when I received this 'whetstone', I also had some vague 'opening tips' in my mind. β
However, there are many mission locations, almost every city, and you can choose any mission prompt location to complete.
When Jiang Cang learned this, he didn't pay any attention to anything after he sensed that Lian Province also had a mission location.
Until the train arrives at the station, I come to a city in Lian Province.
Jiang Cang casually found a hotel to stay, stayed up the next morning, practiced for a day, and on the third day, when he took the weapon, and when his spirit was at the peak, he carried his backpack and came to a 'antique street' in the city according to the prompts of the task.
Especially even the city in the province is biased, and people from three religions and nine streams are gathered together and chaotic.
Jiang Cang carried his bag and looked around, back and forth, this street was full of people.
Small traders and hawkers, in addition to setting up stalls to sell antiques, there are also those selling snacks in the vicinity, which is very lively.
Or who earned, who lost, who quarreled over there, who was eye-catching here, there were also people who were popular, and they came to find trouble, and there were all kinds of situations.
But Jiang Cang didn't join in the excitement and went to see the people nearby quarreling, but followed the prompts, shuttled through the crowd, and looked at a stall on the corner of the street.
There, there was a middle-aged man squatting behind a piece of linen, on which there were seven or eight clay pots, all of which looked old, not like fakes.
It's just that the moment Jiang Cang saw him, he found that the 'Kaifeng Prompt' was this middle-aged man, not these antiques.
But I also understand a little that the whetstone must have something to do with these 'clay pots'!
Because to sharpen the knife, it must be cooled down with water, and the water must be held in a clay pot.
Otherwise, the sharpening of the knife does not use water, and the high temperature is "annealed", which reduces the strength of the material, and the blade becomes soft and not sharp.
In addition, since the whetstone can drive away 'ghosts', it may mean that the 'antique that holds water' came out of the tomb!
Because if the 'knife sharpening water' is put into these antiques and stained with evil gas, isn't it 'evil water'?
If you polish it again, it will be enchanted.
Jiang Cang and Lao Dao have learned a lot of knowledge about gods and ghosts, and if they understand a little, they feel that this strange eight or nine are inseparable.
It's just that when Jiang Cang walked to the stall, he first glanced at the boss, and then looked at these crockpots, but found that none of the crockpots were the target of the task, maybe the boss who marked the task was 'hiding the goods'.
And when the middle-aged man saw Jiang Cang looking at his belongings, he half-squatted and greeted: "Boss, take a look?" Which one is in the eye, you take away. β
"No, yes." Jiang Cang glanced at a few crockpots, and didn't say anything, so he said to the middle-aged man: "Is there a better object, if there is, take me to see it." Enough money. β
"Better?"
The middle-aged man looked at Jiang Cang for a while, and then looked at Jiang Cang's backpack, thinking that this customer was carrying a lot of money and wanted to 'pick up' to buy his real things, but after thinking about it, he was not careful, so he shouted to the side, called a young man to look at the stall, and then said to Jiang Cang: "Take you to see?" β
"You walk." Jiang Cang saw that there was really a doorway, so he followed the middle-aged man and left the antique street, took a taxi, and went out of the city.
But as ten minutes passed, the middle-aged man pointed to the road more and more deviant, so that the car stopped at the gate of a village.
Jiang Cang got out of the car, and saw that the middle-aged man invited him to the village again, and when the middle-aged man said that he would bring himself here, he didn't look a little careful, but he knew that this eighty percent was a 'bureau!' β
The simplest thing is to go to the 'trading place' and find that there are many people there, and then threaten yourself to buy and sell for yourself. The fake was also bought as the 'real price'.
If it's a little softer, it's to fool yourself, and when you see that there are many people on the other side, you also pay for it.
A little bit of content, that is, to create some accidents, let yourself spoil the 'goods' you see, then how much the price is, is what they ask for the price.
And Jiang Cang understands it so well, that is, when he was chatting with Jiu Ye and Zhao Shao, he understood the rules here, and knew that there were many ways here, and like gambling, there were endless ways to trick people.
Maybe some people have suffered a lot of losses and been deceived, and they always feel that they understand, and they will come up with new tricks, and they can always get people anyway.
Isn't the old saying that every day is different.
I have suffered one loss after another, and I have experienced the loss.
Wrong again and again, and similar every time.
Therefore, although people always have feelings, they are deceived.
To put it bluntly, many people understand.
But sometimes when I see a bargain, I just can't understand it.
And Jiang Cang followed the middle-aged man into this remote village, and when he saw that he was eighty percent on the road, he was not angry.
Because there are rules on the road, I am happy in the 'unfamiliar old rivers and lakes with bright eyes and money, and I want to buy real things', and in middle age, I think that I am 'picking up leaks', and I am drilling into the road by myself.
According to the rules, it is time to 'pay tuition', and people can't run in vain.
But how much the tuition fee is, it depends on your own ability!
"Cave walkers?" Jiang Cang understood this, so he looked to the middle-aged man who said some interesting things to the side, "They are all well-behaved people, tell the truth." I'm here to buy the real thing, don't play tricks, we'll see you later. Otherwise, this thing will be yellow, and it won't look good. β
"You.." The middle-aged man paused after hearing the word 'go to the hole', looked at Jiang Cang a few times, and smiled, "You said that you are all friends who run the rivers and lakes!" I thought it was a leak, and I wanted to scrape a knife next to the fat. β
"I only buy things." Jiang Cang, "Just wait for you to give you a slap and give a number." The money will be given to you, and I will leave when I am done. β
"You're forced to buy, let me sell it!" The middle-aged man was not angry at all, "But you also have to look at the goods, how can I price you here?" β
"Let's go." Jiang Cang loosened his bag and looked at the courtyard in front of him, "I have something to do with this paragraph, so I will draw things." How many people are in the courtyard, you say hello, don't see red, it's not good-looking. β
"You're a little scary at first glance.." The middle-aged man came to the courtyard gate, and the key opened the courtyard door with a 'bang', and there were three big men playing cards at the wooden table.
"Got business?" When they saw the middle-aged man coming, they looked at Jiang Cang again, ready to stand up and 'hold the faΓ§ade' to scare.
But when the middle-aged man saw it, he waved his hand and said, "Friend, friend, take all the shelves." Don't mess with me. β
As the middle-aged man spoke, he wanted to go into the house and get some things, so that Jiang Cang, who seemed to be a companion, could pass by.
Although I won't cheat anymore, there is no price for antiques, and it is completely a business negotiation.
But when Jiang Cang came to the courtyard, he looked at a few porcelain bowls on a rag in the courtyard, "I look at the bowl with printed patterns and missing mouthfuls, how much is it, tell me the number." I give the money and take it. β
"The blue and white bowl you mean?" The middle-aged man paused, walked to the side of the rag, picked up the palm-sized bowl, measured it a few times, and then handed it to Jiang Cang, "Hello eyes!" This is an object that I just received, and I won't say how much I have passed. You gave 5,000 to get it, what's the matter? Let's go have a meal together. β
"Brother.." A big man next to him was a little unhappy when he saw that the middle-aged man was selling so quickly.
Especially the other two are also middle-aged partners for more than ten years, and they know that they need to sing together with a white face and a red face to do business, although they are not threatening Jiang Cang, but they also make up nonsense: "Brother, this bowl is from the Tang Dynasty!" Although we collected 5,000, we sold for the amount.."
'Zheng'
As the three of them spoke, a cold light flashed.
Jiang Cang suddenly pulled out his long knife and instantly split the table next to the three of them in half!
For a while, with the smooth incision of the table, it fell to the adobe floor, which also frightened the four people in the courtyard, thinking that they had lured a robbery and murderer to their home!
'What to do..' They froze in place, looking at the hideous Kaifeng weapon in Jiang Cang's hand, and then looked up at Jiang Cang, who had no expression, they were a little scared in their hearts, and there was a faint feeling that as long as they said one more word, this person would really kill themselves!
But Jiang Cang took out 10,000 yuan from his bag and threw it next to the table that he turned over, "The words are clear, I only want things." Counting the table, I give ten thousand. β
Jiang Cang said, picked up the blue and white bowl, and looked at the four people who were a little scared, "Who thinks it's not good, the money is less, the knife is not good, let's talk about a charter." Don't leave today, let's make things clear. β
"No, no. What a thing.." The middle-aged man looked at Jiang Cang's hideous weapon, bypassed a little, and hurriedly rounded the field, "Brother.." You have enough money, and this knife is fast! Brother, you cut the meat, right? β
"That's a lot of questions." Jiang Cang put away the knife and walked out of the courtyard, "Go to the rivers and lakes, don't ask." If you understand, you will understand, if you don't understand, lie down. I've buried a lot of people. β