Volume 4 Chapter 16
After a quarter of an hour, the only table with two people sat three people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and at this time, the shopkeeper in the teahouse went to the door and closed half of the door.
After another quarter of an hour, I saw an old man on the table next to Lu Ming get up, and the young man next to the old man also got up, followed the old man and walked towards a nearby table, the old man sat on the east seat of the table, and the young man stood behind the old man.
Lu Ming looked there curiously. At this time, the old man and the other three people sitting at the square table made a joke, talked in a low voice, and then got up with the middle-aged man opposite the old man, changed seats with the middle-aged man next to him, and continued to communicate with the old man in a low voice, and then, Lu Ming saw the old man stretching out his right hand and the middle-aged man's right hand under the table I don't know what to do, and then the two looked at each other and smiled, nodded, and got up and walked to the second floor at the same time.
Although Lu Ming was curious about what they were doing, he wouldn't just ask. What is the second floor, what is it, Lu Ming doesn't know, but thinking about the actions of the old man and the middle-aged man, Lu Ming guessed that this should be some kind of communication, and the two people just now should be buying and selling something. As for going to the second floor, I guess I went to make the next transaction.
The basis for this judgment is the statement of the middle-aged man's shopkeeper when he was in Yi Bao Pavilion before. This is Tongliu Lane, a place for metaphysical exchanges, and also a place for exchange and trading of magic weapons, cheats, and the like. Lu Ming didn't see anyone setting up stalls to sell in Tongliu Lane, only the teahouse had this possibility. From the actions of the two just now, Lu Ming had such a guess. But what he wants is a magic weapon, so can he only wait for others to come to his east seat and sit down and communicate?
Lu Ming was not in a hurry, so he could only look at the situation first.
At this time, the two people at the same table finished communicating, and one of them looked at Lu Ming, made a mockery of Lu Ming, and asked, "This little brother is the first time to come to Tongliu Lane, right?" ”
Lu Ming put down the teacup, returned the salute, and said with a smile: "Exactly." When I first came to Longhu Mountain, I wanted to find a magic weapon, and I heard that Tongliu Lane was convenient to communicate here, and the magic weapon was circulating, so I came to take a look. ”
That person probably didn't expect that Lu Ming's request was quite big, so he carefully observed the young man in front of him.
The person next to him asked, "Dare to ask where the little brother came from?" ”
Lu Ming shook his head, "Xiao Ke has no sect, no sect, and there is no master." ”
When the two of them heard this, they just felt that Lu Ming was unwilling to tell the teacher, if not, would he still be able to learn without a teacher? Therefore, the two looked at each other and chuckled.
Lu Ming knew that they had misunderstood, but this kind of thing could not be explained, and the more he explained, the more difficult it was to explain.
Lu Ming looked around, and there were people sitting in the east seat at many tables, while there were fewer people at other tables.
Lu Ming also understood that there was a point in time for this teahouse, and when it was full, the shopkeeper would close half of the door, and then someone would start trading, and the whole teahouse would come alive, and from time to time someone would walk to the second floor. From this time on, Lu Ming didn't see anyone enter the teahouse again, but someone walked out of the teahouse, which can be said to be only unable to enter or exit. And those who walked out of the teahouse should have achieved their goal, so they left.
After a long while, an old man finally came to the square table where Lu Ming was, first made a joke with the three of them, and then sat on the east seat.
He whispered to the three of them: "There is a demon pestle here, the origin is clean, it is the last time the old man went to the west to do business, he accidentally got it, the demon pestle is well preserved, the mana is still there, it should be used by a certain monk in the west." Great value for money! I wonder if the three of you are interested? ”
The two people next to him shook their heads slightly, it seemed that they weren't here for this kind of thing.
The demon pestle is a magic weapon for subduing demons and subduing demons, and it is a magic weapon used by Buddhas, Lu Ming is a little more interested, after all, the purpose of his visit this time is for the magic weapon, as for whether it is used by Taoists or Buddhists, it is not too entangled. As long as it works, everything will be fine.
It just so happens that this time you have to deal with not only people, ghosts, but also demons, and the demon pestle is a good choice.
So Lu Ming said softly, "I'm interested." ”
When the old man saw that Lu Ming was so young, he thought that he was a disciple of someone from the two next to him, but he didn't expect that as soon as he spoke, he looked at the two next to him and didn't react, so he knew that this young man came alone.
The old man looked at Lu Ming carefully, and said with a smile on his face: "Young people can understand the rules here?" ”
Lu Ming nodded, "I know a little bit about it." ”
The old man raised his hand and stroked his gray beard, and said with a smile, "It's okay. He nodded to the middle-aged man next to him, and gestured, and the middle-aged man got up and changed positions with Lu Ming.
Lu Ming had been observing for a long time just now, and he could be completely sure that this kind of transaction should be the bargaining method called "swallowing gold in his sleeve" in ancient times. Lu Ming had seen and studied in books, but he had never really practiced it.
Now there is no such big sleeve robe, I saw the old man stretch out his right hand, Lu Ming also stretched out his right hand, held each other, and a square scarf was placed on the hands of the two.
Regarding the sleeve swallowing gold, this calculation method has been circulated in the past: "The sleeve swallowing gold is as wonderful as a fairy, the spirit finger moves the whole number, the priceless treasure is learned, and the bosom friend is not passed on."
The method of swallowing gold in the sleeve to express the number is to set the dot with the five fingers of the left hand as a digital disk, each finger represents a single digit, and the five fingers can represent five digits: one, ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand. The upper, middle, and lower segments of each finger represent 1-9 numbers, respectively. There are three numbers arranged on each section, and the rules of arrangement are divided into three columns: left, middle, and right, with the left side of the finger arranged in reverse (from bottom to top) in 1, 2, and 3: the middle of the finger in the middle down (from top to bottom) arranged in 4, 5, and 6: the right side of the finger in reverse upward arrangement 7, 8, and 9. The method of calculating the method of mental arithmetic is to use the mental arithmetic method to reproduce the finger calculation process with the image of the brain to find the result. It treats its left hand as a five-gear abacus, and uses its right hand to tap on this small abacus with five fingers to calculate. When counting, use the fingers of your right hand to point to the corresponding fingers of your left hand. The clear division of labor is: right thumb / left thumb, right index finger on left index finger, right middle finger on left middle finger, right ring finger on left ring finger, right little finger on left little finger. The division of labor in the corresponding professions does not interfere with each other. Which finger clicks on the number, which finger will be extended, and the finger is bent when not clicking the number, indicating 0, you can perform the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of any number within 100,000 digits.
The old man asked for the price with a smile, Lu Ming calmly counteroffered, the two of them came and went, and after a while, an agreement was reached.
The next step is to go to the second floor like everyone else and continue trading.