While chatting, the three of them soon arrived at Hualin Temple, walked through Hualin Temple, turned into a narrow alley, and saw the shop where the monkey was going.

When I looked up, I saw a plaque, which was engraved with three golden cursive characters - jade no fate, and a pair of couplets hung on the left and right of the store: Qianshan jade walks alone, and sighs without fate.

"What a strange store name, monkey, didn't you say that selling jade is very particular about a fateful word? But the name of this store is called 'Jade, No Fate', which is not the same as smashing the signboard. The brute was puzzled by the name of the shop.

Yu Fei thought about it, but said: "The Buddha said: color is emptiness, emptiness is color; Lao Tzu also said: Existence is nothing, and nothing is existence. Maybe this shopkeeper is a very cultivated and connotative person. ”

"Wow! Fei Ge, you even know what Lao Tzu said, I really admire you so much, his classic quotes, except for the sentence 'you can't have both fish and bear's paws', I have long forgotten the rest......"

Before the beast's voice fell, the back of the head was slapped by the monkey: "Please! Don't say you're my classmate when you go out! I don't even know such a famous allusion as 'you can't have both fish and bear's paws', and it's embarrassing to say it, it's obviously from Confucius's "Analects"! ”

At this time, the two children who were squatting and playing on the side stood up, and the short child asked the tall child suspiciously: "'You can't have both fish and bear's paws', isn't it from Mencius?" "Yes! Fish, I want too; Bear's paws, as well as I want. You can't have both, and he who gives up the fish and takes the bear's paw ......," replied the tall child, who ran away with the short child.

The beast and the monkey looked at each other, and their faces were instantly stretched into embarrassment, and Yu Fei on the side said embarrassedly: "Two deep and tall students, admire, admire." With that, he quickly stepped into the store. The beast and the monkey looked embarrassed, didn't say anything more, and walked in after Yu Fei.

As soon as they entered the store, the three of them smelled a faint fragrance, which made people feel refreshed. There are no other customers in the store, and it seems relatively cold, perhaps because the store is located in a remote alley. Only in the counter sat a kind eyebrow, crane-haired and white-bearded old man, dressed in a soft white Tang suit, with a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a blue-black wooden pipe in one hand and holding it to his mouth, from which the strange fragrance lingered in the store.

Seeing Yu Fei and the three enter, Lao Suo took a blue-black wooden cane next to him and got up to greet him. Seeing the monkey, Lao Suo hugged his fists and said, "Mr. Hou, I've been waiting for a long time." ”

The monkey hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "There is Lao Ye who is old." He turned around and pointed to Yu Fei and the beast on the side: "These two are my friends, Yu Fei and Zhu Yang." They are coming with me today, your old man's long eyes. ”

Yu Fei and the brute were obviously not used to the non-modern traditional etiquette of clenching their fists, and the two of them seemed a little helpless for a while. I had to promise: "Ye Lao is good!" Fortunately! Fortunately! ”

Ye Lao smiled and let the three of them sit down next to the coffee table on the left side of the store, and went straight into the inner room of the store, and after a while he took out a palm-sized sandalwood brocade box from the inner room, Ye Lao opened the brocade box, only to see that on the golden brocade, a crystal clear green jade came into everyone's eyes. Jadeite is drop-shaped, which is the size of an adult's thumb.

As soon as the monkey saw this piece of jade, his eyes immediately emitted a green light. He carefully took out the jade from the box, first put it under the lamp to examine it carefully, and then took out a magnifying glass to observe it carefully.

Yu Fei and the beast were amazed when they watched from the side, this is jade, it is clearly a crumbling green droplet. Yu Fei thought about the ancient jade he was wearing on his chest now, and he felt that it was a world of difference.

After carefully looking at it, the monkey carefully put the jade back into the brocade box, and couldn't wait to ask: "Ye Lao, how much are you going to sell me for this piece of jade." Ye Lao did not answer positively, smiled slightly, and said: "It's better for you to make a price, I only sell such a good jade to people who understand jade, since Mr. Hou is a person who understands jade, he will naturally offer the price that this jade is worth." The monkey lowered his head and thought about it, and gritted his teeth: "Eight hundred thousand!" I'm not going to hide it from you, there's only so much I can take out now. Ye Lao took the pipe from the corner of his mouth, put it on the coffee table and knocked it, and replied methodically: "Okay, since Mr. Hou has offered this price, it will be 800,000." ”

At this time, Yu Fei's mouth had already opened into an O-shape, 800,000! That's his income for several years, is it worth it for such a small piece of jade? And when the beast saw that Ye Lao didn't bargain so readily agreed to the price offered by the monkey, he suddenly felt that the monkey had suffered a big loss, so he looked at the monkey fiercely, and said to the monkey: "Monkey, you should think about it again, I think the 800,000 seems to be a little higher." ”

The monkey's eyes were still staring at the jade in the brocade box as if they were enchanted, and he didn't pay attention to the beast's dissuasion, but Ye Lao seemed to see through the beast's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The little brother must think that I didn't make a counteroffer, so he thinks that this price is boring." You can rest assured that Mr. Hou will not suffer at this price spent by me. The reason why I didn't make a counteroffer was just that in my heart, 'good jade has no price'. ”

At this time, the monkey also spoke: "Don't worry, I won't look away." While speaking, the monkey took out an ultra-thin notebook from his Gucci satchel, and said to Ye Lao while turning on the computer: "It's inconvenient to bring so much money with cash, I'll transfer it to you right now, and Ye Lao will give me your account information." Ye Lao took out a bank card from his wallet and handed it over.

Seeing that the matter was a foregone conclusion, the beast could only say helplessly: "Hey! Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk about you, you have a lot of money anyway. ”

The monkey glanced at the beast and said with a gloomy expression: "After buying this treasure, I will be poor and white, and I will sell all the cars for it." ”

"Ahh You've only been buying a new car for a few months and it's sold so quickly! No wonder you asked me to drive with you, I thought your car was hit by someone. How did you get to this point now? The beast was taken aback.

"Alas, don't mention this stubble, since the last time I secretly went to Myanmar to buy jadeite and almost had an accident, my dad has sealed my bank account. Now they just give me some pocket money every month, which is pitiful. The monkey sighed with a bitter face. But when his eyes swept over the jade on the coffee table, he immediately smiled again.

Suddenly, the monkey thought of something again, raised his head and said to Yu Fei: "Brother Fei, it just so happens that Ye Lao is an expert in Chinese ancient jade, why don't you show Ye Lao the piece of ancient jade you are wearing." ”

Yu Fei hadn't recovered from the sky-high transaction just now, and as soon as he heard that he wanted Ye Lao to appreciate the piece of jade around his neck, he glanced at the superb jade on the coffee table again. Suddenly felt ashamed, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I'm just a broken stone, don't stain Ye Lao's eyes." ”

Ye Lao still maintained his signature smile and said, "You don't have to worry about this, in my eyes, there is no good or bad jade, only reward and non-appreciation." As the saying goes, 'the stones of other mountains can attack jade'. Sometimes what is valuable is not necessarily a treasure, and what is cheap is not necessarily inferior. ”

Since Ye Lao said so, Yu Fei couldn't postpone it anymore, so he had to take off the ancient jade around his neck and hand it over. Ye Lao took the ancient jade with a smile, and the moment Ye Lao's eyes came into contact with the ancient jade, he seemed to have discovered a new continent, his eyes widened, and he stared at the red and white seemingly simple ancient jade in his hand. Gradually, the signature smile on Ye Lao's face disappeared, replaced by an extremely serious expression, and Ye Lao's body was trembling slightly.

After a long time, Ye Lao raised his head, stared at Yu Fei, and asked slowly, "This piece of jade, where did you come from?" ”