The two of them walked into the watch shop hand in hand, and the bright hall was full of dazzling clocks, from large clocks and table clocks to small wall clocks and alarm clocks, gold, silver, iron, plastic, everything, ticking and ticking.

A gray-haired watchmaker was carefully observing the inner workings of a small alarm clock with a magnifying glass, and he didn't even notice anyone entering.

"Old Charlie."

Vena interrupted the watchmaker's work, and her presence made the old Charlie's expression change from anger to deference.

"Miss Vina, this month's labor fee has been settled."

The gang refers to the protection fee as the labor fee, and it is worth mentioning that all the shops have accepted this setting calmly.

Vena shook her head and moved her arm uncomfortably, Zhou Jinru hugged it a little too tightly, and she felt a slight discomfort, because few people usually had such intimate movements with her.

Old Charlie turned a blind eye to this, as if the little white face beside Vina did not exist.

But Zhou Jinru spoke at this time: "My dear, I heard that this is the best watch shop in Saint-Martin?" ”

Vena felt a chill in her heart, but she still pointed to old Charlie and said: "Old Charlie is the oldest watchmaker here, so old that he worked here before you were born, and the older you are, the more refined you are." ”

Old Charlie smiled and said that Vina's description was too exaggerated: "Miss Vina is overrated, I am just an apprentice." ”

"It's just an apprentice, let's go, he's going to break my baby, let's go to the Rose District and have a look, maybe there's a way."

Zhou Jinru was disappointed and ready to leave, but Vena didn't move, she raised her chin: "Maybe old Charlie will have a way?" You might as well show him the things first, and if he dares to break them, my hammer won't have eyes. ”

Old Charlie's expression froze, and he stared at Zhou Jinru vigilantly, as if he was facing a great enemy.

Zhou Jinru didn't care what he was thinking in his heart, he reached out and grabbed it in his clothes, and there was a pocket watch lying in his palm: "Take a look." ”

It was the pocket watch from the Penguin Logistics Express that he snatched from Longmen.

Old Charlie frowned slightly, and his brows furrowed into roasted wheat, but instead of reaching out to take it, he turned and walked to the counter, put on a pair of white silk gloves, and carefully held the pocket watch on a tray.

Before checking it, old Charlie said in a condensed voice: "May I ask Miss Vina, do you intend to sell this pocket watch?" ”

"It's an heirloom for this friend of mine, and it's not for sale."

"I see, I'm sorry for what I just said, and I hope it didn't offend you and your friends."

It's just a polite remark.

Old Charlie opened the shell of the pocket watch with tweezers, and observed it carefully, when he saw the double-headed eagle mark on the back, his body couldn't help but shook, and he inadvertently glanced at Zhou Jinru, closed the shell in horror, and held the tray with both hands to offer.

He said astringently: "There is nothing I can do about it, this pocket watch is extremely precious, please think of another way for this nobleman." ”

"Interesting, Vina, he actually called me a nobleman."

Zhou Jinru smiled lightly and said with interest: "You talk about it, I'll listen." ”

Which rich son of this family is this!

Old Charlie said bitterly: "White jade porcelain plate, yellow movement, blue steel needle, the shell is silver-nickel-copper alloy, the weight is very heavy, and the distribution structure is very different from the current pocket watch, the longest can be traced back to forty years ago, the early military watch of the Usas Empire will have such a configuration, the rare varieties in the pocket watch, now only a very small number of extremely prominent Usas nobles will hold." ”

"The look is not bad."

Zhou Jinru picked up the pocket watch, threw out a stack of banknotes from his wallet and put it on the tray, there were almost seven or eight hundred Longmen coins, and Vena turned around and left the watch shop, leaving old Charlie alone to watch them go away.

……

The two of them walked out of each other for a distance, and Vina couldn't help but wonder in her heart: "Why do you have such an old antique thing?" ”

Zhou Jinru smiled slightly, he waited for Vena to speak, and pretended to be mysterious: "What are you doing in exchange for your secret!" Hiss! Hurt! ”

The rigid shield fell off suddenly, and I saw the elbow of the King of Advancement gently tap on his side of the waist, and the painful Zhou Jinru grinned.

"Do you want to say it?!"

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you slowly."

Zhou Jinru told the story of how he grabbed this pocket watch, of course, the process was slightly deleted, after all, some words still can't be said clearly.

"I didn't expect this thing to be so big, thirty or forty years ago, at the beginning of several wars with Usas, that old Charlie had obviously misunderstood my identity, he would become a seed, a seed for spreading rumors, and in less than two hours, the heads of Tulip Block would know that Vena, the King of Advancement, had a mysterious nobleman next to him."

"That's what you want?"

Zhou Jinru muttered: "Yes, but I didn't think so at first, and now the results are a little too good." ”

When he looked at the ledger in the morning, he noticed at a glance the only watch shop in the entire block, which was submerged in the other, more dazzling shops, but it was very conspicuous in his eyes.

What kind of country is Colombia?

Young, rich, and ambitious, its citizens are full of dreams, as if they can conquer everything as long as they have dreams, Colombia is omnipotent, rightfully so, and destiny.

This is reflected in all aspects of St. Martin, with its infectious posters, which attract countless infected people to come to find their dreams, and even the buses on the streets are marked with passionate statements.

Dreams, futures, money, happiness, people everywhere who stay excited.

"Time is money, my friend."

This well-known quote comes from Colombia, and it also confirms that a country that is in a hurry to do whatever it does, and it is destined to pay great attention to every minute and every second.

People pay more attention to time than ever, everyone has a mobile phone, but mobile phones cannot replace clocks, the symbolism of the latter is far better than the former, although in Zhou Jinru's world there is an unscrupulous advertisement that "mobile phones are a man's second business card", but this does not work in the world of Terra, especially in Saint-Martin, a long-standing watch shop, enough to say it all!

The store's customers are not just civilians, it must have a lot of close customers to keep itself running.

The fact that old Charles could tell the origin of this watch shows that he had seen it before, and now how could the nobles of Ursaas find a watchmaker and go deep into the heart of Colombia?

Zhou Jinru's purpose before coming was to expose himself, and asking about the origin of the pocket watch is another matter.