Chapter 694: Joints
There are seven or eight shops selling antiques and treasures on Seanrok Street in Jeju City, and the Pavilion is the largest and most famous of them.
So when Sun Ning finally came here, he found the target at a glance.
After looking around for a moment to make sure that there was no suspicious eyeliner beside him, he went straight into the Treasure Pavilion, and then his brow couldn't help but furrow slightly.
As the best antique treasure shop here, the Pavilion is doing well even on this hot summer afternoon, with five or six customers talking to the shopkeepers, but some of them are overwhelmed.
But since he came, he couldn't just quit, so Sun Ning stepped forward, and said to the guy who greeted him with a smile and wanted to entertain, "I have a piece of jade that I want your store to help with palm eyes, I don't know if it's okay?"
"Oh? Does the guest officer want to appraise the treasure? Then please go over there, we have a special court to do this business, but the price is not low." The guy didn't dare to slack off, and was busy leading Sun Ning to the side while whispering an introduction.
"It doesn't matter, as long as you can tell the truth, money is not an issue." Sun Ning smiled, and then came to the tall counter on the other side.
Obviously, this treasure court, like many other similar shops, not only sells all kinds of treasures, but also buys and even pawns treasures.
Sun Ning didn't say much, so he took off the wrench, and handed it through the small opening: "Help me see how much this wrench can be worth."
Inside, he is a thin, old-fashioned treasure connoisseur. He wasn't too concerned about it originally, after all, he had a wealth of experience in treasure appreciation, and nothing could escape his old eyes.
But after seeing this wrench, his whole expression changed, and then he hesitated a little and said, "Guest officer, this thing is very extraordinary, why don't you go inside to serve tea and talk about it?"
"It's fine." Seeing him react like this, Sun Ning was even more certain in his heart, obviously Tian Jian had already made arrangements before, so he was waiting for himself to come to the door to reveal his identity.
At that moment, under the guidance of the fellow, he entered through the side door on the other side and went around the back of the shop.
This series of exchanges and walks did not attract too much attention from the other customers in the store, because in the past, the Treasure Pavilion had the same arrangement, and when they came across something really good, they would privately negotiate a suitable price with the owner of the treasure.
It's just that what Sun Ning wants to talk to them about today is not the price of a treasure, because after entering the door, the old man has already bowed down to him quite respectfully: "Old Rotten Tian Chou has seen this son, I don't know what you call it?"
"My surname is Li, Li Ji. What about Boss Tian, who asked me to come the day before yesterday?" Sun Ning reported his current pseudonym, looked like a matter of course, and asked rhetorically.
"The proprietor is not in the store now, and if Childe wants to see him, he will have to wait for a while." Tian Chou continued to say respectfully.
"Okay, go and get me some food, as well as water and medicine." Sun Ning didn't mean to think of himself as an outsider, and after entering a room, he took off his coat without waiting to sit down, revealing the underwear and bandages that had been soaked with blood.
This startled Tian Chou and the servant who had just brought in the refreshments, and almost screamed.
Sun Ning only smiled at them: "I was hunted down and seriously injured before, and I just ran into some trouble, so the old wound broke again. But it's okay, just take care of it a little bit."
Tian Chou reacted at this time, and hurriedly sent the servant to bring medicine and other things, and at the same time was concerned: "Do you need us to ask for a doctor?"
"No, I can handle it myself." Sun Ning smiled calmly, and under the surprised and uneasy gaze of several people, he completely took off his clothes, untied the bandages, and wiped the blood flowing out with a cloth.
The overall movements are extremely stable and fast, and a few people next to them dare not look directly. However, they still quickly took the golden medicine and bandages so that Sun Ning could deal with his wounds as soon as possible.
Just this act of dealing with the wound, Sun Ning suppressed Tian Chou and several people, and when they looked at him again, their eyes were full of awe.
And when Sun Ning changed his clothes and ate something, it was only more than half an hour before Tian Jian finally rushed over. When he saw the bloodstained clothes next to him, he was also surprised
Taken aback: "What's going on?"
Sun Ning repeated what he had just said, and then said, "I finally came to see you today, but I didn't explain this to you." As he spoke, he naturally exuded the bearing of a convincing superior.
Tian Jian was stunned for a moment, then he gathered his mind and solemnly clenched his fists: "My subordinates understand. We're going to be in a bad situation, and even important people like you are in danger."
As he spoke, he carefully observed Sun Ning's face again: "By the way, you are not the son of Zhao Yunzhi of the Pingtian Army, Zhao Qianzhe, right?"
Hearing Zhao Yunzhi's name, Sun Ning's heart moved again, this person was the main general of the Pingtian Army when he started the incident, and from his point of view, he could be regarded as the leader of the rebel bandits.
I really didn't expect that I would stay with such a great enemy during this time, and I didn't expect that I would still be saved by him.
However, Sun Ning's face did not move, and he only nodded his head: "Of course. As I said, I was in trouble before and almost died, but I was saved by Zhao Qianzhe and them. However, they didn't know who I was, and because they found that I looked quite similar to Zhao Qianzhe, they deliberately kept me by my side, thinking that he would use it for his own purposes."
"No wonder." Tian Jian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
In the past few days, he was actually quite puzzled, and he didn't understand why Zhao Qianzhe had a token symbolizing the power of the Zongheng Society in his hand, and now it seems that some of his previous conjectures were completely wrong.
"Then what is your identity in the meeting, Master Li?" Tian Jian asked curiously.
This made Sun Ning difficult to answer, after all, he didn't know how familiar he was with the internal personnel structure of the Vertical and Horizontal Society, so he could only say vaguely: "Now that my Vertical and Horizontal Society has been attacked by various forces in the south, all the previous arrangements have long ceased to exist. Even my uncle was almost captured by the Liangzhou army and was wounded again.
"So he deliberately shifted the center of gravity to the north for the time being, so he handed me this token so that I could contact you. By the way, if it weren't for the frequent accidents, the color-changing ink I was carrying would not have been lost, and I wouldn't have had to risk meeting you directly."
Perhaps Tian Jian still had a little doubt about the identity of this Li Ji before this, but after he told the secret of the color-changing ink clay that few people in the Zongheng Association knew, this suspicion finally dissipated completely, and he confirmed that the other party was an important person in the meeting who was ordered by the chairman to preside over the affairs of the north.
This change in his mentality was also quickly captured by Sun Ning, so he took the opportunity to say: "At present, because I am new to the city, I have limited knowledge of the situation in the north, especially here in Ludi, and I hope you can tell me all the information, so that I can plan the next response strategy."