Chapter 121: Flea Market
Beihai City is worthy of being the seventh largest city on the eastern continent, the city of freedom and merchants. Walking on the spacious street, looking at the bustling crowd and the dazzling shops, Yang Rui felt dizzy, and everything was fresh.
Everywhere in Beihai City, you can see huge buildings that have been handed down from ancient times, which is in stark contrast to the pavilions and pavilions that have been built in modern times. The city was once a very prosperous city in the ancient emperors' time, but it was severely damaged due to its strategic position.
After the war, business groups from various countries gradually settled here for convenience, and later, under the call and leadership of the Wanjin Chamber of Commerce, everyone funded the reconstruction of this ancient city. Thanks to its special location, it has become prosperous again.
In this largest free trade city in the Eastern Continent, as long as you have good things to sell, you can definitely find buyers, as long as you have enough money, you can buy basically anything you need. Therefore, it attracts traders and dignitaries from different continents.
In addition, there are many underworld characters, robbers, bandits or murderers who have been offered bounties, and they are also frequented. Because in addition to the transactions on the surface of Beihai City, there are many unsightly transactions.
After Tong Xuan got off the boat, he agreed with Yang Rui on the time and place of the next meeting, and he went straight to the place where Turtle Island settled in Beihai City. Wu Gang, Hu Yidong and other people from Turtle Island, who had left the ancient city of Yuwang in advance, would wait for news there according to the agreement.
And Zhang Lao and Yu Jiu just said that they had something to do, and they disappeared, leaving only the young man with Xiao Xuannu and Xiao Bai to wander around in this strange metropolis. At this time, the little Xuannu was sitting on the shoulders of the Yinkai Corpse King, looking around with great interest. This strange combination has attracted a lot of attention.
The young man licked his tongue, but he didn't think so, and he went into the crowd, and took the little girl around a street corner and came to a flea market full of people. The streets here are lined with stalls, and the goods on the stalls are also varied.
There are the flesh, bones, fur and flesh crystals of low-level alien beasts, the yam and rehmannia dug up in the mountains, all kinds of tattered utensils and objects, and the old pages of broken books. Don't look at the bargains sold here, but there have been people who have found good things here.
Because Beihai City itself is an ancient city. Every now and then, someone finds a tattered treasure and sells it here. That's why most of the out-of-town travelers come here to try their luck. Petty fights over the same object often occur.
The degree of freedom here is very high, as long as it does not involve the interests of the business and the fight of human life, basically no one cares, whoever makes you weak enough to provoke others deserves to be beaten. Even in order not to damage the market. Martial arts arenas have been set up in various large commercial districts of Beihai City.
The arena is protected by rune prohibitions and is very strong. Even a martial artist of the Divine Gate Realm is difficult to damage. Every time there is a competition, there are always special people who come out to sit in the village and place bets. Therefore, no one will dissuade anyone from having a quarrel here, and they will also add fuel to the fire, lest the world will not be chaotic.
After bowing his head and sweeping the stall for a while. Yang Rui couldn't help but be a little disappointed, in his opinion, everything here was rags, everything of value. Many of the beautiful and newly decorated utensils are actually deceptive things used to fool tourists.
If it is a valuable object, there must be traces of the creator or the vitality of the object itself, and the greater the value, the more obvious the traces of vitality. These ordinary people can't see it, but they can't escape Yang Rui's eyes at all.
But even so, because it was the first time they had seen such a lively scene, Yang Rui and the others looked east and west as if they were distracted. Especially the little Xuannu has been locked underground for hundreds of millions of years, and she is happy to come here, and she is talking about it, and she is clamoring for Yang Rui to buy her an ordinary but good-looking bracelet.
"Your broken copper piece is also worth a hundred gold!?"
Suddenly, a loud shout attracted Yang Rui's attention, and they saw a big man standing in front of a stall arguing with a thin old man, holding a slightly old broken copper piece in his hand, the copper sheet had obviously been carefully scrubbed, but it was still full of vicissitudes.
At a glance, Yang Rui knew that the big man of the Dao was an experienced master of the Yuan Dan Realm, and he deliberately hid his aura to shop for goods here. At this time, he obviously took a fancy to this piece of copper and was pestering with the stall owner to cut the price down.
And that copper piece also aroused Yang Rui's interest, because it was lifted up by the big man, he clearly saw a faint karmic fire fluctuation on the copper plate!
"Although this piece of copper is dilapidated, it was indeed salvaged by mercenary merchant ships when they passed by Youlujiao, and it may be a cultural relic left over from the ancient emperor's time. If it weren't for the fact that I was in a hurry to wait for the money, I would be reluctant to sell. The thin old man squinted his eyes and said unhurriedly, he often did such things, and he had deceived many tourists.
In fact, although this piece of copper was indeed salvaged from the nearby sea, the process was exaggerated by him a lot. And he has repeatedly wiped and checked, this piece of copper is ordinary and nothing special, otherwise it would have been sold at auction a long time ago, and there would be no need to deceive tourists here.
"But 100 gold is too expensive, and I look at it and it's worth five taels of silver. "The big man is not ambiguous, and he will cut the price to the end as soon as he comes up.
At this time, a group of people had gathered around the stall to watch the excitement. Some old fritters know that this old man is blinding people again, and this broken copper piece is worth five taels, but they don't squeak and laugh on the side, it depends on how the old man ends.
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, you can't have less than a hundred gold, don't buy it, don't hinder my business here!" The old man took the copper sheet back, sat in front of the stall and pretended to close his eyes to recuperate, but he was smiling secretly in his heart.
This is exactly the effect he wants, using this big man to attract the surrounding crowd, there are always a few wronged people in this crowd, and if they provoke a scramble, they may be able to raise the price. He is a veteran of the flea market, and even broken copper and iron have been sold for sky-high prices.
"Hmph, I don't want it!"
The big man thought he was clever, and he didn't want the thin old man to buy it at all, so he simply turned around and left. I just want the old man to chase after him. But he didn't see its squeak, so he had to bite the bullet and get back again.
With a smile, he approached the old man and said, "Hehe, you see that I really didn't have so much money on me today, otherwise you would sell me fifty taels of gold?"
"Baijin, there are a lot of people, don't come to Beihai City if you don't have money. The old man clenched his nerve and didn't look at the big man, for he had noticed that someone in the crowd was about to move.
"Hmph!" the big man shook his hand and walked out of the crowd in a gray manner, this time he really left. People like him who have been caught and used as trays abound in this flea market.
"I want 100 gold!" Yang Rui saw the big man turn around and leave. Then he stepped forward and whispered to the old man.
"Ahem...... Finally here's a knowledgeable person!" said the old man in a deliberately raised voice, he didn't want to let go of this opportunity to make a lot of money.
Sure enough, another young man in a brocade robe couldn't help but stand up, and said with a little hesitation: "One hundred and fifty gold, sell me this copper piece!"
Yang Rui frowned. I thought that this old man was deliberately raising the price. Without looking back, he said to the old man, "In everything, there is always a first to come." This is what I said I was going to buy first. ”
But the old man was cunning and cunning, touched the few mustaches on his chin and said, "Hehe, this Beihai City is a free trade city. Naturally, the one with the highest price will get it, and the purchase will be yours. ”
Yang Rui was speechless, this was the first time he had met such a difficult seller, but he himself was not such a good partner. Suddenly, he took out a small bag of gold leaves from his arms and threw it in front of the old man, saying, "Here are three hundred taels of gold, just buy your broken copper piece!"
The old man's heart blossomed, thinking that these rich men were really the best to deceive, so he quietly glanced at the brocade-robed young man, and saw that he was hesitating, and a middle-aged man like a domestic servant beside him was saying something to him, so he was not in a hurry to answer.
"Hmph! My son-in-law has never lost on this!"
Sure enough, the brocade-robed young man shouted out without heeding the dissuasion, strode to the stall and said to the old man: "Three hundred and fifty taels of gold, I will take this copper sheet home and put it at the bottom of the warehouse!"
"Four hundred gold!" the young man in black smiled and moved his mouth slightly.
"Four hundred and fifty gold!" The brocade-robed young man blushed with anger, and crossed his waist.
"Five hundred gold!" the young man continued to increase the price, and the old man couldn't help but rub his palms.
"Five hundred and fifty gold!" The young man in the brocade robe was not to be outdone, as if he couldn't stop it, which made the surrounding crowd can't help but whisper, this old man Sun can be regarded as catching two rich wrongdoers today, and he wants to make a windfall.
"Okay, you take it, I don't want this broken copper piece!"
At this time, the black-clothed young man suddenly stopped, looked at the brocade-clothed young man with a mocking expression, and slowly picked up the bag of gold leaves and took it back into his arms.
"You dare to trick me!" The young man in the brocade robe seemed to have suddenly woken up at this moment, and the young man in front of him was deliberately raising the price to let himself bleed heavily to buy a worthless piece of broken copper.
"Don't dare, don't dare, our family doesn't have you rich. The boy replied with a smile, but that expression was not at all what he meant.
"Hmph! If you don't succeed, then I don't want it, it's really disappointing. The boy held his chin and thought for a while, and actually cheekily led his subordinates to scold and scold out of the crowd.
"You don't want it...... This copper sheet ......"
Old man Sun almost fell off his position, and suddenly his speech was sluggish, and he looked at the back of the young man and then remembered that this flea market is not comparable to a real auction, unless one hand pays the money and the other hand delivers, otherwise the transaction may not count at any time.
The surrounding people immediately laughed when they saw it, this old man Sun had played with fire and planted in the ditch this time, and he could have made a windfall, but now it was empty. The excitement passed, and everyone gradually dispersed to do their own things.
At this time, the black-bellied young man smiled, and quietly walked to Old Man Sun's stall again, threw the bag of gold leaves again, and said, "Here is one hundred and fifty gold, one hundred gold to buy your broken copper piece, fifty gold to buy your news." ”
The sudden loss made Old Man Sun smile, and hurriedly handed the copper piece to the young man, put away the money bag, and then came over and asked, "Hehe, what does the little brother want to know?"
The young man rolled his eyes and said seriously: "My family is in the copper jewelry business, although your copper sheet is not very valuable, but as a material for jewelry, it is barely worth a hundred gold." ”
When he heard this, Old Man Sun was taken aback, thinking that he had met an expert today, and he was really right about the price of this copper sheet.
"Ahem......" the boy continued with a dry cough, "but this is a piece of broken copper in the eyes of others." What do you think if you know where there are more copper flakes like this that I can buy them all at the same price?"
Old man Sun was immediately happy again when he heard this, and he went to chew the root of his tongue again and directly found a big buyer. Hurriedly nodded and said: "There is still a piece of copper like this in my residence, and several of my old friends are also selling a few pieces each, so you don't have to look for them one by one, leave an address, and I will collect them together and send them to your house." ”
The old man remembered that he and his friends had bought a few of these pieces of copper from a few fishermen, fearing that others would rob him of his business, and he was ready to collect all the pieces of copper himself and make a big profit.
The young man smiled and nodded, thinking that as expected, he had already seen that this copper piece was incomplete, and it was estimated that there were other parts that were not here, and it was difficult to see anything when taken apart alone. Now he is happy to let this old fritter run errands for him and collect all those copper pieces.
So he took out a pen and paper and wrote a note and handed it to Old Man Sun, which was the meeting place he had agreed with Shichan and Zonggui in Beihai City. Originally, he, Xiao Xuannu and Xiaobai were planning to go shopping while asking people to find the past.
Old man Sun took the note and looked at it, he couldn't help but be speechless, thinking that no wonder this young man was wealthy, it turned out to be someone there, the smile on his face became brighter, and after diligently discussing some details with the young man, he directly collected the stall and left, and went to find those copper pieces.
The young man looked at the back of Old Man Sun and scratched his head, but he saw the change in the expression on his face, it seems that the address given by Shizen is not simple. However, in Beihai City, there are pavilions in various ancient countries and sects, and it is not surprising that Shizen comes from one of them.
(After all, I don't know where the poetry comes from, and listen to the next breakdown.) (To be continued......)