"Hello, Director Wang. I am Michael Lynch from the United States. I like Chinese culture very much, especially those antique furniture. I heard from a friend that your factory can make antique furniture, so I came to take a look. If there are any suitable ones, I would like to buy a few pieces to take back."

Na Yong on the side added: "Director Wang, our boss buys things with foreign exchange coupons..."

Upon hearing this, Director Wang's eyes suddenly lit up.

The performance of the factory he was in charge of had been declining in recent years. There were dozens of people to feed, but the sales of furniture were not very good, which made Director Wang very worried.

Now a foreigner can come to our factory in person and ask to see the antique furniture by name. If this foreigner likes the furniture in our factory, he will buy it and recommend it to his friends. If his friends also like it, then there is a great possibility that the furniture in our factory can be exported to the United States.

If that were possible, the factory might be able to come back to life...

Director Wang was thinking happily while greeting this foreign friend warmly.

Yang Jing certainly didn't want to waste time on such small talk, so he said directly: "Director Wang, can I take a look around your factory? I want to see your factory's production environment and the furniture you produce."

"Okay, that's no problem, I'll lead the way for you personally..."

In this way, after a few turns, Yang Jing came to the factory cafeteria. As soon as Yang Jing entered the cafeteria, his eyes were attracted by the tattered Huanghuali bed in the middle of the cafeteria.

Just as Master Ma from the original time and space described, when he first found this bed, it was in tatters and there were a lot of dried noodles on it...

I discovered this bed three or four years earlier than Master Ma did, but it is still in such tatters that it is unsightly.

Yang Jing suppressed his excitement and walked forward to take a closer look at the big bed.

Yang Jing's actions caught the attention of Director Wang, who asked curiously, "Mr. Lin Qi, this bed is in such bad shape. If you like it, we have new furniture in our factory that is in much better condition than this one."

Yang Jing shook his head slightly and said, "I just think this bed is quite rustic. Director Wang, this bed is old, right?"

Director Wang thought for a moment and said, "It's been a long time. I remember it was brought in from outside during the Four Olds Campaign. But it was a bit worn out at the time, so our factory used it as a sample. Later, we made a few more beds based on it, but they didn't sell well, so the workers put it here and used it as a stool."

After a pause, Director Wang continued, "If you like this bed, there is another similar bed in the warehouse. They were both brought into the factory that year. That bed is much better than this one. However, because the factory has not been profitable in the past two years, we plan to dismantle that bed and use the wood to make other furniture..."

As soon as he said this, Yang Jing felt that the humanistic energy in the pool of humanistic energy had dropped by about 2%, which made Yang Jing's heart move.

"Director Wang, could you please take me over to see that bed?"

On the way to the warehouse, Yang Jing was distracted. While walking, he asked the Holy Ring with his mind: "Why did the energy in the Humanistic Energy Pool suddenly decrease? I didn't use the Humanistic Energy."

The Holy Ring replied, "Because you have acquired foreign citizenship, you are no longer a Chinese. Therefore, your purchase of old items that belonged to others in the original time and space will not cause a time and space paradox. However, because the Luohan bed you want to purchase already belongs to someone else in the future, I will guide you to buy another Luohan bed inlaid with hundreds of treasures. Of course, this Luohan bed inlaid with hundreds of treasures has never appeared in the original time and space, so if you want to buy this Luohan bed, the Holy Ring will consume a certain amount of energy to guide this bed for you. The energy consumed is the humanistic energy contained in this bed, and if you buy this bed, you will not be able to absorb the humanistic treasures in it."

Yang Jing was stunned by Shengjie's answer, but then he understood what Shengjie meant.

It was very simple. The loophole that I had guessed at the beginning was "half established". In other words, after becoming a foreigner, traveling through time and space in China and purchasing old items would not cause a time and space paradox. However, if I purchased old items belonging to others, the Holy Ring would consume energy to guide out a second old item.

There are many old items in China that are not unique, just like this bed inlaid with hundreds of treasures. There may be only one left in the original time and space, but before Master Ma or Director Li bought this bed, no one knew whether there was only one of this bed. Maybe there is another bed of the same kind, but it has not been taken away.

Just as Director Wang said, there is another identical bed in the warehouse, but the factory is preparing to dismantle this bed.

This was obviously the result of the Holy Ring consuming energy to guide it. If he hadn't appeared here at this time, this bed would definitely have been dismantled by the factory, and in the end only the bed in the cafeteria would be left, and then it would be taken away by Master Ma.

Now with the guidance of the Holy Ring, the other identical bed was prevented from being dismantled. In this way, he could receive an Arhat bed and avoid Master Ma from not being able to purchase the bed in the cafeteria.

In other words, the Holy Ring still did this to avoid the occurrence of the space-time paradox. It was just that the Holy Ring resisted the space-time paradox for itself. The way to resist was to consume energy to guide another old object of the same kind, and then self-rescue and purchase this old object. The original old object would still be left to the original owner of the space-time to purchase...

(PS: It’s a little hard to understand, but I can only explain it this way. Don’t take it too seriously...)