Jin Bo smiled and said, "If the Wei family can't be trusted, then there's nothing worth trusting in this imperial capital."
Jin Bo's words were obviously exaggerated, but Wei Nian was very happy to hear them.
After all, who doesn’t like to hear nice words!
"It's just okay."
Su Jianwei looked at Wei Nian, who seemed to be sticking his tail up, and said, "I want to go for a walk by myself. Where should we meet later?"
They told us at the entrance that we could just wander around the periphery of the ghost market first, as the interior of the ghost market would not be opened until 4:40 in the morning.
It would be too conspicuous to follow Wei Nian, so Su Jianwei wanted to go shopping on her own. When it was almost 4:40, they would go to the backstage together to take a look.
"You still remember the stall where I bid yesterday?"
Su Jianwei nodded.
"There's a big, tall sycamore tree to the northwest. Let's meet there at 4:30."
"good!"
When Wei Nian left, Jin Bo still followed him.
Wei Nian didn't know why he kept asking Jin Bo to follow him, but it didn't take long for Manager Yao to leave their team.
Su Jianwei glanced at the shopkeeper Yao, then walked to the opposite position.
Su Jianwei was halfway there when he was attracted by the voice of an old man.
The old man had gray hair and looked to be in his seventies. He was holding a half-ring of yellow jade with a hint of green in his hand and introducing it to someone.
"Look here. The nose is upturned, the eyes are slightly bulging, there's a grid-like pattern under its jaw, and there seems to be a mane on the back of its neck. When the light shines on it, it looks like it's about to soar into the clouds."
The person standing in front of him looked at it carefully and said in disbelief, "Are you sure this is really a dragon? It clearly looks like a capital C and a worm."
After this person finished speaking, the middle-aged man glared and said, "Can you read it?"
"This is the shape of the jade dragon in ancient tribal culture five thousand years ago!"
The man murmured, "You just said it was a burial object from the Shang Dynasty."
"Why, am I wrong? There were so many burial objects during the Shang Dynasty. A jade dragon with a history of 5,000 years is not uncommon."
"Then what is considered strange?" Su Jianwei asked at the right time.
The stall owner glanced at Su Jianwei and said, "It wasn't unusual back then. What's unusual now is, of course, human sacrifice and human sacrifice."
"When the royal family of the Shang Dynasty died, they were buried with their ministers, wives, concubines, guards, and close associates; human sacrifices were offered to the ancestral spirits during sacrifices, just like cattle, pigs, and sheep."
"Humans can be sacrificed and buried with the dead, let alone dragons!"
The people who had stayed at the stall complained, "How can that be compared? That's a living person!"
The old man snorted and laughed, "Human life is worthless. Back then, human life couldn't even be compared to a steamed bun. So what's wrong with burying a living person with me?"
While the two were debating back and forth, Su Jianwei started rummaging around in front of the old man's stall.
The things on the old man’s stall looked like the jade dragon he just held in his hand, and they looked like they were from the same batch.
Some can be vaguely seen as dragon shapes, while others look like sheep, pigs, and birds.
Su Jianwei picked up a very round and plump jade stone that looked like a circle but had a gap in it.
The top of its head is slightly raised, with a ring in the middle. From this perspective, the gap looks like its mouth.
Su Jianwei was attracted to this stall the moment he came to it, or rather, his own space was attracted to it.
On the other side, the stall owner and the visitor have been arguing, but they still haven't figured out who wins and who loses.
Su Jianwei thought that time was limited, so he interrupted the heated debate and asked, "Boss, how much is this?"
The stall owner only took one look at it, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Since you are a little girl, take 5,000 yuan."
"Fuck you, you old idiot! How dare you sell such a fake thing for 5,000 yuan!"
"If you say it's fake, it's fake! Are your eyes a ruler?"
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Su Jianwei said to the old man, "Five thousand yuan is fine, but I also want the jade dragon in your hand?"
The stall owner played with the jade dragon in his hand and said with a smile, "The little girl has good taste."
"Then tell me what's in your hand?"
Su Jian smiled and said, "Although I don't know whether it's true or not, but its shape should also be a jade dragon."
The person arguing with the stall owner looked at the little jade dragon in Su Jianwei's hand and asked in confusion, "But it clearly looks like the head of a monster in a Neon Monster movie."
As soon as he finished speaking, the stall owner was completely furious. "How dare you compare their worthless things to our national treasures!"
"Get out! You ignorant, foreign-worshiping bastard, get out now!"
The man glared at the old man and said, "I'm not wrong. What the hell is this!"
"Get out!" The old man was so angry that he took off his old cloth shoes and threw them at the man, knocking him away.
Su Jianwei looked at the old man who was gasping for breath, took out a bottle of mineral water from her bag and handed it to him.
"Don't be angry, it's fine as long as we know it's not."
The old man took the mineral water from Su Jianwei's hand without drinking it, and poured it directly into the pot on the small stove set up behind him.
"We know what's helpful!"
The old man said angrily, "Things are getting better and better these days, but these young people are so obsessed with foreign things, not knowing that our country's products are the best in the world!"
"We are a brilliant civilization with a history of five thousand years, a great ancient civilization that has continued to this day. Look around the world, is there any country like us, with a thousand-year-old civilization that has never been interrupted?"
The old man looked at the various jade pieces on his stall and stroked the jade dragon in his hand. "Jade is one of the most representative symbols of our traditional culture, and the dragon is our..."
Su Jianwei did not interrupt the old man, and even simply sat cross-legged on the spot.
At this moment, she gave up going to other stalls and decided to buy things from this stall and then go directly to gather under the sycamore tree.
Fortunately, the old man had a clear idea of what was going on and ended his long speech at 4:20.
He looked at Su Jianwei a little embarrassedly. In fact, if Su Jianwei had shown a little impatience or even wanted to leave, he would never have said so much.
But Su Jianwei listened very carefully. There were very few people who listened to him so attentively and seriously.
"You are quite discerning, kid. I'll give you both of these five hundred."
Su Jian smiled and said, "Thank you, old man!"
The old man handed the jade dragon in his hand to Su Jianwei and said, "Although I made it myself, the shape is antique and it is difficult for ordinary people to tell the real thing from the fake."
"Take it and play with it."
"Thanks!"
It's rare to be able to say so frankly that what you have is not real.
As Su Jianwei walked towards the paulownia tree with the two jade dragons of different shapes, he took the fat jade dragon out of his pocket and put it directly into the space.
The moment the jade dragon was placed into the space, Su Jianwei stopped and widened his eyes in disbelief.
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