Chapter 624 It's actually an antique?
Later, his health deteriorated, which also affected the fortunes of several people in his family.
When will your new store open? And where exactly will it be located?
Du Sining was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at her husband.
Fu Shoushan frowned and reported truthfully: "It was four days ago at nine o'clock in the morning, and the shop was in the eastern suburbs."
Ye Wanxi calculated the time: "It's a day that forms a harmonious combination of the Snake, Rooster, and Ox. What's your zodiac sign?"
Fu Shoushan was stunned: "Me? I was born in the Year of the Horse."
"Born in the Year of the Horse?"
"What's wrong?" Du Sining keenly sensed something was amiss and hurriedly asked, "Isn't this a bad time?"
"No way." Before Ye Wanxi could speak, Fu Shoushan retorted, "The master who calculated the date said that this day was the best for opening a business, and the time was specially chosen to be the most prosperous time for wealth. Moreover, I saw that many shops were vying to open that day. If it were an inauspicious day for opening a business, there shouldn't have been so many people rushing to open a shop."
Ye Wanxi paused for a moment, then explained, "Judging from the date alone, that day was indeed an auspicious day for the opening. But..."
"but?"
"However, calculating the best opening time for a store is not just about whether the date is auspicious or inauspicious. It also requires considering the store's location, its orientation, and most importantly, whether the store owner's zodiac sign clashes with the store's."
Ye Wanxi gave an example: "Take that day you just mentioned. It was indeed a good day for some people and some points. But the auspicious direction for that day was east, while your shop faced west. It was completely opposite, so naturally nothing good could happen."
"The next issue is the shop owner's zodiac sign. The most auspicious zodiac sign for the day you chose is the Rat. In other words, for a shop owner born in the Year of the Rat, opening on that day will bring great fortune, abundant wealth, and the assistance of benefactors, leading to continuous advancement. However, you were born in the Year of the Horse, and the Horse and the Rat are inherently incompatible, so naturally, this day clashes with your zodiac sign."
"The days are good, but they clash with two factors. If you're not unlucky, who is?"
"This..." Fu Shoushan was dumbfounded. Although most of them who run shops like to get involved in these planning matters, they are really laymen and have no idea that there are so many twists and turns involved.
After hearing Ye Wanxi's explanation, the still weak old man lying on the hospital bed patted the bed board in regret: "It was my fault that I almost harmed my children. I introduced that fortune teller to Ashan. He was said to be quite famous in the industry, but I didn't expect him to be such a half-baked person. He almost harmed Ashan."
Upon hearing this, Li Juexing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he interjected, "Uncle Du, he might not be just a half-baked expert. Perhaps it's precisely because he knows too much that he..."
The Du family wasn't stupid; Li Juexing had only hinted at his point, but they immediately understood his meaning.
If the person who performed the divination was just a novice, that would be one thing, but if they actually knew the method and still deliberately chose this date, then...
In an instant, the faces of the Du family members all turned grim.
The Du family lived not far from the hospital, and Du Siyuan was preoccupied with matters at the hospital. After returning with the little rabbit, he immediately rushed to the tea room, put the tea pet in his hand, and took it away.
He then ran to his niece's room, scooped up the sleeping baby, and rushed to the hospital.
Less than twenty minutes later, everyone saw him rushing back in a great hurry.
Upon seeing her daughter, Du Sining's face lit up with joy, and she hurriedly went to greet her and took her in her arms.
Still feeling uneasy after watching for a while, she held the child and moved closer to Ye Wanxi.
Ye Wanxi glanced at the child and comforted him, "The child is fine."
The group breathed a sigh of relief, sat down with their children in their arms, and lowered their voices as they spoke.
"Is this your family's tea pet?"
Li Weiming and his brother curiously approached Du Siyuan and stared at the tea pet in his hand.
The Du family's tea pet is still made of jade, but its color is relatively darker and its design is slightly more complex.
Who would have thought that such a small thing could be deadly?
Ye Wanxi picked up the items and weighed them in her hands, already having a general idea of what they were. She then turned to Du Sining and said, "Take the child to sit next door for a while."
Du Sining was taken aback. She knew that the woman was worried about waking the child. Grateful for her thoughtfulness, she obediently took the child and went to the next room.
As soon as the two left, a blade suddenly appeared between Ye Wanxi's fingers, the small blade landing precisely in the center of the tea pet.
Hard jade, just like soft tofu, had nowhere to hide under the sharp blade, which cut through most of it in one go.
When two-thirds of the way through, everyone watched in disbelief as the Pixiu suddenly turned black, then seemed to come alive, turning its slightly ferocious eyes, opening its mouth, and biting at Ye Wanxi's wrist.
Everyone was startled and exclaimed in surprise.
Ye Wanxi seemed to have anticipated this, and with a quick twist of the blade in her palm, she swiftly and accurately sliced off its mouth.
Everyone: "Ouch~" Suddenly their mouths hurt so much!
Having lost its mouth, the spirit let out a scream, billowing black smoke as it tried to escape, but Ye Wanxi grabbed it with a large hand, squeezing it like a ball, then rolled it up and stuffed it into the small golden net from before, to keep its other half company.
The spirit possessed: "..." What the hell!
Everyone: "..." It felt like they had just watched a grand spectacle of clay manipulation.
Once the spirit was exposed, the jade tea pet instantly turned into sand and drifted away in the wind.
The Du family members seemed to wake from a dream, and Du Sining returned at that moment carrying the child: "Is it...resolved?"
"It's solved," Ye Wanxi added, "but it's only a temporary fix. Solving this one might just lead to another."
Mr. Li was the first to react, anxiously asking, "Old Du, where did you get this thing? It's a matter of life and death, you can't hide it anymore."
Mr. Du understood this perfectly well, and said with a dark face, "It's a boutique in R City."
"R City?"
“Yes, a few months ago, I went to R City with a tour group. On the way back, we were taken to a boutique and told to buy some souvenirs. I wasn’t planning to buy anything, but when I went into the store, I saw this pair of tea pets.”
"At the time, the waiter kept trying to sell them to me, saying that these two little things were made of some kind of ancient jade that is very old and only appears once in a hundred years. Putting aside their appearance, the value of the jade alone is more than enough to make them antiques."
"Antiques? Antique jade can be used to make this?"
"Sigh, when it comes to sales pitches, they'll exaggerate as much as possible. I didn't take it too seriously; I just bought them because they looked nice."
Mr. Du didn't take it to heart, but Ye Wanxi did.
Antiques? For some reason, Ye Wanxi suddenly thought of the antique painting that the Zhang family had owned before.
(End of this chapter)
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