Chapter 5
"...Su Yun, I'm not kidding you." Su Lin's face turned cold. He sincerely felt that the Su family was indeed sorry for Su Yun. Even though the Su family had given Su Yun a very good life over the years, they still used her as a shield. Compensation was due.
Moreover, according to the fate calculated by the Su family for their own daughter Su Yun, she would die a miserable death when she grew up. It was a blessing from God that Su Yun was able to survive as a shield. Although Su Lin didn't know what happened, he knew that Su Yun must have paid a heavy price.
It would be fine if Su Yun died, but since Su Yun was alive, Su Lin was worried that the cause and effect would be blamed on Su Yun. It would be best if this cause and effect could be resolved, but Su Yun's attitude was really unpredictable.
In the past, Su Yun's personality was incompatible with everyone in the Su family. Now that she is no longer in the Su family, she seems to have become even more weird.
Su Yun put away his phone and looked at him: "Why do you think I'm joking? Do you look down on me?"
Facing Su Yun's questioning eyes, Su Lin felt exhausted: "No, but you are like this-"
"That's good," Su Yun's expression immediately softened. "Please keep the business card. I don't give it to ordinary people. If there are any weddings or funerals in the future, remember to give me priority."
After saying that, Su Yun grabbed Lin Lang and ran away, leaving Su Lin alone in the clothing store, staring blankly at the business card.
After running to another nearby clothing store, Lin Lang finally realized: "Director, we seem to be a funeral home. How can we hold a red wedding?"
Su Yun was tired from running, and fanned himself slowly: "Isn't ghost marriage a happy thing? Ask Xinxin if she agrees?"
Lin Lang took a deep breath and was unable to refute: "...Then why are we still running?"
"Because he doesn't look like he's willing to place an order with us. You're the curator, and these are very expensive, okay? You're not going to pay, so why would you want to chat with a poor guy?" Su Yun said, and started to pick clothes for Lin Lang again.
The styles and designs of the new store are much better than the previous one. Su Yun then picked up two sets of clothes that would not go wrong and asked Lin Lang to try them on.
Lin Lang took the clothes, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Young Master Su, you even booked a room for us, so you are not poor, right?"
Su Yun said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Anyone who wants to chat with me without paying is a poor fellow. If the money is in place, I can chat with him for three days and three nights without repeating myself. Didn't you realize that he just said something so nice, but he actually didn't promise a penny?"
Hearing this, Lin Lang was stunned. He had just heard Su Lin say that he wanted Su Yun to go back to the Su family. As long as she went back, she would be the same as before. According to his understanding, Su Yun would probably have a better standard of living if she went back. After all, the food, clothing and daily necessities in a big family are the best.
But after hearing what Su Yun said, Lin Lang finally reacted. From the beginning to the end, Su Lin only said that Su Yun should go back and live the same life as before. He did not say what kind of compensation he would give her. If he really wanted compensation, after Su Yun gave him her business card, he should at least be willing to help invest, right?
Originally, Su Yun entered the Su family as a shield. No one would respect or care for her. She might not be allowed to go out to work every month, and she had to look to the Su family for living expenses. Everyone who knew her true identity might think she was a parasite.
On the other hand, if Su Yun didn't go back, although she was a little poor at the funeral home, every employee there would truly care about her. Even if she went out for a walk, they were worried that she would be embarrassed. Comparing the two, no normal person would choose to go back to the Su family.
After Lin Lang figured it out, he felt that Su Yun was indeed amazing and that he understood the Su family very well, so he said nothing more and took the clothes into the fitting room.
After changing, Su Yun looked very satisfied. She called the clerk and said directly: "I have bought all the styles of this designer's clothes. One set for his body shape, two more for a height of 2 meters and one set for a height of 1.8 meters. Send them to the presidential suite number 01 in this villa."
The clerk was stunned. When she first saw a young man wearing Hanfu and Taoist robe coming in, she thought he was just an ordinary customer who came to see and try things on without planning to buy anything. Unexpectedly, he bought all of them as soon as he tried on one piece. It was like a rich woman had descended upon us.
"Okay, I'll do it for you right away. So, you need the same style but different sizes, a total of four sets of men's clothing, right?" The clerk held the card and repeated it in a daze.
"Yes, this designer is good. When new models are released in the future, please remember to update me at any time." Su Yun left his contact information and finally did not use that scary funeral home business card.
When the clerk went to open the order, Lin Lang came over wearing new slim-fitting clothes and said awkwardly, "Why did you buy so much? Aren't you...poor?"
Su Yun raised his eyes slightly: "How can you not be considered poor if you only live off your old business and don't open up new businesses?"
Well, after hearing what Su Yun said, Lin Lang knew that this funeral home was probably very wealthy, and he didn't know how long Su Yun could squander it.
The clerk wrote a note and said that someone would deliver the goods to her door. With a smile on her face, she said that she had upgraded Su Yun's VIP service and would directly recommend any activities or new models to her in the future.
Su Yun had no choice but to add the store's corporate WeChat account, and left with Lin Lang, who had not yet changed his clothes, to prepare to eat at a nearby Cantonese restaurant.
The weather was hot, and Su Yun wanted to eat something light. It just so happened that Lin Lang, as a Taoist priest in seclusion, also liked light tastes.
All the restaurants in Qingyun Villa have private rooms. Even for Japanese-style no-menu cuisine, there are separate rooms to absolutely guarantee customer privacy.
After a casual meal, when paying, Su Yun sent a message to Yan Gui to ask them where they were going and if there was anything they wanted that she could buy for them as a benefit because she had just bought clothes for the male employees in the funeral home. Similarly, she needed to buy the two ladies something they would like.
There is no need for little skirts, as they have plenty of them. They are a benefit for all twelve months of the year, and they specifically ask for little skirts. If they keep buying more, their Qiankun bags will not be able to hold all their clothes.
The sexy ghost was still inputting the order, and Su Yun was waiting patiently. There was another person checking out nearby, and his voice just happened to float over.
The two people chatting were girls. The tall girl complained that she wanted a jade Guanyin at tonight's auction to celebrate her grandfather's birthday. However, she heard that the jade Guanyin was priceless and several noble families in Bincheng had come to grab it recently.
The smaller girl nodded and said, "You are so miserable. I saw the eldest son of the Su family and the young lady who has been hiding for many years also came here. They must have come for the Jade Guanyin. I heard that they wanted to buy it for Su Yun as a birthday present this year, to save her life. I don't think your pocket money can beat them."
“There’s nothing we can do. Let’s give it a try. But this Jade Guanyin is the finale. If we can’t buy this one, the ones after it will be more expensive. And the ones before it don’t seem very suitable as gifts for the elderly.” The tall girl followed the little sister in a dilemma and walked away slowly, muttering to herself what to do if she couldn’t buy it.
Just at this time, Su Yun also got the order. She lowered her head to look at the chat messages. The ghost said that she and the ghost bride wanted a pair of double-ring jade bells, peacock feathers, and emerald jumps that were to be auctioned tonight. They happened to be a pair, and she and the ghost bride wanted one each, in pairs.
In simple terms, they want a pair of jade bracelets that will ring when you get close, with hollow jade bells hanging on them and peacock feather patterns carved on them. To sum it up in one word: expensive.
Su Yun was silent for a while, and then replied directly: "Send me the auction list for tonight first, otherwise I won't buy it."
This time, Yan Gui sent out the order very quickly. It was an electronic auction sheet. The auction would start at 8 o'clock tonight at the auction house in Qingyun Villa. There were 30 lots in total. This pair of jade bracelets ranked 20th from the bottom, mainly because of their exquisite design. The starting price was 500,000.
After looking at the price and ranking, Su Yun felt it was okay and there shouldn't be too many people competing with her for it.
Just when Su Yun was about to exit the page and reply to the sexy ghost, he remembered the conversation between the two girls just now, and for some unknown reason he turned directly to the end of the auction list.
The highlight of today's auction is the last three items. The third from the last is a pure gold lotus-shaped eternal lamp, which is said to have been unearthed from a very ancient tomb. It is not yet certain whether it was used for driving corpses or guarding tombs, so it was placed third from the last.
The finale is the Jade Guanyin mentioned by the two girls before. It is about 30 cm tall, holding a jade bottle in hand. The whole body is carved from white jade, except for the jade bottle which has a green color. There are no traces of inlay or carving. After identification, it was found that the green grew directly in the white jade and was just the right size, so the master carved it into the shape of Jade Guanyin.
As for the large item for auction, it is a Ding Lan ruler. The age is estimated, and it is probably made in the Tang Dynasty. The material used is unknown, but it has been well preserved since it was unearthed. Even after being exposed to light and oxygen, it still shows no signs of aging. It can be called a masterpiece.
Su Yun originally wanted to see what the Jade Guanyin looked like and whether it was worth the Su family buying it for Su Yun as a protective item. But now, seeing Ding Lanchi, who was the top performer, he was moved.
The specific material was not mentioned on the auction list, but Su Yun could tell at a glance that it was sunken wood, carved in two sizes, sky and ghost. It could be said to be a perfectly preserved Ding Lan ruler.
From ancient times to the present, sunken wood has been one of the most precious wood species. The conditions for its growth are extremely harsh, and it is a very difficult item to regenerate. A small piece that can be carved into a small thing to play with is priceless and is exclusively for the royal family. Later, large sunken wood was basically used by the royal family to make coffins.
Sunken wood is wood formed in ancient times when trees were buried in rivers and sealed from oxygen due to natural disasters. Generally, the age of Quercus glauca, Salix matsudana, Cinnamomum camphora, and Toona crenata is between 3,800 and 6,000 years. Nanmu, which is often used to make coffins, needs to be sealed for more than 8,000 years to form sunken wood, and is also the most precious.
If you can see a dark wooden ruler that is more than a thousand years old in the market or at an auction, it can basically be said that you have used up all your luck in your lifetime.
The piece of wood on the auction list is at least five thousand years old. If it is the nanmu wood that takes eight thousand years to form a sunken wood, then it is more than ten thousand years old. If you put it at home as a worshipper, maybe it is not the wood that nourishes you, but you who nourish the wood.
Everything has its own Qi. Only when human Qi is heavier than objects can objects nourish human. Only when objects are heavier than human can objects absorb human essence, Qi and blood to nourish objects. This is what people often say: never offer things that you cannot afford, such as pendants like golden Pixiu.
Through the phone, Su Yun couldn't tell what kind of wood the dark wood Ding Lan ruler at the auction was made of. Qingyun Villa must have done some testing, and they probably didn't announce it because they were worried about it being stolen. But even if it was an inferior dark wood like Qinggang, it was worth a try.
Su Yun thought for a moment, called Lin Lang, and said, "Come on, the curator will take you to the auction."
Lin Lang, who had been standing obediently beside her, didn't know why she was going to the auction again, so he asked, "Are you going to buy something?"
"This." Su Yun raised his cell phone mysteriously to show him the photo of Ding Landi.
"Ding Lanchi?" Lin Lang frowned. "Director, this thing is too sinister. The funeral home is already full of ghosts. If you still plan to buy this thing and keep it here, at best there will be a bloody disaster, and at worst, everyone will be killed."
Su Yun put away his phone and said, "I know. I bought it for you. It's a treasure that only comes once in thousands of years. You should treat me to a midnight snack later."
Lin Lang: “…”
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