"I'm sorry for scaring you, young lady. This ancient copper coin is your apology. Please accept it." Shopkeeper Ye handed over the copper coin.
"There's no need to apologize. After all, your Mo Hou Zhai has done nothing wrong. I'll just buy it." Xue Huan paid the money and put the copper coins into her purse.
"You don't have eyes!" Cai Ling ran out, but almost bumped into an old man and kicked him.
The old man was kicked to the ground by her, and the package in his arms also fell to the ground. He didn't bother to get up and hurriedly picked up the package.
The people around her gave her strange looks, and Cai Ling snapped, "What are you looking at? If you keep looking, I'll dig out your eyes!"
"Whose girl is this? Why is she so domineering?"
"Oh, stop talking now! This is the county magistrate's daughter. If she hears, you'll forget about it."
"Does she dare to cut my tongue?"
"What's cutting off the tongue? She even beat someone to death before! And in the end, nothing happened. We ordinary people can't afford to offend her."
The people around said a few words and then dispersed.
At the entrance of Mo Hou Zhai, Xue Huan also heard the discussions of passers-by. She frowned as she watched Cai Ling disappear in the crowd.
If the rumors were true, she would have to be on guard. There was no telling what the county magistrate's daughter might do.
"Follow me closely, don't lose me." She took Pei Ji's hand and disappeared into the bustling crowd.
There was only one ancient copper coin in Mo Hou Zhai that contained purple energy, so she had to continue looking for it.
I went to several antique shops in a row, but didn't come across any object containing purple aura.
Seeing that it was already noon, Xue Huan planned to eat before continuing to search for treasures, so she pulled Pei Ji into a nearby noodle shop and ordered two bowls of beef noodles and two plates of side dishes.
Xue Huan sat down and waited for the food to be served. Seeing Pei Ji looking unhappy, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Pei Ji turned his head away and ignored her.
Oh, are you angry with her?
"Are you angry about what happened before?" Xue Huan sat down next to him, but Pei Ji ran to the other side again.
Xue Huan found it a little funny, but she held it back. If she continued to laugh at this moment, wouldn't it just add fuel to the fire?
She continued to sit down and hugged Pei Ji's arm, making it impossible for him to move.
"Akang, I was just teasing that woman earlier. I knew she couldn't come up with that much money, so I didn't really want to give you to her."
Pei Ji puffed up his cheeks and said, "If she can come up with it, won't you really give me up?"
Xue Huan said firmly: "No, I like our Akang the most. No matter how much money others give me, I won't be tempted."
Pei Ji was barely satisfied this time.
At this time, the noodles also came. Xue Huan helped him to scald the chopsticks with hot tea before handing them to him. Pei Ji started to eat the noodles quietly.
Xue Huan passed the beef from her bowl to him and looked at him lovingly, "Eat more."
Pei Ji muttered, "That's enough, Huanhuan, you eat too." He picked up a piece of cold-boiled pig's ear for her with chopsticks.
After dinner, the two continued to stroll along Antique Street. This time, Xue Huan didn't go into any shops, but instead browsed around in the stalls along the street.
When she passed by a very simple stall, her palms suddenly felt warm. She looked over and saw an old man squatting there. In front of him was only a piece of cloth with a bronze horse on it. There was a large area of copper rust on the horse's body.
Xue Huan squatted down and said, "Uncle, can I try to ride this horse?"
"Look, look as you please."
This old man was the one who was almost bumped into by Cai Ling before. He caught this bronze horse while fishing. He thought that this bronze horse might be an old item, so he wanted to take it to the county town to ask if the antique shop would take it. If it was really an old item, he might become rich.
He heard that the most reputable antique shop in the city was Mo Hou Zhai, so he came here. However, when he arrived at the door and saw the imposing facade, he hesitated and did not dare to go in.
Just when he finally made up his mind to step in, he bumped into Cai Ling and the bronze horse in his arms was almost broken.
At this moment, the little courage he had mustered disappeared again, and he simply found a place to display the bronze horse, thinking that it would be great if someone took a fancy to it, but if not, it would be fine.
After waiting for a long time, no one came to patronize. The old man was about to be disappointed. But then a girl came and showed interest in the bronze horse. How could he be wrong?
Xue Huan held the bronze horse, and the Five Elements Beads floated out of the palm of her hand. Immediately, a flaming purple gas emanated from the surface of the bronze horse and was completely swallowed by the Five Elements Beads.
Of course, no one else could see this scene.
After the Five Elements Pearl had completely absorbed the purple energy, she pretended to be pleased and asked, "Old man, where did you get this bronze horse?"
The old man didn't hide it, "I fished it out of Shangyang Lake while fishing."
Shangyang Lake? Why is there a bronze horse in the lake? Did it rush in from somewhere else, or was it already there at the bottom of the lake?
Is this the only one, or are there more?
"Father, how much is this?"
The old man rubbed his hands. He didn't expect that she would really want to buy it. He tentatively quoted a price: "Twenty taels?"
Xue Huan looked at the old man in surprise. The price was unexpectedly cheap. Judging from the concentration of purple energy contained in the bronze horse, it was clear that it had been with the emperor a lot in the past, which was why it was contaminated with so much purple energy. Could the items that the emperor often touched be ordinary objects?
Even the bowls and chopsticks used for eating are not simple, let alone decorative objects like bronze horses.
Just as she was about to pay, the old man misunderstood her glance and thought she was dissatisfied with the price, so he lowered the price himself: "If you think it's expensive, fifteen, no, ten taels of silver will do."
It's free anyway.
"Okay." Xue Huan handed over a small silver note of ten taels.
The old man was surprised and delighted when he received it. He also wondered if the bronze horse was really an old item. Otherwise, why would the girl buy it so readily? Did he sell it too low?
Looking at the banknotes in his hand, he became nervous again. It was the first time for him to get so much money. He was afraid of losing it, so he didn't care about anything else and quickly packed up his bag and left.
Afterwards, Xue Huan bought a crude-looking painting and an ordinary rattle the size of a child's palm from the stall.
These two things are very inconspicuous, but the concentration of purple energy they contain is not low. Xue Huan suspected that they were deliberately disguised by someone, which is why they appear ordinary.
Because these two things looked ordinary, they were sold as second-hand items, and Xue Huan bought them at a very low price.
In fact, she found more than three objects containing purple aura on the antique street, but the others looked like antiques and were not cheap.
Her main purpose was to let the Five Elements Bead absorb the purple energy, and she didn't have to buy the antique, so she just took a look at the expensive item, letting the Five Elements Bead "use it for free", and then put the item down and left.
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