As a former armed special police officer, Jian Ning, with the sensitivity of a professional soldier, instantly recalled why he could feel Pei Xiyuan's powerful aura through the crowd.
They were soldiers galloping on the battlefield. The murderous aura emanating from their bodies from the inside out was something deeply imprinted in their bones, dignified and solemn.
The same goes for Jane Ning herself. Although she retired from the army after traveling through time, the qualities of a soldier have long been integrated into her blood, and she can be immediately alert at the slightest sign of trouble.
But she hoped she was overthinking it, that this group of people were just here for a vacation, some shopping, and a change of pace. Because war was no joke, and although she hadn't experienced a large-scale battle with constant artillery fire, she had also survived a hail of bullets.
"If there is a war, I will return when called!"
Her solemn oath echoed in her mind. She had lived in this time and space on the land of Dayan Kingdom for so long. The people she cared about, the people who cared about her, were all on this land. This was her home!
Although she wanted to stay away from the war, if that day really came, she would go to the front line without hesitation.
"What are you thinking about? Are you tired?" Ding Youtian was talking to Qin Yifan when he glanced at her unintentionally. Seeing her face as gloomy as water, he thought she was tired.
Jane Ning shook her head.
Walking in the ancient city paved with bluestone, looking at the shops lining the streets and the people coming and going with festive faces, she sincerely hoped that her life would always be so peaceful and harmonious.
In the afternoon, Blind Liu planned to visit the official kiln, and Jian Ning also wanted to go and have a look. Mei Niang, Aunt Feng, as well as Da Niu, Er Niu and San Niu stayed at home.
After Jian Ning and the others arrived, they actually saw Pei Xiyuan and the others again. There were also many businessmen dressed in Dayue Kingdom costumes at the scene.
They would buy ceramics with slight flaws, polish them and sell them at a high price, so many merchants from Yue country would come here on the second day of the first lunar month every year.
Half an hour after the kiln was fired, an emerald green pen holder caught Dabao's interest. Jian Ning saw the pen holder printed with distant mountains, setting sun, rivers, and geese flying south. She loved it so much that she pointed at the pen holder in the official's hand and muttered to Ding Youtian, "This one is great. The setting sun and the lone wild goose fly together, and the autumn water and the sky are the same color."
Ding Youtian looked at her and chuckled, "That's a wild goose, not a duck."
"Is that the point?" Jian Ning was annoyed. Shouldn't the focus be on those two words of astonishment? Was she going to say that the setting sun and the geese were flying together?
"Mom, what do you think of that pen holder?" Dabao turned to ask Jian Ning. Jian Ning knew he liked it and put her hands on his shoulders with a smile, "Bao'er, if you like it, I will try my best to get it for you no matter how much money it costs."
"That's not necessary. The barrel is slightly deformed. If it's over eighty cents, just give it to someone else." Dabao said calmly, "It looks okay at first glance. After a few more glances, my son thinks it's just okay. There's no need to spend too much money."
The officer then quoted the lowest price, thirty cents.
Jian Ning shouted, "Forty cents!" As soon as she called out the price, Pei Xiyuan also shouted, "Fifty cents!" Jian Ning shouted sixty, he shouted seventy, and the total amount came to two hundred cents.
It was Jian Ning who called out "two hundred coins." Pei Xiyuan looked at her, then glanced at Qiaofeng. Remembering Qiaofeng's ridicule of him spending five thousand coins on a broken cup, he hesitated. The official called out three times, and the pen holder now belonged to Dabao.
"This person certainly doesn't seem to be a businessman. I'm afraid he doesn't know anything about porcelain. But since he knows Brother Yifan's identity and we're in the same group, he just follows us to buy."
"Whatever price we name, he will follow."
Jian Ning glanced at Pei Xiyuan and the others, and whispered to Ding Youtian, "Have you guessed who they are?"
"They are either rich or noble. Some of the merchants in Moon Country seem quite afraid of them. It's obvious that they recognize them."
Jian Ning also noticed this. She thought that this guy must have some reputation in Yue Country. She also noticed that Pei Xiyuan's attention seemed to be on several businessmen from Yue Country. It seemed that there was some grudge between the two groups.
But that was a matter between the Yue people, she didn't bother to care, as long as he didn't come to provoke them.
The next kiln wares that came out were either finished products or ones they didn't like. Just as they were about to go home, a large-diameter cup with a colorful golden peacock pattern came out.
The officer took it in his hand and shook it twice to show everyone. The light changed with the color, and the color moved with the light. The golden peacock feathers in the cup seemed to move, which was really blinding.
Everyone present exclaimed in amazement, and some even shouted that the Queen Mother's Yaotai was no more than this!
This cup only has a little glaze on the bottom, which can be polished and repaired, but the finished products of the official kiln were all sent to the palace, and any slight flaw would be considered defective.
"Master, what do you think?" As soon as Ding Youtian finished speaking, the official announced the lowest price, which was one or two taels of silver.
"Ten taels!" The one who bid was a Yue countryman. Jian Ning took a look and saw that he was one of the Yue countrymen that Pei Xiyuan had noticed. He seemed to be the leader of that group.
"One hundred taels!" Pei Xiyuan shouted one hundred directly.
The crowd at the scene was in an uproar. This was the first kiln ware to be bid up to ten or even a hundred taels today. Jian Ning and the others also watched the excitement with a spectator's mentality.
The starting price of the cups and plates was one tael of silver, but the final bid was eighteen hundred taels. When Pei Xiyuan called out the price, his men took out the silver notes, shook them in their hands arrogantly, wiped their noses with their thumbs, and then bent their arms and gestured contemptuously at the other party.
"Let's go." Blind Liu asked them to leave. He just came here to pick up bargains and feast his eyes. There was no need to spend a lot of money in the bidding.
"My only gain today is Baoer's pen holder. It's really pretty." Jian Ning looked at the pen holder over and over again, and was once again impressed by the wisdom of the ancients.
"Do you remember the full text of those two lines you recited before?" Ding Youtian asked her quietly.
"Couldn't it be something I just thought of?"
Ding Youtian grinned, and Jian Ning nudged him with her elbow. Who were you looking down on? After all, she was a graduate of the Police University!
On their way back, they ran into the county magistrate, who was accompanied by a constable. They had been to the Qin residence and had come to intercept Qin Yifan.
Qin Yifan left Ding Youtian behind while Jian Ning took Dabao, Qiaofeng, and Blind Liu to a different place. When Ding Youtian returned, they learned from him that Pei Xiyuan was actually the Seventh Prince of the Yue Kingdom. He was not favored by the Emperor, having grown up in a military camp. His bravery and numerous military exploits had only gradually won him the Emperor's favor in recent years.
Next month is the Moon Emperor's birthday. It is said that the Moon Emperor is quite fond of the ceramics of Dayan Kingdom. He came to Dayan Kingdom specially to pick a birthday gift for the Moon Emperor.
Unexpectedly, he was a prince. Jane Ning quickly put this person out of her mind. As long as he was not a warmonger and a factor that destroyed peace, she thought she would never have any intersection with this person again.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, she was worrying about the fact that Erniu and Sanniu had eaten too many snacks during the day and neither of them was picking up their chopsticks at the dinner table. When she was thinking about whether she should tell Aunt Feng not to feed them snacks, Pei Xiyuan was carried into the Qin Mansion by several of his men, covered in blood.
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