"Hmm?" Qin Yuesheng couldn't help but look sideways. Your thoughts are very dangerous.
"It's quite real, mainly because the carpenter carved it well. The face and body are so lifelike that with a little makeup it can almost be mistaken for the real thing." Du Tankang answered seriously, touching his chin.
"Then I have an idea, brother. At our opera house, can we hire a carpenter to make some lifelike wooden puppets like these for those famous actors? We can then sell them at a high price to those wealthy spectators who come specifically to support the actors. This way, with low investment and high returns, we should be able to make a lot of money."
Qin Yuesheng glanced sideways again. A life-size wooden figurine? That's a good idea, kid.
"Let's talk about this later. I'll take Yuesheng to see other things first." Du Tankang closed the cabinet door and led Qin Yuesheng to continue walking forward.
A few steps away from the wooden cabinet, there is a four-legged stool. On this stool is placed a two-foot-tall Buddha statue with yellow and black alternating colors. The material of this Buddha statue does not seem to be copper or iron. The surface looks very smooth and can even reflect light. At the same time, the details of each part of the Buddha's body are made very well, making it a fine Buddhist product.
"Yuesheng, I brought this Buddha statue back from Dunhuang. I spent quite a bit of money on it. According to the collector who sold it to me, it's a treasure from the Shaolin Temple that was lost many years ago. Dozens of high-ranking monks have blessed it. Furthermore, this statue can absorb the essence of the sun and moon, transforming it into nourishing spiritual energy that is then fed back to those who touch it."
"Is it really that mysterious?" Qin Yuesheng immediately reached out and pressed on the Buddha statue's head, but did not feel anything unusual.
"It's useless to touch it once or twice. You have to stay with this Buddha for years. The collector who sold it to me is already 68 years old this year, but he looks like he is in his early 40s. This is the effect of this Buddha statue." Du Tankang said with a smile.
Qin Yuesheng was suspicious after hearing this. "Such a good treasure, did that person take the wrong medicine or have his nerves messed up to be willing to sell it to you?"
"Yuesheng, you don't know that although that man was a collector, his family fell into poverty in his later years and he wasn't very well off financially. Plus, when I met him, his son had just been thrown into jail for causing trouble, and he needed money to redeem him. That's how I was able to get such a great deal."
Qin Yuesheng patted the Buddha's head and said, "Interesting. How much is this?"
"If Yuesheng likes it, just pay one thousand taels." Du Tankang said with a smile.
"One thousand..." Even Qin Yuesheng couldn't help choking after hearing the price.
What the hell is this? It only costs one thousand taels. I don’t even know whether the magical effects you mentioned are true or not. If this thing is essentially just a piece of metal, then I’m going to lose a lot of money.
In an instant, Qin Yuesheng slowly shook his head: "Forget it, let's look at something else. I don't have the time to worship Buddha every day."
"It's okay, let's look at something else."
While the three were chatting, a man in brocade clothes who was admiring the treasure not far away suddenly changed his expression, and his whole face instantly became grim and ferocious.
At an angle that Qin Yuesheng couldn't see, the man slowly turned his head, took a step, and walked over quickly.
He picked up the sword on the rack next to him, unsheatheeded it, and swung his hand so that the sword tip was already slashing towards Du Belen who was standing at the end.
"ah!"
Qin Yuesheng, who was listening to Du Tankang introducing the origins of various treasures, suddenly heard a cry of pain. When he looked back, he saw Du Beilun running towards him in panic, covering his arm. Where his palm was pressing, there was a clearly visible sword mark, bleeding, which had dyed most of Du Beilun's sleeve red.
"Brother, Yuesheng, save me!"
Behind Du Belen, the big man in brocade clothes was chasing him with a sword. In the blink of an eye, he stabbed Du Belen twice in the back, leaving him covered with wounds and bleeding profusely.
"You are so brave!" Seeing that someone dared to commit violence and injure others in his own treasure house, and the one who was injured was his own brother, Du Tankang shouted angrily, and suddenly jumped out, kicking the sword in the man's hand away with a kick. When he landed on the ground, he touched the ground with one foot and kicked out with the other foot like a spinning top, just hitting the palm of the man in brocade clothes and kicking the sword in his hand half a foot away.
This set of disarmament was performed smoothly and fluidly, which showed that Du Tankang also had some basic skills in martial arts.
Although the sturdy man in brocade clothes had no sharp weapon in his hand, he was not at all weak. He stretched out his arms and grabbed Du Tankang and gave him a fierce bear hug. This man was eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and strong arms. Even wearing a brocade robe could not hide the undulating outline of his body. It was obvious at a glance that he was a muscular man.
Du Tankang was strangled like this and immediately said that he couldn't bear it. Even though his legs were kicking wildly, there was no effect of resistance.
Everything happened very suddenly. Qin Yuesheng naturally couldn't just watch Du Tankang being strangled to death. He rushed forward and attacked the man in brocade clothes with the Tiger and Crane Double Fist.
However, this person's whole body was unusually hard. Although he was made of flesh and blood, Qin Yuesheng felt as if he was hitting a piece of iron plate. His fists and fingertips were painful from the recoil.
"Could this person have practiced horizontal training kung fu?" A thought flashed through Qin Yuesheng's mind.
He then called out the super assistant and increased his strength to its current limit.
Since his fists were unable to inflict harm on this person, he had to resort to external aid.
Qin Yuesheng turned around and grabbed the Buddha statue's head, then swung it up and smashed it towards the arm of the man in brocade clothes. The Buddha statue probably weighed more than ten pounds, and it was like a blunt weapon when swung out with force. Its power was not something that ordinary people could withstand.
Bang!
The Buddha statue hit him with his elbow, and the man in brocade clothes immediately loosened his grip and threw Du Tankang to the ground.
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