Chapter 329 Dirty Antiques
"I'll go with you," Leng Shaoting said.
"I'm going to rob a tomb. As a XX who specializes in fighting criminals, you didn't stop me and even wanted to accompany me?" Gu Ning teased.
"Since I took such a big risk to accompany you in committing a crime, shouldn't you give me a big reward?" Leng Shaoting looked at Gu Ning with burning eyes. His voice was very ambiguous and meaningful, making the so-called reward seem very improper.
Gu Ning naturally understood what Leng Shaoting meant and glared at him unhappily: "When did you become so talkative?"
"After being with you," Leng Shaoting said seriously, but what he said was not bad. Leng Shaoting became cheerful and talkative only after being with Gu Ning.
Gu Ning choked and glared at him fiercely, but it didn't hurt at all. Instead, it had a certain charm, which made Leng Shaoting, who already had some ideas in his mind, even more distracted. His voice became a little hoarse: "Ningning, if you keep looking at me like this, I can't bear it."
The three words "can't bear it" were filled with passion and desire, and made Gu Ning so angry that he almost couldn't breathe.
Why did she look at him? Didn't she just glare at him? If she couldn't bear to glare at him, then she should just not look at him anymore. He was just a *****. Gu Ning didn't want to pay any more attention to Leng Shaoting, so she walked quickly in front of him and kept a distance from him.
There are three people in "Xiangyunxuan", a store manager and two ordinary employees.
When Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting arrived at the store, there were no customers.
When they saw the guests coming, an employee immediately came over to greet them: "Welcome, please take a look around."
Gu Ning did not reveal her identity immediately, but walked around leisurely without any intention of buying anything. She just wanted to see if these people would change their attitude or drive her away.
The result was good. Gu Ning didn't know whether these people were unhappy or not, but at least they didn't show any displeasure or impatience on their faces. Instead, seeing that Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting stayed for a long time, they poured them two cups of tea.
Just when Gu Ning was about to speak, a middle-aged man came into the store with a sack in his hand.
As soon as he saw this man, Gu Ning narrowed his eyes slightly, because this man had the same complexion as the vendor just now, no, it should be more serious than the previous vendor. His face was pale, his eyes were dull, and his forehead was black.
Obviously, he had come into contact with antiques that had evil auras.
Then, Gu Ning's eyes fell on the sack in the man's hand. Looking inside, he saw a pile of antiques. Of course, they were all fakes.
However, there are two genuine items, one is a bronze wine vessel with a height of 14 cm and a diameter of 7 cm to 10.5 cm; the other is a bronze mirror with coiled dragon pattern with a diameter of 19.3 cm and a weight of 0.527 kg, which is a work from the Warring States Period.
However, the two genuine items were covered with a mixture of white mist and black mist.
Presumably, these two objects and the bronze dagger came from the same place, and they are all bronze artifacts. The age of this tomb should be the Warring States Period, or possibly later.
"I just received a batch of goods from the countryside. Do you want them?" the man asked.
"Come in! Let me take a look first." The manager greeted.
Because their store sells both genuine and imitation handicrafts, as long as the appearance is good and the price is reasonable, they will buy it.
"Wait!" Gu Ning shouted immediately.
The store manager paused, looked at Gu Ning, and asked politely, "Sir, is there anything you need?"
Gu Ning took out his ID and handed it to the store manager. The store manager was surprised and immediately shouted respectfully, "Boss!"
It’s unexpected that the new boss is a young girl. What a surprise!
When the two employees heard this, they were also stunned for a moment, but soon realized that this was their new boss, and immediately shouted respectfully: "Boss!"
Gu Ning nodded in response, and then said to the store manager: "I want to see these things too."
The store manager's name is Chen Darong, he is in his early forties and is a hardworking man. He has been working at Xiangyunxuan for twenty years, starting as an apprentice, so he is naturally professional when it comes to antiques.
"Okay, boss." Chen Darong responded, and he did not mean to look down on Gu Ning just because she was young.
Since she was able to film "Xiangyunxuan", it means that she is not simple, no matter her status or ability. Smart people will not easily judge people by appearance, and will not go against those who are not simple.
Then, Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting followed Chen Darong and the man into the back room of the store.
When they reached the inner room, the man first put the sack down and then opened it.
Gu Ning pretended to flip through the items and took a look, then picked up the bronze wine vessel and the bronze mirror with dragon patterns, and said to Chen Darong, "I'll take these two, Uncle Chen, you can take the others!"
Gu Ning had to remove the negative energy from the two objects before taking them to the store, otherwise everyone in the store would be in trouble.
Chen Darong was stunned when Gu Ning called him "Uncle Chen". He didn't expect the boss to call him like that. However, this title did make him feel closer to him. It seemed that their new boss was not a person who put on airs.
"Okay," Chen Darong responded, without asking why Gu Ning wanted these two!
But since Gu Ning wanted it, Gu Ning paid for it himself. These two things only cost 10,000 yuan. Because the man didn't know that these were real goods, he treated them all as fakes. After all, real goods are really hard to get now! Some dealers would collect them from the countryside and then go to the store to see if they would accept them. If not, they would sell them themselves.
"Where did you get these things?" Gu Ning asked the man.
"From several places! Fengyang Village, Daning Village..." said the man.
Gu Ning suddenly thought of a problem. These authentic items were just unearthed. But if the villagers really took them out from the tombs, they should have known that they were authentic and should not have sold them cheaply to these vendors!
Gu Ning couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment, and he could only find out by checking it out himself.
In the meantime, Gu Ning found an excuse to go to the toilet and put the bronze wine vessel and the copper mirror with dragon pattern into the Jade Eye Space. Because there was spiritual energy in the Jade Eye Space, she let the two items purify in the space, so that she didn't have to directly consume the spiritual energy in her body and make her body uncomfortable.
Gu Ning and Leng Shaoting did not stay long. They left after getting to know everyone and would come back when she returned from Fengyang Village.
However, Gu Ning was not in a hurry to set off for Fengyang Village, because it would be too conspicuous if they went there during the day. After all, they were going to explore tombs, not to travel, so they could only wait until night to quietly enter the village.
Moreover, they couldn't drive in directly, so they had to first check the nearest place to Fengyang Village and where the town hotels were. Then they would book a room in the hotel, park the car in the hotel parking lot, and then walk over.
(End of this chapter)
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