Chapter 125 Chapter 125
After the gambling craze last year, Mr. Xu's jade shop is still a well-known attraction on Bincheng Antique Street.
However, compared to the craze last year, more tourists come here to observe and visit. Even if they buy stones, most of them buy within their means. Regardless of whether green stones appear or not, they pay for the momentary emotional value.
Ayan and Zhu Jue finally chose the gold and jade peace lock. Although the shape is simple, the material is good, and the interweaving of gold and jade itself is an excellent symbol.
Although they had completed today's main KPI of going out in the morning, Ayan and Zhu Jue were not in a hurry to leave.
The safety locks for the two stepdaughters are naturally one for Big An An and one for Little An An. Taking into account the big age gap between the two "stepdaughters", in order to show that they are treated equally, A Yan and Zhu Jue reserved two of the same model.
The gold-inlaid jade peace lock has the jade lock part embedded in the middle and can be removed individually or worn together.
Especially for today's Xiao An An, the Ping An lock is too big, so she can only wear the small jade lock part, while the big An An can be worn directly as a whole.
Ah Yan was very satisfied with this choice. Of course, the price was also high.
Two five-digit security locks.
However, the wool comes from the sheep.
Although Officer Zheng Yi's bonus has not yet arrived, Ah Yan quietly paid it back in advance.
After all, the 500,000 yuan seized in the school last week should have been Lin Fan's credit.
After paying the deposit at the jade shop, Ayan and Zhu Jue decided to take a stroll and see the shops that Boss Tu mentioned were trying hard to catch up with the Internet era.
Especially——
The spell-casting master they had passed by earlier.
Boss Tu was not interested in this and let the two of them walk around on their own while he went back to look after the store. If there were any purchases to make, they could contact him to bargain.
"Family members, please look at the food and restaurant explorations. Today I will take you to an antique shop exploration."
"Behind me is our Bincheng's famous antique street. Look at this shop. The staff are all wearing traditional clothes. It feels like going back hundreds of years. It's very immersive..."
A Yan and Zhu Jue quietly passed by a host who was filming with his team. There were also some retail stalls over there, with some people setting up stands and filming their stalls for the day, selling goods simultaneously on the real world network.
But not all shops are like this. As far as the two people were concerned, some conservative shops were still the same old way, opening their doors and waiting for customers to come.
With the development of the times, the impact of new technologies on traditional industries finally reached the antique street.
As the old saying goes: Antiques are valuable in prosperous times, and gold is valuable in troubled times.
But for ordinary people, antiques are the business of the rich and enthusiasts.
Most of the tourists who come to the Antique Street come to see the excitement. At most, they carefully look for treasures in the stalls. Some treat the antique shops as museums and go in for a tour to broaden their horizons.
A Yan and Zhu Jue returned to the shop of the man in the hood.
At this moment, the two saw him holding a magic wand and chanting something to the tourists passing by, which attracted a lot of onlookers and really attracted many people to enter the store.
This store is different from traditional antique shops. It is equipped with special glass windows. Standing here, you can see the scene inside the store.
Ancient bookshelves, crystal balls, black and white candles burning with flames, the hexagram emblem seemed to be engraved on the floor, and the yellowed book propped up at the door seemed to be waiting for someone to turn to the next page.
Ah Yan and Jue Jue followed the crowd and entered carefully. Many people started taking pictures with their mobile phones, while the two of them were observing the store.
The books on the bookshelf are all real, not just sample cardboard boxes for display. The part near the door is obviously the main product.
There are parchment scrolls, various crystal energy stones, aromatherapy candles, herbs, exclusive tarot cards, and cultural and creative items such as refrigerator magnets. The cash register is even a century-old typewriter that can print out each person's exclusive receipt, signed with a quill pen.
Watching the shop owner's operation, Ah Yan thought to himself that this was a typical example of capturing the hearts of the target audience. It was really hard not to take something away when you come here. Many people walked to the deeper part of the store, and because there were mostly bookshelves, they turned back to the door, but Ah Yan and Zhu Jue looked carefully at these books and the entire set of Chinese medicine cabinets.
This was not a bookstore, and the two of them could not touch other people's books without permission. They just glanced at the spines of the books and identified several languages.
If it weren't for the fact that when I passed by here with Boss Tu, I heard the owner muttering something a bit suspicious, this place would look like a small "magic shop", the kind of place that Xiao Hongshu would definitely check in.
The old clock in the store rang. Ah Yan took Jue Jue's hand and looked at the time. It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
The previous wave of customers who came into the store finished taking photos and buying things. For a moment, only Ayan and Juejue were left.
"Sorry, our store is temporarily closed." He was about to close the store door, but when he turned around, he suddenly found that there were still two customers there.
"Well, let's go now." Ah Yan pulled Jue Jue and prepared to leave. She originally planned to buy something as a token of her appreciation, but if the store was closing, she had better not disturb others' rest.
Anyway, the shop owner is not a well-known person, maybe he was muttering some chuunibyou lines just now.
"Wait!" The shop owner suddenly called out to the two of them.
"You seem familiar. I seem to have seen you before." He closed his eyes, as if searching his memory, and the whole process lasted no more than three seconds.
"Master Tu's people?" he asked.
Ayan and Juejue were both stunned by his action. They nodded, and saw the shop owner just raised his hand.
"Wait a minute!"
"I have to go to the bathroom urgently. Please help me watch the store for a while and come out immediately."
"Oh, by the way, my last name is Zhuo, Zhuosi, just call me Xiao Zhuo." He said this like a machine gun and rushed into the back of the store.
Ah Yan Jue Jue:......
Where does this sudden honesty and trust come from?
The two of them stayed at the door of the store, but the temporarily closed sign was already hung outside, and Ah Yan took out his cell phone.
"What should we have for lunch?"
The two of them had not yet finished the milk tea that Boss Tu had ordered. Now, holding it in their hands, the originally hot drink had already turned warm, and Ah Yan sipped it intermittently.
The store was very quiet. Ah Yan and Jue Jue spent ten minutes choosing what to eat for lunch. They decided to have beef hotpot, but Xiao Zhuo hadn't come out yet.
There were three urgent things to do, so the two of them squatted on the ground and started checking the prices of group purchase packages on different apps.
By the time Zhuosi came out, Ayan had already completed the group purchase.
"Thank you, no one is coming?" Zhuo Si asked.
"No, then let's go and have dinner." Ah Yan stood up and looked up, and the next second he was stunned.
"What's wrong?" Zhuo Si asked.
"It's okay. My legs are a little numb from squatting for so long. Ouch, Jue Jue." Ah Yan hissed and immediately leaned on Jue Jue and squeezed his palm.
It’s killing me.
How come a new halo suddenly appeared on this person's head in just ten minutes?
Huh? Can halos still grow now?
【News Intern】
What is this? And it looks like the color of this halo is much lighter than that of her roommates!
Why are the Halo prompts becoming more and more confusing?
Ah Yan pretended that his legs were numb and let Ruo Xi hold him and walk out of the store. After they walked a distance, they whispered quickly.
After the two left, Zhuo Si locked the shop door and officially closed the shop. He also posted a notice on the shop account that the shop was closed.
After pulling down the curtains on the glass windows to make sure that no one outside could see into the store, Zhuo Si almost cried out to the sky.
It’s here, it’s finally here!
Just now, he replaced the ancient book spell that he had been reciting for three days with another ritual, and the ritual finally worked!
That ritual of summoning the space-time gate doesn't work at all. The old man who sold me this ritual at a high price swore that it would work, and that it was a secret passed down in his family for hundreds of years, and that once I enter, I can trade anything. It's useless!
It's not as effective as the secret rituals of the underworld that I saw on the ghost story website!
That magnificent voice announced that it had been selected and that it would begin the anomalous news trial within seven days and become an anomalous news intern.
He has dreamed of having the adventures in martial arts novels since he was a child. After studying the occult for many years, he finally got his chance!
Zhuo Si almost cried with joy!
The unknown power, the existence beyond reality, this is the "mystery" he has been pursuing, and it has finally arrived!