This is a very spacious terrace.

The terrace is located on the third floor. The weather is very good, so sitting here you can see the bright and rippling lake opposite, which looks as dazzling as melted gold. The mountains in the distance also stretch across the fresh air, which looks quite charming.

Even in this luxurious club, the terrace where Du Yuqi is located is considered a prime location.

Du Yuqi leaned comfortably on the recliner and took a nap with his eyes closed. Next to his left hand was a book, "Pride and Prejudice", and on the table next to his right hand was a cup of coffee and a stack of freshly baked cookies that were still warm.

This time he was away for too long. It has been three days since he came back, but Du Yuqi still hasn't recovered. He felt like a piece of porcelain. It looked intact, but upon closer inspection, he could find that it was covered with cracks and needed to be properly cared for.

So in the past few days, he would never stand when he could sit, and would never sit when he could lie down. But his mind did not stop, digesting the kendo experience he got from Casillas, and trying to apply this experience in actual combat!

At this time, a white waiter with blond hair came to Du Yuqi with one hand behind his back, bowed slightly and whispered to him:

"Hello, sir."

The white man spoke very standard Mandarin, even better than Du Yuqi. Du Yuqi opened his eyes and said lazily:

"What is it?"

The white waiter said politely:

"I'm Paul. I'm glad to serve you. Your membership card is a diamond card, so you will be given a special dessert. Would you like a Shizuoka melon or a strawberry Arnold ice cream from Nottingham?"

"Huh?" Du Yuqi immediately became interested. He had heard of the luxury fruit Shizuoka honeydew melon, which sold for 1,600 RMB per piece.

The Shizuoka honeydew melon is called "one tree, one fruit", which means that only one melon grows on a vine. In order to grow the best quality honeydew melons, the melon farmers in Shizuoka remove all other melons on a vine to ensure that sufficient and rich nutrition is provided to this single melon.

Shizuoka melons use the heat from hot springs to heat the greenhouse to maintain the temperature in the planting shed, so that delicious melons with stable quality and sweetness of up to 16 degrees can be produced all year round.

Because of its high price, there are many counterfeits, but I guess a place like this would not embarrass itself by selling counterfeit and shoddy products.

Soon, a plate of chilled Shizuoka honeydew melon was brought to Du Yuqi. The flesh of the melon was a mixture of light green and golden yellow, and it was emitting a slight chill. It melted in the mouth, and a refreshing feeling was transmitted directly to the brain, making people feel extraordinarily comfortable.

At this time, Du Yuqi felt that someone seemed to be staring at him. He suddenly turned around and found three people sitting at a table a few meters away. The person staring at him was an old man wearing a Tang suit and looking energetic. After their eyes met, the old man nodded, smiled apologetically, and looked away.

Then, the terrace door was opened, and under the guidance of the waiter, Young Master Chu rushed over, loosened his tie, and drank the glass of lemonade in front of him. Then he exhaled and said with a beaming face:

"Good stuff, really good stuff! Do you have any more? Bear Run Soup and Deer Singing Soup are both fine. I'll take as many as I can!"

Du Yuqi thought to himself that the fish had finally taken the bait, so he said simply:

"Right now I only have two doses of Xiong Ben Tang and one dose of Lu Ming Tang."

Young Master Chu immediately said:

"I want them all. When can you give them to me? After taking the Luming Decoction, I felt like my virility was restored. What's even more rare is that your stuff has a very long-lasting effect and has no side effects at all. I will definitely take this dose back to show my filial piety."

Du Yuqi said:

"You can ask someone to get it from me in the evening, but once these three doses are made, the raw materials will be insufficient."

Young Master Chu laughed and said:

"Don't worry. Why did we meet here this time? It's because I already have an appointment."

After the two chatted for a few sentences, they saw a waiter coming over with a woman with short hair. The woman was dressed in an OL outfit and looked smart and capable. Young Master Chu immediately stood up to greet her. The two of them talked directly in English for a few sentences. Then the woman made an apologetic gesture and walked to the next seat to say hello. It seemed that the two sides were old acquaintances.

Du Yuqi noticed that the old man who had been looking at him before was of very high status, and the woman introduced by Young Master Chu showed respect from the bottom of her heart when she saluted.

Immediately after the woman came back, Mr. Chu introduced her as Michelle, a senior executive at Christie's auction house with a wide social network. This time, she invited two clients who liked collecting and were interested in cashing out to come, and Mr. Chu promised to give a 15% agency fee.

Soon, the two clients that Michelle had made an appointment with arrived. Of course, the two parties could not discuss business outside, but there were many empty meeting rooms here, so the two sides began to negotiate closely.

However, the negotiation and cooperation this time was not very smooth, because the two sides actually presented a very strange relationship. The seller of antiques felt that he was very sincere and brought the best of antiques. However, although Du Yuqi wanted antiques, they had to be things that had left their mark in history. Some of these things were very valuable, such as the Heshi Bi, but some of them might not have high collection value, such as the pen Du Yuqi got before...

Because of this, the antique seller felt that the two buyers looked unreliable - because they both looked very young at first glance - and they were actually unreliable in the subsequent conversation and had no idea of ​​the goods when they purchased.

Fortunately, Du Yuqi finally found a cultural relic among the goods brought by the first customer. To be precise, it was a cultural relic with the power of time.

This thing is a bowl, and the firing craftsmanship is very exquisite, but there is no pattern on the bottom of the bowl, which means it is destined not to be sold at a high price.

After Du Yuqi picked up the bowl, he saw a strange scene inside. A eunuch dressed in Qing Dynasty clothing was holding the bowl and giving medicine to a bedridden young man. The young man lived in a very ordinary place and died soon after. The young man was wearing bright yellow clothes and there was a dragon pattern on his pillow.

Du Yuqi thought about it and recalled that when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, Empress Dowager Cixi felt that her life was coming to an end, so she sent Li Lianying to give Guangxu a bowl of medicine to poison him. The most common arsenic was used, and as a result, Empress Dowager Cixi also died the next day.

Because Guangxu wanted to drive Yuan Shikai and conspire with him to imprison Cixi during the Hundred Days' Reform, Cixi was very harsh on him. That's why he lived in a very poor place and had no enjoyment of an emperor.

The bowl that was obtained should be the one that Li Lianying used to store arsenic that day. No one knows how it was passed down.

The first customer secretly laughed at the two young men for not knowing the value of goods, so he made a huge offer when he made the offer. This porcelain bowl was from a folk kiln in the Qing Dynasty and had no style. Although it was exquisite, its market price was only 60,000 yuan. He directly asked for 200,000 yuan, which was already the top price for porcelain from a folk kiln in the Qing Dynasty.

Young Master Chu asked the invited expert about it and decided on it straightforwardly. He felt happy because he had made a lot of money on this matter, so even though the client laughed at him in his heart, he still acted very polite on the surface.

However, the second customer was of bad temper. When he found that the two young men were picking the things he brought without any plan, he immediately got angry. Both sides had a very unpleasant argument. The root of the problem was centered on the inkstone that Du Yuqi liked.

According to the customer, this inkstone is very famous. It is a piece of rare stone that Zheng Banqiao found himself and had a famous artist carve it. He cherishes it very much and has used it for twenty years, so the price is very high.

However, the clue of the power of time that Du Yuqi read from it, the most brilliant moment of this pen, was when it wrote a line of words:

Before you look at this flower, it and your heart are both in silence. When you look at this flower, its color becomes clear all at once. Then you know that this flower is not outside of your heart!

This line of words is very famous, and it is the foundation of Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind. Wang Yangming lived in the Ming Dynasty, nearly two hundred years apart from Zheng Banqiao. How could it be possible that it was carved from a stone that Zheng Banqiao found himself?