Xia Shao agreed to Yi Ni's proposal.
Placing poison to harm others will inevitably cause karma, but no matter how great the karma is, it is still the fault of the person who planted the poison. Xia Shaozi disapproved of the act of poisoning people for trivial matters, but if the poison was not planted, the person who raised the poison would be backlashed. This was also a fact.
Between their own lives and the lives of others, the vast majority of people in the world will choose the former.
"Your life is not the only thing that matters in this world. If you don't have deep hatred, don't harm other people's lives." Xia Shao knew that these words were a bit judgmental, but she still needed to be reminded. Knowing that someone was poisoning but turning a blind eye, this has touched the bottom of Xia Shao's life. However, Xuanmen's external enemies have not been eliminated, and it is indeed not suitable to make more enemies.
Practicing Gu poison must be passed down. It is easy to deal with one person who makes an enemy, but it is more troublesome to make a family of enemies.
Xia Shao saw that the poison that Yi Ni had given Fang Qian today was not fatal enough, and it was easier for a person to raise the poison to remove the poison, so he finally decided to remind Yi Ni that if she did not touch the bottom line, she could still keep her peace.
This was not a discussion, but a warning. After Xia Shao said this, he turned around and left regardless of whether Yi Ni agreed or not.
Back in the dormitory, Fang Qian seemed to be in much better spirits, but tonight's experience was definitely an unforgettable experience for a girl who had just entered college. When she saw Xia Shao coming back, her eyes became complicated again, but Xia Shao ignored her and went to wash up and go to bed. There will be a military training review tomorrow, and she has to get up early to go to the park to practice Tai Chi with the old man.
As for Yi Ni’s matter, let’s put it aside and wait and see.
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There is a small park opposite Jingcheng University. Early in the morning, as soon as it gets dark, elderly people from nearby communities come here to take a walk and exercise.
At the end of September, the weather in the capital was still hot, and it started to break out at five o'clock in the morning. In the park, there are many old people doing morning exercises, but young people are rare.
But this morning there were several young people in the park, both men and women, jogging around the park. They looked like office workers. Despite seeing so many people, the park suddenly had a new atmosphere. The old people who often come to do morning exercises gathered together for a walk. They were all a little strange. Why were the young people nearby suddenly so diligent today
Just when he was confused, he saw a girl wearing a white sports suit appearing in the park. The troublesome young man forced his wife to have a trial marriage. The girl had a ponytail, her features were picturesque, and her cheeks were as pink as pearls. She looked at her in the dimly lit park and it was hard to take her eyes away. Her sleeves were rolled up casually, her posture was youthful and unrestrained with a bit of leisure, and she looked at people with a smile on her face, which made people feel indescribably comfortable. When she saw the elderly, she nodded slightly and looked at her with loving eyes.
"Whose daughter is this? She looks so pretty!"
"Students from the Capital University across the street, right?"
"Nonsense! How could those students get up so early?"
"You don't look very young, maybe sixteen or seventeen, right? A student from the nearby No. 15 Middle School?"
"Then why don't you get up so early."
The old people were talking and looking at Xia Shao. They saw her walking slowly and leisurely towards a flower bed opposite the square. Next to the flower bed, an old man with gray hair and nearly 80 years of age was slowly doing Tai Chi in white clothes.
Seeing Xia Shao approaching from a distance, the old man closed his eyes and looked very involved in the fight. However, when Xia Shao approached, he grimaced and said, "It's too late!"
Xia Shao couldn't help but look at the clock tower in the square. The time was still two minutes away from five o'clock.
When the old man heard that Xia Shao didn't argue, he opened his eyes to look at her. When he saw her eyes falling on the bell tower, he glared and said irrationally, "You came later than me, an old man. Isn't it too late? Now? Young people are lazy!”
Xia Shao smiled and said, "That's because you come early. And the time you always exercise in the morning is unscientific. The time for morning exercise is not as early as possible. The best time is after the sun comes out, when the air is good. According to the capital According to the true solar time in the area, the sunrise time in September is around 6:30, so you are more than an hour early."
When the old man heard this, his eyes became even more threatening, "You little girl knew this was a bad time, so you didn't remind me yesterday?"
Xia Shao smiled when he heard this, his eyes were crooked as he smiled, like a little fox, "You said you wanted to find our school leader, which scared me, so I forgot about it for a moment."
The old man was immediately choked. With the way he looked at people in all the wind and rain in his life, this girl really didn't look like someone who could scare someone! She is so courageous! It was obvious that she was cheating on him.
The old man snorted, not knowing what to say to her. Xia Shao looked at it with interest and asked, "You always get up so early, don't you have breakfast?"
The old man didn't answer. He didn't say he had eaten or that he hadn't eaten. He really couldn't afford to wake up so early in the morning. The nutritionist had set the time for him to get up and go to bed at night. This morning he got up early because he casually said five o'clock yesterday. There was breakfast to be done in the kitchen, so he waved his hand and refused. Even if you don't eat breakfast, you still have the same day. What can happen? It's just that the people around me were too nervous and kept getting annoyed along the way. I just didn't expect this girl to be so careful.
"There's a breakfast shop over there that's open. The environment is pretty good. I've eaten there a few times and I heard it's old Beijing style. Let's have some breakfast with you?" Xia Shao pointed to an old-style restaurant not far from the park. The antique shop is open, there are many people in front of it, and the business looks good.
"Hmph! I think you're a greedy girl?" The old man said unforgivingly, but he stretched his neck to look at the shop.
Xia Shao suppressed a smile and said, "I'm greedy. It's a good thing that you can always beat the autumn wind."
As expected, Xia Shao received the glare from the old man, but after just a glare, the old man walked forward with his handbag on his back, and lectured as he walked, "I asked you to get up early and accompany me to practice Tai Chi. You'd better do it." It’s just a matter of breakfast time! Today’s young people just love to be lazy.”
The old man muttered and scolded, but walked towards the breakfast shop. I don't know whether it was because he knew he was in the wrong or something else, but his voice seemed less confident.
The girl's disdainful chuckle came from behind, and the old man stiffened his neck and glanced back instead of looking back. There were brisk footsteps from behind, and Xia Shao followed. Seeing the old man walking with his hands behind his back, he corrected him: "It's not appropriate for the elderly to do morning exercises with their hands behind their backs. It's best to hold your chest up, your head up, and swing your arms naturally, which is good for body coordination." Sick and weak "concubine."
"You girl, at such a young age, you are more verbose than an old man!" The old man said ungratefully, but lowered his hand from behind his back.
The two of them walked along the park path, hearing the shouts of the old man and the laughter of the girl. They were both wearing white sportswear. From the back, they looked like grandfather and grandson.
This made other elderly people doing morning exercises in the park look envious. After the two of them walked away, several office workers who were jogging in the park also stopped. Two people went out from the park and ran along the roadside and entered the breakfast shop in front of them. Two people followed them from a distance.
The old Beijing-style breakfast shop introduced by Xia Shao is diagonally opposite Beijing University. The shop is decorated with carved railings and painted red paint, making it very antique. The decoration inside is also full of old wooden tables, clean and bright.
At this time, the people eating breakfast were all nearby residents. The college students had not yet gotten up. Residents were queuing up in front of a row of windows. People in the shop were shouting Beijing movies, holding Xiaolong rice porridge in their hands, and shuttled between tables to eat. In the breakfast room, the diners have hot hands, smiles on their faces, and the smell of alley skewers.
Xia Shao ordered steamed dumplings, tea eggs, fried dough sticks, fried cakes, coke rings, fried liver, rice porridge, soy milk, and a few more side dishes, filling the table.
After seeing this, the old man really wanted to lecture him, "Young people just don't know how to be frugal. How can they finish this table? It's shameful to be wasteful. It's not taught in school?"
"If you can't finish the food, you always pack it up and take it back. Wouldn't it be a waste?" No matter which one it is, it’s not too much, it’s just that there are more kinds, which makes it look richer. Although it is not good to eat something too greasy in the morning, fried liver, bean juice, fried rings, fried cakes, fried dough sticks, etc. are must-have breakfast items on the breakfast table in the old capital.
Xia Shao was suspicious of the old man's identity. If it was really the person she guessed, he must have not had breakfast in a private shop for a long time. The old man's recipes must be well-equipped, and the flavors of old Beijing may not be the best. By letting him eat everything at the table, Xia Shao was just letting the old man reminisce about the past.
Besides…
This table can't be finished, so there's probably no need to pack it away. In addition to the two tables in the store, there were also people outside among the office workers in the park, so they could finish their meal after just one portion.
Xia Shao lowered her eyes and smiled a little deeply. What is her cultivation level now? No matter how similar these people pretended to be, how could she really think that she couldn't feel the glances that came to her from time to time while running in the park, and the pair who were following far behind just now
Because of this, Xia Shao became more certain about the identity of the old man in front of him.
Looking at the face of the old man, if there is damage to the left side of the children's palace, one of his sons must have died before him. However, if the three Yangs are full and the people are deep, he will have children, grandsons, and wives, and he will be blessed with good fortune, wealth, and nobility. Coupled with the old man's appearance, Xia Shao already knew it.
Mr. Xu.
After Xu Tianyin proposed, Xia Shao thought about the various reactions of the Xu family, but she never expected to see the old man in this way. What's more, I didn't expect that the famous old man who was rumored to have such a temper. Senior brother talks so little, and with such an old man who loves to lecture, I really don’t know how the grandfather and grandson can get along with each other.
Xia Shao lowered her eyes and smiled, then peeled off a tea egg for the old man and put it on the dishes. The old man raised his eyes and saw the unique and expensive ring on Xia Shao's finger. He paused for a moment and took a sip of porridge without saying anything.
Xia Shao looked at the old man's appetite and didn't let him eat too much, but it was obvious that the old man liked this restaurant very much. After taking two bites, he raised his head to look at the residents queuing up to buy food, and stared at the dishes on the table. He ate very slowly, and his eyes showed nostalgic emotions from time to time.
This breakfast took a long time, and it was already past six o'clock after finishing it. Xia Shao sat with the old man for half an hour, packing up the rest of the breakfast, and then the two of them strolled back to the park.
I originally thought I would take a walk and practice Tai Chi when I got back, but I didn’t expect that when I returned to the park, I saw a bunch of people gathering in the square.
Xia Shao and the old man were both curious, and then walked over.
Only after I got there did I realize that someone setting up a stall had arrived on the ground at some point. What was on display was not trinkets, but some antiques.
This is not Panjiayuan. The objects that come to the park to practice stalls are basically unreal. On display at the stall were ancient coins, porcelain suspected to be from Ge Kiln and Ru Kiln, and some calligraphy and paintings by celebrities.
The people who came around were all old people. Although their names were fake, they were still picking and criticizing on the ground with their hands behind their backs.
For the passion for antiques, Beijing dares to claim the first place, and no one dares to claim the second place. A group of old men gathered around and immediately discovered something interesting and started talking about it.
"Hey! Stall owner, do you have Da Qi Tong Bao here? Don't be an eye-catcher."
Although the antique industry is taboo about commenting on the authenticity of objects in front of a group of people, this is not an antique market, it is a single stall in the square, and the objects set up by the people here are basically not authentic. Therefore, these words were not meant to ruin the scene, but seemed to be a bit of a joke.
The stall owner is a young man, tall and thin, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin. He looks like a thin monkey. At first glance, he looks like a cunning person. But unexpectedly, he spoke sincerely and immediately laughed, "What's the matter, old man? Do you think this Da Qitong Bao is real? If this thing is real, I will definitely send it to the auction house. That's the starting bid With a price tag of one million, how can I still throw it on the ground for you to touch? If you can afford it, you can’t afford to pay for it!"
"Huh? Are you still an honest person?" Seeing that the stall owner actually told the truth, the group of old people surrounding him were surprised. Normally in this kind of situation, shouldn't you try your best to make up a story to make people feel dizzy and make them want to go home and get money to buy it
"Young man, you are quite a man! However, the objects on your stall are not real, why do you want us to see them?"
"Haha, young man, you are interesting. You don't want to make money by setting up a stall here?"
"Hey! I don't want to spend money here to coax you old people. I might as well go to Panjiayuan to coax those rich bastards! You are all old people. I cheated you. Go home, my mother. You have to beat me to death. If you don't do it, it would be too bad for your moral character." The young stall owner curled his lips and waved his hands. The old people around him all said "yo" after hearing this. It seemed that this young man didn't seem to be a law-abiding person. If he really was a law-abiding person, he wouldn't lie about going to Panjiayuan to fool people, knowing that it was a lie. But it seems that this man is still filial and knows not to cheat the elderly.
Seeing this, the old people couldn't help but have a good impression of the young stall owner.
At this time, an old man smiled with his hands behind his back, "Young man, just tell the truth! You, even us old people can't be fooled today! Hehe, we have experts here today!"
As soon as these words came out, not only the young stall owner was stunned, but Xia Shao was also stunned.
The old man who spoke pointed his hand at a wealthy man in his sixties next to him, "Have you seen this one? Mr. Yu, an expert from the Palace Museum, has been on the treasure hunt column. Even though he retired this year, his eyesight is still there. exist!"
The old people around suddenly looked at the old man with a roar. Several old people looked carefully and recognized the person.
"Hey! Yu Lao! Is it really Yu Lao?"
"Mr. Yu, I can actually see you here. Why do you always take a walk here? I haven't seen you before."
The old expert named Yu clasped his hands behind his back and smiled and said: "Isn't this retirement? Stay at my son's house for two days and see my grandson! I was dragged by the old horse for a walk this morning."
"Really? That's great! I have a Ru kiln that I have collected for many years at home. Are you always free to appraise it?"
"I have a collection of rare books at home that are quite old. Will you always read them when you have time?"
"I also have a calligraphy and painting at home. I don't know whether it is authentic or not."
"My family also has..."
A group of old people gathered around, their eyes burning.
The young stall owner squatted on the ground and listened, and suddenly smiled, "De Jiangye! I met an expert! Well, I'll just tell the truth," the stall owner squatted casually and casually stretched out his hand to sweep himself He circled the corner of a pile of ancient coins and said, "Let me tell you the truth, those Guangxu Tongbao are genuine, but some are expensive and some are cheap. Those two coins with Xiaoping in regular script have the word '村' on the back." 100 Oceans, the regular script Xiaoping with the character 'Gui' on the back is 200 Oceans! That piece over there with the regular script Xiaoping with the character 'Su' on the back is a fine piece, with a market price of 1,800 Oceans! If you are interested, I can give you the exact price. Other calligraphy and painting porcelain, you guys, don’t look down on it, they are cheap goods!”
Several old people heard this and shouted, one or two hundred is fine, but more than one thousand feels a bit expensive. Everyone went to see Yu Lao. Yu Lao knelt down and picked them up one by one, looked at them, and nodded.
real!
A group of old people squatted down one after another. For antique lovers, even if it is an authentic item worth only a few hundred yuan, it is still authentic in their eyes. It is also a rare opportunity to observe and learn up close. Besides, they are ordinary people, how can they have so many opportunities to come into contact with genuine products? As soon as they heard it was true, they all squatted down with eager eyes.
The young stall owner squatted on the ground and saw that most of the old people were looking at the one thousand and eighty copper coins. Many of them thought it was expensive, so they laughed and said: "Is this expensive? You old people are very careful. The most expensive one is here! This Guangxu Tongbao in regular script with Xiaoping on the back and Baoyuan Bureau carving mother and child has a market price of 5,500 oceans!"
Several old people stared wide-eyed, "More than five thousand?"
Nowadays, even in the capital, five thousand yuan is equivalent to two months' salary of an ordinary working class person.
Mr. Yu nodded again, and a group of old people looked at the small copper plate worth more than 5,000 yuan with glaring eyes.
At this time, an old man let out a sigh and said, "What kind of money is this? It looks like a key."
When he said this, a group of people looked over and saw that the old man was holding a coin that looked like a copper coin. It had a square hole, a round shape, and a shape underneath that really looked like a key.
The copper coins are stained with rust, and few people can understand the characters on them. They can only see that they are incised, and then they are filled with unknown materials and polished until the characters are flush with the front. Such coins are rare, and no one can tell which dynasty or generation they are from. But what is certain is that this coin is not within the circle of the young stall owner.
In other words, it is not the real thing.
Although it is not true, some people are curious about what coin it is. As a result, the old people all looked at Yu Lao.
But before Mr. Yu could speak, the young stall owner started to explain.
"Aren't you guys too knowledgeable? This is a golden knife. Does Wang Mang know? This is a copper coin made by Wang Mang after he usurped the Han Dynasty. The words are inscribed. If it is genuine, the words filled in are gold! However, This is definitely not true. If it were true, this thing would be more valuable than Daqi Tongbao! Wang Mang's time to usurp the Han Dynasty was too short, and money circulated very little. There are only a few pieces handed down from generation to generation. Currently, there is no price in the market. Hehe , this is what I picked up at random and made it out of a mold, just take a look at it."
No market price
Several old people looked at each other.
What is the concept? That is to say, if it is true, it is worth a lot of money!
There is no one who does not dream of picking up lost treasures, and no one does not wish that the priceless antique in front of him is the pearl left in the ocean and he has picked it up. But it was obvious that it was false, and many old people could only sigh with regret.
But among a row of regretful glances, there was only one look that seemed to have changed.
Yu Lao.
Yu Lao's eyes changed slightly, but no one saw it. Only the old man named Ma beside him who was familiar with him saw it.
The old man's heart thumped and he looked at Yu Lao. Mr. Yu turned his head and gave him a look. Mr. Ma's expression suddenly changed and he seemed to be breathing a little quickly.