Less than two days after the registration, the formal class started, and another roommate in the dormitory, Han Xing, also returned to the dormitory on time.
Han Xing is from the Northeast, but he is not very tall and burly, on the contrary, he is a bit thin. He has a cheerful personality and is quite righteous. He is particularly fascinated by cs. He organized a team by himself and often took the team out Playing games, in the cs circle, can be considered a little famous.
The days passed peacefully, nothing special happened, except for attending classes, Zhao Rui found a secluded place to practice "Eight Desolation Killing Immortals" every day.
In addition, he sometimes goes to the school library to borrow some ancient myths and legends and various historical materials about magic tools.
The reason why he borrowed these materials was mainly to learn more about comprehension. He had never been exposed to this kind of knowledge before.
This morning, he was leaning against the bed, staring at a stack of documents in a daze, when his cell phone rang suddenly.
Zhao Rui picked it up and heard that it was Sun Xiaolan calling.
"Xiao Rui, do you have time?"
"Yes! What's the matter? Miss Xiaolan?"
"If you have time, just go out with me!"
"Where are you going?" Zhao Rui asked, rubbing his forehead wearily.
"The gate of the academy."
"School gate? That's the antique market, why go there if you have nothing to do?" Zhao Rui was a little puzzled.
"My mother's birthday is next week, and I want to buy her some presents."
"Oh? It's my aunt's birthday! You need to buy a gift. But the gate of the academy is very deep, and it's very difficult for people who don't know how to buy genuine goods. Even if they do, they may not be worth the price."
Sun Xiaolan said on the other end of the phone: "It's okay, it's okay. I don't have much money on me, and I don't plan to buy any expensive antiques. I spend a little money to find a little thing to make my mother happy. At worst, I buy an imitation and put it at home." It's good to have a look."
"In this case... that's fine, I'll come down right away, where are you waiting for me?"
"Basketball court."
"Hey, okay, I'll be there right away." Zhao Rui agreed and began to change clothes and shoes.
This Saturday, Zhou Wei went to the Conservatory of Music as early as last night to have sex with girls, and there is still no one there. Han Xing and Luo Cheng played cs online with other dormitories because they were late, and they played until three or four in the morning. He was sleeping with his head covered, but he read the materials for several hours in the dormitory. It was really boring.
After meeting Sun Xiaolan at the basketball court, the two left the school directly and headed for the gate of the academy by car.
The gate of the academy is not a door, but a street. On both sides of the street, there are more than 100 shops such as rubbings of rubbings, antique calligraphy and paintings, seals and books, and the four treasures of the study.
The red lacquered lattice door of the small shop is half open, and large and small lake pens hang down from the eaves of the door, carrying a strong ancient charm.
Occasionally, you can also see some hawkers secretly setting up stalls on this street, but as soon as the urban management came, they rolled up their things and dispersed.
Dong'an is an ancient capital, and the antique trade is extremely prosperous. As the largest antique market in Dong'an City, Shuyuanmen has many open and secret transactions. It is not easy for people who can do business here.
It was probably due to Saturday, and this street was originally a famous tourist attraction, and the narrow street was full of people, coming and going.
Sun Xiaolan happily looked here and there, and from time to time went to the shop on the street to pick out some small items and bargain with the boss, but after shopping for a long time, she ended up not buying anything.
"That's what I call inquiring about the market." Fearing that Zhao Rui would be impatient, Sun Xiaolan defended herself solemnly.
Zhao Rui is angry and funny, obviously with a budget of several hundred yuan, there are very few things you can buy here, and you even talk about inquiring about the market, in fact, you just like shopping, but seeing her in such high spirits, I don’t It's good to expose her.
Before she had time to speak, Sun Xiaolan suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed forward: "Hey, let's go to that antique shop to have a look!"
After finishing speaking, he ran over quickly, Zhao Rui could only smile wryly, and followed behind.
It was a rather grand antique shop, with a small three-story building. The decoration inside was luxurious, but not tacky. A few shop assistants in Tang suits were standing inside.
Zhao Rui looked up at the plaque of this antique shop. The three gilt characters of "Jibaozhai" reflected the sunlight, making people dazzled a little.
"Jibaozhai?"
He felt that the name sounded familiar, and when he thought about it, he suddenly remembered that when he was working as a part-time waiter in a bar, he heard a customer say that this Jibaozhai seems to be the largest antique shop in Shuyuanmen, with nearly Twenty years of history. The owner, Wu Liang, started his business by robbing tombs. He has a group of highly skilled tomb thieves. He has great influence in the Shuyuanmen area. At least half of the antiques in the antique shop are of unknown origin. Because of the oblique relationship, so until now, it has been as peaceful as Mount Tai, and nothing has gone wrong.
After 20 years of wealth accumulation, Wu Liang can be said to be quite wealthy, but he is extremely stingy and always compares pennies and pennies. In addition, he has another "problem", that is, he doesn't trust anyone except himself, no matter what. Do everything yourself. Doing business with him is pretty good if you don't get scammed, but it's even more difficult to make a profit.
Zhao Rui originally wanted to call Sun Xiaolan to stop, but Sun Xiaolan had already run into the store at this time, so he had no choice but to follow in.
When the clerk in the store saw the two people coming in, he glanced at them, then turned his eyes away, and didn't go up to greet them. After working as a clerk in Jibaozhai for such a long time, his eyesight has been trained so viciously that he can tell at a glance who is here to buy things and who is not here to stroll around.
Obviously, the two people who came in now belonged to the latter, and they were too lazy to entertain.
Sun Xiaolan is indeed the kind of person who wanders around, entering the store to pick out some exquisite antiques for viewing.
But Zhao Rui was different. The moment he stepped into Jibaozhai, he noticed that all the antiques in Jibaozhai had a faint aura, and each kind of antique had aura. different.
Zhao Rui felt strange at first, but after careful consideration, he realized that most of these antiques were buried underground, and did not appear in the world until they were unearthed by accident. Absorbing the aura of heaven and earth for a long time underground, you will definitely bring a little bit with you. And the longer the buried time, the more aura contained in the antique.
In addition, those exquisitely crafted antiques condense the wisdom and inspiration of the creators, and there are more spiritual energy contained in them.
As for those imitation fakes, it is naturally impossible to contain any aura, and they can be distinguished at a glance.
After Zhao Rui figured this out, he felt a little happy, and began to wonder if he could use this ability to pick up leaks in antique shops, take the opportunity to make a fortune, and completely lift himself out of poverty and become prosperous.
However, after wandering around in Jibaozhai, he realized that the antiques here are quite expensive, and there is no room for him to miss them.
Zhao Rui's plan to pick up the leak was shattered immediately, and he couldn't help feeling greatly disappointed, and was about to call Luo Cheng to leave, when suddenly, he found a small pale yellow jade tablet placed in an inconspicuous corner of the glass counter.
This jade tablet is simple in style but dull in luster, and because it is far away, it can't be seen clearly for a while.
Zhao Rui's attention was attracted by this jade card almost instantly, because he faintly felt an extremely powerful aura on this jade card!
Zhao Rui walked to the counter, carefully examined the jade plaque, and his heart beat suddenly.
This jade tablet is actually made of earth core jade!
The so-called earth-centered jade essence refers to the deep-buried underground jade mine, after thousands of years of scouring, after absorbing the spiritual energy of the world, all the essence is gathered on a small piece of spiritual jade.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of jade can produce such a piece of jade essence!
In the core of the earth jade essence, there is an extremely huge spiritual power, which is of great help to the practitioners. If absorbed properly, it can even greatly improve the strength of the practitioners in a short period of time!
Zhao Rui focused on raising his strength to the middle stage of seizing souls, and this piece of earth core jade essence undoubtedly played an extremely important role for him!