606 Antique Street in the South of the City
The auntie was stunned as she looked at the extremely beautiful woman.
Chu Yan’s eyebrows were like distant mountains, elegant and refined as if she had walked out of a painting. Her eyes were like autumn water, and she had a celestial appearance. She was beautiful and intelligent.
The first time you saw her, it was enough to leave a deep impression on you.
When she was idle and quiet, she was like a delicate flower shining on the water. When she moved, she was like a weak willow blowing in the wind. She was like a light cloud covering the moon. She was like floating snow in the wind! Perhaps only such a sentence could describe this girl’s temperament!
The auntie had never seen such an outstanding girl in her life. She knew that the flirtatious people around her could not compare to this girl, so she left dejectedly.
“Who is she?” Chu Yan walked over and asked Lu Benwei.
“She asked me for directions. I told her it was my first time here, so she was a little disappointed.”
Chu Yan replied with an “oh” and then rubbed her little canine teeth. “Guess what I asked?”
“What good news did you hear?” Lu Benwei listened curiously.
“There are many antique markets in Rodu, but most of them are a mix of good and bad. Many vendors sell genuine and fake goods!” Chu Yan said as she put her hands on her hips angrily.
“Many tourists felt that they had picked up something good at first, but when they returned home, they found out that they had bought a fake. They could only swallow their anger. Those who couldn’t take this came to Rodu to seek an explanation from the merchants and hawkers. In the end, the merchants and hawkers refused to admit their mistake.”
After a pause, Chu Yan’s eyes became clear.
“The Rodu family felt that this would damage the image of Rodu, so they spent money to work with the contractor of the oldest antique street in the south of the city to renovate the market.
“Every day, the Public Order Squad will patrol the area. As soon as you find that you have bought a fake, you can go to the Public Order Squad to ask for a refund from the Shang family. Even if you find out that the goods aren’t the same when you get home, you can still use the receipt to return the goods.”
Lu Benwei nodded. He felt that this antique street in the south of the city was quite formal.
Their purpose for coming here was to find one or two divine materials from the ancient Dragon Kingdom or to forge another Ancient Sword of Clarity.
“In that case, let’s head to the south of the city.”
The two of them were very fast. The airport was nearly 80 miles away from the south of the city. In just ten minutes, they arrived at the antique street in the south of the city.
This was an antique street. On both sides were simple stone houses. The paint on the outer walls had long fallen off, revealing green-gray stone bricks. There was moss between the cracks of the bricks.
The road in the middle was paved with green bricks. People came and went to grind the edges and corners of the bricks. The surface was so smooth that it could reflect people’s shadows.
Lu Benwei did not enter those stone houses. There were shops inside, and the antiques inside were “genuine” and expensive.
Like most people, they wanted to walk around the peddlers in the middle of the street. They might be able to pick up something.
However, those peddlers were extremely enthusiastic because of this. They bared their big yellow teeth and kept shouting.
“The Buddha statue that flowed out of the White Horse Temple is genuine.”
“Take a look. I have the leftover materials of the Emperor Ice Seed here. The price is affordable. If you can’t buy it, you’ll be fooled!”
After walking around, Lu Benwei found a big problem. There were almost no genuine treasures that could make people’s eyes light up.
The establishment of the Public Order Squad solved the problem of tourists being cheated of money. However, it also cut off the source of income for some small stalls.
After all, how could there be so many burial items and treasures of the ancient Dragon Kingdom?
The small merchants and peddlers might as well sell those things directly on the surface. With a little rhetoric, they could double the cost of modern crafts that were originally only a few gold coins.
“Are you sure this is the skull of Cao Aman, the noble of the ancient Dragon Kingdom?”
Beside Lu Benwei, a tourist was holding a skull and asking the stall owner.
“Absolutely!”
The stall owner grinned, revealing a row of yellow teeth.
“Brother, think about what kind of person Cao Aman is. His skull also contains heavenly power. Ten gold coins won’t be a loss! When you go home, put it beside your pillow!”
“But why is it so small?” the tourist asked suspiciously, “Why does it look like a child’s?”
The stall owner chuckled. “You don’t understand. This is Cao Aman’s skull when he was young!”
After saying that, the stall owner took out a white skull from under his camp. It looked no different from the one in the hands of the tourists, but it was a little bigger.
“Hu~”
The stall owner blew the dust off it and grinned. “This is the adult version. But this is a little more expensive, fifteen gold coins!”
“Twelve gold coins, alright, I want them!” The tourist did not waste any time with him and said directly.
The stall owner looked troubled. “Alright, let’s just be friends!”
“Ding!”
The tourist threw down 12 gold coins and left with the adult Cao Aman’s skull.
The boss was very pleased with himself. “I earned eleven yuan again. Not bad.”
The tourist also whistled. “It’s so cool to spend twelve dollars on something like this.”
Lu Benwei was speechless. From the scene just now, Lu Benwei saw a big problem. Wanting to pick up a loophole from these small merchants and peddlers was simply more difficult than finding gold in the sand!
The true divine materials and treasures were all in the shops of those stone houses.
“Why don’t we go to those shops and take a look?” Chu Yan asked for Lu Benwei’s opinion.
Lu Benwei let out a breath of turbid air and shrugged. “I can only go to those shops to take a look.”
The items in the shop were expensive, but the quality was also much higher.
The two of them walked along the antique street, looking for a suitable shop to buy.
Just as the two of them were about to take action, a young man in a hurry walked toward them. His hands were stuffed into his coat, making him look plump.
Lu Benwei had already noticed him and pulled Chu Yan to the side to hide. However, who knew that the young man would target them and directly crash into Chu Yan? Chu Yan staggered from the impact, and Lu Benwei caught him in time.
The young man fell to the ground and cried out.
‘Thief?’ Lu Benwei thought to himself and said warily.
However, he quickly dismissed this idea. Then, his eyes became even more vigilant.
