Chapter 30: The Evil Thing
After finishing the meal in one breath, Chen An stopped.
By some calculation, he ate at least three times as much as usual during this meal.
Really good guy.
And even after eating, I still feel awkward.
Even though I had eaten to my fullest, I still felt an inexplicable hunger, as if my appetite was not satisfied.
I saw a ghost.
This should be the problem Bai Qing said. Ordinary food does not contain enough vitality. Even if you eat enough, you still cannot make up for the consumption in your body.
So you must eat as much as possible.
After eating, Chen An stood up and subconsciously looked around.
He had been working in this place for half a year and was already familiar with it.
In the past, there would be bursts of noise inside at this time, but today it was very quiet, not even a gambler's voice was heard anywhere.
There's something wrong.
This thought flashed through Chen An subconsciously, but he didn't bother to think deeply about the problem here and turned around and left.
Watching him leave from the side, the restaurant owner secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After leaving the restaurant, Chen An did not return home immediately, but walked around.
After a while, he walked into an alley.
This is an old street, and there are basically some old objects everywhere.
If you stay here for a long time, you might even come across some interesting antiques.
Chen An is not interested in antiques and rarely visits places like this.
I came here just to try my luck and see if I could find something similar to that jade pendant.
In the past, Chen An always thought that only weird things could bring him energy, but his subsequent experiences also opened up his mind.
Liu Ziqin can bring him energy, and the jade pendant that Song Ziyang gave him can do the same.
The reason why Liu Ziqin can do it is because she has that strange disease. According to Chen An's speculation, there may also be weird symptoms, but it hasn't happened yet.
It's hard to find this kind of person, it's just too laborious to look for him everywhere.
But maybe you can look for something like that jade pendant.
Because the jade pendant looked like an ancient relic, Chen An came here to try his luck.
After a while, he was walking on the street and wandering around.
There are a lot of people setting up stalls here, and many of them sell scraps.
There are also many small vendors specializing in selling antique items.
"No feeling at all..."
Passing by on the street, I was interested in Chen Dan's work and looked around, but then I was disappointed again.
He has an extraordinary sensitivity to things with energy.
Within a certain range, as long as it meets the conditions, it will immediately cause a reaction in him.
But this time I walked around and felt nothing at all.
It seems there is nothing good in this place.
Although he found nothing, Chen An was not too disappointed.
This situation had long been expected by him.
If things with energy were so easy to find, he wouldn't have been busy for so long.
Walking through the street, he came to a side alley.
There are many shops in the alley, which look much neater than the vendors outside.
But this is also of no use.
Walking through this alley, Chen An didn't feel anything special.
He shook his head and was about to leave, then paused instinctively.
I feel it!
He turned around and looked towards a certain corner following the feeling on his body.
There was a small shop open there, but the location was too remote, almost at the end of the alley, so it was not conspicuous at all, and Chen An almost passed by it.
If it hadn't been for Chen An's body feeling, I might have missed it today.
This thought flashed through Chen An's mind, and then he walked along the stairs.
“Sesame cakes are on sale!”
"Cheap wooden hairpins, does anyone need them?"
Not far away, bursts of hawking sounds were still ringing.
But when Chen An walked into the shop, the noise everywhere became much quieter.
"This store...is really quite remote..."
Chen An stood inside, with this thought flashing through his mind.
He looked around.
The decoration in this store is ordinary. Judging from the details here and there, it has been a while, and the beams have some signs of decay.
There weren't many things around, only a few items on display.
Chen An followed his instinct and finally looked straight at one thing.
It was a vase, it didn't look very big, just the size of a person's palm.
The style of the vase looks a bit old, and the mouth of the vase also has some signs of damage.
The most attractive thing is that there are some blood stains on the corners of the vase, which look like they are soaked in blood. They are very vivid and add an inexplicable meaning to it.
It was this vase that attracted Chen An.
"What do guests need..."
From the side, a voice came.
Chen An turned around and saw an old man hunched over with a smile on his old face, looking at Chen An expectantly.
"How are you going to sell this vase of yours..."
Chen An looked at the old man in front of him, then pointed at the vase in front of him and said.
Hearing that Chen An wanted to buy this vase, the smile on the old man's face became more obvious: "This is a Liucai vase from the Song Dynasty in the south. It was made hundreds of years ago. It is not cheap..."
"However, it is a good fate that the guests like you. If you are willing, I can take a hundred taels of silver."
He said this with a smile on his face.
"One hundred taels of silver."
Chen An nodded and was about to speak.
"You old man Liu, you are here to deceive others again."
From the side, a burst of laughter came.
Looking up, he saw a serious-looking middle-aged man wearing a long robe. He seemed to be the owner of a shop nearby. He was mockingly saying: "If it is a serious and complete Liucai vase, it is basically from the Song Dynasty hundreds of years ago."
The royal tribute will naturally cost hundreds of taels of silver."
"But this thing of yours is just a sinister thing. Not to mention one hundred taels, even twenty taels of silver is too expensive."
Hearing this, Old Man Liu was furious: "What a sinister thing! My family has been in business for three generations, how can I sell such a thing!"
"How dare you talk nonsense in front of me."
The middle-aged man suddenly smiled: "A while ago, the Song family's entire family in the neighboring county was massacred, and the house was sealed. I watched you take out this colorful vase from the Song family's house with my own eyes, and I thought
Want to quibble?"
"You only spent a few taels of silver on such a sinister thing when you collected it. How dare you ask the guest for twenty taels of silver?"
"If word spreads and other knowledgeable people know about it, they might think that our street is dedicated to ripping off customers!"
"It doesn't matter if you do things alone, you also want to ruin our reputation!"
"You...you..."
Old Man Liu's face turned red and he pointed one finger at the person in front of him. He was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Chapter completed!