Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 79 Asian Gang Ecology

No. 89 Walker Street is a pawn shop that has been converted into a distinctly Asian style.

On the left side of the pawnshop gate, there is a nearly 3-meter-long statue of an Asian warrior with a long knife.

On the right side of the pawnshop gate is a legendary Asian beast.

This beast has a mouth, but no chrysanthemum, which symbolizes "swallowing but not pulling", and a wealth of wealth.

On the left and right sides of the red lacquered gate is a pair of red couplets, on which are traditional Asian ancient characters.

Chen Yan looked at the couplet, and saw that the couplet read:

"Foreign clothes, foreign hats, foreign socks, and foreign style hair. "

The next link is:

"Selling the People, Selling the Glory, Selling the Ancestors, and the descendants are almost sold out. "

The horizontal batch is four big characters:
"Sell Your Mother"

This……

Chen Yan knew that this was the hall of the third uncle, and it should be the third uncle who chose the couplets.

This couplet should be posted here by the third uncle to scold someone.

Who is the third uncle scolding?
In Chen Yan's impression, the third uncle was very good at being a man. Except for the time in the zoo, the third uncle would always smile when he met everyone, and never impatient with others.

But this couplet...

Come to think of it, Third Uncle also has times when he gets frustrated.

As soon as Chen Yan stepped into the gate of the pawn shop, he saw the anti-theft iron fence lined with dense thick wires, and behind the iron fence, a counter taller than one person.

Although the pawn shop business is hugely profitable, it is indeed a bit dangerous. As an Asian gang that has not yet established a firm foothold in the empire, such protection is necessary.

Perhaps because of hearing Chen Yan's footsteps, the young guy at the counter raised his head lazily.

It was a girl who had just grown up.

Chen Yan remembered that her name was Li Cha, and she was a descendant of immigrants from the third uncle's generation, and she was born in the empire.

The older generation of immigrants tried their best to integrate into the society of the empire, so they gave their descendants some weird names, such as Li Cha:

Li Cha, the pronunciation of this name is completely indistinguishable from the imperial name "Richard".

Li Cha's father gave her this name in order to make it easier for her to quickly integrate into the local society of the empire.

But back then, Li Cha's father was uneducated and didn't know the name "Richard". In the empire, it was only a male name and could not be used as a female name.

When he knew this sad fact, Li Cha had grown up, and the joke had already spread in Asian circles.

In addition, she didn't like to go to the white skin area, so the name was not changed again.

Li Cha took a look at Chen Yan and recognized him immediately.

"It's Ah Yan." Li Cha helped his round black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, subconsciously flicked his ponytail, and quickly lowered his head again.

"Third uncle is not here."

Normal and expected.

Chen Yan asked, "Where did third uncle go?"

Li Cha took off his round glasses, kneaded the bridge of his nose with two fingers, and replied lazily:
"Yesterday I was busy all night in the downtown area. I guess I should rest in some corner building now. The third uncle has a new look."

This sentence sounds out of context, but Chen Yan understood the meaning.

[Corner Building] is a new type of building built in Xiacheng District a few years ago.

The characteristic of the corner building is that the space utilization rate is very high, but the single room is small and narrow, which is most suitable for some female freelancers as a shelter.

They are collectively known as the Corner Girls.

And [a new friend] means: the third uncle who does not have his own residence, will often stay in different corner buildings.

What Chen Yan noticed was another sentence:

Had a busy night in downtown yesterday.

What is Uncle San doing?
Chen Yan thought of the clash of superhumans that happened in the lower city yesterday afternoon, and couldn't help but feel excited.

Was the third uncle also involved in that incident?
He handed a penny to the counter: "I'm in a hurry to find my third uncle."

Li Cha regained his spirits immediately, and said with a smile, "Third Uncle, the old man is haunted by ghosts, and I have never seen him before. You won't be able to find him for a while."

She changed the subject: "But the old man Xanthium is at our hall today, why don't you go to him and make a plan, and figure out where you can meet the third uncle?"

Tai Shenghe's goddess, cocklebur.

Chen Yan had heard the name several times, but didn't know much about it.

He used to only think that Xanthium is a great dancer, and that he is very lucky, and can always calculate amazingly accurate hexagrams.

Chen Yan used to think that cocklebur was a liar who knew a little about psychology.

The so-called "accurate hexagram images" is nothing more than an insight into people's psychology and some reasonable psychological explanations.

But since that morning, after listening to the third uncle's story about Solar, Chen Yan's impression of Xanthium changed.

Chen Yan can now confirm that Xanthium is an extraordinary person of Asian descent.

The specific ability may be fortune-telling.

Or something related to divination.

Like... divination?
The astrology and the occult of the Empire are enduring.

Chen Yan speculates that after coming to the empire, Xanthium may have become something other than just a "witch" after combining the extraordinary power he originally possessed with the astrology and mysticism of the empire.

When Li Cha at the counter mentioned cocklebur, there was obvious awe in her tone, and she whispered:

"Master Xanthium is right behind, are you going to see him?"

Chen Yan handed over a penny again.

Li Cha looked at him with kind eyes: "Among the newcomers who came over these days, I am most optimistic about you! Just wait a moment!"

Her figure disappeared into the counter.

There was the sound of the anti-theft door opening from the counter, and then the sound of going down the steps.

Immediately afterwards, Li Cha appeared behind the iron fence in front of the counter.

She took the key to unlock the iron fence, opened a small door that was only half a person high, and greeted Chen Yan.

"come in."

Chen Yan followed her into the room between Tai Sheng and the pawn shop.

Ordinary people can't enter this kind of place. There are pawnshop rules, even if they have a good relationship, they can't be accommodated.

Chen Yan could come in, the two pennies didn't help much.

What really mattered was his knowledge, his identity, and the stable job in his hands—a person of value, worthy of Tai Shenghe's win over and trust.

The inside of the pawn shop is quite large.

The building itself is much larger than Chen Yan's apartment at No. 33 Walker Street, and with the addition of the basement, the space inside the building is larger than the average house on Walker Street.

Passing through the interior, Chen Yan saw the courtyard inside the house from the window—it was a small courtyard transformed into a native Asian pavilion.

What surprised Chen Yan was that not only did he see an Asian-style rockery in the yard, but he also saw a beautifully trimmed welcoming pine!

Have any senior artisans of Asian descent come to Yanan City?
Since the opening of the immigration policy, more and more Asians have come to the empire...

Li Cha led him to an east corridor in the courtyard, pointed to a room not far away, and whispered:

"That's the reception room of Master Xanthium, he is busy now, you have to wait for him to come out."

Chen Yan nodded.

Li Cha turned around and went back to the counter.

Chen Yan leaned on the pillar in the corridor, glanced at the reception room of Xanthium annuum, then lowered her head, and took out her mobile phone from her pocket.

Turn on the spirit vision camera, point the camera of the spirit vision camera at the reception room of cocklebur.

The next moment, a picture appeared on the phone screen.

(End of this chapter)