Earth Cultivator

Chapter 105 Small Town Story
In the misty rain, the Land Rover drove through a not-so-spacious alley and stopped in front of a hotel with the sign of "Ruyi Inn".

Liao Kai turned his head and looked at Fang Yufan with a calm face and said: "Boss, I didn't expect that there were so many businessmen participating in the exchange meeting this year! When I called to book a hotel, the hotels with better conditions in the city had no rooms. So we probably only have to live here for the past two days."

Looking at the inn that looked extraordinarily quiet in the silk rain, Fang Yufan nodded with a smirk on his lips and said, "As long as the environment is clean and tidy, it's fine. You, a rich man, don't have any objections, so why should I? satisfied?"

"Hey!" Liao Kai scratched the back of his head and smiled silly.Speaking of which, when he went out with his elders in the past, he never stayed in a luxurious hotel!This time, I don't want my family to know that I have come to Pingchuan, otherwise, the Liao family has an elegant villa here!

After parking the car and completing the accommodation procedures, Fang Yufan and Liao Kai followed the footsteps of the waiter on the wooden steps to the second floor.

"Gentlemen, this is your room. Hot water is available 24 hours a day. If you need anything else, you can call downstairs." As he spoke, the waiter in front of him blinked Her eyes were clearly painted with eyeshadow.

Fang Yufan and Liao Kai glanced at each other secretly.What else is needed?These words seem to have no meaning!

The little fat man also glanced at the waiter's uneven body very secretly.The appearance is not bad, but the color of the skin on the face does not match the color of the skin exposed by the collar.I don't know how many layers of makeup powder are covered on the face!
But after all, the two of them are not the kind of people who are used to wind and rain, so they pretended not to understand what the waitress said.

This is a room similar to a set of two. There is a shower head in the bathroom, a color TV in each of the two rooms, and a set of bedding that looks relatively neat on the bed.

Smelling the faint scent of toilet water in the room, Liao Kai patted his stomach and said to Fang Yufan: "Boss, I'm so hungry! Would you like to go out and eat something?" Fang Yufan shook his head and said, "You can go. But I plan to Go for a walk around. You come up and lie down after dinner, after all, you’ve been driving for so long.”

"Hehe, I think so too!" Liao Kai stretched out his arms and said with a bitter face, "If it wasn't for the fact that I was so hungry, I would have been lying on the bed long ago!"

The two went downstairs and outside the hotel, only to find that the rain had stopped.

After nodding to Liao Kai, Fang Yufan walked slowly in a direction along the slowly dripping eaves.After Liao Kai turned around and asked the hotel waiter where there was something delicious, he turned around and walked towards a street corner.

It was just the beginning of the drizzle, and there was still a damp coolness in the air.Fang Yufan strolled in the car, and gradually walked into a narrow alley.

Various historic sites can be seen everywhere on the walls of this alley that is tens of meters long.Walking to the second half of the alley, Fang Yufan also saw a slogan painted on the wall on the right several decades ago: "Down with the landlord class, and the peasants turn themselves into masters!"

At the end of the alley, there is a tea house. The tea shed is next to a big tree as thick as two people hugging each other. A white banner one foot wide and two feet long hangs high on a branch, with a big word "tea" written on it. .

At this time, the tea shed was quite lively. A dozen or so old men in their 60s and [-]s, who looked like locals, gathered in twos, threes, or fours at small tables that were simply pieced together with wooden boards.Among these little old men who sipped their tea and talked softly, or drank tea and talked loudly, there were also a few old, middle-aged and young men who looked like tourists.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Yufan suddenly had a very familiar feeling in his heart.I remember the scene I saw when my grandfather took me to a teahouse to drink tea and play cards when I was a child. Isn’t it exactly the same as what I saw before my eyes?

With a smile reminiscing about the past, Fang Yufan walked into this very lively tea shed.

"Little brother, have a drink?" Fang Yufan stopped in the tea shed for a long time, and then a little old man in his 60s stood up from one of the very lively small crowds and greeted him.

"Well, let's have a cup." After answering with a faint smile, Fang Yufan found an empty small table by the tea shed and sat down.Less than a minute after sitting down, the little old man came out from a room separated by a cloth curtain with a cup of steaming tea.

"Hehe, little brother, you can drink your own tea!" The little old man said to Fang Yufan with a smile after he put down his teacup steadily. "Understood." Fang Yufan replied with a smile.

Smelling the faint scent of tea wafting from the tip of his nose, Fang Yufan sniffed lightly while listening to some stories that happened in the small town told by those little old men.

The ancient city of Pingchuan is famous for producing raw jade ore, so the stories told by the locals living here revolve around these precious minerals.

"Brothers, you all know the old Geng's house in the east of the city, right?" On the tea table with two tables separated from Fang Yufan, a ruddy old man in his 60s said in a mysterious tone, "Isn't there a stepping stone at the corner of his house that has been placed for decades? Hey, let me tell you! Just yesterday, a wealthy businessman fell in love with that stone in his house and bought it for 30 yuan! "

"Hiss!" There was a sound of gasping in the mouths of the small circle of people and the people nearby who heard this. 30 Huaxia currency is really a huge amount for most of these old people!

After a while, another old man patted the table and said, "Is the stepping stone in his house still a rough emerald? Otherwise, how could those merchants with hollow eyelashes spend so much money on this stone! "

"If you don't say that, brother, you have a lot of knowledge!" The red-faced old man stretched out his thumbs and then said, "The businessman untied the stone that day, and guess what? You took out such a big piece of ice-species jade!" The old man clenched his fist and shook it.

"Wow!" Several people let out a long breath.As they have lived in the ordinary ancient city for decades, they are still very familiar with jadeite.And after hearing about it, they also knew about four or five cents of the price of jadeite.

A piece of ice jade the size of an adult's fist is worth more than tens of millions!
"If the old Geng family knew about this situation, wouldn't they regret dying?" A white-bearded old man with a bald head shook his head and sighed.

"It's not a big deal!" Another old man with a goatee under his jaw said quite indignantly, "These profiteers are really abominable! If you buy it for 30 yuan, the profit will be dozens of times!"

"That's why the old Geng family didn't have such a life!" The red-faced old man glanced at the two companions sitting opposite him and said, "That stone has been in his house for decades, why has no one discovered that there is such a value in it?" A gigantic emerald?"

The ancient and rare old man also nodded his head and echoed: "Sometimes you must have it in your life, and you must have it at all times in your life. Don't force it. It should be yours, no matter what, it is yours; it shouldn't be yours, no matter how much you ask for it, you will never get it. You two old guys have lived for decades, why can't you understand this reason?"

"Hey, drink tea, drink tea!" After being taught a small lesson by their companions, the two old people felt a little hot, so they took advantage of the time of drinking tea to cover it up.

Just as the four old men picked up their teacups and drank tea, an old man in his fifties with a dignified appearance stood up from a nearby table.

Picking up the teacup, the old man made a toast to the four of them from afar, then cleared his voice and said loudly: "You guys seem to be local old residents. Hehe, we are tourists from other places, and we came to Pingchuan here because of our reputation. It’s an ancient city, I don’t know if you guys have any other interesting stories? If so, can you tell me a paragraph or two for me and the others?”

The ancient old man picked up the teacup and touched it lightly, then said with a smile: "Hehe, this brother is too polite! Isn't it because of people like you that the small city of Pingchuan has grown to its present size?"

Among the people in the Huanshou tea shed who stopped because they spoke, the old man nodded and then raised his voice and said: "The guests want to hear interesting stories, so I will tell you a few things that actually happened."

After taking a sip of tea, the ancient and rare old man put down his teacup and said, "Pingchuan City existed in the late Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the raw jade mines in the mountains were still buried deep in the mountains and no one cares about them."

"Old Tian, ​​I'm afraid no one knows what you said now! Can you tell me something about it?" A black-faced little old man with half-haired hair stood up from a corner of the tea shed and said loudly.

The old man glared at the man, and then he nodded when he saw the disbelief of the two middle-aged men sitting behind the five-year-old man, and said, "It seems that the guests know these allusions. Okay, let me tell you about it." Order something else."

After all, the old man glanced at the little black-faced old man and said loudly: "Let's just talk about the old man who interrupted me just now! He is a master who planed food in the ground, but one day, he planed and planed. A rough emerald stone the size of a human head was dug out from the ground. Hehe, as soon as this guy was brought to the trading market, he was surrounded by those merchants. One of the big merchants called out a purchase price of 120 million. The old man just refused to agree, but paid for it himself to ask someone to unlock this rough stone!"

When the words came to this point, the old man stopped talking, and then asked loudly to the two middle-aged men behind the five-year-old man: "Do the two guests know what's going on inside the stone after it's been undone?"

One of the white-faced and beardless middle-aged men turned his head and glanced at the black-faced old man and said affirmatively: "It should be untied!" He saw the sweater that the old man was wearing that had been washed and turned white, and his heart was Very sure.

After hearing the words, the black-faced old man snorted softly, and sat down on his own.Fang Yufan on the side was amusing to see a very proud light flashed in the corner of the old man's eyes.

The ancient old man smiled and said nothing, then reached out to pick up the teacup on the table and took another sip, an aura of wisdom came out following such a simple and simple movement of the old man.

After turning his head and glaring at the middle-aged man, the fifty-year-old man turned around and cupped his fists at the black-faced old man and said, "The younger generation is rude, please Haihan."

After saying this, the old man in his fifties nodded to the old man, and hurried out of the tea shed with the two middle-aged men without even intending to listen to the story.

After a moment of silence in the tea shed, the noise immediately resumed.

(End of this chapter)