Shen Xuan's shop, Cloud Dragon Pavilion, was located in Penglai, Jingu City.
As the saying goes,"Penglai Street was built in ancient Tianjin, and then there was the capital, Panjiayuan."”
This place was a little simple and crude, but it had produced many good things!
There was a courtyard house behind Penglai Street. It was a " traditional construction technique " and was expensive. A thousand-year-old ginkgo tree was hard to find in the entire Gujin, but it was located in the No. 1 courtyard house, which increased the value of the courtyard house.
It was four in the afternoon, and the weather was cool.
Under the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree, Shen Xuan and the little brother sat on chairs made of black walnut wood, waiting for the delicacies to be served.
The shopkeeper of the Cloud Dragon Pavilion, Xu Yuan, was sitting in the kitchen with Zhajiang Noodles.
Gujin No. 1 Siheyuan was one of Shen Xuan's properties!
A moment later, Xu Yuan came up with two bowls of Zhajiang noodles. Xu Yuan said to Shen Xuan,""Brother Shen, I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you weren't coming.”
From the moment Shen Xuan got in the car to the moment he got out of the car, he had been thinking about the person who had let Ah Ning go in the seabed tomb and the words on the white marble monument that only he could see. He couldn't help but frown.
Xu Yuan looked at Shen Xuan and asked,"What is it, Brother Shen? Is there something troubling you?" I'll return the words you said to me intact.
In fact, there was nothing in the world. The mediocre people were worried about themselves. You're thinking too much. Eat your noodles!"
That's right!
With an open-minded heart, there was no need to think too much about some things. Naturally, there would be a time when the clouds would be lifted. Shen Xuan picked up the noodles and started eating.
He had already eaten compressed biscuits in the tomb, and Shen Xuan had been thinking about Xu Yuan's noodles for a long time.
There were no less than 20 restaurants in Gujin that made authentic Zhajiangmian, but the only place that Shen Xuan would want to continue eating after eating once was this courtyard house with Xu Yuan's cooking.
The young man didn't need to be greeted. His nose was sensitive. He smelled the fragrance of the noodles and picked them up to eat.
"Right!"
Xu Yuan slapped his thigh and returned to his room to take out an invitation card for Shen Xuan." Brother Shen, the New Moon Restaurant's invitation card is for Cloud Dragon Pavilion. You know that I don't like crowds, so why don't you take out two items to exchange for Cloud Dragon Pavilion's signature treasure?"”
Shen Xuan wasn't interested, so the little brother picked up the invitation and flipped through it.
The New Moon Hotel was one of the top hotels in the antique world. It could even compete with the five branches. Decades ago, it auctioned some expensive and mysterious items. The original owner's surname was Yin. Ever since Yin Xinyue, the daughter of the Yin family, married Lord Nine Gates, Lord Nine Gates took care of it.
This time, Lord Zeng was the one who personally held the annual Ghost Market. He invited the juniors of the Nine Factions and the Five Lineages to attend. At the same time, he also invited the big shots in the antique world. As a big shot in the antique world, Yun Long Pavilion was naturally invited. Moreover, it was the first shop to receive the invitation.
The Ghost Market had a great background, and the items they sold were not much inferior to the New Moon Hotel's items.
The little brother stared intently. Shen Xuan asked,""Are you interested?"
The young man didn't respond and nodded lightly.
"Alright, let's go shopping."
……
Beijing, New Moon Hotel.
The elderly Lord Zeng and his wife were drinking tea in a private room of the restaurant.
The two of them were discussing the marriage of their daughter, Zhang Hanyue.
To be exact, the two of them had already decided that they would choose a son-in-law for their daughter in the ghost market in a few days.
The Ghost Market had changed its usual rules. Under normal circumstances, the New Moon Hotel would send people and items to be auctioned in the Ghost Market.
The rule this time was that the person who received the invitation to the Ghost Market would choose an item in the Ghost Market. After the professionals in the industry evaluated it, the best one would be evaluated by Lord Zeng and his wife. The one who bought the ghost goods at the lowest price and had the highest evaluation would win. At the same time, the age, identity, status, and so on of the appraiser would be considered. Then, the candidate for the son-in-law would be selected.
To put it bluntly, this ghost market was a platform organized by Lord Zeng to compete in the appraisal methods of various sects and lineages. In fact, it was a couple choosing a husband for their daughter.
Most of the people from the Nine Gates and the Five Lineages had also guessed the intention behind this ghost market. Lord Zeng had been in a hurry to marry his daughter off, and this was already known by everyone.
Lord Zeng and his wife were reluctant to part with him. However, they were old and their daughter was already 23 or 24 years old. If they didn't personally choose a person whom their daughter could rely on, they wouldn't be at ease.
Zhang Hanyue and her mother, Yin Xinyue, had the same face. She was the Lord Zeng's precious daughter.
Therefore, Lord Zeng and Yin Xinyue would try their best to promote some "things" or "events" to test their future son-in-law in the ghost market.
This was because this beloved daughter was not only extremely intelligent and beautiful, but also because she had inherited her mother's temperament. Her personality was eccentric, neither servile nor overbearing, but also ice-cold and jade-like. Her fiery temperament was gentle like water. She was gifted since she was young, and her hearing was superb. She could recognize ancient characters from five thousand years ago, and she was proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
Zhang Hanyue heard her parents 'discussion and barged into the private room angrily." Dad, Mom, you two are superstitious! What era is this? Why are you still doing arranged marriages? I'm still young and don't want to get married. I can marry whoever I want. Anyway, I'm not getting married!”
Lord Zeng looked at his daughter with a gentle expression. He was not angry, but he had a sense of dignity!
Yin Xinyue knew her daughter the best. She scolded her angrily,"Yue 'er, you're getting more and more unruly. You dare to disobey your father's decision?”
Yin Xinyue's words made Zhang Hanyue lose her cool, but it didn't mean that she was really losing her cool. She started to plan her own scheme!
……
The time of the ghost market was set to be on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which was three o'clock in the morning of the Hungry Ghost Festival.
The location was on Tianbao Road in Jingu City.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the Ghost Festival.
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