"What are you doing in the house? Why is it so messy?"
Li Yuzhi stood at the door and asked when she saw the mess on the ground in Chen Ran's room.
"Mom, these are some antiques. I'm studying them for fun..."
Chen Ran briefly explained to her mother. When she heard that they were all antiques, Li Yuzhi immediately fell silent. She knew nothing about antiques, but she knew that the good life of her family now was obtained by her son buying and selling antiques.
, Therefore, both she and Chen Ping attach great importance to their son's business of tinkering with antiques. As Chen Ping said, they must do the three things of "not objecting, not disturbing, and not interfering".
What is said represents thought.
"Aran, Xiaowen called just now and said that he has no classes tomorrow and asked your dad to pick him up after school in the afternoon. But your dad has to treat those officials to dinner in the evening. How can he have time to pick him up? Wait.
Do you have time? If you have time, go and pick him up. This kid is getting more and more outrageous now. I asked him to come back directly by car, but he was not happy and insisted on having someone pick him up. Really...
"
As Li Yuzhi spoke, she complained angrily. Now that her family's conditions were better, she was used to living a hard life. She was not used to things like Chen Xiaowen asking his family to drive to school to pick him up. She didn't like to be public, so she naturally felt very uncomfortable.
Dissatisfied, but at the same time dissatisfied, I am also a little soft-hearted...
Chen Ran agreed without thinking about it. He was about to run to the city. He had been thinking about whether to absorb the Kunwu Sword or not. Absorb it. What if the Kunwu Sword disappears?
The loss would be great. As a jade carver, the status of the Kunwu Sword in his heart is self-evident, but he is very curious if he should not absorb it, but whether he absorbs it or not, now he faces a problem.
That means there is only one energy aperture left in his mind.
Let’s replenish some energy aperture first.
Chen Ran agreed and went out. The little thing followed quickly. Chen Ran held it in his arms and found that the little thing had grown up a lot.
In the past few days, the little thing has changed day by day, which surprised Chen Ran's family. When he was brought back, he was only a little bit bigger, and now he is almost as big as an adult poodle.
Chen Ran guessed that the changes in the little thing should be related to the fact that he used the energy aperture to condition its body. Since he used the energy aperture to condition it once, it has not been used to condition it again. It has been so long now. Waiting for the energy to be obtained
It's time to adjust the aperture again.
The little thing was held in Chen Ran's arms and was extremely happy. It kept making fun of Chen Ran and stuck out its tongue to lick Chen Ran's face, but Chen Ran pressed its head and pushed it away.
, the little thing was pushed away by Chen Ran, quite resentful, as if he was very dissatisfied with Chen Ran.
Opening the passenger seat of the off-road vehicle and stuffing the little thing in, Chen Ran got into the driver's seat from the other side. As soon as the little thing heard the sound of the off-road vehicle's engine, he raised his front legs and was so happy that he couldn't find where to go.
I don’t know whether it’s because of heredity or because she’s from the countryside and hasn’t seen the world, but the little guy gets excited as soon as he gets in the car.
It only took more than twenty minutes to drive to the city. At this moment, there were still more than two hours before Chen Xiaowen was out of school. Chen Ran went directly to Huakang Market, and the little guy also ran behind Chen Ran.
with...
At this time, it was obviously the time when the antique market had the least number of people. The entire antique area of Huakang Market was deserted. There were very few stalls in the yard. There were only a dozen or so sparse stalls. Chen Ran glanced at it.
When he saw a weapons shop at the door, he was most interested in ancient swords, so he walked in.
The name of this antique shop selling ancient swords and swords is impressively called Daojianxiao. Daojianxiao has two facades and two entrances. In addition to the doors and windows, there are mahogany Duobao boxes erected against the wall.
There are swords and swords in the room, and in the center of the room is a large mahogany carved flat-headed table. Various weapons, swords, spears, and spears are displayed on the table. There are also some jade statues in the middle.
The store was a little deserted, with only a thin old man standing at the counter who seemed to be practicing calligraphy. When Chen Ran came in, he looked up and pretended that Chen Ran was no longer there.
Chen Ran took a look. The weapons in the store were mainly new weapons. On the right side of the store, there were some older-looking weapons. However, even without using the energy aperture, Chen Ran could see that these weapons
I'm afraid most of them are antique.
After patrolling for a long time, Chen Ran finally found a large knife that looked like a big door.
"Little brother, are you interested in this knife?" The thin old man who owned the shop didn't know when he walked up behind Chen Ran and asked. When Chen Ran turned around, he smiled and said, "Do you know the Big Sword King Five? This knife
It’s the same type of sword used by Big Sword King Wu, and it was made in the same era..."
Chen Ran ignored him, but was thinking about the age of this sword. Now he only had one energy aperture left, so he couldn't use it casually. According to his observations, this sword was estimated to be two hundred years old. An energy
The aperture is obviously not enough.
After taking a few glances, Chen Ran was about to leave the store, but when leaving, he suddenly found some scabbards placed at the entrance of the store. Needless to say, the Kunwu knife is sharp. If there is no scabbard, I'm afraid it will be difficult to bring it with you.
It's not easy to carry.
"Boss, can you order a scabbard here? I got a dagger, but there is no scabbard. I want to order one." Chen Ran stopped and turned around to ask. The little thing who had already ran out looked at it.
When the master stopped leaving, he quickly jumped in again and started to circle around Chen Ran.
"Dagger?" When the thin old man heard Chen Ran's words, he asked instead of answering, and said with a smile: "What kind of dagger is the little brother? Can you take a look at it?"
Chen Ran shook his head: "The dagger is with my friend for now."
"Little brother, this is what we do here. Of course we can customize the scabbard, but it's not easy to do it without a prototype..." The thin old man shook his head and said.
"I can draw a picture for you. The shape and length are exactly the same. Can you make it?" Chen Ran is not worried that others will discover the existence of Kunwu Dao based on the drawing, because although the length of Kunwu Dao is the same as that of ancient inscriptions,
It is exactly the same as described in the book, but the specific shape is not recorded in the literature. Besides, even if it is, other people may not think of Kunwu cutting jade knife when they see it.
"That's no problem."
The thin old man smiled and nodded: "By the way, scabbard, do you want a soft one or a hard one? We have shark skin, python skin, monitor lizard skin, and mahogany hard ones in our store.
There are also ivory, rhinoceros horn, and the best ones are purple tremble wood. Of course, there are also cheap ones, such as pine and cypress..."
"Which one is the strongest? If the dagger is too sharp, don't be scratched by the dagger at once?" Chen Ran didn't expect that a simple scabbard could have so many tricks. For him, using
It doesn't matter what material it is made of, the main thing is to get to know it. Not to mention the sharpness of the Kunwu knife, even dark wood is like chopping vegetables. If it is not strong, it will probably break in two days.
"Hey, look at what you said, how can the knife scratch it? The scabbards we make here are all specially processed. Even if your dagger is cut from iron like mud, it will not be scratched." The thin old man looked a little funny.
Looking at Chen Ran, after doing so much business, this was the first time he heard such a question from a customer.
This dagger of mine is really as sharp as clay! Chen Ran thought to himself.
Whether it can be scratched by the Kunwu knife, he can only give it a try. Chen Ran asked the boss to bring a pen and paper, and with his eyes closed, he described the shape and length of the Kunwu knife, and then chose a kind of shark skin and purple.
After joining the scabbard with the trembling wood, I paid the deposit, exchanged phone numbers with the boss, and left the sword-smiling shop.
Chen Ran still had an energy aura left, so he could only start from scratch and accumulate slowly. He first went to the small yard and started working at stalls one by one. Although most stalls did not have valuable things, like during the Republic of China,
, there are still quite a few items from the late Qing Dynasty, but they are all old folk items and have little value.
Chen Ran's main purpose now is to accumulate energy apertures. It doesn't matter whether they are valuable or not. He first selected a jar with a history of more than a hundred years, earned his first energy aperture, and then...
As I walked down one stall after another, more and more energy circles were accumulated. By the time I came to the last stall, the accumulated energy circles had reached more than 70, which was quite a harvest.
After walking around the stalls, Chen Ran began to enter the store. He just went to almost every antique store in the antique area, but he didn't see a few real things. Every time he entered a store, the store owner was also very enthusiastic, but the store owner
The things he took out were often fake to him, and he could tell at a glance that they were fake, which naturally made him extremely depressed.
Little did he know that these shopkeepers thought he was taken advantage of because he was young, had a good temperament, and brought a seemingly expensive pet dog with him.
After reluctantly accumulating more than twenty more, Chen Ran left Huakang Market in anger.
I drove to the gate of Tianzhong University and saw that it was almost time. I called Chen Xiaowen and waited at the gate of the school. Not long after, Chen Xiaowen came out with his classmates. In addition to Chen Xiaowen, there were
Two of his classmates.
Both of his classmates were from the countryside. By this time, it was already late and it was difficult to take the bus. Chen Xiaowen asked Chen Ran to see them off. Chen Ran naturally did not refuse and sent the two classmates home first.
We turned around and headed back to Bishui County.
When we arrived at home, we were just cooking. In addition to his family, there was also his second aunt's family, plus Guo Hai, it was extremely lively. The family had dinner happily and drank some wine.
, Chen Ping and Guo Hai had just drank outside. After drinking a little, they went directly to bed. In the end, only two grown men, Chen Ran and Wu Jianguo, were left. Chen Ran could only drink some with Wu Jianguo. Of course,
Chen Xiaowen didn't think of anyone as a man yet, but he also drank two drinks.
After dinner, he returned to his room and had just drank a little wine. For a moment, Chen Ran felt a little excited and didn't want to sleep. He just sat there, inevitably thinking about that.
The jade-like woman reminded him of the cold-faced policewoman and landlady. Finally, he had to force himself to calm down and practice the eight-knife wave-splitting carving method for a while, and then practiced the weird dance.
There are a total of eighteen moves in the weird dance. Chen Ran is now able to perform the first move very skillfully, but he can't do the second move properly.
I was sweating, but after finishing it, I felt very comfortable, just like I had a sauna and a bather give me a scrub. I felt like my whole body had lost a few pounds...
After taking a bath, Chen Ran sat on the bedside, first took the little thing over, and spent seven or eight energy apertures to condition its body. After being adjusted by Chen Ran, the little thing didn't look like a human being.
As he was recuperating his body, his spirit became more and more energetic, but after Chen Ran recuperated his body, he directly found a corner and fell asleep.
Chen Ran couldn't sleep either, so he simply took the Kunwu Sword and started playing with it. While playing with it, he would release an energy aperture from time to time for the Kunwu Sword to absorb. He found that every time the Kunwu Sword absorbed an energy aperture, the forest on the blade changed.
The light seemed to be a little brighter, which made him a little strange. Could it be that his energy aperture could also regulate the dagger's body?
This thought made Chen Ran laugh a little. Apart from this, he didn't know if it was an illusion or something else. As he let the Kunwu Sword absorb the energy aperture, he felt that there seemed to be a faint connection between the Kunwu Sword and him.
A vague connection.
In order to confirm this feeling, Chen Ran continuously released energy apertures for the dagger to absorb. Anyway, according to the number of apertures absorbed by the skull pendant, even if he let Kunwu Dao absorb all the existing energy apertures, it would not be absorbed by him.
Kunwu Dao, unknowingly, allowed Kunwu Dao to absorb more than forty energy apertures...
I don't know how much time passed, but Chen Ran fell asleep sitting on the bedside in a daze.
The sky outside the window is full of stars. These stars make people feel a bit cold. The stars emit a cool light, which is projected from the open window and shines on Chen Ran who is sleeping on the bedside.
And Kunwu Dao was lying quietly on the bedside table, just bathing in this little starlight.
The room was a little quiet, except for Chen Ran's slight snoring.
Suddenly, golden light suddenly flashed on Chen Ran's eyebrows. With the flash of golden light, there was a sudden suction force between his eyebrows. At this moment, a slightly blue-black sword suddenly popped out of the dark blade of Kunwu knife.
The aperture flew towards Chen Ran's eyebrows...
With the first one, there is also the second one...
Gradually.
[I was not satisfied with what I wrote at the beginning, so I deleted it, rewrote it, and then updated it. Please forgive me. It’s a big chapter with more than 4,000 words. Please vote and collect it...]
