It's hard for Xia Qingchen to like that commanding attitude.
He still stood there with his arms folded, his expression indifferent: "Do you doubt me?"
"Among the people here, you are the most idle, and you are the most likely to steal things while we are busy. If I don't doubt you, then you should doubt me?" Elder Xingyun scolded: "Come here, I want to search you!"
search?
Xia Qingchen said calmly: "I've been standing here all the time, how could I have the chance to steal something under your nose."
In order to avoid suspicion, he always stood at a distance.
"Wouldn't it be possible to find out if it's you or not by searching your body?" Elder Xingyun was determined to find trouble, so naturally he wouldn't listen to any explanation.
Shopkeeper Yang came over with a hint of anger: "Elder Xingyun, it's better to investigate thoroughly before doing anything. A body search is an insult."
He believed that Xia Qingchen did not steal anything.
However, maybe we really shouldn't invite Xia Qingchen at this moment, because we happened to meet the meanest elder Xingyun, and also happened to encounter the loss of goods.
"Shopkeeper Yang, I remember you just said that you will be responsible for the loss of the goods, right?" Elder Xingyun's chopstick-like fingers were gently stroking.
In the deep-set eye sockets, a pair of eyes slowly narrowed.
Shopkeeper Yang was speechless.
There has never been a lack of goods before, and now this is the first time.
"Unless you really want to take responsibility, just step aside and watch." Elder Xingyun shouted coldly.
Shopkeeper Yang moved his lips, hesitating in his heart.
He didn't want Xia Qingchen to suffer unfulfilled wishes. After all, he was the one who invited Xia Qingchen.
But, that butterfly spirit is worth hundreds of stars!
How can he afford it?
While he was hesitating, Xia Qingchen sighed softly from behind him: "Elder Xingyun, please press three times on the top of Butterfly Spirit's head."
Elder Xingyun frowned: "What are you doing? The butterfly spirit is an extremely delicate thing, how can you touch it at will?"
Shopkeeper Yang also cast a puzzled look.
Press the butterfly spirit's head? What is this for?
"Then you will always be missing a butterfly essence." Xia Qingchen said calmly.
With some doubts, Elder Xingyun opened the jade box and very carefully tapped Butterfly Spirit's forehead three times with his index finger.
But the butterfly spirit didn't show any abnormalities.
"Then what?" Elder Xingyun asked with a questioning look on his face: "So you can avoid being searched?"
He was about to come over and search me forcefully.
Suddenly a slight popping sound came into my ears.
When I lowered my head, I saw that it was actually the butterfly spirit, with colorful droplets flowing out of its mouth.
Those droplets re-condensed into a smaller butterfly spirit.
The size, shape, and appearance are clearly the missing butterfly spirit.
Elder Xingyun froze on the spot, unable to understand the scene in front of him.
Shopkeeper Yang was equally surprised. He had come into contact with butterfly spirits many times, but he had never seen such a strange sight.
Subconsciously, he turned his gaze to Xia Qingchen: "Mr. Xia, this is..."
"Butterfly spirits will devour each other." Xia Qingchen said briefly.
Devour?
Shopkeeper Yang looked blank and said he had never heard of it before: "Butterfly spirit is not a living thing, it is just a liquid that looks like a butterfly. How can it be said to be swallowed?"
Butterfly essence is a mysterious liquid produced by a strange butterfly, but it is not a real butterfly.
How can liquids eat each other?
Xia Qingchen explained expressionlessly: "Butterfly spirits are also divided into male and female. Under suitable temperature, male butterfly spirits will devour female butterfly spirits. There is nothing surprising."
Previously, Elder Xingyun had touched two butterfly spirits with his palms. The temperature of his palms caused the male butterfly spirits to begin to devour the female butterfly spirits.
Why isn't that strange?
None of the people present had heard of this statement, but Xia Qingchen said it calmly.
However, the big butterfly spirit just now spit out the smaller butterfly spirit.
This proves that Xia Qingchen's statement is correct.
Shopkeeper Yang was surprised and couldn't help but look at Elder Xingyun and sneered: "Are you going to search this body again?"
It took a long time to do this, but it turned out to be an inadvertent mistake.
Fortunately, Elder Xingyun went to war. It turned out that he was inexperienced and didn't know that the butterfly spirit had this hidden characteristic.
Elder Xingyun had no expression on his face and said calmly: "If there are any, then correct them and if they are not, then encourage them."
The meaning of this sentence is that if there are mistakes pointed out to you by others, correct them; if there are no mistakes, use them to encourage yourself.
When used on Xia Qingchen, the implication is that if he steals something, he will correct it if he steals it, and if he doesn't steal it, he will admonish himself.
He wrongly accused people at will without any apology. Instead, he had an attitude of "I am doing this for your own good!"
"Okay, today's sorting of goods is over." Elder Xingyun put away the register and looked at the few remaining valuable materials with some thoughtfulness.
But, he wants to leave.
Xia Qingchen may not be willing.
"Wait!" Xia Qingchen said calmly.
Elder Xingyun glanced at him sideways: "What? Do you still want me to apologize to you?"
With that attitude and tone, it was absolutely impossible for him to apologize.
"It doesn't matter whether you apologize or not, I don't care anyway." Would Xia Qingchen care about his apology?
"Hmph!" Elder Xingyun snorted and walked away, ignoring him.
Xia Qingchen continued calmly: "I just want to correct some of the incorrect materials that Elder Xingyun identified."
Hearing this, Shopkeeper Yang, Shopkeeper Zhou and others felt their hearts tighten.
Material identification errors are no small matter.
If precious materials are sold as inferior materials, once found out, the relevant people of Tianxing Palace will be punished by the sect.
The degree of punishment is determined based on the circumstances of the loss.
However, they felt relieved afterwards.
Those precious materials were all personally appraised by Elder Xingyun, what could be wrong?
However, they did not notice the trace of panic flashing in Elder Xingyun's eyes.
He turned around and yelled: "You ignorant boy, dare to question my appraisal? Get out of here immediately!"
As an elder of Star Master Peak, scolding a low-level disciple is not a big deal.
But shopkeeper Yang and others tasted something unusual.
Elder Xingyun’s expression, is he too excited?
"Mr. Xia, have you discovered anything?" Shopkeeper Yang asked.
Xia Qingchen stood on the spot and said calmly: "What's in the ninth jade box is not White-headed Ginseng, but Snow-bearded Royal Ginseng."
White ginseng is worth ten stars.
Xuexu Emperor Ginseng is worth eighty stars!
Shopkeeper Yang was taken aback and was about to ask when Xia Qingchen continued: "In the tenth jade box, there is not the Laiyu Bluestone, but the Xuanyu Flower Stone."
The former is inferior material and is only worth twenty stars.
The latter is a legendary divine stone that only exists in books and is worth one hundred stars!
"The twelfth jade box..."
Xia Qingchen pointed out five jade boxes with problems in succession.
It is filled with the most expensive materials in this batch.
Elder Xingyun's pupils shrank, with a hint of shock and anger in his eyes.
Obviously, the identification of all five jade boxes was wrong, and it was not that Elder Xingyun really made a mistake.
But it was intentional.
Deliberately judging something of high value and preciousness into something of inferior quality.
Then, he will send people to buy all these things at low prices and make astonishing profits from them.
But I never thought that he had hid it from many shopkeepers, but not from a little boy!
"You are so ignorant and fearless that you actually questioned my appraisal results. I appreciate your courage." Of course, Elder Xingyun would not admit it, looking condescending.