Chapter 50: Making Old (Two)

  "Feng Ge, Qin Lao Da, are we still going shopping today?"

  The next morning, when Qin Feng said he wanted to continue strolling around, Li Tianyuan's face suddenly turned sour. Rather than letting him foolishly wander around the antique city, he would rather go back to the train station and carry his heavy luggage.

  "You're just not cut out for meticulous work."

  Qin Feng hesitated for a moment before saying: "Alright, you've also been standing there for over two years. I'll teach you some basic moves, go find a place to practice!"

  In the jianghu, people like Xie Xuan who can read people's expressions and handle matters are indeed needed, but martial arts is also an indispensable and important role.

  Like the Fire General among the Eight Generals, he is in charge of fighting. Li Tianyuan can't play brain-twisting games, but his well-developed muscles will come in handy someday.

  "That's great, heh heh, Wind Brother, I've been waiting for this day for a long time!"

  After hearing Qin Feng's words, Li Tianyuan was so excited that he almost jumped up, rubbing his hands anxiously and staring at Qin Feng, as if wanting to kiss him on the face several times.

  After standing for two years, Li Tianyuan could clearly feel the changes in his body. In the past, when he was fighting one-on-one with those robust men in their twenties and thirties at the docks, Li Tianyuan had never been at a disadvantage.

  This is just the effect of standing still, if he practices his martial arts moves again, Li Tianyuan believes that even if those bastards in the cargo yard don't follow the rules and rush up together, he can also knock them down one by one.

  "Get away from me, your spit is even spraying onto my face..."

  Qin Feng pushed Li Tianyuan away with one hand, his feet in an eight-character stance, his left palm stretched out and his right fist protecting his chest. After posing for a few moments, he said: "Take a good look at these postures, practice them until you're familiar with them. With your foundation in internal strength, it should take only three to five days!"

  In China, although there is Wulin, previously there was no such term as martial arts, nor was there any performance of martial arts. The older generation would say either "gongfu" or "wubazhi". Another term that has been passed down since the Republic of China is "guoshu".

  Whether it's Kung Fu, Wushu or Guoshu, these three are all evolved from fighting against enemies or self-defense, advancing to attack the enemy and retreating to defend oneself, emphasizing practicality.

  Like Qin Feng's Bajiquan, in Li Shuwen's hands, it was a lethal technique that made enemies tremble with fear at the mere mention of his name. It didn't have the fancy forms and movements that represented martial arts, but instead emphasized foundation and rigorous practice.

  This person must stand still for a while before going to hit others. Li Tianyuan stood on the stake for two years, actually laying the foundation for two years. After mastering the moves, he can achieve twice the result with half the effort, so Qin Feng has three to five days of say.

  "Feng Ge, don't worry, if I can't practice well, I'll knock myself dead!"

  Li Tianyuan's brain wasn't good for this, but his martial arts skills were quite impressive. After watching Qin Feng demonstrate a move, he learned it quickly and had a good grasp of the technique. However, when he tried to practice on the cement floor, he felt a bit unsteady. He stomped his feet on the ground a few times and said, "Brother Feng, I think I'll just go back home to practice instead. I can stay there tonight..."

  After Li Tianyuan's parents divorced, no one took care of him. He had always relied on his grandfather for support. A few years ago, after his grandfather passed away, he left him a house.

  Li Tianyuan originally lived in the yard, until Xie Dazhi's company had an accident and Xie Xuan had to stay in Shishi. He moved here to accompany Xie Xuan.

  "Tonight, I and Xuan will go to your place to take a look..."

  Qin Feng knew about this matter and thought for a moment before saying: "If it's not okay, then stay on your side, this place doesn't feel right, it's uncomfortable to live here."

  Qin Feng has a lot to do these days, going in and out of the compound every day, being stared at by those security guards, feeling very inconvenient. And as he said, this house needs to be grounded to be good, although the feng shui here is excellent, it still lacks something.

  After handing over some exercise precautions to Li Tianyuan, the three of them left the residential area together. Qin Feng and Xie Xuan took a bus to the antique market, while Li Tianyuan ran excitedly towards his old house.

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  "Is this place a bit lower than Bai Fo Street?"

  Today, Qin Feng and Xie Xuan went to another antique market. Unlike Bai Fo Street, this market is mostly composed of shops, with only a few stalls on the empty land at the entrance.

  Although the atmosphere outside was somewhat less lively than that of the antique market on Bai Fu Street, Qin Feng found that there were actually more customers inside the shops. He entered several stores and saw people chatting and drinking tea in each one.

  "Feng Ge, this Red Flag Street was newly built by the government two years ago. People with real power have all come here." When Lao Da hadn't gone bankrupt yet, Xie Xuan had indeed been to this place a few times and had some understanding of this antique market.

  "It's good to have strength, Xiao Pang, let's go!" Qin Feng smiled when he heard the words and continued to stroll through the antique shop. After entering the store, he didn't say a word, but just looked at the varieties and prices of the items in the store.

  "The country doesn't allow bronze wares to be bought and sold, there are too many fake calligraphy and paintings, this market mainly deals with porcelain and jade..."

  After leaving the store, Qin Feng stood under a tree shade, his face showing a thoughtful expression, and muttered to himself: "This soft jade is going to take some time to make, it's really troublesome..."

  "Feng Ge, what did you say?" Xie Xuan asked, not having heard Qin Feng's words clearly.

  "It's okay, let's go, we'll take another look around." Qin Feng shook his head, what he had to do was too professional, and it would be hard to explain to Xie Xuan in just a short while.

  Just as Qin Feng was about to enter the next antique shop, Xie Xuan suddenly pulled him back and hid under a tree, nodding towards the front and saying: "Wait, Brother Feng, that...that person is Nie Yuandong!"

  Xie Xuan was also a naughty kid in school back then, belonging to the same Shi City Middle School department as Nie Yuan Long. Although they didn't play together, they knew each other.

  However, when Xie Xuan entered the prison, Nie Yuandong had already left. Not long after Xie Xuan came out, his family encountered another disaster, and the two never met again.

  "It's really this kid, looks like he's doing pretty well for himself, even got a car now."

  Qin Feng followed Xie Xuan's gaze and saw Nie Yuandong coming out of a store, with an arrogant expression on his face. He said a few words to the person following him from behind, then took out the key to open the door of a Toyota Camry parked in front and got in.

  Qin Feng slightly shifted his body, but Nie Yuandong, who was driving the car, didn't notice the two people under the tree. He had just gotten 200,000 yuan from the store and was probably thinking about where to go have fun tonight.

  "Phooey, what a thing! Doesn't understand anything and still dares to point fingers!" After Nie Yuandong's car drove out of the antique street, the young man who saw him off spat towards the direction where the car disappeared.

  "That shop called Yushizhai is the antique store of Nie Yuandong's family, right?" Qin Feng tilted his head and looked at Xie Xuan beside him.

  "Yes, their family is the largest jade store on this street, but it's not good stuff..." Xie Xuan cursed in a huff: "The ancient jades my dad spent over 3 million yuan to buy inside were all fake after appraisal."

  "An antique jade? It's rare to be able to buy a real one." Qin Feng was delighted when he heard Xie Xuan's words.

  Most of the good ancient jade was stolen from tombs and then polished, but in ancient times, only people with high status could wear jade. Now, every tomb has at least seven or eight holes dug by thieves, and all the good stuff was stolen clean hundreds of years ago.

  So the ancient jade that has been passed down to the present is extremely rare, and basically all of it is circulated in the hands of collectors. Wanting to find a real piece of ancient jade in the antique market is like buying a 2-yuan lottery ticket at a sports stadium.

  Patted Xie Xuan's shoulder, Qin Feng said: "Xiao Pang, this time we only make a little money, in the future if you can fly solo, go to this store and get back the money your dad was cheated of, with interest!"

  "Brother Qin, how are we going to make money?" Xie Xuan was confused by Qin Feng's words. The three of them were now poor and white-collar workers, with less than 1,000 yuan on them in total. What could they use to make money?

  "Just watch and follow."

  Qin Feng lifted his foot and walked towards the store with the sign "Yu Shi Zhai", Xie Xuan hurriedly followed, this inexplicable stroll for two days, he still hasn't figured out what Qin Feng's plan is.

  As he walked in, Qin Feng found that the decoration of "Yu Shi Zhai" was not bad, with typical Chinese classical furniture. The hollow cabinet was filled with various large pieces of jade, and some hanging decorations and trinkets were locked in a glass cabinet.

  There were two people sitting in the shop, one was a thin old man over fifty years old, lying in the inner room with his eyes closed, drinking tea and listening to Tian Fang's pingju, while the young man who had just sent Nie Yuandong out was sitting at the counter looking bored.

  "Don't touch anything else, if you break it, you two won't be able to afford it!"

  Hearing the noise at the door, the young man raised his head and took a glance, but didn't notice their faces at all, only swept a glance over their clothes, and then bluntly dropped a sentence before continuing to read "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

  "Shut up!" Qin Feng gave Xie Xuan a signal with his eyes, he couldn't wait for the person in front of him to treat him as air.

  "Sure enough, there's jadeite, and it's not cheap either..."

  After walking around the store, a hint of cleverness appeared in Qin Feng's eyes. As the saying goes, "a skilled woman can't cook without rice", doing business is also like this. If the other party's store doesn't have jadeite, Qin Feng really has no way to make a move on this "Yu Shi Zhai".

  "Brother Qin, aren't we going to stroll around?" After leaving "Yu Shi Zhai", Qin Feng went straight out of the antique street, leaving Xie Xuan who was following behind him in a daze.

  "There's nothing more to see..."

  Qin Feng turned his head and took a look, and involuntarily thought of a phrase that his master often said, and couldn't help but sing a part of the Peking Opera "Challenging the Sliding Car": "Looking ahead at the dark cave, it must be the den of thieves, take me to rush forward, kill him clean!"

  "What black hole? Isn't it bright inside that store?"

  Xie Xuan followed Qin Feng's gaze, and his brain suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed. Big brother's actions were indeed unusual, and even the way he spoke was upside down, revealing a hint of mystery.