【Zhou Ye】The King of Luoyang

He is ignorant, so how can we be ignorant? Jiang Botao didn't say anything. He didn't know if Zhou Zekai thought the same way. He was not busy drinking tea. He went to see Zhou Zekai. The rim of the cup blocked his face and thought about something bad, his eyes drooped docilely towards the red tea soup noodles.

"Fuding old white tea, 20 years old." After taking a look, smelling and first tasting, Zhou Zekai told the origin of the tea.

"The year is about the same." Ye Xiu relieved himself from the pain in his heart, and gave Zhou Zekai a five-pointed bosom friend expression, and the other five points were talking, so you know my pain, right?

Zhou Zekai liked Ye Xiu for being greedy for money. People who are greedy for money and capable are good at handling things. But don't be in a hurry. He should observe and observe. After all, he only heard Ye Xiu's name when he was a guest at Tang Shusen's, and he didn't know anything else. In other words, if he can afford the money, it depends on whether Ye Xiu is worth the money.So even though Zhou Zekai had prepared a meeting gift, he didn't bring it out immediately, lest people be seen as being taken advantage of.

He put back his teacup and asked, "What's a special guest like?"

Ye Xiu replied, "Well...for your father, you can count me as waiting for guests."

Zhou Zekai's eyebrows twitched at the word father. He didn't know whether Ye Xiu was probing, or if he had seen through his true identity, so he didn't answer the question right now.

Ye Xiu was even more in a hurry, picked up the pot to store water in the cup, and without looking at Zhou Zekai's face, said to Zhou Zekai to the teacup, "Look at my tea set? Are you from Ruyao, serving guests from Henan?" Very suitable, Young Master Zhou?"

Smart people never speak well, and Ye Xiu's bad words aroused Zhou Zekai's instinct to draw his gun from his waist, but Zhou Zekai froze, he was wearing a long robe, and the gun was hidden under his clothes, so it was not easy to pull out.He looked at Jiang Botao, and Jiang Botao's expression was more shocked than his indifferent expression.Zhou's surname is so common that Zhou Zekai didn't change it to a pseudonym when he came here. Furthermore, his ancestral home was in Shanghai and he didn't speak with a Henan accent. He couldn't imagine how Ye Xiu could figure it out.

But from this point of view, this person is really good, and he can push a hundred with one, which suits Zhou Zekai's appetite.He and Jiang Botao exchanged a look. Before the look was in place, he took care to signal Jiang Botao not to act rashly.

If you want to do business with someone like Ye Xiu, you can't do without showing any sincerity, so what if he recognizes you, if you recognize him generously, with a gun under your arm, you can make Ye Xiu not dare to act rashly.

Zhou Zekai immediately put on a face of "I didn't want to hide it from you, I'm so famous, I have to" and said calmly, "Did you recognize it?" After finishing speaking, he picked up the empty teacup and spun it around to enjoy the freedom of the veins on the cup. The stretched texture, praised, "well-deserved reputation." This compliment sounds like praising Yexiu's good tea set, and praising Yexiu's good eyesight.

Ye Xiu was as humble as himself for the tea set, "Where is it?"

Ye Xiu's humility is more real than this set of Ru Kiln tea set, and then he explained why he was modest, "Oh, that's right, last year when Kaifeng ruled the river, you went to supervise the army. Working in Kaifeng, I saw it from a distance, I have nothing else but good eyes and memory.”

"Hands are fine too." Zhou Zekai added.

Ye Xiu was pouring tea for Zhou Zekai, and put his hand under Zhou Zekai's eyelids, Zhou Zekai stared at him unreservedly, Ye Xiu wanted to know if this was considered molesting.

The teacup was full and the amount of water was just right. Zhou Zekai picked it up steadily and sipped the tea, as if he had suddenly realized that the taste of what he said just now was wrong, and said, "Good craftsmanship."

Ye Xiu chuckled, "I'm not being humble. If I were being humble, I'd scold all my colleagues."

Jiang Botao kept silent. Zhou Zekai led the way. He secretly observed Ye Xiu. Hearing what he said, he thought it hard to see what he was thinking. This Ye Xiu was indeed not easy to deal with.

The atmosphere became better, the three of them sat around the table and drank a few more cups of tea. Jiang Botao explained the two's intentions and asked Ye Xiu to help him look at a few things.This was within Ye Xiu's expectation, people would not simply come to visit him.

"Let's talk about the ugly things first, I clearly marked the price, other than that, it's up to the guests' wishes."

The side room was not well lit, so Ye Xiu picked up a pipe and pot, and was going to take Zhou Jiang and the two to the living room in the backyard. He raised the bamboo curtain at the back door to let the guests go first. Stepping over the threshold, he suddenly stopped and asked, "What's your price?"

Ye Xiu remained expressionless, "Remove the word 'you'."

"Well, remove it."

Even though he felt that the customer was being perfunctory, Ye Xiu was still serious about the business, "We'll talk after seeing the goods."

The decoration of the main hall in the backyard is similar. The whole set of Ming-style rosewood furniture has been wiped clean everywhere. The simple furnishings show different layers of dynasties. The three-drawer table by the window is decorated with Warring States Bronze lamp holders, the melon seeds on the table in the middle are painted pottery pots of unknown ages... Zhou Zekai, who was dressed in brocade clothes, jade, food and antiques, thought that this was indeed the home of a former tomb robber.

Ye Xiu let the two of them take the seat, it's time to get to the point.Zhou Zekai made a hand gesture, and Jiang Botao took out a handkerchief-wrapped item from his close-fitting pouch, put it on the table, opened the four corners, and revealed a emerald jade hairpin with a dewy white top and a silver-covered top.

When Ye Xiu saw the goods, he just took them over, glanced at them casually, and didn't go to the front to carefully screen them, so he said seriously, "Hey, this is a good thing, and it's worth two or three yuan!" Such a face and tone were obvious. I'm talking about inferior products, too inferior.

Ye Xiu is a little bit nice, he never shows the arrogance of a layman and an outsider, and besides, his parents are all for food and clothing, the real ones, the fake ones, the good ones and the bad ones have to pay the bills, he didn't bother Zhou Zekai to find him for an appraisal He was not happy to judge his level with inferior products first, he knew that this was just an appetizer.

Sure enough, neither Zhou Zekai nor Jiang Botao responded, and Zhou Zekai nodded.Jiang Botao took out another cloth bag, opened it, and spread it on the table side by side with the previous one. Inside the handkerchief was still a jadeite jade hairpin. Just comparing the appearance, it was not much different from the previous one.

Ye Xiu looked a little more serious this time. He weighed it over and held it lightly in the palm of his hand. His palm was not sweaty and cold, and he didn't neglect the hairpin.He twirled twice with the pads of his thumb and index finger, then stood up and walked to the sunny hallway, holding his hand to look at the light carefully.After a while, Ye Xiu came back and told him to put the hairpin on the handkerchief.

"This one is much more than the previous one." Ye Xiu said happily, the appraisal fee for this one is much higher than the previous one.

"How true?" Zhou Zekai asked.

"Can you buy a box of that?" Ye Xiu pointed to the first defective product.

Zhou Zekai nodded again, and then he threw the hairpin on the ground in front of Ye Xiu.In terms of strength, it wasn't that Zhou Zekai was blinded by anger and threw down viciously to vent his anger, but he threw it carelessly and indifferently.

Hearing it loudly, he could tell that the crack was just right, and the voice was clear, but not enough. He couldn't hear the regret of losing his hand, nor could he hear the anger——Ye Xiu evaluated in his heart.

"...I like..." He looked at Zhou Zekai, showing a fascinated and intoxicated expression, and his voice softened, not as dry and shriveled as if soaked in smoke.

"..."

Zhou Zekai, who felt that Ye Xiu's love came too quickly, also met Ye Xiu's gaze and looked at him. The two sat one to the east and the other to the west.

The crisp aftertaste dissipated, and the corpse with the hairpin torn apart was lying on the brick floor. Ye Xiu said, "...the sound of falling things."

Zhou Zekai tried his best to understand Ye Xiu's preference, but failed, so he gave up.So did Jiang Botao.

Ye Xiu quickly calmed down. His guest, Young Master Zhou, was showing off calmly. He had to cooperate, "Oh, why did you fall? It's also a good-looking thing." The tone was regrettable.

Mr. Zhou said, "Not good enough." What else to do.

The next time you come across something that is not good enough and wants to throw it for fun, come to me, "...then here is another one", Ye Xiu meant the hairpin that was even more "not good enough".

"Too late, too lazy." Mr. Zhou turned his head away.