Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

"Xiao Lianhua, I'm going to the old house soon. Let Qi Longdong take you in Peking."

"Brother, how long will you be gone? Who will be with you? Have you brought everything?"

Although Zhang Qiling is no longer at the age to be released into the wild, he had no choice when he was abroad before. Now that he has returned to China, he still has to go through the process.

Zhang Qiling took a few people from the Zhang family to Xixia. They heard that there was an ancient house there, which was rarely visited and the people were poor, so they went there under the pretext of going to investigate. (This time, the young patriarch was no longer his adoptive father's blood bag, nor was he a tool for exploring the way, but a god to the Zhang family around him, a true patriarch.)

After seeing Zhang Qiling off, Hua Yu, at Qi Longdong's instigation, went out to wander the streets of Peking with just the two of them, without anyone else.

When passing by a restaurant, Hua Yu touched her belly while singing the Empty City Strategy.

"I want to eat. I'm hungry. You are most familiar with Peking. Do you know that the food in the restaurants there is delicious?"

Qi Longdong looked at the hotel next to them and thought about what might go wrong if he went to other restaurants, but this restaurant was related to the current official.

"It's this Xinyue Restaurant. The food there is like this, and you can listen to music here. Let's go in, young master?" Qi Longdong gave a thumbs up when he mentioned the food in the restaurant.

Qi Longdong nodded and bowed as he brought Hua Yu to the entrance of the Crescent Hotel.

Coincidentally, there happened to be an auction at the Crescent Hotel today. The waiter at the door stopped them and asked for an invitation.

"What invitation? Can't I come in to eat without an invitation?"

"Young master, they are holding an auction here today. Why don't we join in the fun? It will help us kill some time." Qi Longdong leaned close to Hua Yu's ear and whispered.

The servant at the door twitched his ears.

"You can't enter without an invitation."

Qi Longdong saw the servant's ears and understood everything.

"Young master, we have to take out something to prove that we have money." Qi Longdong rubbed two fingers together, signaling Hua Yu to take out something to shock them.

Hua Yu tilted her head to look at Qi Longdong, then at the servant, and without thinking too much, she took out a mermaid pearl the size of a blueberry from her pocket.

Qi Longdong's eyes widened as he looked at the blueberry-sized mermaid pearl. He reached out and covered Hua Yu's hand. The servant at the door looked at the big pearl, was shocked for a moment, and bent down to invite Hua Yu in.

"Are you two here to sell something? This thing is extremely rare. I will ask the court official to show it to you two distinguished guests."

The servant trotted all the way to a maid in blue in the hall and whispered something into her ear.

The maid in green sent someone to take Hua Yu and Qi Longdong to a room where an old man with a white beard, wearing a long black jacket, thick glasses and a melon-shaped hat, sat behind a table.

"Please take a seat, my two distinguished guests." The old man gestured to Hua Yu and Qi Longdong to sit opposite him.

Qi Longdong pulled out a chair for Hua Yu to sit down. He stood behind Hua Yu with one hand on the back of the chair and the other in his trouser pocket.

Hua Yu took out the mermaid pearl from his pocket again and placed it on the table. The old man opposite looked at it for a long time with a magnifying glass and then put it down again.

"I wonder what this distinguished guest intends to do?" The old man asked Hua Yu what she thought of the pearl.

"This is your business. Our young master has plenty of this stuff." Before Qi Longdong went abroad, he had the opportunity to follow his father here once and knew some things.

"Of course, if this can satisfy our young master, when our young master comes back later, he will ask someone to negotiate a long-term business with your boss."

Qi Longdong thought of the night when Zhang Qiling went out and took him to a place far away from the main courtyard, under the pretext of sparring, but in fact he was severely beaten.

After Qi Longdong was severely beaten, Zhang Qiling told him that the forces in Peking were complicated and intricate. The Crescent Hotel had been able to stand here for many years, and there must be many forces involved behind it. If they could get in touch with them, then they would be able to gain a foothold in Peking.

This time Zhang Qiling said that it was for the previously unfinished wild release mission, but actually he just went to scout the place.

In prosperous times, gold is valuable; in troubled times, antiques are valuable. Qi Longdong understood this sentence, and the Zhang family was best at searching for treasures underground.

"This, I have to ask our boss." The old man paused while stroking his beard. After hesitating for a moment, he finally accepted the mermaid pearl.

"You two, follow Tingnu to the box first. We will put this world-famous treasure on the auction later." The old man personally stood up to see Hua Yu and Qi Longdong out, and Tingnu took them to the most luxurious and largest box on the third floor.

After the old man sent the two away, he trotted to find the boss with the mermaid pearl.

The boss sitting in the office looked at the old man pushing the door open and was a little surprised at first. What made this court official disregard the rules and just push the door open?

Before the boss could say anything, the old man drew the curtains in the room, turned off the lights, and took out the mermaid pearl from his pocket.

The moment the boss turned off the lights, his eyes went dark, and suddenly he saw a bright light where the old man had just stood.

The moment the light was turned on, the boss' eyes widened when he saw the goose egg-sized pearl in the old man's hand.

"Old Yin, look, this is a mermaid pearl, not a pearl."

The man, whom the old man called Lao Yin, took the mermaid pearl with trembling hands and looked at the old man in disbelief.

"Master Liu, you are not mistaken, are you? This is a mermaid pearl?"

The old man blew his beard and glared, "You are wrong. I have been doing appraisals for so many years, how could I be wrong? And this is exactly the same as what is recorded in the book."

Old Yin took out a rosewood box from the drawer of the table, carefully placed the mermaid pearl inside, and asked the servant at the door to come in.

"Let the stick slave escort you carefully and put you there for the finale."

Tingnu took the box from his boss and sent it to the auction house under the escort of a group of stick slaves.

Boss Yin and Mr. Liu continued to discuss things behind closed doors.