Chapter 36

Ye Chen saw that Old Zhu was in a daze, so he waved his hand in front of him. Ye Chen said to him, “Old Zhu, are you still listening?”

Old Zhu snapped back to reality and smiled. “Mr. Ye, if you’re merely collecting, why don’t you try your luck at the antique market. River City has the largest antique market on the 2nd Lot of Money River Street. But if you’re interested in a real alchemic stove, you’ll have to opt to join the auction.

“Most of the items up for auction are audited by the auctioneer. As long as you have the money, you’ll be able to acquire your beloved item for sure. This of course also goes for things that are over tens of thousands of years old.

“So let me ask you, Mr. Ye, are you the former or the latter?”

Although Ye Chen had a secret method for identifying antiques, most of the items in the antique markets were in fact counterfeits. If he were to look for one, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Hence, auctioning was undoubtedly the best choice at that moment.

“Old Zhu, I prefer auctions,” Ye Chen replied honestly.

Old Zhu nodded his head and then continued, “Since Mr. Ye prefers auctions, perfect. In five days, a big auction will be held in River City Millennium Hotel. It just so happens that the Zhu Family was invited to attend the auction. Mr. Ye how about you come along with us at that time?”

“Thanks for the trouble, Old Zhu. ” Ye Chen shook hands with him but had an afterthought and said, “Old Zhu, I haven’t seen your granddaughter today. ”

Old Zhu did not expect Ye Chen to ask him about Zhu Zixuan. ‘Seems like Mr. Ye isn’t that inhuman after all.’

“As luck would have it, Zixuan happened to go hiking with her master today. She’ll only be back later. Initially, I was going to ask Zixuan to serve tea as a formal apology to Mr. Ye. Mr. Ye, how about stay back to have dinner with us?”

Naturally, Ye Chen was not able to stay back. He stood up, turned around, and then held up a piece of River City’s evening paper which dated to the day before.

“Old Zhu, you have no use for this newspaper anymore, right?

“No, I don’t, Mr. Ye. Do you wish… ”

“Old Zhu, do you have a pen?”

“Yes yes yes, Mr. Ye, please wait for a moment. ”

After a while, Old Zhu brought a black pen to Ye Chen. In fact, he was a little puzzled. He could not figure out what Ye Chen was up to, asking for the newspaper and a pen. He wondered what medicine Ye Chen sold in that calabash of his.

Ye Chen was seen holding the pen as he scribbled to fill the empty spaces on the newspaper. He wrote a copious amount of lines of words fluently and then proceeded to draw a sketch of the human body with inexplicable lines over it.

Once he was done, Ye Chen proceeded to rack up the newspaper. He then handed it to Zhu Rende.

“Old Zhu, when your granddaughter comes back later, remember to pass this piece of newspaper to her. She’ll understand once she sees it. Also, don’t forget to send the medicinal herbs over at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. ”

After Ye Chen had finished explaining what he had come to say, he stepped outside. ‘It’s almost noon, I wonder what Sun Yi has cooked up today.’

After Ye Chen had left, Zhu Rende furrowed his eyebrows and wrinkled as he opened up the newspaper. However, it did not matter how he tried to look at it. He could not understand what Ye Chen had written on the newspaper.

For the most part, he dealt with medicinal herbs. Not to mention, he started doing so from a very young age. Even though he had seen martial arts experts before, he did not have the slightest clue on how martial arts experts trained.

“Forget it, I’ll wait until Zixuan comes back and ask her. ”

…

After ten minutes, Zhu Zixuan went into Virtuous Benevolence Hall with an old man. Zhu Zixuan was in a set of pink attire.

The old man wore a set of gray clothes and a pair of black sports shoes. He was very thin, and his standing posture was as straight as a pencil. His benevolent bright piercing eyes were brimming under his light eyebrows.

When Zhu Rende saw the old man, he greeted him promptly, “Old Qin, did you bring Zixuan out to practice again? This playful girl has definitely kept you busy, right?”

Zhu Zixuan was displeased. “What are you trying to say, grandpa? Do you think that I’m the type that brings chaos to your life?”

Zhu Rende shot a glance at Zhu Zixuan and scolded, “You should know what you did! Remember the time when you offended Ye Chen? I specifically left you with him to apologize yesterday, but in the end, you went hiking with your master early in the morning. I would’ve beaten you up already if Old Qin wasn’t here right now.”

The moment Zhu Zixuan heard Ye Chen’s name, she suddenly became very worried.

Ever since the incident that had happened previously, her grandpa would not stop talking about Ye Chen; he talked about him from day to night. She was sick and tired of it.

With that level of skills.

‘Aren’t Ye Chen’s skills merely average? Why does he go so far as to praise him highly?’

‘What martial arts grandmaster? Are they talking about him? Hehe!’

There was only one true martial arts grandmaster in her heart, it was her master!

When they went to practice on the hill that day, she saw her master chop down a giant tree with his bare hands! ‘He’s way better than that dog shit Ye Chen.’

The moment Zhu Rende mentioned Ye Chen, he could not help but remember what Ye Chen had asked him to do. Hurriedly, he went behind to grab the piece of newspaper and handed it to Zhu Zixuan.

“Zixuan, Ye Chen told me to give this to you. Just do some research if you don’t understand the things on it because I don’t either. ”

Zhu Zixuan glanced at the newspaper. She snorted coldly and said, “Is that guy so kind as to give me something? For a second I thought it was something valuable, but a closer look shows that it’s just yesterday’s River City evening paper. Hmm, what is he trying to say? Is he trying to say that I lack knowledge, and he’s asking me to read more newspapers? This is just an insult in disguise! What an asshole!”

Zhu Zixuan got so angry that she rolled up the newspaper and threw it into the trashcan.

“Pick it up right this instance! He wrote something inside!” Zhu Rende went straight for the rod as if he was going to beat her. He did it without saying a word, picking it up from the side. He was obviously very angry.

The helpless Zhu Zixuan could only reluctantly pick up the newspaper from the trashcan. When she opened it up and took a quick look, sure enough, there were words and a diagram. However, she did not understand any of it.

“What dog shit has Ye Chen written this time? Why would he ask me to read this? That guy is out of his mind!”

When she was done, Zhu Zixuan decided to crumple up the newspaper into a ball to toss it again. However, she was suddenly met with a yell from the side of her ears!

“Wait!”

The shout came from Old Qin!

“Master, what are you trying to say?”

Ignoring Zhu Zixuan’s question, Old Qin snatched away the piece of newspaper. His eyes stared sternly at the words and diagram that had been left by Ye Chen.

He furrowed his eyebrows and wrinkled his forehead. As time went by, his expressions slowly unfolded! In the end, his facial expression showed that he was struck dumb with amazement!

When they saw his expression, both Zhu Rende and Zhu Zixuan looked at him weirdly.

“Master, what’s going on?”

“Old Qin, what have you found out?”

Old Qin ignored them as he sat crossed-legged on the floorboard. He shut both his eyes tightly; it was similar to when he practiced.

“Master, the floorboard is dirty… Even if you want to practice, it can wait right… ” Zhu Zixuan said.

Old Qin ignored her.

After five minutes, Old Qin suddenly opened up his eyes. He slammed his palm on the floorboard and a faint wave of air started to flow outward from the palm of his hand!

Crack!

At the same time, the floor started to split open!

A one-meter deep depression suddenly formed! In an instant, the floorboard turned into dust!

The scene which was filled with sudden intensity in movement would easily scare anyone!

Suddenly, Zhu Zixuan seemed to have noticed something as she exclaimed, “Master, you… you’ve managed to achieve a breakthrough! Congratulations, master!”

Old Qin stood up and exhaled a mouthful of air.

The next second, he shot open his eyes. His pair of eyes looked pleasantly surprised despite his wrinkled face being flushed red!

He looked toward Zhu Rende and grabbed his arm as he said, “Old Zhu, this newspaper… this newspaper! Whose hands did you take this from? Please… Bring me to him! He is I, Qin Yuanming’s benefactor!”

His voice trembled with excitement as he grabbed Zhu Rende’s hand fervently, it was so hard that Zhu Rende’s hand started to turn blue-black.