Gong Liang weighed the rhinoceros head, looked at it pretendingly, and then asked: "How do you sell this thing?"
The stall owner was very scheming and did not answer him directly, but said: "Brother, look, this rhinoceros head is exquisitely carved. It must be the work of some master, but it just wandered into the world for some reason. This kind of thing is said
It's too low to be worthy of its value. You can see how much it is. If the price is right, I will bear the pain and give it to my little brother."
Is business so good now?
Gong Liang glanced at the stall owner, looked at the rhinoceros head in his hand, and said: "Ten low-grade spiritual stones."
He said the words "low-grade spiritual stone" particularly strongly, mainly because he felt a little distressed just now when he spent a medium-grade spiritual stone on that bearded man. He has never been a stingy person, but it depends on where the money is spent.
When the stall owner heard Gong Liang's words, his face twitched. He took a deep breath, exhaled it slowly, and then said with a smile: "I'm kidding, you can't buy something like this with ten spiritual stones."
"Then how much do you want?"
The stall owner reached out and flipped through it.
Gong Liang glanced at it and said angrily: "Ten middle-grade spiritual stones?"
The stall owner's expression froze, but he quickly recovered his smile and said, "Brother, I'm joking, how could it be that there are ten middle-grade spiritual stones and one hundred low-grade spiritual stones."
Gongliang shook his head and said: "It's too expensive. I can only get 20 low-grade spiritual stones at most."
"Brother, you see that the first appearance of the Divine Rhinoceros Beast is so good. Twenty spirit stones is too low. If you sincerely want it, then I will reduce it a little more. Eighty spirit stones cannot be any less."
"Too many, at most thirty spirit stones."
"Seventy, at least seventy. Brother, this is a small business. It's hard to do business nowadays. You can't let me sell it to you at a loss!"
"How is it possible to lose money? I heard from the previous person that these things you have are all debris from the academy's cleaning of the courtyard. Even if the academy didn't repay you, how can you return the money? I'm too lazy to talk about it.
Let's talk about it, forget it, I'll add a little more after my loss, fifty spiritual stones, if it doesn't work I have to leave. At worst, I'll add a little more to buy better things, so as not to waste time." Gongliang put down the rhinoceros beast's head and stood up.
Walk.
"Fifty is fifty."
How could the stall owner let him leave? He quickly picked up the rhinoceros head and packed it, and also gave him a good-quality box for free.
"Brother, if you want anything, you can check it out. I guarantee it's cheaper here than elsewhere. If you buy more, I'll give you a discount later."
"Well, I'll take a look again."
Gongliang took the box and rummaged through the bag. When he found that there was nothing good, he stood up.
"Brother, I have to leave. Please walk slowly and come back when you have time."
"good."
Gong Liang smiled slightly and nodded. As for whether he would come again, it would definitely not happen. Miaodao Immortal Sect is so far away from Qingyang Academy, so only a fool would come here to buy secondhand goods. Next, he went to other secondhand goods stores.
After wandering around the stalls, I found the missing corner of the inkstone.
I don’t know if the previous bearded stall owner was blind, and he didn’t even find such an easy-to-find remnant.
Gongliang doesn't know. We are both old goods stall owners and we are in a competitive relationship with each other. If we don't hide any good stuff for fear that others will get it, how can we put it out for you to pick out openly?
Furthermore, if he had not known the quality of the inkstone, how would he have found the incomplete object.
The latest object obtained is a broken piece under the inkstone, which is engraved with a prostrate female rhinoceros on the ground and a small divine rhinoceros standing on the edge of the inkstone and looking around. It just echoes the divine rhinoceros on the top of the inkstone.
Gongliang put together the inkstone he got, and the overall appearance of the inkstone was almost revealed.
On the top of the inkstone is a sacred rhinoceros leaning over the inkstone to drink water. At the bottom is a female rhinoceros and a baby rhinoceros looking around. In the middle is a moon-shaped inkstone pool.
Although the overall appearance of the inkstone is now available, the inkstone is not complete yet. There is still a missing corner on the top of the inkstone on the rhinoceros edge.
But now that he had visited all the used goods stalls, where should he find the rest? Gongliang didn't know, so he could only take Mi Gu and Gu'er around.
After walking for a while, I felt something and couldn't help but look towards an alley next to the street. There was someone pushing a cart selling layer cakes. The stall owner used a few stones to hold the wheels against the wheels to prevent the cart from sliding away. Gong Liang clearly saw it.
, one of those stones looked familiar, it was clearly the one missing from the inkstone, so he quickly walked over with the little guy and Gu'er.
Migu had eaten mille-feuille cakes before when he and Dad traveled to various countries, but obviously the mille-feuille cakes here were made differently from those in other places.
There is a sweet and salty smell floating in the air. I don't know how well the stall owner handles the salty and sweet taste. If not, it will not be good.
There used to be a proverb in Gongliang's hometown: "Salty plus sweet will make your mouth smell bad if you eat it; sweet and salty will make your feet smell bad if you eat it."
Migu also smelled the smell, especially the rich meaty smell emanating from the thousand-layer cake. The little guy couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and asked daddy: "Daddy, is the cake delicious?"
Gongliang glanced at her. Although the little guy asked this question, his big eyes were always saying: "Daddy, I want to eat cake, I want to eat cake."
This little guy doesn’t know who he learned it from. Sometimes he doesn’t tell you directly that he wants to eat, but he will remind you tactfully.
If you don't have some understanding, it's really hard to hear.
Gu'er also stared at the thousand-feuille cake and swallowed hard. He didn't know how the two guys got such big bellies. They had just eaten enough.
With no choice, Gong Liang could only say to the stall owner: "Cut three pieces of thousand-layer cake for me. Is your thousand-layer cake delicious? If not, I won't give you money."
The white-haired woman heard Gong Liang's joking tone and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my guest, this thousand-layer cake is passed down from my ancestors. It has been passed down for eight generations. Even the great scholars from the academy often come to the old woman's place."
Eat it, make sure it tastes good."
As the woman spoke, she cut out three pieces of thousand-feuille cake from bamboo slices and weighed them. Then she wrapped each piece of thousand-feuille cake in a piece of thick paper and handed it to Gu'er and Mi Gu, who were watching eagerly next to them.
After Gongliang paid, he also took a piece of mille-feuille cake and ate it.
The little guy took a few bites, turned around and said, "Daddy, the cake is so delicious!"
Gongliang took a bite and it tasted really good.
Thousand-feuille cake is very simple to make. It is to pour a layer of prepared flour slurry into a steamer and steam it until the flour slurry solidifies and becomes transparent. Then pour another layer, usually six to nine layers. Thousand-feuille cake made by a woman
It's nine layers, but her method is slightly different. It's a sweet layer with a salty layer mixed with gravy, and there's animal meat on top. The animal meat has been specially processed to make it soft and melt in your mouth.
The sweet layer is also different, it should be made by mixing sweet grass juice and powder slurry.
Moreover, the taste of this sweet layer complements the greasy meat layer, combining the two, salty with sweetness, sweet with salty, it is really a rare delicacy. 8)