"Drinking with people from the other three families, I heard that they also attach great importance to this foreigner coming to Kyoto. There are more or less actions in the family. Although this foreigner does not appear to be a gambling ring in the Xia Kingdom, it seems I can have fun secretly with people from the four major families."
"We will discuss this matter in detail when we meet."
Meng Yan nodded: "Okay, I have something to do tomorrow. The three of us will meet and discuss it the day after tomorrow. That's it."
After Shen Nongshi agreed, Meng Yan hung up the phone.
Not long after, Meng Yan heard the ringtone of her cell phone ringing in Shen Qiqi's bedroom.
Concentrating his energy, Meng Yan found that his ears became easier to use.
"Hey, Qiqi, my cousin wants to ask you something, that Meng Yan..."
The next day, Meng Yan and Shen Qiqi arrived at the address given on time as scheduled.
Wang Tiankai led Meng Yan as they walked through twists and turns in the city. The bustling scenery around them gradually disappeared and was replaced by the street scenes of Kyoto from the last century. There were also more and more small stalls selling antiques and buying rough stones around them.
Meng Yan occasionally opened his magic eyes and looked at the shop where he was walking. Although most of them were geode stones, from time to time he could also see one or two jadeite pieces with something inside.
Obviously, Wang Tiankai took the two of them to the rough stone market in Kyoto.
Just as Meng Yan was thinking this, Wang Tiankai suddenly stopped in front of a courtyard.
"Excuse me, is Mr. Cao here today?" Wang Tiankai handed a cigarette to the old man leaning against the door and said respectfully.
The gatekeeper raised his head and glanced at Wang Tiankai with disdain, then took the cigarette in his hand.
"Oh, it's Xiao Wang. Mr. Cao is sitting in the venue right now. If you want to see him alone, you have to wait until the meeting is over."
Upon hearing this, Wang Tiankai's eyes flashed with disappointment, but he immediately said respectfully.
"Well, sir, please do me a favor. Can we go in now?"
When the gatekeeper heard this, he stopped leaning casually, straightened up and looked around, looking cautious.
"Are you bringing anyone with you?" the gatekeeper asked.
Wang Tiankai pointed at Meng Yan and Shen Qiqi who were standing not far behind him.
"Don't worry, uncle, these two are my friends, trustworthy, please be accommodating."
Wang Tiankai smiled and took out two more "Zhonghua" cigarettes and handed them over.
The gatekeeper looked up at Meng Yan, who looked calm, then turned to look at the pretty girl next to him, took two birches and waved to the door.
"Okay, let's go in."
"Hey, thank you." Wang Tiankai nodded politely and thanked him, turned around and walked to Meng Yan.
"Let's go, the person you want to see is inside, but you may have to sit in the venue for a while first."
Meng Yan looked curiously at Wang Tiankai, who still had a polite smile on his lips.
The guy in the bar yesterday and the Wang Tiankai in front of me didn't feel like the same person at all. Where was that aura of "Kyoto's master is my master"?
"Then let's go." Meng Yan said, and the three of them stepped across the threshold and walked into the gate.
As soon as he entered the gate, Meng Yan couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
From the outside, the gate looks like an inconspicuous low courtyard gate, but when you walk inside, you find that there is a whole other world.
It's so big inside.
"Don't walk around, come here." Wang Tiankai reminded Meng Yan, and came to an inconspicuous wooden door next to the garden inside. Pushing the wooden door open, a long underground corridor appeared in front of the three of them.
before.
"Follow me."
After Wang Tiankai finished speaking, he led the way. After walking up the last step of the stairs, the scene in front of him shocked Meng Yan again.
How lively!
Below is a small teahouse venue, filled with all kinds of Kyoto "gentlemen" dressed in traditional Xia country costumes.
Meng Yan briefly scanned the venue. The people sitting on the rows of carved yellow pear trees, if they were wearing clothes in a TV series, they would at least be princes.
Some people in the venue were touching various jade articles, and some were chatting with each other. They didn't pay much attention to the appearance of Meng Yan.
Meng Yan's eyes fell on the person at the front of the venue.
This man was wearing a Tang suit, the traditional costume of the Xia Kingdom, with a jade pendant around his waist, just like an ancient costume.
But what was different from the others at the venue was that this middle-aged man was blond and a foreigner.
Meng Yan touched Wang Tiankai next to him, moved next to him, lowered his voice, pointed at the foreigner in the front row and asked.
"Who is that person? Why are foreigners here?"
Wang Tiankai immediately replied: "That person is the person you are looking for to sell me the jade pendant, the owner of this courtyard house!"
Meng Yan: "?!"
interesting.
"His name is Cao Kunyu. His ancestors came to the Xia Kingdom during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the country was in chaos and the steamed buns were more valuable than antiques. This person's grandfather started a business of selling antiques, and after two visits, he took root in China.
"
"But he also has his own family in foreign countries. I heard that the scale is quite small, similar to the existence of the four major families in the Xia Kingdom. This man often runs back and forth. I heard rumors that this time he came back to the Xia Kingdom.
They are here to return the treasures that our ancestors shipped out from Xia Kingdom."
After hearing this, Meng Yan immediately felt a sense of indifference towards this person in his heart.
Isn’t this the same person who took advantage of the poverty and weakness of the Xia Kingdom to come here to make a fortune and steal the treasures of our ancestors?
"We usually call him Master Cao, which is very popular in Kyoto. You should be more polite when you meet him later," Wang Tiankai reminded.
"Bullshit!" Seeing Wang Tiankai's submissive and respectful look, Meng Yan finally couldn't help but cursed out.
"Isn't he just a speculator who takes advantage of our Xia country's poverty and weakness to take advantage of our national treasure? How polite do I have to be with him?"
"Back then, when we were in chaos, God knows how many of our Xia Kingdom's treasures he took away with a few bags of flour?!"
Wang Tiankai was stunned for a moment, and quickly covered Meng Yan's mouth with a slap, looking around in panic.
After a while, after seeing that no one around him was paying attention to him, he let go of Meng Yan's mouth and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Keep your voice down. The people sitting here are all friends of Mr. Cao. If someone hears us, they will kick us out!" Wang Tiankai reminded.
"Besides, Master Cao is not the kind of person you think. He has done a lot for our Xia Kingdom to recover the national treasures that were lost overseas."
"Humph." Meng Yan snorted, walked straight to the chair behind the blond foreigner, and sat down.
