Chapter 40 Collision

In the evening of that day, when Chu Li returned to the East Garden under the sun, he saw Zhao Ying in his small courtyard, drinking tea at a stone table, wearing a lake green blouse, graceful and charming.

Zhao Ying saw him and stood up with a smile: "Brother, you are really busy!"

Chu Li sat across from her with a smile, sniffed the faint fragrance, and said, "Junior Sister is here, what happened over there?"

"No." Zhao Ying sat down again: "I've been shopping for a while, and I've never found that Chongming City is so big, and I haven't finished shopping yet. All sisters are in a good mood, don't worry!"

Chu Li nodded: "It's all up to Junior Sister, I really can't take care of it here."

"What are you busy with?"

"Well..., it's better that you don't know."

"It's so mysterious!" Zhao Ying gave him a white look, and stopped asking.

"What about the tavern?"

"It's almost there." Zhao Ying frowned and said, "The progress is quite slow. I think there is something wrong with their design. The place is too big. How can there be so many people going there!"

Chu Li smiled.

"The corner of that shop is not good, it's deserted." Zhao Ying was a little worried: "Brother, why did you choose that place? How nice it is on the street!"

"What I want is quietness." Chu Li said with a smile: "Don't worry, there will be business. Besides, opening that tavern is not for making money."

"If they lose money, they will feel guilty and blame themselves."

"If you really lose money, then change it to something else... Maybe it will be very profitable. Let's go, let's go around the city!"

"Are you still going?" Zhao Ying said with a bitter face.

"Go to Qi Cao Xuan."

"What are you doing there?" Zhao Ying suddenly became curious.

"There are many good things on that street, see if you can come across them."

The street where Qicaoxuan is located is mostly antique shops, just like the antique street in later generations, you can pick up leaks if you have good eyesight and good luck.

Zhao Ying was dubious.

The two left the Duke's Mansion and came to Chongming City.

Lanterns are hung everywhere in the city. Strings of red lanterns illuminate Chongming City like daytime, more beautiful than daytime. The bustling streets are bustling with traffic, adults bargaining, and children laughing, mixing together, making it extremely noisy.

Chu Li and Zhao Yinglai quickly turned from Zhongxin Avenue into a quiet street and entered an antique shop.

Chu Li is knowledgeable and wise, looking for antiques is like finding something out of a pocket, and quickly picked up two leaks, bought them as fakes from this store, wiped them, and then sold them as genuine ones at another store.

After walking through five stores, Chu Li made a hundred taels of silver, which made Zhao Ying speechless.

The two were walking on the street, Zhao Ying shook the banknotes in her hands, and smiled like a flower: "Senior brother, your money is too easy to make!"

Chu Li laughed and said, "Knowledge is money!"

He tried his best to restrain himself, not making big money but only making small money, so as not to attract too much attention, then it would not be so easy to make money in the future.

"This can be regarded as insight!" Zhao Ying sighed.

She has never experienced it personally, and feels that it is okay to know more and less, as long as her martial arts are good, and she still needs to rely on martial arts at the critical moment. Seeing that Chu Li makes money like a bag, she sighs that she has underestimated knowledge.

After returning home, she must study hard, she made up her mind.

When the two entered the Strange Herb Pavilion, there were already two people bowing their heads to pick things up, accompanied by the shopkeeper's smiling face.

Chu Li glanced at it. It was a very ordinary wooden basket, filled with some strange-shaped roots, suitable for bonsai, and they were all precious trees.

These tree roots are ten taels of silver each, and you can pick them up casually. No matter how precious they are, they are just dead tree roots.

The two people who were picking were Chu Li, but they knew each other. Gu Litong and Zhou Yuting, they were concentrating on picking, ignoring the people who came in.

Chu Li activated Dayuan Jingzhi, glanced at the roots, and then searched the memory palace in his mind to find out the origin of these roots.

His eyes fell on Gu Litong's hand.

There are three tree roots in total, one is shaped like a pine, strong and powerful, the other is shaped like an old man with long beards, and the third is dark and hard, like cast iron, forming a beautiful bow, combining hardness and softness.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Chu Li pointed and asked Zhao Ying.

Zhao Ying nodded in admiration.

"How did you buy it?" Chu Li asked.

"Brother Gu picked it up." Zhao Ying said with a smile.

Chu Li smiled and coughed lightly.

Gu Litong had heard Chu Li's voice, raised his head and said, "Brother Chu, what a coincidence!"

"Did Senior Brother Gu gain anything?"

Gu Litong raised the tree root in his hand: "A little thing."

Chu Li said with a smile: "Let's discuss it, how about giving it to me, the price is easy to negotiate."

"Hehe..." Gu Litong laughed.

Zhou Yuting glared at Chu Li proudly: "Why!"

He looked at Zhao Ying: "Why, Junior Sister Zhao, did you hook up with someone surnamed Chu?"

Zhao Ying's jade face flushed immediately.

Chu Li's face suddenly darkened: "Brother Zhou, be careful!"

"Be careful with that fart, isn't it?" Zhou Yuting said with a chuckle, "You dug Zhuo Feiyang's corner, that's amazing!"

Chu Li frowned and said, "When did Junior Sister Zhao become Zhuo Feiyang's woman? Brother Chang, I will not be polite to this kind of rumor-mongering generation!"

"Hehe, I said it, what's the matter, so what if you're rude?" Zhou Yuting's eyes widened, triumphantly: "I just want to say, you, Chu, poached Zhuo Feiyang's corner!"

Chu Li sighed, and turned to look at Gu Litong: "Brother Gu, be careful not to implicate yourself when you're with such troublemakers!"

"Brother Zhou is right." Gu Litong said with a smile: "Brother Chu is really powerful. I admire Zhuo Feiyang's woman for being able to snatch her!"

Zhao Ying took a deep breath and said loudly, "Shut up!"

The two were stunned, and Chu Li also looked at her in surprise. She didn't expect that she would lose her temper even though she was weak and weak, and found it very interesting.

Zhao Yingyu blushed, her bright eyes widened, she pointed at Zhou Yuting, and scolded unceremoniously: "You are a big man, you can only chew your tongue all day long, I am ashamed for Zhou Yuting!"

Zhou Yuting's eyes widened.

Zhao Ying snorted and said, "Senior brother Zhuo and I are all classmates. We practice martial arts together and go shopping together, so we become their women? You are closer to Senior Brother Gu!"

"Junior Sister Zhao!" Gu Litong shouted hastily.

Chu Li waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop talking!"

He pointed to the three wooden roots in Gu Litong's hand: "Shopkeeper, has he paid?"

"Hehe, not yet." The shopkeeper said with a smile, recognized Chu Li, and secretly complained, it was from the Duke's Mansion again!

"Okay, this one, one hundred taels, I'll buy it!" Chu Li pointed to the thick pine root.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Thank you, young master!"

Chu Li looked at Gu Litong: "Brother Gu, do you want to buy it?"

Gu Litong glared at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper cupped his fists apologetically, and smiled apologetically, "Young master, there's no other way. I'm running on a small budget. I'm running on a small budget."

Gu Litong sneered: "Two hundred taels!"

"Then it belongs to Brother Gu!" Chu Li said immediately, pointing to the wooden root that looked like an old man with a long beard: "This one, one hundred taels!"

"Two hundred taels!" Gu Litong sneered.

"Brother Gu is proud, that's good, it's back to Brother Gu!" Chu Li smiled neatly, pointed at the third root, and said with a smile, "Five hundred taels!"

Gu Litong gritted his teeth and stared at him, and understood what Chu Li was thinking. He was using money to vent his anger on Zhao Ying!

He sneered, and threw the iron-like tree roots towards Chuli: "It's yours!"

Chu Li reached out to take it and frowned at him.

Gu Litong smiled proudly: "It feels good to be cheating!"

"Brother!" Zhao Ying tugged at his sleeve, Yu's face flushed red, still full of anger.

Chu Li shook his head, looked at the tree roots in his hand, and shook his head again.

Zhou Yuting laughed out loud.

Chu Li took a step forward, Zhou Yuting straightened out his chest without fear, and squinted at him disdainfully.

Chu Li lowered his voice: "Brother Zhou, what will happen if I tell Elder Zhou that you have a house in the southeast of the city with women?"

Zhou Yuting's face changed, and his smile froze.

Chu Li shook his head: "Look at how brave you are, brother Zhou!... If I really tell Elder Zhou that you still have a house in the northeast corner of the city with women, what will happen?"

"How dare you!" Zhou Yuting glared at him sullenly.

Chu Li chuckled and shook his head: "Just like you, you dare to spread rumors and make trouble... If there are bad rumors about Junior Sister Zhao outside, you know the consequences!"

"Chu, you are despicable!" Zhou Yuting snorted angrily.

Chu Li stopped looking at him, smiled and reached out to Zhao Ying: "Junior Sister Zhao, let's go!"

Zhao Ying glared at Zhou Yuting fiercely, and Yingying came out of Qicaoxuan.