Chapter 49
“Pfft!”
Hearing the words of Qimu, Liu Xuan couldn’t hold back a direct laugh, and even many of the surrounding spectators directly burst out laughing.
Which one of the people present was not an old driver, how could such words sound awkward.
“Brother, this is called the Lotus Terrace Guanyin Statue, don’t know how we don’t talk nonsense, okay?”
Lin Ran said speechlessly.
“Go, go, it’s your business!”
Qi Muyu glared at Lin Ran and said to himself, “Wait for me, it looks like I’ll make you look good later.
“Old man, how is it, do you like this gift?”
Qimei Language laughed as Liu Xuan came over and added.
“Old master, although the gift is expensive are the kid’s heart, but must accept ah!”
Old Master Luo did not say anything, just couldn’t stop staring at the statue of the Goddess of Mercy, he always felt that something was wrong somewhere, but for a while he couldn’t tell.
Seeing that the old man did not say anything, a*suming that he had acquiesced, Liu Xuan then looked at Lin Ran on the topic.
“Brother Lin, I wonder what kind of gift you have prepared for the old man? It’s hard to come empty-handed, isn’t it!”
“I don’t think so, how can I say that he is also the head of the Chinese medicine department of Temperance Hospital, he usually receives some gifts or something, there is always money to buy a gift.”
Bai Cheng added.
The two men looked at Lin Ran playfully, with smugness in their eyes.
“Lin Ran is my grandfather’s benefactor, he doesn’t need a gift!”
Luo Qiqi spoke up.
“All the more reason for a benefactor to need a gift, otherwise licking a face to come over, don’t you feel ashamed!”
Liu Xuan pressed on step by step.
Qin Bing and Song Nuan looked gloomy, the former even touched her palm to her pocket, there was a watch in her pocket that she had bought to give to Lin Ran to apologise to him for last night, if Lin Ran really didn’t prepare a gift, this would barely be enough.
Song Nuan, on the other hand, looked at Lin Ran and did not say anything. In her opinion, again, since Lin Ran had not left and had stayed here, he obviously had something prepared.
“There are naturally gifts, but before I bring out a gift, I’m more interested in this fake Guanyin statue of yours.” Lin Ran smiled.
“A fake Guanyin statue? Kid, if you don’t have a gift, you don’t have to denigrate others!”
Liu Xuan laughed coldly, and Qi Muyu said at this.
“Sir Liu, there is no need to be angry, after all, not everyone can afford this kind of thing, if a random person was brought out with your kind of status, then money would be good under this heaven.”
“Haha!”
Liu Xuan laughed smugly.
“Mr. Qi is right, brother Lin Ran, if you’re not prepared, you’re not prepared, you say so, people won’t blame you will they, why pretend to be fat with a swollen face.”
Bai Cheng said, at this time stepping on Lin Ran where he would miss.
“I see ah, since it is a benefactor, no preparation is no preparation, the old man will not care about this.”
“Saying that, but coming empty handed, it’s not a good look either!”
“Or else go and buy them now? Haha!”
There was a lot of chatter in the crowd, some were really speaking on Lin Ran’s behalf, while more were talking nonsense with the mindset of watching the fun.
Lin Ran wasn’t annoyed either, and from a side table, he pulled a napkin and slowly made his way to the statue of the Goddess of Mercy, before placing it on one of the lotus petals.
“Stop it! You have no gift of your own and you want to ruin someone else’s, how dare you!”
Liu Xuan hurriedly chided.
“What? Afraid I’ll reveal that it’s a fake?”
Lin Ran revealed a cold smile, then looked at Elder Luo and said.
“Old master, since you like this kind of thing, you should know the greatest characteristic of jadeite!”
“How so?”
Master Luo looked at Lin Ran with a smile, he actually saw the fishy thing, but didn’t dare to be sure, at this moment, Lin Ran directly said that it was fake, he couldn’t help but be curious as well, wanting to see how Lin Ran was going to examine the goods.
“Jadeite is cold in nature, the human body will not get hot when wearing it, it is cold in all seasons, and it is harder than gla*s!”
Lin Ran said with a smile, while taking a napkin and quickly rubbing the lotus petals, saying, “If it’s fake, we’ll see the real thing in a minute!”
“Stop it, can you afford to pay if you break it?”
The face of Kimeko was ugly, and his heart was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
This was a fake he had bought from Gu Yu Zhai for two hundred dollars, not made of jadeite at all, but a kind of artificial resin, only beautifully made and very much like jadeite.
“Stop it!”
Qimu said and was about to come and grab it, when Lin Ran stopped with one collection and directly stopped Qimu with the other hand, laughing.
“What? Can’t pretend anymore? Don’t worry, it’ll be done soon!”
Saying that, Lin Ran directly took a gla*s from the waiter pa*sing by, and looked at Odd-Mouthed Language and laughed.
“Pick up your palm for a second.”
“Pick me up …..?”
奇目語 did not understand, however the next moment he felt a hot and sharp pain coming from his palm, looking down, his hand was actually a handful of gla*s dregs, in looking at Lin Ran, the gla*s goblet in his hand, a piece was already missing, the sharp surface was dripping with blood, unusually conspicuous.
The pain was so great that Kimeko almost didn’t pa*s out. Lin Ran had taken his hands to the right level, so naturally he couldn’t have let Kimeko pa*s out so early.
“There!”
Soon after, Lin Ran stopped his hand movements, and everyone was surprised to see that the lotus petal, actually began to sag slightly, just like a puddle of jelly.
“You try it, old man?”
As soon as Lin Ran picked up the statue of the Goddess of Mercy, he handed it to Old Master Luo’s face a thousand times.
The latter couldn’t wait to touch it with his deep palm, and his heart sank under this scene; the place that had just been rubbed by the napkin was clearly already a little hot.
Followed by Lin Ran a tug, actually pulled that half of the lotus petals to bend up, the crowd looked amazed.
“There, the following is hardness!”
Lin Ran laughed, and at the same time the gla*s goblet in it scratched directly on the statue of the Goddess of Mercy, and at once that half of the flower spot was actually cut off directly by the paint brush.
“This!”
“This Guanyin statue is still really fake!”
“Liu Xuan this is too …. much!”
The people around were dumbfounded, they all looked at Lin Ran with admiration and envy in their eyes, with such eyes, wouldn’t they just go around the antique city and become rich.
Luo Qiqi looked at Lin Ran and picked a thumbs up, Qin Bing and Song Nuan also couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief, especially the former.
“This guy, he really has a solution for everything!”
Song Nuan muttered to himself in his heart, unknowingly, his dislike for Lin Ran didn’t seem to be that much anymore.
Moreover, this guy could always give him unexpected solutions, which made her very puzzled as to how on earth this guy had come up with them.
“Little divine Doctor, ah no, Master Lin, what on earth is this made of? How come it looks just like jadeite?”
Elder Luo hurriedly asked, just now he had looked at it for half a day but couldn’t see the doorway, Lin Ran went up and showed the problem straight away, which meant that the latter was very familiar with the material of the thing.
Lin Ran smiled when he heard this, then looked at the crowd, finally his eyes fell on Qimanyu and smiled.
“I think this is something that Mr. Qi should know very well, if I am correct, this should be a latest synthetic resin which was then processed into a special process, correct?”
“You ….. How do you know!”
Qi Muyu was full of shock, looking at Lin Ran and stammering for half a day before he could get the words out.
Chapter 50
“Does it matter how I know?”
Lin Ran laughed.
Indeed, at this point, it didn’t matter how one could know, what mattered was that the item was fake.
“Liu family boy, your gift is too expensive, new process synthetic resin, old man I’m afraid I can’t afford it!”
Elder Luo said, and then waved his hand and had the statue of the Goddess of Mercy returned to Liu Xuan.
Liu Xuan’s face was ugly as he threw the statue of the Goddess of Mercy to Qimu, which was so big and heavy that Qimu fell to the ground with it when he didn’t stand still, tumbling over.
“Kid, don’t get C*cky, even if this thing is fake, at least I have prepared a gift, you came empty handed!”
Liu Xuan turned his head to look at Lin Ran and said in a cold voice.
“Empty handed? I said I came empty handed?”
Lin Ran spared a glance.
“You prepared a gift? How did I see that?”
Song Nuan came up and asked, Qin Bing was also looking at Lin Ran curiously, it was she who had shouted at Lin Ran to join her after work, and she hadn’t noticed any gifts prepared by the latter along the way.
“Naturally, there is.”
Lin Ran laughed, then stepped forward and took out a jade pendant from his pocket.
The jade pendant looked bland and unexciting, not shiny, and it was also the size of a fingernail cap, which looked a bit shabby and adulterated.
“This seems to be a ground-floor item, I’ve seen this kind of thing at the gate for a good ten dollars!”
“Yeah! I’m afraid it’s not worth as much as that fake statue of the Goddess of Mercy!”
“I think this kid is probably just here to cheat and eat!”
Immediately, someone in the crowd criticized Lin Ran.
Bai Cheng and Liu Xuan’s faces were pleased, especially the latter, who laughed straight away after seeing the jade pendant Lin Ran held out.
” Lin Ran, do you really think that you can cheat the old man just because you cured him of his illness? Just this kind of jade pendant of yours, there are so many of them on the streets of Antique City that they can be sold by the kilogram, what kind of heart are you pressing when you give away a piece of this kind of jade pendant!”
Liu Xuan scolded.
Bai Cheng followed and said.
“I think he’s simply a liar, even if he cheated Qiqi, now he even dares to cheat Master Luo. I think Master Luo is afraid that he is just about to recover from his illness, and this kid happened to meet him by chance.”
“You’re talking nonsense!”
Qin Bing couldn’t listen to this anymore, she was there at the time, no one knew better than her.
“Nonsense? You’re with him, so you naturally help him speak, otherwise you ask him to show the evidence.”
Bai Cheng shouted.
Song Nuan’s brow furrowed slightly as she watched, but she couldn’t intervene, once she opened her mouth it would be a direct shout to her old man, and then the commotion would be too big.
Luo Qiqi was also furious and gritted her teeth, but Lin Ran hadn’t explained what the jade pendant was all about, so she couldn’t even find the words to help.
Lin Ran didn’t even bother with the words of the people around him, he handed the jade pendant to the old man and said with a smile.
“Old master, you are old after all, although your body is healed, it is hard to guarantee that you won’t get sick in the future, I have drawn auspicious charms on this jade pendant to keep evil spirits at bay.”
“O?”
Master Luo sniffed with interest and took the jade pendant.
“I am not good at these metaphysical things, but I heard from Ming’er that it was the feng shui pattern problem in the house that you pointed out back then that cured my illness, so it seems that the little divine doctor has a deep attainment in metaphysics.”
Elder Luo laughed.
“I don’t dare, I just know a little bit about it.”
Lin Ran laughed.
“Hm?”
Suddenly, Elder Luo’s face changed and there was a curious look between his brows.
The jade pendant Lin Ran had given him was a very ordinary jade cake, in modern terms, a peace clasp, and Elder Luo tried it on his wrist.
A hot current immediately flowed out of it and entered Elder Luo’s wrist, causing his whole body to feel a wave of relief, and his gla*ses couldn’t help but brighten up a few points when he looked at things.
“This jade pendant!”
Elder Luo looked at Lin Ran in surprise, as if he wanted to figure out the doorway.
Lin Ran smiled at this and said.
“The jade pendant can only have a charm of good fortune on it, which can attract good fortune in all directions, as well as being good for health, so Elder Luo doesn’t need to be surprised.”
“High! That’s really high! You can be called a master if you have such means!”
Master Luo exclaimed.
From afar, Liu Xuan’s brow furrowed as he watched, the sound of Lin Ran and Elder Luo’s conversation was not too loud for their side to hear, and at this moment, seeing the two talking happily to each other, he could not help but be very annoyed in his heart.
“Old master, be careful of being tricked by this kid, his jade pendant is a ground floor item.”
Liu Xuan called out.
When Elder Luo heard this, his face immediately sank and he opened his mouth to scold.
“That’s enough! Repeatedly, repeatedly slandering the Little Divine Doctor, you, the son of the Liu family, are doing it too comfortably!”
“Someone, kick him out!”
Hearing Elder Luo’s words, Liu Xuan immediately sat down paralyzed on the ground, he still wanted to discern, but there were already four or five big brawny men around him rushing out, racking him and throwing him out directly.
When Bai Cheng saw this, his face turned white and he was about to bolt, but before he could take a step, Elder Luo’s voice rang out again.
“And him!”
“Old master, I …. I’m innocent.”
Bai Cheng was on the verge of tears as he spoke.
However, Elder Luo did not care about him at all and turned around to continue his conversation with Lin Ran.
After Liu Xuan and Bai Cheng were “invited” to leave, the surrounding area was quiet, and many people who were watching the action, seeing that there was no more drama, also dispersed.
Lin Ran talked to Master Luo for a few more minutes and gave him some advice on his daily diet, before joining Luo Qiqi and Qin Bing Song Nuan in their seats.
There were so many guests coming in the evening that Lin Ran and the others were seated for half an hour before Mr and Mrs Luo Ming finally showed up.
And then after another ten minutes, the party began, during which there were many performances, but Lin Ran wasn’t even interested in enjoying them, as his attention was on Song Nuan at the moment.
“Hey! Why are you always staring at me if you’re not watching the show!”
Song Nuan was a little uncomfortable from being looked at, her little face flushed red as she asked in a deep voice.
“Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
Lin Ran asked with a serious expression, his voice simultaneously lowered so that only the two could hear.
“Uncomfortable? What do you mean? I don’t feel uncomfortable!”
Song Nuan felt baffled, she was eating properly, what kind of nerves was this guy committing, how could he suddenly ask himself this question.
“Well then, let me tell you something, when the banquet is over later, I’ll go with you.”
Lin Ran said seriously.
“Go together? What do you want?”
Song Nuan sniffed and hurriedly covered her chest in a pervert-proof move.
“You’re thinking too much, I’m not interested in your body!”
Lin Ran’s expression remained serious.
“And, lie to hell, if you’re not interested in me, do you still have to say you’re a woman? Or that you like men or some other bullSh*t, only a fool would believe you!”
Song Nuan didn’t believe it at all.
Seeing this, Lin Ran didn’t bother to explain, he took another glance at the back of Song Nuan’s neck and found that the Black Devil Poison Scorpion mark there had started to become clear again, and said in a low voice.
“Believe it or not, I have to go with you later, to your house, unless you really don’t want to live!”
