ebookland Chapter 8 Jade Market
Chapter 8 Jade Market
Lu Xingchen had a breath stuck in his chest, which was neither going up nor down, making him feel uncomfortable. His long legs walked very fast.
He knew that the women who approached him had bad intentions.
Holding back a surge of anger, he pushed open the door of the infirmary.
boom!
The door slammed against the wall and bounced back.
Lu Xingchen grabbed the door and slammed it backwards.
The expected sound of the door closing did not come.
"Student Lu, aren't you going to listen to me before deciding whether to help me?"
Lu Xingchen's body stiffened slightly, and he slowly turned his head, and Yu Sheng's bright smile came into his sight.
She actually caught up with me?
Lu Xingchen curled his fingers.
He turned his head and sneered, "Not interested."
Yu Sheng: "How about we play a little game? If I can guess what color shoes the next person who appears at the door is wearing, you will listen to me finish what I say. How about that?"
Facing a stubborn person like Lu Xingchen, blindly obeying him is not an option.
As expected, Lu Xingchen's expression eased a little.
If he didn't agree, this woman would probably keep pestering him, so it would be better for him to listen to what she wanted to say, because he would refuse in the end anyway.
And she might not be able to guess it right.
"it is good."
"green."
The voices of Lu Xingchen and Yu Sheng sounded one after another.
Lu Xingchen was surprised, he thought Yu Sheng would guess white or black.
green?
Who would like to wear green shoes?
Lu Xingchen sneered, and his smile was about to disappear when a boy hummed an off-tune song and walked briskly outside the infirmary.
He deliberately lifted the boy's trouser legs high, revealing a pair of shiny green sneakers.
Lu Xingchen: ...
"I guessed it right. Now can you let me finish what I want to say?" Yu Sheng smiled slightly.
"Go ahead."
Lu Xingchen shook his hair irritably, with the words of rejection already in his mouth.
"Let's skip school this afternoon. You go somewhere with me and I'll pay you."
"I refuse…wait, what did you say? Skipping school? You want to skip school?"
Lu Xingchen paused, and a rare look of dullness appeared on his always flamboyant face.
He always thought he was quite arrogant, but he didn't expect that this new transfer student was even more arrogant than him.
Planning to skip school on the first day of school, and you invited him?
For a moment he couldn't tell whether the other party was coming for him or whether this was a new way of picking up girls?
"Yes, you're just going to sleep here in the afternoon anyway, why not go out with me? I promise I won't let you down."
Yu Sheng's eyebrows were curved, the corners of her mouth were raised, and she smiled brightly. In Lu Xingchen's eyes, it was like a devil's smile, exuding strong temptation.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I promise."
Isn't it just skipping school?
Even she is not afraid, how could he be afraid?
Inside the classroom.
Zhou Nannan sat in her seat in a daze.
The curly-haired boy He Linshen and his chubby deskmate Zhang Yu walked into the classroom arm in arm. Seeing that the seat next to her was empty, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Where is your new deskmate?"
Zhou Nannan was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses. She looked at He Lin and said dimly, "She said she went to find Lu Xingchen."
He Linshen lost his balance when he heard this, and was tripped by a table leg, falling to the ground with a thud.
He didn't let Zhang Yu help him. He climbed up from the ground using his hands and feet, holding onto the edge of the desk, staring and asking loudly, "Who? I think there was something wrong with my ears just now. I didn't hear clearly."
Zhou Nannan looked at him inexplicably, "You heard it right, it's that Lu Xingchen, your Brother Lu."
"Do they know each other?" He Linshen felt that he had discovered a piece of major gossip, and his voice trembled with excitement.
Zhou Nannan shook her head, "I don't know."
"Then she didn't say when she would be back?"
"No, she just said that if any teacher asked her, she would say she went to the infirmary."
He Linshen took a deep breath in excitement.
He bet a bag of spicy strips that the transfer student and Brother Lu definitely knew each other!
Maybe... hehe.
He Linshen looked around, then stretched out his hand to strangle Zhang Yu's neck, forced his head down, and said mysteriously: "Okay, only the three of us know about this, and don't spread it to anyone else."
Although Zhou Nannan and Zhang Yu didn't know why he had to keep it a secret, they nodded in agreement because he looked like it was a very important matter.
He Lin grinned deeply, hiding his achievements and fame.
……
"Is this the place you wanted to take me to?"
Lu Xingchen stood under a sign that read "Yuncheng Jade Market" and looked at Yu Sheng in disbelief.
He never thought that Yu Sheng would bring him to such a place.
Jade market?
What a broken place.
He had never even heard of it.
Yu Sheng had no intention of explaining. She put on the black hat and black mask she had bought on the road one by one, and then handed another mask to Lu Xingchen.
The white and slender fingers pinched the edge of the black mask, which was white and delicate, showing the texture of white jade.
Lu Xingchen took great effort to force himself to take his eyes off his fingers and looked at Yu Sheng with a frown.
He really couldn't guess what the other party was trying to do.
Yu Sheng shrugged and took back the mask.
She motioned Lu Xingchen to follow her and walk into the jade market.
Lu Xingchen stood there, looking at her back, frowned, and chased after her.
The market looks spacious and clean from the outside, but it's a completely different feeling once you walk inside.
The originally spacious passage was occupied by the greenhouses on both sides, leaving only a space less than two meters wide for people to pass through.
Under the simple shed are stones of various sizes and shapes.
Today is Monday and there are quite a few people in the market. Customers can be seen squatting in front of stalls bargaining with the owners everywhere.
The noise and the roar of the motor were intertwined, and gray stone powder floated in the air. Lu Xingchen frowned and covered his mouth and nose uncomfortably.
Yu Sheng seemed to have forgotten that there was someone following her. She walked very fast, crossing two streets in succession. She slowed down in front of the third street, turned around and threw the mask to Lu Xingchen.
Lu Xingchen hurriedly caught the mask and wanted to say something, but Yu Sheng spoke first: "Do you know about gambling on stones?"
Lu Xingchen suddenly forgot to ask the question, thought about it seriously, and shook his head.
Very unfamiliar vocabulary.
But he reacted quickly, "Is the gambling on stones you mentioned related to these stones?"
Yu Sheng did not answer his question, and asked again: "Where is the jadeite?"
"of course I know!"
Lu Xingchen felt that he was being looked down upon, and raised his hand to pull out the glass-type imperial green jadeite Guanyin pendant from his collar.
Yu Sheng quickly held his hand and shook her head at him.
Lu Xingchen paused, his eyes flickering slightly.
He remembered his family's advice not to show off his wealth.
There are too many people here and it is indeed not a suitable place to display jade.
But the strange thing is how Yu Sheng knew what he wanted to do.
Are you in tune with each other?
Lu Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and when he realized what he was thinking, his face turned red and he quickly lowered his head and put on a mask.