Chapter 438: The Soldier Dies, Confidant
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Wang San was sure that this medium-grade yuan stone must be within the stall owner's line of sight, but the stall owner seemed to have not seen it at all, and actually shouted impatiently: "Do you want to buy a mask?" If you don't buy a mask, don't get in the way of my business! β
Seeing his impatient appearance, Fang Tong felt that it was too much, and couldn't help but want to step forward, but Wang Sancai stretched out his hand to stop it.
He carefully looked at the stall owner a few times, and found that he was thin, his face was dark, and his hands were full of calluses, very much like an ordinary person who did manual labor, if it was a cultivator, then only the hand holding the weapon would have calluses, and if it was an ordinary informant who did not do manual labor, his hands would not be covered with calluses like him.
Therefore, Wang Sancai was patient, and shook the medium-grade yuan stone in his hand in front of the stall owner again: "A medium-grade yuan stone is equivalent to ten lower-grade yuan stones, or 100 gold coins, just this medium-grade yuan stone can buy you a hundred masks, now I don't want your mask, as long as you say a word, this medium-grade yuan stone is yours." β
A medium-grade yuan stone is nothing to Wang Sancai, but it is really a lot of wealth for small merchants and hawkers.
Besides, who has no capital to buy and sell? And now, the huge benefits of zero cost are in front of me, and no one will refuse to put them on normal people, but this wonderful stall owner just glanced at it and sneered: "Don't use money to measure my career, let alone a medium-grade yuan stone." Even if you give me ten medium-grade yuan stones, don't want to insult my career! β
Yo, selling this kind of paper mask has become a business?
Although Wang Sancai really didn't mean to insult people, he really didn't have much patience this time, and couldn't help but say: "Why are you hanging like this?" β
I don't know if the stall owner understood what Wang Sancai meant, he didn't pay attention to Wang Sancai at all.
Wang Sancai saw him like this, didn't say a word, threw this medium-grade yuan stone back to the warehouse, took out a high-grade yuan stone, and handed it to the stall owner: "A high-grade yuan stone is equivalent to a hundred medium-grade yuan stones, I just want you to understand that I didn't mean to insult you in the first place." β
The stall owner was stunned for a moment. I don't know if he has never seen the appearance of a high-grade Yuan stone. Still surprised by the surging vitality exuded by the top-grade Yuan Stone, he was stunned for a moment, and then raised his head and looked at Wang Sancai seriously: "You mean, I just need to say it." This high-grade yuan stone belongs to me? β
Wang Sancai really didn't mean to insult him. But now it seems...... Hum. It turns out that I still don't think I have enough money just now!
Hearing his words, Wang Sancai's impression of him in his heart couldn't help but be discounted.
Although a high-grade Yuan stone is expensive, it is a drop in the bucket for Wang Sancai. Without any hesitation, he nodded slightly: "That's right, as long as you say it, it's yours." β
Fang Tong on the side looked at the stall owner's shocked look, and simply glanced at him directly and hugged his arms, he didn't bother to talk to this kind of person now.
I don't want to, the stall owner put away this shocked expression, and put his calloused hand on Wang Sancai's hand holding the high-grade yuan stone, but unexpectedly did not take this high-grade yuan stone, but folded Wang Sancai's hand back, and this high-grade yuan stone was still in Wang Sancai's palm.
Then, the stall owner withdrew his own hand, and his tone was much more serious than before: "You are the first person who did not laugh at me, I don't want your high-grade Yuan Stone, just as a tribute to your respect for me, I just look at my experience in more than 60 years, you two This kind of disguise is too naΓ―ve, fooling some people who have not studied this Tao can still be reluctant, but if you want to escape my eyes?" That's just impossible!! β
His tone was still disdainful, but it was much more solemn than Fang Cai.
Wang Sancai looked at Fang Tong, who was suddenly standing on the side, and then looked at the high-grade Yuan Stone that was shining in his hand, and suddenly felt that the black-skinned and honest and simple hawker in front of him seemed to have a much brighter personality than this high-grade Yuan Stone.
Wang Sancai immediately restrained his playful thoughts, looked at the thin stall owner in front of him, and a sense of respect arose, he nodded seriously, and said solemnly: "Ask sir, how can we improve the disguise of our faces?" β
The stall owner also seemed to hear the sincerity in Wang Sancai's tone, he looked up at the two of them for a while, and then concluded: "There is no value or possibility for improvement." β
Wang Sancai frowned slightly, and said: "Sir, I won't tell you, the two of us are forced to disguise ourselves because our identities are too sensitive, so we have to disguise ourselves on the road, according to Mr. said, the two of us can't hide the people who have studied this Tao at all, but the two of us really don't want to encounter some unnecessary trouble, here I sincerely ask Mr. for guidance." β
Perhaps because of the deep respect in his sentence, the stall owner stared at Wang San for a while, and suddenly sighed: "Maybe the scholar dies for his confidant, and the rare items should be dedicated to those who understand it, and I shouldn't hide some things that are not in the eyes of the law and bring them to the grave......"
His words were more like his summary of his own life, and as he spoke, he first took off the hat on his head, and Wang San noticed that he was already bald, only a few strands of hair remained between his temples, but these strands of hair had become gray, and they were gently raised when the wind blew.
As he took off his hat, Wang Sancai could also notice that his face was already full of wrinkles, and a few old age spots could be faintly seen on his cheeks.
And the stall owner did not pause after taking off his hat, and used his two calloused hands to touch the depths of his arms, and after touching for a while, he finally took out a burden from inside, which was about the size of a palm, and the whole was very thin, but it was carefully wrapped in cotton cloth, and even the knotted knots seemed to have taken a lot of thought.
The stall owner stretched out his hand to remove the masks placed on the stall, and a palm-sized empty seat was vacated, and the small burden was placed on the empty seat.
Wang Sancai noticed that the white cotton cloth had become a little yellow, and it looked like it had been precipitated over the years, and he looked at the stall owner carefully opening the knot of the baggage, looking at the way of wrapping the three layers inside and three layers outside, and couldn't help but feel very curious about the things inside the baggage.
Subconsciously glanced at Fang Tong, and saw that Fang Tong's face was also full of doubts, and he also didn't know what kind of precious items were included in this baggage.
Thinking like this, the stall owner had completely opened the baggage, and inside were three masks...... However, these three masks are completely different from the masks in the stall!!
The stall owner carefully spread out these three masks on the stall, and first, Wang San noticed that these three masks were very thin, so thin that they could even be comparable to human skin!
The important thing is that the mask is not only soft, but the color looks almost the same as the color of the human face!
As the stall owner spread out, Wang San found that these three masks had their own facial features, and the facial features of each mask were a stranger, what shocked Wang Sancai and Fang Tong the most was that the two of them thought they were real human faces at first glance!
After a few more glances, it was still difficult for Wang Sancai to find out how these three masks were different from real human faces!
In the end, Wang San had no choice but to rub his eyes, looked at it carefully for a while, and could only say in shock: "Sir...... Could these three masks be real human faces? β
Fang Tong didn't dare to underestimate this stall owner at this moment, he also looked at him with shocked eyes, and muttered, "Sir, are you ......?"
His words had a deep meaning, Wang Sancai didn't understand, but the stall owner understood, only to see him shake his head slightly, and even sighed: "I'm not a 'face maker', and I'm not qualified to inherit his old man's qualifications......"
Speaking of this, he looked at Wang Sancai with a confused expression, and said slowly: "Young man, although these three faces are not real human faces, they are almost the same as the delicacy of human faces, but unfortunately, these three masks are not from the hands of the 'face maker' and his old man, but the failed products that I have imitated all my life. β
Although Wang Sancai didn't understand who the face creator was, he couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth when he heard his words: "I don't think there is any difference between these three masks and human faces, and Mr. actually said that this is a failure?" β
When the old stall owner heard this, he smiled bitterly: "Hehehehehe, you haven't studied this way, so you can't see the doorway, I can only tell you in layman's terms, these three masks are more than a little different from the work of the old man's hand of the 'face maker', it is simply a world of difference." β
Speaking of this, the old stall owner's face floated with fascination: "I still remember the three peak works of his old man, which can be described as earth-shattering and crying ghosts and gods, his old man has very high requirements for himself, and only produced three peak works in his life, but unfortunately I can't reach one ten-thousandth of his old man's realm in my life!" The three masks you see are just some of the ones I have carefully imitated later. β
Wang Sancai had some clue when he heard it, and he already understood that the old stall owner in front of him was not an ordinary trader, but a real craftsman in the mask world, and he could see it just by looking at the three masks at the moment, but he was still dissatisfied with himself, according to his words, compared to the three peak products of the "face maker" in his life, his three masks were simply not worth mentioning.
Wang Sancai was thinking about it, and he heard Fang Tong next to him say in a deep voice: "Sir...... I would venture to ask, what exactly do you have to do with the 'Face Maker'? You say that your three imitations are less than one-ten-thousandth of the three pinnacle works of 'The Face Maker', so you must have seen those three works? Those who can see those three works must not be ordinary people, right? (To be continued......)