Chapter 7 Curious Ye Fan

Saturday morning.

Students from HKUST are beginning to enjoy their weekend.

All the major stores in the city welcomed the influx of customers on time. After five days of quietness, the pedestrian street where Li Zhi was located also welcomed a peak in customer flow.

It was almost noon, but Li Zhi's ancient jewelry store still showed no signs of opening for business.

Zhou Mei, the owner of the fashion store next door, called him.

Li Zhi was eating dumplings at home when he received Zhou Mei's call.

"Sister Mei." After answering the phone, Li Zhizhong said with full energy.

"Xiao Li, are you sick? You haven't come to the store for three days. Do you need your sister to come and take care of you?" Zhou Mei's voice was still as pleasant and charming as ever.

"Ahem," Li Zhi was instantly choked by the water. After a burst of rapid coughing, he said, "Sister Mei, I'm not sick. I'll go to the store later."

"You're coughing so badly, yet you say you're not sick. Wait at home, I'll pick you up and take you to the hospital right away." Zhou Mei seemed a little anxious.

"Sister Mei, I'm really not sick. I just choked while drinking water. I was eating dumplings at home and will go to the store after I finish eating." Li Zhi explained quickly.

"Are you eating dumplings?" Zhou Mei's voice suddenly became a little strange, and then she said, "Bring me some too."

After saying that, she decisively hung up the phone.

Li Zhi felt a little confused.

Zhou Mei, who was in her own store, looked at Li Zhi's phone number on her phone and said with a smile: "When did you like eating dumplings? I think you miss your sister-in-law."

Then she went back upstairs and quickly changed into a dark red hip-hugging skirt, and also changed her flat shoes into black high heels.

Looking in the mirror, Zhou Mei looked down at the flesh-colored stockings on her legs with some dissatisfaction.

Although the stockings wrapped her legs smooth and round, she still felt they were a bit of a hindrance, so she took off the expensive stockings directly.

After posing a few more times in front of the mirror, Zhou Mei left the fitting room satisfied.

After going downstairs, Zhou Mei said to the two weekend part-time clerks in the store: "I'm going to go out for a while, you guys take good care of the customers."

Both shop assistants gave Zhou Mei a cheering gesture.

They knew that their boss liked the handsome guy in the jewelry store next door.

When Zhou Mei arrived at the door of Li Zhi's ancient jewelry store, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Xia Siyu and Li Xiaoman also arrived there almost at the same time.

"Madam Boss, Mr. Li from the jewelry store hasn't opened for business today?" Pang Bo and Ye Fan recognized Zhou Mei as the lady boss of the clothing store next door and asked directly.

"You guys are here to see Li Zhi too?" Zhou Mei's eyes flashed with doubt, then after seeing Pang Bo, she said, "I remember now, you're the college student who ran twice to return the goods."

"We heard that Boss Li is back, but we don't know when he will open for business." Ye Fan also spoke.

"He will be here soon, just wait a few minutes." Zhou Mei understood Ye Fan's hint and said with a smile.

In less than a minute, Li Zhi appeared on the pedestrian street dragging a large suitcase.

Seeing so many people gathered in front of his store, Li Zhi immediately quickened his pace. After seeing that it was Ye Fan and the others, Li Zhi smiled and said, "It's you."

Then he handed a lunch box to Zhou Mei and said, "Sister Mei, these are the dumplings you wanted."

There was no sign of Zhou Mei having dressed up so carefully.

After opening the door and inviting Ye Fan and the others in, Li Zhi quickly said, "Four classmates, is there anything you need to buy? Although our store is small, the styles of the items are still good and very much in line with the preferences of you young people."

"Boss, we are here to return something." Pangbo took out the box containing the golden Pixiu bracelet and said.

"The other party doesn't like it? You can look at other ones." Having said that, Li Zhi quickly inspected the goods and refunded the money.

Pangbo was very happy with such a quick return.

He thought he would have to waste a lot of time arguing with his boss.

After returning the goods, Pangbo planned to leave. Like most boys, he had no hobby of shopping and selecting products.

Li Xiaoman and Xia Siyu continued to choose jewelry in the store.

Ye Fan's eyes were fixed on the suitcase that Li Zhi brought, which looked very heavy.

Seeing Li Zhi disinfect and wipe the golden Pixiu bracelet and put it back on the counter, Ye Fan suddenly asked, "Boss, do you have antiques for sale in your store?"

"This is a pedestrian street, not an antique street. How could there be antiques here?" Li Zhi said with a smile.

"When I saw the displays in your store, I thought you had real antique jades." Ye Fan said, pointing at the accessories in the ancient style area.

Li Xiaoman and Xia Siyu, who were choosing jewelry, both pricked up their ears.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "You are not just here to return the goods. Xia, although you are not wearing those big black-framed glasses today, I still recognized you at first sight."

Xia Siyu and Li Xiaoman, who were wearing hats and masks, immediately took off their masks.

Then he turned to Li Zhi and said, "Do you really have an article written in oracle bone script? If you let me take a look, maybe I can introduce you to Professor Gao."

Li Zhi walked to the door of the store with a smile and pulled the suitcase he had placed there to the counter.

Then he opened the box in front of them.

Ye Fan then discovered that the box was full of books, including "Huangdi Neijing", "Tao Te Ching", "The Analects of Confucius", "Diamond Sutra", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", etc.

The other books in the box were blocked by some rice paper.

Li Zhi pulled out a piece of rice paper covered with calligraphy from under the stack of rice papers.

Then he closed the box again.

After spreading the piece of rice paper with more than a hundred oracle bone characters on the counter, Li Zhi said, "Student Xia, are you sure you know the characters on it?"

After seeing the oracle bone inscriptions, Xia Siyu was stunned. There were more than a hundred oracle bone inscriptions on the rice paper, but she only knew three characters.

Then Xia Siyu hesitated a little awkwardly and said, "I'll go back and look up the information. I'm sure I can recognize it."

The text above was very different from the inscriptions she had seen before.

Li Xiaoman seemed to sense her best friend's embarrassment, so she pulled her aside and said, "Sisi, don't discuss academic matters when you go shopping on the weekend. Take some photos and take them back. Then study them carefully on Monday."

Xia Siyu quickly took out her cell phone and planned to take a photo of the article.

But Li Zhi was quicker than her. He put the article away and said, "This is a priceless treasure. No photos are allowed."

"It's not the original, do you have to be so stingy?" Xia Siyu said with a pout.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "I'm sorry, although the paper is new, the words on it are priceless."

Xia Siyu seemed to be angry. She suddenly glared at Li Zhi with her teeth bared. Then she took Li Xiaoman's hand and said, "Xiaoman, let's go."

Ye Fan nodded slightly at Li Zhi and followed him out.

As for Pangbo, he had already run out of the store.

Li Zhi looked at their receding backs, shook his head, and began to pack the ancient books in the suitcase.

At this moment, the sound of tapping was heard again in the store.

Li Zhi, who was bending over to sort out ancient books, looked up and saw two white, round long legs wearing a pair of black high heels walking directly towards his storage room.

When he straightened up, Li Zhi found that Zhou Mei walked into his storage room with a box of dumplings in her hand, looking unhappy.

"come over."

After pushing open the small door of the storage room, Zhou Mei turned around and shouted at Li Zhi.

"Sister Mei, what's wrong with you?"

Li Zhi followed with a puzzled look on his face.

After entering the storage room, Zhou Mei stuffed the dumpling box into Li Zhi's hands and said, "You didn't make these dumplings yourself."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Sister Mei, you think too highly of me. I don't even know how to make dumplings. These are frozen dumplings I bought from the supermarket."

"You're just trying to fool me with frozen dumplings."

Zhou Mei seemed very angry as she walked to the small door, then she inserted the bolt in a very covert manner.

Li Zhi didn't notice her little move, but smiled and said, "Then I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

Zhou Mei turned around and walked in front of Li Zhi, showing a charming smile, and said: "That's more like it."

Then she suddenly did something that almost made Li Zhi bleed from his nose.

In front of Li Zhi, Zhou Mei actually unzipped her chest.

"Sister Mei, you"

Before he could finish his words, Li Zhi's mouth was blocked by Zhou Mei.

Then, there were clanging sounds coming from the storage room, as if two people were fighting inside.

The sound lasted for half an hour before disappearing.

Afterwards, Zhou Mei left with a happy face.

Another five minutes passed, and Li Zhi came out after sorting out the scattered items in the storage room.

"Boss Li, you are so lucky."

As soon as he came out, Ye Fan's voice came from across the counter. He was sitting on a high stool in front of the counter, flipping through Li Zhi's "Huangdi Neijing".

"Why haven't you left yet?" Li Zhi asked.

"Boss Li, I don't have a voyeuristic habit. On the contrary, I have stopped many guests who might disturb your fun. You should thank me." Ye Fan said with a smile.

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Ye Fan with a strange expression.

No wonder Ye Fan will be called Ye Hei in the future.

This kind of shamelessness, the ability to talk nonsense without batting an eyelid, was not developed after entering the world of cultivation.

No wonder he was able to achieve financial freedom three years after graduating from university.

"Student Ye, you came back here, not to buy anything, right?" Li Zhi also pulled a chair behind the counter and sat opposite Ye Fan.

Ye Fan nodded and said, "Boss Li is indeed wise."

Then he said with shining eyes: "I want to buy your oracle bone calligraphy."

His intuition told him that the copybook was very important and seemed to have magical powers.

Ye Fan, who has been fond of "strange" books since he was a child, was very fascinated by the description in "Huangdi Neijing" that "people in ancient times lived to be a hundred years old."

However, due to his age and experience, he has not been exposed to the circle of practitioners, but that does not prevent him from paying attention to such matters.

Previously, the oracle bone inscription that Li Zhi took out gave him a strange feeling in his heart.

Although it was just a glance, that one glance made his heart beat.

Those unknown words seemed to have transformed into a bizarre world that impacted his mind.

After accompanying Li Xiaoman and the others for about ten minutes, Ye Fan could no longer hold back his curiosity and took the opportunity to slip away and returned to Li Zhi's shop alone.

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