When I saw Chu Qi, she asked us to take her out for some fresh air. The other Sabia colleagues were afraid to take her out for fear of danger. After I sought instructions from Shen Xingyue, with Yaoyao and the fox spirit by my side, they were enough to serve as ordinary bodyguards.
I even prepared a wheelchair in a proper manner and pushed Chu Qi to the mall to buy a few new clothes and bags. Naturally, Chen Lu paid for everything, as some compensation for Chu Qi's emotional distress. She knew I wasn't short of money, so she didn't refuse.
At ten in the morning, we came out of the mall and went directly to a restaurant. Yaoyao had already ordered a sumptuous lunch for Chu Qi on her phone, and it wasn't greasy, suitable for a patient. After eating, we sent Chu Qi back to the hospital. Before leaving, I again urged the Sabia comrades to take good care of Chu Qi.
Leaving the hospital, because eating had taken up a lot of time, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. The weather was good today. The fox spirit asked me where I was going to buy gifts for the dolphins. I asked them what kind of gifts would be suitable. They both said in unison that gold bars would be suitable. Although dolphins travel long distances when swimming, it is inconvenient to carry items, but gold has high density and small volume. It can be tied to the body with zip ties without affecting swimming.
Arriving at a gold shop, I said I wanted two hundred kilograms of gold bars. The person thought I was joking and said the shop didn't have that many gold bars. I said I was serious, and the salesperson said they really didn't have them. No one on this street would have so many gold bars. I asked where I should go to buy them. The salesperson said I could try my luck at Lao Bie Wan. The antique and cultural relic shops there sometimes bought gold bars, and if they bought them, they would also sell them.
This was indeed a solution, and I still had some treasures from the underworld that I hadn't sold yet.
The most valuable among them should be the "Biography of Liang Shidu" that I asked Cai Lun to inscribe, which also bore his personal seal.
Originally, this was to be given to the imperial court, but I forgot and kept it with me. It's fine, I'll give them a copy next time. I have already taken a picture with my phone and have an electronic version. The imperial court only wants the content anyway. Kai Shu Pavilion.
Besides, let alone Liang Shidu, even Long Ju and Har Chaku have been killed now. The imperial court might not be interested in a Liang Shidu.
Upon arriving at Lao Bie Wan, I found the shop that had previously accepted our goods. The boss's face lit up when he saw me, naturally knowing that another big fish had taken the bait.
I directly took out Cai Lun's calligraphy. It was originally new, but after being brought from the underworld, it naturally became old. I couldn't explain this phenomenon. Even if it were tested by carbon-14, it would still be an item from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
"Whose authentic work is this?" the boss asked me directly, believing I wouldn't bring him a fake.
"Eastern Han, Cai Lun," I said.
"Wow, you can even get this! Amazing, amazing!" The boss was overjoyed, but as he looked, his brow furrowed again. "That's not right, Boss Wu. The content you've written is the Biography of Liang Shidu. As far as I know, Liang Shidu was from the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, and Cai Lun was from the Eastern Han Dynasty. They were hundreds of years apart... It's a bit hard to justify an earlier person writing a biography for a later person, isn't it?"
Damn, right, I forgot about this. I should have asked Cai Lun to write a biography of someone from before the Eastern Han Dynasty, like the Biography of Xiang Yu, or even the Biography of Long Ju!
I felt awkward and couldn't explain the original reason to the boss, so I hastily put away the calligraphy: "I made a mistake. Sorry, sorry."
Afterward, I took out a few small trinkets, and the boss accepted them normally. The total purchase was over six million yuan, which was a small sum for me. They were all things I had casually picked up from the underworld. One small ring was even something I found on the battlefield, the遗物 (yíwù -遗物) of some soldier.
After selling the items, I asked the boss if he had any gold bars, as I wanted to buy a batch as a gift.
The boss chuckled, thinking I was going to make a deal with the Coffin Guild. "You've come to the right person. Among the shops in this area, only mine dares to deal in gold bars. How much do you want?"
"Two hundred kilograms."
"Two, two hundred kilograms!" the boss exclaimed.
I had roughly calculated that at current market prices, two hundred kilograms of gold would be worth about seventy to eighty million Renminbi. That should be enough as a gift, but it wasn't extremely expensive, as there were many dolphins, and if each one received a share, it would be over two million yuan. If they swam directly to the other side of the ocean and became US dollars, it would only be about four hundred thousand, which isn't a lot.