On weekends, the "Treasure Temple" in Nandu was crowded with people and seemed particularly lively.

The "Treasure Temple" worships the merchant saint Fan Li, the "Tao Zhugong" who relied on the beauty Xi Shi to destroy King Fuchai of Wu. Therefore, since 2009, every Saturday and Sunday, many vendors selling antiques and jade artifacts gathered here to form a lively antique market.

Over the past three years, the scale of this place has become larger and larger. Even merchants from many surrounding provinces have rushed over to do business, selling unique jade, antiques, old record machines, projectors, and even older tea cups, saucers, bowls, old books and newspapers. It can be said that in addition to illegal things, as long as they are old, they can be used to buy or sell.

"Boss, what is this thing? It's quite interesting." A young man squatted in front of a stall selling antiques and jade artifacts and asked the stall owner with a smile.

The stall owner was black, thin and dry, with his deer-headed and rat-headed eyes. He got up too early to grab the stall. At this moment, he was leaning against the corner of the Temple of Wealth, closing his eyes to rest. He heard the sound, and hurriedly opened the rat-headed eyes. He saw that the young man in front of him was wearing very ordinary clothes. No, to be precise, very shabby. He had a white shirt, washed white jeans, and a pair of sneakers that were about to wear out their toes. Although the sneakers were from Aridas, they were definitely fake.

The stall owner was nicknamed "Li Laoshi". He was originally a snob. When he saw that the young man was clean and dressed in a shabby manner, he looked down on him three points, so he yawned indifferently, then he yawned, bared his yellow teeth and said, "This is a snuff bottle from the Qing Dynasty, something that has been for hundreds of years."

A light sentence made the young man frown because he loves to clean himself, and Li Laoshu has never brushed his teeth. Recently, he has always liked to smoke and get angry, and his breath is so stinky.

Li Laomo did not feel bad breath at all. While picking the leek leaves left in the gap between his teeth in the morning with the long nails left by his little fingers, he said vaguely: "I know whether Emperor Qianlong or Empress Dowager Cixi Li Hongzhang, they all like to use snuff bottles."

"But it doesn't look like..." The young man reached out to get the thing.

"Do you buy it? Don't move around, this thing is expensive!" Li Laofu was very dissatisfied with the young man's actions. In his opinion, the other party was the legendary "poor penis", with nothing, but he liked to ask questions.

The young man felt a little embarrassed and smiled apologetically. His beautiful eyes turned into a bright crescent moon, flashing.

Li Laofu was slightly stunned, only to think that he grew up very beautifully. Well, what do you think, it seems to be very well-educated, especially when he smiled very well, which made people feel very friendly unconsciously. So he coughed and said, "It's okay to see it, take it safe, don't break it at once... Last time, another piece of good jade was broken here, but the dog said he refused to admit it."

The young man smiled and reached out to pick up the snuff bottle again to look carefully. To be honest, he was just curious. He was unwilling to reach out again when he was rejected, so as not to be silly. However, when Li Laoshu said this, he was embarrassed to refuse.

The snuff bottle didn't feel anything when it was placed. When I picked it up, I felt cold in my hands, as if I was holding a piece of black ice. The green small porcelain pot was the size of a baby's fist. It was small and delicate, crystal clear. The most amazing thing was that it seemed that there was a trace of liquid inside, which flowed interestingly with the snuff bottle tilting.

"Is it snuff in it?"

"Nonsense, isn't snuff or boiled water? I don't have time to pour things into it. My mouth is so small that I can't get it in even if I want to." Li Laofu was very dissatisfied with the idiot question Nian asked.

The young man smiled, not caring about Li Laofu's sarcasm, and still laughed: "As far as I know, snuff is powdery, not liquid."

"You don't know this." Li Lao Moe finally picked out the leek leaves stuffed between his nails without teeth, and spit them on the ground with spit. "Snuff is from the Ming Dynasty. It took two or three hundred years to become popular in the Qing Dynasty... Snuff is to grind good tobacco into powder, add precious medicinal materials such as musk, or refine them with flowers. The production process is very exquisite. The smoke smell is divided into five types: mutton, paste, sour, bean, and bitter. Because snuff is easy to ferment in a snuff bottle, it is usually sealed with wax for several years or even decades before it starts to be sold... This smoke foam will naturally oxidize after fermenting for a long time, and it will be combined with the moisture in the air to become... That's what, this form and body..." Li Lao Moe spitting and talking, and being able to say such popular things from his mouth surprised the young people. Some people gathered next to him, and Li Lao Moe talked nonsense.

Li Laofu was so proud. In fact, he still heard others say these words and wrote them down hard. He brags about them every time he sells a snuff bottle, which makes him seem knowledgeable and well-founded.

The young man listened with a smile, but did not argue.

His name is Lin Yi. He doesn't have much hobby, so he likes to come to the Temple of Wealth on weekends to attend meetings. Especially when he reads books, he remembers a lot of things. For example, he remembers that the seventh volume of "Xiangzu Notes" by Wang Shizhen of the Qing Dynasty: "The real name of the tobacco produced in Luzon is Danbali, also known as Jinsixun. I have carefully reviewed the previous volume. There are those who are made into snuff in the capital, which can brighten your eyes and especially have the effect of resistant to epidemics." Chapter 52 of "Dream of Red Mansions": "Baoyu is determined to be Musk Moon, take snuff, smell it, and sneeze a few times, and then it will be fast." Mao Dun's "Midnight" 10: "Du Zhuzhai's nostrils were full of snuff, and he was closed, opening his mouth wide, waiting to sneeze."

Therefore, Lin Yi's understanding of snuff is much deeper than that of Li Laofu, the half-bottle of water. However, he has always been kind. When Li Laofu brags about it, even his ancestor Li Lianying brought it out to advertise his snuff bottle, saying that why Li Lianying is very popular with Lord Lafayette is because he is good at purchasing good snuff bottles to suit his preferences, he laughs even more without saying a word.

Lin Yi didn't care, but someone next to him was fooled by Li Laofu's big talk. He was a fat man with a short and fat figure with a peach-hearted hair, a thick gold chain hanging around his neck, a jade ring, a sandalwood bead string, and a Rolex watch.

The fat man is about thirty or forty years old, with a ten-month-old belly, arrogant and a little nouveau riche.

Next to him was a woman with a charming figure and peach-like figure. The woman was about twenty-five or six years old, fair-skinned, wearing a fashionable black silk suspender shirt, and underneath were nine-point white pencil pants, wrapped in beautiful apple buttocks, looking both mature and sexy.

The two of them held their hands, rubbed their ears and faced each other, and behaved intimately, looking like a couple with "a good fortune and a beautiful woman".

At this moment, when the fat man heard Li Laomo's bragging about the ceiling, he held the briefcase and rudely snatched the snuff bottle from Lin Yi's hand, looking very expert.

Seeing this, Li Laomo was happy and looked like a rich man. He might be able to sell for a big price. So he put Lin Yi aside, trying to flatter the fat man with good eyesight, picked up a treasure at a glance, and then bragged harder, saying that this thing is so expensive, at least worth seven or eight thousand. What kind of auction is that it would be even more amazing, absolutely tens of thousands---

The fat man ignored Li Laomo's flattery, and even more so, the poor guy Lin Yi. He held a snuff bottle with a big thorn, rubbed it, looking at the patterns and carvings, as if no one was around.

Lin Yi frowned. He was kind and did not mean that he had no temper. Just as he was about to speak, the woman next to the fat man apologized first: "I'm sorry, little brother. We are impatient and can't help but like whatever we like. Don't be as knowledgeable as him---" After saying that, he smiled at the young man, charming and charming, especially his red teeth and rosy lips, which made a circle of male animals around him unable to help but spit.

Lin Yi was originally calm, and when he saw this, he stopped calculating. He stood up and was about to leave, but he suddenly saw the fat man talking, "Slow down, little brother, I was sorry just now, I took this thing over without discussing it with you. To be honest, I like this little object very much, two words - 'elegant'. But what? A gentleman doesn't win people's love. If you like it, just pick it up, first come first serve!" The fat man said this, but his eyes were full of jokes. In his opinion, a poor silk like Lin Yi could not afford such a thing. The words just now were just scenes.

Lin Yi is smart, so he doesn't understand what the man means, but he just doesn't understand why he is saying so much nonsense.

But he immediately understood.

The fat man said: "If you really don't want it, I won't let it go anymore. But seeing that you are so interested in this little thing, you can be considered a fellow fellow. How can I say that I like to make friends with fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow fellow practitioners, so I want to study with you--You said this snuff bottle looks like the Qing Dynasty, but what exactly is the thing in it? Is it really smoke foam oxidized into water?"

At this time, Li Laoshi became anxious, "If you don't believe it, you can smell it."

"Okay, I'm just planning to do this!" the fat man clapped his palms, "But my nose has been uncomfortable these days, and allergic rhinitis, I can't smell it at all. Not to mention whether it smells fragrant or smelly, even if it is filled with fairy water, I can't smell a bird---"

Li Laofu was about to say, at worst, I can help you smell it, but when I saw the strange-colored liquid in the snuff bottle, I hesitated. Who knows what it contains? If it is a toxic liquid, then I will be miserable. Besides, this fat man is quite stupid. He can do it in his bones. Even if he really smells it for him, he won't believe it.

When the fat man saw Li Laofu being mute, he thought to himself, wanting to make a lot of money but not the courage, he deserves to set up a street stall for his whole life. Then he turned to Lin Yi, smiled, and looked harmless and said, "Or... little brother, please help me, I am the most destined to be with you and trust you the most."

Lin Yi is not stupid, how could he not know what this fat man is thinking? But compared to the fat man, he is more curious about what is inside the snuff bottle.

There is a Western proverb called "curiosity kills cats", but Lin Yi is the kind of personality that is full of curiosity about things and can't sleep without understanding them. Moreover, when he got the snuff bottle just now, he wanted to smell it and identify what kind of smell it was. I'm afraid that Li Lao Moe will stop him. Now...

Seeing that Lin Yi seemed to be hesitating, the fat man took the initiative to pull out the plug of the snuff bottle and handed it to Lin Yi and said, "Just smell it, at worst, I'll treat you to dinner later." He patted his chest, looking very heroic.

Everyone around them also looked at Lin Yi, with doubts and curiosity in their eyes, waiting for Lin Yi to uncover the mystery.

Although Lin Yi knew that he was the little white rabbit who was used for experiments at this moment, he was more curious about the secrets in it than around him, so he... put his nose over.

When he got close to the mouth of the snuff bottle, Lin Yi sucked his nose slightly, and saw that the strange liquid in the snuff bottle suddenly turned into two ripples of blue smoke and penetrated into his nose.

The people around were surprised to see it. Those who didn't see it clearly thought that two small green snakes ran out of it and drilled into Lin Yi's nose.

Too weird, too terrible.

The stall owner Li Laofu suddenly felt something was wrong. How could these liquids turn into gas?

The fat man's face was solemn and his eyes were flashing. Fortunately, he didn't smell it just now--

The others were very quiet, only the woman seemed to feel a little reluctant and looked at Lin Yi with a pity.

Everyone looked at Lin Yi to see what his reaction was next.

Lin Yi inhaled gas, but felt a spicy smell rushing into his nose, as if he had eaten too much mustard, which made him cry. Then the smell rushed into his brain, stimulating his nerves--

Lin Yi trembled all over and fainted on the ground in an instant. The snuff bottle in his hand also slammed and smashed it to pieces.
Chapter completed!