Vol 4 Chapter 173: Prelude

Look back to the present.
Amidst the grumbles of Dr. Xiao Da, the young public-funded student finally gave up to continue to supervise the preparations for the dressing mice, stretched out the wrinkles of the new robe due to squatting, and hurriedly ran out. go with.
In fact, he likes to observe the various details of an unfamiliar civilization. If it weren't for things now, he would definitely hold his notebook and squat around these mice for an afternoon.
Maybe after today’s opening ceremony, you can try to mention to Ding Dong’s ears about visiting their rat tribe colony again. Didn’t it mean that the rat tribe will come to a big man today, and that big man will be complimented by that time. Wish can be realized.
With this careful thought, the public-sponsored student lifted the corner of his robe and crossed the threshold.
It was less than a quarter of an hour before the time.
Even in the mid-winter season, the sun had to climb out of the horizon, revealing its sleek appearance, hanging in the gray-white sky, sprinkling some very faint sunlight.
Although faint, it was sunlight after all, and the harsh sensation made the wizard squint slightly.
The joyous sounds of the neighbors, mixed in the hustle and bustle of the commercial street, reached Zheng Qing's ears, making the corners of his mouth involuntarily torn apart, revealing a brilliant smile.
The stimulus of the light faded, and the wizard opened his eyes and immediately noticed the guests arriving early.
"Welcome, welcome..." He shook his head and walked tightly with a big smile-according to the rules, as the legal representative of the "Ding Ding Finance and Insect Company", only he is qualified to welcome guests-to a blue-gray robe The thin old man said: "You came here so early!"
The thin old man who came on was no one else, but was D&K's neighbor, Mu Akiko, the owner of shop 98 on the pedestrian street.
Whether you move to a new home or open a new store, neighbors will inevitably have to deal with each other. Zheng Qing also sent someone early to send invitations to several shops around D&K, asking them to attend the opening ceremony this morning.
Whether others come or not is the choice of others.
But whether to send invitations or not is a question of whether you will do business.
"I can't do it earlier," Mu Lao Dao waved his hand. Although he came to congratulate him, his face was not happy, it looked like a piece of dried and cracked wood, and his expression was a bit rigid: "...I was sitting at Granny Crystal yesterday. After a while, she said that your place will be very lively today, come early, make a difference in time, and it will be easy in a while."
These words, expressed with Mu Mingzi's expression, felt like ‘dead early and overtake birth’. Give people a feeling that he is not here to congratulate, but to add to the block.
Zheng Qing caught a glimpse of Zhang Jixin's flushed face, immediately glared at him, then haha, and said to a figure behind Mu Mingzi's old way: "Mr. Crystal, you are coming too! Hurry up, please go inside... the shop On the first day of opening, there is nothing to entertain. Each guest can receive a standard "meditation charm", only one hundred, first come first served!"
"You two are on the top!" Fatty Xin also yelled from the side, congratulating him, and at the same time he hurriedly sent two red envelopes wrapped in talisman paper, and then turned to greet the little elf: "Take tea!"
Granny Crystal is the owner of shop No. 96 on the pedestrian street and runs a shop that specializes in divination and psychics.
Although she claims to be a mother-in-law, she is only 30 or 40 years old at most. With an oval face, curvy eyebrows and blue eyes, coupled with fair skin, she looks a little delicate.
When Zheng Qing met this neighbor for the first time, he directly used the young "mother-in-law" as a clerk and made a big joke.
I don't know if it is under the influence of Mu Mingzi, the one near Zhu is red and the one near Mo is black; or it is a common problem of fortunetellers. Granny Crystal's personality is also somewhat restrained. A crystal ball the size of a fist is always floating in front of her. No matter when and where, most of her attention stays on this crystal ball. When looking at people, her eyes are always a little cautious.
"Thank you." After receiving the red envelope from Fatty Sai, she lowered her head and thanked her softly, and then followed Mu Mingzi slowly to Zheng Qing's side, and reached out and stuffed a small wooden box into the wizard's arms: "Gift ."
Zheng Qing hesitated for a few seconds, and then opened the wooden box directly according to the custom here.
In the box was a light blue crystal ball the size of a fist. The spherical surface is smooth and no flaws are visible. In the sun, the surface of the crystal ball presents three intersecting bright lines, dividing the whole ball into six equal parts.
"Oh, you are making a lot of money!" Mu Mingzi's surprised voice came from the side. Obviously, he didn't expect Granny Crystal to give such a valuable gift.
Xiao Xiao was also attracted by the movement here.
He held the wooden box, looked at it, and then explained with a serious expression: "This is the favorite beryl crystal ball of old-school fortune-tellers. It is very well polished... so we can see the staggered lines on it. Light. If I remember correctly, the price of such a crystal ball in the market is more than 30 jade coins."
Hearing this price, Zheng Qing shook his hand and almost knocked the wooden box he was holding on the ground.
Thirty jade coins!
As a publicly funded student, his scholarship for one year is only ten jade coins!
Even for the shop behind him, the rent for a whole year is only forty-five jade coins!
And the standard talisman he gave to Granny Crystal, the wholesale price at Wandering Bar was golden beans one by one. In other words, one of his golden beans turned into three hundred golden beans in the blink of an eye.
It won't be faster to grab money.
Happiness is so sudden that the wizard has such a femtosecond. The first thought in his mind is to sell the crystal ball, then open a store, and hold another opening ceremony-this time, he will sprinkle the invitations all over Pedestrian street.
Of course, this delusion was pressed down by his reason again in the blink of an eye~EbookFREE.me~ and sank into the deepest abyss of consciousness.
As the saying goes, no merit is not rewarded.
There are also courtesy for no reason.
Although Granny Crystal did not look like a treacherous and thief, Zheng Qing felt that she should be more mindful when facing a strange society and strange neighbors after she came out of the ivory tower.
"This gift is a bit too expensive!" He closed the box and stuffed it into Granny Crystal's arms: "You have already given us a lot of face by coming today... What other gift do you give?"
"Really? Then I don't need to give gifts?" Mu Mingzi next to him asked with a sullen face-Zheng Qing felt that if his expression were more vivid, the effect might be better.
Of course, the young wizards did not respond to Mu Mingzi's old "cold witty words", but looked at Granny Crystal eagerly.
"Present." Granny Crystal did not accept the wooden box, but silently slipped a step back, letting go of Zheng Qing's outstretched arm.