InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 42 Ordinary but Sufficient

Zhao Menfeng eloquently lectured knowledge of Fengshui. In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed.

During this time, Zhao Menfeng completely treated Wang Ke as his worker, ordering him around to do chores like making tea and pouring water, as well as grabbing books on Fengshui Theory from his room. To Xu Jingkai, he showed incomparable enthusiasm. As he lectured, the expression on Xu Jingkai's face became increasingly unpleasant and even impatient later. Yet it seemed that Zhao Menfeng did not see it.

Xu Jingkai had learned the basics a long time ago. Therefore, in front of Zhao Menfeng who was full of enthusiasm, he suppressed his impatience and struggled through the two hours.

The two hours, however, was a great opportunity for Wang Ke to learn. He did not feel angry at all to be ordered around by Zhao Menfeng and instead felt thankful. If Zhao Menfeng had not allowed him to stay here, he wouldn't have learned the basics of Fengshui Theory! Of course, even if Zhao Menfeng ordered him around like a servant, he would still not feel angry at all, for he had come here to learn and that was what he was supposed to do. After all, back in ancient times, apprentices used to give their lives to their masters.

"Okay, this is all I will teach today. I'm afraid if I lectured too much, you wouldn't be able to remember. If you are still willing to study with me in the future, you are more than welcome!" Zhao Menfeng drank the fragrant tea and smiled brightly.

A sneer flashed in Xu Jingkai's eyes as he slowly stood up.

"Ring..."

Just as Xu Jingkai stood up, his phone rang in his pocket.

Glancing at Zhao Menfeng, he took out his cell phone and picked it up. After whispering a few words, he hung up the phone.

"My uncle is done with his business matters and is currently outside! Shall we go downstairs?" Xu Jingkai said indifferently.

Zhao Menfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and the smile on his face did not falter. He turned to Wang Ke and said, "Tidy these things up."

Wang Ke nodded. After seeing Zhao Menfeng and Xu Jingkai walk out of the room, a trace of ridicule emerged in his eyes. How could he not see Xu Jingkai's impatience when Zhao Menfeng was lecturing? Similarly, Xu Jingkai had pretended not to hear what Zhao Menfeng had just said. It was obvious that he felt that Zhao Menfeng was simply incapable.

"Looks like this guy won't be coming back!"

Wang Ke sighed in his heart.

Just as Zhao Menfeng sent Xu Jingkai outside Self House, he saw Qin Changfeng standing outside the door with a smile on his face.

"Zhao, how is my nephew?" Qin Changfeng smiled.

Zhao Menfeng nodded, "He's not bad. He can listen to me lecture for two hours."

Xu Jingkai walked to stand beside Qin Changfeng and turned his head with a trace of disdain on his face. He said indifferently, "Mr. Zhao, to be honest, I was being polite by listening to you lecture for two hours. I have mastered what you taught me ten years ago and it was not necessary to waste my time here at all. Plus..."

He glanced toward the inside of Self House and did not finish.

Zhao Menfeng's smile faltered and he shook his head in silence. He said to Qin Changfeng, "Your nephew is really nice. I didn't expect him to know what I taught. I have felt smug before thinking that I could get such a nice apprentice! Mr. Qin, I will not hold you here for lunch."

Qin Changfeng froze. He glared viciously at Xu Jingkai and said in a deep voice, "What are you talking about? You're so impolite."

Afterward, he cupped his fists to Zhao Menfeng and smiled, "No matter what, thank you for the trouble today, Zhao. This boy does not know the manners of speaking. I will educate him once I go back! Farewell."

Zhao Menfeng nodded and watched them go away. Only then did a trace of a cold smile appeared on his face. He turned back and walked into Self House.

After walking away for a hundred meters, Xu Jingkai turned back to look at Self House's sign and said with disdain, "Uncle, that old man surnamed Zhao lectured to me for two hours but I know everything he taught. Also, the Fengshui layout of his Self House is not good at all. To me, it looks like a layoutto lose money. If I had been there to set it up, I would have done a better job. Humph, I don't think that old man Zhao has any real ability."

Qin Changfeng nodded quietly. Over the years, he had also learned a little bit of Fengshui. When he stepped into the door of Self House, he had felt that the Fengshui of Self House had the trend to lose wealth. He did not expect his nephew to see the same. It seemed that Zhao simply was not capable at all!

"Alas, I have always thought that he was very mysterious these years and believed that he had real ability. I did not expect... Forget it, it was just a few hours wasted. Let's go!" Qin Changfeng said indifferently.

Zhao Menfeng returned to the entrance hall of Self House and looked at the antiques in the hall with his face full of regret. he sighed softly, "He has some talent. It's such a pity that his personality is... Alas, young people need to abstain from arrogance and stay humble to learn!"

His gaze subconsciously fell onto the stairs. Wang Ke's face appeared in his mind.

He hesitated before walking swiftly toward the second floor.

In the VIP room, Wang Ke was holding the book on Fengshui that Zhao Menfeng had asked him to bring earlier, reading it with great interest. There was a thoughtful glint in his eyes that he didn't even notice when Zhao Menfeng walked to the VIP room's door.

Zhao Menfeng looked at Wang Ke's serious look and sighed once again in his heart. He was also a young man, but he and Xu Jingkai really were not comparable! Although this kid had no background in Fengshui, with his diligence and modesty, he would surely achieve great accomplishments in the future.

In the past two hours, he had greeted Xu Jingkai with a bright smile because he wanted to see how Wang Ke would behave when he treated him differently from others. To do this, he had even gone out of his way to have Wang Ke serve the tea and water.

The result was that Wang Ke's performance had been satisfactory, very much so.

Time quickly passed by.

Wang Ke tirelessly followed Zhao Menfeng to learn about antiques and magic weapons and occasionally learned about Fengshui. In the afternoon, he would also visit various stalls in the antique market. He did not deliberately use his extraordinary vision anymore, nor did he attempt to find undervalued treasures with the determination to succeed. He knew that he was still considered a layman in the antique world and he had to wait until he had one foot in the threshold with a certain level of basic knowledge before he could make a big move.

Every time he finished browsing through a stall, he would use the knowledge he had learned while confirming the knowledge and exercising his eyesight. Of course, he would silently observe social dynamics in the antique market and experience all kinds of social interactions.

As the saying goes, you can always learn from anyone.

Wang Ke fully agreed with this saying. Among the crowd in the antique market, he never despised anyone, even those poor people who had spent a lot of money only to be cheated, which happened quite frequently around him. He never showed any gloat, because he knew in his heart that sooner or later, he would be cheated too. It was just like the saying, "When you often walked by the river, it was impossible for your shoes not to be wet."

Almost all stall owners or customers who bought antiques and magic weapons knew something about antiques and magic weapons. Wang Ke was able to learn and improve every time he was around to observe the transaction, listening to their comments and watching how they bargained.

In these days, he had encountered more than a dozen cheating incidents. This had also finally let him understand the words of Zhao Menfeng when he was teaching him at first, that the human hearts were dangerous and always needed to be cautious of. The deceptive world of antiques and magic weapons was full of all kinds of means of cheating that could not be prevented. He must always keep a clear head and could not allow his heart to be distracted by the words of others.

The warm sunshine shone on the earth. The warmth flowed in everyone's heart.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Ke was sitting at the counter of Self House, bored. He was looking at the pedestrians coming and going in the street outside the door. When Wang Ke finished his study at noon today and was about to leave, Zhao Menfeng suddenly asked Wang Ke to help him tend the store as he needed to go out.

"He does not make a deal in half a year, yet one deal could make profits lasting for half a year. But what was Mr. Zhao's purpose when he opened Self House? If it was not to make money, was it to have a place to retire?"

Holding his chin, Wang Ke contemplated silently.

"Never mind. What he has planned has nothing to do with me. As long as I obediently follow him to learn and actually learn some real skills, that would be enough for me."

As time passed, the spirit energy in Wang Ke's meridians slowly flowed. Even without being under the sun, Wang Ke felt warm all over his body as if in a heater.

He stopped thinking and completely relaxed his whole mind.

The slow flow of spirit energy gained speed without Wang Ke noticing at all. The mysterious taste plunged him into an uncontrollable emptiness.

After a sudden disorder, the spiritual energy from heaven and earth within ten meters of him flowed toward Wang Ke's body as if attracted by a strong sucking power. Wang Ke seemed like a bottomless pit, quickly absorbing and refining waves of spiritual energy from heaven and earth once they touched his body.

"Pop!"

It was as if a cork had been pulled from a bottle. The sound emitted, though not loud, echoed throughout the entrance hall of Self House.

A faint stream of air with a cool sensation flowed along the bridge of Wang Ke's nose toward the center of his eyebrows. It was milky white smog. If someone watched it with n***d eyes, they would find that the milky white smog emitted a glowing luster, like the halo around the moon.

Itchy!

The intense itching feeling caused Wang Ke to instantly draw his attention back from the realm of emptiness. It was at this moment that something spectacular happened. At the center of Wang Ke's eyebrows, the milky white halo faintly lit up and then disappeared inside the center of his eyebrows.

"Boom..."

As if a bomb was thrown into the center of Wang Ke's eyebrows, his newly concentrated attention instantly went blank. Even his vision was filled with golden stars and countless kinds of black particles. Before he could react at all, Wang Ke fell headlong to the ground as he had a blackout.

In just a few seconds, Wang Ke felt as if he had passed countless centuries. His mind finally came into consciousness from the illusion of time and space fluttering when his body fell to the ground and he felt the pain.

Wang Ke difficultly got up from the ground, and his body went stiff just as he sat back on the wooden chair as if he had been struck by lightning. He held his breath in a flash because of an unbelievable scene.

The colorful world in front of his eyes was gorgeous and peculiar like a fairy tale world. Lines of magnificent colors slowly dissipated before his eyes as he began to regain clarity. The spirit energy circulating fast in his body broke out at this moment as if not under his control. The feeling of expansion only lasted for a moment before disappearing, as if every pore on his body had been erupting spirit energy like ripples spreading in all directions.