90,000 Years of Longevity

Chapter 85: One Year Spring

When he walked out of the door of No.1 private room of the Peaceful Restaurant and returned to the gallery lobby...

Standing in the lobby, Wang Gu couldn't calm down at all.

"Old Master... we just came back from there like this?" The voice was full of surprise.

He knew that Ye Bei had a lot of methods, and he knew that Ye Bei possessed countless secrets and amazing identities.

However, when he saw it with his own eyes today, the shock was unprecedented.

"En." Ye Bei answered softly.

"Old Master, doesn't this mean that when you want to go anywhere, you just need to open a door?" Wang Gu's voice trembled.

"The years are too long, and there are so many roads that should be taken."

Hu, hu...

Hearing this, Wang Gu stood in this hall, as if he realized something, his mood quietly calmed down.

The road should be taken step by step, but unfortunately, he was too old, and he did not know how many more years for him to live.

"Old Master, it's noon, you haven't eaten yet, I cook for you!" Wang Gu's voice was slightly different from earlier.

"No need." Ye Bei replied lightly.

After that, he turned around, flicked his sleeves, and sat at the table in the lobby.

"Old Master, then, shall I make tea for you?" Wang Gu was a little at a loss and restless, he always felt that something should be done at this time.

"No need to." Ye Bei's voice murmured. When sitting at the table, a parchment scroll appeared out of thin air, quietly unfolding, and it was colorful, except that it looked old, and there was no other trace.

"Old Master... Then, what should I do next?" When Wang Gu saw the ancient scroll, he unexpectedly calm. He stood on the left side of Ye Bei, bowed his head, bent over, his voice respectful but at a loss.

"Although he has traveled far, it has to be proven that he has been here." Ye Bei's eyes were on the ancient scroll.

After Wang Gu listened, his rickety body slowly stood up straight, his vicissitudes of appearance seemed to glow with a touch of new vitality, but the sadness in his eyes increased more and more, "Yes, Old Master, I understand."

When the sound fell, Wang Gu turned around, staggering, and carefully took down the calligraphy and paintings hanging in the lobby one by one and put them neatly.

Then he got the tools and mounted it quietly.

In the lobby, the door was closed and the light was dim.

Ye Bei sat at the table, looking faintly at the parchment roll that was spread on it.

Ralph and the other had studied this thing many times, but unfortunately, after identifying it as antiquity, when they really studied it, they still could not let go of their hands to do it, because of this, they could not peer into the mystery of this parchment scroll.

After a long time, candlelight suddenly ignited, adding a hint of light to the dim lobby.

Ye Bei sat calmly, with his index finger on the table, and tapped lightly, making a faint sound.

Afterward, the sheepskin rolls slowly floated from the table, drifting above the candle. 

Piles of white smoke rose from the sheepskin roll.

The entire lobby was quickly filled with an intoxicating fragrance.

Wang Gu also smelled the scent, but his body was indifferent. He set up a small bamboo chair, sat on it, bent over, and continued to mount the calligraphy and painting left by Wang Xiu with his old fingers.

When the fragrance got stronger.

At the table, Ye Bei stretched out his hand and retrieved the sheepskin scroll from the candlelight. On the sheepskin scroll that looked dilapidated and full of traces of years, five exquisite ancient characters appeared magically in front of Ye Bei's eyes, "It's another spring."

Elegant handwriting, beautiful and fresh, like sand scratches.

One year after another, three years after three years.

Every year, there was a spring! But every spring, it had never been the same.

This dust-enclosed picture scroll in the crystal bottle, with only these five words, seemed to have seen all this reincarnation thoroughly.

"It seems that this old person is in this ancient town." Ye Bei murmured softly, and with a flick of his index finger, the sheepskin on the table rolled into a bright red flame, illuminating the lobby transparently.

"Old Master, is the person you are waiting for coming?" Wang Gu who was sitting on the small bamboo chair seemed to be regaining his senses. After mounting a landscape painting, he asked softly, with a slight expectation in his tone. 

Ye Bei shook his head, "Not coming but always there."

"Then, Old Master, is that the person in the painting?" Wang Gu continued to ask.

Ye Bei did not answer. He looked away from the table and looked at the ancient wooden door in the gallery lobby. The wooden door was only installed when he first came 80 years ago, it looked strong and firm, but now, the wooden door was stained and the wood was loose as if it could collapse at any time.

Upon seeing this, Wang Gu stopped asking more questions.

But soon, Ye Bei's whispered voice came again, "Yes, nor is it."

After hearing this, Wang Gu shook his head. Ye Bei didn't say much, but somehow, it always sounded profound. Wang Gu had too little experience, so he couldn't figure it out in a short time.

In the gallery, tranquility was restored.

Ye Bei sat quietly, letting the time flowed by without any regret.

Wang Gu continued to mount the painting, his movements were slow, but he actually wanted to finish everything in one go.

...

Peaceful Restaurant.

The auction was completely over.

However, at the moment of the end, the originally tense scene suddenly became noisy. It was if a stone pressed in their hearts was finally removed.

"Everything was taken away by the people in Private Room No. 1, I calculated it, its value is probably more than one billion. It's crazy enough! But, lucky enough "Long Hai looked serious and said with emotion.

"Billions, is this lucky?" Xuelan stared in surprise, wasting a billion just for some useless antiques?

Next to him, when a bald man in his fifties heard this conversation, he couldn't help but speak, "It's over a billion. It's really expensive to buy those antiques, but don't forget that a certain someone lights the lantern today, as long as someone bids for it, it's not surprising that the price can become 10 billion, but no one knows the identity of the person in that private room, so they dare not mess around."

Dialogues like this continue to spread among these rich and powerful folks.

But soon, someone proposed loudly, "The auction is over, and the person in the Private Room No. 1 hasn't shown up yet. Who wants to visit him with me?"

After this proposal appeared, it immediately received a large number of people's responses.

"Me, count me in!" A senior official in Ancient Town said.

"I'll go too; you can't miss someone who is so proud like this." A woman said with an elegant voice.

"I going there too."

"Let's go together then!"

In less than a minute, these rich and powerful people gathered in a large number.

Ta, ta, ta...

However, just as they formed a team to walk towards the private room on the third floor, a large number of bodyguards in black suits appeared in the corridor on the third floor of the Peaceful Restaurant.

They were imposing, they also looked menacing. 

They all had truncheons in their hands, there were three rows, with five people in each row, and the pace was extremely neat.

"What's the hell is happening?"

In the hall of the auction site, those people were all stunned when they saw this scene, with the illusion that something big was about to happen.