Chapter 28: The Five Emperors' Copper Coins! [Seeking Recommendations! Collect!]

  Five Emperors Copper Coins! Collecting!

  The Feng Shui Street in H City sells many items related to home feng shui, and apart from that, there are a lot of antiques here!

  Of course, like other antique markets, 99.99% of the antiques here are fake! There are also real treasures, but buying them is like finding a needle in the ocean, requiring not only good eyesight but also luck!

  Of course, once the real thing is found, it's like picking up a treasure, so most people who come here have a mind of digging for treasures, which is also called 'picking up leaks'.

  However, what is most famous in this Feng Shui Street is not antiques, but the eight feng shui masters standing here.

  These eight feng shui masters correspond to the eight directions of the Bagua diagram, which are: Qian, Kun, Li, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, and Dui.

  It is said that these eight are all big shots in the Feng Shui world of Huaxia, and it is said that this big shot's reputation in the Feng Shui world can be ranked among the top ten! It is said...

  Master Wu had already grasped nine out of ten essentials, he had been in the city for only a few months and had never been here before.

  At this moment, Mr. Wu was surprised to find that in this Fengshui Street, there were actually... actually many of his peers!

  It's strange that the police on patrol in this street didn't seem to notice those vendors...

  Look at this, Wu felt extremely unbalanced in his heart, "Damn it, Master Ben has been working hard to set up a stall on the pedestrian street for three meals a day and was chased by the police. These people are obviously all scammers, but these damn police are walking around as if they were protecting them......"

  The handsome guy beside Wu Zhengxie seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and smiled lightly, "Master, this is a street of Feng Shui, there are many shops that look at physiognomy and fortune-telling, but they can't compare with you..." The handsome guy paused, with a respectful expression, looked at Wu Zhengxie's face and continued, "Before finding Master, my wife and I came here once, the most famous one here is the Eight Great Feng Shui Schools, it's said that their master has a great reputation, and is one of the top ten masters in the Chinese Feng Shui world."

  At this point, the handsome man's face was a bit awkward. "To be honest with you, Master, I said that their abilities are not as strong as yours because I found three of the eight 'half-immortals' and had them take a look. The infuriating thing is that those three 'half-immortals' were actually charlatans."

  "Never mind our humble origins, even if we were to guess about past events, they would only be 80% true, and their expenses for opening their mouths would be 5,000..."

  When he heard this, Wu Zhengyi finally turned his head around, but at this time, his face was strange, the handsome guy frowned, wondering what Wu Dashi was thinking, and what kind of suffocation Wu Mouren had in his heart at this time...

  So inexperienced! Really so inexperienced!!!

  Wu Mouren has already scolded himself thousands of times by now. In the past, he would get nervous and his heart would beat faster when cheating people out of tens or hundreds of yuan, and after cheating a lot, he would even feel guilty and want to compensate others in some way. But as soon as he heard this, he suddenly realized that what he had done before was not called "cheating" at all, but rather being a good person doing "good deeds"!!!

  "Hmm..." Master Wu let out a soft sigh, gritting his teeth as he muttered, "So many scammers, why don't the police who come and go catch them?"

  "What's the point of arresting them?" The handsome guy looked strange, "Why do they need to be arrested? They're just setting up stalls and fortune-telling here. First, they've paid the stall fee, second, they've paid personal income tax, and they haven't broken any laws, so why arrest them?"

  "Many of them are cheaters, using fortune-telling stalls to swindle people out of their money..."

  "Deceive?" The handsome guy shook his head, "What's the harm in deceiving? Those who believe will naturally believe, and those who don't won't trust no matter how good you make it sound. Besides, only people with weak wills would fall for it, or maybe many people come to fortune-tell when they're lost and helpless, who knows, maybe through this way they can gain some inspiration?"

  As they chatted, the two of them soon arrived at a shop called "Cold Courtesies Pavilion".

  "Two of you, want to buy something yourself pick, each item on the price tag ...... " The boss was recommending to another customer who seemed to have money, after seeing Wu Zhengye and others come in, he just took a glance and didn't care about them anymore.

  Wu Zhengxie didn't react much, he had seen this kind of situation many times before, it could be said that in these twenty years, he had gotten used to seeing such gazes, however, the handsome guy's face sank down, just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw Wu Dashi's calm expression and immediately shut his mouth very decisively.

  The Cold Attic, almost everything sold here is needed for home Feng Shui. Here, you can find yin-yang eight trigrams mirrors, brushes, cinnabar and black crystal, but these things don't have any aura at all, one look and you know they're fake goods.

  As for the Wu Emperor's copper coins, Master Wu and the handsome man had almost searched the entire store, but they couldn't find them. Just as the shop owner was about to enter the inner room with a middle-aged man who looked wealthy, the handsome man finally spoke up, "Boss, I want yin-yang bagua mirror, brush pen, cinnabar, black crystal and Wu Emperor's copper coins, do you have Wu Emperor's copper coins here?"

  The so-called Five Emperors refer to the ancient coins of the Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. The original locations of the Five Emperors also correspond to the five elements: Shunzhi belongs to the north water, Kangxi belongs to the east wood, Yongzheng belongs to the central earth, Qianlong belongs to the west gold, and Jiaqing belongs to the south fire. The Five Emperors span exactly 180 years (1644-1824), which is a complete three yuan nine operations in time, and all five elements are present in space.

  Therefore, a genuine Wu Emperor copper coin should have the functions of warding off evil spirits and petty people. Of course, if it is fake or lacks the five elements, it will not have any effect.

  "'Wu Di Qian'?" The shop owner's footsteps paused for a moment, "Don't have that thing, Zhao Bao, entertain them, I'll accompany the guest to take a look inside."

  As he spoke, a lean young man came out from the inner room, glanced at Wu Zhengyi and his companion with a smile, "Two gentlemen, do you need to buy something? Our store's must-haves for home feng shui are completely..."

  "Are there five emperor copper coins?" The handsome guy asked the same question.

  "Hmm, Wu Emperor copper coins?" Zhaobao furrowed his brow and shook his head immediately. "Sorry, there are too many counterfeit Wu Emperor copper coins now, it's hard to tell the real from the fake. Our store sells reputation, if we sell counterfeits to customers, our reputation will be affected. Therefore, our store does not sell Wu Emperor copper coins."

  With a flick of his eyes, Zhao Bao continued, "However, you can go to the outdoor stalls and dig through them. There are many five-emperor copper coins for sale on the stalls, but whether they're genuine or not depends on your own eyesight and luck."

  "Anything else?"

  The handsome guy slightly frowned, looking at Wu Zhengxie, only to see Wu nodding his head and saying, "Let's buy the remaining four items here. As for the Five Emperor Copper Coins, let's go out and take a look later. If we really can't find them, we can use the Hundred Family Coins as substitutes."

  In the end, the four items cost the handsome guy a total of 800 yuan. The brush and cinnabar were worthless, the black crystal was nothing special, but that yin-yang bagua mirror, one piece actually sold for 680 yuan!

  Wu Zhengyi did not comment on this matter, anyway it's not his money, being calm is the truth.

  "Boss, how much for these five-emperor coins?" Wu Zhengxie carefully examined a string of five copper coins at an antique stall on Fengshui Street.

  "What's with the 'Five Emperor Coins'?" The stall owner gave Wu Zhengxie a glance, and upon seeing his nervous appearance, furrowed his brow, saying bluntly, "Old beggar, scram! Today I haven't even made enough to cover my stall fee, no money to spare for you, get lost!"

  "It's me!" This sentence wasn't said by Wu, but by the handsome guy standing behind him. "You're really something, aren't you? You think you're so great just because you can look down on people?"

  As soon as he heard this, the street stall owner suddenly stood up, pointing at the handsome guy and shouting, "You little bastard, are you looking for trouble?"

  "Alright," Wu Zhengxie stood up, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, "Boss, I'll give you ten bucks for this string of five-emperor coins. Will you sell it?"

  Wu spoke in a serious tone, but the street vendor who heard his words glared at him with anger, pointing at Wu and shouting, "You old beggar, do you think I'm as poor as you? Let me tell you, this string of copper coins costs 200 yuan wholesale. You want it? Don't even think about it unless you take out 300 yuan!"

  "Huh, 300?" The handsome guy sneered and turned to walk five meters away to another street stall. He picked up a string of copper coins with the Five Emperors' images on them and asked, "Boss, how much for this string of copper coins?"

  The stall owner had indeed seen the conflict earlier, and if it came to that, it was really the stall owner's fault first. However... they were just street vendors, who didn't know each other? Originally, these copper coins would cost around 100 to 200 yuan for a string, but now...

  On the one hand, there were customers, and on the other hand, there were fellow vendors with whom he had to deal for years to come. This put the street vendor in a difficult position. However, after three seconds, the street vendor spoke up decisively, "Friend, this set of five ancient copper coins is priced at 300! Not a single cent can be discounted!"

  Upon hearing this, Wu Zhengye slightly furrowed his brow, while the street vendor in front of him who had just clashed with him burst out laughing, "Haha, not bad, not bad! Old Wang, I'll treat you to a drink when we get back!"

  Old Wang couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh as he looked at Old Zhou, "Old Zhou, what's gotten into you today? You weren't like this before..."

  In Old Wang's heart, this business was already a loss. In order to not offend Old Zhou while also not offending the customer, Old Wang had no choice but to raise the price as Old Zhou had said, so neither side would be at fault.

  But...