Chapter 89: There’s a real one

Chapter 89 – There is a real item

The old man walked into this antique store, curiously looking around the furnishings, the old window, cheap iron shelves and almost randomly placed “antiques” are almost a perfect reflection of the positioning of the store:
There was not a single item in the store that wasn’t fake, except for the real money that was collected.

But even so, the old gentleman, who was not dressed like an ordinary citizen of the lower city, was still looking at the contents of the store with interest, until Duncan’s voice came from the direction of the counter, and then he finally turned his eyes away.

“Very interesting statement,” the old gentleman smiled, “Take away what is meant to be …… Things aside, that’s a beautiful sentence in itself.”

“Actually, you can’t just be karmic, you have to have money too,” Duncan returned the same smile, “Good thing nothing here is expensive – is there anything you want?”

“Uh …… I’m not here to buy anything,” the old gentleman opened his mouth, “Actually ……”

As a result, his side has not finished, Duncan is particularly enthusiastic then said, “buy or not to buy to take a look is also good, perhaps there is in the eyes of it?”

The old gentleman’s face could not help but show a trace of helplessness: “You …… things are fake ah.”

“Yes,” Duncan face rightfully, “the real thing can be placed here – my store even a security door is not installed, relying on so that thieves can not return to the capital.”

The old gentleman’s face obviously twitched, probably did not even expect this antique shopkeeper selling fake goods in front of him to have such a frank mindset, and he choked hard for several seconds before speaking, “…… that …… “

“Good at convincing themselves, take me here as an antique store, figure a self-satisfaction, realism, take me here as a grocery store, figure a good price, and recognize the reality and want to lie to their own, I congratulate him in the garbage pile found a gold brick, the whole store on a piece of real goods was also he happened to be extremely fortunate – – anyway, spend thirty-fifty mainly for the purpose of the sale of fake goods, but also for the sale of fake goods, the price of the goods is very high. Anyway, the main reason for spending thirty-fifty is to have fun, you are here in me to take a big trick is not more than a hundred, but also to get a modern industrial crystallization, think about it is not also quite cost-effective?”

The old gentleman stared blankly at Duncan’s sophistry, probably because he didn’t usually have social experience in this area, and was a bit unable to react, and immediately after, his eyes suddenly fell on a corner next to the counter, and the expression on his face changed slightly.

Duncan was seriously immersed in the pleasantness of doing business it, at this time noticed the old gentleman line of sight change suddenly a heartbeat, followed by a sudden reminder of what, but he did not have time to open his mouth, he saw the old gentleman toward that corner to reach out his hand: “This thing …… “

In the middle of a pile of miscellaneous objects, he found a dagger with an ancient style that was extremely well preserved.

He took that dagger out.

It was the very same old item from the Lost Country ship that Duncan had hidden in the clutter pile earlier – one of only two authentic items in the entire antique store.

The other was a cast-iron cannonball that had been placed deeper in the clutter pile.

Duncan tried to divert the old gentleman’s attention at first, but immediately afterward he noticed the change between the other man’s expressions and his professional demeanor as he examined the grain of the dagger’s sheath, and immediately realized something:
The old man might be a “professional”.

Duncan frowned, his eyes sweeping over the dagger.

It wasn’t really a big deal – it wasn’t a transcendent item, and it didn’t carry curses, pollution, or any other “sea specialty”, and even though it had been brought from the Lost Country, it was essentially the same as a normal “ancient artifact”. Although it was brought from the Lost Country ship, it was essentially no different from the usual “antiques”.

If he reacted too much to an ordinary item, it would be wrong.

“This thing ……,” the old gentleman repeated again, looking up at Duncan with some surprise, “is also ‘merchandise’ from the store? ”

The gentleman’s words were euphemistic, but the implication was quite obvious: How did you get a real one mixed in with this pile of fakes? What’s wrong with that?
Duncan a look at the other side of the reaction guessed that this is a know-how, this time they pretend to be stupid do not know goods that is not quite right, but should be appropriate to recognize, so he converged a smile, turned with a hint of inscrutability: “you see, this is not to meet the fate of the thing it?”

Immediately after that he cleared his throat with a serious face, “The vast majority of items in the store are discounted, with a few exceptions, such as this one in your hand.”

The old man immediately turned back to look at the shelves, his eyes swept over the price tag of hundreds of thousands of discounted several tens of “modern artifacts”, I do not know what all the brain, and immediately felt that this seemingly dilapidated and bluffing antique store mysterious and interesting, he carefully put the dagger on the counter, seems to be about to open his mouth to ask about the price, but then A sound of bells ringing suddenly rang from the doorway, interrupting his movements.

Duncan looked up at the doorway of the store and caught sight of Nina’s figure.

“Uncle Duncan I’m home!” Nina shouted first in the direction of the counter without looking up as soon as she entered, “Has Mr. Morris arrived yet?” “Haven’t seen him,” Duncan glanced inside the store, “I’m entertaining ……”

Before he could say anything, he saw the old gentleman in front of him dryly cough twice and raise his hand to point at himself again, “My name is Morris.”

Duncan: “……?”

“Mr. Morris!” Nina also saw the old gentleman at the counter at that moment and exclaimed in surprise, followed by a meaty nervousness like every student who runs into a teacher after school, snapping to stand up straight, “Good afternoon!”

Duncan looked at Nina and then at the old man in front of him, his eyes back and forth twice, feeling the atmosphere finally get awkward.

“I was going to introduce myself at the beginning,” the old man spread his hands helplessly, “You interrupted me before I could say anything, and then you started telling me about the store ……”

Nina reacted to what was happening at this point and noticed the grayish looking dagger sitting on the counter right after, hurriedly taking two steps forward, “Don’t buy it, teacher! Everything in my store is fake!”

Duncan gave the girl an odd look in his eyes, thinking how this child was so honest, selling her family’s details in less than a second in front of her teacher – although given the level of the merchandise in the store and Maurice’s eye as an expert in history, it didn’t make any difference whether she sold it or not… …

On the other hand, old Mr. Morris on the other side shook his head after hearing Nina’s words and raised his hand to point at the dagger on the counter, “This one is real.”

Nina froze, “…… Ah?”

“This dagger should come from a century ago, it was one of the favored tool daggers of the seafarers in the central city-states of Prand and Lunsar at that time, but due to the bankruptcy of the forging workshop and the vulnerability of seafaring items to corrosion by the winds and the waves, very few of them exist today and most of them are in extremely bad condition …… “

Morris said, while carefully picking up the dagger on the counter, after pulling the blade out a section of it continued with a tone of amazement, “I …… I’ve never seen one in such good condition, it’s almost as if it was still being used properly not too long ago, the blade is so sharp it can slide through paper, and there’s not a single blemish in the whole thing There’s not a single blemish ……”

“It even comes with an original sheath,” Duncan added from the sidelines, “and if you look closely, you’ll see that it even has the original clasp on the back of the sheath.”

Upon hearing this, Maurice hurriedly examined the dagger’s sheath and fittings more closely, and the surprise in his eyes increased, “This …… I really didn’t pay attention to just now …… my god! This thing simply looks like it was just pulled out of the pocket of a sailor from a century ago! If I didn’t have enough confidence in my own eyesight, I’d even suspect that it’s a stunning imitation …… But it even has a pattern on the hilt joint and a particular flaw on the end of the hilt ……”

At this point he was suddenly puzzled for a moment, looking up at Duncan and then at Nina next to him, the history expert was actually unsure, “It really isn’t a replica?”

Nina heard hurriedly waved her hand: “Uncle imitation can not be so real things ……”

Duncan corner of the eye jumped, looked at his niece: “Go upstairs and write homework!”

Nina froze for a moment, “I don’t have homework today ah ……”

“Then read a book!”

Nina spat out her tongue and took small steps in the direction of the stairs, but took two steps and then looked back at her history teacher, “Mr. Morris, don’t forget you’re here for a home visit ……”

“Of course, I have a lot to talk to Mr. Duncan about,” Morris was all smiles, the older gentleman looking radiant, “Go upstairs and read your book first – don’t worry, I won’t tell on my own students behind their backs. ”

Nina looked at Uncle Duncan and her teacher with confusion – she didn’t seem to expect the “home visit” to begin in this way.

But in the next moment, she suddenly smiled for some reason.

The girl ran briskly up the stairs.

(End of chapter)