After being hit in the face by the system, I swapped bodies with Zhongli

Chapter 358: Sadness and Submission

This very abrupt sentence made Master Liuyun Jiefeng, who was following Yuan Zhuoyue, couldn't help but glance sideways and cast a thoughtful gaze on Yuan Zhuoyue.

The middle-aged man, who had been crying, suddenly had a blank expression on his face. Then, a burst of anger emerged on his face. He replied indignantly: "...Even if you, Mr. Zhongli, have lost your memory of the past and are unwilling to acknowledge the agreement between us, you should not question my character like this!"

Yuan Zhuoyue didn't mind the anger that the other party had just shown, and replied calmly: "What I said just now was not a question or a warning, but just a kind reminder."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man's expression eased a little, and then he said sympathetically: "Forget it... Mr. Zhongli, you fell into the sea and lost your memory. You have no memory of the past. It doesn't matter if you don't want to fulfill this verbal agreement."

He sighed helplessly again, with a hint of fatigue on his face: "Forget it... I still have time to find someone else."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Zhuoyue raised her hand and pointed at the True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng beside her, and said with a faint smile: "If you just want to identify antiques, then this Lady Xianyun is quite good at this."

Originally a complete bystander, Master Liuyunjiefeng: "???"

After several rotations, she is now guarding Yuan Zhuoyue, who has occupied the body of the emperor and calls himself a mortal.

The instructions given by Guichu before were still fresh in her mind, telling her not to do anything deliberately and just go about her business as usual.

When Yuan Zhuoyue wants to do something, there is no need to stop him, as long as it does not violate public order and good morals and conforms to the other person's wishes.

But I didn't expect that in the current situation, it would be so directly and abruptly linked to her?

The middle-aged man immediately showed an expression of great joy: "Great! Lady Xianyun is also good at this?"

Facing the eager gaze, Master Liuyun Jiefeng coughed twice before answering, "Indeed."

Although she didn't know what Yuan Zhuoyue wanted to do now, thinking of Gui Zhong's instructions, she didn't mind following Yuan Zhuoyue's wishes for the time being and put on a cooperative attitude.

The middle-aged man's face was even more delighted: "In that case, why don't you all move over and go together to identify the antiques I want to find?"

After everyone present agreed, the middle-aged man led them from the now bustling street to a more remote corner.

After a while, they found a not-so-big house in a corner of the street and led the group of people accompanying them in.

The room was not very big, and looking at the old furnishings inside, it didn't look like a place where people lived.

It is more like a warehouse for storing sundries.

The next thing we saw was this middle-aged man taking down a wooden box about one foot long from one of the wooden racks.

Then the middle-aged man placed the wooden box in his hand, which was only painted with a layer of red paint on the surface and did not look too delicate, on the table full of mottled marks.

Then he carefully took out a key from his arms, opened the lock on the wooden box, and then opened the wooden box.

Let everyone see clearly what is stored in it.

On the soft silk cloth in the wooden box, there were many jade pendants with animal face patterns that looked identical at first glance.

If you look more carefully, you can find that there are still some differences. In addition to the different colors of the tassels hanging on them, the patterns on each jade pendant are slightly different.

Little Paimeng, who had come forward to observe carefully out of curiosity, immediately exclaimed: "Wow, there are so many identical jade pendants!"

"This is exactly what I am worried about." The middle-aged man sighed and said with a bit of regret: "Now, I just want to see which one of these jade pendants is the one I want to find."

"When I was young and frivolous, I had an argument with my father and left for a foreign country... I haven't been back for many years." As he spoke, his voice began to choke again: "Later, as I grew older, I gradually understood what my father was thinking, and I gradually felt regretful, so I decided to return to my hometown... But I didn't expect that fate would play tricks on me..."

Upon hearing this, Little Paimon immediately comforted him, "My condolences."

The middle-aged man, who was originally crying, paused when he heard this, and then explained in a low voice: "My father is still alive now."

"Sorry, sorry!" Little Paimon realized that he had misunderstood. He apologized repeatedly with an extremely embarrassed expression on his face. He floated in the direction of the traveler and muttered softly, "I just saw you crying so sadly, and I thought..."

The middle-aged man did not mind it too much, and just said sympathetically: "It is because of my vague words and actions that you have such a misunderstanding..."

"My father is still alive, but his mind is confused due to his age. He can no longer recognize his neighbors and relatives, nor can he recognize me, a child who was once loved by him." He sighed helplessly, "This is exactly what I am suffering from now."

"He doesn't recognize me as his son. He only remembers that the person holding the family jade pendant is his son." The middle-aged man explained to them carefully: "It's just that I accidentally lost the jade pendant a few years ago. Without the jade pendant, my father couldn't recognize me as his son."

"So I came up with an idea to find antiques from the same period as a substitute... to see if this would make my father recognize my identity." The middle-aged man shifted his gaze from the neatly arranged jade pendants to Master Liuyun Jiefeng: "It's just that I'm not good at this, so I wanted to ask Mr. Zhongli to come and help me, but I never thought that Mr. Zhongli also met with an accident... Alas, fortunately, Miss Xianyun is here now, otherwise I don't know what to do!"

Then his expression became serious, and he suddenly bowed to Master Liuyun Jiefeng and said, "I hope Miss Xianyun can help me. I will reward you handsomely one day!"

True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng also came forward and casually took a look at the jade pendants in the wooden box. Then he asked the middle-aged man, "Although these jade pendants are of the same style, they are from different eras. I wonder what kind of jade pendant you are looking for?"

The middle-aged man's face lit up immediately, and then he took out a piece of paper from his arms. After unfolding it, there was a pattern of a jade pendant on it: "That jade pendant was made by my ancestor five hundred years ago, imitating the jade pendant that the ancient Emperor Yanwang gave to the Qianyan Army. This is the appearance of my family's heirloom jade pendant."

Then he pointed at the pile of jade pendants in the wooden box and said, "Although I have found a bunch of jade pendants with similar styles, I just can't tell the age of them, so I would like to ask Mr. Zhongli to identify them for me."

After getting an accurate requirement, Master Liuyun Jiefeng began to work on the pair of jade pendants, which were made about five hundred years ago.

Yuan Zhuoyue looked at the paper in the middle-aged man's hand, and then asked with a smile: "Can you lend it to me for a look?"

The middle-aged man tightened his grip on the paper, and then smiled and replied, "Of course you can."

There was obviously no sign of oxidation on the paper that Yuan Zhuoyue took, and he could smell a faint scent of ink at the tip of his nose.

As if casually asking, "I wonder when your jade pendant was accidentally damaged?"

The middle-aged man sighed again, with a look of regret on his face: "Not long after I left home, I was robbed and all my money was stolen. The jade pendant was damaged at that time... It was because I was too incompetent that I failed to protect this family heirloom."