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Du Shoushou immediately quietened down, and did not dare to make a single sound. Even the Kindness of the cat seemed to have felt the solemn atmosphere in the room, as she obediently curled up on An Zheng's knees and looked at Gao Sanduo. An Zheng's finger lightly slid across Good Lord's back. His squinted eyes revealed that he was exceptionally enjoying the sight before his eyes.
In a short period of time, the house was so quiet that it made people uncomfortable, even the Footsteps s that were walking on the blanket could hear them clearly.
Gao Sanduo walked to the first woman, stopped and took a deep breath. Then, he stretched out his finger and lightly flicked on the metal cover. The sound was crisp and clear, as if the thing inside was not big. The corner of Gao Sanduo's brows slightly raised upwards, the solemn expression on his face also lessened slightly, as if the first thing did not trouble him. He did not knock again to confirm, but instead walked straight to the second woman.
Four of them in a row, it seemed like Gao Sanduo was very confident. When he reached the fifth woman, he encountered a problem. He knocked three times and then almost pressed his ear to the metal cover. He still looked hesitant. He walked to the last one and knocked twice this time. On the way back, he stopped at the fifth place, knocked on the metal cover a few times, and listened attentively.
He shook his head and came back, still uncertain about the fifth thing.
After returning to his seat, Gao Sanduo took the pen and paper that the maid handed to him, and wrote down his answer.
"From now on, you're not allowed to talk."
Zhuang Feifei smiled and said: "Even if it's just a small game, we still have to play it more formally. I cannot practice favoritism and do not want you guys to help each other out."
Gao Sanduo glanced at An Zheng, as if he was worried that An Zheng would be able to tell. An Zheng smiled at him but did not say a word.
Du Shoushou's nervous hands were covered in sweat, and the tip of his feet kept on trembling slightly. The maid who was standing beside him smiled and bent over him. She took out a handkerchief that had a faint fragrance to it and gently wiped it on his forehead. After that, he smiled apologetically at the maid. Thinking of what Zhuang Feifei had said, he did not dare to disturb the second person.
This maid was around 1.7 meters tall. Her figure could not be considered very thin, but she was well-proportioned and well-proportioned. She was the type of woman that one could sense just by looking at her. She placed her hand on Du Shoushou's shoulder and pinched it lightly, causing Du Shoushou to groan in disappointment.
This made Gao Sanduo recall the sound of a female male toad toad meowing that Du Shoushou spoke earlier, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The second person who went up to appraise the treasure was an old man. He looked to be around 70 to 80 years old and his hair and beard were all white. Everyone at the table seemed to have some respect for him, calling him Elder Liu. Elder Liu was supported by a maid as he walked forward, then he began to beat the table as he judged. He spent less time than Gao Sanduo, but when he returned, his expression was unsettled.
Zhen Zhuangbi was the second from the bottom to go up. He had a confident look on his face, and using Du Shoushou's words, he looked extremely arrogant. However, this person truly had great attainments in appraising treasures. An Zheng discovered that the way he used to beat up the metal cover was also different. He did not beat up on the same spots as the other people previously, but rather, he knocked on every single metal cover.
When it was An Zheng's turn to go up on stage, he coldly snorted when he sat down, "Kid, you still haven't weaned yet, yet you're still trying to act pretentious here. When the answer is revealed later, it will be revealed. "
An Zheng also did not pay attention to him, and did not even look at him.
Seeing that An Zheng was not infuriated, Zhen Zhuangbi rolled his eyes. "One must have self-knowledge, for a nobody that is only in the Ascending Realm, to forcefully squeeze himself into the upper echelons, is not afraid of his head bleeding from the pressure. To be able to train so hard at such a young age, I'm afraid my heart is not in the right place. "
Du Shoushou stood up, "Can you shut up!?"
Zhen Zhuangbi curled his lips: "I'm talking about me, what does it have to do with you. Elder Mister only said that you're not allowed to talk, and I didn't even talk to you guys, so she didn't say that you're not allowed to talk to yourself."
He purposely spoke in a weird tone while disturbing An Zheng's hearing, his fingers still knocking on the armrest of the chair.
Gao Sanduo scoffed, "If people look down on themselves, then there's no saving them."
Zhen Zhuangbi also seemed to feel that he had lost his identity. He glared at Gao Sanduo and no longer spoke, but his fingers still continuously rapped on the armrest of the chair. At this moment, even the people who had a close relationship with him felt that he was too petty.
Or perhaps it was just an attempt to test An Zheng, but Zhuang Feifei didn't say anything to stop him. Her beautiful eyes were fixated on An Zheng the entire time, and a look of anticipation appeared in her eyes.
The maid in charge of serving An Zheng also looked very curious and could not help but lean forward, as if she was trying her best to get closer to An Zheng to catch the changes in his expression.
But in reality, An Zheng's expression did not change at all.
Others were always beating metal cover to judge the echoes, but An Zheng was different. His fingers gently caressed the metal cover's body. Surprisingly, the sound was somewhat pleasant to the ear. Although it was not clear, it sounded like it came from some sort of musical instrument. What was even more surprising was that as his finger moved across the arc, the sound actually had a change in rhythm. An Zheng used it quickly, and was at least twice as fast as Zhen Zhuangbi. After that, he walked back and sat down, looking tranquil and relaxed.
The maid who was serving him squatted down in front of him. She had a tray in her hand with a paper and pen on it. Her pair of beautiful big eyes stared at An Zheng's face, and then at An Zheng's hands.
An Zheng wrote it very quickly, without any hesitation. Du Shoushou couldn't see what An Zheng was writing, but he saw that the maid's expression was somewhat surprised, which then turned into disbelief.
"Alright."
Zhuang Feifei walked to the front, "Everyone has already been appraised and should have an answer in their hearts. Before you announce your answers, let me first talk about the prizes of the first round of treasure winners. "
She turned around and picked up an item from the tray held by the maid behind her.
"This is a small thing, not really a very valuable thing, but it's special because it's used for skin protection and insect repellent."
An Zheng raised his head to look, what Zhuang Feifei was holding was a lifelike, rose-shaped hairpin. Especially that flower. No matter how you looked at it, it was flawlessly beautiful. The flower was only half the size of a real rose, and its exquisite workmanship was worthy of admiration. Although they were not very close, they were all experts with excellent eyesight. Thus, it could be seen that the flower petal pattern on the rose hairpin was very detailed.
"Only a man who cherishes his woman would be willing to buy something that would be useless for cultivation but would instead win the heart of a girl. These petals were specially made using the Mountain Rose of the green rank. Although they have shrunk quite a bit on the surface, they will last for at least two hundred years. The hairpin was a piece of jasper and could be considered a small magical equipment. It's summer, and if you take this hairpin out with you, you won't feel uncomfortable under the sun, and you can drive away the mosquitoes and insects. "
"Everyone, if you have a girl you love, you will definitely receive a kiss in return if you send this thing over."
An Zheng asked: "Will you really get a kiss?"
Zhuang Feifei laughed: "That depends on whether or not you have someone to send off."
She looked around. "Okay, now everyone can give us their answers."
After saying that, she gave an order and opened the door, and the maids took all the metal cover away.
Zhuang Feifei introduced: "These six are pill furnace from the green rank, but the materials used are different. The first material is the Spirit Tattoo Iron. "
She looked at all the answers, and the maids held up the paper for her to see.
"Everyone's right."
"The second piece of material is the Dongting Mountains Obsidian Stone, and it's all correct. The third was the Zhoushan Iron which contained qilin steel s. The fourth could almost be called a white product, but there were some flaws, it was made with striped meteorite. The first four items were almost all correct. Only three or four people have guessed wrongly, but it's not easy. "
Zhuang Feifei looked at the fifth item: "This time, everyone's answer is different. However, it seemed... Only Vice President Zhen was right. This was the South Sea Yellow Pear Wood, it could not even be burned by the cultivation level's fire. Unfortunately, it is resistant to fire and not water, so the only thing you can call it is green rank. "
Zhen Zhuangbi said with a complacent expression, "If my guess is correct, it's only a fluke, because I grew up in the Southern Ocean and am very familiar with this South Sea Yellow Pear Wood. All of you were born in the North, so it's understandable that you're not familiar with this thing. "
An Zheng shook his head instead. "Wrong."
Zhuang Feifei looked at the answer An Zheng gave him. It was Dongting Lake's five hundred year old Cortex Phellodendri.
Zhen Zhuangbi was enraged, "Your answer is simply nonsense. Which one of you doesn't know the difference between a yellow pear tree and a Cortex Phellodendri? The Yellow Pear Wood has the same stripes as the Milky Way, but the Cortex Phellodendri does not. "
An Zheng pointed to the pill furnace and said to Zhuang Feifei: "Your appraiser's master was wrong, this item is not a green rank treasure but a white product. Even the first four items added together aren't as valuable as this. Some pill could not be refined and could only be classified as green rank. However, the Cortex Phellodendri s at the Dongting Lake's cliff were different, especially the Cortex Phellodendri s that were more than five hundred years old. This thing seems to have galactic stripes on it, but if you look carefully, that's a black dot, not a black dot unique to the Yellow Pear Wood. The difference is small, but the difference is huge. "
"There is the Mirror of Samsara on the cliffs of the Dongting Lake, and the sunlight it reflects is stronger than true fire. The broken cliff faces the Mirror of Samsara, so anything that can survive is extraordinary. Cortex Phellodendri s were also resistant to fire and water, especially Cortex Phellodendri s that were over five hundred years old. If this pill furnace was made from Pear Wood, it would only be worth at most seven kilograms and six taels. If it was a Cortex Phellodendri, it would be at least nine kilograms and nine taels. "
Zhuang Feifei immediately ordered people to fight, and the result caused everyone to be shocked. What An Zheng said, was actually not the slightest bit off. That pill furnace weighed nine catties, just a little less than ten catties.
Zhen Zhuangbi's face kept changing, looking at An Zheng with eyes that could devour people.
Zhuang Feifei praised: "little mister's Absolute Technique of Listening Skill is godly."
An Zheng shook his head in silence. He could not be considered an expert in pill refining nor was he particularly familiar with smithing, but no one was more experienced than him in distinguishing the materials used in refining these items. When he had just entered the Law Department, he was assigned to the warehouse because he was too young. Every day, the amount of treasures collected by the Law Department was a huge amount. An Zheng was responsible for keeping all these records. He had passed through too many things, these things could not be forgotten. In the warehouse, An Zheng had spent an entire eight years. From the age of fourteen to twenty-two, he had been dealing with all sorts of materials.
Later on, because he was familiar with the materials, he was transferred to the armoury to work on forging weapons and armors for the people of the Law Department. But armoury had strict rules, and An Zheng was only responsible for checking if the materials were up to standard.
In armoury, he worked for another two years. In the past ten years, he had always been meticulous and meticulous with his work. He had spent almost three thousand days and nights thinking about these things, and the knowledge he had regarding these things was most likely much more than those so-called Treasure Appraisal Masters.
Zhuang Feifei did not dare to speak carelessly. Just now, she said that Zhen Zhuangbi was right, and the result was that she blushed a little.
"This last one seems to be the same as the answer from our Vice President Zhen's appraiser."
Zhuang Feifei looked at An Zheng, his eyes full of inquiry, meaning was should I say you were wrong?
But An Zheng stood up and slowly walked over to pick up the rose hairpin. Then, he moved over to a small stool and stepped onto it to insert the rose hairpin into Zhuang Feifei's bun. "It's all wrong, only I'm right, so this hairpin will belong to me. It's not good enough for you, but if someone else took it away, no one would be good enough for it. So I wronged you and let it give you some glory. Wearing it on your head raises its value. "
Then he pointed at his face. "What about that kiss?"
Gao Sanduo looked at Du Shoushou and subconsciously sighed: "This is ? An expert. "