Putting everything else aside, Chu Chen and Wu Ke spent the next two weeks touring several of the major attractions in southern Yunnan, finally enjoying the honeymoon they had put off for so long.
Because they had to ask Dean Sima's friend about news of Luan Glue, Spring City was left as the final stop of their honeymoon. However, Dean Sima's friend suddenly had something to attend to and did not return to Spring City until several days later, giving Chu Chen and Wu Ke just enough time to visit the city's major attractions.
Dean Sima's friend was named Ye Peigen. When Chu Chen first heard his name, he was stunned for a moment. Did the person who named Ye Peigen especially love bacon? Only later did he learn that it was Peigen, not bacon.
When the appointed time with Ye Peigen arrived, Chu Chen and Wu Ke had breakfast, took another walk around the hotel where they were staying, and admired the scenery before taking a taxi to their destination—Ye Peigen's antique shop.
Since it was Tuesday, the antique market was sparsely populated. Combined with Spring City's antique market being small, scattered, and "disorderly," this made it seem even more deserted. In the end, among every five roadside stalls, only one or two had anyone stopping to look.
Perhaps noticing that Chu Chen and Wu Ke were dressed like tourists, quite a few stall owners called out to them, claiming they had good things: rare treasures, Ming and Qing imperial porcelain, distinctive Yunnan jadeite ornaments, and so on.
Normally, Chu Chen merely smiled and waved them off, indicating that he was not interested. It was ridiculous—if their wares really were as precious as they claimed, why would they be selling them from roadside stalls?
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