Chapter 209: A Vague Premonition

After some bargaining, Chen Feng finally bought the two oracle bones for 3 million.

After the price was agreed upon, they went to the bank together. There was one not far from the hotel. The transfer was made on the spot, and then the wooden box containing the oracle bones fell into Chen Feng’s hands.

After returning to the hotel, Chen Feng couldn’t put down the two oracle bones.

Wu Mengting, who was beside him, said with some heartache for Chen Feng, “Brother, I think you paid too much. And are you really sure this oracle bone script is genuine?”

Sun Xiaorui also felt a pang of pain for Chen Feng’s 3 million and echoed, “I think it’s necessary to have it appraised for authenticity. After all, this is 3 million.”

Chen Feng smiled and shook his head, “This thing is genuine to me. 3 million is a bit expensive, but it’s worth it to me.”

Wu Mengting held her phone and said, “I checked online before. If these two oracle bones are real, then 3 million is not very expensive. More than ten years ago, 20 pieces of oracle bone script were auctioned and sold for a sky-high price of more than 50 million. Although there might be some exaggeration in it, even if it was ten times less, it would still be several million more than ten years ago, and it would be worth tens of millions now.

Moreover, the oracle bone script fragments auctioned at that time were all very small, and some of the characters were blurry. But these two pieces are relatively large, and the characters are clear. If they are real, then they are really very valuable. The other party’s initial asking price of 8 million was also quite reasonable.”

Hearing this, Chen Feng knew that he had gotten a bargain. He hadn’t been very clear about the market price of oracle bone script before and had just bargained based on his own estimation. In his opinion, these two oracle bones had a very strong attraction for him, and the energy they contained was also quite huge. It was really not a loss for him to buy them for 3 million.

“Don’t worry. These two oracle bone scripts are definitely genuine. I can feel it,” Chen Feng said with a confident expression.

Hearing this, the two women both rolled their eyes. They were both very clear that Chen Feng was not a cultural relic expert, or even a cultural relic enthusiast. It would be strange if he could determine the authenticity of a cultural relic by feeling.

Chen Feng didn’t bother with them. He used the excuse that he was going to take a shower and indirectly drove them out of the room.

When they came out to travel this time, they had opened two rooms. Chen Feng had one, and the two women had one. Last time, they lived opposite each other, but this time they were next to each other.

Chen Feng and Sun Xiaorui had hoped to live together, but Wu Mengting used the excuse that she was afraid of sleeping alone at night and insisted on sharing a room with Sun Xiaorui.

Sun Xiaorui was too thin-skinned to refuse, and Chen Feng was also too embarrassed to fight with her for a bedmate, so he just let her be.

However, over the past ten days, whenever Wu Mengting was taking a shower or went to bed early at night, if the timing was right, Chen Feng would have Sun Xiaorui come to his room.

In this way, even if Wu Mengting found out afterwards, she couldn’t say anything.

Therefore, Chen Feng didn’t think it was a bad arrangement. On the contrary, sometimes it was more comfortable to sleep in a room by himself.

Just like now, when he said he was going to take a shower, Wu Mengting was too embarrassed to stay in his room, and Sun Xiaorui also left with her.

And Chen Feng, alone with the wooden box containing the oracle bone script, went to the bathroom, locked the door, stared at one of the oracle bone scripts, and began to enter a meditative state and absorb the energy within.

He hadn’t absorbed any energy from calligraphy and paintings today, and his body was not yet saturated, so it was just right for an experiment.

And so, when he came back to his senses from the state of absorbing energy, he suddenly felt that his body was much lighter. Then he found that his whole body was a little sticky. He reached into his clothes and rubbed his chest, and immediately rubbed off a ball of black dirt.

Was this like the “cleansing of the marrow and refining of the essence” written in those novels?

Chen Feng didn’t know, but he felt his own body, and it was obviously much more relaxed, full of vitality and energy than before. This was undoubtedly a good sign.

He picked up his phone and looked at the time. It had actually been two and a half hours.

This time, his sense of time had passed much faster than when he had been in a meditative state before.

And he vaguely felt that the energy he had absorbed from the tortoise shell this time was more pure and powerful, which was very likely the main reason for his “cleansing of the marrow and refining of the essence” this time.

And after absorbing for more than two hours this time, when he felt the tortoise shell again, Chen Feng felt that the energy it contained was still very huge, as if it had not decreased at all.

This was quite magical.

The calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works that Chen Feng had collected before would be “scrapped” after two or three times at most, but now he had absorbed for more than two hours at once, yet he couldn’t feel any loss of energy in the tortoise shell.

The difference between the two was really too great.

Those calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works had looked quite good before, but now compared to this oracle bone, they were really not worth mentioning.

The most important thing was that collecting these calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works was a bit tedious and troublesome. To supply his needs, he had to constantly search for and buy them, and bargaining each time was quite tiring.

And because only he himself could judge whether these calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works met the requirements, he had to do it all himself.

This was obviously contrary to his current purpose of enjoying life and living a carefree life.

So, if he had to choose between oracle bone script and the current calligraphy, paintings, and photographic works, Chen Feng would undoubtedly choose oracle bone script.

Although the price of oracle bone script seemed to be much higher, in terms of energy storage, the cost-performance ratio was actually better.

Chen Feng immediately picked up his phone and called Old Chen.

“Old Chen, can you ask your uncle if he has any more of the same stuff? If he does, I’m willing to buy it, and I can add a little to the price for him.”

As soon as the call was connected, Chen Feng asked directly.

Hearing this, Old Chen was silent for a moment before saying, “I have to ask to be sure. Please wait a moment.”

Hearing his answer, Chen Feng immediately felt that there was a chance and said, “Okay. I’ll wait for your news. Old Chen, we’ve known each other for so long, and you know I don’t play games. How about this, if you can persuade your uncle to sell me this thing again, I’ll give you a 100,000 introduction fee. In addition, I’ll keep my word and add to the price for him.”

“Ah… this, okay. I’ll ask for you. Wait for my news.”

More than ten minutes later, just as Chen Feng was wondering if he had guessed wrong, Old Chen finally called.

“Boss, my uncle does have two more pieces. They are bigger than the previous two, with more characters. He’s insisting on a minimum of eight hundred. If not, then forget it.”

Hearing that the other party was insisting on eight million this time, Chen Feng’s teeth immediately ached a little. Although this price was still reasonable, it was indeed a bit expensive. After all, this was a black market transaction, so it certainly couldn’t be based on the market price.

The other party was obviously taking advantage of Chen Feng’s repeated requests to buy, his strong desire to buy, or felt that he had sold at a loss the first time, which was why he was asking for such a high price.

“Eight hundred is a bit expensive. If they are bigger than the previous two, I’m willing to double the price, six hundred. You see, I’m very sincere. Although this thing is not common on the market now, if I have the heart to look for it, I can still find some. Especially in your City A, the capital of cultural relics, I believe there are still many.”

“Alright then. I’ll ask my uncle again.”

“Old Chen, if we can agree on the price I mentioned, I’ll give you an extra twenty for the introduction fee. I’ll keep my word.”

“Okay, thank you, boss. I’ll help you persuade my uncle. Wait for my news.”

This time, he waited for half an hour, but there was no call from Old Chen. Instead, he received a call from Wu Mengting, asking him to go downstairs for dinner.

Of course, the five-star hotel had its own restaurant, and the various dishes in this five-star restaurant tasted very good. These days, if they couldn’t make it for dinner, they would eat at the hotel restaurant after they came back from their tour.

Although Chen Feng was a little anxious about the other two oracle bones, he didn’t want to go hungry. He immediately said he would be there in ten minutes.

Ten minutes later, after Chen Feng had taken a shower and changed his clothes, there was still no call from Old Chen, so he temporarily put it aside.

When he arrived at the restaurant, the two women had already arrived and had already ordered a table of dishes, but they hadn’t started eating yet, obviously waiting for Chen Feng. It wasn’t that they were greedy, but Chen Feng’s appetite had greatly increased now. The two of them together could at most eat one-third, and Chen Feng would take care of the rest.

It was the same this time. After Chen Feng sat down, the three of them started eating. Chen Feng ate three bowls of rice in one go, and at least three-quarters of the various dishes on the table were eaten by Chen Feng.

When Chen Feng finished eating, Wu Mengting couldn’t help but sigh, “Brother, why do I find that you’re eating more and more?”

Sun Xiaorui also nodded, then looked at Chen Feng and said with a smile, “Although you’re eating more, you don’t seem to be getting fat. On the contrary, you’re getting thinner and thinner.”

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had a heart. When Wu Mengting heard Sun Xiaorui say “getting thinner and thinner,” she immediately thought of Chen Feng’s cancer. Her heart couldn’t help but ache, her face turned pale, and she was suddenly speechless.

Chen Feng didn’t notice Wu Mengting’s thoughts and said with a smile, “I’m busy every day now, and my body consumes a lot of energy, so of course I have to eat more. Don’t worry, when I’m free, I won’t eat so much anymore. I’ll slowly control my diet.”

As he was speaking, the female manager of the lobby, dressed in a hotel uniform, walked over, holding a bottle of wine in both hands.

“Mr. Chen, two ladies, hello. This is our hotel’s treasured Cabernet Sauvignon, a cellar collection from a private winery in France. Our hotel thanks the three of you for your stay these days and has specially sent it over for you to taste. It’s a complimentary gift from our hotel. Please accept it.”

The female lobby manager bowed slightly, her face full of humility.

“Then thank you.”

Chen Feng didn’t refuse and accepted it with a smile. The three of them had booked two deluxe suites here and had stayed for ten days. The accommodation fee was tens of thousands.

A generous guest like Chen Feng, and one who was spending his own money, was really not common.

“Shall I open it for you now?” the female lobby manager asked politely.

Chen Feng looked at the two women. Seeing that they didn’t speak, he nodded and said, “Alright, open it.”

The female lobby manager nimbly opened the bottle of red wine, then poured it into a decanter, and then said to them with a smile, “Please enjoy.”

After the female manager finished speaking, just as she was about to leave, Chen Feng suddenly had a vague premonition and said to her as if by a slip of the tongue, “Don’t take the elevator later. Take the stairs.”

The female manager was stunned for a moment, then showed a professional smile and nodded, “Okay, sir.”

As soon as the female manager left, both Wu Mengting and Sun Xiaorui looked at him strangely, not knowing why he had suddenly said that to the female manager. If it weren’t for the fact that this female manager was in her forties, and was a bit fat and not very beautiful, they would have suspected that Chen Feng was deliberately hitting on her.

“Don’t look at me like that. I just had a sudden intuition that she might have bad luck if she took the elevator. So I kindly reminded her to take the stairs.”

The two women looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

On the other side, after the female lobby manager left the restaurant, she was originally going to take the elevator to the lobby on the first floor. But she suddenly thought of Chen Feng’s words just now and took the stairs as if by a slip of the tongue. Anyway, it was going down, not up, and it was only two floors, so it wasn’t very tiring.

Just as she reached the first floor, she heard a commotion from the elevator area. She immediately frowned and walked over.

Then, she saw a hotel waiter lying on the ground with a pained expression, with scattered dinner plates around him. Several people were surrounding him, and a few hotel staff were about to take him to the hospital.

She went up and asked and found out that this waiter had just come out of the elevator with a food cart. But for some reason, the food cart suddenly tilted and fell on his foot.

There were a lot of things on the food cart, and it was not light. The waiter was not lightly injured and might have a fracture.

After hearing this, the female lobby manager didn’t think much of it at first and just felt sympathy for the waiter. But soon, she suddenly thought of Chen Feng’s reminder to her before, and her heart was greatly shaken, and the hair on her body stood on end.

This was too much of a coincidence! Too magical!

If it weren’t for the fact that this distinguished guest, Chen Feng, had suddenly reminded her not to take the elevator, she would have definitely taken the elevator out of habit, and then she would have very likely gone down with this waiter, and even had her foot crushed by the food cart.

If it weren’t for her whim and suddenly listening to Chen Feng’s words and taking the stairs, she would very likely have been sent to the hospital too.

This was really too incredible!

Could he be a fortune teller or a physiognomist?!

The female lobby manager immediately turned and walked towards the stairs, quickly walking towards the restaurant in her high heels.

Unfortunately, by the time she reached the restaurant, Chen Feng and the two women had already left.

After hesitating for a while, she gritted her teeth and went to press the doorbell of Chen Feng’s room, but there was no response from inside.

She guessed that Chen Feng might be in the room where the two women were staying, but with the two women present, she didn’t know for a moment whether she should express her gratitude to Chen Feng, or even test him.

The hotel’s rules and regulations did not allow her to disturb the guests, especially a distinguished guest like Chen Feng. If she was complained about, her job would be in jeopardy.

After hesitating for a while, she finally did not press the doorbell of the two women’s room and left with a belly full of doubts and confusion.

And Chen Feng was indeed in the two women’s room at this time. The three of them had finished the red wine that the hotel had sent over before. The taste was indeed quite good, so the three of them drank it very quickly. Now that they were back in the room, the aftertaste was coming up, at least for the two women. Their faces were flushed, which was very beautiful.

“This hotel is quite humane. This red wine tastes good. Anyway, I found it very comfortable to drink. It doesn’t have the sour and astringent taste of the ones I’ve had before. It’s very smooth.”

Wu Mengting sat on a chair, drinking water and said.

Sun Xiaorui was lying on the bed, slightly drunk, and said, “I’ll come back to this hotel next time I have a chance. Their food also tastes good.”

Chen Feng looked at her lying body curve with an appreciative gaze. Just as he was about to speak, his phone rang.

Looking at the number, it was the number of Old Chen that he had been looking forward to.

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