Sun Jinyi sat very reluctantly.
He was very careful and didn't even dare to raise his head.
Because he was afraid!
He was afraid that he would see something that he couldn't see.
He was afraid that he would provoke something that he couldn't provoke.
All kinds of legends were spinning in his mind.
Thus, he didn't even dare to move.
This made Sun Jinyi finally understand what it meant to be sitting on pins and needles.
For a moment, this pitiful descendant of the Sun family felt his mouth go dry and he couldn't sit still.
However, the entire bookstore was as quiet as the bottom of the deep sea.
After an unknown period of time, there was a knock on the door.
Thud thud thud...
Sun Jinyi raised his head and saw a man in casual clothes who looked to be in his forties standing at the door.
That person also looked at him and a smile appeared on his face.
"Hello..." he asked, "Is the boss here?"
Sun Jinyi could only look at the kitten lying in front of the coffee table.
The kitten slowly stood up, then walked upstairs with very graceful steps.
Unlike the owner of the shop, the kitten went upstairs in a way that was almost floating.
It seemed to be very afraid of those stairs.
It didn't even dare to touch them casually.
When Sun Jinyi saw that the cat that protected him had left, he didn't dare to sit anymore and immediately stood up.
He looked at the man in a windbreaker standing at the door, wanting to greet him.
However, Sun Jinyi immediately realized that his tongue seemed to be tied in a knot, and his mouth seemed to be filled with lead.
He couldn't even smile, let alone pronounce it.
He had no choice but to lower his head and look at the floor.
… …
Ling Ping'an was in the kitchen, holding an iron rod and skewering pieces of mutton that had already been cut onto the iron rod.
You don't say, although these mutton are of different brands, it's still very good.
But the quality was really indisputable!
The meat was tender, rosy, and elastic to the touch.
More importantly, it was fat and thin.
It was the best ingredient for barbecue kebabs!
Moreover, this piece of meat was more than two catties.
Ling Ping'an felt that it might be two and a half catties.
"That shop is really honest!" Ling Ping'an skewered the meat and praised, "Looks like I can go there to buy it next time!"
In this day and age, such honest merchants were really rare.
Merchants like this who would buy more meat and give it away were only in Ling Ping'an's father and grandfather's generation!
Nowadays, shop owners, especially those e-commerce companies, were full of marketing, promotion, and distribution of goods.
Using all kinds of advanced technology to analyze.
In fact, he could even kill them with big data.
As for quality and after-sales?
That would depend on luck.
In any case, Ling Ping'an rarely bought fresh food online.
Ling Ping'an skewered meat very quickly. Not long after, all the mutton was skewered.
It was a big plate of lamb skewers.
Each skewer was filled with lamb.
More importantly, these mutton usually consisted of three pieces of lean meat and a thin piece of fatty meat.
She looked extremely beautiful!
Ling Ping'an looked at it and felt pleasing to the eye.
So, he turned on the faucet, squeezed out some detergent, and washed his hands.
Meow!
Behind him, there was a cat's meow.
Ling Ping'an turned around and saw his pet.
Meow!
The little fellow bit his trouser leg and cried softly.
"Let me go downstairs?" Ling Ping'an scratched his head and thought for a moment before asking, "Is there a customer downstairs who wants to buy books?"
Meow!
The little fellow gently rubbed against his trouser leg.
Ling Ping'an seemed to understand something. He nodded and said, "Alright..."
"Bastet, go downstairs and invite the guest in …"
"I'll be right there..."
The kitten meowed softly and walked downstairs.
"What a good child!" Ling Ping'an was extremely satisfied.
So, he took off the apron he was wearing and washed his hands carefully. Then, he walked to the bathroom and began to comb his hair and wash his face.
In business, image was also very important.
… …
Sun Jinyi stood awkwardly.
Finally, a soft sound came from the stairs.
A black kitten slowly floated down from the stairwell.
It landed on the floor and then walked to the door vigorously and elegantly.
It bit the door and pulled gently.
The door opened.
Meow!
It meowed softly. Its voice wasn't loud, but when Sun Jinyi heard it, he felt as if he was in an ancient palace.
At this moment, he felt like an ant.
The man standing at the door seemed to recognize the kitten.
He bowed slightly and greeted the cat with a very ancient etiquette.
However, the kitten did not accept this etiquette. Instead, it walked to the side.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from the stairs.
Tap, tap, tap.
The stairs swayed as if they couldn't bear the burden. They creaked and creaked.
Terrifying, terrifying, and strange.
The figure of the hidden expert who called himself 'Ling Ping'an' appeared from the stairs.
The light shone on him, and his shadow was cast from the stairs onto the bookshelves of the bookstore.
This made Sun Jinyi panic in his heart.
"Customer!" His voice had long since traveled to the side of the ear. "We meet again …"
As expected, they knew each other!
Before Sun Jinyi could sigh with emotion, he heard the man who had already walked in say in a very humble and even self-servative tone, "Sir, please forgive me for disturbing you again!"
Looking at his tone and attitude.
Sun Jinyi instantly knew that the stranger was here to ask for help.
Because, he had seen too many people like this.
Asking for financing, asking for loans, asking for turnover...
Most people came to see him with such an attitude.
The language might be different and the words used might be different, but the attitude would not change.
"So..." Sun Jinyi became excited, "Am I going to see a meeting between true experts?"
Sun Jinyi knew nothing about the relationship between the experts of the transcendent being.
Because, he was just a capitalist.
And in the current world, no matter what country, the one who really controlled the power behind the scenes had long been the transcendent being.
Strength was everything!
The Federal Empire, which was also the Blackguard, was able to make the transcendent being and foreign species obedient.
However, the Blackguard itself was strength.
A stronger strength.
It was just that this strength chose to protect the country.
But in the end, it was still strength!
A single person could overturn the strength of an army!
A single person could destroy a country, a single horse could destroy an army.
These were all things that had happened before.
Thus, Sun Jinyi focused and pricked up his ears.
He heard the young bookstore owner walk down the stairs. He smiled at the stranger and asked, "Is your nephew satisfied with the book from last time?"
"Satisfied!" The stranger's attitude changed again. In addition to respect, Sun Jinyi could also hear gratitude in his voice, "Your book has helped my niece too much!"
Sun Jinyi couldn't help but be suspicious when he heard this.
Book?
Help?
He didn't quite understand. Was it referring to? Code word?
The world of a powerful transcendent being was actually so complicated?!
But soon, he knew that he was wrong.
Because, the bookstore owner asked with a smile, "Customer, why are you here this time?"
The stranger immediately smiled. His smile was a little humble, but it was mixed with obvious hope and desire.
He said, "I took the liberty of coming here this time to ask if you have more..."
"An old friend also wants to ask me to buy one back..."
When Sun Jinyi heard this, he immediately became nervous.
"Buy?"
"Do these experts also need currency to trade?"
"What kind of currency do they use and how do they trade?"
Thinking of this, Sun Jinyi felt his heart pounding.
If it was money...
Hehe!
In his hands, he could immediately mobilize hundreds of millions of cash!
That was a very terrifying thing.
Because, to capital, cash was actually the most precious thing.
Many tycoons with tens of billions of dollars wouldn't have more than 100 million cash in their hands.
That was why, once those large consortiums encountered a problem, they couldn't even afford a bill of tens of thousands of dollars.
Because the capital chain was too tight.
Most of the companies died because of this.
Once the capital chain was stuck, the bank would urge it.
Almost none of them would go bankrupt.
He heard the bookstore owner say, "Does your friend want it?"
He seemed to pause for a moment and said, "Do you want the same?"
"Hmm..." the stranger seemed to be a little afraid and a little expectant as he nodded.
"I'm really sorry..." the young bookstore owner said, "Those books have been sold out..."
"Is that so?" The visitor's voice became relaxed, but there was also a little disappointment. He bowed slightly, "Then I'm really sorry to disturb you!"
"You're welcome!" The owner of the bookstore laughed, "By the way... customer, have you eaten?"
The visitor was slightly stunned. At this moment, Sun Jinyi clearly felt that the visitor's body was trembling.
Then, the visitor slowly nodded.
It gave Sun Jinyi an illusion.
He seemed to be here to freeload, not to buy or sell, trade, or ask for help.
But how was that possible?
A high and mighty transcendent being who controlled power and wealth would throw away his face and come to freeload for a meal?
And he was beating around the bush and using such a method to freeload for a meal?
Hmm!
That was absolutely impossible!
Because Sun Jinyi had heard that the experts among the transcendent being valued their face the most.
Especially the experts of the Federal Empire.
A warrior could be killed but not humiliated!
A gentleman could not escape death!
To these people, face might even be more important than their lives!
But what happened next completely shattered Sun Jinyi's worldview.
He heard the bookstore owner say, "Customer, I've prepared some meat... If you don't mind, you can stay and eat with us..."
The stranger's voice trembled visibly at this moment.
He said in an incredulous tone, "How can I be embarrassed?"
Sun Jinyi could clearly hear the hidden meaning from his words and tone. How could he feel embarrassed about that?
Didn't he mean that he was actually very willing!
It could even be said that everything he had done before was for this moment.
The owner of the bookstore was very generous. "Then it's a deal!"
He turned his head and looked at Sun Jinyi. He said, "Brother Sun, the meat is already skewered. Let's go upstairs and roast it together!"
Sun Jinyi nodded in a daze.
Then, he saw the bookstore owner, a senior expert, stretch out his hand. "By the way, customer..." he asked the stranger, "I still don't know your name?"
"Let me introduce myself first. I'm Ling Ping'an..."
The other party stretched out his trembling hand. "Hello, Young Master Ling... I'm Situ He..."
Sun Jinyi's entire body trembled when he heard this.
Situ He?!
The iron-faced judge?
The major general of the Blackguard!
The general of the Blackguard who sat in Zhenjiang City!
Sun Jinyi felt that his worldview had collapsed at this moment.
His mind was dizzy.
The major general of the Blackguard!
That was the Empire's Zijin Liang, the strategic expert of the country.
What was a strategic expert?
It was the kind of person who would send a general to the border area when something happened. The other side would be terrified the next day.
Sun Jinyi had seen the annual secret national report of the central government.
In the national report, the general of the Blackguard was the core of the empire alongside space-based weapons and strategic nuclear weapons.
Because the latter two could not speak, the former naturally represented the ultimate strategy of the empire.
They were the shield of the country, the sharp sword of the people.
They were the Great Wall in the night, the 'non-existent fleet' on the ocean.
Each of them was equivalent to a heavily armored army.
They were the ones who swept the nest.
They were also the ones who maintained the safety.
Therefore, they formed the transcendent being central government.
All the special affairs of the empire related to the transcendent being were handled by the generals.
The central government only had judicial power.
And now, such a big shot had appeared in front of him without a sound.
Moreover...
He even performed a 'careful' and 'treading on thin ice' performance in front of him.
From the beginning until now, this general did not look like a powerful and majestic general of the empire's Blackguard in front of the owner of the bookstore, the guardian of the transcendent being world and the Great Wall.
On the contrary, he was the same as those people who had looked for Sun Jinyi for financing.
In other words...
Sun Jinyi's heart was beating fast.
He had thought that the person he had encountered was an expert similar to the general of the Blackguard.
Now he knew.
The general of the Blackguard also needed his help.
In front of him, the general of the Blackguard had to be as careful and fearful as his juniors and subordinates.
How was this a reclusive expert?
This was clearly Zhenyuanzi in the journey to the west, the sweeping monk in wuxia novels!
Thus, Sun Jinyi completely fainted.
So much so that he didn't have the time to listen.
It wasn't until the owner of the bookstore touched his arm that he came back to his senses.
"Brother Sun... let me introduce you. This is Mr. Situ..."
Sun Jinyi quickly stretched out his hand and said very humbly and respectfully, "Hello, Sir Situ... I am... I am Sun Jinyi..."
"Hello!" The other party stretched out his hand and gently shook Sun Jinyi's hand.
This made him even more confused.
"I shook hands with Situ He..."
"I shook hands with the iron-faced judge and survived..."
"I actually shook hands with the general of the Blackguard!"
He was very clear about the status of the general of the Blackguard.
Every one of them was a cabinet minister of the central government of the transcendent being world.
Their status was even a little higher than that of the ruling cabinet of ministers.
After all, they really had power in their hands!
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