This was a very elderly woman, wearing a handmade brown woolen hat. Underneath the hat was a head full of snow-white silver hair. She was short and frail, and with the set of old hospun clothes she was wearing, Ye Ning felt a strange sense of being transported back in ti just standing there.
"Are you the owner of this shop?"
The old woman saw her too and, noticing the bright-colored dress she was wearing, stood up from her chair.
She was truly hunched over, with her whole back nearly curving down to her knees. Without the cane she was holding, Ye Ning doubted she could even straighten up, and her face was barely visible.
Ye Ning, seeing the sight of her, couldn’t help but have a peculiar feeling, as if this person didn’t co just to appraise a treasure today.
So she nodded slightly and stepped forward: "Yes, I am the owner of this shop. Granny, what would you like to see?"
The old woman, upon hearing this, took a small black box from the chair opposite her: "This..."
"What is this?"
"This is sothing that’s been in my ho for a long ti. I never knew what it was, so I thought to co and see."
Things from ho that aren’t known?
Ye Ning was taken aback by these words, and she took the small black box from the woman’s hands. When she opened it, expecting to see so jade artifact or antique, what she actually saw inside was sothing completely unexpected!
"Ah—"
"Miss? Miss, what’s wrong?"
The assistant standing next to her suddenly heard her scream, and imdiately looked over in her direction.
What happened to Miss? Why did she suddenly scream like that for no reason?
He looked at the object that had slipped from her hands and fallen to the floor, and when he saw what had rolled out—sothing that looked very much like an eyeball of a Jade Bead—he was also taken aback: "Xiaojin, this is...?"
Ye Ning was quite frightened, and even at this mont, her breath was still quick and unsteady.
Hearing the assistant next to her also questioning, she snapped back to her senses, then crouched down, intending to pick up the item she’d accidentally dropped.
But at that mont, the old woman bent over ahead of her: "Miss, don’t be afraid, this is just a Jade Bead, not a real eyeball."
Her voice was a bit hoarse, sounding like a broken gong, inexplicably making one uncomfortable.
Seeing this, Ye Ning finally regained her composure, and quickly forced herself to calm down, then hastily apologized to the old woman: "I’m sorry, Granny, I’m embarrassed. This thing is so realistic that it startled just now."
As Ye Ning said this, she couldn’t help casting another glance at the item in the woman’s hand, making her heart race once more.
It really did look just like a freshly plucked eyeball from its socket.
After putting the Jade Bead back in the box, the two returned to their seats at the small table. As the old woman explained her purpose, Ye Ning did not delay. Once they were both seated, she pretended to take out a set of tools and lay them in front of the Jade Bead, though in reality, she was examining it with her eyes.
The secret of her double pupils was sothing she couldn’t easily show to others.
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