Red Dust Daqian

The award ceremony officially started.

The award ceremony of the Qixi Poetry Contest was not exactly the same as the world in Zhou Sen's memory of the 21st century. There were no steps of different heights, no hostesses, and no loud music and drums. Everyone just stood in a neat row in the middle of the podium, which was similar to a competition arena, waiting for the organizer to present the prizes to the three people one by one.

First, the person who came on stage to present the awards was Jiangxia Prefecture Chief Ouyang Changzong, who presented the Huaxi Order of Huaxi Society to the three winners. Ouyang Changzong's hair was already gray, and his face looked quite kind, and he must have been a hard-working person. When presenting the Huaxi Order to his nephew Ouyang Zongren, he also encouraged his nephew to keep up the good work and focus on the examination next, and strive to get the first place.

When issuing the Huaxi Order to Li Qinwei and Zhou Sen, they did not talk much, but only praised the two young and promising people and exchanged polite greetings. However, when leaving, Ouyang Changzong gave a meaningful instruction: "In the future, when we cooperate, we must share what we have and take care of each other." Li Qinwei and Zhou Sen both felt that this sentence was inexplicable. Especially Zhou Sen, his identity is a Taoist priest. How did Ouyang Changzong judge that Zhou Sen intended to contact the officialdom? How could he determine that he would cooperate with him in the future? His current purpose in Jiangxia Prefecture is just to save the abducted girl.

Zhou Sen was very pleased to finally get this Huaxi Order. He took the Huaxi Order in his hand, turned it over and over to study it carefully, but there was nothing special about it. It seemed to be just an ordinary iron plum blossom. If I had known this would happen, wouldn't I have just found a blacksmith to hammer one out? I almost lost my life for this thing, and I participated in a shitty poetry meeting. Fortunately, I was blessed with nine years of compulsory education, so I was able to survive.

Li Qinwei saw Zhou Sen studying the Huaxi Order in his hand and showed a dissatisfied expression. Li Qinwei kindly explained: "Master Zhang, don't underestimate the Huaxi Order in your hand. It is made of purple copper unique to Jiangxia Prefecture. It is worth nothing. It is extremely difficult to imitate on the market. If it is imitated with ordinary black iron, it will be easily discovered. Besides, who dares to use a fake Huaxi Order to cheat people in Huaxi Society Huaxi Tower? There you can go and never come back, and no one can find out."

Unexpectedly, Li Qinwei knew so much about Huaxi Order. Zhou Sen asked in doubt: "Brother Li, have you been to Huaxi Tower before?" Li Qinwei felt that he might have said too much just now. In order to avoid Zhou Sen's suspicion of his identity, he laughed and said: "I just got Huaxi Order, how could I have had the opportunity to be there. It's all hearsay."

Zhou Sen could sense that Li Qinwei was hiding something. However, after a day of contact, he was quite impressed with Li Qinwei's character and had no conflict of interest with him. Since he didn't want to talk about it, Zhou Sen didn't need to get to the bottom of it and ask about his privacy.

Then it was time to present the second prize. The owner of the Baisheng Restaurant came on stage with two servants. He was going to present a coral stone to Ouyang Zongren. This coral stone was as big as a four or five-year-old child. The two servants had to use all their strength to lift the coral stone onto the podium. This coral stone was colorful and had a strange shape. If it were placed in the 21st century, it would be considered a collection of art. It would definitely be thousands of times better than the glass wolf of Qianmu Hall. Fortunately, the time and space now is ancient Daqian.

Then the owner of Qian's pawnshop also walked up to the podium with a gift box in his hand. Without any greetings or formalities, he directly presented Zhou Sen with a golden Buddha statue. Zhou Sen gently lifted up the Buddha statue with one hand. Could this be the prize for the first place? It's a little small. Why does it feel much lower than the coral stone of the second place? Is this golden Buddha statue more valuable than the coral stone? It's worthy of being an era of backward technology. Technological products that have been processed are always more valuable than pure natural ones. Forget it. Zhou Sen didn't dwell on it too much. The most important thing was the glass statue, Qianmu Hall, which he was going to promote vigorously.

Finally, Shen Qianrou, dressed elegantly as the head of Qianmu Hall, personally presented Zhou Sen with the glass wolf in a brocade box. At this moment, Shen Qianrou was really dignified and elegant, beautiful and generous, with a mature and seductive charm, which made the perverts in the audience scream. Standing with Zhou Sen, they were really a perfect match.

When Shen Qianrou handed the brocade box to Zhou Sen, she secretly kneaded and pinched Zhou Sen at an inappropriate time, and threw a wink to Zhou Sen openly, which was simply a crime. If he had not been standing on the stage, Zhou Sen would have committed a crime at this moment. If this action was seen by the girls in the audience, they would definitely scold Shen Qianrou for seducing Zhou Sen to death.

Zhou Sen felt the weight and size of the brocade box in his hand, and was slightly disappointed. He felt that Shen Qianrou was a little stingy. Why did she only bring a medium-quality one? There were so many high-quality colored glass in the warehouse, but she didn't bring them. Wouldn't this miss a good opportunity to shock Jiang Xiazhou? Why would he be reluctant to part with a piece of broken glass? Of course, Zhou Sen didn't complain at this moment, he just sighed in his heart.

Forget it, it’s just average quality. It should be a rare thing in Jiangxia Prefecture.

When everyone in the Hundred Flowers Garden knew that the brocade box in Zhou Sen's hand contained a glass statue, and Zhou Sen was fiddling with the brocade box at this time, everyone held their breath, fearing that Zhou Sen would accidentally knock over the brocade box and break the glass statue. That would be a damn waste of natural resources.

Li Qinwei beside Zhou Sen reminded Zhou Sen carefully: "Master Zhang, do you know that there is a glass wolf statue in the brocade box in your hand? Glass is fragile and valuable, so you must not be careless." Zhou Sen certainly knew that glass was fragile. He did this to show that he did not know the value of glass and did not know how expensive it was; secondly, to attract more attention and concern from the people in Baihua Garden. Of course, people in Daqian have loved glass since ancient times.

Zhou Sen cleared his throat, holding the brocade box, and shouted loudly to the noisy crowd in the Hundred Flowers Garden: "My friends, I think everyone can see that I am a Taoist practitioner. People who practice Taoism regard the whole world as their home, often travel around, and do not regard money as material possessions." After Zhou Sen finished his first sentence, everyone fell silent.

Zhou Sen continued, "I heard that although colored glaze is precious, it is very easy to damage. As a wanderer, it is very inconvenient to carry it with you." Zhou Sen turned to Shen Qianrou and asked, "I would like to ask the sponsor of this colored glaze statue, Shopkeeper Shen of Qianmu Hall, if I can sell this colored glaze wolf, the first prize of the poetry competition, here? If someone is destined to get it, I will donate the proceeds to charity. I don't want such a precious thing to be damaged on the road, that would be a waste of resources."