The mountains and rivers are exhausted.

Hou Yan pushed open Xixuan's door.

The door of Xixuan is made of high-quality mahogany, which has been polished smooth and round by the years. Although the mottled color has precipitated, it is as gentle as ever.Hou Jia's fingertips rubbed against Xixuan's door, and a trace of coolness spread up, dispelling the heat that was hard to find all day.

Pushing open the door, it is an extremely spacious front hall.There is an Eight Immortals table in front of the hall, and two armchairs beside it.They are all dull and solemn colors, but the two azure brocade pillows placed on them brighten up the tone of the hall, making the whole front hall look spacious and majestic.

It is not like the prosperity of a shop at all, and the hall is extremely quiet.There was a figure standing with his back to him, Hou Yan couldn't see his movements clearly, but from the ups and downs of his shoulder blades, it seemed that he was leisurely fiddling with the abacus in his hand.

Time seems to stand still in this small town in Myanmar, leaving only the fine dust swirling in the air.

The indoor temperature is slightly lower than that of the outdoors. In addition to the initial scent of incense, you can also smell a faint tea fragrance in the waiting room.As far as I could see, I saw a white porcelain cup on the table.There was no steam coming out of the cup, obviously, the cup of tea was already cold.

Hou Yan's footsteps were shallow, but the person with his back to settle accounts had already noticed it.He is naturally the master here, but he is not here often.This time I just came back to check the accounts by chance.

The man turned around slowly.

Against the light, Hou Yan could still see the man's eyebrows clearly.Shen Yi.It turned out to be him.

Today's Shen Yi is very different from the one Hou Jia met in his previous life, and also not similar to the one he met on the plane.In the previous life, Shen Yi should have been a well-behaved businessman, and the only thing Hou Jia felt he did that was unethical was probably drinking himself.However, his drinking behavior led to his own death, so this insincerity was magnified infinitely.

On the plane, Shen Yi who Hou Yan met had a look of sadness in his eyes.But after a round of life and death, Hou Yan only felt that this person was irrelevant and not worth caring about.Hou Yan is not someone who clings to the past, he feels that since Shen Yi made an unintentional mistake at the time, he doesn't need to worry too much about it.

It is the broad-mindedness that Hou Yan's master taught him since he was a child, and the arrogance of human feelings that has penetrated into Hou Yan's bone marrow over the years.The above is a literary statement.To put it bluntly, Hou Yan is just lazy, so lazy that even if he is hurt, he doesn't bother to care about it.

Therefore, he once blamed Shen Yi.Because of Shen Yi's few glasses of wine and shady thoughts, he paid the price with his life.However, these minor grievances can easily wear off with time, and now, Shen Yi and Hou Jia are nothing more than passers-by.

But now, when they meet again suddenly in a foreign country, when Hou Jia looks at Shen Yi again, he always feels that he is even more different now than in the past.For unknown reasons, Shen Yi lost a lot of weight compared to the previous days, and his clothes were also more plain.It is no longer the suit and leather shoes of the past, but a loose white shirt, and the hem is tucked into the linen trousers.

Hou Yan noticed that his rolled up cuffs were wrapped with a long string of Buddhist beads. 310 six pills, wrapped around Shen Yi's wrist five times and there is still some left.The Buddha beads were worn by Shen Yixin, but they seemed to be well-raised, with a grease-like luster, and the clear texture of the trees could be seen clearly.

"Xiao Hou..." Shen Yi squinted his eyes, then shook his head vigorously.He took two deep breaths before smiling at Hou Jia, "So it's Young Master Hou. Do you need anything?"

Knowing that Shen Yi was about to blurt out, but was swallowed up as "Master Xiaohou", Hou Yan walked up to Shen Yi with his normal expression and nodded to him.

"I have a few pieces of jadeite in my hand. May I ask if they can be polished and inlaid here?" While speaking, Hou Qi took out the box from his pocket and handed it to Shen Yi.

Shen Yi took the box from Hou Jia's hand.His hand with the beads touched Hou Jia's, and the long beads swept across Hou Jia's fingertips.Hou Yan withdrew his hand without feeling,

Opening the box, the first thing Shen Yi saw was the blue water ring noodles.The face of this ring has been polished extremely well, with maximum head and shine.Shen Yi picked it up and put it on his middle finger, the blue luster made his skin fairer.For a jade carving master, such a ring surface is impeccable in terms of raw material selection and polishing.Even if it doesn't reach the realm of a master, it is more than enough for a jade carver to make a master's work.

"What kind of style do you want Young Master Hou to set?" Shen Yi smiled gently at Hou Jia, in a completely commercial tone, but as if looking at the light and shadow of yesterday through the young man in front of him.It's just that the nostalgic eyes are too ethereal, hidden under the layers of light in the merchant's eyes, whereabouts can't be found.

Hou Yan stared at the ring face on Shen Yi's hand in thought for a while.The ring he made was to be given to his brother.Hou Jia has imagined for many times what kind of style is more suitable for Hou Qi, and he has also gesticulated in his hands for a long time.But the young man's fingers are too slender, very different from Hou Qi's, so there is always no result.

At this moment, the ring face was placed in Shen Yi's hand, which inspired Hou Jia.

"Crystal ring, No. 14 ring." Hou Qi doesn't wear rings, but Hou Yan has been immersed in the jade carving industry all year round, and has made a lot of rings. Naturally, he can see the size of Hou Qi's fingers just by looking at it.

Shen Yi stared at the ring for a while.Nodded, "Very suitable match. What material do you want? Platinum?"

"Lao Yin." Hou Yan was not sure whether the so-called Lao Yin in this shop was the same as the Lao Yin he wanted.The old silver mentioned by Hou Jia does not refer to reforging a piece of silver with a long history, but refers to dismantling an old silver ring and setting his blue water ring face on it.

The rings produced in this way have years of precipitation in the texture of the silver, showing a deep color, which is called "patina" by experts.And using old silver to inlay a ring, this method can easily destroy the original value of the ring. After all, if the inlaid gemstones are very cheap, then most of the rings of the ring will not be on the table. The heavy sense of history tends to appear frivolous.Therefore, there are few old silver embedded in □□ line.

Shen Yi raised his eyebrows when he heard "Old Yin".His shop is at the end of the road. If it is not a regular customer, those who can find it here are probably just trying their luck because they can't find what they want.

Hou Yan is obviously not a regular customer, so why he came here, Shen Yi knew the reason was the latter.

Therefore, he also knew that the Lao Yin the boy was talking about must not be an ordinary Lao Yin.He didn't want to accept this business.But the blue water ring in his hand was really perfect. After thinking for a moment, Shen Yi took out an agate fretted ring from the box deep in the cabinet.

"Can this style catch Hou Shao's eyes?" Silver is easy to oxidize, and after years of deposition, the ring in Shen Yi's hand is no longer bright, but because of long-term wearing, it has a more oily color.The fret pattern that Hou Jia wants is exactly NO.14.

"That's it. How long will it take?" Hou Yan didn't inquire about the price, because he knew he could afford it.When money accumulates to a certain amount, the world will naturally be divided into those who can afford it and those who cannot afford it.This division is not about utilitarianism, but a subconscious behavior.

The Hou family didn't say that they were rich enough to rival a country, but they could still afford this level of extravagance.Although, the matter of using Hou Qi's money to give Hou Qi a gift made Hou Jia very shy.But in the end it was his own handicraft, Hou Jia still decided to inlay it and give it to his brother.

Shen Yi put the blue water ring and this agate ring in the same box, and put it aside. "Don't worry, let's take a look at another thing Hou Shao has."

After finishing speaking, he opened and opened the box that Hou Jia brought.

In the box, a slender cigarette holder lay quietly in the box.Because there is no polishing, the whole cigarette holder seems to be a beauty separated by a layer of mist.Although it is not real, but people can not doubt his beauty.

Shen Yi thought for a while, and took out a pair of white gloves from the counter drawer.He put his three fingers together and carefully took out the cigarette holder from the box.It is really light, and the long one is placed in the palm of the hand, as if it has no weight at all.

"Does it need to be polished?" Shen Yi looked carefully at the sun, trying to figure out the meaning of the words engraved on the eyes and mouth.These two words are not established blessings, nor are they commonly used auspicious signs.But such nondescript words were carefully engraved on a cigarette holder. There should be some deep meaning, right?

Hou Yan smiled and nodded.

His face was full of anticipation, but Shen Yi could only regretfully tell, "I'm sorry, no one in our shop can polish this." It's too thin. The egg shell is so thin, not to mention the cigarette holder is carved, if one step is wrong, the whole cigarette holder may be useless.

Hou Yan thought for a while, and restrained the disappointed look on his face.Just about to leave with the cigarette holder in his mouth, Hou Jia was suddenly pulled back by Shen Yi, "We have a polishing machine here, if you are really in a hurry, you can polish it yourself."

Hou Yan's eyes lit up instantly.

Quickly following Shen Yi into the jade workshop in the back hall, Hou Jia sat in front of a polishing machine and started polishing without saying much.His hands are steady, and his eyes are not a little bit open.There was no one in the entire backyard, and at this moment, there was only the sound of Hou Jia's polishing machine turning.

The young man's posture was very skillful, and when he turned his fingers, fine powder fell, and these powders did not have time to escape into the sky, and in a blink of an eye, they were wetted by the water flowing from the side.

At this time, Shen Yi still didn't know that to him, the young man he met in the evening of that year was just romantic and touching for the rest of his life.

The boy lowered his brows and eyes, revealing a small section of his slender neck.For a moment, the posture spanned life and death, and coincided with the previous life.Shen Yi looked at the man in front of him in a daze, and subconsciously twisted the beads on his wrist with his fingers.

Hou Jia.He ran over the boy's name between his lips and teeth, and finally stuck in his tongue.Shen Yi felt that he was going crazy, and everyone seemed to be looking at him, even though he knew it.He is not coming back anymore.

It was a kind of shame, which quickly catalyzed the joy at birth into a life-long worry and... regret.

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