Tang Xu knew Si Si’s family background. Her parents ran the largest commercial city in the city, and her family was well-off. Therefore, he thought that the latter had just obtained some antiques and came here just to make an appraisal.

“If you trust me, why don’t you go to my shop and let my uncle take a look.”

“Okay, then I’ll trouble you, Senior.” Si Si didn’t refuse. It was better to have an acquaintance here to lead the way than for her to go there alone.

Tang Xu was delighted to see that Si Si had no objection. He pointed to the shop where he worked and said: “Let’s go there. It happens to be my uncle’s shop. He is famous in the antique world for his treasure identification skills. He usually doesn’t make mistakes.”

As they talked, the two of them walked into the shop one after the other.

Behind the boss’s desk facing the door sat an old man who looked about 60 or 70 years old.

The old man was watching a short video on his mobile phone at the moment. Seeing Tang Xu coming in, the old man couldn’t help but say: “Tang Xu, come and take a look. This company chairman is the owner of the largest commercial city in our city. He and his wife had a car accident a few days ago.”

“Alas… It’s raining cats and dogs. His commercial city is now in debt. If he can’t pay back the bank loan, it will be taken over…”

The old man sighed to himself, his eyelids just slightly moved, and then he continued to watch the next video on his mobile phone.

Unexpectedly, this statement shocked Tang Xu.

He turned his head to look at Si Si, whose face was full of embarrassment: “Junior sister, is this true?”

When he first saw Si Si in school, he fell in love with her.

But after hearing about Si Si’s family background, Tang Xu felt that he was not worthy of her, so he suppressed this thought and buried this newly budding feeling deep in his heart.

If he hadn’t heard his uncle mumbling to himself today, he wouldn’t have known that such a big thing had happened in Si Si’s family.

When Si Si raised her head and looked at Tang Xu again, his eyes showed some disbelief, and pity that was easy to be detected.

Although the incident happened suddenly, Si Si never thought of escaping.

“Senior, it’s all true.”

Tang Xu looked at the delicate and pitiful girl in front of him, and a strong desire to protect her surged in his heart.

He stared at her closely, his eyes full of endless pity and sympathy. If possible, he even had the urge to help her shoulder everything.

After a long time, Tang Xu sorted out his sudden confusion.

“Junior sister, please wait here for a while.”

After saying that, he strode to the back of the boss’s desk: “Uncle.”

After calling someone, Tang Xu pointed at Si Si and introduced: “This is one of my junior sisters. She has a few antiques for you to help identify.”

Uncle Tang raised his head, took off his reading glasses, and looked at Si Si.

Si Si stood up straight quickly, walked to the opposite side of the boss’s counter, and greeted politely: “Hello, uncle.”

Uncle Tang did not think that a little girl could have any good treasures that needed to be appraised, but for the sake of his nephew, he still pointed to the chair opposite him with a smile: “Little girl, sit down. I happen to be free today, so I will help you take a look.”

Si Si knew everything in her heart. Before coming here, she also thought that such a situation would occur.

After all, she was a little girl under 20 years old, and it was not surprising that people did not believe that she had antiques in her hands.

Si Si did not take out all the jewelry given by Concubine Yun. She only took out a silver hairpin and a ring to show to Uncle Tang.

Although Tang Xu was not here as a middleman, she had also heard that the antique market was very complicated and that if she wanted to do this kind of business, it was best to proceed step by step.

Therefore, she planned to take out these two items to test the waters first.

In the antique world, the least valuable thing was silver jewelry. Uncle Tang completely lost interest when he saw that Si Si brought him jewelry made of silver for appraisal.

Uncle Tang lazily picked up the silver hairpin and played with it casually in his hand. The price of this kind of thing in the antique market was a few thousand yuan, and would not exceed ten thousand.

Tang Xu knew his uncle better. In his current state, it was a manifestation of the worthlessness of antiques.

He knew that Si Si would not come alone to sell antiques unless she encountered great difficulties.

“Uncle, Si Si was my best junior in high school, you must help her.” Tang Xu implied that if Si Si wanted to sell this antique jewelry, his uncle should not lower the price too much for his sake.

Uncle Tang glanced at Tang Xu helplessly, then picked up the magnifying glass at hand and carefully examined the jewelry that Si Si brought.

Unexpectedly, he was more and more shocked the more he looked, and he couldn’t help but be extra serious.

Tang Xu followed his uncle to learn in the antique shop for more than a year. He knew the other party’s temperament. Only when he saw the real treasures would he have such an attitude.

“Uncle, are the antiques that Si Si brought valuable?”

Uncle Tang didn’t answer immediately, but picked up his mobile phone and made a call.

As soon as the call was connected, Uncle Tang couldn’t wait to say.

[Mr. Guo, do you have time now? Come to my shop right now.]

Mr. Guo said: [Mr. Tang, you are so anxious. Did you find some treasure?]

Uncle Tang said: [Tang Xu’s junior brought some silver jewelry. I suspect it is the product of the legendary Daqi Kingdom. I am not sure now, so I want you to come and help identify it.]

Mr. Guo asked: [What? Daqi Kingdom? Okay, I’ll be there right away.]

After the call was disconnected, Uncle Tang continued to look at the jewelry with a magnifying glass. It was not difficult to see from his actions that he was very interested in the two pieces of jewelry.

Uncle Tang was not hiding from anyone when he made the call just now, so Si Si heard the words “Daqi Kingdom” clearly from his mouth.

She had learned the history of their country in junior high school and high school. Although she couldn’t recite the entire history by heart, she was completely sure that there was no dynasty called Daqi Kingdom.

But Uncle Tang could say this name, could it be?

Si Si remembered a piece of unofficial history that her junior high school history teacher had told everyone.

This unofficial history says that more than 1,000 years ago, there was a dynasty that existed in a parallel world of their country.

It was said that there was a strange man who had the good fortune to visit that dynasty by some unknown means. When he came back and told others about it, no one was willing to believe it. They all thought that he was crazy and made up such an impossible thing.

Later, this incident was heard by someone who wrote an unofficial history and compiled it into a book.

However, it only has a brief record in the unofficial history, without any detailed content, and it was not well documented. Therefore, many people only regard this content as a joke after reading it.

Ordinary people regard this passage as a joke, but these antique dealers do not think so.

They believe that anything that can be mentioned in unofficial history cannot be groundless, and this Daqi Kingdom is likely to exist.