Chapter 126
Three religions and nine streams, within each layer there are people with great abilities, and to outsiders Chen Pingrui may just seem like a broke noble son who fiddles with jade and crickets, but to those who really know the business, he is extraordinary.
"I don’t know this person." Liu Zhongshi, who had almost recovered from his illness, began smoking his big pipe and shook his head while exhaling smoke.
"I know, that Eunuch, I once handled a newly unearthed Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelain for him. It hadn’t even gotten warm yet when someone snatched it away." Pig Hu, this bastard loves eating sweet potatoes, was enjoying the sweet potato Zhang Houtu had roasted for him immensely.
"Why didn’t you recognize him then?"
"Big guy, do you really think all of us in this business just buy and sell directly? He’s a big boss, we’re just grunts on the ground, there are middlemen between us. Ouch, hot."
Watching Pig Hu burn his hand, Zhang Houtu cursed him as deserving it.
"How is he an eunuch?"
"I heard about it, spit," Pig Hu spat out a piece of sweet potato skin, "Chen Pingrui is called Eunuch Rui because he is cunning like a fox, and his ability to hide a knife behind a smile is masterful, just like that Eunuch from the Ming Dynasty, Li Linfu, who was sweet-talking but treacherous..."
"He’s from the Tang Dynasty." Zhang Houtu interjected, which annoyed Pig Hu, but this big dummy didn’t have much temper besides his strength.
"Is that everything?" Ye Tian raised an eyebrow. He didn’t believe that someone who made a name for themselves in such a large place as Beiping City could just rely on being crafty. In the Imperial Capital, the place teeming with both heroes and villains converging, few who survive relied solely on simple verbal skills. Surviving was almost as difficult as ascending to the heavens.