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Chapter 742 - 740: Not Buying [2nd Update] · Oct 18, 2026

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701 Chapter 701 - 699: Conquered [Fourth Update] 2026-10-18
702 Chapter 702 - 700 Silent [5th Update] 2026-10-18
703 Chapter 703 - 701 Top Hacker [Sixth Update] 2026-10-18
704 Chapter 704 - 702 Hacker [7th Update] 2026-10-18
705 Chapter 705 - 703 Transplanting [First Update] 2026-10-18
706 Chapter 706 - 704: Complete Collapse [Second Update] 2026-10-18
707 Chapter 707 - 705: Panda Special Kill [Third Update] 2026-10-18
708 Chapter 708 - 706: Not Convinced? Fight Until You Are 2026-10-18
709 Chapter 709 - 707: Cute 2026-10-18
710 Chapter 710 - 708: Revealing the Fangs 2026-10-18
711 Chapter 711 - 709: Shocking Decision 2026-10-18
712 Chapter 712 - 710 Impending Mountain Rain, The Tower Filled with Wind【1st Update】 2026-10-18
713 Chapter 713 - 711 Everyone’s Gone Mad [Second Release] 2026-10-18
714 Chapter 714 - 712: Gold Signboard【Third Update】 2026-10-18
715 Chapter 715 - 713 2026-10-18
716 Chapter 716 - 714 Hijacking [Fifth Update] 2026-10-18
717 Chapter 717 - 715: Please Respect My Profession 2026-10-18
718 Chapter 718 - 716: Slogan from a Foreign Land [Second Update] 2026-10-18
719 Chapter 719 - 717: The Same World, The Same Slogan [Third Update] 2026-10-18
720 Chapter 720 - 718: Bought Everything【Fourth Update】 2026-10-18
721 Chapter 721 - 719 How are you? [Fifth Update] 2026-10-18
722 Chapter 722 - 720: The Wheel [First Update] 2026-10-18
723 Chapter 723 - 721: Five Shots in a Row [Second Update] 2026-10-18
724 Chapter 724 - 722 Clearly Arranged [3rd Update] 2026-10-18
725 Chapter 725 - 723: Taking the Stage [4th Update] 2026-10-18
726 Chapter 726 - 724: Charging Complete [Fifth Update] 2026-10-18
727 Chapter 727 - 725: Gone Mad [First Update] 2026-10-18
728 Chapter 728 - 726: Who on Earth Is It?【2nd Update】 2026-10-18
729 Chapter 729 - 727: Bloodsucking [Third Update] 2026-10-18
730 Chapter 730 - 728 Tripod Furnace? [Fourth Update] 2026-10-18
731 Chapter 731 - 729: Dumbass and Girl [Fifth Release] 2026-10-18
732 Chapter 732 - 730: Reappearance [1st Update] 2026-10-18
733 Chapter 733 - 731 Self-Immolation [2nd Update] 2026-10-18
734 Chapter 734 - 732: Accepting Baptism [3rd Update] 2026-10-18
735 Chapter 735 - 733: Granting You Great Perfection [4th Update] 2026-10-18
736 Chapter 736 - 734 De Yun Temple [Fifth Update] 2026-10-18
737 Chapter 737 - 735 Arrival [1st Update] 2026-10-18
738 Chapter 738 - 736: Siege [Second Update] 2026-10-18
739 Chapter 739 - 737: Murder and Punish Heart [Third Update] 2026-10-18
740 Chapter 740 - 738 Punish Heart Murder [Fourth Update] 2026-10-18
741 Chapter 741 - 739 Lost [First Update] 2026-10-18
742 Chapter 742 - 740: Not Buying [2nd Update] 2026-10-18
743 Chapter 743 - 741 Bad News [Third Update] 2026-10-18
744 Chapter 744 - 742 Comparable to the Spring Festival Travel Rush [Fourth Update] 2026-10-18
745 Chapter 745 - 743 Science Can’t Explain Lu Xiaobu’s Awesomeness [Fifth Update] 2026-10-18
746 Chapter 746 - 744 Get Out [1 more update] 2026-10-18
747 Chapter 747 - 745: Acting Cowardly [2nd Update] 2026-10-18
748 Chapter 748 - 746 Value 2026-10-18
749 Chapter 749 - 777 An Ominous Premonition [First Update] 2026-10-18
750 Chapter 750 - 778 Losing Patience [2nd Update] 2026-10-18

Chapter 742: Chapter 740: Not Buying [2nd Update]

Upon hearing Xiao Wang’s words, everyone in the car felt an inexplicable twinge in their heart.

Lost, it’s lost!

What’s ”losing face”?!

It’s the traditional crafts that are lost!

Lost in the long river of time, in the changing of the years!

They could empathize with the old man’s heartache and loss.

Are these things really useless?

Have they truly lost their value?!

Then if that’s the case, why can they sell a bamboo basket for 700,000 in Japan?!

Just because the buyer is Japanese!?

Bullshit!!!

Xiao Wang’s words plunged everyone in the car into silence.

And this silence lasted all the way to the destination!

”Young Master, we’ve arrived.”

Xiao Wang pointed ahead as he spoke.

He hadn’t been home for a long time either, and the joy of homecoming chased away his previous sorrow, making him cheerful again.

”Young Master, right next to the bamboo grove ahead is Grandfather Wang’s house.”

Xiao Wang pointed to the front and spoke, although he really wanted to go home now, this trip was after all a business task, and the task had to come first.

”Alright, Xiao Wang, go home and see your family, we can go on our own.”

Lu Xiaobu, seeing Xiao Wang’s condition, immediately said with a smile.

”Er... this...”

Xiao Wang scratched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed.

But he also knew that sentimentality didn’t fly in the Lu Group!

So.

”Alright then! Young Master, I’ll go have a look first, and come find you later.”

Xiao Wang agreed, opened the car door, and ran off in a dust cloud.

From afar, one could still hear Xiao Wang’s excited voice tinged with his hometown accent: ”Dad! Mom! I’m back!”

Everyone in the car smiled.

It seemed that the kid really missed his home!

”Zhang Meng, let’s move on.”

Lu Xiaobu said to Liang Lan.

”Yes, Young Master.”

Zhang Meng drove the car forward.

Soon, the car stopped in front of the bamboo grove.

A house that couldn’t be considered wrecked but was certainly dilapidated appeared before them.

Even before entering, one could see the bamboo debris and waste piled up in the courtyard.

Of course, there were also quite a few finished products.

But these items were all covered with a layer of dust.

Occasionally, however, one could see some spots with less dust, which seemed to indicate that the finished products had been sold or given away.

Further in, there was an old man with a gaunt frame, deep-set eyes, cloudy pupils, and a face full of wrinkles, smoking a dry pipe while sitting on the threshold.

His gaze was fixed on that pile of bamboo, he drew deeply from the dry pipe in his hand, then slowly exhaled.

The next second, the long ash from the pipe fell to the ground.

This scene seemed to be filled with an inexplicable sadness.

”Grandfather Wang. Grandfather Wang.”

Lu Xiaobu softly called out, breaking the stillness of the scene.

”Hmm?”

The old man seemed to awaken from a deep dream, turned his head to look at Lu Xiaobu and his companions, his eyes full of confusion.

”Are you Grandfather Wang who practices the bamboo arts?”

Lu Xiaobu kept his voice low, not wanting to startle the elderly man.

”Bamboo? Poles?” Upon hearing this, the old man’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he stood up, ”Are you here to buy bamboo? You like this?”

As he spoke, the old man stood up and walked toward the pile of finished goods, holding a rag in his hand.

It seems to be for a wipe down.

From a single subtle movement, one could tell that the old man hadn’t given up on his craft.

”Grandpa Wang, we’re not here to buy,” Lu Xiaobu said softly.

”Ah? Not buying?” Grandpa Wang’s hand paused mid-air, his face revealing a tinge of palpable disappointment.

”We’re here to learn.”

Lu Xiaobu finished his sentence.

Instantly!

The once feeble Grandpa Wang’s eyes suddenly burst with intense light: ”Learn? You want to learn?!”

As he spoke, he started walking towards Lu Xiaobu.

Lu Xiaobu hurriedly caught Grandpa Wang’s hand: ”Yes, we’ve come to learn.”

”Good, good, good! That’s wonderful!”

Grandpa Wang couldn’t help feeling a surge of emotion, as if on the verge of tears.

He had already fallen into despair, ready to take these skills to his grave!

But who could have imagined, out of the blue, a turn for the better!

”Come, come, let me first show you,” Grandpa Wang, shakily pulling Lu Xiaobu to the side, said.

He wanted to demonstrate first to avoid scaring away these hard-to-come-by students.

Lu Xiaobu didn’t resist, but nodded instead, eager to witness the craft.

Grandpa Wang led Lu Xiaobu into the spacious living room.

This was his workplace.

As Grandpa Wang sat down, his hands, which had been trembling, suddenly steadied upon touching bamboo.

The bamboo began to dance in his hands, weaving, intertwining, taking shape!

As Grandpa Wang wove, he started to explain to Lu Xiaobu.

Within his explanations, he also wove in his past stories.

”This craft, back then I begged my master for a whole year, then ran errands for nine more, only then did I learn it, it’s truly a fine craft!”

”In our era, there was a saying: a single skill is worth three acres of good land.”

”To be honest, I can’t say I was incredibly passionate about this craft, I initially learned it just to earn a living.”

”Later on, my master saw that I had patience, the willingness to learn, and he slowly began to teach me.”

”But now, after a lifetime of work, this thing has seeped into my bones, I just can’t let go!”

”In the past, I was rather self-righteous, thinking to choose disciples like my master did, with good character, patience, willingness to learn, before I would teach.”

”But now it’s different, as long as you’re willing to learn, I’m willing to teach!”

”I really don’t want to take all this to my grave!”

The old man rambled on.

But his words carried a tinge of sorrow.

What does it mean to be willing to teach if someone is willing to learn?

It means even if you’re a bad person, as long as you’re willing to learn, that’s enough!

One can only imagine what has caused the standards for the transmission of craftsmanship to continuously fall.

To even drop to the point where if one is willing to learn, they are willing to teach!

Yet, despite that, no one wants to learn!

Such poignant words were enough to make Liang Lan and the other three women nearly unable to hold back their tears!

The sorrow of the craftsmen resonates thoroughly in these words!

One can just imagine, if this continues.

These crafts will surely be lost one by one!

Even saying that they will be lost isn’t the scariest part, the scary thing is, while you’re losing it, someone else is achieving great success, even applying for it to be an intangible cultural heritage!

Thousands of years later, who will still remember that these things are from the Heavenly Dynasty?!

Is it true that, by that time, we can only protest claiming—what you’re doing is wrong—as a form of so-called resistance?!

If a craft truly has no value, then fine, survival of the fittest, one cannot always live in the past!

But clearly, it has value!

Why not continue the tradition?!

Of course, the reasons are known. It’s survival first, then development. If survival is impossible, all else is nonsense!

That’s why Lu Xiaobu wants to establish a school to ensure the survival of the inheritors of the craft!

Hmm, let the so-called masters from Japan trace their roots and recognize their ancestors! Hmph!

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