Trapped in the Artist's Nightmare Chapter 300

... The boss answered the phone and relayed Nathan Ke's question. The person on the other end talked for a long time, and the boss listened patiently for a while. Finally, when the person on the other end finished speaking, the boss relayed to Nathan Ke, "My grandfather said that when he was a child, this large area on the outskirts of the city was a county town. There was a road outside my house, and across the road was a row of shops, selling cloth, grain, furniture, books, and..."

"A bookseller!" Nathan Ke's eyes sparkled. "Boss, please ask if that bookseller is a study? Do they sell paintings?"

The boss looked at Nathan Ke with a strange look and repeated the question into the microphone, then said: "Yes, my grandfather said that the bookstore was a study, where they sold books, paintings, and antiques..."

Nathan Ke couldn't wait to repeat the story back and forth, so he took the phone from his boss and called him: "Grandpa, can you tell me what the study room looks like? Do you know the name of the owner of the study room?"

The grandfather opposite him obviously didn't realize that this grandson was not the other grandson. He coughed and said, "He was a fat man, his last name was Li, I forgot his name... The study was two stories high, books were sold on the bottom floor, paintings were sold on the top floor, three whole walls were hung with paintings, some paintings were only for viewing but not for sale, they said they were authentic works of so-and-so, we didn't understand that... The owner of the study was a rich man, but unfortunately he went crazy for some reason, ran to the road and was hit by a carriage, the horse's hoof landed on his neck, 'crack', he died on the spot..."