Chapter 41 Dangerous Tactics 2
After eating the wontons, after Lu Xueyue settled the bill, Leng Qing and the three of them began to go shopping officially.
Although this is Leng Qing's first formal shopping after coming to this other world, although Leng Qing is curious, she does not seem to be like a countryman entering the city, at least on the face it looks very calm.
Because he doesn't like makeup, and he feels that ancient cosmetics contain more lead, which hurts the skin, so when he encounters a stall selling rouge and gouache, Leng Qing ignores it.
Therefore, along the way, most of the stalls and shops that Leng Qing visited were selling jewelry, pastries, and candied fruits.
Lin Xiaoyang is a big man, and it is the first time in eighteen years that he has come down the mountain to the world, and he doesn't know what to visit, so he has been following Leng Qing.
As for Lu Xueyue, not to mention the little maid, it is only Leng Qing, the "young lady", who is the first to look forward and obey her orders.
After visiting a few shops selling jewelry, Leng Qing took Lin Xiaoyang and Lu Xueyue to the door of a shop called "Treasure Pavilion", which mainly deals in jade.
Standing at the door of the Treasure Pavilion, I saw that most of the items made of unknown metal were mixed with some wood products or porcelain products, but there was nothing related to jade.
From the outside, the area of this Treasure Pavilion seems to be small, but when she entered the inside, Leng Qing found that this store was layered, with at least two floors.
In ancient times, except for inns and restaurants, shops selling goods generally had only one floor, and at most they were divided into inside and outside or partial rooms, and there were very few shops like this kind of floor.
Walking into the Treasure Pavilion, without looking at the decorations in the store, Leng Qing took Lin Xiaoyang and Lu Xueyue directly to the wooden counter on her right.
Standing in front of the counter, Leng Qing smiled and looked at the middle-aged man behind the counter with a smile on his face, and his voice was like a jade voice: "Excuse me, do you have jade ornaments like hostas or jade pendants?"
The middle-aged man standing behind the counter heard this, and looked at Leng Qing carefully before asking with a smile: "I don't know which lady you are?" The jade ornaments of our Treasure Pavilion are all placed on the second floor, and we can't open them to people who don't have any status. (Note: In ancient times, women and girls had different hairstyles than married women, and it was easy to distinguish identities.) )
Leng Qing felt that she had seen a lot today.
Leng Qing used to think that this was just a blind fabrication in TV series and novels. It wasn't until today that Leng Qing didn't know that there were really people who looked down on people like this in ancient times!
The reason why the middle-aged man asked like this was not because he looked down on Leng Qing, but because the three words "Treasure Pavilion" were well-known in Xuanping and even in the entire beam. And the rules of the Treasure Pavilion are well known in Daliang.
In Daliang, almost everyone knows that the jade objects sold in the Treasure Pavilion are carefully carved by skilled craftsmen of the time, and each piece of jade is a unique treasure.
For these reasons, the jade in the Treasure Pavilion is sold for a very high price. Unless it is a wealthy family of an official family, ordinary people can't afford it.
Leng Qing has just crossed over, so she is not familiar with this world at all, and no one has told Leng Qing about this Treasure Pavilion, it is understandable that Leng Qing doesn't know this, but that middle-aged man doesn't know Leng Qing's origin!
You must know that since ordinary people can't afford to buy the jade in the Treasure Pavilion, they naturally won't enter the Treasure Pavilion to have fun, unless they want to be beaten out of the Treasure Pavilion!
The middle-aged man saw that Leng Qing was dressed like a rich lady, and he didn't look like a rich lord no matter how he looked at it. But he asked if there were any jade ornaments for sale in the Treasure Pavilion, which made the middle-aged man confused.
In order not to offend people, the middle-aged man had to ask like this.
But it's a pity that he was still misunderstood by Leng Qing, and even Lu Xueyue misunderstood him......
As soon as Lu Xueyue, who was accompanying Leng Qing's side, heard the middle-aged man's words, she immediately had the courage to shout at the middle-aged man: "This is the young lady of the Zhu Mansion!"
The latter sentence "polish your eyes before you speak", Lu Xueyue, who has never said cruel words, finally failed to speak.
When Lu Xueyue said the word "Zhu Fu", the middle-aged man's eyes lit up. When he heard that he was still a "young lady", his eyes lit up even more, and even his smile became even brighter.
didn't care about the tone of Lu Xueyue's speech. Before Lu Xueyue's words fell, the middle-aged man hurriedly smiled and said, "It turned out to be the young lady of the Zhu Mansion, it was a small clumsy eye, a small clumsy eye." The items in the Treasure Pavilion are also invited to be looked at by the young lady at will. If you want to go to the second floor, you can do it. ”
After the flattery, the middle-aged man shouted behind him: "San'er, why don't you come out and take Young Lady Zhu to the second floor to see the jade in our Treasure Pavilion." ”
"Yes. A clear male voice sounded.
Then, the gray curtain on the wall behind the counter was lifted, and one was smiling and delicate. A thin man in his early twenties, dressed in a brown caftan, stepped out from behind the curtain.
The man walked out of the counter, walked in front of Leng Qing and the three of them, bent down and made a "please" gesture to the three of Leng Qing, and said, "Three distinguished guests, please go up to the second floor with the little one." ”
"Hmm. Leng Qing answered coldly, and immediately followed the man named San'er up the stairs to the second floor, and Lin Xiaoyang and Lu Xueyue hurriedly followed.
On the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion, Leng Qing and the three of them only felt dazzled.
On the entire second floor, ten long tables were neatly arranged, each with a white cashmere blanket the same size as the tabletop, and a layer of jade on the carpet.
Those jade objects include hostas, jade pendants, jade bracelets, and jade bone fans with jade as bones, jade Buddhas, and jade carvings are various, as long as they can be carved out of jade, there are everything.
Moreover, there is more than one type of jade texture, there are three types of jade: white jade (including mutton fat jade), jade and the treasure of jade - blood jade.
The window on the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion is very open, and the sash is wide open at this moment, and the sunlight shines into the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion through the open window, projecting on those jades, and the jade refracts the sunlight, so it is not dazzling and gorgeous, how can it not dazzle people?
Leng Qing walked to the long table closest to her, carefully looked at the jade on the table, and saw that in the end, Leng Qing shook her head.
Looking at the jade objects on the two tables again, Leng Qing was not very satisfied.
It wasn't until she walked to the fourth table that Leng Qing's eyes lit up when she looked at the two pieces of jade.
It was a turquoise jade hairpin, and a peach blossom was carved around the hairpin.
Pick it up and look at it carefully, the tentacles are warm, but the peach blossom is blooming like a real flower, and it seems to be able to smell the faint fragrance of peach blossoms in a trance.
"How much silver is this hosta?" Leng Qing took the jade green hosta and asked the man named San'er with a light smile.
San'er also smiled back and said, "Ten taels." Although this hosta is far more than this price, but the shopkeeper said that this is more than 20 years ago a son entrusted our treasure pavilion to sell the hosta, the son said that as long as someone takes a fancy to this hosta, no matter what the identity of the other party, it is only ten taels of silver, and the silver sold by the son does not take a penny, only belongs to our treasure pavilion. It's just that for some reason, this hosta has been in the Treasure Pavilion for more than 20 years but no one has cared about it, and today Mrs. can take a fancy to it, and one day the prince will be very happy to know it. ”
Nodding, Leng Qing didn't answer San'er's words, and only smiled and said to Lu Xueyue: "Xiaoyue, pay for it." ”
"Yes, young lady. Although Lu Xueyue wanted to say that it was too expensive to spend ten taels of silver to buy a hosta, but after all, Leng Qing was the master, and the silver was also Leng Qing, so Lu Xueyue had no choice but to remain silent and pay obediently.
Asking Lu Xueyue to help put the peach blossom hosta in her bun, Leng Qing looked at the jade on the two tables again.
Suddenly, Leng Qing's eyes lit up again, even more than when she took a fancy to the peach blossom hosta just now.
It was a white hosta, and the white cashmere blanket on the table lined the white hosta without a trace of flaws, and a lifelike phoenix was carved at the end of the hosta.
Pick up the white hosta, the tentacles are cold, come to the front of your eyes to look carefully, and you can also see that the hairpin less than the thickness of the tail finger of the newborn baby is carved with a winding hairpin body, and every dragon scale can be seen clearly, lifelike flying dragon.
"Master You is famous for carving jade pendants in the Nine Kingdoms, this is the only hosta from Master You's hand so far, and you can only see the jade ornament carved by Master You himself in our Treasure Pavilion. Seeing that Leng Qing seemed to be very satisfied with the hosta, San'er stepped forward with a smile and explained to Leng Qing with a smile.
Leng Qing knew that this was all a businessman's marketing method, but Leng Qing really liked this hosta, so she didn't plan to care about it so much.
As for whether this hosta is the only hosta that Master You has carved so far, Leng Qing just wants to say - it's her business!
Holding the white hosta, Leng Qing smiled lightly and asked San'er, "How much silver?"
"Because this is the only hosta that Master You has carved so far, it sells for five hundred taels of silver. San'er first said the origin of this hosta, and then said the price.
Hearing this, Leng Qing was a little embarrassed.
Five...... One hundred taels......
Seemingly...... Lin Zhiwu only took fifty taels of silver for Lu Xueyue......
Although Zhu Zimo did keep her promise and gave her a hundred taels on the day she got married, it happened that she didn't bring it out today, and even if she brought it out, it was obviously not enough......
"Ahem!" coughed lightly twice to hide the embarrassment, and Leng Qing pretended to put down the white hosta in her hand as if nothing happened.
Just as Leng Qing was about to go to see the other jades, she heard Lin Xiaoyang's voice sound.
I saw Lin Xiaoyang walk to Leng Qing's side, reach out and pick up the white hosta, and after looking at it carefully, he looked at Leng Qing with a smile and asked, "Second sister-in-law, I think this hosta is very suitable for you, why don't you buy it?" It's only five hundred taels!"
When Leng Qing heard Lin Xiaoyang's words, she was even more embarrassed to see people.
Is this an idiot or what? Could it be that he forgot so quickly that Lin Zhiwu only gave Lu Xueyue fifty taels of silver? He did it on purpose now! Well! It must be on purpose! )