Li Zhu and Li Quan glanced at each other and nodded, Li Quan said to Uncle Che: "Uncle Che, can you pay a deposit here in the capital?" ”

Uncle Che smiled and nodded, "Yes, I'll talk to Master Qiya." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Quan nodded to Uncle Che and thanked him, and then said to Deng: "Let's pay the deposit and settle the house first." Talk to your uncle, let someone bring a message home, and ask the family to bring money. ”

Li Zhu and Deng both nodded in agreement.

Uncle Che negotiated with Qi Yashi, and finally paid a deposit of 1,000 taels, and the balance needed to be paid within half a year. If the payment is not made within half a year, the deposit will not be refunded.

Everyone went to the tooth to pass the terms, signed the pledge, and used three taels of silver to the government to pass the red letter.

While they were sitting in the tooth shop, they discussed the rites that needed to be prepared.

Li Zhudao: "When we came over, we brought two pots of wine at home. One pot for my uncle, and one pot for my grandfather. ”

Deng said: "I brought three bottles of essential oil, and I plan to give them to my aunt, my uncle's wife, and my wife's wife." ”

Li Quan nodded and said with a smile: "You guys are still thoughtful, I only brought silver, and I didn't bring anything." Now that I think about it, we can't buy our own things outside, so if we buy them in the capital, it's better to bring them at home. ”

Li Zhu smiled and nodded, and Deng said yes with a smile.

Hamahama glanced at his own father, his own mother must think like this, his own father, I guess he doesn't think like this. I don't know why my father brought wine to Beijing.

Without waiting for Binbin to think about his father's words, Deng Shi looked at Li Zhu and asked, "Zhu, when did you bring this wine, we don't know." ”

Li Zhu said with a smile: "It was Pei Lan who asked me to bring it, he said to see if the people in Beijing like it, see what price everyone can accept, and see if it can be sold in Beijing." ”

When Hamahama heard it, it was suddenly clear that this was doing market research in advance. When she heard this, she felt like a cat scratching in her heart, which was really important. However, it is also important to give gifts to elders. Hamahama's education in his previous life was based on profit, but respecting the elderly is also extremely important.

Deng said with a smile: "The child's idea is good, this time I came to recognize my relatives, and the wine should be given as a gift." I'll do it next time. ”

Li Zhu smiled and said, "I think so. ”

Li Quan spread his hands and said, "Master Tai is a serious scholar, you should think about what to send." Among the people I deal with, Xiucai and above are teaching in your home and children's colleges, and the things given to you have no reference value. Zhu, your brain is alive, think about it, Brother Quan is in charge of the money. ”

Li Zhuqiang smiled: "Brother Quan, aren't you laughing at me?" How do I know what to give? Uncle Che, tell me, what are we going to send? ”

Uncle Che heard Li Zhu's name call him, and hurriedly said, "You are tormenting the little old man." I have only heard of such a character as your wife, but I have never seen him. I don't know what gift to give. How dare we discuss the affairs of the Lord's house in the past? ”

Everyone nodded, and it was.

Seeing that everyone didn't have any ideas, Binbin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Dad, our family's wine and essential oils are unique, let's use water jade to make wine bottles and bottles of essential oils, so that there is no need to add another gift." ”

When Li Zhu heard this, he hurriedly said: "This is good!" ”

Li Zhu is a person who is extremely close to each other. Kiss, if you are walking on the road, you will also pick up a stone for it; Sparsely, if conditions permit, you can get by on the face.

Deng also nodded after listening to it.

The things in your own home are all unique, packaged up, and decent. The old man is an official, and there is nothing he has not seen. What is the situation in his own family, the uncle is clear, and he should talk to the grandfather. In this way, it is too expensive to send and your own family cannot afford it; If you send it thinly, I am afraid of embarrassing the aunt. It's just a great way to give something you make at home.

In fact, Li Zhu and Deng both wanted to be left. Hamahama just wants to advertise two special things in his home through the Tai Lao Ye's family. She heard from her own Master Mei that the Tailao Master has a certain influence in the court.

Li Quan asked strangely: "Water jade makes bottles, this is fresh!" But how to hollow out such a hard stone? ”

Li Zhu asked strangely: "I see Master Rong hollowing out the stone, it's just a matter of a while, isn't this hollowing out water jade and hollowing out the stone?" ”

Li Quan sighed and said, "Master Rong, looking at his usual style and ability, his status in the Carving Martial Pavilion is estimated to be not low. Master Rong is at home, at this time, let's go find a second such Master Rong? ”

Li Zhu sighed after hearing this, and said, "Otherwise, let's go to the Carving Martial Pavilion to try our luck." ”

Li Quan nodded and said, "Let's buy the water jade, it's not too late to go." ”

Everyone nodded.

After Li Zhu's family paid the money, they drank two pots of tea in the tooth shop, and then they got the final text.

The discussion of gifts has come to an end for the time being. Uncle Che knew everyone's next destination, and took everyone directly to the shop that sold water jade.

In the capital, although there is still a saying that water jade is not suitable for children, but out of the woman's nature of loving beauty, it has not been said that people with children are not suitable for buying water jade. After Li Quan heard Uncle Che's words, he was amazed in his heart.

The capital is prosperous, only you can't think of it, and you can't buy it without you. Not to mention hollowing out the water jade, even if you carve a statue, you can also do it, of course, the price is also very beautiful.

The women's jewelry store in the capital has water jade for sale. Because the price of water jade is several times higher than that of stone after it is made into ornaments, there is no store in the capital that specializes in selling water jade.

Uncle Che took everyone to the jewelry store opened by Guan Jian Xing. Li Zhu's family bought the stone of water jade, obviously, their own shop is easier to talk to. (There are shops in the capital that specialize in providing ornaments, collectively known as ornament shops.) ）

Generally, the jewelry store is divided into two floors.

The first floor is similar to the hypermarket of our modern supermarket, where the ornaments are placed in wooden boxes according to the material, and each of the five boxes is guarded by a special person. There are wood, inferior pearls, inferior water jade, ordinary gold jewelry, ordinary silver jewelry, etc., because pearls, water jade, gold jewelry, silver jewelry workmanship is ordinary, the material is flawed, wood ornaments are more brilliant.

The second layer, there are no wood ornaments, pearls, water jade, gold ornaments, silver ornaments, etc., the workmanship is more exquisite, and the material is more exquisite. Of course, more than 1,000 taels are not displayed, and they are recommended by people in the store.

Uncle Che led everyone to the back door of the jewelry store, which is where the craftsmen who make jewelry work and rest.

Uncle Che is the chauffeur of Guan Jianxing in the capital, everyone in the store knows him, and there is no hindrance, Uncle Che took Li Zhu's family and Li Quan to find the craftsman of Shuiyu directly.

Because the modification of water jade is extremely difficult. The craftsman of Shuiyu is the highest among the craftsmen in the jewelry store except for the owner's family, and it is quite the existence of the owner.

Uncle Che and the craftsman of the water jade roughly talked about the style of the Li Zhu family buying the water jade rough stone and customizing the water jade, and then introduced it to the Li Zhu family and Li Quan. Then, that is, stand in one place.

Uncle Shui is a water jade craftsman who came back from the official Jianxing's snare, and he is one of the few people who knows the identity and family background of the official Jianxing. After hearing that Uncle Che said that it was a relative of Jian Xingxin, the official of the main family, he attached great importance to it. Moreover, Uncle Shui often goes in and out of rich people's homes, and his eyes are very vicious.

Uncle Shui watched Uncle Che enter with a group of handsome, cleanly dressed but outdated people.

This kind of person, Uncle Shui is the most afraid, to be correct, it is Uncle Shui who is the most difficult to distinguish his character, status, potential, etc.

Uncle Shui's great thing is that Uncle Shui laughs when he sees people, no matter who he is, laughing is right!

Uncle Shui smiled and asked, "What kind of rough stone do you want to buy?" Although there is no technical requirement for hollowing out, it is necessary to make it vigorous. The cost of craftsmanship and the production time depend on the size of your order. It is better to use gold meal or silver meal, both of which are also decent. And the production is simple, the price is quite real, the production is fast, and it does not delay everyone's time. ”

Water jade, which means jade like water, is also said to be transformed by thousands of years of ice, which is as clear as water and as hard as jade. What Uncle Shui said is indeed the truth.

A good water jade is colorless and transparent, and it reflects the rose-red essential oil, which couldn't be better. Although the water jade containing essential oil does not need to be too large, the middle finger is high and two fingers wide, but it is often not big, and the smaller it is, the more difficult it is to make.

The essential oil brought by Deng is packed in a bamboo tube, a big tube, so that one point can hold dozens of them.

In this way, the labor cost alone will not be low.

Li Zhu hesitated a little after hearing this, Deng thought about it, and said to Uncle Shui: "Uncle Shui, let's choose Shui Jade." Our things are special, and the things we pack should be special. You see, if there are any palm-sized, two-finger-sized. We can use a large piece and dig from large to small. ”

After hearing this, Uncle Shui said with a difficult face: "Water jade, it is extremely difficult to hollow out the middle, and all the water jade that is dug out is sporadic and it is impossible to have large pieces." ”

After hearing this, Deng's face was embarrassed.

After hearing this, Li Quan said with a smile: "Why don't we choose a few pieces of water jade first and take a look." Let Uncle Shui estimate the price. If it's suitable, let's do it, if it's not suitable, we will use gold and silver meal. ”

Li Zhu's family nodded after hearing this.

After hearing this, Uncle Shui walked in front and led the way, leading everyone to the place where he usually worked.

There are scattered water jade blocks of different sizes and shapes on the ground. Hamahama looked at it, these are really not the same as those in his own family.

Li Zhu has experience in buying water jade, and when he saw this house full of water jade, his brows furrowed. Obviously, these are completely two grades from what Li Zhu bought before.

Li Zhu casually picked up a piece of light-colored, impurities, palm-sized white water jade on the ground, and asked, "Uncle Shui, what is the price of this piece?" ”

Uncle Shui looked at Li Zhu as if he was picking it up, but he paid more attention to it in his heart. Said: "Your Excellency has good eyesight! This is a new addition to our store, a relatively pure water jade, the size is suitable for making wine bottles. Because you are the relatives of the official master, let's buy the price, three thousand taels of silver. ”

When Li Quan heard this price, his eyes widened like copper bells, and his mouth was open enough to stuff an egg.

Li Zhu pursed his lips, wanting to laugh but feeling inappropriate, he tried his best to endure it.

Deng smiled and pulled Li Zhu's hand, and his eyes seemed to bloom.

Brother Li Hai looked around, and his eyes were crooked into a crescent moon with a smile.

Hamahama clapped his hands and kissed his father.

Li Zhu smiled and rubbed Binbin's head with his head, his eyes full of smiles.

After a cup of tea, Li Quan closed his mouth and asked, "Uncle Shui, the price you quoted is only the price of water jade, and the labor cost is still added." ”

Uncle Shui just saw Li Quan's appearance, and he looked down on him slightly, but his face was not obvious, and he said: "This white water jade is exquisite, pure and shiny, and this price is only low and not high." The little old man is not talented, and he only charges three hundred taels of craftsmanship fee for working on such a water jade. ”

Li Quan's eyes widened unconsciously, and he slapped Li Zhu's shoulder with a smile.

After hearing this, Brother Li Hai looked around Bai Shuiyu a few times, with a smile in his eyes.

Li Zhu nodded with a smile and said to Uncle Shui: "Uncle Shui, if you just process water jade, hollow it out, and carve it, what is the price?" ”

Uncle Shui, look at Li Zhu's family, the family is smiling brightly, but there is a sense of eccentricity. In this case, Uncle Shui became more and more cautious, and said: "You are relatives of the main family, and the little old man will give you a real price." The hollowing out depends on the size of the water jade, the size of the adult palm you said, one finger is thick, only five taels of silver, because it is all some strength work; Engraving not only to exert effort, but also to have skills, to see the complexity of the picture, simple twenty taels, according to the number of times the knife increases, a knife five taels. ”

After hearing this, Li Zhu nodded, thought for a while, and continued to ask: "Uncle Shui, this hollowing out, when will you be able to make a whole one, which is the size of a palm, half a finger wide?" ”

Uncle Shui thought for a while and said, "I'm only concentrating on this, and it's estimated that it will take two days at the earliest." Although it sounds simple, it still takes some effort to level it out. ”

Li Zhu nodded after hearing this, knowing that it was sincere. After thanking Uncle Shui in a hurry, he pulled Uncle Che and walked out.

Although Uncle Che looked puzzled, he didn't ask.

Obviously, Li Zhu was planning to go home and buy water jade from Wang Qiang. The price difference is more than doubled.

Returning to the courtyard where Guan Jianxing had settled everyone, Li Zhu hurriedly asked Uncle Che, "Uncle Che, did Uncle Che say that he wanted to go back to our village recently?" ”

Uncle Che continued: "This master didn't say, I can ask tomorrow." ”

Li Zhu hurriedly thanked: "There is Uncle Lao Che." ”

Li Quan thought for a while and said, "Uncle Che, can you let our uncle come over for a while, we have some things we want to ask my uncle to help us straighten things out." ”

After hearing this, Uncle Che nodded in response.

After Uncle Che left, Li Quan said to Li Zhu: "Zhu, you write a letter of peace." Write down the fact that we arrived safely and bought the yard, and tell everyone that we are all right. In addition, he wrote two letters to Li Mu, one was to ask him to help buy water jade and prepare some silver, exchange it for silver tickets, and let people bring it over. When you are away from home, the silver ticket is prepared. Another letter was written to ask him to help hold a trustworthy caravan and bring some silver tickets. Tomorrow, let's ask my uncle, if we go back to the village for a long time, we will give the uncle who only lets the silver ticket. ”

Li Zhu nodded.

Li Quan said: "Let's ask my uncle tomorrow if there is a post station here to deliver letters, let's ask someone to send it back." ”

Li Zhu nodded. I was so busy looking for Uncle Che that I wanted pen and ink, and wrote down all the things that had been out for so long.

On the second day, Guan Jianxing arrived as scheduled.

Li Zhu's official Jian Xingzhi directly asked his post station and if there was a caravan to return to Shangjiang Town (i.e., the town where Li Quan and Li Mu were located), and they wanted to ask him to bring a letter of safety home.

Guan Jianxing said with a smile: "Yes, you don't need to trust people. We have carrier pigeons here. Go to Shangjiang Town for about ten days, one back and forth, more than 20 days. ”

When Li Zhu heard that it would be possible to arrive in more than ten days, he wanted Li Mu to help bring things over.

Li Zhu thought for a while, and said to Guan Jianxing: "Uncle, we want to back up the gifts for the Tailao and Tailao Guys, some things are left at home, and we want to send a message home and report our safety casually." ”

After hearing this, Guan Jianxing smiled and said: "Okay, you will send the letter to Uncle Che, he often does this for me, and he is familiar with it." Your letter has been written, and now give it to me, and I'll send it out at once. ”

After hearing this, Li Zhu nodded and asked, "How much silver is this carrier pigeon?" ”

Guan Jianxing waved his hand and said, "You were brought here by your uncle, these must be from your uncle, you can just send the letter to Uncle Che." ”

Li Zhu shook his head and said: "Uncle, we treat you as an uncle, as a relative, and we will have to communicate in the future. You can't owe and owe, it becomes a habit. ”

After hearing this, Guan Jianxing carefully examined Li Zhu, a gasping time interval, paused for a while, and said with a smile: "Okay, you can come out of these by yourself, and carry letters back and forth, five taels of silver." Entrusted to the caravan to carry things, depending on the size of the thing, an ordinary baggage skin, waterway, twenty taels of silver, carriage caravan, twenty-five taels of silver. The wagons were slower than those by water, but they were safe. ”

Li Zhu nodded and continued to ask, "Uncle, you say, when will my aunt meet us?" I don't have any ideas, if in the next few days, we will buy things here and send them to my aunt and wife, if we have to wait for a while, I will ask someone to bring our own things over. It's not precious, but it's better than we make it ourselves. ”

Guan Jianxing nodded with a smile and said, "You can ask someone to bring it from home." My aunt wants grandpa to meet you, and you need to arrange a time to meet you. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Li Dao's heart was like a flower, indescribable joy.

Li Quan was stunned.

Li Zhu was the first to reflect, shook his head and said: "This is not possible, how can our poor relatives in the countryside, how can my aunt and grandmother rashly introduce us to the Tailao Master." We don't know anything, if something ugly happens, it will affect you, but it will be a sin. Aunt Tai saw that she had never seen us, so she directly introduced us to Master Tai, this, this, this is to torture us. ”

Guan Jianxing said with a smile: "What poor relatives, you are my aunt's grandchildren, and you are serious relatives." You can sit at home and wait for news these days. ”

After hearing this, Hamahama felt a little close to this aunt, a person who can be tired of spoiling relatives who have never met, is good for his own family.

Li Zhu was about to say something to refuse, but Guan Jianxing said: "Okay, don't say anything, my father's side is already arranging, you can't let my father's hard work in the past few days be in vain." ”

After Guan Jianxing said this, he saw that Li Zhu closed his mouth helplessly; Li Dao pressed the corners of his upturned mouth; Li Quan pinched his fingers a little crampedly, but quickly regained his composure, and he was a little worried about these nephews and grandchildren.

Li Zhu asked Li Dao, "Second brother, do you have a letter to take home?" ”

Li Dao said with a smile: "Zhu, your letter will keep me and Yue'er all right, and let Old Man Yu report to my house, and I won't invite another carrier pigeon." ”

After hearing this, Li Zhu nodded, took out pen and ink, wrote half a page of Li Dao and Li Qiyue's things, put them away, and then took out the letter he had written last night and the letter that asked Li Mu to buy Shuiyu.

Li Quan took out thirty taels of silver.

Li Zhu and Li Quan handed it to Guan Jianxing together, and Li Quan said, "Uncle, thank you." This is the letter and the money we brought home this time. ”

Guan Jianxing looked at Li Zhu and Li Quan, and when he saw that the two of them looked as usual, he nodded, and took three letters and thirty taels of silver.

Businessmen rarely have time to spare. After asking everyone if they were used to it and what they needed to add, Guan Jianxing left in a hurry.

After Guan Jianxing left, Li Dao went back to his house. He and Li Zhu and Li Quan are not close to each other, only face-saving.

Li Zhu and Li Quan are the same.

Li Quan thought for a while and said to Li Quan: "Zhu, you know that my brother and I are used to being busy, and I can't be idle, we still have a few days to meet the Tai Lao, I want to find something to sell." One is to earn some money for the journey home, not to sit and eat; Second, find something to do, save yourself from thinking about things and panicking. ”

Li Zhu nodded and said with a smile: "That's the reason." Brother Quan, we live here close to the dock, we can make some food, live and sell it on the side of the boat. ”

Li Quan smiled and nodded: "That's what I think, we can try to sell your Saqima." Novel, sweet, and definitely popular. The main thing is that this thing is not something that will be imitated after seeing it. In the future, your family will eat in the capital every day, and you are not afraid of being robbed of the opportunity. ”

Li Zhu smiled and nodded yes, Deng and the children were all happy next to him, shouting for help.

Qin Ni looked at the enthusiastic appearance of the children, and said to Li Zhu: "Master, the young master and the young lady have been studying medicine with me for the past few days, and when they were on the boat, they had made progress, but now they suddenly fell again, which is not very good." ”

After Li Zhu heard this, he hurriedly said: "The children stay, follow Qin Ni at home, and the Deng family is also at home, and it is enough for me and Brother Quan to sell Saqima." ”

Who is Hamahama, the lord who can't afford to be early. If she doesn't do such a good market research, she would not like to study medicine at home.

Hamahama thought to herself, anyway, she is young, and it is normal for her to play tricks and not study.

Hamahama thought so and did so.

Li Zhu saw that his daughter wanted to go out to sell things with his family, and he didn't want his daughter to be affected, but he was ironing in his heart.

It has already been said that Li Zhu is a man who admits death, and once he decides, he rarely changes. Binhama's teasing did not change Li Zhu's mind. First, he was reluctant to let his children suffer, and secondly, he really felt that learning was the most important thing.

No matter how Hamahama makes trouble, what Li Zhu believes cannot be changed.

Binbin and Li Hai studied with Qin Ni, while Li Zhu, Deng and Li Quan made Saqima and sold them on the beach.

Regarding the sale of Saqima, Li Quan talked to Li Dao and asked him about his intentions.

Li Dao is disdainful and shameless to do this kind of self-deprecating thing.

Li Quan touched his nose and was very boring. (To be continued.) )