33. Gold pearls

Fang Jing, who regained his status as the boss in the family, rested at home for two days, and on the third day, he returned to Haicheng with the thug Cen Jiu to drag the oil bottle Fang Xiaole.

Fang Jing's English training school for Fang Xiaole's class is full-time, the teacher teaches one-on-one, classes during the day, and self-study at night, which is more urgent than the college entrance examination, a one-and-a-half-month training period, tuition and accommodation fees of 36,000.

In order to allow Fang Xiaole to quickly integrate into the school of Crooked Guoren when he was an exchange student in September, he also worked hard.

Fang Jing sent Fang Xiaole to the dormitory, in the end, it is an aristocratic school, and the dormitory conditions are also worthy of tuition, two people in one room, although it is a little small, but there are all kinds of living facilities, it is really a bit of a sparrow, although it is small, it has a complete taste.

"Brother, can't I go back to your house at night?" Fang Xiaole sat on his small bed, still a little sullen.

He just had a summer vacation, thinking that he could get together with his brother, but it turned out that two days later, he was sent to school again, and he couldn't see him a few times in a summer vacation, and when he started school, he was going to go to the United States for a semester of junior high school, and it was even more rare to see his brother, and it would take a whole semester!

"I still have to study at night, and the school is too far away from my brother's house." Fang Jing touched his head, "I'll come to see you with your ninth brother on the weekend." ”

It took more than three hours to go back and forth from the rental house he rented to the training school.

"Okay then." Although Fang Xiaole was reluctant to give up his brother, he was still a sensible and good boy in his bones, and he knew that his brother had spent a lot of money to send him in for training, so he could only agree if he was not happy.

"Study hard, and when my brother gets old, he will count on us to have fun." Fang Jing encouraged him.

"Hmm." Fang Xiaole nodded heavily.

Fang Jing and Fang Xiaole are reluctant and have deep brotherhood. Cen Jiu was like an old mother, working hard to help Fang Xiaole make the bed, clean up, and take out the clothes from the bag one by one and put them neatly in the cabinet.

"Brother Jiu, you let me come by myself." Fang Xiaole was embarrassed to pester his brother again, so he hurriedly snatched the bag and folded it one by one.

He has lived on campus since junior high school, and he is very skilled in doing these things.

"You don't care, let him tidy up on his own." Fang Jing also said.

No matter how much he loves his little brother, he won't be like a woman, he does everything single-handedly, and boys still have to be independent.

So Fang Jing and Cen Jiu stood at the door, watching Fang Xiaole climb up and down the ground alone, hang the grave tent, and wipe the table.

At noon, Fang Jing took Fang Xiaole to a restaurant near the school for lunch and sent him back to the dormitory, but the person in the same room had not yet come.

Fang Jing opened the wallet, took out a thousand yuan from it and handed it to Fang Xiaole.

"Buy what you don't need, call me if you need anything."

Fang Xiaole didn't answer: "No need, I saved all the pocket money you gave me before!" ”

"It's polite to my brother." Fang Jing opened his small wallet, put the money in it one by one, and touched his head again, "Brother is gone, just study hard, brother can earn money." ”

"Hmm." Fang Xiaole lowered his head, stepped back and forth with his two feet, and didn't dare to look at his brother, for fear that he couldn't help it, so he wanted to follow his brother.

His brother has spent so much money, he must study hard, now his brother is raising him, and when his brother is old in the future, he will also support his brother.

came out of the dormitory and walked around the campus casually, the weather was too hot, Fang Jing drove Fang Xiaole back to the dormitory and didn't let him follow anymore.

"You have a good relationship with Xiaole." Cen Jiu glanced back at the school gate that had been closed and said.

"He's been in love with his brother since he was a child." Fang Jing smiled.

When he was a child, he was still cute, but when he was older, he was so clingy that it was a bit unbearable, and it was good to send it out, otherwise he would always be like an unweaned child, and he would never grow up.

It's a bit unbelievable for boys to be so clingy.

Fang Jing bought a pair of sunglasses for Cen Jiu to wear at the boutique next door, and went to the intersection in front to take the subway.

"Take a look at the jewelry store." Fang Jing said.

Cen Jiu snorted and followed Fang Jing to swipe his card decently, and took the subway, and the colorful billboards outside flashed away.

In May, he appeared in this strange city like a beggar in straw sandals, at a loss. In August, he was carrying his ID card, like all ordinary people, squeezing the subway with his mobile phone, surrounded by a surging crowd.

Cen Jiu lowered his head slightly, seeing Fang Jing standing in front of him, swiping his phone to check the route.

There are many jewelry stores in the urban area, and Fang Jing picked a time-honored gold store with a good reputation, which is located in Haicheng Square in the city center.

When the subway arrived, Fang Jing and Cen Jiu struggled to squeeze out of the subway.

The heat wave outside was surging, and as soon as he got out of the subway entrance, Fang Jing felt the temperature on his body rising, and the ground was a little hot.

Outside the subway station was a small cold drink shop, Fang Jing bought two ice creams, and Cen Jiuyi entered the gold shop opposite.

The air conditioner in the store was turned on very well, and as soon as he entered the door, Fang Jing narrowed his eyes comfortably.

"Welcome."

The well-trained salesman greeted him with a professional smile on his face that showed eight teeth, and he didn't snub the customer just because Fang Jing and Cen Jiu were wearing cheap T-shirts and cropped pants.

"Do you want to see gold or jade?" The salesman said with a smile.

Fang Jing glanced at the glittering bracelets, chains, rings, and other things in the cabinet, and asked, "Are there any pearls?" ”

"Yes." The salesman led them to the display case on the other side, "We have freshwater beads and seawater beads in our store, I don't know which one you want?" ”

"Natural or farmed?" Fang Jing glanced back at Cen Jiu.

He was not as discerning as Cen Jiu at all in this regard.

Cen Jiu only glanced at it and said, "The color is a little poor." ”

Salesperson: "......"

"These are all farmed freshwater beads, and we also have natural South Sea beads in our store, but the price is a little more expensive."

Fang Jing asked the other party to take out a pair of pearl earrings.

"It's okay." Cen ** price.

It was a pair of natural South Sea white pearls, the color was much better than the cultured pearls that the salesman showed them before, the luster was good, and the workmanship was very good, and the shape was very rounded.

Fang Jing looked at the price, a pair of 13 mm fine South Sea white bead earrings, set with two 0.147 carat diamonds, the market price is close to 15,000 yuan.

It's not cheap, of course, the value of craftsmanship accounts for a large part, and it's definitely not so expensive to buy bare beads.

Perhaps because the shop specializes in goldware, there are not many pearls in the store, but there are a lot of South Sea white pearls and a few black pearls, but there are no gold pearls.

Fang Jing looked around, and felt a little bottom in his heart.

When Fang's father had an accident, in order to raise compensation and Fang's father's medical expenses, Fang's mother took all the jewelry at the bottom of her box, and over the years, even the cheapest silver jewelry was the same.

Fang Jing received two boxes of pearls this time, there were a lot of gold pearls, he picked out a few gold pearls with the largest and best color, and kept them for Fang's mother to make jewelry, and he didn't plan to sell them.

The reason why I chose this time-honored brand is mainly because of the good reputation, although the style and design are not as good as Ke Xti, Zhou Xfu or something, but the advantage is that the materials are really exquisite, and the relatively conservative style is more suitable for an elderly simple woman like Fang's mother.

Fang Jing liked the craftsmanship of the pair of pearl earrings and felt that it was quite suitable for Fang's mother to wear.

"Can you make jewelry?" He asked.

Even if they didn't plan to buy it, the salesman still smiled and said, "Of course, if you come up with your own materials, we will only charge a certain amount of manual fees." ”

Fang Jing took out a velvet box from his pocket, this box was still Fang's mother's jewelry box that he secretly took, the jewelry inside had already been removed, but the box was still carefully preserved, it can be seen how reluctant Fang's mother was in her heart, it was all given to her by Fang's father back then.

The box opened, revealing two golden round beads.

The salesman's eyes lit up, doing their business, dealing with all kinds of jewelry every day, and they had already developed a good eyesight, basically as long as they took it in their hands and looked at it, they could roughly judge whether it was a bargain or a treasure.

The two gold pearls that Fang Jing took out were more than fifteen millimeters, and the shape was regular and round, the color was full, and the beads were shining with gold in the sun, which was a rare high-grade gold pearl.

"It's a golden pearl." The salesman took it and checked it carefully, confirmed that it was true, and subconsciously blurted out, "Where did it come from?" ”

The heart is dead with jealousy.

They don't have such a big gold pearl in the store, this man who looks very good in casual clothes, actually took out two of them, and they are two of almost a pair of sizes, which is relatively rare.

"Luckily." Fang Jing smiled and diverted the topic, "My mother is the birthday of the nineteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, can you make these two gold pearls into a pair of earrings before her birthday?" ”

"Absolutely." It's only the middle of July in the Gregorian calendar, and there are still more than two months to go, and the salesperson is full of promises, "Do you only process at will or do you need special customization?" ”

Fang Jing didn't understand this very well, thought about it, and asked, "What's the difference between random processing and special customization?" ”

"Feel free to process is the same one on display in our store, you can pick one, we charge a processing fee. If customized, we will have a special designer to communicate with you to design the most satisfactory style for you, of course, the price of customization will be slightly more expensive. ”

After all, you have to include the design fee.

Because it was a birthday gift for Fang's mother, Fang Jing didn't want to save a few small dollars, so he said happily: "Then customize, you look at the design, it's for my mother to wear, don't be too fancy." ”

"Yes, after our design is designed, we will send you the design drawing, and you will process it when you are satisfied." The salesman said with a smile.

Fang Jing paid the deposit and was about to go out with Cen Jiu, as if he suddenly remembered something, he pretended to ask casually, "Do you accept pearls?" ”

Before the salesman could answer, he saw a fat man sweating and pushing the door in, his eyes falling directly on the golden pearl in her hand that had not yet had time to put away.

"Huh? This bead is good, show it to me. ”

Zhu Zhi squeezed Fang Jing away, took the golden pearl and looked left and right for a long time before squinting his eyes and said, "Is this a golden pearl?" Whether it's true or not, I'll want it. ”

Fang Jing: "......"

Salesperson: "......"