Five. Ice

"If the girl doesn't like it, can you give this waist knife to you?" The man's mountain-like eyebrows were raised, and his light brown eyes seemed to be as bright and sincere as springs shining in the sunset.

Qin Nanxi quietly swallowed the chaotic mess in her heart, staring at him silently, and couldn't find a trace of emotion on her delicate little face.

"Miss, isn't this it, isn't this the ......" Xue Rui pulled Qin Nan's sleeves and swayed from side to side, as if she had forgotten some details of the day.

Qin Nanxi turned around and shook her off, and hurriedly reminded vaguely: "You girl, are you crazy?" Isn't this just a Western Regions waist knife, just buy it if you like it, what does it look like if you don't have rules in front of the living? ”

Xue Rui was frightened by the rare reprimand, and swallowed back the words that had rushed to her teeth, and looked at Qin Nanxi pitifully. It took a long time to realize that on the day they came, their master and servant were pretending to be men, and of course they shouldn't recognize the man in front of them.

"But, just now I heard the girl's words seem to be very disdainful of these objects imported from the Western Regions, why do you just like this knife?" The man didn't care about Qin Nanxi's unstable expressions of the master and servant.

"How could I have disdained? It's just that this knife shape is peculiar, it doesn't seem to be a thing of the Central Plains, and I sigh that it is rare to see it in Chang'an. Qin Nanxi looked at the flamboyant figure in front of her calmly, and she couldn't hear a trace of the waves in her heart in her words.

"The girl is a connoisseur, this knife is indeed not produced in the Central Plains, its name is Bingluo, and it is the best in the waist knife. It's a pity that the master of the sword casting has passed away for a long time, and there are very few weapons he forged, and now it is not easy to see not only Chang'an, but even the Western Regions. The vermilion figure turned over and stroked the waist knife in his hand, and his words were full of sincere admiration and even a hint of confidant pity.

"This boy is really discerning!" The shrewd shopkeeper walked out calmly at this time, and his tone was exaggerated admiration, "This knife was handed down from my father's hand." My father was originally the concubine of Princess Changyi, who was a relative of the former dynasty, and she had been in the Western Regions for many years with the former princess, and she also made friends with some dignitaries in the Western Regions, so she was fortunate to get this precious waist knife. Later, fortunately Dachu, the first emperor's army set foot in the north, and when he triumphed, he took back the former princess, and his father had to return to his hometown, and this knife was brought back at that time. ”

The name "Princess Changyi of the Former Dynasty" was like an ice pick falling from a height, piercing the dark and deep diaphragm in the depths of Qin Nanxi's mind, and the long-standing doubts in her heart seemed to open a bright gap, and she exclaimed: "Is this so?" ”

Before she could land with a self-mutter, she had become the bull's-eye among all the weapons, firmly bound by three pairs of thoughtful eyes.

"Miss, what's wrong with you." Xue Rui's eyes were full of confusion and asked timidly.

"I'm just, just sighing that this knife has such a origin!" Qin Nanxi hastily concealed it in two hazel eyes full of smiles, and it turned out to be pale.

"But no, this son has recognized this knife as a rare 'ice spirit', and the girl sighed at its extraordinary experience, the two are indeed discerning heroes, but I only have one knife in this knife, I really can't be two masters, I don't know the two?" The store is hot and wants to urge the two to bid.

"How can there be two masters? First come, first come, didn't you see that I had already picked this knife? Qin Nanxi glanced at the shopkeeper with a sideways face, and as she spoke, she had already snatched the waist knife from the hand of the vermilion figure, and she didn't give him a chance to care at all.

"This, this can be .......," the shopkeeper was stunned, and then spread his hands and said regretfully. The shrewd eyes couldn't help but look at the man in red, who was stunned, and was helpless, clearly prompting him to bid. It's a pity that the brocade-clothed man only withdrew his empty hands slightly embarrassed, stood aside with his hands, and looked at Qin Nanxi, who didn't even look at him, with a light smile.

Seeing that the two of them couldn't bid, the shopkeeper looked at Qin Nanxi in front of him from head to toe again, and then smacked his teeth and said: "If the girl really likes this ice spirit, I will cut my love ruthlessly, and I also found a good owner for this knife, and asked the girl to treat it well." ”

Qin Nanxi was noncommittal, her thick eyelashes trembled slightly, she turned over the cold little waist knife in her hand, and said indifferently: "Just say how much silver you want." ”

The shopkeeper finally forgot to glance at the man in brocade unwillingly, and it can be seen that he is still only hidden in the shadows of the weapons, silent, single-minded, and looking at Qin Nanxi with curiosity in his eyes.

"This knife is unusual, naturally it can't be cheaply frozen, and three hundred taels is also for the sake of watching the girl have a relationship with it." After all, the shopkeeper opened his mouth.

"Three hundred taels?!" Qin Nanxi's hand holding the waist knife suddenly sank, and his eyes were three points round.

"Why is such a knife worth so much money?" Xue Rui's right hand couldn't help but press the money bag with only a few broken silver falling from her skirt, and she was surprised loudly.

The brocade-clothed man, who had been watching coldly, also looked at the store in surprise, and his eyebrows quietly wrinkled.

"It's the real price, even if it's for the sake of the girl's relationship with this ice spirit. There is a way that the daughter of the unfortunate is not sold. If the girl really liked this knife, she naturally would not feel that there was anything wrong with the price of three hundred taels of silver. If it's just to be angry with this son, but to break the good fate of Bingluo, it's better to give this knife to this son, he is obviously a knowledgeable person. The shopkeeper was undoubted, after a few words, the waist knife in Qin Nanxi's hand had already been put away, and she couldn't take it, she could only swallow the clever wording that was originally prepared for bargaining, pinched the waist knife, and couldn't help but hate the brocade man in front of her.

It's all his fault, if it weren't for the origin of a bunch of waist knives he nagged, this store wouldn't have sat on the ground and raised the price. Now the shopkeeper is clearly blackmailing, but looking at the rich and noble of this man in brocade, he seems to like this waist knife very much, but he is afraid that if he talks about it again, he will buy it. Although I don't know whether this knife is true or not, if it involves Brother Xu, Qin Nanxi will never miss it.

After tossing and turning all these thoughts in his heart for a while, he could only grit his teeth and glared at the brocade-clothed man in front of him, Qin Nanxi gritted his teeth and said, "Three hundred taels is three hundred taels." ”

"Miss, how can we have so much money!" Xue Rui was anxious and annoyed.

"Hey, that's right, the girls and ladies naturally won't bring so much cash on them when they go out, but it's not difficult, since the girl really likes it, it's not too late to send someone to send the silver for a while, or it's okay to follow the girl to the house to get it." The shopkeeper didn't open his mouth to bargain when he saw it, and the shot was really generous, so he didn't have any other ideas.

The scorching sun at noon, obliquely stabbed in from the south rhombic window, the full hall of swords and swords and shadows wrapped in dazzling light and shadow, overlapping each other, a knife on the left, an axe on the right, a stack of stacks on the person, the person who shook could not help but get hot all around.

Qin Nanxi dodged sideways, quietly hiding the slightly red cheeks in the sword shadow and sword light. Slowly handed the waist knife back to the shopkeeper, raised his hand and took off a pair of jade bracelets on his wrist, hesitated for a moment, and handed it to the shopkeeper.

But I heard the shopkeeper say: "The water color of this jade bracelet is good, but the light blue color is more tender after all, and I am afraid it is not worth three hundred taels." ”

"You are talking nonsense, open your snobbish eyes and see clearly, my young lady's bracelet was given by the mother of the palace, I'm afraid it's not a good thing?" Xue Rui was indignant, regardless of it, and blurted out to grab it.

The shopkeeper took the waist knife into his arms, and said sarcastically: "The girl is wise, in our weapon shop with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, it is really useless to ask you for a pair of good jade bracelets, and please ask the girl to come and get it again after changing the silver." The word "good" in that language is especially ridiculous.

"You." Qin Nanxi choked, she never studied these ring-worn ornaments, and only felt that the things given to her by her sister-in-law Xiao Luomei must be first-class and good, but she didn't know that Xiao Luomei was actually not loved by her aunt, and the things given were just the usual things in the inner house, although they were rare among the people, they were not very rare goods, and they were indeed not worth as much as three hundred taels.

Qin Nanxi was helpless, and after thinking about it, he couldn't spend three hundred taels of silver from home to buy an old waist knife, so he could only sigh secretly, and was about to open his mouth to reason with the store, but he heard the vermilion figure hidden in the shadow of the sword, and said slowly: "It is also very wise for the girl not to bring yellow and white things on her body, I think this pair of bracelets is very good, not to mention three hundred taels of silver, you are determined to ask for real money, return the bracelet to others, and sell the knife to me." ”

The scarlet brocade arrow sleeve that had been standing quietly on one side suddenly flew up from between the shadows of the sword, and with a light touch like a dragonfly, he took the waist knife from the palm of the shopkeeper, his movements seemed to be very gentle but very fast and precise.

Qin Nanxi watched in surprise as the waist knife returned to his slender but rough black palm, turning over and over.

The eyes of the two were intertwined with a waist knife, one pair was clear and unmistakable true love, and the other pair was full of hatred for other purposes.

Although the shopkeeper failed to prompt the two to bid, he finally sold the old waist knife he had received from the beggar at an unbelievably high price, hurriedly returned the jade bracelet to Xue Rui, and secretly took the silver ticket handed by the servant behind the brocade man, for fear that something would happen again, and hurriedly retreated.