Volume 2: The Beginning of the Foundation, Lu Gifts. Chapter 58: Buying Jewelry.

In Shen Ji Tea House, Shen Wansan was holding a thick account book to check carefully, and the shopkeeper of the tea house stood aside in a regular manner, explaining to Shen Wansan one by one.

Shen Wansan pointed to an entry in the account book and asked:

"What? And there are still merchants from Korea who come to us to buy tea? ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said:

"Yes, yes, recently, there have been a lot of people who have come to us to buy goods, and the amount is also very large. It's just that I can only come once a year, which is a pity. ”

Shen Wansan asked curiously:

"Oh? Why is that? ”

"Young owner, you don't know anything. This Goryeo is far away from us, and we must take the sea route, but this tea is afraid of moisture, once it encounters a storm, the loss will be great, and it is not safe, and if it is not good, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, so they will pick the best weather to buy a few days ago. ”

"I see." Shen Wansan nodded.

"This is still the largest tea merchant in Goryeo, and they take a lot of goods at a time to make a profit. If small and medium-sized tea merchants get their goods close to the north, although the price is much more expensive than ours, the relative risk is also small. ”

After listening to the shopkeeper's words, Shen Wansan thought for a while and said:

"Then if we take advantage of the calm days, load several big ships, and send them to Goryeo at one time, without them coming in person, do you think our tea can be sold well?"

"That must be easy to sell, others have done the same, but in the event of an accident, several years of hard work may be in vain. This is tantamount to passing on the risk of the purchaser to the seller, so not many people do this. ”

"It's okay, I'll think again." Shen Wansan said.

Shen Wansan finished reading all the account books, stood up and said goodbye to the shopkeeper, and then walked out of the tea house with sleepy-eyed glass.

"Your family has a lot of business. I visited three or four of them this morning. Ruri rubbed her eyes and said.

Shen Wansan nodded:

"This Pingjiang Mansion is very big, so our family has more business here, this is just the general number, and the following semicolon does not need to go."

"Really? That's great, I'm tired from the morning. Liuli took advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention, and the little god lazily said.

"If you have anything to be tired of, just sit there and don't do anything.

Huh? You see what that is? After Shen Wansan finished speaking, he pointed to a rather luxurious shop on the side of the street.

Liuli was about to argue, but after listening to Shen Wansan's words, he looked at his hand, it turned out to be a gold and silver jewelry store, and there were gorgeously dressed ladies and ladies who came in and out, and they closed their mouths when they landed.

The guy in the store was quick to see a handsome man and woman coming to the door, dressed and moving very well, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. Shen Wansan was not polite, and walked into the store with Liuli.

The guy said enthusiastically:

"This son, what are you going to choose for Miss? Our jade building is the largest jewelry in Pingjiang Mansion, as long as you want, our store guarantees everything. ”

Shen Wansan looked at Liuli and said to the guy:

"We're just passing by, and there's not much time, so you can bring the highest-grade and latest jewelry in your store and let my sister pick out a few sets."

The guy has been working for so long, and he has never heard of choosing jewelry to buy several sets, but when he saw the gentle, pretty and dignified glass next to him, he was relieved.

The guy thought to himself: It seems that these two must be the sons and daughters of big families, and they have come here to show their magnificence, but they can't be lazy.

Thinking of this, the guy hurriedly said:

"Two distinguished guests, this outer hall is noisy, please come with me to the inner hall."

Shen Wansan didn't refuse, and walked towards the inner hall with Liuli.

The inner hall is really quiet, there is a faint sandalwood in the room, and there are not so many goods on the counter, but everything is high-quality.

As soon as Shen Wansan and Liuli sat down on the chairs, a guy brought the tea. Then he said:

"Two, please wait, I'll go get it."

Shen Wansan nodded with satisfaction and motioned for the guy to go quickly.

Waiting for the guy to walk out of the inner hall, Liuli lowered his voice and said to Shen Wansan:

"Just buy a few to match your clothes. Don't waste it. ”

Shen Wansan looked at Liuli with a smile, and also said in a low voice:

"You just listen to me, I just want you to know that no matter how good the stolen thing is, it belongs to someone else. No matter how expensive the things we buy, we can use them steadily. ”

Ruri nodded:

"Got it."

As soon as Shen Wansan took a sip of tea, a chubby middle-aged man walked over briskly with a smile on his face, and the guy just now followed respectfully, holding a tray covered with red silk in his hand.

"Hey, this son, at first glance, is the young master of a big family, it's right for you to come to us, I'm the shopkeeper here, my surname is Jin, this time I took out the best of our Yucui Building. I don't know if I can get into your eyes.

If the jewelry on the counter of Yucuilou is exquisitely carved, then the tray in the hand of the golden shopkeeper can really be regarded as ingenious.

The glass was picked up one by one, and the golden shopkeeper was attentively introduced on the side.

Shen Wansan also looked at the side, and then said to the golden shopkeeper:

"Shopkeeper Jin, are these the best in your store?"

"What do you mean, Childe?" The golden shopkeeper looked at Shen Wansan and asked with a smile.

"Although your jewelry is very exquisite, the style is too ordinary." Shen Wansan said.

"Childe, these are the best of the best." The gold shopkeeper explained.

"Forget it, if not, let's go somewhere else." Saying that, Shen Wansan got up and was about to leave with Liuli.

"Don't don't, there's more, I didn't expect Childe's vision to be so high? Go and bring the jewelry to Miss Childe to see. The golden shopkeeper commanded the man.

The guy quickly turned around and ran out.

Shen Wansan pretended to be very angry and said:

"As I said earlier, we are passing through, and time is tight. But you can't fool us with these ordinary goods, money is certainly not a problem. ”

"Yes, yes, Childe said yes." The golden shopkeeper's apology.

Liuli couldn't help but smile and watched Shen Wansan act, in fact, she liked all those jewelry just now. It's just that just as he was about to decide, Shen Wansan came to such a play, so he had to accompany him to act.

After a while, the man came in with another tray, still covered with red silk, but this time he walked very carefully, and he could see that the contents of the tray were very precious.

After putting it on the table, the golden shopkeeper also carefully lifted the red silk. After all of them were opened, Shen Wansan and Liuli were all in front of each other.

I saw that there were only a few pieces of jewelry in the tray, but it was a set. Seeing the reaction of the two, the golden shopkeeper showed a smug look on his face, cleared his throat and said:

"Two of you, please see, this is after Emperor Shizu conquered Burma, it flowed out of the Burmese palace, and it took several times to reach our Yucui Building, which was accepted by my father." After talking about the origin of the jewelry, the golden shopkeeper wiped his hands with a handkerchief, picked up one of the hairpins, and continued:

"This hairpin is called the golden magnolia hairpin, which is made of the best jade, with pure gold borders, pure gold hollow flowers and leaves, and the whole orchid is carved and polished by a whole piece of sapphire, and then with this hollow blue gold butterfly step shake, if the lady takes it on the head, it must be noble and elegant."

After some introduction, even if it was Shen Wansan's critical eye, he had to admit that this was indeed a rare treasure in the world.

Seeing that Shen Wansan didn't speak anymore, the golden shopkeeper picked it up again and introduced it to the two.

When all the jewelry was introduced, the gold shopkeeper added: "The most important point is that all the sapphires in this set of jewelry are cut and polished from a gemstone, and there is no color difference. ”

Shen Wansan nodded and said to Liuli:

"Ruri, you can take it with you."

Liuli nodded and was about to get it, but the golden shopkeeper hurriedly stopped him and said:

"Huh? Miss and wait, this set of jewelry is not an ordinary object, if you don't buy it, please don't do it. ”

was stopped by the golden shopkeeper, and the jade hand of the glass hung in the air, and it was neither stretched nor received. The pretty goose egg face turned red all at once.

When Shen Wansan saw Liuli's appearance, the fire in his heart suddenly rushed up, and he reached out and picked up the golden magnolia hairpin on the plate, fanned the hand of the golden shopkeeper to the side, and put Liuli on his head with his own hands.

I don't know why, when Shen Wansan put a hairpin on Liuli, Liuli's face became even redder, and it looked even more delicate and moving with a golden magnolia hairpin.

Shen Wansan looked at Liuli with satisfaction, and didn't pay attention to the golden shopkeeper who was holding his hands and screaming in pain.

Shen Wansan looked at Liuli and asked:

"Do you like this set of jewelry?"

Ruri nodded with a red face and did not speak.

Seeing Liuli nodding, Shen Wansan turned around, looked at the golden shopkeeper who had just recovered and said:

"I was punishing you for doing something to my sister. Now my sister has taken a fancy to your jewelry, say, how much? ”

The golden shopkeeper finally relieved himself, sweating profusely, and said hatefully:

"Eight hundred taels of hairpins, two hundred taels of step shaking, and one thousand taels of Yingluo. A total of two thousand taels"

"It's just two thousand taels, look at your big-tailed wolf." Shen Wansan said.

The golden shopkeeper naturally didn't understand what a "big-tailed wolf" was, but he didn't care, and said contemptuously:

"I'm talking about gold."

Shen Wansan said with a smile:

"I didn't say it was dollars, did you?"

casually took out a silver ticket of 20,000 taels from his arms and put it on the table.

The golden shopkeeper didn't pay attention to Shen Wansan's dollar stalk at all, because he was stunned by Shen Wansan's posture of taking out 20,000 taels of silver lightly.