Chapter Ninety-Nine: Appreciation
I thought I was just finding someone who knew nothing about making glass, and with the help of this person, it might be beneficial to the business of making glass, but I didn't expect to find an ancestral glass maker. This Jane really picked up a treasure!
Li Feibai hummed a little song and returned to the restaurant and went to the private room.
Qian Zijun saw Li Feibai come back alone, and couldn't help but be surprised: "What about people? ”
Li Feibai said: "Ran away!" ”
Qian Zijun shook his head. Nav has a few catties and taels, he can see at a glance, with that fat body, Li Feibai can chase after him with two hands. Since he can catch up, with Li Feibai's skills, it is not easy to catch Nafu back, how can he let people run away? It can be seen that Li Feibai deliberately let Nafu run, as for why he let Nafu run, this is not the time to ask, so he will not say anything anymore.
Zhang Xianqing reluctantly put his glasses on the table and said, "People run away, what should I do with things?" ”
Qian Zijun said: "This is a crime tool!" Uncle Zhang is in charge of the criminal name of the political officer, so naturally Uncle Zhang confiscated this tool for the crime, as for how to deal with it, it is not a matter of Uncle Zhang's words! ”
The meaning of his words couldn't be more obvious, he asked Zhang Xianqing to take it back for his own use, but Zhang Xianqing was very useless when he heard it. Since it is a tool for committing crimes, it has to be handed over to the general judgment of Kaifeng Mansion for safekeeping, or it is kept according to the prosecutor's affairs, and he takes it for his own use, won't he become a prison guard and steal it!
Li Feibai saw Zhang Xianqing's dissatisfaction, and said: "This foreign devil deceived us into not knowing the goods, and used cheap glass to pass off as precious crystals. Are we the kind of people who buy things and don't give money? Uncle Zhang, I look at this pair of glasses, it is worth three or five taels of silver at most, I don't know if Uncle Zhang has five taels of silver, if there is, give it to me. I will look for him in Kaifeng Mansion when I have time, and when I find him, I will give him the money and buy this pair of glasses. ”
Zhang Xianqing hesitated: "I have five taels of silver, but such a good thing is really only worth five taels of silver?" ”
Li Feibai said: "I'm afraid that five or two will give too much!" He pointed to the glasses and said, "Uncle Zhang, you see, the frame is made of copper, not refined copper but blister copper, and it doesn't cost a penny of silver." How much is this small glass of lens worth? It's the end of the five coins! As for the money for polishing, the foreign devil also said that he could polish a piece in half an hour. I can earn more than four taels of silver in half an hour, and I am afraid that there is no errand with such a high price in the world! Therefore, five taels of silver he definitely took advantage of! ”
Zhang Xianqing nodded and said, "Makes sense!" He took out five taels of silver from his bosom and said, "Please also ask Feibai's little nephew to see Nafu and give him the silver!" "Say goodbye and leave!
Qian Zijun patted Li Feibai on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Boy, Zhang Xianqing is known as the black-faced Bao Gong, and people are afraid to stay away from people on weekdays. He is also very arrogant, and he can't look down on anyone, but today he appreciates you, and your kid's luck is really not bad! ”
Li Feibai said: "Do you appreciate me?" Nope! ”
Qian Zijun said: "I call him Uncle Zhang, that's because my two families live close, and I call him like that when I was a child." But you also call him Uncle Zhang, but I didn't see that his face was unusually bad at first. But after you saw through Naf's glass and crystal, so that he not only saved his face but also did not lose money, and let him buy the things he liked with peace of mind for only five taels, he treated you with a pleasant face and called you Feibai's little nephew. Hehe, that's his greatest compliment to you! ”
Li Feibai smiled: "It's a fluke!" ”
Qian Zijun said: "Why did you let Nav go?" ”
Li Feibai said: "Mountain people have their own wonderful use! After a pause, he said, "It won't be long before the eldest brother will know!" ”
Qian Zijun is not very interested in other things except for martial arts. When he saw that Li Feibai didn't say anything, he didn't ask. The two drank two more glasses of wine, went downstairs to check out and left. Li Feibai sent Qian Zijun to the guard, asked passers-by about the location of the Xiangyun Inn, and came to the inn alone.
He asked the treasurer which house Nav lived in. The shopkeeper didn't understand for a while, so he said it again. Seeing that the shopkeeper was very unfamiliar with the name Naf, he said, "It's that blonde and blue-eyed fat pig who looks like a Rakshasa ghost!" ”
Only then did the shopkeeper know who Li Feibai was looking for, and pointed to the stables: "Live there!" ”
Only then did Li Feibai know that Naf was not lying when he said that he had no money, but that he really had no money, otherwise he would not have lived in the stable where the cattle were tethered. When he went to the stable, he saw Naf reclining on the hay pile, with a hanging pot in front of him, and a few handfuls of firewood burning underneath, the lid of which was tightly lid, and he did not know what was boiling in it.
Nav heard movement outside the stable, so he opened his slightly closed eyes, and when he saw Li Feibai coming, he immediately got up and opened the firewood door, and said, "Childe is here!" After looking around, he said crampedly: "It's a little slow to be a guest!" ”
Li Feibai waved his hand and said, "It's okay! "Go into the stables and sit down by the haystack.
Nav looked nervous and asked, "How?" Those two adults with real power, are you willing to spare me this time! ”
Li Feibai said: "The two adults who hold real power are not only willing to spare you once, but there is also an adult who took a fancy to the glasses you made and spent five taels of silver to buy them!" So saying, he took out the ingots of five taels of silver from his bosom.
Nav took the silver, kissed it again and again, and said with joy: "Great! This is the first mirror I've ever sold! ”
Li Feibai said: "This is a bit false!" I look at your proficiency in deception, not like a new hand but like a veteran, how can it be the first time! ”
Nafu said: "Childe doesn't know! In fact, I originally wanted to sell these glasses for three taels of silver, but I couldn't find a way! Ordinary people, how can they be willing to spend three taels of silver to buy, and rich people are not willing to buy cheap goods for three taels of silver! Before, I sold it along the coast, and the rich people thought it was made of crystal, but when I heard the price, they waved their hands. The same is true when it comes to the inland. Yesterday I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, so I had the courage to use glass to pretend to be crystal, thinking that one hundred taels was already a sky-high price, but who knew that I still misestimated the market of crystal, so that Childe could see through it at a glance, I am glass not crystal. ”
Li Feibai said: "Don't talk about this!" What's boiling in your pot? ”
Nafu said: "Childe said that he would come to me tonight, and I don't know when you will come, I am afraid that I will be hungry if I come late, so I will prepare for supper." Although it is not a valuable thing, you can't eat this kind of foreign flavor in Daming, so you should eat it fresh! ”
Li Feibai had just finished eating, and he didn't pay much attention to eating, and said, "Tell me your story!" ”
Nav knew that Li Feibai came tonight to determine whether he would make glass. Only by convincing Li Feibai that he can make glass, can his fate be changed, otherwise he will have to wander around and live this ragged and stormy life. For this reason, as soon as he returned to the inn, he got ready, organized the language and narrative, hoping to make Li Feibai believe that he could make glass.
He said: "We have 800 glass workshops in Italy, if not 1,000. There are dozens of them, almost monopolizing the glass business in Italy and dozens of surrounding countries. Our family's workshop belongs to this in Italy! He stretched out his little finger and shook it twice, "It's very difficult to survive, just to provide glass products for the big workshops and make some meager profits to survive." But my father was very fond of making glass, and he put a lot of effort into it. ”