1. Chapter 344 Sharpen iron like clay

The engraving takes a long time to complete, and it is usually picked up the next day. Both of them were reluctant to leave, as if they wanted to wait here.

Lin Ying'er had a rare opportunity to come out, and the opportunity to be alone with Zhou Ning was even less pitiful, so she was unwilling to return home early.

Zhou Ning has a lot of things to do, but if he accompanies Lin Ying, he would rather put everything down first. The wait was long, but they weren't too long, they were too fast.

The two of them admired all kinds of jewelry one by one in this store, and Zhou Ning found that Lin Ying was very interested in gemstones, and she could tell what gems were produced from any one she picked up.

Listening to her proudly explained the same gem after another, Zhou Ning also felt a little complacent. Beautiful, Zhou Ning suddenly remembered the gem on the dagger.

The dagger was inlaid with six gems of different colors, Zhou Ning carefully observed these jewelry, and when he saw something similar to the gems on the dagger, he picked it up and asked.

I didn't know if I didn't look for it, but when I searched, I found that those six kinds of gems could be found in this store. Zhou Ning had already seen that the gems on the dagger were very precious, and after listening to Lin Ying's explanation, he was even more surprised, it can be said that each one is a priceless rare treasure.

"Are you familiar with this shop?" Zhou Ning and Lin Ying walked around the house for a long time, and the guys in the store were far away and didn't dare to come forward.

It stands to reason that there are customers in the store, and the shopkeeper should be very attentive to surround him, and they all stay away from it, obviously knowing Lin Ying's identity.

"I come here often, and the best things are in this store." Lin Ying is rarely with Zhou Ning, and she is very excited.

When the words were engraved, the snow outside stopped. Zhou Ning pulled Lin Ying out of the store, wanting to take her to sit elsewhere for a while, Yu'er came over and asked Lin Ying to go back to the house earlier.

Zhou Ning didn't want to embarrass Lin Ying, so he pulled her slowly towards East Street. When the palanquin drivers sitting on the side of the street saw them coming, they hurriedly stood up with great spirits.

Walking to the sedan chair, Lin Ying looked at Zhou Ning reluctantly: "Brother Ning, I'll go back to the house first." ”

"I'll give you a ride." Zhou Ning opened the sedan curtain, Lin Ying bent down and sat in the sedan chair, and Zhou Ning also sat in.

The small sedan chair is not big, and it can be squeezed if it is a little compact for two people. Zhou Ning raised his hand and put his hand on her shoulder and walked into his arms, Lin Ying leaned on him, and his heart was pounding for a while, his body was hot, his face turned red, and he was even breathing. Promoted.

"Who opened that jewelry store just now?" Zhou Ning really didn't know anything about the capital, it might be common sense to others, but it was a secret to him.

"That's the property of the princess's mother's family, and many of the jewels in the store are tribute from Fanbang, and other stores can't get them."

Lin Ying suppressed the tension in her heart, raised her little face and looked up at Zhou Ning, only to see that the lines of his face were like a knife. Person.

Zhou Ning looked down at her, and happened to look at each other. Zhou Ning's head got lower and lower, lower and lower, so low that in the end, both of them closed their eyes.

The sedan chair was close to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Zhou Ning held her little face and rubbed it, rubbing her seven points of joy and three points of annoyance, he kissed her reluctantly, and said softly: "I'm leaving." ”

Lin Ying was embarrassed and couldn't say anything in her patience, so she only nodded slightly, and Zhou Ning opened the sedan curtain and ordered: "Get off the sedan chair." ”

The sedan chair driver slowly stopped the sedan chair, and Zhou Ning stood on the side of the road and watched the sedan chair until he couldn't see it clearly. Lu Qing smiled and asked, "Shall we go back?" ”

Zhou Ning shook his head and waved his hand to send the sedan chair drivers back, and he took Lu Qing to scatter on the streets of the capital step by step.

"Childe, where are you going?" Lu Qing didn't understand what Zhou Ning was sick with, so he didn't sit in a sedan chair, and measured the street step by step.

"Just follow me." Zhou Ning suddenly stopped as he walked, and asked Lu Qing, "How much money do I have?" ”

"Money?" Lu Qing couldn't report the exact number for a while: "There are about five, seven, six hundred taels." ”

"Oh" Zhou Ning asked again: "How much do you say those pair of red jade earrings are worth?" ”

"That's it, it's only one thousand eight hundred taels." Lu Qing only understood at this time that Zhou Ning wanted to buy the earrings for Lin Ying, his son-in-law's private wealth was definitely not enough, he was afraid that Zhou Ning would be sad, and said with a smile: "Childe, if you want to buy it, you can buy it, but you don't have any money." ”

Zhou Ning sighed, he had been an official for more than half a year, and the silver was not enough to buy a pair of earrings. It seems that whether the official is corrupt or incorruptible only needs to look at his property.

Thinking of the various gifts I have received since I entered Beijing, any one that comes out is more expensive than the red jade earrings, and those things are not even a drop in the bucket for people, where did they get their money?

"It's a few hundred taels, how can it?" Zhou Ning knew that Lin Ying liked the earrings, and she didn't care so much because she was afraid that Zhou Ning would spend money, and she was even more afraid that Zhou Ning would be embarrassed if she couldn't afford it.

"I'll lend you no interest, but you have to pay it back."

Lu Qing, the scholar, is richer than his master, mainly because he accompanied his son to Beijing to catch the exam, and he didn't know how long it would take to return to his hometown when he left, so when he left, the old man paid him a one-time monthly payment for two years.

Although he loves to play music and pays more attention to enjoyment in life, how much money can be used to eat? In fact, his expenses are not large, not to mention that he still treats rich people when he is empty, and the consultation fee is like extortion.

"Okay, buy it for me."

The Sipin Zhengqing who borrowed money from his scholar may be Zhou Ning, but he doesn't think there is anything, and it is a good thing to be able to borrow money.

Zhou Ning walked to a sword shop, looked up at the plaque, and walked in. This is the most famous sword shop in the capital, which sells both ready-made blades and custom-made ones.

Business is very light on this snowy day, and it is rare to see even a pedestrian at noon. Someone walked in, and the shopkeeper greeted him very warmly.

"Master Ke, do you use it yourself or give it away? We have everything in the store, and there is no freshly made for you, and you are satisfied with the carved lettering. ”

"Really? What's there? Zhou Ning walked in with a smile, this store is very big, and there are a lot of things in it.

"Long, short, coarse, thin, hooked, bladed, pointed, barbed......"

"Don't talk about it." Zhou Ning waved his hand to stop him, Zhou Ning came to see the sword, not to listen to cross talk. "You just said there was no sharpening of iron like clay, right?"

"You want to be sharper, don't you?" The shopkeeper took down a three-foot Qingfeng sword from the shelf: "You are in the right place, our sword here is famous for its sharp edge, and this sword can cut two bamboos at once." ”

"What about cutting iron?"