"I treat you as my eldest brother, why do you want to make me angry?" She smiled softly at him, "You wait for me here for a while, and when I'm done on an errand, I'll invite you to my house for dinner!" ”

She saw that Li Zhang's face turned red again, and she added with a smile: "Please be sure to reward the little sister for this face." ”

Li Zhang's wooden face revealed a slight joy, the corners of his mouth curled, and he finally nodded.

Ruan Mingyu had dinner, Ruan Shu twisted the handkerchief for him to clean his hands, and he took the handkerchief's hand, "Where's the girl Li?" ”

"Her eldest brother came looking for her and wanted to bring someone home. Let me give her a heads-up. Ruan Shu came up doggedly, "What, young master, is the water temperature not suitable?" ”

Ruan Mingyu wiped his hands casually, threw the handkerchief into the basin, and pursed the corners of his mouth, "Big brother? Li Zhiyuan's son is only twelve years old, where did she come from? ”

Ruan Shu cleaned up the basin and carefully retreated. muttered in my heart, the young master has been relying more and more on Miss Li to serve recently, I don't know when, should I let her serve the changing clothes and sleep? Hey, there's a door!

Ruan Mingyu didn't pay attention to what Ruan Shu was thinking in his careful eyes, and sat down in front of the bookcase and asked Ruan Mo, "My father and eldest brother said that they would send craftsmen over, and half a year has passed, where have all the people been?" ”

Ruan Mo took a step forward and said Mu Ran: "There are many festivals in the capital after the New Year, and this year we will catch up with the triennial Saibao Conference, and the general number will also have to pass the Dragon Boat Festival to free up manpower." The day before yesterday came news that people were already on their way. ”

"Who did you send?"

Ruan Mo hesitated, "Yes...... Lan Yu and Ding Mo are two masters. ”

"It's them?!" Ruan Mingyu sneered, "Let those two come over to help me, or make trouble for me." ”

Ruan Mo wisely pretended to be dumb.

Ruan Mingyu waved his hand to let Ruan Mo go down, and sat in front of the desk and read the book for a while. The summer night was sweltering, without a hint of wind, and he walked to the window and looked at the dark sky outside, and his eyes were as deep as ink.

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There is a short sales off-season after the Dragon Boat Festival.

Ruan Mingyu and Shopkeeper Hong were in the side hall, discussing the development of crystal jewelry.

"I've found someone to write the book." Shopkeeper Hong put a manuscript in front of Ruan Mingyu, "My subordinates have greeted the storytellers in several restaurants and teahouses, and they have all been negotiated. When to start talking, it depends on what you mean. ”

Ruan Mingyu peeled a new orange in his hand, nodded and said, "Cuiqiao, they have already set off the day before yesterday, let's wait for a while, and then wait for someone to land over there." The slightly sour taste made him frown, put it aside, and went to get a second one.

The shopkeeper Hong responded, and asked for instructions: "That set of crystal heads is now in the warehouse, how to ......?"

Before he finished speaking, a guy came in in a panic and reported: "Young owner, shopkeeper, someone sued us for selling fake goods in the store, and the government came to the door!" ”

"What's going on?"

"Many people went to the yamen with gilt ornaments and told us that they were shoddy and sold counterfeit goods. Now that the government has come to the store, the person in charge must go to the yamen to deal with it. ”

Ruan Mingyu stood up, lifted his robe and walked out, "What about Li Jingshan?" Let her go along. ”

"At noon today, someone from Si Zhenfang came to look for her, she went out and hasn't come back yet." The guy trotted behind and replied anxiously.

Ruan Mingyu's footsteps flickered, and he turned his head and said sharply: "Don't send someone to find it yet!" ”

Outside Si Zhenfang, the person standing opposite Li Jingshan was Xie Baizi.

Li Jingshan also wondered why Master Xie was looking for her, "Why did Master find students......

Before he finished speaking, he was severely interrupted by Xie Baizi: "I'm not a master!" I thank someone for not having such a shameless disciple as you! ”

In the past year, Li Jingshan has received all kinds of criticism, and she only smiled slightly bitterly at the moment, "What does Master Xie mean by this?" ”

"When you pass off silver or even copper as gold jewelry, what are you not selling fakes? Do you think you can get away with a layer of gold skin? ”

Li Jingshan thought that Xie Baizi was talking about the Yamen case a year ago, and said with a calm smile: "It's not that my gilt jewelry is pretending to be gold jewelry, I have proven my innocence in the court a year ago." ”

Xie Baizi was furious, took out a mottled bead hairpin, and said, "You can also take out such jewelry to show others?" Isn't that a fake? Your father's face has been lost to you! ”

Li Jingshan took a look suspiciously, and was also shocked.

The style of this three-strand plum blossom hairpin looks like that of the Treasure Hunt, but it does have a copper tire as the bottom and a layer of gold skin pasted on the outside. The gold paste is the most unreliable, and now the hairpin body has been polished to golden mottling, falling off in many places, looking ugly and broken.

"Where did you get this hairpin?"

"Where did it come from? They brought it to me for appraisal and said how gilded things broke so easily. Xie Baizi said disdainfully: "Hmph, you asked me last time how to paint silver jewelry with gold. What can you do with these crooked ways! ”

Li Jingshan rummaged through the bead hairpin, looking for the small "Shan" character mark, but she didn't find it, and her heart was slightly relieved. However, the brow is locked even tighter. Unexpectedly, the gilt jewelry has only been sold for half a year, and the fakes have already appeared.

She didn't have time to talk to Xie Baizi in detail, so she only said, "Master, I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter." I didn't make this hairpin. Trust me! With that, he hurried back.

Xie Baizi saw that she was sure of her, and she was also suspicious in her heart. He watched Li Jingshan grow up, and he used to give her a lot of guidance, so he loved her deeply and took responsibility.

He let out a long sigh, and was about to go back to Si Zhenfang, when the guy in the store found it, "Master Xie, what kind of gilt jewelry has caused a lawsuit, and the shopkeeper asked you to go to the yamen with him." ”

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Li Jingshan hurried back to the Treasure Hunt Pavilion and happened to meet Ruan Mingyu's carriage driving out. He shouted in the car: "Come up! "Reach out from the side of the wheel.

Li Jingshan reached out and grabbed his palm and jumped into the carriage with strength. Ruan Mo raised his whip, and the carriage carried them to the yamen.

Ruan Mingyu's face sank like water, "What the hell is Li Zhixuan's old man going to do?" ”

"It's not Si Zhenfang this time."

Ruan Mingyu looked up at her.

Li Jingshan told Ruan Mingyu about the meeting with Xie Baizi, "If Si Zhenfang intends to frame him, he should remember the word 'Shan' together." ”

Ruan Mingyu's eyes lit up, "Say so......"

"Yes, it's a real fake." Li Jingshan affirmed.

Ruan Mingyu squinted his eyes slightly, "It's coming very quickly, it turns out that my gilt jewelry is already so popular......"

Li Jingshan saw a hint of danger in her eyes, like a black cloud in the sky before a storm, like a calm sea before a tsunami.

This time, there were a large number of people involved in the case, and it was tried by the Minzhou government.

When they arrived at the mansion, Li Mingyan of Baoyun Building and Jiang Yuelan of Guosezhai had already been called to come. In addition to the three shopkeepers of their families, there were more than a dozen bitter masters who had complained in the hall.

After the prefect Fang announced his ascension, those bitter masters rushed to tell the reason why they were fooled by buying gilt jewelry.

"My lord, look at this hairpin has only been worn for a few days, and it has become like this! How can this be seen! ”

"What else do you say that the stone in front of the door can't be worn off even if this layer of color is smoothed, what a thing!"

"Whew! Just because of this broken hairpin, my daughter-in-law didn't give me bed last night! ”

When everyone was talking about the same, Ruan Mingyu asked lightly: "Dare to ask everyone, where did you buy these jewelry?" Jingbao Pavilion, Baoyun Building, or Guosezhai? ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone was in an uproar.

"It's your fellows from the Treasure Hunting Pavilion! It is said that it is an old style that is processed, and the price is cheaper than the one in the store. ”

"Yes, yes! I'm also talking about the pre-season treatment. ”

Ruan Mingyu raised his eyebrows and said coldly: "Is it in my shop, the guy said it himself?" ”

Now the voice was cold, and everyone looked left and right, and whispered: "This is not it." ”

A voice said: "There are your tags hanging on it, and who in the market doesn't know that only the three of you sell gilt jewelry." Why is there something wrong now, don't you dare to admit it? ”

When everyone saw it, they couldn't help but sigh that their peers were light. The person who came was Li Zhixuan, the big shopkeeper of Si Zhenfang.

Li Zhixuan bowed to the prefect in the hall, "My lord, that Li Jingshan claims to be the founder of the gilding technique, but she once came to our company's treasure shop to ask her former master to seek a way to fix the color. The master reprimanded her for deviating from the norm at that time. ”

His figure flashed, and he introduced Xie Baizi, "Now I have brought my master here and asked him to testify and help the people seek justice." ”

Xie Baizi told him about Li Jingshan asking him for advice.

Governor Fang asked, "In other words, you Si Zhenfang don't know this craft either?" ”

"I don't know."

Ruan Mingyu sneered, "If you don't know, it doesn't mean that others won't." Shan'er," he beckoned back, "to explain to you what is going on with this pile of broken copper and iron in front of you." ”

Li Jingshan smiled slightly in front of the hall, walked to the table where the evidence was placed, picked up the mottled and missing jewelry and pointed them out one by one, "The surface of this crested hairpin is rough, and it is pasted with gold leaf, and it will fall off if you rub it a little; The second skein bracelet is densely coated with gold powder, and if it is worn for a long time, it will be stained with fine gold particles on the hands. ”

"Exactly!" Someone answered.

Li Jingshan commented on the more than a dozen pieces of jewelry, turned to the hall and said, "Lord Qiyu, none of these jewelry are processed by gilding technology, and none of them are from the Jingbao Pavilion. ”

Governor Fang asked Li Mingyan and Jiang Yuelan to come up and take a look, and both of them denied that it was their family's jewelry.

The bitter masters below don't do it, and they all say it's gilt when they buy it, why don't they admit it now.

Li Zhixuan sneered: "Since you Jingbao Pavilion don't admit it, what kind of gilt jewelry are you, let the big guy refer to it in detail." ”

Ruan Mingyu clapped his palms, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Thank you Shopkeeper Li for reminding me, this young master has this intention!" ”

It happened that Ruan Shu arrived with a big box in his hand and said loudly outside the hall, "Young Master, I'm here, but let me catch up!" ”

Ruan Mingyu unfolded the folding fan, raised his head and said to the other prefect, "My lord, these inferior ornaments in the hall are all selling dog meat on the head of a sheep in the name of my Jingbao Pavilion. Now I have people bring the real gilt of the Treasure Hunt, please let me show you in this lobby, how to distinguish the real and fake gilding, so as not to be fooled by more people in the future, and damage the reputation of my Treasure Hunt! ”

Governor Fang nodded, "Quasi!" ”