Chapter Thirty-Seven: The South Guest
Nandi is the coastal house, as the saying goes, the mountains eat the mountains, and the people of the southland live by the sea. Nowadays, when the new seafood is in Beijing, there are many southern customers who take advantage of the convenience of the Grand Canal to do some seafood and sell it all over the world, but the seafood has to be transported and preserved coldly to taste the umami, so the profit is only a hard fee, and the fame is far less than the big salt merchants gathered in the four provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.
This Nanke wears a man's robe, the lower skirt, the sleeves and skirt have complex and vivid patterns, only this dress is half-new, and he can't wear any upright momentum, but it seems that this person is a little short and thin.
Her eyes followed the man all the way to the opposite pawnshop.
"These Nanke are very good at doing business, and many people love that bite of seafood, so they cooperate with salt merchants to do seafood pickling and transportation."
Song Yan sighed "hmm" and nodded. She remembered that the Nandi people were a very resolute people, they were good at swimming, smart and hard-working, and there were many big businessmen in their previous lives, including the current No. 1 Jia Qian Yishan in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Really?" Speaking of which, she is strange, it stands to reason that she is so good at doing business, how can this person fall to the point where she is now in a pawn shop? This is one of them, and what else......
"This man is a woman disguised as a man."
“???”
Song Yi looked inexplicable, "How did you see it?" ”
"Walking. When you just bumped into someone, did you see her subconsciously reach out and block it? If it weren't for a girl, how could there be such an action? My family sometimes meets people, especially sons of the opposite sex, who have such actions. ”
Hengbo was eating snacks at another table, and muttered when he heard the words, "Why don't I know? ‘
This also shows that this Nanke is very wary. You can see that her steps are very different, and she seems to have some skills. Song Yansheng's eyebrows froze, and his curiosity gradually grew, he stuffed the almond cake into his mouth, clapped his hands and got up and said, "This Nanke doesn't look right, Brother Thirteen, let's go and have a look." ”
Listening to Song Yidao, the opposite Tongshun pawnshop is a time-honored brand in Jinling. They then entered the shop and found that there was no one in the shop at this time, and there were two children and a young man in front of the counter. Seeing that this Nanke was dressed differently, he raised his eyes, his eyes first fell around the person who came, looked at the wind and dust, and then carelessly fell on her hand to take the object, and finally raised his eyes slightly, and said quite coldly: "Dead or alive?" ”
"What about death? What about life? ”
The man in charge snorted, and his eyes turned the man around again before he said, "I'll take a look at the things." ”
Under the veil is a square box, some years old, the pattern is exquisite and slightly worn. The person in charge opened the box, and a stream of agarwood fluttered lightly, and there was a pair of jade bracelets lying in the gold silk in the box, which were of high quality and had excellent water heads.
Song Yansheng looked at it from a distance of four or five steps, in her previous life, she had seen a lot of good things with Xiao Changyuan, but now jadeite is rare, mostly used in the palace, and it is even more rare among the people. A jade bracelet of such a quality, if it is not an accessory for the nobles in the palace, it is a reward for the princes and nobles. However, no one possibility alone should be sold, which is a felony to despise the emperor's grace and authority.
It's also a loss that there are not many people in these four places, if it falls into the eyes of those who have a heart, I don't know what to do.
"Where?" The young steward touched the green beard, and played with it in her hand for a while, she looked at him with some eyes, but her mind may not be lively, and she can't see it, she only knows that it is a good thing.
"Ancestral."
The steward glanced at the person's half-worn satin robe, and then at the faded brocade and the old square box, and probably expected which family in the south of this person was broken, and he didn't take a straight look at her, and said, "Death should be five hundred, and life should be three hundred." ”
As soon as these words fell, even Song Yi was about to smack his tongue. Such a good thing, but only at this price? Isn't it a big bully? He and Song Yansheng glanced at each other and couldn't help but step forward. It's just that this Nanke scratched the back of his head, but he hesitated for a moment, presumably calculating the price. After some consideration, he suddenly clenched his palms in hindsight, obviously angry.
Song Yansheng only felt that this person was interesting, looked at her face that suddenly turned from red to white, and listened to the ill-intentioned smile of the steward: "This son, it is indeed this price, and it is the same if you get it from other families." This jade head is good, but it's not the best thing. There are so many best jadeites in our library that I can give them to my son right now. ”
Jinling's poetry and painting are as prosperous and beautiful, and I can't bear to have these brazen people. Song Yi couldn't stand it anymore, he just raised his steps, but saw that the girl had pinched her palm but didn't take back the bracelet, and he couldn't help but pause.
This has to be forced into something to endure this humiliating pawn.
The person in charge is not a good thing, but he also saw that this Nanke was helpless, so he took care of himself and took the box, and squinted and smiled: "I won't tell you, I have seen a lot of people like you, Childe." A small flat-headed cloth like a villain, as big as a high-ranking official in Beijing, who can not have a difficulty. Even if you take things into our Tongshun pawnshop, you can be willing to save face. In this way, I will give you the work to keep it, and you will save it for you in the future, and you only need to add the profit of this preservation, how about it? After he finished saying this, he sounded like he was wronged. But if you want to redeem it in the future, it will be a sky-high price.
"Miss, she's ......" Hengbo couldn't help but tug at her sleeve.
Song Yansheng looked at Song Yi, who stepped forward a few steps. Her thirteenth brother is a gentleman, and she can't see such a deceptive business now, so she stepped forward and raised her hand and pressed the bracelet, and said in a deep voice, "Wait." The steward was startled, raised his eyes and looked at him around, and saw that he had no precious clothes and no precious things, so he collapsed his face and said coldly: "If this son has something important, you can wait first, if there is nothing important, please leave, otherwise we will not be polite." ”
Nanke was stopped from trading, stunned for a moment, and looked up at them. Song Yansheng met a pair of light-pupiled eyes, but this was a girl, with a delicate appearance and a faint hint of depression.
"You ......"
"You can't take this thing back, take it back."
Nanke's eyelashes twitched, and he looked at her fixedly, his face was cold and white, as if he had a deficiency.
The steward frowned when he heard this, and wanted to touch the pair of jade bracelets again. Song Yi couldn't wait for this person to think about it anymore, so he reached out and put the pair of jade bracelets into the box. But the steward pulled the brocade and reached out to the box!
Seeing this, Song Yi's face immediately turned cold, and the box knocked on his restless hand and said, "You have to have the courage to do this business!" The shopkeeper was smashed, and his heart cleared up a little, his eyes turned, and he smiled: "You don't talk nonsense, this son's words before are ancestral in the family." ”
"What is ancestral or not ancestral, you and I know it in our hearts."
The shopkeeper's heart was resentful, he was blind to such a good business, and his teeth were about to be crushed when he looked at those figures.
Out of the pawnshop door, the rain was still falling outside. They found a rain corridor in the middle of nowhere, and Song Yi pulled the Nanke before putting the box into her hand, and this person grabbed it and stuffed it into his sleeve pocket, and stretched out a hairpin in his hair with the other hand to force it!
"Thirteenth brother!" Song Yansheng's heart jumped, and he subconsciously wanted to hold this person, but when he saw Song Yi's brows, he was about to snatch this sharp weapon with his hand, but the opponent was really not idle, so he turned back and forced it again.
Yokoba watched this scene inexplicably, and escorted her to the back of her head, away from the place of the fight.
After some distance, she saw that the hairpin in the hand of this Nanke was very peculiar. It is a cloisonne hairpin, cloisonne is unique to the south, Emperor Qizhang was popular in the palace for a while, and now there are many nobles in the south who use cloisonne utensils to show their identity. If this is the case, this Nanke should be from a wealthy family.
And......
The most peculiar thing about this hairpin is that its hairpin head hides a lot of tricks, and after these few tricks, it has changed several hidden weapons, with blades and hidden needles, which can be long or short, and can be triggered at will.
After a round, this southerner looked like he was physically exhausted, and he was restrained after a while.
"You guys!"
"We helped you, you are going to take revenge, and you will do it as soon as you come?" Song Yi shook his head and snatched her hairpin to prevent hurting.
The Jinling officials of the Nandi people did not speak very fluently, their faces were red, and they looked at them with wary eyes, only thinking that they had other plans.
Song Yansheng spoke up at this time, "Thirteenth brother, let go of this girl." We don't have any intentions, so why don't we stop and talk about it? ”
The identity of the woman was revealed, and the man gritted his teeth and looked up at her.
She lowered her head slightly, examined the cloisonné hairpin in her hand, and did not avoid her glare, and said strangely:
"The coastal area of the south, and the unique salt farms, the people of the south are close to the water, and they are good at business, and they are mostly rich, so it stands to reason that they should not be sold here."
Seeing that she was silent, Song Yansheng glanced at Hengbo, and Hengbo took the hairpin and returned it with both hands.
Song Yi let go of her and stood with her hands down, only to see that the girl quickly reached out and pinched the hairpin, holding it tightly in the palm of her hand.
"I think you know in your heart that this bracelet is difficult to keep. The palace jadeite has a dark logo, which varies from year to year, if someone looks at it, you will be finished. ”
Song Yansheng looked at her with a tense expression, shook his head and said, "You don't have to be vigilant, if we want to say it, you were taken away by the officials just now." ”
Although this girl is dressed as a Nanke, judging from the jade in her hand and the cloisonné hairpin, I am afraid that she was also from a noble family. Only now that he is in Jinling, and he has fallen to the point of exchanging pawns for money, there must be some difficulties in thinking about it.
"If you have any problems, we can help you."
She was silent for a long time, looking at these people in front of her, although the clothes were simple, she could see that the materials were good, and there were maids following, looking like they were from a big family in Jinling. She looked at Song Yansheng again, a little person who was snow-white and pink, and she was not a bad person when she saw that she was good.