Chapter 58: Selling the Dowry
After two days, Du Xiaomeng, who thought of doing it, really wrapped all the jewelry for the wedding with cloth. She picked up the hosta that Zhan Qi gave and stuffed it into the cloth bag, but after thinking about it for a while, she hesitated for a moment before taking it out and putting it back in the jewelry box.
She made an excuse to get Liu Lu away, stuffed the cloth bag into her sleeve and put it safe, and quietly slipped out of the general's mansion.
This time, Du Xiaomeng went out under a veil. It's better to keep a low profile when it comes to pawning jewelry, she doesn't want to be recognized and add unnecessary trouble.
After leaving the General's Mansion, she ran directly to her goal. The last time she went out, she had already kept the general route map in mind, and this time, even if no one led the way, she did not encounter any obstacles and walked smoothly to the bustling street in the capital.
Du Xiaomeng searched for a while on the street and found a pawnshop for her. However, the door of the pawnshop was tightly closed, and a small and conspicuous red paper was pasted on the door. I stepped forward and took a look, and saw that the red paper was written "It's the day when the proprietor is happy, suspend pawning for a day."
I had no choice but to find another one. Du Xiaomeng's luck seemed to be good, and after walking a few steps forward, he saw a large wooden signboard of "Peace Charge" standing not far ahead. Walking over quickly, I saw that the door of the big shop was closed like the previous pawnshop, and there was red paper with writing on the door. The only difference is that it's just the content on the red paper. What this family wrote: Today the proprietor goes to the feast, and tomorrow he invites him early.
One is happy, the other is going to a banquet, and the relationship between the pawnshop and the boss of this big bet is still related to each other.
Du Xiaomeng continued to wander the street, but after turning around for most of the hour, he still couldn't find another pawnshop. As she pondered whether she should go home first and come back tomorrow, a jewelry store called "Jinyu Liangyuan" came into her sight. Her eyes lit up, she touched the stiff little cloth bag in her arms, and without much thought, she raised her feet and walked towards the store.
She didn't notice that as she walked into the jewel, a gaze followed her back.
About 10 meters away from the jewelry store, there is a small stall selling windmills and masks.
With a mask in his hand, Zhan Li stuck his little head out from behind the windmill. She looked at the familiar figure who walked into the jewelry store, poked the little girl next to her with her elbow, Lan'er, pointed to the location of the jewelry and asked uncertainly: "Lan'er, do you think that elephant looks like a sister-in-law?" Although the woman's face was covered with a scarf, her figure and behavior were very similar to her sister-in-law.
Lan'er shifted her gaze from the mask to the direction Zhan Li was pointing. When she looked over, Du Xiaomeng had already walked into the store. Seeing no figure, she looked left and right suspiciously, and asked, "Madam?" Where is it? ”
"The guy is in, let's go take a look!" Zhan Li threw away what he was holding, picked up Lan'er and hurriedly walked towards the jewelry store.
When he was about to arrive at the front of the store, Zhan Li grabbed Lan'er, who was about to go to the store, and flashed to the door.
Lan'er asked puzzledly, "Miss, aren't we going in?" ”
Zhan Li blinked and said with a smile: "Let's go outside first to see if the one inside is the sister-in-law." If it's a sister-in-law, we'll hide here and not let her see it, and then scare her when she comes out! ”
Lan'er, who is not a few years older than Zhan Li, is also a playful and active character, and when she heard that the young lady had such a proposal, she hurriedly raised her hand in approval.
Zhan Li made a silent gesture to Lan'er, slowly moved to the door, and sneakily poked out a little head to look into the jewelry store.
There were several customers in the jewelry store, and the guys were busy greeting them, and the customers were looking at the goods, but no one noticed that someone was peeking outside the door.
Zhan Li immediately saw the masked woman who looked like her sister-in-law standing in front of the counter, talking to a middle-aged woman who looked like a proprietress and a boss.
After a distance, and there were other people talking in the store, Zhan Di couldn't hear what the two were talking about, but after she saw the two of them talking, the masked woman took out a cloth bag from her sleeve and put it on the counter and opened it.
The cloth bag was full of hairpins, beads, hairpins and other things, and the middle-aged woman picked them up one by one and held them up in front of her eyes to look at them slowly.
Seeing the jewelry in the hands of the middle-aged woman, Zhan Li decided that the masked woman was his sister-in-law nine times out of ten. Because, she often goes to her sister-in-law to play, not only has she seen those wedding jewelry, but also used to play with them.
After looking around, there was no trace of willow green. It's strange, the sister-in-law came out without Liu Lu, and she didn't look like she was buying jewelry at a jewelry store, what did she come here for?
While Zhan Li was puzzled, the middle-aged woman had already checked all the jewelry. Seeing that she talked to her sister-in-law for a while, her sister-in-law frowned for a while, nodded, and then saw the middle-aged woman open the cash cabinet and take out a silver ingot and hand it over.
Seeing that the sister-in-law took the money and turned around and walked out, Zhan Di quickly retracted her head, and quickly dragged Lan'er into a nearby alley.
The other people in the store blocked Du Xiaomeng's view, and Du Xiaomeng didn't know that her pawn behavior had been seen by Zhan Li. However, even if she was not blocked from view, she might not have noticed that Zhan Di was peeping outside the door, she was holding the silver in her hand at this time, and she was scolding this golden and jade good fate in her heart. All the dowry jewelry was sold, and it was only exchanged for one or two silver, which was one-fifth of her monthly money, isn't this a cheat? However, the pit is the pit, and it is not necessarily impossible to be cheated if you go to sell it elsewhere, she is too lazy to walk around to calculate the price, anyway, those dowry jewelry are earned for nothing.
In the alley, Zhan Li and Lan'er probes bent over the corner of the wall, watching Du Xiaomeng gradually walk away.
Lan'er asked puzzledly, "Miss, why are we running?" Is that a lady? ”
Zhan Li didn't answer her question, just said, "Let's go back." ”
What you saw today, why don't you tell your eldest brother? However, the sister-in-law sold the jewelry for no reason, I'm afraid something will happen, right? The more Zhan Li thought about it, the more worried her sister-in-law became, and she decided to wait for her eldest brother to come back and quickly tell him what had happened today.