Chapter 12 When the jade looks for flowers

Lu Mengjian opened the purse unhurriedly, took out the gray cloth bag inside, and directly handed the cloth bag to Huzi, who was slightly stunned, and then reacted and held it in front of Shopkeeper Li with both hands.

Seeing Lu Mengjian behaving like this, Shopkeeper Li raised his eyebrows, ordinary people have always pawned things, always put the items directly on the counter, and constantly praised the preciousness of the pawned things, although this woman is dressed shabby, her demeanor exudes the atmosphere of nobility, presumably she must have been born in a rich family before.

"I'm also bothering Shopkeeper Li to see how much the things in the cloth bag are worth," Lu Mengjian said, standing straight in place, and a pair of eyes fell on Shopkeeper Li.

Shopkeeper Li slowly opened the cloth bag, and a delicate jade pendant appeared in front of him, after taking the jade pendant in his hand and taking a closer look, Shopkeeper Li turned to Lu Mengjian and asked, "This girl, dare to ask how many silver taels you want to pawn this jade pendant?" "

Dream Note smiled indifferently, "I...... The slave family is also pawning things for the first time, I don't know what the market is, please ask the shopkeeper Li to make a price first. She didn't know anything about the prices here, and she didn't study the jade, although she knew that this jade pendant was worth a lot of money, but she didn't dare to estimate it rashly, so she directly pushed the matter to the shopkeeper Li.

Shopkeeper Li was obviously very surprised by this answer, and said with a smile: "This jade is a good Hetian jade, the color and luminosity are also excellent, and the carving is also first-class, Li has seen so many beautiful jade, and there are many big ones that are better than this jade, but the workmanship is less than half of this jade." It's just a pity that this jade has been soaked in blood for some reason, and the blood stains have even spread to the texture. After turbidity pollution, no matter how good the quality of the jade is, it has lost its original value. "

"Bloodstains? Why can't I see it? Lu Mengjian was suspicious, took the jade pendant and glanced at the sun, and vaguely seemed to see a very subtle texture, "Shopkeeper Li, how can you be sure that this is contaminated by blood stains, maybe it is the texture of the jade itself." "

"Girl, you don't know this, this jade has blood, and there is no difference between it and ordinary jade at a glance, but when you look closely, you can see some doorways......" Shopkeeper Li was confident that Lu Mengjian didn't know jade, and he saw that he couldn't find anything wrong with the jade pendant, so he deliberately made a fuss about the lines on the jade.

"In that case, Li doesn't say much, how about giving a real price, sixty taels?"

Lu Mengjian had calculated that this jade could be worth a hundred taels at least before he came, but now when he heard this, he didn't say anything, but just gently took the jade pendant from the shopkeeper Li's hand, put it in the cloth bag again, and gathered his hair, "Since the shopkeeper Li is not sincere, the slave family will leave first." "

Seeing the situation, Shopkeeper Li hurriedly asked, "Girl, do you think this price is too low?" "

"I've always heard that Shopkeeper Li's store has the most fair price, so I went directly to your house, but who expected that Shopkeeper Li was really disappointing, which shows that this reputation is not true. I didn't think that this jade might be sold at the original price, but unfortunately the boss is not a person who cherishes jade, and actually said that my personal jade is stained with obscurity, and this jade is degraded to this point. In that case, I had to go to another shop and ask. Lu Mengjian's tone was cold, and when Shopkeeper Li saw her say this, he couldn't help but feel anxious.

hurriedly spoke, "Girl, please don't be impatient, Xu is old Li Mou's eyes are dizzy, and he looks away." Ask the girl to drink a cup of tea to extinguish the fire first, and let Li take a closer look. After that, he handed Huzi a look and served tea to the seat, Lu Mengjian frowned, thought about it and sat down again, and looked coldly at the shopkeeper Li on the side and looked carefully at the sun.

After a long time, he said to Lu Mengjian with a smile on his face, "Girl, this jade is indeed a good Hetian jade, and the carver has nothing to say, but there are these veins on this jade for some reason, which affects the jade products, but it can barely be seen, I don't know if the girl wants to die or live?" "

"Die, so that Shopkeeper Li can resell it, you don't have to press it in your hands for a year and a half, I still have something at home, if Mr. is optimistic, then issue a ticket," Lu Mengjian had already thought clearly, the original owner of this body was beaten so badly, and he was thrown on the side of the street, he was also a hard-working person, no one would find it, and it was useless to keep this jade pendant, it was better to sell it completely.

Pawnshop collects things, has always liked death, and it is extremely convenient to buy and sell, listening to Lu Mengjian's words, the shopkeeper Li smiled with a smile on his face, "Okay, I didn't expect the girl to be so refreshing, and Li took this jade pendant." "

Huzi took one hundred taels of silver tickets and forty taels of broken silver and handed them to Lu Mengjian, and said with a smile, "This silver ticket belongs to the Qianqing in the north of the city, this is the largest money village in our Lei Country, you can cash it anywhere, and these broken silver, please check it first." "

Lu Mengjian put the silver ticket in his arms, put the silver in his purse and stuffed it into his cuffs, and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Li's reputation is well-known outside, how can he lose his reputation because of a few dozen taels of silver, so there is no need to check it." After that, he took out a small piece of broken silver and handed it to Huzi, "Thank you for your enthusiastic help, and I will leave." "

Weighing the broken silver in his hand, there were as many as two coins, Huzi couldn't help but smile on his face, and sent Lu Mengjian to the door. Lu Mengjian walked a few steps, and saw that Huzi was still at the door, so he turned back and asked, "Dare to ask the little brother if there is a store selling flower seedlings around here?" "

"The eldest sister is going to buy flowers, there is one in the alley in front, the flowers sold are beautiful, and the price is not particularly expensive......" Huzi said all the cages he knew, and watched Lu Mengjian go away before returning to the store, but he didn't expect the shopkeeper to return to the backyard yet, and he was playing with the jade pendant in his hand.

Huzi stood at the counter happily, "I didn't expect that eldest sister to be so generous just now, it's the first time I've received so much silver in so many years." "

"This girl is indeed unusual, but whenever others come to pawn, they are eager to kick more silver taels into their pockets, but this girl doesn't seem to value these silver taels, and this jade pendant really has some origins......" Before the shopkeeper Li could finish speaking, he heard someone walk into the store.

The person who came was dressed in white, and Chun Yishang was already holding a folding fan in front of him, and before he walked in, he asked loudly, "Old man Li, what good things have you received today?" "

Shopkeeper Li saw that it was Xiaoyou Gu Changfeng, so he took out the newly collected jade pendant, "Heh, it's Gu Gongzi here, this is not a valuable thing, it's just a piece of jade." "

"Tsk, this is not an ordinary jade pendant," Gu Changfeng gently took the jade pendant in his hand, his expression was focused, Shopkeeper Li had long known that Gu Changfeng loved jade like his life, and this jade pendant would definitely not be able to return to his hands when it entered his magic eyes, so he sat quietly and watched Gu Changfeng play without saying a word.

"I think that at the beginning, there was a famous jade craftsman in Lei Kingdom, but all the jade in his hands, after carving, is like having life, all of which are rare in the world. It's just that this craftsman has a strange temper, and all the jade he carved with his own hands is only sold to people who are destined, so it is rare for the world to see it...... I didn't expect to meet here today, this jade pendant can be described as a rare treasure in the world, rare and rare! Gu Changfeng pointed out the rarities of jade one by one, and Shopkeeper Li realized that he had picked up the treasure by mistake today, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Gu Changfeng took out a thousand taels of silver tickets and threw them on the counter, "Old man Li, I can keep this jade pendant, do you think these are enough?" When Shopkeeper Li saw it, his eyes were straight, and he couldn't help nodding with joy again and again.

Besides, Lu Mengjian followed the direction pointed by Huzi, and walked for a long time before he saw the so-called flower shop that Huzi said.

Perhaps because the flowers had not yet bloomed at the beginning of spring, the flower shop was almost empty except for the dozing boss. In the middle of the small storefront is a pot of kumquats, and the small fruit bends the twigs. Due to the extremely low temperature in winter, the flowers and trees here have already withered their leaves, and there are a few bare pots of flowers and trees in the open space next to it.

When the boss saw someone coming, he thought that the other party had gone to the wrong place, so he didn't get up to greet him, but just squinted his eyes and looked up and down. Unexpectedly, the woman walked around the store for a long time, and bent down to carefully inspect the flowers and trees in the pot, and finally pointed to a pot of rhododendrons that had not yet bloomed and asked, "Boss, how do you sell this flower?" "

"One or two," the boss couldn't help but feel disgusted when he saw that the woman was dressed shabby. It has always been that only rich people have nothing to do when they are full, and they come to the flower shop to buy flowers, but they did not expect that such poor people also want to learn to do such elegant things, so they casually said a number, in a vain attempt to scare her out of the door.

"Scared, but a pot of ordinary azaleas is so expensive, boss, you dare to ask for a price," Lu Mengjian didn't expect a pot of flowers to be sold so expensive, and couldn't help but be surprised, but seeing that the boss looked like he was ignoring it, he knew that the other party thought that he couldn't afford to buy flowers, so he asked for a price, and deliberately pointed to a pot of cinnamon next to him to ask for the price.

Jin Gui has been pruned and grafted, the growth is excellent, and the shape of the rockery and flowing water is placed in the pot, which looks very magnificent, the boss snorted lightly, pinched his throat and said, "This, it takes nine taels of silver, little girl, you can't afford it." "

When Lu Mengjian heard the boss's voice, a hint of ridicule appeared on his face, "Oh, yes, the shape of this golden cinnamon is only worth nine taels of silver, and no matter how expensive it is, I'm afraid no one really wants to buy it." "

The boss was anxious when he heard it, this golden cinnamon took him a few years to cultivate, but now it was wantonly belittled, how could he swallow this breath, and grabbed Lu Mengjian, "What do you say, do you know how rare this golden cinnamon is, you look at the shape of this tiger head alone, it is extremely rare, and this rockery ......"

"Although the shape is good, it's a pity, if this flower is deliberately carved for the sake of money, it will lose the soul of the flower, don't you find that this golden cinnamon has no shape, but no spirituality?"