Chapter 207: Questioning
On the tray are two pieces of jewelry, one is a golden glazed forehead, a goose egg the size of a thumb, polished into several planes, surrounded by a thin circle of red gold flame patterns.
The other is a peony grate comb inlaid with a sea blue glazed bare stone, which is usually worn in the middle of the bun. This grate comb is made with sea blue, which is also graceful and solemn, which is suitable for middle-aged women to wear.
On the side of the ocean-blue grate comb, there are also several ocean-blue glazed hairpins and teardrop-shaped earrings, which are thought to be used to match the grate comb.
The windows of the Baotai Silver Building have been replaced with glass windows, although each window is only a whole glass in the middle, and the surrounding area is still decorated with carvings, but it is still much brighter than the hemp paper windows of this era.
The waitress picked up the navy-blue grate comb first.
When the grate comb was placed in the palm of her hand, the maid shook it, and the glass with many refractive surfaces reflected the sunlight mixed with sea blue, which made several people present squint in unison.
A little girl beside the middle-aged woman exclaimed "ah".
The waitress smiled and introduced the materials, patterns and other details of this sea blue grate comb to several people, explained in detail, assisted in showing the details of the grate comb from multiple angles, and added rare colors, which made several people present listen to their hearts.
Mrs. Tan took the grate comb, took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, she was extremely satisfied and moved to buy it.
"This grate comb, plus three hairpins, how much silver is in total?" Mrs. Tan asked.
The waitress hurriedly replied: "This grate comb is eight hundred taels of silver, and each hairpin is seventy-five taels, and today is the first time to launch, and the lady will be converted into eight taels, a total of eight hundred and twenty taels of silver." ”
"So ......" Mrs. Tan was surprised, and swallowed the surprise question of "so cheap".
But Mrs. Tan swallowed, and a young woman across the table spoke.
Hearing only the sound of "pop", a young woman stood up and shouted angrily: "This collar is made of so many materials, but the price is only nine hundred taels." A few years ago, I only bought a simple glazed golden hairpin, and the asking price of your silver building is actually 4,900 taels of silver, which is too deceitful! ”
The two waitresses who were serving the table curtsied again and again, and kept saying good things, but their faces were not panicked, thinking that today's failure should be within the expectation of Baotai Silver Building.
The waitress explained: "Please also ask Grandma Liu to calm her anger, the small shop has always been based on integrity, and will never dare to sell strange goods and raise prices." The batch of glazed gems a year ago, the small store was collected at a high price. If you sell it at such a price at that time, you will lose all your money. I hope Grandma Liu will forgive me. ”
"Nonsense!" The grandmother Liu reprimanded, her anger did not diminish at all, "It's all the same glass, it's only been a few months, how can the price be so different?" It is clearly Baotai Yinlou, which has made black money. Today, if Baotai Yinlou doesn't give me a reasonable explanation, I will let people sue your Yinlou to the yamen! ”
The waitress of Baotai Yinlou still bowed and explained, which was nothing more than asking Grandma Liu to forgive her, and they did business according to the cost of raw materials to set prices, and did not deceive customers.
Most of the people were watching quietly, and there were two other people at Grandma Liu's table, one was persuading, and the other was helping to reprimand Baotai Yinlou.
However, everyone knows that even if this Grandma Liu really sued Baotai Yinlou to the Yamen, it is like this kind of high-end jewelry, which does not involve the oil, salt and cloth of the people's livelihood, and is naturally scarce, and the Yamen is not very careful.
Yang and Gao looked over, and the young woman who was called Grandma Liu by the maid was one of the people who had participated in the chrysanthemum banquet of the Chengjun Palace's mansion last year.
On that day in the Chengjun Palace, I was very much on the side to help the lord of Shaohua squeeze his sister-in-law, and I think she was also one of the people who bought sky-high glass jewelry.
In Liu's reprimand and the waiter's explanation, the shopkeeper hurriedly stepped into the second floor, stepped forward a few steps, and explained to the grandmother Liu, saying the same thing.
It's just that the weight of the shopkeeper's words is heavier, and after explaining, he also specially explained that Baotai Yinlou has a detailed account book of import and export, even if it goes up to the yamen, the account book also clearly records the purchase price of that batch of glazed gemstones, and there is no suspicion of price gouging.
After saying this, the woman immediately looked at Gao and Yang.
Yang frowned slightly. But since Liu didn't speak, she didn't say anything, just quietly took the tea provided by Baotai Yinlou and sipped it slowly.
When the shopkeeper saw the presence of the two young grandmothers of the Xia family, he secretly complained in his heart.
He knew that the price of the previous batch of jewelry was ridiculously high. The fourth aunt and grandmother of the Xia family have their own style of doing business, and obviously they will not make money at an unusually high price.
As for why the glass gems were priced at a high price, he couldn't figure it out.
As he said just now, the purchase price of Baotai Yinlou is high, and he does have an import and export account book in his hand, and the procedures for delivery with Qingyunzhai are also complete.
Not to mention going to the Yamen, even if the account books and procedures are made public at this time, Baotai Silver Building is also possible.
That Qingyunzhai has Shao Yi's shares, and those who came to buy jewelry that day, no matter which one they are, it is impossible to find trouble with Qingyunzhai because of this kind of thing.
But if the two young grandmothers of the Xia family are scolded by Grandma Liu here and have some conflicts, then it will be difficult for him to explain to the fourth aunt and grandmother of the Xia family.
If you offend this aunt, you will offend the God of Wealth.
The shopkeeper was about to say a few more words to divert Grandma Liu's attention, but he didn't expect him to be a step late.
The Liu family looked at the two Yang family with an unkind expression, snorted heavily, and sneered: "It's a pity that the Xia family is known as a scholarly family, but there is no way to teach their children. not only connived at and divorced his daughter to do business, but also deceived the world and made such a black-hearted silver. I see that your Xia family should announce to the world as soon as possible, don't call yourself a scholarly family anymore, and change it to a merchant family. ”
Gao was furious when he heard this, slapped the table, and stood up.
Yang hurriedly grabbed her and pressed her back into the chair, but he stood up and faced Liu.
"I persuade Grandma Liu to take back what she said just now, whether the Xia family is scholarly or not, but it is not up to you to decide." Yang said lightly, "Although I have never done business, I also know that there is such a thing as an entourage." The glass of the day, naturally there is the price and cost of the glass of the day, is it in order to take care of the mood of Grandma Liu, even if the cost of the glass has dropped now, Qingyun Zhai still sells at a high price? ”
Liu was speechless by Yang's question, and everyone looked at her with a lot of unkindness.
On that day, the county lord of Shaohua appeared in front of people wearing glass jewelry, which amazed the audience.
The birthday banquet of the old lady of Ningguo is not a big scene. Even in such a big scene, the most dazzling one is only the county lord of Shaohua.
They also wanted to buy jewelry, but they had no way or opportunity, and the price at that time was indeed too high.
Now, the price has finally dropped, and they have the opportunity to buy it, but what does this Grandma Liu mean? Could it be that only people in their circle can enjoy such dazzling jewelry?