Chapter 40: Long Kee Pawnshop

South Street is worthy of being the most prosperous street in the Imperial City, with wide streets, many shops, a crowd of pedestrians, and many small vendors on the streets, buying a lot of strange knick-knacks, which are valuable if they can be brought to the world of ancient porcelain.

Gu Yue bought a handmade pu fan, bought a few calligraphy and paintings, and all the broken silver that Xiao Qi had spent.

"Xiao Qi, where is the pawnshop?" It's hard to move anywhere without money, and since it's hard to come out, you must buy it.

"There are a lot of pawnshops on South Street, miss, you see there's one." Xiao Qi pointed forward, and when she saw the signboard clearly, she immediately said, "This one can't work, it's better to change that one." ”

But immediately shook his head again, "Not this one, let's go a few steps further." ”

"Xiao Qi, what are you doing here? Isn't it just looking for a pawnshop? Why can't this one, and why can't that one? Gu Yue raised his eyebrows and said a little impatiently.

Now that I don't have any money in my hand, I naturally feel a little impatient when I see that I can't buy what I like.

"Miss, don't you remember? That room was opened by the Ma family, in case ......"

"And this one belongs to the young lady's family, and the shopkeeper inside is very likely to recognize our ......"

Gu Yue then understood that the Gu family and the Ma family were rich people in Yunguo, and it was reasonable for their shops to open in the most prosperous South Street, but it was just some jewelry, so they wouldn't care so much, right?

"Go to Ma's pawnshop." She quickly chose a low-risk pawnshop. It's true that the pawnshop is the Ma family, but Gu Yue only has something to do with the son of the Ma family, and has nothing to do with other people, besides, that Ma Shaodong can't be in the pawnshop so coincidentally, right?

"Miss, in case ......"

But where did Xiao Qi stop her, she had already walked towards the Longji pawnshop in front.

"There's no whatever, we just come out as some jewelry, soon." With his head raised, he walked forward briskly.

It's still more comfortable to wear casual clothes, and it's much easier to walk.

The Long Kee pawnshop is very large, and it opens four outlets to do business at the same time. Gu Yue saw that there was no one at the entrance of the field, so he walked over, "I'm going to take these jewelry." ”

opened a palm-sized cloth bag, which contained the jewelry that Gu Yue casually took out of the dressing box, a jade hairpin, a golden step, and two pairs of earrings.

Although these jewelry are beautifully handmade, but the material is very ordinary, she thought that even if she brought it back, there was no other jewelry of value, so she first exchanged it for silver flowers.

The guy at the Long Ji pawnshop picked up the jewelry and looked at it, his expression suddenly became very solemn, and then he said to Gu Yue with a smile: "Girl, are you really sure you want to get rid of these jewelry?" ”

"Aren't you a pawnshop here?" Gu Yue felt that this guy's expression was a little strange, and he couldn't say why, so he asked rhetorically.

"Girl, let's not be here." Xiao Qi pulled her sleeve uneasily on the side.

When the guy heard this, he immediately said with a smile: "We are naturally a pawnshop here, and it is one of the largest pawnshops on South Street, but these jewelry brought by the girl are too expensive, and the small ones are not easy to value, so please follow the small ones to the inner hall and have our shopkeeper personally evaluate them." ”

"Why not?" Gu Yue nodded immediately, thinking that a big pawnshop is a big pawnshop, and it is still quite well-behaved, and Tong Su is not bullied.

Soon, another pawnshop man came over, "Please put away your things, and the little one will take the two girls to the inner hall." ”

There is a door on the right side of the pawnshop, push open the door, there is a curtain inside, the curtain is printed with "Long Ji" two big red fonts, open the door curtain, you can see six or seven soft chairs placed side by side inside, there is a wide bookcase on the top position, and there is a fat middle-aged man sitting behind the bookcase.

This middle-aged man should be the shopkeeper here, and when the shopkeeper saw Gu Yue and them coming in, he immediately got up to greet him, "The two girls are going to be jewelry, and the guy should have explained it to the two of them just now, so he can only give a reasonable price after the next inspection." ”

Gu Yue sat down, took out the jewelry in the cloth bag, and put it on the dark red bookcase, "It's just these jewelry, I'm tired of bringing them, so I want to take them as a treat." ”

When something has to have an excuse, this Gu Yue still understands, but her excuse sounds a little lame.

The shopkeeper picked up the jewelry and looked at it, showing a satisfied smile, "So the girl is clean?" ”

Gu Yue didn't understand, Xiao Qi was also at a loss, he didn't have to worry about food and clothing in the county king's mansion before, how could he come out to be a thing?

Fortunately, Gu Yue was anxious and said: "As long as you can be the most silver, you can do it." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, the curve at the corner of his lips became thicker, "These pieces of jewelry have the mark of Chenwangfu, and at a glance you know that they are good things, the workmanship is fine, whether it is jade or gold, the fineness is good, so let's give the girl five thousand taels, such a price can't be opened in other stores, they will give four thousand taels at most." ”

At this time, another man came over with a man at the door and said to the shopkeeper: "This little brother wants to be a piece of ancient jade, and the shopkeeper wants to evaluate it." ”

"First of all, please come aside and wait for a while, I haven't finished dealing with this matter yet." The shopkeeper nodded to the young man behind him, and then the young man sat down quietly on the chair next to Gu Yue.

"Five thousand is five thousand." Gu Yue just wants to complete the current transaction quickly, so that he can go out and buy a lot.

"How much cash does the girl want, how much silver tickets?"

Xiao Qi knew that this was the pawnshop of the Ma family, so he naturally wanted to leave quickly, and immediately said: "As long as five hundred cash, the rest will be silver." ”

Then the shopkeeper asked the man to take out five hundred pieces of silver, and he himself took out the rest of the silver tickets from the drawer in the inner hall: "Please put away so much silver, two girls." ”

Is five thousand taels a lot? Gu Yue was puzzled for a while.

She still had some blame for Xiao Qi before, why didn't she ask for all the silver, what if the five hundred taels of silver were spent? When the cash silver was brought over, she found that the five hundred taels of cash silver also filled a small wooden box, and it was quite heavy when she held it.

Anyway, it took so long for Xiao Qi's broken silver before, and these cash silver should be a hundred times and a thousand times that of Xiao Qi, and it should be enough to spend today.

When she got up, she casually glanced at the young man sitting next to her.

The first impression is that the skin is very white and the eyes are bright.

He was dressed in a very ordinary cotton robe, but he had a beautiful sword hanging from his waist, and the hilt was inlaid with a very shiny sapphire, even the hilt itself was made of pure Ugin.