Chapter Twenty-Five: The Pawnshop

Looking at the two people walking towards the entrance of the village, Sister-in-law Tian pulled the corners of her mouth, she has been married to this Fenglai Village for so long, she has never heard that this aunt has a cousin niece, she looks so standard, and looks at the white and tender face does not look like she is doing hard work, to say that she has not seen this person enter the village in the past two days!

But then again, the chats on weekdays are short among parents, and this time it can be regarded as a new conversation, but it's a pity that she has a husband, and her mother's third child doesn't have a daughter-in-law.

Qu Xiaomo and Aunt Fang, who walked to the entrance of the village, happened to see the ox cart slowly coming towards the entrance of their village, so they stood in place and waited, there were already three women sitting on the ox cart, two of them were thirty or forty years old, and the other was wearing new clothes and light pink silk flowers, like a little daughter-in-law who had just gotten married.

The ox cart stopped, Aunt Fang paid ten copper plates, the two got into the car and found a place to sit down, and greeted the three people in the car, everyone is from the neighboring village, how much they have met and met, Aunt Fang talked with the three of them as soon as she got in the car, and did not forget to pull Qu Xiaomo together.

Because Qu Xiaomo is indeed beautiful, the little daughter-in-law who just got married and called Pear Blossom sat next to her and kept peeking, and asked Qu Xiaomo during the conversation: "Sister Mo, look at your fine skin and tender meat, you don't look like you're doing farm work, right?" ”

Qu Xiaomo turned his head and glanced at her when he heard this, and said with a smile: "It's true that I don't work often, but I have more calculations."

"Yo, you're going to settle accounts!" The pear blossom shouted in surprise, attracting the side glances of the two women who were talking to Aunt Fang, Aunt Wang and Aunt Li.

Then he asked, "Then what does your husband's family do?" ”

"If you are in the restaurant business, I will help you take stock on weekdays." Qu Xiaomo said that the big shopkeeper is indeed in the restaurant business, and she knows that Futai Restaurant and Lanyue Lou are all in charge of eating and drinking, and she doesn't dare to inquire about other businesses.

"But look at your dress..."Rika looked her up and down, and said, "You don't look like a rich person!" Falling in the middle of the road? ”

Qu Xiaomo raised his eyes and glanced at her, but he just smiled and didn't speak, holding the basket in one hand and the handle of the ox cart in the other, and turned his gaze away, not because he said much.

She only lived here for two or three months, and she didn't need everyone to have a good relationship, not to mention that this pear blossom was from another village, and she looked like a gossip spirit, which really made it difficult for her to arouse her interest in making friends.

Pear Blossom also saw that she didn't want to take care of herself, so she left people to chat with a few aunts, and Qu Xiaomo listened to them chatting about the gossip of the two villages.

It was almost at the gate of the county seat in about half an hour, Aunt Fang woke her up and said, "I'm afraid we will be separated when we enter the city in a while, so you will go out of the city gate and wait after you finish your work." ”

"Got it." Qu Xiaomo rubbed his eyes and nodded.

got out of the car at the entrance of the county seat, several people greeted each other and went to buy each, Qu Xiaomo pulled someone along the way, asked the location of the pawnshop, and went over with a basket.

There are a lot of people in Ning County, and there are a lot of shops, but compared to the capital and Jiazhou, it is a big witch, according to the road that the person pointed out Xiao Mo found a pawnshop, and I heard that the person said that this pawnshop is the only one in Ning County.

The shopkeeper who had just walked in front of the counter and dozed off with a small mustache immediately woke up, and immediately stepped forward to greet him, saying, "Do you want to pawn something or buy some old things?" ”

Qu Xiaomo glanced at her, turned his head to look at the things on the shelf behind her, and pointed to a delicate jade bottle on it for a while and said, "How much silver is that jade bottle?" ”

The shopkeeper glanced back at a bottle, reached out and took off the hem on the counter for him to take a closer look, and said, "This jade bottle is three hundred taels, you look at the jade." ”

Qu Xiaomo looked at it, although the jade quality was good, but it was far from the jade crown in his basket, and he also knew the approximate price of the jade bottle by relying on it, so he returned the bottle to the shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "To tell the shopkeeper the truth, I am not here to sell, I am here to be." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and opened the blue handkerchief, took out the jade crown and put it on the table, and said, "Your jade bottle can be sold for three hundred taels, look at how much silver my jade crown has." ”

The shopkeeper put the jade bottle away before picking up the jade crown and looking left and right, his eyes showed a look of surprise, but it quickly disappeared, his face was still as usual, and said: "This jade crown is good, and the carving is also the best, I don't know where the girl got it?" ”

Seeing that Qu Xiaomo was dressed like a peasant woman in the village, but her face and complexion were not the same, she was a little suspicious that this jade crown was coming from the wrong way, and thought that she could use some information to suppress the price.

Qu Xiaomo didn't know the shopkeeper's little abacus, and immediately smiled: "You might as well tell the shopkeeper that this jade crown is my husband's family, and my husband and I were going to the west to buy goods, but I knew that I was bitten by a poisonous snake on the way, and I had to occupy it at my aunt's house. ”

The shopkeeper was skeptical, but he was a pawnshop, and the origin of the things was not important, so he thought for a long time before asking, "How much silver does the girl plan to make?" ”

Qu Xiaomo smiled and asked, "How much silver does the shopkeeper think this jade crown is worth?" ”

Seeing that the ball was kicked back to him, the shopkeeper chuckled and said, "How about five hundred taels?" ”

Qu Xiaomo's smile did not change, but he reached out and took the jade crown in his hand, and said, "The shopkeeper is laughing, I'll take it to the jewelry store and take a look." ”

As he spoke, he was about to take back the jade crown and put it away, turned around and left, but the shopkeeper hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "Girl, wait first, you want to see if the price is not suitable, we can still discuss, don't worry!" ”

Qu Xiaomo turned around and said, "How much can the shopkeeper give to tell the truth?" ”

The shopkeeper pondered for a while, stretched out his finger and compared, and said, "Eight hundred taels." ”

Qu Xiaomo wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, still not very satisfied, and the shopkeeper saw that she was still not happy, so he said: "Girl, the workmanship of your jade crown is indeed exquisite, and the jade quality is also excellent, but in the end, it is an old thing that has been brought, and eight hundred taels can buy a similar jade crown in other places." ”

Qu Xiaomo thought about it and gritted his teeth and said, "Death, one thousand five hundred taels." "The things that the golden sting is wearing are all gold, how can he sell it for eight hundred taels, and he must not be angry to death when he goes back.

"One thousand taels!" The shopkeeper said with a painful face

"The minimum is 1,300 taels, if I don't have this number, I'll go to the jewelry store to take a look, maybe it's higher than the pawnshop." Qu Xiaomo's face was resolute.

The most important thing about this jade crown is not the quality of jade, but the carving, this jade crown is said to be something from the capital, if it is sold to those rich families in the county, I am afraid that it can earn two thousand taels, the shopkeeper gritted his teeth, immediately slapped the table, and said: "Deal!" ”

The two counted the silver in front of them, and happily walked out of the pawnshop with two silver tickets of five hundred taels and three hundred taels of silver exchanged for broken silver in the basket.

With the silver on his body, he first found a noodle stall and asked for a bowl of meat noodles, and a steamed bun had already been consumed, and he began to go to the pharmacy after he was full, and asked the noodle stall proprietress about the location of 'Ji Tongtang', and paid the noodles and passed.

When I entered the store, I saw the white-bearded old doctor last time, who was grabbing medicine for other people, and when I looked up, I saw her, I only felt familiar, but Qu Xiaomo changed into women's clothes, he didn't recognize it at once, and greeted the guest while wrapping the medicine and collecting the money: "The girl is still catching medicine?" ”

Qu Xiaomo took out the prescription he wrote from the placket of his chest and handed it over, saying, "Grab the medicine, doctor." ”

The old doctor opened the prescription and looked at it, looked up at Qu Xiaomo a few more times, frowned and said with some uncertainty: "You are the little guy who poisoned the son in Fenglai Village two days ago?" ”

Qu Xiaomo smiled and nodded, and the old doctor looked her up and down in surprise and said, "You are a girl!" ”

Qu Xiaomo hurriedly shook his head and denied: "No, no, I'm a man, and wearing women's clothes is just an expedient measure." ”

But the old doctor stared at him, shook his head again and again and said with a positive smile: "No, you are a girl's family, the old man has practiced medicine for decades, and the skeletons of men and women are slightly different, and it is not something that people who practice medicine all year round can't see." ”

Qu Xiaomo: "...."

The old doctor was no longer entangled, took the prescription and turned around to find the medicinal materials in the medicine cabinet, and said: "Girls should protect themselves when they go out, and the old man is not a person with many tongues, I didn't pay attention to it last time, look at your face at this time, I'm afraid it's a menstrual affair or a future!" ”

Since they have all been recognized by him, Qu Xiaomo no longer pretended, nodded and said: "It's true that it's still the future, but there is a lot of trouble left." ”

The old doctor shook his head, and said while wrapping the medicine: "This can't be done, it will be more difficult to become an heir after not coming and going." ”

Qu Xiaomo smiled at him, she didn't know how to speak, she didn't think about getting married, nor did she think about the heirs, but when she heard the old doctor say this, there was a slight loss in her heart, but this loss was only fleeting, in this world of male superiority and inferiority, she still felt that it was better to be alone.

The old doctor didn't say much, only packed the medicine to be drunk for ten days, and then took out the other two packets, and said: "These two packets are motherwort, you take it and cook it and drink a bowl every day, otherwise you will suffer a big sin when the menstrual affairs come in the future, now slowly adjust and feel better in the future, these two packs will not charge you silver, but it is a matter of a few pennies." ”

As he spoke, he tied it up and handed it to her, other people's kindness, Qu Xiaomo did not refuse, smiled and took it in the basket, paid for the medicine, and sincerely thanked the old doctor and left the pharmacy.

The old doctor is right, she doesn't feel anything about the moon at this time, but she is not a stone girl, she will come one day, and she is afraid that she will die of pain when the time comes, so it is better to slowly adjust now, and it is good that she will not have to suffer so much when the time comes.

After buying the medicine, I have to buy a few sets of clothes that they have changed, this set and Jin Zhen are now wearing Aunt Fang and Uncle Fang, it is not suitable to wear other people's clothes all the time, and the clothes on the body are not suitable, how can Jin Zhen wear Uncle Fang's clothes of one meter seven when she is nearly one meter nine, and she is so thin that she can't support Aunt Fang's clothes.