Updated: 2012-07-27

Li Xiaoqi and his entourage walked slowly for a day, and only entered Lukang in the evening of the next day, Lukang is not big, but people come and go, prosperous very, Li Xiaoqi picked the most rich and luxurious foot shop, but the store in the number A of the big and good set of courtyards have been packaged, Nanning had to pick a good bag of two adjacent yards, take people to park vehicles for a long time, pack things, Nanning and Xi'an escorted Li Xiaoqi and Luo Yan, Danyue and others sat in a sedan chair, circled around the town, found the best wine shop in Lukang and went to eat, He took a sedan chair and went around the tiles in the south of the town before returning to the foot shop to rest.

Early the next morning, Li Xiaoqi wore an inconspicuous silver-gray silk dress, took Luo Yan and other three people, did not sit in a sedan chair, put on a long veil to half the body of the hat, went out of the door of the shop, along the already lively street market, all the way forward, a street to the end, in addition to the rich face on both sides, almost every house looks like a courtyard is a little deep wine shop, the rest is a place to sell grilled abalone, fried clams, stewed crab noodles, crab shell yellow and so on all kinds of very distinctive food stalls and shops, occasionally there are one or two shops selling goods from the north and southLi Xiaoqi looked strange, this Lugang is a large port in Wudi, and the maritime business of Wu merchants is six or seven out of ten from here, why don't you see the shop that trades the goods, is it unloaded here, and it has to be transported to Yangzhou and then traded? Li Xiaoqi stood on the side of the street and thought about it, then turned his head and instructed Luo Yan: "You go to the shop that sells crab shell yellow to buy a few, let's go back and eat, by the way, ask the shopkeeper, and say that we want to buy some good Nanzhu, medicinal materials or something, and ask him where to buy them." Luo Yan understood, took the big purse containing copper coins from the hand of the light moon, walked briskly into the cooking cake shop next to it, and soon came out with a bag of crab shell yellow, handed the purse back to the light moon, and reported with a smile holding the crab shell yellow: "We are looking for the wrong place, the shopkeeper said that this Lukang does not do small business, so it is not like Yangzhou is full of shops, if you want to buy and sell things, go to the wine shop on this street, the wine shop here is mostly opened by those sea merchants, which one the owner does, which one is traded in the wine shop, the shopkeeper said, The Yinfeng Building in front is the place where the jewels of Nanzhu and Agate are traded, and if you want to buy medicinal materials, you have to go to the Shouxian Building over there. Luo Yan held the cooking cake and turned around and pointed in the other direction to show Li Xiaoqi, and Haitang hurriedly stepped forward to take the cooking cake in Luo Yan's arms.

Li Xiaoqi was stunned, raised his eyebrows and smiled, this Lukang is really extraordinary, it seems that the business in this wine shop must be a big deal, I heard that this sea business transaction is often millions, it seems that this is really the case, Li Xiaoqi stood on the corner of the street and hesitated for a moment, she didn't understand the medicinal materials, pearl agate or something, I have seen some of them, Li Xiaoqi raised his chin at Yinfeng Lou and ordered: "Let's go, let's go to Yinfeng Lou to have a look." Luo Yan and Danyue and Begonia were busy following around, and Nanning and Xi'an followed with a few guards not far away and entered Yinfeng Building.

Dr. Cha Fan Liang Liquor politely let in, Luo Yan commanded Dr. Cha Fan Liang Wine to 'pick the best private room', Li Xiaoqi looked around through the hat, stared at the Qiluo who was talking in a low voice in the hall for a while, turned his head to look at Dr. Cha Fan and said straightforwardly: "I heard that you have the best pearl and jade agate here, I want to see it, I want the best." The face of the doctor of tea and rice did not change at all, and he bowed down and said with a smile: "The girl has a good reputation, it is best not to say, but it can be better than our Yinfeng Lou goods, not to mention Lukang, even this Huainan road is difficult to find a second one, only the same, the small goods are not sold in zero, and it is a box to buy." ”

"Well, let's take a look at the goods first." Li Xiaoqi walked upstairs with his skirt, and said lightly, Dr. Cha Rice and Wine was no longer verbose, let Li Xiaoqi and others enter the spacious and unusual private room, served tea and snacks, said 'Wait a minute', lowered his hand and retreated to the door, a moment of effort, there were a few gentle knocks at the door, Begonia lifted the curtain, a middle-aged man about forty years old, gentle and delicate, wearing a azure gray gown came in with a smile, the gentle and elegant Chang Yi saluted, his eyes were clear and quickly glanced at Li Xiaoqi and the standing Luo Yan and others, took half a step back quietly, and asked with a polite and respectful smile: "I don't know which one the girl wants to see, pearls, agate, rubies, emeralds, or something else?" ”

Li Xiaoqi tilted his head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "Let's take a look at pearls and emeralds first, these two things, our ones here are far less good than those from Bo." ”

"The girl is an expert, and the ruby is also good, why don't you bring it to the girl together?" The middle-aged man flattered decently, saw Li Xiaoqi nodded in response, took two steps back and went out of the door, not long, the middle-aged man held two red lacquer boxes in his hands, and the two little guys in the back each came in with two dark green and dark blue boxes, and carefully put the boxes on the table, the two little guys lowered their hands and retreated, the middle-aged man raised his hand and signaled, Luo Yan hurriedly took two steps forward, opened the boxes one by one, and the middle-aged man smiled: "Girl, see if these boxes can get into the eye." ”

Luo Yan looked at it, first gently pushed the two boxes of pearls in front of Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi poked his head slightly, carefully looked at a box full of pearls the size of lotus seeds, and slowly dialed it with his fingers, the pearls emitted a warm shimmer, reflected on Li Xiaoyi's white and slender fingers, and the wild goose was almost dazzled to see, Li Xiaoqi picked up for a while, picked five or six beads with excellent color and luster, round and flawless, put them on the palm of Luo Yan's hand, and motioned her to show the middle-aged man: "In these two boxes, these five or six are still passable." The middle-aged man stared at the beads held in the palm of Luo Yan's hand, stunned, and hurriedly smiled: "The girl has good eyesight, don't hide it from the girl, this whole box is like this, take this box back, always have to carefully divide a point, like the girl picked out these few, is the top grade of the top grade, used to make earrings, inlaid heads, beads and hairpins, all excellent, the rest of the box, just take the beads, make clothes stumbling buttons, this whole box to take, in the end is not as neat as a single buy." ”

Li Xiaoqi said plausibly, stretched out his hand and pulled the two boxes of emeralds, looked at them carefully for a while, looked up at the middle-aged man and said with a smile: "I don't hide it from Mr., although I came to you to buy pearls, but I am not in the pearl and jade business, I bought them all for my own use, I want to ask Mr. to help me see, such as these two boxes of pearls, I just bought back, and I am willing to use only those five or six, if you string a bead to wear, you have to buy another box to pick out some, you can help me see, is it cost-effective to buy three boxes back here in your place, Or is it cost-effective to simply go to the jewelry shops in Yangzhou or Taiping Mansion to buy them one by one? ”

The middle-aged man laughed stunned, bent his fingers and counted for a while, looked at Li Xiaoqi and said with a smile: "The girl is honest, Xiao Ke doesn't dare to deceive the girl, if the girl only picks these three or two out of a box, according to me, the girl still goes to Yangzhou to pick and buy a good deal, just don't go to Taiping Mansion, the jewelry in Taiping Mansion is much more expensive than Yangzhou, if the girl goes to Taiping Mansion to pick and buy, then it is better to buy three boxes from our shop to go back, the price is about the same, but the girl in addition to getting a lovely string of beads, In the end, there are a bunch of high-grade beads, even if it is researched to the end of the face, it is not cost-effective. Li Xiaoqi laughed when the middle-aged man said, closed the box casually, and greeted the middle-aged man's grateful chin and said: "Thank you, sir, in this remark, a word of sincerity is clear, Mr. is ?????? in this Yinfeng Building."

"The girl praised it, the businessman is honest first, but he is a guy in Yinfeng Building, but he has been doing it for a long time, and the owner loves it, and now he is waiting for the pearl and jade business." The middle-aged man replied respectfully and politely, Li Xiaoqi listened attentively, thought about it and asked with a smile: "It's a blessing for your owner to have a guy like you, I don't seem to see a name like Yinfeng Building in Yangzhou, in addition to this place, where else does your owner have a jewelry store?" ”

"Yes, Yangzhou, Taiping Mansion, and Sioux City are all there, called Treasure Fang."

"It turns out that the Treasure Workshop belongs to your owner, and it is one of the best jewelry shops in Taiping Mansion!" Luo Yan smiled with surprise, the middle-aged man smiled reservedly, and then said: "The shop in Taiping Mansion and Yangzhou is almost the same, the treasure workshop of Taiping Mansion is handmade, the style is new, and the price is much higher. ”

"What about Sioux City?"

"The shops in Sioux City specialize in medium-grade pearls and jades, even if there are few, they are also taken in the whole box, and there are many of them, such as medicine shops, bead shops, and clothing shops, all of which take goods by the catty, and the shops also do piecemeal trading, but the amount is very small."

"What's the point here?" Li Xiaoqi asked in surprise, the middle-aged man laughed, and explained very patiently: "Su Cheng tightly leads Qiguo, the girl knows, Qiguo's Tongyungang and Crescent Port, but the world is famous, our Lukang can not be compared, these two ports, the leader of the jewelry business, is Ji Gu Zhai, that is the capital of the Xinyang Lu family, a hundred years old, no one dares to compete with his family for business, fortunately, here Ji Gu Zhai only makes top pearls and jade, our small characters, in this area, we have to ??????"

"Everyone has no choice but to do this middle-to-low-grade jade business." Li Xiaoqi smiled and continued, the middle-aged man smiled and nodded, Li Xiaoqi sighed, looked at the middle-aged man and thanked: "Thank you for your advice, I want to buy some excellent pearls, I have also been to the treasure workshop of Taiping Mansion, the style and work are good, but the things make people unwilling, I originally thought that there must be good here, but when I heard Mr. say this, I still ran in vain, it seems that I have to go to Sioux City." Li Xiaoyi's voice was full of regret, this pearl and jade business can't be done.