After all, they wanted to buy thousands of taels, so the Lu family and the two brothers made an appointment to wait for Lu Zhimu's holiday on the fifteenth day of next month, and then come to Chang'an City to make a special trip to visit the jewelry store in Dongdu City. Because Lu Zhi still had an archery class to take in the afternoon, after this meal, Lu Shi sent them to the back door of the Guozijian in a carriage.

Before parting, Lu Shi gave Lu Zhi a money bag, in addition to a dozen taels of silver, there were still two silver tickets of fifty taels, Lu Zhi hesitated a little and accepted it, and asked the two of them to pay attention to safety on the way back, before taking Lu Zhi in.

The mother and daughter didn't go back to Longquan Town directly, and they naturally wanted to go shopping after a difficult trip, so they asked the coachman to pull them to Dongdu, preparing to go to Dongshi to pick up a shop for next month.

The eastern city of Chang'an City is very large, the whole market is divided into nine open markets by the vertical and horizontal four avenues, compared with the Xili City, there are more high-end goods sold here, from antique furnishings to jewelry, from silk and satin to pen, ink, paper and inkstone, all of which are complete and refined.

It was not the first time that Lu and Yi Yu came here, just half a year ago they were still selling sugar gourds in Chang'an City, and the types of goods in the East Metropolis were still clear, so they did not take a detour, and got off the car directly in front of Anjiang Fang in the East Metropolis, and Yu Yu took Lu's arm and walked through the bluestone archway.

This is the advantage of a big city, whether it is the first day of the new year or the fifteenth day of the new year, everywhere is not deserted, although it is not as crowded as the festival, but there are no fewer people coming and going on the street.

The East Market is safer than the West Market, and although there are hawkers, there are no vendors setting up stalls along the streets, and occasionally one or two street patrollers in brown clothes walk past them, and when they see those hawkers who stop and block the serious shops, they will come forward and drive them away.

Yi Yu sighed in his heart, half a year ago, they were also one of these hawkers selling along the street, and they had also been driven away by the street patrols, and they were ignored by others, and what was even more unfortunate was that they had no experience at the beginning, and they had no intention of crossing some small streets and alleys with poor security when they met street tyrants, and the money earned by working for a long time had to be presented with both hands.

After a few months, they walked on the streets of the Eastern Metropolis again, but they were guests who came here to consume with hundreds of taels of silver in their arms.

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The shopkeeper Liu of Qin Bao Zhai was standing downstairs at the counter to settle the accounts, and the abacus beads were pulling. There were no customers coming to the door at this time, and the young man in the shop was diligently wiping down a few lacquered high chairs against the wall.

The owner of Qin Bao Zhai opened a shop in this Chang'an City from the Wude period, all the way from the corner of the street to the East Metropolis, although it is not as good as those jewelry shops with high backgrounds, but it is also quite a famous time-honored brand, some nobles in this Chang'an City, occasionally come here to buy some gadgets.

Shopkeeper Liu ticked twice on the account book, and when he saw two guests walking in at the door, he was busy smiling on his faces, shouting to the guys to pour tea, and beckoning them to the counter to see the goods, quietly observing the pair of guests who looked like mother and daughter.

Yi Yu and Lu Shi walked to the front of the counter, and their eyes looked at the two rows of more than a dozen half-foot wide and narrow uncovered brocade boxes neatly placed on it, all the jewelry pendants were classified according to different materials and styles, some boxes were side by side with more than a dozen exquisitely carved wooden men's flutes, some boxes were all kinds of jade pendants, and there were good quality pearl hairpins and hairpins in one box, and so on, so that the first time to come to this kind of place, Yu Yu was dazzled.

Shopkeeper Liu looked at the woman on the other side of the counter who was dignified but slightly restrained, and the little girl who looked pretty but had a curious face, and his smile suddenly decreased by two.

Yi Yu was still looking at these ornaments, but Lu Shi smiled at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, do you have more delicate gold ornaments, and smaller things worn by young girls?" ”

"It's all on this, don't you like this, don't you like these, look at this single butterfly inlaid jade step shake ......" Shopkeeper Liu deliberately had a little doubt in his eyes, and gestured over the counter with one hand, pointing to one of them and starting to introduce it.

Of course, he has exquisite things in this store, but he sees that the clothes of the mother and daughter are only small households, rather than bringing things out, and they don't buy them after picking, it is better to lead them to choose a few pieces from this counter.

It is also said that before the mother and daughter got the five thousand taels of silver, although they also saved a lot of silver, they were never willing to buy those things that wasted money, but they just changed the yard to live in, and the rest were all saved, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation were much better than before, but they were not covered in silk and satin like those rich families in Chang'an City, and their heads were full of pearls.

The two of them are dressed very refreshingly today, Lu has always liked plain clothes, and Yi Yu is wearing a moon-white waist tunic skirt, a jacket with narrow sleeves and light pink short shirts, and there are no upper and lower parts of the body, and a black hair is braided into two long braids and coiled on the side of the ears to make a hanging bun, and it is almost simple to decorate a few small yellow spring flowers on it, although it looks delicate and sweet, but it does not look like a rich lady at all.

The relics of these jewelry shops, who have never been in contact with them, do not know what the shopkeeper Liu said, but it does not mean that the Lu family can't distinguish what he means.

Although the two of them are not going to buy anything today, they also have one or two hundred taels of silver tickets on their bodies, not to mention anything else, just the jewelry on this counter, I am afraid it is only two hundred taels when they are all packed.

If it had been before, the Lu family, who was so underestimated, would have been annoyed, but now she has eased her temperament a lot, and she knows that it is normal for people to dislike the poor and love the rich, and the shopkeeper itself is not malicious, so she is not too dissatisfied, she just wants to wait and then change the shop to see.

Seeing that the shopkeeper's smile gradually faded, Lu finally spoke, "Yu'er, let's go to the next house and have a look." ”

Yi Yu nodded when she heard this, she was just curious about these gadgets, if she liked it, she was about to put down the jade Tenghua jade pendant that the shopkeeper had handed to her just now, when she saw a small hand stretched out in the sky and snatched away the jade pendant that she didn't have time to put down.

Yi Yu frowned and turned her head, and saw a little girl standing next to her at some point two inches shorter than herself, dressed in a beautiful Luo skirt, with a golden pearl collar hanging around her neck, looking at the same age as herself, a small face was very white, but the look of contempt and disdain between her eyebrows and eyes made her dislike.

Yi Yu just glanced at her twice, then rubbed the aching tiger mouth and turned to the side of the Lu family, just about to pull her away, but found that she was staring behind her with a pale face, Yi Yu frowned again, and before she turned her head, she heard a soft female voice sound.

"Wu'er, why did you come here?"

Yi Yu turned around and saw that there was a beautifully dressed woman at the door of Qin Bao Zhai who was supported by two little girls who looked like maids and walked in, this woman was wearing a gorgeous throwing bun on her head, and her face was the most popular lady makeup in Chang'an City, and her figure was also a slender woman who was becoming popular for a while, looking at her appearance, she was only in her thirties.

Shopkeeper Liu was faintly annoyed because he introduced it for a long time, but the mother and daughter of the Lu family did not buy it, and at this time, when he saw the little girl who took the jade pendant in the hand of the left jade and the woman who walked in at the door, it was an old face that was about to burst into laughter, and he didn't care about the mother and daughter of the Lu family who were still standing in front of the counter, so he quickly went out to meet the person.

Yi Yu suddenly felt a tightness in her wrist, and looked at Lu Shi who suddenly grabbed her suspiciously, but she hung her head and pulled out of the shop directly, and when she left the store, she pulled her faster and faster, until she was about 20 zhang away from the shop of Qin Bao Zhai, and Lu gradually slowed down.

Only then did Yi Yu notice the tightness in Lu's body, and worriedly grabbed her arm, and called softly, "Mother? ”

Lu Shi didn't answer, just walked with his head down, and only after a while did he raise his head and show her a reluctant smile, "It's okay, it's just that I suddenly have some chest tightness, and there is a strange smell in the store." Lu himself didn't know how pale her face was when she said this, and her lower lip was full of teeth marks that had been bitten hard.

Yi Yu's heart tightened, and she forcibly held back the question in her throat, and pretended to be indifferent and returned, "No wonder I'm also a little uncomfortable, it turns out that there is a strange smell in the store, mother, then let's stop shopping, go back?" ”

Lu nodded in response, and the two walked towards the place where the carriage stopped, and halfway through when Yi Yu was talking to herself, she glanced back into the distance with a complicated expression, not noticing the same complicated face when Yu Yu quietly looked at her at this time.

Not long after the mother and daughter left quickly, the beautifully dressed woman sat in the private room of Qin Bao Zhai, playing with the exquisite jade beads in the small box respectfully given by the shopkeeper Liu, and whispered to herself:

"Really...... But she's ...... Yes, it's definitely not her. ”

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Thanks to the pink ticket of the flowing leaves in the water!