Chapter 182: The Sword Hairpin
"Shopkeeper, this golden hairpin, please help me return it!"
Bai Yanqing ran to the jewelry shop, carefully took out the golden hairpin he bought in the morning from his arms, and said politely to the shopkeeper.
"I'm sorry, this guest officer, the jewelry in our small store will not be returned once shipped."
The shopkeeper, seeing that Bai Yanqing came over to return the hairpin for such a golden hairpin, immediately pulled down his face, his face was full of displeasure, and if Bai Yanqing returned the goods, he would find someone to beat her!
"Shopkeeper, you misunderstood, I just want to change one, something better. This hairpin is too ordinary, and it's not worth much! What do you say?"
Bai Yanqing has always known what these business people like the most, what they like the most, and they meet those who are generous! If you change to a better and more expensive one, of course they will be attentive!
After that, Bai Yanqing seemed to be unintentional, revealing a large amount of silver ticket in his sleeve!
"Yes, yes, the guest officer is right! I'll change it for you! Look, what does it fit your eyes?"
The shopkeeper took the golden hairpin handed over by Bai Yanqing diligently, nodded and said.
"I want the best jewelry in your shop! Be unique! Want...... You can't buy it in other shops!"
Bai Yanqing raised her eyes and glanced at this shop, all the jewelry that can be placed on the table is mediocre and mediocre, there is nothing special, such jewelry, you can buy it anywhere you go to!
"Other shops...... Can't buy it? This ......."
The shopkeeper's face was embarrassed, and then he lowered his head and thought for a long time before he raised his head and nodded at Bai Yanqing.
"Yes, yes, but ...... This thing, ordinary girls' families, can't control it!"
The shopkeeper spoke quietly.
"Take it out!"
Bai Yanqing's eyebrows frowned slightly, looking at the shopkeeper's hesitant appearance, and a trace of displeasure flashed on her face!
The shopkeeper is also a knowledgeable child, seeing Bai Yanqing's displeasure, he stopped grinding at the moment! Tell the guys in the store to go and get out that rare object!
A delicate, elongated ebony box, no more than the length of a man's palm. Before opening the wooden box, Bai Yanqing didn't think that the things here were so unusual!
"It's ......"
Bai Yanqing was shocked by what she saw with her eyes, a mediocre hairpin? It's also worth being the shopkeeper, so carefully cared for?
"Shopkeeper, aren't you fooling me? Just such a hairpin, which can be seen everywhere on the street, is also worth it for you to use it to coax me?"
Bai Yanqing's face was full of displeasure, just such a hairpin, you can buy ten or twenty hairpins on the stalls on the street! Where is this rare treasure?
"Don't worry, girl, come with me!"
The shopkeeper said that, and led Bai Yanqing to a private room with no one on the side.
Looking at the shopkeeper, he looked mysterious, and Bai Yanqing was also aroused by him, arousing a little curiosity! What kind of treasure can make this shopkeeper so cautious?
"Girl, don't underestimate this hairpin, although its appearance is mediocre, but in fact...... There's something hidden inside!"
The shopkeeper pointed to the hairpin in the wooden box and explained quietly to Bai Yanqing!
"I'd like to see what's hidden!"
After that, Bai Yanqing raised his hand to get the hairpin.
"Girl, don't touch it! Hurt yourself carefully!"
The shopkeeper quickly blocked Bai Yanqing's hand.
Bai Yanqing looked at the shopkeeper suspiciously, only thinking that he was deliberately playing tricks.
"Girl, look!"
Seeing Bai Yanqing's look of disbelief, the shopkeeper no longer pretended to be profound, only to see him cautiously, reaching out and taking out the hairpin! Then, I don't know what mechanism he touched on the hairpin, only to see that the hairpin flew out like a sword! But after a while, the hairpin, as if it had eyes, flew back into the hands of the shopkeeper!
This...... Bai Yanqing was dumbfounded! Isn't this hairpin any divine power? Can you go and come back freely?
"This sword hairpin is the treasure of our shop! After all these years, no one has been able to take it back!"
The shopkeeper was a little complacent.
This sword hairpin has its own aura of a sword hairpin, and it recognizes the Lord! It's not just anyone who can take it away! No, whoever gives the money will go to whom!
"Hairpin?"
Bai Yanqing stared at the hairpin, her eyes were full of curiosity and desire to conquer!
The black hairpin body looks ordinary, and even a gemstone has not been inlaid, such a hairpin is so wonderful! How can Bai Yanqing not be curious?
"Girl, look again!"
The shopkeeper pinched the top of the sword hairpin with two fingers, twisted it slightly, and the hairpin suddenly faded away from the pitch-black hairpin sheath outside! The sharp, chilling sword blade inside is revealed!
Bai Yanqing watched this inconspicuous hairpin, in the hands of the shopkeeper, change and change, and she couldn't close her mouth in shock!
This...... No wonder the shopkeeper just said that this hairpin is not something that ordinary people can master!
"This hairpin, the outer hairpin sheath, is made of fine rosewood, polished! The sword inside is made of extremely rare thousand-year-old black iron, and its sharpened iron is like clay, and a small one can defeat thousands of troops!"
The shopkeeper's eyebrows danced, describing the material of this sword hairpin, but Bai Yanqing's attention, in addition to this, was also in another matter!
"Shopkeeper, can you practice martial arts?"
"The old man has no power to restrain the chicken!"
"That...... When you threw this hairpin out, why was it able to shrink freely? That power doesn't look like the technique of someone who has never practiced martial arts!"
Bai Yanqing was puzzled, how could a person who had no power to restrain the chicken make that sword hairpin, like his own arm, retract and release freely, without any flaws!
"That's because...... There is a secret hidden on this sword hairpin!"
The shopkeeper said, took out a black handkerchief, and carefully placed it under the sword hairpin!
"Girl, take a closer look, what else is on this sword hairpin?"
Bai Yanqing bent down and lowered his head, and looked at the handkerchief and the sword hairpin back and forth several times, only to find that on the black handkerchief, there seemed to be a thing as thin as a hair!
"What is this?"
Bai Yanqing pointed to the hair-thin thing and asked the shopkeeper.
"Millennial Ice Silk! It is precisely because of it that even a woman who does not know martial arts can make this sword hairpin retract freely in her hand! Use it flexibly!"
The shopkeeper patiently explained.
Millennial ice silk, Bai Yanqing knows a little bit about it, once upon a time, she had seen it in a book! It is rumored that this thousand-year-old ice silk is extremely tough! Whether it's fire and flooding, or swords and slashing, it won't work against it at all! And it is as thin as a hair, if ordinary people don't look closely, they can't see its existence at all, so it has another wonderful use, that is, it can kill people invisibly! qs
The thousand-year-old black iron is the sword, and the thousand-year-old ice silk is the shape! This sword hairpin is really worthy of the shopkeeper's "treasure of the town store"!
"There are many wonderful things about this sword hairpin! If the girl is interested, she can buy it herself and study it again!"
The shopkeeper said flatteringly.
"Since it is the treasure of the town shop, why is the shopkeeper willing to sell it to me?"
Bai Yanqing's brows furrowed slightly, as if she didn't believe him.
"As long as the price is right, it doesn't hurt for the girl to take it! Since a small shop is open to do business, how can it have a reason to refuse customers?"
The shopkeeper turned around, stroked his beard, and explained.
"You say, how much!"
At this moment, Bai Yanqing didn't want to have anything to do with the shopkeeper, she really fell in love with this sword hairpin!
Seeing this, the shopkeeper stretched out a finger!
"One hundred taels?"
Bai Yanqing spoke.
The shopkeeper shook his head.
"No, it won't
Be...... A thousand taels?!"
Bai Yanqing spoke again, and after hesitating for a moment, he nodded! He didn't seem to be very reluctant, and he came out of this sword hairpin for a thousand taels!
Buying a hairpin for 1,000 taels, in Bai Yanqing's opinion, she doesn't think it's worth it! Although this hairpin is indeed very rare!
For Bai Yanqing, there are many sharp weapons that can be used for self-defense, why spend so much silver to buy such a gadget? What about being able to kill people? She wouldn't want to let her hands be covered with blood!
"That's it, the shopkeeper doesn't seem to be very reluctant! In that case, then I don't want it."
Bai Yanqing is real, there is no bargaining with the shopkeeper! She just thinks that although this sword hairpin has benefits, it also has disadvantages! One day, she accidentally injured herself by this sword hairpin, so it's hard to say!
"Don't, girl! Since the old man took it out, it was natural...... I sincerely want to sell it to you!"
The shopkeeper, when he heard that Bai Yanqing didn't seem to want it anymore, he hurriedly spoke, as if he was afraid that Bai Yanqing would not buy it!
"One thousand taels, it's too expensive!"
Bai Yanqing frowned, a little suspicious in her heart! The shopkeeper's face was obviously very reluctant, why did he ...... at this time And some of the meaning of forced selling? So, she deliberately said that the price of this hairpin was too expensive, so as to test the attitude of the shopkeeper!
"Girl, look at it again, this thousand-year-old dark iron has been polished! This, this, this...... Millennial Ice Silk! These two things alone, even on the black market, are priceless!"
The shopkeeper tried his best to promote this sword hairpin, which undoubtedly made Bai Yanqing's suspicions even heavier! Is it necessary for him to recommend such a good thing? If it is really as he said, then wouldn't everyone rush to ask for it? Why do you want to push it to Bai Yanqing so deliberately?
"In that case, shopkeeper, you can sell this thing on the black market, and maybe you can earn half a city back! Why sell it to me? I can't get a thousand taels!"
Bai Yanqing waved his hand, still not wanting to give out this money.
"Don't tell the girl that this hairpin has spirituality, and it recognizes the Lord. Since it has chosen the girl, the girl will surely take it away!"
The shopkeeper's face was embarrassed, and then he spoke again, and continued.
This set of rhetoric, Bai Yanqing wanted to laugh when she heard it! A broken hairpin, still recognize the Lord? And spirituality? What about fooling children? She didn't see how this hairpin recognized herself as the master!
"Shopkeeper, your sword hairpin, the so-called dark iron, ice silk or something, isn't it fake?"
Bai Yanqing smiled and spoke, as if he didn't put the sword hairpin in his eyes.
"The girl may not buy anything from the shop, but she must not insult the old man's character! But there is not a single counterfeit that is sold from the old man's hands!"
The shopkeeper was obviously angered by Bai Yanqing's words!
Seeing this situation, Bai Yanqing didn't insist anymore, and only said lightly: "You say, how much silver is the minimum, you can sell me!" If you can talk about it, I'll buy it! If we can't talk about it, then let's go back to our respective homes! It also saves each other's time for a hairpin!"
It's not early, Bai Yanqing calculated, Yun Qi and them should be running out of lunch! If you spend more time in this jewelry shop, I'm afraid that they won't be able to find themselves after eating, so it's time to worry!
"Minimum...... Eight hundred taels!"
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and spoke again!
"Okay, deal!"
After that, Bai Yanqing took out a stack of silver tickets and put them on the table, then put away the sword hairpin, picked it up and left!
"Oh yes, the golden hairpin I returned is ten taels of silver, right? The shopkeeper has to give it to me!"
Bai Yanqing's footsteps stopped at the door, turned to the shopkeeper and said.
The shopkeeper's face was quite exciting, he never thought that this girl had taken such a big advantage of herself, but she hadn't forgotten that the ten taels of silver for the return of the golden hairpin!
"Okay, okay! Here you go!"
The shopkeeper turned around and ran back to the counter, took out a silver ingot, and handed it to Bai Yanqing!
Bai Yanqing held ten taels of silver in his hand
After a check, she turned away satisfied, and before leaving, she dropped an unclear sentence: "Shopkeeper, it's hard for you!"