Chapter 12: Coming to the Fore
Ling'er Nahan, thinking that Yuan Xi didn't like to get involved in these business things in the past, he asked, "What are we going to do?"
Yuan Xi didn't answer and asked: "Ling'er, I'll test you, what do you say Aunt You's palm eye skills?"
Ling Er thought for a moment and shook her head decisively: "The master said that my aunt is a three-legged cat, and if those antique dealers make a little fake, she won't be able to see it, so the master never lets Aunt You give people a palm." What is it to say, Miss, today?"
The reputation of the Wei family's palms is a big name in the antique industry, which is the result of several generations of caution and hard work, and it can't be smashed in the hands of the You family. Yuan Xi sneered: "That's it, let's join in this fun tomorrow." ”
Stepping on the thin snow of early winter, Wonxi stepped into her own pawnshop, whether it was in her previous life or in this life, this was the first time she entered the door of the pawnshop. Looking at the neat counter in the pawn shop, she felt a little sad in her heart, although this sparrow is small, a small pawnshop also implies a lot of knowledge.
In the pawnshop, an apprentice came up to him: "This girl, do you want to pawn or redeem?"
Who will pawn from the shop? Yuan Xi was not shocked, this is the first time he has come, let alone a man, I'm afraid even the shopkeeper doesn't know him. Ling'er felt embarrassed, turned over a pair of cards from her purse, and reprimanded: "Dog slave, I don't even know the third lady, and I don't call the shopkeeper to come out!"
Yuan Xi smiled slightly: "No need, I'll just take a casual look, you're busy with yours, don't make a noise." As he spoke, he took a silver coin of two taels from his purse and rewarded him. As an apprentice in a pawn shop, it is only ten taels of silver a year, and I just said two words to the third lady, and I got two taels for nothing. The apprentice was very happy: "Miss, please, I'll make a cup of red robe for Miss." ”
"Don't be busy, I heard that Aunt You is also there, so I'll go to my aunt's place to sit down. ”
The apprentice was a heartless one, and replied to himself: "My aunt is in the private room on the second floor, and there is a noble lady and Boss Zhao from the antique shop, Bacheng'er is talking about business, and the young lady is still ......" Before he finished speaking, Yuan Xi had already lifted his skirt upstairs and pushed open the door of the private room.
Seeing Yuan Xi enter the door, the corners of You Shi's lips twitched, and his expression was a little flustered. There was a lady sitting next to her, in her forties, dressed in an unusually luxurious manner, presumably Mrs. Lan. The man on the other side is obviously the apprentice said that the antique shop boss Zhao.
"Auntie, let me find it easily. Yuan Xi smiled and gave Mrs. Lan a salute: "This lady must be Mrs. Lan, the little girl Wei Yuanxi will greet you." ”
Mrs. Lan looked Yuan Xi up and down, and she didn't look like she was dressed like You's maid, she must be a young lady. Without waiting for her to ask, Yuan Xi had already introduced herself first: "Mrs. Lan doesn't know me, I am the third girl of the Wei family, my father heard that my aunt came out to give people a palm, and asked me to come out to see the world." ”
Hearing the words "my father", You Shi fidgeted for a moment, could it be that Wei Dongshu already knew about his own palms? ”
There are three brocade boxes on the table, and several ornaments are contained inside. A piece of Hailao porcelain, a pair of glass cups, and a pair of red net bottles. Boss Zhao's eyes were shining, and Mrs. Lan seemed to be blind, looking at everything and liking it. You Shi held the Hailao porcelain and looked sideways at Yuan Xi, who looked away with a smile.
You Shi looked at it over and over for a long time, smelled the smell, and looked at the tire glaze, tossed for a long time before putting it down, and sighed: "It's a good thing, it should be more than six hundred years ago." I don't know how much silver Boss Zhao plans to sell?" Boss Zhao smiled and made a "three" gesture, he wanted to sell three thousand taels.
"What's a good thing?" Yuan Xi's understatement instantly stiffened the smile on Boss Zhao's face, Yuan Xi carried the porcelain with one hand, hung it in the air and smiled: "Boss Zhao, if I accidentally miss and break, Boss Zhao won't blame me, right?"
Boss Zhao was stunned, and the porcelain vase had fallen to the ground and broken into many pieces. Mrs. Lan was taken aback, and Boss Zhao jumped up from the chair: "You!Third Miss, even if the Wei family has a lot of money, you shouldn't drop people's things casually! This Hailao porcelain is ......."
"What is it!" Yuan Xi randomly picked up two pieces of porcelain and placed them on the table, one for the body of the bottle and one for the bottom of the bottle. Sure enough, the bottle body is milky white, but the bottom of the bottle is yellowish. Yuan Xi sneered: "The new porcelain will take the old bottom, sink to the bottom of the sea for ten or twenty years, and then fish it out when the shells are full, and a piece of sea fishing porcelain from hundreds of years ago will be ready." Boss Zhao, your means of deception are high!"
Boss Zhao's face turned red and white for a while, and he reluctantly argued: "What do you know as a girl, learn from your aunt well, and it's a serious matter to quickly compensate me for my money." ”
You Shi's heart was in a mess, if she helped Boss Zhao prove that the porcelain was real, she would definitely have to compensate Boss Zhao for three thousand taels of silver. But if she helps Won-hee, it will be tantamount to admitting that she has seen things and missed her eyes, and in this way, her prestige in the mansion will be damaged. You Shi hesitated, stayed aside and did not speak.
Although Mrs. Lan doesn't know how to do it, Yuan Xi's words have been said very clearly, and it is not difficult for her to judge who is right and who is wrong. Hurriedly stood up and pushed the other two things in front of Yuan Xi: "Third girl, take a look at these two again, are they from the previous dynasty?"
Yuan Xi Yingguang took a look and said with a smile: "Hey, these two pieces are different, and the materials are very particular." Boss Zhao finally showed a little smile on his face, but Yuan Xi changed his words: "It's just that the year is wrong, and it is a bit too old to say that it is an antique from the previous dynasty." The marks on this look like they are worn, they must have been sandpaper the day before yesterday, right?"
Boss Zhao's face turned pale in an instant, and Mrs. Lan's face became more and more gloomy: "The surname is Zhao, you are asking for food from my Lan family, so foolish, aren't you?"
Boss Zhao knelt on the ground with a puff.
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Madam, please calm your anger, there is an unwritten rule in our antique shop in the Great Chu Kingdom, which is called throwing bricks and attracting jade." The boss usually shows the customer the average quality first, if the customer does not know the goods, it is a pity that the best things fall into his hands. If the guest is annoyed, bring out something good, and the guest will turn his anger into joy and make a joke. Boss Zhao didn't mean to offend you, he was just stupid for a while, and he treated his wife as an ordinary guest. ”
Mrs. Lan's anger calmed down slightly, and she asked Boss Zhao, "So, do you have something good waiting for me?"
Boss Zhao was working on a cup of tea, and his mood was up and down, and he had already panicked. Yuan Xi said with a smile: "It seems that Boss Zhao is scared, Madam might as well let him go out to breathe, lest he tremble and drop the good things in a while." ”
You Shi made a mistake, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while. I wanted to make some extra money, but I didn't expect it to be boring.
Mrs. Lan had already forgotten about You's family, and only smiled at Yuanxi: "The Wei family's business name is really worthy of its reputation, I didn't expect that the third girl and a boudoir daughter would have such ability." Before, Mr. Wei refused to go out of the mountain, and I thought he looked down on my Lan family, but now it seems that the Wei family does have arrogant capital. ”
"Madam, you have misunderstood, my father is just a businessman, how dare I be disrespectful to you. He didn't come himself, he just wanted to give the little girl a chance to show off. Yuan Xi said with a smile: "Boss Zhao has been out for a while, and the little girl is going to invite him in." ”
Yuan Xi went downstairs and saw that Boss Zhao was sitting in the lobby on the first floor panting, Yuan Xi stood in front of him: "What, Boss Zhao hasn't gone up yet?"
Boss Zhao glanced at him and waved his hand: "Third Miss, even if I am planted in your hands today, what do you want, I admit it." ”
Yuan Xi smiled disapprerovingly: "Why does it sound like I'm going to fix you?" Boss Zhao, this can be explained, I'm helping you!"
"Help me?" Boss Zhao was almost mad, and said in front of Mrs. Lan that he was buying fake antiques, and said that he was helping him? Boss Zhao snorted: "You can kill me." ”
Yuan Xi lowered his eyelids slightly, and asked in a low voice: "I haven't helped you yet?" Do you want to sell fake antiques to Mrs. Lan to help you? The Lan family has made friends with nobles, if someone sees the clue, won't the Lan family be embarrassed? Think about it, at that time, will you still have your life? The Lan family's methods are not something that we can deal with in the small people of Shengdou, haven't you heard about Li Er?"
Boss Zhao came back to his senses, he was indeed greedy for a while, and almost broke out to kill himself. Hurriedly stood up and waved to Yuan Xi: "Thank you Miss San for mentioning something." ”
Yuan Xi said indifferently: "Don't thank me, thank my father if you want to thank me, he was worried that you wouldn't think well for a while, so he specially called me here." ”
Boss Zhao didn't have much friendship with the Wei family in the past, and when he heard Yuan Xiyi, he was a little moved in his heart, Wei Dongshu is a decent person, which is obvious to everyone in the business world, but he didn't expect that he was still a careful and righteous person.
Yuan Xi smiled: "Boss Zhao, I just played a round for you." Next, you have to take some treasures of the town store, otherwise Mrs. Lan will not be able to pass this level. ”
Boss Zhao wiped the cold sweat on his head and nodded: "There are a few treasures in the town store, so I simply asked Mrs. Lan to come to my store to see them." Let's go, let's go up, the third lady will be invited first. ”
Boss Zhao entered the door again, his face was much ruddy, and he smiled and said: "Madam, the small one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and there are indeed a few good things at the bottom of the box in the small store, please go to the villain's store to see it in person, right?"
Mrs. Lan had already left You Shi behind at this time, walked straight to Yuan Xi, took Yuan Xi's hand and said with a smile: "Third girl, just bother you to come with me, right?"
Boss Zhao also laughed and said: "Yes, yes, the three girls are also coming together, there are still a few things that are not accurate in the small place, please help the three girls together." ”
Yuan Xi turned around and stared at You Shi's dark face, and a smile curled up at the corner of his lips: "Auntie, then I'll go first, and I'll ask my aunt to do the work for me." ”