Chapter 32: The Jade Shop
Coming out of the office where Xiaobo was picked up, Luo Zhuo looked at the time, Wen Ya should have gone to class at this time, and the final exam was coming soon, he didn't have to study himself, but he couldn't delay Wen Ya's study, Wen Ya was just an ordinary college student no matter how much she was a scholar, but without his accumulation over the years, she still had to go to class.
I don't have to accompany Wen Ya Luo Zhuo for the first time in so many years, it is really true that Gentle Township is the hero's mound, he used to be single for hundreds of years, but now he feels bored for a while, Luo Zhuo smiled bitterly and shook his head, after losing his cultivation, he became more and more like an ordinary person, even if he cultivated Zixiao Refining Form, he had not recovered because his cultivation time was still short.
Luo Zhuo thought for a while, took the subway out of the school, and went to the famous jade market in the capital, the batch of jade he bought last time had been sucked clean by him, and he wanted to restore his cultivation, Luo Zhuo needed more jade, he had no money now, he had to sell the last batch of jade before he could continue to buy, although the aura in that batch of jade was gone, but it did not affect the quality of the jade, it was still a good jade in the eyes of ordinary people, and it could still be sold at a good price.
Luo Zhuo had been to the jade market once before, the last time he didn't go shopping, he just found a few shops to buy jade and left, this time he was not in a hurry, and walked around the market slowly.
It's a pity that he must absorb the aura in the jade in the state of luck, and his current cultivation can't reach the realm of walking, living, sitting and lying down, at least he has to recover to the Jindan realm in order to be in the state of practice anytime and anywhere, otherwise he can suck the aura in it by casually touching the jade now, and he doesn't have to buy it so hard.
Luo Zhuo looked at the jade on this street with some pity, he didn't walk into the jade shops he went to for the first time, the owners of those shops are profiteers, if Luo Zhuo wants to sell the jade back to them, I'm afraid he will be slaughtered, Luo Zhuo doesn't care about money, but he can't do loss-making business.
After walking most of the street, the jade here is uneven, and there are not a few pieces of good jade, Luo Zhuo also knows that this social resource has long been overexploited, and good quality jade is hard to find, and he doesn't expect to find how good jade is, no matter how good the jade is, it can't change the fundamental problem, what Luo Zhuo needs is a lot of jade, no, not a lot, it should be a large amount of jade, only enough jade, and the aura in it can make him recover a little bit of cultivation.
When a street was about to end, Luo Zhuo walked into a small shop, the shop was so small that he didn't pay attention to the name of the signboard before he entered, after walking in, there was no customer in the store, which formed a strong contrast with the lively scenery of other stores, and there was only a row of counters in a space of four or five square meters, and a young man in his twenties was dozing off behind the counter.
Luo Zhuo did not alarm the boss, but walked around the store by himself, there were bracelets, pendants, jade carvings in the glass counter, although the sparrows were small and complete, the store was not big, but the types were very complete, but there were only a few things in each category, and those who could generally afford to buy jade were people with some economic strength, these people naturally preferred to go to big stores with more things, where there were more opportunities to choose, this kind of small shop, it is indeed difficult to attract business.
"Oops-" Luo Zhuo was quietly looking at the things in the store, when he suddenly heard an oooh sound behind him, and when he looked back, he found that the young man was rubbing his forehead, it was he who accidentally knocked on the counter when he was dozing.
"There are guests?" The young man came back to his senses for a moment before he noticed Luo Zhuo, hurriedly stood up, and said, "What does this gentleman want? The jade in this shop is all handmade by the master jade carver, and it is absolutely unique." ”
"Really?" Luo Zhuo said in a flat tone, "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be carved as a tiger." He stretched out his hand and pointed to a pendant on the counter, which was the size of a child's palm, and if it weren't for the nondescript king on his forehead, he really wouldn't have recognized the carving as a tiger.
The young man's face was a little embarrassed, scratched his head a little embarrassed, and said, "This is a work of practice, cheap, only two hundred yuan, no, only one hundred yuan." ”
Luo Zhuo shook his head, this shop is too small, it must not be able to eat his eight million jade, no longer speaking, Luo Zhuo turned around and walked out.
"Sir, don't go, I still have a lot of good things here, as long as you look at it, I can give a good discount." Liu Yang said eagerly.
Liu Yang is the owner of this small jade shop, he has just taken over this shop for half a year, half a year ago his parents died in a car accident, left him this small shop, he did not run a business before, he really took over before that the business is difficult to do, he does not have his father's jade carving skills, so the business has not been good, recently it is a little beyond the means, the income from the business can not even cover the rent, finally a customer came to the door, of course he wanted to do this business.
"If you have any good stuff, you might as well take it out and take a look. Luo Zhuo said, what kind of vision he has, how can he not see this Liu Yang's urgency, and guess the dilemma of this store, he has been in for a while, and there is not even a single customer in this store.
"This is the treasure of the store!" Liu Yang gritted his teeth and took out a box from the counter, his shop, has always been carved jade for a living, when his father was alive, his reputation was not small, and the business was still good, but hand-carved jade was a very time-consuming job, so Liu Yang and his father had always received orders to carve, of course, there was not much inventory left, as for Liu Yang himself, he had not learned the ancestral jade carving methods at all, and could only rely on some finished products to sell, naturally not as good as those big jade shops.
Luo Zhuo watched Liu Yang open the box, revealing a jade artifact inside, it was an ornament, carved an ornament of Shoubi Nanshan, the technique was acceptable in Luo Zhuo's opinion, of course, his vision was too high, in the world, this craft is also first-class.
What kind of ornament is this Luo Zhuo couldn't look at, but he suddenly had an idea, picked up the jade ornament, and said: "This is the treasure of your town store? It seems that it is nothing more than that, no wonder your family's business is so bad." ”
"Don't talk nonsense! I don't have a few shops on this street to get this ornament!" Liu Yang said loudly, his face flushed a little.
"What's your name?" Luo Zhuo asked, a little unabashed.
"Liu Yang!" Liu Yang said angrily, but he regretted his words a little, and he didn't know why he reported his name so honestly.
"Liu Yang, I won't buy this thing from you, but I want to talk to you about business. Luo Zhuo said in a flat tone.
"Talking about business, I'm sorry, I only sell things here. Liu Yang said listlessly, he is now so poor that he can't even maintain the store, and he didn't see that the clerks were all fired by him, and he didn't have money to do any business.
"You don't have to refuse, I don't need you to pay for this business, I want to sell something in your store, as far as your current thing is, with all due respect, there may not be a few customers to buy it until you die. Luo Zhuo said.
"You want to consign things from me?" Liu Yang said incredulously, consignment is not uncommon in the jade industry, but it is generally only available in larger stores, and there is no customer flow in his own small store, who will consign things here.
"I don't have anyone here, and you may not be able to sell it for many days if you consign it from me. Liu Yang is not an old and spicy businessman, so after thinking about it for a while, he still told the truth.
"You don't need to worry about this, I will bring a batch of jade carvings to consign, but I have one condition, that is, you are responsible for collecting the proceeds of the sale and providing it to me. Luo Zhuo said.
Liu Yang stared at Luo Zhuo until he was convinced that he was not joking, and this deal was completely harmless to him, and he could even say that it was a pie falling from the sky.
"Deal!" Liu Yang gritted his teeth and said loudly.