Chapter 55 Jade is Priceless

Entering the Vientiane store, Qi Haoyuan was relieved, what Vientiane, it is clearly a department store, I can't imagine that there are already people in the mythical world who have such a vision and opened such a big supermarket.

Vientiane is all-encompassing, with a wide range of categories, and in Vientiane stores, it is divided into multiple areas, where clothing, daily necessities, vegetables, fruits, etc. are sold.

Qi Haoyuan glanced at it a few times, and quickly judged the area where the selling scales might appear, and sure enough, on the shelves where many goods were displayed, he saw a row of scales.

Unexpectedly, there was more than one kind of scale sold in this Vientiane store, and Qi Haoyuan had never even seen these scales, except for one of the most common rod scales.

"Hey, isn't this a balance? How do you come up with this name?" Qi Haoyuan couldn't help but laugh when he looked at a scale that looked like a scale, only a little difference between the weight and the ruler, and saw that "seesaw scale" was written under this "scale".

Could it be that the principle of making the "balance" in the world of mythology comes from the seesaw that children play with?

Qi Haoyuan carefully looked at the seesaw scale, and shook his head, the seesaw scale is also relatively fine, but it is only accurate to one or two, which cannot be used to weigh medicinal materials at all.

He continued to look at the other scales.

"Hey, there's even a high-tech!" Qi Haoyuan's eyes lit up, the scale in front of him was shaped like a scale, but there was a big difference, this scale was not counted by weights, but a column of mercury.

Is this an invention that combines a thermometer with a scale? Qi Haoyuan couldn't help but think like this.

"Mercury scale!" When the pallet is under pressure, the mercury column automatically rises, revealing the weight.

Qi Haoyuan didn't figure it out after thinking about this principle for a long time, his science grades were originally good, but how to convert weight into the rise of the mercury column is really a bit difficult, it may be that this transformation relationship is more complicated.

The mercury pillar was marked with a dense index ruler, and Qi Haoyuan counted it carefully, each large grid was one or two, and one large grid had ten small grids.

"Hehe, that's it!" Qi Haoyuan excitedly moved the mercury scale off the shelf. Zhang Dezhuang glanced at the price on the side and couldn't help but gasp.

"Little brother, are you sure you want to buy it?"

"Of course, it has to be. Qi Haoyuan said very firmly.

"Come, let me tell you something. ”

Zhang Dezhuang pulled Qi Haoyuan and whispered in his ear for a while, Qi Haoyuan's face slowly changed, "It's so expensive! What should I do? I must buy it." ”

"Shh......h

Zhang Dezhuang looked around, he was a well-respected figure in a small town, if people knew that he went out to buy things, the money was not enough, it really damaged his image, and it also embarrassed the Shangyang faction.

"Be quiet, let's figure it out. ”

Zhang Dezhuang's mind turned, and he whispered, "We usually get money from the owner before going down the mountain, and the owner knows how much to buy, so he won't give more, even if there is a balance, there is not a few dollars left, and this mercury scale is worth one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and my money is definitely not enough." Now the only way is to pawn something at the pawnshop, maybe we can scrape together enough money, but we can't go. ”

The implication of his words was that they couldn't afford to lose that person, so they had to go by Qi Haoyuan. Qi Haoyuan wanted to buy this thing, and he had to make up the money by himself.

Qi Haoyuan didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and said briskly, "That's okay, I still have a lot of jade slips on me, you tell me where the pawnshop is, I'll go alone, you just wait for me here." ”

"Okay, the pawnshop is the third to last at the end of this street, the door says 'dang', you go out and turn left, you can see it if you go ahead, we are waiting for you here. ”

"Hmm!" Qi Haoyuan nodded in agreement.

Out of the Vientiane store, according to the route Zhang Dezhuang said, he kept walking forward, and it didn't take long to arrive at the door of the pawnshop.

This pawnshop is not large, the façade is only about four meters wide, facing a steel lattice window, and the height of one meter five above the ground is a solid wall, which is no different from the traditional pawnshop.

The pawnshop owner was lying on the windowsill at this time, and when he saw a guest coming to the door, he immediately stood up and shouted with a smile, "Ouch, is this young master here to pawn or ransom?"

"Pawn. Qi Haoyuan glanced at this person, and his first feeling was two words: profiteer. This is not surprising, no business is not treacherous, it depends on who is more treacherous!

"Oh, can you take out the pawn and take a look? The pawnshop owner smiled treacherously.

"...... Uproar"

Qi Haoyuan casually took out a handful of jade slips from his waist and put them on the windowsill, these are all tricks for dressing, but they are useless at this time, jade slips are all disposable, and after being used once, they cannot be used again and become ordinary jade. But from the professional point of view of a famous archaeologist in the 21st century, these jade slips are still quite valuable, but he doesn't know the price of jade in this world, so he asks, "How much silver do you think these can pawn?"

The pawnshop owner was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Qi Haoyuan, and had a count in his heart, so he stretched out two fingers at Qi Haoyuan.

"Two hundred taels?" Qi Haoyuan was a little satisfied, the temptation of worldly money was not great for him now, as long as he could scrape together enough money for him to go back and buy a mercury scale.

The pawnshop owner smiled and shook his head.

"Two thousand taels?" Unexpectedly, this jade slip was so valuable, Qi Haoyuan couldn't help but smile.

The pawnshop owner was still smiling and shaking his head, Qi Haoyuan was depressed, his face sank, and asked, "How much is that?"

"Twenty taels. The pawnshop owner said calmly.

"Twenty taels?" Qi Haoyuan was not calm, and shouted directly, "Who are you fooling! My dozen pieces of jade are the best jade, and they are worth hundreds of taels, and if you give twenty taels, you are clearly a pit person." ”

"Master don't be angry, jade is priceless, if this jade slip has a story, don't say a dozen pieces, even one piece can be pawned for two hundred taels of silver, but I want to ask the master, do you have a story about this jade slip? What year was it unearthed, who polished it, and who ever wore it?" Jiang is still old and spicy, the pawnshop owner remained silent, smiled and asked again and again, and Qi Haoyuan, who asked, was speechless.

"The master can't tell its story, so in the eyes of the old man, these jade slips are only worth twenty taels. ”

"You ......" Qi Haoyuan was blocked and speechless.

He was a little angry, the pawnshop owner was clearly a liar, but what he said was reasonable and well-founded, so he couldn't refute it.

"Then what about these?" Qi Haoyuan had no choice but to take out a few more jade bottles, all of which were used to hold pills, and the pills in them had already been eaten by him, but the bottles were all made of good jade, very exquisite, if they were in the 21st century, they would definitely be able to sell for a good price.

"It's still twenty taels!" A hint of joy flashed in the pawnshop owner's eyes, but the speed was very fast, and it was fleeting in the blink of an eye, and even Qi Haoyuan didn't notice it.

"Are you kidding me?" Qi Haoyuan was really angry this time, the jade is worth twenty taels, and now with five jade bottles, it is still twenty taels, could it be said that this jade bottle is not worth anything!

"The young master is angry, the old man tells the truth, and he has no intention of playing. The pawnshop owner waved his hand at Qi Haoyuan, he was a bad old man, although Qi Haoyuan was angry, he couldn't do anything to him.

"You didn't fool me, so why can the jade slip be pawned for twenty taels, and after adding the jade bottle, it is still twenty taels, this jade bottle is exquisite and shiny, no matter how you look at it, it is worth more than the jade slip, how do you explain?"

"The master still doesn't understand the meaning of the old decay, the old decay doesn't care about the amount or the amount of it, but the true value of the pawn, the jade without a story is worthless in my opinion, you just take out a bunch of it, it's also twenty taels. I see that the master is in a hurry to use the money at this time, so please ask the master to say a number, I see that you have items worth this price. ”

The cunning guy thought about hollowing out Qi Haoyuan step by step. His eyes were vicious, and when Qi Haoyuan took out the jade slip, he had already seen that Qi Haoyuan was not an ordinary person, most likely from the Xianmen. Moreover, Guan Qi Haoyuan is still young and inexperienced, so he must be foolish, so he is thinking wishful thinking in his heart.

The small town is at the foot of Xianjiao Mountain, and the pawnshop owner has seen no longer a few monks, and these monks have a common feature that there are many treasures on their bodies, and they are worth a fortune when they take out one of them, and they themselves do not know the goods, and they never come to redeem them after pawning, and once the current period is over, those treasures become pawnshops.

When I met Qi Haoyuan today, the pawnshop owner naturally had to seize the opportunity and squeeze all the treasures on Qi Haoyuan's body as much as possible!

Qi Haoyuan was in a hurry to use the money, so naturally he didn't expect so much, and when the pawnshop owner asked him how much money he needed, he replied without thinking about it, "One hundred and fifty taels!"

The boss pondered for a moment and said, "One hundred and fifty taels, this is not a small amount!

Qi Haoyuan touched it from his body, and there was only the pill left, so he gritted his teeth, took out a bottle of Yiyuan Pill containing ten pills, poured out one and put it on the windowsill, and said solemnly, "Boss, this is my most valuable thing, this is the Yiyuan Pill refined by Xianmen, it is refined by the three elders of the Shangyang Sect, eating one pill can increase the life span for a few years, the cost of this pill (the value of medicinal materials) is worth hundreds of taels of silver, and the finished pill is even more priceless, and it is difficult to buy a thousand gold, I only pawn one hundred and fifty taels with you now, can you agree?" If that doesn't work, then I'll have to think of something else, because I can't get anything more valuable. ”

At this time, the pawnshop owner's eyes were straight, this elixir was no different from the elixir in his eyes, and the aroma that escaped at this time alone made his old body tremble, as if there was infinite vitality in his body again.

However, this boss was a little too greedy, so he gritted his teeth and said, "This elixir is indeed very tempting, but it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and it is not worth the price!"

"You ......" Qi Haoyuan pointed at the pawnshop owner and really wanted to beat him.