Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 100 Want to test me?

"Sister Xi!"

Huang Shi held the silk and looked at her, parted her lips several times in excitement but didn't say a word.

She didn't expect that Shen Xi would be so righteous. If it wasn't for her, they would have to pay the 2000 taels of silver today!
They never have the ability to tell the details of that piece of jade, even if they recognize it, they may not have the courage to tell it!

She talked and laughed happily, and saved 800 taels of silver. How could she not be excited? !

"Sister Xin, you haven't thanked your sister yet! It's all your fault!" Seeing Shen Xin standing beside her, she hurriedly dragged her over.

Shen Xin had mixed feelings in her heart. From being afraid and hesitant to when the dust settled, her heart was always ups and downs.

She didn't know how she felt about Shen Xi now.

But what is certain is that if Shen Xi hadn't come over today, or if she hadn't stretched out her hand when she came, but just stood by and watched, she would never have had such a good time today!

Here she wanted to salute with a blushing face, but was stopped by Shen Xi: "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it when we go back."

After she finished speaking, she glanced around at the guy next to her, and Shen Xin immediately understood that this was to save face for her.

He couldn't help thinking of her demeanor that she had mentioned in the past, so she quickly stood up with her chest raised and her belly slightly bowed.

Shen Xi greeted: "Let's go."

Xiao Huai saw her stepping into the store gracefully, so he looked away.

It turned out that she was not only cruel to innocent people like him, but her mouth was also very powerful.

In the shop, Mrs. Qi had already left, and Shen Xi was about to greet shopkeeper Liu and leave, but shopkeeper Liu hurriedly waved to her at the counter: "Miss, stay a while."

Shen Xi stopped, shopkeeper Liu came up to her with a smile, cupped his hands with her, and said, "Just now I saw that the girl is an expert, and the batch of goods just arrived in my shop, why don't you ask the girl to appraise with her eyes?"

Shen Xiyang smiled.

The shopkeeper is really good at doing business, why does he want to ask her for appraisal?It is clear that they want to attract two orders from them.

But thinking about it, it was thanks to him to get rid of the siege, so that he was able to call it a day. They even paid a hundred taels of silver for the repair work.

Then he asked Huang, "Does Auntie want to see it?"

Huang shi listens to her now, not to mention that Shen Xin is about to leave the court, and she really needs a few new pieces of jewelry for the bottom of the box.

Seeing that she did not refuse now, it is natural to see that she wants to maintain this relationship.

Immediately said: "It's good to have a look. It's just that if we like it, the shopkeeper shouldn't ask for too high a price."

"This level is easy to talk about."

Shopkeeper Liu made a gesture of invitation with a smile, and led them into the compartment to the east of the counter.

This compartment should be used as a place for distinguished guests to come in, or when valuables are presented.

The length is only eight steps and the attic is connected to the top of the opposite wall, and a small section of railing can be seen when looking up.

The house is not big, but the two sets of calligraphy and paintings of famous scholars in the Qin Dynasty hanging on the wall are authentic works.

The small table under the screen and the complete set of chairs and tables are all made of rosewood, and the brocade burden spread on the table is also the finest cross-stitched brocade.

Even the orchid pot on the flower stand in the corner of the house is an antique from the official kiln 500 years ago.

It seems that the owner of the Qionghualou is indeed wealthy.

Shopkeeper Liu asked them to sit down, and when the guys served tea, he beckoned to him and whispered something in his ear.

Immediately afterwards, the guy came in with a dozen long and short boxes, each of which was inlaid with carvings and painted with lacquer, which looked exquisite.

"My eyesight is clumsy, so please ask the girl to help you inspect the goods." Shopkeeper Liu is plump, with a benevolent smile, like a Maitreya Buddha in a temple.

He opened all the nearby boxes, big and small, and saw that the bracelets, hairpins, ring pendants, etc. in the boxes were shining brightly against the red silk cloth.

Shen Xin's eyes were a little straightened, but she kept Shen Xi's words in mind, and tried her best not to show any timidity.

Huang also looked at Shen Xi.

Shen Xi took a glance first, and saw that these items were mixed with real and fake, and immediately knew that shopkeeper Liu really wanted to test her.

If you don't put out two cents of your skills to suppress him, I'm afraid you will really raise the price with some defective products later, so that you can earn back the wages of the hundred taels of silver.

Then he raised the corners of his lips, first picked up a hairpin of suet white jade, and said: "This seed jade hairpin has obvious leather, and it is white jade from aquatic products. Although the texture is excellent, it's a pity that the carving is a bit poor.

"If the amount of raw jade is enough, it will cost at least 3000 taels of silver to make a teacup-sized flower seat, and if it is made into hairpins, it will have to be sold for about 800 taels."

Shopkeeper Liu fixed his eyes on her after listening, nodded with bright eyes, and moved another jade pei.

This is a safety buckle carved with two peonies, big and small.

Shen Xi picked it up: "This is ice-seeded jadeite with violets in the middle. The price has always been high, especially the design of this pattern is also very good. At least it is worth 2000 taels."

Shopkeeper Liu's eyes became brighter, and then he picked out a bright green jade bracelet and gave it to her: "Girl please estimate the price!"

Shen Xi glanced at it and said with a smile: "This, you don't even want 30 taels of silver if you sell it to me."

Huang Shi and Shen Xin were stunned, Shopkeeper Liu also looked at her deeply: "Ma'am, please explain in detail."

Shen Xi picked it up and said: "Although the texture is also glutinous, the floating green color is not correct. If you look closely, there are obvious cyan mixed in, and the whole looks like river green.

"With the direction of the texture, it would have been fine if it had been carved into a ball, but if it were to be carved into a bracelet, the emerald green would be broken, so naturally it would be worthless.

"But shopkeeper Liu is so good at doing business, it's not a problem to use it to bluff one or two hundred taels of silver back."

Her words were obviously teasing, but shopkeeper Liu didn't feel embarrassed, but smiled slightly and nodded thoughtfully.

Huang's mother and daughter have long been dumbfounded!

At first, she only thought that she was just good at talking, but she didn't expect that she has some real skills!

Seeing it from the top of the building, Xiao Huai couldn't help rolling up his sleeves again.

As far as he knew, Shen Ruopu, the second-ranked granddaughter, did not have a good background. Could it be that the information he inquired about at that time was wrong?

He suddenly took off the jade spot finger on his finger, and handed it to Su Yan with his backhand.

"It seems that the girl is indeed a rare connoisseur!"

After appreciating more than a dozen pieces of jade, shopkeeper Liu couldn't help but nodded deeply.

Just when Shen Xi was about to review the rest of the others, the assistant said something softly to him.

He nodded and stood up, greeted Shen Xi with a smile, and went out.

Seeing that there was no one in the room, Mrs. Huang pointed to the waxy bracelet and asked Shen Xi: "Is this bracelet really worthless?"

She looks very expensive!

Before Shen Xi could answer, shopkeeper Liu walked in again, and after taking a seat, he looked at Shen Xi: "There is one more thing here, please take a look!"

As he spoke, he picked up a finger and gently placed it on the box in front of her.

(End of this chapter)