Yan Yan Yugui

Chapter 36 Family Thief
After Mama Liu left, Lin Yanyan went into the pawn shop.

"What do you want to be?" the guy behind the tall counter asked lazily.

Lin Yanyan took off the bracelet on her wrist and handed it in.

The man saw that it was a high-quality mutton fat jade bracelet, his eyes lit up, and then he pretended to appraise it, and then looked at the clothes of the people who came to pawn, they were very plain!Then he disliked and said: "Your bracelet is not very good, is it alive or dead?"

"How much does it cost to live? How much does it cost to die?"

"I can only give you eight taels of silver if you are alive, but if you are dead... 30 taels."

Tan Yun was furious: "You might as well grab it, this is a high-quality mutton fat jade bracelet, and you may not even be able to buy it for 200 taels of silver."

The guy hesitated for a moment: "If it's dead, I can consider giving an extra five taels of silver, no more."

Lin Yanyan asked: "The person who came in just now is dead or alive?"

The guy immediately became vigilant: "You only care about what you say is inappropriate, and what do others do?"

"Don't blame me, brother. This is my first time pawning. I don't know the market, and I can't make up my mind whether to pawn it alive or dead. After all, this is a family heirloom of my family, so I want to know how other people choose it."

The man said: "If you still want to redeem it, you can live it. The disadvantage is that you can't make much money. If you don't redeem it, the price will naturally be high. The person who chose just now is dead."

What the clerk didn't say was that generally the items you choose to pawn in pawnshops are not visible, otherwise, if you take them to jewelry stores or antique stores, the price will at least double.

Lin Yanyan sighed: "I'll think about it again."

The guy was depressed: "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm really sorry, the family heirloom has to be cautious. If you want to pawn it, I will definitely go to you."

Only then did the clerk return the jade bracelet to Lin Yanyan, and gave him a big roll of his eyes.

After Lin Yanyan left the pawn shop, she ran into Xiao Qian again.

"What are you doing in the pawn shop?" Xiao Qian was curious, Lin Yanyan was not so poor that he had to pawn things to live, right?

Lin Yanyan quickly pulled Xiao Qian aside: "Are you working in the Yamen?"

"That's right, my father asked our princes to go to various ministries to practice, and I chose Shuntian Mansion." Xiao Qian didn't hide it from her, there was nothing to hide.

Lin Yanyan rolled her eyes: "Then can you do me a favor?"

"Tell me." When it comes to borrowing money, he still has some savings in his hand.

"Just now I saw a servant from my mansion enter the pawn shop. I want to know what she pawned? Is it related to the recently stolen items in the mansion."

Xiao Qian thought for a while: "You wait for me in Xiangyilou, and you have to treat me to dinner at noon."

"No problem, invite your subordinates to drink too." Lin Yanyan said generously.

Lin Yanyan went to Xiangyi Building and asked for a private room to sit and wait. Xiao Qian came after a short while and gave her a list: "This is an item just received by the pawnshop. I have copied it all. Take a look."

Lin Yanyan took the list and looked at it, and immediately became furious, such as the Seven Treasures Turning Heart Vase, the glazed white jade cup, the Wansong stacked emerald Duan Inkstone... These turned out to be decorations from Moyuan Pavilion, and she didn't pay attention to them at ordinary times. He left, and now he is being pawned in a pawn shop again, and it is still a dead pawn.

Dead pawning means not redeeming it. The market value of the five treasures is at least several thousand taels of silver, but they are only pawned for 600 taels, which is equivalent to selling them cheaply to a pawnshop.

Pissed off. Pissed off.

Xiao Qian saw that her expression was not good: "These can't really be things lost by your house, can they?"

"It's all there, and it was lost by Moyuan Pavilion."

Xiao Qian: "...You have a thief in Moyuan Pavilion, and you didn't find out until now?"

Lin Yanyan turned her head and asked Tan Yun: "Ask you, you don't even know what's missing at home, so why are you working as an errand?"

Tan Yun was wronged: "Miss, there are so many things in Moyuan Pavilion, and the servants in Moyuan Pavilion were all appointed by the second lady. The servant and Jin Xin are only responsible for the young lady's food and daily life. The servant really can't take care of it."

Xiao Qian murmured: "Go back and take stock first to see what's missing, and then I'll file a case for you in the yamen, maybe the thief has also pawned in other pawnshops, and we'll search it at that time."

He has the right to get things back from the pawnshop only if the government files a case.

Lin Yanyan got up: "I'll go back and check."

Just go.

Xiao Qian: Uh...how about the agreed treat?
The waiter brought wine and dried fruit in, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, that lady has already paid 50 taels of silver. You can order wine and food as you like."

Xiao Qian shook his head and smiled wryly. It turned out that this was the way to treat guests. He also sent all his men to drink in the opposite tavern.

In Mingxiang Garden, Madam Liu handed over the banknotes to Mrs. Yao, and said regretfully, "Ma'am, I bought a few insignificant items at an antique store for a good price, but I can only pawn a few real treasures." Thousand 600 taels."

Yao counted the bank notes: "It's only 300 taels, it's too short."

"Tomorrow, a servant girl will run again."

Yao sighed: "Relying on pawns is not enough to fill the shortfall, it seems that we can only borrow."

"Borrow?" Mama Liu was surprised, could Madam be ashamed to borrow money?And if the old lady finds out...

"Of course you can't ask others to borrow it. You should go back to Yao's house immediately, find the third master, and tell him that I need it urgently, and ask him to transfer 5 for two weeks."

"Yes." Liu's mother should have agreed, but she felt that this trip was a waste of money. The third master is so stingy, let alone 5 taels, 500 taels may not be willing to borrow.

Just as she was talking, the fourth miss, Pengpeng, walked in with an unhappy expression: "Mother, the second sister always said that she would invite me to take her next time, but today she broke her promise again."

"Where did your second sister go?" Yao shi was so preoccupied these days that she didn't care much about Zhenzhen.

"Princess Qingrou invited her to the Princess Mansion."

Yao comforted her youngest daughter: "Princess's mansion is not something you can just take people to. When your second sister gets married, you can go to Duke Jin's mansion to play, and you will be old next year, and there will be more entertainment. Don't envy you." Second sister."

"Next year is still a long time away. I don't have anyone to play with me in the mansion. I'm so bored."

"You can find Youyou."

"She doesn't know how to play with me, she just knows how to embroider."

"Mother, why don't I go to Yao's house with Liu Ma, I heard you asked Liu Ma to go back to Yao's house."

"Mama Liu is going to run some business. In a few days, I will ask your second sister to invite friends to my house. Then you can entertain your second sister and meet more friends."

"really?"

"Of course it's true, when did mother lie to you?"

Lin Pengpeng left happily, and the innocent smile on his face disappeared as soon as he went out.Mother asked Liu Ma to go back to Yao's house to ask her third uncle to borrow money, and said that she needed money urgently, and the only thing the family needed money now was to prepare the dowry for the second sister.The mother actually prepared such a generous dowry for the second sister, 5 taels... maybe more.

Lin Pengpeng was indignant, her mother had always favored her second sister, and now that her second sister was going to marry into the Duke's mansion, her mother favored her even more.

Yao Shi also waited for Pengpeng to leave, and scolded Yinhong with a stern face: "What do you think of asking you to watch the door? Miss Fourth came and didn't know to let me know."

I don't know how much Peng Peng has heard.

Yinhong was terrified: "The servant stopped me, but I didn't stop her."

"I didn't stop it. I can't do this little thing well. What's the use of you?"

"Ma'am, please forgive me, this servant realizes his mistake."

Yao shi said unhappily: "There will be a next time, and there will be severe punishment."

(End of this chapter)