Chapter 37: Jubaoxuan
Chen Yuntang is much bolder than Wing Chun.
She has never been to the current bars, and she really wants to meet the Qinlou Chu Pavilion in the Dayan Dynasty, but she just thought about it and didn't really want to go in and see it.
But she still remembers her identity that is easily discovered.
Chen Yuntang gave Wingchun a soothing look, "Don't worry, I have my own sense of responsibility."
With the promise of his own master, Wing Chun was slightly relieved.
The carriage stopped in front of the jade shop in Yongxing Hou Mansion.
Chen Shao stood beside the carriage and personally helped Chen Yuntang down. Yongchun followed Shen Yuntang and entered the jade shop.
This jade shop in Yongxing Hou Mansion is called "Jubaoxuan". It is a very vulgar name. It not only sells jade, but also gold, silver jewelry, ornaments, etc.
At this time, the shopkeepers in other shops were working hard to attract customers, and there were also people coming and going in the lobby. Not necessarily the customers who entered bought jewelry, but they were very popular.
Only the Yongxing Hou Mansion, the "Jubaoxuan", is a small number of people, and the guys are so frustrated that they are about to doze off.
When Chen Yuntang came in, the guy glanced at his eyelids and said unhappily: "Look at this young master, let's talk to the younger ones if you like it."
When the guy said this, he actually sat on the chair where the customer was resting without moving.
This attitude of entertaining guests immediately made Chen Yuntang frown.
Chen Shao's face suddenly became cold. He went forward to teach this guy who didn't understand the rules a lesson, but was stopped by Chen Yuntang with a look.
Chen Shao suppressed his anger and retreated behind Chen Yuntang, clenched the sword beside him.
Chen Yuntang came to the jade shop today and only brought Chen Shao and Yongchun. He also brought a coachman. He looked like an ordinary wealthy young man. In Yanjing, where a stone could kill an official, it was nothing. The original owner Chen Yuntang was devoted to reading the books of sages and never cared about the family business in the mansion. Therefore, from the shopkeeper to the shopkeeper, no one knew the current head of the family.
The guy looked at the gentle and elegant young man in front of him, so he naturally neglected.
Chen Yuntang's frown moment ago stretched out the next moment. Without a friend to introduce the hospitality, she began to stroll in the jade shop with sanity.
The large ornaments placed in the lobby in Jubaoxuan are all the workmanship, and there are very few eye-catching ones. Finally, one of them has a good workmanship, but because of the poor materials, the overall grade is lowered.
Then walk to the counter and look at the jewelry heads placed on the counter.
Wing Chun, who was following aside, said disgustedly: "It's all covered in dust, and they are all from last year's style!"
Indeed, the jewelry on the counter is not only old in style, but also dull in gold and silver, which is because there is no regular maintenance and care.
I really don’t know if I don’t see it with my own eyes. This jade shop has become like this.
I'm afraid the shopkeepers and the guys are all empty-handed!
Chen Yuntang walked to the center of the lobby of the jade shop and saw the structure of the entire jade shop.
Jubaoxuan has three floors and a backyard.
The first floor is for ordinary customers to visit, the second floor is for special guests, and the third floor is for resting for women of noble officials.
The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper usually live in the backyard.
After the lobby turns, there are two rooms separated by the accounting and storage rooms.
Chen Yuntang walked around the place and said to the guy who was slumping on the chair and napping: "Man, where is your shopkeeper?"
The guy opened his eyes in a daze and glanced at Chen Yuntang, "Young Master asked what our shopkeeper is doing. If you like something, the young man can make the decision to sell the things to you."
Chen Yuntang had a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, "Oh? I didn't realize that the guy actually recognized the words and knew how to keep accounts?"
The guy was fooled by Chen Yuntang and he immediately woke up. He didn't expect to meet an expert who knew that after selling goods in the shop, he had to keep them in the account book and wait for the end of the month to make a profit.
The guy finally got up and cheered up.
He ran to Chen Yuntang attentively, "I didn't expect that the young master was still an insider. Of course, the young master was illiterate. If the young master knew how to read, he would have been a accountant, so he would not have to run errands here. Our shopkeeper has something to do and will not be in the shop today. If the young master really likes something, the young master will sell it to you. He will report the account to the shopkeeper in a lot of money."
Chen Yuntang sneered in his heart. He didn't expect this guy to be quite smart, but he just didn't use this wit on the right path.
"Since that's the case, then okay."
Chen Yuntang walked to the counter and pointed to the plum blossom-shaped golden hairpin placed in the plain brocade box on the counter.
"How did this hairpin be sold?"
The guy's eyes turned, "Young Master has a good vision. This hairpin is made by the master in our shop. There is no such style on the market now! This plum blossom-shaped gold hairpin is extremely decent whether it is given to the elders or the lovers. If the young master is sincere, the young master will only sell it to fifty taels."
There is no such style on the market. Chen Yuntang was amused when he heard it. Of course, there were no such styles this year.
An ordinary gold hairpin has neither gem inlaid nor jade embellishment, and the craftsmanship of dotted jade and twisted silk is not even at all. The maximum amount of gold hairpin is no more than two taels, so it is difficult to make the rough handmade cost as much as thirty taels?
If you use the same gold to send it to the gold shop and ask the jewelry master to make a such thing, the handwork cost will be at most half a tael of silver, and maybe it will not be enough.
This guy thought he had encountered a sucker and wanted to steal money!
Chen Yuntang just smiled and didn't bargain with the guys.
"The things in your lobby are average, aren't there any better ones?"
When the guy heard that Chen Yuntang didn't want to buy this golden hairpin, the smile on his face disappeared and his face pulled down.
"Young Master even considers fifty taels of things, and I'm afraid the things on the second floor will be even more incomparable."
"As you say that, all the good things in the shop are on the second floor?" Chen Yuntang said, winked at Wing Chun beside him.
Wing Chun immediately took out a hundred taels of silver bill from her purse and shook it in front of the clerk.
"How about it, can we go up to the second floor and take a look now?"
The guy's eyes moved around with the silver bill, then swallowed hard, and became attentive to Chen Yuntang in an instant.
"Yes, the young master and the young man come."
The guy took Chen Yuntang and the others to the second floor and entered a tea room on the second floor. The guy saw the dusty tables and chairs in the tea room and quickly found a rag to wipe it.
"Young Master, please sit down. I'll make tea for you, please wait."
Chapter completed!