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Chapter 36

When Liu Ma left, Lin Yanyan entered the pawnshop.

"What do you want to be?" the guy said lazily behind the high counter.

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

When the guy saw that it was a good mutton fat jade bracelet, his eyes lit up. Then he pretended to be an appraisal, and then looked at the clothes of the person who came to pawn. He was wearing very simple clothes! He disliked him and said, "Your bracelet is not of good quality, should you live or die?"

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

"I can only give you eight taels of silver when you live, but if you die...thirty taels."

Tan Yun was so angry that he said, "You might as well grab it. This is a good mutton fat jade bracelet. You may not be able to buy 200 taels of silver."

The guy hesitated for a moment: "If it's a death sentence, I can consider giving you five taels of silver, not more."

Lin Yanyan asked: "Does the person who came in just now be dead or alive?"

The guy immediately became alert: "You just say it or not, what do others do?"

"Don't blame me, this is my first time to pawn. I don't understand the market and I can't make up my mind whether to live or die. After all, this is my family heirloom, so I want to know how others choose."

The guy said, "If you want to redeem it, just live. The disadvantage is that you can't make a lot of money. If you don't redeem it, the price will naturally be high. The person who just chose to die."

What the guy didn't say is that the items that usually choose to be used as pawn shops are shameless, otherwise the price will be at least doubled when taken to jewelry stores or antiques stores.

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

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

"I'm really sorry, the heirloom has to be careful. If I want to pawn, I'll definitely be with you."

The guy then returned the jade bracelet to Lin Yanyan and rolled his eyes.

Lin Yanyan left the pawnshop and met Xiao Qian again.

"What are you doing when you go to the pawn shop?" Xiao Qian was curious. Lin Yanyan was not too poor to be a pawn shop, right?

Lin Yanyan quickly pulled Xiao Qian aside: "Are you working as a yamen?"

"Yes, my father asked us princes to go to various departments for training, so I chose Shuntian Mansion." Xiao Qian didn't hide it from her, there was nothing to hide.

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

"You said." He still had some savings when he borrowed money.

"Just just now, I saw the servants in my mansion enter the pawnshop. I wonder what she was doing? Is it related to the items stolen in the mansion recently?"

Xiao Qian thought for a while: "You go to Xiangyilou in front to wait for me, and you have to treat me to lunch."

"No problem, I'll invite your men to drink." Lin Yanyan said generously.

Lin Yanyan went to Xiangyi Building to ask for a private room to wait. Not long after, Xiao Qian came and gave her a list: "This is the items just collected by the pawnshop. I copied them all, please take a look."

Lin Yanyan took the list and saw it, and was furious. What are the seven treasures turning heart bottles, glass white jade cups, and ten thousand pine-folded green inkstones... These were originally ornaments from Mo Yuan Pavilion. She didn't pay attention to it. She didn't know when it was taken away by Yao. Now she has been used to pawn shops and is still a dead man.

If you die, you will not redeem it. The market price of five treasures is at least worth several thousand taels of silver, but you will only be regarded as one thousand six hundred taels, which is equivalent to selling them to a pawnshop at a low price.

I was so angry that I was so angry that I was so angry.

Seeing that she looked bad, Xiao Qian said, "These are really things that you lost in your house, aren't they?"

"It's all, and it was lost by Mo Yuan Pavilion."

Xiao Qian: "...Your thief has been out of Moyuan Pavilion, and you only found out now?"

Lin Yanyan turned around and asked Tan Yun: "What do you want to ask you? You don't know if you lost anything at home, how did you do it?"

Tan Yun felt aggrieved: "Miss, there are so many things in Moyuan Pavilion, and those who used to work in Moyuan Pavilion were all assigned by the second wife. I and Jin Xin were only responsible for the lady's diet and daily life. I really couldn't take care of it."

Xiao Qian pondered and said, "You go back and count it first, and see what is missing. Then I will prepare a case for you in the yamen. Maybe this thief will also go to other pawn shops to pawn, and then we will check it out."

Only when the government filed a case can he have the right to take things back from the pawnshop.

Lin Yanyan stood up and said, "I'll go back and check it now."

Leave as you say it.

Xiao Qian: Uh...what is the promised treat?

The waiter brought in wine and dried fruits and said with a smile: "Customer, the lady has paid fifty taels of silver. Please order any wine and food."

Xiao Qian shook his head and smiled bitterly. It turned out that this was the way to treat him. He even sent his subordinates to the tavern opposite to drink.

In Mingxiangyuan, Liu Ma handed the silver notes to Yao and said with regret: "Madam, I bought a few unsightly items at the antique shop for a good price, but I could only pawn a few real treasures for 1,600 taels."

Yao counted the silver notes: "It's only 5,300 taels, it's too much."

"I'll go there again tomorrow."

Yao sighed: "Pawning is not enough to fill the gap, so it seems that I can only borrow it."

"Borrow?" Liu Ma was surprised. Can the wife be so embarrassed and borrow money? And if the old lady knows...

"Of course, you can't ask others to borrow. You can go back to the Yao family immediately and find the third master. You will say that I have an urgent need and ask him to take 50,000 to make a move."

"Yes." Liu Ma said that, but she felt that this trip would be a waste of time. The third master was so stingy, not to mention 50,000 taels, or 500 taels, may not be willing to borrow.

As she was talking, the fourth lady Peng Peng walked in with an unhappy look on her face: "Mother, my second sister always says that she will invite me to take me there next time, and today she will break her promise."

"Where have your second sister been?" Yao's family has been worried these days and has not taken care of Zhenzhen much.

"Princess Qingrou invited her to the princess's mansion."

Yao comforted her youngest daughter: "You can't take people there at will. When your second sister becomes a relative, you can go to the Duke of Jin's house to have fun. And you will be in the forefront next year, and there will be more social engagements, so don't envy your second sister."

"There will be a long time next year. No one in the mansion can play with me, so I'm so bored."

"You can find Youyou."

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

"Mother, why don't I go to the Yao family with my mother? I heard you ask Liu Ma to go back to the Yao family."

"My Liu is going to do the business. In a few days, I will ask your second sister to invite friends to their homes. At that time, you can help your second sister and meet more friends."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. When did mom deceive you?"

Lin Pengpeng left happily. As soon as he went out, his innocent smile disappeared. His mother asked Liu's mother to go back to Yao's house to ask her third uncle for borrowing money, and said that she was urgently using the turnover. The only place in the family to use money is to prepare her second sister's dowry. Her mother actually prepared such a generous dowry for her second sister, 50,000 taels... Maybe more than that.

Lin Pengpeng was angry. His mother had always been partial to her second sister. Now that her second sister is going to marry into the Duke's Mansion, her mother loves her second sister even more.

Yao also waited for Pengpeng to leave and scolded Yinhong: "What do you think of it when you let me watch the door? I don't know if the fourth lady comes."

I don’t know how much Pengpeng heard.

Yinhong was frightened: "I stopped me, but I didn't stop me."

"I didn't stop this. I can't handle this little thing well. What's the use for you?"

"Madam, I know I am wrong."

Yao said angrily: "Next time, I will punish you severely."
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