"Really?" Shi Mu asked doubtfully. Now she had completely lost her mind and could only cling to Ling Ruo's life-saving straw.
"Yes, I said there must be, but you have to get up first before I can say." The affirmation revealed in Ling Ruo's words gave Mother Shi a sense of confidence, and she stood up with difficulty, and said impatiently: "Miss Ling,
What is the method? Tell me quickly, tell me!"
Ling Ruo sighed softly, returned to the back room and took out a small cloth bag from under the bed and put it in Shi Mu's hand, "Auntie, please open it and take a look."
Shi Mu opened it as she was told and saw a pair of bracelets and a few beaded flowers wrapped inside. They looked familiar. After careful identification for a while, she found that they were the accessories Ling Ruo had brought with her when she was rescued.
Uncle Zheng exclaimed softly and said: "These jade bracelets are white in color and have a warm luster. They look like good things. When the eldest lady of the Hou family got married yesterday, she also wore a pair of white jade bracelets. Look at them.
It seems that this pair is not good enough." He often went to wealthy families as a servant and knew that in the eyes of wealthy families, jade was much more precious than gold and silver, and the purer the color of the jade, the better, so when he saw Ling Ruo taking out this pair of bracelets, he
I know it's valuable.
"This pair of bracelets is made from a whole piece of mutton-fat jade. It shouldn't be a problem to pawn it for three hundred taels." In fact, the value of this pair of bracelets is more than a thousand gold. However, firstly, the price of jade is difficult to measure; secondly,
In order to make more money, the pawnshop must try every means to lower the price, and it is impossible to truly appreciate the value of this pair of jade bracelets.
Mother Shi didn't know what mutton-fat jade was. She only knew that according to Ling Ruo, these bracelets were very valuable and could save her son's life. She trembled and said, "Miss Ling, can you..."
"Needless to say, aunt, since I took out the bracelet, I naturally went to save Shi Sheng. Just as you said, without Shi Sheng, I would not be alive today. You and Uncle Zheng sit here for a while, and I will take it out right away.
pawn."
"Thank you so much, Miss Ling!" Mother Shi burst into tears with excitement, Shi Sheng, Shi Sheng was finally saved!
After Ling Ruo went out, Uncle Zheng said to Shi Mu: "Sister-in-law, where did this Miss Ling come from? How could she be wearing such a precious bracelet?" A bracelet worth thousands of gold is not found even in the No. 1 Houfu in Qingjiang Town.
You have to be able to take it out.
"I don't know much about this. Shi Sheng rescued her at the foot of the mountain that day. She was seriously injured at the time. Later I asked her who wanted to harm her. She only said it was her enemy and refused to say anything else.
." When he asked this question, Shi Mu also felt that something was wrong, and even remembered that they actually knew nothing about Ling Ruo's origins and past.
Uncle Zheng helped her sit down in the old chair and said: "Sister-in-law, I'm afraid this Miss Ling's background is not simple. Listen to my advice. When Shi Sheng comes back this time, send her away as soon as possible.
The injuries on her body are almost healed, so you have been extremely kind to her."
"That's not good." Shi Mu said hesitantly. Ling Ruo was willing to take out such a valuable bracelet to save Shi Sheng, which shows that she values love and justice and is kind-hearted. It seems a little unkind to chase her away like this.
"Old sister-in-law." Uncle Zheng said earnestly and sincerely: "You heard clearly what the man in the Hou Mansion said earlier. Young Master Hou has never forgotten her. Even if Shi Sheng is rescued this time, there is no guarantee that trouble will not happen again in the future.
And...have you ever thought about the people who are chasing her, if those people know that she is hiding here..."
Mother Shi was suddenly startled and said in a trembling voice: "You mean, she will bring disaster to me and Shi Sheng?"
Uncle Zheng said solemnly: "Exactly, so the sooner this Miss Ling leaves, the better."
"This matter... let me think about it again." Although Shi Mu had been moved by Uncle Zheng's advice, she still had difficulty making up her mind.
After Ling Ruo left Shi's house, he found a pawn shop called Henglong based on the impression he had when he and Shi Sheng went to the market last time. It was afternoon and the weather was hot. Few people would choose to go out at this time, so the pawn shop
There were no customers inside, only a waiter sitting behind the counter that was as tall as a person and dozing off.
"Man! Man!" Ling Ruo called out several times before the man opened his eyes and yawned widely. His sleepy eyes inadvertently glanced at Ling Ruo who was standing under the cabinet, but this glance made him
He suddenly became extremely sober, and looked at Ling Ruo greedily with his eyes wide open. She was such a beautiful girl, and her eyebrows and eyes were much prettier than those of a lady painted with fine brushwork.
"Girl, do you want to pawn or redeem?" he asked, his eyes never leaving Ling Ruo's face.
Ling Ruo didn't talk nonsense to him, directly put the bracelet on the counter and said: "I want to use these bracelets."
The clerk didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that the bracelets she bought were just a pair of ordinary jade bracelets, worth only a few taels to a dozen taels at most. However, when he got the pair of bracelets, he immediately knew that he had guessed wrong.
The jade is pure white, delicate in texture, moist in luster, and looks like gelatin. Is this bracelet... a mutton-fat jade bracelet? If so, then the value of this bracelet is inestimable.
"Excuse me, how much silver do you want to pay for this girl?" The waiter asked carefully. To be able to produce such a pair of bracelets, this girl's identity is not simple.
Ling Ruo calmly reported a number, "Five hundred taels." The price was only half of the price of the pair of jade bracelets, which was already a very small amount.
"Please wait a moment, girl, I'll go ask the emperor to come over." Five hundred taels is a large sum of money. The clerk didn't dare to make the decision, and he was afraid that if he made a mistake, he would have to make up for the lost money. Five hundred taels
One hundred taels, I'm afraid I won't even be able to pay until I die.
After returning the jade bracelet to Ling Ruo, the clerk went to the back and invited Da Chaofeng out. This Da Chaofeng had been working in this pawn shop for more than ten years and was the most experienced appraisal expert in the pawn shop.
Everything that passed through his hands was without fault.
After Da Chaofeng took the jade bracelet, he looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass. Then he asked for a basin of water and put the jade bracelet in the water. When he picked it up again after a while, there was no water on the jade bracelet.
, it can be confirmed that this is indeed mutton-fat jade, and in terms of water quality and oil quality, it is the top grade among mutton-fat jade. If you put this pair of bracelets in a jewelry store, you don't have to say it without a thousand taels of silver. Now it's just
When it costs five hundred taels, it is almost equivalent to selling it for money, but merchants are very profitable, so there is no reason not to lower the price of the things that go into the pawn shop, otherwise what will they eat?
Da Chaofeng deliberately frowned and said: "This jade is actually mutton-fat jade, but the color is not uniform enough and the oiliness is not very heavy. It is not worth five hundred taels. I will give you two hundred taels at most."
Ling Ruo thought that the price might be lowered, but she didn't expect that the great chao Feng was so evil. He squeezed the price from one thousand taels down to two hundred taels. Is it true that she didn't understand anything?
Ling Ruo didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, she stretched out her hand and said: "Give me back the bracelet, I don't deserve it."