Li An was angry and funny. He quickly pulled Guo Song aside and whispered: "You brat, what should I say to you? Don't think that I don't know that this white tiger skin was poached from the forbidden garden. I
You can see it, and others can see it. I will find a way to help you deal with this piece of skin. This kind of rare fur appeared in Chang'an, and the white tiger was found missing in the Forbidden Garden. You will be traced immediately. Really.
It’s too dangerous for you to poach anymore.”
Guo Song was silent for a moment and said: "It shouldn't be a problem to sell it in Luoyang!"
Li An rolled his eyes and asked again: "Brother, Absi is a famous rich man in the grassland. Didn't you get some valuable loot?"
"Captain Sijie owes me fifty thousand sheep."
"What else?"
Guo Song suddenly thought of what Li An said just now, "Uncle An just seemed to say that a piece of jewelry costs thousands of dollars?"
"Expensive jewelry is very valuable."
Guo Song gestured, "How much is an emerald that looks like an apricot worth?"
"It seems that you have got the jewelry box of Mutt's wife. I have seen that emerald. It is of unparalleled quality. It is known as the king of emeralds and is a rare treasure. If you want to sell it, everyone will give you 10,000 yuan."
Grabbing like crazy.”
"Uncle An, I have to go out for something. I'll see you later."
Guo Song couldn't stay any longer. He had to find Gan Lei quickly. That guy didn't know the goods, so he couldn't really sell those jewelry.
Guo Song knew that he almost made a big mistake. The package of jewelry was fished out from Mut's horse bag. It must be very precious, but he didn't expect it.
He rode horseback all the way to Xinfeng County. An hour later, Guo Song arrived at Xinfeng County. He entered the Xicheng Gate and found the pastry shop. He happened to see Li Wenyu leading someone to look at the shop.
"Senior Sister Li!"
Guo Song shouted, and Li Wenyu turned around and saw Guo Song with a smile on his face, "Lao Wu, are you looking for your senior brother? He is packing things in the backyard."
Guo Song was so kind to their family that any resentment in Li Wenyu's heart should be dissipated. She quickly turned around and shouted: "Fat Zhang, your junior brother is here."
"Sister-in-law, get busy! I'll go find him."
Guo Song saw a little girl squatting and playing in the yard and knew it was his senior brother's daughter. He picked her up, tapped her little nose and said with a smile, "Your name is Zhang Yu'er, right?"
"Big brother, who are you?"
Li Wenyu said quickly: "Niuniu, call me uncle, not big brother."
"Hello, uncle!"
"Good boy, uncle will buy you some candy later."
Guo Song handed the child to Li Wenyu, and he walked quickly into the house, when Gan Lei walked in from the backyard.
"Junior brother, you came so quickly, and I just came back not long ago."
Guo Song pulled Gan Lei aside and asked in a low voice: "Brother, are you still with the bag of jewelry?"
"Of course, junior brother, I want to make it clear to you that your sister-in-law and I will only accept two pairs of gold bracelets and a golden flower from you. Even if it is a meeting gift from you to Niu Niu, we cannot ask for anything else. We will wait until you get married in the future.
We will give it to my sister-in-law, but we can’t give it to you now because you will ruin it.”
Guo Song smiled bitterly and said: "That's not what you mean. It's because I don't know the goods. I'm afraid you'll sell it cheaply. That piece of emerald alone is worth tens of thousands of dollars."
Gan Lei was so frightened that his face changed. "You brat, why didn't you tell me earlier? I sold a pair of gold bracelets. Did I make a huge loss?"
"You shouldn't lose money on the gold bracelet. The key is the gemstone. You give it to me first, and I'll find someone knowledgeable to appraise it. If I sell two pieces, I'll have it in a store in Dongshi."
Gan Lei took out the bag of jewelry from the box, put it in another bag, handed it to Guo Song, and said to him: "There is one more thing I want to tell you. We can rent your house. The rent is not five hundred."
Wen, it's fine if it's cheaper than the market price, but we can't take the shops in Dongshi. This is my wife's wish. We must be moral in life. We can't take advantage of you like this. Brother, I'm too greedy. Take all the money back.
, I was scolded severely by my wife."
In fact, Guo Song also knows the principle of "eat rice" and "mei favor". Giving too much is not a good thing and will ruin the friendship between their senior brothers.
He pondered for a moment and said: "Let's do it! Let's calculate it on a share basis. I'll rent the store in Dongshi and we'll open it 30/70. I'll take 70%, and you and your wife will take 30%. Then I'll hire my sister-in-law to be the shopkeeper, and I'll pay the rent to her.
How about the wages?"
Gan Lei scratched his head, "But even if I take 30%, I still have to contribute some money!"
"Senior brother, have you forgotten that white tiger skin? I sold it today for 4,000 guan. Even if each of us brothers gets half of it, you still have 2,000 guan. This is what you earned yourself."
Gan Lei jumped so high with excitement that he ran out and shouted: "Madam, we are rich!"
Li Wenyu had just sent the guests away and agreed to transfer thirty taels of silver to the pastry shop. When she saw Gan Lei running out with a rude look on his face, she stretched out her hand and pinched his ear accurately, "You bastard, don't shout so loudly."
Okay, I haven’t gotten the thirty taels of silver yet, so you invited the thief first.”
Gan Lei broke away from his wife's hand and whispered a few words in her ear. Li Wenyu's eyes lit up, "Really?"
"Junior brother just told me, I told you! White tiger skin is very valuable, you still don't believe it."
Li Wenyu immediately beamed, "Haha! I finally have money."
"Wait a minute! Junior brother has another suggestion."
Gan Lei told Guo Song's suggestion to his wife. Li Wenyu thought about it and found that this plan was okay. She knew how expensive the shops in Dongshi were. In fact, they still took advantage of Sanqi, but there was no point in being too fussy about it.
.
"Today is a good day. Let's call my junior brother and let's go to the tavern to celebrate."
Li Wenyu was filled with gratitude to Guo Song. In just a few days, their family's fate had completely changed.
.........
In the room, Li An identified the jewelry that Guo Song brought back one by one. "This is this emerald. It was given to Mutt's wife by the people of Xue Yantuo. It is known as the king of emeralds. The same goes for these sapphire earrings. Generally, sapphires are light and light."
They are colorless, but this pair of sapphires are as blue as the grassland sky. They are also rare treasures. These two pieces are diamonds and have not been polished. Don't treat them as crystals."
Guo Song was ashamed. He really didn't realize that the two transparent crystals as big as jujubes were diamonds.
Li An looked at it again and said: "These are the three things that are valuable. The others are all fine jewelry, and the gems inlaid on them are average. But I remember there is also a very good piece of jade, which I guess gave away. Brat, you have it."
These three pieces of jewelry will make you a fortune, but I advise you not to sell them. That emerald is known as the King of Emeralds. Its value does not lie in money, but in its rarity."
Guo Song took out a piece of beautiful jade from his arms, which he had found from a Shatuo centurion in the Hexi Corridor, as well as an emerald the size of a peanut and a piece of turquoise, both of which were his treasures in Lingzhou.
Bought at a stall.
"Uncle An, help me look at this again!"
Li An's eyes lit up, "This is mutton-fat jade!"
He held the beautiful jade in his hand and couldn't put it down, looked at it over and over again, and praised it: "Good appearance, white and smooth, no cracks, no stone flowers, it feels like suet in the hand, what a good thing!"
"What about these two?"
Li An glanced at it and said, "The turquoise is not bad, it can be worth ten coins, but the color of your little emerald is too bad. It costs two or three coins at most. You can compare it yourself."
In fact, Guo Song had already seen that compared with the King of Emeralds, his little emerald was like the eyes of a dead fish. It was so different. It was ridiculous that he thought he had taken advantage of the gem seller.
The Sogdians have known this for a long time and deliberately dug a hole for themselves to fall into!
Now Guo Song finally understands a truth. Things he spends money to buy will always be cheated by others. Only things snatched from others can be good things. This is the case with the King of Emeralds, and this is the case with mutton-fat jade.
It seems that the same is true for white tiger skin.
"Uncle An likes it, so I'll give this jade to you."
Li An really couldn't put it down, he smiled and said: "I really can't bear to give it back to you, so let's do it! I bought it for one thousand guan. Brother, let me tell you the truth, the market price of this piece of mutton-fat jade is around 400 guan.
But the problem is that you can’t buy it even if you have money. Don’t think it’s because I’m giving you more money, because it’s hard to buy something you like with a lot of money.”
"As long as Uncle An likes it!"
In fact, Guo Song also likes this piece of beautiful jade, but Uncle An is a very useful person. He can't just use the grace of saving his life for everything. Making friends also requires sacrifice.
Li An added: "I will help you find someone to polish the two diamonds. If you don't have enough money to buy a shop, you can sell the diamonds. Although diamonds are valuable, they are not rare. I can help you sell them to Princess Xinping. She
She likes diamonds the most, and she is very rich. As long as she likes them, she never considers the market price."
"Isn't this someone who was taken advantage of?" Guo Song said with a smile.
"You can't say that. Precious jewelry is something that is passed down. When the next generation comes, you will find that you sold it cheaper. So, it's not necessarily who will suffer the loss!"