Chapter 448 - Familiar Jewelry Design (2/2)
High-heeled shoes are a girl’s dream. When she was young many years ago, she couldn’t take part in high-end c.o.c.ktail parties. She was wrapped in school uniforms throughout the year. Three hundred years later, she can afford the shoes, but she prefers to wear a simple long dress with sneakers.
Compared with the Nami women in luxurious clothes, Lin Luoran is plainly dressed, like an ordinary plant growing among splendid flowers. However, many shop a.s.sistants peek at her admiringly.
As they walk around, half a day has slipped away. There is a leisure area providing simple yet high-quality milk tea and pastries. There is also a large restaurant on the fifth floor, but the cyan little fox is too lazy to go there, so they only have some snacks.
The shopping mall is so large! Colin Weir collapses in tiredness. Lin Luoran simply leaves him behind with Ma Yiming and the cyan little fox. She takes Ma Shuangshuang and Han Weiya straight to the tenth floor.
They have come to the jewelry store.
Gold, the valuable heavy metal, is prized by the Nami people. Diamonds and the like are also relatively common. Silver and other rare nonferrous metals have also been popular in the Nami Alliance for years.
The salesperson introduces to them the jade that has enjoyed great popularity among the Nami people since fifty years ago.
Huaxia used to have four kinds of best-known jade—Hetian jade, Lantian jade, Dushan jade and Xiuyan jade. Considering the history of the world of cultivation, the jade culture can be traced back to over tens of thousands of years ago.
However, the jade in the Nami Alliance is different from that in Huaxia. The jade here contains a lot of Reiki. No one thought of turning jade into accessories until fifty years ago, when jade suddenly became popular… Lin Luoran randomly picks up a piece of jadeite peace buckle. When she sees the familiar “Huaxia Knot”, she has to hold her emotions in check so she doesn’t look unusual.
“We don’t know why it suddenly became popular. Now accessories made of jade and jadeite have become increasingly sophisticated.”
The merman salesperson explains with a sweet smile. “I heard that it was imported from other alliances… This peace buckle made of polished jadeite is a perfect gift for the younger generations.”
The delicate texture… Lin Luoran knows more about jadeite than all these salespersons do.
The peace buckle with a tag price of 1,200 credit points is a piece of Huaqing jadeite which is not that limpid. It is also a medium – or low-end product on the earth before the New Era. After all, you get what you pay for.
Even Ma Shuangshuang looks down upon these peace buckles, because she once received some superior jade accessories from Lin Luoran.
The sweet salesperson can tell that the three are heavy buyers. He takes them to the VIP area.
“Ladies, please have a look here. These are the most fas.h.i.+onable accessories on the Nami Star, which have just arrived here.”
The little girls only like earrings and bracelets. In contrast, Lin Luoran looks at the items one by one until her eyes are glued to a hairpin on the crystal booth.
Not many Nami people wear a hairpin. Besides, this yellow jadeite hairpin is beautifully carved in the shape of a lifelike phoenix holding a pearl.
She surveys it with her spiritual mind and knows that the gadget is not a magic weapon. Why is it shaped like a phoenix? The phoenix totem should be native to Huaxia, shouldn’t it? She is confused.
“Please bring me that phoenix hairpin.”
The sweet salesperson feels sorry. “Madam, that phoenix hairpin is an early work of a famous designer, so…”
“So, you don’t sell it? It doesn’t matter. I just find it unique. Do you know the designer’s name?”
“It’s Nolan Mancia, a royal designer. Her work is very popular on the Nami Star, but only a few have been traded outside of it. I am really sorry, madam.”
The salesperson is sincere. Lin Luoran is not so unreasonable as to cause him any trouble. She just asks casually, “Will she design something for the upcoming royal marriage?”
The salesperson thinks for a while and says he has no idea.
The wedding of the princess on the Nami Star is irrelevant to the jewelry salesperson on the faraway N2 planet.
Lin Luoran stares at the phoenix hairpin thoughtfully.