Chapter 46 (1/2)



46 Buying jewelry (1)

After returning to the capital, Xu Qi ‘an returned the horse to the horse store and took back the deposit. He walked out of the shop and said, ”

“Farewell, you can go back first. I still have something to do.”

Xu niannian nodded and didn’t ask any more questions. He walked along the long Street alone in the direction of his home.

Xu Qi ‘an bought some osmanthus cake on the street and ate it while walking. Soon, they arrived at a jewelry shop.

Treasure instrument Pavilion!

The boss of treasure tool Pavilion was a scholar. In fact, it was very common for scholars to do business, especially for those rich and powerful families. It was impossible to support a large family’s rotten living expenses just by collecting land rent.

The large shops, brothels, and other profitable businesses in the capital all had the shadow of the aristocrats behind them.

“Da Feng’s commerce is clearly unprecedentedly developed, but the heavy taxes are on the farmers … I have reason to suspect that this is the doing of the powerful nobles.”

how much money can we earn from farming? if we want to be rich, we have to get wool from the merchants.

“If we want the people to live better and make Da Feng’s National Treasury richer, we must reform. But in the Imperial court, we look down on all the officials, and it’s not my place to speak. Hmm, let’s set a small goal. First, I’ll train Erlang to become the Prime Minister of Dafeng …”

Xu Qi ‘an couldn’t help but smile at the thought of his arrogant little brother’s future.

Xu Qi ‘an stepped into the shop. He glanced at the counter and saw the jewelry on the red silk.

Hairpin, hairpin, hairpin, hairpin, buyao, Huasheng … It was dazzling.

Among them, gold was the most expensive, and Jade depended on the type. The expensive one was more expensive than gold, while the cheap one was about the same as silver.

Xu Qi ‘an touched the three silver coins in his pocket and muttered in his heart,”I can’t buy any precious jewelry with this amount of money.”

He was lamenting about his lack of money when he stepped on a hard lump. He picked it up naturally and put it in his pocket without a change in expression.

Perhaps it was because he had been too natural, no one had paid attention to him.

“A penny of silver is useless. A penny of gold is more like it.”

He felt as if he was shopping in a luxury store in his previous life. He couldn’t afford it anyway. The only difference was that the store owners now were very reserved and not as annoying as the waiters in his previous life, who couldn’t wait to stick to you and let you spend immediately.

“Sir, do you have a discount here?” Xu Qi ‘an knocked on the counter.

The shopkeeper was an old man with a goatee and dressed like a scholar. He was not surprised to hear this.

The shopkeeper pointed at the Fortune stick hanging on the wall and said with a smile, “”Objective, if you can solve the riddle, I can give you half of the toys in the shop.”

This rule was a specialty of treasure instrument Pavilion.

A half-price discount on the riddle … Interesting … Xu Qi ‘an walked to the wooden stick and glanced at the riddle on it. Yun po Yue, Hua nongying!

With his rich knowledge and logical reasoning, he quickly solved the riddle.

“Some of the jewelry cost a few dollars just in weight, plus the labor costs …”

Xu Qi ‘an estimated that even with a 50% discount, he still couldn’t afford good jewelry.

However, he soon found a way.

The women who could come to treasure instrument Pavilion to buy jewelry all came from well-to-do families and had studied for a few years, so at least they were not illiterate.

Such women all had a problem-half a bucket of water was still clattering.

He felt that he was a cultured person who liked to be artistically attached to people, so he was particularly addicted to the little tricks of treasure instrument Pavilion.

They liked to buy jewelry at the same price at treasure Pavilion, not for anything else but to solve a word puzzle.

If the riddle was solved, the shopkeeper would engrave the correct riddle on the wooden stick and then give it to the customer along with the jewelry.

It was fine if they didn’t solve it, but once they solved one or two word riddles, they could brag to their close friends.

This was what Xu Qi ‘an had analyzed from the conversation of the two young women beside him.

As expected of a shop opened by a scholar, it knew how to attract high-end customers.