Chapter 2 [Bracelet Broken for No Reason](1/2)
The Shanyu family in Qingtong Lane has a very good reputation. It is not only due to Lu Xiaoqi's ability, but also due to the reputation of the entire Qingtong Lane. Whenever he mentioned the need to repair jade, everyone pointed to the Shanyu family from the end of Qingtong Lane. Everyone looked forward to Lu Xiaoqi's next repayment date.
A tabby cat was dozing behind the butt of a stone lion in front of the door, and occasionally pricked up his ears and heard a conversation in the shop or shaking his beard.
The beautiful woman in front of Lu Xiaoqi was begging herself: "Boss Lu, everyone says you are a good player in this industry. Look, this... as long as it can be repaired, Boss Lu, please just give me a price!"
Lu Xiaoqi did not answer immediately.
This is a cracked jade bracelet with uniform round strips and crystal clear. The most rare thing is: half red and half green!
Jade is the king of jade, red and yellow are "video", green is "ciduous", and purple is "spring".
Therefore, in the jade industry, it is important to be "red jade, green jade, purple."
On the same bracelet, it is rare to see red jade and green jade with such a positive color and such a strong water head at the same time. What's more, it is a scenery that accounts for half of each.
"Watermelon Jade Bracelet! It was rare to see the old Buddha had a blessing, fortune, and longevity in the world, but the color was not as bright as this one! Where did you two get it?"
Lu Xiaoqi hasn't seen such a good look for a long time. His straightforward beauty makes him feel energetic. It's so beautiful!
The woman sighed and looked at the bracelet intently, with a very regretful tone:
"This bracelet is a relic of my mother and a thing heirloom. When I got to my hands, I kept it carefully and couldn't bear to take it out and wear it. Unexpectedly, on the day of her death, I took it out and saw that it had cracked at some point."
Lu Xiaoqi looked at the two symmetrical cracks without turning on the light to see them carefully. He could not wear them by penetrating the cracks.
The most taboo thing in jade is cracks. The same bracelet has patterns but no patterns, and the prices are huge.
This one could have been said to be of great value. If it appeared at Sotheby's Auction House or Hong Kong Auction Market, it would be able to at least 8 digits!
But now it's broken. Even if you don't need gold and silver inlays and do nano-connections, you can count as an antique. If you put a pressure on experts, you can only get a big five or small six. (Little five, five-digit price starting from 1-5, and so on)
Lu Xiaoqi shook his head repeatedly. It was a pity. He felt distressed when he looked at it:
In the past, the swallows in front of the King and Xie Hall flew into the homes of ordinary people. Watermelon and jade, who are you angry with?
"Don't worry, two people, our Shanyu family is more pityful than anyone else. I will do my best to repair it. Now please wait. I will go up and use special instruments to take a look!"
The store is simple and old, and it makes people feel at ease. Lu Xiaoqi's clothes are old and look beautiful, and the two of them nodded involuntarily.
A moment later, Lu Xiaoqi stared at the bracelet in front of him upstairs.
He doesn't have any special instruments, he's just a pair of eyes.
The jade spirit of this bracelet has just been buried with her, and a trace of its breath is missing.
He went downstairs and pushed the bracelet back: "We have rules here, we will not repair jade that breaks for no reason."
Old He was anxious: "Didn't you just say that you can do your best to repair it? Just tell me the price!"
Lu Xiaoqi smiled strangely: "You two have seen the world, so I just said that this bracelet was not broken by man, but was cracked by itself! And I am bluntly saying, Ms. Wan, this is not your own thing, right?"
As soon as Lu Xiaoqi finished speaking, Ms. Wan changed her expression.
The owner of this bracelet should have just passed away. It happened in the past two days.
Lao He looked particularly strange: "Qianqian, this is your dowry, why is it not your thing?"
His wife did not answer, looked at Lu Xiaoqi, calmly took out a few bills from her bag:
"Since that's the case, I won't bother you! Lao He, there are rules for you, and Boss Lu has some inconvenient words. Don't make things difficult for others!"
Lao He was puzzled, Lu Xiaoqi put the bills on his hands and grinned: "Thank you, you two, please go!" Lao He was choked by his charity and left.
Lu Xiaoqi looked at his back and shook his head and sang a Kunqu opera:
"I am like a beautiful woman in your flowers and a passing years..."
It was already past noon, and Lu Xiaoqi came out of the noodle shop, burped, stretched his body, and walked back lazily.
After walking a few steps, my legs were hugged.
Lu Xiaoqi looked down and saw the little girl who was six or seven years old in a shabby dress, raising her head and smiling: "Big Brother!"
Lu Xiaoqi cried and said, "Why are you again? Can you pinch it or do you know it? If you have two cents in your pocket, you will know again! The plastic bottles on the street were originally my business, and they were all given to you father and daughter. You still treat me like this..."
This little girl was met by Lu Xiaoqi on the way home from the night of drunkenness. That night he went to KTV to drink a lot of wine and ordered a singing sing. He ran away while he was drunk and went to the bathroom! As he ran, he accidentally tripped.
He got up and cursed with a bruised face. After cursing, he saw clearly that he was a little girl sitting on the side of the road guarding a pile of cardboard boxes and mineral water bottles, huddling there with fear on his face.
When she asked her, she said that she was working with her father, and her father asked her to wait here.
That night, Lu Xiaoqi searched through her pockets and found 33 yuan for her.
Since then, this little girl has been connected with her spirits. Nine times have met Lu Xiaoqi, and it was when Lu Xiaoqi had a son in her pocket.
Lu Xiaoqi looked around. At this time, there were few people in Qingtong alley and they were dozing off at home. He pulled the girl aside, squatted down, took out a hundred pieces, and stuffed them into her hand:
"Hide it, don't give it to anyone. Don't tell anyone."
He leaned over and said, "By the face."
The girl smiled and leaned over to rub her cheeks.
Lu Xiaoqi smiled even happier: "Okay, stop running around, go find your father."
Before he got up, a sister-in-law pointed at him and held a palm-leaf fan and smashed him over, running and scolding:
"Lu Xiaoqi, you are a hooligan again! Such a young child! You're going to die! Are you a pervert?"
When Lu Xiaoqi heard this, he ran away: "Give me your life, sister-in-law, I will definitely do it lighter next time I pinch you!"
I ran out and turned a corner, and a person turned out from the shadow of the sycamore tree.
Fragrant clouds and distant mountains.
It's Wan Qianqian.
Lu Xiaoqi stopped and smiled: "Miss Wan, why are you back? Is it because I am handsome and reluctant to leave?"
Wan Qianqian wanted to speak but stopped, rubbing the sandalwood box in her hand.
Lu Xiaoqi knew it clearly: "Okay! Why do I have to fight with the money? The advance payment of 10,000 yuan cannot be reduced. Others depend on fate. How about it?"
Wan Qianqian breathed a sigh of relief: "Boss Lu is so exquisite. We might as well go into the store to talk!"
The effort of a tea meal has passed.
The door of Shanyu family is closed and the lights are very weak.
Lu Xiaoqi lit the ancient record player and heard the silly "A Dream of Visiting the Garden".
Ten thousand yuan was placed neatly in front of him, and the bracelet was left behind. By the way, he also listened to a story.
Wan Qianqian has a twin sister. When she was born, her mother shone a set of jadeware heirlooms, gave her bracelets to her sister, and gave her peace buckles made of bracelet hearts to her sister, meaning that a pair of sisters rely on each other and complement each other.
On her 20th birthday, Wan Qianqian thought her sister's bracelet looked good, so the two changed it to wear. After that night, her sister Wan Sisi elopeed with someone, and together with the safety buckle, disappeared without a trace.
The Wan family called the police and published it in the newspaper, but Wan Sisi was unable to find it until their mother passed away.
Lu Xiaoqi sat on the rocking chair, listening to the song while thinking about this:
"Wan Qianqian wants me to help her find her sister, why did she hide it?"
Lu Xiaoqi called several offline players. When he heard that he was going to accompany him on a business trip to find treasures, either saying that the signal was bad or he had diarrhea. The best one laughed on the other end of the phone for a long time, and hung up the phone without saying anything.
Lu Xiaoqi sat back on the box.
He thought about it and had to use his trump card:
"Stone, it's me!"
The other end was very polite: "...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Lu Xiaoqi cursed:
"You have a signal of a chicken! Aren't you as poor as me so much that you only have landlines? Xiao Lingtong has been useless long ago! He is still playing hippie with me! Tell me, when do you want to pay back the money?"
"You're wrong, Brother Lu, you owe me money!"
"The signal is good? Yes! Do you want me to pay back the money? If you want money, just go with me and have beautiful escorts!"
When Lu Xiaoqi heard the phone slamming and threw away the phone, he smiled. If the rich man hadn't missed him, he wouldn't have found a guy as poor as himself. Fortunately, this guy was his most like-minded.
Lu Xiaoqi hurriedly hid the stack of money in the box, and all the things that looked luxurious, such as tea leaves, tea eggs, etc., were hidden in the corner. Checked left and right, and a pack of unopened razor blades must be hidden... Well, there was also half a roll of toilet paper, which was replaced with a large roll of broken rice paper picked up from the trash can in the next book and painting studio.
After finishing it in one go, Lu Xiaoqi looked at the mechanical watch on his wrist, rubbed his hair into a decadent look.
Ten, nine, eight, seven…
When counting one, the door was washed open!
He is a spiritual guy.
The buzz cut is shiny, as if it had just been put on gel, and the smell of cheap perfume.
My face was bright, and my beard was shaved.
His eyes were bright, too: "Where is the beauty?!"
The one who came was Lu Xiaoqi's hair boy, who was playing with big friends with bare butts, and he was also a tinkering with the jade business, stone.
The original name of Shitou was Su Laishi. In the early years, when the Lu family was glorious, two shops were next to each other. Later, the old man of the Lu family passed away. Lu Xiaoqi took over at a young age and started to borrow money. The more he borrowed, the more he borrowed, the more he borrowed, the Su family saw that it was wrong, and as an elder, it was not easy to ask for it every day, so they had to hide. As soon as there were cheaper shops for rent, they moved the land.
Su Laishi's parents were alive, but they had bad luck, so they had a lawsuit after leaving Qingtong Lane!
To be continued...