"This...this is simply...the heaven..." Annush couldn't help but murmur.
A Hu Shang next to him laughed, "This place is more heaven than heaven!"
Annush looked at Hu Shang beside him and wished him, "Your spices will definitely be at a good price!"
The Anxi Hu merchant also looked at Anush's goods, "Your silverware is also good! Good luck!"
"Good luck, good luck!" Annush responded, unable to help touching the silverware on his camel's body.
Sogdian silverware is quite unique. It is handmade by pounding craftsmanship. The patterns are mostly grape vines and other plant-shaped decorations. The animals are mostly pegasus, as well as camels, etc. The layers of patterns that are simply tapped by hand shine with silvery white brilliance in the sun, which is quite luxurious.
"By the way... go and see their lacquerware..." The resting merchant suggested when he left, "Their lacquerware is beautiful and magical..."
Although Anush understood that the Ahnhu merchant wanted to be less silk, for Anush, he was not qualified to purchase a large amount of silk, so he naturally thanked the Ahnhu merchant's reminder, looked up at the shops on both sides of the street, and slowly merged into the crowd.
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『Shopkeeper...please see...』
Anush raised the curled beard that Sogdian merchants often curled, smiled and raised the exquisite silverware in his hand, pouring out the mellow wine.
Smelling the fragrance of wine, Shopkeeper Chen smiled. It was indeed a fine wine, and he used a Sogdian silver pot to hold the wine, especially when the bright red wine was poured out from the silver pot with gold wire and gems inlaid, the exotic style seemed to flow out with the wine.
The owner of the lacquerware shop, Shopkeeper Chen, narrowed his eyes and looked at the silver pot of Hu Shang carefully.
The wine has been tasted, which is indeed good, but Hu Shang obviously wants to sell the wine and silver pot together...
Although the Dahan Chamber of Commerce can sell and purchase agents, there are still many merchants who like to buy and exchange them themselves, especially some merchants with smaller costs. After all, the Dahan Chamber of Commerce also requires a handling fee to help purchase and sell agents.
Therefore, for Chen, who opened a shop in the market, he was also happy to make some transactions with Hu merchants. Moreover, the silver pot brought by Hu merchants was really exquisite. The patterns on the pot were actually made of a whole silver board, and the branches, leaves, vines, etc. were wrapped around it as thin as hair. It was indeed a top-notch handicraft...
But his own lacquer box is also very skilled!
While looking at the silver pot carefully, the shopkeeper Chen quietly pushed the eight layers of lacquer boxes about an inch before making the sunlight pouring from outside shine on the vermilion cloud pattern on the lacquer box.
The golden powder that was originally vaguely visible on the paint surface was colorful in the sun, reflecting the short turquoise knife embedded in the other person's waist.
『A pot, add wine...change this...』
Anush's Chinese language has a strange accent, and his fingers scratched the gilded bronze buckle on the edge of the lacquer box.
When he thought of the ladies of Malacanda, he would definitely be crazy about the strange luster of this oriental lacquerware!
How did this magical man seal this colorful color into a lacquer box?
Anush hid his desire, as if he was ready to go to the next house if he couldn't reach an agreement.
Manager Chen was in his sleeve with one hand, twisting the plank, and did not answer immediately.
His fingertips rubbed the concave and convex silver patterns, and he also thought in his mind, "If the vine is moving more relaxed... it just happened to be with the cloud pattern of the lacquerware... but the carved plant looks so weird..."
While the two were discussing, the child playing on the side of the street suddenly shocked a carriage. The carriage rushed to the sidewalk and hit a pepper truck loading and unloading. The sheepskin bag containing pepper suddenly capsized, choking everyone to tears.
In the chaos, a child rushed to the shop with tears and snot and tears, and hit another box of goods carried by Anush. With the sound of jingling, indigo and amber glassware broke all over the floor.
『anag!』
『Calm down!』
Anush's guard suddenly pressed the handle of the knife, and the Chen shop clerk picked up the door latch next to him.
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"Translation!" A hurried cry came, and a servant rushed over panting, "There was a quarrel at the door of the lacquerware Chen! Both sides seemed to be going to do something!"
Zhang Ziqing stood up and said, "Call to the inspector!"
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'Your child!' Annush blew his beard and widened his eyes, 'I hit me! It broke!'
Manager Chen asked the client to comfort the child, "It's not that I won't pay, it's because you asked for a price that is too high! Do you understand? The price that is too high! Your glass is worthless!"
"Value! Very valuable!" Annush became more and more irritable.
Manager Chen signaled, "Calm down!"
"What's cold? What's it?!" Annush seemed to want to say something but couldn't understand it. He also didn't understand why glassware was worthless. When his father took him to Chang'an before, glassware was more expensive than gold and silverware.
Manager Chen was also a little helpless. His child went out to play and did hit Hu Shang's goods, so he was willing to pay for it. However, the glassware in Chang'an is no longer as expensive as it was ten or twenty years ago, so he could not accept the price proposed by Hu Shang.
While the stalemate was in a state of stalemate, someone suddenly shouted outside the store, "Get out of the way, get out of the way! The eunuch is here! Let the way out!"
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"Suguda?" Zhang Ziqing looked at Anush's appearance and asked tentatively.
He seemed to have some impression of Anush.
"ig,ig!" When Anush heard Zhang Ziqing's words, she was almost excited and tears were almost bursting out. She immediately started to dance with her hands and feet, while gesturing at the broken glassware, she told Zhang Ziqing what happened.
The shopkeeper Chen of the lacquerware wanted to interrupt twice, but was stopped by Zhang Ziqing. After Hu Shangannush finished speaking, Zhang Ziqing turned around and asked the shopkeeper Chen of the lacquerware, "It was your child who broke his goods, right? He said you won't lose money?"
The shopkeeper Chen of the lacquerware also called it wrong, "I didn't say I won't pay it. He wanted to exchange this glass for my twenty lacquer boxes! How could this happen? Not to mention that these glassware are broken now, even if they are good, they can't change the price! You know, my lacquerware has a thin body as thin as a cicada's wing, and it will take three months to draw gold..."
While speaking, the shopkeeper Chen pressed the small switch on the lacquerware, and the innermost layer of the lacquer box suddenly popped up. The exquisite copper buckle mechanism attracted the attention of the Hu merchants watching the fun around him. The delicate patterns made of shells on the slug were like flowing clouds, which immediately attracted the attention of many Hu merchants and began to chatter and whisper.
Zhang Ziqing nodded slightly. He also knew that Manager Chen was not telling lies. It would be fine if it was an ordinary lacquerware, but this kind of clamping process is indeed time-consuming and labor-consuming. It is not just a matter of simply applying paint on the items.
But just speaking verbally cannot solve the problem.
Zhang Ziqing waved to the inspector who came to him and asked him to go to the other glass shop at the market to get a set of glass tableware.
A few years ago, glass was imported, the same as pepper, and the price was comparable to gold. However, later the man could also produce glassware himself, so the price fell down with a click. The Sogdian merchant obviously did not know the fluctuations and changes in the price became the key contradiction in the dispute between the two sides.
Soon, the inspector brought a glassware guy to the scene and showed a set of tableware brought from the glassware shop.
The Sogdian merchant Anush widened his eyes, then looked at the broken glassware around him, and found that although his glassware was richer and more variable in color, the newly obtained glassware was more transparent...
Whether there are many colors or more transparent ones is actually not determined outside the domain, but one thing is certain: there are many colors and crystal clear ones, that is, it is even more expensive!
In fact, now, Annush also understood a little. He recalled that when the door was not opened in West Market, the Anxi merchant around him only praised his wine and silver pot, but did not mention any glaze at all...
It’s just that he bought these glasses in the foreign domain for a lot of money. Now, not only hasn’t made any money, but they have also been broken and broken.
Anush held the broken glassware and wanted to cry without tears.
Seeing that the matter was almost clear, Manager Chen grabbed his naughty child and slapped his butt a few times, then pointed at the child's nose and cursed a few times, and asked him to go back to the inner yard.
Zhang Ziqing shook his head slightly and asked the inspector to drive away those onlookers who were watching the fun.
This Sogdian merchant is really thick-skinned and he is not afraid of being cut off...
Zhang Ziqing squatted on the ground, carefully pinched a piece of broken glass fragments. Suddenly, he moved his heart. He took the glass fragments and walked to the front of the lacquer box of Manager Chen, and placed it next to the shells inlaid with the lacquer box. "You two see..."
The shopkeeper Chen came first. He didn't really beat the child, but he just beat him to Zhang Ziqing and Hu Shang. After all, his child caused trouble, but he also used this to show that he had punished the child, so others couldn't say anything.
Manager Chen looked at the fragments of glass placed beside the inlaid shells, and suddenly seemed to understand something.
Sogdian merchant Annush also came over, still with a sad and headache on his face.
"Look..." Zhang Ziqing covered the glass sheet on the shell.
『Hey?!』 Manager Chen trembled suddenly.
The Sogdian merchant's eyes were also shiny, and the sad expression on his face was wiped out.
"It seems like this can be done..."
"I want flowers, I want to carve this flower..."
The shopkeeper Chen and the Sogdian merchant suddenly seemed to have nothing happened just now, and they gathered together and started to discuss it enthusiastically. Even though the language communication between the two parties was not so smooth, their enthusiasm for product improvement seemed to serve as a lubricant for their communication. They chatted enthusiastically with just a few words and gestures.
When dusk fell, the two sides finally reached an agreement.
The damaged glassware is discounted to the shopkeeper Chen as a cooperation fund for investing new technologies at the market price. The new products newly developed by the shopkeeper Chen will be exclusively sold by Sogdian merchant Annush in the Western Regions for three years...
So everyone was very happy.
Manager Chen wanted to pay Zhang Ziqing a reward, but Zhang Ziqing refused. In the end, he had to say that he had made the finished product, and he was the first to give it to Zhang Ziqing as a souvenir. Zhang Ziqing agreed.
Hu Shang also wanted to thank Zhang Ziqing and expressed his desire to give Zhang Ziqing wine, but was rejected by Zhang Ziqing.
Zhang Ziqing said goodbye to the two of them and was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly saw Hu Shang's bag-and-wearing pattern hanging on the camel's body, and he couldn't help but stop...
Hu Shang thought that Zhang Ziqing wanted his bag to take it down immediately, but was stopped by Zhang Ziqing, "It's not that he wanted this bag to get it, but you know what this pattern is?"
The bag is made of sheepskin, and the pigment is used to outline the pattern of a plant.
Although it is not very clear, Zhang Ziqing feels that it seems to be very similar to a certain plant in the task of collecting seeds assigned by the Grand Secretary to the previous mission...
The setting sun plated the blue bricks in the West City with gold edges, which also shone on Zhang Ziqing and others.
In the sound of camel bells rippling in the evening breeze, a star seemed to jump out happily from the eaves of the General's Mansion in the distance, and blinked with his head tilted.