The deacons invited Xiang Yu to rest in the private room on the second floor, made a pot of tea, asked Xiang Yu to wait for a while, and then quickly went downstairs to call the shopkeeper.
Xiang Yu looked around this elegant room. The furniture was all made of agarwood and sandalwood. The style was simple and elegant. The blanket on the floor was made of gorgeous sable fur. The murals on the wall had beautiful lines. It looked like they were all handmade...
While Xiang Yu was looking at the elegant room, the six-eared green monkey jumped on the carpet.
It rolled twice on the carpet, looked up and around, and finally got under the table...
There were footsteps in the stairwell, and looking through the open door, I saw a graceful and charming middle-aged woman in her forties, led by deacons to the second floor.
"I'm really sorry for keeping this young master waiting for so long."
The beautiful middle-aged woman apologized while she was still outside the door. Her voice was like jade beads rolling down, very clear and moving.
She is none other than Mrs. Jieyu, the shopkeeper of Zishan Zhenge in Lushan County.
In daily contact with customers of all kinds, Mrs. Jieyu is very talkative, her hospitality skills have long been perfected, and she is so approachable.
She waved her hand and asked the deacons to step back, entered the room, and locked the door. Suddenly, she and Xiang Yu were the only two people left in the room.
Xiang Yu stood up to greet me and said, "I'm sorry for asking you to come here despite your busy schedule. I have more than a dozen gems here that I want to sell to you. I would like to trouble you to inspect the goods and give you an estimate."
Mrs. Jieyu nodded, her eyes swept over the dozen gems on the table, she was startled, a bright light flashed in her eyes, and she quickly returned to normal.
“Good stuff se.”
She praised, but moved her eyes away from the gem, smiled at Xiang Yu, and sat down on the chair opposite him.
Being so close, the rich floral scent of Mrs. Jieyu's body penetrated into the nostrils, and it was indescribably refreshing.
Xiang Yu greedily took a sip of the nostalgic smell. Mrs. Jian Yu was looking at him with a smile on her face, and then he remembered how unreasonable his uncontrollable actions were.
Smile awkwardly.
Mrs. Jieyu, on the other hand, is calm and calm. She has never seen any big storms. She has a lot of excuses to do business with her on weekdays, but she stares at her breasts squintingly at the men who take the opportunity to carry oil and talk to them.
In comparison, Xiang Yu is as pure as a piece of white paper.
Seeing the embarrassed look on the young man's face, Mrs. Jieyu chuckled, easing the awkward atmosphere in the room.
Looking carefully at the young man in front of him, he was obviously young, but he gave people an unfathomable feeling. No wonder he dared to show off something worth hundreds of thousands of taels of gold like this.
For a moment, she couldn't figure out Xiang Yu's origin, so Mrs. Jie Yu asked tentatively, "This young master looks very nice, he must not be from here! I wonder what your surname is..."
Xiang Yu nodded, "My surname is Xiang, with the character Yu. I am from Qinghe County."
Qinghe County is adjacent to Lushan County, and across Lushan is the territory of Qinghe County. Xiang Yu has never been there, so he knows the name only from the map.
"Xiang Yu, what a good name."
Mrs. Jieyu murmured, and then praised: "Qinghe County, that is a good place. I went there ten years ago, and the Qinghe fish there is famously delicious! It still reminds me of it.
smell."
Xiang Yu smiled, but did not dare to answer the question. He knew very little about Qinghe County and was afraid that he might let something slip and reveal his fault.
Mrs. Jieyu sighed and finally returned to the topic.
She stretched out her slender hand and picked out a fist-sized jadeite from a dozen gemstones. She held it in her hand and looked at it. Her face became very surprised. Then she turned back to the counter and took out the magnifying glass, and looked carefully at it again.
Looking at the jade in his hand, it took a while -
"good!"
"What a king of jade, with such bright color, such delicate texture, and flawless transparency..."
Mrs. Jieyu looked amazed and congratulated: "Master Xiang is really lucky to have come across this kind of pure natural jadeite. We at Zishan Zhenge are willing to pay ten thousand taels of gold to buy this piece of jade."
"Ten thousand taels of gold."
Xiang Yu's eyes widened. One tael of gold was equivalent to thirty silver, and ten thousand taels of gold was equivalent to three hundred thousand taels of silver. He really didn't expect jade to be so valuable.
"Why, Mr. Xiang thinks I don't pay enough? You know..."
"No, no, no, madam has misunderstood! The price given by madam has far exceeded my expectation."
Mrs. Jieyu was startled. This young man was too straightforward and cute. However, the flawless piece of jadeite in his hand was indeed worth the price. If he sold it to Zishan Zhenge's main store, he could make at least double the profit.
...You must know that Zishan Zhenge’s main store has a special liking for this kind of pure jade, and the price it gives is truly sky-high.
In this way, the first jadeite was sold to Zishan Zhenge for 10,000 taels of gold.
Mrs. Jieyu was about to get the second gem when suddenly——
"Zhizhizhi..."
The six-eared green monkey got out from under the table, jumped onto the coffee table between the two of them, and grinned at Mrs. Jieyu.
"Oh, what is it?" Mrs. Jieyu was startled, but when she saw the appearance of the six-eared green monkey, she was suddenly surprised again, "What a cute monkey, where did this come from?"
Xiang Yu said awkwardly: "This is the monkey I fed."
"Did you feed it? What kind is it? What's its name? Do you still have this kind of monkey? It's covered in green hair. It's so cute..." Mrs. Jieyu was very interested in the six-eared green monkey.
Xiang Yu smiled bitterly and said, "I only have one monkey like this. Its name is the Six-Eared Green Monkey."
"Six-eared green monkey? I've never heard of it. It really has six ears..."
Mrs. Jieyu looked at the six-eared green monkey, his eyes shining, but the six-eared green monkey was not interested in her. He called out "Zhizhi" twice, made a face, jumped back on Xiang Yu's shoulder, and squatted by himself.
It's so funny to scratch the left side, the right side, and scratch the head and ears.
Reluctantly retracting her gaze from the six-eared green monkey, Mrs. Jieyu once again took a small bowl-sized yellow crystal and observed it carefully with a magnifying glass.
"Good thing, this is a top-grade crystal. The crystal is so transparent that you can't see any lint under a magnifying glass. There are no ice cracks or impurities... Good! Good! I'll give you three thousand taels of gold for this top-grade crystal."
"
Next, Mrs. Jieyu appraised a diamond that was not much smaller than an egg.
"What a diamond. It is very clear. It seems to be colorful when you look closely. This is a very rare multicolored diamond. What is even more rare is that it is not much smaller than an egg... I will give you such a large multicolored diamond."
Eight thousand five hundred taels of gold."
After evaluating three gemstones in a row, the purity was extremely rare. Mrs. Jieyu was surprised. She looked at Xiang Yu curiously and said, "Mr. Xiang, could it be that he robbed Jiaolong's lair? How could there be so many top-grade gemstones?"