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In fact, Mu Chen couldn't delay his work, but he was worried that Cen Le would be bullied if he couldn't speak, and he was worried that Cen Le, who was too big in the city, would get lost, so he carefully instructed and explained everything about Cen Le, making sure that Cen Le could do it alone. , before leaving.

Cen Le is very grateful for Mu Chen's concern and care.

He became more and more determined to make money quickly so that he could repay Mu Chen's kindness.

After seeing off Mu Chen, Cen Le went shopping by himself.

The city is very big and very prosperous, the streets extend in all directions, and there are many shops and vendors. Cen Le is a newcomer, completely unfamiliar, and simply has plenty of time, so he has no scruples, chose a street, and prepared to stroll slowly.

The street Cen Le picked at random is West Street.

There are four main streets in Suzhou city, named after east, west, north, south, and west street. There are more stalls on the west street, and there is a morning market every day. Most of them are ordinary people from ordinary families or poor people. There are fewer shops and lower prices.

As for the East Street next door, there are more shops of all kinds, and the items sold there are of better quality and quality, but the corresponding prices are also high, and poor people can hardly afford them.

At this time, the morning market has already started, and the streets are full of vendors or small vendors, selling everything from vegetables and eggs, to rouge and gouache, jewelry, cloth, calligraphy and painting, and there are so many people coming and going.

Cen Le carried the 150 Wen coins that Mu Chen gave him in his arms. After strolling around the West Street, he had a general understanding of Dayan’s prices. One tael of silver can buy about [-] catties of rice, and ordinary people can’t afford it all year round. It costs two to three taels of silver.

Knowing the price of Dayan, Cen Le spent fifteen Wen to buy another pair of shoes.

After waking up at Mu Chen's house, he didn't find his shoes, presumably he lost them somewhere, and he was wearing Mu Chen's shoes all the time, and Mu Chen's shoes were too big for him, so when he wore them It always falls off, and although the cloth has been stuffed in the shoe, it is still not very useful.

Now that he changed into a pair of suitable shoes, walking was not so uncomfortable, and Cen Le also had an idea.

However, he is going to look at a few other streets before making a decision.

Next to the West Street is the East Street. There are many shops on the East Street, and the prices of the items are also expensive. There are more young masters and ladies from rich families shopping in it. Therefore, most passers-by on the street are dressed more gorgeously, even the most ordinary ones. They were also made of cotton, and there were few traces of mending on them, so when Cen Le walked in wearing an old patched padded jacket, he looked very out of place.

Not paying too much attention to these contemptuous or contemptuous gazes, Cen Le went into several jewelry shops according to his initial idea. What I do is to make some small handmade items and sell them in the city.

The orphanage where Cen Le grew up was very poor, and the government did not allocate much funds. In order to let the children grow up better, the old director would often weave some things by hand to sell. When Cen Le was seven or eight years old, he I learned knitting with the old dean, and when I was in junior high school, his knitting was already very good, and some people were even willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy it.

Therefore, Cen Le is more confident about the weaving skills.

When the end was approaching, Cen Le had already walked through three streets, and basically visited all the jewelry shops. The last North Street was a gathering place for literati and refined scholars. went.

The reason Cen Le did this was to determine if there was any place in Suzhou that sold woven accessories.

He has no money now, all he has is craftsmanship, but in Dayan, there are many craftsmen with great craftsmanship. If he can't make unique and most novel items that don't exist in the market, he can't compare with others at all, and basically can't make money. to silver.

Among the things he has made up, jewelry is the simplest, and it doesn't take a long time. Besides, no matter what era, women love beauty, and jewelry exists as a necessity, so their money is best earned. .

After confirming that there is no place in Suzhou that sells woven jewelry, Cen Le really made a decision.

After thinking about what to do, Cen Le began to look for what he needed, the rope for weaving.

This kind of rope is not uncommon, but no one associates them with jewelry, so it didn't take long for Cen Le to find it in a grocery store called "Chen Liupuzi" on West Street.

The ropes were not expensive, so Cen Le spent all his remaining fifteen Wen to buy four bundles, each with a different color.

But having the rope is not enough, because if it wants to make it look good, you must add some other things as embellishments, but he is now penniless, so when he passed by a pawn shop, Cen Le went in.

There were no customers in the pawnshop, so it was very deserted. The shopkeeper was dozing off, but he woke up abruptly when he heard footsteps, and then asked with a smile: "Guest officer, do you want a pawn?"

Cen Le looked at the shopkeeper and nodded.

The shopkeeper looked at Cen Le for a while, and when he saw the clothes on Cen Le's body, the smile on his face immediately collapsed, and changed into an impatient expression, "What do you want to pawn?" He added after speaking : "Our pawn shop does not accept clothes."

Cen Le didn't mind the shopkeeper's attitude, he took out a watch from his pocket and put it on the counter.

This watch was bought as a gift for himself when he got his first salary. It is not very expensive, but it is very commemorative.

The shopkeeper picked up Cen Le's watch and looked at it, but he didn't show any strange expression. He thought for a while and asked, "Do you want to live or die? Three taels of silver for life, five taels of death for death."

Cen Le couldn't speak, so he poured a cup of tea from the side, dipped his fingers in the water, and wrote the word "jobs" on the counter.

The shopkeeper saw that Cen Le could not speak, he was a mute, so there was more contempt in his eyes, "Living three taels, the time limit is half a year, you sign a document, if you don't come to redeem it after half a year, it will belong to the pawn shop .”

Cen Le nodded.

Seeing that Cen Le understood what he heard, the shopkeeper put away the watch, and then took out two slips of paper for Cen Le to draw and sign. Bring the broken silver to Cen Le.

Cen Le took the money and the receipt, turned around and left the pawn shop without stopping.

He was going to visit the jade shop.

Not far from the pawn shop, there is a jade shop, the shop is very large, and people keep coming in and out, including Cen Le.

The person who received Cen Le was a teenage boy with big eyes and a round face. He was very pleasing. He was not like the shopkeeper of the pawn shop just now. Instead, the smile is appropriate and very enthusiastic.

"Guest officer, what do you want to buy? A jade pendant or other accessories?" the boy asked with a smile.

Cen Le looked at the young man, raised his finger to point at his mouth, waved his hand again, and told the young man that he could not speak.

The young man was a little puzzled at first, but he soon understood, his expression remained unchanged, and he only asked, "Guest officer, can you write?"

Cen Le nodded.

"Then wait a moment, I'll get the pen and paper." The young man smiled at Cen Le, then turned around and ran towards the counter, and quickly took the pen and paper to the table near the inside of the shop, and said to Cen Le : "Come and write."

Cen Le walked over, took the pen and paper, and wrote down what he needed on the paper.

After more than two months of practice, Cen Le's handwriting is already decent. Although it can't be said to be very good-looking, it is not ugly, and he is afraid that the writing is not clear enough, and the teenager will not understand, so he still draws blanks out.

The boy picked up the paper and glanced at it, and immediately understood, he said, "Wait a moment."

Soon the boy came back again, holding a tray in his hand, which was filled with large and small jade beads, of good or bad quality.

Cen Le watched, his eyes lit up.

The young man introduced: "These jade beads are all polished with leftover materials. The fineness is a little worse, the small one is fifteen coins, the large one is 25 coins, the fineness is better, the small one is twenty coins, and the big one is three cents. Ten texts, you can choose by yourself."

Ten or twenty Wen a piece, very expensive.

In fact, Cen Le was a bit hesitant to do it. He was not sure whether his idea could make money. If he couldn’t make money, he would lose too much money. However, no matter what he did, he needed to take risks, so after thinking for a while, he still decided Buy [-] pieces first and try it out.

Cen Le picked and picked, and finally chose ten small jade beads of good quality and ten small jade beads of average quality.

The young man saw that Cen Le bought a lot, and that the jade beads were not very useful, so few people would buy them, so he gave Cen Le a discount of ten Wen, and only charged 340 Wen.

After leaving the jade shop, Cen Le remembered that Mu Chen's house was missing a lot of things, so he went to the grocery store again and bought rice, oil, salt, and soy sauce and vinegar. I bought a little by the way, and spent a total of [-] Wen.

After buying it in a hurry, the time agreed with Mu Chen came in a blink of an eye, so Cen Le didn't continue to stroll, and walked towards the place agreed with Mu Chen with a basket on his back.

The author has something to say: continue tomorrow, good night everyone!

Meme Chirp~

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