Scroll of Seeking Jue in the Realm of the Ten Directions

There are people coming and going on Nanqiao Street. Although it is a heavy snow day, there are only slightly fewer businessmen than usual. What should everyone do or do?Minghui planned to buy a lot of things, from hand stove to Yunxiang charcoal, from scented tea to jade tea cups, he listed all kinds of things on the paper. There were twenty or thirty items on the paper. At the crossroads, Minghui was already holding the big and small burdens, and Jun Ming was holding the umbrella for the two of them. "; Why don't you take the things back first, Jun Ming suggested."

: "What about you?"

"; I'll just walk around here to see what's special in this three-way city."

"Alright, don't go far away, I'll come back after I put something away."Minghui walked away with his things in his arms.

Holding an umbrella, Mr. Jue Ming walked casually on Nanqiao Street, and unknowingly reached the upper street of Nanqiao Street. When he stopped, he raised his eyes and saw three big golden characters, Furui Building, he saw Looking at the wide-open building door, he hesitated for a moment, then gathered the oil-paper umbrella, put it on the umbrella stand aside, and crossed the threshold.The Furui building is a two-story structure. The upper floor is back-shaped, the middle is a patio, and the top is glazed tiles for light transmission. The lower floor is container, shelf, and the container and shelf are also arranged in a back-shaped row along the wall. Open, there are tall shelves in the back, containers in front, various samples on the containers, a man standing between the display containers and the shelves, some valuable goods in the middle of the lower floor, and a high cabinet, on which are placed Abacus with pen and ink, some paper pressed with paperweight.On the cabinet on the left is a small wooden sign that reads "Settlement", and on the right is a small wooden sign that says "Pawn".

Mr. Jue Ming walked around the lower floor. There were also fox furs and fur robes in the Furui Building, and there were two full containers.The clerk showed him a few fox fur cloaks, but it was hard for him to catch his eyes, so he became tired. There were many customers like him who looked at everything in the building every day, and the clerk on the first cabinet couldn't greet him. Yes, so I let him go.Mr. Jue Ming turned to the container in the middle, and there was a ten-year-old skinny boy standing in front of the container, seeing that Mr. Jue Ming was empty-handed, he was naturally not here for settlement, so he asked, "Does the customer want to pawn something?

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"You can also do pawn business here." Jun Jue Ming looked at the small wooden sign, and the clerk replied with a smile: "Of course, we have official approval. Customers, what do you want to be?"

"Oh, I just want to buy a leather item, but there doesn't seem to be any suitable ones." Mr. Jue Ming gently tapped the index finger and middle finger of his left hand on the face of his right hand.The man looked at his clothes and saw that the face of the guest in front of him was not ordinary. The brocade robe on his body was made of excellent silk, and the bamboo pattern embroidery of the same color was extremely delicate. In such a cold day, he really needed a leather robe. Robes or cloaks to keep out the cold, so he said with a smile on his face: "This is the first time for the guests to come to our Furui Building, right? So I don't know very well. The goods in the middle and lower floors of our building are large-scale, and the quality is relatively higher than that of the upper floors." The goods are inferior, but the goods on the upper floor are different, customers may wish to go up and have a look.”

The man said while pointing to the stairs beside the courtyard, motioning for Mr. Jue Ming to go up from there.

The things on the upper floor are indeed much more refined, and the decorations and furnishings are even more gorgeous.In addition to the containers and shelves placed along the railing in the middle, the upper floor is divided into many small rooms, each of which is divided into categories, some are clothing, some are utensils, some are chess and the four treasures of the study, and there is even a small room that says "fine Dian Pavilion" three words.

As soon as Mr. Jue Ming went upstairs, a man in a white brocade robe greeted him immediately, and after saluting, he asked, "What do you want to choose, my lord?"

Jue Mingjun nodded politely and said: "Maybe there is a good leather cloak or cloak." The assistant took Jue Mingjun to a small room and said, "Please choose your own, sir. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

There is no door in the small room, and the three walls are covered with all kinds of leather goods. There is a large wooden platform in the middle, and various brocade robes are neatly stacked on the platform. It is indeed much better than the quality downstairs. I just fell in love with the mink collar and silver brocade cape in the middle of the wall.The color of the mink collar is glossy black, there is no variegated hair on it, and the length of each collar hair is almost the same. It is an extremely rare mink cape. There are plum blossoms embroidered with white silk thread on the silver brocade. The dark pattern looks a bit like a cassia flower.Jue Mingjun pointed to the cloak, and the clerk immediately took off the cloak carefully in a timely manner, held it in front of Jue Ming Jun with both hands, and said with a smile: "Young master has a good eye, and he fell in love with this one at a glance. It's not a villain boasting, so There are no more than three mink cloaks in this three-way city."

"Oh, then tell me, how much is such a rare cloak worth?" Jun Ming asked with a playful smile.

: "Just 99 taels of silver." The man said, "My lord, you can feel the thickness of this mink collar. It's definitely worth the money."

Mr. Jue Ming stretched out his finger and brushed it over the fur collar. It was really soft and tough, and it was really worth the price. , He withdrew his hand and said: "I just realized that the money I brought today may not be enough." The clerk heard this and said with a smile: "How much is your shortfall? If it is not much, maybe I can ask the shopkeeper if I can give you less money."

"The difference is 99 taels." Jun Ming replied with a smile.

The buddy choked, he didn't expect that Mr. Jue Ming didn't have a tael of silver on him, not many people could fancy and buy this cloak, he didn't want to lose this deal, 99 taels, he could earn a tael of silver I was rewarded, so I held the cloak forward and said, "My lord, look at such a mink collar color. You can't find another one as shiny as this in the entire Santong City. You are so fond of this cloak. It is the cloak that you and your lord wear together." Due to the fate, we can use things in our building to pay off. If the price of your things is assessed by the shopkeeper in the building, as long as you deposit something of equivalent value in the Classic Pavilion in our building, you can take the cloak , if the price of your things is assessed by the shopkeeper and is higher than the price of the cloak, you can exchange the excess for cash and take it away."

Isn't this a pawn?Fortunately, this guy was concerned about his feelings and put it so tactfully.

"Where is the classic grid?"

"It's at the corner ahead, I'll take you there, young master." Seeing that there was hope for the business again, the man hurriedly put down his cloak for fear that Lord Jue Ming would regret it, and led the Ming army out of the small room and walked along the corridor to Jingdian Pavilion.

There are no doors in the other small rooms on the upper floor, only the Jingdian Pavilion has a door leaf, and it is a carved gilt wooden door with two Pixiu knockers on the door. The door is hidden at the moment, but it is not locked. Shopkeeper Hao is sitting at a big ebony table On the side of the table, there are pens, inkstones, account books, and a small wooden box at the corner of the table. In the box, coils of incense are burning, and in the middle is a silver abacus the size of a palm. Shopkeeper Hao holds the stove and leans on the cushion In the wooden armchair with a thick wool blanket, I rolled my eyes and looked at the man standing opposite the wooden table. The man was wearing a brocade robe with a gold silk thread border made in Hunan, and a white brocade was tied around his waist. The gold thread embroidered auspiciousness. On the girdle is a wide-brimmed girdle with a jasper ring and a lotus-patterned jade ornament. Gold and silver two-color auspicious knots and tassels are hung on the jade ornament. The collar is covered with a pure white foxtail and white brocade. A cloak embroidered with golden auspicious double-line patterns on the side, jet-black and shiny hair, tied on the top of the hair with a white jade crown, eyebrows are not thick, but the shape of the eyebrows is beautiful, with a pair of slightly questionable, black and white Clear eyes, slightly thick lips, lightly bitten by teeth, showing a bit of color.Although he is not considered to be extremely handsome, he can also be called delicate and noble. He stared straight at shopkeeper Hao, pressed his knuckle-knuckle hands on the wooden table, leaned forward slightly, and stood in a stalemate with shopkeeper Hao. Finally, Shopkeeper Hao was defeated, closed his eyes, and sighed, "Third Young Master, we agreed at the beginning that I, Old Hao, will follow you for three months. When the weather gets colder, I will go back to the south. You see, half a year has passed now." Now, look at my hands for yourself." Shopkeeper Hao stretched out a few of his cold, red, round and fat fingers, and put them in front of the man, "Look, I can't even move the abacus beads. I am Nanfang. Man, please be sympathetic to me and let me go back with this old bone.” The man looked at the fat and big carrot hand, and he sighed too, “Uncle Hao, it’s not that I won’t let you go back to the south. Where can I find a suitable person to take your position now, you hold on for a few more months, and when I write to my family, I will send someone to send you back by the beginning of next spring at most."

Shopkeeper Hao waved his hands again and again, "No, no, third son, this is no way, I have to rush home to celebrate the New Year."

"Kefului Building..."

The door was knocked twice, and then opened with a squeak. A man in a white shirt was standing by the door, followed by a handsome young man. Shopkeeper Hao said first, "What's the matter with Baishan?" This young master took a fancy to a mink cloak from this building, but he didn't bring enough money, so he wanted to pay for it with other things first."

Shopkeeper Hao waved to Bai Shan, "Then invite guests to come in." Then he said to his host: "Master, I'm busy now." Zhan Linfeng didn't recover for a while, he only felt that the people behind Bai Shan He seemed to have known each other before, but he didn't remember where he had seen him before. After Hao shopkeeper reminded him twice, he retreated to the armchair to the side and sat down, but he didn't intend to leave. Seeing that apart from the big ebony table in the middle, shopkeeper Hao and the boss who just sat in the armchairs, there are only a few huge antique shelves on which there are some utensils and boxes. Made the pleats.

Jue Mingjun first returned the gift of a scholar, looked at himself, there was nothing valuable except his clothes, Zhan Linfeng looked at it secretly, and thought: "This man's gestures are full of elegance." (In fact, it is Because Mr. Jue Ming is wearing a scholar-style robe today,) his eyebrows also seem to have been seen somewhere, where exactly did he see them?He was lost in thought, but he couldn't find any people or things that matched it.

Seeing that Mr. Jue Ming was silent, the assistant Bai Shan said anxiously: "Young master, no matter what we have in Furui Building, as long as you bring it, it can be mortgaged by Master Hao." Mr. Jue Ming reached out and touched his sleeve. There was a string of essence and blood pearls on the middle wrist, and then he stretched out his left hand to remove the bamboo hairpin carved from purple jade on his head. Without the shackles of the hairpin, the hair slipped down like a black waterfall, and he Handed the purple jade hairpin in front of shopkeeper Hao, "I don't know how much it is worth if I use this." Shopkeeper Hao narrowed his eyes, stretched out his red hand to take it, and took it close to him, and said, "A purple jade hairpin is worth a lot." 50 taels." After saying that, he handed the hairpin back to Lord Jue Ming, saying: "Master, you can do it." Jue Ming Jun held the hairpin and said, "Isn't 50 taels enough for the goods I want to buy?" Or, you can change it to something else, in fact, the snow rabbit fur is also good, only 38 taels of silver, you see."

"No, thank you." Jun Jue Ming was about to put the hairpin back into his arms, when he heard a deep and pleasant voice next to him, "Master Hao, that bamboo hairpin is purple jade amethyst jelly, didn't you pay attention to it just now?" , I didn’t see clearly.” Zhan Linfeng stood up and said to shopkeeper Hao.

Shopkeeper Hao checked slightly. Normally, when he judged the pawned goods, Zhan Linfeng never said a word. Why did he say something that raised the other party's goods today?He was a little puzzled, he didn't know if it was Zhan Linfeng who fell in love with the jade hairpin and wanted to spend more money to keep him, or Zhan Linfeng was reminding himself that the price should not be set too low. Amethyst jelly 500 taels of silver may not be found either.

Shopkeeper Hao pretended to look at Jue Mingjun in a daze, "I really didn't look carefully just now, young master, look at my old eyes, I can't even see amethyst frozen jade clearly, please show me again, young master."

Jun Jue Ming handed over the jade hairpin again, and looked sideways at Zhan Linfeng, Zhan Linfeng smiled at him, and Jun Ming nodded slightly as a response.

Shopkeeper Hao carefully looked at the jade hairpin again, took it to the window, and took it under the light. It was indeed frozen from amethyst. He turned his head to Zhan Linfeng and said, "Boss, old Haoer is really useless. , I can’t even tell the jade hairpin apart, you think it’s better to put me back to the south for retirement, and then freeze in this three-way city, I’m afraid I’m going to lose my mind.”

Without waiting for Zhan Linfeng to agree, he took out a piece of white rabbit down skin from under the ebony table, put the jade hairpin on the skin, and quickly took out another jade hairpin, put it together with the purple bamboo jade hairpin, and said to Jun Ming "Young master, look at my plum blossom hairpin made of hibiscus jelly, which complements yours perfectly. This plum blossom is worth 88 taels. I will give you a whole number of 90 taels for yours. "

Mr. Jue Ming only glanced at the plum blossom hairpin made of hibiscus jelly, and saw that the whole body of the hairpin was pink and purple in color and the carving was fine, so he said warmly: "Although the hairpin of the shopkeeper is gorgeous in color, there is a plum flower petal on the head of the hairpin. There is a small crack in the ice, and there are flocculent cotton threads at the end of the hairpin. Although the carving is good, the value of 88 taels is enough for the price. My bamboo hairpin has no variegated color in the whole body, the color is even, and the water head is also good. And the sculptor is from Kyoto, Shen Zhuo, a famous master of the Jinggong workshop, has his flower seal on the head of the hairpin, and the price of 88 taels is indeed somewhat humiliating to him." After finishing speaking, he reached out to grab the purple jade hairpin.