Although black gold stone is a stone, it is the king of stones, more precious than gold and jade. If you can get a seal carved from black gold stone, it is a matter of great pride. If this inkstone is really carved from black gold stone, how much more valuable would it be?

Come to think of it, how could the things used by the emperor be ordinary?

Not to mention the inkstone, even a piece of paper and a pen probably have a long history.

Xue Huan walked out with the inkstone and glass lamp, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a white jade hairpin in a brocade box out of the corner of her eye.

The whole body of the lily is flawless white, crystal clear and lustrous, as if it were made of mutton fat.

The top is simply carved with cloud patterns, with smooth lines and a natural look.

Xue Huan fell in love with it at first sight and took the jade hairpin with her.

But Wang Yan, the old man who was looking after the pawnshop, had originally decided not to touch the food after Xue Huan went upstairs. After all, Wang Yan was not so easily bribed or impressed.

But the smell of food kept coming into his nose. He glanced at it again and again, and then thought, forget it, he might as well try it. It was hard for her to bring it all the way here.

If it doesn’t taste good, he’ll scold her to death when she comes down later!

As a result, he couldn't stop eating after he started.

What delicious food has he not eaten in his life? Only when he got older did he realize that all the food he ate before was crap!

He ate up all the ice cream, cold noodles and fruits, but the drunken shrimp was more difficult to eat, so he left it for last.

He was eating shrimps with gusto when he heard someone coming down the stairs. He quickly peeled the shrimps in his hand and ate them, and then disposed of the pile of shrimp shells on the table.

When he looked up, he saw Xue Huan standing at the stairs, leaning against the wall and looking at him with a half-smile.

Wang Yan's old face turned red. He had refused so decisively before, saying that he couldn't eat it. But in the end, he not only ate it, but also ate it all up, and was even caught by someone.

Xue Huan noticed that he was uncomfortable, but she didn't think of exposing him. What if he got angry out of embarrassment?

So she pretended not to see anything, and without saying a word, she just took out the three things she had chosen and asked, "How much are these three things?"

Wang Yan, who had eaten someone’s food, was grateful for his kindness. He coughed lightly and said, “My last name is Wang.”

This was in response to her earlier question.

Xue Huan was stunned for a moment before reacting, "Uncle Wang."

In this way, the two of them established a preliminary friendship.

Wang Yan nodded reservedly, then looked at the three things she handed over.

Colored glass lamp, ink-gold inkstone, and mutton-fat jade hairpin.

Wow, this girl has a sharp eye. These things are all rare and good things.

In consideration of the food she brought, Wang Yan gave her a discount: "If you want it, the total price for the three items is 6,800 taels."

Xue Huan knew that none of the three items she picked would be cheap. However, even though she was prepared to spend a lot of money, she was still shocked by the price quoted by the old man.

"Six thousand eight hundred taels?"

Xue Huan did a quick conversion and figured out that this should be equivalent to more than 10 million RMB, right?

Even if she has made a lot of money recently, it's not this much.

The share of profits from Yingxianlou can only be settled at the end of the year, so even though Yingxianlou's business is booming now, she actually hasn't received a penny.

Because of the need to control sales, only less than 200 kilograms of chili peppers have been sold so far, which is about 3,000 taels.

The ice cream business in cooperation with Qin's has just started, and it is not time to distribute dividends yet.

The snack shop has only been open for a few days. Even if business is good, it can only take out one thousand taels of cash at most.

So adding it all up, she could only collect four thousand taels.

If you want to buy these three things, you still need almost half of it.

"Uncle Wang, I'm an old friend of yours, can you give me a discount?"

Xue Huan smiled and handed over a box of tea.

That was the spiritual tea she made by picking each leaf one by one and roasting it. There wasn't much in total, and she originally planned to keep it for her own drinking.

She had been here several times, and every time she saw a teapot in front of the old man, so she guessed that he was a tea lover. Now that she hoped that he would be more generous and lower the price, she could only cater to his taste and offer him the magic tea as a gift.

Wang Yan was about to refuse, thinking that he had already given you a big discount, otherwise these three items would cost at least seven thousand taels.

But the moment Xue Huan opened the lid of the teapot—

He smelled an extremely refreshing tea fragrance!

Just by smelling it, my chest feels clean and my mind feels clear.

Without a doubt, this tea is absolutely superb!

As a tea lover, Wang Yan's originally listless face suddenly became lively and lively. He snatched the small box of tea leaves, brought it to his nose and sniffed it carefully, with an expression of enjoyment on his face, as if he was floating in the clouds, as if he had taken opium.

Xue Huan: “…”

Is it that so?

But the fact that he seemed so pleased with it, didn't it mean that her gift touched his heart?

"Uncle Wang, what do you think?"

Wang Yan came back to his senses and waved his hand at her casually, "Six thousand five hundred taels, no less."

Three hundred taels are gone in a flash! This box of tea is really worth it!

But she couldn't come up with 6,500 taels.

"Hey, Uncle Wang, do you accept installment payments?"

"What?"

"I'll pay one installment this month and another installment next month. I promise I'll pay it all off within two months!" Xue Huan raised two fingers to show her determination.

Wang Yan stared at her for a while and wanted to let her go, but when his eyes passed over the box of tea, he couldn't bear to let her go.

However, since he took charge of this pawnshop, he has never let anyone owe him money. This precedent cannot be set!

"It's impossible to owe money."

Xue Huan's heart sank when she heard this. She looked at the three things with reluctance. Was she destined to give up one of them today? But she loved all three.

But Wang Yan immediately changed the subject and said, "You can use other things to offset it."

"What?"

Wang Yan threw a booklet to her. Xue Huan opened it and found that it was actually a task commission!

Inside are the tasks assigned by various employers.

The top one is - find the source of the chili peppers behind Zhao Xiaoxian!

The commission is as high as ten thousand taels!

Xue Huan's heart was shamelessly moved. If she handed over the pepper seedlings now, wouldn't she be able to pocket the ten thousand taels of silver immediately?

No, no, no, you can't have this thought!

She continued reading and found that the business scope of the pawnshop was really wide, with all kinds of task commissions.

Finding people, killing people, buying information, and so on.

Hmm, there are actually people who placed an order to “find the whereabouts of Wei Laogou”?

Thinking about how she let Old Dog Wei escape yesterday, Xue Huan regretted it so much that she beat her chest and stamped her feet. The information about this person was worth a full one thousand taels!

Wang Yan asked, "How about it? Is there any order you can do?"