Chapter 64 Is She Aggrieved?
Whether it was flower seeds, vegetable seeds, or tree species, she had never heard of them before, which made her more interested. Anyway, she had a lot of open space in her space.
"I want all these seeds. How much silver do I need?"
Xia Qingyu tugged at Xia Xing'er's sleeve and whispered in her ear, "Little sister, why are you buying seeds? We don't have anywhere to plant them right now, and we don't know what the situation is in Liangzhou yet."
Xia Xing'er certainly knew that what he was thinking was right, but he didn't know that she had space.
"I know. If I don't come across this, I'll buy it first."
The vendor was afraid that Xia Xing'er would not want them, so he did not dare to quote a high price. He only asked for ten taels of silver for five large bags of seeds.
They came to another stall.
If the previous stall was bustling with people, then this stall was completely silent, forming a sharp contrast.
These are various small wooden sculptures carved by an uncle. Children from wealthy families will not buy them because they look down on them. Children from poor families will definitely not buy them because they have no money.
The small wooden carvings on the stalls are really beautiful, especially the animals, each one looks lifelike.
Galloping horses, grazing sheep, coiled snakes, burrowing rats...
The middle-aged man didn't look up at the people, but continued to carve with his head down.
When Xia Xing'er saw these, she thought of her three little nephews at home: "Third brother, will our three little guys like these things?"
Xia Qingyu looked at these things, and surprise flashed in her eyes. "Don't even mention the three little guys, I like your third brother too."
"Uncle, how do you sell your finished works?"
The old man with wrinkles on his face looked up at the young man and woman in front of him. He saw that their clothes, although not brocade or silk, were made of fine cotton, clean and tidy without any patches.
He put down the unfinished product in his hand with surprise in his eyes, and then nervously stretched out three fingers.
"Three hundred wen each? Not expensive. Wrap them all up for me. I want them all!"
The middle-aged man waved his hands hurriedly: "Miss, you are wrong, it's not three hundred coins, it's not three hundred coins!"
Xia Qingyu said thoughtfully, "Little sister, this must be worth more than three hundred coins. It should be three taels of silver each. His craftsmanship is worth the price!"
Xia Xing'er looked so anxious that she was sweating profusely. She waved her hands and held up three fingers.
"Sir, Miss, no, it's not like that. It's thirty cents each?"
Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingyu looked at each other and thought: This guy is really a real person. He could have just agreed with what they said. That's three taels of silver.
Xia Xing'er took out fifty taels of silver from her sleeve, actually from her personal space, and stuffed it into the middle-aged man's hand.
Xia Qingyu simply rolled up all the finished wood carvings on the stall, about twenty in number, along with a piece of cloth on the ground, turned around and ran, with Xia Xing'er following closely behind.
The uncle with fifty taels of silver in his hand finally reacted and chased in the direction they were running.
"Where did this money-giving boy come from? He gave me fifty taels of silver just by saying so!"
"How could those broken wood carvings be worth so much silver?"
"Why don't they look at my things? Every one of them is more beautiful than those wood carvings."
"Old Xu is really lucky today. He ran into two idiots."
The stall owners around the wood carving stall were all envious, as ordinary people only earned ten taels of silver a year.
Only Old Xu is stupid. He has to return the money that falls from the sky.
Then Old Xu came back again, probably because he didn't catch the person.
"Old Xu, you won't really return the silver?" the stall owner next to him asked anxiously.
Old Xu was not stupid. Instead, he was clear-headed and knew that wealth should not be shown off. He nodded to the stall owner next to him.
"Old Xu, are you stupid? That's fifty taels of silver. Why did you just return it like that?" The owner of the hair flower stall touched her chest with heartache, as if the fifty taels of silver belonged to her.
Old Xu ignored her and sat back at his stall, picked up the semi-finished product and continued carving.
Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingyu were not really stupid. The wood carvings made by Old Xu were really beautiful. Also, Old Xu was a real man. Judging from the calluses between his fingers and his aura, he should be a remnant soldier from the battlefield.
The two men were kind-hearted for once, but they didn't know that many stalls selling wood carvings would appear in that area later, just waiting for the two money-giving boys to come again.
The two ran to another street.
This street is obviously different from the previous one. The shops on both sides of the street are much taller and neater, and there are no stalls outside.
Most of the people wore long gowns and silk skirts without any patches on their clothes.
This place is obviously for wealthy people to shop. The clothes on the siblings look a bit...
Seeing a pawnshop, Xia Xing'er thought of the glass cup on the stall in front and wanted to know the price of the glass cup in her own space.
"Third brother, I have something I want to go in and ask about the price. Do you want to come in with me or wait here for me for a while?"
Xia Qingyu thought that her younger sister must want to pawn the jewelry she brought from the mansion for silver, and said with some distress: "Little sister, do you not have enough silver? I still have some here. I will keep all your things. We are not at the point where we can ask you to pawn your jewelry yet."
Xia Xing'er knew he had misunderstood her when she heard this. "Third brother, what are you thinking? I have some money on me. I just found this by chance and wanted to see the price."
Xia Qingyu was relieved after hearing her say this: "Then I will go in with you!"
The two walked into the pawnshop. The waiter saw them and didn't look down on them: "Sir, what do you two want to pawn?"
Xia Xing'er took out a box from the real space in her sleeve, which contained a pair of glass bowls, and handed it to the waiter.
"Look at how much this is worth."
The waiter took it casually, opened the box, saw what was inside, quickly closed it, and ran to the backyard with the box in his arms.
Xia Qingyu had just seen what was inside, but he couldn't remember when such a thing appeared in his home.
If someone had two bowls like this, they would treat them as heirlooms. No one would take them out as calmly as my little sister.
Although he had doubts in his mind, he knew that now was not the time to ask, so he could only suppress his doubts.
Xia Xing'er was very satisfied with Xia Qingyu's attitude and decided to buy some more good things for her third brother later.
In less than a moment, a portly middle-aged man came out holding a box, followed by the waiter from before.
The middle-aged man bowed to the brother and sister and said, "Sir, the waiter was very rude to the young lady just now. Please bear with me! I am the owner of this pawnshop!"
The shopkeeper looked at the brother and sister in front of him. Although they were dressed in ordinary clothes, they had an aura that was not possessed by ordinary people. He immediately felt that they were children from a wealthy family whose family had fallen on hard times.
"Excuse me, where did this thing come from?"
Xia Xing'er pretended to be sad and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper. This pair of glass bowls has been passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors and has always been a family heirloom. But luck has turned against us and our family has suffered a sudden disaster. I can only reluctantly pawn them to use as funds for my comeback."
After saying that, he cooperated and touched the non-existent tears.
The shopkeeper had an expression that said, "As expected."
"I wonder if you two want to plead for life or death?"
"How do you pawn a living thing? How do you pawn a dead thing?" Xia Xing'er asked.
"Live pawn means that you can redeem the property with the pawn deed when you have money in the future. Dead pawn means that you cannot redeem the property even if you have money in the future." The shopkeeper prayed in his heart that it was a dead pawn.
Sure enough, the next moment, a heavenly voice was heard: "Then I will die! We are also from other places, just passing through here."
The shopkeeper was delighted, but said seriously, "I don't know how much you want to pawn. I need to see if we have enough money in the shop."
The subtext is that you must not talk nonsense and ask for an exorbitant price, otherwise there will be no money to give you.
Xia Xing'er thought that the small glass cup cost three hundred taels of silver, and her pair of glass bowls were flawless, so asking for three thousand taels would not be too much.
He held up three fingers. The shopkeeper looked at them and asked tentatively, "Thirty thousand taels?"
Xia Xing'er shook her head subconsciously.
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "The maximum is 300,000 taels. Our shop can't afford any more."
Xia Xing'er thought to herself, I was talking about three thousand taels, but if you want to give me three hundred thousand taels, I can't think it's too much money!
Pretending to be distressed, he reluctantly said, "Okay, then I'll listen to the shopkeeper. Three hundred thousand taels is three hundred thousand taels. I'll consider it my friend."
Xia Qingyu: Where am I? Can anyone tell him why his little sister just pawned something for 300,000 taels?
The shopkeeper was overjoyed. He had bought a pair of glass bowls made of such fine material for 300,000 taels. If they were put at an auction, they would be worth at least 800,000 taels. He could finally leave this shabby place.
"It's a deal. I'll prepare the banknotes for you right away."
The shopkeeper carried the box back to the backyard and came out a moment later with a stack of silver notes worth ten thousand taels each. He stuffed them into Xia Xing'er's hands and said, "Miss, we have settled the payment."
Xia Xing'er put the banknote into her sleeve, but actually put it into the space, and pulled Xia Qingyu, who was standing there in a daze, out of the pawnshop.
After walking for a while, Xia Qingyu came back to his senses. Just as he was about to ask Xia Xing'er about the origin of the bowl, an inopportune voice came.
"My little beauty, you are so beautiful!"
A frivolous voice mixed with malicious words sounded: "Come home with me, and I will let you eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks in the future. Come here first and let me kiss you."
Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingping turned around and saw a man as round as a ball, who was cornering a little girl and trying to do something indecent to her.
The girl was dressed in white and had two small white flowers on her head. She was quite pretty and her tears were like pear blossoms in the rain when she cried. Any man would like her.
"Sir, I'm from a good family. You have to...quickly let me go. I won't go back with you..."
The brother and sister looked at each other, then turned and left.
"Young Master!"
The round young man who was originally teasing the little white flower stared in one direction for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses.
Little White Flower followed Mr. Yuanqiu's gaze and saw the backs of a man and a woman.
Isn't it just the backs of a man and a woman? I don't know what Zhang Fugui is staring at. Could it be prettier than her?
"Quick, go and stop them for me!"
Zhang Fugui shouted excitedly to the followers behind him.
Seeing Zhang Fugui's attention being diverted by someone unknown, Xiao Baihua suddenly became anxious. She pulled Zhang Fugui's sleeve with an expression that seemed to want to cry but couldn't, "Master..."
Before she could finish her words, Zhang Fugui brushed them away with his sleeve.
She fell to the ground, watching the two figures chasing after her. She was unwilling to give up, as she had been preparing for today's encounter for a full six months.
Unwilling to give up, she endured the pain and got up, ready to chase after Zhang Fugui, watching a human-shaped sandbag fly past her.
When I looked up, I saw the man and woman turning around. It was no exaggeration to describe the woman as having bright eyes, white teeth, and being so beautiful that the moon and flowers would be ashamed of themselves.
The man's appearance was no less than the woman's. Xiao Yuanniang felt bad and shouted, "Young Master, girls, run, run quickly."
The brother and sister looked at her, but instead of running as she said, they stood there motionless.
In less than a moment, Zhang Fugui and his entourage came to Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingyu.
Zhang Fugui looked at Xia Xing'er and Xia Qingyu obsessively, as if he was determined to win.
"Where did this beauty come from? Come back to my house with me and I will treat you to delicious food and spicy drinks."
"I also like this handsome young man next to you. Come back with me. I will definitely make you feel like you are in heaven!"
As he spoke, he looked at the brother and sister in a lewd manner and said, "Look at you two, beautiful ladies, what are you wearing? How can it be worthy of you? Come back with me and I will let you wear silk and satin, and add some beautiful jewelry."
"When the time comes, I will serve you personally!"
Zhang Fugui said this with his pig's trotter-like hand as he was about to reach out to pull Xia Xing'er.
The followers who were kicked away also came to them. Just as they were about to remind Zhang Fugui to be careful, they heard a "click" and a pig's squeal.
There was no longer any frivolity or vulgarity on his face. Instead, his face was pale and distorted with pain.
"With your appearance, you still dare to call yourself brother to my sister. I'm afraid my sister will vomit up the food she had left overnight."
Xia Qingyu looked at Zhang Fugui at her feet with a smile.
"You...you...you...hiss"
Zhang Fugui was really in pain, the fat on his face was trembling.
"How dare you! Do you know who I am? How dare you treat me like this? You're done for. Your whole family is done for. If my father finds out, he'll definitely kill your entire clan!"
Xia Xingyue asked with great interest, "Oh, that's amazing! I wonder who your father is. How could he kill all nine of our clans?"
"His father is Zhang Dalin, the magistrate of Qingyang County. The man at your feet is his only son, Zhang Fugui, whom he dotes on very much."
Xiao Yuanniang said anxiously, "Young Master, ladies, please run quickly. It's not too late. If you're too late, it will be too late!"
Xia Xing'er looked up at Xiao Yuanniang and asked, "Why did you deliberately approach him just now? Did you feel wronged?"
Xiao Yuanniang was stunned for a moment, and tears couldn't stop flowing down. Was she feeling wronged?
This was the first time someone had asked her this in a long time.
She tried hard to hold back her tears.
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