Inside the pawnshop, Li Sisi and Li Nian disguised themselves and Li Nian came forward to pawn the dowry.
"Shopkeeper, could you please take a look at the prices of these pawns?"
The pawnshop window was very high, almost reaching Li Nian's chest.
Li Sisi was taller and dressed as a man. She stared at the shopkeeper with some concern as he carefully checked the things, fearing that their things had been replaced with other things.
The shopkeeper glanced at the couple outside the window, then looked at the things they wanted to pawn, and realized that this was another case of the husband being useless and wanting to pawn his wife's dowry!
Look at this charming young lady with her red lips, almond eyes, rosy cheeks, how could she marry such a gigolo?
Look at his eyes fixed on the things. Is he afraid that I will lose his things?
There was a hint of disdain in the shopkeeper's eyes, but his professional qualities were still good.
He figured out the value of these things almost at a glance, and quickly made a list, carefully writing down the name and price of each item.
Li Nian took the list and looked at it. The price was similar to the two stores they had asked before.
She raised her hand to put the list back, looked up at the shopkeeper, smiled slightly and said, "Shopkeeper, your price is quite honest, but we still have a lot to pawn. I wonder if you can raise the price a little. If you can, we will pawn something better tomorrow."
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment and sighed in his heart, this girl is really stupid, using her dowry to support a man, she will suffer in the future.
However, there is no reason not to make money in business.
"Since the young lady has said that the price I gave is honest, I guess you didn't ask my pawnshop." The shopkeeper thought for a moment, lowered his head and wrote another list.
"How about this? I'll give you the first price. If you haven't cheated me, come back tomorrow to pawn the good stuff, and I'll pay you the price on the second invoice."
Li Nian took the second order and took a look. The price didn’t increase much, but it was better than the previous two. At least they were willing to increase the price.
He immediately replied: "Okay, happy cooperation."
The shopkeeper had not expected that this young lady, though petite and delicate in appearance, was actually quite straightforward in her conduct.
"Young lady, do you want silver or banknotes?"
Li Nian thought about going shopping today, so she said, "I'll change it to twenty taels of silver, and the rest into banknotes."
"Okay!"
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The two came out of the pawnshop in a good mood.
Li Sisi was already impatient to go shopping and eat. "I heard from Chenchen that Zhan Ji's pastry shop on West Street is the best, and Wangkelai's sweet water is also excellent. Let's go to West Street first?"
Li Nian knew nothing about this, so he replied, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
The two walked hand in hand happily toward West Street. Passersby on the street saw how close they were and thought they were just a young couple with a good relationship.
Some elderly people saw this and sighed, "It's great to be young!" They, as old couples, don't have such sweet feelings.
The two little sisters were naturally unaware of this. After all, in modern times, they were used to going shopping hand in hand.
The two came to West Street, and Zhan's shop was particularly conspicuous. After all, his shop was the only one in the whole street with a long queue lined up in front of its door.
"Oh my god, the fact that delicious restaurants always have to queue up is really a common saying from ancient times to the present day!" Li Sisi quickly pulled Li Nian over and trotted over to queue up.
"Chenchen said that Zhan's pastries are limited in quantity. We have to hurry, otherwise we might not be able to buy them if we're late!"
"How about you queue up here to buy pastries, and I'll go buy you desserts?" Li Nian looked at the scattered customers in front of the Wangkelai Sweet Water Shop not far away.
In such hot weather, it would be nice to drink cool sweet water while waiting in line!
Li Sisi had obviously thought of this as well. "Okay, go ahead."
Li Nian came to the Wangkelai store and there was a customer next to her who bought a cup of sweet water. She looked at the cup of steaming sweet water.
Drinking something hot in the hot summer?
"Boss, two glasses of your signature sweet water, with ice."
The shop owner frowned upon hearing this: "Little girl, are you looking for trouble? I've never heard of sweet water with ice!"
The shop owner waved his hand impatiently: "If you don't want to buy anything, leave now. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you."
Seeing his attitude, Li Nian was surprised that there was no sweet water with ice?
Ah, that's right. It's ancient times now. In the hot summer, only aristocratic families might be able to get ice. How could ordinary people get such a rare thing in the hot summer?
She compromised and said, "Then let's have two cups of room temperature drinks!"
"Hey, are you looking for trouble? Sometimes you add ice and sometimes it's room temperature. What's room temperature?" He threw the coarse cloth hanging around his neck onto the table with a "bang".
"Only hot ones, buy them if you want, otherwise don't bother me doing business."
Li Nian had never expected this, not even at room temperature?
"Then give me two cups of hot, signature sweet water."
Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper poured two cups of hot sweet water with a sullen look on his face.
Li Nian carefully carried two cups of steaming sweet water to find Li Sisi.
At this time, she was already at the front of the line, with only five people left to go.
When she saw Li Nian coming over, she smiled brightly, her eyes sparkling: "Niannian, give me the sweet water quickly, I'm dying of heat."
"Sisi, there's only hot sweet water, no ice."
Li Sisi was stunned when she heard this: "What about the room temperature one? It's so hot, you didn't buy two hot cups, did you?"
Li Nian nodded: "There's no room temperature ones, only hot ones."
"No way..." Li Sisi's excited eyebrows suddenly drooped, "It's okay that there's no fruit tea with ice, but there's not even sweet water with ice."
Li Nian thought that every time she entered Li Sisi's room, there seemed to be two extra ice cubes. It must be because there were ice cubes in the room.
"Sisi, why don't you go find some ice and I'll make you some sweet water with ice."
Li Sisi's drooping eyebrows instantly lifted up when she heard this: "Yeah, how could I forget that my Nian Nian is still a little cook! Then I also want to eat fried chicken, French fries, and skewers..."
The people in line next to her heard her list of foods they had never heard of and couldn't help but ask, "Hey, little brother, I've never heard of these things you mentioned. Are they delicious?"
"Yeah, I haven't heard of it either. Is it delicious?"
Li Sisi raised her eyebrows proudly: "Of course it's delicious, but you can't eat it even if you want to, because my Nian Nian only makes it for me!"
The people around him felt their gums turn sour when they heard this.
Hiss—this damn sour smell of rotten love.
"Hey, it's your turn. Hurry up and buy some pastries, go home and ask your wife to make you something delicious," the single guy behind said tauntingly.
Li Sisi didn't expect that everyone mistakenly thought that she and Sisi were a young couple.
But this was also her original intention. No one would have guessed that two newlyweds would pretend to be a couple as a dowry, right? Hehe
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