When Zhang Shixun returned to the front yard, Gao Yanei, who had been waiting impatiently, came to greet him.
"Brother, why did you take so long?"
Zhang Shixun covered his mouth and yawned, "Sorry, I need to sleep. Please go back, Yanei."
"Don't worry!" Gao Yanei heard him chase the guests away and hurriedly said, "What about the treasure? Didn't you go to the back to discuss it with your cousin?"
"Ah!" Zhang Shixun sighed, "You're such a clingy person. Why are you still thinking about your baby?"
"I came here just for my baby, how can I not miss him?"
"It's really unbearable." Zhang Shixun pretended to be reluctant and said, "The treasure is still there, but you can only look at it."
"Okay! I'll just take a look."
Zhang Shixun took out the hairpin, which was a light purple hairpin that looked very classy.
He carefully placed it on the stone table and said, "Look for yourself."
Gao Yanei lay on the stone table, looking at the treasure greedily, but he saw that it was neither gold nor jade, but crystal clear, shining brightly in the sunlight.
What…what kind of treasure is this?” Gao Yanei asked in a trembling voice.
Zhang Shixun said, "You haven't seen it before, this treasure is the hairpin worn by the Princess of Baghdad."
"A princess with eight... eight pimples?"
"Go! I'm talking about Baghdad, not eight lumps."
"Eight lumps." Gao Yanei repeated these three words several times in his mouth, smiled bitterly and said, "It's still eight lumps."
Zhang Shixun couldn't explain it to him clearly, so he picked up a branch and wrote these words on the ground for him.
"Oh! So it's Baghdad... This foreigner is really uneducated. Even the name he chose is so rustic."
"This hairpin is said to have fallen from heaven to earth and was acquired by the royal family of Baghdad."
"From heaven to earth?" Gao Yanei asked in surprise.
Zhang Shixun nodded: "It has a name, called 'Princess Hairpin'."
"Princess's Hairpin, what a nice name!" Gao Yanei praised from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Shixun began to brag a lot. Since bragging was not taxable anyway, he might as well brag more.
"Look closely. This hairpin appears purple on the surface, but if you look at it from a different angle, you can see different colors. And it looks different in sunlight and candlelight... Wow! This tiny hairpin, in all its colors—red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple—is a dazzling array of colors. It truly encompasses everything and offers countless variations."
"It's really... it's a treasure from the immortals." Gao Yanei's Adam's apple moved up and down a few times.
Zhang Shixun smiled and continued to fool people: "This treasure is said to bring luck to people. It has been passed down in the royal family of Baghdad for eight hundred years. Every princess who wears it will be blessed with longevity...this..." Zhang Shixun felt a little embarrassed when he saw that this guy was so easy to fool.
"Oh my God!" Gao Yanei finally came back to his senses and stroked his chest, saying, "I, Gao Chengzong, have lived to be twenty years old and can see this kind of... God..."
"Heaven!"
"Yes, yes! Heaven!" Gao Yanei nodded repeatedly. "To be able to see this kind of treasure from heaven... flowing down, it is truly a blessing in three lifetimes... no, a blessing in fifteen lifetimes!"
Zhang Shixun smiled but said nothing.
Gao Yanei lay on the stone table and looked at it for a long time. Then he raised his head and asked, "Since it is the princess's hairpin, how did brother get it?"
"Do you know what opportunity is?" Zhang Shixun smiled mysteriously, but did not continue to explain.
"Is there still a chance?"
"Of course I have. I'll tell you when I have time." Zhang Shixun had not yet thought of a coherent story to explain himself.
There’s no rush for this, I’ll slowly compile one later.
It's not a difficult task.
Gao Ya took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweaty face, then bent down to examine the treasure carefully.
She leaned over the stone table with her butt sticking out, looking left and right, then walked around the table twice. After looking for a full meal, she raised her head and asked hesitantly, "Brother, do you want to sell this princess hairpin?"
"No sale!" Zhang Shixun answered firmly.
Gao Yanei shuddered and pleaded with a tearful face, "Can we make a deal? I'm willing to pay a high price."
"There's nothing to negotiate. I won't sell it!" Zhang Shixun refused to give in.
This is called rare goods, and only by whetting people's appetite can you sell it at a good price.
With my baby in hand, I have what you don’t have, and I take the initiative everywhere.
Gao Yanei certainly wouldn't give up. "Brother, since this treasure is called the 'Princess's Hairpin', it can only be worn by the Princess. There's no point in you hiding it, right? Instead of letting it sit idle, why not sell it to me?"
"No discussion. I want to leave it to my children and grandchildren as a family heirloom." Zhang Shixun said slowly.
"This...Brother, it seems you don't have a wife yet."
"Just because I don't have a wife now doesn't mean I won't have one in the future. I can take my time looking for one. There's no rush. A real man should never worry about not having a wife."
"Brother is so charming and dashing, Yushu...this...Linfeng, he will definitely be able to find a fairy-like young lady." Gao Yanei flattered with a lewd look on his face.
There is nothing wrong with this statement.
Zhang Shixun smiled and nodded. My appearance is indeed not bad.
"Brother, you only have 10,000 strings of cash in your hand. This amount of money won't last you long, let alone marrying a wife."
Gao Yanei stirred up his tongue and began to persuade the man with both emotion and reason: "Keeping this treasure will be of no use to you. It would be better to sell it and immediately become rich... No! A million."
One million strings of cash, this is probably Gao Yanei’s psychological price.
Zhang Shixun just smiled and said nothing.
"I wonder if my brother has heard that he is rich and has come to Yangzhou on a crane."
Zhang Shixun almost laughed out loud. He was a wealthy man with a fortune of 100,000 taels of silver.
Too lazy to correct him.
"Yanei, no matter how much you say, I won't sell this treasure!" In order to achieve his goal, Zhang Shixun gritted his teeth and refused to give in.
"This..." Gao Yanei was so anxious that he was running around like an ant on a hot pan.
"Yanei, you'd better go. I really have a lot of things to do." Zhang Shixun pushed him.
"I won't leave, no matter what you say." Gao Yanei squatted on the ground and acted like a spoiled child.
"Okay, if you want to stay here, that's fine. I'm going to get to work instead of accompanying you." Zhang Shixun stuffed the hairpin into his sleeve and walked towards the backyard.
"Brother, are you willing to be an official?" Gao Yanei finally came up with an idea. "My father is the Palace Marshal, in charge of the Imperial Guards, the Tianwu Army, and the Pengri Army. You can choose any of these positions. How about it?"
Zhang Shixun was secretly happy, he finally talked about what I was interested in.
"What?" Gao Yanei looked at him eagerly, afraid that he would refuse.
"It's true that your father is the Palace Marshal, but an official position in the imperial court isn't like the radishes you grow in your fields. How can you just give it away casually?" Zhang Shixun stopped and patted his arm, saying, "Hurry back. We'll talk about the treasure another day."
"No! Just tell me what kind of official position you want to take. It's up to me whether you can succeed or not."
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