Chapter 33 Buying Jewelry
"Hey, please take out this peach blossom hairpin and these peach blossom-shaped earrings for me to see." Gu Yan said, pointing to the jewelry on the counter.
"Okay, sir, I'll get it for you right away." The waiter said as he took out the jewelry that Gu Yan liked from the counter.
Gu Yan held the hairpin and gestured at Li Wanqing's temples: "Wife, how about it? Do you like it?"
"I like it. Thank you, my husband." Li Wanqing thanked him happily.
This was the first time that Gu Yan gave her something. Even though the gift was just ordinary in the eyes of a modern person like Li Wanqing, it did not prevent Li Wanqing from being happy.
"If you like it, let's buy it. Buddy, pack these two things for me. By the way, do you have a matching bracelet? I want one with a peach blossom pattern." Gu Yan said with a generous wave of his hand.
"Yes, yes, I'll get them right away." The waiter took out two bracelets from the counter and said, "Sir, look, these two bracelets are both peach blossom designs. This one is wider and heavier.
This one is smaller and lighter.”
Gu Yan picked up both bracelets and let Li Wanqing try them on one by one, saying, "Wife, I think both of them look good on you. How about we buy them both?"
Li Wanqing smiled and let Gu Yan hold her hand and measure it. Since a man wanted to buy it for her, she would just accept it. "Okay, I think it looks good too."
With his wife's approval, Gu Yan became more interested.
"This, this and this, take them all out for us to see." Gu Yan said, pointing to several hairpins and earrings on the counter.
"Okay, take your time to look around. Call me if you find anything you like." The waiter didn't expect that the two people in ordinary clothes were actually big customers, so he became more attentive.
"Wife, look at this hairpin. There is a dragonfly on the head of the hairpin. It's so beautiful." Gu Yan picked up the dragonfly hairpin and showed it to Li Wanqing.
Li Wanqing also found it quite interesting. The head of the hairpin was a dragonfly woven with silver wire. Apart from anything else, the craftsman's craftsmanship was indeed excellent.
"I..." Li Wanqing was about to nod and say that she liked it too, but before she could open her mouth, she was interrupted by the person who came in from the door.
"Mom, look at that hairpin. That's a dragonfly on it, right? Mom, I want this dragonfly hairpin. Please buy it for me." A young female voice came.
"Okay, I'll buy it for you." An elderly female voice followed.
"Mrs. Gu, Miss Gu, you are here? I can help you get whatever you like." The waiter came forward and greeted them familiarly.
"Hey, pack up that dragonfly hairpin for us. We want it." Mrs. Gu said arrogantly.
The waiter looked at the hairpin still in Gu Yan's hand and said embarrassedly, "Madam Gu, there is only this dragonfly hairpin, and this guest liked it first.
Look, why don’t you choose something else? We have new butterfly hairpins in our store, and we also have these plum blossom ones.”
Mrs. Gu took a look at what Gu Yan and Li Wanqing were wearing and could tell at first glance that they were just farmers from the countryside who had some money to spend.
"Dude, are you having poor eyesight? Can these two country bumpkins afford hairpins?
Hurry up and give us the hairpin." Madam Gu looked Gu Yan and Li Wanqing up and down without any courtesy.
Li Wanqing didn’t know Mrs. Gu, but Gu Yan did.
Gu Yan recognized Miss Gu as her cousin Gu Mei as soon as she opened her mouth to speak. She was his second uncle's daughter.
The woman she called mother was his second aunt Wang Jinhuan.
Li Wanqing and Gu Yan had their backs to the door, so Mrs. Gu and the others couldn't see their faces.
If you saw it, you would know that the country bumpkin she was talking about was her husband's third nephew.
"Well, Madam Gu, why don't you take a look at other styles first? The other styles in our store are also very beautiful." The clerk said embarrassedly.
The guy nodded and bowed on the surface, but in his heart he had already cursed Wang Jinhuan and her daughter several times.
This mother and daughter would come to the store every few days to look around, spending more time browsing than buying.
Every time she came, she was always picky and ordered him around. If he didn't need this job to support his family, he would have given up on serving her long ago.
"What are you looking at? My daughter has fallen in love with this dragonfly hairpin, why don't you go and get it.
If you keep dawdling, I'll tell your boss and deduct a few pounds from your wages," Wang Jinhuan said.
The guys had no choice. Their boss was notoriously stingy and was particularly willing to deduct their wages. If he was even slightly dissatisfied, he would deduct their wages.
There was no other way, so the waiter could only say to Gu Yan with a bitter face: "Sir, this lady wants to buy this dragonfly hairpin, what do you think?"
If it was something else, Gu Yan would have given it away without saying a word.
And this hairpin is different. He wants to give it to his wife, and his wife likes it too. How could he give it away?
"Hey, buddy, my wife also likes this hairpin. Please pack all these for us. How much silver is it in total?" Gu Yan said directly without turning around.
The waiter didn't expect that Gu Yan had bought it, so he was no longer afraid of Wang Jinhuan complaining to the shopkeeper.
Even if he complained, he believed the shopkeeper would not do anything. After all, this was a business worth more than twenty taels of silver.
"Okay, sir, I'll pack it for you right away. Two bracelets, two hairpins, and three pairs of earrings, a total of twenty-two taels and thirty-eight wen. If you buy a lot, I'll give you two velvet flowers." The clerk packed the jewelry skillfully while calculating the bill.
Gu Yan took out his purse from his pocket, took out two silver notes worth ten taels each, two taels of silver change and thirty-eight copper coins, and handed them all to the clerk.
Seeing that Gu Yan had bought the dragonfly hairpin she liked, Gu Mei immediately took her mother's hand and acted coquettishly: "Mom, I like this dragonfly hairpin. I will be attending the banquet hosted by Miss Wu in a few days. This dragonfly hairpin is perfect for me."
Wang Jinhuan thought of the young master of the county magistrate's family, and also hoped that if her daughter could establish a good relationship with Miss Wu, perhaps the wife of County Magistrate Wu would take a fancy to her and hire her as a daughter-in-law.
This is also the reason why she brought Gu Mei to buy jewelry today.
Wang Jinhuan patted Gu Mei's hand to indicate that she understood.
It was also because Gu Yan and the others never looked back that Wang Jinhuan didn't recognize them at all.
"Hey, hey, we've taken a fancy to this dragonfly hairpin. You heard me say that my daughter is going to attend a banquet at County Magistrate Wu's house, and she needs some suitable jewelry.
How about this, you give me the jewelry, and at worst I can ask my daughter to speak well of you in front of the young lady of the Wu County Magistrate's family." Wang Jinhuan said arrogantly.
Gu Yan ignored her and waited for the clerk to pack the jewelry and hand it to him, then he handed over the silver in his hand.
Gu Yan turned around only after the clerk nodded to indicate that the amount of silver was correct.
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