Lu Jiaguang knew him well: "Do you think Jiaxin can make money by selling clothes?"

Because Lu Jiaxin had asked him not to tell anyone about Su Heming for the time being. Lu Jiajie was still very loyal, and he said, "Brother, Jiaxin is still very thoughtful. She said that selling clothes must have been carefully considered, and I don't think it will lose money."

Lu Jiaguang was silent for a moment and then said, "Since she wants to do it, let her give it a try. If she makes money, Uncle San will be worried and won't dare to treat her the same way as before. It doesn't matter if she loses money, just treat it as an experience, which will be good for the future."

"Okay, I'll tell her tomorrow."

That night, Lu Jiajie told her about this and also told her that there was a pawnshop in Liulichang: "I will go with you tomorrow. I asked someone and found out that mutton-fat jade jewelry is very valuable."

Knowing that he was worried, Lu Jiaxin did not refuse. In her previous life, she went back to China to visit the ancient capital and specifically asked about this matter. Coincidentally, because the incident was a sensation at the time, people still remember it even after more than 30 years.

The man who sold the ancient books and paintings was called Sun Xun. His ancestors had been the Minister of Rites, and later produced several Jinshi and Juren. However, the previous dynasty was overthrown and wars broke out, so the Sun family fell into decline. It was necessary to buy the house before Sun Xun discovered the secret passage antiques. Otherwise, if this gambler found the antiques, it would be very troublesome, not to mention the huge cost.

On the second day, Lu Jiajie took Lu Jiaxin and Xue Mao to Liulichang. As soon as they entered, they found many stalls selling a wide variety of items, including bronze, porcelain, jade, calligraphy and paintings.

Lu Jiaxin took a fancy to a warm, simple, bright and lustrous sky-blue porcelain vase. She thought it would be great for flower arrangement, so she went up to the owner and asked the price.

The stall owner saw that she was wearing bright clothes and thought that she was a girl from a wealthy family who wanted to take advantage of the bargain. Such a person is the easiest to fool: "Eight hundred."

Lu Jiajie was very worried. When he was about to say that many of the things here were fake, he remembered that Lu Jiaxin went out without any money. He swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

Lu Jiaxin looked at the stall owner speechlessly. Did she have the words "sucked" written on her forehead? "Two dollars, take it if you want to sell it, forget it if you don't want to sell it."

"Two dollars, little girl, are you kidding me? This is..."

Lu Jiaxin was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and got up and left. She just wanted to buy a vase, but she didn't want to be slaughtered like a fat sheep.

Seeing this, the stall owner hurriedly called her: "Five yuan, five yuan, take it."

Xue Mao said disdainfully: "It's not worth eating or drinking. I think two yuan is too expensive."

The stall owner lost his patience when he saw her like this, and waved his hand with a look of disgust, "Two yuan, who are you kidding? I can't come back anyway. Go, go, go quickly."

Lu Jiaxin didn't care, and followed Lu Jiajie into a shop with Xue Mao.

This shop not only accepts all kinds of old items, but also pawns things. As long as you pay the interest within the specified time, you can redeem them. If it is overdue, they can deal with it. If they have not sold it, you can redeem it, but the interest rate is different. Simply put, the longer the overdue time, the higher the interest, sometimes even several times the pawn amount. After all, it is a shop, not a charity.

When the shopkeeper saw Lu Jiaxin take out a set of mutton-fat jade jewelry, his eyes lit up, but he was disappointed to hear that it was pawned. However, he would not turn away business, and he carefully checked to make sure that each piece of jewelry was real and intact.

After the shopkeeper finished reading it, he asked, "Miss, how much do you want to pawn it for?"

"Ten thousand."

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "This set of jewelry is not worth so much money. I will give you at most two thousand."

"This is a complete set of mutton-fat jade jewelry. How can you ask for two thousand? My brother's friend said that your store is honest, but now it seems that everything is fake."

The shopkeeper was not angry, and said with a smile: "Miss, although mutton-fat jade jewelry is rare, your jewelry is not worth ten thousand. I will make a concession, three thousand, no higher."

After a lot of bargaining, the two finally pawned the mutton-fat jade jewelry for 5,000 yuan. Thirty years later, any one of them would cost hundreds of thousands. However, jade is not popular now, and top-grade jade such as mutton-fat jade and imperial green cannot be sold at high prices. However, it is limited to the mainland, and it is still very popular in Hong Kong.

Selling things to Hong Kong City is a fantasy for ordinary people, but to be able to open such a large pawn shop in a bustling area like Liulichang, the person behind the scenes must be a simple person.

The shopkeeper looked at her deeply and said, "You know a lot, little girl. OK, five thousand, but can you make the decision? We run a shop and don't want to cause any trouble."

Lu Jiaxin said: "Don't worry, I am the only one left in my family's household registration book now, and I can dispose of everything in the house."

The corner of Lu Jiajie's mouth twitched. If someone who didn't know her heard this, he would definitely think she was an orphan without a father or a mother. But thinking about what his uncle had done, he didn't try to stop her.

The shopkeeper asked him how long he had pawned the item.

"Half a year."

The pawned items can be redeemed early, but the interest for early redemption is still calculated based on the current period. As for the interest, they will directly deduct it from the pawned amount.

The pawn amount of 5,000, minus the interest of 300 for half a year, was 4,700. Lu Jiaxin was very satisfied with this amount.

Lu Jiajie sent the two of them home, told them to close the doors and windows, and then prepared to go back to work.

Lu Jiaxin lowered her voice and said, "Fifth brother, don't tell eldest brother about pawning the jewelry, so he won't say anything about me."

Lu Jiajie smiled and said, "This jewelry was given to you by someone else, not left to you by your third aunt. It doesn't matter if you don't have the money to redeem it."

What this means is that he won't do anything unnecessary.

"How can I bear to pawn the things my mother left me?" Lu Jiaxin said. The gesture left by Lu's mother had a different meaning, so how could she pawn it? Even if she believed that she could redeem the things before the expiration date, she would not do so.

Lu Jiajie also felt that she acted in a measured way, so he helped her.

Xue Mao was a person who could not sit still. He took down the clothes from the corridor and hung them in the yard to dry, then began to sweep the floor. It was already autumn, and there were many fallen leaves on the ground.

Lu Jiaxin sometimes felt that he was like the snail girl in the book, too hardworking. She couldn't do that, she hated doing housework the most.

After sweeping the yard, Xue Maocai asked about the business: "Sister, didn't Brother Su say that he has closed the business and won't sell anything until his father and brother come back? So where do we get the clothes from if we want to sell them?"

Lu Jiaxin was afraid that he would let the cat out of the bag, so she decided to tell him her plan a few days later: "If Su Heming doesn't want to do business, does that mean his brothers won't do business either? His friends should give preferential prices to those he introduced."

Xue Mao found it difficult. The main reason was that Su Heming didn't seem reliable, and the friends he made didn't seem reliable either. But thinking back to when he first opened the snack stand, he thought he would lose money, but in the end he made a lot.

"You cook first, I'll call my brother."

"good."

Lu Jiaxin didn't call Lu Hongjun, but Su Heming: "Brother Su, I want to find a bodyguard with good character and a tight mouth. Do you have any recommendations?"

"Why would you need a bodyguard?"

Lu Jiaxin said she wanted to go to the ancient capital.

"What are you going to do in the ancient capital?"

Lu Jiaxin had already thought of a reason: "The human trafficker has not been caught yet. I won't be able to sleep well at night unless I catch this person."

That old woman killed the original body, and she must avenge the original body. Now that the law and order have been rectified, as long as this old woman is caught, she will definitely eat peanuts. It is a good opportunity to let Xue Mao buy Sun Shao's house, killing two birds with one stone, which is good.

Su Heming knew what happened to her, and that's why he wanted to teach Ding Jing and her daughter a lesson. But Lu Jiaxin disagreed and said she wanted to take revenge herself, so he didn't interfere: "Sister Jiaxin, I have nothing to do recently, I'll go with you."

Lu Jiaxin didn't want him to accompany her. If she went there, she would be the focus of attention, which would not be conducive to her actions. "If you go, my uncle and his family will definitely think you are my partner and will beat you to death. Brother Su, if you feel embarrassed, forget it."

In fact, it was the safest choice to ask Lu Jiaguang, but given his temper, he would definitely stop her from looking for the traffickers. Time was tight and it was not easy to ask other people for help, so she could only ask him for help.

Su Heming smiled and said, "Look, look, look. Since you asked, I will definitely help you. You are a reliable person with a tight tongue, right? Okay, I'll give you an answer tomorrow."

Turning around, Su Heming told Mrs. Xie about this.

On the evening that Su Heming called, Xie Kaixiao happened to go to the nursing home to visit Mr. and Mrs. Xie.

Mrs. Xie had received a call earlier and knew that he would come over. When she saw him, she naturally walked over to take the briefcase from his hand and said with a smile on her face, "The food has just been cooked. You can take a break first. You can eat soon."

Xie Kaixiao unbuttoned the top button of his jacket, sat down and asked, "Where's Dad?"

Mrs. Xie said, "Dad went to Uncle Zhang's house next door to play chess, and he also had dinner at their house. Don't worry, Dad is in much better health now."

Xie Kaixiao naturally knew that the old man's health had improved a lot after a few years of recuperation. But the old man was the pillar of the family, so he was worried and asked about it every day.

Mrs. Xie chatted with him for a while, then changed the topic to Lu Jiaxin: "When the child heard that the human traffickers had not been caught, she said she would go to the ancient capital to find them. But after suffering a loss last time, she was worried that she and Xue Mao would be targeted by bad guys, so she asked Heming to help find someone to protect them."

(End of this chapter)