Chapter 446: There is a reason why prices are high
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young girl who had just walked in. She was wearing a pink dress, had an oval face, and had narrow, eerie eyes.
Yang Yue sneered, "Cousin, don't think that I, Yang Yue, am as short-sighted as you. I treat my friends sincerely regardless of whether they are rich or not."
"It's hard to say whether your friends really care about you."
Yang Yang also snorted coldly, “Chen Jiaoyan, our Yang family has never treated you unfairly, but you snatched my sister’s fiancé, and you dare to appear in front of us?”
Shen Jiaoyan didn't blush at all, and smiled and said: "It was Master Li who looked down on Yang Yue, so he broke off the engagement and married me, I didn't snatch it away."
She turned around and giggled, "Isn't that so, my husband?"
A man in a blue robe and holding a white jade bone fan walked in from the door. He was not very handsome, but he was fair and gentle.
Su Nuan spat, "Bah, you scum."
Yang Yue was amused and nodded in agreement, "Yeah, a gentleman scum."
Su Nuan was very happy now. It had been a long time since she had such a lively time. She deliberately asked, "Does this gentleman have an eye disease? He didn't want such a good girl and chose a fairy instead."
Yang Yang nodded in agreement, "Yes, maybe birds of a feather flock together."
Young Master Li looked a little embarrassed, but to save face, he said, "Yang Yue, did you hear that I brought my wife here to buy jewelry today, and you came here specifically to wait for me?"
After saying this, he walked to the table and pointed at the headgear Yang Yue had mentioned earlier with his fan. "This, this, this... Wrap them all up for me."
"Also, take out the biggest pearl you have and show it to me. I want to make the most beautiful phoenix crown for my wife."
Shopkeeper Bai smiled and said, "It just so happened that the caravan returned the other day with three large pearls. Please take a look, young master."
He made a gesture and someone came over from the inner hall holding a small box.
Everyone in the shop stared at the box, wishing they could poke a hole in it.
Shopkeeper Bai opened the box, revealing three pearls as big as thumbnails, which caused an exclamation of surprise.
Su Nuan took a glance at it. Something so small is also called a rare thing?
Shopkeeper Bai said with a smile, "These three beads together will cost 500,000 taels, and each one will cost 200,000 taels."
Su Nuan kicked Xiao Lingtian with her foot and asked with her eyes, "Is your Beixue Country so short of pearls?"
"Why don't you get more pearls from the north to sell? It would definitely be a huge profit."
Xiao Lingtian shook his head. "Pearls are probably popular recently."
Yang Yue nodded, "Yes, there is a queen in the palace who loves pearls and even uses pearl powder for beauty and skin care, so pearls are hard to come by now."
Su Nuan suddenly felt that Hanyu was not so valuable anymore. After all, Hanyu itself was quite valuable. It would be great if she could sell pearls herself.
Mr. Li said calmly, "I want them all."
Su Nuan whispered again, "Are all the people here stupid and rich?"
Yang Yue covered her mouth and smiled: "Almost, but not entirely."
Xiao Lingtian explained to Su Nuan, "The tens of thousands of taels they mentioned are all calculated based on the lowest quality silver. If we calculate based on the highest quality silver, it would be two thousand taels per coin."
Su Nuan suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. I thought everyone here was worth hundreds of millions of taels."
Xiao Lingtian continued to explain, "That's pretty much the same. You know, there are a lot of mines here, and almost every family has a silver mine, so naturally there's a lot of crude silver."
Su Nuan touched her nose. So that’s how it was. No wonder the prices here were so high. She almost felt inferior to him.
Yang Yue asked in a low voice: "Don't you know?"
Su Nuan shook her head, "I'm a foreigner."
Yang Yue didn't show any disdain, but patiently said: "There are a lot of impurities in the crude silver, so they collect it and refine it."
"As for why they did this, it's because the city guard felt that too much silver was stolen during official management, and small workshops refining silver often encountered accidents."
"To avoid being lazy, the government simply passed the problem on to the major families, letting them handle it. Once the crude silver flowed into the government treasury, they would refine it into fine silver."
Su Nuan nodded, "That's not bad either."
What she was thinking was that she should be careful about this crude silver from sneaking into her northern land in the future.
The Space Spirit said, "Actually, you can just test the volume. Fill a cup with water, immerse the silver in it, and the water will overflow. Weigh the remaining water and you can get the density of the silver."
Su Nuan's mind was a mess after hearing this. She felt that there must be a better way.
But if you can't think of it now, you can only think about it later. After all, there will always be fake silver in circulation.
Seeing that Su Nuan didn't say anything, the space spirit knew that she was confused and said, "Just let Hai Lan make a density detector for you."
Su Nuan refused, "No, it's always better to be careful. Otherwise, how can I explain the principle to others if they see the detector?"
The Space Spirit said disdainfully, "You have the final say in the Northland. No matter what others ask, just don't explain."
Su Nuan quickly said, "Let's talk about it later. Let's not study it for now. Please help me find three large pearls, bigger than those three. Then grab a few handfuls of small pearls to make a shawl."
The Space Spirit said, "The Phoenix Coronet and the Xiapei, a single pearl is enough for the Phoenix Coronet, and the Xiapei is just a cloud shoulder, so not much is needed."
Su Nuan took a look at the box she had taken out as a gift. Inside was a pearl as big as a pigeon egg. She was a little reluctant to give it away.
People are like this. They don’t think things are precious in normal times, but when they see that they are valuable, they will be reluctant to give them up.
But Su Nuan wasn't the type to go back on her word. She said, "Then fill this little box up."
The space spirit responded, "Simple."
At this time, Shen Jiaoyan looked at Yang Yue with a smug look on her face, "Cousin, if my husband didn't look down on you, all these good things would be yours."
Young Master Li was also very proud, as if he had demonstrated his financial strength and could dominate others.
Su Nuan asked curiously, "Is it really true that he looks down on you?"
Yang Yue shook her head. "I discovered that he and my cousin were having an affair, so I proposed to cancel the engagement."
"He might have done this to see me regret it, but I don't regret it. I don't want this rotten guy no matter how rich he is."
Su Nuan nodded, "Yes, even if this kind of person has a mountain of gold, he is still a scumbag. We can't accept him."
The two of them spoke without concealing their voices, which made Master Li so angry that his face turned green.
Shen Jiaoyan said angrily: “You are the bad guy, what kind of country bumpkin are you dating.”
This started a personal attack, and Su Nuan was not going to tolerate it. "You two haven't gotten married yet, right? Calling each other husband and wife before you're married is like calling each other your upper lip in the sky and your lower lip on the ground."
Shen Jiaoyan cooperated very well and asked, "How do you say it?"
Su Nuan deliberately said loudly, "I don't have any face."
The people watching around couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Shen Jiaoyan also covered her mouth with a handkerchief and laughed, "Hahaha... well said."
Shen Jiaoyan gritted her teeth in anger, but she didn't dare to do anything. She pushed Mr. Li and said, "Husband, she scolded you."
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