"Feel free to look around. Tell me if you like anything." The woman looked up at the person who came and then lowered her head to work again.
"Boss, did you carve all of this?" Nanqiao supported his waist with one hand and held the counter with the other, carefully looking at the perfectly carved pendant under the light.
"The two cabinets in front of you are carved and have higher prices. The ones next to the wall are the goods I bought. They have prices on them. No bargaining."
Hearing this, Nanqiao took two more steps and looked at the pendant in the display cabinet by the wall. It was indeed not as good as the one carved by the boss. She pouted her lips in disdain and returned to the original display cabinet. She was still more satisfied with the one here... but the quality of the jade was just average...
"Boss, can I customize it?" Nanqiao looked at the exquisitely carved jade on the counter and suddenly became interested. She suddenly thought of the glass jadeite she bought back a few years ago. She spent nearly 10,000 yuan when she bought it, but she had never been willing to touch it. It was rare to meet such a good master, so she could carve something for him. But she didn't know if this boss would accept the job...
"Of course, but the labor cost here is not low." Hearing that the customer wanted to customize, the boss finally took off his glasses and looked at the group of people from Nanqiao seriously.
"Sure, I can bring my own raw stones, right?" Nanqiao looked at the raw stones behind her that had already been opened, with a hint of green, but it was not quite what Nanqiao wanted.
"Sure, did you bring the raw stones?" The boss looked at the four people and saw that they had nothing but the jewelry bags from the gold shop next door.
"I didn't bring it. I just had the urge to bring it today. The stone is at home." The stone is in her space. It's so big that she can't make it out of thin air. She can only say that she has it at home.
"Do you know what kind of water it is?" The boss didn't see the stone, and didn't know the quality. For a moment, she hesitated whether to accept the order. Although she accepted this kind of custom work, she was also selective and would not accept all good or bad jobs.
"Glass type, the quality is absolutely fine" Nanqiao had someone identify it a few years ago, and all the stones were opened. They were all emerald green glass type, absolutely top quality
"How big is it?" When the shopkeeper heard that it was a glass-shaped one, and then saw that Nanqiao and his group were dressed in rich and noble clothes, he thought there was no need to deceive her, and for a moment he became even more obsessed with it.
"This big, right?" Nanqiao stretched out her hand to measure. It was about the size of two fists. She wanted to order three pairs of dragon and phoenix pendants for her three children, but she didn't know if they were big enough.
"Let's go now! Let's go to your house." The boss turned off the lamp on the table and locked the stone he had just carved into the cabinet. He was ready to leave first and follow Nanqiao.
"Boss, there's no rush now. I don't know what to call you yet." Nanqiao was shocked by her attitude. She understood that someone with such skills was obsessed with it, but she didn't expect that she would be so anxious. However, she had just left home not long ago and didn't plan to go back now.
"Just call me Taoman"
"Boss Tao, my last name is Nan, and this is my husband, his last name is Sheng. Let's not talk about the stone for now, let's talk about what's in front of us first. I also want to buy a peace locket for my three children today. Do you have any recommendations in your store?"
"Yes, yes, take a look at these." Boss Tao took out a few of the best quality peace lockets from the cabinet. He was distracted while introducing them because he was thinking about the glass type he had never seen before.
Nanqiao didn't care. He took the three peace buckles and looked at them. The water quality was good and the styles were similar. The only difference was that the position of the green on them was different.
"I want these three." Nanqiao pointed at three of them. Boss Tao put them away. After Sheng Yanchuan paid the bill, he waited eagerly for Nanqiao to talk about the glass species. Her parents had been engaged in jade carving for a lifetime and saved a lot of money. She had been exposed to it since she was a child, but due to special circumstances in the early years, her parents hid their property. She kept a low profile these years and survived those difficult years.
The market has improved a lot in recent years, so she picked up this job again. However, due to the special circumstances in those years, most of the high-quality jade in China flowed into the hands of foreign and Hong Kong businessmen. She had never seen a genuine old pit glass type, let alone carving it. So she was full of expectations for the Nanqiao stone, hoping that what she said was true, and that the stone was really as good as she thought...
"Regarding that stone, if it's convenient for you, you can come to our house this afternoon to have a look." Nanqiao planned to go home after noon, but she didn't plan to go out again in the afternoon. She didn't want to run, so she had to trouble the boss....
"Not now?"
Boss Tao asked this question carefully, with a hint of grievance, which made Nanqiao stunned. This is too hasty...
"Sorry, I just came out and I want to buy some other things. I can't go back until noon at the earliest."
"Then let's do it at noon. Just write down the address." Boss Tao responded readily, and directly took out a pen and paper and pushed it to Nanqiao. The customer had something to do... She couldn't force it too much. Noon was better than afternoon...
"How do you calculate the labor fee here?" Nanqiao asked Jian Hua to write the address and asked about the price. Although she was not short of money, she was not stupid enough to let others cheat her. Although Boss Tao had good craftsmanship, it was unnecessary if he asked for too high a price.
"The price is easy to negotiate. Let's take a look at the raw stone first. If the stone is as good as you say, I don't need to charge you." After saying that, Boss Tao paused, as if hesitant. He thought for a while before continuing, "To be honest, my ancestors have been doing this. You know the situation in the past few years. It has taken a lot of effort to keep these stones in my shop, not to mention the jadeite of such good quality as yours. It is my honor to carve such jadeite."
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