Upon seeing this, the shopkeeper immediately panicked. He quickly walked up to Jiang Ling and said again, "Madam, please...please don't be angry. Let's sit down and talk things over!"
Jiang Ling glanced at them coldly, her attitude hardening as she said, "Shopkeeper, don't try to fool me. I've seen a bit of the world. The price you just quoted wouldn't even buy half of these pearls!"
"Then... how about two thousand taels of silver? That's all I can offer!" The shopkeeper said anxiously, seeing Jiang Ling's firm attitude.
“Alright! Let’s go with this price. We’ll sell this pearl as a dead stock. I don’t think my husband will recover anytime soon!” Jiang Ling said as she returned to her chair.
The shopkeeper was overjoyed upon hearing this. He ran out of the house and soon returned with a pawn ticket and two silver notes, which he placed in front of Jiang Ling.
Jiang Ling carefully examined the words on the pawn ticket, then signed her name and pressed her fingerprint at the end.
The shopkeeper carefully put away the pearl as if it were a treasure, and Jiang Ling didn't say anything more before turning around and leaving the pawnshop.
As soon as Jiang Ling left the pawnshop, she disappeared into an alley. The fist-sized pearl was a modern artificially cultivated pearl that Jiang Ling had bought in the mall. This kind of thing is not worth much in modern times, but it is priceless in this era. There is no artificial cultivation available now.
The pearls inside freshwater mussels vary greatly in appearance; sometimes, only one in a hundred is perfectly round. Let alone such a large and perfectly round top-quality pearl.
As for the gold and silver ornaments and silks she was wearing, they were all cheap items bought from the mall. Jiang Ling quickly opened the system mall, activated the storage locker, and then threw all the silver notes, clothes, and accessories into it.
After changing into coarse linen clothes, Jiang Ling bought some food in the mall and then headed towards the place she had agreed to meet with Jiang Zhishan.
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