Chapter 367 Are you crazy because of poverty?
Bai Ling knew she had something to say, so she bent down and approached her: "Miss, do you have anything to say?"
"Sister Bailing, Grandpa Wan said it is older than grandma and is very valuable. The price is not expensive at all." Juanjuan covered her ears with her two small hands and whispered softly.
"Then let's buy it?" Bailing did not doubt what she said.
Juanjuan nodded vigorously: "Okay."
"You want five hundred silver dollars for this shabby bowl? Are you crazy?" A man in a long gown and black sunglasses looked at the three bowls on the stall with disdain.
There were two foreigners beside him, whispering to each other and no one knew what they were talking about.
Bailing and the others didn't bring so much money with them when they came out, and now they saw that someone else was also interested in these three bowls, they couldn't help but feel worried.
If these three bowls are older than the old lady as the young lady said, they must be antiques.
Judging from the posture of the people opposite, this man is most likely bringing foreigners to buy antiques. If they buy the antiques, it will be troublesome.
But today she was the only one out with her two children, and she couldn't leave them here.
The foreigner looked at the bowl on the stall with great interest and asked the man in the long gown how much the bowl cost.
The man in the long gown said in half-fluent English, "Wait a minute, let me bargain with her. She wants five thousand dollars."
Si Jinchen was stunned when he heard this. He didn't care that this person made money from foreigners, but he just increased it tenfold casually.
The foreigner immediately frowned: "This is too expensive."
"Don't worry, I'll talk to her." The man in the long gown immediately turned around and looked at the old woman selling the bowls: "Ten silver dollars, will you sell it?"
The old woman was a little hesitant, as ten dollars could solve her urgent problem.
"Grandma, I can also give ten dollars!" Juanjuan squatted in front of her and blinked his big eyes.
"You're just a little girl, do you know what the ocean is? Why are you here making trouble?" The man in the long gown immediately became unhappy when he saw Juanjuan coming to ruin his plans.
"If the foreigners knew that you insisted on selling something for five thousand when it was clearly worth five hundred, wouldn't they be very angry?" Si Jinchen watched him protect Juanjuan behind him.
"I don't know what you are talking about." The man in the long gown looked at Si Jinchen guiltily.
How could this damn guy know this?
The old woman also understood that the man in the long gown was deliberately lowering his own price, but raising the price to sell to the foreigner: "Go away, I won't sell you my bowl."
The man in the long gown glared at the three men fiercely: "I'll remember you three."
"Just try and see which one of the Governor's Mansion and Master Miao Jiu you can offend." Bailing stood in front of the two children.
Everyone knows how to threaten others. Although she is a servant of the Si family, she will never let anyone bully her young master.
The man in the long gown's expression changed. He knew that neither of these two people was someone he could afford to offend. He turned around and looked at the two children.
Although Si Jinchen is not very old, one can still see some of Si Ming's shadow in him.
He immediately looked away in fear: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
The foreigners looked at him puzzled and said that the antique was fake, and then took them to buy other things.
After seeing them leave, Si Jinchen didn't want to cut off his source of income, but he didn't know how many old items on this antique street would fall into the hands of foreigners.
Although the old woman didn't sell the bowl, she didn't regret it.
"Grandma, please sell us the three bowls!" Juanjuan sighed when she saw her.
"Do you really want to buy it?" The old woman looked at the two children and hesitated.
Juanjuan nodded seriously: "Yeah, yeah."
"Grandma, we didn't bring enough money when we came out, so we can't buy your three bowls. Can you go home with us to get some money?" Si Jinchen didn't bring much money with him today.
He and Juanjuan actually have quite a lot of money. Their families would give them dividends from the sale of anything they were involved in, and all the money was recorded separately.
Also, when they went to work as teachers in an orphanage, Sima Ming would pay them wages, so the two children were not short of money.
Just from the records that Juanjuan had recorded before, he earned more money than others could earn in half a lifetime.
"This..." The old woman hesitated.
"Old lady, we really want to buy these three bowls. If you trust us, come back with us to get the money." Bailing saw that she was worried and squatted in front of her.
The old woman thought of her husband and her whole family at home, gritted her teeth, nodded, packed up her things and left with them.
"Do you think this old woman's bowls can really be sold?" The people at the stalls nearby started whispering after they left.
"Who knows? She's been selling it here for a few days now, and only two groups of people have taken a fancy to it. But she's asking such a high price, who would be stupid enough to buy it?"
The people in the nearby stalls shook their heads.
The old woman held the cloth bag in her arms and carefully followed the three people, keeping a distance from them so that if she found something was wrong, she could turn around and run.
Bailing knew her guard and didn't take the initiative to get close to her, so she just let her follow her from a distance.
After arriving at the Governor's Mansion, he turned around and told her.
The old woman knew this street. The people who lived here were either rich or noble. She didn't know the governor, but she knew that the people who lived here were rich.
The anxiety in her heart couldn't help but relax, and she planned to sell the bowl even if someone gave her fifty silver dollars.
For a family like theirs, one hundred and fifty silver dollars was a huge sum of money.
Bailing took her into the house and asked her to sit in the living room.
She looked at the things in the living room. None of them were something she could afford to pay for. She didn't dare sit down and just stood in a corner.
"Grandma, please sit down." Juanjuan reached out and pulled her to sit on the sofa.
He also grabbed a handful of candy from the coffee table and stuffed it into her palm: "Grandma, eat it, it's so sweet."
Si Jinchen had already run to find Madam Si: "Grandma, Grandma, can you lend me some money?"
"Achen, what do you want the money for?" Old Madam Si was watching the triplets sleep and was a little surprised to see him come in.
"I want to buy gifts for Tuantuanyuanyuan and Manman." Si Jinchen expressed his plan.
"How much money do you need?" Mrs. Si just smiled when she heard it.
"One thousand five hundred dollars." Si Jinchen said a number.
"So many?" Si Ning heard this number when he came out of the bathroom.
"Aunt, there are three identical bowls." Si Jinchen did not hear what Juanjuan and Bailing said.
But he believed in Juanjuan. As long as she said something was good, it must be good.
"What kind of bowl?" Old Madam Si knew that Si Jinchen was not a child who spent money recklessly.
"It's yellow, with plum blossoms and magpies, very beautiful." Si Jinchen could only describe the appearance.
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