Chapter 99: gift

The spice shop here is not like Pingzhou City. It uses all kinds of exquisite wooden boxes or tin boxes to store the spices on the shelves, neatly arranged and clear at a glance, but randomly made several rough shelves. It seems rather careless to put all kinds of spices and a few carvings on it in a primitive state.
The store is dressed in a foreign race, tall and strong, with rough eyebrows and a much lighter eye color, with an upturned mustache, felt robes, and upturned fur boots on the waist. He held a scimitar about a foot long.
Seeing the people entering, he hurriedly got up and bowed, and greeted Tao Fengtang familiarly, and asked everyone to watch as they pleased. They spoke Chinese and they were still very fluent.
Lin Jinrong also saw many Darong people along the way, but he had never had such close contact, and he had to look closely at the store. When he looked at the store, he felt a little more mysterious. Although she also uses incense on weekdays, she uses incense to form incense. She doesn't know much about the types and qualities of specific spices. Because the purpose is to make money, she only pays attention to wood incense, agarwood, and cloves. So I asked about the price and the quality again, and the question was very detailed, and the shop smiled at her: "What is this little lady going to buy? Speaking of your requirements carefully, a small one will satisfy you."
Lin Jinrong couldn't tell. All she wanted was to buy some cheap ones in private and store them without paying taxes. So she just smiled at the store: "I want to buy some to give away."
The store enthusiastically said: "Looking at the appearance of the little lady, it is also a wealthy person. How can you get ordinary things? You must buy some top-grade ones. Come, come, look here, agarwood, sandalwood, chicken tongue, tulip , Dipterocarp, Musk navel............ It is not a small bragging, here is my shop, the best and most comprehensive price is the cheapest." The price of top-grade spices is very good, Lin Jinrong knows how deflated his purse is and lacks confidence. I was very guilty, barely maintaining a calm look, holding a small geese-shaped Qi Nanxiang pendant and smiled: "How much do you want?" The store shook his head in a daze, "It's impossible, it depends on the face of Tao Dashao. , It’s okay if you want some, if you get a certain amount, you have to find an official tooth person to do it."
Through the official teeth, there must be a lot of tax money, can the price be lowered? It's definitely not a good deal. Lin Jinrong shouted: "Big cousin."
Tao Fengtang and Lin Shiquan, Wu Xiang, Lu Yan and others introduced in detail the differences between several spices. They were so fascinated that they never heard Lin Jinrong call him. It was Lu Yan who heard the reminder that he reacted, and hurriedly came over with a smile and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lin Jinrong pulled him aside, and whispered, "I want to buy some cheaper spices... The store said that I'm looking for an official dentist to make it." Since the Tao family often buys and sells private goods in private for profit, they must be very interested in this set. They are familiar with this store, Tao Fengtang led them in. They must be familiar with the Tao family. Asking the price through him, will it always work?
Unexpectedly, Tao Fengtang was a little embarrassed, and said in a very low voice, "Go back and tell me what you want. After these few days, I will buy it for you."
Lin Jinrong heard what he meant, it seemed strange that this business was not done here, and he whispered: "Why? If you can do it today, just do it by the way."
Tao Fengtang saw that she seemed to have to buy, thinking of her stubbornness when she was looking for herself to exchange gold and silver, so she explained in a low voice: "There is a reason for this. It is inconvenient here. Go out and talk about it."
Lin Jinrong is not an ignorant person, so he stopped and stopped asking. He took the Qi Nanxiang pendant and watched it carefully. He wanted to buy it, but also thought that Qi Nanxiang was too expensive to keep money to do things. . But when Lu Yan walked to the side and pointed to a one-foot-tall Buddha statue on the top of the shelf: "Shopkeeper, show me that." The shopkeeper was overjoyed: "Young master can recognize the goods. This is agarwood. The famous carving is in our shop. The treasure of the town shop."
Lu Yan pointed to another Ruyi about one and a half feet long: "Give me that Ruyi too."
The shopkeeper laughed again: "The young master really has vision, this is the treasure of the town shop." Tao Fengxiang sneered, "Everything you fancy is the treasure of the town shop. This is my family's relatives, so I don't want to deceive them."
The shopkeeper swears and curses: "Really, the little lady didn't see the villain put them high on it? So that one day he was lucky to be favored by the nobles. Doesn't Master Tao still know the behavior of the villain? Otherwise, I won't bring you into the store, right?"
Lu Yan smiled slightly and looked down at what was in his hand. The Buddha statue was really exquisitely carved, unlike the work of ordinary craftsmen. Ruyi's style is simple and elegant, with smooth lines, large dimensions, dark color, and scent. Even Lin Jinrong liked it, not to mention others.
Wu Xiang and Tao Fengtang both came over to take a look, and both smiled and said, "These two collections are good."
Lu Yan made up his mind: "Shopkeeper, how valuable is this thing?" The Tang family stretched out a finger and smiled: i, as the saying goes, one or two agarwood and one or two gold. This agarwood is not like other things, because it contains heavy oil and requires extremely high engravers. Larger pieces, fine agarwood carvings are even more precious and rare. You will not be charged high prices, but you have to protect the capital. Which one says which one. "
Lu Yan asked Tao Fengtang, "Big cousin, help me see, which one is better?"
Tao Fengtang is not good at talking about such precious things, so he asks: "Did you buy it or use it for yourself?" Lu Yan smiled lightly, "I'm not yet the age to use these precious things. I bought them for my elders. Yes, it is an old woman."
Tao Fengtang thought about it for a moment, and said, "Buddha statues are very good, but generally speaking, people who pay attention to Buddha statues have to make a special trip to the temple to invite them, otherwise they appear to be insincere and careless. I think Ruyi is good, everything goes well, and the carver is also good. Fine and smooth, simple and elegant in shape, and good in size."
Lu Yan said: "That's the wish." The shopkeeper smiled slightly and stretched out two fingers: "Twenty taels of gold, not a penny less.
Look at this Ruyi handle. It has a round shape. It is not made according to the trend of the material, but cut from a piece of aniseed material. You are a relative of Master Tao. The price is only for you. Not. "
Twenty taels of gold made Lin Jinrong feel sad for a while. This is almost half of all her belongings. Here, it is only enough for an insignificant Ruyi.
Lu Yan didn't blink his eyes and said in a deep voice, "The price is fair."
The store was overjoyed when he heard the words, and smiled with Tao Fengtang and said, "Your pro-wealth is as generous and straightforward as you." Before he finished his words, he saw that Lu Yan kept pointing to a few small things: "Those are counted as extras. OK?"
Lin Jinrong couldn't help but sneer secretly when he saw that his finger was pointing to the wild goose ornament he was holding. That Ruyi, she guessed that he probably bought it for Mrs. Lu. After all, in terms of time, this person must have not attended the celebration banquet specially set by Lin Yuzhen for him. After he returned, he would definitely suffer Lin Yuzhen’s thunder anger. To keep Lin Yuzhen down, he can only rely on Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu. How could he not try his best to fudge? And these odds and ends, nothing more than deliberately robbing her, to make her hold her breath and uncomfortable, just like the box of colored glass hairpins before, he just wanted to deliberately anger her. Well, out of sight and out of mind, he won! So Lin Jinrong put the pendant on the counter casually and walked outside to wait for the crowd.
Lychee and Gong’s mother looked at each other and hurriedly followed. Gong’s mother whispered:
Don’t the girl pick two little things? The wife gave the old slave some money. If you and Seventh Master like it, you can buy it.

Lin Jinrong said indifferently: "Nothing to see."
Lychee whispered: "The wild goose pendant you just took is very good. If the slave and maid will match you with a knot, it will be elegant and tight. If you want it, you should tell the master, he will definitely not get along. What you are fighting for..."
Lin Jinrongsheng swallowed, pretending to be calm and light: "I can't look down on it!" Lychee and Mama Gong did not dare to say any more.
After about a stick of incense, a group of people walked out happily. Tao Fengxiang held the big goose pendant in his hand and approached Lin Jinrong, and gave her one hand: "Yours."
"Huh?" Lin Jinrong was surprised. Tao Fengxiang pointed to his waist and said, "Look, your cousin is pretty good. One person gave us a small thing. The seventh brother is an eagle, and mine is only Swallow, can you see it?" He whispered: "Guess what, that Ruyi was actually a birthday gift for my mother. It's really thoughtful. Don't be angry with him, I think this wild goose was bought for you to make amends. Qi Nanxiang’s, they refused to add some money and added some money."
Lin Jinrong was mixed for a while, and couldn't say anything that was bad. Imagine that he can please other people at will, doing everything, if she openly expresses disgust and disgust towards him, it is nothing in the eyes of everyone. With a faint smile at the corners of his lips, he threw the wild goose to the lychee, regardless of whether the lychee was caught or not, he went forward to find Tao Fengtang to speak.
Wu Xiang kept watching, couldn’t help but laughed out loud, stunned and slammed into Lu Yan’s shoulder: "You are really miserable. It seems that you can’t please. Or, I’ll be a lobbyist for you? She still has to give it some points for good face.
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"Don't worry about you." Lu Yan's brows couldn't help but frowned. He could see that Lin Jinrong hated him like this not because of a small misunderstanding. Otherwise, it's just innocent jokes, so why? But from the beginning to the end, he couldn't figure out where he had offended Lin Jinrong, made her target him everywhere, and had trouble with him everywhere, and even designed himself to fall into the water and almost killed himself. How deep is that hatred?
He instinctively wanted to figure out what was going on, so he hurried a few steps closer to Tao Fengtang and Lin Jinrong, looking for a chance to ask Lin Jinrong to ask questions.