Chapter 10 The Pawn Shop
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Ding Tiantian looked at the rising sun and probably it was around seven in the morning.
"Tiantian, Dalian, you two will be on the way soon, go and come back early, don't worry your mother." Widow Ding repeatedly instructed.
Ding Dalian heard that she was so happy when she went to the town because she had never been there. It is said that Yuanbao Town is very big, selling sesame cakes, candied haws, clothes, cloths, rice, flour, grains and oils... In short, she finally had the opportunity to go there. Even if she went to see it, she couldn't help but feel happy.
Widow Ding took out two baskets of backs and helped them carry them on their backs. She repeatedly told them to pay attention to safety. It was really a worry for her mother to go through a thousand miles away...
Ding Tiantian said, "Mom, go with us!"
Widow Ding said, "There are people working in the family, how can I leave my mother? I don't think that my mother is talking nonsense, so I won't say it anymore."
"I am happy only when my mother talks to me every day, and the happiest one is?"
Yuanbao Town is north of Liujia Village. Ding Tiantian and Ding Dalian saw a carriage parked under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, and a tall black horse was gnawing on the weeds on the roadside.
The owner of the carriage is an old man, in his fifties, with his surname as Liang. He is considered a relatively wealthy family in the village. He usually waits for work at the entrance of the village. If he is to pull people for one penny, he will just let it go.
Ding Tiantian walked to the entrance of the village and looked at the tall horse with bright eyes. She really wanted to take a carriage to the town, but her pockets were empty at this moment, so she had to go on the road with her legs.
Old man Liang seemed to see the desire in Ding Tiantian's eyes, put the pipe on the sole of his shoes and kowtowed, "Miss Ding, where are you going!"
Ding Tiantian was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Grandpa Liang, we are going to Yuanbao Town. Are you going to the town too?"
"Girl, I'm really good at talking. I won't go to Yuanbao Town. I'll take Chaihe to the Sun family to Shanying Village later. When I come back, I pass by Yuanbao Town. You two girls, wait for me on the way east of Yuanbao Town, and come back to take you two."
Ding Tiantian smiled and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Liang, then my sister and I will be waiting for you there."
Ding Tiantian originally wanted to walk and take a carriage as she came back, otherwise she would buy rice, flour, grain, oil, etc. and carry it on her back. After walking so far, her feet would not be worn out.
Since I have a car and I am a grandfather from the same village, of course I have to take it. I booked it in advance and would not find another car.
Ding Dalian whispered, "Sister, you need a penny to take a car, and we only need two cents to pay, let's go!"
Ding Tiantian smiled, "Sister, let's talk about it when you come back! Now we must walk." The two sisters happily walked along the avenue and chatted.
Although Yuanbao Town is not far from Liujia Village, they are only in their teens after all. After walking for a long time, they haven't seen the village. She wonders if she has taken the wrong path. She really can't walk anymore.
Ding Dalian was also very tired and walked forward without saying a word, without saying a word, no longer having the excitement he had just now.
The two of them dragged their heavy legs and walked for a long time. They finally saw a building from afar and vaguely saw people coming and going on the streets.
Ding Dalian said excitedly, "Sister, hurry up, we're here, it's so lively there."
Ding Dalian came to Yuanbao Town for the first time. Her eyes looked left and right, and she felt that everything was very strange.
"Selling sesame cakes, big sesame cakes that cost a penny!"
"Selling big fruits, soy milk, sweet soy milk only costs one cent, fragrant big fruits!"
"Sell meat and buy meat, fresh pork, it's cheap!"
The streets were filled with stalls, shouting and hawking sounds one after another…
Yuanbao Town is a well-connected town. In Ding Tiantian’s memory, Yuanbao Town should have two pawn shops, which are next to each other. Thinking of this, I decided to go to the pawn shop first to see how much money this silver bracelet can cost.
Ding Tiantian took Ding Dalian straight to Li Ji pawnshop in the middle of the town. The pawnshop was not big, and it felt so ancient as soon as you entered the house. The shopkeeper sat in the window, looked up and looked at them with his eyes. He looked at the coarse cloth clothes they were wearing, and the patches were stacked with patches. He did not get up. He looked contemptuous on his face and said impatiently, "What are the two girls?" www.
Ding Tiantian complained in her heart, "It's a bad thing to see people, if it weren't for the lack of money, who would have come to you, but she still didn't feel displeasure on her face. She took out the bracelet and handed it to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, look at how much silver I can use as a silver bracelet."
The silver bracelet shook brightly before the shopkeeper's eyes. His eyes lit up, and he stood up excitedly, saying to himself, "Beautiful, so beautiful jewelry."
He took the bracelet with both hands, held it in his hands and looked it carefully. The bracelet was engraved with the words "Auspicious Clouds and Fu", and the plums and bamboos on the outside greeted each other, and a big word "Auspicious".
Although the shopkeeper has many treasures, this is the first time he has met such a delicate silver bracelet. He put it on the scale for 40 grams. The shopkeeper looked up again at the Ding Tiantian sisters and said with a slight look, "Is it alive or die?"
Ding Tiantian looked at the greedy look in the shopkeeper's eyes and understood in her heart that the shopkeeper fell in love with the bracelet. She stretched out her hand and took the bracelet back from the shopkeeper's hands, and said lightly, "What if you live, what if you die."
The shopkeeper was speechless and said unhappily, "If you have money in the future, you can redeem it. If you have death, you just don't want it."
Ding Tiantian pretended not to understand, "So that's the case. How much money can I do as a shopkeeper?"
The shopkeeper looked out and confirmed that there were only two little girls. He stroked his goatee's beard and squinted his eyes and said, "Die is five hundred ci, and live is three hundred ci."
Ding Tiantian looked at the shopkeeper with a bad look and thought to herself: This person is too unscrupulous, and this bracelet must be regarded as a thousand cents. He saw that my sister and I were two children and were easy to cheat, so he only gave half of the price. Humph, I won’t be fooled by you!
Thinking of this, Ding Tiantian said, "Shopkeeper, isn't this price a little less?"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he looked at the clever little girl in front of him and continued to deceive, "This is the highest price for you. It seems that you are a child. If you are someone else, you will be 400 dead and 200 living."
“Too few, we won’t do it.”
"This... why isn't this done again?" The shopkeeper stared at the silver bracelet in Ding Tiantian's hand reluctantly.
"You gave too little. My adult said that it would be improper if you gave less money." Ding Tiantian saw that the shopkeeper was coaxing her, so she spoke out of the adult tone.
"How much does your adult want to be?"
Seeing that the shopkeeper didn't want to lose this business, Ding Tiantian thought to herself: Since he is so optimistic about this exquisitely crafted bracelet, he will definitely be a lot of money, so it's better to ask for more.
"Two thousand cents."
Ding Dalian couldn't even listen to her sister's conversation with the shopkeeper. When she heard her sister say that this bracelet could be used as two thousand cents, she couldn't help but open her eyes wide. My God! Two thousand cents, even my mother has never seen so much money! She held her hands tightly and looked at the shopkeeper's reaction in a daze.
The shopkeeper heard that Ding Tiantian wanted two thousand cents, so he stood up, stroked the sparse beards on his chin with his hands, thinking in his mind that this bracelet was exquisitely crafted and highly purified, and must have been made by famous artists. Two thousand cents of writing is indeed a lot, but it would be a problem to meet a 4 tael of silver that can be seen...
Thinking in my heart, the shopkeeper's performance looked embarrassed, "Little girl, two thousand quotations are too high, how about I'll give you one thousand quotations?"
Ding Tiantian kept observing the shopkeeper's every move. Seeing that his mouth was loose, she knew that this bracelet should be worth 2,000 yuan, and there should be no problem. "No, it's not appropriate if it's less. Thank you, the shopkeeper." After that, she pulled Ding Dalian and walked out.
Ding Tiantian was deliberately testing the shopkeeper.
When the shopkeeper saw that the deal was going to be ruined, he hurriedly chased out of the cabinet, "Wait, little girl wait."
Ding Tiantian stopped, "Do you have anything to do?"
"Okay, two thousand words are only two thousand words."
Ding Dalian couldn't believe it was true. Seeing Ding Tiantian not talking, she pulled the corner of her sister's clothes hard, and whispered, "Sister, the shopkeeper's agreement." Ding Dalian was afraid that the shopkeeper's repentance would be made, so she hurriedly urged.
Ding Tiantian was happy in her heart and secretly thanked that she was smart and decisive, otherwise she would have deceived this unscrupulous shopkeeper.
She handed Ding Dalian a look of relief.
Ding Tiantian turned around and looked at him and said, "You are the shopkeeper, you are despised and have no mercy, so our business is destined to be unresolved. I would like to advise the shopkeeper, anyone who comes in to the pawnshop must be a desperate person. If you can help, you should not help, and don't take advantage of others' danger. You are too unintentional and will be punished sooner or later." After that, he pulled Ding Dalian and turned around and left.
The shopkeeper never thought that the little girl in a ragged dress would tell such a big truth. She was stunned... After a long time of recovery, she said, "You are poor and will starve to death sooner or later. What big truths are you talking about? I have money, have you never heard of it? If you don't do it, you will be punished by heaven and earth. Bah..."
After leaving Li Ji’s pawnshop, Ding Dalian wondered, “Sister, there are two thousand copper coins, didn’t the shopkeeper agree?”
Ding Tiantian said, "Sister, that person is unkind. We don't do business with him. Since he can pay 2,000 cents, other pawnshops will definitely not be lower than this price. Let's go and take a look at the next door."
The Anxing pawnshop was next to the Li Ji pawnshop, and the two walked in.
Looking around, I saw that the pawnshop was as rustic as the ancient, but the sandalwood burned, and as soon as I entered the house, I was excited.
When the shopkeeper saw the visiting person, he immediately got up from the chair, walked quickly to the door to greet him, and bowed, "What do you two girls want to be?"
Seeing that the thin shopkeeper was so polite, Ding Tiantian felt a little fond of favor and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to be this bracelet, see how much money can be used as it."
Ding Tiantian handed the silver bracelet to Qingshou shopkeeper.
"Girl wait, let me take a look." The thin shopkeeper held it in his hand and watched it repeatedly, happily saying, "Beauty, it's so beautiful. The girl really wants to take off such exquisite bracelets."
Ding Tiantian smiled and said in a low voice, "I am willing to give up, these are all common things. If you don't bring them in life, don't bring them away if you don't bring them in life, please exchange them for money and you can give them a good price!"
The shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "Since that's the case, you should be worth three taels of silver when you die, and two taels of silver when you live."
Ding Tiantian was delighted. It seemed that the thin shopkeeper was indeed a conscientious boss. He clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, the shopkeeper, then let's die!"
"Okay," the shopkeeper smiled and put up a note, took three taels of silver and handed it to Ding Tiantian.
After taking the two ingots of silver, Ding Tiantian said, "Please, please change these or two for copper plates for me."
"Okay, okay, no problem, girl wait."
After changing the copper plate, Ding Tiantian planned to leave. The thin shopkeeper said, "Miss, go slowly, I'm going to give my name to money. If the girl has another business, remember to give priority to it."
Ding Tiantian smiled and said, "It must be, it must."
Chapter completed!