Chapter 57: Night Tour of Chang'an (Part 2)
This is a medium-sized jewelry store. Although it is only medium, it can accommodate hundreds of people. Unlike the Hu jewelry store in Dongshi, the various pearls and jades in this store are hung on wooden lattices on the walls. The cheapest one is a few hundred pieces, and the most expensive one is only three or four cents.
Only then did Li Qingan realize how luxurious the Baicui Cup he bought this afternoon was, and it was just a mid-range product. No wonder he was the only one in that store.
The jewelry store was crowded with customers who came to buy pearls and jade. The young girls gathered together in groups of three or five and whispered. Several scholars were bargaining with the waiter, preparing to buy a few accessories to take to their hometown for their wives.
"Xiao Lian, how about I bring this stairshake?" Gao Wu inserted a silver stairshake into his hair and took two steps proudly.
"Well! Sister Wu, I think this silver shaking looks a bit thin, so it's better to have two gems on it." Xiaolian said seriously.
Li Qingan turned his head and felt funny secretly. He had never seen Gao Wu wear jewelry before. Now he looked quite funny when wearing a silver stairs.
"What are you laughing at? What's so funny? I didn't show you."
Gao Wu found Li Qing'an giggling, and she pulled out Bu Yao in anger and said to the waiter: "I want this Bu Yao, and I want these jewelry, I want all the gold hairpins and bracelets over there, you can wrap it up."
The waiter wrapped it up for her and said worriedly: "Girl, your dozen pieces of jewelry are worth twenty yuan in total. The store is small and profitable, so you have to collect cash."
"Qian, please ask this master to go, Xiaolian, let's go!"
Gao Wu picked up his small bag and left in anger. The waiter hurriedly stopped Li Qing'an, "This military master, a total of 20,500 coins."
"Mistress Wu, don't get away!"
Li Qingan shouted, and he quickly took out a piece of silver and handed it to the waiter, "This is twenty-five taels of official silver, which should be enough."
The waiter was in a difficult situation, "June, our store does not charge cash."
"Then how can I pay? How do you ask me to take the copper coins weighing more than 100 kilograms?"
Li Qingan felt the inconvenience of payment. It turned out that there was nothing to feel about thirty or fifty cents of copper coins, but when he started paying for a few tens of cents of coins, the trouble of inconvenience of copper coins was out. The money of a one-tenthousand coins weighed six kilograms, and twenty kilograms was 120 kilograms. Could it be that he could carry a sack of money on the street?
‘Open a few money shops, silver shops are a very profitable business.
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Li Qingan thought to himself.
"June, wait a moment, I'll ask the shopkeeper." The waiter had no choice but to take the goods away. What would he do if he didn't charge the cash? He hurried to the inner room with the silver. After a moment, he brought a bag of copper coins out.
"June, our shopkeeper has accepted the money. This is the six-cent of money we have to ask you for. I'll calculate it for you."
"No need." Li Qingan took his purse and chased him out. Gao Wu and Xia Xiaolian had long disappeared. He looked for several more stores, but still couldn't find them.
"Where did these two little ladies go?" Li Qingan looked around to himself.
"Li Qing'an, is it you?"
A surprise sound suddenly came from behind. When Li Qingan turned around, he saw two little girls standing behind him, one of whom was looking at him with a smile.
Li Qingan recognized her at first glance. Wasn't she the Dugu Mingzhu whom she had just seen this afternoon? Her weird bloody makeup really impressed him too much, and the girl next to her was similar to her makeup, with black lips and long corners of her eyes, and her two eyebrows were tilted into her hair, just like a vixen in anime.
"Don't you know me so soon?" Dugu Mingzhu smiled.
Li Qingan smiled and said, "It's only been less than two hours, why didn't you know each other? I'm wondering how your grandfather allowed you to come out at night?"
"Of course he is not sure, I sneaked out."
Dugu Mingzhu suddenly remembered something and frowned and said, "Do you know, because of you, my sister was scolded by her grandfather and cried for a long time."
Li Qingan shrugged and said, "I don't blame me for your sister, I don't know about this at all."
"I guess you don't know either." Dugu Mingzhu blinked and smiled, "To be honest, do you like my sister?"
"This...this is hard to say."
"What's hard to say? If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. A man, don't be like a mother-in-law."
"What do you like?" Gao Wu's voice suddenly came from beside him.
Li Qingan slowly turned around and saw Gao Wu looking at him with his hands behind his back.
"Haha! Nothing, where are you two? I'll look for it everywhere."
"We're waiting for you outside!"
Gao Wu walked forward slowly and sneered at Li Qingan: "Why, don't you introduce me?"
"This is Dugu Mingzhu, the granddaughter of General Dugu."
Li Qing'an's head suddenly hurt. How could it be like this?
Gao Wu glared at him fiercely, and smiled at Dugu Mingzhu, "My name is Gao Wu, I am the daughter of Gao Jiedushi Gao. Miss Mingzhu, you have a very distinctive makeup! Can you teach me?"
"So you are Gao Xianzhi's daughter. I have been reliant on you for a long time."
Dugu Mingzhu held Gao Wu's hand affectionately and introduced her to the female companion next to her and said, "This is Changsun Yun, the daughter of the Changsun family. If you are willing, I will come to my house tomorrow and I will help you put on makeup."
"Okay! I have no friends in Chang'an. I'll come to play with you tomorrow."
Li Qingan secretly despises the false feelings among women. When did Gao Wu be interested in makeup? He always faces the sky. Moreover, Li Qingan found that women seem to have the talent for acting. With Gao Wu tomboy's personality, he actually formed a relationship with Dugu Mingzhu like a decent person and got in love with him.
"Haha! Then you guys just go shopping together! I'm going to go to bed."
Li Qing'an wanted to escape, but Gao Wu smiled and said, "Qilang, I'm going to go home too. Can you send me back?"
She said affectionately to Dugu Mingzhu: "Sister Mingzhu, I will come to you tomorrow, you have to wait for me!"
"Sister Wu, I will definitely wait for you, so we'll leave first."
Dugu Mingzhu pulled Gao Wu's hand, blinked at Li Qing'an again, and then left with her female companion.
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"Qiro, I'm so embarrassed to let you spend money today."
On the way, Gao Wu did not mention Dugu Mingzhu at all, and talked and laughed with Li Qing'an, as if nothing had happened. If Gao Wu did not mention it, Li Qing'an would not be trapped in his own cocoon. He smiled and said, "Just like it, don't take it to heart for a little money."
After pausing, he asked Xiaolian with a smile and said, "Xiaolian, do you like that golden hairpin?"
"Thank you, my son, I like it very much."
Xiaolian is different from Gao Wu. She has already inserted the phoenix hairpin that Li Qing'an bought for her on her head, making her look particularly pretty.
The three of them walked a long way and gradually came to Li Qing'an's residence. Li Qing'an could no longer help asking, "Mimmy, where are you staying tonight?"
Gao Wu gave her a blank look and said, "Looking at your nervous look, of course I am going home. My luggage is all here with you. You can't let me go home empty-handed!"
Li Qingan laughed dryly and said, "I don't mean that, I don't know that you have a home in Chang'an."
"Nonsense! My mother, my brothers and sisters are all in Chang'an. What do you think I'm here to Chang'an to do? Do you come to find you?"
Gao Wu's anger was slowly ignited. When she remembered that Li Qingan was really going to meet the granddaughter of the Dugu family, she felt a little hatred in her heart. How could that little girl who was like a wild cat look good?
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Chapter completed!