The Ring of the Red Chamber and the Nine Heavens

Hengxinzhai's business is relatively deserted today, Jia Huan is the only customer at noon.

The owner of the store is a middle-aged man with a goatee and a black gown. He is called "Boss Zhang".Although Boss Zhang is short in stature, he has a poisonous gaze. He can tell at a glance which customers are connoisseurs and which are arty laymen, so he decides what kind of goods to bring out and how much to ask for.

When Boss Zhang saw Jia Huan coming in, although he seemed to be very dignified as he walked in with his head held high, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the decorations around the store, and he couldn't help laughing secretly: What are you pretending?First time?Stop pretending to be an expert.

Boss Zhang saw that Jia Huan was young, but he didn't have the embarrassment of ordinary children. He behaved like an adult in a dignified manner, and the clothes he wore were also neat and decent. Looks like a decent guy from a big family.However, if you take a closer look, you will find that there is no dandyism like a rich man's usual.Moreover, the sons who play jade usually wear jade crowns or jade hairpins on their heads. Children, there are jade strings or tourmaline strings on their wrists, jade rings or gold-encrusted emerald rings on their fingers, jade pendants are often hung from the tail of the folding fans in their hands, and jade pendants or jade belt hooks are tied on their belts. Jade belt buckle or something, in short armed from head to toe, that is the style of a jade player.As for this young master, he doesn't seem to have any special jade ornaments on his body, so he should be an amateur.

Boss Zhang had an idea in his mind, so he blinked at the people below, and immediately got up to greet Jia Huan with understanding: "Master, come to see Yu? Come here, please."

Accompanying Jia Huan to choose and buy are two waiters who look like apprentices.

The two got a hint from Boss Zhang and knew that the young man who just entered the door was a layman, so they looked at each other, and at the same time raised the corners of their mouths, exchanging a tacit smile: "It's easy for laymen, just round your arms and kill hard." Well, anyway, gold has a price and jade is priceless, he doesn't even know if he cheated.

It's a pity that their tricks didn't fool Jia Huan. Jia Huan immediately knew their plot and thought: Are you still trying to trick me?If I have money, I’ll let you cheat as you please. The problem is that it’s really not easy for me to earn these two money.

Fortunately, Jia Huan had watched some treasure-hunting TV programs in his previous life, read a few books on jade identification in his spare time, and seen some pictures on the Internet. Although the actual knowledge is far from enough, he pretended to be It seems that Jia Huan is good at it. I saw him sternly, with his hands behind his back, and contemptuously said that some finished jade displayed on the counter and shelf were worthless, but he kept his mouth open and straight. He said so that the faces of the two waiters turned green, and they looked at Boss Zhang frequently, their eyes full of pleading for help.

Boss Zhang was a little helpless. It seemed that this was not a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Forget it, he had no choice but to ask him to see the real thing, so he gave him a wink to express his approval.

A waiter with a shoehorn face smiled wryly, and whispered to Jia Huan: "My lord, you guys really don't know Taishan. It turns out that you are a connoisseur of goods. To be honest , the goods outside are for ordinary customers who don’t know the goods, which is what we call ‘Yanggu’.”

Jia Huan nodded arrogantly, thinking, this "sheep cub" should be regarded as jargon, does it refer to those who don't know how to use screwdrivers and are foolishly taking advantage of the big money?Hehehe, the young master just ostentatiously showed off a few words, and he was directly promoted from the ranks of "Yanggu" to a senior person who knows the goods. Well, it seems that even in ancient society, this timely pretending and well-intentioned deceit are people Happy to hear, hehehe.

Another waiter with a big pie face said: "Since you know the goods, my lord, we don't dare to poison your eyes with such things. Just wait, we will go get you the real ones, I just don't know what price the young master wants?"

Jia Huan said "Oh", and first pulled out the bag containing 50 taels of silver from his sleeve.

The two waiters looked at each other with disappointed expressions on their faces, and said: "There is only so much, and the goods in it are at least a hundred taels of silver. Then you should choose here, son. It saves us from running in and out, wasting our efforts to take it back and forth."

Look down on people!Young master, do I look like a master without money?Jia Huan slowly took out two small folded banknotes from a small sachet close to his body, and slapped one of them on the table.

The donkey face waiter hurriedly picked it up from the table, unfolded it, wow, 500 taels!Immediately, his donkey face turned into a round face with a smile. He nodded and bowed his waist and said, "I said that you must have a good jade to be worthy of your grand master's demeanor. Just wait."

The clerk with a pie-faced face also had a smile on his face, and surrounded Jia Huan with compliments.

The donkey face said to the big pancake face, "Go to the bottom and get some, and choose one for the young master."

Jia Huan corrected and said, "I want two yuan. It's better to be exactly the same."

The donkey face said as if suffering from a toothache: "Hey, son, you can buy one yuan with this little money. How about two yuan? It's exactly the same? That's really rare. This is embarrassing for the little ones, how about ...Young master, are you going somewhere else?"

One of Nima’s is for buying, and two are for wholesale, okay?Jia Huan originally wanted to lower the price, but seeing this situation, he had to take out another bank note, looked at it reluctantly, and said cruelly, "Go, go, fix it for me."

The two shop assistants responded cheerfully.The big pie face went into the inner warehouse, and the donkey face continued to accompany Jia Huan.

It took a while for the pancake face to come out, holding a large tray in his hand, and inside the tray were real beautiful jade.

Jia Huan picked up each piece of jade and looked carefully at the light. The two waiters kept boasting in their ears: "Look at the head of the water, and look at the workmanship. There is also a lot of money in this capital city." It's what we at Hengxinzhai have..."

Jia Huan fell in love with two pieces of jade, both of which were standard Hetian white jade, warm and lustrous, and of a moderate size, which could just fit into a baby's mouth without being swallowed by them by mistake.As a result, when the price was asked, the two waiters insisted on asking for 500 taels of silver. Jia Huan exhausted his tongue, but they were only willing to lose 100 taels of silver, 400 taels, nothing less. , It doesn't look like the master who cares about hundreds of taels of silver.Don't make things difficult for us two waiters, the value is too low, the boss has to kick us out of this door, but tell us to drink northwest wind and so on.

Jia Huan didn't know that the owner of Hengxinzhai was sitting there at first, but later he found out that the corners of the two waiters' eyes and taillights were always looking there when he was haggling over the price. Now, I thought to myself, it's better to bargain with the boss directly than to talk fart with you two waiters.

Speaking of bargaining, Jia Huan has a trick.Jia Huan used to be a planner in his previous life, but sometimes he would accompany the sales staff to meet local customers. He has a quick mind and is good at words, and he has a lot of opinions when he meets people. He is better than those who specialize in sales, so that he is recommended by the company, and occasionally serves as a sales skills lecturer. Of course, when the company recruits new salesmen and urgently needs emergency induction training.

One of the skills that Jia Huan often imparted to the students at that time was: discussing business with a client, but in actual operation, you have to talk about feelings with him, eat and drink, and make friends with him. Too snobbish, we Chinese, a country of etiquette, pay attention to human relations, and be human before doing business.You have to chat, drink, and have heart-to-heart talks with your clients, and when your feelings are in place, you can get out your cold contract, and they will happily sign it for you.

Jia Huan walked up to Boss Zhang with a smile, made a bow, and said, "Boss, don't stay in the corner with cats. The sun is good here. Let's chat while basking in the sun."

Boss Zhang raised his eyelids, looked at Jia Huan in surprise, couldn't help smiling, and said, "This young master has good eyesight."

Then, Jia Huan began to fool Boss Zhang: "Boss, 'All brothers in the world', although you look a few years older than me, well, dozens of years old, uh, we are also brothers with different surnames, brother Talking about money hurts feelings... This one thousand four is unlucky, why don't you get rid of the change, I really don't care about the money, I really care about this omen, you can understand it as a businessman..." Barbara, I almost fainted Boss Zhang, but fortunately, Boss Zhang is very stubborn as a merchant rentier. No matter what Jia Huan said in the sky, he was only willing to lose 100 taels of silver. up.

Jia Huan thought helplessly, if there is no way to talk, he can only ask the boss to keep the goods and ask Xue Pan to borrow some money when he goes back. The next price will come.

The two sides were engaged in an arduous bargaining tug-of-war. At this time, the curtain was lifted, and several people came in. The first person was wearing an official hat with hairpin tassels, and a scarlet official robe, with his chest folded. A high official in the court.Because even Jia Huan knew it. I don’t know what dynasty it was, but officials from the first rank to the fourth rank all wore scarlet robes. This person is at least a fourth rank official. His father, Jia Zheng, was only a fifth-rank official, so he could only wear blue official robes.

Boss Zhang stopped paying attention to Jia Huan, and hurriedly went up to meet this man, his old face almost dying of laughter, and said: "This master..."

But the old man suddenly bowed his waist like Boss Zhang, and said flatteringly to a tall man who came in behind: "Master, walk slowly, the ground is a bit slippery."

The man who came in was very young, but he had a calm demeanor and contemptuous eyes that were not commensurate with his age. He was dressed in a moon-white robe with silver silk and dark patterns. With an angry and majestic demeanor and an unparalleled handsome appearance, the brilliance of that body almost blinded the eyes of all the waiters in Hengxinzhai.

The only thing is, this person is very cold, his eyes are cold, and his expression is cold, like a big iceberg that has not melted for years, even the breath he exhales is icy, freezing the people who were going to flock up to please sell goods The footsteps and enthusiastic words of Boss Zhang and the waiters.

If it was normal, the waiters would have left behind what they were doing and crowded around together, saying, "Hey, my lord, where are you looking at jade? Come, come, please, here are some good ones. Hurry up, here you go." The young master serves tea."

Now, all the waiting halls opened their mouths wide, staring blankly at this handsome young man who was so handsome that he would never see another in his life, watching him move like a moving iceberg, wherever he went, the ultra-cold air and ultra-low Where does the air pressure take.

Even the donkey-faced and big-bread-faced waiters who were sycophantically greeting Jia Huan rebelled, and their eyes only followed the big iceberg. Walking around behind him, he didn't care about Jia Huan calling "Hello, hey, hey" from behind.

Jia Huan said angrily, "Who is it? This rotten shop only pays attention to clothes and not people. Don't look at him like a dog, maybe he has no money on him, and he is here to cheat!"

After hearing this, Da Bingshan immediately turned his gaze to Jia Huan.

The indifferent, research-like gaze is so cold that it can make people stumble.

But who is Jia Huan, can he be easily overwhelmed by others?

Jia Huan immediately held his head up, and looked back at the past not to be outdone.

Suddenly, Jia Huan felt that this sight seemed to have a feeling of deja vu

Fuck!Jia Huan remembered!

Isn't this the person who was going to "take me down" viciously when I strayed into someone's courtyard that day?

"Bad...bad...bad omen" bro!