Alien power now Chapter 13

The long hair, which had been half dried, was casually pulled back into a bun, and the little bun was ordered to stay inside the house, while she took some silver with her and left the inn.

After asking several passers-by and walking for about a quarter of an hour, Su Qinghe found a market similar to a jade street. But to her great surprise, the street was cold and sluggish, with only a few pedestrians, and most of the stores were closed, with a small wooden sign hanging on the brass ring, with the words "Closed for Maintenance" written on it.

"Uncle, what's going on? Why are all these stores closed?" She hastily pulled a green-shirted old man who was walking beside her, and her tone couldn't help but be a bit anxious.

"Girl, at a glance you're from out of town, right? These stores that originally sold jadeite stones are now all holding their breath to stock up, so if you want to buy stones, wait for the stone competition in two months."

The old man did not feel abrupt, gentle and patient explanation.

"But... they are not doing business in these two months?"

"The city of Yanzhou has been looking forward to this for fifteen years, when jade lovers from all over the country will flock to the city. Those two days of revenue, excluding the two months of loss, but also another earn a lot of money."

The old man did not hide his disgust for those jade merchants, and after a pause, he said, "In two days, the people of Kyoto will be coming to Yanzhou City, all the jadeite material to participate in the number of storage, to be the day before the Stone Conference and then distributed to each store."

The news was bad news for Su Qinghe. Her original intention was to take advantage of gambling to pick up a small leak and settle down in Yanzhou City, but she didn't expect the impact of the stone competition to be so great that all the stone stores closed down and stocked up. The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of the game.

She can't afford to live in an inn, she still has a total of three taels of silver, living here for two months will cost three taels of money for accommodation, even if the two of them don't eat or drink, the remaining few taels of silver will not be enough to buy a piece of jadeite wool.

Besides, the old man said that the price of jadeite material will rise on the day of the conference, I don't know how many times it will be, the three taels of silver in hand may not be enough, in case they encounter good material and don't have money to buy it, that is really to regret.

The green-shirted old man walked away slowly, leaving Su Qinghe frowning in place, hesitating for half a second, then suddenly looked up at a jade store in front of him with a wide open door, with "Lin Lang Xuan" written on it, as if he had made up his mind, and directly lifted his feet and walked in.

These days, the floating clouds are following the wind and the sun is melting. The first time I saw it, I was able to see it.

However, Cao, the owner of Lin Lang Xuan, has been a bit bored lately, his bloated body twisting restlessly on a rattan chair, his short fat palm stroking a polished jadeite raw material in front of him.

It weighs ten kilograms, the best ice, and even almost reached the texture of glass, the color is transparent pure white, only a touch of stunning emerald green hanging in the middle, like a green bean sprinkled on a sheep's-fat jade plate.

As jewelry? As an ornament? As a ruyi?

A few ideas just emerged, Cao boss heart rejected himself.

No, they were too common, according to the young master's tricky taste, they would definitely be beaten back with a stick.

The owner raised his hand and scratched the sweat on his head, along with stroking down a few strands of hair, which was already sparse and now almost bald.

The twenty-third long sigh, only blame their own contacts, only to take on two stone merchants, only the already small store into two pieces, half sell wool, half of the collection of bright material, earn some processing fees.

The business is getting worse and worse, especially after the opening of the largest jade store in Yanzhou, "Spotted Jade House" in the center of the city, the bright material processing business was robbed of most of it, and his family's signature jade master was tapped.

The good thing is that there are still a few old customers, the jade master was tapped by him to cover the matter, has not been a few customers know, otherwise the hands of this big single lost again, they can directly roll up the store closed, back home to farm.

Sight again gathered in front of this annoying jade, both to maximize the use of the stone, but also to be original, not to lose the class, is too difficult to some.

"Boss, may I ask if you take carvers here?"

The thoughts were disturbed, Cao looked up impatiently, only to see a young girl of about 14 or 15 years old standing playfully at the door, a pair of almond eyes flashing under the black eyelashes, very aura, but the face is dark yellow, the body is too thin to look like, the eyes are slightly sunken, the aura is discounted.

"You know how to cut jade?" Boss Cao swept the patches on her cuffs and her nearly worn-out straw shoes, and snorted with incredulity and disbelief.

"I know a little...I can also draw some patterns." Su Qinghe, as if she did not hear the disdain in his words, lowered her head and eyes, and answered honestly.

Boss Cao smiled, and his tone was even more odd: "Drawing patterns, so you know how to draw jade?"

When she heard this word, Su Qinghe didn't think deeply about it, but understood it to mean the texture of jade, so she subconsciously nodded her head.

If a poor girl from the countryside can phase jade, why would he be so sad and bitter?

The laughter gradually subsided, Cao boss also did not raise his eyelids, body leaned back on the back of the chair, turning the right thumb jade trigger finger, humming: "Young people are full of vigor, do not know how wide the sky and how thick the earth, since you are so confident, let's phase this piece of jade."

After saying that, he casually pointed to the piece of ice jade that had been bothering him for many days.

Su Qinghe did not know what to say, and spoke with deliberation: "Top grade ice jade, white background with green, weight about ten kilograms ......"

"I'm not blind! You still need to say this!" Cao boss impatiently interrupted Su Qinghe's words, pointing to the pen, ink and ink stone on the table, "You said you know how to draw patterns, now draw one."

As if she didn't hear the fat boss's scolding, Su Qinghe obediently went over to execute the brush, examined the jade for a moment, a glint of light flashed in her eyes, then lifted the brush and dipped it into the ink, falling lightly on the snow-white rice paper.