I was the queen of the sea in the 80s

Chapter 33 Pawnshop
The grandma chose a coffee shop with a warm decoration. There are not many people in the shop, so it is very quiet and very suitable for conversation.

After ordering coffee and desserts, the old lady introduced herself first, saying that her name is Zhao Aixiang, and everyone around her calls her A Xiangpo. She came to Xingang from the mainland 30 years ago, and she was considered a lady from a wealthy family in the mainland. , but unfortunately all the gold bars were stolen on the first day in Xingang.

"Then what happened later?" Jiang Zhenzhen was attracted by Axiangpo's story.

Ah Xiangpo smiled and said: "Fortunately, I still carried a jade bracelet with me at the time. Later, I opened a morning tea shop with the money from the pawned bracelet, and the business was pretty good."

In fact, she was modest, and the business was more than good. Because the materials were affordable and tasted good, she quickly became famous. Later, relying on this business, she not only bought an apartment in Xingang, but also bought a shop in a very good location.

"Fortunately, the master I met who accepted my bracelet was real, otherwise my morning tea shop might not be able to open." Ah Xiangpo recalled the past, her tone was full of emotion.

Jiang Zhenzhen didn't expect such a coincidence, she couldn't hold back her excitement, and asked Axiangpo: "Then is that master still there now?"

"Here he is." Ah Xiangpo said, "I will take you to find him later!"

Jiang Zhenzhen laughed: "Okay." Just as Ah Xiangpo was recalling the past, Jiang Zhenzhen quietly took out four pearls from the space under the table.

Two of them are drop-shaped pearls about twelve millimeters long, and two are round, but not very regular in shape, with a diameter of about seven or eight millimeters.

And the pearl with the roundest, most perfect shape and the highest value was left by her in the space. After all, she and A Xiangpo just met by chance, so it is still necessary to be cautious.

She pretended to take pearls out of her pocket, and then showed the four pearls in her palm to Axiangpo.

The location they chose was right by the window, and the sunlight came in through the floor-to-ceiling windows and fell on the pearls, making the upper pearls look more radiant.Ah Xiangpo was stunned, she stretched out her hand cautiously, picked up the four pearls in Jiang Zhenzhen's hand, and shook them slightly against the sun, the pearly color was even more dazzling.

"Oh my god." Ah Xiangpo exclaimed, "I haven't seen such a pearl in many years!"

Axiangpo also had a natural wild seawater pearl necklace when she was a child, so she knew what kind of pearls wild pearls should have. Coincidentally, she happened to have a string of pearl bracelets on her wrist. Although they were also seawater pearls, they looked like cultured pearls. seawater pearls.In contrast with this string of bracelets, Jiang Zhenzhen's four pearls look even more beautiful.

"You put such precious pearls in your pocket!" After appreciating the jewels, Ah Xiangpo couldn't help scolding Jiang Zhenzhen, "Even if you can't buy a pearl box, at least you have to wrap it in a piece of cloth Bar!"

Jiang Zhenzhen smiled sheepishly, and then asked, "Is this pearl worth anything?"

"It's valuable, of course it's valuable!" Ah Xiangpo said, "Especially these two." She took out the two drop-shaped ones, "The shape of these naturally formed water droplets is so perfect, it will definitely fetch a lot of money."

The corners of Jiang Zhenzhen's mouth couldn't help but curl up, thinking that it would be good if she could sell for a higher price, then her visit today would not be in vain.

After drinking coffee and eating dessert, Ah Xiangpo took Jiang Zhenzhen to find the pawnbroker she knew.

In Xingang in the 80s, there were colorful high-rise buildings on one side and low-slung slums on the other. Ah Xiangpo took Jiang Zhenzhen into a dilapidated alley and stopped in front of a pawn shop with a very low-key appearance.

"Here?" Jiang Zhenzhen began to worry whether she had encountered a liar.

A Xiangpo said: "Yes, it is here. Don't think that the location of this store is not good, it looks inconspicuous, how do you think those pawnshops outside decorate the store so resplendently? Isn't it the money of those customers? It’s just bullying some customers who don’t know the goods.”

It made sense, Jiang Zhenzhen couldn't help but believe it.

She followed A Xiangpo into the pawn shop, the pawnshop decoration was very similar to the pawnshops in the costume TV dramas she had seen, with tall counters and railings separating the customers and the shopkeeper into two worlds.

When I first came in, there was no one behind the counter, and Ah Xiangpo yelled: "Brother Sansheng——"

After a while, Jiang Zhenzhen heard the sound of the curtain being knocked, and an old man with a white beard appeared behind the counter.

"Axiangmei, why are you free today?" The white bearded old man said with a smile, "Now you can rest assured that Jia Jiahui will be in the store by himself to look after business?"

"What can I do if I don't worry, I'm already old, I can't keep letting go." After finishing speaking, Ah Xiangpo pulled Jiang Zhenzhen to her side and said, "I brought you a guest, this girl's hand There are wild seawater pearls in there, I have seen them, their appearance is very special, you should come and have a look.” He said to Jiang Zhenzhen, “Take out the pearls soon.”

Jiang Zhenzhen took out the pearls from her pocket, raised her hand and put the pearls on the counter. As expected, the old man with white beard was a pawnbroker. Wild Sea Beads!
In order to ensure that his judgment was correct, he took out the magnifying glass and looked at the pearls one by one.

After a while, he put down the magnifying glass, his serious expression changed into a stretched smile, and said, "Sister Axiang, your eyesight is still so good after all these years, it is indeed a seawater pearl."

Jiang Zhenzhen breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the shopkeeper knows the goods, then the next step is to ask the price.

Before Jiang Zhenzhen could speak, Ah Xiangpo opened her mouth first: "Brother Sansheng, this girl helped me catch a thief on the road just now, and she didn't even charge her a thank you fee. She's a good girl, what do you want?" Give her a real price, and don't cheat her."

The white-bearded old man glanced at A Xiangpo, pretending to be angry and said: "You are insulting me by saying this. I have been in the shop for so many years, when did I cheat people?!"

Ah Xiangpo reached out and patted her mouth lightly, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, I made a mistake. Brother Sansheng, how much do you pay this girl for these pearls?"

The white-bearded old man frowned, and Jiang Zhenzhen, who had been paying attention to the white-bearded old man's expression, became nervous. Just when she thought that the white-bearded old man was going to pick something wrong and let the price of pearls drop, she heard him say: "These two don't The regular and round ones cost 1000 yuan each, and the two drop-shaped ones cost 5000 yuan each."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Jiang Zhenzhen and asked, "What do you think, can you accept it?"

After all, Jiang Zhenzhen was born again, and in her previous life she was overwhelmed by the understatement of hundreds of millions and billions in the Internet media, so she didn't express any particular excitement when she heard the "down-to-earth" price of [-].Moreover, she doesn't know the market price of wild pearls at this time, and she is not sure whether the old man in front of her has cheated herself, so she hesitated for a while.

(End of this chapter)