webnovelfull Chapter 427 Jiang Mushi secretly helps
Chapter 427 Jiang Mushi secretly helps
"Although the bracelet is in good condition, it is obviously old and has some wear and tear and flaws. Eight taels of silver is still a fixed price. If you want to negotiate, the maximum you can pay is five taels."
"Can you give me more, and try to keep me alive?"
"Girl, this is a pawnshop and we're doing business. If you're like this, you might as well go ask somewhere else." The clerk had a smile on his face, but there was some impatience in his tone.
Wei Yao looked hesitant, looking at the bracelet in her hand.
She knew that the bracelet did have some flaws and was not worth much silver now, but she never expected that it could only be worth a few taels of silver.
Besides, this was what her mother left behind, she couldn't just die with it.
"Then I'll go look somewhere else. Sorry for bothering you."
Wei Yao turned and walked out of the pawnshop with a heavy look on his face.
But before she had walked far, just as she was about to look for the next pawnshop, the clerk in the pawnshop suddenly chased after her.
"Girl, wait a minute!"
The guy quickly ran to Wei Yao and stopped her.
"What's the matter?" Wei Yao stopped.
"My dear girl, when you left just now, our shopkeeper saw this bracelet and said that if you want to pawn it, you can pay more."
"Thank you, but I don't want to die. I..."
"You don't have to pawn it for life. The shopkeeper said that you can live as a pawn for one year. As long as you collect enough money within the year, you can redeem it at any time."
"Really?" Wei Yao was delighted.
"Really, seriously, please come in, young lady."
The clerk invited Wei Yao back to the pawnshop. The owner who was waiting in the pawnshop saw someone coming and walked forward with a smile.
"Girl, can you let me take a closer look at your bracelet?"
Wei Yao handed the bracelet over again.
The shopkeeper took it up and looked at it carefully, stroking his beard and speaking: "Although this bracelet has flaws and wear, it is still in good condition. This old thing does have the charm of an old thing. If the girl wants to pawn it, how about one hundred taels of silver for a year?"
"One hundred taels?" Wei Yao was stunned.
The guy just said that the job would only cost five taels of silver, how come it was suddenly increased to one hundred taels?
She looked at the shopkeeper suspiciously, and the next moment, she reached out and took the bracelet.
"Shopkeeper, your prices have changed so much that I cannot bear the price of this bracelet anymore."
Having said that, Wei Yao was about to walk out.
"Wait, young lady, we have no ill intentions." The shopkeeper said quickly, "Besides, we are a regular pawnshop, and all items have pawn tickets. If you don't believe us, we can also issue a separate receipt."
Wei Yao looked at the shopkeeper and asked after a moment, "Can you really sign a document?"
"Sure. Go get some paper and pen." The shopkeeper said to the waiter, who quickly went to the counter to get some paper and pen.
The shopkeeper handed the written document to Wei Yao and said, "Miss, you can rest assured now."
Wei Yao looked at the document in front of her, but the doubt in her eyes did not fade at all.
"Does the shopkeeper want this bracelet so much?"
"This..." The shopkeeper was silent for a while, then smiled helplessly, "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, young lady. If this bracelet was kept at any other time, it would definitely not be worth so much money. It's just that my wife went to the temple to burn incense yesterday, and she said that I might have a disaster recently, and I need to do more good deeds. Just now, I saw that young lady was reluctant to give up the bracelet, and I thought that she must have encountered difficulties, so I thought of accumulating blessings."
Wei Yao was stunned. "Just because of this?"
"Girl, you are still young and may not believe these things, but it is better to believe in the existence of good fortune than to believe in its non-existence. Just think of it as God giving you good luck and giving me a chance to do good deeds. Let's help each other."
"That's right, young lady. Our boss has said so. You can take the silver with confidence. And don't worry, as long as you come back within a year to redeem the bracelet, it will be guaranteed to be there." The clerk also spoke up.
Wei Yao looked at the two of them and did not see any malice in their expressions. After thinking for a while, she handed the bracelet in her hand back to the shopkeeper.
"In that case, thank you very much. I will come to redeem the bracelet within a year."
"Okay, okay." The shopkeeper took the bracelet and quickly asked the clerk to take the silver and the pawn ticket to Wei Yao.
After Wei Yao left, the clerk went to the door to check. After making sure that the person had gone far away, Jiang Mushi walked out from the back of the pawnshop.
"Master Jiang, as you said, the silver and the pawn ticket have been given to the girl." said the shopkeeper.
"Thank you, Manager Wang." Jiang Mushi bowed to express his gratitude.
"Master Jiang, you are too polite. It's just a small favor. We have also accepted your money. If we really want to thank you, it should be us who thank you."
The shopkeeper's face was full of smiles, and after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but speak out of curiosity.
"Master Jiang, I just don't understand. If you wanted to help that girl just now, why didn't you just give her money directly, but instead you had to beat around the bush like this?"
And the relationship between these two...
"Shopkeeper Wang, don't think too much. I don't know Miss Wei very well. I just know that she encountered some problems, so I wanted to help her. Just think of it as... doing good deeds to accumulate some blessings."
Seeing Jiang Mushi using the same reason as before, the shopkeeper smiled and didn't say anything more.
Anyway, as long as he doesn't lose anything, it's fine. As for why Young Master Jiang did this, that's other people's business and has nothing to do with him.
"Thank you for your help today. Goodbye." Jiang Mushi bowed slightly and left the pawnshop with Manager Wang politely seeing him off.
Jiang Mushi was in a good mood and walked briskly towards the Jiang family. However, he had not walked far when he felt something was wrong, as if someone was following him.
Walking quickly to an alley, Jiang Mushi hid behind the wall, and when the time was right, he appeared and shouted in a deep voice: "Why are you following..."
Before he could finish his words, he bumped into the person who came.
After I stood firm, I found that it was Wei Yao again.
"Miss Wei, why is it you?"
Wei Yao rubbed her forehead which was hurt by the collision and looked at Jiang Mushi with complicated eyes.
"It seems like I should be the one asking this question. Why are you helping me?"
Jiang Mushi was stunned, pretending to be calm and looking away, he asked in confusion: "What do you mean by helping you? I don't understand what Miss Wei means."
"I heard everything that happened in the pawnshop just now. My bracelet can be pawned for 100 taels of silver. It was you who arranged it."
Although the shopkeeper and the clerk seemed to have no ill intentions, they were businessmen after all. She didn't quite believe in the idea of accumulating blessings, and she also didn't believe that such a good thing could happen to her.
So soon after she came out, she made sure that there was no one at the door, so she went back to the outside of the pawnshop and listened to the conversation inside clearly.
She remembered the person in front of her. She had accidentally bumped into him at the palace gate before, but she really couldn't understand why he wanted to help her.
Seeing that Wei Yao knew everything, Jiang Mushi quickly explained: "Miss Wei, please don't misunderstand me. I have no ill intentions. I just saw that your uncle and aunt were really going too far, so I wanted to help you."
"My second uncle and second aunt?" Wei Yao thought for a moment, "So it was you who was talking on the second floor of the restaurant yesterday. Did you see everything?"