So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

Chapter 48: One-day Tour of Ancient Second-hand Stores

The four of them gathered at Zuihuayin again, and both the host and the guests had a great time again.

In the evening, Shou Junwu directly asked Yunxiang to follow Xiao Yueshan home so that he could go to the clothing store with her tomorrow.

Qiu Shunci was very trustworthy and arrived at the Xiao residence early in the morning. Mrs. Yu was very pleased to see Xiao Yueshan asking her sisters to go shopping, and felt that her daughter had finally returned to a normal life as a woman in the harem.

The two went straight to Changji Clothing Store in Xishi.

A clothing appraisal shop is actually a type of pawnshop. There are many types of pawnshops, including pawnshops, loan shops, pawnshops, and longevity shops.

Although the items to be pawned, the duration and the interest rate are different, in the end it is all about exchanging things for money.

This clothing store mainly deals in the business of pawning clothes.

Changji Clothing Store is very large, with a five-foot-high counter in the middle that is taller than a person. This floor-to-ceiling counter divides the store into two halves.

A small half of them are like some small clothing stalls and pawnshops, doing business with the poor, selling cotton-padded jackets of the dead and shoes of the living, all kinds of cheap goods.

The other half was hung with thick curtains, and in addition to appraising clothes, it also sold valuable items such as antiques, porcelain, and lacquerware.

The shopkeeper of Changji saw Xiao Yueshan and Qiu Shunci coming in with veiled hats. The shrewd old man recognized Qiu Shunci's maid at a glance and thought she was the one who came to buy things.

The clever waiter immediately invited the two to the guest room behind the curtain.

The two of them sat down, and the waiter served them tea. Several waiters carried a lot of clothes and hung them on the coat rack in the room.

"Ma'am, you are here. We have received a lot of new goods recently. Please take a look and see if there is anything you like." The shopkeeper greeted.

"These are all good stuff, brand new, and have never been in the water! Madam, please take a look first. If you don't like anything, ask these guys to go to the warehouse and choose some for you.

I dare not say anything about other old people, but there is no place in the capital that has more clothing than Changji, whether it is silk and satin or snow fox and golden eagle, as long as Madam wants it, we have it all!"

The shopkeeper of Changji sees countless people and things every day, weighing the identity of each person and the price of each item. He sees that Xiao Yueshan is richer than Qiu Shunci, who often comes here, so he becomes more enthusiastic.

"Thank you, boss. We'll take a look first." Qiu Shunci said, and the boss left to do other things. They were not big customers, so it was not worth it for the boss to accompany them throughout the selection process.

Xiao Yueshan signaled Yunxiang and Shutong to go and take a look at the clothes on the rack. This method was also a gamble. More than a year had passed, and there was no telling where Yan Niang's clothes would be scattered.

The waiters followed Qiu Shunci's previous requirements and picked out relatively new clothes from middle-class families. There was no way Yan Niang's clothes were mixed in with them.

After selecting two racks of clothes, the guys became a little unhappy when they saw that Xiao Yueshan and Qiu Shunci didn't want any of them, because workers need commissions.

Xiao Yueshan saw the dissatisfaction of the three people and said directly, "I wonder if the store has clothes collected last spring and summer?"

"We at Changji have a lot of goods coming in and out every day. We received a lot of clothes last spring and summer. I wonder what exactly Madam wants. As long as Madam can give the requirements, we will definitely be able to get the goods you want." The young waiter said in a somewhat aggressive tone.

"That's what you said." Xiao Yueshan asked Yunxiang to take out the pattern she had embroidered yesterday according to Yan Niang's needlework. "I want clothes with this needlework, no matter whether they are new or old. As long as my maid can verify that they are made by one person, I will take as many as you have."

The slogan "take as many as you can" inspired the employees' enthusiasm. The three employees carefully looked at Yunxiang's pattern and wondered if there was anything like this in the warehouse.

Yan Niang was not an embroidery expert. Yesterday, Yunxiang told Xiao Yueshan about the special features of Yan Niang's needlework, which was that the stitches were particularly urgent and dense. The stitches of the patterns overlapped and connected layer by layer, as if completely ignoring the beauty of the embroidery.

The middle of the pattern is usually stitched, with the thread pulled very long and woven very densely. The edges of the pattern are embroidered with single buttons, which sew the pattern and the fabric firmly together.

I felt that I used too much strength when embroidering, and some edges of the embroidery were even slightly uneven. As for the rest of the pattern, I just used back stitch to hook a few times.

After looking at the needlework, the guys thought the embroidery pattern was just average and would not be a very good piece of clothing. And with Xiao Yueshan's suggestion, they focused on looking for the clothes they had collected last spring and summer.

Xiao Yueshan asked Shutong to give some small change to the three men as a reward, and they quietly agreed to let Yunxiang go with them to look for it.

Qiu Shunci looked at the busy people and asked quietly, "Yueshan, I don't think you are picking clothes for yourself. What are you looking for?"

Xiao Yueshan couldn't tell the truth directly, so he could only say, "Something of an old friend of mine was sold by someone else, and I want to get it back."

Xiao Yueshan signaled to Yunxiang to privately hint to the waiter to pay special attention to the things sent from Yonghe Lane.

With both the time and the location, the search was much quicker. After searching for a while, they actually found a bag of such clothes.

Yunxiang checked them one by one and found that they were indeed Yan Niang's needlework. There were about ten pieces in this package, and Xiao Yueshan took them all without blinking an eye.

Seeing her so straightforward, the guys didn't expect that this lady didn't lie to them. One of the guys understood: "The only people who collect junk in Yonghe Lane are He Quezi, Lao Cui and Guo Er.

This package was sent by Lao Cui. He received not only women's clothes, but also men's clothes. Some of the men's clothes are very strange. The materials are very poor, but they are embroidered with such patterns. Do you want to show them to the lady?"

If there is evidence, the more the better. Xiao Yueshan agreed to let the men go and fetch it, and sent Shutong to the Dali Temple to find Zhou Yao and the others. This pile of evidence was really eye-catching, and she couldn't take it back by herself.

The clothes of Yan Niang's family were not of high quality, so the clothing store would not take good care of them. After staying here for a whole morning, Xiao Yueshan had allergic rhinitis and couldn't help but wipe her nose with a handkerchief. She didn't expect that she couldn't escape this problem even after traveling through time.

Qiu Shunci thought she was crying, so he stood up and comforted her, "It's okay, we've found some of it, just wait for the guys to look for it slowly."

"Thank you, sister. I'm fine." She held Qiu Shunci's hand without further explanation.

The waiter saw this scene. When the guys brought in the men's clothes, Yunxiang checked them one by one. After confirming that they were made by Yan Niang, she took them all.

When she went to the storeroom to look for the clothes, there were no more, so Xiao Yueshan prepared to check out and leave. Qiu Shunci had been following her to watch the fun, but she herself was in no mood to choose.

The waiter had already reported to the shopkeeper that he had seen Xiao Yueshan "crying", thinking that the lady would definitely want these clothes, so he could raise the price.

Sure enough, twenty-three pieces of ordinary old clothes, each brand new cost only one or two hundred coins, a total of only four or five taels of silver. Changji's shopkeeper asked for fifty taels of silver.

Qiu Shunci was stunned by the high price. How dare these tattered clothes cost so much money? "Boss, this is not the first time I come to your shop to buy things. The jacquard clothes are only four or five hundred coins, and one tael of silver can buy two. Is this coarse cloth dress covered with gold or silver? You actually asked for fifty taels. You are a big store that bullies customers! We don't want to buy anything, let's go!"

"Same product, but sold in thousands of different ways. The thing Madam wants is only available in our store. Isn't that a rare commodity?" The shopkeeper was certain that Xiao Yueshan wanted to order these clothes. The deal was a done deal, so he was not afraid of Qiu Shunci's threats.

Xiao Yueshan touched Qiu Shunci's shoulder in a soothing manner, "Opening a business, being honest will not lose money, and being mean will not make money. The shopkeeper is raising the price like this, without even thinking about whether he has the ability to make this money."

She has already sent Shu Tong to ask for help. This shopkeeper is too dishonest, and she doesn't mind "bullying others with her power".

Sure enough, Shu Tong brought Zhou Yao and Shou Junwu to the scene. Although the shopkeeper did not recognize them, he knew he could not afford to offend them when he saw that they were wearing official uniforms and were accompanied by guards, so he hurriedly came out to greet them with a smile.

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