Chapter 1147: Amulet

Like many women, He He hates snakes very much. When she sees this kind of reptile, she wants to stay away from it. The same is true for her girlfriends, who are full of disgust for snakes. If she gives them a pendant carved with snakes, I am afraid that the boat of friendship will capsize up.

But the Cleopatra head pendants sold in Lazart's store are all engraved with cobras without exception. The shapes are slightly different, but they are all carved lifelike. How can He He get it? If you buy it back, you will be scolded to death by your girlfriends.

So, only Nefertari and Nefertiti's head pendants can be bought? There are no snakes carved on the heads of these two beauties, but their popularity in China is too low...

"Are there any Cleopatra pendants without snakes here?" She asked shyly.

"Cobras represented royal power in ancient Egypt, which is the biggest feature that distinguishes Cleopatra from the other two beauties." Lazart said, "I am sorry that all the Cleopatra pendants in our store have snakes. If you insist on not Those with snakes can only be customized."

"Can it be customized?" He He said in surprise, "Customization...is it expensive?"

Lazart's quotation for customization is less than 1,000 yuan, which is much cheaper than she imagined, and it can be even cheaper if multiple customizations of the same shape are made.

He He silently calculated that the same girlfriends should be divided into distant and close relatives, and the best girlfriends with him are only two or three, plus her own share, and finally asked to order four Cleopatra pendants without snakes.

In addition to external purchases, Lazart's store supplies goods. If a customer requests customization, he and his son Chris are responsible for making it, which has become a family tradition.

The forging room is connected to the back of the store, and guests can even watch the process of making their own customized jewelry on the spot. The glowing red fire is licking the gold nuggets, the hammers are clinking and forging, the sparks are shining, the yellow golden water is poured into the mold, and after cooling, it is further refined and carved. After the final completion, it is an exquisite handicraft. The whole process There is no essential difference from thousands of years ago.

Gao Ke and the others were itching to hear it, and wished to witness and record the forging process of jewelry with their own eyes, but Lazart has no intention of starting work at present, and they cannot force them to change their clothes and start work now.

Zhang Zian was still thinking about the desert when he felt something hit him on the leg.

He looked up and met Fina's eyes. Its paws were still fiddling with a piece of sugar cube with missing corners.

The cube sugar comes from a small dish on the table. If the guests feel that the already sweet coffee is not sweet enough, they can add more cube sugar by themselves.

Fina probably used her paws to break off a small piece of sugar cube, and flicked it on Zhang Zian's body, her intention was nothing more than to say - to do it when it's time to do it, do I have to remind you?

Zhang Zian had no choice but to pick up Cleopatra's pendant and was about to ask to buy it when another small piece of sugar hit him on the leg.

Turning his head again, he saw Fina's angry eyes.

what happened? Don't you want this?

After being dazed for a while, he realized that what Fina wanted was also a pendant without a snake, because the snake poisoned Cleopatra, so it hated snakes.

As a servant, one must always try to figure out the holy will, otherwise there is a danger of losing his head.

He put down the finished pendant, and followed He He to customize a snake-free pendant, which caused Gao Ke and the others to boo, and asked narrowly which girl he was planning to give it to.

Speaking of girls, Zhang Zian thought of the gifts that the clerk and his friends repeatedly asked. They actually thought he was too stingy to deliberately not bring gifts. They really underestimated him!

For things like gifts, it's best to treat them equally, and don't favor one person over another, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction and misunderstanding, which will be troublesome.

Zhang Zian is also considering buying a few Rosetta Stone, Pyramid, Tutankhamun mask, three heads of beauties and other pendants as gifts, but he always feels that such gifts lack uniqueness.

At this time, Lazart continued to say that in addition to imitations of famous cultural relics and portraits of famous people, another type of jewelry that is very popular among tourists is the amulets with ancient Egyptian characteristics.

"Actually, the head pendant of Cleopatra has a certain effect of warding off evil spirits and can be used as a talisman." He introduced, "You may think that the Egyptians are not afraid of poisonous snakes, so they carved the cobra on the crown of the head-in fact, it is not In this way, no one understands the horror of poisonous snakes better than the Egyptians, and we are also afraid of poisonous snakes, but the Egyptian habit is to fight poison with poison, and the more afraid of snakes, the more they wear snake statues on their bodies, so as to avoid evil."

Everyone suddenly thought that the Egyptians were not afraid of snakes. In fact, the Egyptians were as afraid of snakes as the Chinese. But no matter what Razat explained, people still didn’t want to buy the finished version of Cleopatra’s head pendant and asked him to introduce the real amulet.

Lazart also took out several jewelry, such as the dung beetle pendant and ring that pushes the "sun" forward, such as the hand pendant and ring of Fatima, which are very popular amulets among tourists. Women generally wear pendants, while men generally wear wear a ring.

The dung beetle was the incarnation of the sun god in ancient Egypt, representing immortality and justice, but no matter how evil this thing is, it is not suitable as a gift in China. Even if you wear it yourself, it will attract strange eyes. Religious significance is too strong, it is a talisman to ward off evil spirits in religion, and it is not suitable for Chinese society where atheism is the mainstream.

As a businessman, Lazart was very patient and listened carefully to the requests of Chinese customers, and then took out two other kinds of jewelry, one was a pendant, shaped like the symbol ♀ representing women, and the other was an oblong thin gold plate, The top is bare.

"Is this for women only?" Gao Ke asked, pointing to the ♀-shaped pendant.

"no."

Razat shook his head and explained to them that although ♀ is a symbol representing women in the world, in ancient Egypt, this symbol means the key of life—the encore, which is the oldest symbol of the gods in Egypt, representing eternal life, Wearing the Encore talisman can bring good luck and avoid evil, and keep away from diseases and disasters.

As for another thin gold plate, the name of the customer can be translated into hieroglyphs, and then carved on the thin gold plate to make a bracelet, which is said to protect the wearer and bring magical powers to people.

Both pieces of jewelry are very Egyptian, the former is suitable for women, and the latter is suitable for both men and women.

Zhang Zian doesn't believe that just a piece of jewelry can keep good luck and avoid bad luck, but this item is really good as a gift, and it is also very commemorative, and it can also take care of Lazart's business, so he customized it for each of the shop assistants including himself. One, bought a couple more encore pendants as gifts, and this time it was a hemorrhage.

When Professor Wei Kang heard that they had encountered an unexpected situation, he was in a hurry and called to urge them to go back. Zhang Zian and the others had to leave their contact information and come to pick up the jewelry after they finished making the jewelry.