Chapter 161 Worth a Thousand Gold

After the Gu family's mule cart had gone for a while, Gu Fei saw a silver shop on the street and hurriedly called Gu Qing, "Brother, stop for a moment, I'm going to the silver shop to have a look."

Chen looked at the silver shop and nodded, "I have to buy some jewelry. It's not good for a girl this old to be bald."

Gu Fei turned around, "Mom, I'm not buying jewelry, I'm just going to have a look."

With just this little money in her hand, how could she dare to buy jewelry? She had other purposes in the silver shop.

Several women got off the car and entered the silver shop.

The waiter in the shop saw people coming in and quickly looked at them. They were all wearing brand new clothes. The clothes were not good, but not bad.

It was the level of ordinary people in Ping'an City.

This kind of family likes to buy some silver hairpins, silver bracelets, or some jewelry made of low-grade jade.

The waiter smiled and walked forward, "Ladies and young ladies, please come this way. Our store has just received a batch of newly made silver hairpins with novel styles. They are both luxurious and beautiful to wear when visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year."

Gu Fei smiled, "I don't want silver hairpins. Do you have beads in your store? I want to see some beads."

The waiter still smiled, "Miss, do you want to buy pearl flowers? Or just buy beads and set them with jewelry yourself?"

"I want to see pearls." Gu Fei said straightforwardly.

"Please come this way, ladies." The waiter led Gu Fei and the others into a small door next to them, and saw several wooden tables inside. The tables were divided into many small grids, and each small grid had a pearl flower, some of which were single pearls.

The waiter saw that Chen and Lian'er were staring at the pearls, and he knew in his heart that this must be something he had never seen before.

Gu Fei saw a white pearl necklace, each pearl was about one centimeter in diameter, with a good luster, and the size was about the same, and the shape was relatively round. The price was 4,500 taels of silver.

The waiter next to him saw Gu Fei looking at the pearl necklace and said, "This pearl necklace has a total of 108 beads. It is not easy to get them of similar size and color, so the price is a little higher."

He smiled and said, "This is how pearls are. The valuable one is worth a thousand gold."

"Of course, the ones with poor appearance and small size are naturally not valuable. They are sold by tael. The smallest rice pearl is only a few taels of silver per tael, which is not valuable."

"There are four words to choose pearls: bright, round, big, and colorful."

He pointed to a white pearl and said, "This pearl is almost a perfect round shape, and the size is not small. What's rare is that the luster is particularly good, but it is not even eight points. As the saying goes, seven points of pearls and eight points of treasures. If this pearl is a little bigger, it will not be this price. It will be at least one thousand taels."

Gu Fei took a look and saw that the white pearl was priced at five hundred taels.

Next to it, there was a pearl with a diameter of about one centimeter. It looked quite big, slightly larger than a lotus seed, with a light pink color and a price tag of two thousand taels.

Her heart was aroused by the sight and she asked the waiter, "Do you also collect pearls here?"

The waiter nodded, "Of course we do, but the price we collect and the price we sell are still different."

Gu Fei understood that it would be cheaper to collect them than the marked price, otherwise there would be no profit, so why sell them.

After a round, Gu Fei had an idea of ​​the price of pearls.

Chen didn't know what Gu Fei meant. Seeing her daughter's bald head and watching Gu Fei walk away, she called the waiter and reluctantly spent ten taels of silver to buy a pair of beads strung with small pearls.

Chen thought that the money was earned by her daughter. Now that the family had a house to live in and land, they could make a living, so she should let her daughter dress up beautifully.