Ning Yuan looked at Uncle Fang with an innocent look on her face: "Don't worry, Uncle, I just want to eat and drink. To open a small shop, I just need some food flavors. The quantity is not large."
Nowadays, the productivity and production technology are not good enough, and these chemical raw materials must be obtained with batch approval.
If you dare to resell these, you will indeed be severely punished if caught.
Uncle Fang frowned: "What do you want to eat and drink? Where can you, a foreigner, open a shop?"
A little food flavor is also a chemical raw material!
Although it has been opened, the world is still dominated by state-owned stores. Individuals who want to open a store cannot get a license.
Most people work as individuals like Ning Yuan - running street stalls. This is what people look down on as second-rate people and unemployed vagrants.
Many people want to supplement their family income and live on the first floor. At most, they can secretly hang a sign in front of their house and do some work, and then use it as a shop.
Ning Yuan coughed lightly: "Although I am not from Shanghai, my grandfather is from Shanghai, and the dormitory on the first floor he is assigned can sell some things."
Of course she remembers that the first business license in Shanghai was in 1980, and she would not seek the limelight now.
Mr. Tang is from Shanghai. After they returned to China, they lived in Shanghai for many years, and together they sent their grandmother's home to renovate.
Now that the benefits have been restored, the school has allocated a two-bedroom apartment, which is still on the first floor. It would be a pity not to use it!
After hearing Ning Yuan's words, Uncle Fang frowned for a while and looked at the bracelet in his hand.
Ning Yuan said nothing and waited patiently.
In the dim room, the dust in the air danced quietly in the light beam. .
The 35-brand table clock on the stage ticked for fifteen minutes, and Uncle Fang put the bracelet in his hand on the table.
He stared at the bracelet for a while: "Take the things back first. I'll tell you when I can get the approval slip."
As expected by Ning Yuan, it was a good thing that he was willing to help come up with ideas.
She put away the antique bracelet of cananum and pointed to the jade pepper: "Then can you help me take a look at this? What is it?"
Uncle Fang's mind had long been restrained by the precious antique bracelet of Gannan incense that Ning Yuan had taken out first.
At this time, he glanced at the emerald pepper absentmindedly, picked it up casually, and looked at it with the goggles on.
"This emerald jade pepper is exquisitely carved, the color of grape flesh, the water head is so good that it has become rigid, and full of fluorescence. Is it... a modified bracelet?"
Uncle Fang is well-informed and has a complicated background. He can tell at a glance that the jade pepper is a broken bracelet, which is normal.
Ning Yuan nodded: "Yes, yes, it is said that the bracelet was broken in three parts and then changed."
"If the bracelet is still there, it is worth a lot of money, but if it is broken into three pieces and made into a carved piece, the price will be reduced by at least half or even more." Uncle Fang shook his head.
Ning Yuan didn't ask him to collect the jade, so she just smiled and said, "I saw the exquisite carvings on the jade peppers, and I wanted to ask which sect of carvers made them. Is it valuable?"
Upon hearing this, Uncle Fang put on the goggles and took a closer look: "This... there is a very small bell-shaped carving on the jade pepper leaf. It is the work of Zhong Ling, a great carver of the generation! This is really valuable!"
Ning Yuan's eyes lit up, there was a clue to her life experience!
She asked calmly: "What's going on with Master Zhong Ling?"
Uncle Fang said calmly: "As you know, there was a strange woman in old Shanghai. Zhang Youyi, the first wife who was rejected by Xu Zhimo as uneducated and abandoned, later became a highly educated banker. This master Zhong Ling, originally named Zhong Ling, was originally from a mountainous area in Henan Province. Come out illiterate.”
Zhong Ling was born beautiful and was taken as a concubine by a landlord. After she became pregnant, she was almost beaten to death by the landlord's wife, and the child was lost.
During the war, a bomb was dropped from the sky and the family fled. Zhong Ling took the opportunity to take away a lot of the landlord's wealth and ran away to Shanghai.
Ning Yuan stretched out her thumb: "That's great. He is a smart person, and he can still make money and run away. What happened next?"
"Later on, she became the leader of the gangsters in the Fujian area of the Qinggang Gang due to her beauty. She became obsessed with reading and literacy, and even fell in love with sculpture."
"At that time, there were no women in the jade carving industry across the country, and women were not allowed to participate in jade carving competitions. She changed her name to Zhong Ling and participated as a man. After winning the first prize, she revealed her true identity, which caused a sensation in the entire jade carving world."
"The sculpture she won the first prize at that time was called Liang Hongyupo. It was photographed by the British ambassador and presented to the then king. From then on, Master Zhong Ling became famous at home and abroad."
Ning Yuan couldn't help but sigh as she listened to the past events of old Shanghai -
"Old Shanghai was the most open place in the country at the beginning. Women's horizons were different. Then where was Master Zhong Ling..."
"The gangster leader of the Qing Gang died later, and she went to Guangdong and Guangxi. I heard that she joined a local wealthy family, and her surname was..." Uncle Fang suddenly looked at Ning Yuan.
Ning Yuan smiled with her big eyes: "Is your surname Ning? I am the child of a servant of the Ning family. My grandmother got this thing from the master's family."
Uncle Fang looked Ning Yuan up and down with strange eyes——
"Really? But Master Zhong Ling stopped the business after arriving at the Ning family. Only the head of the Ning family has received two works from her in return. I heard that the old man of the Ning family loves her like a treasure. What is your grandma's identity? Can she get this? thing?"
Ning Yuan's heart moved. The head of the Ning family had just received Master Zhong Ling's work. Love is like a treasure?
But... grandma said that this thing was not expensive for the Ning family, so she speculated that she was a burden left behind when the Ning family settled down and left for Hong Kong.
Ning Yuan felt complicated in her heart, but she smiled calmly with her big eyes bent——
"Grandma is the nanny of the young master of the Ning family. Going to Hong Kong was very confusing at that time... so I just took something with me, you know."
Uncle Fang raised his eyebrows and sent Ning Yuan away without saying anything else.
But when he came back, he took out a pen and paper and slowly drew the jade pepper he saw, and put it in the drawer thoughtfully.
The waiter came in carrying an iron. Seeing that he didn't know what he was thinking, he frowned and asked -
"Master, that little girl wants this and that every time she comes here. The approval slip she wants this time is very difficult to get. Isn't this taking advantage? Let me tell you, why do you need to return the bracelet to her? Why don't you..."
There was a fierce glint in the boy's eyes and he made a knife gesture.
Uncle Fang said calmly: "Lao Liu said that this little girl is weird and has an unfathomable background. She doesn't know which force she belongs to. Don't act rashly."
What's more, that ganache table is indeed worth a lot of money!
Coupled with Master Zhong Ling's jade carving, we may be able to figure out Ning Yuan's background.
Thinking of that bracelet, Uncle Fang's eyes flashed with greed.
…
Ning Yuan stepped on her feet and rushed back to school on her bicycle - it was exactly half past five!
She took five minutes to wash her face and looked at herself in the mirror. The curly Rapunzel's hair was not messed up. As for her bare makeup - oh, sing children's songs, let it go!
Eating is important!
Ning Yuan hurried to the student cafeteria, looked around, and rushed in where there were most boys.
Sure enough, Chu Hongyu and Yan Yangyang were sitting there eating——
Wherever there is Chu Hongyu, there are always a group of boys around who try to sit as close to her as possible. Who makes her charming and beautiful?
Of course, there are also those who go for Yan Yangyang.
She is another kind of beauty with a square face and a calm and upright personality that is very popular nowadays. Well, she also has long legs.
Also quite popular.
As soon as she saw Ning Yuan, Chu Hongyu greeted her softly: "Ning Ning, here you are. The rice has been prepared. There are fried small yellow croakers today. What do you like?"
Yan Yangyang rolled his eyes at her and put two Sixi meatballs into Ning Yuan's lunch box: "Xiao Ning is from Guangdong and Guangdong. If you eat too much fried food, you will easily get angry."
Chu Hongyu also rolled her eyes charmingly: "Huh! You're just being pretentious!"
Ning Yuan quickly sat down with Xiao: "I like them all, I like them all, sisters are the best!"
Ning Yuan and Han Jing stuffed Sixi meatballs in their mouths, and a slender military green figure suddenly sat down in front of Ning Yuan.
Then, the other party placed a lunch box in front of her: "What do you like? I remember that you like to eat perilla meatloaf the most."
Ning Yuan suddenly looked at the cold handsome face in front of her. He was also looking at her coldly.
Her expression instantly became weird and funny, and she wanted to spit the balls in her mouth on his face.
No, brother, are you sick? !
Didn't you say you want to keep our relationship as husband and wife a secret? Why are you acting like you are having an affair with me now?
Ning Yuan looked at Rong Zhaonan, wondering why.
A... well, foreboding feeling that he was going to start a doggy relationship.
