"Where's Lao Yao?"
Tang Ping took the breakfast handed over by Xiao Luo, touched the head of the little fat boy he brought with him, and asked curiously.
Xiaopang was very dissatisfied because Tang Ping and his friends did not bring him to the banquet last night and locked him in a cage behind the car. So when Tang Ping came to touch his head, he hid here and there to prevent Tang Ping from touching his head. Use this to show your displeasure.
"Master Yao went to Honglu Temple to negotiate a deal with the Dongyue people."
Tang Ping touched his hair and then remembered that the details of the final tung oil and seafood transaction between Datang and Dongyue still need to be negotiated. This matter has been fully delegated to Yao Yuanzhi.
I had a nightmare all night last night. I always dreamed that I and Prince Zheng of East Vietnam were spending time together, and they also created many plots of Xiao Xiba's love drama, which made me unable to sleep well all night.
So much so that after getting up, I forgot that Lao Yao had something serious to do today.
He shook his head and pushed the figure of Prince Zheng out of his mind. He looked at Xiaoluo and the others and said, "It's a rare trip out and everyone is busy on the road. Let's go for a nice stroll today!"
"OK!"
For Xiao Luo, this is the first time to visit a city outside Chang'an. Even Lao Cui and Lao Du rarely have this kind of experience visiting other cities.
Moreover, no matter how poor Tang Ping was during this trip, the funds for Tang Ping's mission were still sufficient.
So now Tang Ping is considered a rich man, and he has come to the capital of Dongyue. In modern times, it can be regarded as traveling abroad. How can he not go out and go shopping?
So after breakfast, a group of people went out.
Tang Ping also put a dog leash on the little fat guy. Anyway, the little fat guy is almost like a fat dog now. He always wants to stay at home and stay still all day long.
I have to go out today, so I can't let him stay at home anymore.
The scale of Fuyang City is smaller than that of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, but because Dongyue is located in a prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River, it is actually more prosperous than Chang'an, especially the market where they trade, because of sea trade. There are also many imported products.
But after walking all the way, Xiao Luo found that Tang Ping was always a little absent-minded, looking around as if he was looking for something.
"Sir, are you looking for something?"
"Ah? Ah!" Tang Ping nodded: "I want to see if there is any jewelry store that can repair the ring yesterday and return it to others."
"Isn't there one over there?" Li Bai pointed at a shop diagonally opposite and said.
So Tang Ping led the people in.
"Hello, gentlemen, what would you like to choose?"
As soon as he entered the store, he was greeted by a waiter. The group of people, old and young, seemed to be a rather strange combination, but it could be seen that Tang Ping was the C-position of the group, so he spoke directly to him.
"This, can you repair it here?" Tang Ping took out the ring and spread it in his palm.
"This..." The guy originally thought he was here to buy something, but it turned out that he was here to repair jewelry. This kind of work didn't make much money.
Moreover, this jade ring is exquisitely made, so if it is broken into two parts, it is indeed not easy to repair.
So he shook his head and said: "Sir, this... is not easy to fix. Why don't you find someone else to fix it?"
Tang Ping walked all the way before he saw such a larger jewelry store. He understood the attitude of the clerk. He turned to Xiaoluo Luyi and others and said, "Go and have a look. If you like what you like, I will pay you today!"
Xiao Luo originally wanted to shake her head, but was pulled away by Lu Yi.
Lao Cui and Lao Du said naively: "What do we two rough guys like about this kind of girlish thing?"
Tang Ping pursed his lips and smiled: "You have traveled thousands of miles and you don't bring anything back to the people in Shanghe Village? Lao Cui, do you think the widow Liu in the village is missing a hairpin on her head?"
"Master, what are you talking about?" Lao Cui's face was so dark that no change could be seen in his face, but his eyes were always a little shy. He pulled Lao Du away and said: "Then... let's just watch. Look...don't disturb the young master from talking about business here."
"Second Master, I want to buy a few more!" Li Bai said.
"Buy a few more? What? You also want to wear hairpins and earrings?"
"No, I gave it to Erya, Hua Niu and Xiao Yue'er in the village..."
"roll!"
Tang Ping called everyone to buy things. When the boy saw it, he thought it was really a big business, so he put a smile on his face and said to Tang Ping: "Sir, your jade ring is broken. I want it to be broken." It’s really not easy to answer, I’ll invite the master chef from the store, you can talk to him.”
"Okay!" Tang Ping nodded, and was invited to a seat aside by the waiter. He originally wanted to serve tea, but Tang Ping refused. He really couldn't get used to the tea they were having.
Soon a woman wearing a coarse cloth apron came out following the man.
Tang Ping didn't expect that the master chef of this jewelry store was actually a woman, but it was just strange. After all, it was relatively rare in this era. But in modern times, isn't it normal for female jewelry designers?
"Sir, the repair of this jade is nothing more than splitting it in two, regluing it, and inlaying it with gold and silver." The woman was also direct. She came up and said directly: "But it is basically impossible to split your jade ring in two, and re-joining it is basically impossible." Bonding, IMHO this location is not appropriate either.”
As she spoke, she pointed to Tang Ping where the damage was on the ring, and then analyzed for him the difficulties of bonding and the final results.
"So the most suitable thing is to do inlay?"
"Yes!" The woman nodded.
"Then let's inlay it!" Tang Ping thought for a moment and decided that he should fix it anyway. Since inlaying is the best way, that's all.
At worst, I can give him a gift as an apology.
"Okay! Master, do you have any requirements for the inlay?"
"Well, look, can you use gold to make it look like this, and then wrap the damaged parts from here to here." Tang Ping also checked the information yesterday and knew that it would probably be inlaid. He came to repair it, so he already had an idea and began to explain it to the jewelry shop master seriously.
He didn't notice at all that there were two pairs of eyes looking at the jewelry store at a stall selling Fuyu tortoise shells outside.
"Miss, why do you think Mr. Tang has been in this jewelry store for so long?"
The two of them were Wang Qingluan and his maid Cui'er who went to Tang Ping's courtyard early in the morning. Wang Qingluan was wearing women's clothes today, and she also applied makeup carefully, so she believed that even if Tang Ping met face to face, she would not realize that she was Prince Zheng.
They were originally thinking about how to meet Tang Ping, but they saw him leading a group of people out the door, holding a white bear on his hand, so they followed him out of curiosity.
"Humph, what else can you do in a jewelry store? Didn't you see how close he was to his little maid at the banquet yesterday? They were still whispering to each other across a deputy envoy. Today he must be here to buy something for his little maid."
Wang Qingluan didn't even notice that there was a sour taste in his words.
