Qing Dynasty: Pampering The Queen

The eighteen beads are similar in size, shape and material, plain and without grain, returning to the original. The two knotted beads and the Buddha head are inlaid with golden millet—this requires extremely exquisite craftsmanship and meticulous thought, which cannot be achieved by top craftsmen.

This item alone is very different from ordinary bead strings.

The simple and unsophisticated Chinan incense and the dazzling golden millet complement each other, gorgeous yet simple.

For such a string of beads, even if he hadn't asked the shopkeeper what the price was, Fourth Master would have guessed that there would be no more than two hundred and tens of thousands of silver.

Although he likes it and is considered to be rich, he has not yet reached the point where he can easily spend two or three hundred thousand silver on a string of Qinan beads.

Mu Jin is a rookie, how can she recognize such a low-key, simple but expensive thing?

She didn't take a second look at the string of beads. The fourth master asked her to pick something, and she could buy it in the splendid and prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, Mu Jin was happy, and immediately began to choose happily.

She has a lot of all kinds of pearls and jade hairpins, no matter how big the ruby ​​is, she lacks interest, let alone glazed cups.

Instead, she looked at the pearls, and asked the shopkeeper with a smile, if there were any pearls with more unique shapes, she wanted pearls.

The more grotesque the better!

The best pearls in the palace are top-quality Dadong pearls, which are round and huge, smooth and white, and the best first-class pearls can only be used by emperors, queen mothers, and empresses.

The remaining concubines, princes, and princes Fujin have their own correspondence according to their grades.

As the county king, Mu Jin is side Fujin, but Dongzhu, the size of a finger, can also be used. Fourth master doted on her and followed the rules in everything. He never gave her the top-quality Da Dongzhu, but she was worthy enough to ask for it, but he was never stingy.

As the king of the prince and county, there are countless pearls in the tributes and rewards every year. Except for the share that Fujin deserves, the rest of the fourth masters are all picked by Mu Jin. Mu Jin has countless pearl jewelry now. up.

There are twenty or thirty pieces of hairpins made with other jewelry alone, and there are more than a dozen strings of beads tied on the slanted front of the cheongsam.

Fourth Master was also a little surprised when she asked the shopkeeper for pearls, and said with a smile, "You like novelty, so you'll want pearls when you get here."

Mu Jin smiled: "Master, Pearl wants to pick some unique inlaid jewelry!"

The fourth master smiled and looked at the shopkeeper: "Go and look for it, if you have it, take it."

The shopkeeper was stunned, and hurriedly laughed and said: "After the master and wife said this, the villain remembered that our Zhenbao Pavilion collects a lot of pearls every year, and some of them are not round enough and have strange shapes. I was not willing to throw them away, they were all sold to others to be ground to make pearl powder. Some of them were so big that my owner was not willing to buy them, so they kept them, so I will look for them here, you guys might as well look at the others first.”

Master Jiu laughed out loud: "You old man is very shrewd, go find it quickly!"

The shopkeeper's good temper accompanied him to laugh, and he hurriedly went to complain, and the clerk politely asked everyone to look at other things.

Jiuye is not short of money, but most of the things here are for women, he is not very interested, he just looked around and chatted with Baye in a low voice.

Mu Jin was very interested. He listened to the clerk's eloquent narration with great interest and laughed from time to time. After all, he picked out a few items of moderate value.

Among them are three bottles of western perfume, in glass bottles over two inches long, with three kinds of fragrances: lily, rose, and violet.

This thing is not very expensive, but it is not easy to get, it depends on the shipping schedule.