Wear It with Space

Shen Ling handed a carved antique bracelet made of Dushan jade to Master Lu.

Master Lu held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, "This bracelet has unique materials and exquisite craftsmanship. You can see that you have spent a lot of time on it. Saying that you have been studying jade carving with me for more than a year, and your skills are becoming more and more proficient. , I wonder if you will continue to learn jade carving or plan to open a shop in the future?"

Shen Ling smiled slightly and said, "Master Lu is too rewarding. I have not yet learned my jade carving skills. I want to learn more with you for a few more years."

Master Lu smiled and said, "You don’t need to be humble. I have taught everything that can be taught. If you want to open a shop, I have a suggestion. The idea of ​​the store. If you don’t dislike my small store, I can transfer it to you."

Master Lu opened this shop because the jade carvings sold in the shop are somewhat old-fashioned. The business is not very good. Shen Ling has studied with him for so long, and only a few orders can be made every month. Although the profit is It's not too low, but it's not high, at least far more than the antique shop in Jin Dynasty last week.

Now that Master Lu wants to transfer the shop to her, Shen Ling thought for a while and agreed to go back and think about it, and then after returning home, he discussed the matter with Xu's father, Xu's mother, and Zhou Jin.

Xu's father and Xu's mother were willing to transfer the shop to Shen Ling. Firstly, he returned Master Lu's favor. After all, he taught Shen Ling for a long time. Secondly, the business in that shop was not very good, but it was better than working. , And I am my own boss, I can rest whenever I want.

When Xu's father and Xu's mother expressed their opinions, Zhou Jin never spoke. After the two returned to his home, Shen Ling asked his advice, and he said to Shen Ling, "It's not impossible to take that store. There is a lot of traffic here in the Antique City. If you do it well, it will be very good. Prospects. But I suggest that if you want to open a store, you'd better take it down with the store next door, and then get them through."

Shen Ling immediately understood what Zhou Jin meant. The jade carving shop was a business of wealthy people. To attract them, he must first work **** decoration. The area of ​​Master Lu’s small shop is only 40 square meters, and the decoration is not very good. Naturally, it is difficult to attract the attention of the wealthy.

But even if the store next door is sold together, a lot of money is needed.

You need to know that Master Lu’s shop costs 30,000 yuan for the transfer fee alone. If you buy another shop, the cost will be doubled. If you want to decorate it, you will also need 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, plus the money invested in the shop. Hundreds of thousands will not come down at all.

Zhou Jin seemed to see Shen Ling’s thoughts, and said, “If you are thinking about money, it’s not a problem. I made a small fortune in Luoyang and I haven’t invested in the store. You can pay it. I'll pay you the transfer fee. As for the money needed later, just take it from our savings!"

In this way, with Zhou Jin's support, and Xu's father and Xu's mother also sponsoring Shen Ling, Shen Ling directly took down the two shops, then opened them up and decorated them.

Considering that the jade carvings in the jade carving shop will be mainly jade in the future, Shen Ling chose a relatively simple and atmospheric decoration style, which can better highlight the nobility, mystery and elegance of jade.

When the shop was decorating, Shen Ling finally made the piece of material worth 800,000 yuan into a bracelet. The bracelet was made with the traditional processing method taught by Master Lu, and the color changed from light green to dark green. The impact is very obvious. Although the style is simple, it is obviously a top-grade bracelet because of the good material and the clean base.

Shen Ling intends to use this glass round bracelet as one of the town's treasures.

For the rest of this material, Shen Ling made several listings and several pairs of earrings.

For the same batch of materials purchased in Yunnan, some of Shen Ling made pendants, some made fingers, and some made rings.

In this way, there are a dozen jade jewelry in the store.

In addition, the original Dushan jade stones purchased from Henan are mostly made into ornaments by Shen Ling because of their large material. One of them was made into a jade pot by her, and the style refers to a jade pot in her space. .

However, after seeing all the jade carvings of Shen Ling, Zhou Jin still felt that there were not enough varieties and not complete enough.

So before opening the store, Shen Ling and Zhou Jin once again came to Yunnan, but instead of going to Dali, they went to the more famous Tengchong.

Soon after the two arrived in Tengchong, Zhou Jin saw a regular customer at the gambling market who often came to antique shops to buy things. After the regular customers knew his purpose of coming to Tengchong, they took them to a gambling stone auction.

There are two types of wool at this gambling auction. One is the wool directly shipped from Burma, which hasn't moved. The other is the wool that has already opened the window, with a little color on the outside.

The price of the latter is too high, and Shen Ling now has not much funds at hand, so he focuses on the former.

With the help of Xing Dan, Shen Ling took a few pieces of wool that contained the universe. Because these wool looked ordinary on the outside, the price was not high, but a few thousand yuan. At the same time, the water head of the material contained in it is not very good, after all, you get what you pay for. Those good stones that are good at the entrance are usually opened by the mine winners, so that they can be auctioned at high prices.

However, not all the excellent wool on the bright surface can solve the good material.

Shen Ling looked at it coldly, and at the auction, two pieces of excellent wool were sold at high prices. One of them was white salt moxibush sand with fine and hard sand, which showed a very sunny and transparent green at the mouth, and was quickly paid a high price of several million by everyone.

But in Shen Ling's view, the wool was only a thin layer of green, and she couldn't help but glanced sympathetically at the middle-aged businessman who took the last photo of the wool.

There is also a piece of wool with a big mouth, showing a lot of green on the surface, but with a crack in the middle, the reserve price is only 20,000 yuan.

When Shen Ling saw the piece of wool, his eyes lit up slightly. The crack seemed to be relatively large, but the crack was not deep. In addition, the head of the piece of material inside is so big and big, which is bigger than the piece of wool that Shen Ling bought for 800,000 yuan.

So Shen Ling raised a placard for thirty thousand.

There were also two or three people behind and reported the price, raising the price to 50,000 yuan.

Shen Ling raised a placard and reported another 60,000. Those two or three people seemed to feel a little worthless, so they gave up.

When Shen Ling held the placard, Zhou Jin remained silent, neither supporting nor opposing it. In his opinion, Shen Ling is very talented in gambling on stone, and he can solve the material almost every time he buys wool. But on the one hand, he always feels that gambling on stone still involves a gambling word, but for the jade carving shop, he It's hard to say anything, but during the whole process, he didn't say a word and waited for the auction to end.

Until the end of the auction, Shen Ling never encountered wool with a good material and a low reserve price. It would be very lucky for her to meet her once. How could it be possible to meet two pieces of this wool at the same time.

After Shen Ling untied the cracked material, he first made a round bracelet and made a pair with the previous bracelet. Then I used the remaining materials to make jade necklaces and jade gourd pendants, adding more varieties to the store.

She made beads or bracelets for those materials with poor heads, so that the disadvantages of poor heads can be concealed to the greatest extent.

The day when Shen Ling's jade carving shop opened was a clear sky, and Xu's father invited many old acquaintances to join him. Shen Ling also organized a 20% discount on all jade carvings on the opening day, which attracted many visitors to the Antique City.

When the guests walked into the store, the first thing they noticed was the large piece of Dushan jade carved in the middle of the store. The whole body is mainly white and aqua green, with ginseng and koi. Ornaments such as, money, etc., implying good luck in life and rolling in wealth.

Bypassing this wishful ornament, I arrived at the counter. On the counter that is more than 20 meters long, there are round bracelets, beads, sweetheart necklaces, bracelets, rings, fingers, earrings, etc. made of jadeite. In other places in the store, there are some relatively small glass counters, which are filled with various ornaments or jewelry made of Dushan jade or other jade.

Many customers who come to the store are involuntarily attracted by the pair of round bracelets with good heads, but the price marked on them makes them discouraged.

What Shen Ling wanted was this effect. She bought one of the pair of round bracelets for 800,000 yuan, and the price would naturally double. Buying a pair of jade bracelets at a price of four million may be very expensive for others, but it is nothing to the rich.

However, it is a good thing that no one pays to buy it now, just to use this pair of bracelets to beat the reputation of the store.

Maybe it was related to Shen Ling's activities. Several pieces of jewelry were sold in the store that day, and the total profit exceeded 30,000, which is more than 40,000. This is also related to the low price of the wool that Shen Ling bought. After all, if you sell the materials directly, you can make a fortune, but you don't have as many finished products.

But after the next day, business in the store was not so good. Although there are a lot of customers coming to see it every day, very few people buy it.

Shen Ling didn't care, if every day's business was like the first day, I'm afraid she would become a millionaire in less than a month.

Before the business in the store was on the right track, Shen Ling hired a clerk to help greet the customers, and went to Nanyang to buy some Dushan jade rough. The newly recruited clerk named Zhao Meng was introduced by Xu's father. He was the son of an old acquaintance of him, so there was no need to worry about the issue of guarding theft.

Shen Ling went alone this time, and it took several days to leave. Before leaving, he asked Zhou Jin to take care of him when he had time. After all, Zhao Meng was new here and left him alone in the store, Shen Ling was still a little worried.

In Nanyang City, Shen Ling bought all Dushan jade rough with just over 40,000 yuan. The rough jade stone is too expensive, and if you want to increase the variety in the store, you can only start with Dushan jade.

When Shen Ling bought the original Dushan jade stone, he met a jade carver at the auction of the original Dushan jade stone. Because the two jade carvings were similar in design styles, they chatted very speculatively. The jade carver named Gao Rui told Shen Ling that he would go to Xinjiang this fall and buy some Hetian jade from there.

Shen Ling was a little moved when she heard it, and she also had the idea of ​​going to Xinjiang.

Especially after coming back, when Zhao Meng said that several customers came to the store and asked about some authentic Hetian jade jewelry, this idea became even stronger.

It's just that she didn't have time to tell Zhou Jin about it, but when she got home, she found Zhou Mu was here.

Mother Zhou took advantage of the May Day holiday for two things. First, she heard that Shen Ling had opened a jade carving shop, and she had always liked jade, so she wanted to take a look; second, her son has been married for several years, but has been Without children, she came over to inquire.

Strictly speaking, Zhou Mu is still a reasonable mother-in-law.

After Shen Ling arrived home, she had already prepared the food, and also cooked two more dishes that she loved for Shen Ling. Because of this, when Zhou's mother asked Shen Ling when she planned to have children, she temporarily put aside the idea of ​​going to Xinjiang and turned her attention to Zhou Jin.

Zhou Jin took a sip of the soup and said slowly: "Mom, I have already agreed with Xiaobing before. We will have children when our business is stable. Now is the time. If nothing else, we will be there by the end of this year. Hurry up and have children."

Zhou's mother heard that she would wait until the end of the year. Although the big stone in her heart fell to the ground, she still felt a little disappointed, but she had always known her son's temper, and after thinking about it, she still didn't say anything.