The storeroom where the glass factory stored finished products was a place where ordinary people, once inside, couldn't get out for a while.
Xu Hengyi and Luo Shou came together, marveling as they looked.
Xu Hengyi had visited once before, and in such a short time, many more varieties had been added.
Money!
These were all stacks of white and gleaming silver!
The Song siblings were on the other side. Song Ze's eyes couldn't see, so Song Xun acted as his eyes. Whatever looked good, she'd place in Song Ze's hand and tell him its color and appearance.
Xie Jiang stood at the doorway, watching them quietly.
Until Luo Shou called her, and Song Xun looked towards the door.
Xie Jiang walked directly towards Song Ze and Song Xun.
"Have you picked anything you like?"
"Young Master Xie!"
Song Xun called out sweetly, "There are too many beautiful things here, I'm spoiled for choice, but I like this one the most."
Song Xun quickly walked to a shelf, took a blue starry sky bracelet from a box, and happily showed it to Xie Jiang.
"This color is so beautiful, even more beautiful than sapphires."
Xie Jiang nodded in agreement. "Is there anything else you want?"
Song Xun smiled and said, "I'll just look at the others, I only want this one."
As she spoke, she reached for her small purse.
Seeing this, Xie Jiang smiled and asked Tian Kangtai to pay for Song Xun.
Tian Kangtai had received instructions when he first arrived. With a kind smile, he said to Song Xun, "Third Miss only needs to pay twelve taels of silver."
Song Xun was surprised. "Will you lose money at such a cheap price? I heard that the jewelry at the 'Spring Scenery Full Garden' auction started at least from several hundred taels."
Tian Kangtai replied, "Third Miss, please rest assured, we will not lose money."
When Song Xun heard him address her as Third Miss without even her surname, she knew he was her second elder sister's confidant, and she couldn't help but look at him more closely.
Tian Kangtai's smile became even more amiable.
Song Xun then took out two small silver notes from her purse and handed them to Tian Kangtai.
Xu Hengyi watched with envy. Xie Jiang, that scoundrel, was quite generous in his attempts to please the third Miss Song.
He had been at the 'Spring Scenery Full Garden' auction and knew the prices of glass jewelry.
"Xie Jiang, can you give me a friendly price too?"
His grandmother and aunts had tried their best but only managed to get one glass hairpin, which cost nearly five hundred taels.
It was difficult to distribute the hairpin, so his grandmother kept it.
If he could bring back a piece of glass jewelry for each of the ladies in the household, he wouldn't have to suffer as much!
Xie Jiang, in a good mood, waved his hand and told Xu Hengyi to pick whatever he wanted.
Xu Hengyi immediately became excited and went to pick out items.
Xie Jiang and the Song siblings continued to stroll leisurely through the warehouse. The attention of the three of them was not on the items that, even in the dim light, still exuded a radiant glow.
"Does Young Master Song need anything? By the way, how was the calming medicine that Young Master Song bid on last time?"
Song Ze had bid on a calming medicine at the auction, and she had later sent another portion to him.
"Second Aunt used the calming medicine and has been resting well recently. Second Aunt instructed me to thank you on her behalf, Young Master."
Song Ze didn't say much, but Xie Jiang understood.
After the Duke of Dingguo's mansion suffered a great upheaval, Song Xun's mother, Second Madam Song, developed a persistent headache and insomnia.
Song Xun also had a twin brother, Song Heng.
Song Heng had perished in that chaos.
Second Madam Song was sent to the Qian family in the southeast to take refuge, and she was disguised as Song Heng.
Xie Jiang said, "Where are you staying? I'll have someone send you more calming medicine. Continue taking it for a while longer. If it can cure the root of the illness, that would be best."
Xie Jiang looked into Song Ze's eyes, which seemed no different from those of an ordinary person. She wondered if he could still be cured.
"I also have a Purple Ginseng Pill here. Purple Ginseng Pills can also treat headaches. I'll have someone send you some as well. You can try them first and see which one is more effective and suitable for you. I'll have someone send you more after you've used them up."
Song Ze smiled and said, "Then thank you very much, Young Master. We are staying at the Fuyun Inn."
Song Xun, pretending to be very curious about the various glass objects, spoke up, "Young Master Xie, I heard that you and Young Master Xu were kidnapped by Lu Baohong a few days ago? Are you alright?"
Her second elder sister was standing right in front of them, so of course she was fine. Song Xun realized she had asked a redundant question.
Then, as if to make up for it, Song Xun added, "I mean, did you encounter any danger?"
Xie Jiang smiled and said, "Lu Baohong took us to Yongfeng Village. Luo Shou's brother is the village chief of Yongfeng Village."
Song Xun immediately understood.
Luo Shou's attitude towards her second elder sister was similar to Nie Tong's attitude towards her second elder sister. Luo Shou was her second elder sister's subordinate.
Therefore, Yongfeng Village was also her second elder sister's territory.
Her second elder sister was too amazing.
But when her second elder sister left the capital, she was several years younger than she was now.
She wondered what her second elder sister had experienced over the years to become so indomitable.
Song Xun really wanted to rush up and hug her second elder sister.
Song Xun quickly turned her head away and picked up a purple glass bowl, staring at it as if she liked it very much.
Xu Hengyi ran over with a box containing six or seven pieces of jewelry and asked Tian Kangtai to calculate the price.
Tian Kangtai glanced over them and said, "Young Master Xu San and Miss Song San are both friends of my master. Of course, we cannot show favoritism. For these items, Young Master Xu San only needs to pay three hundred taels."
This price was too reasonable!
Three hundred taels at the auction could at most buy one of the items in this box.
"Old Tian, you're a good friend!"
Xu Hengyi was very satisfied with this price.
This was a price he could afford personally.
Xu Hengyi called his servants, Yishan and Yishui. The three of them emptied their purses and gave Tian Kangtai one hundred and eighty taels. "This is all we have on us. The remaining one hundred and twenty taels, after I return to the county... uh, after I return to the capital."
"Alright." Tian Kangtai was very accommodating. He took the scattered money and beckoned to someone outside, "Write an IOU for Young Master Xu San."
Xu Hengyi was taken aback. "You still need to write an IOU? Are you being so formal?"
Tian Kangtai retorted, "Aren't we?"
Xu Hengyi said, "Then write it. Write, write, write."
He didn't intend to default on the payment.
Given such a low price, if he defaulted, would he even be human?
"One, two, three, four, five, six..."
Song Xun stared at the box in his hand and counted. Her voice was sweet and soft, but her counting made him feel uneasy.
Song Xun was accusing him of being thick-skinned. Xie Jiang, out of friendship, had given him a low price, yet he shamelessly picked a whole box.
Xu Hengyi then explained to Song Xun, "You don't know, I caused a great disaster this time, which led to my second brother being held hostage by Lu Baohong, and Xie Jiang also suffered. After I return to the capital, I'll surely be beaten. If I bring some gifts for my grandmother and the others, I can suffer less physical pain."
Song Xun: "Oh..."
He knew he had caused trouble and made her second elder sister suffer. It was still audacious of him to take so many things from her second elder sister.
Song Xun really wanted to get a ruler and measure if his face was five feet thick.
Song Xun said nothing, but her subtle expressions conveyed everything.
Xu Hengyi silently closed the box.
He had taken great advantage of Xie Jiang in this matter, but the friendship between them was worth a thousand gold!
What would a little girl know!