Hearing the door open again, Gu Mingxuan sat up immediately.
"Sister Yanni, are you done? I have something to give you, but you have to close your eyes first."
Gu Mingxuan got up and pulled Hu Yanni to the bedside.
"What is it? Why are you being so mysterious?"
Hu Yanni muttered a few words and obediently closed her eyes.
After a while, Hu Yanni felt something on her hand.
Icy and cold? Could it be a jade bracelet?
Gu Mingxuan took a look at the jade bracelet. It was neither too big nor too small for Hu Yanni. It was quite suitable.
"Sister Yanni, you can open your eyes now."
Gu Mingxuan reminded.
"Jade bracelet?"
When Hu Yanni opened her eyes, it was indeed a jade bracelet as she had imagined.
"Sister Yanni, I don't have anything good to give you now. This jade bracelet can be our token of love."
Gu Mingxuan grabbed Hu Yanni's hand as if he was confessing.
"Ah Xuan, thank you. I'll send you off too."
Hu Yanni suddenly searched for something on her body. After feeling around for a while, she finally felt her hair and had a flash of inspiration." I got it!"”
Hu Yanni picked up the scissors on the table and cut a small section of her hair. She then wrapped it up with her handkerchief and handed it to Gu Mingxuan." Ah Xuan, this is the most precious thing I have on me. I'm giving it to you now as a token of love."
"Sister Yanni, thank you!"
Gu Mingxuan gently pulled Hu Yanni into his embrace.
Although the two of them had not registered their marriage and had not married yet. But from this moment on, they were already husband and wife.
It was late at night, and Hu Yanni fell asleep in Gu Mingxuan's arms.
Gu Mingxuan lay on the bed and thought about what would happen tomorrow…
The next day.
Gu Mingxuan woke up very early, and with Hu Yanni's help, he quickly finished washing up.
Today was the second day of his deceased mother's memorial service. Logically speaking, Gu Mingxuan should still stay at home and wait for his relatives and friends to pay their respects.
However, Gu Mingxuan had more important things to do. He had to sell the gold bars first before finding a grave for Li Xiulian.
Hu Yanni could only temporarily handle the trivial matters at home.
Pawnshop was a long-lasting and ancient business in Xiangjiang City, even in Huaxia. There was a popular saying in Xiangjiang City,'The end of the year is sad, and every year passes by.' Every time before the new year, the pawnshop's business was particularly good. This was because the poor were waiting to exchange some money to buy new year goods for the New Year.
There were two ways to pawn things in a pawnshop-alive and dead.
The former was like a bank mortgage, but the interest rate was much higher than the bank, only slightly lower than the usury. The only advantage was that you could redeem the items you pawned within the time limit.
And if you didn't redeem it after the deadline, you would automatically become a dead pawn.
Dead pawn, as the name implied, meant that the pawned item could not be redeemed. Of course, you could pay a high price and buy it back from the pawnshop, but that was already a different nature.
Jin Tai Depository was a pawnshop located in Sham Shui Po, Jiu Long. The owner of this shop could be said to be very familiar with the Gu family because the Gu family had come here to pawn things almost every year for more than ten years.
"Hey, isn't this the young master of the Gu family?”
Gu Mingxuan, who was dressed in mourning clothes, was spotted by the boss, Jin Binghuan, as soon as he walked in.
"What young master? Uncle Jin, just call me Ah Xuan.”
Gu Mingxuan was very self-aware. When he was young, this group of people called him Young Master, either sincerely or just to tease him.
Ever since Gu Mingxuan started his business, he had seen the fickleness of the world. This world had always laughed at the poor, but not at the prostitutes. Therefore, he put himself in a very low position. He had sold horse tickets and ran errands before, so he did not care about that illusory face.
"Young Master, don't... Ah Xuan, when you were young, I was used to calling you that. I couldn't change my mind. I know everything about your family. You're here today to collect money for your mother's coffin, right?”
Jin Binghuan also went to pay his respects to Li Xiulian yesterday. After all, they had known each other for almost twenty years.
When he first met Gu Shoucheng, the Gu family was still very rich. Gu Shoucheng even said that he wanted to invest in his pawnshop business. Who knew that it would become like this later on.
"Uncle Jin, let's talk somewhere else. There are too many people here."
Gu Mingxuan had seven gold bars in his arms, so he had no choice but to be cautious.
"Alright, Xuan, come with me to the back hall.”
Jin Binghuan brought Gu Mingxuan to the back hall and asked the staff to brew a pot of Longjing tea.
The reason Jin Binghuan treated Gu Mingxuan so courteously today was because he saw Gu Mingxuan's bulging chest and concluded that there must be something valuable hidden inside.
As expected, Gu Mingxuan took out a bag from his bosom. When he opened it, it shone with golden light.
"Gold bars?"
Out of habit, Jin Binghuan picked it up and weighed it in his hand. Based on his many years of experience, one fish should be 150 grams, so seven fish would be 1050 grams.
"Xuan, how much do you want to pawn?"
Jin Bing called down the gold bar and asked.
"Uncle Jin, how much do you think it's worth?"
Gu Mingxuan retorted.
Gu Mingxuan really did not know the price of gold in 1967. His impression of gold was still stuck in the era of his previous life.
In his previous life, Gu Mingxuan remembered that the price of gold rose every year and rarely fell.
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