Chapter 2215 - 1925: Buying Jade (2)

Chapter 2215: Chapter 1925: Buying Jade (2)

The saleswoman had a fairly pretty oval face, with a tiny black mole at the corner of her thin lips, giving her a somewhat foxy charm.

She glanced at Song Yun, then looked off somewhere else, acting like she hadn’t heard him.

Seeing this, Song Yun was instantly amused.

He looked at the woman’s name tag; on it were the three characters "Yang Lujing." He tapped on the glass counter, his previous polite attitude gone, and said, "Yang Lujing, take that bracelet out and let me have a look."

"Hillbilly."

Yang Lujing muttered, shot a glance at plainly dressed Song Yun, and didn’t bother to hide the contempt in her eyes. Then she turned her head away, ignoring him.

Song Yun curled his lip and said with a laugh, "Phoenix Chaohuang must be feeling charitable today, actually hiring a deaf person as a saleswoman."

"Who are you calling deaf?"

Yang Lujing finally reacted, glaring at Song Yun, clearly annoyed.

Song Yun smiled. "Oh, so you’re not deaf. Then take this jade bracelet out and let me have a look."

"Do you even know how much this bracelet costs? Eight million eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand. Can you afford it?"

With a face full of disdain, Yang Lujing sized Song Yun up from head to toe. This kid walks in and immediately wants to see the most expensive bracelet in the shop—obviously just here to feast his eyes. No way he’ll spend a cent. She couldn’t be bothered to waste time on someone like that.

In Song Yun’s eyes, a jade bracelet priced at eight million eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand barely qualified as decent goods.

But what he cared about now wasn’t the quality of the jade. Even if it was imperial green jade, it was just whatever. What he was looking at now was the Spiritual Energy contained inside the stone.

The Spiritual Energy in this bracelet was indeed much denser than the others, but its price was dozens of times higher. If he bought it to make Array Plates, it was totally not cost-effective.

Even though Song Yun had plenty of money, he wasn’t about to spend it meaninglessly.

"Eight million eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand—yeah, that’s pretty pricey." Song Yun chuckled, then pointed at another Jade Pendant and said to Yang Lujing, "Take that pendant out and let me see it."

Yang Lujing folded her arms under her chest, thrusting out her full bosom, and said in a mocking tone, "That pendant is two million too. Can you afford it?"

Song Yun said, "Whether I can afford it or not, you should at least take it out and let me have a look, right?"

"Hmph!"

Yang Lujing snorted coldly. Although she really didn’t want to deal with this customer, company policy tied her hands, so she had no choice but to go get the pendant.

Just as she was about to unlock the counter safe, her eyes suddenly lit up as she looked toward the store entrance. Her face broke into a delighted smile. "President Ma, you’re here."

"Lujing, I haven’t been here in a good while. Thought I’d stop by to buy two pieces of jade to give to some city leaders."

A man of about thirty-five or thirty-six walked in with a squinty smile, wearing a sharp suit, hair gleaming, every inch the successful businessman.

Judging purely from his appearance, he did look richer than Song Yun.

President Ma walked up to the counter, his eyes rolling all over Yang Lujing’s body. He smiled and said, "Lujing, I’m planning to buy two high-quality pendants for our department leaders. Help me pick which two are suitable. Oh, and tonight... heh heh, you know."

Hearing this, a sultry look appeared on Yang Lujing’s face. She threw him a flirty glance and said, "President Ma, there are other people around. Keep your voice down."

President Ma’s face twisted into a lecherous grin. He glanced at Song Yun, then said to Yang Lujing, "Just some kid. Why bother with him."

"Come, there just happen to be two fine pendants over here, worth about two hundred thousand. Have a look."

Yang Lujing beckoned to President Ma and walked toward the other end of the counter.

Seeing this, Song Yun understood: Yang Lujing was selling jade and selling herself. If she closed the deal on those two pendants today, she’d be going to keep President Ma company in bed tonight.

To earn commission, she’d do that kind of thing. No wonder a woman like her looked down on people with dog eyes.

Song Yun shook his head and also walked toward the other end of the counter.

The layout of Phoenix Chaohuang was clear: the farther in you went, the more valuable the jade; the pieces closer to the entrance were friendlier priced, some going for as low as eight or nine hundred.

Song Yun stopped at the counter for the eighty-thousand to US$ 150,000 price range and started looking around.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford jade worth millions; it’s just that those pieces wouldn’t be of much use to him. These hundred-thousand-level pieces contained exactly the right amount of Spiritual Energy for making Array Plates, so why would he buy the pricey ones?

Besides, he needed a terrifying quantity. Once he bought them all, the total cost wouldn’t be cheap anyway.

At this moment, a young saleswoman walked over. She gave Yang Lujing a complicated look, then smiled at Song Yun and said, "Sir, have you found any pieces you like? If you’re interested in something, I can take it out for you to have a look."

This saleswoman’s professionalism was much better than that of Yang Lujing.

Song Yun glanced at her name tag—quite a cute name: Zhang Xiaoman.

He pointed at a Guanyin Jade Pendant priced at 148,000 and said, "Please take that pendant out for me to have a look."

"Certainly, one moment please." Zhang Xiaoman unlocked the safe and took out the pendant, introducing it: "Sir, this pendant is made from high-quality oily green jade, and has been meticulously carved by our company’s sculptor... Hey, Sister Yang, why are you taking this pendant away?"

As Zhang Xiaoman was introducing the pendant, Yang Lujing suddenly snatched it from her hands.

Facing Zhang Xiaoman’s question, Yang Lujing gave Song Yun a disdainful glance and said, as if this were only natural, "Xiaoman, this guy can’t afford it anyway. Why bother wasting your time explaining it to him? President Ma is different—he’s one of our regular VIPs, and today he’s buying two pendants as gifts. President Ma has his eye on this piece, so of course I have to show it to him first."

In reality, President Ma hadn’t picked this pendant at all. Yang Lujing just wanted to humiliate Song Yun on purpose, to get back at him for calling her deaf earlier.

And she was taking the chance to butter up President Ma.

President Ma smiled and chimed in, "Right, I’ve got my eye on this pendant."

Zhang Xiaoman frowned slightly and opened her mouth, as if wanting to argue.

Seeing this, Song Yun said, "Forget it, I’ll pick another one."

After saying it, Song Yun suddenly realized that as his cultivation level rose, his Qigong for nurturing his temperament seemed to have improved a lot; his mindset was much calmer.

Thinking of this, Song Yun couldn’t help but smile.

Seeing that Song Yun wasn’t pursuing the matter, Zhang Xiaoman pouted, ignored Yang Lujing and President Ma, and said apologetically to Song Yun, "Sir, I’m sorry, please pick another one."

Song Yun nodded and continued browsing the counter.

Seeing this, President Ma said to Yang Lujing, "Young people these days don’t have any money, yet they come to look at jade pieces worth tens of thousands. I don’t know where they get the nerve."

Yang Lujing placed the pendant in her palm and handed it to President Ma, batting her lashes. "President Ma, don’t mind him. Take a look at this pendant."

Song Yun glanced over at the two of them, shook his head, ignored them, and pointed at a Maitreya Buddha Jade Pendant in the counter. "Xiaoman, please take that one out for me."

Hearing Song Yun call her "Xiaoman," Zhang Xiaoman got a little embarrassed, her face flushing slightly. She silently took the pendant out.

From the looks of it, she didn’t have much sales experience yet; her face hadn’t been toughened.

After taking out the pendant, she introduced it to Song Yun, "Sir, this pendant is made from bean-green jade, so the quality isn’t that great, but it’s the final masterpiece of our Phoenix Chaohuang sculptor Ye Qiang before his retirement, so the price... Yang Lujing, what do you mean by this?"

She was right in the middle of her introduction when the pendant in her hand was snatched away by Yang Lujing again.

Zhang Xiaoman panicked at once. She didn’t even call her Sister Yang, but addressed her outright by name, demanding an explanation.

Yang Lujing just gave a careless laugh and said arrogantly, "Xiaoman, sorry, President Ma likes this pendant too."

Zhang Xiaoman was pretty simple and couldn’t stomach the way Yang Lujing did things. She frowned and argued on the spot, "Even if President Ma likes it, there has to be an order. This pendant was first picked out by this gentleman, so he should be the one to see it first. You’ve grabbed the pendant away from him over and over; that’s going too far!"

Hearing this, President Ma tugged at his suit jacket and said coldly, "Hmph, I’m the vice president of Qiyue Company. Are you saying I don’t even rank higher than some random young guy? And you still want to talk about order with me?"

Yang Lujing’s face also changed. She snapped, "Zhang Xiaoman, do you have a brain or not? You came here to be a saleswoman, not to run a jade exhibition. Is there any need to show every piece to everyone?"