Chapter 530: Creating a Warm Mess(8)_1
"Hmph, quite the clever tongue for a young girl—just like your elder sister! Fine, it’s true this Gold Shop isn’t owned by our Jin family. You’re free to browse and buy, but don’t say I didn’t warn you, little girl. The jewelry here isn’t cheap. You’d better check if the silver in your purse is sufficient before you make any purchases!"
Jin Lingling gave her a scornful glance and motioned for Meng Chunyan to sit off to the side and pick out jewelry.
Xiao Linshuang also shot back a disdainful look. She had plenty of silver on her. Before leaving the house, her elder sister had given her a silver note worth ten taels of silver, Lao Fan had given her another ten, and even Princess Anle had secretly handed her a silver note to buy candy with.
In the time it took Xiao Linshuang to exchange these few words with Jin Lingling, Xia He and Qiu Ju had noticed nothing amiss. Xiao Linshuang naturally wouldn’t gossip about it with them; as long as Jin Lingling didn’t do anything too outrageous, she didn’t take it to heart.
This jewelry shop was quite large, and its wares—novel in design and exquisitely crafted—attracted many ladies and young ladies to select from them. So, there were indeed a good number of customers seated at the counter, looking at jewelry.
Xiao Linshuang joined Xia He and Qiu Ju, watching them choose hairpins. They looked at one, then another, and quickly picked out three particularly pretty ones. At a glance, these three hairpins looked very similar, with only the flowers embedded at the top being different: one with pink lotuses, another with golden chrysanthemums, and a third with white plums tinged with red—each matching their respective names perfectly.
However, three hairpins were not enough—they were still missing one for Chun Yu. Selecting a hairpin for her was not easy. They planned to pick something similar to the previous ones but without the raindrop design.
Xiao Linshuang quietly listened to their discussion, her eyes sliding over the row of similar-styled hairpins until suddenly, her gaze brightened as she spotted a glistening hairpin. Although the stones set on top were not in the shape of raindrops but were various sizes of round gems, they did resemble numerous raindrops.