Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 44
Of course, whether it will definitely appear or not, we can only resign ourselves to fate.

Unusual things will happen in rare celestial phenomena, but practitioners can only speculate about what will happen, otherwise they will really think they are heaven.

Ying Baoyue feels that she is... a former practitioner who respects science.

All in all, Fifteen's project was her last effort at that mausoleum.

Regardless of whether she could find the information she wanted, she decided that this was the last time.

You can't keep getting stuck in a mausoleum, and you can't keep choosing.

"Okay, the morning meditation is over." With a clatter, the girl in front of her pulled her wrist out of the bucket, stood up and said to Gui Chen with a smile, "It's time to get down to business."

She called that just morning meditation?
Gui Chen stared at her dumbfounded, and looked down at her right wrist, "Your hand..."

The girl in front of her put down her sleeves and slowly tied the familiar cloth strips around her wrists to cover up all the scars.

"what happened?"

Gui Chen hesitated for a moment, "Does it not hurt?"

He wanted to ask this question for a long time.

Ying Baoyue smiled and said to him.

"Fortunately."

is this real?

Gui Chen's brows were knitted into a knot, his chest was congested with all kinds of emotions accumulated inside him but he didn't know what to say.

"Okay, good daylight, don't worry about things you can't change, hurry up and get down to business."

Gui Chen remembered what she said just now, and asked in a daze, "What business are you doing?"

"Go up the mountain, and..." The girl in front of him gave him a speechless look, "Buy rice."

"If you don't buy rice, your whole family will starve to death."

"Didn't you say you were going to the neighboring village to buy rice? I'll go with you too."

……

……

Why does she want to go everywhere?

Gui Chen was walking on the main road with a basket on his back, looking back at the girl wearing a familiar veiled hat looking around.

She really didn't ask him and his family many questions, but after spending the past few days together, Gui Chen discovered that the characteristic of this girl is that she may be more inclined to see with her own eyes than to ask questions.

Whether she followed him to the Sima Mansion, followed him up the mountain, or now followed him to the neighboring village or even the market to buy rice, she never let go of any chance to go out.

Then, she kept watching.

With her eyes, look at the world, see what he can see, and what he can't see.

Gui Chen had a strange feeling from the first moment he saw her wake up.

The girl's eyes were different from anyone he had ever seen.

But what's the difference?
What did she see?

But let's not talk about it, it seems that she can't do anything other than this this trip.

Thinking of the speechless look in his sister's eyes before leaving home, Gui Chen lifted the bamboo basket on his back, since she couldn't carry rice after all.

He carried her more or less.

"What's wrong?" Ying Baoyue, who was looking at the scenery of the neighboring village, looked at the boy who was staring at her.

"No... nothing..." Gui Chen hurriedly looked forward, raised his hand and pointed forward indiscriminately.

"The front is almost here!"

"Really?" Ying Baoyue looked along his fingertips. He had just walked all the way. For some reason, the village was sparsely populated. At this time, a dilapidated barn finally appeared in the depths of the dilapidated thatched huts in the distance.

Gui Chen didn't expect that he was right by mistake.Many of the barns he was familiar with in the neighboring villages were covered up for some reason, and finally he saw one that was exposed.

Gui Chen breathed a sigh of relief and strode towards where with the bamboo basket on his back, Ying Baoyue followed him and also quickened his pace.

Gui Chen's footsteps were fast, but looking at the thatch branches and other sundries piled up beside the barn, the girl's eyes darkened.

And the next moment.

"What? Thirty baht for a bucket of rice?"

The boy's stunned voice sounded in front of the barn, piercing the silent air in the village.

Ying Baoyue watched Gui Chen just took off the bamboo basket and fell to the ground with a clang, and stared dumbfounded at an old man standing in front of the barn, speechless.

"Uncle Wei, are you joking with me?" After a long while, Guichen looked at the old man in disbelief, "The new rice on the market is only [-] baht a dou, and your old rice costs [-] baht a dou?"

Why don't you go grab it?
Ying Baoyue looked at the young man's shoulders trembling with anger, and felt that he probably wanted to say this very much.

When Daqin founded the country, under the auspices of Da Si Ming Lin Shubai, she unified the currency. She changed the 24-base "two baht system" that was used chaotically in troubled times to a hundred base system, and combined it with the "literary two system" of later generations. , Created a monetary system in which ten coins are one baht, and one hundred baht is equal to one tael of silver.

Although the Qin system has been abolished in many countries, fortunately this currency system has remained.

Thanks to this easy-to-calculate system, Ying Baoyue can also easily calculate the price of rice.

If there is no major problem with her memory, using the price of rice in the heyday of the Great Qin Dynasty to convert, according to the purchasing power of currency in this world, one tael of silver is equivalent to about a thousand yuan in the modern world.

That was still the purchasing power in the golden age, and in the current period of division, silver can only be more expensive.

It is not difficult to calculate that the price of a plant is about ten yuan, and thirty baht can indeed be said to be a sky-high price.

According to what Gui Chen said before, the price of rice was five baht a bucket five years ago. As the power of the former Qin Dynasty declined, the price of rice became more and more expensive. At the beginning of the year, the price of new rice rose to fifteen baht, but it took at least five years.

The sudden rise to [-] two days ago was already scary, but the sudden [-] baht per bucket is equivalent to extortion...

"Twenty baht?" Unexpectedly, the old man in front of the barn, smoking a pot with a sad face, knocked his bong heavily on the stone, and gave Gui Chen a mocking smile.

"Are you afraid it's the price of the previous two days?" The old man exhaled a puff of smoke from inferior tobacco leaves, and looked straight at Gui Chen with his bloodshot old eyes, "Ji Shangmi has sold for 35 this morning!"

Gui Chen was shocked, his voice stuttered, "How...how is it possible?"

"What's impossible?" The old man turned his head around, "Do you think there are a few companies in the village who dare to sell old rice? If you don't buy mine, you will starve to death. Other rice will only be more expensive! It's not the old man. I have lived enough, who dares to come out?"

"What's the matter?" Gui Chen asked in a daze.

And at this moment, a slender voice came from behind him.

"conscription?"

Gui Chen suddenly turned his head, and the cloudy eyes of the old man in front of him were firmly fixed on the girl behind him.

"It looks like I've never seen it before, this lady... who are you?"

I can't see the face clearly but at least I can tell the age. How could a girl of this age notice anything?
It is a capital offense to disclose the movement of some things. He just said a few more words because he has never seen troubled times and has no knowledge. How come...

The wrinkles on the face of the still young and old man deepened, "Old man, I don't have anything..."

"Well, I'm just guessing." Ying Baoyue said.

"Guichen, buy as much rice as you can, let's go after buying." She looked at the young man beside her and said.

"Rice prices may indeed continue to rise."

Throughout the ages, there are only two things that can cause the price of rice to rise.

One is famine.

There is another one.

war.

　[Note] Two baht system: In ancient times, ten millet was used as a baht, ten baht was used as a baht, and 24 baht was used as a tael.The famous "Qin Ban Liang Qian" is equal to twelve baht. Here, for the convenience of everyone's conversion, the 24 base system is changed to the hundreds system, and the 絫 is changed to Wen.

　　At the same time, under popular science, how much is a tael of silver worth, because you often read online articles and you may often see the flow of tens of thousands of taels or even tens of thousands of taels of silver.actually……

　　盛唐时期1两银子相当于现在2000-4000元左右；北宋朝时期1两银子相当于现在1000元到1800元左右；明朝时期1两银子相当于现在600元--800元左右人民币；清朝时期1两银子相当于现在150元--220元左右，这边取了一个中间值。

　　
　
(End of this chapter)