Touring the Ming Dynasty

Now the season of continuous spring rain has passed, but there are still many people in the bustling crowd wearing bamboo hats and holding paper umbrellas. Duan Fei's heart moved, he spent ten yuan to buy a bamboo hat and put it on, lowering the edge Covering his face, he walked slowly into the Yangzhou store of Datong Yinzhuang.

These days, Yinzhuang is somewhat similar to modern banks, but in the Ming Dynasty, Yinzhuang was absolutely dedicated to serving the rich. It was not easy for ordinary people to earn a few taels of silver. How could there be a large amount of silver stored in Yinzhuang? ?So when Duan Fei walked into the Yinzhuang, it was empty, except for two strong men with feather dusters who wiped here and there, there was not a single guest.

Duan Fei reckoned that those two guys were actually the security guards of Yinzhuang. If anyone dared to have evil intentions against Yinzhuang, these two servants would knock them down without hesitation.

Duan Fei looked at them secretly, and those two were also looking at him. The shopkeeper of Yinzhuang stood behind the counter, separated from the wide counter and thick bars, and said to Duan Fei with a smile: "Guest officer, this is Datong Yinzhuang. Yangzhou store, do you need any help?"

Duan Fei walked to the counter, took out a jade token from his pocket, passed it in through the railing, and said, "I want to take 20 taels of silver and exchange it for 1 taels of silver bills."

20 taels is not a small amount, the shopkeeper immediately respected Duan Fei, his attitude was completely different from the professional smile just now, he took the jade plate for inspection, and shouted to the two people outside: "Little Li, please The honored guests enter the VIP room and wait a while, let's go to the top-quality Longjing tea!"

After giving the order, he said to Duan Fei: "Guest officer, 20 is not a decimal number. This old man wants to ask the big shopkeeper. He must first check the account and check the token before he can handle it. He also invites the guest officer to go to the private room for a short rest. The big shopkeeper will not wait." Coming soon."

Duan Fei nodded, and followed the little Lizi into a courtyard through the side door in the corner. In the courtyard, there were hundreds of flowers blooming, most of which were varieties that Duan Fei had never seen before. Xiao Lizi led Duan Fei into a bunk on the side of the courtyard. In a room covered with a thick Persian red carpet, Duan Fei was invited to sit on a chair covered with thick cushions and said respectfully: "If you need anything, please tell me, the younger ones will wait outside the door."

Duan Fei nodded, and Xiao Lizi retreated quietly. This VIP room is quite quiet, and the faint fragrance of flowers is constantly wafting in from the window, which makes people feel refreshed, but Duan Fei can't calm down in his heart. He thought Because of the possible consequences, he couldn't help but feel guilty. What he is doing now may cause big trouble. A large number of arrests may rush in outside the door at any time. Even Shi Yufeng may not be sympathetic if he leads the team. Can speak.

That day, Duan Fei got a small wooden box in the middle of the reeds outside Hai'an Town. In the wooden box, besides a few banknotes, there was a jade plaque and two pieces of paper, one large and one small. Poetry, some words were scrawled on the big one. Duan Fei has no problem recognizing traditional Chinese characters now. He found that it was an instruction manual explaining the function of the jade plaque. The Japanese pirates have made countless fortunes, more than half of which are stored in the Datong Bank.

When Wang found out that someone was chasing after her, she knew she couldn't escape, so she left this note in the box, praying to heaven that she would see her when the Japanese pirates came again, but she didn't expect the box to be given by Duan Fei. She swallowed it privately, and Mrs. Wang bit her tongue and committed suicide that night after being arrested. At most, only those little girls who were bought to be slaves knew this secret. Even if they told the secret, who would know that the box was taken by Duan Fei? gone?If you can't find it, you will probably think that the Japanese pirates took it.

Duan Fei was already very satisfied with the five silver tickets, and he didn't want to take the risk of using the jade tokens to raise money, but the incident with the Yue family brothers made him realize that the appreciation of one or two people alone is not enough. Under the reliable circumstances, he might need to use a large amount of silver to open the way in the future, so he bit the bullet and came to Datong Bank to try to see if he could withdraw some money for use.

It was explained on the note that this is an anonymous account, and the maximum amount of money withdrawn each time is 20, and it will take at least three months to withdraw again after one withdrawal. Generally speaking, anonymous accounts only recognize tokens but not Human, it should be safer, but now that the Wang family has committed a crime, who knows if someone will secretly watch this account?So Duan Fei was still quite nervous.

A little maid knocked on the door and came in, and offered Duan Fei a pot of high-quality Longjing tea. Duan Fei was not in the mood to taste it if he couldn't taste the top quality tea. Sprinkle dry lips and tongue well.

Finally, an old man of about sixty years old with a medium build and red face walked in alone. It was not surprising to see Duan Fei still wearing a bamboo hat and lowering the brim of his hat mysteriously in the secret room. It’s Xu Wenping, the shopkeeper of Datong Yinzhuang Yangzhou Store. He’s old and dizzy and can’t do things quickly enough. It took a while to check the account, which made the guests wait for a long time. There is a secret word in your account. As long as the secret word matches, the 20 taels of silver Tickets are ready and can be picked up immediately."

"Secret language?" Duan Fei turned around in his mind, and then said: "The reeds are green, the white dew is frost, the so-called Yiren, on the side of the water, is this poem?"

Shopkeeper Xu happily smiled and said, "That's right, that's right, here are the 20 taels of banknotes requested by the distinguished customer, each of which is 1 taels, twenty in total, please count them, this is the withdrawal contract, in duplicate, Also please honor the guest to personally stamp the amount after verifying it..."

Duan Fei counted the silver bills, and there were twenty silver bills in Datong Yinzhuang, a total of 20 taels of silver. After hiding the silver bills in his arms, Duan Fei took the jade token and the contract, and after checking that they were correct, Push the upper and lower sides of the jade card, and the jade card is divided into two pieces, one of which is engraved with a cherry blossom at the bottom, Duan Fei picks it up, boils it with printing oil, and covers the part where the contract says 20 yuan with a bright red cherry blossom , the procedure is now complete.

Duan Fei put away the banknote and stood up, and the shopkeeper Xu gave a few more instructions, all of which were to say that the next withdrawal should be made after three months, and if the deposit is less than 20, it should be made up as soon as possible, otherwise it will be reduced One-time withdrawal amount and so on.

Duan Fei bowed his head and hurried out. He didn't even bother to listen to the words of shopkeeper Xu. With a huge sum of money in his pocket, he just wanted to leave as soon as possible. At the moment when he crossed the threshold and was about to leave Datong Yinzhuang, the two girls happened to Walking towards Datong Bank.

One of them was walking in front, and she turned her head to talk to the girl dressed as a maid, while turning towards the gate of Datong Yinzhuang. Just when the two of them were about to collide, the girl pointed her toes, twisted her waist, He even moved a foot away from the ground without looking back, narrowly avoiding the end of being hit by a full body.

Duan Fei was also taken aback, but he walked away quickly without raising his head. The purple-clothed maid who was walking behind refused to follow her. She turned her head and cursed at Duan Fei's back: "How do you walk? Yes, you don't have eyes!"

The girl in the yellow shirt in front also turned her head to look at Duan Fei, but she was not as angry as the maid, but frowned slightly thoughtfully.

The servant girl turned her head and said without stopping: "It's really a bad world, and you don't even turn your head when you bump into someone."

The young lady said: "Stop talking so much nonsense, maybe someone is in a hurry..."

Only then did the servant girl notice that the young lady's expression was a bit strange. Although she was talking, her eyes were still looking at the person who had almost bumped into her who had gone far away. The servant girl was surprised, and she turned her head to look at that person again , I didn't think there was anything strange, so I asked curiously: "Miss, what are you looking at?"

Miss said: "Don't you think he looks familiar?"