Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 121 Small Town Anecdotes

"Hi... I'm so full." Situ Jing wiped his mouth and said, "I'm going back to my room to rest, remember to call me for dinner." After speaking, he stood up from the chair and walked upstairs with his slightly distended stomach.Looking at Situ Jing who was walking away, I asked suspiciously: "Brother Jing, what's wrong? Go to bed when you're full." Chang'e explained from the side: "This is the sequelae of his popularity being sucked, and it will last for a while. I'm prone to hunger and fatigue, and I'll recover after a while, don't worry." I nodded, "Oh..." in response.

"Are you full anyway?" I looked at the dining table like wind and clouds, and asked everyone who was belching in front of me.Xu Lu drank the tea in front of him and said, "Master, I'm so full. What should we do when we're full?" I thought for a while and said, "Let's go out for a stroll. I didn't have a good time, and besides, we are out of carriages and luggage, and we have to buy some. Sister Axiu, how much silver do we have?" Axiu took out her purse and looked through it for me. Said: "We still have ten taels of cash, and the bank notes have not been touched." I patted the table lightly and said, "Okay, let's go to the bank to exchange the silver first, and then go shopping." Xiaoyou and Situ Jie Qi raised his hands and shouted: "Okay..." I waved my hand: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go." After speaking, I got up and walked to the gate.Chang'e stopped me and said, "Ah Hai, I won't go with you guys. Xi'er is still sleeping upstairs and cannot do without people." Although Chang'e didn't go, it was a bit disappointing, but Xi'er was sucked dry by the female corpse. Spiritual energy, ruined the cultivation of the whole body.Although there is Chang'e's Zhixue Huanhun Pill to save her life, she is still lethargic and has no signs of waking up until now. It is impossible for no one to guard her.Since Chang'e said she wanted to guard him, I couldn't force her out, so I had no choice but to stop playing with her.

"Okay, sister Chang, thank you for your hard work." I nodded and said, then turned around and waved to the others, "Let's go." After speaking, I left the dining table and walked towards the counter, and the others followed me from the dining table , came to the cabinet.I inquired about the location of the bank from the shopkeeper Wang who had been guarding the counter all the time, and a group of eight of us walked to the Youxin bank not far to the west of the inn.Stepping into the gate of Youxin Bank, Er Zi, a boy guarding the bank alone, was taken aback by a group of people who suddenly appeared, thinking that we were here to rob the bank, and shouted in fright: "The shopkeeper..."

"What are you doing, second son? I just entered the inner room for a lunch break, and you are screaming here." The curtain behind the cabinet was lifted from the inside, and a middle-aged man in his forties came out of the inner room, complaining dissatisfiedly.Seeing the shopkeeper coming out, the second son hurriedly said: "The shopkeeper, he, they..." The shopkeeper looked along Erzi's hand, and it turned out that there was a guest, and he bowed to us and said, "Guests, are you here to exchange silver taels?" He stepped forward and said: "That's right, it's just that this little brother yelled loudly when he saw us. I wonder if we have offended you?" Seeing what I said, the shopkeeper turned around and asked the second son: "What the hell are you shouting about when the guests come to the door? "

"I... I thought I would be able to catch a robbery," Er Zi replied timidly.I hurriedly said with a smile: "This little brother really knows how to joke. Are there any robbers like us who come to rob? Take the female family members to rob?" The shopkeeper gave the second son a hard look and said, "Second son, go to the back and make cups for the guests. Here comes the tea." The second son was frightened by the shopkeeper's stare, and hurried into the inner room.The shopkeeper hurriedly smiled at me and said: "Don't mind the guest, the young man is not sensible, please sit down, the guest." He stretched out his hand and asked me to go to the chair on the left side of the bank for people to wait for a while.I sat down without being polite to him, and at the same time, the shopkeeper who was seated at the side asked politely: "I wonder how much silver you want to exchange?" I took out the bank note that I had already handed over from Axiu, and said to him "It's not too much, it's just 100 taels of silver." The shopkeeper looked at the bank note in my hand and said, "This is the one hundred taels of silver note circulated by Yunchao. Please wait a moment, sir, I'll go right away." Take out the silver taels." Then he got up and walked to the inner room.As soon as the shopkeeper left, the second son walked out holding the tea tray, gently took out the teacup from the tea tray, put it on the narrow square table between the two chairs, and said tremblingly: "Guest officer, please have some tea." I noticed that this guy named Er Zi should only be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a countryman's unique naive look on his face. No wonder when he saw a large group of us, he thought we were here to rob.I smiled at him, took a sip from the teacup, put down the teacup and said to him, "Thank you." Seeing me, the second son didn't blame him for misunderstanding us as robbers, nodded to me and hurried back to the counter.

After a while, the shopkeeper held a small square wooden box, and said apologetically, "Guest officer, I'm really sorry. There are very few merchants in our town, so we don't have a large amount of silver ingots, so we can only exchange them for the guest officer." I'm really sorry for the loose silver taels. This is 98 taels of silver, please check and accept it." I took the wooden box and opened it to see that it was indeed a loose silver tael. Not only were there ten taels, but there were also five taels, and there were even three A tael of broken silver.But I think this is better, if you go shopping in a while, you can take out a large amount of silver ingots at once, and you don't have to scare the sellers to the ground.I closed the wooden box and said: "It's okay, the shopkeeper. Anyway, we have to go out to buy some things. It is more convenient to loose silver. Now that the exchange is completed, we will leave. Let's go." I greeted everyone standing in front of the counter. Waving his hand, he strode out of the gate of Youxin Bank.

It is really convenient to go out with a bank note, as long as you hold the bank note, you can exchange it in any bank, but you have to pay a 2% handling fee to the bank to exchange the bank note, or how could the one hundred taels of silver note in my hand be exchanged? What about 98 taels of silver?The people in Qianzhuang also need to eat.Moreover, the banknotes are not all the same. The banknotes circulating in Yunchao are all printed with a character "Zu" in the lower left corner as a symbol, which is called Juxin banknotes; while the banknotes in the Yuan Dynasty are printed in the lower right corner with the character "Bao". The Baoxin banknote marked with "Jubao"; and the Jubaoxin banknote printed with the word "Jubao" that can be circulated throughout Nandanbuzhou.

After leaving the bank, I took 20 taels of loose silver from the wooden box, and handed over the rest including the wooden box to Xu Lu.Xu Lu took the wooden box and took out a square scarf from his arms, wrapped the wooden box carefully, and carried it on his back.Carrying the money bag with silver taels in it, I said to the people behind me: "Go spend money, don't be polite to me if you want to buy anything, whoever is polite will suffer." After I finished speaking, I walked towards the street with the most shops, Xiaoyou saw me like this Said, took Situ Jie's little hand and ran past me, rushed in to the candied fruit shop at the corner of the street.Seeing that they were in such a hurry, I was not far behind, and followed them into the candied fruit shop.Smelling the unique sweet smell of honey in the shop and looking at the tempting candied fruit almost made my mouth water.I pointed to the candied fruit on the counter and said to the middle-aged woman behind me: "Madam proprietress, I want one catty of each candied fruit here." Xiaoyou, whose eyes were already glowing blue, interjected, "Both of them cost two catties. Not enough to eat."

Seeing that the business was coming and it was a rare big business, the woman said cheerfully: "Okay, well, the candied fruit in our store is famous in Ningwu Town for its deliciousness." After finishing speaking, the woman hurriedly shouted to the inner room: "The manager Hurry up, come out, there is business coming." After a while, the curtain blocking the inner room was lifted from the inside, and a man with sleepy eyes came out, and he muttered to the woman: "If you have business, you can take care of it yourself. Why do you have to call me out?" The woman came to the man's ear and whispered: "It's a big business, of course I'll ask you to come out and help." The man said indifferently: "Big business, can be big. Where are you going? It’s nothing more than two or three catties of candied fruit. If you can sell more than ten or twenty catties at once, it’s not too late to call me. Ah... I’m still a little sleepy. house to go.

As soon as I saw this man, I was very angry. A dignified man didn’t help his wife with business, but complained that his wife interfered with his nap. He raised his voice a little and said, “Madam, when will the candied fruit I want be ready? Let's go shopping elsewhere." Seeing that I was in a hurry, the woman hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I kept you waiting. I'll just pretend for you, and each item will cost two catties, right?" Xiaoyou nodded sharply: " Yes, yes, hurry up, I really want to eat it now." The man who had already stepped into the inner room stepped back when he heard our conversation, grabbed a small handful of candied kumquats and stuffed them for Xiaoyou He said with a smile on his face: "Little brother, you can eat as much as you want, anyway, you buy so much, it doesn't matter." Then he turned to the woman and said, "I'll help you pack these, and you can pack the ones on the opposite side. Seeing her husband suddenly become so diligent, the woman smiled happily, turned around and walked towards the opposite counter.

"Brother Hai, how many candied fruit did you buy?" Yan'er yelled at me as soon as she entered the shop.Xiaoyou accosted, "You don't care what you buy, you don't have your share anyway." Seeing Xiaoyou speaking so arrogantly, Yan'er knocked Xiaoyou on the head and said, "Little brat, you are so arrogant." You touched the top of her slightly painful head, and said: "Little girl, what's the matter with being arrogant, do you have an opinion?" Yan'er said angrily, "You..." Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, I hurriedly pulled them away Said: "Don't worry, everyone has a share, enough for you to eat. By the way, the others, why did you come in alone?" Seeing that I was acting as a peacemaker, Yan'er calmed down and said: "Sister Axiu brought other people I went to the fabric shop in front to see if I can buy quilts." At this time, the woman had already packed the candied fruit I wanted, and said to me: "Brother, here are fifteen kinds of candied fruit, each of which weighs two catties. It’s one tael or five taels in total.” I took off my purse and took out two taels of silver, and handed one to the proprietress and one to Xiaoyou.Xiaoyou immediately understood my intentions, and lightly broke her hands together, it happened to be two five-cent silver coins. She put the silver in her left hand on the counter, and put the other coin into the pocket of Situ Jie's coat, and then picked up A paper bag filled with small packages of candied fruit followed us out of the shop.

"You're so stingy, you look like a young master, and you don't even want to give me five cents more." The man muttered in a low voice when he saw us leave, then turned and went back to the back room to continue his afternoon nap.The woman put the silver taels into the small money box under the counter, looked at our backs, and whispered to herself: "It would be great if I had a child, at least I can help myself, and I don't have to count on this lazy husband. "It's such a coincidence that things happen in the world. The moment I closed the store door casually, I heard the different voices of the husband and wife, and a wonderful idea suddenly popped up in my heart.

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