peach blossoms smile

Chapter 2 Something Dark
I reached out to touch the last piece of rose sugar in my sleeve pocket, put it in my mouth, and said, "When it's time to return it, I will naturally return it."

The edge of his newly exchanged coin is glowing with golden light, and it sinks in the hand. The four characters "Daquan Fifty" are clear and straight, with a beautiful style and strong force. It is said that it was written by the second prince Bai Mi himself. It is produced by the royal family and is genuine. Royal book money.

I think the reason why this coin is so respected by Xia Ji and the girls in the village is that apart from it being a coin, the most important thing is that the imperial treasure on it was written by the prince Bai Mi himself.He was an excellent poet, he was also an excellent general, and he had an excellent appearance.

A person, especially a man, is extremely lucky to have one of these items, but Bai Mi actually has all the above three items.

The current emperor is indeed a wise emperor, knowing that his old face is nothing to show off, so he pushed his son to the front stage.Sure enough, although the new currency was short of weight, it immediately won the support of half of the people in the country. Of course, this half of the people were all women.

As for the other half... the people around the pillow supported it, and the wind blowing on the pillow was stronger than the freezing north wind.

Therefore, although the "Daquan Fifty" issued on a regular basis is only two and a half times the weight of the previous five-baht coin, it is equivalent to handing over the 45-baht coin in hand and only getting back the weight of the five-baht coin.But because of Bai Mi's imperial book, currency exchange is unprecedentedly smooth.

The exchanged coins were smelted into armored weapons. It is said that millions of soldiers were equipped to guard Dingzhou like an iron bucket.

Therefore, Bai Mi's characters are really comparable to a million soldiers.

I reckon that Bai Mi is much more successful as a calligrapher and poet than as a general.

But the estimate was just an estimate, but he didn't dare to say it out of his mouth. He only listened to Xia Ji's persuasion, and hurriedly exchanged the old currency at home for the new currency, so as not to surprise him. It's over, and the half of the pork money owed to his family is gone.

In addition to currency exchange, the change of dynasties has minimal impact on our small mountain village.Our village is a place where birds don't shit, and even conscripts are rarely recruited here.There is no other reason, because the mountain people here are very capable of fleeing on the lookout, often the news spreads all over the village before the conscription officials arrive at the village entrance.The villagers pulled their sons and daughters into the dense forest and disappeared.In addition, most of the villagers in this village are hunters, and their families have no land and possessions, so the government officials have no way to confiscate their property if they want to.

From the perspective of the general environment, the imperial court changes frequently, and officials are obedient and vicious.As the saying goes, once escaping becomes a habit, it is not called escaping, it is called skill.

Therefore, the villagers of Beicao Village are famous for their ability to escape, which is more famous than that of the changing dynasties... making the officials disdain to come here to do business.

The villagers in Beicao Village live a fulfilling and happy life. They are self-sufficient in hunting prey, and there are many, except for my family.My family is the only private school in the village. Unfortunately, it does not receive many students throughout the year. The neighbor Xia Ji is unwilling to come to my house, saying: "Study and learn, you only know how to ask."

My father's knowledge has become something that cannot control food and clothing in the small mountain village. Fortunately, our brave mother took me to tie up a skirt and carry a hunting bag to dig traps around the forest.Using what she learned, she collected the big-leaved blue jasper in the forest, crushed it into juice, and applied it to the corners of the trap, so that the beasts that came and went could not move their legs when they came here, and they fell unconscious after entering the trap.

The only student of the father is his elder sister. His elder sister is his greatest achievement. He has taught him to become an absolute lady of the family.

But every time my father raised his beard and talked about such great achievements, my mother and I always said in unison: "Can that be eaten?"

Of course, I became his biggest failure.

But I also have achievements, for example, the traps I dug have never been able to escape.People in the village, no matter how good a hunter he is, there is no one who fails to be recruited.When I met my father and I at the village, I couldn’t help giving a thumbs up and saying, “Good, good! Good girl, you really know how to dig holes!”

It's a pity that every time the old man heard such words, he always took out a fan from his sleeve, covered half of his face shyly, and stifled a little voice from his nostrils: "Where, where, you praised."

Fortunately, there is a mother, and every time she sees him like that from a distance, she sneers: "You guys can eat cabbage and radish tonight, but don't eat braised deer tendon!"

Every time at this time, the old man would take the fan away from half of his face, revealing his somewhat handsome face, fan the two fans, and chant two sentences: "It's good to live in the mountain, it's good to live in the mountain. Singing birds..."

While fanning, he walked towards the dining table in the house.

If the villagers are women, they will praise enviously: "Your husband is really good-tempered!"

If it is a man, he will stare at his mother with piercing eyes: "Miss Wei, is there anything missing in your family? Do you want me to send some over?" His eyes are full of expectations, this useless husband, give up Come on, rest it!

So, my father and mother are still very popular.

However, because of this, I also owed a lot of foreign debts, such as half of the pork from Xia Ji's family, three pheasants from a certain family, and leather robes from a certain family.

Dad also likes to be arty. Although he lives in the mountains, he still maintains the temperament of the original literati. He likes to drink wine and recite poems, so Daughter Hong has buried a lot.It is said that it is used as a dowry when my sister and I are together, but in fact, every time he loses his temper, he will go there and dig a bottle out to hurt the spring and autumn.I really doubt that when my sister and I get married, the daughter Hong wonders if there will be a bottle left.

Therefore, these wine debts and foreign debts fell on the trap I set.

For the sake of his half of the pork, Xia Ji took his sister Xia Han and followed me to the forest to get the prey in the trap.He was afraid that I would trade my prey for something, leaving his debts endlessly unaccounted for.

The three of us are standing beside the trap in a daze, looking at the dark mass in the trap, no... it should be someone.

(End of this chapter)