Chapter 273: Tokens
"Hmph! Leave him alone!
"But ......" Lu Tao felt that something was wrong, although Yang Cheng said that he was going to propose marriage to his father just now, but who knows what he was doing? What if......
"But what? Don't talk nonsense! I must find a book today!"
Lu Tao: "......"
He shook his head and stopped saying anything, now Hong Bingying was still angry, and he couldn't listen to anything.
The shopkeeper Li next to him kept a smile all the time, and if he didn't know that he was the owner of this bookstore, he might be curious about what he was laughing at.
Hong Bingying walked a few steps, took Lu Tao to the front of the thick or thin, very different books in the corner, turned her head to Shopkeeper Li and asked, "These are all the books?"
"Of course, Miss Hong, here are all the ancient books that our Jade Pavilion has collected from all over the world. ”
"Hmph, don't lie to me, or I'll burn your Jade Book Pavilion with one fire!" Hong Bingying is now like a barrel of dynamite, just a little bit of it, or even a little bit of it. As soon as she said this, the shopkeeper Li of Yushu Pavilion seemed to be about to lose the smile on his face.
Fortunately, Hong Bingying didn't stare at Shopkeeper Li anymore, but looked at the books that exuded a sense of simplicity and history from the inside out: "Lu Tao, come and see, is there a book in it!"
On the other side, Lu Tao saw that Shopkeeper Li opened his mouth, as if he had something to say, but he didn't say it, and he was a little puzzled.
Shaking his head, Lu Tao began to open the books neatly arranged on the shelves one by one from left to right, from top to bottom, to see if there was anything written in Chinese.
The number of these books is not small, but Lu Tao doesn't need to turn the whole book page by page, he only needs to turn the first page, so it doesn't take much time, Lu Tao has already flipped through the books on the bookshelf from beginning to end.
Finally, of course, there is no so-called "book from heaven", and in addition to the book written in the characters here, there are some ghost drawings that cannot be understood.
Putting the last book back on the shelf, Lu Tao looked at Hong Bingying and spread his hands at her: "There is no book from heaven." ”
"No?!" Hong Bingying's eyes widened: "How could it not be?!This is the largest bookstore in Wenyang Mansion!"
As she spoke, Hong Bingying looked at Shopkeeper Li again: "Shopkeeper Li! Are you sure you didn't put good things elsewhere?
The smile on Shopkeeper Li's face finally couldn't be hung back, he was like a cat that hadn't stepped on its tail: "Miss Hong, no, absolutely not! The fame of our Jade Book Pavilion is here, how can we still hide it in a place like the third floor? But Miss Hong, if you want to find the Book of Heaven, you must be in the wrong place!" The Book of Heaven is something that can be encountered but not sought, even if it appears by chance, it will immediately cause a fight, Wenyang Mansion is so far away from the Imperial City, Tianshu wants to run to Wenyang Mansion across half of Daqin, and it is also in my bookstore and is not discovered, it can be said that it is almost impossible!
"......" Hong Bingying frowned and was silent for a while, and Lu Tao, who was standing next to her, seemed to hear her muttering: "...... No wonder my father only had that useless book in his hand, it turned out to be like this......"
Speaking of this, Hong Bingying "snorted" and said to Lu Tao: "Let's go!"
Lu Tao nodded, followed behind Hong Bingying noncommittally, and while walking, Lu Tao breathed a sigh of relief, it was finally over, since it was unlikely that Wenyang Mansion would have any heavenly books, Hong Bingying couldn't come back to pester herself, right?
Looking around, Lu Tao was suddenly stunned.
"Wait a minute!"
Hong Bingying stopped: "What's wrong?"
Lu Tao looked at a thing hanging on the side of the wall, and was a little surprised, how could this thing be here?
Holding the metal object hanging there in his hand, Lu Tao turned over and looked at it carefully.
There is a bronze token half the size of a palm, on the front are two seal characters that Lu Tao recognizes, and on the back is a painting engraved with the blue sky and white clouds, as well as some strange buildings below.
Those two quaint seal characters, Lu Tao once checked, meaning "Dragon Ruins".
Take a closer look, this piece of the token with "Dragon Ruins" written on it seems to be different from his own, the peculiar building under the blue sky and white clouds, with an extra egg, is hidden behind half a pillar, if it weren't for Lu Tao's familiarity with the token, I'm afraid he wouldn't have noticed this insignificant difference.
"What is this?" Hong Bingying leaned over: "Do you know these two words?"
Lu Tao nodded: "Buy it!"
He didn't have any money on him, so he could only rely on Hong Bingying to buy this token. As for what is the connection or difference between this token and the one he owned before, Lu Tao doesn't know for the time being, but it must be right to buy it, at least Lu Tao can confirm this.
Hong Bingying nodded, untied a purse from her body, and poured out a small silver ingot: "Shopkeeper Li, I bought this brand!"
Shopkeeper Li frowned: "But...... That's not enough......"
"Huh?" Hong Bingying's outstretched hand paused: "This is not enough?
"At least...... At least that's the number!" Shopkeeper Li stretched out a hand and raised his five fingers.
"Five taels?"
"No...... It's fifty taels ......."
Hong Bingying: "......"
She poured out of her purse, and there were only four of those little silver ingots, one weighing about two taels and five, and the four together were only ten taels.
Hong Bingying: "...... Or if I don't, I'll owe it first, and I'll come back when I get the money?"
"But...... Our Jade Pavilion is not credited, Miss Hong, you should know, I am just a shopkeeper, when the master smells, I can't say ......"
"Hmph, do you doubt the credibility of our Black Tiger Hall? I said that I will bring you the silver later, and I will definitely not bring it again tomorrow! Otherwise, ......"
Hong Bingying touched her body, then took out a piece of jade from her neck and handed it to Shopkeeper Li: "I'll take this piece of jade on top, this piece of jade is definitely worth fifty taels! I'll bring the money back and redeem the jade later!"
Shopkeeper Li looked at the jade handed to him in embarrassment, the jade with a faint blue light was moist and full, and there was a thick layer of pulp on it, and he knew that this jade must be as smooth as a girl's skin without touching it.
"But...... Our Jade Pavilion is not a pawnshop, and there were no such rules before, Miss Hong, don't embarrass me anymore......"
"Oh! You're stubborn!"
"What stubbornness?" As soon as Hong Bingying's words fell, the flirtatious voice that she had heard before came from behind her, and Lu Tao turned his head to see that it was Yang Cheng, who had met before and made Hong Bingying half angry.
He walked up to Hong Bingying's side gracefully, and reached out to take the jade in Hong Bingying's hand: "Yo! This jade looks very beautiful?"
"Humph!"
Hong Bingying snorted coldly and put the jade away: "Why are you here again?!"
"Hahaha, of course I'm here to report good news to Miss Hong, my father agreed to propose to Master Hong, maybe in the first half a month, you will be my sister-in-law! By the way, I seem to have heard you fighting for something just now, what's wrong? What trouble did you encounter? Well, we will be a family in the future, tell me if there is any trouble, I can still do it a favor to my sister-in-law." ”
"Humph!"
Hong Bingying snorted coldly again, turned her head and ignored Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng smiled noncommittally and looked at Shopkeeper Li: "Tell me what's going on?"
"Young Master Yang, that's the case, Miss Hong wanted that brand, but she didn't bring enough money, so she ......"
Shopkeeper Li roughly explained the process and continued to speak: "Young Master Yang, you also know that our Jade Pavilion does not have this rule, so I didn't agree to ......"