"Eh, have you heard? Today is the annual poetry meeting of Tiange. If you can win the championship, you will not only get a reward of 1,000 taels of silver, but you will also be able to get one of the various treasures that the Pavilion Master has collected when he traveled all over the world!"

"Yes?! Then I'm really going to see it! I heard that last year's gift was a black pearl salvaged from the deep sea! It is said that if you sell it, it will be worth 10,000 taels of silver!"

"Yes! This Heavenly Pavilion Master has always been a good writer, and he likes to make friends with talented people the most!"

"Alas, don't think about it! You know, just the ticket to enter this Heavenly Pavilion costs fifty taels of silver! Can you afford it?"

"Isn't it still possible to 'pay for money with poetry'? If you don't have money, you can't still write poetry!"

"Yes...... However, are you okay?! People Tiange, even the little two who stood at the door to check it, they are all rich and rich! If you want to enter, you have to be recognized by others first!"

"This ...... Alas!"

……

After entering the capital, Gao Ran dismounted and led his children all the way to the side of the road.

I was going to wander around the market to see if there were any spices or anything like that she wanted, but I didn't expect to hear such an interesting story!

"If there is money to be made, why should I not go?!"

Although she didn't have much enthusiasm for business in her previous life, the genes in her bones that belonged to a business family made her ears immediately and instinctively prick up her ears as soon as she heard that "there is money to be made" - she listened to the conversations between several men dressed as scholars passing by the roadside word for word......

Although Gao Ran does not plan to continue to embark on the road of business again in her previous life, she does not have a hard time with "money"!

On the contrary, she loves "money"!

In her opinion, there is no good or evil in "money" itself, it is just easier for those who have it to expose their hidden **!

In other words, if a person does not have much money to satisfy, then no matter how much money he has, it will not make him fall;

But, if a person has an endless amount of money to satisfy, then no matter how much money he has, he will never be satisfied, because the money he has is never enough compared to his ever-endless **......

And such a person will only end up getting lost in his own ** and unable to extricate himself.

So, if "money" corrupts a person who seems to be innocent on the surface...... In fact, what really made him fall was not "money", but his own never-ending **.

Therefore, if a person has enough "money" before he gradually degenerates, many of his ** that have only slowly manifested themselves later have not been shown to be in fact all along......

I'm afraid, in fact, it's not really because he has good self-control, those ** are well controlled by him, and it's not because he doesn't want to...... It's because he doesn't have enough "money" to satisfy his **......

In Gao Ran's view, whether it is his original world or the current world, they all have one thing in common: these two worlds have two identical things that can best test a person's true quality - time and "money"!

At least, in my opinion, although it is not omnipotent, as long as 'money' still acts as an 'intermediary' for the exchange of various things in human society, then, without it, it is absolutely impossible! If you live in harmony with it, then money, more will only help you achieve your next life goal more quickly, or the simplest and most direct - it can make your current quality of life better. Therefore, there is no good or evil in 'money' itself, and its merits, as well as its so-called 'meaning', depend only on how the person who owns it uses it. This is Gao Ran's view of money all along.

Even in this other world, her view of money has not changed - mainly because, so far, she has not encountered anything that can really shock, or even shake her long-standing view of money.

Gao Ran was not originally a person who liked to join in the fun, but for the "money" and the rare treasures that she didn't know what they were, she thought about it, and after being moved, she finally decided to go to Tiange to join in the fun!

led Mi'er, followed by a group of scholars who gathered from nowhere and have now gradually formed a "large army", all the way to the main gate of the legendary "Heavenly Pavilion".

"It turns out that this legendary Heavenly Pavilion is a teahouse......! From the outside, it is a place of high consumption! It is estimated that the cost of drinking a cup of tea in it is enough for the living expenses of ordinary people here for several months!"

Even before, I only went out once when I went to a craftsman to make a Rubik's cube for me...... But Gao Ran, who is naturally sensitive to "money", even if she rarely goes out, her favorite thing to do in the house on weekdays is to listen to people's fragments of "gossip" and gossip from the people that they encounter when purchasing goods outside the house, or all kinds of hearsay - of course, in the process of listening, she automatically filters out a lot of other useless information, and only notes down some key information related to "money".

Over time, Gao Ran had a "scale" in her heart, and she roughly knew the value of the currency here, as well as the average living standard of ordinary people here......

"This Heavenly Pavilion Master is quite good at business. This teahouse has five floors, and if I'm not mistaken, there should be four floors open to the public, and the top floor should be at the 'VIP' level. Not to mention anything else, the four-story building that is open to the outside world can accommodate at least 200 people! 50 taels per person...... Oh, not counting those who are really talented and can enter for free, the rest of them may add up to more than 1,000 taels of admission fees, right?!And the prize money of 'Shikui' is only 1,000 taels of silver, so isn't the pavilion master sure to make a profit?!As for those rare treasures...... Who knows where all the treasures that people in the rivers and lakes got came from?! Perhaps, those treasures were originally obtained without spending a penny, and maybe they were!"

Thinking about it, the corners of Gao Ran's mouth unconsciously showed a shallow smile with a little disdain, "However, to be able to gain a foothold in this capital and open such a large teahouse, can the business still do so well...... Even if this legendary 'Heavenly Pavilion Master' is a Jianghu man who doesn't care about political affairs, I'm afraid that his power should be enough to make the current emperor jealous! Otherwise, how could he open the teahouse so steadily?!"

When Gao Ran realized that she had unconsciously thought a little too deeply, she immediately shook her head and shook away the conjectures in her mind that she thought had nothing to do with her.

"Cut! No matter how complicated he is, it has nothing to do with me! Why do I care so much?! Anyway, I'm just here for the prize money and rare treasures! Yes, I'm here to win the 'poet'! Anything else, my!"

In order to remind himself not to forget the purpose of his visit, Gao Ran specially reminded himself of the true purpose of his trip again very carefully in his heart before taking the official action!

After reconcentrating his mind, Gao Ran stepped forward and led his child.

She took the initiative to greet Xiao Er, who was standing at the door, and said, "Hello Little Second Brother, I'm here to participate in this 'Tiange Poetry Meeting'. But I don't have any money. But I could write a poem to cover the entrance fee......"

Xiao Er saw that the person who came was a little girl who was less than half of his height, and he was a little surprised for a moment. But only for a moment. Soon, he was back to his old self, and treated the little girl in front of him with the same attitude as he did with everyone else—as she did business.

"This Heavenly Pavilion is really not simple!"

It's not that Gao Ran still wants to think about those who don't have it, it's just that even the shopkeeper in front of her has such a 'su zhì', which can't help but think about it a little more......

In this regard, Gao Ran can only say that this is just an instinct of hers - an instinctive sense of self-protection arising from the perception of possible danger.

That's right! She instinctively felt that this Heavenly Pavilion was not simple!

It wasn't so simple, even if she hadn't even stepped into the gate of this Heavenly Pavilion, she had already faintly felt some kind of dangerous aura that she couldn't tell and couldn't explain......

"Hopefully, I won't be caught up in this 'danger'......"

While wanting to win the prize, he was also afraid of the faintly perceived dangerous aura, so Gao Ran unconsciously began to pray for himself silently in his heart.

It seems that in her opinion, by doing so, she will be able to "turn evil into goodness"......

"Okay, then you can compose a poem with the title of this 'Heavenly Pavilion'!"

"Hmm?!Heavenly Loft?hmm......" Gao Ran thought for a moment, but quickly responded, "Okay! Listen!"

I saw her eyes staring closely at a table of guests in the hall on the first floor of the building, holding a cup of hot tea in their hands, and slowly chanting......

"Sit and drink the water,

Look at the frying dust.

There is no reason to hold a bowl,

Sent to tea lovers. ”

What she recited was Bai Juyi's "Mountain Spring Sencha Youhuai".

She thought, anyway, this "Heavenly Pavilion" is a tea house, and it should be right to recite poems related to "tea"!

As it turned out, she was right!

Xiao Er listened to the poem she 'composed', and at first her eyes widened in surprise, but she quickly reined in her feelings. But looking at her gaze, I couldn't help but have more respect than before.

He nodded at her, and took the initiative to call another Xiao Er, who was busy in the store, who seemed to be "ranked" and might not be as high as him, to come over and help her take her to the backyard to take care of her, and then respectfully invited her into the door.