After Sima Jiu finished eating the last piece of bread, he brought the bowl containing mutton soup to his mouth and drank it all.

Suddenly, a stream of heat flows from the mouth into the abdomen, and the whole body is comfortable.

Sima Ruohua looked at his brother Sima Jiu covering his mouth and smiled, then took out a handkerchief and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead.

"Brother, I'm full."

"I'm full, so let's go."

Sima Jiu glanced at the empty bowls and leftovers on the table, turned his head and shouted, "Man, settle the bill." ”

The soup was full of cakes, and even the voice of the people was much brighter.

"Haole, guest officer, a total of sixteen cents." The shopkeeper smiled enthusiastically.

Sima Jiu took out the money bag, poured out the coins inside, and counted them one by one.

"Twelve, thirteen......." Sima Jiu looked at the last coin, then poured the pouch again, and then remembered that before entering the city, they gave the last of their money to the beggars on the side of the road.

Yang Jian unified the currency of the world and minted the five baht coins of Kaihuang as the currency in circulation, so the daily settlement used five baht coins.

A five-baht coin is a penny, and a thousand wen is consistent.

Yang Jian ruled the world, the world is prosperous, and now, twelve pennies can be exchanged for a bucket of rice, that is, twelve catties and a half of rice in later generations.

In Daxing City, the imperial capital, I had a great meal before I ate more than a dozen catties of rice.

This meal, ahem, is worth it.

However, there are still two pennies left to settle the bill.

For a while, Sima Jiu was a little embarrassed.

Shopkeeper Ermu looked at Sima Jiu with a smile on his face, he didn't suspect that this man and woman were the ones who ate the overlord's meal, after all, the clothes on these two people were at least worth hundreds of dollars.

"The small shop has been operating here for a long time, and if the guest officer is inconvenient at hand, it will be the same next time." The shopkeeper of the old shopkeeper with a goatee paced from behind the counter to Sima Jiu's side and said in a friendly manner.

The old shopkeeper was holding a little girl with cute pigtails, and it seemed that the little girl was only four or five years old.

The little girl opened her curious eyes and looked at Sima Jiu, who was more beautiful than her big sister.

Sima Jiu glanced at it, and knew that the old shopkeeper was a kind person, but when he noticed the little girl's pure and immaculate eyes, he secretly scolded himself in his heart for relying on these two pennies It was too low.

Besides, is he the one who misses the two pennies?

Then, he dug it in his arms and placed a gold leaf on the table.

It seems that the gold given by the merchant Liu Meiniang at the beginning comes in handy today.

The little girl with pigtails looked at a golden leaf, and her little face showed a puzzled expression.

Apparently, the little girl had never seen anyone use gold leaf in this store.

"It's gold! Guest officer, it's just two pennies, it's okay to give or get rid of it another day, your shot is gold. The old shopkeeper looked at the gold leaf a little excited, but a little helpless.

Along the way, Sima Jiu was in charge of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of several immortal doctors, and he already had a slight understanding of the life of the empire, unlike when he was with Li Jiancheng, Feng Li always paid the bill, he only had to eat, drink and live.

According to the official exchange rate, money can always be exchanged for one tael of silver, and one tael of gold is worth ten taels of silver.

However, silver is not common in the market, and gold, which is mostly circulated among the nobles and the rich, is even rarer.

Nowadays, the world is prosperous, although the first emperor Yang Jian advocated frugality, but among the noble and wealthy families, it is popular to wear gold and silver.

As a result, the market price of gold and silver is much higher than the official exchange rate.

Sima has nine gold leaves in two taels, and in the imperial capital of Daxing City, even if the price is 300 yuan, some people will rush to ask for it.

At that time, Sima Jiu will become a small rich man with thirty yuan in his pocket.

Sima Jiu said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, it's okay, this gold leaf can't be eaten or lived, it always has to be exchanged, you just give it at the official price." ”

The guest officer laughed, the small shop is a small business, and today, the store does not have enough financial resources to exchange. If the guest officer is allowed, can you let me see the color of the gold leaf, and I can introduce a few people to exchange it with you. The old shopkeeper glanced at Sima Jiu and said slowly.

Sima Jiu handed the gold to the old shopkeeper, and then couldn't help but pull the little girl's cute braids.

The little girl was not afraid of people, her little hand bit her mouth, and she looked at Sima Jiu and smirked.

"Brother, why do you always like children, in Sima Village, the children in the village played with you affectionately." Sima Ruohua also likes little girls with pigtails, quipped.

The old shopkeeper looked at the gold leaf carefully and exclaimed: "Full of real gold, this is full of real gold." ”

Sima Jiu smiled secretly in his heart, the shopkeeper of merchant Liu, of course, would not be a charlatan with gold and iron.

At this moment, a discordant voice came.

"Full of real gold, how can there be any real gold in this world." A few big men at the adjacent table had already cast their eyes when they took out the copper coins from Sima Jiu.

They were dressed in left and right garments, and among them, there was a shirtless man who wore a humble shawl with sleeves.

These four or five people had fierce faces, and there were faint tattoos on their bodies, which were obviously local snakes.

When they saw Sima Jiu's face, they knew that Sima brothers and sisters were not natives of Daxing City by listening to the accent, and they saw that they were dressed luxuriously and their wealth was exposed, thinking that they were young children who had just set foot in the rivers and lakes.

"Old Li Tou, I heard that the Southern Chen Yu Party has the means to turn fossils into gold, don't deceive the two out-of-town chicks." A Han man in his right clothes snatched the gold from the shopkeeper's hand, checked it in his hand, and bit it on his black and yellow teeth.

Sima Jiu shook his head slightly, feeling disgusted in his heart.

He won't touch this gold again.

At this time, he also wanted to see the routines of the legendary ancient rivers and lakes, and he kept smiling and watching the Han performance.

The big man bit the gold leaf, a hint of ecstasy flashed in his eyes, and then put the gold in his arms.

"Lao Li Tou, I said that this gold is fake, a smell of lead tires, this grandfather is in a good mood, so he won't report to the official."

"Out-of-town barbarians, what are you looking at, get out." The big man's clothes were lifted open, revealing a knife handle.

The old shopkeeper was anxious, Sima Jiu's gold was lost in his hands, and he couldn't afford to pay for it.

So, he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the man's clothes, afraid that he would run away, so he just begged, "What a tiger master, this gold is true or false, let's go to the official office and ask, don't give in to these two foreign children." ”

Where would that man pay attention to him?

Next to the man, a big man in a robe and half of his arms was exposed, looking impatient, and kicked at the old shopkeeper.

The Xianbei man has a thick body, and if this leg kicks it really well, the little girl with pigtails will be injured.

The more Sima Ruohua listened to it, the more angry he became, this robbery was too untechnical.

When she saw the Xianbei man making a move, she got up and stepped forward, her elbow bent slightly, and hit the Xianbei man's waist.

Although Sima Ruohua used the introductory kung fu of the doctor, it was not something that a few ruffians could withstand.

The Xianbei man was beaten so that his eyes bulged, he bent down with his stomach in his arms, coughed and screamed.

Seeing this, Sima Jiu got up and waved his hand to signal the shopkeeper to take the little girl back.

He looked at the old shopkeeper and the little girl, and added, "If something is broken in a while, I will compensate according to the price." ”

Just as Sima Jiu was putting on a posture and preparing to make a move, the curtain on the door of the soup cake restaurant was lifted.

A ten-year-old tiger-headed boy and a six-foot giant man walked into the soup cake restaurant.

"Hu Laosan, Tuoba Hu, when you come to Changfang to spread wild, don't you take me Xia Changtang in your eyes?" The tiger-headed young man, although he was young, was very bold, looking at a group of people and glaring angrily.

"Xu Shiyun, Wei Chigong, what are you crazy about!"

"If it weren't for the new emperor sacrificing to the heavens, building the Golden Tower of Babel, praying for the blessing of the empire, and the Twelve Guards prohibiting fighting in the city, would he be afraid of you?" The man who grabbed the gold leaf gasped when he saw the two, but the scene was beautifully spoken.

"Although the Twelve Guards supervise the whole city, they can quietly kill you here, and what do they do to me." The six-foot giant has a calm tone, and the threat is unmistakable.

"Put down your things, I can go around you once, otherwise, my eldest brother's steel whip will not recognize people." The tiger-headed young man has no change in color, and he has the demeanor of a general who is not chaotic in the face of danger.

After finishing speaking, the six-foot giant man took out a steel whip from behind his waist, shook it in front of his eyes, and stared directly at the man who grabbed the gold leaf.

Hearing this, Sima Jiu's eyelids jumped wildly.

These two people are the famous Xu Shiyun and Wei Chigong.

Yu Chi Gongshan made a bamboo steel whip, thinking about it, it was this six-foot giant.

Xu Shiyun is young, calculated, he is about ten years old at this time, and he should be the young man with a tiger head.