Chapter 22: On Earth

Grandma has a leg, how can there be such a bully, the banquet is held at your young master's home, and the guests are also your young master's love...... I just said that Liu Erye was stupid, but he was still at odds with the commissioner this afternoon, but in the blink of an eye, he not only successfully rescued his baby son, but also cheekily rubbed this meal and befriended the commissioner...... As for the commissioner, even more absolutely, when I saw him in the land temple this morning, he was still like a well-dressed vagabond, who was just playing tricks, and became a guest of honor at the house of the eldest young master of the international student in half a day, and rightly smiled at the real money of the Liu family, and now he is still sitting on the chief, and everyone flatters and flatters...... The village elders at the same table didn't contribute any financial and material resources, and they didn't take the slightest risk, so they were all dignified, eating and drinking...... Thinking about it, this table full of people is the only one who is the stupidest, and he is simply the number one fool in the world......

Thinking of this, Wang Jiagui began to ignore it, and let himself fly as if no one was around. Even the young master of Tsinghua asked everyone to comment on the daughter red in the bowl, and everyone was full of praise, all of them thought that "the taste is mellow and the stamina is long", and he just nodded with a red face, and continued to eat Haisai with a red face. He judged the performance of the two of them, leaving several village elders dumbfounded.

At that moment, Afu came in with a tray of chicken soup and distributed it to everyone according to their heads.

However, because Liu Erye, who was temporarily added in, was a guest, the bowl of chicken soup that was supposed to be drunk by Wang Jiagui was transferred to him. In this way, after Ah Fu finished distributing the bowls of chicken soup one by one, Wang Jiagui looked at the chicken soup on the table in front of even a few poor and sour village elders, but it was empty in front of him......

Ah Fu smiled apologetically at him, turned to go out, and soon turned out from behind the screen, and in the tray he held in both hands, he came straight to him with a bowl full of fragrant chicken soup, put the tray, and served it with both hands.

The strong fragrance was fragrant, the chicken soup in front of him was very thick and full, and there were full of chicken and radish pieces, and Wang Jiagui, who was red-eared and bare-handed, didn't know what expression to put on when he saw it, he was overjoyed, and his heart was relieved, and his eyes narrowed into crescents. At this time, seeing Ah Fu withdrawing with low eyebrows, he smiled comfortably. Hey, this Ah Fu is also knowledgeable and interesting, and it is worthy of my years of care for him.

The mellow smell filled Wang Jiagui's nasal cavity, making his eyes flutter. I slipped on the table again, and once again made sure that I was not mistaken, a fat chicken with two legs, one of which had been rested in the chief commissioner's bowl, and the other was in the bowl of Master Chen, and the rest was counted as the ...... with the highest gold content in the bowl in front of him, and saw that everyone was talking to the commissioner like a moon in the stars, and no one cared about themselves. He couldn't wait to pick up the bowl, pick up the ceramic spoon, stir it a few times, and then drink it to his heart's content.

When he was drinking comfortably, he vaguely heard the sound of a pig crying behind the screen of the openwork, but he didn't know what to add to the thick soup in front of him, the taste was so delicious that he was half-drunk, and it was difficult for him to have other thoughts in his mind.

Behind the screen, Ah Fu, who was bowing down and peeping, put away the end plate with satisfaction, turned out the back door, and walked briskly on the verandah for a long time, his expression returned to normal, but the pace was much heavier than usual, and he muttered a prayer in his heart as he walked: "Brother, I only hate my brother for not having the ability, and I can't complain for you, but today...... finally let Wang Jiagui, the old guy, drink a mouthful of thick phlegm from his younger brother! ”

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After the meal, the moon comes out on the East Ridge, sprinkling a faint orange glow.

Xie Yucheng returned to the attic under the guidance of Ah Fu.

Ah Fu lit the oil lamp on the table, lit a camphor branch and put it in the corner pottery pot to repel mosquitoes, and then withdrew.

The waterfall in the west is flying, the insects in the courtyard are chirping, the moonlight outside the window is dim, Xie Yucheng tossed and turned, it was difficult to sleep, so he simply got up and counted today's harvest.

This Liu family is worthy of being a wealthy family in this mountain, and they are very generous: two small yellow croakers, each weighing about one tael, five silver dollars, and ten oceans each.

Xie Yucheng didn't know the prices of goods in this era, nor did he know the exchange ratio of gold and silver dollars at this time, but no matter what the standard, these few things in front of him were already worth a lot of money.

The small yellow croaker feels heavy and reassuring. Xie Yucheng opened a silver dollar, took a Yuan Datou, blew a breath, and put it to his ear to listen to the wonderful humming sound...... Count them one by one, listen to them one by one, and enjoy it. Ten silver dollars, he counted for half an hour. When Xie Yucheng was laughing at himself for being unproductive, he suddenly found that Yuan Datou was mixed with other types of silver dollars.

I picked up one and took a closer look, and found that it was a silver dollar made in Jiangxi.

This silver dollar has a strong and solemn shape, the font decoration is neat and atmospheric, and the center of the front is engraved with a six-petal plum blossom. Around the plum blossoms, engraved Jiangxi silver coin four words, engraved outside the bead circle of the Republic of China and a circle of words, the time of issuance is engraved outside the bead circle, two words: Renzi. He did the math and it turned out to be 1912.

On the reverse of the coin, the nine-pointed and eighteen-star emblem is engraved on the bead circle, the outer ring of the bead ring is engraved with the English word "KIANG-SEE", the lower end is engraved with the English currency value "ONE DOLLAR", and the flower spikes are engraved on each side.

Xie Yucheng never knew that during the Republic of China period, various places also minted their own coins, and in later generations, he only knew Yuan Datou, gold yuan coupons, legal tender, and copper, and now, he felt that the appearance of this silver coin in front of him was much stronger than Yuan Datou.

It's not just a coin anymore, it's a craft. When this thought came to his mind, Commissioner Xie was finally able to beautify his obsessive-compulsive disorder with peace of mind as an appreciation for the craft of coinage.

The orange moonlight shines through the window and sprinkles on the bed, painting the bed with gold and silver like a river.

After about an hour, the Xie special commissioner finally had enough of it, put them away one by one, scolded himself for "no interest", and then lay down in his clothes, and soon sleepy came up, and gradually fell asleep.

In the haze, a dog barking sounded in the village, Xie Yucheng was suddenly startled, and listened quietly for a while, but the dog barking not only did not stop, but became loud.

There is a rural proverb: if a dog barks in the middle of the night, it is either a traitor or a thief. Xie Yucheng didn't feel sleepy at all, so he simply got out of bed and came to the window.

Looking at the village in the distance, I saw several teams of firelight passing through the village, mixed with noisy human voices.

The bandits are coming?

You must know that in this era, it is not uncommon for a remote mountain village like this to be surrounded by bandits in the middle of the night.

At this moment, in the dark courtyard, among the swaying flowers and trees, a lantern was ghostly floating towards the attic.

Xie Yuzhen's heart jumped, and he quietly came to the table and copied the round stool in his hand.

When he came to the window again, the lantern had already climbed the stairs of the attic, and Xie Yucheng could tell from the footsteps that it was Ah Fu, a servant of the Chen family.