Chapter Sixty-Eight: Expensive Bronze

Who told her that Yanzhou was extremely rich, and the materials handed over to the imperial court every year accounted for half of all materials, and Lu Li promised not to kill him.

Although it is not said that Yanzhou is full of copper mines, but this is indeed true, Yanzhou is indeed developed because of the discovery of copper mines, and the number is large, so how can there be so few copper mines in the sights?

Although Shangguan Yinling also had doubts, he didn't say it.

"Everyone is tired of hurrying, let's find an inn to have a meal first, rest for a few days before leaving."

If Shangguan Yinling went to Kyoto alone, then he might only stay here for half a day, eat some food, drink some water, and then continue to hurry, but now... Looking at the somewhat tired crowd, he suddenly felt that he had become a humane.

Duan Lang picked a good inn and walked in with everyone.

The decoration outside the inn is very exquisite, and the environment inside is also elegant and quiet.

Everyone sat around a table of eight immortals, and the inn's junior second came over with a smiling face with the menu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you want to eat?"

Shangguan Yinling sat alone on the side, and after taking the menu, he flipped through it and handed it to Lu Li, who was sitting next to him.

Lu Li also took it very naturally, Duan Lang sat in Lu Li, watching her actions with some surprise.

"Let's have a dish of tamales, squirrel mandarin fish, and a fiery duck."

Lu Li looked at the menu and said in a low voice, and Xiao Er next to him hurriedly wrote it down on the paper.

"Do you want to see what else you want to eat?"

Lu Li ordered her and Liang Song, and then handed it to Mr. Ren, who was sitting opposite Shangguan Yinling, and after Mr. Zhou ordered a soft dish, he arrived at Duan Lang.

Duan Lang knew how to eat, looked at the dishes he had ordered, and then added a few other words before he was done.

Although Shangguan Yinling is the one who takes the lead, that is, the boss, the money spent in the short circuit process cannot be paid by him alone.

So when encountering this kind of Shangguan Lingling paying, Duan Lang is generally slaughtered if he can, and he is not bad for money anyway.

Shangguan Yinling didn't care about Duan Lang's childish behavior.

After eating, everyone returned to the post house and went to their rooms to rest.

And Lu Li, who had always been quiet, pulled Liang Song to go out for a walk.

After Shangguan Yuling told them to pay attention to safety, he returned to his room.

Although it was past noon, the number of people setting up stalls on the street was increasing, but most of the people setting up the stalls were some elderly men, and most of the people buying things on the street were women of all ages.

Lu Li was only puzzled for a moment, and then thought that those young men might be fought for as laborers to mine, so he didn't think about it anymore.

The streets are very lively, with the shouts of hawkers and the bargaining of buyers and sellers.

Although Lu Li had just eaten lunch, he couldn't help but buy two strings when he saw someone passing by selling sugar gourds, and he gave Liang Song a string of them.

And people just walked around while eating slowly, and saw some other fun knick-knacks, and bought them.

"Well, there's a jewelry shop there."

Lu Li walked around for a long time, and finally saw a place that sold copper things.

The owner of this small stall was a middle-aged man, the man was originally sitting, but when Lu approached them, he found that the man's lower body was completely paralyzed.

"What do you look at, don't look at my stall, but the things sold are good, you see there are so many on this street, only I sell this thing!"

The man grimly pointed to a few hairpins on the stall.

Lu Li is a girl, although she is not enthusiastic about these decorative things, but she also likes them very much.

Although this stall says that it sells jewelry, it is more likely to buy bracelets and wooden hairpins, but these silver hairpins are very conspicuous.

"How do you sell this hairpin ring?"

Lu Li's gaze swept over the hairpins, although they looked very ordinary in appearance, but this hairpin ring was a little different.

"Hehe, seeing that this young lady is so beautiful, I'll give you a discount for the villain, just count you twenty taels of silver."

"Twenty taels? Are you dreaming or am I dreaming? Just such a small hairpin ring, do you think I will spend twenty taels to buy it? Why don't you grab it! ”

Lu Li pointed to the hairpin ring, his tone full of surprise.

Liang Song was naturally frightened by this "sky-high" price.

They can afford twenty taels, but it depends on what they are buying, just such a palm-sized hairpin ring, five taels they are too expensive, and they ask them for four times the price, is this slaughtering them as foreign tourists?

"Oops! What is a small hairpin ring, miss, you can go to the street to see, who can still sell silver hairpins, right here with me, you can find such a big hairpin ring, it's already good, okay. ”

The peddler's eyes were full of disapproval, but the words he said made Lu Li a little puzzled.

"What do you mean that no one buys silver hairpins, aren't you rich in copper ore here, it stands to reason that there should be no shortage of copper jewelry here, so why is it so expensive?"

Lu Li frowned and asked.

It dawned on the peddler.

"It turns out that you are outsiders, let me tell you, in our place, copper things are expensive, and these twenty taels are not enough."

The vendor waved his hand, "If you don't buy it, go elsewhere and don't stand in the way." ”

Lu Li pulled Liang Song to the side and said in a low voice, "Why do I feel a little strange." ”

Liang Song also nodded.

"Let's go look elsewhere."

As the hawker said, although there are indeed not many stalls selling jewelry on the stalls, Lu Li and the others still found a few shops that specialize in selling jewelry to inquire about the situation.

It may be that the store has not been patronized by customers for a long time, and the owner is resting on the desk.

"Boss, how much is this?"

Lu Li frowned, and twisted the dust with his fingers, these things were already a little old, and after picking them up, there were still some yellow-brown iron marks on his fingers.

The boss was woken up from a dream, and his face was a little dazed.

"Huh? That's what you say? That fifty taels, the one next to it, you just give me twenty-five taels. ”

Lu Li looked at the boss with a strange expression, her ears are fine, there is no decoration on a silver hairpin, just a plain silver hairpin, and it is actually sold for ten times higher than the price outside?

After Lu Li inquired about the price, he pulled Liang Song and walked out, the boss blinked, and went down to sleep again.

They went to a few more stores one after another, although they already had a bottom in their hearts, but after asking about the price, Lu Li and the others couldn't help but be secretly surprised in their hearts.