Chapter 14 Huge sums of money
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When Li Meng left the city, it was still the west gate of Jiaozhou City, and according to what he observed yesterday, the people who entered the city were subject to more interrogation, and the people who went out of the city did not pay much attention.
Sure enough, when Li Meng strode out of the west gate, no one paid attention at all, and coincidentally, yesterday's soldier Wang Laosan was still leaning on the city wall and asked lazily:
"What are you going to do out of town?"
"Go visit relatives."
Li Meng replied loudly, his expression was calm, that Wang Laosan didn't even bother to move, obviously he couldn't recognize the person who entered the city yesterday, of course, there are many people in and out of this city gate every day, who can remember one of them, especially this person was a poor man in rags yesterday, but today he has become a city merchant with a lofty spirit, neatly dressed, and thick leggings, it is strange to recognize.
Zhao Neng had something on his mind, he saw Li Meng go out on the first day, thinking that he would come back after a while, but at lunchtime, Zhao Neng's wife specially made a few dishes of the food she bought yesterday and asked Zhao Neng to come over to greet her, but Li Meng had not come back yet, and the same was true at dinnertime.
Zhao Neng, who was a little uneasy, also deliberately went to count the silver money that he stuffed in the corner, about ten taels of silver, for the poor people of the Xue family's thousands of households, this is a real lot of money, if it is said that when Li Meng was stupid in the past, it is worth believing that he went out without taking these silvers, but now Li Meng's mind is so clear, but he put the money here and disappeared, which is indeed unclear.
Those who went to sell illicit salt were originally very happy, but because of yesterday's incident, they were all frightened, for fear that King Mu Yan would come to the door again, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai left the village early after Zhao Neng finished speaking, and the others were similar, except for Zhao Neng who was still there guarding the old lady.
The next morning, all these people who were hiding outside came back, thinking that there should be nothing more, and they went back to their respective homes to prepare for a few days of silence.
Only Zhao Neng was anxiously waiting at the door of Li Meng's house, thinking that Li Meng must not have anything to do.
When it was almost lunch, Zhao Nengxin wanted to tell everyone the news of Li Meng's disappearance, and if there was really a whistleblower or an unfortunate situation, everyone should be prepared.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Li Meng walked over from the entrance of the village, Zhao Neng almost didn't recognize it at that time, these young people in the Xue family's thousands of households are busy with life on weekdays, and they don't have time to clean up themselves, they are all the kind of bearded and messy hair, and the clothes on their bodies are naturally not to mention, they are all tattered and poor.
Seeing Li Meng's neat hair and wearing half-worn but passable cloth clothes approaching, Zhao Neng was really taken aback, but then he took it for granted, after Li Meng's brave and resourceful performance, he felt that this brother was really different from these military children of the same age in the guard. It is also natural to dress like this, and the so-called respect may be formed so unconsciously.
"Li Meng, what have you been doing in the past two days?"
When I got closer, I found that Li Meng was sweating profusely, thinking that although it was summer, the seaside had never been hot, Li Meng's body was not carrying a flat shoulder or pushing a chicken cart, how could he still walk so much sweat, Li Meng could see the concern in Zhao Neng's eyes, and his heart was a little moved, but what he was doing last night, he definitely couldn't say it clearly, just replied with a smile:
"After a long trip, Brother Lao Zhao bothered!"
After saying this, Zhao Neng's hanging heart was put down, and he patted Li Meng's shoulder and said with a smile:
"Next time you go far away, say hello in advance, my mother and I are very worried about you."
Seeing that Zhao Neng had no doubt about his words, that kind of simple trust made Li Meng particularly moved, thinking of the help and trust of everyone who had been in this era for more than a month, Li Meng felt more and more that he did not regret what he did last night, and he also bought a bag of snacks and handed it to Zhao Neng for him to bring to Aunt Zhao.
Li Meng pushed down Zhao Neng's invitation to lunch, saying that he was too tired and wanted to go back to sleep, and after the evening, everyone had already returned, and Zhao Neng had nothing to worry about, so he went home after chatting a few words.
Seeing Zhao Neng go home, Li Meng returned to his yard, turned around and closed the courtyard door, walked a few steps towards the house, and found a wooden stick to put on the door, this is the way to enter the house. Although the door of this dilapidated house has never been locked, Li Meng still holds an iron ruler and pins it to the door.
Seeing that the silver and weapons were stuffed in the corner, Li Meng smiled with some emotion, the broken knife was thrown by him in the river, and he took out a waist knife and put it beside him, this is to sit on the bed board, bend down to untie the leggings, long walks and long walks with leggings can relieve fatigue, this is the common sense of the merchants.
However, if someone who understands looks at Li Meng's leggings, they must have laughed off their big teeth, they are not neat at all, and they are bulging, which will not play the role of leggings at all.
Untied the leggings in circles, the sound of "choking" and "choking" continued, some scattered gold and silver fell to the ground from between the untied leggings, and when the leggings were untied, Li Meng untied the belt again, and there was a sparse sound of landing, and after untying the belt and leggings, Li Meng breathed a sigh of relief.
The ground was full of broken gold and silver, Li Meng estimated that there should be a weight of about thirty catties, that is, two hundred taels of silver and dozens of taels of gold, he wrapped these scattered gold and silver around his leggings and belt, walked forty miles, walked back, no wonder Li Meng was sweating profusely.
"If it weren't for the weight-bearing cross-country training when I was a soldier in the past, I really wouldn't have survived."
Li Meng said to himself with a smile, but he didn't know one thing, according to the weights and measures of the Ming Dynasty, one catty in the Ming Dynasty was equal to five hundred and seventy grams in modern times, and one catty in the Ming Dynasty was sixteen taels.
The gold and silver that Li Meng actually brought back was not two hundred taels of silver and dozens of taels of gold as he estimated, but three hundred and ninety taels of silver and one hundred and seven taels of gold!
The price of gold is converted into silver taels, which is almost 1 to 5 to 1 to 6, which is almost a thousand taels of silver, which is really a huge amount of money!!