The shopkeeper's smile froze: "I don't have money to live in a ......" Seeing the rolled tiger skin under Yang Qiuchi's armpit, he immediately changed his smile: "Guest officer, dare to love that you are a hunter, you are really powerful when you hit such a big tiger!" After that, he gave a thumbs up, "It doesn't matter if you don't have money, don't you have tiger skins, don't you get rich if you sell them!" Guest, our store is a century-old shop, clean and hygienic, and there are many delicious foods, such as steamed mandarin fish......"

The shopkeeper was about to count with his fingers, but was interrupted by Yang Qiuchi waving his hand. Yang Qiuchi heard him say that this tiger skin could be sold for money, and he was overjoyed: "May I ask where to sell this tiger skin?" ”

The shopkeeper pulled Yang Qiuchi and walked a few steps down the street, and pointed into the distance: "Just turn a corner and you'll be there." After thinking about it, he said: "Anyway, there are no guests now, I'll tell the shopkeeper to take you there!" ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded gratefully, it seems that the people of the Ming Dynasty are still very simple.

The shopkeeper ran into the store, and after a while, he came out again, and said with a smile to Yang Qiuchi: "It's done, let's go." "Let's lead the way. Yang Qiuchi followed the shopkeeper across a few streets, came to a pawnshop, and walked in through the curtain door.

In Yang Qiuchi's mind, this pawnshop is associated with the evil old society, and the common people really can't survive anymore, so they take the things that are a little worth a little money at home to the pawnshop and exchange them for rice, and the shopkeepers in the pawnshop must be pouting and trying to lower the price, and exploit the only little property that the people have. Therefore, Yang Qiuchi has no good impression of this pawnshop. However, except in movies and television, I have never seen a real pawnshop, so I can't help but be a little curious.

Entering the pawnshop, there is a row of high counters, there are more than one person high, standing in front of the counter, you can't see the countertop at all, there is a row of dark fences on the counter, behind the fence, there is a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, who is fiddling with an abacus, and there is a thread-bound book next to it, which seems to be settling accounts. When the fat middle-aged man saw Yang Qiuchi and the two coming in, he only raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at the two of them, then lowered his head and fiddled with the abacus again.

The shopkeeper patted the counter with his hand: "Hey! Money shopkeeper, there is a guest officer to be a thing! ”

The money shopkeeper raised his eyes to look at the shopkeeper, and then turned his head to look at Yang Qiuchi, when his eyes fell on the tiger skin under Yang Qiuchi's armpit, his eyes emitted a bright light, but it flashed like a meteor, and he returned to his lazy demeanor: "What should it be?" ”

Yang Qiuchi took out the tiger skin and handed it to the counter: "A tiger skin!" ”

The money shopkeeper didn't turn over the tiger skin, but pouted and looked left and right, picked up a brush, turned it upside down and stabbed the bullet holes in the tiger's head with the barrel of the pen, and said to himself: "The skin of this tiger's head is rotten and worthless." He threw down the brush, touched the tiger's hair with his hand, and pinched it: "The hair is about to fall out, and I don't know where it was picked." ”

Yang Qiuchi was stunned: "What did you pick up?" You didn't see the blood on the tiger's skin, I just slaughtered it! He turned his head to look at the shopkeeper, and his expression was a little proud. The shopkeeper smiled with admiration.

The money shopkeeper didn't pay attention to it, looked at the sky with his eyes, dragged out his voice, and spewed out a few words in his nostrils: "Tattered hair - a tiger skin, dang - silver - ten taels!" ”

Ten taels of silver? How much is that? Yang Qiuchi had no idea how much silver was worth in the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know how to answer it, so he just looked at the money shopkeeper and then looked at the shopkeeper, and then looked at the shopkeeper, and didn't know what to say for a while.

The shopkeeper sighed and reminded: "Guest officer, your tiger skin shopkeeper's bid of ten taels of silver, should you be inappropriate?" ”

"How much is ten taels of silver?" Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed.

Don't know the value of silver? This person may not have even seen silver, and when the money shopkeeper heard it, his intestines regretted it green. In addition to a few small holes in the head, the skin on the body is complete, and it is obviously just peeled off, it is a tiger skin of an adult tiger, which is worth a lot of money, and it can be sold in the market, and it can be sold for more than 70 taels, and he only has ten taels, which has already taken advantage of the boss, but now it seems that he should be satisfied with a few pieces of money, so he can give 10 taels.

The shopkeeper is an honest man, after all, he is in the inn business, and he has seen everyone who is sent to the three sects and nine streams, but it is really rare to see a person in front of him who doesn't even know how much the silver is worth ten taels. Although it was a little funny, his face did not show it, and he still said politely: "Ten taels of silver is ten copper coins, which is ten thousand big coins." ”

Ten runs? 10,000 big bucks? How much yuan is that? Yang Qiuchi was still confused. I think that the most common method of currency conversion in ancient times is to use purchasing power to convert, how much the same item was worth in ancient times, how much it is worth in modern times, and the conversion value of the two currencies roughly comes out. What objects are used as references? The most common is of course rice, but Yang Qiuchi never buys rice, so he doesn't know how much rice in modern society costs a catty, or uses what he knows to convert it and use a big bowl of noodles? With roast duck? A bowl of dumplings? It doesn't seem to be easy to calculate, by the way, I usually like to eat xiaolonggong buns, so let's use this to convert, so I asked: "How much is a small xiaolongrou bun in your store?" ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, some of the second monks were confused, why did they suddenly ask the meat buns, it seemed that this person might be hungry and crazy, and smiled: "Xiaolong buns are three big dollars in a cage, and there are six in a cage of steamed buns, and two meat buns are sold for a big money." ”

Two meat buns for a big buck, in modern times, two meat buns for one dollar, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, a big dollar was almost worth one dollar, and ten taels of silver was 10,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan was also worth 10,000 yuan, and this tiger skin was 10,000 yuan, which was still very good. Yang Qiuchi didn't know that this tiger skin was also very valuable in the Ming Dynasty, anyway, he didn't know the value of the tiger skin, he hadn't eaten all day, so he first found some money to buy something to eat, anyway, when he had money, he could redeem it when he had money in the future. At the thought of eating, Yang Qiuchi's stomach began to growl.

The shopkeeper looked at Yang Qiuchi's face with sadness and joy, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and he heard his stomach growling, knowing that he was extremely hungry, he almost laughed: "Guest officer, the xiaolongbao in our inn is famous in Guangde County, with a large filling and thin skin, and the top-selected fine meat is chopped with filling, and a bite is full of oil." When you are done, go back to the inn and give you two cages to try. ”

Yang Qiuchi was already so hungry that his eyes were green, but now when he heard the shopkeeper say that this fragrant and hot small steamed pork bun, he couldn't wait to fly to the inn immediately and call a few large steamed pork buns to eat. Hurriedly said: "It's done!" Give the money quickly! ”

The money shopkeeper sighed, although he regretted it, but since the words had been spoken, how could he regret it, so he had to open a pawn ticket and weigh ten taels of silver to Yang Qiuchi.

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