Chapter 44: The Top
Of course, it will not definitely appear, and it can only be left to fate.
Rare celestial phenomena will happen to unusual things, but what will happen is something that practitioners can only speculate and not be sure, otherwise they really think they are heavenly.
Ying Baoyue felt that she was a ...... Respect for former practitioners of science.
All in all, Fifteen's plan was her last effort at that mausoleum.
Whether or not she could get the information she wanted, she decided that this was the last time.
You can't keep being stumped by a mausoleum, and you can't keep not making choices.
"Alright, the morning meditation is over." Hearing a commotion, the girl in front of her pulled her wrist out of the bucket, stood up and said with a smile to Guichen, "It's time to get down to business." ”
She called it morning meditation?
Guichen looked at her dumbfounded, and looked down at her right wrist, "Your hand ......"
The girl in front of her lowered her sleeves and slowly tied the familiar strip of cloth to her wrist to cover all the scars.
"What's wrong?"
Guichen hesitated for a moment, "Doesn't it hurt?" ”
He had wanted to ask this question for a long time.
Ying Baoyue smiled and said to him.
"It's fine."
This is...... Are you sure?
Guichen's brows were twisted into a knot, his chest was jammed, and all kinds of emotions were accumulated, but he didn't know what to say.
"Okay, don't worry about things that can't be changed, hurry up and get down to business."
Guichen remembered what she had just said, and said in a daze, "What are you doing?" ”
"Go up the mountain, and ......" the girl in front of her looked at him speechlessly, "buy rice." ”
"If you don't buy rice, your whole family will starve to death."
"Didn't you say you were going to buy rice from a neighboring village? I'm going with you too. ”
……
……
Why does she want to go anywhere?
Guichen walked down the road with a basket on his back, looking back at the girl wearing a familiar hat and looking around.
It is true that she doesn't ask him and his family much questions, but after getting along with each other for a few days, Guichen found that the characteristic of this girl is that she may be more inclined to look with her own eyes than to ask questions.
Whether it was following him to Sima's mansion, following him up the mountain, or now following him to a neighboring village or even a market to buy rice, she didn't miss any opportunity to go out.
And then, she watched it all the time.
With her eyes, she looks at the world and sees what he can see, and what he can't see.
Guichen had a strange feeling from the first time he saw her awake.
The girl's eyes were different from those he had ever seen.
But what's the difference?
What did she see?
But let's not mention it first, she doesn't seem to be able to do anything else this time.
Thinking of her sister's speechless eyes before leaving home, Guichen carried the bamboo basket on her back up, after all, she couldn't carry rice.
He carried her about the same.
"What's wrong?" Ying Baoyue, who was looking at the scenery of the neighboring village, looked at the young man who was staring at her.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing......" Guichen hurriedly looked ahead, raised his hand and pointed forward.
"It's almost there!"
"Really?" Ying Baoyue looked at his fingertips, just walked all the way, for some reason the village was sparsely populated, and at this time, a dilapidated barn finally appeared in the depths of the dilapidated thatched hut in the distance.
Guichen didn't expect him to point it right by mistake. Many of the barns he was familiar with in the neighboring village had been covered up for some reason, and he finally saw the exposed one.
Guichen breathed a sigh of relief and strode towards the bamboo basket on his back, and Ying Baoyue followed him and quickened his pace.
Guichen's footsteps were relaxed, but looking at the thatched branches and other miscellaneous items piled up by the barn, the girl's eyes deepened.
And the next moment.
"What? Thirty baht for a bucket of rice? ”
The boy's stunned voice rang out in front of the barn, piercing the silent air of the village.
Ying Baoyue looked at Guichen who had just picked off the bamboo basket in his hand and fell to the ground with a thud, and was stunned to see an old man standing in front of the barn speechless.
"Uncle Wei, you're afraid you're joking with me, right?" After a while, Guichen looked at the old man in front of him in disbelief, "The new rice on the set is only twenty baht a bucket, and your old rice costs thirty baht a bucket?" ”
Why don't you grab it?
Ying Baoyue looked at the young man's trembling shoulders with anger, and felt that he probably wanted to say this.
When the Great Qin was founded, under the auspices of the great secretary Lin Shubai, she changed the "baht two system" of the 24 decimal system used in the chaotic times to the 100 decimal system, and combined it with the "Wen two systems" of later generations to create a monetary system of ten wen and one baht, and one hundred baht is equal to one tael of silver.
Although the Qin system is currently abolished in many countries, this currency system is fortunately still here.
Thanks to this easy-to-calculate base system, Yingbaoyue can also easily calculate the price of rice.
If there is not much problem with her memory, using the price of rice at the time of the Great Qin Dynasty, according to the purchasing power of the currency of this world, one tael of silver is equivalent to about a thousand yuan in the modern world.
That was the purchasing power of the heyday, and now in the time of the split, silver could only be more expensive.
It is not difficult to calculate that the cost of a plant is about ten yuan, and thirty baht can indeed be said to be sky-high.
According to Guichen's previous statement, five years ago, the price of rice was still five baht a bucket, and with the decline of the former Qin state, the price of rice became more and more expensive, and the price of new rice rose to fifteen baht at the beginning of the year, but it took at least five years.
The sudden rise to twenty two days ago was already very scary, and this sudden thirty baht bucket or Chen Mi was already equivalent to blackmail......
"Twenty baht?" Unexpectedly, the old man in front of the barn who was smoking a cigarette pot with a sad face knocked the cigarette gun on the stone and showed a mocking smile at Guichen.
"You're afraid it's the price of the first two days, right?" The old man spit out a puff of inferior tobacco leaves, and his bloodshot old eyes looked straight at Guichen, "The rice on the set has been sold for thirty-five this morning!" ”
Guichen was shocked, and his voice stammered, "What...... How can it be? ”
"What's impossible?" The old man turned around, "Do you see how many shops in the village dare to sell old rice?" If you don't buy mine, wait to starve to death, other rice may only be more expensive! It's not an old man, I've lived enough, who would dare to come out? ”
"What the hell is going on?" Guichen opened his mouth in a daze.
And at this moment, a slender voice came from behind him.
"Conscription?"
Guichen turned his head suddenly, and the cloudy eyes of the old man in front of him were firmly fixed on the girl behind him.
"I haven't seen it, this young lady...... Who are you? ”
I can't see my face clearly, but at least I can see my age, how can this young girl perceive anything?
The trend of some things is revealed to be a capital crime, he just relied on the fact that the boy girl had never seen the troubled times and had no knowledge and said a few words, how could he ......
Looking at the immovable girl, the old man's face wrinkled even deeper, "Old man, I don't have anything ......"
"Well, I'm just guessing." Ying hugged the moon and said.
"Guichen, buy as much rice as you can, let's go after buying." She looked at the young man beside her.
"Rice prices are indeed likely to continue to rise."
Throughout the ages, there have been only two things that have led to an increase in the price of rice.
One is famine.
And one more is.
War.