After entering the city, a bustling metropolis is displayed in front of you, in fact, the so-called city is also the place where prosperity and backwardness are demarcated, and the feeling of entering the city is ......

Girls who are accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings and pavilions see the scene of old Shanghai, in addition to a feeling of the vast crowd of people in the city and the streets extending in all directions, there is only a deep retro plot left. Low-rise buildings, buildings with more than four floors are considered high-rises, after all, it was that era, and Lin Ke commanded everyone to move forward to the downtown area.

This era should be the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the area of Shanghai is colonial rule, there are French Concession, British Concession and Japanese Concession, etc., maybe it is close to the center of the dream, they feel that they have not gone far to see the Huangpu River, the riverside is the central area of Shanghai, the central area is the imagination of prosperity: foreign banks, commercial houses and warehouses large and small merchants are lined up, mountain goods, sea goods and foreign goods are distributed here, Shanghai is an internationally famous open city, to modern times is every inch of land. With the geographical advantage of sea routes, there are well-known Chinese and foreign steamship companies along the river, cargo distribution and shipping, business travelers come and go bustlingly, official merchants, prostitutes, and liars, they come to the most prosperous territory of Shanghai.

The first thing is to find a pawnshop to exchange some money, why should they look for a pawnshop? Because the gold bars in their hands are not a product of that era after all, Lin Ke thought about it, and foreign companies may not be able to accept them. Fortunately, pawnshops could also exchange money at that time, pawnshops were not difficult to find, and the successive shops saw a plaque carved with three gilt characters on a black background, and the open door under the plaque seemed to welcome their arrival, and Lin Ke squeezed in without hesitation.

In this era, there are many poor people and few rich people, many poor people can't live a life and will pawn their own things that are a little worth a little money, of course, the price of the pawn is far less than the price on the market, nominally "worth ten when five" after the deadline can not be redeemed, so the pawnshop business at that time is very good, but the poor have no way, who is called born in that old era. The pawnshop has become a business that lowers the price difference and then changes hands to make money.

Lin Ke and they don't care, what they urgently need now is money! Meijiao and Yang Xue'er have been complaining for a long time, and this time they saw the pawnshop stepping into the threshold in a hurry.

The guy looked at them for a few days as if he were looking at the Western scenery, and then he reacted and asked politely, "What's the matter with the few?"

"Pawn," Lin Ke said dryly

Hearing this, the man quickly led them to the high counter in the house, and Lin Ke and the others looked up at the person sitting inside like watching a monkey in a cage, this person is about the same profession as a bank cashier, right?

The man was a young man in his twenties, looked at Lin Ke and the others with strange eyes, and asked softly, "What do you want to pawn?"

Lin Ke has already taken a piece of gold bar in his hand, stepped forward to the steps and passed the gold bar from that mouth, the gold bar is commonly known as yellow croaker in old Shanghai, this yellow croaker is divided into large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker according to the weight, because the gold bar they got in the last scene is a specially made exhibit, so it is slightly larger than the usual gold bar, a few taels heavier than the big yellow croaker, the gentleman who took the gold bar carefully looked at this gold bar, and was also secretly surprised, such a bright color of the gold bar for the first time, and so thick, at first glance I thought it was a fake, but I weighed the weight, and after repeated observation, I felt that it was not a fake, and the gold bar was engravedThe words "commemorative coin", as well as the words "limited edition 999 sets of 999 pure gold ......", of course, the purity of gold in that era was not as high as in modern times, and it is no wonder that Mr. has not made a conclusion for a long time.

The young gentleman had no choice but to invite out the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, took the gold bars and picked up the magnifying glass, looked left and right, and asked the young gentleman about the grams of gold bars, nodded slightly, after all, the shopkeeper was well-informed, and he had an idea in his heart, and said to Lin Ke and the others: " A few young ladies, we can't look at your object safely, but you really want to be me, so I have to make a price, and I don't hide from you that if this gram of gold bar can be 1000 oceans normally, your gold bar must have been obtained from a foreigner, right?"

Lin Ke didn't care and replied: "Then how much do you say you can do now?"

The shopkeeper smiled apologetically and replied: "I just took a good look, although this is the case, this product is indeed a pure product, but no one on the market may recognize it, I will make a price and you will give it to you if you agree." ”

Lin Ke and the others all nodded, and Yang Xue'er muttered even more dissatisfiedly: "Why are you talking so much, it's good ink." ”

The shopkeeper didn't care about Yang Xue'er's complaints, but still smiled and gently raised one hand and made a gesture.

Lin Ke asked back: "Eight hundred oceans?"

The shopkeeper nodded with a smile.

Okay, this gold was picked up for nothing anyway. The shopkeeper saw that several people nodded in agreement, and placed an order for Lin Ke to sign and pledge. The shopkeeper was secretly happy that this big yellow croaker could be sold for at least a thousand oceans if he wanted to change hands, and the rhetoric just now was just to lower the price, the gold was real, and the purity was relatively high, and the gram was also large, this is the baby.

The shopkeeper asked a few girls whether to take a silver ticket or give cash for such a large sum of money?

Lin Ke asked: How much is the top of your ocean? The ocean is a big ticket, which is equivalent to the current whole ticket, and you need to know the exchange rate when you go out.

The pawnshop shopkeeper's secret saying: I lost it, these stupid girls don't even know how to spend the money, and they give too much. The shopkeeper briefly told them about the exchange rate and local prices, and the girls were very clear about spending money.

A big ocean is a silver dollar, commonly known as a yuan of Yuan Datou, a Yuan Datou is equivalent to more than 100 yuan in modern society, of course, the price at that time was not the same as now, the rice was a necessity of life in the past, and it was not as developed as modern technology, and the yield per mu was much higher than in the past, so rice could buy more than 20 catties.

Eight hundred oceans really can't be held, the shopkeeper opened a seven hundred and fifty silver tickets for them, which can be exchanged at any time at major banks, and intimately took fifty oceans of cash for them, Lin Ke took the money, and Meijiao began to inquire where the store selling clothes was.

After a while, the shopkeeper finally sent away these chirping girls. The young gentleman at the beginning came to the shopkeeper and asked, "Big shopkeeper, I have never seen this gold of such purity, and can you see what is engraved on it?"

The big shopkeeper smiled and said angrily: "Look at the way you haven't seen the market, what kind of location is this Shanghai? There are more foreigners and there are many novelty things, so you can learn it, this good thing has been collected, and this money is earned!"

Following the direction of the shopkeeper's guidance, I came to the other side of this bustling street, but there were a lot of women in and out of the cloth shop, Anqi asked: "This is all about buying cloth to make clothes during the Republic of China, and it will be made by hand by the tailor to measure the size, so it will take a long time." "Everyone is embarrassed, even if what Angel said, I don't know if there is a ready-made one. I inquired about the fact that there were no ready-made clothes in a few cloth shops, but I heard a few wives who were wandering around interject and said, "Where are the countrymen who can't even wear decent clothes, really." There was contempt and mockery in the words.

How can Yang Xue'er, a thousand-pound eldest lady, stand the fact that others look down on her? Opened the package and took out the gold ring, and hung all ten fingers full, Yang Xue'er took no less than 20 gold bracelets and several gold rings in the gold shop, showing off her wealth and afraid of you?

The woman, who had just looked down on people, was shocked, and her lips trembled, and she didn't know what to say.

But this is in the old Shanghai, everyone has it, you can do anything, but you can't leak money, isn't it, Xue'er was immediately seen by a few gangsters walking the street.

A few clerks kindly said to them: "Those young ladies, go to the shop opened by foreigners in the concession and have a look." Following the direction of the guide, several people were about to leave, suddenly Xue'er screamed, because Xue'er was in a hurry to be the first to walk out of the store, as soon as she went out, she was hit by a fast-walking half-grown child, and she couldn't help shouting, the person who hit her was just about to turn around and run away, and Ming Fei behind him came to the front with an arrow and grabbed the clothes on his back and lifted it up, and when he turned around and looked at a few girls in horror, several girls shouted in surprise, "Sanmao!"

The iconic three hairs stuck to the forehead, big eyes, round face, and pointed nose are the same as the Sanmao actors in the old movies.

Xiao Sanmao was shocked and asked childishly, "How do you know my name is Sanmao?"

A few people were amused, but Lin Ke asked everyone, "Does any of you remember this dream?"

The girls looked at each other and shook their heads, and no one remembered.

This dream is really hidden, who is the protagonist?

Xiao Sanmao is a thief, hit Yang Xue'er and took away a few gold rings on her hand to run away, pretending to be pitiful and pleading: "Misses, just let me go, I'm just a child, the boss asked me to steal it, don't you think I can return the things to you?"

Lin Ke also saw a few people not far away staring sneakily here, anyway, it's better to take this Sanmao with you, who knows if he is the key to the dream? Lin Ke pretended to be angry and said: "If you don't want to go to the police station, you can follow us, show us the way, don't think about running away." ”

Under Lin Ke's intimidation, Sanmao didn't dare to run away, and the accomplices also thought that these girls were going to send him to the police station, and they didn't dare to follow him for fear of being implicated.