Chapter IV, Section 3

It was late to leave the Wu family pharmacy, but he still didn't stay. Jin Yi plans to go to An Lilian first tomorrow and finish Ugina's affairs. Then take the time to go to Xianxia Temple. Although he felt that the seven-day life-killing talisman had been resolved, there were still a lot of questions in his body, so he still wanted to consult the master of the Xuanmen.

Early the next morning, Jin Yi went to Long Beach. Long Beach is the most famous financial district in the East China Sea and even in the eastern mainland. All the famous syndicate firms are concentrated in this five-square-kilometre area.

Located in the heart of Long Beach, Jufeng Bank has a history of more than 1,200 years and has seen the ups and downs of many dynasties. In the dark ages after Extinction Day, Jufeng Bank quickly recovered with the help of its global network and deep resource background. There must be something inexplicable in this process, and with the wealth and resources at the disposal of Jufeng Bank, it is not difficult to support some warlords or even small sects and alliance governments.

When Jin Yi arrived at Jufeng Bank, the bank's business hall had been open for more than half an hour. Jin Yi does not have An Lilian's office phone. In this era, even in a world-class metropolis like the East China Sea, wired telephones are not widely available, only the government and some large corporate syndicates or commercial banks have telephones, or they are just the private telephones of some wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials. There are many public telephones in the Donghai area, but as long as you go out of the border and the Donghai city, it is even more difficult to find the phone.

So Jin Yi can only go to Jufeng Bank to find someone directly, but fortunately, An Lilian is the account manager, the account manager of Jufeng Bank, and only customers come to ask for her share, so it is easy not to visit customers outside the bank.

When Jin Yi entered, the security guard at the door of Jufeng's business hall looked at him twice. The people who come to Jufeng are basically decent people in the United Realm, and the minimum deposit amount for opening an account here is very high, and the average small household will not deposit here. But Jin Yi wore it very ordinary, just a Chinese-style formal suit.

In Jin Yi's opinion, this is already his very high-end and formal dress, but when he is used to seeing the doormen and security guards of the rich, he feels that this body is a bit unclassy. However, Jin Yi still has a kind of yamen official style, which belongs to the kind of people who are looking for trouble everywhere, so the security guards don't dare to trouble him.

Less than the counter is the receptionist's office seat. Jin Yi went up to ask An Lilian if he was in class, the receptionist called and asked who he was, Jin Yi said his name, and the receptionist took him up to the third floor.

An Lilian's Western nameplate was embedded in the oak office door, and when Jin Yi entered, An Lilian stood up from behind her desk and motioned for him to sit on the guest sofa. Jin Yi looked at An Lilian in a bank custom suit, and was a little dumbfounded. He had the impression that An Lilian was a mixed-race beauty of North American Hispanic and Chinese descent who wore a Chinese-style cheongsam at family gatherings, which was very exquisite. But after wearing formal clothes, he suddenly became a capable professional woman, which made him very uncomfortable.

"An, Sister An," Jin Yi didn't know what to call it, he originally wanted to call Manager An, but he felt a little weird, so he simply called it like at the party, "I'm Jin Yi." ”

An Lilian smiled: "I know that you are Jin Yi, our little junior brother." ”

Jin Yi sat down a little sneeringly: "I thought you didn't remember." ”

"What is this, we see each other at least twice a year, right?" An Lilian sat down beside him, "But you really don't come often, is there something wrong?"

Jin Yi looked at An Lilian a little seriously: "Something, the people of Uginato, found me and asked me to give this to you." ”

He said as he handed the note in his hand to An Lilian.

The note was a two-line password composed of Western characters and palindromic numbers, Jin Yi had read it but didn't know it at all, at this moment An Lilian got the note, but turned around and went to the bookshelf behind the desk to take an old version of the "Cambridge Encyclopedia" and a "Lang's Dictionary", looked at the note, and after a while, she took out a lighter from the drawer, burned the note in the ashtray, and then put the book back on the shelf.

An Lilian sat back at her desk and looked at him: "You are here to open an account today." ”

Jin Yi opened his mouth, understood what An Lilian meant, and then sighed: "Yes." I came to open an account, but I didn't bring any money. ”

"Jufeng Bank accounts for ten taels. An Lilian said, "I'll lend it to you first." ”

She said as she opened the drawer and took out eleven eagle-headed silver dollars: "Today's remittance is 11 to 10, wait for you to sign the account opening form and deposit receipt." ”

Jin Yi said helplessly: "My monthly salary is only two taels. ”

The currency of the Donghua government is still the silver standard, and the unit is counted in two, and it is one catty and sixteen taels. One tael of silver is worth 1,000 copper coins, which is basically enough for an ordinary family of three to live for two months. Jin Yi's two taels a month is already a very good salary for the government, which is because they are in the East China Sea Alliance, and the yamen in other places will not offer such a high salary for this position.

But this money is really nothing compared to An Lilian. An Lilian's monthly salary is thirty yuan, as well as various subsidies. Even in the big commercial houses of Lianjie, the salaries are considered high.

Jufeng Bank uses the rules of the Eagle League, the North and South Continents where the Eagle League is located, the Xizhou Continent where the Holy Triad Hall and the Cross Hall are located, and the Yingzhou where the Yin and Yang Sect is located are all gold standards, and the unit is Yuan. The banknotes and silver dollars issued by the Eagle League are directly linked to the gold exchange, so the silver dollars of the Eagle League are called Eagle Ocean, and the paper money is also called the Golden Ticket or the Eagle Ticket. In order to facilitate transactions, the Donghua government also issued a kind of banknote that was linked to the Eagle League gold bill and the official treasury silver at the same time, called the official banknote silver note or silver banknote. Because of the lack of reserves, in addition to the Donghua Bank, which is controlled by the government itself, the Donghua government also entrusted the Commerce Bank and Jufeng Bank, which were established by the wealthy families of the East China Sea, to issue silver banknotes at the same time and accept them on their behalf.

In this way, Donghua's currency exchange is very troublesome, there is the exchange rate of silver banknotes to gold bills, there are exchange rates of silver banknotes to silver taels, there are exchange rates of silver taels to gold bills and Yingyang, and there is also the difference between the fineness of the private circulation silver taels and the official treasury flat silver. The various exchange rates of each day are basically based on the exchange rate offered by Jufeng Bank, and there is a slight increase and decrease on this basis.

"Isn't your security office a lot of extra money, remember to borrow money to pay it back!" An Lilian said, handing over a bunch of forms to Jin Yi to sign. When Jin Yi buried her head in signing her name, An Lilian continued: "We have known each other for a long time, right, and then you came to me to open an account, when we opened an account, we chatted, and said that you have a headache recently, and then I recommended a brain doctor to you." ”

"I've had a bit of a headache lately," Jin Yi handed the signed form to An Lilian, "and somehow remembers a string of numbers, I don't even know what it means." ”

"I didn't ask you about your headache," An Lilian continued, "and you will come with me to this address at seven o'clock the next night." ”

She said as she wrote a line of address on a note: "Write it down." ”

Jin Yi looked at it for a while and nodded to indicate that he remembered, and An Lilian burned the note with a lighter.

"You go to the Ritz Cafe at the intersection of Fukang Road at about 2 p.m. today for coffee," Ms. An said, "and take a copy of today's Komeito and a piece of Eagle Ocean in your hand." Someone came to ask you, two yuan silver banknotes for an eagle yang, you said to add ten copper coins, the other party said ten is expensive, or eight, remember his gesture at this time, compared to six. ”

Jin Yi nodded: "And then?"

Then you tell him the time and address, and then you go your separate ways. An Lilian said, "You will also go to this clinic the day after tomorrow, write down my phone number here, and call this number before five o'clock in the afternoon during the day." Call my apartment in the evening. ”

An Lilian said and wrote down the phone number and handed it to Jin Yi, who glanced at it: "You live in Hartung Apartment, which is the most expensive in the East China Sea, no wonder you have a phone." ”

"It's not my phone, it's the pay phone in the foyer of the apartment," Ms. Ann said, "so it's not important not to call." ”

"I hope it doesn't matter," Jin Yi sighed, "Am I in big trouble?"

"What do you say?" An Lilian said and stood up, "Follow me to the counter to open an account and get a fold." ”

After coming out of Jufeng Bank, Jin Yi simply went directly to the Ritz Cafe, ordered a light steak there at noon, ordered a cup of coffee after eating, asked the waiter for a Komeito to read, and at the same time took a piece of Yingyang in his left hand and turned it over between his fingers.

The afternoon sun was very good, Jin Yi leaned on the sofa by the floor-to-ceiling glass, squinting his eyes and half asleep, the true qi in the dantian surged on its own, circulating in the divine court and the meridians around the body, accompanied by a slight fluctuation, fluttering like a fairy.

At nearly two o'clock, a man entered the café, asked for a glass of soda at the counter, and walked towards Jin Yi. Although Jin Yi's eyes were closed, under the cover of his divine sense, that person's every move was as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Qian Jincai walked to the sofa opposite Jin Yi and sat down, leaning over: "Boss Jin, I want to use Yingyang, how about exchanging two yuan silver bills with you." ”

Jin Yi opened his eyes: "Add ten copper coins." ”

"Ten is expensive, let's still eight. Qian Jincai gestured to him with a six.

Jin Yi told the time and place, put down the newspaper and got up to leave.