In the twenty-first year of heaven, on the sixth day of March, about nine o'clock in the morning.

Puliu Town, steamed bun shop.

Zhang Yuanmian held a fluffy bun in one hand.

As soon as I wanted to eat it with soy milk, I heard the proprietress muttering to the boss, and hurriedly pricked up my ears to listen.

"I just heard Aunt Wang, who sells tofu next door, say that there is a family in Chenjia Village who has gone to the water, and the family of three is all buried in the fire."

"Who is so unlucky?"

"It's the family that gave birth to four daughters, and finally gave birth to a male baby, and the family that likes to sell their daughters."

"Oh, this may be retribution, I've been waiting for this family to have some retribution, and it's finally here, hahaha."

This family is the chat partner after tea and dinner in Puliu Town, and the four daughters born are all sold, can they not be famous?

I heard that the eldest daughter was sold to a blacksmith with a broken leg. The blacksmith didn't know where he saw a book that said that he could use a human soul as a sword spirit, and without hesitation, he pushed his newly married wife into the sword casting pool and died.

The second daughter, who was sold to a large family, was beaten to death by his wife.

The third daughter, who originally wanted to sell to a widower, was robbed by robbers who killed and set fire to her on the road, and her whereabouts are still unknown.

Four daughters, sold to strangers.

It's just wonderful.

It's true that there is a patriarchal preference here, but it's not so outrageous.

The onlookers felt that it was excessive, but they didn't think so, and they went around saying that their daughter was a white-eyed wolf, reversing black and white, and telling right and wrong.

"Chen Nian'er is really ruthless, she moves so fast, she only got away for a while to make such a big deal." Zhang Yuanmian listened quietly, secretly feeling that the little girl was terrible, in fact, from the moment she sold the trafficker with her backhand, she knew that this little girl was a ruthless person, but she didn't expect to be so ruthless.

He shook his head, no longer paying attention to the matter, intending to eat the buns.

"Huh? Where's my bun? Zhang Yuanmian remembered that he had caught two buns just now, but after listening to the gossip for a while, the buns disappeared.

He glanced around and said, "Who did it?" ”

Wang Dalong and the little eunuch looked at Li Fengyan in unison.

Li Fengyan lowered her head and drank soy milk, just finished her bowl at this time, and wanted to have another bowl.

found that Wang Dalong and the little eunuch were each protecting the soy milk in front of them, so they had to set their eyes on the bowl of soy milk in front of Zhang Yuanmian and slowly stretched out their hands.

"You eat my buns, and you still want to eat my soy milk?" Zhang Yuanmian looked at him blankly.

"Senior brother, don't you know, eating soy milk on an empty stomach is not good for your health, and it is easy to have diarrhea, so let me come."

Zhang Yuanmian smiled and brought the soy milk to him: "Okay, here you go." ”

"Uh......" Li Fengyan didn't dare to drink.

Normally, the senior brother would scold him, such an elegant and gentle senior brother explained that he was going to let him do something, and said, "Senior brother, you drink, I won't drink anymore." ”

Zhang Yuanmian stared at him: "It's okay, drink, senior brother is not hungry." ”

Under the gaze of the senior brother, Li Fengyan drank the soy milk with difficulty, and then looked at him timidly.

"Now that I've drunk it, I'll start talking about it." Zhang Yuanmian took out the wine gourd on his waist, shook it twice, and said, "My medicinal wine is almost finished, you have to find a way to help me earn five yuan." ”

As long as you have five kan money, then you can buy medicinal herbs and remake medicinal wine.

In the past, in Deyunguan, Master would send money back, but now, Master is in Beijing, and they can only rely on themselves to make money.

It's time for them to learn to make money on their own, too.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" The little eunuch's mouth almost squirted soy milk, but he held back, so he choked and coughed constantly, "National teacher, you have to rush to the Beijing division to take up a post, how can you delay time?" ”

"If I don't drink medicinal wine, my body will have problems, don't worry, the time can't be delayed, we will live in Puliu Town for two days."

"You can get five dollars in two days, what are you dreaming about?"

"I don't care about this, you can figure it out." Zhang Yuanmian said ruthlessly.

“？” Wang Dalong, Li Fengxiao, and the little eunuch have three-faced question marks.

Zhang Yuanmian said: "If I have a physical problem, on the way to Jingshi, and I encounter monsters again, I can only take care of myself." ”

"By the way, the sword sacrifice ceremony requires a Pure Land of Bliss, an immortal blood, three interpretation flowers, a good sword, and a cucumber. I'll take care of the good sword and cucumber, and the other three materials will be handled by the three of you. ”

Liang Daotong spoke: "Senior brother, do you see what you are talking about?" ”

The little eunuch rolled his eyes: "National teacher? ”

Is sword and cucumber the easiest good? Five money, the Pure Land of Bliss, immortal blood and reconciliation are as difficult as climbing to the sky.

"It can't be done." The three of them spoke in unison.

"People always have to force themselves to know their potential, we are now acting separately, the day after tomorrow, that is, March 8, this time at the bun shop to meet, the meeting."

Zhang Yuanmian paid with the only remaining copper plate and swaggered away.

The little eunuch asked, "What should we do now?" ”

Wang Dalong said: "What else can I do?" Let's start acting, but you don't have too much pressure, just do your best, even if you can't earn a copper plate and can't find medicinal materials, it doesn't matter, I believe that Senior Brother won't blame us. ”

So they started to act, make money, and at the same time inquire about medicinal herbs.

Time flashed, two days later.

Bun shop.

Zhang Yuanmian waited here early, leaning against a wall, looking at three people who came with depressed faces and disgraced faces.

"Let's talk about it, do the medicinal materials of the three sword sacrifice rituals have eyebrows?"

"Nope."

"And how much money do you make?"

The three of them were silent, bowed their heads and did not speak: "......"

Zhang Yuanmian looked at Wang Dalong and said, "You say it first." ”

Wang Dalong raised his head: "I wanted to fool my mother Yuanyi's name, but no one paid attention to me, and I couldn't help it." Fortunately, there was a haunted family in the house, so I took the initiative to ask Ying to do a ritual and gave me 50 copper plates. ”

"What about you?" Zhang Yuanmian looked at Li Fengyan.

"Yesterday, there was a new restaurant opened, in order to be lively, a food contest was held, and if you win, you will be rewarded with 100 copper plates, haha, I won."

Zhang Yuanmian comforted: "Yes, although there is still a little distance from the five-run copper coin, it is not very bad. ”

In fact, it is much worse, and it has always cost 1000 copper plates.

"What about you?" Zhang Yuanmian looked at the little eunuch.

"I, I ......" The little eunuch lowered his head and didn't speak, Wang Dalong and Li Fengyan made a little money more or less, but he didn't have a dime, and no one even asked him to wash the dishes, so sad, seeing that the three of them were staring at him, he was even more uncomfortable, his two little feet kept kicking the ground, kicking and kicking.

The little eunuch's face was full of grievances: "What is it that caused me to wrestle?" ”

He looked down and picked it up, thinking it was a stone at first, but not a broken piece of silver.

Immediately cheered: "Hahaha, I found the money." ”

"That's fine." Zhang Yuanmian was dumbfounded, he stood here for a long time just now, and he didn't notice that there was money on the ground, and this broken silver looked like it could have half a tael, that is, it was worth 500 copper coins.

This is a koi king, right, he was chased by monsters all the way and didn't die, not to mention, he could still pick up money.

Wang Dalong asked: "This is not enough money for five times, senior brother, how much have you earned in the past two days?" ”

"Hmph, you're all rookies."

Zhang Yuanmian confidently took out a golden thing from his arms, one or two gold.

"This is a full tael of gold, that is, 10 taels of silver, 10 yuan of money, can be matched with 2 portions of medicinal wine, how did you do it, earn a tael of silver in just two days?"

Note: 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 10 copper coins = 10,000 copper coins.

Zhang Yuanmian smiled: "Simple." ”

The two Daotong couldn't wait: "Senior brother, tell me quickly." ”

Zhang Yuanmian said proudly: "This is my family secret, not to pass it on." ”

The meticulous little eunuch noticed a question at this time: "National teacher, you should have two swords, where did the dragon-shaped sword go?" ”

Zhang Yuanmian didn't speak, he really hit the nail on the head.

"Senior brother, you're not going to sell the dragon-shaped sword, are you?"

"How is that possible? I just took it for granted. Zhang Yuanmian couldn't get any money until he remembered that he had a dragon-shaped sword, so he took it as such.

"That's a dragon-shaped sword, why is it only a tael of gold?"

"In the hands of people who know the goods, he is a dragon-shaped sword, worth a hundred gold, in the hands of ordinary people, he is a sword, and it is good to be able to be a tael of gold in Puliu Town, where no one knows the goods."

Wang Dalong said: "Since you have money, senior brother, I will take you to a fun place." ”

Zhang Yuanmian asked, "What place?" ”

"Qinglou."

"It's not good." Zhang Yuanmian's mouth was not good, but his body couldn't help but follow Wang Dalong.

"Senior brother, have you ever been to the Qinglou?"

"Nope."

"That's right, how could you have been, except this time, you have only gone down the mountain once. Yesterday I passed by the Qinglou, and saw a woman with a butt thief on the beauty bar, scratching her head, so that I couldn't sleep, if I had money, I would have gone to test her depth. ”

Zhang Yuanmian said: "Senior Brother Wang, seeing that you are not very old, you feel very experienced, and you used to go often?" ”

Wang Dalong shook his head: "No, this is my first time going, but I have a lot of theories, and after reading the little yellow book for so long, I still have to fight a lot, and I can't keep talking about it on paper." ”

Li Fengyan followed them and sighed: "Isn't it okay for us to be like this? ”

"Just ask if you're going?"

"Go." Li Fengyan puffed out his chest and said, he was just pretending to be shy, after all, he was just a child.

Seeing the three of them in high spirits, the little eunuch's face stiffened: "They seem to have forgotten the most important thing, didn't they say that they only stayed in Puliu Town for two days before going to the capital to take up their duties?" Why did you forget what happened two days ago? I had to come forward and warn me. ”

He ran up and said with a red face: "It's really bad to go to the Qinglou, we have to go on the road......"

Wang Dalong suddenly realized: "I'm sorry, I ignored your feelings, you can't go to Qinglou." ”

Because he didn't use the birds.

"It's okay, we don't discriminate against you, even if you don't use the birds, you can hug and hug, touch, go, and walk in the green building." Wang Dalong put his hand on the little eunuch's shoulder.

The little eunuch pushed his hand away in disgust.

Originally, he didn't want to go, but he was also curious about what the Qinglou was like.

So I followed along.