Volume 2 Chapter 364 Goodbye
Not long after, Song Yuyan held a large handful of barbecue meat in her hand, she took one bite and three white mouthfuls, and the two ate happily and happily.
However, these 20 skewers of barbecue cost Bai Che ten white coins, which is nearly ten times higher than ten years ago, looking at the pedestrians and all kinds of caravans, Bai Che knows that this is a manifestation of the increasing prosperity of "Loulan City".
Before he knew it, Bai Che bought a lot of things, spent several yang coins, and of course, it was all food......
Gradually, Bai Che and Song Yuyan came to a shop selling paper skin siu mai, Bai Che recognized at a glance that this was the vendor who had set up a stall on the street of "Loulan City", and now he had white hair on his head, and beside him, there was a plainly dressed woman and a little boy of three or four years old.
It seems that in the past ten years, the peddler has married and had children, and has a happy family.
"Boss, how do you sell paper bark siu mai?" Bai Che asked.
"Two out of ten miscellaneous coins." The vendor said, "Little brother, how many are there?" ”
"Ten miscellaneous coins?" Hearing this, Bai Che was slightly stunned, this price is no different from ten years ago, you must know that the cheapest of the other items Bai Che is currently buying starts from the price of a green coin.
At the beginning, after Bai Che spent two yang coins to buy paper skin roasted wheat, Yu Yanshan once popularized the conversion system of "Loulan City" jade coins for himself, and now he is very aware of the exchange system of several jade coins.
One Yang coin is equal to 100 white coins, 10,000 green coins and 1,000,000 miscellaneous coins.
In other words, the exchange ratio between the various jade coins is one to one hundred.
Of course, it's uncertain if anything will change in the past decade.
"That's right, little brother, it's two out of ten miscellaneous coins." The vendor nodded.
Bai Che said: "Boss, when I turned to this 'Loulan City', I found that the lowest price level of 'Loulan City' started from green coins, why did you sell it so cheaply?" ”
Hearing this, the vendor smiled and said, "Little brother, it's your first time coming to 'Loulan City', right?" ”
Bai Che nodded and said, "Sort of." ”
"No wonder." The vendor nodded, and said with a smile: "'Loulan City' is becoming more and more prosperous, and tourists and caravans are becoming more and more frequent, therefore, many merchants in 'Loulan City' have chosen to raise prices in order to get more profits, and the first batch of merchants who have raised prices have made a lot of money, and the rest of the merchants in the city have raised their prices one after another, just like that, the price has risen again and again, and the city lord's mansion has the intention to manage this matter, but the foreign tourists and caravans are endless, so the city lord's mansion no longer cares about the price increase. ”
Bai Che smiled and said: "This is also determined by the market, the more tourists and caravans, the greater the benefits brought to 'Loulan City'." ”
"Who's to say it isn't?" The vendor nodded and continued: "In addition, in the second year after the Jade City Lord came to power, the residents of 'Loulan City' discovered several more jade veins, and the jade coins in the hands of the residents also increased, and the value of the jade coins was also discounted. Nowadays, the ratio of various types of jade coins has also changed, ten miscellaneous coins are equal to one green coin, twenty green coins are equal to one white coin, and thirty white coins are equal to one yang coin. ”
Hearing the words of the trader, Bai Che's eyes moved, this is not an ordinary reduction, it is a full ten, five, three times more than a time, on the whole, the value of a Yang coin has been reduced to more than 150 times, if the miscellaneous coin is one, the original Yang coin can be exchanged for a hundred times a hundred times a hundred times a hundred miscellaneous coins, for one million, and now it can only be exchanged for more than 15,000, which is simply shocking.
However, this belongs to the mundane world of "Loulan City", Bai Che will not care about anything, although it is his own support that Yu Chunfeng has become the city lord of "Loulan City", but he does not plan to get anything from "Loulan City", this time he came to "Loulan City" just to revisit the old place and investigate the "Killer God Dynasty", of course, there is another thing in this old place revisit, that is, the "third vein".
Thinking of this, Bai Che smiled and said, "Boss, since the merchants in 'Loulan City' have all chosen to raise prices, why didn't you choose to increase prices alone?" You know, if you don't increase the price, the price you sell will not even be as cost. ”
Hearing this, the vendor smiled and said, "Little brother, you are right, but you have to have a conscience, and even more so in business, if because everyone else has increased the price, I will also follow the price increase, and sell a siu mai far more than its own value, I have a troubled conscience." ”
"And ......" After a pause, the merchant smiled: "About ten years ago, a great good man who looked about the size of my little brother patronized my business and bought all my siu mai with two yang coins, at that time one yang coin was equal to one million miscellaneous coins, and with this large amount of wealth, I took medicine for my mother, although I could not completely cure her, but it also allowed my mother to leave without illness and without regrets." Three years later, I married a wife, and I also invested a sum of money, and made more money, and now I put it in the jade workshop, and I will earn every day, and I am not short of money. ”
"And the reason why I continue to do this siu mai business is not to make money, because not everyone in the city is rich, and there are many people who live in difficulty, so I opened this siu mai shop so that these people who are not living well can have a full meal." The vendor laughed, "So, I won't raise the price,"
Hearing the words of the traders, Bai Che was slightly stunned, as the saying goes, "no treacherous business", but now it seems that such a saying cannot be used on all traders, and there are many traders who are full of empathy in their hearts, and they also have the people in their hearts like many scholars, and they will also have the wish of "having tens of thousands of mansions and sheltering the poor people in the world".
Bai Che smiled and asked again, "Boss, can you tell me what prompted you to do this?" ”
The vendor nodded and said, "It was the great benevolent man back then, at that time, I made a living by selling roasted wheat, and my life was extremely difficult, and my mother was seriously ill, so I couldn't stand my mother's painful appearance, and even had terrible thoughts......
At this point, the merchant did not continue, but said, "Just when I was about to lose my support, the great good man came and let me through the hardest and darkest time of my life. ”
The vendor's eyes were a little moist, and he continued: "At that time, I was thinking, that great good man must be a god in the sky, he knew that my life was difficult, and he couldn't bear to see the suffering of the people, so he deliberately pulled me along, for this, I am very grateful, but I have no way to repay the gods, only to repay the society, to pass on a bit of goodwill to the world." ”
Hearing this, Bai Che was silent, he didn't expect that his original mistaken actions would save one person, and let him have the poor people in mind, although the vendor just did a trivial thing, but if everyone has the goodwill of the vendor, then, how beautiful should the world be?
"I see, boss, you are the great good man." Bai Che smiled.
The vendor shook his head and said, "This little brother, you are joking, I just did what I had to do. ”
Bai Che didn't answer, but said, "Boss, I've got all the paper skin roasted wheat today." ”
As he spoke, Bai Che took out a bulging storage bag, which contained about five hundred yang coins, and handed it to the vendor.
Seeing the yang coins in the storage bag, the vendor was stunned and said, "Little brother, I don't need so much." ”
Bai Che just smiled and said, "Boss, I also want to do a good deed, even if I ask you to make a few more baskets of roasted wheat every day, distribute them or sell them to those who need them at a low price." ”
"So, boss, it's hard for you to do more today." Bai Che smiled.
"Yes, yes, yes......" The vendor nodded repeatedly, and after explaining to the woman beside him, he packed all the siu mai for Bai Che, and the woman went into the house to roll out the dough and make the siu mai.
And the three or four-year-old little boy staggered towards Bai Che, and said in a milky voice: "Big brother, Daddy said, saying that you are a good person, so, this doll is given to the big brother." ”
As he spoke, the little boy handed over a puppet in his hand to Bai Che, who squatted down, touched the little boy's head, and said with a smile: "Okay, big brother has accepted your gift." Can you tell Big Brother, what's your name? ”
"Hmm...... Chong'er ...... My father and mother called me ...... Chong'er," the boy replied.
"Okay, big brother knows, your name is Chong'er." Bai Che touched the little boy's head again, and then took out a jade bottle, which contained some elixirs that prolong life and strengthen muscles and bones, and said: "'Come and don't be rude', Chong'er will give the eldest brother a gift, and the eldest brother will also give you a gift, remember to share it with your father and mother." ”
"Well, Chong'er knows." The little boy nodded, and said in a milky voice.
After a while, the vendor packed all the roasted wheat and handed it to Bai Che, who nodded and left with Song Yuyan.
Looking at Bai Che's departing figure, the vendor's eyes suddenly moistened, this back was exactly the same as the great good man that year, suddenly, he seemed to understand something, and immediately bowed deeply in the direction of Bai Che's departure.
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Bai Che took a bite of the roasted wheat and fed it to Sanbai, moving aimlessly through the streets of "Loulan City", but at this moment, Song Yuyan did not eat the food in her hand, but just looked at Bai Che with a suspicious face, as if she had never understood Bai Che, the titular uncle.
"Forget it, if you don't understand, you don't understand, only food can't live up to it." Song Yuyan muttered to herself, and took a bite of the roasted wheat in her hand, the skin was thin and sinking, and the juice was abundant......
"It's delicious......" Song Yuyan admired, and suddenly, immersed in the food.
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"The Lord of Jade City is returning to the city from the mining area, please give way to yourself."
Suddenly, Bai Che heard a sound of neat footsteps, followed the sound, and saw a well-equipped team slowly coming from behind, with more than a dozen earth dragons riding more than a dozen heroic soldiers, ...... Except for the first one.
This person is middle-aged, nearly forty years old, with a short beard on his face, and rich clothes, but he can't suppress the fat of his body, especially his belly.
But the appearance of this person, Bai Che is extremely familiar with this, this person is Yu Chunfeng.
Time is really a pig-killing knife, I haven't seen it for nearly ten years, Yu Chunfeng has gained weight several times, looks haggard, much older, and seems to have been weathered.
However, his eyes have lost the clarity that had not been impregnated with wisdom ten years ago, and they have become a little cloudy, bright and uncertain, making people seem to show a hint of chill.
Seeing this, Bai Che frowned slightly, and muttered to himself: "Is this the Jade Spring Breeze?" Why is this happening? ”
Bai Che thought about it, but didn't think much about it, and pulled Song Yuyan to the side of the road.
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