"That's not a problem, please come in, please come in. He bowed down and led Gulf to the door with a smile on his face. But when Qi Lang followed suit, he turned around and glared, and said viciously in Middle-earth, "Don't you want your horses to be seen?"

"Hey, you bastard......" Gulf heard that it was an unfriendly rhetorical question, and was about to scold, but was stopped in time by Qi Lang's eyes. He changed his tone to a relatively calm tone and said, "He has to follow me...... Well...... I have a little difficulty in calculating, but you Orientals are different, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are fast and accurate. ”

"Look at what you said, we are a public business, and the emphasis is on children who are not bullied. Hearing Gulf's Middle-earth dialect speak quite smoothly, Bazihu also gave up this opportunity to practice brute language, "But since you have enough trust in your subordinates, how can we refuse." He looked up again and commanded, "Tie your horses to the stone pillars, but you had better wipe your feet when you come in, for I see that the soles of your shoes seem to have stepped on some shit." ”

It was just some mud, and Gulf obviously stepped on more under his feet, but he turned a blind eye to it, and picked on Qi Lang's body, for such a snob, Qi Lang really hoped to get some shit and get him into his burger while he was not careful. But if you look closely, it's really not a hamburger, it looks like it should be called a middle-earth snack like meat buns, but he has thrown it to the edge of the stairs anyway - it seems that the food served by this supply agency is quite abundant.

However, Qi Lang and Gulf felt funny that he actually recognized the two horses, and it seemed that he could do some things for the public house, and he was still a lot better than ordinary people.

After stepping back into the one-centimeter-high threshold, a wide counter appeared in front of me. More than a dozen men and women in gray suits were sitting in a circle, apparently playing dice, but instead of silver or copper coins scattered in front of them, they were stacked with colorful colored paper. At this time, it was time for the morning break, and it was reasonable for the public servants to relax and relax, and Qi Lang could understand it, after all, the soldiers under his command were also very happy to engage in the same recreational activities after completing a day's training.

Beard led Gulf to the innermost mahogany chair, and gestured very kindly: "You may be seated, noble sir." Let's see, what kind of food supply do you need, and in what quantities?"

Under Qi Lang's eyes, Gulf sat up generously, stretched out his hand and took out hundreds of silver coins from his arms, and piled them on the coffee table next to him with a bang: "How much is this money enough to buy?"

"This ......," the smile on the mustache's face seemed to freeze, "May I ask more, don't you have any banknotes with you?"

"Bills?" Gulf's nose was soozing sweat slightly, but he still insisted, "What are bills for?"

Bazihu was completely embarrassed: "It seems that you have only been here in our Zonghao Republic for a few days, honorable sir, why don't your subordinates say a few words to remind you." We only have paper money in circulation here, and we can buy items only with banknotes uniformly printed by the State Committee. Your silver coins are worth a lot of money, but with these alone, I can't sell you a grain here. ”

"What the!" Gulf scolded subconsciously, "I'm sorry...... I mean, there's no other way?"

The mustache obviously shuddered, and the tip of his nose began to sweat: "It's us who should say I'm sorry...... I'm sorry for the inconvenience. There are ways to say that there are ways, but I'm afraid you have to make a few more trips, you need to go to the foreign currency management agency to exchange it, your silver coin can be exchanged for 1.5 million yuan, after deducting the handling fee of 500,000 yuan and the transaction tax of 250,000 yuan, you will probably have 750,000 yuan left. ”

He counted with his fingers, and his mouth was still muttering: "These seven seven forty-two, five five twenty-one...... When all of them are taken together, there are probably more than 40 million. ”

Gulf was already stunned. But Qi Lang couldn't help but interject next to him: "This count doesn't seem to be quite right......

Bazihu glanced at Qi Lang, as if he wanted to have a seizure, but suddenly remembered that the noble gentleman had sent him to calculate the amount, so he suppressed his anger and still explained to Gulf: "I don't count whether I am accurate or not, and when I get to the Foreign Currency Management Agency, I will make sure that you will be clear as soon as you calculate it." is still the same sentence, we are a public business, and what we pay attention to is that children are not bullied. ”

Gulf forced a calm cough - of course he didn't hear anything wrong, he could barely handle the single-digit addition and subtraction, and the multiplication was beyond his ability: "Let's put it simply, how much rice and white flour are enough for those banknotes?"

As soon as he turned around, he took out an abacus from the counter, crackled and typed it, and finally came up with an accurate number in the mantra of "ninety-nine-sixty-three": three tons of rice and two and a half tons of white flour.

Gulf roughly estimated that the grain was enough for the half-sized men to support them for a month, so he simply didn't bother to settle the fine accounts, and said happily: "Then that's it, I'll give you the silver coins, and just get me a few carts of food to load." ”

Bazihu panicked again: "This is absolutely unacceptable." Honorable sir, the foreign currency exchange agency only accepts foreign friends, and we will be in trouble if we go with these silver coins. The top has been very strict in grasping corruption, and in the past six months, seven or eight moth-eaters scum have been hanged, and we don't dare to put it on the smoke. ”

Gulf and Qi Lang glanced at each other, and sighed helplessly: "Okay, I'll go for a run, you prepare the food first, our horses are fast, or it won't be long before we come back, catch the car and we'll leave, do you think so?"

The bearded face immediately showed a color of indignation: "Don't you know, honorable sir, our Lujia Town is no better than the border town, and the foreign currency exchange agency does not have much business, so they usually work for half a day and rest for half a day." It's unfortunate that you're here, it is estimated that those grandsons have already gone home to hug their wives, and they must be empty at this time. If you want me to say, you might as well find a place to rest here for the night, and go there between ten and eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, as long as you pass this time period, you can make sure that you can do it. ”

"Those grandsons!" Gulf has always learned to swear people, and this sentence can be regarded as his biggest gain this afternoon. But apart from scolding, they had no other way but to obediently stay in this nervous Lu family town for one night.

As he had to inform the base, Qi Lang rode around and secretly released Igru at the edge of the town, and the snow wolf returned with a letter, while he and Gulf hurried to the only inn in the town that was open to the public. But after the house was settled, the room and meal expenses had to be greeted by the boss in advance, and they had to be settled the next day before leaving, because they could be called penniless except for the large pile of silver coins.

After Gulf shouted "Long live the great Jiang Ping brothers" in standard Middle-earth language, the innkeeper's attitude was unusually kind, and even repeatedly hinted in his words that he was willing to suffer a little loss and accept three or five silver coins as room fees, and as for three meals a day, he generously said that it was completely free, because the great Jiang Ping brothers said that the people of the world are one family. But Gulf was not so gullible to be deceived, and he did a rather careful calculation in private, and finally cleverly settled the room with two silver coins before Qi Lang tied his horse and drove back.

Sitting in the lobby on the first floor of the inn for dinner, Gulf once again enjoyed the treatment of a big man, because in addition to their table with local chestnut stew and steamed fish, the rest of the table of more than ten guests at most got a plate of shredded potatoes and a plate of boiled peanuts.

However, those local diners had long since cultivated to the point of treating food as dung, and after shouting a few times "Long live the great Jiang Ping brothers", they each sat in their own places, but did not move, as if waiting for some show to be staged.

Gulf competed with the pair of chopsticks he met for a long time, and finally decided to give up this new skill, and simply started to fight the scalding man's boiled meat, but he didn't forget to express his doubts while tasting the delicious food: "I said, I thought you were weird enough for this oriental boy, but when I got here, I found that you were already the most normal one in the Zonghao Kingdom." Why do they have to get some fancy bills to buy things?"

Qi Lang shook his head and said, "That's not quite the same as the situation I remember. I think we used to spend silver and copper coins and stuff like that, and although the names may be different from yours, they look pretty much the same. As for the banknotes, I also have some impressions, but they seem to be for the dead, and the usage is also thrown into the fire and burned. ”

"Oh, it looks like we've met ghosts. "Or maybe it was here that the paper money from heaven was brought to earth in honor of the fallen warriors." ”

Qi Lang glared at him, but sighed helplessly: "Who knows, I guess they have forgotten that there was such a tragic war in this country." People's lives are back to normal, there is no war, there is no need to save, we are completely superfluous outsiders. You must have heard it, they said that this place is no longer called the Kingdom of Zonghao, but the Republic of Zonghao. The whole world has changed, and people's brothers have become the supreme leader, probably the great Jiang Ping brothers. ”