The weather at the end of summer is changing.

In the afternoon, the sun was still shining, so Shen Changsheng and the earth dog could bask in the sun outside the door, but now at dusk, the wind and clouds gathered, gloomy and dark as night, and a heavy rain was coming.

The proprietress got up and looked at the sky outside the door and said, "It's going to rain." ”

Just as her words fell, a wind struck.

The "Taiping" banner in the yard was blown loudly, and the old tree in the backyard also swayed and made an unbearable sound.

The wind walked through the wilderness, over the mountains, through the dense forests, and reached the inn, rattling the tiles on the roof of the inn.

The black clouds overhead were getting lower and lower, as if they were crushing the city.

Li Xuandu sighed: "The weather in Huainan Mansion changes when it is said to change, and it is moody. ”

"Rainy days are always a good time to kill. A mellow voice suddenly sounded behind Li Xuandu.

Li Xuan didn't look back, but he could hear the voice of the shopkeeper.

The sky was dark, and the inn lobby became dim, the shopkeeper's face was hidden in the darkness, making it difficult to see, his voice came from behind Li Xuandu, faint and deep, although his voice was warm, but it was like a feeling of being in the back.

Li Xuandu turned around and looked at the shopkeeper who seemed to be shrouded in a fog.

At this moment, a thunderclap suddenly exploded, illuminating the heavens and the earth, as well as the dim main hall.

Under the blue-white thunder light, the shopkeeper's face became clear.

The shopkeeper with two bowls in his hand smiled at Li Xuandu, his face was slightly pale, and his white teeth were a little oozing in the dim environment.

Li Xuandu's eyes swept over the bowl in the shopkeeper's hand, smelled the fragrance of tea, and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper is so Yaxing." ”

The shopkeeper handed one of the bowls to Li Xuandu, and said warmly: "This tea is good, it is the first Shifeng new tea this year, picked when the buds are dewed at night, and it is brewed with boiling Taipingshan spring water, and the tips of the buds are floating vertically in the tea, which can be regarded as the top grade." ”

Li Xuandu picked up the bowl and took a sip lightly, praising it: "Okay." ”

After drinking tea, the shopkeeper took out a coin from the sleeve, the outer circle and the inner square, the square hole on the front is engraved with the words "the world is peaceful", and the square hole on the back is engraved with the words "Wan Shi Chengping".

He threw the money on the table, and it spun and spin.

The shopkeeper slowly said: "Thousands of years ago, the ancestral dragon set the world, unified the world's coins, the new money weighed twelve baht, because one tael is equal to twenty-four baht, so this kind of money is called half two coins, this money is modeled after the style of half two coins, but the material used has been changed to red gold." It is said that no one is perfect. Red money, as the name suggests, is a coin made of red gold, thinking that the son should know that gold is far heavier than silver, copper, iron and aluminum, not to mention red gold, so although this kind of money is half a tael of money, but each one weighs one tael, and one red coin is one or two red gold. ”

"The gold has no color, and the white is slightly flawed. There is no red gold in the world, but it can be made by manpower. Nowadays, there are people who specialize in this business, refining red gold from ordinary gold, and its fineness does not dare to say that ten out of ten, nine out of nine is still there, so the price of red gold is almost three times that of ordinary gold, and now one or two gold on the market can be exchanged for snowflake silver nine taels or three dollars, plus smelting costs, one or two red gold can be exchanged for silver thirty taels. ”

"But in my case, it is not called red money, but Taiping money, and it is not for spending, but for divination. ”

"Just now I calculated a hexagram for my son, and I got a trigram. The hexagram in the Book of Changes is cloudy: 'Qian, Yuan Henry Zhen', this hexagram changes to fall on the ninety-three, the gentleman is dry all day long, and he is not to blame. In general, although Childe is in a difficult situation, there is no disaster after all. ”

With a snap, the shopkeeper reached out and slapped the rotating Taiping coin under his palm, and then slowly removed his palm, revealing the words "Taiping in the world" on the copper coin.

He raised his head, looked at Li Xuandu and said, "Then I will ask for good luck and give this Taiping coin to my son." ”

As the words fell, a downpour came at the end of the summer.

Soybean-sized raindrops hit the eaves with a crackling sound, and in an instant, they converged into a thin stream, flying down the corners of the eaves, hanging out silver and bright water lines.

The shopkeeper left with the tea bowl, Li Xuandu looked at the Taiping coin, hesitated, or reached out to pick it up, put it in his sleeve, and then hugged his fist and said: "Thank you for the shopkeeper's auspicious words." ”

The rain became heavier and heavier, gradually drowning out the dwindling shouts outside.

The proprietress smiled: "My man is not a generous person, there are many people who ask him to count a hexagram on weekdays, but he just doesn't count, like today's free hexagram and send a Taiping coin, but it is the first time." ”

Li Xuandu smiled and asked, "Isn't the boss lady distressed?"

The proprietress stroked her towering chest and sighed: "After all, it is thirty taels of snowflakes and silver, of course I feel distressed, but since the man in charge has made a decision, I, a woman, will not be able to dismiss his face in front of outsiders." ”

Li Xuandu nodded and said, "That's the reason." ”

As he spoke, Li Xuandu opened the window again and looked outside.

At this time, the courtyard was already full of corpses, soaked in rain, and blood mixed with the mud, making the ground more and more dirty.

The only people who could still stand in Qingluanwei were the two masters of the Imperial Qi Realm, including the commander, and those Jianghu high-rollers also died, at this time, the blood and courage faded, and the remaining people did not dare to send them to death again, only dared to hide behind the pair of immortal couples, and shrank back.

The proprietress also glanced at the situation and said: "The guest officer doesn't know, our husband and wife have been doing business here for more than ten years, and there are countless guests who come and go, who are officials, soldiers, grass, rivers and lakes, everyone, like this kind of life and death, it is not the first time, in the past, our husband and wife were left to it, after all, it is just the two of us, and we can't manage it." ”

Li Xuandu took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "I can't care if it's fake, and it's true if I don't want to care." ”

A flash of surprise flashed in the eyes of the lady in charge, and then she smiled coquettishly: "The guest officer really likes to laugh, the little woman is just a lonely and weak woman, and the little woman's man is a stuffy gourd who can't beat a fart with three poles, where can he care about such a thing." ”

Li Xuandu said softly: "Xia Worm can't talk to ice, I want to come to the shopkeeper not because I don't like to talk, but because I disdain to meet these people who are rolling in the mud." ”

The smile on the proprietress gradually faded, and she asked softly, "Who is the guest officer?"

Li Xuandu slowly got up from the bench and said with a smile: "Didn't you say it, my name is Li Xuandu, and when I first arrived at the treasure land today, I didn't mean to look for the bad luck of the two of you, but I ......"

Li Xuandu looked at the two Qingluan guards in the lobby of the inn and said softly, "I just want to borrow the treasure land." ”