19. Chapter 19 The Way of Trading

As far as Wei Ye's eyes could see, there was a Han sword lying horizontally on the window strip case. The handle of this sword is no more than three feet long, but the sword body is half a palm wide, and the whole body is straight, with a sense of square and dignified. The sword head of the sword that depicts the pattern of the Xuanniao is round and slightly convex like a lotus, and the sword grid of the two hexagrams on both sides of the front and back is like a "concave" word and square, but the shape is several points larger than the equipment of the ordinary sword, together with the scabbard of the bamboo tire lacquer, it is the so-called "shape and strength" of the sword man of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, after a thousand years, although the wooden tools decayed and fell off, and the complete Wudi sword was rare and precious, except for the treasures of several famous museums, there was no genuine product handed down, but as an official of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Ye could always see a few retro scholars who were dressed in the virtuous crown with the Wudi sword. Compared with the jade sword with a jade head that was popular among the princes and princes, the sword with the decoration of the tiger and the dragon and the cloud pattern was the first choice of those poor officials. What Wei Ye cared about was not the carving of the equipment on the sword, but the aura contained in the hilt and sword grid.

If it is seen by ordinary people, it can only be seen that the wood color of the carved sword is burgundy, slightly cyanopur, slightly polished matte, and the density is no less than that of the fine stone. But as long as a person who looks at qi art can see that there is a vigorous vitality hidden in this sword, but this vitality is sealed in the sword, and it is connected with the hilt and body of the sword. In other words, this sword is not actually an iron sword in the Han Dynasty, but a wooden sword polished from more than one good ancient wood.

Seeing Wei Ye looking at the Han sword on the case, Wei Wencheng put down the rabbit lamp and asked with interest: "Then what do you think my sword is worth?"

To measure the price of a weapon, workmanship and material are the two most basic ones, generally speaking, as long as you are not blind, you can always see whether a weapon is a refined product. However, the material is a test of the buyer's eyesight, and in the word of mouth of the adventurers of the Astral Gate, there are a few jokes about buying a "jade sword made of marble" or a "jade dagger" made of colored glass, and it is not an example of no one selling a black iron ingot with a temporary spell as a rare black iron iron. As for the more clever identification of the origin of the weapon and the constant spells above, it requires a truly professional person to complete.

Therefore, the transaction between adventurers often begins with this kind of valuation and identification, which is a battlefield without gunpowder, and it is not your body that bleeds, but your purse. Obviously, this is a tentative hand-to-hand encounter that is not aimed at monetary transactions.

Wei Ye turned his head and met Sima Ling's "come on" gesture, he glanced at Wei Wencheng with a smile like a father-in-law looking at his son-in-law, and gave Sima Ling a "Shao'an and no restless" look.

"I don't know how to carve or lacquer, but this sword is cut from the heart of an ancient wood that is more than 100 years old, and the two hexagrams are engraved on the sword grid, what is this ......" Wei Ye condensed slightly, felt the qi on the sword, thought for a while, and smiled at Wei Wencheng with an expression of "test your knowledge": "The vitality on the sword is full of pure yang and harmony, and it is a spiritual wood magic sword made of psychic ancient mahogany?"

Wei Wencheng nodded a little stupidly, acknowledging Wei Ye's statement, and then added:

"There is a sidegate demon immortal who has been cultivating for four hundred years and was robbed by thunder, but after the thunder, only a piece of ancient peach wood was left behind where he was condensed like steel. Later, this piece of peach wood fell into the hands of the master, and by chance he met a Taoist friend of the Kunlun faction, so he referred to the Kunlun sword refining method to refine this peach wood magic sword. ”

This is a story, a weapon, a magic weapon, there is a story is always higher than the price without a story. Because there is a story and there is a history, just like now, when he heard the "Kunlun Sword Refining Method", Wei Ye's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Among the many time and space, although there are many sects of cultivating immortals, there are only a few sects that can truly be called the authentic sects of the Xuanmen with a long history. As the authentic sect of the Xuanmen, the sword refining method flowing out of the Kunlun vein is definitely much higher than Wei Ye's self-cultivation and self-realization abridged version of the "Taiping Qing Lingshu" - of course, it is better not to be the Kunlun Three Sages He Zudao who specializes in the Liangyi swordsmanship, and the Kunlun sect method of He Taichong, Mr. Tieqin.

Standing up and walking to the table under the window, Wei Wencheng picked up the peachwood magic sword, pressed the sheath on the machine spring, and the magic sword was half a foot out of the sheath, just enough to see the body of the wooden sword. Han sword blade, there are four sides, six sides, eight sides of the three kinds, the eight-sided Han sword has the thickest blade, suitable for the sword road of the vigorous opening and closing, the four sides of the Han sword blade is light and thin, the most suitable for light and elegant all the way to the sword, and like this peach wood sword, it is six sides, take a moderate route.

However, for a guy with only the most basic G-level swordsmanship evaluation, what sword to use and what sword path to take, it is still a matter of nothing. Therefore, Wei Ye just looked at this sword seriously, waiting for the sword shop boss who was a little ill to explain the next step.

It means no, and some are apples.

Of course, it is not the one that petty bourgeoisie sells blood and kidneys to be sought after, and it is held in the palm of your hand, its color is bright red, and the most common red Fuji apple. Wei Wencheng let go of his hand, and the fruit fell down according to the old posture of smashing Newton's head, and he met Wei Wencheng's sword edge standing horizontally-

There was a very light "boom", and the apple that fell from the sword fell onto the case and was cut in half, and a sweet apple fragrance suddenly emanated from the air.

Wei Wencheng snapped his fingers on the sword body with some smugness, and with a clear sword sound like a chime, he smiled: "Sharp as a steel edge, as good as a golden stone, psychic peach wood can just boost the power of Taoism, compared to mortal iron, it has the effect of killing ghosts and demons, how about it?"

However, Wei Ye pinched the half of the apple, looked at the smooth mirror-like facet like a work of art, and sighed very well: "Oh, the flesh around the core is as transparent as crystal, this is the famous rock candy heart in Red Fuji." ”

"Crispy pulp, sweet and sour juice, a double treat of taste and taste. Sima Ling said in an intoxicated tone.

"That...... Excuse me, which plane were you active in?"

"During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an era when there were no sweet potatoes and tomatoes, spices were precious and rare, and apples were small and thick. ”

“...... I understand, it's really hard. ”

Wei Wencheng had a businessman-like perfect smirk on his face, and watched as the apple he took out as a teaching aid turned into a snack for the mustachioed fairy warlock and the maiden to accompany the tea.

Of course, what should be said is still to say: "According to today's market, the price of this magic sword is this number." ”

He held out two fingers: "Two hundred." ”

"Of course, I met two people today because of fate, and they talked so well, so I decided to give a preferential price. After all, most adventurers don't have a lot of money these days, don't they?" Waving his hand very politely, Wei Wencheng said generously, "The price is eighty percent off, one hundred and sixty, how about it?"

One hundred and sixty sounded like a small number, but Wei Ye looked at Wei Wencheng suspiciously, and said with his pouch that could be called poor: "Whether it's one hundred and sixty dollars, or one hundred and sixty gold, I'm very troubled without the unit behind." Anyway, I don't have enough cash on me, can I pay by transfer?"

"One hundred and sixty gold? You joked, if you transfer money, you don't have to go that far, you can pay with the adventurer's terminal. Wei Wencheng still smiled politely, but when he said "one hundred and sixty gold", his face still had a little disdain on his face like a city man looking at a hillbilly.

Wei Ye ignored him, flipped through Zhao Yalong's signed slip from the baggage, and opened a high price of 50,000 yuan according to the land price of the high-quality fields around Luoyang. It's a pity that Zhao Yalong bargained too hard, and returned 20,000 yuan, and the grange in Youzhou became less than 20 acres of irrigated land on the edge of Luoyang City, which was only enough for the scale of a greenhouse vegetable garden. It was converted into gold according to the law of the Han Dynasty, and the 20,000 coins were also two catties of gold, which was converted to today's gold price, almost more than 300,000 soft sister coins.

With this transfer slip as the foundation, Wei Ye was not stunned. According to Wei Wencheng's explanation, Wei Ye unfolded the bamboo slip terminal that had just arrived, and Wei Ye scribbled the slip with "Today's payment point: 20,000" on the bamboo slip terminal, and the words "transfer successful" were displayed on the bamboo slip, as well as "Your account has a total of 2463 general bonds of the law of cause and effect". As soon as this line of data came out, Wei Ye and Wei Wencheng glanced at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

"Shouldn't it be 20,000 Han and 5 baht?"

"Isn't it supposed to be only three or four hundred universal bonds?"

The guys, who all realized that something was wrong, looked at each other, and the expression on their faces was summed up in one sentence: "You donkey me!/ You lie to me!"

Wei Wencheng, who put away all the contempt before, looked at the poor sour guy in the green shirt and mustache in front of him, his mood and expression were distorted very wonderfully, and he said in his heart, what is this?

......

"So your two uncles and nephews are rookies who have just returned to the Gate of the Astral Boundary for official employment after completing their apprenticeship?" Wei Wencheng, who was holding his forehead with his hands and an expression of "I feel so tired, I don't feel like I will love anymore", said angrily, "Even if you are a rookie, at least you have to figure out what the currency in circulation among adventurers is before entering the multiverse adventure, right?"

"I think that the currency used by human beings from ancient times to the present has always been in precious metals, so ......"

"Stop, stop, I'm not in the mood to listen to the clichéd remarks of historical researchers right now—ah, folklorists are the same!" took off the white jade dragon pattern pendant on his waist, and opened this very fashionable jade pendant-style terminal, Wei Wencheng quickly called up a projection report of the "Multiverse Currency Overview", "The demons of hell and abyss generally tend to use souls as currency, especially the soul maggots that transform the souls of sinners; some low-level immortal cultivation civilizations use a mineral called spirit stone as a general equivalent; Gemstones, in many planes of swords and magic, also have the function of currency. ”

Speaking of which, Wei Wencheng, who didn't know what was suitable for finding a pair of gold-wire glasses to put on, was completely a cram school teacher, staring at his rookie client, and a certain rookie warlock who didn't have any rookie consciousness just shrugged his shoulders and motioned for him to continue.

"And more copper, silver and gold coins used in time and space, their currency values are different, and the exchange is troublesome, just calculating the exchange ratio between the five six hundred and seventy million known currencies of various time and space, it is enough to give all the members of the Chamber of Commerce a headache to death. Therefore, in the Astral Gate, in addition to the ordinary daily necessities that accept monetary transactions, all transactions of items unique to a certain time and space that are carried back to the Astral Gate by adventurers are paid for by the Astral Gate through the universal bonds calculated by the Causal Line Fluctuations - do you understand?"

Looking at the boss of the sword shop who had entered the teacher mode for some reason, Wei Ye and Sima Ling, who remembered the school life back then, glanced at each other with affection, and it was Wei Ye, who was an elder, who came up as an elder to be a good student who asked questions tirelessly:

"What do you mean by the Astral Gate Universal Bonds?"

"So you're all dozing off in the pre-adventure training you participated in at the Astral Gate?" Wei Wencheng asked impatiently with a frown, looking like "I don't want to tell you at all", but he still explained very kindly, " After each adventurer arrives at other planes through the Astral Gate, because of the activities of adventurers who should not exist in that time and space, the original law of cause and effect of time and space has changed, and in a small way, the adventurer may have changed the fate of the aborigines of the time and space who came into contact with him, and in a large sense, the adventurer's activities will change the historical direction of the entire time and space. ”

"Ah, what's the so-called butterfly theory?"

"It doesn't matter if you want to understand it this way," Wei Wencheng snorted, "and according to the calculation formula of the Astral Gate Data Center, the changes between each causal line can be calculated, which is closely related to the adventurer's activity strength in the time and space where it is located. The more the Astral Adventurer changes the overall law of cause and effect in the time and space in which he lives, the more universal bonds he obtains, and the universal bonds are the most important hard currency for adventurers to trade, do you understand?"

"It's pretty much the same, but there's still a ......"

"I don't understand it, but I think it's very powerful—so to speak, uncle. ”

Wei Wencheng, who didn't want to take over the topic, rubbed his eyebrows and diverted the conversation in a muffled voice:

"Speaking of which, you are also a good adventurer, when many adventurers return to the gate of the astral plane, the general bond is less than two hundred points, and the experienced adventurer five-person team, with two or three thousand bonds, is considered rich. What did you do to change history and get so many bonds?"

Wei Ye didn't answer this question, but Sima Ling asked in the private communication channel: "Is the Big Gun Mansion really so rich? ”

"Probably, it's because the Great Gun Mansion, as a 'dynamic and organized large-scale social group' in the Luoyang region with astral adventurers as the main body, has infiltrated the political dispute between the eunuchs and scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty, right?" Wei Ye said uncertainly, "The dispute between the scholars and the eunuchs during the period of Emperor Huan Ling was one of the most important political events in the late Han Dynasty, and if you participate in this kind of political struggle, it fully meets the requirements of 'changes in historical development'." Hey, don't look at me, this kind of sinister political struggle, our cloth clothes, which have no money, no power and no power, and don't even have official bodies and Shilin Qingwang, are mixed in to die a stable death. ”

"So what's next?"

"What's next," Wei Ye scratched his chin, looked at Wei Wencheng, the Wenqing boss who was already a little impatient, and smiled, "Of course I bought this peachwood magic sword." ”