Holy Bone

Chapter 709 The day is short and the night is long
Summer came earlier this year than usual.

There are still ten days until July, and people sitting under a big tree enjoying the cool air can already hear the cicada monkey's cry.

In the past few months, the incense of the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera has been flourishing, and it has established a firm foothold in Jiangzhou Prefecture. From time to time, it will cooperate with the Chengnan Yamen several times to settle some strange folk incidents.

On the contrary, the business of the coffin shop is mediocre. Except for ordinary people who come to buy some incense, paper money and coffins, no "ghost funeral" comes to their door. This also reasonably explains that these "ghost funerals" are all attracted by the dead in the coffin here.

On the contrary, after a hundred days of foundation building in Jin'an, his cultivation took another step forward in the early morning of this day.

After the heart of the official of the monarch and the spleen of the acquired foundation, he built the third Taoist platform——

The lung gold of the official of Xiangfu.

The lungs face the Baimai, which greatly speeds up the speed of Qi training and exhalation, which has the effect of accelerating practice.

At this level, he has been able to donate four magic weapons at once to defend against the enemy.

Without the heart essence and blood of the strong men in the three realms, at his speed, it would take at least half a year to build the five Taoist platforms.

But there is no rush for this kind of thing.

Can only continue to accumulate.

After he became proficient at breaking new ground, Jin An asked the old Taoist priest to have breakfast together, and the old Taoist priest had already bought him steamed stuffed buns stuffed with soy milk, deep-fried dough sticks and pickles.

When he found the old Taoist priest, he saw that the old Taoist priest was sitting at the table with his back to him, lowering his head and working on something seriously, and he didn't even notice him approaching.

Jin An sat down, picked up pickled vegetable stuffed buns and ate them: "Old Taoist, what are you doing today?"

The old Taoist suddenly and mysteriously handed the two copper coins to Jin An, and asked without answering: "Little brother, first, let's see what is the difference between these copper coins."

Although Jin An wondered what the old Taoist priest was doing in the morning, he still put two copper coins on the table while eating pickled vegetable buns, and observed carefully.

At first, Jin An really didn't see any difference between the two copper coins, it was just that one was newer and the other was older, until he picked up the copper coin and weighed it, he realized something strange: "Huh, one is lighter and the other is heavier? "

The copper coin itself is light in weight, and it is difficult for ordinary people to notice this gap, but Jin'an is a careful person, and an old Taoist priest reminded him in advance that he still discovered the details of this slight difference.

The older copper coin with the largest number of hands is heavy and a good coin.

And that newer copper coin is a relatively light inferior coin.

Afterwards, the old Taoist took out his money bag, poured out dozens of loose copper coins, and divided them into two piles: "The most common people handle every day is not silver but loose copper coins. The common people are not fools. They handle so many copper coins every day. Which copper coins are better and which ones are worse? These few copper coins are less in circulation among the people. The newer copper coins are the only few copper coins left by the old Taoist priest when I traveled around the world; and this pile of heavier old copper coins was touched by the people. It is very bright, and when I put it in front of my nose, there is no smelting fire, only the smell of sweat, which shows that this kind of copper coin is recognized by the common people, and the common people prefer to use this kind of copper coin for business. Southern folks prefer to trade with this kind of copper coins."

Jin An frowned. He took out his purse and found that the copper coins in his purse were all southern coins with a heavier weight and better metallic texture.

If the old Taoist hadn't mentioned it today, he still wouldn't be able to discover the difference between northern money and southern money.

Only people like old Taoists who have traveled around the world, have extensive knowledge, and have handled copper coins from all over the world can distinguish the difference between northern and southern coins.

"Don't tell anyone this in the future." Jin An reminded the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist nodded and put away the copper coins.

"Old Taoist priest, I will exchange a northern coin with you." Jin An exchanged southern coins with the old Taoist priest for a northern coin.

Afterwards, both of them had a tacit understanding not to mention this matter anymore, and started to bury their heads in eating breakfast. There were many voices in the Taoist temple, and the old Taoist was sweating profusely from eating hot soy milk and hot buns.

"Huh, it's really his grandma's heat!"

The old Taoist priest finished his breakfast, and the cuffs of his Taoist robe that kept wiping sweat were already wet a lot: "Old Taoist, I remember that Zong Ren brought the little Hanba to the south of the Yangtze River to look for the goddess of water. In Jiangzhou Mansion? How about little brother, tell him in a dream that you will come out when Xia Qudong comes, so that it can benefit the people of one side, and it is a great merit."

The old Taoist complained to Jin'an.

Jin An rolled his eyes at the old Taoist priest: "The Jiangnan region is vast, and there is more than one Jiangzhou prefecture. If Zongren and Xiao Hanba were really in Jiangzhou prefecture, they would definitely come to the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera to look for us. They have never shown up, which means that the pair Father and son are not in Jiangzhou Prefecture."

"That's right." The old Taoist was dejected.

"Entering Xiaoshu half a month earlier, the 24 solar terms are messed up, everything is messed up, the sky is about to change!"

Why don't you always say that the No.13 zodiac sign of the old Taoist is a crow? The old Taoist just said that the sky will change this day. In the next few days, Jin'an found that not only the early summer has entered ahead of schedule, but also the nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. the night is long.

After inquiring, I found that this phenomenon is not only in Jiangzhou Prefecture, but even those sea merchants who sail and do business also say that other small countries also have short days and long nights. The sea is stormy and the waves are getting bigger and bigger. Business is difficult, and some small business associations are too frightened to go out to sea. Recently, they only dare to do business near sea.

Although this leads to a great compression of profits, life is still more important.

……

On this day, the old Taoist looked up at the sky frowning: "It seems that the 24 solar terms are really going to be chaotic, and this summer is really going to change!"

"Old Taoist, I think of a folk legend. It is said that in ancient times, Fuxi made a wrong gossip, which caused the sky to be dark for a long time. People waited for the dawn for a long time, but the sky was still dark, so people could only farm in the dark and herd cattle. , work, the happiest thing for the ancient ancestors every day is to see the dawn. Later, King Wen of Zhou re-established the gossip and divided the day and night into the current twelve hours. This is the origin of the innate gossip and the acquired gossip."

What the old Taoist said was not an exaggeration. The short days and long nights these days are indeed changing the people's living habits. For a while, people panic, and various rumors began to spread among the people, and panic grew in people's hearts.

At the critical moment when the government is busy stabilizing the hearts of the people, a major event happened in Jiangzhou Prefecture. Due to the abnormal weather, there was a violent storm at sea, and another HNA caravan was killed.

However, the severity of the shipwreck this time was worse than last year. All the seafaring fleets were killed. The bodies of those shipwrecked bodies floated in the sea for several days before they were encountered by other passing ships. It is said that the horrible scene at that time frightened many The small crew has been having nightmares for several days.

It was a fleet that was completely destroyed by the storm, and the number of shipwrecks was countless. The floating corpses on the sea were only scattered parts. More corpses of the shipwrecks were washed ashore by the waves. The stinking smell is fumigated, and ordinary people can't get close to it.

The passing ship was so frightened that it hurriedly came to Jiangzhou Prefecture to report to the officials.

And as these crew members went ashore, the news could not be concealed, and it caused a lot of commotion among the people. They were worried that the plague would break out because of this, and the government urgently sent people to deal with the matter.

It was also during this special period that Wang Butou brought people from the government office to the Taoist Temple of Wu Zang, and wanted to ask Jin An to help.

(End of this chapter)