Pseudo master, she just wants to live

Chapter 95 Hurry up and buy it, it will be gone later [two-in-one]

Fang Yao explained to the young men who followed, and then followed Chu Nan into the single room behind the bank.

The room is two feet square, not too big, but it is very elegantly decorated. Behind a screen painted with bamboo forest landscapes is a couch with low-leg coffee tables and futon cushions.

After being seated, the shopkeeper personally brought tea and water, and then gently closed the door curtain, leaving Fang Yao and Chu Nan behind.

"Is your leg injury healed so quickly? Lingjie's medical skills are very good!"

In just one day, Chu Nan was surprised to find that Fang Yao's walking posture was almost the same as usual.

Fang Yao pursed her lips and smiled: "My sister's bandaging skills are really good, but I was not seriously injured yesterday, it was just a few flesh wounds, which looked scary, and it doesn't matter if the bleeding is stopped."

As she spoke, she found that Chu Nan was still staring at her crossed right leg, she couldn't help turning her body sideways, and reminded: "Young Master, there is no one here right now, so just speak up if you have something to say."

"it is good."

Chu Nan withdrew his gaze, "Someone found Gu insects on those earth monsters yesterday, and the bell with the Gu insects is still in your hand, Master."

Fang Yao was not surprised. When she talked with Yang Gao yesterday, there were indeed many onlookers around.

However, she did not immediately take out the bell key, but tentatively said: "It is true, did the young master find anything?"

Chu Nan nodded: "That's right."

It turned out that after she, Li Fugui and others left yesterday, Chu Nan got an order from his father. The latter learned that there was such a large group of harmful monsters hidden in the ground, and told him to take those wooden boxes buried in the ground. They were all dug out and checked clearly.

"Those boxes were all buried 20 years ago. They were high-quality locust wood boxes. Because my father always thought that locust trees were unlucky, he was dubious at the time, so he marked the places where the boxes were buried and drew a map."

When Chu Nan talked about this, he frowned the whole time, "But when I dug it out, except for eighteen opened silver locks, the wood was rotten to mud, and there was not even a slag left."

Fang Yao's heart moved, "Eighteen boxes were buried at that time?"

Yesterday I counted the sixteen grasshopper monsters hanging from the silver roots, plus Wang Baochang and Lao Ba, there were eighteen.

"Yes, the internal mechanisms of those locks are the same. My father said that they were all locked when they were buried. Now they are all opened. It's really weird."

If the mechanism is the same, then indeed only one key is needed.

Fang Yao asked curiously: "Young Master, did Chu Xihou tell you what was originally in the box?"

"Father actually didn't know, he was very shy about these things, it's just me..."

Chu Nan's right hand holding the teacup was slightly bent and turned white, "I often think of some scattered pictures."

He continued to murmur: "At that time, I must have been very young, and I accidentally broke into some place. I vaguely remembered that there were many big black boxes inside. The boxes were filled with red blood, and something that looked like a hand stretched out. come out……"

Fang Yao found that Chu Nan seemed to be caught in some kind of memory, his face was very pale, just like when he fainted yesterday.

She was stunned and said: "So you will faint when you see blood?"

Chu Nan came back to his senses, picked up the teacup and took a few sips, then let out a long breath: "Yes, but because I am too young, I often doubt whether I have really seen those things."

Fang Yao felt that what Chu Nan said was very likely to be true, and the ones he had seen at that time should be the boxes buried in the ground.

The bloody hand... is it the grasshopper monster's hand?

How did those grasshopper monsters be caught, locked in a box, and buried in the ground?

Fang Yao thought hard, seeing that she didn't speak, Chu Nan couldn't help asking: "Master, since you can get rid of the earth demon, then you should know what those underground things are, right? What's the matter with Gu worms? Why are those monsters still alive after being buried underground for so many years?"

"..."

Fang Yao was left speechless by a series of questions. She could indeed use the mask and the booklet to kill the plague monster, but she was blinded by these questions, so how could she explain Chu Nan's confusion.

She had no choice but to half-truth and half-fake: "I don't know these things. I am also an ordinary person, but I can see some things that others cannot see."

Surprise flashed across Chu Nan's eyes: "See what others can't see?"

"Ha, occasionally." Fang Yao changed the subject, "Since these boxes were buried by an expert your father found, why didn't you find that expert?"

Mentioning this, Chu Nan frowned slightly: "The expert is from Zhaonan. When I was looking for my sister last month, I went to look for it. He passed away two years ago."

This is not the first time Fang Yao has heard of Zhaonan.

That annoying daughter of the Chu family who was in trouble was found in that place, and I don't know how Chu Xihou's daughter was living outside.

Could it be the romantic debt of Chu Xihou when he was young...

Fang Yao's mind was full of thoughts, and she continued to ask: "Doesn't the master have no apprentices?"

Chu Nan shook his head: "The only female apprentice of Gao Ren disappeared a long time ago. My father was very angry when he learned that these boxes and the earth monster inside were related to witchcraft, and he even told his sister..."

As he spoke, he seemed to realize that it was inappropriate to say these things in front of outsiders, so his voice died down.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit awkward for a while, Fang Yao twisted impatiently on the futon mat several times, and finally couldn't help saying: "That..."

Chu Nan looked up at her.

Fang Yao said dryly: "I really have nothing here to help you, and now everyone outside is waiting for me..."

"Ah, I was bothering you, but..."

Chu Nan was a little embarrassed, and said with hope after a while, "I heard that you were originally from Liyang County and left your hometown due to the disaster. If you stay in Zhenyang County, I can send someone to help with the household registration."

Fang Yao smiled: "Thank you for the kindness of the young master, but my sister and I are not from Liyang, and we are going north to find relatives this time."

"Ah, that's it."

Chu Nan seemed very disappointed, but he quickly calmed down and forced a smile, "Master Fang still has something to do, then you should do your work first."

After he finished speaking, he immediately called for the shopkeeper to lead Fang Yao out to exchange money.

Fang Yao, who didn't provide any clues, instead bought a cup of tea for nothing, and got a little information from others, just went out like this.

"Master, are you going to take it all, or what?" The shopkeeper was very polite to her.

Fang Yao took out the first 600 taels of silver bills, and happily said, "Exchange me for 300 taels first, and it is best to prepare some broken silver and copper coins."

"okay."

The shopkeeper recruited a buddy, and went to the back to get her the money himself.

Fang Yao sat on the rattan chair, waiting with itch.

She had inquired specifically a long time ago that many banks in Daxiangguo were unable to withdraw money from other places.

But the Chu family was deeply loved by the emperor because of sorghum wine. In recent years, in addition to paying tribute to the wine, they also have a winery in the capital.

Since there are businesses in both places, the Chu family also opened a bank in the capital by the way.

Fang Yao's purpose is to go all the way north to Beijing. At first, she was worried that it would not be safe to walk around in the turbulent ancient times with more than 100 catties of silver, but now she finally let go of her mind.

After all, the procedures for exchanging the banknotes are cumbersome. In addition to being able to withdraw them in a special bank, you also need to check the code and password.

Few of the forest robbers on the way were willing to take the risk of being caught to snatch this thing.

"Master Fang, 300 taels of silver, 230 taels of silver, 50 taels of silver, and twenty copper coins, please keep them."

"Thank you shopkeeper."

Fang Yao folded the bank notes and put them in her personal pocket. After carefully counting the money on the counter, she took out several folded empty cloth bags from her small satchel.

These are prepared by Jiang Shi for her.

Then, she put the more than ten catties of silver money into different bags, and asked Gou Wa and the others to carry one in front of each of them.

It was the first time for several young people to bring so much money, and they were so nervous that they wanted to hold the cloth bag in their arms like a child.

"Okay, be natural, don't want to have 300 taels of silver here." Fang Yao laughed.

The cows outside the gate were mooing impatiently. After everyone packed up, the group hurried to the market.

As soon as the few people left, someone stumbled into the bank.

……

The morning market in Zhenyang County is quite lively. It is located in the direction of Dadongmen in the county, also known as Dongshi.

Most of them sell rice, fish, meat, vegetables, etc., and many of them have to buy fresh ones early.

Fang Yao took out the list written by Li Fugui.

The old man can read a few words, although not much, but it is still possible to keep some accounts on weekdays.

It shows how much daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, and salt are left, as well as daily expenses, all of which are clear.

Fang Yao glanced at it, and then she could figure out what to buy and how much to buy for the next journey.

Gouwa couldn't understand this, but after hearing what his mother said, he said, "Master, there is still some rice noodles left, and we can eat it for another ten days and a half months. Let's save a province and survive until the next county." purchase."

"How can that work? Now that we have money, we can naturally buy as much food as we want."

Fang Yao flatly refused.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and in times of famine, more food should be prepared to be at ease.

Although the food these days is more than a hundred times better than in Lijia Village, she still gets tired of every meal of rice porridge and noodle soup.

Occasionally, when I look at the soup in the bowl, my stomach starts to feel sour. After eating, I can hear the sloshing sound in my stomach when I walk.

What's more, these days are quite exhausting. She and several members of the Li family were slightly injured, so she should make up for it and make her body stronger.

Well, at least a dry meal every day.

Fang Yao squinted at him, "Do you still want to hear that we are skinny?"

Gouwa's face turned red instantly, and he remembered the feeling of being discriminated against. He shook his head and said, "I don't want to."

"That's it, let's go, let's buy enough food first."

"Ok!"

Fang Yao and the others have huge sums of money, and when they go shopping, they are very valiant and high-spirited, subtly carrying a kind of rich and crazy aura.

But then, a few people ran out of several rice shops in a row, and all the food in them was sold out, and the "crazy" energy in them must have faded unconsciously.

Fang Yao felt uneasy. It was not like this in Liyang County before. Although the small grain shops did not have much grain, there was still some grain, but the price was very high. A load of old rice cost 15 taels, and new rice was five taels more expensive. .

At that time, she didn't have much money left, so she only bought three loads of old rice, weighing about 350 catties.

This town of Yang County is obviously bigger than Liyang County. Although it has been plagued by locusts recently, it is unlikely that all the rice shops will be looted within a few days...

Fang Yao hurriedly asked Gouwa to ask the locals, and only then did she know that the only surplus grain in the county town is Chu's Grain Store.

Several people hurried to Chu's Grain Shop.

Sure enough, there were a lot of people outside the grain shop, many people were rushing to buy grain with clay pots, wooden basins, and even broken bowls.

Fang Yao has very good eyesight, and she can see the price of each kind of grain on the banner hanging outside the grain shop at a distance of about ten meters.

She frowned: "The food here is nearly twice as expensive as what we bought in Liyang County."

Gouwa and the others all stared wide-eyed, "Doesn't that mean that a load of rice needs...to..."

Fang Yao said depressedly: "50 taels, the new rice I want to buy is 50 taels a load."

"Ah! This is too...too..."

"too expensive!"

Fang Yao clearly remembered Jiang's saying that ten years ago, one tael of silver in Daxiang Kingdom could buy two loads of rice, but now only 50 taels can buy one load.

She just thought that she had become a little rich woman, the money had depreciated so quickly, the money on her body was no longer fragrant, and her heart was bleeding silently.

"Ah, master, shall we still buy it..."

"Buy! Why don't you buy it? In this situation, food may become more and more expensive. Let's try to buy as much as possible."

Fang Yao gritted her teeth, feeling very regretful in her heart, she only took 300 taels of silver, not even enough to buy rice.

She was planning to let Gouwa and the others line up first, and go to the bank to exchange some money by herself, when a familiar scolding sound came from behind.

"Fuck you, uncle, what are you squeezing, and I'll destroy you if you squeeze again!"

As soon as Fang Yao and the others turned their heads, they saw Yang Gaozheng grabbing and kicking a rogue-eyed man. The man quickly got up from the ground and squeezed out of the crowd.

This man had a loud voice and a strong body, and he didn't care that everyone around him was staring at him. He spat hard at the direction in which the man left: "Dare to steal your grandpa's purse, and let me see you next time." , your three hands must be abolished!"

Fang Yao suddenly became vigilant. The man with the rogue-headed mouse seemed to be around her and the puppies all the time. The place was crowded and crowded. Although she deliberately told the others to put the money bag in their arms, but...

"Oh, my silver!"

A member of the Li clan suddenly cried out in shock.

Fang Yao's heart sank, and when she looked again, the bag on that Li's clansman was nowhere to be seen, and at some point someone cut the rope with a knife and fumbled away!

Gouwa was so anxious that his eyes were red, and he grabbed the man's clothes, "Is it gone? 50 taels are gone?!"

"Quick, maybe it's on that person."

Gouwa and the others were about to turn around and chase the man just now, but Fang Yao suddenly stopped them, "There is no need to chase."

Everyone looked up and saw that Yang Gao was carrying a very familiar cloth bag in his hand, shaking the heavy things inside, and asked with a smile: "Several people, are you looking for this thing?"

Fang Yao and the others looked at each other and nodded in unison.

I thought that the two sides had an unpleasant experience before, and Yang Gao might make things difficult, but unexpectedly, he returned the money bag to them without saying a word.

The members of the Li family quickly caught it, and looked at the silver inside, and sure enough, there was a lot of money.

Fang Yao was about to thank her, but Yang Gao shook his head.

"Hurry up and buy it, or later, when the war starts, you may not be able to buy it for much money."

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