Lanke Chess Edge

This town is called Nandao County. Although it is not big, it looks prosperous. It feels like I came to Ning'an County at the beginning of the year.

But after a careful comparison, this side is naturally far behind, at least from the expressions of the common people. The obvious gap can be seen.

If you want to describe it by fate, the difference is that everyone in Ning'an County can be regarded as living and working in peace and contentment, while the thoughts on the faces of the people here reveal a certain kind of anxiety.

Not long after entering the city, there was a market, and the streets seemed very crowded, with people coming and going plus horses and horses, and some places had to give way.

Ji Yuan was dressed in a white shirt, walked leisurely, with untidy hair on his temples, and a black jade hairpin that looked very good-looking stuck in a bun, and more importantly, there was only one person.

After walking on the street for a while, Ji Yuan found that he was being followed by several groups of people. Judging from the sight he felt and the whispered voices he heard, these people hardly had any good intentions. If you want to steal, you want to kill yourself.

'The state of the world is so cold, this law and order is really unflattering. '

Sighing in his heart, Ji Yuan didn't pay much attention to it, he quickened his pace a bit, circling left and right and got rid of several groups of people.

Passing by a stall on the corner of the street, Ji Yuan stopped.

This stall is a dry biscuit shop, but it is different from the ones that Ji Yuan bought before. When he happened to pass by, he saw that the boss who made this biscuit used two large iron molds to bake the upper and lower biscuit sides respectively, and embedded in them A kind of salty dried vegetables, and sprinkled with some powdered sesame seeds after being folded, Ji Yuan smelled it and wanted to try it.

"Shopkeeper, how do you sell these pancakes?"

Seeing that there was no sound at the booth, Ji Yuan stopped in front of the booth and asked.

The old man who made pancakes looked up and saw a gentleman who looked like a scholar. This is not very rare in Nandao County, but at least it is rare, and the accent does not seem like a local.

"The pancakes are sold for two yuan a piece, and eight yuan for a catty. There are about five pancakes."

"Oh, may I have a taste of this dried vegetable?"

"The smell of dried vegetables?"

The old man felt a little strange, but nodded after hesitating, and handed some dried vegetables from pottery jars to Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan tasted it, and smiled as he tasted the familiar salty aroma.

"The store's ancestral home is from Dazhenji Prefecture, right?"

"Uh, it's not..."

The old man said something, as if he suddenly thought of something, he said again immediately.

"It seems that the master knows the goods. To tell you the truth, this dried vegetable was indeed taught by a Dazhen man back then. As for where he came from, the old man doesn't know."

Ji Yuan nodded.

"So that's the case, then please ask the store to weigh ten catties of pancakes for me."

"Ten catties?"

"Not bad, ten catties!"

"Hey hey, wait a moment, guest officer. The ready-made one is only a little over six catties. I'll make it for you right away, and it will be ready in no time!"

Ten catties of pancakes is a big business for the old man, if they are sold out, most of today's goods will be gone.

The old man had quick hands and feet, chatted with Ji Yuan while making pancakes, and finished ten catties of pancakes in a short while.

After passing the scale, he would naturally have to pay. He took out the money bag, which looked bulging, but looking inside, the copper coins that took up the majority were all printed with "Yuande Tongbao", since they were Dazhen's coins , Of course, it is not in circulation here, so I had to take out a piece of broken silver.

"Here, the shopkeeper weighs the silver first."

"Oh good, the guest officer gave me money!"

This old man has never been out of Nandao County, so he doesn't know how it is in other places, but in Nandao County, sometimes copper coins are very confusing. The two cents a cake he said refers to the standard one.

But a lot of copper coins are not up to the standard. The minted private coins are all mixed with materials, and some copper coins are exaggeratedly printed and can be used for ten, but they don't have that weight. Many people don't recognize them when they are traded.

In this case, gold and silver are extremely precious, and their purchasing power far exceeds that of Dazhen, and they can often be exchanged for copper coins that are worth more than they should be.

Many people directly use silver to buy a large amount of "real money", and then melt it and mix it with materials for private casting. One tael of silver can be used as a value of three or four taels of silver.

It is rare to buy pancakes directly for Baiyin. The old man reckoned that there were almost no copper coins in the money bag.

Seeing the white silver, the shopkeeper was very happy, his face turned rosy, and he weighed it, with this piece of broken silver, he would have earned forty pennies, but now he estimated that if it was less, he would eventually earn a thousand There are more than one hundred and fifty articles.

A few places a little farther away, some eyes had already seen Ji Yuan's bulging money bag, and even saw the silver that was taken out clearly. There were people whispering in the corner behind the truck.

"It's a big fish, the money bag is probably full of white and yellow!"

"That's right...and that jade hairpin, I just passed by and took a closer look, it's priceless!"

"Shh... let's go."

At the cake stand, the money was weighed and changed, and the old man at the stall tied the cakes into a string with hemp rope, handed them to Ji Yuan, looked around and said in a low voice.

"Sir, you are a foreigner. From the old man's point of view, some people are already eyeing you. Be careful!"

Ji Yuan's conversation is humorous and friendly and gentle, and it is easy to attract people's favor. The old man has seen a lot of things, and he naturally sees that there are eyes around him that are not kind to this gentleman, so he can't help but remind him aloud.

Ji Yuan smiled, and cupped his hands towards the old man before taking the pancake.

"Thank you for the store's reminder, Ji will be careful if he saves money."

After finishing speaking, Ji Yuan turned around and strode away with the pancakes in his hand. He walked around for a while, and when he passed by the entrance of an alley, the bunch of pancakes in his hand had disappeared.

In the distance behind, several men have been struggling to follow Ji Yuan closely.

"Huh...huh...this man, this man walks really fast."

"Hey...that's right, he's so gentle...hey, where is the cake in his hand, why is it missing?"

"Why do you care about his biscuits? As long as the person is right!" "Let's go, let's go!"

"Yes, you can't lose it."

The people in front didn't stop, and they couldn't rest. They managed to take a few breaths, and then sped up to catch up.

Ji Yuan kept striding ahead, the others were either thrown off or gave up, but the group behind him were relentless in their pursuit.

It's not that he can't get away casually, but listening to them talking about "slaughter a few fat sheep" and so on, Ji Yuan didn't want them to follow him.

In the evening, Ji Yuan had already left the city in circles, and the nine people following him never lost track of him, which shows his strong determination.

There is a pavilion five miles north of Nandao County, which is simply and rudely named "Wuli Pavilion". Ji Yuan stopped here, took out a pancake and sat in the pavilion to eat.

Because it is newly made today, although it is not soft, it is still good to eat, at least it is not toothache without being baked.

The nine people who followed Ji Yuan hid behind a low hill covered with trees in the distance, but they were out of breath at the moment, and they were resting to recover their strength.

When Ji Yuan finished eating one pancake slowly, the nine people over there had almost rested, and approached Wuliting little by little with the noose and the guy.

As the saying goes, phases are born from the heart, the ferocious faces of the nine people at this moment are more worthy of the word vicious than the previous Ba Zi.

"That scholar, are you good at running?"

"Hey, hand over all your valuables!"

The leading man was tall and sturdy, holding an iron whip. Before the leader got close to Wuliting, he was already threatening arrogantly. They had already seen it, and there was no one around Wuliting at all.

Ji Yuan shook the cake crumbs in his hands together, put them in his mouth and ate them, then clapped his hands and stood up, looking humane.

"If I put down valuables, can you let me go?"

Nine people had already surrounded Wuli Pavilion, the leader looked up and down at Ji Yuandao.

"Don't worry if you let us go, we have to search."

Ji Yuan nodded.

"Then let me go after the search?"

"Hahahaha... It's troublesome to let you go as much as you want. The Wuliting is surrounded by wilderness, and there are so many wild wolves and beasts that you can kill them or not bury them."

Hearing these words in his ears, Ji Yuan looked at the people in front of him, and suddenly burst out laughing. Although the people in his sight were very blurred, the hostility on their bodies was very obvious.

"Hehe, there's nothing to discuss?"

Ji Yuan could still laugh at this meeting, which made several people a little afraid.

"You, aren't you a master of rivers and lakes?"

But Ji Yuan didn't answer their words, instead he looked sideways at the woods beside the pavilion.

In Ji Yuan's ears, the sound of trampling and piercing the air approached, and after only two breaths, a black shadow flashed from the treetops in the forest.

"Zheng"

The sound of the long sword being drawn out of its sheath was accompanied by the cold light of the sword body, piercing through with the visitor, and the moment it flashed in front of the pavilion, the sound of the blade entering the flesh sounded.

"Someone..."

"Puff puff……"

The sword blade slashed, and the man with the iron whip and the three people around him didn't even have a reaction. They fell to the ground with the sword. The sword swept away.

"Be careful..." "Quick..."

"Puff puff……"

A few more people fell down without even being able to finish their sentence.

In an instant, the nine people surrounding the pavilion had all fallen down, and the visitor stood outside the pavilion, shaking off the blood on the sword and returning the sword to its sheath.

"Good skill!"

Ji Yuan praised sincerely, standing at the height of a cultivator, such methods are naturally nothing, but he is also definitely a master of martial arts, and he can distinguish martial arts from the aspects of body skills, moves, and use of true energy. I can also see clearly, the person's body and sword skills are very good.

"Mr. is still Mr., I haven't seen you for many years and still look good! Just now I thought I made a mistake, but I didn't expect that it was really Mr. You came here!"

Ji Yuan opened his eyes slightly, and looked up and down the comer with blurred vision.

"This voice... are you Young Master Yan? Oh, now you have to be called Great Xia Yan!"

The visitor in a black costume walked a few steps closer to the gazebo, and bowed to Ji Yuan with his sword in his hand.

"Yan Fei met Mr. Ji, but he still remembered me!"

Yan Fei raised his head and looked at Ji Yuan. It would be difficult for an ordinary person to notice the abnormality of Ji Yuan's half-opened eyes if he only took a cursory glance, but he could see those blue eyes that are still fresh in his memory.

"Hehehe, Ji will never forget the voices of these young heroes."

Yan Fei looked at the corpse beside him, and asked with a smile.

"Sir, I killed nine people, do you have any objection?"

Ji Yuan shook his head and smiled, he could see something from the decisiveness of Yan Fei's sword.

"People die for money, and birds die for food. They are self-inflicted. As for those who disagree, so what? If they don't listen, you may not listen."