Chapter 250 A gentleman loves money and has a plan
It was still dark, the curfew outside had not yet opened, and it would not be safe for him to put this box of gold anywhere. No matter how strong he was, he would not be able to take it all away with his own strength.
He searched for ropes everywhere, and even took off the clothes and pants of these people, torn strips of cloth and twisted them into ropes to strengthen the binding, ensuring that even a few majestic bulls could not break free.
Li Siye took advantage of the light to climb over the wall and decided to find a transport vehicle.
The sound of footsteps disappeared at the end of the deserted road. The people tied to the pillars twisted their necks with difficulty and saw each other's eyes. Then they struggled together. Apart from the shaking of the pillars and the buzzing sound, there was no sound.
It had only half the effect.
Although the early morning curfew has been lifted, the market has not yet opened. Only some diligent workers have begun to go out to make a living, including an old man who is driving a bullock cart to leave the city.
Li Siye changed into an ordinary Gebu robe, put his hands in his sleeves, walked towards the old man's oxcart, and walked beside him, pretending to be casual and greeting: "Old man, what are you doing out of the city so early?"
The old man glanced at him and thought he was a gangster wandering around in the south of the city. However, he didn't expect that gangsters could get up so early these days, so he ignored him and said, "Business."
"What's the business?"
The old man was wary, glanced at him and said, "Old man, I only have the dry food in my arms, and I don't have any money to give you."
Li Siye was stunned and took half a step back, feeling that he thought he was a rogue.
"Old man, you misunderstood, I just want to do business with you."
"What, what business?"
He crossed his arms and said solemnly: "I want to buy your cattle and cart."
When the old man heard this, he stretched out his hand to hold the reins of the oxen and walked forward. Li Siye took two quick steps and stopped in front of him, adding a bit of sincerity to his tone: "Old man, listen to me. I sincerely want to buy your oxcart. You can drive it."
price."
The old man looked at Li Siye suspiciously, shook his head and said, "You young man, are you teasing me? If you want to buy cattle, the market opens at noon, and the carpenter's shop in the city has a brand new big stacker cart."
"I have an urgent need now. How about I buy your cows and carts at twice the price?"
The old man was not necessarily surprised. He lowered his head and thought: "A healthy cow costs 4,800 yuan. If the price is twice as much..." The old man squatted on the ground and clasped his fingers: "Four plus four is
Eight, eight plus eight is one, two, three, four, five, six, the total is nine thousand six. Let’s count it as 700 yuan for the carriage, the total is..."
Li Siye didn't have the patience to wait for him to finish the calculation, so he took the old man's arm and helped him up: "Old man, I'll give you 12,000 yuan including the ox and the cart." After saying that, he took out two gold coins from his arms and held them in his hand.
He said in his hand: "This is pure gold, the price is more than twelve thousand."
The old man waved his hands repeatedly: "Goodbye, young man. I am dizzy and cannot recognize real gold and silver. You should give me gold ingots."
Li Siye frowned anxiously. The sky outside the city had turned pale. Where could he exchange copper coins for him at this time? There might be a place. Lanzhou City was an important transportation town on the Silk Road, and there were several local grain stores in the city.
There should also be merchants and silk merchants, gold and silver shops and cabinet stores.
"Old man, take the ox and follow me, and I'll convert it into copper coins for you."
The old man's withered hands held the healthy cow tightly, and he stared blankly and asked: "Where do you want me to go with you?"
"Go to the gold and silver shop to exchange for copper coins. Don't worry, I won't take you to a remote corner."
As a result, the old man looked around and led the ox behind Li Siye, and came to the door of a shop. Fortunately, this was a gold and silver shop that combined an exchange shop and a counter shop.
Even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, due to the scarcity of gold and silver, it still did not become a mainstream currency and was only used in bulk commodity transactions. Therefore, the main business of the gold and silver shop was the exchange between currency and heavy metals. Of course, you can also save money.
Not only does the money not earn any interest, but the banker has to pay a storage fee.
Li Siye went in to change money, but the old man stood at a loss outside the door of the gold and silver shop. He quickly walked out with his robe on his back and fell onto the bullock cart with great effort.
"Here, please click!"
The old man raised his head and looked at him in astonishment, then he lay down on his robe and pulled out the string of money. Each string contained one thousand coins, making a total of twelve strings.
"How is it?" Li Siye said with his hands on his hips.
The old man put all the money into the bag again and carried it on his shoulders with the help of Li Siye. However, his face looked sad and inexplicably sad, as if he had just had a ridiculous dream. When Li Siye took the cow away
Behind the car, he seemed even more disappointed, and murmured: "I planned to go out to the mountains early this morning to cut firewood and burn charcoal. All the barbecue shops in the city like to use my charcoal, so why did I sell the ox cart?
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He shouted at the back of Li Siye who was walking away to hold the cow: "Young man, please treat my cow well!"
"knew!"
"Give it food so it doesn't go hungry."
"OK!"
"Don't hit it!"
This time Li Siye just raised his hand.
He looked down at the sash on his shoulders, thinking that in addition to buying a good cow and a cart with the money, he still had half left over, which could be enough for him to make charcoal for two years, but the cow he bought was not that cow after all.
Li Siye led the oxen towards the bell tower. Now there is an oxcart, but the equipment to hold the gold has not yet been found. Zhang Kuo's box containing the money was too exposed. It is still a thousand miles from Lanzhou to Chang'an, and it is inevitable that there will be encounters on the way.
No matter who you encounter, it is better to cover it up.
His footsteps stopped at the door of a rather grand-looking wine shop, with a jar of wine placed behind the wine rack near the door.
Li Siye strolled over and asked the wine doctor who was buying wine at the counter: "Your wine costs a lot, I want the cheapest one."
…
He pulled the bullock cart to a remote barren hill in the city, where the streams flowing from Gaolan Mountain gathered into a river. He took the wine jars from the cart one by one, pulled out the wooden covers and poured them into the river. Suddenly,
The aroma of wine in the river overflows and fills your nostrils.
Downstream, women who had come to the river to wash their clothes with wooden basins sat on the rocks, swung their wooden sticks and beat their clothes. They suddenly sniffed and asked the people next to them: "I seem to smell the smell of alcohol.
Did you smell it?"
"That's right, the smell seems to come from the river."
The young monk in gray robes from Zhuangyan Temple went down the mountain with a bucket, filled the bucket by the river, lowered his head and sniffed in the bucket, then held it in both hands and took a sip. He hurriedly prostrated on the ground and kowtowed to the mountain gate: "Amitabha,
Disciple's fault."
At this time, the sky was bright, and Li Siye had already led the ox cart into the deep alley. The firewood door of the poor family had been opened, and a woodcutter carrying an empty hemp rope and an ax passed by his ox cart.
He was very worried. He had been there for an hour. What would happen if the security was not kept within this hour? The guys who were tied up in the yard would not be honest. This place was not a wilderness. If the nearby residents heard
If there is any noise, it will be like drawing water from a bamboo basket in vain.
He parked the oxcart at the entrance of the small courtyard and looked down to see that there were no messy footprints on the ground. There was still a humming sound in the yard. He climbed over the wall and turned over. As soon as he landed, he was stunned by the sight in front of him. Four or five injuries occurred.
The muscular guy actually shook down the tied pillars, causing a corner of the roof of the tile-roofed house to collapse. The five people ran back and forth in the courtyard with their backs on the vertical pillars, trying their best to break free, but the pillars were thick at both ends.
It's so thin in the middle that it can't come out no matter what, it just rolls back and forth and is covered in dust.
The wooden pillar fell over again and fell on a man, causing his thick neck and face to turn red, his big eyes to almost fly out, and the rag in his mouth to make a whining sound.