Chapter 2: Dashun Dynasty
The old man picked up the dry tobacco and took a sip. Then he continued: "Xiaohe Village is located in Qingfeng Township, belongs to Qinggang County, and is under the jurisdiction of Gezhou Prefecture." After a pause, he said: "Now Dashun is the world of the Xia family. It has been 130 years since Emperor Taizu established Dashun."
Gezhou Prefecture? Dashun Dynasty? 130 years ago? Gu Yun was confused and had no intention of staying there any longer. He bowed and offered to say goodbye: "I remember that there is another thing to do. I'm upset, so I'll say goodbye!" Since I have obtained the preliminary information, I'll go back and check it out soon.
Gu Yun walked out of the village along the original road, thinking as he walked: Dashun Dynasty? It seems that he had heard of it somewhere. But how could the Dashun Dynasty of 130 years have not been recorded in history? This is strange... The strange place name, the strange dynasty, and the unrecorded 130 years of dynasty made him feel very uncertain. If this was not the earth or ancient China, how could he explain this in Chinese?
Thinking about his thoughts, Gu Yun didn't pay attention to the surroundings. He was a little distance from the village. He silently said "Go back", and a faint white light flashed and he went back.
Gu Yun went back, but what he didn't know was that the family of Uncle Wang, a man from Central South, happened to live at the entrance of the village. At this time, he saw a living person who was so missing in the daytime. He was so scared that his legs became weak. With a "ah--" sound, he hurried back to the house. Until he entered the house, his calves were still trembling. Now, he was even more sure that he had seen a ghost.
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When he returned home, Gu Yun took out his laptop and connected to the Internet to search for information about Dashun Dynasty. Sure enough, there was really a Dashun in history. However, Dashun was a regime established by Li Zicheng. Didn’t he fail later? Even if Li Zicheng succeeded, Li Zicheng did not have the surname Xia! Even if he was robbed of power, he could search all his generals and found no one named Xia!
No matter how confused he was, Gu Yun still calmed down. As long as he spoke Chinese to the other side, even if he was not the earth, so what!
After a while at home, I sorted out some small things that I couldn't use at home, found a cloth bag, put it on my back, and Gu Yun activated the astrology again.
This time, he appeared directly in the hidden place outside the village that disappeared last time. He looked around and found nothing unusual. Gu Yun walked directly into the village.
The country people have no entertainment, so it becomes the best activity to play homely. Until Gu Yun walked to the place where there were a lot of people in the village just now, a group of villagers were still basking in the sun and chatting homely.
Still approached the white-haired old man, Gu Yun bowed his hand and asked, "I dare to ask the old man, I don't know how to go to Qingfeng Township?"
"Go to Qingfeng Township?" The white-haired old man looked at Gu Yun in confusion: "The road you came to is. Qingfeng Township is not far away. Just walk along that road for half an hour and you will arrive."
"Oh?" Gu Yun didn't expect that the road he came to Qingfeng Township, and asked again: "How can I get to Qinggang County?"
The old man pointed to the east: "Go to Qinggang County and go east. However, it is already Shenshi, and it will take two hours to go to Qinggang County. I'm afraid it's too late today."
"That's okay! I'm disturbing you, so I'm going to say goodbye!" Gu Yun clasped his fists and walked straight east. It's around 16 o'clock now, and it's about twenty o'clock to the county town. It's difficult for the ancients to walk at night, but Gu Yun firmly believes that there should be no big problem with him carrying a flashlight. Besides, it's really impossible to wear it back.
So, with excitement, Gu Yun took big steps and began to rush forward.
After walking like this for about half an hour, Gu Yun felt tired, so he put it on. He took a break at home and took a sip of tea. Gu Yun thought to himself: Why am I so stupid? I can ride a bicycle! There is a bicycle at home, which has not been riding for a long time, and it is now just in use. So he pushed the bicycle out and put it on the ancient times with his bicycle.
It was much faster to ride a bike. Even if it took a few minutes to avoid pedestrians on the road, Gu Yun still only took 40 minutes to approach Qinggang County.
The city in the distance is vaguely visible, and Gu Yun is so excited. This is an ancient city that cannot be compared with Xiaohe Village! If you want to make a deal, you should get the city! My first transaction is here!
Not daring to get too close to the city wall, Gu Yun found a hidden place and sent the bicycle back to Hyundai. He carried a cloth bag on his back, and took a pile of rags to the city gate.
At the gate of the city, no one came out to stop him. Gu Yun entered the city directly. After entering the city, he headed straight to the pawnshop.
"Zhao Ji Pawnshop, well, just this one!" Seeing that the door of this pawnshop was good, Gu Yun no longer chose other houses and walked in directly.
The so-called "customers are God" is unambiguous even in ancient times. As soon as Gu Yun came to the door, a friend came up and greeted enthusiastically: "Young Master, please sit down, but do you have any items to be pawned?"
"Come to your boss!" Gu Yun found a chair and sat down, but according to modern customs, he had to meet the boss directly. It's not his fault. If modern people come to ancient times, they will definitely have a sense of superiority from the bottom of their hearts.
Boss? The pawnshop felt that the name was very fresh, but he immediately realized that this person was going to meet the shopkeeper? So he said, "Young master, my shopkeeper is busy. If you have any questions to pawn, just go to the counter."
"Oh?" Gu Yun couldn't tell whether his old goods were worth it, but he thought it was not bad. He took off the cloth bag from his shoulder, took out a small mirror, and asked, "Can't you let your shopkeeper come out and see?"
The pawnshop picked up the mirror and looked at it, his face changed, "Young master, wait a moment, I'll call the shopkeeper!"
In ancient times, mirrors were rare items and could be regarded as valuable items. The pawnshop did not dare to make decisions by himself, so he hurried to the inner hall.
After a while, a maid-like girl walked out of the inner hall, brought a cup of tea, and came to Gu Yun with a blessing: "Please use tea for your son!"
"Yeah." Gu Yun picked up the tea, and took a sip without hesitation.
At this time, two more people came out of the inner hall. The first one was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a long robe and a mustache, with his eyes shining brightly. Following behind was an old man with gray hair.
As soon as the middle-aged man came out, he clasped his fists and smiled and said, "Young Master, you are so rude! Please don't be surprised!"
Gu Yun also clasped his fists, "It's easy to say it!"
Seeing Gu Yun wearing strange clothes, the shopkeeper was surprised. He walked closer and snorted: "I don't know what the young master calls him?"
"I have a surname Gu, and the single name is Yun." Anyway, Gu Yun was not worried and said his real name. Even if others wanted to check it, they probably couldn't find anything.
"Young master wants to pawn the glass mirror? Can you take it out and take it?" The gray-haired old man who followed him asked straight to the point.
Seeing that the old man had spoken, the shopkeeper couldn't continue asking questions, so he had to get into the topic and boasted: "Young master will definitely not be wrong when we come to our Zhaoji pawnshop. The price given by our Zhaoji pawnshop is not daring to say that the city has the highest price, at least the top one!"
"It's easy to say!" Gu Yun handed the mirror to the old man, picked up the tea cup calmly, and started to drink tea gently.
After a while, the old man said excitedly: "This mirror is so bright that it can be seen from others. Tsk tsk! It's really rare! It's a pity, it's a bit damaged."
"Is this mirror genuine? I wonder how much it can be used as?" Gu Yun almost laughed. This was the remaining one at home. It was too dilapidated and had already been thrown aside.
The shopkeeper took the mirror from the old man, looked carefully for a while, and said, "The frame of this mirror is a bit damaged, so you can get 4 taels of silver. If you are dead, you can be slightly higher! I wonder which one the young master chooses?"
"No, no, no!" Gu Yun put down the teacup and took out a glass cup from the cloth bag. "Please take a look at it again. I don't know how much such a cup is worth?"
The shopkeeper took the glass and looked at it carefully. After a while, the old man asked the cup from the shopkeeper and looked at it carefully again.
Gu Yun was not in a hurry, and picked up the tea and started drinking it gently.
After a while, the shopkeeper finally reacted and said, "There is a big gap in this crystal cup, which is very bad, but it can also be used as 2 taels of silver. If it is a dead end, it can be higher!"
"Shopkeeper, let me tell you the real price! I still have a lot of good things!" After Gu Yun said that, he opened the bag, lit it up, and closed it again.
The "baby" in the bag made the shopkeeper and the old man look straight. The glass mirror and the crystal cup are not ordinary things. I think other things will definitely not be bad. Both of them looked at each other and found excitement from each other's eyes. The shopkeeper's reaction was first. He licked his lips and said, "I don't know if the young master is dead or is temporarily used as a mortgage. If it is dead, the glass mirror will cost 6 taels of silver and 3 taels of silver and the crystal cup will cost 3 taels of silver."
Gu Yun stood up and grabbed the cloth bag, "Shopkeeper, don't tell the truth." He stretched out his hand, "Give me the mirror and the cup back, I'll go to another house."
"Don't do it, young master, it's easy to discuss, it's easy to discuss!" The shopkeeper hurriedly persuaded, and the old man was also very nervous.
"Then you tell me the real price. I'm just pretending to be dead." Gu Yun was not really leaving. He was just pretending.
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "Well, the glass mirror costs 10 taels of silver, and the crystal cup costs 4 taels of silver." After that, he was afraid that Gu Yun would be dissatisfied, and explained, "This is already the highest in the city, young master!"
"Okay, just click this. I still have a lot of good things in this bag. If I let you know that you will miss me, you will have good goods next time, don't think about it."
Next time? The shopkeeper's joy was accompanied by a smile: "No, no!"
"Okay, then I'll do it all."
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"1 broken glass mirror, dead, 10 taels of silver; 1 old crystal cup with gap, 4 taels of silver... 2 old plastic bottles, dead, 1 taels of 8 qian each; 5 glass beads, dead, 1 taels of 6 qian each..."
After a while, the two sides agreed on the price and signed the documents and stamped them. Everything Gu Yun brought was dismissed.
"Young master, there are 72 taels and 6 coins in total. You must remember to find Zhao Ji's pawn shop next time." The shopkeeper's eyes narrowed into a slit. Today, he gained a lot. He said that the mirror, as long as he changed the border, he could sell at least 50 taels of silver. Just this one will be worth most of the money.
Chapter completed!