At the beginning of the eighth year of Yongle, Lin Linyou exchanged the two gold cakes on his body for silver taels. Although one gold cake was as small as a persimmon, one weighed more than half a catty. In total, he exchanged it for one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Filial piety was given to the newly appointed guarding eunuch of Xuanfu.
This mere one hundred and twenty taels is not for eunuchs to do business, but for him, a guerrilla general, to establish a good relationship with the eunuchs of the inner court. When it is smooth enough, he is ready to lubricate it...
If you don’t make money, how can you spend that box of gold openly? Being suppressed by the general, he would never have the opportunity to spend that box of gold. If he stayed in the frontier army for a long time, he might lose his destiny someday. If you lose your life, you will lose it. If you didn't spend a penny of your gold before you lose it, this is something even more painful than losing your life.
No, Lin Linyou's words came true...
On this day, the Northern invaders invaded and approached Longmen. The guerrilla general Lin Linyou led his elite cavalry to fight. During the melee, a cold arrow flew and actually pierced his breastplate! His vision went dark, and he fell down from his horse...
Then the body was taken over by the current Lin Linyou...
Of course, Lin Linyou didn't tell Qiu Bu about this. Although Qiu Bu's martial arts value was extremely high, in terms of IQ, it might be difficult for him to understand such an outrageous thing as accepting time travel and seizing one's body.
Furthermore, he was also worried that Qiu Bu had a close relationship with the original owner, and they were close friends. If he knew that he had taken over his good brother's body, if he got excited and cut him with a knife as if he were a monster, that would be bad!
…
"Brother Qiu, it's been two years, and I thought you were dead!" Lin Linyou tried his best to squeeze out a few tears, "After all these years, do you know, I miss you so much, and every day, I wonder where you are going. Where is it..."
Qiu couldn't be happier: "Didn't you pretend you didn't know me before?"
"I have lost my memory!"
"Amnesia?"
"It's the soul-losing syndrome..." Lin Lin said, "shot by that arrow."
No one knows whether that arrow was an accident...
Fortunately, in the end, Lin Linyou relied on his relationship with the eunuchs and successfully entered Beijing and became a bannerman of the imperial guard - who said that he could not act firmly if he talks without hair? The eunuch has a hairless mouth and is quite reliable in his work. Being able to be highly regarded by emperors of all generations, and repeatedly asking emperors to take the initiative to violate the ancestral system, shows that these people do have real abilities.
That gold can finally be spent openly.
"How can you say you miss me every day when you are suffering from amnesia?" It has to be said that Qiu Bu's mouth was very eloquent, and Lin Linyou was speechless.
With an idea, Lin Lin said: "Although I have left my soul, I just can't remember your face, but I will always remember you as a good brother!"
"Good brother." Qiu Bu nodded, half-smiling.
"Good brother!" Lin Linyou said excitedly, "Where have you been in the past two years?"
"Let's not tell you where I went," Qiu Bu said. "First, tell me where you hid that cart of gold."
Sure enough, the topic went round and round and returned to gold.
Sure enough, people in the world need gold to make friends. If you don’t have a lot of gold, your friendship won’t be deep!
"Where did the car come from? Just one box." Lin Lin said.
"It seems that the soul has not completely left!" Qiu Bu said, "Then, where is the box of gold?"
"..." Lin Linyou couldn't remember it. He really couldn't remember it. It seemed that he had to grab it from the memory of the original owner.
Damn it, it’s like squeezing out toothpaste!
…
Qiu Bu "led" Lin Linyou to a bank called "Jinglong Village".
"Have you really lost your memory?"
"Selective amnesia."
"Then do you still remember how much money you deposited at this bank in the beginning?"
"It seems like, one thousand taels..."
"You are not stupid, you deliberately kept it low." Qiu Bu said, "Based on my observation, you have at least fifty thousand taels here!"
"Brother Qiu is very smart, he deliberately went too far..."
"Now on the books, I bet it's more than a thousand taels!"
On both sides of the bank gate, two vertical couplets are engraved: "No money will not be collected, no accounts will not be collected, sand will form a tower and water will form a river."
After entering the door, there is a huge copper coin in front of the patio, with the four characters "Jingshang Yuanbao" engraved on it.
This is a big bank. Not only are Pixiu and guards guarding the door, but there are also boys greeting guests.
When the guards saw Qiu Bu carrying a long object, even though it was wrapped in cloth, he had a premonition that it would be a long sword or spear, so he stopped him and said, "Weapons are all stored here and are not allowed to be brought in!"
"Which of your eyes saw that I had a weapon?" Qiu Bu glared.
Qiu Bu was also a man with several lives on his hands, and he had murderous intent. The guards were immediately frightened by his glare.
"Sugar cane, it's sugar cane." Lin Linyou smiled to smooth things over.
Lin Linyou was a frequent visitor to Whale Merchant Bank. The guards and the boys who greeted him were all familiar with him. Usually, Lin Linyou would always reward them with a reward after taking some silver.
When the boy saw Lin Linyou, he immediately greeted him with a smile: "Sir, you are here, please come in quickly."
When the guards saw this, they no longer stopped them, but they still had doubts:
"Where can there be any sugar cane at this time of year? My heart has become red and rotten..."
"Yes! Even if it's sugar cane, how can anyone wrap it so tightly with cloth?"
"Perhaps it's wrapped in cloth to prevent it from rotting and getting moldy?"
"Really? If so, let's try it next time."
"It seems that he loves to chew sugar cane!"
…
After welcoming him inside, he set up a seat and sat down, then the boy withdrew.
The accountant of the bank asked the waiter to see the tea, stood beside the two of them, and asked Lin Linyou: "Is Mr. Lin depositing money or withdrawing money today?"
"As usual." Lin Lin said, taking out the banknotes from his arms.
Mr. Accountant agreed, took the banker's ticket, and was about to go down to withdraw the money. Qiu Bu said: "Lao You, it's already this time, are you still playing tricks on me? How much do you want to withdraw as usual?"
Mr. Accountant looked at Qiu Bu and then at Lin Linyou.
Lin Linyou put down the tea cup and said with a smile: "Sorry, I'm used to it..."
"Then, as usual?" Mr. Accountant still looked at Lin Linyou, "As usual..."
"Give me the banker's ticket!" Qiu Bu spread his big hands and reached out to the accountant.
It seemed that he was having trouble speaking, because Mr. Accountant looked at Lin Linyou again.
"Give it to him!" Lin Linyou said helplessly.
Qiu Bu reached out and grabbed the banknote, and saw that it was in denomination of five thousand taels and stamped with the official seal of the bank and the seal of Jiaozi. It seemed that it was an official bank. The time of deposit is printed above the Jiaozi seal: February 2, the eighth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.
"Take them all out!" Qiu Bu returned the banknotes to the accountant. "Three thousand taels were exchanged into treasure banknotes, one thousand taels were exchanged into gold leaves, and the remainder was exchanged into half and half denominations of 100 taels and 50 taels of silver notes!"
Just as Mr. Accountant was about to turn his eyes towards Lin Linyou, Qiu Bu shouted: "What are you looking at? What I said doesn't work?"
"Sir, that's not what you said... You don't know something. Our "Da Ming Law" stipulates that there are restrictions on guests withdrawing money..." The accountant smiled apologetically, "I'm afraid I won't be able to spend that much."
"Fart!" Qiu Bu said, "There is a silver ban in the Ming Dynasty Law, so why is there a gold ban?"
"Yes..." The accountant mustered up the courage to say one word.
Qiu Bu slapped the tea table, which attracted the attention of the guards. Just as he was about to get angry, Lin Linyou waved helplessly at the accountant: "Just do as he said!"
"But……"
"What else?!" Qiu Bu was really anxious and impatient.
"I'm afraid the bank doesn't have so many gold leaves." Mr. Accountant said, "It would take time to get it from elsewhere..."
"Then just change it to any gold, as long as it's gold!" Qiu Bu said.
Seeing that he was so irritable, the cashier didn't want to bother too much, so he took the dealer's ticket and hurried to the counter. On the counter, three guys were clicking away with their arithmetic boards, looking like a bustling business scene.
"Brother Qiu, what do you want with all this gold? It's hard to carry it with you." Lin Linyou asked. It should be noted that a thousand taels of silver converted into gold leaves weighs more than ten kilograms.
"What do you know?" Qiu Bu got the money immediately, and he felt relaxed. He picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "When dealing with people in the world, gold is the best way to deal with it."
"Well...but can you leave some for me? Don't take it all!"
"Stop pretending to be stupid!" Qiu Bu said, "Is it possible that you only have this banker's ticket? That box of gold is worth at least one hundred thousand taels of silver!"
"What one hundred thousand taels? How can a cow pull that many!" Lin Linyou cried out, "Eighty thousand taels at most!"
"It seems that you have cashed in all the gold?" Qiu Bu sneered.
"No……"
"Whether you have it or not, if you don't tell me the whereabouts of the gold, I won't ask. In short, after all these are spent, I will come to you again to ask for it." Qiu Bu said, "Just as you said, count him 80,000 taels. We'll split it half and half, and you'll get 40,000 taels from me."
Lin Linyou: "..."
Oops, I really can’t remember where the gold is hidden! I do still have a few banknotes from various bankers on me, which add up to an estimated thirty thousand taels. However, I have spent about five thousand taels in this period of time, plus the five thousand taels that Qiu Bu has taken away now. Two, ten thousand taels are gone...
