"Are you familiar with her?" she asked Shangluo.
"Well, we are quite destined."
The fate between him and Karin is quite strange. If it hadn't been for Karin's suffering and the mayor of Lake Nemi hadn't told the whole story, then he might have missed the ultimate reward - or maybe he would have missed the chance to get in touch with the highest level of Rome. As for what happened later Other collaborations are also difficult to get online.
Although it is not impossible to meet through other channels, it is more interesting and more natural to meet naturally because of fate.
"Fate? Well, she's not human."
"How did you know?"
"Eh?" Gao Shiyu was stunned for a moment, "It's really not true. Is it a female ghost?"
Shangluo quickly looked up and saw that Karin was indeed not there: "Fortunately, she didn't hear that it was not a female ghost, but an elf."
"Sure enough." Gao Qingyu was still looking at the direction Karin left, "I heard the sound just now. She was not making the sound with her throat, but vibrating the space. She didn't walk into the corridor normally just now, and turned around and disappeared. .”
"Elves seem to have no fixed form, so that's why. When they were in the mortal world, they were still bound by the bodies they inhabited, but here they just rely on habit."
"Eh?" Gao Shiyu wondered, "Isn't that still a female ghost?"
A bang fell from the sky, and it was his sister who did it.
"You little blind man, can you please stop talking! If you don't talk, no one will treat you as a mute! Why are you so excited!"
"Because I can see it! You can also take off your headphones. Aren't you excited?"
"No matter how excited I am, I won't look around like you. Don't think that you can look around with those glass beads just because you don't have pupils!" Even when he was scolding her, Gao Qingyu suppressed his voice. She was very sensitive to sound and controlled the volume as it should be in the library.
"Ah, you two." Before Gao Shiyu was beaten, Shangluo pulled him aside, "Would you like ice cream?"
"Eat! I heard that ice cream has many shapes, right? I've eaten it, but I've never seen it. It's hard to feel the shape even if you lick it with your mouth. Sometimes I even want to put a drop of ice cream on top of the ice cream to see the shape. , but finally stopped.”
"Those two tourists, please go here."
As a local who has been here twice, Shangluo is already very familiar with the situation here——
"How many???"
He looked at the price list and was stunned.
The current price of an ice cream cone is 10000000000. There are ten zeros after the 1.
Gao Qingyu, who was here for the first time, was also stunned for a moment: "Say, Shangluo, are Ming coins used here?"
Shangluo touched his pocket.
After using it several times, he only had 30 drachmas left. He thought that if everyone had 10 yuan, they would just use it up this time.
But now that’s not even enough to buy an ice cream crumb.
"Ah this."
He felt something was wrong from the moment he came in - or rather, order was restored here. When I first came, Alexander Night had delicious ice cream and students. When I came here for the second time, there was an army here and a divine machine entrenched in the entire sky. The third time I came, this time, it was the same as the first time.
There are a lot more people on the street, people going to work and opening shops, just like in an ordinary city. If it wasn't a lighthouse that illuminated all this, it really wouldn't be obvious what the problem was.
I just didn't expect that the price would increase so much all of a sudden.
"Yo. Are you here?" A familiar voice appeared next to him.
It's Lin. Today is a weekday, she did not go home, but went out on business. Now her business is here today.
"Huh???" Gao Qingyu was stunned for a moment, "Why are they exactly the same?"
"This is Karin's sister. Well, it's her sister. Ah, Sister Lin, these two are my friends, bring them here to participate in the closed beta."
"You want ice cream? Well, are you scared by the price?"
Shangluo nodded: "Why did it become like this?"
"You can't blame Victoria. She asked everyone not to use drachma silver coins for transactions, but to print banknotes with the name 'Drachma'."
"Is this okay?"
"Well, that's fine. Because the emperor represents Rome and is the orthodox government of the entire Greek world. They are fully qualified to decide what a drachma is. But I don't know what they are doing. They are issuing denominations like crazy. Huge banknotes. As a result, prices skyrocketed and it became what it is now.”
"Ah, she's quite powerful. So how do I buy it now?"
"Just look at the price. We are using this now." Lin opened her wallet and took out one.
Yongle Tongbao.
"Yongle Tongbao?"
"Yes, now everyone has voluntarily switched to using these Cathay copper coins. Because the issuer is in Cathay, it has been quite stable in the long history, so there is no fear of the emperor messing around. But it must be Yongle Tongbao, nothing else will work. . Nowadays, an ice cream costs a penny, and the prices of all three types are the same. Aren’t you from Cathay? Do you have one on you?"
"Ah, but we are using copper plates now."
He took out his wallet. There is indeed a penny "copper plate" inside, and there is also a square hole in the middle, but the size is completely different from that of Yongle Tongbao. And this is not a copper coin, but a nickel coin.
Small nickel coins like this are popular in the ki Nei region, and vending machines only accept nickel coins of this size. If you really take out Yongle Tongbao, you won't be able to stuff it in at all.
However, Yongle Tongbao is indeed still being minted. The Yongle Tongbao in Lin's hand was clearly stamped with "the first year of Shaoping" and was just released a few years ago.
"I see." Gao Qingyu probably guessed, "Due to inflation, you switched to Yongle Tongbao, right? That's really reasonable."
"By the way, why haven't I seen Yongle Tongbao circulating in Ji Nei?" Shangluo asked. He remembered that he had indeed seen it, but he could not see it when he arrived in Kinei.
"Because Yongle Tongbao has not been circulated in Ji since the Yongle Year. It is a foreign trade coin used in tribute trade. Although the entire currency system has been reformed, Yongle Tongbao has been minted and used as the basis for tribute trade. Circulation certificates. But most of them are just used for accounting. These Yongle Tongbao are used as ballast stones to ballast warehouses and to ceremonially exchange some objects. Think of it this way."
She looked at the few that had just been minted: "There are indeed many in Rome. We have transported a lot of Yongle Tongbao through direct and indirect channels, and its casting every year is indeed quite stable. Speaking of this Roman emperor, he is a bit I mean, her ability to print treasure banknotes is a bit like Ming Dynasty. But she needs to work harder. She should not recognize the treasure banknotes and not use them to pay taxes. Only then can she be considered a master."
(End of chapter)
