Chang'an is much more prosperous than Luoyang. The most prosperous city Li Fenglan has seen since she came out of the valley is Luoyang. She suddenly entered a city much larger than Luoyang, which made her dazzled for a while.
There are towering pavilions everywhere, and the ground that can be seen is paved with bluestone bricks. It seems that not a single piece of land in the entire city is exposed.
The residents of the city were not very surprised to see Qian Wei. It seemed that they often traveled in this outfit.
Among their group, Zhu Mingyu and Linghan were the only ones who had seen the world before. The other four were just fledglings, and they were all looking at everything around them curiously. Zhu Mingyu behaved very strangely, covering his face with his sleeves from time to time, as if he was afraid of being seen.
Chenwu sneered and asked, "Does your enemy have many eyes? Can I see you anywhere?"
Zhu Mingyu explained patiently: "It's not just to avoid enemies..."
Saying this, they arrived in front of an unusually luxurious house.
In comparison, the Bai family's mansion can be called "shabby" at best. The vermilion gate and pillars look as if they were newly installed. The two stone lions at the door are very majestic.
The money guards dismounted at the door, and immediately the gatekeeper ran over and took away their horses.
When Li Fenglan and the others came out of the carriage, a few more boys came over and took the reins from Chenwu's hands. They nodded and bowed and said, "You reward me, and I'll take care of you."
They acted too neatly and politely, leaving Li Fenglan and the others at a loss for what to do.
Immediately, something came to them even more at a loss: a fat middle-aged man in coarse cloth trotted out the door, waved to the money guards, and the money guards went straight into the yard without saying a word. Then he ran to Li Fenglan and the others and whispered: "Come in quickly."
After saying that, he trotted back again without going too far.
When Li Fenglan entered the door, she saw the middle-aged fat man taking off his coarse clothes, revealing the luxurious clothes underneath, then took out ten rings from his cuffs and put them on his fingers one by one.
"Hahahaha," after putting on the ring, the fat man smiled and held his hand, "Miss Li from the Xianren Hall, Taoist Master Zhu from Qingfengguan, hahaha, you are here! Your Majesty is here! I am Jin Benli, nicknamed Jin Wealth God in the world, hahahaha, it's not worth it Mention it! Not worth mentioning!"
Is this man the God of Wealth? Li Fenglan and his group were a little out of sorts.
Seeing their doubts, Jin Wealth God whispered: "I don't want to show my wealth to others, so I'm afraid of being noticed, so I wear coarse clothes... Hehehehe, don't stand still, come with me."
Li Fenglan said to herself: You are so famous, who in the neighborhood doesn’t know you? Is it useful to wear cloth?
Not only did Li Fenglan have a bad first impression of Jin Caishen, but so did everyone else. He seems to love to smile, but his smile is not genuine, it's more like he's trying to cope with the occasion.
The house was too big. They followed Jin Caishen for a long distance before arriving at a large room that looked like a living room. What surprised everyone was that they didn't meet any servants along the way. Except for the first two courtyards where the flowers, plants and trees were well taken care of, the rest of the place looked a bit desolate, as if the ground hadn't even been swept.
After entering the lobby, Jin Caishen personally made tea for them. While making tea, he said: "I'll make you laugh, hehehe. Although I have a little money, I don't know how to spend it. I also married several wives in the early years. , found that it was not interesting, so I gave each of them a sum of money and sent them away. As soon as they left, I thought that it was not interesting to have so many servants, so I dismissed them all, leaving only the two gatekeepers and the two old ladies. Hehe Hehe, my yard looks big, but nine out of ten rooms are empty. I wanted to sell it in the first two years, but no one could afford it, and I was reluctant to lower the price, so I had to live in it by myself, hehehe."
At this time, Li Fenglan realized that since they met this golden god of wealth, they had not said a word to each other, they only listened to his chatter.
Jin Caishen also realized this and said sheepishly: "That's my problem. I'm a mouthy person. Please forgive me, haha."
Li Fenglan cleared her throat and said, "Actually, we are here this time..."
"I know! I was just about to say it."
Li Fenglan had no choice but to say: "Please tell me."
"Hey," Jin Caishen slapped his thigh, "I've been doing business all my life, and I've never made such a loss. I was young back then, and I depended on my luck. If I had good luck, I could borrow as much as I wanted. If I had bad luck, I could borrow as much as I wanted. I don’t even want the money. Otherwise, how could I have gotten into trouble? Don’t you think so? That’s not a small amount. To be honest, I also..."
Li Fenglan couldn't stand all the nonsense anymore and interrupted him: "Please pick out the key points."
"Oh, okay, I have met this Xu Zhenbiao several times in the past. He is a nice person and has a good reputation in the world. He asked me to borrow money, and he borrowed fifty thousand taels at a time. Oh my God, I feel bad thinking about it now. . He said that he borrowed the money to establish a sect. I thought that it wouldn’t cost so much to establish a sect? But I didn’t ask and just gave it to him. Who knows what he used the money to do... If I had known it earlier, I would not have borrowed it even if I were killed. Later, this man disappeared from the world for a while. I sent people to look for him everywhere, and finally found him in Jiujiang."
Speaking of this, Jin Caishen began to sigh as if he was remembering the unhappy past.
Li Fenglan asked: "What happened next?"
Jin Caishen slapped his thigh again: "No, he has no money to pay me back, and he has reduced himself to a water bandit. He said that he would pay me back because he became the leader of water bandits on the 16th Route of Poyang Lake. Isn't this nonsense? How could he have that strength? Later I heard that he fell ill and died. This is the only time in my life that I have made a loss-making business, hey..."
"Then...is there anything else?"
"It's really gone." He patted his thigh again, "I'll tell you the truth, I stopped doing business two years ago. The money I earned was enough to spend my money, and I have no children. The biggest expense every year is money. Wei's wages. I'm old, so I don't want to worry about it. I just want to spend my old age in peace. I've heard about you guys, but I don't want to mess with you... and I can't afford to mess with you, right?"
Zhu Mingyu took a sip of the almost cold tea and said with a smile: "If you don't want to mess with me, why did you send someone to take a sneak peek?"
Zhu Mingyu's words alluded to what happened in Yaoxian Valley.
Jin Caishen explained: "I'm afraid, I'm really afraid that you guys will come to my door, so I need to understand it in advance. Now you also understand that I only do business and lend money. What happened nineteen years ago is true." I don’t know. I beg you, please be kind and let me go.”
This was said very humbly. Jin Caishen should be almost 60 years old this year, but he looks like he is in his forties. It seems that he has money and takes good care of himself.
Li Fenglan smiled slightly and said, "You have raised so many masters, you shouldn't be afraid, right?"
"Hehehe, look at what you said... I'm just protecting myself. I offended a lot of people in my early years of doing business, and I'm really afraid they'll come to me... I've said everything I need to say, do you have anything else to ask? ?"
Li Fenglan shook her head and replied: "No."
The Golden God of Wealth immediately relaxed a lot, rubbed his hands and said, "That's good, that's good... Look, it's now... I won't leave you alone."
This surprised everyone present. It happened to be lunch time, so they rushed to drive people away at this time. Amber Heart said: If you are so rich, wouldn't you be willing to treat yourself to a meal?
Since they had already seen off the guests, they couldn't say anything, so they had to stand up and say goodbye.
The Golden God of Wealth is also very interesting in seeing off guests, right up to the gate.
After exiting the gate, the two sides said goodbye. Someone had already led their carriages and horses over. Before getting in the car, Li Fenglan suddenly turned around and asked, "I want to ask you about someone."
"You say."
"Qin Zhiyang, are you familiar?"
"Uh... I guess I'm familiar with him. I used to do business and go to the Western Regions, so I have some contacts."
"You are so rich, but you still have to use his troops?"
"That's someone else's business, and it's a local snake, so you have to take care of it."
"That's it, I'm fine."
After sitting back in the carriage and leaving the residence of the God of Fortune, Linghan asked in a low voice: "Is that all you ask?"
Li Fenglan shook his head: "Of course not...this old guy has something to hide."
"How did you get it?"
"He keeps saying that he doesn't do business and doesn't want to attract attention. But Qian Wei is too ostentatious. Linghan, have you noticed the ring on his hand?"
Linghan nodded: "Well, they are all new."
"It seems that the ring is often changed. He tried his best to show his indifference to money and the world, but inside he is an extremely money-obsessed person. Such a person will be thinking of ways to make money until the day he dies. It is impossible for him to suddenly stop doing it. It’s business. If I’m not wrong, his business should have gone underground.”
Amber asked: "Miss, what does he want so much money for?"
"People are different. Some people will be obsessed with an extremely boring thing. That time I sent people to Yaoxian Valley not just to see me."
"You just asked him if he knew Qin Zhiyang. What were you thinking of? I always felt that Qin Zhiyang was just a lie by Jun Yan. Didn't Taoist Zhu say that there was no one from the northwest in the caravan that was ambushing him?"
Li Fenglan replied: "I'm just trying my luck."
Ayana asked: "What are you going to do next?"
"Let's stay in Chang'an for a few days. I just have other things to do." Li Fenglan opened the curtain and said to Zhu Mingyu, "Taoist Zhu, find us a place to live... be high-profile." "
Zhu Mingyu wondered: "High-profile?"
Li Fenglan has been keeping a low profile during this period of time. She keeps a low profile when it comes to her basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now she wants to keep a high profile, which puts Zhu Mingyu in a difficult position.
Led by Zhu Mingyu, they wandered around Chang'an for a while, and finally stopped in front of a luxurious inn that could scare away ordinary people just from the gate tower.
The moment Li Fenglan opened the car curtain, she wanted to get back in the car and find a hotel that didn't look so expensive.
She asked Zhu Mingyu in a low voice: "Daozhang Zhu... how much does it cost per night here?"
Zhu Mingyu thought for a while: "I've never lived there, but I heard that it costs five taels of silver per person a day, and you have to pay extra for meals."
Li Fenglan nodded at the number of people on his side, and suddenly felt a little dizzy and careless.
Zhu Mingyu smiled and asked, "Are you still staying?"
Just as she was about to say "change another house", she saw Chen Wu had already jumped off the carriage and said to the boy guarding the door: "Watch my carriage and horses. Six of us will go to the room one by one."
"Okay! Please come in!"
Li Fenglan felt a sweetness in her throat and her eyes darkened...
