at dusk.
Su Chen had a few bowls of rice porridge for dinner, left the small courtyard, and walked to the night market with Young Jin Lin.
In the streets and alleys of Luoyi City, every household lit up lamps early. Through the paper windows, the city was dimly lit and quite peaceful.
Although the Great Ji Immortal Dynasty was in chaos, the chaos had not reached this majestic imperial capital for eight thousand years.
Night markets have appeared in all the streets and alleys in the city.
There is also a night market in Gutong Alley, and people living nearby like to come here to trade.
In a fairly open area at the entrance of the alley, under the entwined roots of an old ginkgo tree that even dozens of strong men could not hold.
People set up stone benches in twos and threes and set up stalls to sell some scattered goods, which was quite lively.
The Great Ji Immortal Dynasty lasted for eight thousand years, and almost every slightly wealthy family had some wealth!
Moreover, there are now disasters caused by barbarians and monsters in various parts of the Great Ji Immortal Dynasty. Many aristocratic families and wealthy households in the Immortal City have fled to Luoyi Imperial City to avoid the disaster.
Of course they will carry some of their most valuable family and ancestral belongings with them.
The children of these families spend a lot of money on weekdays, but they are not frugal when they come to Luodu, and they don't have much property in Luoyi. They live on nothing and find it difficult to make ends meet over time, so they can only sell some of their ancestral property to survive.
Luoyi's night market has a lot of good products. Residents share their needs with each other, and the night market has become quite prosperous.
The only thing that makes the stall owners feel distressed is that,
Because more people are selling off their property, rare heirlooms in the past are no longer worth much.
"Everyone who is passing by, take a look at my 800-year-old snow ginseng~!
The roots are three feet long and the medicinal power is extraordinary!
One plant will keep you cultivating to the peak of the first level and ninth level, and go straight to the second level! "
"Ancient artifacts from the past dynasties!... Take a look, Dashang's guqin 'Spring Thunder' here! When the strings move, it's like a spring thunder exploding!... I'll sell it for ten thousand taels of black silver!"
"The Classics of the First Saints...a rare and unique hand-written copy of Saint Meng, a good book for Confucianists seeking saints and enlightenment~!"
...
Su Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart as he walked around the night market.
"So many good things!... They are all old family treasures, hidden in the cabinet from outsiders!
In previous years, it would not have been sold at all!
Now, it is embarrassing!
Antiques in prosperous times, mysterious gold in troubled times!
In troubled times, these antique treasures passed down from our ancestors are worthless! "
He has the urge to buy like crazy.
It's a pity that I am short of money. With more than thirty taels of black silver in my hand, I can only buy one or two cheap small things.
If you use one or two, you will lose one or two. You still have to save some money.
It's best to buy something of high quality and low price, then flip it over for twice the price, so that your capital will be several times more.
Otherwise, if all the Xuan Yin is spent, he will be forced to sell his family property to make ends meet in order to meet expenses.
At that time, his own ancestral property had to be sold at a low price.
...
Su Chen walked around the Old Ginkgo Tree Night Market, picking and choosing for half an hour. There was a dazzling array of goods in the night market, but he couldn't tell the quality of the goods sold by the vendors.
There are too many good things for sale in this market, and they are expensive.
But he had too little black silver on him, and he didn't know what to buy.
"Little brother, do you want to buy my family's ancestral treasure? A few hundred taels of black silver is enough... Is it too expensive?... How about fifty taels?"
"My ancestral treasure is cheaper~!"
The vendors all stared at him with blue eyes.
Su Chen couldn't help but become deeply suspicious when he saw their "hungry" eyes.
There must be many dealers among this group of people who deliberately made fake goods. They used dozens of junk copper plates and pretended to be ancestral treasures. They mixed them among the people who fled and sold their treasures, trying to sell dozens or hundreds of them. The high price of two taels of silver.
If you are not careful, you will be deceived and left penniless.
“That’s all, with my current perspective, I simply can’t tell what is the most affordable and high-quality thing in this night market!
Let’s use the art of yin and yang! "
Su Chen secretly said.
He is not a disciple of a merchant family. He was born into a wealthy family with clothes on his hands and food on his hands. He has never been a merchant to distinguish the quality of goods.
It would be amazing if he could pick out the good things at the night market.
Only onmyoji!
Deducing misfortune, good fortune and misfortune!
This is the specialty of his Yin Yang Sect disciples!
"Since the "Imperial Calendar" says that today is Yifang City, then there must be good things at low prices and high quality that are worth buying in this night market."
"I still need to be more precise in my divination!"
Su Chen came to a remote place in the night market, avoiding the sight of the crowd in the night market. From the Tianhu Spirit Ring, a piece of topaz-colored spirit tortoise shell appeared in his palm.
He bit his fingertips and dropped a drop of qi and blood essence containing abundant spiritual power on the fortune-telling tortoise shell.
"Yin Yang Disciple Su Chen, please protect me from the First Saint Yan Emperor! Where can I find high-quality and cheap treasures in the 'Fangshi' tonight?!"
Afterwards, Su Chen took out a fire stick and lit it. He placed the piece of spirit tortoise shell on top of the fire stick and slowly smoked it over a slow fire.
Soon, the drop of essence and blood gradually dried up on the tortoise shell, and tiny cracks began to appear on the blood stain.
"Tsk~!"
The flames of fire flickered,
The dried essence blood suddenly burst into a straight, clear crack. From the crack to the end of the crack, it points straight ahead without any doubt.
Su Chen couldn't help but raise his head and look in the direction of the crack.
See it immediately,
There was a young man in green clothes, about ten years old, with a shy appearance, sitting in a corner of the night market with his head bowed.
This shy young man did not greet passers-by. Dozens of painting scrolls and a dusty old painting box were placed on the stall in front of him.
"Is it him?"
Su Chen thought in his mind.
He put away the tortoise shell, then walked nonchalantly, and came to this young boy who was more than ten years old.
The painting scrolls on the stall were probably painted by the young man himself, including some calligraphy, birds, fish, and mountains and rivers.
Although the strokes are well outlined, there is no aura injected into the painting. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary product. A pair is worth dozens of black copper plates at most, or one tael of black silver at most.
Perhaps the scrolls of ink paintings set up by this jerky young man were of ordinary quality and were of no use to practitioners, so no one stayed to watch them.
No wonder I just passed by this jerky young vendor and didn't pay any attention.
Only the dusty and inconspicuous painting box was sealed, and it was unknown what it contained.
The young man in green couldn't help but look up and saw someone visiting his stall.
His young face, his eyes brightened slightly, and he was immediately full of expectation, "Brother, you... want to buy a painting scroll?"
"What's in this painting box?"
Su Chen squatted in front of the stall and asked, not interested in other scrolls.
"My Tao family has passed down the Taoism, Confucianism, and Danqing sects from generation to generation. This is something passed down from our ancestors dozens of generations ago. It is probably an old painting.
But I have never seen it, and I don’t know what kind of painting it is. "
The Tao boy said with a slightly red face.
Selling off his ancestral property, he felt a little embarrassed.
Unless he was really embarrassed, he would not be willing to sell these ancestral properties.
But... fortunately, in his home, there are still two baskets of painting scrolls and painting boxes passed down from dozens of generations of ancestors. When fleeing, they all packed up a basket and ran away.
Now that he has sold a few, he doesn't feel too distressed.
"Why don't you open it and take a look?"
"It's been locked by a mechanism! My cultivation level is too low, I can't reach even one level, and I don't know how to open it... I'm short of money recently!"
The young boy said dejectedly.
Su Chen understood.
The entry-level cultivation requirements of various sects are very high.
This ten-year-old boy has just finished reading and literacy. It is difficult to understand the profound meanings of various schools of literature, and naturally he cannot talk about understanding the realm of cultivation.
Most of the boys and girls in the Great Ji Immortal Dynasty began to practice in various sects after they were ten years old, and within ten years they reached the first level of practice.
This Tao boy has obviously not yet stepped into the realm of the masters, and has no way of using spiritual weapons.
The box was sealed and he couldn't open it.
Before setting foot in the realm of spiritual practice, you must first make a living and survive.
Su Chen picked up the dusty box, which was covered with dust.
Judging from the signs of wear and tear, this box is at least a thousand years old.
Sure enough, there is a Mo Sect mechanism lock on the box. It is probably a mechanism from around Mo Sect level. If you want to open it, you must know the secret lock or know how to crack the secret lock!
Otherwise, if you accidentally destroy the mechanism, you may also destroy the box.
Momen disciples often make and sell some of these mechanical boxes to others for storing valuable items.
Fortunately, Su Chen knew a little bit about the Momen mechanism, so he thought he should be able to open it.
"How much black silver does it sell for?"
Su Chen asked.
"Fifty taels?...Or, forty taels?"
The young man surnamed Tao said quickly, but when he saw Su Chen's dull expression, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to sell it, so he immediately lowered the price.
"forty...?"
Su Chen weighed it in his mind.
This dusty painting box should be what he pointed to in the divination by the tortoise armor just now.
It's just forty taels of black silver, which is a bit expensive.
There are only thirty-five taels of mysterious silver in his spiritual ring, which is all the money in his pocket.
Moreover, what is inside the box all depends on the luck of the yin and yang divination.
This young ancestor of the Tao family actually inherited the Taoist, Confucian, and Danqing sect traditions at the same time... I am afraid that there was a high-level figure in his life.
As long as there is something worth one or two hundred taels of silver in it, you will not lose anything. If the value is higher, that’s a lot of money!
"Thirty-five taels of mysterious silver, one price!"
Su Chen said.
He stood up and looked at the young man, as if he would leave if he couldn't do it.
"It's done! Sell it, sell it~!"
The young man named Tao was also full of joy.
He had set up a stall here selling calligraphy and painting scrolls for several days, but no one came to visit him at all. Even the painting scrolls with dozens of copper plates could not be sold. Today, he finally opened the stall and made a deal.
Mrs. Mei's sesame cakes in the alley only cost one black copper plate. Thirty-five taels of black silver was enough for him to eat sesame cakes for a year and survive this cold winter.
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