On the way to Juntianfu City, Ji Yuan also thought about a question, why he couldn’t see the great calamity of heaven and earth when he arrived in this world before, but had to wait until the time before Yanqi.
When Ji Yuan couldn’t figure it out, he made a hypothesis, and then discovered that if this happened when he first arrived in this world, then Ji Yuan would be dead.
And at the previous pass, it happened to be the moment when Ji Yuan’s conscious cultivation was a matter of course. It was the time when the first stage of self-consciousness was completed. The body and mind were in harmony with nature, and there was the Ivy Sword in one’s body.
Perhaps he had just reached a point where he could bear it, and some mysterious method triggered the Tribulation of Juyuan, making him aware of many things that were unknown before.
As it turns out, it was a close call.
In fact, Ji Yuan had been vaguely aware of this a long time ago. His two lifetime experiences of playing chess pieces made him somewhat mentally prepared. However, at that time, he thought that the opportunity would probably require the chess pieces to be completely solidified. Unexpectedly, It depends on your own endurance.
As for who is the powerful person who set up the chess game, why the chess game in Niutoushan was so bleak back then, whether they were alive or dead, and why he was needed to trick someone into playing chess, it is not something that Ji Yuan can figure out now.
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This is the autumn season, and the things sold on Juntianfu Street have become more diverse.
Due to the season, the melons and fruits in Fucheng are relatively plentiful at this moment. Before Ji Yuan entered Juntian Fucheng, the lively hawking sounds could already be heard inside.
You can smell the aroma of fruits and hear the hawking of pomegranates, oranges, persimmons, etc. almost every other moment.
Ji Yuan, who has had this experience before, will naturally not show up in ragged clothes this time. Instead, he will use a blindfold to blur his vision and go straight into the city to the clothing store.
There are only a few spells that someone knows, and they are almost out of his reach. Especially the improvement in mood and spirituality brought about by this game of Yanqi is even more beneficial to the use of spells. qualitative impact.
Ji Yuan searched for a sound in the city and found a decent clothing store and went in. There happened to be two women looking at clothes in the store. Before Ji Yuan entered the store, he smelled a faint smell of rouge and gouache. It was probably not Ordinary people, after all, ordinary women, who would spray this stuff on a daily basis?
“Sir, do you want to see the fabric or the clothes, or do you want them tailor-made or ready-made? I see that you have a well-proportioned figure, and many of the clothes in the store will fit you!”
There was only one clerk in the store, the shopkeeper, and he greeted Ji Yuan immediately when he came in. However, although he couldn’t see Ji Yuan’s ragged clothes, he caught a glimpse of the weird “hairpin” on his head. Like a crooked branch, his eyes suddenly looked a little strange.
The woman next to her seemed to have just seen something she liked, calling to the shopkeeper.
“Shopkeeper, this peach red satin is really nice. How much does it cost per piece? How do you calculate it for making clothes?”
The shopkeeper was immediately happy as the mouth was not a few feet wide but a mouthful.
“Hey, you two girls are really discerning. These pieces of pink silk were shipped all the way from Wanzhou. They are woven from silk. You can touch them. They are so smooth. The clothes must be both comfortable and beautiful! ”
“Oh, I’m asking you how to calculate the price!”
One of the women said impatiently.
“Oh, hehe, after all, this is the best silk and satin shipped from Wanzhou, so the price will naturally be more expensive. This one… is worth ten taels of silver!”
Twelve taels?
Before the two women spoke, Ji Yuan was a little shocked. This silk was indeed worth as much as gold. One piece of cloth could only make a few clothes, but it was worth the consumption of ordinary people in one or two years. No wonder ordinary people Can’t afford it at all.
“Okay, I want this one, wrap it up for me, we will find someone to make the clothes ourselves!”
“Hey, okay, wrap it up now!”
The shopkeeper beamed with joy. The two girls didn’t even pay back the price. They really made a profit today. While he was still taking the silk, he saw Ji Yuan imitating the two girls just now and stretching out his hands to pick up the various silk satins hanging up. Touch carefully.
“This guest, hey guest, uh-huh, this… our shop is a small business, and here are all Juan, Silk, and Ling, that…”
The shopkeeper expressed his concerns as tactfully as possible.
Ji Yuan retracted his hand and smiled at him.
“Okay, I’m just going to touch it and see how different silk is today. Shopkeeper, how about helping me pick out two, no, three outfits?”
In order to avoid trouble, Ji Yuan had already taken out a piece of silver from his arms when he spoke, which immediately made the shopkeeper even more happy.
“Okay, okay, sir, wait a moment, I’ll wrap up the satin for these two girls first!”
The two women were also quietly observing Ji Yuan at this moment. After all, there were only four people in the store.
The visitor’s eyes had never fallen on them, or they had only glanced at them.
They were not angry that their beauty was ignored, but they were surprised that the visitor seemed to be unable to see clearly. They had only touched the cloth by feel, without looking at the cloth at all.
Moreover, the clothes are just bad. The bun and hair are so messy but not disgusting. Logically speaking, a tree branch used as a hairpin should be very funny, but I can’t laugh when I look at it.
Ji Yuan glanced at the two women as soon as he entered the store. They were not rich, but rather full of energy and blood. Listening to the long breathing of the two, they were probably from the Lian family, but he didn’t want to pay too much attention to them.
“Two girls, the peach blossom silk is wrapped, this silver…”
“Hey, a lot of yours!”
“Hey, good!”
The shopkeeper hurried to the stage and picked up the small scale to weigh it. After confirming, he handed the silk and satin to the two of them. After watching the two women leave, he immediately entertained Ji Yuan.
“Guest, I have been waiting for a long time. Whatever styles you want, including Confucian shirts, robes, double-breasted gowns, tight corsets and casual clothes, our store has them all ready-made!”
“Well, give me a blue shirt, a white shirt, and a gray shirt. They all need wide-sleeved robes. By the way, you should also bring a lining, and you need both clothes and pants.”
“Okay, just make a whole body from the inside to the outside. I know, I know, I will give you a measurement first.”
The shopkeeper brought a wooden ruler from the counter to measure Ji Yuan, and he measured the value in a few clicks. He just mistakenly felt that the touch of the customer’s clothes was a bit strange, but he didn’t think much about it.
As if to soften the rashness of his previous words, he chatted with Ji Yuan while choosing clothes for him.
“The two female guests just now were really strange. They were obviously not ugly, but they had to put some flowers on their faces. I don’t know whether they really don’t understand makeup or they did it deliberately.”
“Haha… maybe I really don’t understand, but why didn’t the shopkeeper remind them just now?”
Ji Yuan also smiled when he heard this, but he couldn’t see clearly anyway.
The shopkeeper takes a look outside.
“How can this be possible? Wealthy female customers are the ones you should not mess with, especially their appearance. As for me, can they recognize good words or bad words?”
“Hahaha… It makes sense, the shopkeeper is a sensible person!”
Ji Yuan was also happy. A little of the previous depression was swept away, and it was a rare feeling like hearing a joke from a previous life.
“Hey, that’s right. Come on, sir, please try these outfits. They will definitely fit you!”
During the conversation, the shopkeeper had already picked out a coat for Ji Yuan…
After about a quarter of an hour, Ji Yuan came out of the clothing store. He had changed into a brand new white shirt and was carrying a cloth bag purchased from the store, which contained two other outfits. The total cost was only 600. The money and the peach blossom silk are in the same place.
As for the pile of tattered clothes still held in his hands, Ji Yuan clasped his hands together and the tattered clothes turned into pieces and floated under the ditch boards in the street.
The direction Ji Yuan was traveling at this moment was exactly where he went to the street where he had grabbed the chessboard. Vendors generally didn’t like to change places to sell their goods unless necessary. It was very likely that the vendor was still in the same place.
I was just chatting with the shopkeeper in the clothing store, and I have already learned from some insinuation that it is already the fifteenth year of Yuande, which is not too different from Ji Yuan’s original vague estimate.
I bought and changed some shoes on the way, and after walking for less than two minutes, Ji Yuan found the street he was on based on his feeling, and sure enough he heard the hawker’s voice again.
“Jade ornaments, newly arrived jade ornaments, jade bracelets, jade pendants and jade rings, they are all good jade~~~~”
The hawker was shouting enthusiastically, but not many people stopped to look at the stall. When he was thirsty and picked up a bamboo jar to drink some water, he discovered that a gentleman in a white shirt was already standing in front of the stall.
The vendor cheered up and hurriedly greeted him.
“This guest, I see that you must be a learned man. Go to Shuyuan www.zhaｏshuyuan.com to buy a piece of jade. Don’t all scholars say that a gentleman is as good as jade? Look at these few here. This jade ornament is so green!”
Although Ji Yuan couldn’t see the specific styles of these jade articles clearly, jade is very special. Good jade has its own aura, such as the piece of jade given by Wei Wuwei. The ones on the stall, let alone the aura, he stretched out his hand and After touching the aura, you will know that not only the workmanship is poor, but the quality of the jade is also inferior.
Ji Yuan ignored the green ones and picked a hairpin with a grayish ink color and asked the vendor.
“How much does this hairpin cost?”
The hawker took a look at it and found that the rough material hosta was the worst among his stalls. Looking at Ji Yuan’s appearance, he hesitated and quoted a price.
“Thirty Wen!”
“Haha…a hosta is only thirty cents? I can’t see enough of it. It’s not enough. I think it’s…worth one or two!”
Ji Yuan talked to himself, pulled out the branches above his head, inserted the hosta directly into his bun, and then took out a small handful of broken silver from his arms, only more than one tael and not less than one tael.
“Here, this hosta is worth the price! No need to look for it, hehehe… Not bad, not bad, this hosta is really good…”
The hawker held the pieces of silver handed over by Ji Yuan in his hands blankly, looked at the gentleman in the wide-sleeved white shirt in a daze and talked to himself, and left without looking back.
‘This person just left like this? ’
When Ji Yuan was about to walk twenty steps, the hawker seemed to have just come back to his senses and looked at the silver in his hand.
‘This should make a profit in two or three months…’
After much hesitation, the hawker finally gritted his teeth.
“Hey~~~~Guest~~~Guest~~~That hosta is not worth so much~~~I really don’t need it!”
Ji Yuan stopped, with a smile on his face, and looked back at the vendor over there thoughtfully.