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Chapter 78 14-year-old Ren Tingting

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers."

The street is very lively at the moment, there are children wearing dirty clothes, sweating profusely holding a pile of newspapers and selling them along the street.

Some people in shabby clothes were selling candied haws: "Selling candied haws, sweet and fragrant candied haws, only two copper dollars."

There are also men in vests pulling rickshaws through the streets.

Gao Cheng brought Zhang Keke, who was looking around, to a pawnshop.

"Guest officer, do you want to be a pawn or buy it?" the pawn shop owner asked immediately.

Gao Cheng put a gold ring, a gold necklace, a gold bracelet, and a pair of gold earrings on the counter. "An estimate from the shopkeeper."

The pawnshop shopkeeper's eyes lit up when he saw the style of these gold jewelry.

I thought: These are probably made by foreigners, they are foreign goods.

During this period, everything related to foreign goods was more expensive, or even dozens of times more expensive.

The shopkeeper excitedly weighed the gold jewellery.

"A pair of gold earrings, 3 grams per 1."

"Gold bracelet, 21 grams."

"Gold ring, 5 grams."

"Gold necklace, 10 grams 9."

"A total of 40 grams."

"That's one, two, four."

During the period of the Republic of China, one tael was equal to 36 grams.

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said, "The exchange rate for one tael of gold to silver dollars is 41, little brother, I'm at a disadvantage, how about I give you 60 silver dollars together?"

Gao Cheng sneered, "Do you think I'm a bumpkin?"

The pawnshop shopkeeper stretched his head to look at the other person's clothes, his expression changed, and he said with a smile: "80 Dayang, if you don't want to, I can't help it."

Gao Cheng gave the shopkeeper a cold look, nodded: "Okay, return the jewelry to me, I'll go to another pawnshop."

"No, no, let's discuss it later." The shopkeeper of the pawnshop immediately smiled into Maitreya Buddha: "Well, 100 silver dollars really can't be more. Although yours is a foreign product, I have to take risks. If you can't sell it If I go out, I will lose dozens of silver dollars."

Gao Cheng didn't believe his nonsense, but after pondering for a moment, he nodded and agreed: "If you go for 100 yuan, it will be 100 yuan, give me the money."

The shopkeeper of the pawn shop immediately took out the silver dollars from the drawer, counted 100 yuan in front of Gao Cheng, and put them into a gray cloth bag.

Gao Cheng was not afraid that the shopkeeper of the pawnshop would be short of him, so he picked up the cloth bag full of silver dollars and left.

If you go back and find that silver dollars are missing, Gao Cheng has a way to make the shopkeeper of Li Ji's pawnshop regret it.

Entering an inn, Xiao Er immediately greeted him, nodded and bowed his head and said, "Guest officer, are you staying at the inn or eating?"

Gao Chengdao: "Stay in the hotel, open two rooms for me."

Xiaoer smiled and said, "Well, guest officer, you go to the counter shopkeeper to pay the money, and the little one will take you to the room."

Gao Cheng came to the counter and asked, "How much is a day for two upper rooms?"

The shopkeeper is a short and fat man with big ears, he smiled and stretched out a little short finger.

Gao Cheng frowned, "A big ocean?"

The shopkeeper quickly shook his head and said with a smile: "Guest officer, you misunderstood, I said 100 copper dollars."

"One upper room is 50 copper yuan, and two upper rooms are 100 copper yuan."

50 copper dollars a day to go to the house, he doesn't know whether the consumption is high or low.

Gao Cheng asked: "How much is a silver dollar on your side?"

The shopkeeper did not suspect him, thinking that Gao Cheng really came from other provinces, so he explained: "One silver dollar here can be exchanged for 130 copper dollars."

Gao Cheng nodded, threw two silver dollars to the shopkeeper, and said with a smile, "Stay for two days first."

"Well, guest officer, please come from above."

Gao Cheng was very disappointed when he followed the waiter to the upstairs room to have a look.

The so-called upper room means that the room is cleaner and the furnishings in the room are better, that is, a bed.

It can't even compare with the cheapest small hotel in the future.

"Do you have any meat in your shop?" Gao Cheng asked, he had already digested the two-cent full meal he ate in Zhangjiacun, and walked such a long distance with Zhang Keke on his back.

"There are dog meat, pork, lamb, beef, chicken, duck and fish, what do you think, sir?" Xiaoer replied.

Gao Chengdao: "Then give me 10 catties of beef, [-] catties of dog meat, a few other side dishes, and [-] catties of rice." He tried to order as little as possible, anyway, he will have dinner later, so this meal counts as lunch.

Xiao Er was speechless and couldn't speak. After half the payment, he said with a bitter face: "Guest officer, although there is beef, but the total amount of beef in the store is only a dozen catties, you~"

At this time, beef is also a scarce ingredient, and killing cattle is illegal.

Unless you die of illness or accident, even so, you have to go to the Yamen to report and register.

Gao Cheng didn't care about this, he stared and said, "Why, I'm afraid the young master won't give you the money?"

"Hey, okay, just wait a moment, the little one will call you when the dishes are ready." Xiao Er could only agree with a wry smile.

For this meal, Gao Cheng had eaten two oceans.

This made Gao Cheng a little worried.

With more than 90 oceans remaining on my body, I can't last for a few days with meals and lodging every day.

He didn't even think about it, ten catties of beef and five catties of dog meat are how many times the food cost of others?
"By the way, the current period of the Republic of China should also be considered modern times, right?"

"The money from the system should be usable?"

Thinking of this, Gao Cheng turned his back to Zhang Keke and paid out 100 US dollars.

In the end, it was not the previous one with a face value of 100 U.S. dollars, but twenty bills with a face value of [-] cents.

After Gao Cheng picked up these green dollars and looked at them for a while, he was overjoyed.

"It really works!"

Gao Cheng said to Zhang Keke, "You rest in your room, and I'll buy you some medicine."

By the way, go to the bank to exchange the U.S. dollars for gold or silver dollars.

"Hmm." Zhang Keke looked worried, but nodded obediently.

She was afraid that the young master would leave her alone.

Obviously, the little girl's worries are unnecessary.

More than half an hour later, the smiling Gao Cheng came back with some anti-inflammatory herbs.

Taking the medicinal herbs to the waiter in the shop to brew, Gao Cheng generously gave him a piece of ocean as a hard work fee.

Just now Gao Cheng exchanged 300 US dollars at the bank.

The current exchange rate of the U.S. dollar is that one U.S. dollar is approximately equal to 4 silver dollars, and 10 U.S. dollars is approximately equal to one gold dollar.

One gold dollar is about 40 silver dollars.

A total of 300 gold dollars and 10 silver dollars were exchanged for 800 US dollars.

Gao Cheng with money in his pocket is naturally not petty.

After the waiter in the store brought the ointment respectfully, Gao Cheng helped the little girl apply the ointment with his own hands.

Zhang Keke was really tired today. She fell asleep soon after applying the medicine.

Gao Cheng closed the door and went downstairs.

When he arrived at the counter, Gao Cheng took out a cigarette, lit one in his mouth, and asked the shopkeeper, "One?"

The fat shopkeeper rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "That's so embarrassing."

Saying sorry, Gao Cheng handed it halfway, and the fat shopkeeper couldn't wait to reach out and take it.

Gao Cheng's mouth twitched, feeling speechless.

The cigarette given to him secretly scrambled the word Big Red Eagle, so there is no need to be afraid of discovering anything.

Helping the fat shopkeeper to light a cigarette with a lighter, and then helping himself, he took a deep breath before asking, "Does the shopkeeper know what's going on at Master Ren's house?"

Seeing this young man from a rich family using foreign cigarettes and using such "advanced" foreign firearms, the fat shopkeeper's heart was shocked.

Squinting his eyes to enjoy the "high-end foreign cigarettes", he said: "I know, Master Ren Fa Ren."

"Yes, that's him." Gao Cheng said, "Does he have a daughter named Ren Tingting?"

The fat shopkeeper nodded: "Well, indeed."

"However, the daughter of the Ren family is only 14 years old this year. What's the matter? Do you have a crush on the daughter of the Ren family?" At the end of the speech, he had a gossipy face.

Gao Cheng's eyes were a little distracted.

Obviously shocked by the news.

Ren Tingting is only 14 years old?
In other words, there are still four years to go, when Ren Tingting is 18 years old, the plot will unfold.

After thinking about it, it didn't feel right again.

The plot and the plot don't seem to fit him.

His mission in the world is to make Ren Tingting happy for a lifetime.

In other words, as long as Ren Tingting is chased, let her live a happy life.

But, 14 years old?

Is it too small?

Do I have to wait another two years?

Gao Cheng was in a bit of trouble.

(End of this chapter)