From Nine Uncles to Douluo Doupa's Journey to Ten Thousand Realms

Chapter 2
This Renjia Town is located in the coastal area. Because it is close to Guangzhou, the earliest foreign trade city, and there is a shipping terminal outside the town, this Renjia Town can be described as extremely prosperous, even those big cities in the inland Counties can't compare.

Jiang Yu was walking on the bustling street, looking around curiously. There were vendors everywhere on both sides of the street, and there was an endless stream of pedestrians on the street.

People's clothes are also very different from those of later generations. Most of them wear coarse clothes, and some people wear Chinese tunic suits. Some people from wealthy families wear brocade robes and gentleman hats. People, wearing suits and leather shoes, and from time to time beside Jiang Yu, there will be a rich lady in a silk cheongsam passing by in a rickshaw.

Although Jiang Yu is used to seeing cities like steel forests in later generations, this half-Chinese, half-western, half-new, half-old scene belongs to the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, which is still unique.

Most of the shops on both sides of the road are made of red bricks, Chinese style and Western style coexist, and their own signboards are erected in front of the shops, which are very similar to the shops at the Qianmen of Yanjing, and many of them are time-honored.

Among them are restaurants, teahouses, pharmacies, restaurants, cloth stores, grain stores, etc., and there are even magnificently decorated western restaurants mixed in. Moving forward is the rouge gouache shop and Yihong courtyard that are not seen in later generations.

"It's here!"

Jiang Yu stopped, raised his head, and saw the words "Li Ji Pawnshop" written on the plaque of the shop directly in front of him. On the left side of the shop was a century-old shop, and on the right was the word "Integrity First".

A few steps into the door is the counter. The top of the counter is blocked by wooden strips, and there is only a square opening open to the outside. Behind the counter, there is an old man lying on his stomach weakly, waiting for customers to come to the door.

"Shopkeeper, I want to pawn something."

Jiang Yu stood in front of the cabinet and shouted.

"Oh? What does the guest officer want to pawn?"

The old man raised his head, looked at the young man opposite him with slightly cloudy eyes, and asked very politely.

I saw that young man's skin was fair and smooth like jade, his complexion was ruddy, and he was slightly fat. His short, untrimmed hair looked extremely energetic. His upper body was wearing a dark yellow sweater from the West. The material was delicate and looked to be of excellent workmanship. It is a shirt as pure as snow with a white collar, and the lower body is wearing black casual trousers with thin legs of unknown fabric, a pair of black leather shoes on the feet, and a plaid woolen coat in the boy's hand. Look, the other party is either rich or expensive.

"Shopkeeper, I have a quartz mechanical watch from Switzerland that I want to pawn." While speaking, Jiang Yu casually untied the steel strap on his left wrist, then took off the watch and put it on the counter.

"Oh?"

Watches can only be manufactured in the West in this era, and the existence of watches also represents status. Many rich men can only own a pocket watch, and the value of this watch is much higher than that of a pocket watch. The old man Fang Jiang Yu’s Identity has more speculation.

The old man lowered his eyes and took the watch from the counter. His face immediately changed upon seeing it. Immediately afterwards, the old man took out a pair of glasses from the side, put it on, and took the watch to observe carefully.

"Hiss! This is really a good watch!"

The old man observed that the workmanship of this watch is exquisite. The whole body is made of fine steel, which reflects a charming metallic luster. The scale is also a Roman scale unique to the West. There are almost no scratches.

The old man carefully put down the watch in his hand, raised his head, and asked with a smile, "Hehe, what's your name?"

Jiang Yu smiled slightly and said, "Just call me Jiang Yu!"

The old man asked: "I wonder if Mr. Jiang is going to die or live?"

The pawn business is divided into dead pawns and live pawns. Dead pawns are directly sold items, and the value given by the pawn shop will be higher, but the owner no longer has the right to redeem them; while live pawns can be redeemed, but The value obtained is not much, and a certain amount of storage interest needs to be paid to the pawnshop when redeeming.

Jiang Yu naturally knew what the old man meant, and said directly: "One price, two hundred oceans! This watch will be yours from now on!"

Hearing this, the old man's heart was shocked, knowing that the other party was not easy to fool, but he said very calmly on his face: "Shu Laoshi bluntly, the price is too high, small shop..."

Jiang Yu didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, he smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, my uncle bought this watch from Switzerland in Europe, and it cost nearly five hundred oceans at the beginning! Although I have brought it for a while, but I Sell ​​it to you for 100 oceans, and when you resell it, you can earn at least [-] oceans, where can you find such a money-grabbing business!"

"This... good, deal!"

The old man looked at Jiang Yu's expression of love or not, hesitated a little, and finally made a decision.

When Jiang Yu came out of the pawn shop, he struggled to hug his woolen coat, which was wrapped in a bag containing two hundred oceans.

Jiang Yu was worried that he would be targeted by gangsters, so he first found a nearby bank, left 20 yuan on him, and deposited the remaining 180 yuan in it.

Jiang Yu bought a roast chicken and some sauced meat from a street vendor, and then reached out to stop a rickshaw.

A thin, dark man pulled a rickshaw and stopped beside Jiang Yu, and asked in Cantonese, "Where is this gentleman going?"

When Jiang Yu was in Blue Star before, he started dating online and spent a lot of time in Foshan. Although he is not particularly proficient in Cantonese, he still has no problem understanding it.

He got into the car and said politely to the dark man, "Master, do you know Uncle Jiu? I'm going to Uncle Jiu's Yizhuang!"

Hearing this, the dark man smiled and said: "Hey, look at what you said, what kind of master am I, I'm just a poor puller."

While talking, the dark man pulled the car and galloped, and while running, he said: "Listen to the accent of the gentleman, he is from the north, you are looking for Uncle Jiu. He is well-known here, no matter what Whether it's subjugating demons and eliminating demons, or geomantic omen, it's all about this!"

As he said that, the dark man turned his head and pulled the car with one hand, while giving a thumbs up with the other hand.

In this way, the two kept chatting, but Jiang Yu still noticed that, except for the bustling street, most of the houses in Renjia Town were earthen houses, and there were even some thatched houses.

After leaving Renjia Town, not long after, the rickshaw stopped in front of a separate large courtyard, and the dark man said to Jiang Yu: "Sir, Yizhuang is here!"

"Okay, thank you!"

Jiang Yu thanked him, then got out of the car, touched his trouser pocket, found two copper coins and handed them to the other party, then walked forward.

The dark man shouted at Jiang Yu's back: "Hey! Sir, you have given too much!"

Jiang Yu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Life is not easy, let the rest be a tip for you!"

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"

The swarthy man bowed to thank him, and stepped forward to help Jiang Yu carry things.

Jiang Yu smiled and said: "Master, it's getting late, you'd better go back quickly, there are not many things here, I can get them myself."

The swarthy man rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and after a while he replied, "Okay then."

After speaking, he pulled his rickshaw and ran towards the town.

After all, this Yizhuang is a place used to collect corpses, and it is located outside Renjia Town, the surrounding area is very empty and barren, especially after thinking of corpses, it will give people a kind of eerie feeling. Therefore, people in Renjia Town, even if they know that Uncle Jiu with profound Taoism lives here, they will not come here under normal circumstances.

"Ta! Tat! Tat!"

After watching the coachman leave, Jiang Yu stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who?"

The footsteps in the yizhuang came from far to near, with a "creak", the door of the yizhuang was opened, and a man wearing gray underwear, a khaki mandarin coat, a small cut, and a wretched uncle's face walked away. come out.

Jiang Yu recognized at a glance that the other party was Wen Cai, the apprentice of the ninth uncle in the movie "Mr. Zombie". Although this Wen Cai looked very old, he was actually only in his 20s.

Although he recognized him, Jiang Yu pretended not to recognize him in order to avoid trouble. He asked very politely, "Hi, may I ask this elder brother, is Uncle Ren Jiazhen Jiu here?"

"Are you looking for my master? I don't know who you are?" Wen Cai asked with narrowed eyes.

Jiang Yu said with a smile: "Oh, so you are an excellent apprentice of Uncle Jiu, brother. I think you must have learned a lot from Uncle Jiu! I am here to discuss some things with Uncle Jiu."

Hearing Jiang Yu's words, Wencai scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "Haha, you are welcome, little brother. Since you are here to see Master, please come inside!"

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