Chapter 1213 (2/2)
When the old man saw the black coin in Ye Tian's hand, he saw the old man's obvious shiver through the window on the door, as if he was frightened. He quickly opened the door to a gap, exposed half his head, looked at the black coin in Ye Tian's hand and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
”Are you really willing to give a mysterious coin... Just inquire about some things?”
”Naturally, can the old gentleman let me in? If he doesn't want to, forget it. I'll just ask a few questions and leave after asking.”
With a flick of his thumb, ye Tian directly threw the mysterious coin at the old man. The old man immediately caught it in a hurry. Just now he kept stroking and rubbing in his hand, as if he were stroking something very precious.
”Come on, sir, please come in!”
After accepting the Xuan coin, the old man was obviously very excited. He quickly opened the door and greeted Ye Tian to enter.
When he stepped into the room, ye Tian found that the room was very simple. There were some daily necessities in such a simple wooden house. In addition, there was nothing special. The only thing that made Ye Tian look more was a small box on a bookshelf.
The small box is made of metal with poor texture. There may be one or two hundred gold coins in it. It seems to be all the assets of the old man. It looks rather shabby.
”Sit down quickly, sir. I'll make tea for you.”
Ye Tian was warmly invited to sit down. The old man turned around and got busy. He carefully took out a box of tea from the cupboard. However, as ye Tian expected, the quality of the tea was quite average. Such a box can sell 30 gold coins, and the price of such a whole box, I'm afraid it's not as good as the dregs left by the tea leaves Ye Tian drank in the King City
A moment later, the old man just stirred up the tea he thought was very decent and brought it to Ye Tian, which also made Ye Tian feel helpless.
It's not that ye Tian despises these things. Ye Tian himself doesn't care about them. It's just that the old man's face is very painful. It really makes Ye Tian feel helpless. He put about ten pieces of tea into the tea cup, as if he had let the old man lose a piece of heart
”Please use it, sir. I hope you don't dislike it. This is the best thing I can take out to entertain you. You can make do with it in our poor place.”
The old man put down his tea cup and sat opposite Ye Tian. He felt out an old cigarette pole and smoked.
”In fact, sir, what I want to ask is, why is this place so barren? And I feel that coins here seem... Not very circulating?”
Ye Tian took a sip of the light, almost tasteless tea in the cup and asked.
”No, it's not that we don't circulate, but that the money we can get is too small to supply to the 'guard gate' every year. Therefore, we are so excited when we see the existence of coins...”
The old man sighed and shook his head.
”Guard gate? What's that?” Ye Tian frowned and confessed every year. It sounded like... Landlord Lao Cai?
”Weimen is the governing body in the dark Yu River. The managers of all clans and settlements. Every year, we have to provide money to them in order to get their protection. In a poor place like us, if the money is not enough, we can only use food and textiles to offset it. Two thirds of the products in the settlements every year have to be used to offset the money provided by them. We are also very helpless...”
”How much money do you need to provide?” Ye Tian asked slightly strangely.
”Fifteen thousand gold coins... Fortunately, you gave me a Xuan coin, and most of this year's harvest can stay.” the old man said as he looked at Ye Tian.
Ye Tian realized that these ordinary people without cultivation could live here only under the protection of the ”guard gate”. For them, gold coins are to keep their own safety and harvest. No wonder these people are so excited when they see money