Chapter 123 Yellow Springs Money

Jiang Jiuyuan couldn't take her eyes off the copper coin.

Although I didn't turn back, I was listening to the sounds behind me.

I clearly felt Jiang Jiuyuan stand there for a few seconds before quickly picking something up from the ground and following me.

I walked about halfway around the abandoned building before stopping in a room where a high wall stood outside the window.

It should have been a record room or warehouse for some unit, so a wall was built outside the window to block it.

I stood in the empty room and said, "What did you pick up just now?"

Jiang Jiuyuan opened her hand and held a copper coin in front of me, "Look at this?"

"Huangquan buy-road money?" I frowned.

I heard from Old Liu that Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren were divided into two periods.

The first period of Jie Ming Ren should actually be called "Buy Ming Ren". They relied on earning Huangquan buy-road money from the underworld to extend their lives. One buy-road coin was equivalent to one year of life. Jie Ming Ren could also use Huangquan buy-road money as internal hard currency for transactions.

Later, Huangquan buy-road money became rampant in the Yang realm for some reason, and even the underworld could hardly distinguish between true and false.

Helpless, the underworld had to cancel Huangquan buy-road money and began to directly pay warlocks with lifespan.

The last warlock to experience the buying-life period was the Qisha Ghost Marshal Wang Hun.

In the second period, Jie Ming Ren were still doing their old job, but the conditions for borrowing life became much more demanding. Moreover, there would be losses in the transfer of lifespan between Jie Ming Ren. It became more difficult for Jie Ming Ren to exchange lifespans.

The batch of discarded Huangquan buy-road money was later either collected by warlocks as souvenirs, or turned into a kind of token between warlocks.

Jiang Jiuyuan pointed to the缺口 on the corner of the Huangquan coin and said, "Look here. This is our Dao Gate's distress signal!"

"When people from the Dao Gate put a缺口 at a fixed position on the coin and throw it on the road, if it is seen by a fellow, they will decide whether to save or not according to the price represented by the coin."

"Huangquan buy-road money means that he is willing to use his life's wealth, or a secret treasure, to exchange for the opportunity for a fellow to come to the rescue."

I took the Huangquan buy-road money in my hand and said, "Didn't you think that this is someone scattering dead people's money?"

Everyone knows that paper money is scattered when holding a funeral. However, sometimes real money needs to be scattered at funerals.

Scattering paper money means paving the way for the dead, so that the lonely souls and wild ghosts blocking the way will give way and not make things difficult for the deceased.

Scattering real money means that the family knows that this journey will definitely not be peaceful. Paper money can only send away lonely souls and wild ghosts, but it cannot send away ghosts who have come to block the way on purpose.

At this time, a large sum of money must be spent to hire a group of fierce ghosts to protect the deceased to Fengdu City.

Real money in the Yang realm is worth ten thousand in the Yin realm, so scattering real money on the road is more appropriate.

However, real money cannot be scattered directly. Because the Yang energy on the money is too strong and still carries a dynasty's dignity, throwing it out directly is not giving money to ghosts, but hitting ghosts with money.

Real money must be treated before it is thrown. Nowadays, to throw real money, you have to poke a hole in the upper right corner of the money; in ancient times, you would use a knife to cut a notch in the copper plate, so that the Yang energy on the money would be broken, so that the money could be used in both Yin and Yang realms.

So, sometimes when you pick up money on the road, you really have to take a look.

People will definitely not pick up paper money when they see it. However, picking up this kind of打眼儿money is really no different from picking up paper money.

Jiang Jiuyuan said, "Our Dao Gate's mark is very particular and will definitely be distinguished from Yin and Yang money. Look..."

Jiang Jiuyuan was about to point out the mark to me when I took the money from her hand and threw it towards the window outside.

"You..." Before Jiang Jiuyuan could say anything, she saw the Huangquan money hit the wall outside the window and bounce to the ground. But she didn't hear the sound of the Huangquan money landing, which meant that the money had been caught.

Jiang Jiuyuan swallowed, "Is there someone under the window?"

If this was a residential building, there would definitely be someone under the window.

The wall outside the window blocks the sunlight, and the Yin energy inside the wall will inevitably increase. The turbid air that people breathe out in the room is blocked by the wall and cannot be dispersed, so it all concentrates between the wall and the window.

After a long time, there may be friends below the window, or on the left and right sides of the window, waiting for your breath of turbid air.

When I turned my head to look out the window, a hand stretched out from under the windowsill.

The other party's five fingers grabbed the windowsill and slowly exerted force, and the person followed suit and climbed in from the outside.

Judging from his fingers, he should be a master of 空道—only those who often pickpocket people will have slender fingers, and the index finger and middle finger will be about the same length.

It wasn't until the man climbed in from outside the window with most of his body that I saw that the man had dark yellow hair, and his legs had been broken into several sections, so he dragged his legs into the room.

I squatted on the ground and looked at the face opposite me, "Can't you really stand up? Or are you deliberately showing me what you look like now?"

The other party didn't say a word, just propped himself up with his hands and crawled towards Jiang Jiuyuan's feet.