Chapter 80 This thing is too cruel

When the villagers said this, not only Xie Zhen was stunned, but several guards nearby also came over curiously.

As for leather materials, the Xie family has seen a lot.

The Duke's Mansion has been rich for a hundred years and has seen all kinds of fine leather materials.

However, times have changed.

When the Duke's Mansion was searched, all the valuables were swept away by Qiu Suan and his men, and the good materials stored in the warehouse were also put into the national treasury. Now, when they walked on the street, there was really not a single piece of leather.

In the future, when I go out of the border and encounter cold weather, it would be great if I could have a piece of leather to keep warm.

Xie Zhen's heart was moved. "We have to see the material first. If it is really top-grade..." She pondered for a moment, then pulled out a heavy silver bracelet from her sleeve and held it up to the other party. "How about I exchange this silver bracelet with you?"

The villager looked honest and taciturn, but he stared at the bracelet in Xie Zhen's hand for a while and saw that the wide bracelet was dotted with a few small gems, his eyes lit up.

"You wait."

After saying that, he turned around and said something to the tall and thin villager behind him, then walked quickly towards the village.

Xie Zhen looked at the figure in the distance, then turned to look at something else. Xie Wuying behind him rolled his eyes, walked forward and started talking to the tall and thin villager.

"Excuse me, do you know what kind of leather that big brother just mentioned?"

The tall and thin villager just looked at him without answering.

Xie Wuying didn't get an answer. She scratched her nose with her finger and walked back to Xie Zhen, whispering, "Second sister, they won't tell me what material we're looking for. They're so secretive. Could it be smuggled goods?"

Xie Zhen looked up and asked, "What do you mean by illicit goods?"

As a woman in the boudoir, she really didn't understand the meaning of some of the words spoken by men like her brother Wuying.

Xie Wuying said, "It's something that came from an illicit source."

Xie Zhen understood. She looked at the tall and thin villager and said, "It doesn't matter whether he came from a legitimate background or not. We are refugees now. We don't know when we will face the King of Hell. What's there to be afraid of? If they dare to sell, I dare to exchange."

Xie Wuying looked at her second sister Xie Zhen with admiration, clasping her hands together.

Xie Zhen glanced at him and said, "The material will be here soon, so take a good look at it."

"Look at it for a long time, are others competing with us for it?"

"Rob?" Xie Zhen raised his wrist and shook it lightly. "That villager is a connoisseur of value. This thing may look insignificant, but if he really exchanges it for silver, he can buy dozens of leathers."

"Then we are at a great loss."

Xie Zhen didn't care. While checking the items being traded by others, he said, "You can't think that way."

Just then, a bundle of dried vegetables came into Xie Zhen's sight. She was quick-witted and exchanged the bundle of dried vegetables for a piece of silver and stuffed it into the guard's hand. Someone nearby cursed angrily, and the Xie family guards stepped forward and protected Xie Zhen inside.

Xie Zhen glanced at the other person, turned around contemptuously and explained to Xie Wuying.

They spread rumors and stir up trouble for the Xie family in the team every day, and then they rob them!

The Xie family was large and powerful, and the man with a fierce face cursed and pushed away the fugitive who was bargaining with the villagers next to him.

"Get out of the way! I, Fan Ye, haven't chosen yet, it's your turn now!"

Xie Wuying solemnly reminded the guards: "Keep an eye on that scoundrel."

"Don't worry, Master Wuying," said the guards.

Xie Zhen pulled him to the other side and continued, "Money is just one of the means to accomplish something. The value of silver doesn't lie in the money itself, but in what you use it for. The value of a copper coin changes in different situations and for different things. You have to treat it as a living thing."

Xie Wuying is not very old. Although he is not as wealthy as the direct descendants of the Xie family in Beijing, he is well-off among his fellow clansmen in his hometown of Huaiyang. He has not suffered much from birth to adulthood. Except for practicing martial arts since he was a child and enduring crying and peeing every day, he spent the rest of his time climbing trees and going to rivers with his fellow clansmen, and he had a lot of trouble.

He was loved by his grandparents and his parents did not restrict him, so he developed an optimistic personality.

If he didn't have this kind of personality, he wouldn't have dragged his good brother Xie Wenjie to follow Madam Xie and others to fight against the officers and soldiers on the day of the house search.

The Duke's Mansion was so big that they were not the only two of their clan members living there.

Xie Wuying had no shortage of money when he was young, so he did not have a deep understanding of silver and money. His mother was the head of the family, so when he was short of money, he just knew to ask his parents for it.

No one told him these details.

But Xie Wuying was smart. When Xie Zhen started to explain to him, he immediately realized that his second sister was teaching him.

The Xie family's generation of Rongguang are all from the capital. Now that they are in decline and exile, survival is the most important thing. Xie Wuying didn't think too much about it, but Xie Wenjie mentioned to him privately that sometimes when he encountered something confusing on the road, his sixth brother would explain some moral principles to him in detail.

Unexpectedly, his second sister treated him the same way.

Anyway, the material hasn't been picked up yet, so Xie Zhen doesn't mind saying a few more words.

"For years, our Xie family has taught us not to be blinded by wealth and fame, and lose our spirit. You've experienced the confiscation of our property, so you should understand that the Duke's Mansion is no bigger than a manor, how could it be bigger than the Imperial Palace? The people in the palace value the Xie family, so they will reward you. If they dislike the Xie family, they will confiscate you. But this move also makes the people inside wary of the Xie family, and it has been planned for years. As the old saying goes, only thieves can be thieves every day."

"Silver and money are essential on the road, but they're definitely not used the way they were back in the days of the Duke's Mansion." Xie Zhen looked up and saw a figure approaching from a distance. He picked up a few more items and said, "You came from the south to the capital and haven't been to the border areas. I've heard that the roads outside the border areas are dangerous and the weather is cold. Do you think this bracelet can help us survive the wind and snow?"

"Of course not." Xie Wuying answered readily.

Xie Zhen smiled slightly and said, "But it can help us exchange for a piece of wind-resistant leather in this village. This is its silver value and function at this moment."

"People always have to survive first before they can do anything else."

Xie Wuying smiled and said, "Second sister is right."

Xie Zhen also smiled and glanced at him lovingly. When she saw the color of the material in the other person's hand, her eyes lit up.

Xie Wuying whispered beside him, "Second sister, if I can turn things around in the future, I will definitely return to the capital to avenge you!"

Xie Zhen turned his head and glanced at him, thinking that he was just a hot-blooded young man, so he smiled and nodded in response.

The villagers who wanted to sell the leather materials picked up half of it, threw it over their shoulders and carried it over to Xie Zhenjin, and then put it on the ground.

"Just this piece of leather, take a look at it."

Xie Zhen lowered his head and saw a piece of blue-gray long-haired leather in front of him.

She was a little surprised, "Is this... wolf skin?"

"It's wolf skin. We got it outside the Great Wall last winter." The villager answered one by one.

A wolf skin appeared in front of everyone, and the surroundings became quiet in an instant.

Many of the fugitives were fine before, but when they saw the wolf skin and looked up at the villager, their eyes and expressions changed.

Xie Wuying reacted quickly, picked up the wolf skin and spread it on his arms for Xie Zhen to examine.

Although Xie Zhen was touching the fur with her hands, she had already made up her mind that she wanted this material!

A fragrant breeze blew by, and no one noticed that Tu Huan was right next to them.