Cheng Ping was about to throw away the mad Taoist's pile of dirty, tattered clothes when the mad Taoist quickly stopped him.
He rummaged through the pile of junk and found a dirty little leather bag. He opened the bag and poured something out.
When Cheng Ping finally saw what it was, his eyes nearly popped out of his head!
What was poured out of that filthy, unrecognizable leather bag were a pair of golden beads the size of a thumb!
The mad Taoist threw the leather bag into the pile of dirty clothes and instructed Cheng Ping, "Alright, you can throw it away now."
As Cheng Ping stared at the pile of garbage and listened to the fawning voice of the mad Taoist priest outside, he felt as if his mind had been split open!
"My dear disciple, this is a gift from your master..."
"Master, is this a pearl...?"
If Cheng Ping remembered correctly, any one of these beads of the same size would be priceless, let alone a pair of them!
And it's gold!
This thing must have come from the palace!
The new emperor doesn't have such a good thing; it must have been leaked from the late emperor.
That damned Taoist priest actually hid such a good thing and gave it to his newly accepted apprentice without saying a word!
This guy really loves his apprentice!
For a moment, Cheng Ping didn't know whether to sympathize with Erbao or envy him!
Erbao didn't understand the value of these things, but he thought they were pretty. He held one in each hand and showed them off to Dabao, Xiaobao, Wenche, and Wenjin.
When Wen Che saw the two golden beads, his expression froze, and he was almost unable to respond to Er Bao's boasting.
He had seen that thing before; it was a treasure that his father cherished greatly.
Later, the mad Taoist was secretly summoned to the palace by the emperor. After the emperor read his and Wen Jin's fortunes and examined their faces, the pair of precious pearls disappeared.
Wen Che wasn't stupid; once he saw the precious pearl, he understood everything.
It must be that the Mad Taoist said something to the Emperor in private, and the Emperor thought that the Mad Taoist's words were of great use, which is why he was willing to give away such a precious treasure.
But in the end, the Emperor never told Wenche what the mad Taoist priest had said that day...
Who would have thought that in just a few years, everything would have changed so drastically.
The mad Taoist priest is still alive.
The precious pearl is still there.
But my father is no longer here.
Wen Che was deeply saddened.
Wen Jin saw this and hugged her brother's arm with a touch of heartache: "Brother Che?"
"Um?"
"I feel that being born into the imperial family is not as comfortable and carefree as living as a country person!"
Even Xiao the Widow's sons, Shen Shitou and Shen Mutou, knew many ways of playing that I didn't.
They can go up mountains and down rivers; they can play with pebbles and pine cones; they can pick wild fruits and sweet grass roots to eat, and no one will scare them by saying it's unsafe, unhygienic, will make them sick, or will get hurt...
Nobody wanted to kill him.
Wen Che recalled what Shen Qingyu and the others had recently said about the starving refugees, and sighed silently: "Everyone has their own hardships..."
Erbao happily took the pearls to present to Shen Qingyu.
“Mother, my master gave me two pearls, and I’m giving them to you…”
When Shen Qingyu saw the pair of golden beads, she was stunned by the terrifyingly high price quoted by the Space Mall!
The Space Mall is offering a price of 100,000 taels of gold!
This is damn precious!
"Did your master give it to you?" Shen Qingyu asked Erbao to confirm.
Erbao nodded firmly, then discussed with his mother, "I think Master has been very kind to me. Shall we treat him to braised pig's head later? We won't owe him any favors!"
Shen Qingyu almost choked to death on her own saliva!
Girl, you really dare to dream!
What kind of braised pig's head meat can repay a favor worth 100,000 taels of gold?
These two beads are enough for the whole village to eat braised pig's head meat for several generations!
Shen Qingyu sighed: "Go play with Da Bao and Xiao Bao, I'll have a chat with your master."
"Okay!" Erbao, without suspecting anything, skipped off to find Dabao and Xiaobao.
Shen Qingyu found the mad Taoist priest who was drying his hair in the courtyard and handed him the two walking beads: "These are too precious. It's not appropriate for you to give them to a child. You should take them back."
The mad Taoist priest seemed to have anticipated Shen Qingyu's visit. He waved his hand and said, "I've been nurturing this thing for three years. Sew an inconspicuous leather pouch for her to hang around her neck, and tell her not to take it off. Not even when she takes a bath."
Shen Qingyu then realized that this thing was actually a protective charm!
This old man in his fifties really dotes on his daughter; this is only their first day together...
She couldn't help but feel respect for him.
"Okay, what would you like to eat? I'll make it for you."
"It doesn't matter, as long as I have wine to drink," the mad Taoist waved his hand.
Drinking is easy; she has wine in her space warehouse at Pear Blossom Tavern, and she can also buy it from her space shop.
Shen Qingyu asked Liu Cuixi to prepare dinner for later while she went back to her room.
Was the Mad Taoist looking for that pocket watch at the pawnshop earlier?
Since he cares so much about his daughter, I might as well give him the pocket watch I bought with five taels of silver.
Shen Qingyu retrieved the pocket watch from the storage room and gave it directly to the Mad Taoist.
The Mad Taoist was stunned when he saw the pocket watch in Shen Qingyu's hand!
"How...how did this end up here?"
"When I went to the pawn shop last time, I saw it and thought it was quite interesting. The shopkeeper said it was an imported item and not expensive, so I bought it... I heard you say you were looking for this before?"
The mad Taoist took the pocket watch, examined it carefully over and over for a long time, and then suddenly burst into laughter!
"Hahaha! What a coincidence! Hahaha..."
Shen Qingyu: This old man has gone mad!
However, considering the 100,000 taels of gold, we can tolerate it.
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