With the engine roaring, Charlize Theron sped off and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
She left without taking anything with her, abandoning even her house.
"Damn it, I forgot to ask her for the money."
Cao Kun only remembered after Charlize's car drove away.
"Never mind, I didn't really help her get rid of Annabelle anyway."
Cao Kun shook his head, glanced at the blood-stained glass and the dead crows scattered on the ground, got into his car, and quickly left the scene.
Cao Kun returned to his apartment without incident and found that Yamashita Seiko had already returned.
He asked, "How about those four places?"
Seiko Yamashita: "It's very ordinary. There are no spirits inside. It's just that because of the dead, a small amount of evil energy has gathered."
Even if an ordinary person lived there, they would only experience bad luck for a while.
Cao Kun nodded, unsurprised.
As mentioned earlier, not everyone who dies can become a ghost and remain in the world.
Therefore, a haunted house does not necessarily contain ghosts.
Of course, the possibility of a haunted house being haunted is definitely greater than that of an ordinary house.
That evening, the Holy Son of the Mountain noticed that Cao Kun was in low spirits and asked him, "Master, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Cao Kun shook his head.
Actually, he was thinking about Annabelle.
Although reason told him that ignoring Annabelle was the right thing to do, it was still a little regrettable to just let it go.
Right now, his cultivation level is stuck at the ninth rank of Gathering Evil, just a little experience points away from reaching perfection.
Killing Annabelle will definitely grant you a lot of experience points.
Perhaps, not only can he achieve perfect gathering of evil, but he can also break through the gathering of evil in one fell swoop, successfully build an evil platform, and get rid of the title of a second-rate evil cultivator.
But Cao Kun only thought about it; the risk was too great.
For now, it's best to continue to play it safe and avoid provoking the ram who seems to be Satan.
The next morning, Cao Kun didn't receive a call from Sarah, the agent, but instead received a call from Qin Guangping.
The other party told Cao Kun that the money had arrived.
Without saying a word, Cao Kun drove towards Chinatown.
Upon seeing Cao Kun, Qin Guangping immediately greeted him with a smile and offered him tea and water.
Cao Kun sat down: "Stop busying yourself, just take the things out."
Qin Guangping took out a small wooden box, opened it, and placed it in front of Cao Kun.
When Cao Kun looked inside, he saw that the box was full of coins, dozens of them.
There are roughly two types of spending money: one is the spending money used by Taoists.
These coins are round on the outside and square on the inside. Because they are not circulating currency, there are no specific size regulations, but they are generally larger than ordinary coins.
The four large characters “山鬼雷令” are engraved on both sides of one side.
In the middle are engraved twenty-eight small characters: “Thunder and lightning, slay ghosts and subdue spirits, cut down demons and ward off evil, forever protect the home and ensure peace, by the decree of the Grand Master.”
Some are also engraved with twenty-seven small characters: "Thunder and lightning, slay ghosts and subdue spirits, cut down demons and ward off evil, forever preserve the spirit, by order of the Supreme Lord Laozi, hurry as the law commands."
The outer ring is engraved with the twelve Earthly Branches.
The other side is engraved with the Eight Trigrams.
Therefore, this kind of money is also called Mountain Ghost Money, or Mountain Ghost Coins.
This money was generally used by Taoist priests in ancient times, and it was also made by Taoist priests.
This practice is used to ward off evil spirits and avert disasters.
It is generally not circulated among ordinary people.
There's another way to spend money that's not so complicated.
It's similar to ordinary coins, except it's not engraved with "Tongbao" or anything like that.
Instead, it is engraved with auspicious phrases such as "long life and wealth", "blessings and longevity", "promotion and advancement", "peace throughout the world", "long life", "good fortune in comings and goings", and "suitable for home and family".
On the other side, there are patterns such as stars, double fish, turtle and snake, dragon and phoenix.
This kind of spending is also called "amulet money".
Of course, there are more than just this kind of amulet money. There are also birthday money, accessory money, spring money, money for scattering money, chess money, door god money, New Year money, warning money, lantern money, and so on.
Although these coins look different, they all have one thing in common: they all carry the meaning of praying for blessings and wishing for a better life in the future.
This is called apotropaic, oppressive, or gamble.
In fact, people nowadays also come into contact with a type of amulet money, namely New Year's money.
New Year's money, also called money to ward off evil spirits, is meant to suppress evil spirits.
This is also a type of amulet money.
At first glance, amulet coins are just ordinary coins engraved with some common auspicious sayings, seemingly not as impressive as mountain spirit coins, and several levels below them.
Actually, that's not the case.
Mountain spirit coins are used by Taoist priests, while amulet coins circulate among ordinary people.
Although they lack purchasing power, they represent the prayers and blessings of countless people.
When these things accumulate in large quantities, they form an invisible but powerful force.
This allows ordinary amulets to exert incredible effects.
Do you think the cultivation of a few Taoist priests is more powerful, or the power of prayer from hundreds of millions of ordinary people?
It should be understood that truly accomplished Taoist masters are only a minority; the vast majority of Taoists are mediocre.
The answer is obvious without even thinking about it.
Cao Kun poured out the batch of coins that Qin Guangping had obtained and found that, apart from three coins that were Mountain Ghost coins, the rest were all amulet coins.
but……
Cao Kun picked out more than twenty of them: "Old Qin, although these items are in decent condition, they are not heirlooms."
"No way." Qin Guangping took out a coin and examined it: "Could a coin buried underground be in such good condition?"
Cao Kun: "Although this didn't go underground, it's a water-damaged product; it was fished out of the water."
Qin Guangping held it up in front of his eyes and stared at it carefully for a while: "It really does seem to be true, brother, your eyesight is amazing."
Cao Kun looked at Qin Guangping with a half-smile: "You don't know?"
Qin Guangping quickly replied, "I swear to God, I really didn't know."
Cao Kun didn't care whether Qin Guangping was genuinely unaware or pretending: "I'll take all the rest. Name your price."
Qin Guangping laughed and said, "That will have to be settled slowly."
Look at this one, it's a genuine heirloom coin from the Han Dynasty.
This one is from the Tang Dynasty, look at its condition, the patina…”
Qin Guangping took out a calculator and pressed a few keys: "Deduct these twenty-seven duds, the remaining forty-two will cost you a total of $2.6 million."
Cao Kun's eyes widened: "Old Qin, are you crazy for money?"
Qin Guangping: "Brother, this is in the US, not in China."
This amount of money definitely wouldn't fetch this price domestically.
But once these things are released, their value increases dozens or even hundreds of times.
You should understand that.
Cao Kun took a deep breath.
Qin Guangping is right.
Strictly speaking, this batch of money is considered a cultural relic.
However, once cultural relics leave the country, their value changes completely.
In fact, even if this money were kept in China, it could easily fetch millions or even tens of millions of yuan in a decade or two.
But that was more than a decade later; it's still 1998 now.
After some haggling, Cao Kun and Qin Guangping finally negotiated a price of $300,000.
Cao Kun paid $2.3 million to acquire the 42 coins.
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