Chapter 211 – Wealthy
Finally, this lone man and woman plus a small snake finally arrived at their destination – Sangshui City!
This city was very special, due to its proximity to the East Sea, this city was one of the largest port city states in the Southern Region, and it was one of the few permanently neutral zones along the border that did not belong to any of the imperial powers, but in Sangshui City, the power of the City Lord’s Mansion was very large.
In order to cover their tracks, Xu Yang and the Empress changed into more ordinary attire to blend into the city, but they soon discovered one of the biggest problems here – the Forbidden Spirit Formation!
The entire Sangshui City, was enveloped by a huge Spirit Prohibiting Formation, in this city, no matter what status and position you had elsewhere how big you were, and how high a realm strength you possessed, as long as you entered the Sangshui City, everyone would be relegated to a new starting point, and as long as you entered the city, no one would be able to use their Spirit Power to invoke the feats.
This city-state was quite large, just by looking at the dress one could tell that there were all kinds of people from the three religions and nine streams, Xu Yang and his group wanted to go out to sea, so they came to the pier at the first opportunity.
”Come come come, line up line up line up, hand over your exclusive sea traveling orders, don’t crowd!”
A few tall City Lord’s Office guards on the pier in front yelled.
”Sea traveling order?
What’s that, not the kind where you can get on the boat by handing over money?”
Xu Yang and Xue Qinghan glanced at each other.
”It’s useless to look at me, I stay in the deep palace all day to cultivate, and these things outside are basically taken care of by my subordinates.”
”Eh ……
So it’s true that you, Empress, found us bosses together just to find yourself a lackey!”
Xu Yang: “?
???”
The Empress’s cold as ice and frosty, peerless face couldn’t help but conjure up a smile when she heard Little Snake’s words.
Casually looking for someone to ask around, Xu Yang and the two of them came to know that the Sea Walking Token was an important token that everyone who wanted to enter the East Sea had to get, by completing the tasks issued by the City Lord’s Office within Sangshui City to exchange for the corresponding points, and after reaching a certain number of points to exchange for the Sea Walking Token of the corresponding quality.
The token is divided into five grades: white, yellow, blue, purple and orange, which just corresponds to the five types of sea vessels of different levels in the pier. The higher the level of the token, the higher the grade of the vessel boarded when going out to the sea, and naturally, the services and security enjoyed will also have a higher treatment.
”Excuse me, other than completing the tasks of the City Lord’s Mansion, is there a quick way to gain points?”
The empress was after all an emperor-level existence, raised from a high level of respect and honor, and to have her work for the people of the City Lord’s Mansion, this kind of psychological discrepancy would be a bit too much for her to bear.
”There are ah!
Some foreign rich and powerful people usually choose to go directly to the pawnshop to sell some of their property valuables, which can be directly exchanged for a certain amount of points according to the ratio.
However, I would like to remind you that the pawnshop here can be different from the pawnshop within the general imperial power, the currency ratio is one to one thousand with the outside world, one thousand taels outside, here can only be one or two silver to make.”
”What!
!”
The empress furrowed her brows, but soon she also figured out the reason, this Sangshui City did this as a way for the City Lord’s Office to stabilize its own power, and also as much as possible to keep the outsiders at the same starting point as the people inside the city.
To put it simply, the merchants and tycoons outside who bring in a thousand taels of silver can only buy three steamed buns, while the ordinary people in the city work for a day, and likewise can earn one or two, in this way, the gap between everyone will be infinitely narrowed.
Originally Xu Yang was planning to step down and do a few quests, seeing this posture of the empress, she simply did not intend to lower her stature, telling her to wear this rough linen clothes was already her maximum stoicism.
”Boss, I want to pawn these three pieces of jewelry, how many silver taels do you think they are worth.”
The empress was really generous, when she placed these three pieces of jewelry on the pawn shop’s counter, the dozen or so people in the vicinity all subconsciously looked over this way, and even let out exclamations of surprise.
”Ah Xue, this thing is too valuable, why don’t I go to the City Lord’s Mansion to take on a few quests, delaying it for a few days should also be able to redeem two Sea Walking Orders.”
Xu Yang finally managed to open his mouth, as he saw that what the Empress had placed on that counter was clearly three glazed phoenix hairpins!
That was a top-notch piece of jewelry that there were not many of in the entire Three Thousand Dao States.
However, the Empress did not even look at Xu Yang and only said one word with a calm face.
”Dang.”
The fellow inside looked deeply at the Empress, and then carefully looked at the three hairpins.
”This young lady, wait a moment, I’ll go and ask our shopkeeper to come and price them for you personally.”
Saying this, the fellow scurried into the inner hall even as he ran with the top of his lungs, obviously excited because such a big customer had come.
”Zi zi zi, boss, worthy of being an empress!
These three hairpins are worth a lot of money, and you said you’d pawn them off?
If you miss out on such a top-ranking rich woman, it’ll be hard to find her again!”
The little snake’s words just fell, was the empress a finger poke on the three inches, outsiders simply can’t see the empress out of hand, just think she is touching her own husband’s pockets, unaware that the inner dragon python as if it was being pinched by someone’s life, wailing and begging for forgiveness, and this only gained the empress’s forgiveness.
Half a cup of tea, the shopkeeper in person, see this hairpin moment eyes almost fly out, can not help but look deeply at the empress a few eyes.
”Dare I ask if you are ……” “Hmph, when did pawnbrokers even dare to interfere with the seller’s identity?
This is my master’s jewelry, price it quickly.”
The Empress chilly voice came out, although she couldn’t release her spiritual pressure within this Sangshui City, her powerful spiritual power and her own kind of incomparably honorable and graceful temperament were simply not something these ordinary people could invoke.
The shopkeeper put on his own gold-rimmed glasses and looked at it for half a day before extending five fingers.
”Five thousand taels.”
”What!
! Five thousand taels?
My goodness ……
This Sangshui City hasn’t had a pawn price this high in almost a year, right?
At five thousand taels, this hairpin would be worth five million dollars outside!
Gosh, how much power is behind this girl?”
The shopkeeper wasn’t ambiguous, and directly took out five 1,000 taels silver tickets engraved with golden seals, respectfully handing them over to the Empress.
”This girl, please inform your master that if you come to pawn again in the future, the small store will always raise the price by 20%!
Yuan Bao, quickly go send off these two honored guests!”
”No need.”
The Empress shook her hand and grabbed the silver ticket, immediately tugged Xu Yang’s cuff and flew out of the door, not waiting for that fellow to follow out, the two had already disappeared.
”Quickly go!
I always feel that this place is not peaceful.
Even though there is a spirit banning spell formation, it looks like the security in the city has been greatly improved, but in fact, the ones who suffer the most are people like us.
Not being able to use spirit power doesn’t mean that there are no hidden dangers within this city.”
As expected, this time, the empress had really guessed correctly, perhaps it had something to do with her keen ruler’s sense of smell.
The two of them didn’t wait to walk out of the third street before a dozen middle-aged men in quaint attire stared at their path.
”Two of you, where are you going in a hurry?”