It was a cloudy day, the sun could not be seen in the afternoon, and the mountains were gloomy.

I took care of Xiaoxuan, always wiping her face and mouth. Suddenly, she fell asleep like Snow White.

Master Zhe chased me out in the middle of the night last night and has not come back yet.

He knitted his head and brows and tapped his fingers rhythmically.

Our phone can only make outgoing calls but cannot answer calls. After waiting for a long time, we turned our head and tried dialing again, and the other party finally answered.

"Professor Song, how's it going?" he asked.

I was very nervous and listened carefully.

There was silence on the other end for a few seconds, and then the old professor hesitated and said: "I checked ancient books and asked all my friends. I'm not sure, but I think... you can try using copper coins."

"Copper coins?"

He was surprised: "Copper coins? What kind of copper coins? How to use them?"

Professor Song's voice was old and hoarse. He replied: "If you want copper coins handed down from generation to generation, remember, you must have a large amount! Use dozens of kilograms of copper coins to boil beans, then eat the beans and wash your face with the boiled water."

"No...you can't say that when you wash your face, you have to press your whole face into the bean water. Do you understand what I mean?"

I was confused when I heard it, and I didn't know why I was listening.

"Professor Song, does this method work?" he asked with his head turned.

"I don't know if it works. An old friend who lives on Snake Island told me this method. You can try it as a folk remedy."

What the old professor was talking about was not the Snake Island abroad, but the Snake Island in Liaoning.

We chatted for a few more minutes, asked for specific details, and then hung up the phone.

Douyazai hesitated and asked: "Is this okay? I don't believe what I heard. Otherwise, we should send Xiaoxuan to the hospital as soon as possible."

"There's no point in sending him to the hospital."

I frowned and thought for a long time, then told me: "Yunfeng, go and cover the robbery hole. We are injured and sick now, and the team situation is not suitable for going down the hole."

"What do you mean, head?"

"Now everything is focused on rescuing Xiaoxuan. Write down the coordinates of this place, wait until you get back at half the price, and return to the county town temporarily."

I agreed. Indeed, we have injured too many people this time. If we continue to force people into the pit, the entire army may be wiped out.

Master Zhe disappeared for most of the day and didn't come back until about four o'clock in the afternoon. His face was full of exhaustion.

"Didn't you catch up to July Climb?"

Master Zhe sighed: "Hey... I'm sorry, I tried my best."

Dou Sprout said angrily: "This bitch crawls in July! Did he grow up eating loaches?"

.....

Two days later, in a certain alley of Dongguan Primary School in Kangding County.

"Sister, do you have any small leather coins at home?" (small leather coins are copper coins).

"A collector of antiques? How much does a small piece of leather money cost?"

I quickly said: "Two yuan each."

"Then the price you paid is high. I've had antique collectors come here before, so they only gave me ten cents each."

"Just wait here and I'll get it for you. Don't go into the house."

The elder sister who was eating at the door put down her bowls and chopsticks, turned around and went into the house. A few minutes later she came out carrying a plastic bag.

I hurriedly knelt down and opened the plastic bag, and looked at the bag of copper coins.

"Sister, how many do you have here?"

"I don't know. I haven't counted them. Count them if you want."

I pretended to count and said, "Sister, I'll give you one hundred and fifty."

"Hey, can't you give me two hundred? Look at how good my little leather money is, it's so shiny."

I'm not talking nonsense, I gave you the money and took the toilet again.

I have to buy them all, because if I pick some individually, the other party will definitely think that some of them are valuable, and either won't sell them, or they will make a big deal.

I walked out to the corner of the alley, took out a new plastic bag, picked out all the copper coins handed down from ancient times, and put them in it. I picked out about thirty coins and threw away the rest.

It's not a waste, it's just that I'm afraid of confusing the handed down and non-legendary ones, and I'm afraid it will affect Xiaoxuan.???.

The so-called handed down products refer to the kind of yellow and bright copper coins that have been sold in hundreds of families and have been handed over by thousands of people. The surface has a sense of wear and tear, and is rust-free and soil-free. Among them, the coins of the Five Emperors are the best.

As long as it enters the earth and comes out, it cannot be counted as passed down from generation to generation.

Especially the kind that is covered in green and black rust, I don’t want it.

According to Feng Shui theory, this type of money is full of yang energy and has an unexplainable mysterious power. In the past, it was often used for fortune-telling and blessing.

The old professor said that it would take dozens of kilograms of heirloom money to boil bean water. I worked hard all morning, picking and choosing, and only received more than three kilograms, which was far from enough.

I got a speaker from the tofu seller.

I held up a loudspeaker and walked through the streets and alleys shouting: "Collect the small leather money! Recycle the small leather money! Recycle the small leather money at a high price!"

When I walked to the door of Green Olive, a woman upstairs opened the window and called me.

"Wait! Antique collector, I have a few silver dollars, do you want them?"

"No, I just want the leather money."

"There are also leather coins, come up and have a look."

I quickly went upstairs.

The first floor is the Green Olive Ballroom, which is only lively at night and not crowded at noon. There has been a rumor from the outside world that in the early years at Green Olive, you could touch a girl for ten yuan.

This rumor is wrong. It costs ten dollars to dance salsa with a beautiful woman for ten minutes. If you want to do it, at least add a zero and multiply it by two.

"You come in and get it, it's under the bed, I can't pick it up."

I took out a wine jar from under the bed. The jar was full of copper coins and weighed at least ten kilograms.

"Did you dig this out of the ground?"

"What was dug out? This is passed down from my family."

She said: "My great-grandmother's family was a big landowner before liberation. I used to have more than a dozen jars and silver coins. I sold them all. Now this jar is the only one left. Look, how much money will you give me?"

Most of the items in this jar are heirlooms. I gave him 800 yuan and asked a normal person to collect it. The most I could give her was 300 yuan.

"Beauty, do you know whose family has the most gold coins like this?"

"Hey, you're quite sweet as a collector of antiques."

"Bah," she said with a smile, counting the hundred-dollar bills back and forth, "go look around the old movie theater. There used to be several landlords there."

At 10:30 p.m., I hadn’t eaten all day and had blisters on the soles of my feet. I dragged my exhausted body back to the hotel with a bag of copper coins on my back.

They all fell on the bed with a crash.

Under the light of the light bulb, the pile of copper coins reflected golden light.

Dou Yazai leaned on the crutch and said: "It's so beautiful, like a gold coin. It must weigh more than twenty kilograms, right?"

I weighed it and it was over twenty-six pounds.

Brother Yu had already bought more than ten kilograms of lentils. I moved the iron stove, set up a large pot under the command of the boss, poured all the copper coins and beans into the pot, and then filled it with water.

Make a fire and boil water.

After half an hour, the pot was opened.

When I took off the lid of the pot, all the copper coins sank to the bottom, the water was bubbling, and the lentils were boiled until they were soft and tumbling up and down.

The boiled water in the pot turned turbid and turned green, with a layer of light yellow oily sheen floating on the surface. We didn't add oil, so we don't know where this layer of oily sheen came from.

A problem arises in front of me.

How to feed Xiaoxuan boiled beans?

After thinking about it, it seems that I can only feed it mouth to mouth.

Dou Sprout put down his crutch and said, "How about you let me do it?"

I kicked him: "I will come if you want! Is it your turn?"

Dou Sprout hurriedly waved his hands and said, come on, come on.

After chewing a handful of lentils, my mouth smelled like copper, astringent and bitter.

I endured the discomfort, mouth to mouth, and tried my best to put it into Xiaoxuan's mouth.

She couldn't swallow, so I could only try my best to push down with my tongue.

After feeding the lentils, I picked up Xiaoxuan and went to the bathroom.

Set up the basin.
To be continued...