Long Qingxue nodded and added:

"I need to write a letter and have it sent over first to sound out Pei Ziyu's opinion."

Although he and my father were like teacher and student back then, so many years have passed, and I am now guilty of a crime…”

She didn't finish her sentence, but her meaning was clear:

Whether human relationships still exist or not, you'll only know by trying.

"OK!"

Lin Mo made Long Qingxue take off her clothes and used acupuncture to cover up Long Qingxue's Xuan Yin body.

Previously, whenever Long Qingxue appeared, the surrounding martial artists would become restless.

Now that the acupuncture points have been sealed, as long as Long Qingxue doesn't use her internal energy, ordinary martial artists simply won't be able to detect it.

He took out the several sets of ancient costumes he had bought for her at the mall and put them on the sofa. The two of them changed into their clothes.

Long Qingxue changed into a moon-white cross-collar ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), her long hair was simply tied into a bun, and her bare face still couldn't hide her radiance.

Lin Mo looked her up and down to make sure everything was in order, then reached out and put his arm around her waist.

With a thought, the two disappeared from the living room.

In World One, in front of the carved wooden bed in Room Number One of the Heavenly Class, Lin Mo and Long Qingxue appeared out of thin air.

Long Qingxue steadied herself, looked around the antique-style guest room, her gaze lingering for a moment on the mulberry paper pasted on the window frame and the oil lamp on the table, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes.

After being imprisoned in the Hehuan Sect's furnace chamber for five whole years, she finally escaped from that hellhole.

Lin Mo opened the door and called downstairs, asking the waiter to bring up some writing materials.

The waiter quickly brought over writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones, and also kindly added a pot of hot tea for them.

Lin Mo pushed the brush and ink towards Long Qingxue:

"You write this letter here, I'm going to the money exchange to take care of something."

After leaving the inn, Lin Mo followed the bluestone path and turned into Yongtai Money Exchange.

The shopkeeper was still the same lean middle-aged man with a mustache, leaning over the counter working on his abacus. When he looked up and saw Lin Mo walk in, his gaze lingered for a second on Lin Mo's exquisitely made ancient-style clothing, then settled on his composed demeanor. He immediately put down his abacus, put on a smile, and went to greet him.

"Sir, here to exchange silver again?"

"Shopkeeper, this time it's not about exchanging silver."

Lin Mo leaned against the counter and lowered his voice.

"I have a big business deal I'd like to discuss with you."

The shopkeeper's eyes darted around. He had been running a money exchange in Yunxi City for twenty years and had seen all sorts of cunning people.

He sensed that this young master was no ordinary person when he came to exchange silver notes last time. He was decisive and didn't ask about the market price. He exchanged the notes and left immediately, not like someone who was short of money.

He immediately lifted the counter panel and personally led Lin Mo to a private room with a bamboo curtain hanging in the side, and then instructed the waiter to brew a pot of the finest Biluochun tea.

The bamboo curtain fell, leaving only two people in the elegant room.

Without saying a word, Lin Mo took out a silver brick from his sleeve and placed it on the table.

It was a standard one-kilogram silver brick, its surface as smooth as a mirror. Under the cold lights of the factory in the main world, it didn't seem unusual. But under the dim candlelight in the private room, the entire silver brick shone with a layer of shimmering white cold light, completely unlike the silver ingots of this era that were mixed with lead and tin and had a dull color.

The shopkeeper's gaze fell on the silver brick, and he seemed glued to it.

He reached out and picked up the silver ingot. As soon as his fingertips touched the smooth, mirror-like surface, he gasped. Even the silver ingots from the largest silver shop in Yunxi City didn't have such a smooth surface; it looked as if it had been polished by something.

He flipped the silver brick over and brought it closer to his eyes to examine it closely, his heart beating faster and faster as he looked at it.

Finally, he subconsciously brought the silver brick to his mouth, gently bit it with his front teeth, and then froze.

He worked in the money exchange for twenty years, and handled at least several hundred thousand taels of silver.

Official silver, private silver, broken silver, silver notes—what kind of purity haven't I seen?

But the purity of the silver brick in front of him was something he had never heard of before.

A gentle bite leaves an extremely deep mark; the purity is frighteningly high!

Ordinary silver ingots contain some lead and iron, making them very hard to bite and dark in color, but this one has none of that.

99% perfect, a rare find!!!

"Young master, where did you get these silver bricks?"

The shopkeeper's voice changed tone, and he immediately realized his slip of the tongue and corrected himself.

"It's not that I'm being nosy, but having worked in the money exchange for most of my life, I've never heard of silver with such high purity!"

"You don't need to worry about that. Will you buy it or not? Name your price."

Lin Mo picked up his teacup and slowly took a sip.

"Yes, of course we'll accept!"

With such high purity silver, he could take it back, mix it with some waste materials, melt it down, and cast it, making one piece usable as one and a half pieces.

"Alright, I have about six thousand taels right now. Can you handle that?"

The shopkeeper was not troubled at all after hearing this; on the contrary, he was delighted.

Six thousand taels might be a tough nut for a small money shop in Yunxi City, but Yongtai Money Shop is the largest chain of money shops in the country, backed by the royal family. It could easily handle six thousand taels, or even more than ten times that amount.

"Of course I can. Let alone six thousand taels, even one hundred thousand taels, I can come up with it."

"How is the price calculated?"

"What do you think, young master, of the market price of official silver?"

The shopkeeper held up two fingers and added,

"Young master's silver is of higher purity than official silver. I will buy it at the full value of official silver, without considering the purity. If we cooperate long-term, I will increase the price for each additional batch you supply."

"Okay, but there's one condition: I want five thousand taels in silver notes, and the rest in gold."

The shopkeeper readily agreed and told his assistant to quickly prepare the tea and contract.

Lin Mo told him to wait a moment, saying he would arrange for someone to deliver the goods.

He left the money exchange, flagged down a horse-drawn carriage on the street, and bought several sturdy wooden boxes from a carpenter's shop along the way.

Back at the inn, he packed all the silver ingots into a wooden box, sealed it, called the waiter and gave him a tip. The waiter weighed the silver ingots and ran off faster than a rabbit, calling several porters to lift the box onto the carriage.

The transaction was handled very smoothly.

Lin Mo drove the carriage to the back gate of Yongtai Money Shop, where the manager personally led the accountant and two apprentices to unload the goods and inspect the silver.

Several boxes of silver ingots were moved into the backyard. The accountant weighed them one by one, while the shopkeeper used a touchstone to compare their color. The more he examined them, the brighter his eyes became. Lin Mo's goods were even purer than he had expected. After testing the six sample silver pieces, the purity was almost identical, and none of them were adulterated.

He immediately made the decision, and the five thousand taels of silver notes were issued with the official seal and contract of Yongtai Money Shop. The notes could be redeemed at any branch in the country at any time. He also weighed out another one hundred taels of gold, wrapped in oil paper, and handed it to Lin Mo.

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