After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

Chapter 63: Boating on the River

Shen Yuelan naturally had no idea what was going on on the other end of the phone. After hanging up, she returned the work phone to Xuanyuan Minghong. She planned to make full use of the rare few days of free time and have a good emotional exchange with her bed.

In response, Huanyan expressed disdain, asking, "Why didn't you mention this when you pulled me out of bed?"

Happy holidays always pass quickly, and before we knew it, it was already the 23rd day of the first lunar month. The most important custom of Lizhou Girls' Day is that boys and girls of appropriate age from each family will go to the temple fair at the river bend to have fun.

Therefore, this is also a rare and auspicious time for the children of Lizhou to choose wives and sons-in-law. Most of the team members choose to run over to join in the fun. They plan to select a team flower based on the number of osmanthus flowers each person harvests during the Girls' Day.

Shen Yuelan was not interested in these activities because tomorrow was the day they would set off south and she had to find a few small boats to bring back.

The entire Demon Sword Princess Squadron, even though Mi Yuan had taken away five Demon Sword Princesses, was still a large team of more than twenty-five people. Assuming five people per boat, Shen Yuelan would have to get at least six small boats.

Although it is not impossible to get a bigger boat back, the Jialing River in the Song Dynasty had complex water conditions, and a large ship with a deep draft could easily be hit by the reefs at the bottom of the river, so it would be easier to get a few small boats so that it would be easier to salvage if the ship capsized.

I spent seven or eight strings of cash to buy six small wooden boats from a local boatman. Well, the kind without a roof. Fortunately, the temperature outside was still a little chilly, but as long as I wrapped myself in a quilt, I felt comfortable, which was quite interesting.

In the evening, the sword girls came back from the temple fair one after another, and their competition was finally decided, but what Shen Yuelan did not expect was.

The title of the team flower of the Yaodaoji Squadron was actually won by a girl called Suchang. There was no way around it. Although the Yaodaojis were reluctant to admit it, beauties like Suchang were indeed quite popular among men.

Looking at Su Chang who came back with a big basket of osmanthus flowers, Shen Yuelan clapped her hands and sighed, "Su Chang is worth two people at a time. Su Chang is more beautiful than Yao Dao."

Upon hearing this, Su Chang was as happy as a rooster that had won a battle. She puffed out her little chest and proudly turned around in the yard several times.

Shen Yuelan looked at the cheerful Su Chang and thought that this guy was really easy to please. He became so happy with just a few compliments, even though none of the jingles he sang rhymed.

Although Lizhou is a good place, all good things must come to an end. Everyone packed up their bags and set off on their journey again.

Rowing on the river, brewing tea and enjoying the scenery is an elegant activity, but everyone, including Shen Yuelan, overlooked a fatal problem, that is, they do not know how to row a boat.

They could only imitate the way they remembered others rowing dragon boats and tried clumsily to adjust the direction. If they were not floating downstream, with the water as power to drive the boat forward, even if Zhao Er died, they would not be able to leave Lizhou.

The group stumbled along the way and spent more than half a month. They ran aground more than 40 times, capsized more than 80 times, and sank more than 20 small boats before they completed half of the journey and arrived in Guozhou (Nanchong).

Shen Yuelan was speechless for a moment as she looked at the twenty or so country women in front of her with their heads down and disheveled hair, but it was not accurate to say that they had gained nothing in the past half month.

At the very least, these guys have learned many boatman skills during these days, such as swimming, rafting, repairing boats, and fishing. However, the dangers of the Jialing River are not something that these "newbies" who have only been swimming in the water for less than a month can handle.

Not long after arriving in Guozhou, their only four remaining river boats were destroyed on the shallows, and they had no more boats to sail.

If it really doesn't work, I can only develop the demon sword princesses and see if I can unlock the shipbuilding skill, Shen Yuelan thought to herself with some self-destruction.

Although she had imagined everyone becoming beauties emerging from the bath, it seemed that most people never came up after going into the river, including Shen Yuelan herself. Therefore, she could not take any advantage at all, nor could she take advantage of anyone.

Finally, everyone changed their mindset. Since they really didn't have much talent to be a boatman, they should just spend money to avoid disaster. After changing into dry clothes, Shen Yuelan took the demon sword girls to the dock of Guozhou, hired a few passenger ships that traveled between Guozhou and Yuzhou all year round, and continued to head towards Yuzhou.

As the saying goes, professional matters should be left to professionals. Shen Yuelan finally enjoyed the pleasure of boating on the river, making tea and enjoying the scenery. Other people's boats did not even have a bump. Thinking back to the stupid things she had done a few days ago, she really wanted to jump into the river.

【Plop.】

There was a sound of diving on the river bank not far from the passenger ship. Hmm? Meng Anran and the others started playing the diving game again?

[Oh no! Someone has committed suicide by jumping into the river. Come and save him! ]

Following the cries for help from the shore, Shen Yuelan lazily turned her head and glanced reluctantly in the direction of the person who fell into the water. From a distance, judging from the figure alone, it should be a woman.

Meng Anran and a few others had been clinging to the bow of the boat, watching the excitement for a long time, but no one was going to go down to rescue them. What a joke! The reason they saved Du Shiyan and the others was because of Lao Zhao.

Now, can the guy who jumped into the river still have any connection with that old guy? Haha.

Soon Shen Yuelan couldn't laugh anymore, because the woman actually climbed onto the passenger ship where Shen Yuelan was. Huh? Didn't she jump into the water to commit suicide? Why did she bring self-rescue? Don't come over here!

Shen Yuelan glanced at the young woman lying on the boat, gasping for breath, and then looked at the servants who were running around anxiously on the shore. Shen Yuelan felt her head buzzing. Alas, it is a blessing in disguise. If it is a disaster, it is inevitable. Now that she is entangled, she might as well run away first.

【Stop the boat! 】

[Stop the boat! Stop the boat quickly and leave that woman behind! ]

[Stop the boat! Otherwise, the government won't let you go! ]

Upon hearing this, Shen Yuelan sneered and immediately told the boatman not to stop but to keep going. Shen Yuelan wanted to see what kind of secret Zhao Er was hiding.

As for whether he would let me go, huh, he is already terminally ill and can't take care of himself. He will not live beyond next year. How can he have time to care about these trivial matters in Shu?

Shen Yuelan ran away without a care in the world, leaving only the servants standing on the shore disheveled in the wind and the leading eunuch with a look of despair on his face.

[It's over, that woman ran away, we are all going to die! ]

[Brothers, husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately. I am leaving first, so please be well.]

After saying this, the old eunuch fled towards the forest and soon disappeared from everyone's sight. The other servants who reacted also fled and no longer looked for the woman who jumped into the river.

Looking at the people dispersing on the shore, Shen Yuelan grinned smugly. Zhao Er had only these good-for-nothings under his command. They didn't even want to give chase. No wonder the territories of the Han and Tang dynasties could not be restored.

Chapter 64: Meeting a Colleague in the River

Shen Yuelan turned around and looked at the young woman who climbed onto the passenger ship. She hadn't had time to take a closer look just now, but now that she was looking at her carefully, she felt a different feeling in her heart.

The woman was soaked all over, her thin blue shirt stuck to her delicate skin, her enchanting figure was faintly visible, and after the intense exercise, there was still a slight blush on her pretty face.

Although the temperature was not too cold, the wet woman was still shivering from the cold. She hugged herself tightly with both hands and covered her chest from time to time in an attempt to retain some dignity for herself.

Shen Yuelan looked at the woman with interest, waiting for her to speak and seek help. Fu Xi had just told Shen Yuelan that this person did not have the qualifications to become a civil servant in the other world.

Therefore, Shen Yuelan did not take this person seriously and planned to leave her behind when they reached Hezhou (Wusheng). However, she did not expect that this woman would say something shocking. After carefully observing everyone on the boat, she said:

[I am the former deputy director of the Inner World Monetary Administration Bureau, Ning Chenge, are you from the Inner World? ]

Shen Yuelan just drank the good tea, and it just spurted out. What the hell? The deputy director of the Monetary Administration? Or the former deputy director? Why is it so messed up?

[Are you from the Monetary Authority? Or the former deputy director? What evidence do you have? ]

[I… I don’t have any evidence, but you can check my name. Are Si Ziqin and Gan Yuelong still here? They should know me. You can go ask them.]

Hmm? Sister Yuelong knows her? Shen Yuelan scratched her head. She asked someone to take the girl to change into clean clothes. She borrowed a work phone from Yaodaoji beside her and called Gan Yuelong.

[Beep…beep…beep…]

[Hello, who is this?]

[It’s me, Sister Yuelong. ]

[Hmm? It's Yue Lan, what's wrong? Did something happen to you? ]

[Hehe, Sister Yuelong still understands me. This is what happened. I am heading towards Yuzhou now. Just now in Guozhou, I met a woman who claimed to be the deputy director of the Monetary Administration.]

[Sister Yuelong, you know that I don’t know the people at the Monetary Administration Bureau very well, so I want to confirm with you. By the way, she said that you and Director Si both know her. Her name is Ning Chen Ge.]

After Shen Yuelan finished speaking, there was a rare silence on the other end of the phone. After a moment, Gan Yuelong asked Shen Yuelan to wait for her and let her recall the name.

After a long while, Gan Yuelong began to ask Shen Yuelan about the specific details of this person, including appearance, voice, personality, specific circumstances of the encounter, etc., and then the other end of the phone fell into strange silence again.

It was not until the woman changed her clothes and was brought over that Gan Yuelong's extremely happy laughter was heard from the other end of the phone.

[Hahahaha, oh my, Ning Chen Ge, you have finally come to this day. I told you a long time ago that the machines at the Reincarnation Administration Bureau didn't work well during that period, and I told you not to rush to reincarnate. Don't rush to reincarnate.]

[Alas, you refused. Now you are fine. Not only do you not have wealth and glory, but even your memory is gone. You are so miserable. Hahaha.]

When the man named Ning Chenge heard the news from the other end of the phone, his facial expression twitched visibly, and Shen Yuelan had reason to believe it.

If there weren't more than twenty demon sword princesses around her, staring at her hungrily, she would have rushed up to her, snatched the phone from her hand, and started arguing with Gan Yuelong on the opposite side.

However, this also means that what the woman said is true. So what should be done in this situation? The person on the other side is a retired cadre, so the human resources department should be in charge of her, not the business department itself.

Fortunately, Gan Yuelong was making fun of Ning Chen Ge. After making fun of him enough, she finally became serious. She told Shen Yuelan that Ning Chen Ge's memory recovery should not happen normally.

The only possibility of causing this phenomenon is that she might accidentally come into contact with the aura of a familiar Demon Queen-level Demon Queen, leading to the revival of her past life memories.

[Hmm, so what should I do with this former colleague now? Should I just physically reincarnate him, or physically erase his memory? ]

Ning Chen Ge was a little bit unbelievable when he heard the crazy words uttered by the little girl in front of him. Listen to what you said, is this human language? What the hell is physical reincarnation? Then you are just going to kill me directly.

And what about physical erasure of memory? Is there any difference between this and physical reincarnation? Isn't it just hitting my head directly? Are all the kids in the other world so cruel now?

Just when Ning Chen Ge was beginning to doubt his life, Gan Yuelong also felt that Shen Yuelan's proposal was inappropriate and hurriedly stopped her. She told Shen Yuelan that there was no need to be so cruel.

Just send someone to bring Ning Chen Ge back to the inner world, and let Si Ziqian worry about the rest. After that, the Monetary Administration will negotiate with Ning Chen Ge again to see whether she chooses to reincarnate or go back to the palace and continue to live in the inner world.

Shen Yuelan agreed without much interest. She asked Xu Hanyue to lead the team and asked her to bring four other demon sword girls to escort Ningchen Pavilion back.

As for the Demon Queen-level beauty in Guozhou, Shen Yuelan didn't really want to care about her because it would take a lot of time to deal with her. Since Gan Yuelong didn't mention it, she would just pretend she didn't know.

Speaking of Ning Chen Ge's identity in this life, it is actually somewhat related to Old Zhao. It was said back then that Madam Huarui who came from Hou Shu was shot to death by Zhao Er with an arrow. But Madam Huarui was so beautiful, how could that old pervert Zhao Er not show some sympathy to her?

He did not hit Madam Huarui's vitals, but deliberately coated the arrow with a sufficient amount of special poison to ensure that the drug would take effect immediately after the arrow entered Madam Huarui's body, creating the illusion that Madam Huarui died on the spot.

Afterwards, Lady Huarui was imprisoned by Zhao Er in his Jin Palace. But she never expected that she was already pregnant with Zhao's child. Within a few months in Jin Palace, Lady Huarui's belly grew bigger.

Zhao Er was shocked and angry, but he was still young at that time and still cared about his brotherhood with Zhao Da. He did not attack the child in Lady Huarui's belly, but sent a group of his confidants to secretly send Lady Huarui back to Shu.

Lady Huarui died of childbirth complications on the way back to Shu, but fortunately the child was saved. Upon hearing that the child Lady Huarui gave birth to was a girl and posed no threat to him, Zhao Er no longer cared about her and only left some old servants to raise the girl and named her Zhao Mengrui.

As for the fact that Zhao Mengrui was already twenty-four or twenty-five years old but still hadn't married, it was purely because Zhao Mengrui was completely forgotten after Zhao Er ascended the throne, and the old servants around Zhao Mengrui did not dare to move without the emperor's order.

Therefore, Zhao Mengrui remained single until one day, a certain beauty passed by her room, causing her memories of her past life to be revived, which led to the drama of today.

Gan Yuelong told Shen Yuelan that Ning Chenge also worked in the other world for ten thousand years before choosing to reincarnate. Her original request for reincarnation was to become a princess.

But I don’t want to be sent as a foreign prince, I don’t want to get married, and I don’t want to be controlled by my parents. I want to live a rich life alone. Oh, it would be even better if I could have a few servants to serve me.

Zhao Mengrui's identity perfectly meets all of Ning Chen Pavilion's requirements. If there had been no memory recovery, she would probably have lived a happy life as Ning Chen Pavilion wished.

Chapter 65: Death Under the Peony Flowers

But there are no ifs in this world. After seeing off Xu Hanyue and the others, Shen Yuelan no longer paid attention to this matter. The subsequent journey went smoothly, and Shen Yuelan spent nearly half a month comfortably.

Finally, in the early days of March, they arrived at Yuzhou City. Shen Yuelan stepped on the thick soil again, feeling the long-lost stability of Mother Earth. Shen Yuelan couldn't help but sigh that it was more comfortable to stay on land.

Shen Yuelan quickly got in touch with Mi Yuan's team. They had just arrived in Luzhou and were still some distance away from Yuzhou. Therefore, Shen Yuelan decided to rest in Yuzhou for a while.

They found a larger courtyard in the city and rented it. After settling down, Shen Yuelan took everyone out to a restaurant. Although Yuzhou was quite far away from Chengdu, it was still a part of Shu.

Therefore, the taste of the dishes was similar to that of other areas in Shu. The Chongqing cuisine, which later developed into a unique style, had not seen much development in the Song Dynasty, and the dishes that Shen Yuelan and others ate were still mainly Sichuan cuisine.

Therefore, the sword girls who could not tolerate spicy food never went out to eat again after eating out once, and the responsibility of cooking and feeding them fell on Huanyan.

Su Chang could do it, but her eating habits were still stuck in the Qin and Han dynasties. She liked to eat bean rice, or wheat rice, millet rice, wild rice and the like. Those things tasted okay if you tried them once, but if you ate too much, you would get a little drunk.

Therefore, the sword girls refused Su Chang's feeding and threw themselves into Huan Yan's arms, which made Su Chang very angry.

[You young ladies, don't you know that food like bean rice and wheat rice is the staple food of the lower-class people in ancient China? You are not afraid of developing rich diseases by eating rice and white flour every day, hum!]

Having said that, those who have the conditions would naturally prefer to eat fine bran rather than these coarse grains. Among the crowd, only Shen Yuelan is willing to eat the food prepared by Su Chang.

After all, Su Chang was right about one thing. The food of the ancient Chinese people was indeed coarse grains such as beans, wheat, millet and foxtail millet, rather than rice and white flour. It seems that there is no point in experiencing the common people's diet appropriately.

Shen Yuelan curled her lips when she thought of this. After all, she was just a passer-by, not a ruler. Apart from enriching her own experience, she would not bring any benefits to the people here.

However, leaving other things aside, the unshelled wheat rice is indeed a bit hard to chew.

After finishing the wheat rice, Shen Yuelan was curled up in her own little room, rubbing her cheeks and drawing talismans, when two sword girls in the yard started quarreling over an iron coin, and finally they came to Shen Yuelan's front.

[Captain, look, was Xiao Yuhuan cheated by the vendor outside? Copper coins are supposed to be made of copper, but the vendor who bought the pancakes gave Yuhuan a few iron coins instead.]

[I told her she was cheated, but she was still stubborn, saying that iron money is also money and can be spent. What a joke, who would be as stupid as her to collect iron money?]

After listening to Lu Lingjia's accusation, Shen Yuelan chuckled and told Lu Lingjia that only practice can bring true knowledge. He should take those iron coins out and try it out. He would know whether Xiao Yuhuan was cheated or not.

Lu Lingjia and Xiao Yuhuan thought Shen Yuelan's suggestion made sense, so they took the coins and went out to find a place to spend them. Watching the two people running away, Shen Yuelan shrugged and continued her scribbles.

Shen Yuelan already knew the result of this practice. Iron coins could naturally be spent in Shu. As we all know, commerce in the Song Dynasty was extremely prosperous, and the Song government's copper coins were far from meeting the demand for currency in the commodity market.

What's more, several countries around the Song Dynasty were also crying out for money. Their need for Song coins was not much less than that of the Northern Song Dynasty itself. Among the Liao and Jin jars unearthed in later generations, Song coins accounted for more than 90%, while Liao and Jin coins were pitifully few.

It can be said that the Song Dynasty almost single-handedly undertook more than 90% of the coin minting tasks in the entire Chinese civilization circle at that time. Therefore, the gap in copper coins in the Song Dynasty has always been very large.

In order to alleviate the money shortage, the Northern Song Dynasty thought of many ways. On the one hand, it tried to reduce the outflow of coins as much as possible. On the other hand, it hoped to replace the monetary function of copper coins by using currencies made of other materials.

In order to reduce the outflow of copper coins, the Northern Song government tried every possible means, such as severe punishment, execution for taking a certain number of copper coins out of the country, and iron coins were circulated in some remote frontier areas. Shu was a special area for the circulation of iron coins during the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are many reasons why Shu became an iron coin special zone. In addition to the intention to prevent the outflow of iron coins to the southwest region as just mentioned, there are also many other reasons such as Shu lacks copper but is rich in iron ore and Shu has a long history of using iron coins.

Later, because iron coins were too heavy and inconvenient to use, over time, the world's earliest paper currency, Jiaozi, was born. Yes, the world's earliest paper currency appeared in Shu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But that was during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song, which were also the years when little Liu E was most proud. However, Shen Yuelan couldn't see it because she couldn't stay that long.

Therefore, when Shen Yuelan saw Lu Lingjia walking back dejectedly, she was not surprised at all.

When Lu Lingjia saw Shen Yuelan's reaction, he didn't know that Shen Yuelan had already known that the money could be spent, but she just didn't tell him.

Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Lingjia rushed into Shen Yuelan's room. After closing the door, he pretended to be angry, sat on the floor next to Shen Yuelan, and began to act coquettishly towards Shen Yuelan.

She hugged Shen Yuelan's thighs tightly, secretly squeezing her, and yelling that Shen Yuelan was partial and didn't tell her the correct answer earlier, which caused her to lose the bet and lose ten taels of silver to Xiao Yuhuan.

Shen Yuelan twitched the corners of her mouth, calmly slapped away Lu Lingjia's restless little hand, and then tapped Lu Lingjia's forehead with her slender jade fingers.

[Humph, if I tell you the result directly, I'm afraid you will give me a biased evaluation.]