"??"
(゜-゜)
Annie blinked, then asked in surprise:
"Is it expensive?"
(.)
She figured it was just a single ghost coin. No matter what, it was only a piece of white paper. How expensive could it possibly be?
"Heh!"
"It may not be worth much to you, but...it's a different story for ordinary people."
"Don't let the prosperity of the Divine Capital fool you. Most people living in its neighborhoods don't have much money. They're barely scraping by!"
After a pause, the old woman didn't keep her in suspense. She simply answered the question she'd just been asked:
"One ghost coin like this..."
"Is worth ten Heavenly Court copper coins."
Ten copper coins might not seem like much, but in a good harvest year, a pound of ordinary rice or flour cost only two copper coins!
"Ten copper coins?"
(*⊙o⊙)
Annie tilted her head, then looked down and quickly counted on her fingers.
"Mm..."
(_-)
"One qian of spirit stone equals a thousand gold coins, one gold coin equals a hundred silver coins, and one silver coin equals a hundred copper coins..."
"That means one qian of spirit stone is worth...a million of these paper ghost coins?"
After working it out, she pursed her lips and said with some disdain:
"That doesn't seem very expensive. One qian of spirit stone can buy a whole million of them!"
(*^▽^*)
And to Annie, one qian of spirit stone really didn't seem like much. A million ghost coins would last her ages if she scattered them around.
She could see it now: even if each thin paper coin was bundled in stacks of a hundred, and the people aboard the Cloud-Palace Skyship scattered a thousand bundles every hundred meters, that would only amount to a hundred thousand coins. One spirit stone could cover