At that moment, Ji Yuan was walking alone along the official road north of Ning'an County. Every so often, he leisurely skipped and hopped, in an exceptionally good mood.
He carried very little luggage. Apart from the clothes on his back, he had only a bundle and an umbrella. The bundle contained a change of underclothes and outer garments, some copper coins and miscellaneous items, as well as fresh jujubes taking up half the space—around four jin in all.
Other than the jade pendant Wei Wuwei had given him, Ji Yuan's entire fortune of more than one hundred and forty taels of silver and banknotes had been exchanged for loose silver and copper coins, with the vast majority turned into a single gold ingot.
Aside from gold jewelry worn by elders, Ji Yuan had not seen much gold in either of his lives. He had thought this ten taels of gold ingot would be huge, but it turned out to be only a tiny little piece, almost miniature.
Ji Yuan strolled along at ease, taking the gold ingot from his clothes again to play with it. It was not that he was particularly greedy for money; it simply felt like getting a new toy.
"Gold really is heavy!!"
After sighing in admiration, he weighed it in his hand and tucked it back into the inner pocket of his clothes.
The reason he had gone through so much trouble to exchange money was not because Ji Yuan did not want to travel light. Over the past few months, he had long understood that this world did not have anything like the developed banking system of his previous life. Let alone across provinces, even money shops that operated across prefectures were rare. Banknotes from Ning'an County's local money shops could not be