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“The Fate of the Million”

Zhou Shicheng’s “Gujinzhai” received a rare item – a bracelet with nine ancient copper coins wrapped in red thread. The oldest one was the “Daguan Tongbao” of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the newest one was the “Yuan Datou” of the Republic of China. The copper rust was seeping with cinnabar, and it was heavy like a weight.

“This is called a belt of money.” The seller winked mysteriously, “It is a treasure for attracting wealth handed down by the money houses of the Qing Dynasty.”

He put it on that day. Strange things happened one after another: first, a fake blue and white porcelain that had not been sold for many years was bought by a foreign businessman at a high price, and then a misprinted banknote was found in an old book. But money comes quickly and goes faster. As soon as it is deposited into the account, a customer claims compensation, and the safe is inexplicably flooded.

The most strange thing is the temperature of the copper coins. When making a lot of money, the wrist is burned red, and when losing money, it is icy cold. Once after signing a million-dollar contract, the Xianfeng treasure in the middle suddenly “clicked” and broke into two halves.

On a rainy day, the old Taoist priest who was hiding from the rain stared at his wrist and shook his head: “Nine coins, nine disasters, this bracelet has changed eight owners.” The Taoist priest dipped his pen in rain water and wrote on the counter: “Zhang, Li, Wang…” Each surname corresponds to a copper coin, “The last Nanyang rich merchant sank in Malacca in 1947.”

Zhou Shicheng checked the information overnight and found that the original owner of each copper coin was once rich, but all died in an untimely death. At dawn, he took apart the bracelet, and the nine copper coins glowed with a strange oily luster in the morning light.

Three months later, the city museum had a group of treasures in the “Exhibition of Currency of Merchants in Past Dynasties”. In front of Zhou Shicheng’s counter hangs a Kaiyuan Tongbao coin strung with a red string, and underneath it is a note left by an old Taoist priest:

“Money is like flowing water, virtue is like a riverbed”

Nowadays, customers always like to touch the copper coin to ask for good luck, but no one pays attention to the word “Shan” on the back that has been polished to a shine – that is the mark left by Zhou Shicheng’s thumb rubbing it over and over again after closing the store every day.