The middle-aged man who got off the merchant ship took the pale yellow note from the little beggar with a surprised look on his face. At the same time, he subconsciously grabbed the little beggar's wrist and refused to let him go. He gently shook it away with his other hand.
On the paper, I saw a ship and a gold ingot drawn in a very strange way.
This painting is obviously not made with a brush. It looks like it was made with a quill pen that people from the Western Regions like to use.
"Who asked you to send it?"
The little beggar gritted his teeth with a blushing face and tried hard to pull his hand away, but the middle-aged crewman's hand was like an iron hoop and it was like an iron hoop, and he couldn't break free at all.
Seeing that he couldn't take it off anymore, the little beggar immediately raised his hand and pointed directly into the crowd: "Someone gave me three pennies and asked me to give you the note. Then he walked away. I don't know.
who."
The middle-aged man snorted coldly and twisted his arm hard: "The stinky beggar is not honest. The group of beggars in front are all surrounding a woman in strange clothes. She must have asked you to send it to me, right? How dare you open your eyes and say that to me?
nonsense."
The little beggar was twisted around and gasped in pain.
At this time, the middle-aged man's eyes met Lin Wanwan's in the air, and they looked at each other for a moment. The middle-aged man frowned, loosened his hand, and let go of the little beggar. As soon as the latter was free, he immediately slipped into the crowd like a loach.
In it, it disappeared.
Lin Wanwan calmly crossed her arms and looked at the middle-aged man. Because she had her face covered, it was difficult for the other party to judge anything from her expression. But just by looking at her unflinching eyes, one could tell that she was a bold person.
Maybe she is from the world of martial arts, but she is definitely not an ordinary woman from a good family.
After pondering for a moment, the middle-aged man walked towards Lin Wanwan. Lin Wanwan saw that he was moving, so she turned and walked into the street. The two of them swam upstream in the turbulent crowd in a tacit understanding.
Lin Wanwan was not only followed by the little elephant, but also by a few hesitant little beggars.
After walking more than a hundred steps, Lin Wanwan walked into a tea shop, picked up the fruit basket on the side, pointed to the box, and then pointed to the teapot. It didn't matter if she didn't understand the language, as long as she had peppercorns in her hand.
After giving the shopkeeper two peppercorns, he nodded and bowed and welcomed her into a private room with a curtain at the door. The shopkeeper and the waiter completely turned a blind eye to her strange clothes and the little elephant following her.
Naturally, those little beggars were stopped by him: "Go, go, go! This is not a place for you to come. Go to the side and don't block grandpa's business."
The little beggars couldn't enter the tea shop and didn't leave. They squatted against the wall and waited.
This middle-aged man also walked into the tea shop, and the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him: "Sir, what would you like to eat?"
The middle-aged man spoke a local dialect with a strong accent, and you could tell he was a businessman from out of town. "I'm looking for someone."
After speaking, he pushed away the shopkeeper and headed directly towards the box that Lin Wanwan had just entered.
The shopkeeper quickly stopped him: "Hey, hey, guest, guest, please slow down, let me go and report back..."
But the middle-aged man had already opened the curtain before he spoke, and Lin Wanwan waved her hand to indicate that the shopkeeper was fine.
"You gave me this note, right?"
Lin Wanwan said: "What do you call me? Are you from Luan County? Are you from the Lu family?"
The middle-aged man was surprised when he heard Lin Wanwan speaking in Luan County dialect, but he was not surprised when the other party knew that he belonged to the Lu family, because the flag of the Lu family was clearly hanging on the boat.
He looked Lin Wanwan up and down, then knelt down opposite her and said in Luan County dialect: "My surname is Lu, Daxiong, and people in the world call me Master Lu."
Lin Wanwan nodded and said: "So, you are a Yue merchant who is attached to the Lu family (Luang County belongs to Yuezhou)?"
"Not bad. What, you are also a Yue merchant? Which caravan are you following? What do you want from me?"
Lin Wanwan said in a disdainful tone: "Shang? What do you think makes him look like a humble businessman like you?"
Hearing this, a look of anger instantly appeared on Lu Daxiong's face, but he quickly suppressed it and said coldly: "Since you are not a Yue businessman, why are you doing these paintings for me?"
He slapped the note on the coffee table and glared at Lin Wanwan. The biceps on his arms had bulged from the exertion, and he was about to fight if they disagreed.
At this time, the shopkeeper shouted from outside: "Sir, do you want your tea to be cooked for you?"
Lin Wanwan raised her chin slightly, ignoring Lu Daxiong's fierce look, and instructed him: "Tell him to cook the best tea yourself and bring it in after we finish talking."
Lu Daxiong's eagle eyes were fixed on Lin Wanwan. Seeing her calm and fearless appearance, he muttered in his heart, but finally said to the outside: "Bake the best tea from your tea shop and wait for grandpa to talk." Come and eat when you’re done.”
"Okay." The shopkeeper's footsteps retreated away.
Lin Wanwan pinched a piece of black pepper and said slowly: "Let me get straight to the point. I am Lin Tingzhen's family. We encountered a storm at sea a while ago, and the boat and the servants were damaged. There are still some goods at the dock that need to be shipped back. Luan County, I want to hire you to take me with me. And during this period, I want to hire you to be my portable translator."
The tone and expression she showed were as if she was asking him for help and showing him kindness. This is the attitude of the nobles towards their merchants. It makes people suffocate to think about it, but there is nothing they can do about it.
"Zhen family? Who do I think I am from, but I am from a lowly and humble family, and I dare to pretend to be in front of you." The middle-aged man sneered, "You just hired me if you said you would..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Wanwan casually took out a small handful of nearly twenty peppercorns and sprinkled them on the coffee table, looking at him provocatively without saying a word.
Lu Daxiong's voice became obviously softer, his eyes were fixed on the black peppercorns, and he still said: "I have business..."
Lin Wanwan put another dozen peppercorns on the table. Lu Daxiong immediately stopped talking and said, "It's not impossible to help you carry the goods. I'm not talented, but I happen to be the captain of our ship."
Lin Wanwan chuckled and said: "If you weren't the captain, I wouldn't be looking for you. I don't have any eyesight, so what am I going to do? Just lie at home and eat, drink and have fun? Well, these ten peppercorns count as With the deposit you gave me, I will buy a ready-made seagoing ship, which will be used to load my goods. Then, I will hire some crew members and sail back to Luan County and hand it over to Lin Wanwan of the Hou Taolin family."
At the end of her sentence, she added slowly: "Oh, it doesn't matter if you can't find Hou Taolin, just bring my letter to the county magistrate Xiao Zifang, that's the same thing, he is Lin Wanwan's cousin. "
Lu Daxiong took a breath when he heard this. He didn't expect that behind the other party was the Lanling Xiao family, and hearing her loud breath, she actually called Xiao Ming's family by his first name!