When Li Guanshui and his group walked away, Chu Qingxiao breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked back at Tsukimi.
The girl blinked her eyes, a little confused by the look Chu Qingxiao sent her.
"Why are you staring at me?"
Chu Qingxiao said strangely: "You were right just now."
Forty percent of two hundred and twenty taels of silver is eighty-eight taels. This calculation is much more difficult than figuring out how many days there are in half a month or how much is half of three thousand.
Yue Jian was stunned for a moment and then said: "I've been like this since I was a child. Things that I can't calculate normally can be calculated correctly when I'm nervous."
"On the other hand, you look thick-browed and big-eyed. When you tell lies, you don't blush or breathe. No wonder the female disciple of Xuanshan was deceived by you that day."
Chu Qingxiao scratched his head and explained: "When I was playful when I was a child, I and Nian Shuang often missed the school's homework. So why don't we find ways to fool my husband? Over time, I gained some experience."
But Yue Jian rolled her eyes at Chu Qingxiao: "Are you still thinking about Shuang? You are too deep into the drama!"
"She's almost a round older than you, and you weren't even born when she was a kid!"
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, he realized that he had said the wrong thing. He didn't explain it, but just said: "I don't know if that guy can come back to his senses. Let's get the martial soul seal quickly.
To avoid long nights and many dreams.”
Yue Jian also knew that this was the most important thing now. He nodded after hearing this and followed Chu Qingxiao towards the other side of the street.
…
"Although I have indeed deceived him, if the martial soul seal can be sold at a good price, it can last for a while, but if it lasts for a long time, the extra thirty taels of expenses every month will not be a small amount."
On the crowded streets of Yemang City, Yue Jian began to mutter worriedly again.
After hearing this, Chu Qingxiao hesitated for a while, but decided to speak out his thoughts.
"Actually, what Li Guanshui and I said were not entirely false."
"Zhaozhao once said that her great-grandfather was an alchemist who was proficient in the art of medicine and stone. She was influenced by her ears and eyes, and she also knew something about this. She felt that it was feasible to condense the red blood worms into blood-coagulating pills."
"If it succeeds, it can bring a lot of income to Goshawk Village every month. And if it goes well, the money from the Wuhun Seal can be used as the starting capital for this matter. If you go back and forth, you can make more money every month.
His money is more than thirty taels."
Chu Qingxiao was excited when he said this, but after hearing this, Yue Jian suddenly fell silent. After a while, he looked at Chu Qingxiao and said calmly: "I don't trust anyone in Tianxuan Mountain..."
Chu Qingxiao was stunned and remembered that Yue Jian had a grudge against Tianxuan Mountain, and there were various signs that this grudge was so deep that it seemed to be difficult to resolve.
Of course, he could talk about a lot of big reasons, such as when will retribution happen, or that Tianxuan Mountain's fault has nothing to do with Chu Zhaozhao, to facilitate this matter.
But after thinking about it for a while, Chu Qingxiao stopped thinking like this.
He can probably understand Yue Jian's mood.
He is still bitter about the imperial court's indifference to Wuling City twelve years ago. Sometimes he even secretly thinks that if there is a chance, he really seems to want to capture the Emperor Yu.
Yijin loudly asked him why he left Wuling City alone twelve years ago.
Although the emperor who sat in the court twelve years ago was not the same person as the emperor today, Chu Qingxiao still wanted to ask him for an answer.
With this obsession, no matter how many and nice things others say, it will still be difficult to suppress the uneasy feeling in my heart.
Chu Qingxiao, who thought about this, smiled and said: "It's okay if Miss Yue Jian doesn't want to. I didn't say anything to death just now. You can tell Li Guanshui that this matter was shelved because the red blood worms were difficult to refine into elixirs. He
Even if you deliberately make things difficult, you can probably solve it by spending some money, it’s better than giving away the martial soul seal, isn’t it?”
Chu Qingxiao's change of attitude was beyond Yue Jian's expectations. She couldn't help but look at the young man one more time, then nodded and said nothing.
…
There are three major black markets in Yelu City.
Ghost head, wild horse, black python.
According to the information provided by Huang Quxiang, Guitou City is a place where people are trafficked. There are slaves who sell themselves, people kidnapped from various channels, and even some puppets controlled by secret magic. It is said that three or four months ago, there were even people in Guitou City.
There was an incident where a Fifth Realm Onmyoji was sold as a slave. Just now, Li Guanshui and his party were walking in a hurry, as if they were rushing to buy slaves for the Ghost Crow Village.
Chu Qingxiao and Yue Jian were naturally not interested in this. Their goal was to get rid of Guitou's Black Python and Wild Horse markets.
The two of them hurriedly arrived at the entrance of Black Python City. They thought that the streets of Locust City were already bustling at night, but when they arrived at the entrance of Black Python City, they understood what it means to be a small witch but a big witch.
People were coming and going in the market, and it was so crowded.
There are vendors everywhere on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of strange products.
Common ones include elixirs, weapons and some practice secrets that are not known to be true or false.
Unusual things are full of tricks.
There are treasure maps that are said to contain the inheritance of ancient sects, there are also sword manuals that are said to be left by a certain swordsman, and even more outrageous, there is even a guy who sells the underwear of Tianxuan Mountain's junior master uncle.
During this period, Chu Qingxiao also met an interesting stall owner. There were no goods in the stall, just a pen and ink and a piece of rice paper. The signboard said a hundred taels.
At first, Chu Qingxiao thought he was a charlatan who told fortunes, but Yue Jian said that it was the branch of Abi Palace, the pen was called the Judge's Pen, and the paper was called the Book of Life and Death.
Use the judge's pen to write the names of the people you want to kill on the book of life and death, and Abi Palace will send assassins to kill the people on the list.
Abi Palace was regarded as the leading assassin organization in Dayu and even the Northern Wei Dynasty. In the past ten years, it has assassinated no less than thousands of famous people. The only time it failed was to assassinate King Wu Qin Huan four years ago.
It is said that it was the largest sale in the world in recent years, and the deposit alone was enough to buy a peak in Tianxuan Mountain.
For this reason, Abi Palace sent hundreds of Tianzihao killers to ambush Qin Huan, but His Highness King Wu was alone and fought his way out of the siege with a dragon-swallowing knife in his hand. Half of the hundreds of Tianzihao killers died young, which made the former
The notorious Abi palace still hasn't recovered from its bad reputation to this day.
But despite this, Abi Palace is still a headache for the kings, grandsons and nobles today.
However, Abi Palace charges are expensive, starting at a minimum of one hundred taels. This price alone is enough to prohibit most people.
Of course, although these secrets sound interesting, the most important thing for Chu Qingxiao at the moment is to find a way to get the martial soul seal. The two chatted while walking, and soon came to a pawn shop. The types of goods purchased in this realm
There were many varieties and the prices were relatively reasonable, so it was naturally the best choice for Chu Qingxiao and Yue Jian. The two of them walked towards the shop without hesitation.
…
"Brother Li, these are already in the best condition recently. As you know, King Wu will come to Cangzhou for inspection in a few days. The pressure from above is tight, and it is difficult for my people to do their jobs." In Guitou City, a man wearing
The man in Jinyi with a fat belly was following Li Guanshui with an apologetic smile on his face, saying this.
Li Guanshui looked dissatisfied and looked around.
They were wooden cages half as tall as a man, and the cages contained not beasts but living people!
Most of them were in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles. They were squatting in cages, their bodies trembling, and their pupils were filled with fear.
"Boss Xun, we have been cooperating for a year or two. You know what kind of goods we want. These... I'm afraid I will be forced to pay the creditor." Li Guanshui said with a look of displeasure.
Hearing this, the man surnamed Xun hurriedly said: "Brother Li, of course I know, but isn't this also forced by the situation? Well, this time, you can pick and choose from these goods. As long as you can like them, count them as many as you can.
, I’ll give Brother Li this number.”
The man said, stretched out his hand and made a gesture.
When Li Guanshui saw this, most of the dissatisfaction on his face immediately disappeared, and he said: "Boss Xun is still a good man."
After saying this, he called to his companions around him and said: "Choose carefully, choose the strong and young ones!"
The subordinates around him did not dare to be negligent when they heard this, and all shouted in response at this moment.
Seeing that the business had been concluded, the man surnamed Xun suddenly smiled and said warmly: "Brother Li, I recently got a batch of good tea. If you have time now, why don't you go to the house with me to taste it."
Li Guanshui was a reckless person, so he couldn't tell whether the tea was good or bad. To him, tea worth a thousand gold or a tael was probably not as good as a pot of strong liquor worth ten gold.
But this does not hinder his arty interest.
"That's a good feeling!" He nodded and followed the man surnamed Xun into the room next to him.
"asshole!"
"Let us go!"
"Do you know who we are? If my father knew that you dared to do this to us, he would definitely send someone to chop off all your limbs!"
But at this moment, a woman's angry shouts and curses came from the hut nearby.
Li Guanshui paused in his steps, looked in the direction of the sound, and asked doubtfully: "This is it?"
The man surnamed Xun said somewhat depressedly: "The pair of siblings who were captured on the mountain road three days ago were making a lot of noise. According to them, they seemed to be descendants of the Muzhou official family. The people under their command were not clean. They were killed by that
The two siblings saw what it looked like, and now they don’t know how to deal with it!"
"A descendant of an official family?" Li Guanshui became interested and turned around to walk towards that place.
The man surnamed Xun was a little worried when he saw him like this, but he didn't dare to stop him and could only follow him quickly.
Li Guanshui walked up to the small house and reached out to open the door.
"Brother Li!" The man surnamed Xun saw this and was about to stop him, but as soon as he spoke, it was too late. Li Guanshui had already reached out and opened the door.
I saw a man and a woman imprisoned in an iron cage in that room. The man looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old. He had a bookish look and looked thin. He seemed to have been injured, and he collapsed on the ground with a depressed expression.
The woman is a little older, about 21 or 20 years old, and is a little unkempt due to being imprisoned, but she can still see the other party's pretty appearance with a bit of heroism, coupled with the bumpy figure due to martial arts practice.
Li Guanshui's eyes suddenly turned fiery.
"Thieves! Don't let us go yet! My father is the commander of the Silver Dragon Army. If he knows that you are imprisoning our siblings like this, he will definitely lead people to destroy your broken city!" When the woman saw someone coming, she became more and more excited.
, shouted loudly towards Li Guanshui and the man named Xun.
"Brother Li! I told you that they are officials' sons, why did you open the door?" the man surnamed Xun said angrily.
What they do in this profession is inherently outrageous.
It is safest to catch some ordinary people or fugitives who have already been involved in the case, but if the officials are implicated, sometimes it may be a disaster.
Under normal circumstances, for such a thing, they would probably choose to let the person go, but his people were careless in doing things, and this woman was very skilled. She was accompanied by some guards at the time, but she pretended to be an ordinary person, so she was released.
His men were watching.
The two sides fought fiercely, and several of his men were cut off by the woman, whose masks covering their faces were cut off. After seeing their appearance, they were unable to get off the tiger.
Now Li Guanshui is acting recklessly, making things even more complicated.
But Li Guanshui didn't seem to feel the anxiety of the man surnamed Xun at all. His eyes wandered wantonly on the exquisite figure of the woman in the cage, and he said: "What are you afraid of? The name of the Silver Dragon Army is deceiving, but in fact, there are no men under it."
If there are ten thousand people, wasn’t their commander Meng Yue demoted to Muzhou just because he didn’t defeat us?”
"But..." The hesitation on the face of the man named Xun was still strong when he heard this.
The woman in front of me is not only beautiful, but the unruly aura that permeates her body is even more charming, not to mention her status as an official. When I think of being able to suppress such a woman and bully her,
Li Guanshui felt a little unable to hold himself back.
What's more, the money was spent in the village. The owner of his village doesn't care about the appearance of the crow slave, only cares about its "quality". This woman's cultivation level is not low. If she enjoys it and takes it back, she will not be punished.
, maybe even appreciated by the village owner.
Thinking of this, Li Guanshui no longer hesitated. He turned his head to look at the man named Xun and said: "Two hundred taels, these two siblings belong to me. If you feel it is too hot, brother, I will help you deal with them."
"Anyway, they have all been seen. If you let them go, it will be troublesome. Why don't you take them away with me? I guarantee that they will never be able to leave Taixuan Mountain in their lifetime."
The man surnamed Xun, who was still a little hesitant at first, felt his heart skip a beat when he heard the price. He thought about what Li Guanshui said and realized that there was some truth in it. He gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement.
The woman in the cage probably understood her situation after hearing the conversation between the two. The curses in her mouth became increasingly unpleasant, but Li Guanshui didn't care.
"These two two hundred taels, including the thirty people who have been booked outside, each person has fourteen taels, a total of six hundred and twenty taels. Are you right?" At this time, Li Guanshui took out the banknote from his arms and handed it over.
past.
Seeing such a large amount of money, the boss who was worried before immediately threw his worries away. While taking the banknote, he flattered him: "Brother Li, you are a real abacus. You can't do it right."
Wrong, we have cooperated so many times, I still have this bit of trust."
Although this flattery was very explicit, Li Guanshui found it very useful. After all, for him, he could only enjoy this domineering treatment outside under the banner of Guiyazhai.
He looked back at the boss in front of him with a smile, and was about to say something, but the words didn't come out.
"Huh?" His body suddenly trembled, and his expression suddenly changed.
The boss's words reminded him...
Just now.
My former village leader, who might not even be able to figure out how much two plus two equals, actually calculated the amount of her share of the business with that Tianxuan Mountain disciple correctly...