Arriving at the Dark River Black Market, Bai Zeqing realized the so-called special thing, which is really hard to imagine unless you see it with your own eyes——
The black market here is built on the river, and is made up of hundreds of boats of different sizes connected by painted boats. The bows and sterns of the boats are hung with inscribed lanterns as a mark. But there is a square flag with the word "Cao" floating on it.
, indicating that it is taken care of by Caobang.
Looking around, the lights are bustling, the stars are dotted, the sky is boundless, spectacular and gorgeous.
This is not a black market, it is simply a prosperous water market.
"No wonder Yuanzhou's black market is famous all over the world. Indeed..." Bai Zeqing looked at the stars dotting the landscape and felt that he was at a loss for words for a moment.
However, people all wore plain white and plain black masks. In this dark night, Bai Zeqing had the illusion of visiting a ghost town.
"How can we find anyone when we are all wearing masks?" Bai Zeqing just felt that her whole body was not well.
There are at least a thousand ships in the underground river bustling with people, maybe more than ten thousand people? Does she have to use her Qi sense to check everyone? She can die from exhaustion here.
Ban Xia rolled her eyes at her and said, "I told you earlier that the black market unconditionally protects the identities of merchants and customers."
"It's unreasonable." Bai Zeqing looked at the endless drifting lights and sighed, "Just come to the Fire Company."
Banxia glared at her: "I'll give you nine lives, try it!" His tone couldn't be more confident.
Bai Zeqing quietly stuck out his tongue at her from behind and cursed silently: "The fox is pretending to be the tiger."
While the two were talking, Ban Xia found someone familiar with the situation in the black market and exchanged the plain white mask and the exchange cards representing the classes of ships and boats that could be boarded.
There were nine springboards on the water side of the first ship, leading to nine ships with completely different styles. Banxia stepped onto the middle springboard without hesitation and stepped onto a large gold and black ship.
The two passed through the black gold ship, continued through the gangplank, and headed towards the ship in the middle of the river.
The journey was smooth and smooth, during which time we encountered four patrolling samurai teams wearing black masks. We just stopped them and wanted to interrogate them, but when they saw the red card on the front of Banxia's lapel, they quickly bowed and got out of the way.
Banxia happily dragged Bai Zeqing onto the most gorgeous five-story boat.
In front of the deck, the head guard on duty greeted her very politely. He was obviously an old acquaintance, and she could be recognized just by his body movements.
The guard watched her walk up the archway, but he didn't know what to think of. His expression was strange, with envy mixed with sympathy.
As soon as the two figures disappeared, a group of guards on the deck gathered around to gossip.
The vigil was boring, but finally something new came to relieve my fatigue, and I was able to chat: "Hey, is that token the highest-level token in our black market that has no owner?"
"Yes, yes, I heard that only the Huo family has it, right? The Huo family is here? A lot of high-priced goods will be sold tonight? I heard that there is a young man in the Huo family who spends a lot of money on everything."
"Tsk, didn't you see it's two girls? I'm afraid it's not the God of Wealth."
"Shh, keep your voice down." The guard leader hurriedly stopped them, "Don't whisper nonsense. The one in front is the Banxia girl who always stays with Mr. Huo."
The guards exploded with a roar and quickly lowered their voices:
"Which floor do they go to? Didn't you ask?"
"She has a first-class redemption card. Dare I ask? Why don't you ask?"
"Hey, the girl she's pulling, I see that her round neckband is all made of Jinzhou cloud embroidery. She looks rich and looks rich. I'm afraid that's the real owner?
"I came with the Huo family. Tsk, let's make a bet and see what the highest price can be tonight!"
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After entering the night market and boarding the ship, Bai Zeqing was already concentrating on his luck, trying his luck to see if he could find some clues.
At this time, the discussion behind him was really loud. Bai Zeqing sighed, why are these guards so gossipy?
In fact, since Bai Zeqing saw the battles in this dark river black market, he knew that the possibility of finding the Jingren was slim, so he had no interest in continuing to shop.
But although Banxia was very reluctant to go out, her interest was very high at this time. It was probably the time when she rarely went out to play alone.
She dragged Bai Zeqing upstairs and walked around four floors. They were all samurai wearing black masks and black costumes. They were selling all kinds of northwest leather, cute pets, strange spices, fabrics, etc. There was also Haikou Road.
Mineral crystals, jade, gold, silver, jade, fire coral, etc. are all available.
Bai Zeqing discovered that Ban Xia bought more than a dozen crystal jade items in one go. She seemed to like all those shiny and bright things, including hairpins, earrings, bracelets and necklaces, and the money in her pocket was spent like water.
Bai Zeqing was stunned: Don't the Huo family regard silver as money?
When Banxia poked a fire coral pearl hairpin randomly into Bai Zeqing's hair and wanted to touch the money to pay the bill, Bai Zeqing pulled her back and asked in a low voice: "Hey, little rich woman, you don't even want to bargain.
Is it?"
Ban Xia looked confused: "Return? Counteroffer? What price? I have the Huo family's card exchange, who dares to cheat me?"
"Let's bargain. It has nothing to do with whether you dare or not. It's fun. It's also the basic routine of shopping malls. Have you and the second master been following each other in vain all these years?" Bai Zeqing followed the instructions.
Banxia had already thrown the silver ingot to the seller, and winked at Bai Zeqing, "Second Master doesn't negotiate the price when buying things? Besides, I don't bargain, so it's fun."
It makes sense! It makes sense.
Bai Zeqing took a breath to explain, but didn't say a word for a long time, and then simply slapped Banxia on the shoulder: "Look!"
She turned around, pointed to a bird in a carved bamboo cage, which was half red but not black, with some burnt marks on its tail, and asked, "Boss, how do you sell this?"
"Hey, little lady, you are really discerning. This is Mo Wenshan..."
"Boss, I know this bird. Please quote directly."
"Ninety-eight taels"
"eight taels"
"Hey, little lady, don't make trouble, I sincerely buy you sixty-eight taels!"
"Eighteen taels, forget it if you don't want to sell it." Bai Zeqing turned around.
"Hey, come on, come on, eighteen or eighteen, I think you are destined to be this bird, little lady..."
With Banxia's mouth wide open in shock and speechless expression, the boss had already handed over the birdcage.
Bai Zeqing shrugged and motioned for Banxia to give him money.
"Young lady doctor, you are amazing!" Banxia paid for the birdcage without saying a word, gave Bai Zeqing a silent thumbs up, and said, "A few words saved me eighty taels! By the way,"
She reached out and teased the half-grown baby bird in the cage, which was half red but not black, and asked, "What kind of bird is this?"
"What kind of bird? How do I know." Bai Zeqing just gave her a demonstration, "Did you see it? This is a counteroffer! No matter what you buy, you have to counteroffer. You can't give whatever the boss calls you. I understand.
?"
"I understand." Ban Xia nodded, "But, I am from the Huo family, so I have nothing to bargain with. Our family will get 50% of all the profits here."
Bai Zeqing: "..."
Let me go and introduce the richest man in Yuanzhou who has no conscience! A complete profiteer!
