Friends are friends, money is money, as the saying goes, brothers have to settle accounts openly. Neither A Lan nor Lu Hanjiang are typical Jianghu people. They have never valued manners and morality, so when talking about business, they both feel that
no problem.
Seeing Lu Hanjiang calling for his entourage, and then taking out ten taels of silver from his backpack, Ah Lan suddenly sighed: "Sure enough, whether it is the Beggar Clan or the Xiaoyao Sect, life is not easy now.
Master Lu, thank you for your hard work."
The Beggar Clan has become a thing of the past, and the Xiaoyao Sect doesn't even know where the mountain gate is. Presumably, Lu Hanjiang, a disciple of the Xiaoyao Sect, will not have a much better life than those of those in the world.
With this in mind, Ah Lan silently exchanged half of the money when he took it.
Lu Hanjiang was stunned by A Lan's action. The sympathetic look in his eyes made him show a puzzled expression. In the silence, his hand became unsteady and two thousand-dollar banknotes fell out of his bag.
After that, the scene felt a little awkward for a while.
Ah Lan's eyes widened, then she glared at Lu Hanjiang, and silently took back the exchanged silver.
"Ahem."
After the money and goods were settled, Lu Hanjiang coughed twice to break the embarrassment: "I wonder what Miss Alan has planned next? If we want to travel far, maybe we can go together?"
Lu Hanjiang didn't ask this casually. According to his estimation, if A Lan traveled from place to place, he should have enough money, at least not to sell the Moon Shadow Sword, although this thing is indeed of no use now.
Probably only when A-Lan has a clear destination and wants to travel far away, will there be a situation where the money is not enough and the cash flow is needed.
Nowadays, the income of knights in the world is mostly divided into two categories. One is the support from the masters behind them. These powerful forces have their own mountains and industries and can maintain a stable income. The most famous sects in the world,
Most of them are like this.
The other type is those who are independent in the world like A Lan. They have no power behind them and travel alone. They have to prepare food, drink, accommodation and transportation by themselves.
This kind of knight-errant knight generally does not have much money and there are many ways to make money, but due to many issues such as attitude and face, most of these people are unwilling to do it.
For example, the quickest way is to use the sea arrest documents posted by the imperial government and the news of the bandits released by the local government. These people are on the official blacklist. Each of their heads has a price. It is definitely a good idea to exchange them for money.
A quick way to get rich.
However, except for the major demonic madmen listed in the sea arrest documents, most of the people listed in the righteous path are not regarded as villains by Jianghu people, but will instead be regarded as righteous men who are not afraid of power.
This strange view is not an exception in the world, but is common, which leads to the fact that most people cannot get money from the government.
But A-Lan doesn't have this worry. Although she doesn't do evil, she doesn't have a strong attachment to this level of righteousness.
In fact, after the death of San Liujian, A-Lan had to find ways to make money on her own while traveling around the world. Most of her current expenses are from the court's silver reward.
Even more, in addition to taking the government route, A-Lan also accepted many rewards from the world. When someone in Fengbo Tower offered a reward of 1,000 gold for Chi Cangping's head, she went to most of the world to hunt him down.
pass the other party.
In A-Lan's mind, the dividing line between good and evil is not so clear, so she is usually not short of money. There are many ways to get money, but there are few places to spend money.
At this moment, Lu Hanjiang asked about this matter, and Ah Lan took the opportunity to explain what he wanted to do: "Master Lu, I plan to visit the countries in the Western Regions."
Lu Hanjiang was really surprised now. He looked at Allan in surprise and said, "Miss Alan, our trip to the Western Region is far and dangerous, not to mention the many dangers on the road. The journey of thousands of miles is no joke.
Why would you want to go somewhere that far away?"
A Lan explained: "Those monks who captured me told me that they are descendants of the Zhong family. They must also know the things about my master's family. I plan to find their old nest and find out what happened. Maybe I can find some information about those years ago."
clues."
Although A-Lan did not recognize the appearance of those monks, which country or clan they came from, nor did he recognize the martial arts background of those monks, one thing was clear, they definitely did not belong to Central Plains Buddhism.
The Western Region is so vast that there are many Buddhist sects. A Lan once met some businessmen from the Western Region in the North and learned that there are many Buddhist sects with weird beliefs in the Western Region.
The tragedy in Liujia Village has always been a pain in A-Lan's heart. She traveled around the world not only to repay her teacher's kindness and kill her former enemies for Hongchen Guest, but also to find out what happened back then.
It's a pity that the people and forces related to Hongchen Ke either died early or withered away. Now it is very difficult for her to even find someone who has met his master. It is a helpless move to go to the Western Regions this time.
After listening to A Lan's words, Lu Hanjiang was silent for a long time, then took out another banknote from his backpack and handed it to him.
Ah Lan was stunned for a moment, feeling a little moved, but still declined: "No need, Mr. Lu, I'm thinking about my expenses..."
"Miss A Lan," Lu Hanjiang said seriously: "Take this money and go to the countries in the Western Regions. I...have some specialties that I want very much. I will write a list for you in a while. Please come and go.
Please pay more attention to me on the way."
"..."
Ah Lan gritted her teeth and accepted the bill. Damn Mr. Lu, her emotions were blinded in vain.
Lu Hanjiang quickly prepared the list. The thick pile made Ah Lan frown, but the reason why she frowned was not because the other party had added such a large amount of groceries to her, but——
"Mr. Lu, your handwriting... seems to have always been unique." A Lan wanted to laugh but was holding back, which made Lu Hanjiang roll his eyes.
"Girl, please go slowly without seeing me off." Lu Hanjiang picked up the broken sword, turned around and returned to the convoy.
A-Lan hummed twice, and her mood suddenly improved a lot. She put her things away, said goodbye to him, and prepared to leave for the Western Region.
...
After returning to the convoy, the purpose of heading north had been achieved. Cui Yixiao thought that Mr. Wu in the Yamen was anxious, so they went back to Beijing on the way, but Lu Hanjiang had other ideas.
"Go and find out where the last remaining people from Zhujian Villa have gone." Lu Hanjiang came up and ordered.
"Zhijian Villa, what you are asking about is Huo Yunqi, the former young owner of the village?" Cui Yixiao said with some surprise: "If I remember correctly, the former young owner of the village is currently doing business in Dongdu."
"Business?" Lu Hanjiang was a little surprised.
"Yes," Cui Yixiao thought for a while and said: "The incident at Wangjian Tower... The Huo family has committed too many crimes, but the fire burned everything down, but most of the Huo family's debts also died with the people.
Destroyed, written off, but it may be difficult for Huo Yunqi to continue walking in the world."
At first, everyone saw that the Huo family and Zhujian Villa were almost finished, so they did not kill them all. However, after all, there is a blood feud between them. If Huo Yunqi wants to continue to hang out in the world as a knight, I am afraid there will be great resistance.
Therefore, it may be a good choice to turn to business. At least the Huo family has not offended the whole world, and the connections left by Zhujian Villa back then are still a usable wealth.
"Dongdu, isn't that just on the way?" Lu Hanjiang patted Cui Yixiao on the shoulder and decided on the next place to go.
Cui Yixiao sighed and transferred to Dongdu. It seems that the master will not want to return to Beijing in a short time.