Volume 5 Lower Heaven Chapter 197 Northern Snow City
After the Flying Eagle bandits left, they didn't encounter any other bandits along the way. After a day and a night of non-stop trekking, the convoy finally arrived on the outskirts of North Syracuse.
Located in a valley, the Northern Snow City is so large that it should be about the size of the Fire City from a distance.
"The reason why Syracuse is built in the valley is that the temperature here is higher than in the mountains outside, so you can grow some food, and the terrain is relatively flat, which is suitable for building houses. Yang Shouquan introduced.
"Look at Brother Yuwen. Brother Yuwen, I'm here. Zhao Xiaoya shouted at the man looking around at the city gate.
The man was dressed in green clothes, with a long sword at his waist, and his appearance looked ordinary, and there was no resemblance to Xiaoya's appearance, so he should not be his own brother.
"Xiaoya, you're finally back!" Zhao Yuwen saw the carriage with the banner of Zhao Zi, and hurriedly brought two family members over to greet him.
Seeing Zhao Xiaoya, he reached out and lifted her in the air, turned around and put her down.
"Why do you go out, Xiaoya, you have lost weight again, you should have suffered a lot, right?" Zhao Yuwen asked, his eyes full of doting gazes.
Zhao Xiaoya said: "No, Grandpa Yang took good care of me." ”
"Young Master Yuwen. Yang Shouquan had a chance to say hello at this time.
"Commander Yang, you have worked hard this time, and your sister is stubborn and has caused you trouble. Zhao Yuwen looked at Yang Shouquan deeply.
"Brother, what do you mean by this, I didn't make a mess!" Hearing what the other party said, Zhao Xiaoya pursed her mouth.
"What Miss said is very true, if there is no help from Miss and his friends this time, I am afraid that it will really be more than lucky. Yang Shouquan said with a smile.
Only then did Zhao Yuwen discover that there was a young man next to Zhao Xiaoya, this person was dressed in white, and the broadsword on his waist did not look extraordinary, its scabbard was extremely gorgeous, and there was a faint terrifying fluctuation.
At this time, he saw Feng Congyun and Feng Conghu tied to the car.
"It's not ......."
"Ahem, let's go back to the house first. Yang Shouquan coughed twice and interrupted him. However, he took a piece of oiled paper to cover the two people who were tied up.
Zhao Yuwen was not stupid, and immediately realized that there might be some article in it, and nodded: "Okay, Uncle Yuan Chu should also be waiting in the mansion at this time." ”
The group entered the city in a mighty way.
Luo Tianlin found that although the Northern Snow City was very large, it was more than one level worse than the prosperity of the Fire City. There are almost no buildings in the whole city, there are only some low bungalows, and there are some fields around the houses.
One of the most prosperous streets in North Snow City is the North Snow Avenue where they are now located in the east-west direction. This avenue is surrounded by markets and shops, and most of the city's businesses are concentrated here.
The Zhao family is a medium-sized force, and they also have their own shops on Beixue Avenue, and the location and business are good.
As the crowd walked, they heard the sound of a quarrel ahead.
"It seems to be our Zhao family's shop over there. Zhao Yuwen glanced forward and hurriedly ran over.
"What are you arguing about!" he asked when he came to the shop and saw the man and the two men arguing.
The shop guy was overjoyed when he saw him immediately, and hurriedly said, "Young Master Yuwen, these two people didn't say that the meat sold in our shop was fake snow deer, and they were clamoring for us to lose money, but we haven't even seen them. ”
"Hmph, don't even think about quibbling, our silver tickets are marked on them, and you can see it at a glance. The noisy two said.
Zhao Yuwen frowned slightly, and said to the guy: "Take out all the silver tickets in your drawer and show me." ”
The man nodded, and took out the entire drawer, in which lay a few silver tickets of ten thousand taels.
"Look, it's those silver tickets, and these silver tickets are ours. ”
"Nonsense, this is the silver ticket that the young master of the Feng family used when he came to buy snow roe meat in the morning, how did it become yours!" the guy shouted angrily.
"We have a small hole in the upper left corner of our silver ticket with a tree thorn, I don't believe you can check it. The two said.
Zhao Yuwen took out a silver ticket to observe it himself, and sure enough, there was indeed a small hole in the upper left corner of the silver ticket. His face immediately became ugly, if the real person had a fake public interest and ruined the reputation of the Zhao family, then it was absolutely unforgivable.
"Young Master Yuwen, we really didn't sell them fake meat, as for what the money is, we don't know, maybe the Young Master of the Feng family also has the same habit of piercing holes with tree thorns like them. The guy saw that Zhao Yuwen's face was a little unsightly, and quickly explained.
"Fart, even if the young master of the Feng family uses tree thorns as a mark, how can it be exactly the same as the position we do!" As soon as the two noisy men said this, they immediately made the guy tremble and speechless.
"Okay, as a member of the Zhao family, you actually did such a fake public and private thing, I see how the head of the family will punish you!" Zhao Yuwen scolded the guy.
"I can't take care of your Zhao family's family affairs, but this kid cheated our brother out of money, and you have to spit it out!" the two shouted!
Zhao Yuwen nodded, ready to take out a few silver tickets and hand them to the other party. Suddenly, a hand grabbed his wrist, and he looked back to see that it was the young man in white beside the young lady.
"Brother Zhao, don't worry, let's talk about it after the investigation is clear. If this is not the case, it is not good to misunderstand your own brother. Luo Tianlin smiled faintly.
"Hey, boy, who are you? Lao Tzu is talking to the people of the Zhao family here, what kind of stinky fart are you playing!" one of the troublemakers shouted.
"Smack!" a crisp slap in the face sounded, and the man's face immediately swollen high.
"You, you're beating someone, everyone, come and see, the people of the Zhao family have beaten people!" the man shouted.
Some people in the vicinity rushed over when they heard the sound, and they circled inside and out.
Luo Tianlin was not afraid and still smiled: "Hehe, I am not from the Zhao family, but for people with bad breath like you, if you don't teach a lesson, you will be called a martial arts hero in vain! ”
"Hmph!" the man snorted coldly, but he didn't dare to provoke again.
Luo Tianlin didn't let him go: "Just now you said that the snow roe meat bought by the Zhao family is fake, please take out the fake meat and take a look." ”
The man handed over a piece of meat in his hand and said proudly: "It's this piece of meat, since the young man is good at chivalry, then please identify it and see if it's true or not." ”
As soon as the meat was in his hands, Luo Tianlin knew that the meat was fake. The real snow deer meat is full of aura, and there is no fishy smell, although this piece does not have a big fishy smell, ordinary people may not be able to distinguish the difference, but the aura is too far apart, full of fakes.
"Huh?", Luo Tianlin glanced at the knife edge of the meat, and then looked at the meat cleaver on the cutting board of the Zhao family's butcher shop, and his heart suddenly became clear.
"This piece of meat is indeed fake. He said lightly.
The man was slightly stunned, he originally thought that the other party would deny it, but he didn't expect to admit it, and he couldn't help but show a smug smile.
"However, although this meat is fake, it must not be sold by this butcher shop. Luo Tianlin continued.
"Hehe, do you mean that our brothers have nothing to do and are looking for trouble?" the man sneered.
"That's it. Luo Tianlin nodded.
"Let's comment, we don't look for so many shops here, we are looking for the shops of the Zhao family, our brothers and the Zhao family have no grievances, why did they deliberately come to find fault? And now all the evidence shows that we did come to buy meat, and we paid for it. The man greeted the crowd.
"yes! This man has a point. ”
"It won't really be Zhao's shop's big bully!"
"Don't talk nonsense, at least I haven't heard of the Zhao family buying fake meat for so many years. ”
"Could it be that the guy deliberately sold it for personal money?"
"It's possible ......"
For a while, the surrounding crowd was talking, some spoke for the Zhao family, and some agreed with the two people in front of them.
Luo Tianlin clasped his fists around and said: "Folks, since the two sides have their own opinions, why don't we let them retell the scene of buying meat at that time, if anyone has a loophole, who is a liar, what do you think?"
"The young man is reasonable!" everyone responded.
"Please, two. Luo Tianlin stretched out his hand and said.
"Repeat it, repeat it, who is afraid of whom!" The two came to the stall and pointed to a piece of snow roe meat covered with a white cloth that had not yet been bought, and said: "At that time, this snow roe was only sold for a third of it, and our two brothers wanted to buy some to honor our father, so we took out 30,000 taels to buy six taels of meat." He cut it for us, but because the meat was covered with a cloth, we are not sure whether he had cut it from it at the time, and now we think that it must have been a fake piece of meat. ”
Luo Tianlin took the meat cleaver on the board and said to the two: "Are you sure that he used this knife to cut this piece of meat for you at that time?"
"Of course, I'm pretty sure that my brother was there at the time, so it couldn't have been something wrong with both of our eyes, right?" the man said.
"Haha, it's true that there is nothing wrong with your eyes, but there is something wrong with your heart! This piece of meat can't be sold here at all, you are lying!" Luo Tianlin pointed at the front of the meat cutting knife, startling the two of them.
Finally came back to his senses and began to say, "Why do you say we are lying?"
Luo Tianlin lifted the piece of fake meat, pointed to its incision and said to the crowd: "Let's see, there are many knife cuts at the incision of this piece of meat, and there are some pieces of broken flesh connected, it is obvious that this was originally a piece of meat connected to the bones, and it can be perfectly separated from the bones with a boning knife." However, the snow deer is fragile and boneless, so this guy has been using this thin-bladed cutter to cut the pieces of meat, so the cut surface of the cut meat pieces should be smooth, and it will never be so rough, so according to the two of them, this piece of meat is impossible for the Zhao family to sell to the two of them. ”
The faces of the two changed drastically, and You Ziqiang argued: "But how can our money end up in his drawer?"
"That's because the money was originally the young master of the Feng family, and he deliberately leaked the news that there was a hole in the money to you, so that you could come over to find fault, and say, how much benefit money did the Feng family give you to discredit the Zhao family. ”
"Nonsense, second brother, let's go!" the two hurriedly walked out of the crowd, only to be stopped by a carriage.
Seeing the people getting off the carriage, the two exclaimed, "Zhao Xiaoya, why are you still alive!"
Luo Tianlin's expression changed when he heard this, and he immediately shouted: "Commander Yang, don't let these two run away!"
Yang Shouquan nodded, and made a move in an instant, and the arm joints of the two were suddenly removed, and they screamed. After being handed over to the two family members to take care of, she and Zhao Xiaoya stepped forward.