Chapter 8: Evolution (16)
On the underground black market, on the roof of a house, two people quarreled endlessly-
"It's all said to go south! Go south! Why are you going north?"
"The exit is on the north side, where am I going if I don't go north?"
"Go north, go north, it's because you went in the wrong direction, we're lost now, how can you get out!
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"What's the use of talking about this now! If we don't go back in time, Anan will be angry, and then I will be miserable, and the rest of my life will be over. ”
"You're ...... Do you want to cry?"
"If crying helps, I'd be crying all day long, hey, hey, I'm talking to you, can you respect people looking at me?"
"Don't make noise, don't make noise, look over there, those people are so familiar......"
"Who's familiar? Wait....... Isn't that the? It turns out that the three of them are here. ”
Two
Xiaoxue found an acquaintance, and quickly pulled Bai Fan down, hid on the roof, and peeked at a certain store on the street below.
"Isn't this Xuanyu Pavilion?Why is the innkeeper here?" Bai Fan was a little surprised to see that the shop below was the one that sold incense.
He and Xiaoxue accidentally discovered the secret hidden in the Yelai Inn, and secretly followed the proprietress - Feng Niang to the underground black market, they didn't see these three people on the street, and because Xiaoxue was greedy for good things, he had to go to the auction, he forgot about it for the time being. Now, fortunately, by mistake, they met these three again.
"They don't come to the black market just to buy incense, it's weird. I dug a secret passage in the kitchen, and came here mysteriously, and according to my instinct as a woman, there was a conspiracy in it. Xiao Xue stared at the three people below without blinking, as if she had discovered a new continent.
Bai Fan thought in his heart: What is this girl going to do?
Xiao Xue pulled up his sleeve, looked sincere, and said, "Bai Fan, let's go down and see what conspiracy they have, okay?"
"Not good. Bai Fan didn't think about it and refused directly. Xiaoxue was puzzled, "Why? What a fun thing, why don't you go." ”
"We're being chased and killed by the black market's strong-headed snakes, and if we don't run away, we will even lose our lives. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, my life is big, I'm not afraid. Xiaoxue smiled indifferently.
Bai Fan said angrily: "I'm afraid!"
Xiaoxue patted Bai Fan on the shoulder, and said heroically: "What are you afraid of, a manly husband should not be afraid of heaven and earth, you have to go if you don't go!"
Bai Fan froze, looking at him in disbelief, unable to understand why there was such an unreasonable girl in the world. Why can't he be the master of his own affairs if he doesn't go? This arrogant girl, he regretted coming to the black market with her.
Xiaoxue doesn't care whether he wants to go or not, anyway, what she believes must be carried out according to what she wants.
Three
On the street, Feng Niang and the three of them said goodbye to Xuanyu Pavilion and walked to the end of the alley, where there were few people and did not attract much attention. Xiao Xue saw that the time had come, and thought about whether to go down with Bai Fan and follow quietly, but when she saw that Feng Niang and the two men from the caravan were separated, the three of them walked away in three different directions. She was secretly happy in her heart, and said in her heart: This time, even God helped me, how could I give up this great opportunity.
Holding the reluctant Bai Fan, she targeted the fat man who looked the weakest and incompetent. Tumbling down from the roof, she asked Bai Fan to use light skills to intercept the fat man's front, and she blocked it in the back.
An alley with people in front and people behind. The fat man was blocked with nowhere to go, and the road was completely dead.
Xiaoxue looked back and forth, and was very glad that the fat man had chosen a secluded alley, no one was disturbing at the moment, and there was no need to worry that the fat man's two companions would turn around and come back. "When we met for the first time, the little sister was called a flower in the rivers and lakes, I don't know what this chivalrous man called?" she said politely, but she smiled so hard that she couldn't stand it and shivered.
"I'm just a businessman, a commoner who makes money in business, and two knights trap me here, I don't know what to do?"
Boss Zhu has seen the world, and it is inevitable that he will encounter some bandits who collect money and rob on the way to business, and there are also threats with knives and swords. And the man and woman looked a little familiar, he was at first frightened by the two of them suddenly jumping off the roof, but soon calmed down, and those who could come to the black market may not have any ability and ability. His first reaction was that the men and women must have some purpose in deliberately intercepting him.
Bai Fan admired the fat man's determination in the face of danger, Xiaoxue deliberately scared him, and he also answered with kindness, worthy of the caravan of the Dongzi giant - Bai Pusi Wang, he really had the courage to walk the merchant aisle. "Oh, you have a very bright brain, you speak so smartly, and you are not afraid that we will eat you. ”
"I just want to live, so I know how to speak very well without losing my life. After all, people only have one life, and no amount of money can buy it back if they are gone. He replied simply, deliberately changing the name of their thief to that of chivalry, just to let their guard down and delay some time for himself to think carefully about what the two of them had for him, and where he really thought he had seen them.
Xiaoxue looked at him silently, and suddenly smiled heartily: "I think what you said is very reasonable and convincing." People only have one life, and if they are gone, they will never have it again, so there is nothing wrong with living well and trying to save your life. ”
Boss Zhu stood stunned, not knowing how to reply for a while.
"This girl has gone astray again. Bai Fan looked helpless and thought in his heart.
It's just that the girl in Tsing Yi suddenly faded her smile, put on an extremely vicious look and stepped forward, approaching Boss Zhu in the cage step by step, and stood still at a distance of one foot from each other. She said word by word: "It's right to save your life, but I have a question that you need to answer, if you don't say it, it is very likely that you will not see the sun tomorrow, because - I, will, want, you, small, life." ”
The girl in front of her is delicate and lovely, and her voice is also very good, but her words are murderous. Boss Zhu's face is like earth, he has been in business for decades, in the eyes of a girl who is less than twenty years old, he actually saw his death, although it was only for a moment, I don't know if it was wrong or a fantasy, but at that moment, when she spit out the word "life" in her mouth, he did have a sense of suffocation on the verge of death, which was an unprecedented experience.
"Why? don't you answer?" the girl stepped forward again. This time, he clearly saw his own shadow in the bright pupils of the other party, like a mirror image, and he saw that his gray face was very embarrassed, his face was like a silver basin of flesh, and his folded skin was covered with fine beads of sweat, and, more importantly, ...... In those eyes, he saw his own eyes, which were full of fear and ...... Despair is like seeing oneself before death, so terrible, so hopeless, and so ugly.
He didn't dare to look at her directly, so he quickly closed his eyes, and heard the sound of cold air in his mouth. He was stunned, he didn't expect that he would be frightened by a little girl, and he didn't know what to do.
Until another voice rang out behind him, he woke up from a dream and escaped from the nightmare.
Bai Fan didn't know when he stepped forward and came behind him, "Xiaoxue, what's wrong with him?" ”
"Not much, maybe too nervous. Xiaoxue said.
Boss Zhu opened his eyes, the girl in front of him smiled cute and charming, there was a little starlight in the dark pupils, there was nothing in it, only a clean and innocent smile, where was there still the shadow of death.
"Come, tell us, what kind of conspiracy you have in the black market, hurry up and say it to avoid the pain of flesh and skin. The uncle next to me, that is, behind you, is a spicy hand destroying flowers on the rivers and lakes, who loves to torture people, and he is also a good man. Xiaoxue smiled innocently, harmless to humans and animals, and looked like a young and lively little sister.
Boss Zhu's face was pale and pale, his eyes were empty, and he didn't say anything.
The uncle behind him, Bai Fan, who Xiaoxue jokingly called the spicy hand destroying flowers, turned black in an instant, very ugly, and his expression looked like he had been forced to swallow a fly.
Xiao Xue looked at the two big men who were dumbfounded, a little impatient, picked up the wooden stick in the corner of the wall, pointed at Boss Zhu's big face, and shouted, "Explain it to the old lady quickly!"
Her roar woke up the two big men.
Boss Zhu's brain echoed, buzzing, and suddenly remembered where he had seen them.
"Aren't you the group of small caravans in the inn, why didn't you die? Why are you here?" Boss Zhu looked shocked, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his head, and he was a little trembling when he spoke. He remembered who this man and woman were, wasn't this girl the one who came to the inn at night last night to reveal that it was a black shop, and her sentence "Hello to the black shop" still echoed in his mind for a long time.
Xiaoxue was confused and poked the panicked Boss Zhu with a stick, but the other party sat on the ground and was so frightened. She was even more confused, why this person was so careless, and he fell down when he said it. "Hey, what are you talking nonsense? Why are we not dead, and you haven't answered my question yet?"
"It's a little wrong...... Bai Fan's face was solemn, and he always felt that the fat man seemed to be hiding something. He stepped forward and grabbed Xiaoxue, who wanted to be an adult, squatted in front of the fat man, and said in a low voice: "What did you mean by what you just said? Say it again, make it clear." ”
Boss Zhu looked at Bai Fan in a daze, and blurted out: "You should all be dead, Feng Niang said, everyone else in the inn should be killed." ”
Feng Niang is the proprietress of the inn at night, and she has always been cautious and cautious in her work, and she does not leak. Boss Zhu has been in business on Yanmen Road for many years, and he knows her well, she can be said to have never missed, but the two in front of him should not have been killed by her people in the inn, how could they be here, he was too surprised to say the truth carelessly.
Bai Fan and Xiaoxue looked shocked, they couldn't care about anything, they both went up and grabbed his arm, and asked:
"What did you say, what's going on in the inn?"
"What did you do, and why did you kill people?"
Boss Zhu's eardrums tingled from the two screams, he twisted his eyebrows, and didn't say anything, but the next moment, the stinging pain from his shoulder made him scream: "I said! Feng Niang and our people must 'clean up' everyone in the inn, and they can't leave any traces, otherwise, ...... Otherwise, it will ruin the master's great affairs. ”
"Your uncle! We provoked you, why do you want to kill us?" No matter how greedy Xiaoxue is to play good things, she will not put people to death at will, even if Duan Qianyan did that to her at the beginning, she only hates and resents, how could she ever think of killing people for her life. What does "clean up" mean, that is, to kill people and kill people. She was angry, what kind of **** luck did she go, there are scum everywhere in the Central Plains, these inhuman guys take human life as a child's play! They want to kill people for no reason, they are hateful!
"Who is your master? Why did you kill us? We have no grievances with you, and there must always be a reason to kill us when we first met. Bai Fan stretched out his hand to hold Xiao Xue in anger, in case she was excited and went up to kill people.
Boss Zhu angered the two of them in his heart, if he didn't make it clear, he was afraid that he would really not see the sun tomorrow, so he told it all at the moment, and said in a trembling voice: "We are taking the underworld, not to deliver goods to Dayin, but to deliver them on the underground black market." Feng Niang is the connector, she took us into the underground black market to meet with the consignee, originally according to the plan, and the buyer contact as long as the goods are delivered, the money and goods are cleared, there will be no other trouble. ”
"You're in trouble, aren't you?" Bai Fan grasped the key to his words.
Boss Zhu nodded: "In the past, the transaction was very smooth, but this time there was an accident." Our goods were discovered, and this time another caravan at the same inn stumbled upon our deal, and they didn't know who the buyer was, but they knew what our goods were. After Feng Niang found out, she was worried that the revelation of the matter would bring unimaginable danger, so she decided to be ruthless with us, and simply did not stop doing anything, and killed everyone in the inn tonight, so that she would not worry that someone would let out the news and let the outside world find out about our trading transaction. So...... Therefore, we deliberately blamed the caravan for the loss of the treasure, so that we could have a reason to clash with them, and take the opportunity to eradicate the existence of the danger in one fell swoop. Feng Niang was ready, put firewood in the inn, and wanted to set fire to the inn, just in case, she had already drugged everyone's tea, enough to make them fall asleep and die in the fire in their sleep. ”
"It's a good way to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to prevent future troubles. You're so poisonous. Xiaoxue's heart thumped and fell into the ice valley, and her righteous anger rose with righteous indignation. "Aren't you afraid of retribution if you do this? Yanmen Road is guarded by post officials, and the court will not let you go after it. ”
Boss Zhu's mind slowly calmed down, and the panic in his eyes was a little less, he said: "Yanmen Road is the closest road to Nanchu in Dayin, and there are a lot of illegal things on the road, this is originally an unclean trade road, and the imperial court is just using power to suppress some caravans that violate the ban and disobey discipline, if the management is too strict, I am afraid it will backfire." Although Yanmen Road has been more peaceful in recent years, it is still the most difficult business route to walk, and illegal transactions have been transferred to the secret, and the underground black market is the largest black market trading place in the country. Of course, there are risks, in order to hide the underground black market, most of the people on the road bribe the officials with money, and act naturally unimpeded, and the money is paid, and the officials are 'kind' to help us clean up. Sometimes, even if the court finds suspicions, it can't find clues. ”
Yanmen Road is rife with underground trades, officials profiting from it, and all parties cover each other for collusion, so it's no wonder that the world doesn't know about the city under this wasteland. The so-called legend is not a fictitious existence, from the beginning, its existence began in the mouth of the merchants, and also fell into the hands of the merchants.
For hundreds of years, the imperial court never discovered these truths.
Nowadays, it will not be found.
Because, it is well protected by the underworld, merchants, officials...... Each one is its faithful guardian.
Boss Zhu and Feng Nian dared to plan the arson case and get rid of the potential harm, and it was with the help of the officials that the news would not spread. Even if there were, it would be changed to say that this was a disaster of persecution by bandits, and it would be difficult for the imperial court to investigate thoroughly.
I have to say that this trick is designed boldly and carefully, and there is nothing wrong with it. The aftermath has to be fully perfected, it is simply a perfect conspiracy.
Bai Fan is upright and awe-inspiring, and he hates the evil deeds of seeking money, killing people, and setting fires. What Miao Nu said is true, Boss Zhu's caravan has a big problem, and today's battle in the inn is an introduction for them to take the opportunity to murder others.
"Bastards, you are all bastards who are in business and careless about human life!" Bai Fan was furious, grabbed Boss Zhu's shirt hard, and scolded through gritted teeth.
After hearing these conspiracy, Xiaoxue's heart was shaken, and her face turned pale. She grabbed Bai Fan's sleeve and said in a trembling voice: "What should I do? If they really set fire, wouldn't Miao Nu, Anan, Minyu and everyone else be in danger." ”
"Head of the house......" Bai Fan suddenly thought of everyone in the inn, and suddenly understood why the fat man didn't die, these murderers didn't expect them to leave the inn and omitted it. If what the fat man said is true, then ...... Aren't everyone still in the inn worried about their lives?
Thinking that the fire was likely to engulf the lives of his companions, Bai Fan was so anxious that he didn't care about anything else, he threw Boss Zhu to the ground fiercely, and rushed to the entrance of the alley with his hand.
"Hey! Wait for me. Xiaoxue was flustered, and angrily smashed the wooden stick in her hand on the fat man in the corner of the wall, and she was stunned.