Su Xiujin wrote thirty signs, corresponding to twenty quilts and ten blankets, the signs were divided into two, as long as the guest paid the deposit, Jin Da Niu just gave him the other half of the sign, and the quilt was the same. Su Xiujin drafted another clause of compensation and pasted it on the doorpost of the shed.

The terms of this compensation are exhaustive, and the caravan is all literate and can be recognized, and it is close to the height of summer, and the day is better, but at night, especially in the wilderness, it still feels cold, and the quilts are all thin quilts, and the blankets are also made big, and they are not afraid that they will not be able to rent out.

Su Xiujin told Jin Da Niu about going to the black market at night, and Jin Da Niu suddenly panicked: "Jin Niang, it must be dangerous so late, or I'll go with you." ”

Su Xiujin shook her head, she said a little bit about Boss Chen's personality again, and promised that there would be no problem, but Jin Daniu looked at her insistence, but she couldn't, so she just said, "I'll pick you up at three o'clock." ”

Su Xiujin couldn't resist him, so he had to nod.

At that time, Jin Daniu sent Su Xiujin to the agreed pavilion with a lantern, and after a while, Boss Chen arrived with someone, followed by Chen Jue, and together with a taciturn servant, the four of them walked to the old city site of Ningxi Town.

The old city is located in the northwest of the new city, there were Tartars all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, the quiet and peaceful Ningxi Town was destroyed overnight, and now the city site is just some broken walls, if it is not for the black market to operate here, I am afraid that it will have been swallowed by weeds and drowned in the loess.

There was still a biting chill in the wilderness in the middle of the night, and Su Xiujin was covered with a thick mask, leaving only a pair of eyes to look at the dark old city in front of him.

"Wait." Boss Chen looked at the deathly silent old city in front of him, "This won't be open when the time comes." ”

The group stood and looked at it for a while, Chen Jue took out a small paper bag from his arms, the servant handed over the water bladder when he saw this, Chen Jue took out three or four pills and took them with water, seeing Su Xiujin looking at him with a pair of dark eyes, Chen Jue explained: "There is some typhoid fever these days. ”

Su Xiujin looked at his pale face and was noncommittal.

"The market is open!" Boss Chen spoke up.

In the silence of the ancient city, a gong suddenly sounded, the crisp sound caused a burst of echoes in the ancient city, the gong sounded three times in a row, each time with a few breaths of effort, the gong stopped, only to hear a vague figure standing on the city wall, hanging his voice, "The opening of the market!" “

The sound was like ripples of water far away, and when the echo stopped completely, a red lantern slowly rose. The light of the red lantern illuminated the face of the person who opened the door, stern and cold.

After a while, I could only hear the old city gate creak open, and three or two figures dangled out of it, Su Xiujin held his breath slightly, there was only a group of them outside, and I don't know where many lanterns came out, like the Milky Way towards the city gate.

Some people who knew Boss Chen said hello from afar, and some glanced at them, and landed on Su Xiujin's body, pausing for a moment, as if they had never seen a woman come to the black market.

"Let's go." Boss Chen said, and led the three of them into the black market with the crowd.

There was a simple opening at the gate of the city with a wooden fence, and only one person was allowed to enter at a time, and two swarthy men with sturdy faces and bodies held pen and paper to register the identity of those who entered the gate.

"The black market is illegal in the end, and not everyone can enter it without an acquaintance." Boss Chen explained, he pulled a wooden sign from his waist, and the front was extremely simple to carve a peony flower, he turned over the back and showed Su Xiujin the inscription on the back, "This is the sign in and out, and the record behind it is my status on the black market." ”

Su Xiujin glanced at the three deep and shallow notches on it, and asked, "Can you only engrave it after buying something?" ”

Boss Chen nodded: "Not only to buy things, but also to determine the value of things, these three nicks show that I have bought at least three hundred taels of things here." ”

Someone took it, and the black market naturally went in very easily, and the two strong men only glanced at Su Xiujin, and they were not surprised, but simply asked a few words, who is the surname, what is the name, what are you doing, and let her in.

As soon as he entered the ancient city, the cold wind outside seemed to have encountered a barrier, stagnating, Rao is Su Xiujin had visited the most prosperous temple fair in the capital in his previous life, and he was secretly surprised to see this scene. The ancient city is as warm as spring, only a four-horse-wide road has been leading to the front, the red lanterns are hung on the broken wall of the ancient city that was burned, the red lanterns are hung densely, the dark night is illuminated as if it is day, follow the road, it is like walking in the palace of the previous life ten thousand palace lanterns converge into a lantern canal, only the more you go, the more you go, the more lively it is.

The black market is very lively, there are many antique vendors towing carts and carrying burdens around the road, one by one stalls you are next to me and I am next to you, there is not a gap with a thick arm in the middle, and the things on the stalls are also strange, up to large antique vases, down to small ear spoons, everything.

As soon as Su Xiujin and his party entered the door, there were vendors along the street who kept greeting them.

"Boss, the new vase is going to be cut down?"

"The best porcelain bowl, the boss will come and see it!"

"The boss came to see our nesting doll, the whole set, the price is negotiable."

Boss Chen seemed to look down on the street stalls, and walked inside along the crowd. Su Xiujin naturally followed, Chen Jue and the servants were left and right, but the two carefully left a gap for Su Xiujin.

"Be careful, there's a lot of people here." After Chen Jue finished speaking, he coughed lightly.

Su Xiujin tilted her ears and nodded. It was about a lot of people who were so stuffy that Chen Jue's face was slightly red, his breathing was also short, and he coughed twice with his fist against his lips from time to time.

When you reach an open place, the old city is like a central chessboard around this disk-like field, and many people stop here to look at the square platform with wood in the middle. The platform is more than five zhang wide in front and back, and there is nothing in the middle, and it may not be time yet, and the people around are muttering about how the hour is not yet and so on.

"The best stuff on the black market is here." Boss Chen's eyes were full of excitement, "The things here are all obtained by those with high prices, and you can only get things if you can afford the price, and there is no comparison with those things outside that are clearly priced." ”

Su Xiujin looked up at the round platform, only to hear the creaking sound of someone on the wooden planks on the platform, there were about ten young women holding lanterns in their hands, standing along the east, west, north and south positions of the platform, the lights lit up the square platform, and there was a man who was no more than five feet tall and looked quite obscene, raising his voice and saying the opening words.

Su Xiujin looked at it for a while, it was nothing more than fair competition for everyone, a price increase of ten taels at a time, and there should be no disputes and the like.

The first few are antique vases and toys in their hands, Su Xiujin doesn't look like they are fake from a distance, but the value is not high, Boss Chen asked her, she shook her head, antiques are naturally rare, if they are ordinary ornaments, don't do it.