Lu Wenwen was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said after thinking about it: "Mr. is talking about the chicken blood of the two parties?" ”

Seeing Cao Chuan nodded, Lu Shufang smiled and said: "Mr. I don't know, there is a stone mountain sixty or seventy miles west of this place, and there are colorful stones in the mountain, well, green, ink, yellow, and red are all there, which is a native product, not a precious thing. ”

When Zhou Tong heard this, he asked tentatively, "Is that stone useful?" ”

Cao Chuan nodded: "The disciples in the sect travel on weekdays, and when they see all kinds of miscellaneous jade and strange stones, they always have to collect some, as for the use......" Speaking of this, Cao Chuan looked at the sky with his eyes and stopped talking.

Zhou Tong and Lu Shufang glanced at each other, smiled, patted the table and said, "Understand, understand, Mr. doesn't need to elaborate, this matter is not difficult, Mr. is all kinds of stones?" ”

"Bloodstone is fine, the color is pure, and the rest of the variegated ones are fine."

Zhou Tong nodded, turned his head and whispered a few words to Chen Huoding, and Chen Huoding went down the mountain with a sound.

"Sir, wait a minute, wait for me to assign it, just a few miscellaneous stones, and I will be able to deliver them to Mr. in a few days."

It didn't take long for Chen Huoding to bring a black and thin man, who looked very honest, came over and forked his hand, and Zhou Tong said directly: "Wutian, I remember that you are from Lin Jiawa?" ”

The man replied, "Yes." ”

"You know everything about the stone mine in Lin Jiawa, right? Tell me about it. ”

The black man was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Back to the uncle, there are seven or eight pits in that stone mountain, all of which are opened by the old rich people in the left area, and they use rice and salt to hire some villagers to quarry stones in their spare time, and no one goes to the farm." ”

Zhou Tong nodded: "Who is in the hands of the quarried stones?" ”

"It's all in the hands of the old wealth, and the passing merchants will stay overnight, and the old wealth will sell some of it."

"Is it Lin Laocai?"

"Lin Laocai has it, and Xia Laocai from Fang Village also has it."

Zhou Tong asked this, coughed, and said: "Wutian, Mr. wants to use some bloodstone here, you will go with the account room to get the silver, well, get thirty taels, and then take some people down the mountain, don't bluff people here, just exchange silver and old wealth, remember that the purer the color of the stone, the better, don't be variegated, and send it back when you buy it." ”

After hearing this, the man replied with his crossed hands: "Oh, Wutian will go down the mountain, does the uncle still have orders?" ”

Zhou Tong said again: "The third child should have gone back to the mountain last night, and now it hasn't arrived, you stop by to say hello, if there is something, send someone back to report." ”

The man answered, and went with Lu to get the silver.

Zhou Tong turned his head to Cao Chuan and said: "This Zhao Wutian is always steady, Mr. rest assured, there will be results in a few days." ”

Cao Chuan arched his hand: "You have to work." ”

After a while, Lu came back and said that Zhao Wutian had already led people down the mountain. Cao Chuan thought for a while, and in his impression that silver didn't seem to be expensive, a gram was only a few dollars, and he thought that he would have to ask Li Douzhan when he turned around, if it was cheap, he could bring a batch over, compared to bloodstone, it seemed that this silver was really worthless.

It was noon while talking, Zhao Si ran over with a big basket, and then quickly set up wine and cloth dishes for everyone, Cao Chuan was a little puzzled, he vaguely remembered that the ancients ate two meals a day, but there seemed to be no such rules in this screen village, and the grade was still very high, so he asked about it in confusion.

Zhou Tong explained while eating: All the young and strong people in this village are all selected from the mountain households to fight and fight, and they are raised in the village and ready to merge with people at any time, and three meals a day are indispensable.

After listening to this, Cao Chuan felt that he was still too dogmatic, thinking about it, this group of people is equivalent to the collective support of the mountain people, and they themselves also collect tolls everywhere, so it should not be difficult to mix a belly.

After lunch, before chatting a few words, I heard someone shouting below, looking down the mountain, Cao Chuan's eyesight is good, and he vaguely saw a lot of people gathered in the small square, everyone hurriedly walked down the mountain, Zhou Tong told Cao Chuan while walking, it may be that the three masters are back.

Before he reached the small square, Zhao Si ran over and shouted to a few people: "The third master has just returned to the mountain, and his brothers have died." ”

Zhou Tong's face sank, and he hurried down the mountain, Cao Chuan could only follow quickly at this time, and the group went down to the small square on the mountainside, and saw that there were almost forty or fifty people squatting or standing on the ground, one by one, silent, with a gloomy face, and an iron knife in each hand, oh, there are also people with axes.

"Looking at this posture is like opening a film with someone", someone couldn't help but be a little excited, this is a real knife and a real gun, unlike him holding a plastic knife on the set.

didn't wait for him to be excited for long, and as soon as he walked to the door of the Juyi Hall without a signboard, Cao Chuan's whole person suddenly felt bad: there were two corpses lying on the ground, the flesh and blood were blurred, the faces were hideous, and the smell of blood was so bad that he wanted to vomit.

Holding back the discomfort in his stomach, he turned his head and followed a group of people into the hall, his eyes were suddenly dark, and when he got used to it, he saw a short and fat middle-aged man coming over.

Zhou Tong gave Cao Chuan a few brief introductions, and as expected, this middle-aged man was Chu Jianli, the third master of the screen village.

Chu Jianli really doesn't look like a leader in Cao Chuan's eyes: he is not tall, wears a brown kudzu cloth shirt, has a round face, squinted eyes, and speaks as if he is smiling in every sentence, but more like a shopkeeper.

I can't tell the age, to be honest, Cao Chuan has not seen the age since he saw these ancients, and his face generally looks old.

Cao Chuan felt sick to his stomach, and when he saw that people were going to have a meeting, he didn't speak, he simply arched his hands, and sat down casually when he found a chair.

After sitting down and looking around, he finally understood why Zhou Tong and the others usually went to the bluestone platform. I don't know which dynasty and which generation built this righteous hall, it is in disrepair, the roof is full of cobwebs, the paint on the pillars has fallen off, and the light is not good, and you can't see people's faces clearly if you are a little away.

But black also has the benefit of being black, at least it covers his current face. Although he didn't look in the mirror, he knew that his face must be ugly.

Mr. Zhou turned around and sat on the chair in the middle, looked at the seven or eight big and small leaders sitting or standing in the lobby at the moment, and then said slowly: "Everyone is all together, the third child, let's talk about it." ”

Chu Jianli slowly began to speak: "The Liu family mule team arrived yesterday afternoon, and the brothers were busy with the goods. I just want to go back to the mountain after speaking, I don't want to pull out my feet, there are more than 20 people in Baizhuang who have crossed the line, and before they can ask, they draw their knives and rush over, and there is a scuffle in two times, we have no two brothers, and we have injured a few. ”

After listening to this, Zhou Tong asked again: "Spend the night in Hengtang?" ”

"Yes, it was dark at that time, and the minor and serious injuries had to be treated, and they went up the mountain overnight for fear of an ambush, so they retreated to Hengtang and returned to the mountain early this morning."

"Didn't send anyone to report last night?"

"Originally, Ding Wu was sent to report the news", Chu Jianli smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I didn't expect to find this guy halfway this morning, fell my foot, and carried it back together." ”