It was already late at night, and there was silence in the city of Guangling County, but the wharf was lively as if it was daytime, and some cargo ships had only arrived now, and they were moored in the port, and the men who were working as coolies rushed up, standing beside the boat, looking directly at the ship, hoping that the people on the ship could choose themselves and let themselves help unload the goods.

The wages were paid more at night, so these people preferred not to sleep and waited here.

Bai Jiu walked through the alleyway, the shadow changed on him, he appeared in the lamplight, and then disappeared again in the darkness.

He waited for Ye Yuhui to fall asleep before coming out, because he had no money.

Shangtun Hai, from Guangling to Huaiyang, at least twenty taels of silver, one person, but that was before, now many people want to leave by boat, so the price of the ticket has more than doubled, two people, you have to ask for one hundred taels of silver, if you want to eat something good on the boat, then you have to add another ten taels, if you want to have a place to sleep peacefully, you have to add another twenty taels.

"You alone occupy the position, and the goods you can transport are worth the money, but more than twenty taels."

Now Bai Jiujiu only has some scattered pieces of silver on his body, and if he wants to board the ship, there is still a lot of difference.

If he is the only one, then everything is easy to say, he can quietly hide in a corner of the boat alone, and wait for the dead of night, and then go and steal something to eat, but there is Ye Yuyi, that little girl can't follow her, then she will definitely not be able to bear it, so she still has to buy a ferry ticket honestly, at least, she has to scrape together enough money for a person's ferry ticket.

So Bai Jiujiu is planning to come out to pick up some "work" tonight.

It's not moving, it's ...... Homicide.

Turning another corner, Bai Jiujiu unconsciously pulled up the hood, hiding his face under the hood, so as not to be recognized by some old acquaintances and cause some unnecessary trouble.

There was a small inconspicuous door in front of it, and the whole road was dark, and there was no light coming out of that small door, and it looked like a dead end.

But Bai Jiu walked straight forward, gently pushed open the small door, and closed it gently, the small door creaked and turned, making a tooth-aching sound.

In this cramped crack, which can only accommodate one person to go straight, there is actually a small door hidden, and the light from the small door can be heard, and some sounds can be faintly heard.

Bai Jiujiu walked over and naturally pushed open the door, this is an inn-like room, there is some wine on the counter, and there are some portraits, on the west side of the room, the whole wall is posted with the same "wanted warrant", which indicates the price of killing that person, where that person lives, some of the wanted warrants are still painted portraits, some are not, the price of killing people ranges from a few taels to hundreds of taels, or even thousands of taels.

There were not many people in the house, many of them were like Bai Jiujiu, hiding their faces under their hoods and drinking the wine in front of them quietly, Bai Jiujiu knew that these people were all killers in this city.

These rooms will rarely have "guests" to patronize, most of the guests, are selected by this inn, the inn will send someone to visit the guests, ask the guests if there is someone they want to kill, what the price they want to offer, whether that person is killed or not, the inn will take a percentage of the profit, if the person is not killed within a year, the inn will return the money to the guest, the guest can also choose to continue to hang the "wanted warrant" of the person he wants to kill in the inn, and when the person he wants to kill is killed, the inn will send someone to inform him, It is not just an empty talk, but an ear, a finger, or an eyeball of the enemy, and if the guest needs it, they can also take the guest to see the enemy's corpse.

This "inn" in Guangling, white September

For the first time, he walked into the inn and walked straight to the west side of the house, intending to pick a suitable wanted post, which was the stupidest thing to do in the "inn", as it would make the other killers think you were provoking them.

Bai Jiujiu stood by the wall, touched his chin, looked at those identical, regular and neat fonts, and felt that his eyes were a little flowery.

"Kill Zhang Mazi in the west of the city, ten taels of silver." No, too little.

"Kill the king of the north of the city five, twenty-three taels of silver." It's still too little.

"Kill Zhao Jin in the north of the city, this dog day should be cut with a thousand cuts! Thirty-five taels of silver! Bai Jiujiu couldn't help but hold his forehead, and said in his heart, why should he add the sentence in the middle? Could it be that the guest specially told it? This thing has to pay more, right?

"Kill the county guard, 100,000 taels of silver."

Kill the county guard...... It's not impossible, but this one looks at it and you know it's fake, 100,000 taels of silver, which bastard quietly posted it here, right? The fonts are all different.

After watching it for a long time, Bai Jiujiu still didn't find a suitable one, either the money given was too little, or the money was enough, there were too many people to kill, and it couldn't be processed at one time, it was too wasteful of time, although Bai Jiujiu wanted to take those small orders together, but the inn had regulations, one person, within three days, could only take one order, otherwise there were too many people who died, and it was easy to attract the attention of the government.

And the departure of Tunhai will be tomorrow afternoon, so Bai Jiujiu can only take one order.

Bai Jiujiu sighed softly, "There is still no suitable one." ”

"The guests can't find a suitable brand," the inn's "shopkeeper" doesn't know when he stood behind Bai Jiujiu, in the inn, whether it is a killer or a person looking for a killer, they are all called guests, but the killers prefer to call those clients guests, as for them, they are more like the "little two" in the inn.

Bai Jiujiu didn't go to look at the shopkeeper, but replied coldly, "Yes, do you have any suitable brand recommendations here?" ”

"I don't know what the guests want?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile.

"The remuneration should be more than one hundred taels, don't waste too much time, I will leave Guangling by boat tomorrow afternoon."

The shopkeeper pondered for a moment and replied, "I'm sorry, guest, but there is probably no sign you want." ”

"No?" Bai Jiu was stunned.

"Yes, I'm sorry," the shopkeeper bowed slightly towards Bai Jiujiu and said, "The things that guests who bid more than one hundred taels have to deal with are a little complicated, or the distance is a little far. ”

"But ......"

"But what?" Bai Jiu frowned.

"There is a guest today, and we did not put his sign in the inn, because we judged that his bid was too small, and that little money was not enough for the man he was going to kill."

"How much does he come out of?" Bai Jiujiu asked subconsciously.

"Two hundred taels, and one that says it is an ancestral bracelet, which is worth about seventy or eighty taels."

"Two hundred and seventy taels, that's not a lot, he has a lot of people to kill?"

"Not much, just one person."

"Then this brand should be enough to enter the inn, why don't you accept it?" Bai Jiu frowned, judging by the standards of the inn, to kill an ordinary person, the bid should be more than ten taels, the more you give, the sooner this task can be taken, kill a person who has some face in the surrounding streets, or rather, the identity is not too ordinary, the bid should be more than thirty taels, kill a small person in the city, the bid should be more than one hundred taels, if you want to kill a celebrity in the city, the bid should be more than one thousand taels, in short,

The more noble the status, the greater the price to pay for killing him.

"The person he wants to kill is Li Changxi's son, Li Changxi controls almost all the casinos in Guangling, and there are countless thugs under him, just in the courtyard of him and his son, there are more than ten courtyards, kill him, the bid should be more than 1,000 taels." The shopkeeper paused, and then said, "I see that the guest is in a hurry to use the money, if the guest is confident in his skills, he can go to the guest's home and take this sign by himself." ”

The shopkeeper thought that this young man would wave his hand and refuse, or at least hesitate, but he didn't expect Bai Jiujiu to ask directly, "Where is this person?" ”

......

......

Liu Yuming sat in the empty room, not saying a word, sluggish like a dead man.

The house was in shambles, broken porcelain pieces were everywhere, water was flowing all over the floor, tables and chairs were staggered, oil lamps were also poured on the ground, and sesame oil fused with the water and the overturned rouge along the ground, giving off a foul smell.

Their family was originally a well-off family, not rich, but they didn't worry about eating and drinking, there was an old mother at home, and Liu Yuming's wife was just passed by a few days ago, the two grew up as childhood sweethearts, and grew up to become husband and wife, which seems to be a common thing.

Liu Yuming has read some books, set up a primary school at home, imparted knowledge to those ignorant children, and collected some tuition fees by the way to subsidize the family. The mother is old, but she is also sensible, good to her daughter-in-law and son, and occasionally does something at home to subsidize the family.

But their good days came to an abrupt end a few days ago.

Li Changxi's son Li Weizhi, when he passed by the neighborhood that day, he fell in love with Ah Ling, regardless of three seven twenty-one, he was going to take Ah Ling home, the old mother came to stop it after seeing it, and was overthrown by Li Weizhi's men, and so Liu Yuming heard about it from the neighbors, and rushed to the scene, it was already too late, Ah Ling had already been taken away by Li Weizhi, and his mother was angry for a while, and she was in a hurry, and she died the next day, Liu Yuming went to Li Mansion to find Ah Ling, and was beaten by the family, and then those came to his house, Smashed his home to the ground.

The inn found him at this time, but Liu Yuming took all the things that could be used in the family, and he barely scraped together two hundred taels of silver, but the inn didn't plan to accept this brand, saying that the money he gave was not enough, and he found out the bracelet that was originally going to be handed over to Ah Ling, but it was still not enough.

"Can those who are extremely vicious continue to do evil?! We little people can only be trampled on the soles of our feet by him all the time?! When the innkeeper left, Liu Yuming yelled at his back.

The shopkeeper turned around unexpectedly and replied, "Not necessarily, as long as ...... The money you give is enough. ”

Liu Yuming looked at his broken palm, his hair was scattered, his eyes were red, he looked like a beggar, he looked at the bracelet, and then looked at the silver piled in front of him, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said:

"The Ancient God Emperor"

"If you don't kill him, you don't dare to kill him, then, I'll kill him!"

At the same time as he finished saying this, someone suddenly pushed open the hidden door of his house, Bai Jiujiu slowly walked into the house, frowned and said, "Your family is so poor? Can't afford to light the lights? ”

Liu Yuming stood up without thinking, and was about to yell, but Bai Jiuyue spoke again, he looked at Liu Yuming, and said casually, "Your people, are you still killing?" ”