"Oh," Boss Chen smiled, "the guests on my ship, those goods are also theirs, I remember that the number of them seems to be twenty-one, these are probably oversleeping on the ship." ”

"Then why don't they move the goods themselves?" Su Jingchen asked.

"I don't know, people give me money to help them unload, and the price is quite high, how can there be a reason not to make money if you have money, right?" Boss Chen suddenly regretted it after saying this, he turned his head, and sure enough, Su Jingchen and Lou Qi looked at him with blank eyes, he sighed and said, "Okay, okay, I'll give you more wages later, okay?" ”

"Good!" The two said in unison.

"Okay, this is it," Boss Chen pointed to the small boat warehouse in front of him, "You move the goods to the dock first, and then I'll tell you where to move." ”

"Okay." Lou Qi walked over to the box and geared up.

Su Jingchen walked to the other side of the box, stretched out his hand and tried it, it was indeed very heavy, but what was stuffed in the box that was more than three feet long?

"Brother Su, come," Lou Qi squatted down and grabbed both sides of the box, and looked at Su Jingchen, "One, two, get up!" ”

The box was lifted up at once, but most of this was Lou Qi's credit, Su Jingchen couldn't feel the weight of this box at all, he just helped Lou Qi stabilize the box at most.

Boss Chen gave them a thumbs up, laughed and said, "It's worthy of Lou Qi, then I'll wait for you on the dock first, and you move slowly." ”

Lou Qi was in front, Su Jingchen was behind, the cabin was too small, they could only move slowly along the corridor, and they had to worry about whether they would suddenly touch the torch.

"Lou Qi, is this box heavy?" Su Jingchen's voice suddenly came from behind the box.

"Hmm...... It's about 500 catties or 600 catties, it's okay. Lou Qifeng said lightly.

The corners of Su Jingchen's eyes twitched, and what did his heart say was okay, this is almost like you being moving alone, and you can lift five or six hundred pounds of things by yourself without panting, what kind of monster are you. A sound of metal collision suddenly came out of the box, very small, and fleeting, in this way, it should be some metal parts inside, it is not strange to move it, the box is very quiet, so the goods inside should have been fixed a long time ago, probably just don't want people to know what is inside.

Su Jingchen frowned, the sound just now, it should be ...... Weapons?

"Now you can send these things to Haifeng Lane and enter the fourth gate, don't worry about the rest, come to me to get paid after you send them." Boss Chen stood next to the goods, he looked calm, but his palms were full of sweat.

"Where is Haifeng Lane, is it far away?" Su Jingchen asked.

"It's not far away, just around that corner." Boss Chen smiled.

Lou Qi looked at Boss Chen's eyes and stared at him, and said in his heart that this guy didn't have so many smiling faces before, why is he like this today, did he pick up the money or marry off his fat daughter?

"Why are you still looking at Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu has money on his face or what? Boss Chen scolded angrily, "Hurry up and move things for Lao Tzu!" ”

Lou Qi smiled, that's right, this is the Boss Chen who loves to lose his temper and slam the door.

......

"This is it?" Lou Qi gently opened the hidden door with his back, and the door seemed to be open all along, just to wait for the two of them. Su Jingchen looked around, this dilapidated yard should have been uninhabited for a long time, there was dust everywhere, and most of the flowers in a few flower pots were yellow, but the weeds in the corners were thriving.

"Won't someone else take it if you put it here?" Lou Qi was a little worried.

"It naturally makes sense for us to put it here," Su Jingchen put away his eyes and said in a cold tone, "Let's move quickly and leave, something is wrong here." ”

No matter how stunned Lou Qi was, he also felt that Su Jingchen said "something was wrong" at this moment, in the dark of this room, there were several cold eyes staring at them, making Lou Qi like a man's back.

After a stick of incense, they finally finished moving the five boxes, Boss Chen unexpectedly gave them two silver leaves per person, Lou Qi looked at Boss Chen, and almost shocked his jaw, that Boss Chen, who gave eleven copper leaves together and deducted one, was so generous? Today is really the sun beating in the west.

"Let's go, let's go," Boss Chen waved his hand at them, "Don't come here for the next two days." ”

"Boss Chen is so generous? Move these goods and give two silver leaves? Su Jingchen asked Lou Qi in a low voice, rubbing the silver leaf in his hand, thinking about what good things he was going to eat later.

"He? Stingy one! But I don't know why I'm so generous today. Lou Qi put away the silver leaf, and suddenly patted his head, "Three days ago, an old man asked me to go to Huayan Street and let me learn skills from him, I didn't want to go, but since I have made so much money today, let's go and see, forget if you don't learn anything, if you really learn something, you will earn it." After speaking, he laughed dryly twice, and asked Su Jingchen if he wanted to go with him.

Su Jingchen agreed, he was not familiar with Huaiyang, instead of wandering around alone, it was better to follow Lou Qi, familiarize himself with this city, and maybe learn something from the old man in Lou Qi's mouth.

At this moment, in the dilapidated courtyard just now, several men came out of the darkness and stood under the eaves, among which the leading man walked towards the box piled up high, and gently stroked the edge of the box, like a woman caressing her beautiful jade, "Those two teenagers just now, kill them." ”

"Yes!" The rest of the men replied neatly.

"Remember to find a secluded place." The man said again, his eyes were as calm as windless water, without a trace of waves, and human life seemed to him like mustard.

......

"But the old man didn't say when to look for him, what if he wasn't there?" Lou Qi scratched his head.

"Let's go over and have a look, and if I'm not there, you can show me around." Su Jingchen proposed.

"That's right, I'll take you to Shiquan Street to see when the time comes! I can't count the good food over there. ”

"Boy, you're here early." Lou Qi turned his head, and an old man was sitting on a noodle stall, holding a pair of chopsticks and noodles in his hand, looking at himself with a smile, "Do you want to eat noodles?" ”

"Would you like it?" Lou Qi grinned.

"Okay, please, call the little brother behind you too," the old man turned his head, "Boss, two more bowls of noodles." ”

The two sat down next to the old man, Su Jingchen was hesitating to say something, but the old man spoke first, "Little brother, but it's from the north?" ”

"Yes," Su Jingchen raised his head and looked into the old man's eyes, "How do you know?" ”

The old man stroked his beard and laughed, "You don't care how I know, anyway, I came to Huaiyang this time, and I earned it." ”

"Earned?" Su Jingchen was a little puzzled.

"The secret of heaven must not be revealed," the old man looked at Su Jingchen, turned his head to look at Lou Qi, and laughed again, "You kid is really a lucky star, and it is not in vain that I have traveled so far." ”

"Fuxing? Can you treat me to two more bowls of noodles? Lou Qi looked at the old man and said seriously.

"I ...... too" Su Jingchen's eyes lit up, probably because he felt that it was inappropriate, and his voice was lowered again.

"The old man doesn't have anything else, I still have the money to invite the two of you to eat noodles, and today's noodles are enough!"

Half an hour later, the bowls on the table were already piled up like a hill, and Lou Qi burped and enjoyed it, "I'm full, I'm full." ”

Su Jingchen also touched his mouth and put down the bowl embarrassedly, "I'm also full." ”

"It's a blessing to be able to eat, it's a blessing to be able to eat," the old man stood up, leaving a silver ingot on the table, "Boss, settle the bill." After speaking, the old man walked away on his own, and then saw that Su Jingchen and Lou Qi did not follow, so he turned around and said, "Boys, you can't come yet?" Haven't you had enough yet? ”

Only then did the two of them stand up and trot after them.

(Note: The silver ingots here do not conflict with the silver leaves that appeared before, silver ingots, gold ingots, copper coins and broken silver are the main circulating currencies of Xi, silver leaves, gold leaves and copper leaves are relatively small, the value of the two "leaves" is relatively high, and the production process is more complicated, most of them are rich and noble families or official eunuchs will use this as a symbol of status, and the style of the "leaves" of ordinary rich and noble families and official eunuchs is also different, which will be explained later.) ）

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"Old man, what can you teach me?" Lou Qi followed the old man, like a chirping sparrow.

"It's up to you to make it, but if you want to learn from me, you'll have to call me Master."

"Then what if I don't look down on your skills and don't want to learn." Lou Qi said like this again, so frightened that Su Jingchen wanted to go over and cover his mouth, people just invited us to eat noodles, you just broke people's face like this, is it really ...... Stayed home.

"Hahaha, looking at the whole world, there is no one who says that he can't look down on the old man's ability," the old man was not annoyed, but slowly stroked his beard, "If you don't look down on the old man's ability and don't learn, why do you ask so much." ”

"You're not going to let me pay back the money I just paid off, are you?"

The old man was stunned this time, dare you kid think about that money in his head? He smiled helplessly, "Don't worry, it won't." ”

"How long do I have to study, I still have to go to the docks to do things during the day, I'm afraid I won't be able to come to you at night." Lou Qi said again.

The old man smiled bitterly, "Then let's do it, don't go to the dock, come directly to me, I'll teach you skills, and then give you the start of the work, how about it?" ”

"Oh? Are you sure? Lou Qi suddenly became interested, "Then how much can you pay me?" ”

"That's the number." The old man held up two fingers.

"Two copper leaves?"

The old man shook his head.

"Twenty?"

The old man shook his head again.

"Are you going to give me two silver leaves?!"

The old man still shook his head, "You come to me, one day, I will give you twenty silver leaves, see how you learn in the future, I can also send you two more treasures." ”

"Master!" Lou Qi suddenly grabbed the old man's hand and shouted, and then he asked again, "What about my friend?" ”

The old man was startled by Lou Qi's sudden "master", and it took a long time to recover, "Don't worry, he is indispensable." ”

"If I knew it was so simple, I wouldn't have gone around the bush with your kid and just gave you money." The old man patted Lou Qi's head a little harder.

"And what about the two treasures you just mentioned? And how much is it worth. ”

The old man suddenly raised his head and rewarded Lou with a chestnut, "Priceless treasure, ten thousand gold is not sold, you kid is really out of money, if I give you those two treasures, are you going to sell them if you change hands?" ”

Lou Qi shook his head, "Then it depends on how much others bid, didn't you just say that you won't sell it?" I can't sell it for 10,000 gold, maybe I'll sell it if someone gives me 20,000 gold? ”

The old man is another chestnut.