"As far as you are wearing a shamanic Dharma protector robe, it looks like a black bear running down from Taibai Mountain? When the people saw you, they thought that there were fairies in Jincheng, who would dare to talk to you? Stove hook, go and change the head of the young gang master to be able to go out. ”

As soon as the tall and thin beggar called "Stove Hook" heard the command of the "young helmsman", his face immediately turned grim: "Helmsman, I will also have this "whole clothes", if I give them all to the young master, then I will have to go to the street bare-bottomed. Of course, our flowers don't care what kind of face is not faced, two big leaves can go out with a little cover, but it's really cool, isn't it? ”

Shen Gui, who was sitting on the grass, looked at the broken steps of the stove hook and felt a little uncomfortable, and commented around the circle and smashed his mouth:

"I said stove hook, with your current fishing net, he won't be warm in it! In this way, you go buy a civilian clothes, and let's change it ourselves. After speaking, Shen Gui took out half a piece of silver from his arms and threw it over.

"A young gang leader is a young gang leader, and a piece of silver thrown out casually is enough to strip half of the people of Jincheng naked!"

Shen Gui really couldn't hear the sour tone of the young man, so he turned around and walked to the broken temple courtyard to take a cooler. And the stove hook grinned, put half a piece of silver in his pocket, and turned to go out.

Within half an hour, the stove hook came back with a "processed" ragged clothes, and there was still a strong smell of wine on his body, and there was a strong smell of meat in the wine burp. As soon as Shen Gui saw the drunken blush on his face, he couldn't help but get angry:

"Furnace Hook, you're a character! I gave five taels of silver, and you can instill yourself with this virtue? How much money did you buy for this garment? ”

"Hiccup~ didn't spend any money!"

"Stolen? Or are you robbed? I'll tell you the furnace hook, we're serious flowers, how much you want to come is your own ability, stealing and kidnapping can't be ......"

Just when Shen Gui raised his eyebrows, the young helmsman waved his hand, pointed to the squinting drunken stove hook and said:

"Does he still have that craft? You drank a mere five taels of silver like this, and your mouth was still full of meat, so you must have left all the silver in the tavern. So if you say that this dress didn't cost money, where else did you say it came from? Speaking of this, the young helmsman put his hands in front of him, rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue: "This must be the shroud taken down from the mass grave!" ”

When the drunken stove hook heard this, the whole person suddenly stood up:

"It's not my fault! In these days, who still has clothes that can close the size of the young gang leader? And this dirty and broken is easy to make, but our flower is sour, can it be faked? If you want to pretend that we have a head and a tail, you smell it, let's get this smell, the gown on the ancestor may not be fresher than this body! I'm also thinking about the safety of the young helper! Hiccup~"

Shen Gui squinted his eyes, looked at the self-selling and boastful stove hook, gritted his teeth and popped out a few words from between his teeth:

"Okay, thank you Brother Hook, let's meet in the mountains and rivers, let Shen repay each other in the future."

A quarter of an hour later, Lu Hook took a "Shen Huazi" who came from other provinces and "picked up" on the battlefield for a living, and walked to a pawnshop in Jincheng together. There is a plaque hanging at the door of this pawnshop, with three big characters of "An and Dang" written on it, which means peace and harmony.

But in today's peace and harmony, there is no way to talk about peace and harmony, and the building has long been empty. In front of the fence stood an old man in rags, who was napping, as if he had not heard of Shen Gui and the two of them who pushed the door in.

As soon as the stove hook entered the door, he knocked on the cabinet of rails:

"Second master, wake up, it's time for business!"

The old man raised his eyelids slightly, coughed out loud again, spat on the ground with a 'bah', and asked in a hoarse voice:

"Out or in?"

It is said that the worship of this serious pawnshop asks "live or die", the second master in front of him has a mouth, it is indeed a brainless layman, it seems that there must be something else inside.

The furnace hook lowered his head and chatted with Shen Gui for a few words, and then lay on the fence again, and whispered in the old man's ear: "There are discrepancies, there are discrepancies, this is a master who specializes in "picking up the land" (a beggar who specializes in cleaning up the battlefield or collecting sacrifices), and some of them are good goods!" ”

When the second master heard this, he glanced at the stove hook with surprise, and then clicked the low door next to the fence cabinet with his chin: "Go in." ”

The two "Hanako" walked through the front hall and came to the backyard. This courtyard is no different from ordinary shops, there is a longhouse in the east, west, north and south, the longhouse in the south direction is all open for paving, and the other three rooms in the east and west and north are used as a residence or warehouse by the shopkeeper. But the open space in the center, which should have been an elegant small garden, is now crowded with people, and as soon as Shen Guigang entered the courtyard, he suddenly had an illusion: In fact, the men in Jincheng may be hiding here!

The courtyard is serpentine with four stall lines, and each stall owner spreads a piece of coarse cloth on the ground to make a stall, on which his own goods are placed. Most of these goods are antiques, calligraphy and paintings, raw and cooked medicinal materials, spices, cloth skins, etc., which are small-sized goods; There are also many small wooden signs that are upside down on the ground, but you can't tell what they mean just by looking at them.

"Behind these signs, there are unique markings. It's all bulk cargo. If both parties intend to make a deal, the buyer will take the corresponding brand, agree on the location with each other, inspect the goods with the wooden card, and clear the silver goods on the spot. ”

The furnace hook took Shen Gui to wander around and explained to him in detail. Shen Gui walked around a rough circle, and understood a little in his heart: it turned out that this Anhedang had been used by these Jianghu people for black market trading. And the old man at the door, the second master, is the "old man" who is responsible for guarding the door for the black market.

At present, the war is imminent, and most of the goods on the stalls are daily necessities, and those bulk goods written on wooden signs are also from batches of military blades and armor to raw minerals, grains and grass. The so-called prosperous collection of antiques, buying gold in troubled times, and those antiques, calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, and jade that are priceless on weekdays are now the most worthless things.

But no matter which black market, there is an unwritten rule: don't ask where you come from.

Whether you are selling or buying, you can't ask who the owner of these goods is, or where they come from. Even if your name is engraved on the goods, once it reaches the black market, it will not be yours, so you can do it if you want - take the silver!

Shen Gui walked around a few times, and he didn't have the leisure and elegance to buy or pick up leaks, so he whispered to the stove hook: "Where is the mouth seller?" ”

In addition to the "black-toothed people" who do not abide by the rules of tooth behavior, there are also information dealers who sell intelligence and clerks who collect money. As long as the people on the rivers and lakes eat with their upper and lower lips, they all belong to the category of selling mouths, but there are black and white.

"Well, it's all in the teahouses on the east and west!"

In these days, tea is a precious thing. These mouth-selling people drink those tea leaves that are comparable to gold, and they also have a meaning of raising their own value: Master, I have to drink tea for ten taels of silver, if you want to call me, the price is low, I am afraid that you will be embarrassed to speak!

Shen Gui and the stove hook were wearing this sour flower costume, and as soon as they walked into the "teahouse" in the east, they immediately attracted everyone's attention and sense of smell, but no one showed sarcasm and disdain, at most, they forcibly forbade their noses, picked up the bowl and sniffed the fragrance of the tea leaves.

It's not that these people are noble, but the people who can touch the door of this black market are a mixture of three sects and nine floors, even if two beggars come, it's nothing new.

As soon as Shen Gui and the stove hook entered the room, they lowered their heads and carefully looked at the tea utensils placed on each person's table. This black market tea house is different from ordinary tea houses, and the bowls in front of each person are also different. There are coarse porcelain sand bowls, and there are ordinary rice bowls; There are fine porcelain bowls, as well as Nankang clay pots; Even in front of a few old men, there are antique tea sets from the previous dynasty Dayan and even older ones, although the authenticity is not distinguishable for a while, but from the appearance of the reflective color, I also know that it must not be ordinary.

The tea sets and tea specifications in front of each person represent different charging standards. And only those who have antique tea utensils have the right to not have to clearly mark the price. The "goods" in their mouths need to be negotiated by buyers and sellers according to specific needs, and it is a real seller's market.

Shen Gui turned around carefully and walked to the table of an old man with a single hat bowl:

"I'm looking for someone!"

The old man stretched out three fingers, opened his eyes and forbidden his nose, and immediately stretched out two more fingers.

The stove hook was not happy at first glance:

"I said shopkeeper Zhou, you are sitting on the ground and starting the price, otherwise let's call a steward to reason?"

This week, the shopkeeper followed the sound and saw that he banned the golden nose, but he didn't hurry to speak, only raised his hand and waved towards the young man who made tea, and pointed to the two, and the little guy ran out of the teahouse in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, he ran back, and lit a piece of "bark" in front of the table of the shopkeeper Zhou. The young man carefully counted the numbers, bowed and returned to the counter to continue his nap.

Shen Gui nodded, took out a silver ticket worth five hundred taels from his arms, and pointed to the awkward look of the furnace hook and said:

"Shopkeeper Zhou, if I let him out now, can you refund me another hundred taels of agarwood money?"

Shopkeeper Zhou glanced at it and found that it was the ticket of Huinan Qianzhuang (special mark, a pass that recognizes the ticket but does not recognize the person), and shook his head with a smile:

"Just with this smell of death on your body, it's worth the two hundred taels of incense."

"The name of the person I want to find is Liniang, it is our Jincheng prefect Master Gu, the missing concubine in the house."

This week, when the shopkeeper heard the word Liniang, his expression finally brought a trace of solemnity, and he repeatedly fiddled with the silver ticket in his hand, looking as if he was afraid of the silver ticket piercing his hand. After waiting for a long time, he waved his hand at the old man sitting first at the root of the north wall, and then said to Shen Gui:

"There is really news about her, but I don't know whether it's true or not. A fixed price, eight thousand taels of silver, only Huinan notes or the same amount of cash are collected! ”

Shen Gui nodded, the price was not a problem for him at all. Looking back at the furnace hook that came with him, he saw that he also stretched out a hand, put it in front of Shen Gui and said:

"I don't know if it's true or false, I told you before, I also want eight thousand silver!"