Chapter 80: The Passage

After the discussion was settled, Shi Bin followed Jia Ling to bring the wounded soldiers all the way back to Nanyang City from Xinzhou day and night.

In order not to let Shi Bin, who is easy to be more serious and nervous, look normal at that time, and not lose her Jia Ling's face, outside the city, Jia Ling gave him a preventive shot: business is to be discussed, not one party has the final say. Even old customers have to talk; What's more, now that there is a new product - wounded soldiers, it is even more important to talk about.

This batch of 'goods' is very good to ask for a price, and it is not normal for those smugglers in charge of logistics to take the opportunity to raise the price.

is the so-called "no business, no traitor", let alone this kind of person who only has interests in his eyes and has no thoughts of family and country?

After Jia Ling's repeated advice, Shi Bin also understood to some extent that all negotiations are asking for a price to pay back, so not being arrogant or impatient is the true meaning.

It would be nice to know that her husband's character would be able to suppress his temper in the negotiations that would follow, and that he would have to wait for the sun to come out of the west.

So Jia Ling kept whispering in Shi Bin's ear on the way into the city: Don't make a sound, let her talk, and shut up if you want to save more wounded soldiers.

Although he knew that his wife must be a patriotic girl, seeing her like this also made Shi Bin feel a little helpless.

After entering the city, he went straight to Li Ji Silk Village. I've seen enough of the street scene of Nanyang for a long time, and I have to do this dirty deal, so Shi Bin didn't appreciate this bamboo at all, and the traffic was busy.

At this time, he just wanted to negotiate a good deal with those brutes who only knew how to make money and didn't know the righteousness as soon as possible, and then immediately went back to cut off the heads of the Yuan people.

Walking along the rows of shops, Shi Bin was dazzled, and gradually the signboard in his eyes was basically the same except for the words on it.

A good wooden board with edges, engraved with a few atmospheric words in the yin or yang, and finally brushed with various colors of paint. Even the names are basically the same, 'Li Ji 、、、', 'Wang Ji 、、、', 'Liu Ji 、、、', or '、、、 Pavilion', '、、、 Xuan'、、、 Tang'.

Finally arrived at Li Ji Silk Village, at a glance you know that it is an old shop that has been operating for many years, although the façade is old but not broken, although quiet but not deserted, it can be seen that the owner is very capable of managing business.

Seeing a few customers outside the door, the shopkeeper immediately ran out and invited Shi Bin and Jia Ling in.

Shi Bin secretly thought that this boss was probably a brother with Liu Wang, who welcomed Wang San, and he must be out of the same door, and he also leaned against the door when he went out, so that customers could not turn around and go out smoothly.

The boss asked Shi Bin and Jia Ling with a smile what good materials they needed, although they said it vigorously, it didn't seem noisy, and the smile on their faces didn't make people feel hypocritical.

If he hadn't known that this was a north-south smuggling contact point, Shi Bin would have really been fooled, thinking that this shopkeeper was a serious businessman.

Such an agent is what Shi Bin can't ask for, if possible, he really wants to poach him and make him an agent who has more than money in his eyes and the righteousness of the country.

After taking a sip of the tea brought by the shopkeeper, Jia Ling walked to the counter and said, "Shopkeeper, what good goods do you have?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't say what goods he had, but smiled at Jia Ling and said, "Boss, we have all kinds of silk, just look at what you want, what you want is the most important thing." ”

It stands to reason that ordinary businessmen must take advantage of this time to put out their best goods, but few will ask, 'the most important thing is to meet the customer's wishes'.

Now there is no concept of customer first at all, but it is very safe to elicit the other party's code words like this, and it also makes a good reputation as a cover, Shi Bin can't help but sigh again at the depth of this old man's skills.

"To be able to float across the Han River to sell silk to Jingzhou... Jia Ling uttered the code words.

"There are such goods, but there are not many stocks, I'm afraid the price will go up, and you have to start quickly. . . ." The shopkeeper looked serious, as if he was really talking about business with Jia Ling, and even his tone was slightly anxious, as if he was afraid that he, the customer, would suffer.

"Prices can go up, as long as they don't go too far. They are all old customers, so they should be taken care of! Just get a 20% discount. "Jia Ling is obviously also a suitable master to be a businessman, which is very clever. Shi Bin couldn't help but admire his smart wife even more on the side.

Because if he wants him to kill Yuan Bing, he is an absolute expert, but if he wants him to make a price, he is not as good as a primary school student, even if he knows that the other party is making a random offer, it is difficult for him to suppress the price to normal.

I always feel embarrassed to lower the price, as if the price reduction is a loss of shares, and it is squeezing those "poor" working people.

With such a ridiculous idea, he can only be slaughtered, not to mention let him get a discounted price, and maybe after being slaughtered, he will be scolded by the store for being stupid.

Seeing that Jia Ling was willing to accept the conditions of the price increase, the shopkeeper led Jia Ling and the others into a windowless secret room in the back hall, leaving only a child in the hall to watch.

casually took out a fire fold and lit the kerosene lamp on the wall, and after arranging for the two to sit down, the shopkeeper immediately changed his face and said coldly: "Miss Jia, you are so bold, do you know how worried your father is?" ”

After a long time, Jia Ling and the shopkeeper have known each other for a long time, and it seems that Jia Ling has taken care of a lot of business for her father.

That's right, such a smart and unstable daughter, if she doesn't do something for her, she doesn't know what trouble she can do.

"Uncle Li, isn't this okay for me? With my husband here, it will be fine to go to Mobei, you don't know his ability, right? Jia Ling immediately smiled obediently and begged for Shopkeeper Li, and said a lot of good things, which can be regarded as a "sweet talk" offensive.

Obviously, he couldn't stand Jia Ling's fake pleading, and the shopkeeper Li finally couldn't bear to agree not to say that he had seen her, but in exchange he didn't want to discount his business.

Between freedom and interests, this woman who hates bondage chose freedom without the slightest hesitation, as long as the shopkeeper Li does not make a random offer, everything is easy to talk about, and she can talk about it.

Seeing Shi Bin sitting like a wood carving on the side, Shopkeeper Li immediately apologized and said: "This must be the commander of the stone, the prestige of the adult is like thunder, the naughty niece who just taught me forgot you, it is rude, please don't be surprised。。。。。 ”

Some scenes are just words, no one will mind, Shi Bin is also a set of kind words, even if the atmosphere is 'harmonious'.

"May I ask what kind of goods are you going to ship in my small shop? Our goods here are clearly marked with a price and cover no counteroffer. ”

Shi Bin is not afraid of this, and there is a clever ghost like Jia Ling, who is not afraid of not reducing the price. As soon as he was about to speak, he was immediately stepped on by Jia Ling and shut up.

"It's not a big deal, it's just a matter of transporting a few wounded soldiers back to Jingzhou。。。。。。。。" Jia Ling said this lightly, as if she was asking the logistics boss to transport a few truckloads of cabbage instead of some wounded soldiers.

I knew that my niece was a restless master, but I didn't expect that I would dare to use this passage to help Shi Bin transport the wounded soldiers, although the shopkeeper Li was still laughing, but this smile was more ugly than crying.

He doesn't have to worry about smuggling pig iron, tea, and refined salt, there are people to take care of him along the way, but this is troublesome, those mud legs like to chew the root of their tongue, and once the news leaks, their business will be ruined.

He had no choice but to stammered and said to Jia Ling: "Niece Jia, you, you are also considerate and considerate of my uncle, it is too difficult to transport wounded soldiers, in case, if it leaks out, something big will happen... ”

It's another coquettish trick, and said that he could pay twice the freight to Shopkeeper Li, but this time it was useless, after all, it involved life and death, and it couldn't be a child's play.

As if knowing the temperament of the shopkeeper Li, Jia Ling was not depressed when she saw that it was useless to be coquettish, she raised her head and didn't look at him, but said with a smile: "Uncle Li, I have a cornucopia here, it depends on whether you dare to take it, it's okay if you don't take it, I believe that others will be willing to take it, and they are lining up to grab it." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Jia Ling still sat on the rattan chair with her head tilted, her eyes closed, and Erlang's legs crossed, and shook slightly.

Risk is proportional to profit, how much risk is how much gain, the shopkeeper obviously knows this, so he asked: "Okay, tell me what this cornucopia is?" ”

Jia Ling said confidently: "Yuan Bing's head." What do you think? Me and ... ”

Before he finished speaking, a greedy light appeared in the eyes of Shopkeeper Li, and he immediately interrupted Jia Ling's words: "Niece Jia, what did you just say?" Did I hear me right? Yuan Bing's head? You didn't fool me? ”

Looking at his greedy and anxious appearance with a smile, at this time, the shopkeeper Li seemed to be a vampire who saw blood in the dark, and everything else could be discarded with blood.

With this key to the secret passage, the rest of the matter is much easier.

Another greedy face was revealed, of course the shopkeeper Li knew how valuable a Yuan soldier's head was, and the offer was a wounded soldier's head and a Yuan soldier's head, otherwise there was no need to talk about it.

Jia Ling is naturally not a vegetarian, saying that ten wounded soldiers have a head of a yuan soldier, otherwise there is no need to talk about it, and by the way, he also laughed at the insatiable greed of the shopkeeper Li.

Naturally, he would not be concerned with this naughty niece, so he began to make sense: "Look at Uncle Li's words, first, we haven't lucked anyone, let alone Song Bing, who still fought the Yuan people; Second, the risk for me to take on those mud legs is too great, once we are found by the Yuan people, we will die without a whole body; Thirdly, I've certainly been doing a lot more than usual for it; Fourth, there are rules for everything, and it is taboo to change the rules without authorization. ”

Jia Ling, the little fox, also put on a big show: "Uncle Li, you are from the Song Dynasty, right?" We want to transport the warriors who were injured because of the anti-Yuan, and a kind person like you will definitely not turn a blind eye and will definitely help you, right, so I think that a person like you will not care about these heads, even if you transport them across the river for free, you will do it, let's just count one head of ten wounded soldiers. What's more, you know better than your niece how valuable this yuan human head is, and your uncle can't go too far. ”

After wearing such a high hat, Shopkeeper Li couldn't stand it anymore and finally compromised, saying that one head of the five wounded soldiers was the bottom line, otherwise he would ask Jia Ling to go to another smuggling station.

knew that it was impossible to 'ask the horses to run again, and to ask the horses not to eat grass', and it was not okay to have no benefits, so Jia Ling finally said very 'generously': If you help them transport fifty wounded soldiers, you will send another Yuan soldier's head to express her gratitude.

Now Shi Bin has one hundred and forty-seven wounded soldiers, and Shopkeeper Li has a greedy look in his eyes again.

Knowing that the big thing has been decided, and one or two more heads are not a big deal, Shi Bin said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Li, let's count it according to one hundred and fifty wounded soldiers, which is simple and pleasant, and the extra heads are not deducted, how about thirty-three?" ”

This result has already made Shopkeeper Li crazy with joy, you must know that ten yuan human heads can make ordinary officials be promoted to one level, and now there are thirty-three of those who paid to buy them and didn't break their heads? Can he not make a lot of money?

However, he still acted as if he had suffered a big loss and was very helpless, and agreed with Shi Bin's proposal.

The business was finally negotiated, although Shi Bin was not so happy, and he deeply despised the brazen shopkeeper Li in his heart, but it also made him understand that there are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. ’