Gu Feng was stunned for a moment, not understanding what it meant. Liu Qing hurriedly ran over to catch the conversation and said, "There are both living and dead, black and white mixed together!" ”

The man seemed to be thinking about it, and paused for a while before saying, "You guys go and talk to Boss Cheng himself!" ”

"You're not...... The boss is on board? ”

"Nope! In a teahouse on the opposite shore! Look at ......" Gu Feng followed the direction of his finger and saw a fat figure sitting in front of the large window of a wooden building near the river.

"Ho! It seems that Shopkeeper Cheng and I have the same hobbies, and I love tea like rice......"

"Where, my lord is usually a drunkard, and he only changed to drinking tea this month!"

"Huh? To see beautiful women? Gu Feng blurted out a question, but the man just smiled when he heard it, and didn't answer him.

As they approached the wooden building, they observed their surroundings. Gu Feng saw that Cheng Sanqiu was sitting in a position where he could see the situation inside and outside Fang Fang's flower boat in all directions.

Liu Qing was still pondering and asking, "What will be the problem with the business?" Smuggle? Let's sell food and salt at most! How dare you resell gunpowder? ”

Gu Feng smiled and reminded him, "What about the traffickers? ”

"Huh? Traffickers...... That's right, junior brother! An old official reported that an old hunter who had entered the mountains heard the cry of a child from a cliff that was nearly a thousand feet high. ”

"It can't be a partridge, a wild cat, an ape or something, right?"

"The old hunter won't be able to tell the difference!"

"When we go back, let's go into the mountains and have a look!"

Gu Feng was about to go upstairs to the tearoom to meet Cheng Sanqiu, and Yuhu and Yuni both gestured for them to go back, something was wrong. Zhang Zhutou came to report that the butchers in the county had gathered and asked Gu Feng what to do next?

Gu Feng whispered to Zhang Zhutou to go back and tell the butchers, saying that the pigs, cattle and sheep purchased by the county magistrate have not yet arrived, and they can't be killed today, so put their slaughtering tools in the county office, and people should go back first, and come back early tomorrow. Zhang Zhutou looked at the county master suspiciously, and took the order.

Gu Feng and Liu Qing continued to meet Cheng Sanqiu, as soon as they met, Gu Feng was really taken aback, looking at it from a distance, this guy was a big guy, and when he got closer, he didn't expect it to be a big, big guy. It is a head taller than the ancient style, taller than Liu Qingdu, and the waist needs two ordinary people to hug each other for a week. At this time, there are two big fat servants by his side!

"Boss Cheng? Our brother came here to cooperate with you to do business, we have a batch of dry goods to sell, live goods and dead goods, I don't know if Boss Cheng is interested? ”

The eyes that were squeezed by the upper and lower eyelids and only had a slit left, they tried hard to open them, but they couldn't see whether they were open or not, anyway, Gu Feng and the two of them didn't see Cheng Sanqiu's eyes. Cheng Sanqiu said angrily at them: "It's already full!" I can't take any more dead or alive goods. Besides...... I don't know you, I only accept the goods of the old patron Qi Qianhu Qi, and other people's can't believe it, and I don't want to believe it. ”

Gu Feng thought to himself: "I can't believe it!" It's just that the business doesn't dare to be public! ”

After Gu Feng and the others left the teahouse and returned to the county office, they secretly ordered Liu Qing to find two clever officials to spy on Cheng Sanqiu. At night, Gu Feng ordered people to replace any of the knives left by the butchers with the murder weapon that killed Fang Fang. Early the next morning, when the butchers had arrived, he ordered them to claim their knives.

There was an old butcher who didn't have a knife, and the murder weapon was there, so Gu Feng called him and asked him why, he said that the knife was not his, it should be Xiao Huang, who sold tofu at Xicheng Gate.

Gu Feng ordered Zhang Zhutou to lead people to immediately go outside the West City Gate and catch Tofu Xiaohuang back. The little yellow sharp-beaked monkey gills and a pair of small black bean eyes are indeed obscene. As soon as he came, Gu Feng felt that he was not a thief, not like a small trader.

As soon as he saw the county master throw the sharp knife in front of him, before he could ask questions, Xiao Huang's face turned pale and he trembled.

At that time, the people were afraid of officials, officials, and fast arrests, unlike today's people, and criminal suspects were not afraid of the police. During the Ming Dynasty, there were many tortures invented in the East Factory and West Factory, and there were many unjust cases created, so ordinary people and criminals were particularly afraid of officials and officials.

did not take the big punishment, Xiao Huang confessed the murder.

It turns out that Xiao Huang does a small business during the day and has a second career at night......

When the night is dark and the wind is high, climb over the wall and cross the ridge, pry the door and lock, walk the alley, and steal. That night, he just wanted to try his luck at the dock with a sharp knife, and he slipped through two small warehouses and didn't find anything valuable, and when he saw that the door of Fang Fang's flower boat was open, he slipped in. It happened that Fang Fang was in the cabin, the candlelight was like a bean, and Xiao Huang didn't see it outside.

Fang Fang seemed very happy to hear someone enter the cabin, but when he met Xiao Huang, both of them were stunned.

"You're not the shopkeeper Cheng! You're a tofu little yellow ......"

Xiao Huang never expected that Fang Fang would be in the cabin, but Fang Fang saw it, and in a panic, he pulled out a knife and stabbed Fang Fang to death. Due to the panic of running out, he tripped under his feet again, the person did not fall but the knife flew away, and the flying knife happened to be pierced on the side of the cabin door, and the knife could not be found for a while, so Xiao Huang had to flee in a hurry.

Fang Fang's murder case was closed, and Gu Feng did not make Cheng Sanqiu and Qi Qianhu public. The flower boat was also driven away by Fang Fang's husband and sold. The arrester sent to monitor Cheng Sanqiu came back and reported that Cheng Sanqiu no longer went to drink tea in the tea room of the wooden building, but went to the hotel to drink, and the cargo ship was also loading, this time mainly loading porcelain.

"Senior brother, master! Can you catch that Cheng Sanqiu? ”

Gu Feng said regretfully: "Can't! There is no charge! Just based on Xiao Huang's words as a thief, he can't even prove whether he and Fang Fang have an adulterous tryst. ”

"What then? Still monitoring not? ”

"Monitor! But let's give up checking him, so as not to startle the snake, and instead go to check the Qi Qianhu he said! ”

With the help of Zhang Zhutou and Master Liu and others, Gu Feng quickly found Qi Qianhu's mansion in the mountain col northwest of the county ya, a small mountain village called Qijiawa, which is very close to a small Qidikou town.

How do you check it exactly? Gu Feng fell into contemplation for a while, according to the news from the people sent by Master Liu, the Qi family is very powerful, and there are still relatives in the army as officials. Qi Qianhu has been doing business since returning to his hometown, and there are discrepancies in cloth, tea, porcelain, and herbs. There is a special phenomenon, that is, Qijia is a "never night market", no matter day and night, it is bustling and the flow of customers is continuous, presumably the business is booming.

Because Gu Feng's thinking was too devoted, he didn't know when Gu Yu came to his side. Gu Yu raised his hand and shook it in front of the master's eyes, and said with a "giggle" smile: "Master, don't think about it!" If you want to pull out a rusty nail from his Qi Qianhu, how difficult is it? Let's take him under the knife, and investigate the underworld forces in Langhou County, 'the water does not wade and does not know the depth, and the cold and warmth do not know the warmth and coldness without leaving the house', and set off tonight to see what kind of 'year' the Qi family has spent at night, the slave suspects that they are doing 'dark business' in the black market. ”

"'Dark business'? What does it mean? ”

"I can't tell you a word, sir! You'll find out when you go and see it. It's still the four of us, but the senior brother wants to pretend to be a bodyguard and porter, the third sister wants to pretend to be a bookkeeper, and I am a little manservant, and there is no more than one of the four people! ”

After dark, the four of them set out on fast horses. When he slowed down and rested on the road, Liu Qing told Gu Feng about the "dark business", that is, the opening of the black market. This is an "underground business" that is not known to ordinary people, and there are two kinds of "live market" and "dead market". Most of them are single-operation markets, and few have both. Some powerful people collude with underworld forces, such as robbers, "gentlemen on the beams", tomb robbers, etc., to choose a hidden place, deep mountains and old forests, deep valleys and monasteries to trade.

That is to say, if someone in the underworld forces takes what he wants to sell to the black market for auction, if he negotiates a business with other peers or guests, the owner of the black market, that is, the leader of the black market, agrees, and the transaction is successful, and the owner guarantees that both parties can leave safely. If there is no auction of the things that are auctioned in the market, they will be sold to the owner at a discount. If you come to buy something but don't buy it, you can also go to the owner to find the right thing.

The transaction is only for people, children and women, then this black market is called "live market"; The trade only trades antique treasures, jade, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, then this black market is called a "dead market". It's rare to have a black market that deals in both people and treasures.

"Senior brother! What is the use of buying and selling human beings in the 'living market'? ”

"Hehehe...... Senior brother is still too kind! He deserves to be a good officer! The buying and selling of human beings has existed since ancient times, and the benefits are not small! ”

"Interests?"