Chapter Thirty-Six: The Mysterious Merchant
On the official road to Kushui Town, there is a carriage running with the banner of 'Zhenwei', and the dart masters on horseback gallop back and forth in front and behind. In a large car at the back of the convoy, a man with a black face and broad eyebrows and an elegant-looking young man were playing chess, but although the two were obsessed with chess pieces, their minds were obviously not on the chessboard in front of them.
"Yu Liyan's kung fu is indeed higher than mine, but unfortunately I can't admit it to him personally." Han Baobao put down the chess pieces in his hand, his dark face was a little sentimental, in the Five Tiger Gods of Beiting, although he had no friendship with Yu Liyan, and he had fought before, he had always admired this poor soldier who was promoted step by step by virtue of military merits.
"The Turks will pay the price." Hua Mantang's clear voice overflowed with murderous aura, and the chess pieces in his hand were crushed.
"Gao Aocao and Yang Dayan won't come." Han Baobao looked at the full hall of flowers, and the chess pieces in his hand knocked on the chessboard.
"If they don't come, can't we kill 'him'?" Hua Mantang picked up a chess piece, stared at the chessboard, and muttered to himself.
"Aren't you afraid that we will die then?" Looking at the chess pieces falling from Hua Mantang, Han Baobao suddenly sneered, "I still don't believe in the surname Zhu." ”
"I don't believe him either." Hua Mantang raised his head, glanced at Han Baobao, and lowered his voice, "There are still three days to go from Kushui Town, when are you going to leave." ”
"Tonight." Han Baobao's chess pieces fell on Tian Yuan, and then said to Hua Mantang, "You lost." ”
"Okay, listen to you." Hua Mantang looked down at the chess game on the board and shook his head, "I'm still not as good as you!" ”
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In Kushui Town, a middle-aged scribe who looked thirty years old and looked a little depressed arrived in front of the Yunlai Inn and pushed open the dark door.
"Girl, open me a room." The depressed middle-aged scribe walked to the large cabinet.
"I'm a man." Ah Zi glanced coldly at the person in front of him with eagle-like eyebrows, and lifted the bookkeeping pen, "What's your name, and how long do you plan to stay." ”
"Xu Yanran, you have to live for about half a month?"
"Ten gold baht, wine and rice money is calculated separately." After writing quickly, Ah Zi said coldly.
Taking out ten gold baht from his arms, Xu Yanran put it on the desk and sighed, "This price is almost catching up with the natural residence in Chang'an." ”
Ah Zi took the copper key, threw it over, and said coldly, "You can not stay, you can leave at any time, but the house money will not be refunded." ”
On the second floor, Leon leaned against the railing, looking at the noisy lobby, and his eyes fell on the middle-aged scribe who came in.
"Are you looking at him?" Feng Siniang floated to Li Ang's side like a red cloud, and after glancing at it, she laughed, "I didn't expect you to be young, and your eyes are quite poisonous." ”
"Does Boss Wind think there's something wrong?" Li Ang looked at Feng Siniang beside him and asked.
"Old Jianghu, be careful." Feng Siniang glanced at the middle-aged scribe against the wall and said, "It's very tricky." ”
"Is it that powerful?" Li Ang stared at Feng Siniang, his eyebrows trembling.
"Don't pretend to be with me, if the person who is in the coffin Huang doesn't even have this eyesight, the old lady will go to buy a piece of tofu and die." Feng Siniang smiled and floated downstairs.
"What does Captain Li think of Boss Feng?" Li Zhengcheng walked behind Li Ang with his hand and asked with a smile.
"You must be a good person!" Li Ang turned around, looked at Li Zheng who was walking and replied.
Li Zheng walked to the railing, looked at the people downstairs for a while, and muttered to himself, "Well, sit against the wall, you can see at a glance, who is coming, what is going, you can see it clearly, I really picked a good place." ”
"I don't know which way someone who is so careful?" Turning around, Li Zheng looked at Li Ang and said with a smile.
"Master Li can send someone to check on him." Leon turned around and said with a smile, "If you can't find out, you might as well kill it." ”
After Li Ang finished speaking, he clenched his fists and said goodbye and went back to the room. In this inn, there are more than one pair of eyes staring at him secretly, except for Jinyiwei, there are other people who have inserted a kick, which can be regarded as a mixture of dragons and snakes, and the killing machine is hidden.
Looking at the distant back, the smile on the corner of Li Zheng's mouth gradually disappeared, Li Ang gave him a feeling that was too stable, not like a seventeen-year-old boy at all, answering words, every sentence was not leaking, and there were needles hidden in the cotton. It is not suitable for young man and old man to use it on him, and the word old and spicy is almost the same.
"I didn't expect that there was such a character hidden in the military hall, it seems that I have to check his details when I go back." Thinking of Li Ang's overly plain and simple dossier, Li Zheng muttered to himself, and a sharp glint flashed in his eyes.
Xu Yanran had noticed Li Ang a long time ago, but what surprised him was Li Zheng later, "Interesting, I didn't expect him to come, it seems that the Duke is right, everyone has come to step on the troubled waters of the Zhenfu Division." With a light sigh, Xu Yanran got up from the table and walked to his room, he had to calm down now and think about it.
Li Ang sat down, and on the paper spread out on the table, he drew a place, which was the mansion of a great merchant in Chang'an, in Kushui Town, and that merchant was one of the two names that Huang Quan told him that were associated with the Turks.
Since the founding of the Great Qin 150 years ago, the merchants of the old Han Dynasty have been growing in status under the support of Emperor Cao Cao, and in return, the merchants have fully supported Taizu's plan to go west.
After Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong Cao Ang continued to support merchants, and with the support of a strong army, the merchants of Great Qin monopolized the Silk Road and the sea route from the Roman Empire to Great Qin, earning huge wealth. Although they could not set foot in the court, their power should not be underestimated.
And Kushui Town, in addition to outlaws, there is also a lot of people, that is, merchants, the kind of merchants who do any business as long as they have money to make, even if it is something forbidden by the imperial dynasty, they still dare to sell it, and it is even more difficult for merchants who can settle down in a place like Kushui Town.
Li Ang looked at the house he had drawn on the paper and shook his head, this house was too big, and there was not enough news, even if he went, he couldn't find anything useful. Among the two names Huang Quan told him, the other small businessman was obviously just a small role used to abandon the car guard, and if he moved, it would be easy to startle the snake and let the Chang'an merchant notice.
"A very clever hand, even if others know, they can't do it." As he muttered to himself, Leon stood up and threw the painting that had taken him a day to figure out how big the house was, and threw it into the brazier.