Chapter 60: Li Dogdan
Gao Ming originally took his sister to go shopping this time, and the purpose was naturally to buy, buy, buy, and now someone said that there was a treasure to sell to him, so he naturally agreed with a smile.
"Okay, what good treasure do you have, show it to the master, the master has money!"
Gao Ming has been holding back this sentence for two lifetimes, and now he finally said it, and it is called a cool one in his heart!
"Damn, I can't imagine that Lao Tzu has today, if it were in my time, I'm afraid there would be many people who would be yelling to be friends with me, right? Hahahaha......"
The clever local tyrant temperament obviously shocked the man in front of him, only to see that he suddenly showed a happy face, his posture was lowered, and his face also showed a look of flattery.
"Hehe, master, don't worry, it's definitely a baby!"
Speaking of this, he immediately glanced left and right, cautious all the way, and after making sure that there were no suspicious people around, he approached Gao Ming, and wanted to lower his voice and muttered in Gao Ming's ear.
"Master, the villain's baby is placed in the inn next to it, there are many people outside, so the villain didn't dare to bring it out, you can take a look at the villain."
Hearing his words, Gao Ming also nodded.
"Well, that's right, since it's a baby, you naturally have to be careful, let's go, take me to see it."
"Okay, master, you come with me!"
After getting Gao Ming's approval, the man immediately agreed and led the way, while Gao Ming took Li Mingda's hand and followed.
After a while, several people came to an inn and followed the man into his room.
After entering the room, the man immediately dragged out a sack from under his bed, and Gao Ming clearly saw that something was moving in the sack!
"Alive?"
At this time, Gao Ming's first reaction was whether this guy would be selling children, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was impossible, after all, this was the Tang Dynasty, human trafficking was legal, and it was really not difficult to have children.
Moreover, human trafficking is a serious crime, and the main culprit is to be hanged, and even the accomplices and their families must be held accountable, which obviously does more harm than good, so this man's baby should not be a child.
"Probably some kind of precious animal!"
Just as Gao Ming thought, as the man dragged the cloth bag out, the contents also screamed.
"Huhu...... Purr ......"
Hearing this strange sound, Gao Ming was stunned for a moment, he felt that this voice was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember what kind of animal it was for a while.
Just when Gao Ming was stunned, the man had already taken out the animal, and when Gao Ming saw this thing, his eyes immediately widened.
I saw that this animal looked like a little piglet, but it was thinner than the average piglet, and it was shining with golden light, as if it had been brushed with gold dust, and it looked quite dazzling through the sunlight coming in from the inn window.
At the moment when the man took out the little golden pig, Gao Ming clearly heard a few inhalations from the side.
Looking at this little golden pig, Li Mingda grabbed Gao Ming's hand and looked at him expectantly.
"Big brother, I want it!"
Looking at his sister's determined expression, Gao Ming suddenly sighed, and then raised his chin towards the man.
"Tell me, how much is your baby?"
Hearing Gao Ming ask the price directly, such a man's eyes suddenly lit up, but he didn't say the price directly, but stretched out two fingers.
Seeing his movements, Gao Ming suddenly sighed.
"Okay, since it's my sister's favorite, two dollars will be two dollars, Azheng Aki, give him the money!"
"Yes!"
Su Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng had just agreed, and before they could get the money, they saw the man immediately raise his hand.
"Wait!"
As soon as his words fell, Gao Ming immediately frowned.
"What? Not going to sell anymore? ”
Hearing Gao Ming's words, the man suddenly showed a tangled face.
"That...... This lord, I'm a golden pig, a rare beast, you just give two pieces of money, this is really ......"
He didn't say the rest of the words again, but his meaning was already obvious, that is, too little!
Looking at his tangled face, Gao Ming suddenly raised his chin at him with a smile.
"And how much do you want?"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, the man immediately glanced at Gao Ming, then looked at the bag in the hands of Su Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Twenty ...... No, two hundred guan, as long as you give me two hundred guan, this rui beast is yours! ”
Hearing his words, Gao Ming couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Haha, two hundred times, thanks to your boy's name, the master is willing to give you two times, in fact, it is still for my sister's sake, otherwise, do you think the master will be willing to spend money to buy you gold-dusted pig?"
As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, the man suddenly showed a shocked face.
"You...... How do you know? ”
Looking at his surprised look, Gao Ming suddenly shook his head helplessly.
"An indecent deception like yours will only starve to death in our country, forget it, why am I telling you so much, wasting Lao Tzu's time."
After speaking, Gao Ming waved his hand at this Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng.
"Aki, Ah Zheng, you send this guy and his gold-dusted pig to the yamen, and let the chief judge according to the "Tang Law"!"
"Yes!"
At this time, before Su Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng made a move, they only heard a "poof", the man knelt down, and then kowtowed three times towards Gao Ming.
"Master, the villain knows that he is wrong, the villain has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, please let the villain go, the villain is old and young, if you go to prison, my whole family will starve to death, you can do it, the little one will kowtow to you."
After speaking, "Dong Dong Dong" knocked down a few more times, the movements were very smooth, not dragging mud and water at all, it didn't look like the first time to beg for mercy.
Seeing this scene, Gao Ming waved his hand at Su Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng again, signaling them not to arrest him first, and then smiled at the man.
"It's easy for me to let you go, you tell me honestly, who is your surname, who is in the family, and how many times have you done this?"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, the man suddenly raised his head and looked at Gao Ming expectantly.
"Did I say you just let me go?"
As soon as his words fell, Gao Ming immediately waved his hand towards Su Gan Chengji and Zhang Sizheng.
"Arrest him and go to the officer!"
Hearing Gao Ming's words, the man hurriedly raised his hands and shouted loudly.
"I said, I said, the little one's name is Li Goudan, the head of the family is Chang'an Dongmen, there is no one in the family, the little one has been doing this since he was fourteen years old, and he has been doing it for six years, so the little one doesn't remember how many times he did this, you spare the little one, and the little one doesn't dare anymore!"
Seeing Gao Ming's domineering, Li Goudan didn't dare to hide it anymore, and he gave all the explanations like pouring beans from the bamboo tube, after listening to his words, Gao Ming suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
"I've been working for six years, you're pretty good, you used to sell golden pigs?"
Hearing Gao Ming's question, Li Goudan raised his head and gave Gao Ming a flattering smile.
"Back to the master, the small ones used to sell all the golden turtles, it's too cold, the Weishui River is frozen, and the turtles are too difficult to find, so the small ones are trying to save trouble, so I bought a small wild boar and spent more than 30 dollars on the small ones!"
Hearing his words, Gao Ming suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.
"And where did you get your gold dust?"
As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Li Goudan immediately laughed.
"Master, you are asking the right person this time, this gold powder is scraped from the big Buddha in the temple in the north of the city, if you like it, you will put the small one first, and the small one will be scraped for you two catties when you turn around, hehehehehe......"
As soon as Li Goudan's words fell, the corners of Gao Ming's eyes suddenly twitched twice.
"Dare to scrape gold dust on the Buddha, I'm also drunk, aren't you afraid of the Buddha's blame? Besides, can two catties of gold dust be scraped out of a Buddha statue? ”
Hearing Gao Ming's question, Li Goudan seemed to see the hope of getting out, and suddenly smiled even brighter.
"Didn't those monks say, 'My Buddha is compassionate', and 'cut meat and feed eagles' or something, I'm so poor, scrape some gold dust, and the Buddha will understand, as for the amount of gold dust, ......"
Speaking of this, Li Goudan immediately gritted his teeth and seemed to have made a lot of determination, before he looked up at Gao Ming.
"If it doesn't work once, it will be twice, and if it doesn't work twice, it will be three times, you can rest assured, the small one is a person who talks about credibility, and I promise to make it up for you!"
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