Chapter 482: Winning the Bid
As soon as the eagle hook nose said this, Xue Huai'an's face was already ugly, and he immediately asked, "Who are you?" We have negotiated with the Qiu camel merchants, and they have promised to go to the desert, but they cannot go back on their word. ”
Qiu Yinghao's expression also became serious, but he still explained: "Everyone, this is Qiu's senior brother, Ma Zhengyi, the camel guest of the Ma family!" ”
When Chu Huan saw the momentum of the eagle hook nose coming, he knew that this person's identity was not ordinary, there were more than a dozen camel riders behind this person, and he even saw that Xiulian girl in the crowd, so excited to come and dare to embarrass the Qiu family's camel guests, I am afraid that there is only another Ma family camel guest in Luoyan Town.
It's just that this Ma Zhengyi suddenly stopped him at this time, but it made Chu Huan a little unexpected.
"It turned out to be the horse!" Chu Huan arched his hand and said with a smile: "It's rude to pass through your place and fail to pay a visit." However, Qiu Dangjia has already agreed to take over this job, and the camel rider has made a word, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the horse to chase. ”
Hook-nosed Ma Zhengyi shook his head and said, "He can't go with you in the desert!" ”
Qiu Yinghao finally said, "Senior brother, what do you mean by this?" I have already taken the job, the rules of the camel rider, you know, what you promised, even if the sky falls, you can't regret it. ”
Ma Zhengyi said lightly: "You want to go out on this trip?" ”
"Nature." Qiu Yinghao seemed to be restraining his anger: "Senior brother, junior brother wants to take the guests into the town to rest first, please let me go!" ”
Ma Zhengyi said coldly: "What if I don't let it? ”
Qiu Yinghao frowned, and several officials of the mission behind him looked at each other, but in their hearts, did the camel rider of the Ma family see that the Qiu family took over a big business, so they were red and jealous, and this was the sabotage?
"Senior brother, if you do this today, my junior brother really doesn't understand what you mean." Qiu Yinghao took a deep breath and said slowly: "You and I have been friends for decades, and we have never had a mustard, but why are you embarrassed by your little brother today?" ”
At this time, I heard a rumbling sound of horses' hooves running from the town, but the first one was Qiu Mingdao, the young master of the Qiu family's camel customers, who also led more than a dozen camel riders over, went around, and went to Qiu Yinghao's side, turning the horse's head one by one, Qiu Mingdao approached Qiu Yinghao's side, glanced at Ma Zhengyi, and said in a low voice: "Dad, I heard that they brought people here, so they also led the brothers over, this is ...... What the hell is going on? ”
Qiu Yinghao didn't answer, just looked at Ma Zhengyi, his face still showed dissatisfaction, "Senior brother, if you want to block the work of the junior brother, there should always be a reason, you can't do such an unexplained bad thing." ”
Ma Zhengyi looked gloomy, shook his head and said, "I don't mean anything." Since you insist, let's win the bid! ”
Chu Huan and his entourage didn't understand what "winning the bid" was, but when all the camel guests heard this, they were all shocked and changed, and the Xiulian girl behind Ma Zhengyi had already urged her to step forward, her eyebrows frowned, and she said hurriedly: "Dad, you ...... Are you confused? ”
Qiu Mingdao also hurriedly said to Qiu Yinghao: "Dad, let's ...... We can't say yes! ”
"If you can't agree, it's abandonment!" Ma Zhengyi said lightly: "You will leave this job behind and return it to our Ma family." ”
When Chu Huan and the others heard this, they were all thinking, it seems that this camel guest of the Ma family really came to rob the business, and the officials all felt that Ma Zhengyi was doing things a little too much, but Chu Huan felt a little weird, these two people are brothers, and they can coexist in the same town, in the past, they should have been peaceful, but today this Ma Zhengyi came to "win the bid", although he looked calm, but he always seemed to feel full of hostility, and he didn't know what kind of entanglement the two families were for a while, but he felt that things were not simple.
Qiu Yinghao's face became more and more ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "Senior brother, what do you mean? The little brother has always respected you, never lost the number of courtesy, you and I have been safe here for several generations, you and I have followed the master to the desert since I was young, after the master went, you and I went alone, and now it is considered to be an achievement, you have always taken great care of the little brother, but why is this time so forced? His brows were locked together: "Although the winning bid is also set by the ancestors, it will never appear until it is absolutely necessary, and this rule has been set for so many years, and there has been such a time, but you want the little brother to win the bid with you today, is there any fault of the little brother that makes you want to fight with the little brother for life and death?" ”
The more Chu Huan listened, the more strange he felt, how could this "winning the bid" still involve life and death, and frowned and asked, "Master Qiu, what is going on?" ”
Qiu Yinghao looked at Qiu Mingdao, and Qiu Mingdao had already explained to Chu Huan: "Uncle Chu, winning the bid is a rule set by our camel ancestors. ”
"What kind of rules?" Xue Huaian also asked.
"When the ancestors went to the desert, they were also divided into several families, and their strength was large and small." Qiu Mingdao said slowly: "At that time, the strongest was the camel rider of the Liu family, and the camel guest of the Liu family was a first-class figure of the camel guest when he was a family, chivalrous and courageous, and he was also the ancestor of our camel rider who respected him the most. I remember that there was a group of merchants who ran out of the pass, they were going to do business in the original, and brought a small family, met sand bandits in the desert, the guards were dead and wounded, and finally crossed the desert into the plain, who knew that the goods were robbed in the pass, there was little left, helpless, to find our camel riders, to hire camel riders to go back to the desert, but the silver on their bodies was not enough to find the big camel riders, they were nearly fifty people, and there were men, women and children, only to find the smallest camel rider in the town! ”
"The total number of camel riders in the Long family is only four or five people, and the strength is very weak, so they took over the business and wanted to escort this group of people home." Qiu Mingdao was obviously very clear about the past in the town: "After the Liu family knew about this, they knew that it was impossible to safely escort these people back to their hometown with only the Long family's camel guests, so he proposed to the Long family that the Liu family's camel guests would pick up this job." ”
"This business is not big, in fact, the money earned is very small, Liu Dangjia was also a good intention at that time, he was the biggest camel rider at that time, there were forty or fifty camel riders who were familiar with the desert, all of them were full of experience, and the sand bandits were also very jealous of Liu Dangjia, and they didn't dare to provoke easily, so Liu Dangjia made a move, just to send that group of people safely across the desert." Qiu Mingdao said slowly: "Although the strength of this dragon family is weak, but he is a particularly stubborn person, Liu Dangjia has good intentions, but he thinks that Liu Dangjia looks down on him, and resolutely disagrees, and also says that Liu Dangjia wants to bully the weak, and it is to ruin the business and reputation of the Long family's camel customers." ”
An official couldn't help but say, "Since that's the case, then don't care." ”
"If it's someone else, I'm afraid it really doesn't matter." Qiu Yinghao finally interjected: "But Liu Dangjia is a chivalrous heart, if the Long family camel guests are allowed to go to the desert, those guests are certainly in danger of their lives, and the Long family camel guests are afraid that it will be difficult to come back, so they are also determined to intervene." He proposed to the Long family that the Liu family would take 30% of the hired silver and accompany the Long family camel riders to the desert, and the Liu family camel riders would draw 3 out of 30 transactions to the Long family camel riders for the ten times they went out to work, which was regarded as compensation. ”
"Of course that's a good thing." Xue Huai'an understood, "This Liu Dangjia is really unusual, under such conditions, the Long family's camel riders have taken advantage of it, and they will definitely never refuse!" ”
Qiu Yinghao shook his head and said: "Lord Xue guessed wrong, this person in charge of the Long family is eccentric, he really doesn't care about silver, the most important thing is face." Liu Dangjia was kind-hearted, he didn't understand it for a while, but he just felt that Liu Dangjia wanted to bully the weak, looked down on the Long family's camel guests, and wanted to slap the Long family's camel guests in the face, so Liu Dangjia's conditions, he refused without thinking about it. Long Dangjia is a stubborn character, this Liu Dangjia is also a hard character, and finally proposed to Long Dangjia to win the bid, which is also the first time that our camel riders have won the bid, and it is also the only time to win the bid so far! ”
Xue Huaian was puzzled: "After talking for a long time, the official still doesn't understand what is going on with this winning bid?" ”
Ma Zhengyi said lightly: "This guest doesn't need to worry, I will win the bid today." ”
Qiu Yinghao looked at Ma Zhengyi and said, "Senior brother, when Liu Dangjia won the bid, it was because the Long family's camel guests were too weak, and Liu Dangjia knew that the Long family's camel guests would die for life." He patted his chest and said loudly: "But today you won the bid, the younger brother doesn't understand, do you think that the younger brother is also dead, so you want to intervene?" The younger brother has been walking in the desert since he was fifteen years old, and it has been thirty years, which year has he not walked two or three times? My Qiu family camel guest has been ten years, walked thirty-seven times, although there are a few times to meet sand bandits, but there is no time to miss the guest, the little brother asked himself this desert my Qiu family can still bear it, you won the bid today, so that the little brother's face is really not good-looking. ”
In fact, the two major camel guests in Luoyan Town, in comparison, the Qiu family is even better than the Ma family.
Every camel guest, that is their own name, each has its own face, take the job, and other families intervene to come in, which is undoubtedly to smoke their own face.
Back then, the Long family's camel guests were weak, and the Liu family intervened to come in, and the Long family felt that their faces were very irrelevant, and the Qiu family was now one of the best camel customers, and the Ma family wanted to intervene in it, which was even more shameless and unacceptable.
In fact, many years ago, after the Liu family won the bid, this became an unsuccessful rule, but no one will touch this rule, although no one will easily meddle in other families to form a grudge, more important things, Liu Dangjia won the bid, contributed people, but can not get the real benefits, but will be drawn out of the commission to the Long family, Liu Dangjia chivalrous heart to contribute people to contribute to the silver but also by the Long family as an enemy, such a thing, only Liu Dangjia did it, of course the later camel riders will not do this kind of thing.
The winning bid has almost been forgotten by the camel riders, but today, Ma Zhengyi, the camel guest of the Ma family, suddenly proposed to win the bid, bringing this almost forgotten rule back to the table, including Chu Huan, the whole delegation felt a little incredible, even the two camel riders present were also very surprised, and they didn't understand whether Ma Zhengyi was confused.
Chu Huan saw that Ma Zhengyi's face was gloomy and very resolute, winning the bid was a foregone conclusion, and he faintly felt that this Ma Zhengyi must have other plans, could it be that this person won the bid, not because of the Qiu family, but because the guest this time was the Great Qin Mission?