Entering Jade City, Jiang Yingxue followed behind Li Hu, but she always felt that a pair of eyes were staring at her, she looked around but found nothing, and thought it was her own delusion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Yingxue, what's wrong with you, why do you feel like you're out of the way? Did you find something? Li Hu asked worriedly.

"Li Hu, do you feel it? I felt as if I had been being watched since I entered the city, but I didn't find a suspicious person after looking for a long time, so I thought it was strange."

Li Hu said: "No, I don't feel this way, but as soon as I enter this Jed City, I have a strange feeling. ”

"Really? What's so strange, I look normal. ”

"Think about it, when we first entered the city, there was a stall outside the city gate, did you see that there were customers in that stall?"

"No, but what does that mean?"

"Do you remember what that stall was selling?"

"I remember, it's a vegetable seller."

"Look at the stalls in the city again, what do you see the stall in front of you selling?"

Jiang Yingxue looked at Li Hu's finger and found that there was still a stall selling vegetables in front of her, but this stall was crowded, but Jiang Yingxue still didn't understand what Li Hu meant.

Li Hu smiled and said, "Do you remember what kind of food that stall outside the city sells?" ”

Jiang Yingxue shook her head.

"It's radish and cabbage, both of which are some green vegetables that ordinary people often eat"

"Don't you think it's strange to see what this stall is selling?"

Jiang Yingxue saw that the stall in front of her was also selling radishes and cabbage, and she wondered why there was no one in the stall outside the city, but there were so many people buying the stall in the city.

Li Hu said: "You wait for me here, I will take a look outside the city gate now, maybe I can find something." ”

Jiang Yingxue knew that Li Hu was thoughtful, so she felt that Li Hu must have discovered something, so she stood in place and waited.

Soon Li Hu came back, and after coming back, Li Hu said: "The stalls outside the city gate sell the same things as the things sold in the city, but there is no one outside the city to buy things, but the city is crowded, I think there is only one possibility, it should be some kind of regulation of Jed City."

Jiang Yingxue said: "Even if it is the rules of Jed City, what do these have to do with us? ”

Li Hu said: "It's a big deal, you haven't figured out the relationship, the reason why this situation occurs in Jed City must be controlled by some people, I think the person who controls these trivial matters is definitely not the city lord of Jed City, so will the person who controls these trivial matters be the one who sent someone to Nanling Kingdom to arrest the child?" ”

Jiang Yingxue asked, "Why do you feel that it won't be the city lord who controls these?" ”

Li Hu said: "If it is the city lord who controls these, then this city lord must be very domineering, because he even has to manage the people selling vegetables, so do you think that if he does not allow anyone to set up stalls outside the city, will those people dare to set up stalls outside the city?" ”

Jiang Yingxue still didn't understand, she couldn't figure out what this had to do with the child being taken away.

Li Hu knew that Jiang Yingxue didn't understand, so he continued to explain: "For example, I am the city lord of Jed City, and I don't like the people to sell things in the city, so I will definitely give an order, once the order is issued, those people will definitely not dare to sell things in the city, but now these people are still selling in the city, and there is no one to buy things, they are still waiting there, which means that after the things in the city are sold out, the stalls outside the city can be sold, I think the stalls in the city must be controlled by someone or a gang, The stalls in the city must pay a certain fee, and the stalls outside the city definitely don't need to, so I'm sure that the person who collects these booth fees will not be the city lord, so it may be the group of people we are looking for, and even if it is not, we can find out some clues through these people. ”

Jiang Yingxue finally understood, she began to admire Li Hu, she could see so many things through these simple things.

Li Hu walked to a stall that sold lanterns and had few customers.

"This uncle, buy a lantern, it's cheap, only five copper coins"

The lantern seller sells his own lanterns to Li Hu.

Li Hu picked up a lantern, looked at it and put it down, picked up another one, looked at it and put it down, and shook his head while looking at it.

The peddler watched Li Hu's actions and knew that this guest was very picky and couldn't look down on these lanterns, so the peddler said: "Uncle, if you don't like it, I have a better one, you wait for me, I'll go home and get it for you"

Li Hu said: "You really can't do these lanterns well, okay, you go and get them, I'll wait for you here." ”

Jiang Yingxue didn't understand why Li Hu wanted to buy lanterns, so she asked, "Why did you think of buying lanterns?" ”

Li Hu smiled and said, "Buy a lantern to explore the way." ”

"We need a lantern to find our way, are you going to go out at night to investigate? But it's not convenient to carry a lantern? ”

"You asked first, and you'll know why I bought the lantern in a while," Li Hu smiled mysteriously.

Li Hu now gives Jiang Yingxue a mysterious feeling, and it also makes Jiang Yingxue more and more unable to understand him.

After a while, the vendor came running back, holding 2 delicate lace lanterns in his hands.

"Uncle, look at these two, this is my grandfather's own hand, cowhide lanterns, you look at this handiwork, you look at this embroidery, all are the best craftsmanship in Jed City."

Li Hu picked it up and looked at it, and found that it was much better than the previous one, Li Hu smiled and said, "I want all these two lanterns, you can give a price." ”

The peddler thought for a moment and said, "Thirty silver coins, how's that?"

After saying the price, the vendor secretly looked at Li Hu's face, if Li Hu didn't want to buy it, he was ready to lower the price a little more.

Li Hu took out the money bag, and without saying a word, he took out three gold coins and handed them over, the hawker held three gold coins, his hands were trembling, and it felt very unreal, although this lantern was a fine product, but it was worth three silver coins at most, and now it was sold for three gold coins, which made the hawker happy.

After Li Hu saw that the vendor took the money, he deliberately said loudly: "You can collect the three gold coins, I have to leave."

When the peddler heard Li Hu's voice so loud, he hurriedly said, "Be quiet, be quiet, don't be heard." ”

Li Hu asked, "What's wrong?" You sell things and I buy things, and I'm afraid of being seen? Could it be that your lantern was stolen? ”

The peddler said, "How can this lantern be made by my grandfather himself, how can it be stolen?"

"And what are you afraid of?"

The peddler said, "I am not afraid that you are a foreigner, but if the man knows that I have sold two lanterns for three gold coins, he will definitely ask me for more taxes." ”

When Li Hu heard this, he knew that he had guessed correctly, and the stalls in the city were all controlled.

"Who, who's asking you for money?"

The vendor said, "You are an outsider, you don't know, wait until you stay in Jed City for a few days, you will know, our tax revenue in Jed City is not given to the city lord, but to that person"

"That man? Tell me about it, I'm curious. ”

It may be that Li Hu is willing to spend three gold coins to buy his lanterns, so the peddler said: "That man's name is Pacimi, he is a homeless man, almost forty or fifty years old, he wandered to Jed City ten years ago, and as soon as he arrived in Jed City, he challenged the city lord, and after fighting with the city lord on the challenge platform of Jed City for a few hours, neither of them could defeat each other, and finally both of them felt that there was no point in fighting any longer, so they stopped, and the city lord admired him very much, so he regarded him as the deputy city lord of Jed City, but this homeless man refused, He only needed one-third of the tax revenue of Jed City, saying that it was for the purchase of alcohol and drink. ”

Li Hu said: "What about later? Did the city lord agree? ”

The peddler said: "The lord of the city agreed without even thinking about it, and from that day on, the stalls in the city had to pay for Pasmi, and some people did not want to pay, and Pasimi did not care, but those people were not allowed to set up stalls in the city." ”

"Then this Pasimi isn't too bad, is it?"

"Be quiet," said the peddler, "for Parsimi is mysterious, he can hear what everybody says, and sometimes whoever says bad things about him behind his back, he knows." ”

"So what did Pasimi do with all the money he received? Did you buy all the alcohol and drink it? ”

The peddler said, "I don't know, no one has ever seen him go to the tavern to drink, because no one can find him, he never collects money himself, but the lord's people will collect it for him, and the amount of tax collected depends on the amount of things sold in the stall."

"Since you haven't seen him, why do you say that he knows that you are speaking ill of him behind your back?"

The peddler said: "Many people have been arrested and beaten to the board for no reason, and when they go they don't know why, they come back and tell others that they can't speak ill of Pasimi again, otherwise they will be arrested and beaten again." ”

Li Hu said: "Then are you talking bad about him now?" ”

The peddler said, "I don't know, maybe I'll be caught tomorrow too." ”

After Li Hu found out the information he wanted, he left the lantern stall, and Jiang Yingxue finally understood why Li Hu wanted to buy the lantern.

It turned out that Li Hu found that many stalls were patronized, but this stall selling lanterns was empty, so Li Hu decided to try it to see if it was the same as what he thought, and the result was exactly the same as he imagined.

Jiang Yingxue followed Li Hu behind, and she asked, "Do you say we're going to find this person?" How do we find him? ”

Li Hu smiled and said: "This person is not the kind of person these hawkers think at all, if my guess is correct, this person has a huge organizational intelligence network, so he can know every move of the hawkers in the city, and the money he collected is also used in this organization."

Jiang Yingxue said: "Do you think the people who captured Xiao San and Xiao Qi will be Pasimi's gang?" ”

Li Hu said: "It is still uncertain, because we still know too little information, so we need to find out as soon as possible who Pasimi is and what his real purpose is in Jed City." ”