July is on fire, and August is not young.

Mei Xiaoren walked on the street, only to feel that the wind pouring into the neckline was cool.

Before dawn, the streets of the city were empty. Mei Xiaoren came out early, carrying a lantern and walking through the closed shops.

She has been staying in Jinzhou for more than ten days, and she has been visiting those doctors one by one. Even if the doctors are all in Jinzhou, they live all over the world, in the east and west of the city, and everywhere in and outside the city.

The hard work pays off, and one of those doctors really knows what kind of poison Wen Bin is.

There is a kind of poison in the world called "Eroding the Heart", which is called "Eroding the Heart", and the famous doctor told her that this is one of the strange poisons in the world, which is extremely toxic, but after taking the antidote, it is the same as a person who has nothing to do.

Unlike natural poisons such as arsenic and gut-breaking grass, this poison is made by people and is easily controlled.

She'd already found it here, at least got the poison.

Mei Xiaoren has been to many pharmacies for this, but he found nothing, because most of this poison comes from the Xia country, which has a humid and hot climate, and there are many poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and there are many poisoners who use them to refine poison.

Now that Daning has severed diplomatic relations with the Xia Kingdom, it is not easy for anything to circulate from the Xia Kingdom to Daning, and it is very expensive

Therefore, this poison is not only poison, but also hard to find, and it also shows that the mastermind's financial resources are not ordinary, which is consistent with Wen Bin, at least it will not overturn her assumptions.

After Daning and Xia broke off diplomatic relations, there was no trade between the two countries, but she had been in Qiushui County on the border of Daning, and she knew that it was not accurate, but there was still a black market in the market that was secretly traded, buying and selling goods from the two countries, such as Xia Guobaoju like Jiang Rong.

Such a black market is also known as a "ghost market".

The ghost market in Jinzhou is separated during the fifth watch, and the place is on the westernmost street in the city.

When the sky is not bright, only this is the most lively place in the whole Jinzhou City.

Starting from the street entrance, there are many simple stalls on both sides, some selling fakes and antiques, some selling old clothes and rotten clothes, and some putting rice on children's heads to sell children.

They are all serious business on the surface, so the government will let this ghost market survive to this day, but it is difficult to say what is sold behind the scenes.

Although Mei Xiaoren walked in the ghost market, it was not easy to find the things of the Xia Kingdom, because the laws of Daning were extremely strict, once someone traded with the Xia Kingdom, whether it was selling the rich products of Daning to the Xia Kingdom, or selling the things of the Xia Kingdom to Daning, they would definitely die if they were caught by the government.

The merchants of the Xia Kingdom in the black market only believe in their own people or old customers.

But Mei Xiaoren thinks that businessmen all over the world will believe in one kind of person, that is, rich people

From the moment she entered the street, she held a yellow ingot of gold in her hand, which stood out in the light of the lantern. To make it more noticeable, she tosses every few steps to make sure the vendors around her can see it.

Mei Xiaoren never stopped, nor did she look closely at what was around her, which was intended to tell the vendor that she was looking for something that was not here.

After a while, someone tapped her on the shoulder.

Mei Xiaoren stopped and turned around, saw a vendor standing behind her, and asked, "What does Childe want?"

When asked if what you can't sell at the market is taboo here, she asks, "What do you have here?"

"Skinny horse, little boy, I don't know which son is better" The peddler squinted and smiled, holding the rattan whip in his hand and pointing to the side of the street.

Mei Xiaoren turned his eyes to see two children kneeling on the side of the street, a boy and a girl, the boy was a little older, but both were not yet ten years old. They had straw stuck in their heads, and they were unkempt and skinny, and they looked at her timidly, and then buried their heads.

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nbsp; Mei Xiaoren retracted her gaze and said lightly: "She's too thin, I want a good horse, the kind that can be ridden." ”

The vendor rubbed his hands and smiled: "Isn't it too big to raise?" ”

Mei Xiaoren looked at the two children again, their appearance was inevitably pitiful, especially the girl.

She was also on the streets when she was a child, and she was embarrassed like this, but she was lucky that she still had a father, so she didn't fall to the point of being bought and sold like an animal.

There are many poor people in the world, she can't help them all, but she has never been to the ghost market, and she met them once today, maybe it was fate.

Mei Xiaoren walked towards the two children, squatted down, and asked the girl, "Are you afraid of me?"

The girl was gray-faced, but her eyes were extremely clean and clear. She looked at Mei Xiaoren and shook her head.

She asked again: "Why not be afraid, do you know what a skinny horse is?"

The girl shook her head.

Mei Xiaoren smiled at the girl. People are inherently good, and her side should be as clean as a blank sheet of paper, it doesn't matter if it's small, as the hawker said, it's big to raise.

In the past, she didn't feel inconvenient because she didn't want to be an entourage, but if she was lucky enough to continue to be an official, she would always have a trustworthy retinue by her side, such as Xingyun and them around Chu Yu.

Mei Xiaoren nodded, "Okay, you come with me." ”

The girl was stunned, reached out and grabbed the boy's arm, and said hurriedly: "He is my brother." ”

Mei Xiaoren just looked at the boy, his eyes were a little complicated, there were grievances, reluctance, but no hatred.

The boy didn't say a word at first, but then slowly leaned down and kowtowed to her: "I beg my son to take care of my sister." ”

The two children did not disappoint her, and after the temptation, Mei Xiaoren did not bargain with the hawker, gave the hawker twenty taels of silver, and bought the brother and sister.

The things in the ghost market are not easy to sell, and suddenly such a generous customer came, and many vendors stepped forward to block the way.

Mei Xiaoren had already said that she was here to buy horses, so she sent many people for this reason, and in the end only a hawker was left to follow her, and she did not come forward to talk until she reached the end of the street.

The peddler looked cautiously to the left and right, and asked in a low voice, "Childe wants to buy a horse."

Mei Xiaoren nodded, "I lack a good horse, the best horse in the world." ”

If she asks about the poison of Xia Guo here, I'm afraid that no one will take care of it, so it is better to find the horse seller first, since they have a way to transport horses from Xia Guo, they can naturally bring other things.

"The best mana in the world belongs to the treasure horse of Xia Guo," said the vendor slowly, with his hands in his sleeves.

Mei Xiaoren said bluntly: "You and I are both understanding people, do you have goods?"

The peddler didn't rush to answer, and asked a little defensively: "Childe, you won't be from the official family, right?"

"Have you ever seen the official family handle a case and buy a skinny horse by the way" Mei Xiaoren raised his right hand holding the girl, and then raised the left hand holding the boy, and said with a smile, "There is also a little girl." ”

"That's right, or I wouldn't have followed." The peddler looked around again, and said in a calm voice, "Childe, that horse is not cheap." ”

"I know that a good horse is worth a hundred taels of silver." Mei Xiao Ren said. Thanks to the scene that Jiang Ei made at the beginning, she knew the market price.

"Childe, I don't have it here, but Cao Ye has it, I'll take Childe to meet him" The peddler frowned again and sighed, "But the small one still has a lot of words, Cao Ye is not easy to mess with, Childe is not a member of the official family, if it is really a person from the official family, he will die if he is found out." ”

"You just have to match, and the benefits are indispensable to you."