Chapter 107: Black Sails (12)
Zhang Heng's body flew out and knocked over a table, and he lay on the ground for a while before getting up again, and there were whistles and coaxing from all the drinkers around him.
The Ranger's armorer moved his wrist, took a glass of beer from the hand of the maid who accompanied the wine, and drank it with a clatter, while a hint of banter appeared on his face, "I'm sorry, what were you talking about, the voice was too low for me to hear." ”
Zhang Heng was a little helpless, he had a serious illness on the ship before and lost a lot of weight, although he has recovered now, but it is not so easy to make up for his strength, not to mention that he is now compared with the muscular hunk in front of him, even if he has just entered the dungeon, he is stronger than now.
Out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Heng glanced at the old pirate on the side, but the latter had already entered the mode of eating melons and watching the show, eating the roast pork on the plate and drinking wine at the same time, looking extremely comfortable, as if he didn't care if he could get the 300 silver pesos back.
Zhang Heng staggered to his feet from the ground, but before he could stand firmly, the armorer's fist had already smashed again, but fortunately, Zhang Heng then dodged this blow with his flexible retreat, otherwise he would have to lie on the ground for a longer time.
With a miss, the armorer immediately hooked his finger provocatively at someone, but Zhang Heng was no longer polite, and directly pulled out the short musket on his waist and pointed it at the opponent's chest.
The tavern suddenly erupted in a burst of inverted color, everyone was happy to watch the fight, but they didn't expect that one of the parties was completely out of the routine, and immediately sent a continuous boo.
In the face of the musket, no matter how reckless the Ranger's armorer was, he had to weigh whether he could withstand the bullet, he spat on the ground, "Despicable! This sentence resonated with many pure masters, and the surrounding onlookers were in a commotion.
Zhang Heng was unmoved, he didn't come to find a fight, since he could use the simplest way, of course, he had to use the simplest way to solve the trouble, in fact, if he had known that the muscular man was so rigid, he would have put a pistol against the other party's head before he spoke, and he was thrown out by this guy before he finished a word.
Faced with the muzzle of the black hole, the armorer reluctantly took his wallet out of his pocket and threw it to the old pirate, who put down the knife and fork in his hand, opened it and looked at it, "What about the remaining half of the money?" ”
"I only have so much on me, I'll give you the rest in three months." The armorer said coldly.
"Yes, but then add an extra 50 and it will count as interest." The old pirate wiped his mouth.
"Frazier, you're a fucking vampire!" The armorer said angrily.
"That's not what you said when you asked me to borrow money." The old pirate beckoned to Zhang Heng on the side, "Good job, let's come over and have something to eat, and then we'll go find the next person." ”
Until sunset, Zhang Heng followed the old pirate Fraser to find four debtors, three of which were more or less recovered, and the remaining one was with his crew, about one or two dozen people, Zhang Heng weighed it and felt that it was better not to send him to death, and the old pirate did not embarrass him.
In the end, at the end of the day, Zhang Heng helped Fraser get 429 silver pesos, and an oil painting that was used as collateral, which was Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper", but it could be seen at a glance that it was a fake, mainly because the painting was not copied, and there were only seven of the twelve disciples, but Fraser seemed to like it, and used this painting to offset 20 silver pesos.
"Not bad, a little better than I expected, but your melee combat is too bad to even take the kind of goods in the tavern." The old pirate was not polite at all, "It's not okay to go on like this, this is just the best amount of money, the real trouble is still to come, maybe you should find a way to improve your strength in this area." ”
Zhang Heng frowned when he heard this, "I'm sorry, I remember that our previous agreement was limited to this time, and we will have no relationship after this time." ”
"I don't want to delay it that long, but the problem is that you can't seem to help me recover all my debts, so we're stuck in a dead end." ”
"How many debts have you let go?" Zhang Heng had an ominous premonition in his heart.
"You'll know, but not now." Fraser grinned, showing a meaningful smile, he said as he tossed the smallest of the money bags over, "43 silver pesos, your reward for today, as I said, I have never been a stingy person, as long as you can help me get my debt back, I will give you a tenth of it, this rule will not change in the future, don't worry, I am not in a hurry, just wait until you come back from your next trip to the sea to find me." ”
The old pirate didn't care about Zhang Heng's reaction after speaking, and left humming a little song with his pirated version of "The Last Supper".
Zhang Heng was a little surprised to hold the bag of money, the work of debt collection is complicated and complicated, simple and simple, Zhang Heng originally thought that Fraser didn't want to do it himself just because of his age, but with this money, he could hire a few sturdy thugs to help him collect debts, as for the risk of thugs seeing money, although there is also a risk, but the latter's old plan will not be unavoidable.
Zhang Heng was already sure that collecting debts was just an excuse, and the other party came to him for other reasons, but he didn't know what Fraser was targeting him for the time being.
Zhang Heng didn't like this passive feeling, after thinking about it, he decided to find someone to know a little more about Fraser, he had asked a few pirates on the ship before, but everyone, including the always enthusiastic Goodwin, seemed to be secretive about Fraser's name and past.
So this time he changed his target, Zhang Heng returned to the tavern on the west side of the city again, his luck was good, the armorer of the Ranger did not leave, he was still drinking there, and when he saw Zhang Heng who was going and returning, he immediately became vigilant, "It's you again!" Despicable boy, what are you trying to do when you've robbed me of all the money in my pocket?! You'd better get out of front of me before I change my mind!! Otherwise I'll ...... your head."
He stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, because Zhang Heng took out the short musket again, but at the same time, the latter also put ten silver pesos on the wooden table in front of him, and said bluntly, "Tell me everything you know about Fraser, and the money will be yours." ”
"Are you kidding me, aren't you with him?!" The armorer blinked, considering his empty pockets now, the money obviously made him a little moved, but he was also a little skeptical of Zhang Heng's words.
"Believe it or not, we don't know each other that well." Zhang Heng said, but he didn't explain much, and now he is the one who asks the question.