606 Truth (2nd Update)
Watching Hanxing having fun, Feipian couldn't cling to it, rubbing Duanmufei's waist affectionately with his head, snorting for a while, screaming for a while, and shaking Duanmufei's skirt with his tail for a while.
Duanmu scarking Feipian's slender horse's neck soothingly, bowed his head to it and whispered dotingly: "Feipian, I'll let you run enough on the way back." ”
Zhang Qian inevitably glanced at Feipian and was secretly surprised: This is a good horse that is one in a thousand! These sons and girls are really from rich and noble families.
The young man in Tsing Yi was eating his pomegranate deliciously, his legs restlessly crossed to the table, he didn't care about Duanmujun's business at all, it seemed that the most important thing in front of him was to eat this pomegranate.
After Duanmujun watched Han Xing and Li Tingyou try to ride a few horses, he asked Zhang Qiandao: "Steward Zhang, how do you sell this horse?" ”
Zhang Qian waited for so long, and finally waited for Duanmujun's words, and raised his hand with a smile to compare a "nine", "ninety-ten tael-one". What if the girl had bought all the eighty horses and given the last one to the girl? ”
Ninety taels and one horses!! The corners of Duanmujun's mouth twitched slightly, and the willow eyes were slightly raised, revealing a sharp look.
Their horses are good, but the best horses are no more than forty taels, and it is not an exaggeration to say that their price is sky-high.
Is this taking her for the wrongs?
Duanmu Jun squinted, if it weren't for the fact that their horses were really good, she would have turned around and left.
Duanmujun raised his eyes and glanced at the horses in the horse pen again, and then decisively bargained:
"Forty-five taels and one horse. I'll pick twenty horses. ”
As soon as she opened her mouth, she killed half the price.
The price of good horses on the market now is generally between twenty taels and forty taels, and will not exceed forty taels.
Duanmujun also considered that these horses were indeed better than ordinary good horses, which was quite rare, so he gave a price relatively higher than the market.
The corners of Zhang Qian's mouth twitched, his smile almost didn't steady, and his mind flickered: Judging from this price, this girl is afraid that she is quite knowledgeable. But didn't the boss say that he was wronged?!
Zhang Qian resisted the urge to look back at the young man in Tsing Yi, his eyebrows slanted, and he approached Duanmu Jun half a step, one moment he was as honest as a country farmer, and the next moment, his face changed, his eyes were full of anger, his facial features were hideous and fierce, and he said in a rough voice: "At this price, do you want it!" ”
While speaking, Zhang Qian deliberately raised his hand to pull the cuffs up, looking like "if he disagrees, he will do it".
Behind him, several other middle-aged men surrounded him menacingly, all of them tall and muscular, and when they stood together, they looked like a black and oppressive mountain, and the intimidation was overflowing.
For a moment, it seemed that even the surrounding light seemed to be dimmed, with a dangerous aura of impending wind and rain.
There were faint sparks in the air.
However, Duanmujun was not frightened.
Besides, the two guards she brought were not vegetarians either, and immediately took a few steps forward and stood in front of her guardfully.
The movement here is a bit big, and many people in the horse market have also noticed that a girl's family is facing a group of men, and some don't care about looking at the horses, and they flock over to see the excitement.
The noise around him didn't affect Duanmujun at all.
She stood straight in place, not even the smile on the corner of her mouth did not change a bit, and nodded calmly: "Of course the horse is wanted, but forty-five taels and one horse, there can be no more." ”
Han Xing saw that Duanmu Jun began to bargain, and she had already rushed back to watch the excitement, this tense scene did not make her feel nervous, but felt very interesting.
She leaned over and bit her ear quietly with Duanmufei: "Cousin Jun is really amazing!" ”
Duanmufei's eyes were also shining, his little face was shining, and he nodded: "That's!" "Her sister has never seen anything in the world!
The young man in Tsing Yi squinted, took the handkerchief handed by the young man in gray, and wiped it carelessly.
At this point, he naturally saw that the two girls who laughed heartlessly were indeed the wronged ones who didn't touch the spring water with their fingers, and this older girl seemed to be an expert!
The young man in Tsing Yi casually threw the handkerchief in his hand onto the table, and his two restless legs returned to the ground.
It seems that this big one is not as good as the two small ones.
The young man in Tsing Yi thought a little bit in his heart, and walked over slowly. It seems that we still have to try to start small!
Zhang Qian and the others automatically moved to the side.
Duanmujun is still as immobile as a mountain, smiling lightly. She naturally saw that this boy, who was only sixteen years old at most, was probably the one in charge here.
Behind the young man, the gray-clothed young man with thin eyes carried a chair and followed him, he put the chair to Zhang Gan's side, and the young man in green clothes seemed to have eyes behind him, and lazily leaned down on the chair behind him.
"It's up to you whether you buy it or not, and it's up to me whether you want to sell it or not." The young man in Tsing Yi leaned lazily on the back of his chair and boasted unashamedly, "My horses are the best horses in this horse market, and the last three generations have been sent to make war horses, with pure blood, of course, they have to be sold more expensive." ”
"Moreover, we have come all the way to the horse market, and the local good horses in Jizhou sell for forty taels, and we are tired of traveling all the way, and the horses are tired and tired, so we must charge some extra carriage and horse fares, right?"
The young man said vigorously, looking confident.
"Isn't that right, little sister?"
The last sentence of the young man was said to Duanmu Fei, Duanmu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that the "little sister" in the other party's mouth referred to him.
Duanmu Fei didn't say anything yet, but Han Xing was not happy, and raised his chin and said, "What little sister?" This is my cousin, what does it have to do with you, don't go around climbing relatives! ”
The gray-clothed young man on the side twitched the corner of his eye, and watched as his boss wanted to fool the youngest girl to help them coax her sister, but the horse's fart slapped on the horse's leg.
The young man in Tsing Yi didn't care, the baby was still smiling on his face, the pear vortex at the corner of his lips was deeper, and he changed his words to Duanmu Fei with kindness: "Little girl, do you say this is the reason?" ”
Duanmu Fei has been used to being a sister all these years, and she doesn't care about being called like this at all.
"Little ...... Childe was right. Duanmu nodded matter-of-factly, "The carriage fee is required." ”
The corner of the gray-clothed young man's eyes twitched again, and he silently glanced at his "little son".
Duanmufei continued: "I heard my sister say that Jinzhou's labor is cheaper than Jizhou's, and Jinzhou's food, clothing, housing and transportation are also cheaper than Jizhou's, so Jinzhou's horses should also be cheaper than Jizhou's, right?" ”
Without waiting for the young man to speak, she turned her head and asked Duanmujun: "Sister, how far is the central part of Jinzhou from Jizhou?" ”
Duanmujun raised his eyebrows slightly, and heard a little meaning from Duanmufei's tone, and replied with a smile: "The farthest Jinxi is not more than five hundred miles. ”
The corners of Duanmufei's lips curled higher, and he looked at the young man in Tsing Yi with a smile and asked, "Thousands of miles?" ”
Jinju is next to Jizhou, which is not far away, so it is naturally not a long way.
The young man in Tsing Yi and the people beside him were all slightly stunned, they were all speaking Beijing dialect just now, but they didn't expect this innocent-looking girl to see that they were from Jinzhou.
The young man in Tsing Yi squinted his eyes, stroked his palms and laughed: "Little girl, you are quite powerful!" He casually asked, "How do you see that?" ”
Duanmu raised her chin arrogantly and boasted: "I'm already very powerful!" ”
She pursed her lips deliberately, and after a pause, she added, "If you make the horse cheaper, I'll tell you." ”
The young man in Tsing Yi was even happier, leaning forward and leaning back with a smile, his eyes narrowed into two crooked crescents.
Duanmu Fei looked at him, and suddenly felt that the young man's smiling face looked a little kind, maybe it was because his younger brother also had the same unilateral smile.
The young man in Tsing Yi laughed for a while, then relieved himself and said, "I'll give you ten taels or eighty taels cheaper, you tell me!" ”
"It's only ten taels?"
"Don't you want twenty horses? It's two hundred taels. ”
“……”
The two bargained back and forth, neither of them would take a step back, and suddenly, a noise sounded in the rear, and I don't know who shouted excitedly: "The official is here!" ”
The pot exploded all at once, and the crowd surged, and the others also shouted in unison.
"It seems that the yacha of Fangfang Town is here!"
"Why did the yacha come? Isn't this horse market approved by the county master? ”
"This horse market has only been open for half a day, is it going to close the horse market today? I was going to come back tomorrow......"
“……”
The more people around them talked, the more lively it became, and the whole horse market was like a pot of boiling hot water, boiling.
Li Tingyou glanced in the direction of the entrance of the horse market, then withdrew his gaze, and suddenly noticed that the faces of Zhang Qian and his party had changed, their bodies were stiff as if frozen, and their expressions were solemn, but the young man in Tsing Yi still looked careless, only slightly raised his eyebrows.
Li Tingyou quietly rubbed the horsewhip tied to his waist slightly with his fingertips, and his eyes flashed.
At this time, Huo Di, the young man in green clothes, stood up from the chair and said decisively to Duanmujun: "I will sell this horse to the girl for forty-five taels and one horses, and the girl wants twenty horses, a total of nine hundred taels, but I must settle the payment immediately, and I will only accept cash silver and silver tickets from the three major banks." ”
The young man made the final decision, and Zhang Qian and the others were silent.
The young man's attitude changed too quickly, and this strong gap made Duanmu Jun raise his eyebrows unexpectedly.
Duanmujun's face is still light and light, but he thinks of a lot of "rumors" about the horse market in his heart, the horse market is mixed, and there is no name written on this horse, so it is inevitable to mix in some horses of unknown origin, such as some guards will secretly get the horses to the horse market to sell, and the silver obtained naturally does not need to be handed over to the imperial court; For example, some horse bandits in order to sell stolen goods; Like what......
It's just that in the snap of her fingers, Duanmu Jun was already thinking about it, her lips opened slightly, and she was about to say something, when the commotion behind her became more intense.
"Over there, over there!"
"Poor master, you can't let those gang of horse bandits run away!"
Someone shouted at the top of his voice, and came running with five or six yacha menstrually, his steps rumbling, and everywhere he passed, the others avoided both sides.
As soon as they heard that there were horse bandits here, the crowd became more noisy and noisy, and a faint uneasy atmosphere filled the air.
Who doesn't know that those murderous horse bandits are murderous without blinking!
The eyes of almost everyone present fell on those yacha, and followed their figures until they came to Duanmujun's side.
"Poor master, it's him, it's them!" A middle-aged man wearing a dark green shirt raised his hand angrily and pointed at Zhang Qian and the others and shouted, the middle-aged man was short and fat, fair-skinned, obviously pampered, and he didn't run for a while, he was out of breath, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat.
The head of the yacha squad beside him was muscular, half a head taller than him, and carried a long knife at his side.
The cold gaze of the team leader swept over the young man in Tsing Yi and Zhang Qian's party, and of course he also noticed Duanmufei and his party standing on the side, but when he saw that these two groups of people were not all the way, he didn't care about Duanmufei and a few people.
"Hey," the squad leader asked, with his chin raised and interrogating unceremoniously, "where did you horses come from?" ”
The young man in Tsing Yi looked back and forth at the head of the squad and the middle-aged man, revealing a hint of understanding.
His eyes flashed, and his form, which had been ready to attack, relaxed.
"Of course the horses are home-raised," the young man in Tsing Yi crossed his arms and smiled, revealing a pear vortex at the shallow corner of his mouth, and asked in a smooth tone, "Where else can it come from?" ”
The head of the squad pulled the corners of his mouth, sneered, and then turned his head and asked the middle-aged man: "Master Xu, what do you say?!" ”
Master Xu wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his cuffs, and hurriedly said, "Master Cha, these horses are all horses from my horse farm!" Someone robbed them on the road yesterday, and this is this gang of robbers! I remember it clearly, it's this Jinju accent! ”
The head of the team glanced at the young man in Tsing Yi lightly, and then asked the old man Xu: "Master Xu, when you catch thieves and see stolen goods, you can't just say that these batches of horses are yours with a few words, even if you are a human witness, what about the physical evidence?" ”
The people around who watched the excitement also nodded frequently, yes, catch the thief and see the stolen goods, this is the eternal truth.
"Poor master, I have physical evidence!" Master Xu was even more excited, raised a hand and said, "If you don't believe it, you can go and check the horseshoe of the horses, our Xu family's horses are all made of special horseshoe, and the word 'Xu' is engraved on them." ”
The head of the squad didn't intend to ask the young man in Tsing Yi what they meant, so he waved his hand proudly, and the two yacha under him walked towards the horse circle with knives on their shoulders.
Together, the two yacha easily grabbed one of the red horses in the herd, lifted the red horse's front legs, and examined the horseshoe nailed to the horse's hoof.
There was a dead silence all around, except for the chaotic footsteps of people who heard the news and came to see the bustle.
Suddenly, one of the yacha shouted: "Team leader, the word 'Xu' is engraved on the horseshoe." ”
When the air is cold, it seems to be stagnant.
Those who watched the excitement were so frightened that they retreated, as if they had seen some kind of flood beast.
"That's it!" The smile on the face of the squad leader became even colder, and the eyes of the young man in Tsing Yi and his party were like beasts staring at their prey, and there was a bit of coercion in their expressions, "Now that the human evidence and material evidence are complete, what else do you have to say!" ”
Master Xu said indignantly on the side: "Poor master, you must give the little one the master, and punish this group of lawless horse bandits!" ”
The young man in Tsing Yi did not hurry to laugh, with a shallow smile with a point of coldness, two points of wantonness, and three points of rebellion, like a leopard strolling in the mountains and forests, showing its fangs at any time.
The team leader didn't take them seriously at all, and said directly: "Since the evidence of the crime is conclusive, brothers, hurry up and arrest all this gang of Jiangyang thieves who kill people and oversell goods!" ”
The four yacha brought by the head of the squad all pulled out the long knives in the scabbard, and the silver blades glistened in the sunlight.
The air was as tight as the eve of a storm, and lightning and thunder roared.
The tense atmosphere made many onlookers secretly swallow their saliva.
Zhang Qian and the others beside the young man in Tsing Yi all looked at him secretly, their eyes were as deep as a pool, and a pair of hands either touched the side of the waist, or tightened their arms, or stroked the side of their legs......
Li Tingyou, who was not far away, squinted his eyes, keenly noticing their subtle movements, and his eyes became darker.
These people don't seem to be simple......
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