The spring was rainy and humid, and the humid air made many people's bedding dry, and the sun hid behind dark clouds and had not been seen for many days.

In the market of Skull City, many shops have been closed due to the rain for several days, waiting for the sunny day, and the muddy streets are only a few coachmen in coats and driving horse-drawn carts to transport agricultural products, and the traces of the wheels are quickly washed away by the rain.

In the rain, a man in civilian clothes stood in a dark and damp corner for a long time, and then hurried into an alley when the street was empty.

At the end of the alley, several fierce thugs were sitting bored under the canopy, they were wearing black elastic vests, shaved heads, and there was a mark left by the brand behind their heads. ”

"Yo, I'm wearing civilian clothes, can you tell? Just call me Akai. The man patted his arm, stuffed a box of cigarettes into his pocket, and said, "Let me in, I have goods for Shen Ye." ”

The thug accepted the cigarette with satisfaction, but as soon as he heard the word "there is goods", he suddenly turned pale with fright, hurriedly took out the cigarette and threw it back, and said nervously: "You are big!" Our Shen Ye has long washed his hands in a golden basin and won't touch the white thing! Go back and tell Colonel Luo Wei that we are serious businessmen, good citizens who are patriotic and law-abiding, who are dedicated to building Skull City, proud of paying taxes, and not doing illegal things! Do you want to carry the core values back to you? Prosperity, Democracy, Civilization and Harmony"

"Gotta it, don't give it to me." Akai waved his hand impatiently, and then reminded: "Next time, remember, it's not a colonel, it's a colonel now." ”

"Oh yes, yes, yes, I made great contributions to the rebels before and was promoted by the central government, you look at my memory, bah, bah, palm!" The thug began to slap himself as he spoke.

Akai looked around, and after confirming that there were no suspicious characters, he lowered his voice and said: "I'm here this time, it's not Yun Baimian, whoever touches that thing in Skull City will die, you don't know, I brought another thing." ”

When the thug heard that it was not white, he breathed a sigh of relief, when Luo Wei cleaned up the underworld problem in Skull City, drugs were taken care of, and the killing was called a dim place, and many people were so frightened by that scene that they quit their drug addiction for decades, and they didn't even dare to mention the word "white face".

But in order to confirm, the thug still asked vigilantly: "What did you bring with you?" ”

Akai hesitated for a while, covered his pocket and said, "This really can't be said, I can only show it to Shen Ye." ”

"No, I said you" Before the thug could finish speaking, Akai suddenly took out a whole superb cigarette from his arms and stuffed it into the thug's pocket, revealing a "you know" look.

Seeing this whole superb cigarette, the thug's eyes straightened, and he exchanged glances with several companions who were also greedy, and then moved out of the way and said, "Come in, let me remind you first, don't make trouble, otherwise I will report to the official!" ”

After Akai entered, he came to the innermost room, he knocked on the door, walked in, and smiled with low eyebrows: "Master Shen!" ”

In the room sat a thin man wearing toad glasses, this person was sitting at the quaint desk, smoking with an old-fashioned pipe, and next to him there was a steward with an abacus to keep accounts, and the crisp collision of abacus beads came from time to time.

Shen Ye looked at the person who came and said, "Ah Kai, why are you here, and you have something to do with Shen Ye again?" ”

Akai smiled mysteriously: "Master Shen, I'll be a thing." ”

Shen Ye and his party were caravans in Skull City, but they were not aborigines like Old Snake, they were all attracted by the preferential policies implemented by Luo Wei later.

Shen Ye is smarter than the old snake, the old snake has long been frightened because he has witnessed Luo Wei's brutal methods at close range, and only dares to do some industrial and peasant business, Shen Ye is different, he is much bolder, he also does legal business, and he also does it in private, all of which are gray areas, but there are no things that are expressly prohibited by the law, such as fighting or something, and there is a pawnshop, lending work.

As soon as he heard that there was something to be done, Shen Ye took a puff of cigarette and said casually: "What are you doing again?" Let me remind you first, I don't accept knives, forks, bowls and chopsticks in your barracks. ”

With a hippie smile, Akai took out a small black bag from the depths of his clothes, put it on the table and said, "Master Shen, look. ”

Akai had been here a few times before, but it was all worthless things, and Shen Ye didn't mention much interest this time, just lazily picked up the black bag and took a look.

However, when he saw the contents of the black bag, the expression on Shen Ye's face froze, his eyes changed several times, flickering bright and dark, as if there were treacherous clouds, and I don't know how long it took, his expression calmed down, and he asked lightly: "What kind of is this." ”

Ah Kai didn't notice the change in Shen Ye's eyes, he was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "No, Shen Ye, the gem!" ”

Shen Ye said impatiently: "I know it's a gem, I mean, where did you get it?" ”

Akai hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile: "Master Shen, only accept pawn goods, regardless of the origin, this is the rule you set personally." ”

"You kid, you still know how to use the rules to deal with me." Shen Ye smiled angrily, took out the gem, looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, and praised, "The color is really good, good thing." ”

Akai thought to himself, this is the jewel on the scepter of the Grand Duke of the Federation, isn't it a good thing? Of course, he didn't dare to say this kind of thing, just rubbed his hands and smiled: "Shen Ye, then you make a price?" ”

Shen Ye thought for a moment and stretched out two fingers.

Akai complained: "Isn't it, it's only 20,000? ”

Shen Ye showed a look of hatred for iron and steel, and said word by word: "Two~ten~ten thousand~"

When has Akai ever seen so much money? Shocked, his heart was about to jump out of his throat, he jumped up directly, and shouted with a red face: "Deal!" ”

Shen Ye quickly wrote a check, handed it to Akai, and said slowly: "Go ahead, just go to the bank to exchange money." ”

Ah Kai took the check with a trembling hand, kissed it hard, and bowed and retreated: "Shen Ye! Good luck with your business! ”

After Akai left, Shen Ye sat in his seat for a full ten minutes before he asked, "Are you leaving?" ”

The steward next to him walked out the door, quickly turned back, and said, "Go away." ”

Without warning, the blood on Shen Ye's face faded rapidly, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and even his lips began to tremble, and he said in a trembling voice: "Damn, I finally figured it out, that incident turned out to be done by the death row camp??!! ”

The steward was confused and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Shen Ye's fingers kept trembling, and the small gem in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and he said with a pale face: "Do you know what this is?" ”