Chapter 17: The Legend of the Blackwater Knight
"Of course, I can't lie to you. Chu Jing smiled, and shouted at the same time: "Old Hei, come out to pick up guests!"
said as if it wasn't him who made up a story to deceive him, Shen Xiaoye slandered in his heart, but he didn't say it.
"Stinky boy, don't shout, the old man's reputation has been ruined by you all these years!"
The door of the house soon opened, and the black crow came out of the house, although it was still white, but the person looked more energetic, and even scolded people with great momentum.
"Cut, old fellow, didn't you brag before that you even knew whether the flies entering Blackwater Street were male or female?
"Welcome a fart, what is your identity, you still want me to greet you!" The black crow trembled, but his eyes kept secretly looking at Shen Xiaoye.
"The eldest lady of the Tiannan Martial Arts Pavilion has arrived, do you need to greet her?"
Chu Jing stepped aside and deliberately moved out of Shen Xiaoye, making Shen Xiaoye's face flush with shyness, twisting his two hands, and he didn't know whether to speak for a while.
The black crow's face was solemn, and he said solemnly: "It turns out that Miss Shen came to Heishui Street in person, I wonder if the hall owner is okay now?"
Shen Xiaoye hurriedly replied: "My father has been fine recently, and my predecessors know my father?"
The black crow waved his hand and said, "I have been friends for a long time, and I have never met each other. ”
“......”
Chu Jing couldn't stand it anymore, an intelligence leader, he was disgusted by all this, "Okay, hurry up and deliver the goods, are you ready?"
Even if the black crow kept making eyes, Chu Jing didn't care, and came directly to the carriage, he didn't feel it, and he didn't want Heishui Street to have any interaction with Shen Xiaoye.
There are no good people on Blackwater Street, only poor people who have no chance to commit crimes and criminals who have already committed crimes, and they and Shen Xiaoye are completely aliens from the two worlds.
Seeing that Shen Xiaoye was also more interested in the goods than in himself, the black crow simply stopped entanglement, and scolded Chu Jing with a smile:
"Nonsense, how can the famous black crow not even be able to handle this little thing, this car is thirty Tianxing grass and twenty thorn roots. ”
He pointed to the other three carriages, "This cart has 20 quintals of Qingquan rice, that cart has 300 catties of 100 pounds of forged fine iron, and finally the box on the cart is the saber-toothed mammoth's saber-toothed mammoth." ”
Chu Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly walked to the last carriage, opened the box and saw that a pair of milky white and warm eight-foot saber teeth with a little amber red light were lying quietly inside.
"Okay, you're an old black, you can even get this kind of thing!"
It's completely unexpected, it was just written casually, and if there is, you can make an extra profit, but it's normal if you don't, after all, basically no hunter will go out of the safe zone to hunt, and you can just happen to run into a saber-toothed mammoth, and then you can just deal with this terrible big guy.
In the mission, it was suggested that someone in Jinning City would buy the saber tooth of the saber-toothed mammoth at a high price, even if Chu Jing did not accept the task, the real world would not change much.
"Oh, don't rejoice too early, this pair of saber teeth is not given for nothing, you better really earn money with interest. The black crow snorted coldly with a dark face.
Chu Jing hurriedly flattered: "How much, we are very familiar, let's have a friendship price!"
When it came to the transaction, the crow became serious, "Nine out of thirteen, of course, the goods will be discounted for the sake of my crow's face, and the chariots, horses, and manpower will be converted together, and I don't want you more, just seven thousand taels of silver, and of course the one thousand taels you brought." ”
"Seven thousand taels?! Isn't that one thousand taels eight thousand taels of silver!"
Chu Jing was taken aback by this number, the initial budget was only three thousand taels, and it was a big deal to pull a few more students to go out and practice and become a free coachman.
"Just four carriages and these people? Old Hei, you're not deliberately cheating me. Chu Jing stared at the black crow with a look of disbelief, black eating black is not like this.
"These people, take a good look at them. The black crow didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, and said disdainfully.
Chu Jing took a closer look at the ten people in front of the carriage, the four coachmen were dressed up, their skin was black and yellow, like experienced coachmen, and the four strong men who looked very burly, with broad shoulders and round waists, but they were obviously only brute coolies.
As for the last two......
They are still very young, equipped with swords, and they are thin swords, the clothes on their bodies seem to be a little wider, their thin bodies are tightly wrapped in black clothes, they have black gloves on their hands, and they are twisted and placed on their abdomen, and their two eyes occasionally look at each other, but they don't see any brilliance.
Chu Jing recognized them, especially the two thin swords, and even involuntarily took a step back.
"Blackwater Knight!"
The two who were called out just glanced at Chu Jing, as if they weren't talking about them, but some unknown group.
Blackwater Knights really don't have much of a reputation because they don't need to be famous and don't want to be famous.
They are the guardians of Blackwater Street, and Blackwater Street has no order, but it needs order itself. The poor live here, the criminals who are not accepted by the outside world also live here, and there are rich and powerful bad people like the crows.
As a result, there was an organization called the Blackwater Knights to maintain the most basic order in Blackwater Street, and even the government was completely excluded from Blackwater Street, all of which were their credits.
"Why did you get them?" Chu Jing looked at the black crow dissatisfied, he needed an answer.
"Are you going to hire them, or not?" asked the crow with a smile.
In the one year he spent with the black crow, Chu Jing had only seen the Black Water Knight once, and that shot also left a deep impression on Chu Jing.
A foreign fugitive ran into Blackwater Street, and with some effort, he actually claimed the king of Blackwater Street, gathered a group of thugs and began to collect protection money from door to door.
The result can be imagined, the Blackwater Knight appeared, about seven or eight people, a fight, Blackwater Street turned into Hongshui Street, and their biggest feature is that they all use thin swords, the sword is fast, the fugitive was beheaded without even catching a sword, the whole process did not take more than five seconds, and forty or fifty people died.
"Could it be that there will be danger on the way to Jinning City?" Chu Jing frowned.
The original destination was Jinning City. The crow smiled but didn't say a word.
Looking at the black crow's unfathomable appearance, Chu Jing was timid, as an intelligence dealer in a place like Heishui Street, the black crow would definitely not be untargeted.
What danger will it encounter? Chu Jing frowned, but the task still had to be done, there was just danger, and he also had a five-star Wen Zhongwen Taishi to protect his life, what could threaten him?
"Okay!" Chu Jing gritted his teeth and said, "When I come back, I'll give you seven thousand taels." ”
The task is known as Wanguan's net worth, even if it is not a million profits, it is thousands of miles away from Jinning City, in this inconvenient world, it is always not a problem to have a dozen times.
Two Blackwater Knights are equivalent to two insurances, and I believe that the Black Crow is reluctant to let the Blackwater Knights who have been cultivated with great difficulty be sent to death with him.
Chu Jing readily agreed, and Shen Xiaoye, who was still confused standing on the side, hurriedly handed over a thousand taels of silver tickets, and the transaction between the two sides was officially reached.
The group left Heishui Street, and on the way, Chu Jing briefly introduced the identities of the two guards to Shen Xiaoye, as well as Jinning City, the destination of the caravan's trip.
Shen Xiaoye looked at the two curiously, but he didn't feel a threat from them, so he regarded them as urban legends and stopped paying attention.
Jinning City is thousands of miles away, and it takes more than half a month to go back and forth.
"I'm going too!" Shen Xiaoye said excitedly, she hadn't gone far by herself.
"Nonsense! How can you go so far as a girl's family? Chu Jing pretended to be angry, but in fact, he had already planned to go together.
"Hmph!" Shen Xiaoye's small nose wrinkled, and he said dissatisfiedly, "I must go, don't forget that there are still one thousand taels of mine in these goods!"
Of course, Chu Jing would not object, but said: "But how can the hall master explain that it is a long way to Jinning City, he will not agree to you going, right?"
This is indeed a problem, after all, Shen Xiaoye is still young and has no experience in the rivers and lakes, as a father, he will definitely not be at ease.
Shen Xiaoye thought for a while, and said coquettishly: "Nonsense! Father said that my martial arts have become small, and I can go out for a walk." ”
Anyway, regardless of Chu Jing and the convoy, her feet were like the wind, and she ran away in a puff of smoke and went straight to the martial arts hall, in fact, she was not very confident in her heart, so she had to ask for clarification first.
Deep in the martial arts hall, in a small courtyard.
The owner of the museum was at the old lady's place, and the old lady was boiling a pot of fine tea leaves on the table, and the water was already gurgling.
People who are less assertive will be more filial, and this may be more obvious in the martial arts hall.
The owner of the dignified Tiannan Martial Arts Hall respectfully poured tea for the old lady, and then carefully held it with both hands: "The tea is still hot." ”
The old lady didn't appreciate it, took the teacup and put it on the table, and said coldly: "I always run to my old lady when I'm idle, can't you do something serious, look at that kid from the Chu family, and then look at yourself!"
The kid of the Chu family is not Chu Jing, but Chu Feixiong.
The owner bowed his head and accepted the reprimand, this was obviously not the first time. He said embarrassedly: "Mother, those things in officialdom are really not suitable for me, and now I am at ease, and I can still have time to accompany you, I think it's good." ”
"Hmph!" the old lady slapped the table and said angrily: "What is good, what is good! I just don't want to make progress, since Ah Qin's death, you have been like this!"
The pavilion owner lowered his head, as if to hide the sadness in his eyes, and he whispered: "Ah Qin's death was just an accident, no wonder others ......"
"Humph!"
The old lady picked up the teacup, no matter how hot it was, and drank it in one gulp.
At this moment, Shen Xiaoye ran into the courtyard in a hurry, gasping and shouting, "Grandma, father!"
"What's the matter, look at the baby granddaughter who is tired, come, sit down and have a cup of tea with grandma. ”
When she saw Shen Xiaoye, the old lady's eyes softened, and she was much kinder.
"Grandma, father, I ...... Chu Jing and I formed a caravan and went to Jinning City, and I wanted to go with me. Shen Xiaoye said hesitantly, looking at his father with expectant eyes.