132, ghost market
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Jing Yuanyi's hippie smiling face couldn't be changed for a while, and he squeezed his eyes at Chu Ning with his eyebrows slanted: "Go and go, if you're idle anyway, you're idle......"
The city built by the Jing clan was on the post road leading to the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the caravans passing through the Jing city had to take one-tenth of the toll. Of course, in exchange, the Jing clan would provide some basic conveniences to these caravans, such as the caravan could rest in the city for a few days without worrying about the goods being hijacked, and they could also replenish water and food.
To the south of the city is the bazaar, where some caravans sell their goods at low prices, saving them the need to travel long distances. And the northwest corner of the city, this is a place that cannot be seen, and the locals call it a ghost market. There are no ghosts in the ghost market, but it is different from other markets, it is lively after dark, the lights are dim, and everyone looks sneaky, and from a distance it looks like countless ghosts are shaking, so it got the name.
Chu Ning changed into a dress with Dongqi characteristics, covered his face with a white veil, and got into the carriage dedicated to the Jing family's daughters. Forget that this princess has just arrived, and not many people have seen her anyway, Chu Ning has simply changed her clothes.
As for Jing Yuanyi, he simply swaggered next to the driver. The adult children of the Jing family have to participate in family affairs, and as the person who escorted Forget Worry all the way from Eastern Qi to the Jin Kingdom, it is reasonable to say that "Forget Worry" was accompanied by Jing Yuanyi as a guide when he went out for the first time.
Before going out, Mingxian suddenly came around in a circle to follow, and he had to go with Chu Ning. Chu Ning scolded with a smile, but when it had been suffocated by the clear soup recently, and wanted to go to the black market to find something delicious and delicious, he agreed to go with it. It's just that I haven't kept any animal pets since I forgot about it, and Chu Ning strictly ordered it to become a small and delicate thing, and put it in my sleeve, so as not to be seen by people who have seen Chu Ning.
It's not that she's too careful, it's just that the bird's beak is too big, and she may not have begged for food anywhere.
The carriage drove all the way to the northwest of the city, and when it stopped a few steps away from the ghost market, Jing Yuanyi jumped out of the carriage first, raised the curtain and said to the person covering his face with white veil, "Come down, little aunt." β
Chu Ning glared at him fiercely, the previous warning was in vain.
When Jing Yuan saw that her face was not good, he lowered his voice and said, "Jing Huan is my uncle, and you are now playing the princess of Dongqi, isn't it my little aunt." Before you go out, you repeatedly told me to pay attention to the details and not to be seen by others, but I can keep it in mind, and I don't dare to slack off. β
Chu Ning walked down by his wrist, and his voice increased slightly: "Is this what you said is a suitable place to buy, there are many types, good things, and the price is very fair?" β
Jing Yuanyi knew that she was about to start acting, so she also raised her voice and continued: "Exactly, the princess just came, and she is not familiar with anywhere." In the past, most of the places where the family was used to buying made money or promised benefits to the person in charge of purchasing, but this time the princess directly bought cheap and good, and those people no longer dared to despise the princess, and the princess was considered to be prestigious. β
This is the number of ways that the two of them discussed immediately, Jing Yuanyi pretended to be a wicked person who wanted to harm the little aunt, and set up a set of traps to lure "forget worries" to the ghost market. What is sold in the ghost market is either stolen goods obtained by killing people and stealing goods, or things that are prohibited by the official order to be sold. But the people who peddle goods here are either outlaws or cunning ruffians, and passers-by look at the eyes of "forget their worries", clearly looking at a little sheep who has taken the initiative to step into the wolf's den.
Chu Ning whispered to Jing Yuanyi: "I finally know how bad your reputation is in the Jing family, you don't have to play it at all, these people have already decided that you are going to take me to suffer losses." β
Jing Yuanyi grabbed her hand, took the opportunity to hold it and refused to let go: "What am I acting like, as long as you want, I can also cooperate with an unruly love that is dry and hot, and long-term love, how about it?" β
Chu Ning finally couldn't bear it anymore, and gritted his teeth and shouted angrily: "Get out~"
Jing Yuanyi took Chu Ning around a few times, bought a few ordinary silk horses that were boasted as treasures of the South China Sea at a ridiculously high price, and bargained again to buy a large bag of shoddy goose down that had long been rotten and unusable. In the past few circles, there are more and more people surrounding Chu Ning not far away. There hasn't been such a tricky little sheep in the ghost market for a long time, and everyone can't help but salivate and want to take the opportunity to make a fortune.
Chu Ning saw that the time was almost up, so he found a stone step and sat down, saying that he was tired and wanted to rest for a while before leaving.
A few people in disheveled clothes and ruffians came over step by step and asked with bad intentions: "Two nobles, have you bought almost everything?" Do you want to see something else? In this ghost market, really good things will not be put on the surface, and they will only be sold to people who know the goods. β
Jing Yuanyi put on a full look of the young master: "You dogs, put the tricks (eyes) on the hall a little, this is the new head of the Jing family, I also have to call a little aunt, don't let anything unclean in Haizi (mouth) run around." If something is not good, you don't have to take it out and be embarrassed. Today, I brought people here, and no one should try to slip through the gap (deceive the layman). As long as the things are together, everyone pestles (shares the money together). β
He spoke very smoothly in black words, but a few local snakes did not dare to despise it, especially the last sentence, which was clearly familiar with the doorway in the ghost market. The existence of the ghost market is, of course, the result of Jing's deliberate laissez-faire with one eye open and one eye closed, and there are often Jing's own people who lure outsiders here, pit them, and then share the benefits with the people in the ghost market.
No one dared to make trouble with the young master of the Jing family, and several people nodded with a smiling face, turned their heads and asked Chu Ning what he wanted.
Chu Ning just couldn't understand the glances between them, thought for a while and said, "I heard that there is a thing called Xiyang, which was originally used by the Great Zhou royal family to seal the royal tomb, and it can't be found outside. But as you said earlier, there are all kinds of good things here, so I want to ask if I can buy them. β
Several people glanced at each other, and one of them stood up with a pair of mouse eyes and said: "Xiyang is not allowed to buy and sell, but since we boasted before, and we are the nobles of the Jing family, we can take the two of us to a place, where there are often people with yellow sand on their bodies, and whether they can buy Xiyang depends on the luck of the two." It's just that the mere act of leading the way is already a great risk, and the reward ......"
Chu Ning nodded to Jing Yuan, and Jing Yuan took a bag of cloth coins and threw it in front of them: "Your benefits are indispensable, lead the way." β
The men divided the coins and dispersed, leaving only the mouse-eyed man, who walked ahead to lead the way. He took Chu Ning and Jing Yuanyi around the alley, and gradually approached a lively place full of people. There was a sweet smell wafting in the air, and there was a faint sound of a girl's laughter.
Chu Ning looked at it for a while, and suddenly understood that this was a place for men to find girls for fun.
There are similar places in Eastern Qi, but the people of Eastern Qi are more reserved, and call such a place Wu Wa Pavilion, and the women in it are raised like the daughters in the boudoir, who can talk and play the piano, and the people who go there for recreation are princes and nobles, and regard this as an elegant thing.
But the place in front of me was completely different, and the women sitting or standing in it were dressed in clothes that could not cover their breasts and legs at all, and their hair was tied up haphazardly, laughing and laughing with the men who came and went at will. The men unscrupulously reached over and touched them at will. There were also two agreeable conversations, where the man threw out a handful of coins and pressed the woman under him on the spot.
Chu Ning's face became hotter and hotter, and he wanted to ask a few words, but when he turned around, he found that the mouse-eyed man had sneaked away for some time. When she turned her head again to look at the fragrant place, she suddenly saw a strangely behaved man, covering most of his face with a huge hood, walking inward.
There were just some scattered boulders inside, Chu Ning could still see the man's movements, a woman came up, and the water snake wrapped around him, but the man didn't look at it, he pushed it away impatiently, and walked straight to a dark corner.
Chu Ning quietly followed, squatted down, and wiped it with his fingers on the ground where the man had walked. Sure enough, a layer of fine sand was sprinkled on the ground, proving that the person who came was indeed from the Risha family.
Jing Yuanyi leaned into Chu Ning's ear and said: "I have already inquired, every time the people of the Lusha family come to the ghost market to buy and sell things, they make an appointment to meet here, it is estimated that they have a special smell on their bodies, and they want to cover it with the stronger smell of fat powder here." β
Chu Ning stared at that person's movements firmly, and didn't dare to take his eyes off for a moment: "You knew we were coming here, why did you have to play that play before?" β
Jing Yuanyi chuckled: "Do you think it's just me and you who came to the ghost market today?" Jing Huan's henchmen have been watching our every move in the dark, if we find this by ourselves, when this matter is over, Jing Huan will be the first to clean you up. β
Chu Ning remembered that the time when he was designed by Meng Liangyan also used fine sand as an introduction, but fine sand is relatively rare in Eastern Qi, and in this place full of yellow sand, it is an ordinary thing.
The man who was targeted by Chu Ning sat down on a large rock, and in the dark corner opposite him, a man with a hood also came out. The man pulled his hood down slightly, and most of his face was still hidden, revealing only a pair of dark eyes.
When Chu Ning saw those eyes, he felt a shock in his heart, these eyes were too familiar, as black as a thick night, it was Ji Chongguang.