In a secluded courtyard on Wuli Street in the river valley, Hu Laoba and Jia Shaotai arrived at the courtyard ahead of schedule as agreed, and Hu Laoba brought a dog named Yougen.

Jia Shaotai once asked Hu Laoba why he called Youxin, Hu Laoba said that this dog is different from people, as long as the dog is not a mad dog, it will never hurt its owner, the dog has a conscience, but people can't, most people in this world have no heart, when Hu Laoba was still a farmer, he once saved two scholars who went to Nanzhou to catch the exam, but when the two scholars left, they also wanted to steal the broken silver that Hu Laoba had saved for a long time, and after Hu Laoba found out, he found a group of villagers to catch up and stop the two scholars, but he didn't think about it, when Hu Laoba saw the two scholars again, both of them had become officials, and they came back to find Hu Laoba to avenge the beating of the year, not only arrested Hu Laoba to parade on the street, but also burned the words on Hu Laoba's face, which can be regarded as having eyes in the sky, Hu Laoba was locked up in the county jail, and happened to meet a horse bandit who went down the mountain to rob the prison, the two scholars were still showing off their might in front of Hu Laoba one moment, and the next moment they were stabbed by the horse bandits from behind.

From a small horse bandit to the only gang leader who dares and has the only way to transport salt and iron to the wilderness of the Northland, Hu Laoba feels very content, but he never knows how to spend a lot of money, and he never loves women, in the final analysis, Hu Laoba still thinks that it is the best day to plant a few acres of land in the village and raise a cow.

And Jia Shaotai is different, in Hu Laoba's statement, Jia Shaotai has a short life like this, when he first met Jia Shaotai, Jia Shaotai was almost beaten to death, the reason is that Jia Shaotai coaxed a local rich lady with a bit of handsome appearance and a fanciful mouth, and the rich lady's father also felt good when he saw Jia Shaotai and was ready to let Jia Shaotai be his son-in-law, but before he entered the door, Jia Shaotai got involved with her father's concubine, and fooled the concubine to poison the master, but later the matter was revealed, if he hadn't met Hu Laoba, he would have to be buried there alive on the spot。

Later, I found out that although Jia Shaotai was a little, this brain was really bright, and he always kept in mind his life-saving grace, so he slowly became Hu Laoba's dog-headed military advisor.

At this time, Hu Laoba sat on the small rattan chair in the courtyard and touched Youxin's head and said: "Youxin, when we finish this vote, we will stay in the north and not come back, and then I will find you a with aura as a daughter-in-law, you kid is blessed." ”

Jia Shaotai pursed his lips disdainfully and said: "Eighth master, if you want me to say you, you just don't have any pursuits, you think about finding a daughter-in-law for the dog every day, and you don't think about yourself." ”

Hu Laoba grinned, showed a mouth full of yellow teeth and said: "You know a fart, what are you looking for a daughter-in-law, in order to pass on the ancestry, in order to have someone to provide for your old age, people like us, let alone the end of the pension, you will definitely not live long after doing so many things that lose your conscience, don't expect it as soon as possible, if you want to say whether you are close or not, it may be better to have a son who has the heart to kiss me." ”

Jia Shaotai also wanted to educate Hu Laoba, but he heard a sound of rustling footsteps outside the small courtyard, followed by a knock on the door, which was the code agreed between Jia Shaotai and Ge Er.

Without Hu Laoba to speak, Jia Shaotai got up and walked to the door, a poison dart slipped from the cuff to the palm of his hand, and gently opened the door a small crack, seeing that only Ge Er and Wang Duhui had no one else, he opened the door with confidence and said, "Wang Gongzi." ”

Wang Duhui turned sideways into the small courtyard, and Ge Er poked his head out of the door to reconfirm his safety before slowly closing the door.

Hu Laoba was still sitting in the courtyard rubbing the dog's head with roots, and when he saw Wang Duhui coming, he said, "Wang Gongzi can let me wait, how about it, nothing went wrong along the way, right?"

Wang Duhui nodded and said: "Except for being in a bad mood by a scoundrel, everything else is fine, and I am worried about Lao Baye." ”

Hu Laoba patted the heart next to him and said, "Go and play by yourself." Then he stood up and said, "Prince Wang's house, please." ”

Wang Duhui followed Hu Laoba into the house, pulled out a chair and leaned back, and said: "Eighth master, to make a long story short, the goods we brought are outside the city, the price quoted to you last time, did Beimangzi nod his head?"

Hu Laoba turned around and closed the door of the house, and said: "In terms of price, Bei Mangzi has no objections, that is, he must pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." ”

Wang Duhui frowned slightly when he heard this, and said: "Eighth Master, this is a matter of losing your head, my Wang family's promise to share your profits is not just for you to draw a line from the middle to build a bridge, at that time we agreed that we are only responsible for bringing the goods to the outside of Wuli Street in the River Valley, and the rest of the things are the responsibility of the brothers of the Eighth Master." ”

Hu Laoba said with a smile: "Wang Gongzi, don't be so nervous first, this request is not made out by my old mang, then Beimangzi must see the goods before he is willing to pay, and I am also very embarrassed." ”

Wang Duhui felt annoyed for a while, and said in a low voice: "Eighth Master, let's pay attention to the word integrity in business, according to the meaning of the Eighth Master, my Wang family has to find a way to bring the goods in now?"

Jia Shaotai said quietly on the side: "If Wang Gongzi can trust our eighth master, he can tell us where the goods are now, and our people will come forward to bring the goods into the city, so that Wang Gongzi does not have to worry about the safety of the Wang family, even if he is accidentally caught by the mutual market supervisor or the people of the yamen, he will not have anything to do with the Wang family." ”

At this time, Wang Duhui scolded Hu Laoba and Jia Shaotai's ancestors for eighteen generations, and thought: This Hu Laoba and Jia Shaotai's wishful thinking is good, on their territory, and then put the goods in their hands, then they can really be manipulated at will, and when the time comes, if they turn their faces and don't recognize people, they will be dumb and can't say that they will suffer from eating Huanglian.

Seeing that Wang Duhui didn't speak, Hu Laoba said: "Wang Gongzi, I don't want to take such a big risk, but once the mutual market is over, when the Beiguan City Gate is closed, you will have no way to do this batch of goods. ”

Wang Duhui really couldn't think of any good solution for a while, and he didn't want such a simple compromise, so he said: "Let Ge Er come here again at noon tomorrow, and give you an answer when the time comes." ”

Hu Laoba pouted and said, "Yes, Wang Gongzi can go back and think about it again." ”

Wang Duhui didn't stay long, got up and gave up his hand, turned around and left the courtyard with Ge Er.

In fact, the Wang family took this step as a last resort, seeing that the family was about to decline, only through a person in Beizhou who had an old relationship with the Wang family to point out this way, that is, it was a kind of mechanism to resell to the Beimangzi outside the customs to make crossbow arrows, although this kind of thing was prohibited by the imperial court order to make and trade, but non-insiders could not recognize it at all, only as a wooden buckle used for construction, at this time only a few people in the entire Wang family knew, even Wang Duhui's sister Wang Duyao, only thought that this trip was to trade cloth with each other.

"Young master, this Hu Laoba and his gang are really not credible, they are purely a gang of scoundrels. The more Ge Er thought about it, the more angry he became, and he lowered his voice and whispered.

Wang Duhui sighed and said: "Now no one else can get these things out, if there is, I am still worried about being manipulated by this group of people, and now if I can't think of a good way, I can either go back the way I am and transport things back to Yuezhou, or I can only rely on Hu Laoba." ”

Wang Duhui looked up at tonight's night, the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, but the sky was full of dark clouds and black oppression, as if it was going to rain, this trip to Beizhou was not as simple as he imagined.

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In the evening, the shopkeeper also gave Bai Tongchen and Xu Xiaowan some moon cakes intimately, although they couldn't see the moon, but Xu Xiaowan and Bai Tongchen still ate a piece alone, Xu Xiaowan was probably tired of playing, and fell asleep in a daze after eating, Bai Tongchen was used to practicing swordsmanship every night, but it was too refreshing to show a dew, so he honestly practiced Zhenwu and Xuanman's own body techniques near the backyard stable, the longer he practiced, the more Bai Tongchen could feel the balance of yin and yang in this set of body methods, and the flow of breath seemed to be able to face the vast stars through the dark clouds, The subtlety of this can make Bai Tongchen clearly feel that the qi in his body seems to be slowly recovering, although the speed of flow is very slow, but Bai Tongchen is already very satisfied.

Bai Tongchen's movements are very slow and gentle, trying his best to control his breath not to leak out, after all, after experiencing the incident of the attack on Nanbao Village, I don't know how many pairs of eyes will be searching for him, for his past confusion, Bai Tongchen only cares about the young man who committed suicide by taking poison in front of him, is the devil in his mouth really his past self?

Just when Bai Tongchen was immersed in thinking, he suddenly heard a short sound of footsteps, Bai Tongchen hurriedly held his breath and concentrated, the sound came from outside the wall, and he saw two men flashing in from the back door and hurriedly returning to the inn.

It was Wang Duhui and Ge Er, who had just met and came back from Hu Laoba, the two of them were probably too anxious, and Bai Tongchen tried his best to be restrained, the two hurriedly walked by but did not find Bai Tongchen's existence, Bai Tongchen recognized the two of them and had a burst of doubts in his heart, why did these two people sneakily come back from the back door in the middle of the night?

I saw Wang Duhui lying on Ge Er's ear before returning to the room and didn't know what to say, this series of actions made Bai Tongchen feel too abnormal, he didn't care what secrets the Wang family had, but he was worried about whether he and Xu Xiaowan could get out of Beizhou safely, so he secretly decided in his heart to carefully observe whether this Wang family sister and brother were trustworthy.

What Bai Tongchen didn't know was that when he was observing Wang Duhui and Ge Er, in a certain guest room on the second floor of the inn, the new Xiao Er was silently watching Bai Tongchen's every move with a man wearing a knee-black cloak.