Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Buyer
The time is the fourth day of the god month, and the fourth day of fire.
Arrogant is confident in his analysis, but there are three key questions that need to be clarified – who will be responsible for procuring supplies for the Folded Tongue Prison, where will they be bought, and how long will they be delivered?
The second problem is easy to solve, although the city of Sather is a county, the population of the city is about more than 10,000, and the king of nearly 100,000 people is not comparable at all, the area is naturally much smaller, there are two long-term markets in the two cities, there are two legal markets outside the city, but now the time to leave the market is still far away.
There are a hundred mouths in the Folded Tongue Prison, even if the shells and small pipes can be stored for a long time, the temperature here is about the same as the summer in Middle-earth, and the fresh meat of vegetables, fruits and vegetables cannot be stored for a long time, of course, the mages are completely qualified to make their own ice cellars, but anyway, don't go to run errands by yourself, why don't you eat fresh?
Then the last question remains - where will they buy it?
It's definitely not okay to wait for the rabbit, no matter how small Satie is, it's a city, even if he can doppelgang, he can't see it, and he has to guard against the feet of the mouthless.
According to arrogant estimates, if the mouthless person is determined to continue to pursue his whereabouts, he will definitely send the news of the wanted to all places, and with him hovering around the royal capital for three days, eight days before and after is enough time to get the news to the city of Salter.
With his previous experience, he sent the decorate to the nearby wasteland early to hide, and he dressed up a little, but in addition to being obsessed with martial arts, he was not willing to spend time on other miscellaneous studies, so naturally he didn't know how to disguise, so he could only cover up the strange hair color, and at the same time synchronize the clothes with the locals, so as not to be too eye-catching. He didn't expect this kind of primary method to be effective, and to be safe mainly relied on the sense of qi, paying attention to the changes in the qi around him, he believed that even if those hands and feet could find themselves, they would not have a chance to spread the news.
In fact, this is also because he is too cautious, it is true that the mouthless supervision network is powerful, but it is in the royal capital, the core of the core, the quality of the feet must be the highest, and the number must be the largest. And all this is going to be discounted out of the king's capital, and it is still a cut away from the king's direct jurisdiction. After all, the mouthless are not only monitoring external enemies, but also "internal troubles", and there are few princes and servants who will treat them, so the mouthless are much more low-key in the local area than in the royal capital. Even if they wanted to keep a close eye on their whereabouts, they had to be able to do so.
It only took him two hours to find out the news, and he didn't even come forward directly, just stayed at the hotel and waited for the news to arrive.
Ao Zongheng found a few children among the half-grown children who were playing in the streets, and gave them a reward of twenty Booms each, and asked them to inquire about the news, and if they got useful news, they would give ten Booms, which was a huge sum of money for these half-grown children, and their parents combined had an average of ten Booms a day.
Each child was given a separate task, but the task was the same - they had to go to the market to find out such a person: every five to ten days, they would come to buy everything, rice, meat, vegetables and fruits, and each time they bought a lot of food, enough for about 100 people to eat for a few days, and if they could find out where they came from, there would be a reward. These children barely knew how to read, but they were not lacking in their wit, and they ran happily. As a result, only three of the four went out to make a difference, presumably one of them was too clever, and he ran away directly with twenty Boums. But fortunately, the information that the remaining three children got back was the same, which also saved Aozong the effort to verify it again.
After all, in the self-sufficient kingdom of Loren Magaga, there are really not many buyers who regularly buy hundreds of people's pulp in a short period of time - of course, they have this need and conditions, but people are waiting to be delivered to the door, and there is no need to go to the market to buy in large quantities. Only the one who does not produce and does not run out of money does so. These two passers-by, one is responsible for the purchase of the officers in the nearby Sha Jia Mu Ling direct army camp, the other is not public, and the merchants do not dare to inquire, but it can be determined that they have been buying in the city for more than three years, and they never use money orders, they are all cash transactions.
Ao Zongheng can conclude that this second passerby is from the Tongue Folding Prison, does not reveal his identity, does not use money orders, only cash, and only the mage prison that pays attention to secrecy in this neighborhood will do this, and does not pay on credit or delay, and only the legal management department that is not bad for money has this skill.
The child said that they had only arrived about five days ago, which meant that they could show up at any time in the next few days. Ao Zongheng gave each of the children another fifteen booms, and told them to keep an eye on the market, as soon as the procurement went to the market, and at the same time came to inform themselves.
"You've learned how to spend money, but why don't you just go to the Folded Canyon and use your sense of qi to find out the prison?" said the Ringwraith after the children had left in a hurry.
"It's easy to break through, but the canyon is not small, it's one thing to be troublesome to search, in case something triggers and alarms them, it's boring. ”
"Well, you have a point. But you can also stay around there and follow them when they come out, isn't that more reliable than these kids?"
"Who knows if he's coming out tomorrow or coming back in five days? Sleeping in the wilderness for five days? It's still a trivial matter, and my ideal is to sneak in, even if I wait for them in the wilderness, not to wait for them to finish their return trip?"
"Hmph, scheming uncle, since you think so thoroughly, don't make the city like last time. Although he couldn't refute the arrogance, the Ringwraith still replied indignantly.
It shouldn't rain today, Chai Erfu raised his eyes and looked at the large clouds in the distance to the north, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, if it was in normal times, it would not matter if he delayed for a night in Sather City and then left, but what he wanted to buy today, but the warden was in a hurry to ask for it.
Entering the Divine Moon of Time signifies the beginning of the rainy season in the kingdom of Loren Magaga. Loren Magaga is located near the center of the continent, it is said that the rain will not be too abundant, but around the time of the year, the marine monsoon from the southeast will cross the relatively flat southeast of the continent, blocked by the southern foothills of the towering Gengguyi mountain range, bringing strong rainfall to the local area, Sajamu County is located in the east of the kingdom, the monsoon brings precipitation here is not as strong as those northern counties of Senubus, but occasionally there will be a rainstorm enough to wash away the fields and country roads.
Chai Erfu's carriage is not an ordinary carriage, it is covered with a full encirclement tarpaulin on the top frame, and the goods themselves are also packed, so the general rain is not hindered. However, if it is a torrential rain, even if you don't consider the problem of getting wet, the road from the canyon to the entrance of the prison is quite difficult to walk under the torrential rain. Thinking of this, he sped up his whip while secretly cursing the warden who opposed the repair of this rotten road.
The Mage Prison of the Ministry of Justice is under the dual management of the Law Enforcement Department and the Law Enforcement Department, with one warden and two wardens. Below the wardens are forty or fifty guards and a number of attendants, who are of course responsible for the safety and order of the prison, and the logistical chores are naturally done by the attendants. The work of the guards is basically the same, but whether the life of the guards is good or not depends on what work is arranged. Chai Erfu was transferred here three years ago, along with the current warden, and was appointed by the warden to be responsible for the purchase of supplies in the prison. It is generally believed that this is one of the best positions in the prison after the three wardens. In order to fight for this position, the price he paid back then was not small, but in the past three years of purchasing, he has already earned ten times back.
However, his good days are coming to an end, because the warden of Kui Eden is about to expire and be transferred.
For the mages of the Legal Management Department, being in charge of a secret prison is considered a tiresome job, not to mention that this is still a Iwashita prison that can even enjoy basking in the sun, so the term of office of the wardens of the Tongue Folding Secret Prison is three years, and the grassroots legal servants and guards naturally do not have this benefit, and they have to stay here for at least five years. In order to ensure the smooth operation of the prison without making mistakes, the warden and the judicial guard both use staggered terms, such as the arrival of the warden of Kui'e three years ago, the arrival of the warden Ji Yu the year before last, the arrival of the warden of Huolun Clam last year, and the turn of the warden to change this year.
There is no saying that there is a son of heaven and a courtier in the Pleoz continent, but most of the truths in the world are the same, but the expressions are different. Chai Erfu understands that as soon as the prison director of Kui Edian leaves, the position of procurement will definitely not be his own. This is a situation he can't resist, and what he can do is to make the recent numbers beautiful, and not give him a chance to find his own fault. He is already forty years old, for a forty-year-old mage who has not yet become a sleeve mage, this life is basically frozen, the only thing he thinks about now is to spend the remaining two years in peace, and the day he is transferred out of the Tongue Folding Prison, the money earned in these three years will really fall into his pocket.
In this way, while thinking about it, the road of five or six taekwons was completed unconsciously, and he went straight to the Beicheng market when he entered the city from the north gate, and he usually went to the Guishu tavern on the road to drink two glasses, but today it was a cloudy day, and he did not dare to delay.
Today is a small purchase day, there are not many things to buy, the big purchase day is once every half a month, because to buy a basket, a hat, wine and a variety of non-staple food, each time a large purchase to at least two wagons, the value of the purchase are calculated in Loren shield. However, for Chai Erfu personally, Xiao Caimai made him even more excited, because this kind of solitary day was when he settled the secret commission with the merchants.
I bought meat, fruits and vegetables at the North City Market, caramel bread at the South City Market, and by the way, I bought two bottles of five-year-old Dangna wine from Ji Guoyuan, which the warden loved to drink, from the wine merchants in the city. Of course, he also hid all the commissions - of course he couldn't hide all the money in the prison room, it was too dangerous, even if it wasn't discovered now, it would be difficult to take it away in the future, so he rented a house in the city of Sather and hid the money under a certain floor tile in the basement of the room. To be on the safe side, he also asked his wife to come and stay here regularly for a while. Of course, he didn't tell his wife the real point of renting this house.