CHAPTER XXIV
An hour later, the dejected stonemason returned, sitting by the front door of the cargo box of a carriage. He jumped down from the door of the hotel and asked the coachman to drive the car to the backyard. Then go to Zaitsev: "Sir, give me 189 dinars, your goods are in the backyard." ”
The second boss has been waiting impatiently outside the Eberon for a long time. He didn't care how much the stonemason could sell the slaves, he just wanted to get rid of the burden as soon as possible. If it weren't for the fear that throwing corpses in the wilderness would provoke the patrols, he would have killed these Kazak men a long time ago. He was going to wait for the stonemasons to negotiate the business, and then he personally loaded the men in the carriage and sent them in, and the nine robbers were given to the slave traders, and the two golden babies were put in the predetermined rooms on the third floor of the hotel. Once everything was taken care of, he was about to leave for Lurens to meet with the traders.
He was already impatient, and if it weren't for the fear that these bastards in the cart would easily call out in the center of town to arouse people's alarm, he would have gone in with the carriage long ago. He had to make sure he threw the damn stuff to anyone else as soon as he entered town, and all he had with him was two quiet meat tickets. So far, the two valuable babes have just sat silently, very cooperative, if only all the meat tickets were like this.
After a while, the unlucky stonemason returned, and as soon as the second master saw the stonemason's crying face, he knew that he had done a wrong job this time. This stonemason is a pig. Yesterday the second master thought that he could speak, and had already hinted to him that the money from the sale of these slaves was his, but the stonemason did not understand, and actually came back to ask himself, saying that Zaitsev was only willing to accept it at the price of 15 dinars each. The second master of this kind of thing has long been aware of it, he knows that the stonemason has been deceived and deceived by the kickback, and at this time, the second master just thinks that the stonemason is not greedy enough and not smart. In addition, the second master doesn't want to say anything more, this may be a stonemason who is destined to play a small role for the rest of his life. The second master was expressionless, "That's it, you bring these nine people to him, and then come back and give me the money." Remember, hire me a new carriage and go into town when it's dark. ”
The stonemason breathed a sigh of relief, and after some hard work, he earned 6 dinars from each slave, a total of 54, which was a lot of money. After spending a few dinars to hire a chariot, the stonemason led the carriage out of the city, bringing back the second master, two meat tickets, and five of the second master's men. All of them were on the third floor of the Alberon Hotel by 9 p.m. The second master inspected the surroundings and felt that it was more appropriate, so he asked the four subordinates to stay and pay close attention to everything in the hotel, and specially told that the expenses during this period would be paid by the stonemason. The stonemason listened with a pain in his flesh. At about 11 o'clock, the second master and one of his remaining men went to the post station outside the city in a carriage. The stonemasons, who had been tired from a day's work, and the remaining 6 people finally settled down. The stonemason said to a few bandits that everyone was a family and so on, and at this time he found that some of the bandits laughed obscenely, and he couldn't talk anymore, and the stonemason's speech was interrupted, because there was a cheerful call downstairs.
Zaitsev took the torch and carefully looked at the scarred people lying on the ground. The wounds were not serious, they looked like skin wounds, the wounds were fresh, and they hadn't scabbed over much. It does look like it's a new product that I have only recently caught, and this kind of goods is better, and it is not easy to fall down due to illness and fatigue. Zaitsev looked around at the temporary warehouse, which was used to lock people up, and was not very satisfied, the place was too big, full of loopholes, and once these people broke free from the rope, they could easily run away. He looked around and shook his head a little tiredly. He felt that the people in front of him had become quiet for a certain moment, and they no longer bit the rags that gagged their mouths and whined. He suddenly noticed that the people on the ground were looking at him, no, behind him. Zaitsev felt a slight wind blow behind him, and he turned back sharply and saw a tower-like man, standing faintly shining with a torch, as if he was still wearing a bandage. Zaitsev measured whether to greet him and see what to do next, or run away, but at this moment the door of the warehouse creaked and closed little by little, and the sound of the latch closing hit Zaitsev's heart hard, and then there was a sound of small and broken footsteps. A small, vague shadow moved over and stood behind the tower.
Zaitsev said: "Sir, tell me your purpose. This calm attitude is the calmness brought to Zaitsev by years of contact with the three religions and nine streams. This seemed to make the dark shadow on the other side very satisfied.
The man said, "I'm going to do a business with you." ”
Zaitsev smiled and said, "Business is about you coming and going, and now it seems that it will only be 'I go', not 'you come', right?" ”
The tower seemed to have a hard time talking, but it was steady and not scattered: "Yes. I want you to invest in me. ”
"What kind of investment?"
"These nine people on the ground. Arm them. ”
"Hmm, that's all?"
"That's all."
"And what do I get?"
"I'll do the math, oh yes, when it's done, you'll get close to 20 slaves, one, one bald; Later you will get the safest trip in the entire Great Plains of Suno, and not a single bandit will dare to harass you; Of course, the best thing for you to do business with me is that you can get out of here alive. ”
"Well, that sounds like a tempting condition. And what about before that happens? I'm just going to loosen these nine people and give you a bunch of knives, guns and sticks, and then I'll be able to sit back and enjoy it? It's also too cheap. ”
"That's true, but you have to consider the risk that all of us are dead, and then the 20 slaves who would have been yours might take revenge on you for letting us go, tsk, then you might just die. But if you're afraid that we'll fail, then you're even more afraid that I'll kill you right away, aren't you? And what I have to lose, at best, is that no one has provided me with equipment. It's just a matter of convenience or inconvenience for me, but for you, it's a choice between a lot of wealth and being hacked to death by me. You decide. ”
Zaitsev smiled with interest, "Deal." ”
The shadow said, "Well, clever slave trader. If you're lucky, I've observed, you'll get 5 slaves tonight, and one of them is a damn bald head. whereas
I'll get 2 of them, lol. ”
Zaitsev is a trustworthy businessman, especially in a business that has the potential to be hugely rewarding, and he will wait for the last minute and never break his promise. He watched as the man across from him used a knife to cut the rope that belonged to his slave's hand. These people, who had just been slaves, moved their muscles in front of the slave owner, and then bowed together to the tower-like man: "Uncle Kazak." ”
Zaitsev looked at the man's back, and saw a small wooden stick sticking out of his back, and it looked like there was an arrow in the man's body, tsk, so that he could talk to himself slowly, which was amazing.
Uncle Kazak turned his head and showed a bright smile: "Excuse me, go and prepare 9 hand knives, 10 bundles of rope, and then take 2 jugs of wine, 5 large plates of minced meat, and 10 catties of bread slices to us." We're going to take a break, and then we're going to do business, which I've observed, it's on the third floor. ”
Rueda told the four beautiful hostesses to make the most breathtaking sounds, and that he would give each of them 1 dinar per hour. Such a generous amount of money makes the waitresses very hard. After a while, all the men fell silent, and listened to the sound of heaven coming from the second floor. The men looked in the divine direction, as if they had listened intently to the Mass in their youth, and it had not been a long time before men had listened so reverently and intently to a voice, and even at the funeral of a friend, they had rarely listened so attentively to the prayers of the priest. The stonemason's throat was dry when he heard this, and he was eager to go back to his house in the east of the town to find his wife to put out the fire; Several of the bandits were furious when they heard this, and they resented why the boss had held himself here; The boss was a little anxious to listen, because although there were a lot more people, because he listened too attentively, there were fewer people buying wine and food.
That night, Ruda paid 16 dinars of gold and harassed the poor men in the hotel for four hours with his voice. The stonemasons and the robbers were flushed, but the boss had told them that they were not allowed to go out at will, which drove them crazy. At the same time, Kazak, who was hiding in the back door, was also furious, and he didn't know why the inn, which was usually empty early, didn't disperse at night today. Tossed until the second half of the night, a group of men reluctantly returned home from the hotel, looking back nostalgically all the way. After everyone was gone, Kazak quietly slipped into the hotel through the back door when the innkeeper turned off the lights, and Charlie and Edward, who opened the door for them, looked depressed, and they were also choked by the sound on the second floor.
Kazak and his old men looked to the third floor, reached through the crack in the door with their daggers, and lifted the latch. Then, with a nod from Kazak, the enraged robbers rushed in, but they were astonished, and there was no one here except my father and Wright. Kazak didn't know what was going on, and for a moment, he even wondered if the second boss had seen his intentions in the first place and set up a game within a game to lure him in. The men looked at each other in astonishment in the darkness by the moonlight. It is not known where the stonemasons and a few guards went. In fact, the stonemason didn't go anywhere, he and a few robbers peeped at the door downstairs, wanting to catch a glimpse of Fangze. Luda, who heard the movement outside the door, smiled slightly, turned off the light, and suddenly came from outside with a deliberately suppressed scolding of disappointment.
While Kazak and his men were still puzzled, they heard the sound of swearing and going upstairs from downstairs. Kazak heard the stonemason say, "Damn, I ran all the way down, and I didn't see anything, not even a sound!" This splash, play like this, thirty is for sure! ”
Then there was the whispered echo of a few depressed robbers.
Kazak and a few angry men waited quietly in the night.
Thirty seconds later, Ruda heard a rambling of ping-pong upstairs, and a minute later heard the upstairs be quiet again. He didn't know what was happening, so he went downstairs and called for some patrols, who looked at Ruda with strange eyes, full of envy and complaint. Ruda told the patrols to go upstairs now and see what was going on.
A patrol went up, peeked through the crack in the door and came down: "Huh?? It was very chaotic, and another group of people came, and a little girl tied up all the original guards. Originally, there were 2 people tied upstairs, but now there are 5 more! ”
Ruda was taken aback: "Where did the person pop up?" I can't be unaware, didn't I tell you to tell me whoever comes in a group? ”
"My lord, we have been watching around us while you are happy, including the two beggars. None of us found anyone coming in in a gang, I swear! Nothing happened except that a carriage came in in the afternoon, and a slave trader bought a couple of slaves. ”
"My lord, do you think that slave traders want to forcibly capture good people and sell people?"
"Fart! Is that a good citizen? That's a bunch of bandits, have you ever seen a bandit caught and sold? He dares to sell, do you dare to buy? ”
"What then, my lord?"
"Let's take a closer look at the upstairs and wait and see what happens."
"Why don't we rush forward!"
"You idiot, plus the two beggars outside pretending to be lame, there are less than 10 of you, can you catch those bandits above?" Ruda didn't want to pay attention to this group of noisy inspections anymore, the sudden change made him a little confused, and he wanted to wait until dawn to see what was going on. He was ready to go ahead at dawn to see if the slave named Zaitsev had done something.
Father and Wright have been blindfolded all the time, completely unaware of the truth. In the cave he heard the fighting, and then he walked a long way in a daze, got into the carriage, and then went upstairs, followed by a continuous stream of embarrassing sounds, and then another fight, and then dawn. The father saw Rhine and Kazak, who appeared to be wounded and had a broken arrow in his back. Rhine seems to have been through too much, and he can't say why.
In Lurens, the second boss confidently left his men outside the city and entered the town with two close men. The plan was that he would meet the traders who were already waiting for him at the inn and get the ransom from the traders, and then he would have his men tell Albert's stonemasons to get Wright and my father drunk and throw them down the streets of Suno.
But this was in the plan, in fact, when the second master walked into the room by the window, the door and window were suddenly shut, and he and his two men were covered with sacks on their heads. The second master was still in deep shock, when he heard an excited voice: "Catch Kazak!" How many years, finally caught Kazak! ”
Kazak's travelogue tactics have made the patrols on the entire Suno Plain suffer enough over the years, at this time there are grievances and revenge, these enthusiastic patrolmen punched and kicked the three sacks on the ground, until the people on the ground were silent, they quietly took the three people who were beaten to death and fainted from the back door to the carriage, all the way to Suno.
A dozen or so loyal men of the second master waited outside the city for notice, waiting for the second master and the tinkling dinars. They waited and waited with the joy of happiness. The setting sun shone on a hopeful silhouette, and the whole town rippled gently in the hearts of the robbers, as if the dreams of those young youths that had long disappeared echoed in the hearts of the robbers, echoing, echoing...